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Speaker 2: Welcome back the four nine ESPN The Fan.
Speaker 3: I've been broadcasting from our ulp Mintaild. Get your prep,
get your ready BYU versus UCM. We're going to take
you all the way after the kickoff, come on down
to the South Swig location just just south of Lavelle
Edwards Stadium. Get your prep getting ready for this below
U UCF matchup.
Speaker 2: It's a big one.
Speaker 3: It's a big one because you want more momentum, you
want confidence, you want to win this game convincingly. You
want to cover and uh get some more public positive
propaganda heading your way. You're going to the Big Toe
Championship no matter what you today. But you need to
get out there and execute right.
Speaker 2: In front of all of your fans. Okay.
Speaker 3: And it's a day game, so that means maybe more
eyeballs will be on you today.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's a big game. B Why you was
a heavy favorite.
Speaker 3: You should win by three scores and I expect that
guys real quick though, before we get into some more
football talk here, and I do want to talk a
ton of football, but we got to give a big
Cougar roar to the BYU men's basketball team getting two wins,
two big wins in on a neutral court out in Orlando, Okay,
and b WAYE football maybe head in Orlando, Well we'll see,
we'll see what happens there. But solid victories against Dayton,
and look, I love that dating game because look, we
are not a first half team. We are not a
first half team by any means. We are a second
half team and we come on strong in the second half.
You could not have played any worse than you did
versus Dayton in that first half, and somehow you were
still in it. You were down ten or so and
found a way to win and down the stretch. You know,
Cannar Davis Uner needs to hit his free throws, obviously,
but I was really impressed with Richie Saunders.
Speaker 2: He almost having a thirty point performance.
Speaker 3: Richie the Todd Kinge ballin shot colin agent of bons
and continues to show case his abilities as a first round,
first overall NBA draft pick in this next year's draft,
and I can't wait to see what this BYU basketball
team can do. The bad news, though, the bad news
of it all is Dawson Baker. You're six man, the
the bucket getter. Baker went down with a left knee
injury in this Dayton game and he did not get
up and he had to be helped off the court.
Not good, Not good at all.
Speaker 2: He should be.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, we saw him in a in a wheelchair,
so the prognosis is, I mean, we don't know exactly
what it's gonna be, but it doesn't look good, doesn't
look optimistic. The mechanism of injury seemed to me as
if it was a It was kind of a semi
content because I think his right foot or ankle did
get clipped. The left knee buckled inward in transition as
he was trying to gather himself and receive a pass
and get a layup. It looked to me as if
it was an ACL injury. I don't know what pre
existing injuries he's had. I know he's had foot and
ankle injuries in the past. Maybe it was his left
foot ankle. Before that, the left knee buckles and he's
not able to get up on his own accord with
his own strength. He was helped off the court by
his teammates and his trainer. Does not look good for
Dawson Baker. Now you're down two guards on that robust
guard line. Nate Pickens out for the season with a
footter ankle injury. He's on a scooter, and now Dawson
Baker's in a wheelchair. You got a great guard line still,
that's maybe that's the reason why they went out got
lection coastak. I don't know if he's gonna be a
guy by midseason, by late season. We'll see how that
plays out. Obviously, Rob Wright is is your is ther
PG one. He's fantastic.
Speaker 2: He's been great.
Speaker 3: He's got to get better, obviously, but he's been great,
and uh so there's some question marks along that guardline.
AJ Debonts again have to handle the rock a little
bit more and be even more of a facilitator for
his teammates. So that's the latest on BYU Basketball, the good,
the bad, and the ugly. There BYU taking on UCF
eleven am kickoff BLI He's a seventeen and a half
point favorite BYU per esp analytics, is in a situation
right now where they should be dominant over the UCF
Knights ninety three point six percent chance of victory per
ESPN Analytics, and it should be a sold out ground
with it With it.
Speaker 2: Being a day game, it will be a little bit
cooler than normal.
Speaker 3: But I'd rather have a day game, I think, than
a night game. If I was to choose this kickoff time.
I love the eleven am kickoff time. ESPN two is
where it's gonna be broadcasted. I got Blaine Anderson by
my side. Blaine, what do you what do you make
it's in the afternoons? Now we got BYU versus U
see them in the afternoons.
Speaker 4: Baby, Yeah, I'm looking forward to We got some games
on here at the Tailgators, so we'll catch these morning
games and then go home and root for Auburn a
little bit later today. And I think the kickoff time
here at eleven is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited to see how many BYU fans show
up and see if it will be a true sold
out crowd. Look, guys, one of the things we've been
talking about as we've been prepping for this by UCF game.
Is the public perception of BYU and why the college
football rankings are the way they are.
Speaker 2: I broke it down on acts. You can follow me
at Crudel Benjamin.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna read through these one more time for you
that if you miss the initial segment. Number one, preseason
rankings are always casting a long shadow. Those teams that
start high get the grace on the back end. Okay,
Number two recruiting rankings also feed that machine with preseason height.
Remember BYU is always overachieving versus their recruiting ranking. Kay
on average under killine. They've been around in the sixties
and seventies per two four to seven sports for their
recruiting rankings, I mean, and they've been a perennial over
the last five years. It seems a top twenty five
team year and in year out. They are the most
underrated team in college football in the ap pol era
and especially since twenty fourteen. Those traditional powers always benefit
from the early perception. And you look at the top
ten currently by the way, in that there was a
study done recently Texas A and m Oregon, Oklahoma, some
of the most overrated teams per the eight people since
twenty fourteen. Okay, so recruiting rankings, eight people, preseason height,
all of that matters. Number two TV money, geography, population
density that influences everything. Bigger markets, denser regions, drive higher
ratings period, more exposure, more exposure, more narrative protection.
Speaker 2: This keeps the big brands atop the food chain.
Speaker 3: Number four, Conference perception isn't equal because of all these things.
The Committee clearly values the Big ten and the SEC
wins more than the Big twelve and ACC results, even
when the records say otherwise, even when the strength of
record says otherwise. Not All power for passer judge the
same quality wins and quality losses from in conference. Right
in the SEC Big ten they made trump those out
of conference losses sustained versus the Big twelve or ACC five.
Speaker 2: And I've said this time and time again.
Speaker 3: As the SEC and Big Big ten they move to
more conference games, they want to take that brand equity
that they built up in the last few years as
cheaters the bag men, okay, paying players, and they want
to take that brand equity into the modern era where
everyone can pay players.
Speaker 2: Period. It's that simple. So they want to play each.
Speaker 3: Other and keep it all in house and not have
as many P four versus P four data points. That's
what they want. They don't want Big ten versus ACC.
They don't want SEC versus Big twelve non conference games anymore.
They want to keep it easy psy in the non
conference and then play nine in conference games.
Speaker 2: That's what they're doing.
Speaker 3: And then they want November momentum to determine Okay, what
and who gets into the Big twelve or the into
the College Football Playoff and the colle football championship games.
Speaker 2: Okay, so November momendum.
Speaker 3: Notice everyone's talking about novembera momentum and how good these
teams are now not what they did in September or October.
And then you also have the personality, marketability and narrative.
Those things matter too. That all stems from the amount
of money you can make if you are ESP and Fox, CBS, Boorts, etc.
Speaker 2: The NCAA, the coll Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: Committee, all of these entities benefit from the big brands winning.
So when I enumerate all these I'm not trying to
jaje ye. I'm just telling you that is the nature
of the beast right now. Furthermore, we saw last year.
What happened when they went the opposite direction. They didn't
lean on big brands. SMU is a good example of this.
SMU got in and they weren't punished for being a
two loss team and their only loss of the regular
season was BYU. Then they went to the ACC Championship
game and they lost to Clemson and it was a
close one. They got into the the cole Football Playoff
and they got bounced with ease. And the Committee said look,
and the SEC said look, and the Big Ten said, look,
this is what we don't want. We want the best
teams in the college football playoff. Boise State gets a
bye and then they get demolished in that semi final
or the quarterfinal.
Speaker 2: They don't want that again.
Speaker 3: They want the best him So I understand this November
momentum discussion, but BYU deserves if we're talking to BYU now,
with their strength of resume, their strength of record, they
deserve to be in the top ten of college football.
And I don't know if the committee will do it.
I don't know if the committee no matter what Brett
Yormark says. And I want to maybe replay that sound
for those that missed it. Let's get that cue back up.
As Brett Yormark at the asu U of a game
last night, right, what did they say?
Speaker 2: What did Brett Yormark say?
Speaker 3: Let me know when you got a queued up for me,
ap and we can play that for Cougar Nation once again.
Speaker 2: But Brett Ormark.
Speaker 3: Finally making the case less hesitant to make the case
for BYU. This is what he had to say in
an interview live in Tempe.
Speaker 5: I just want let you know that if you would
have told me a couple of months ago we'd have
three in the top team, I would have taken it.
Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled where this conference is going.
Speaker 5: You know, as it relates to Texas Tech, you feel
really good about them. I think they're showing in a
CFP and you toamas you they won their tenth game
this year and they should get strong consideration. As it
relates to BYU, I think they've been underappreciate all season long,
and when you compare them to a Notre Dame, there
is no comparison when you think the strength of rector strength.
Speaker 6: Of schedule and win loss.
Speaker 5: And I've got a lot of confidences with CFP selection committee.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get it right by the end of
the season.
Speaker 4: Well, Tommy B and Devin the Commissioner has spoken indeed.
Speaker 2: I'm right in so ap. I'm gonna ask you this question.
Speaker 3: Do you think the College Football Playoff Committee is going
to get it right? When you compare head to head
side by side BYU's resume versus the Notre Dame fighting
Irish does BYU went out and do you think the
College Football Playoff Committee will see it that way?
Speaker 7: There is absolutely no chance the College Football Playoff Committee
is going to put BYU above Notre Dame unless Notre Dame.
He's the bed today when they play Stanford, like they
have to lose to Stanford in order for BYU to
jump them. Should Bye be ahead of them?
Speaker 2: Yes? They should?
Speaker 7: And I think I mean what Brett or Mark said
is true, Like there's no comparison in the resumes. BYU
has a much more impressive resume. They actually have good wins,
not just good losses Notre Dame, something that Notre Dame
really doesn't have. They do have that win over pitt
pit is ranked twenty two, but that I think that
win over Utah is much more impressive. The win over
Arizona is more impressive to me all those things. I
think Boa is a better team than Notre Dame. I
think that they would beat Notre Dame in the playoff,
but I don't think the playoff committee sees it that way.
I don't think that the committee is going to put
BYU in at large unless there are a lot of losses,
unless there's unless there's two losses ahead of BYU.
Speaker 3: Today hoping for the best, right, hoping that these teams
in front of BYU lose. Oklahoma loses to LSU, Alabama
loses to Auburn, Right, you hope those things happen. Notre
Dame loses to Stanford, it would be great, it would
be grand, It would be wonderful. Oregon loses to Washington.
That's what your fingers are crossed for. But can you
bank on it. Probably not. You may have to go
into Arlington versus Texas Tech in a neutral game, rise
and shout and show up, buy as many tickets as
you can, cougrenation and create a neutral setting, because I
guarantee you that that setting at Lobbing it was pretty loud,
it was pretty raucous, and they were injecting audio into
that stadium too, so that was very difficult I think
for the BYU offense to be able to communicate and
be able to navigate, and that's why you saw a
Bear struggle a little bit because of the lack of
communication between his offensive coordinator and the true fresh quarterback.
Speaker 2: That has been fantastic.
Speaker 3: He's been good on in road games as well, Ryan Hancock,
Ladies and gentlemen, come on up here, buddy, We'll get
caught up with him real quick.
Speaker 2: Well, Ben, But I just think it's gonna be different.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a little bit different in
a neutral game, neutral setting.
Speaker 2: Ap What do you got for.
Speaker 6: Just really quick off that crowd. I agree with you.
Speaker 7: I think that the Texas Tech home field advantage was
huge for them. I think it's also that Loubvick was
really hard for BAU fans to get to. The little
BAU fans section that was there was loud and they
were great, and it was full of BUA fans, but
it was a very small section in Arlington.
Speaker 8: I think that's a that's a there's a difference there.
Speaker 7: I think it's a lot easier for BA fans to
get to Arlington than it is to get into Lubbock.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I think Texas Tech was pretty judicious about how many
how many tickets were given to opposing fan base. They
were pretty good about not letting these tickets get onto
the market online markets.
Speaker 2: Do not sell your tickets.
Speaker 3: They people are becoming very aware that EYU fans travel, okay,
And if you want to win football games, you want
to win football games at home, you better not give
up your tickets. And if you do give up your tickets,
do not give it to an opposing fan. Do not
put it on the market where a b YU think
can snatch it up because you know they're going.
Speaker 4: To well Texas Tech, they got a lot on the line.
You know they were playing for every competitive advantage they could.
And that doesn't surprise me one bit. But I like
our chances. I think we play them a lot better
on a neutral site indoors. Even McKay mentioned that this
week that not only the fans, but we know win
was a factor. There were a few conditions there. Plus
we get better. I like our coaching staff and the
adjustments that we make. I'd love to see that game,
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let yeah and We're also want to know
that stadium versus that you know last year versus the
Colorado Bucks. We played pretty well and that was that
was a glorious win in the alible, in the alimble ball,
no doubt about it. We're gonna go to break guys,
don't go anywhere more to get you.
Speaker 2: We'll take a brief time out. Like I said, we're
taking you all the way up to kick off.
Speaker 3: We're about an hour and a half away from this
BYU UCF matchup. Gonna get that dub today. It shouldna
be a dominant victory. By is a seventeen and a
half point favorite versus the UCF Knights. I expect a
great game from Bear and a great game from this
offense that has been built around the run games.
Speaker 2: The biggest thing is.
Speaker 3: You just hope you stay healthy, you know, I mean,
you come out of this game healthy and prepped and
ready for that big twelve championship game. So fingers crosses
BYU Preps. We'll give you a little injury report on
BYU coming up next.
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We'd love to see you. BYU seventeen and a half
point favorite. They should get the win today. They are
going to the Big twelve championship game no matter what
happens today. And I'm gonna give you a little injury
report here momentarily so state tuned.
Speaker 2: How healthy is BYU?
Speaker 3: Look, that game at Cincinnati was a great win, a
double digit win on the road versus a bull eligible
team that was just just hovering around top twenty five.
There were a ranked team just a few weeks ago.
Great win, no doubt about it. But the bad thing
that happened was you felt like by you got a little.
Speaker 2: Bit deemed up in that game. Bear took a shot
to his throwing shoulder.
Speaker 3: Will he be able to throw the ball effectively today.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit.
Speaker 3: Cold, right, It's the coldest game he's gonna be playing in.
He's a California boy, and he took a shot to
the right shoulder.
Speaker 2: LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin also looked a little bit deemed up on that
final drive. Now he bounced back. You look fantastic. You
look good on that final drive. Rumblin stumbling for a
tunny to finish off this. Uh that Cincinnati Bearcat's team
know if sands a bunch about that, but still Uh,
Byu has been a little bit dinged up and offensively
is where I'm more concerned.
Speaker 2: The defense.
Speaker 3: You know, they've been able to persevere through adversity. They
have maybe, you know, seemingly more depth at certain key positions.
Speaker 2: If you lose l J. If you lose.
Speaker 3: Bear, you lost Chase as well. With a hamstring injury
last week. That could be devastating to BYU's ability to
beat Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: In love it.
Speaker 3: Any concerns regarding the injuries in the injury report.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm curious to see what happens with Chase Roberts.
That was a a big deal if you asked me,
him missing the second half of last week, So I'll
be curious to see if he plays and then, uh,
I want I hope Jack Kelly.
Speaker 2: I hope he's back. We need him.
Speaker 3: He is, he should be like he I don't think
he's been really well. He had the the early injuries
with his shoulders.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if anyone's one hundred percent, right, Like,
I don't think anyone's one hundred percent at this time.
But but he should be ready to go and the
juggernaut should be built for this game, and hopefully he's
healthy for the for the Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Game in Arlington.
Speaker 4: Do you think with guys like Chase and maybe LJ,
do they hold him back a little bit now that
we know we're in this Big twelve.
Speaker 3: I don't know you wondered about that, Like, if Bear
has any sort of like right throwing shoulder injury, does
McKay Hillstead get the second half?
Speaker 2: You know? Does Traycon Boorgay come in for the second half?
Speaker 3: If v Yu's up three scores, do you you call
off the dogs a little bit and bring in some
of your your others, you know, at quarterback and a
running back. We know that Jojo Arker Kingston as well
as uh, you know, I mean you know. I think
Cody Hagen will get reps more reps this week with
Chase Roberts being up a little bit questionable with.
Speaker 2: His hammi yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and especially being senior night, we got to expect
that we're going to see more of our seniors if
they're not regularly playing. So to me, I'm you know what,
I'm hoping a little bit. I saw this maybe against Cincinnati.
It seems like Kilani late in the game was even
up for putting up some points, running up that score
a little bit. I'd love to see this score get
run up some today. We need a nice big statement win.
I'd like to see us win by thirty.
Speaker 3: So game day update real quick for byu Max Alford
linebacker is out. He was your backup mac linebacker behind
Sialia Sera running back.
Speaker 2: Cioni Boas still out.
Speaker 3: You hope he can maybe get back for a bowl
game or a college football playoff type of game. I
don't know if he's gonna be back for the Big
twelve championship game. Winland Lapuaho also out. You're starting left
guard a Nissi Percell defense to tackle out and then
defense stackle.
Speaker 2: Ulevi Fittulli also out.
Speaker 3: Game time decisions Chase Roberts wide receiver and Tavian Beasley,
So these are both game time decisions. I thought Tavion
had a really nice game last week, a great TfL
and force fumble that changed the tides of the game.
Cincinnati was marching, they were in the red zone, and
that turnover was pretty devastating to the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 2: Should have been a scoop and score should.
Speaker 3: Have been more devastating in my opinion, But that's your
recent injur report.
Speaker 2: Now, UCF is much more injured.
Speaker 3: Jae Curry Brown quarterback out, Cam Fartcher out, quarterback, Isaiah Reid,
defensive back j j R. Brown cornerback out, Stacey Gage
running back out, linebacker, Jade McDonald out. They have three
offensive lineman Carter Miller, Jacob Mayaba, Keegan Smith all out,
tight end Max Drag Out defense snackle, Derek LeBlanc out.
So we chat with a number of insiders this week
and they all said, look, UCF is ding dum. UCF
is not healthy whatsoever, and and so by you should.
Speaker 2: Be heavily favored in this game.
Speaker 3: There's this should be a dominant victory for the Kops
considering that, you know, for the most part, boy is
pretty healthy. Like Baar didn't show up on the injury report,
LJ didn't show up on the injury report.
Speaker 2: It's Chase Roberts, right, Chase Roberts is the guy.
Speaker 3: Tavian Beasley is the other guy right now that you're
looking at that or game time decisions.
Speaker 4: Well and relatively speaking, it seems like we've done all
in all pretty well this season with injuries and so
hopefully nothing changes today.
Speaker 2: But that's not bad.
Speaker 4: That's not bad being this late in the season, having
the availability that we do with a lot of our
star guys.
Speaker 3: Ap Any thoughts on the injury report, any takeaways from
the BYU injured report? Are you concerned at all about
bear Bachmeyer's throwing shoulder?
Speaker 2: Remember there was only.
Speaker 3: One a ten up passing attempt after the UH the
hit to his shoulder where he's scrappley getting east west
rather than north south, and that was an interception on
the two point conversion attempt. Any uh any concerns about
his throwing shoulder.
Speaker 6: I still feel pretty good.
Speaker 7: About Bear, I think he's they if there's anything, I
feel like the strength and conditioning staff have probably done
a pretty good job of taking care of it. I
think he'll throw less today. I think it's gonna be
the l J.
Speaker 6: Martin Show.
Speaker 7: My takeaway from from Chase Roberts being out, I think
that we're we may maybe we see a little bit
of Tay Nakua because he's listed as the backup on
the depth chart four Chase Roberts. I think we also
get a bit more of of Cody Hagen.
Speaker 6: Maybe sliding in a bit.
Speaker 7: I think we're gonna get some some touchdowns from guys
that we haven't seen a lot from today. I'm gonna
call a Tiger Bachmeyer touchdown just because of the receiver depth.
I think they're gonna rotate him a lot more, try
to keep the main guys healthy as long as the
game is in hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is uh, it's an interesting game.
Speaker 3: Like I said, the biggest thing that I'm I'm concerned
about is just staying healthy, staying strong. Coming out with
a victory today at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Gotta get a dub. Obviously,
it's gotta be a convincing one, no doubt. But we
gotta come out of this game healthy. Let's take a
brief time out. That's your injury report as we prep
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Speaker 3: One of the stats I wanted to bring up today
is this we all know BYU is underrated, underappreciated right
by the College Football Playoff Committee, by the eight pe Pole.
Right you saw that study that was published prior to
kicking off this season in BYU was ranked as the
most underrated program in college football in the ap Pole
era and furthermore since twenty fourteen, So in the modern
era that was through independence and into now BYU's first
few years.
Speaker 2: In the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: The other component that shows that BYU is the most
underrated team or one of the most underrated teams in
college football. Is how they fared against the spread? How
Vegas views BYU okay in order to get betting dollars
on the table into the bookie's hands. BYU currently sits
at eight and three against the spread this season, and
it was similar last year. I'll pull that up here momentarily,
but that would put them, I believe, tied for eighth
in college football this season. The only other teams that
are better than BYU against the spread, and by the way,
great team, good teams win, great teams cover, and BYU
has been covering. Texas Tech is actually ten and one.
They're the number one team against the spread this season.
I don't know if that surprises you at all if
you're tuning in. Ohio State's nine to one and one
against the spread, Utah State and Bronco Meno ten and
two against the spread.
Speaker 2: They've been competitive.
Speaker 3: They almost knocked off Boise State yesterday. North Texas ten
and two against the spread once again. Another underrated team,
Washington Kentucky is nine and two against the spred Vanderbilt
eight two and one against the spread, and then you
have Santo State nine and three, Western Michigan eight three
and one, Central Michigan eight three and oh. And then
Iowa is actually eight three and one against spread. And
then you have b YU at eight three and oh
against the spread. Behind them is Wake Forest Pitt. They
are both eight three and oh against the spread. When
I give you that number, right and you know ap
that BYU Innba people is the most underrated team of
the a Peopole era. This once again just kind of
you look at how the College Football Playoff Committee views
BYU and you wonder. I was just talking to Ken Anderson,
big BYU fan, He's like, Bro, I think it's this
combination of being independence, not being not having enough brand
equity within the power force structure. No matter how many
individual wars, no matter how many conference championships you had
in the WAG in the Mountain West Conference, no matter
how many times you you won against Power four Power
five teams during independence, it's just not enough to sway
these committee members to thinking that BYU is ranked inappropriately.
That's where we stand right now, Okay, is every single
metric besides the computer algorithms. The computer algorithm loves BYU.
The strength of record loves BYU. Right, so you're looking
at the You're like, throw the.
Speaker 2: Human element out right now, and let's just rely on computers.
Speaker 3: I know that may sound crazy to some, but all
of my nerds rise and shout, we want the computers
now to start deciding who gets into the college football playoff.
No longer this human committee. And we are a people
of committees too, We are people of councils. But I
think we're all leaning into the AI robotic algorithms right now,
are we not?
Speaker 2: Ap well for me?
Speaker 8: Like as of right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Here's the funny thing about this preseason narrative that is
carried into.
Speaker 8: The college football play for the second year in a row.
Speaker 7: By the way, is that if Jake Rudsloff at State
at BYU and eleven to one BYU is probably sitting
around six or seven in the country, and Bear Bachmeer
is a better quarterback than Jake Rutzloff is, And so
it just goes to show you gotta get rid of
I'm okay with preseason polls as long as the College
Football Playoff Committee stops paying attention to them. The problem
is that they pay too much attention to them. They
don't really do their job until November. I don't know
if they watch very much football until November. Quite frankly,
they just let the apeople do their job for them,
and then they kind of assess things based off of
how the A people is doing. The ap pole is
really just a bunch of power rankings based off of
preseason rate rankings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, no matter how you slice it, no
matter what metric you look at that has a human
element involved in it, every single human element right to me,
is slanted against BYU right now. For whatever reason. Some
within our culture, within our people will say it's religiously.
Some people say it's non P four brand equity base.
Some people say, well, it's because BYU doesn't have premiere
personnel and talent NFL caliber talent, right and hype surrounding
him in that regard, right and when we have had
many and Dave R two is one of those guys
that hops onto a show colleg football matrix and they'll say,
look big BYU Overchiees by one or two games versus
their talent every single year. So, however you slice it,
BYU is underrated, underappreciated, under ranked, Okay, real quick, I'm
gonna pivot here. Let's talk some BYUCF for a moment.
BYU is three and one against the UCF Knights. The
Cougars beat the Knights in twenty twenty four on the
road in Orlando, thirty.
Speaker 2: Seven to twenty four.
Speaker 3: The last time UCF made a trip to Provo was
in two thousand and eleven, and BYU needed a kick
return touchdown from then Cody Hoffman. Shout out to Cody Hoffman,
one of the best wide receivers who have donned the
white and blue. They pulled out a twenty four to
seventeen victory at Levelle Edwards Stadium. Now BYU's college football
playoff resume going back to who they are. The Cougars
are currently ranked number eleven in the College Football Playoff rankings. Okay,
BYU has earned it it's ten to one record with
consistent and resilient complementary football in twenty twenty five to
build its playoff resume. Nobody wants to hear about complementary
football this day and age.
Speaker 2: They want to hear.
Speaker 3: About game control and margin of victory. That's what they're saying. Okay,
that's what they want that's why Utah had risen.
Speaker 2: In the ranks.
Speaker 3: If you've been watching, BYU is the only team with
four or more road wins against Bowl eligible Shout out
to Vic Cram showing up, staying healthy, staying strong. Four
or more road wins against bull eligible teams this season,
more than Oregon, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Alabama. So Oregon's
got one, Oklahoma's got two, Notre Dame's got one, Alabama
has two. When you look at like, just take the
brands out of there. If they're Bowl eligible, they're better teams.
These teams aren't playing bull eligible teams.
Speaker 2: They're just not.
Speaker 3: So this whole strength of schedule, even strength of record
metric for some doesn't even suffice, especially when you're not
playing bull eligible teams. That's why BYU seventh did strength
the record this season because they've played more bull eligible
teams and they played them on the road and they've won.
BYU has a six and one record versus teams with
current winning records as well, which ranks fifth nationally and
is more wins than Oklahoma at five, Oregon at five,
Notre Dame at five, and Alabama at five. BOI has
more double digit margin wins seven, then Alabama who's at six,
and o clam at six. So when you compare it
to trash BYU to the teams that are in front
of them, BYU wins out on every metric minus your
subjective eye test that is laden with bias. BYU is
one of two teams in the nation with its only
loss coming on the road against ACFB top ten ranked team.
Speaker 2: BYU and Ole Miss have those They're one of two teams.
That's it.
Speaker 3: BYU owns the number seven strength of record. They were
at six prior to Ole Miss getting the win over
Mississippi State yesterday, and so that's where BYU currently sends
out their number twenty eight in strength of schedule. So
ESPN Power Football Index is a head of their strength
of schedule. That's the Football Power Index. They're ahead of
Old Miss, Notre Dame. Ole Miss is at thirty third,
Notre Dame at thirty four, Indiana's at thirty eight, Ohio
State's at fifty two, in Texas.
Speaker 2: Is fifty six.
Speaker 3: That's a straight the schedule rate twenty eighth of the
country at the top thirty ap your thoughts, your commentator,
your follow up, well.
Speaker 7: Just going along with this. This is the frustrating thing
about this year's committee because all everything that they are
asking BYU is doing, including the eye test. By the way,
seven of BYU's ten wins are by two scores or
more so, it's BYU's had three four games, or they've
they've had three one score wins, and they're mad at
BYU for winning the one score games.
Speaker 6: And it's it's not like years past when we're.
Speaker 7: Maybe taking one metric as a fan base and just
valuing that above all else, Like say, like twenty twenty,
we had the eye test, but we didn't really play anybody.
This year, we've played teams, we played, we played three
top twenty five teams. We're two to one against them.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 7: We've won seven games I believe by I think it's
double digits. Seven games I double digits this year. And
they're not valuing that. And that's probably the most frustrating
thing about this committee is they're just not looking at
what BYU has done.
Speaker 6: They just don't care.
Speaker 7: It's like they do they're trying to find ways to
ignore BYU despite BYU fulfilling everything that they're asking BYU
to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely disappointing. You're hoping for a little magic
in front of you. You're hoping for some of these
teams that are ahead of BYU to lose. We'll discuss
that again here momentarily, but look BYU's going to the
Big twelve title game. They're gonna be taking off Texts Tech.
They they they are the master of their own descent.
They could be Texas Tech and get into the College
Football playoff. And one of the things that have been
kind of a born in our side is not being
able to get over the hump ap When were you born?
When were you born?
Speaker 8: I was born in two thousand and three.
Speaker 2: Okay, so two thousand and three. You're a young pump.
Speaker 7: This day since the three this is the first conference
championship game of my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Well, well I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Think here, yeah, because well were we won the Mountain
West Conference in six and seven, but we didn't necessarily
have a Mountain West Conference championship game, and then we
wonted nine as.
Speaker 2: Well, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, the last one
maybe the last one O seven.
Speaker 7: The last one's seven. The last championship game was nineteen
ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness gracious. Okay, so.
Speaker 3: Since that, since that time, right, since you were born, right,
you look at Boiu's trajectory, right, and they never were
able to get over the hump, even though our six, seven,
eight nine teams, very good teams, top twenty five teams
in college football, even in the Taysome era with Tamal Williams. Okay,
couldn't get over the hump twenty twenty, couldn't get over
the hump.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mama, hey, matthew. I couldn't get over the hump
in twenty twenty, couldn't get over the hump.
Speaker 3: And two, come on up, just come on up here,
couldn't get over the hup in twenty twenty one. So
during that time, who got over the hump? Utah TCU
got over the hump, UCF got over the hump.
Speaker 2: Okay, Boise State got over the hump. You go down
the list of teams, n IU got over the hump.
Speaker 8: All these teamsoff.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati got over the hump. In Cincinnati was a Power.
Speaker 3: Four team for a long time in the Big East, right,
So you know, but like all these teams that were
on the outside looking in got on the hump, and
BYU was never able to do such. They were always relevant,
always you know, hovering in the top twenty five or
just right outside the top twenty five, but couldn't get
over the hump. You hope that this is the year.
You hope that this is the time. This is the
place to get over the hump. Now with everything going
in BYU's favor with power four affiliation right with a
true freshman quarterbacks, arounded by out fantastic supporting cast, a
great special teams unit, a great defensive unit, and an
offense that per esbnsp plus is playing at.
Speaker 2: A top five and twenty five.
Speaker 3: Efficiency rating right now, six days ago when the predictive
metric sp plus on ESPN dropped.
Speaker 2: The most recent BYU is sixteenth overall.
Speaker 3: By the way, twenty third in offense, nineteenth in defense,
in twenty fifth in special teams. This team is truly
a resilient, gritty, complementary style football team that can compete
and beat the best of college football. Are they an
elite team of collforot are their top five team in
colleg football? No, not up to this point, but they
sure heck on a neutral setting or even not a
home setting, can beat just about anybody. And there's there's
a reason why SEC schools, Big ten schools right, very
rarely did they ever want to come to Provo and
compete against the Cougars on their home football field. It
was a difficult place. Look at Tennessee canceling. Look at
others canceling not wanting to come out to Provo. They've
seen many SEC SEC schools come into Leavel Edward City
and take ls, not only in the past, but in
the recent past as well. Guys, we're live from our
swig location just south of Leavel Edwards Stadium, taking you
all the way to kickoff.
Speaker 2: We're about an hour away.
Speaker 3: Before we kick off this BYU UCF matchup. It's a
big one for momentum, it's a big one for the
public perception. BYU getting eleven o'clock kickoff on ESPN. Two
more eyeballs. Maybe we'll be on this from the East
Coast voters. BYU needs to cover. As I mentioned, BYU
is one of the best teams in college football at
covering the spread. By is a seventeen and a half
point favorite. Are you feeling like By's gonna cover to day?
I believe they will. They shall the injury report is
not too critical here. As we look at unavailable players,
the one that maybe hurts me.
Speaker 2: The most is uh, it is probably the.
Speaker 3: Anisi percell I. Don't like seeing that. Nissi is a
good football.
Speaker 2: Player that has actually been playing with the club.
Speaker 3: But Max Alfred out, sim out wail out a Nisi
percell out, lu Levi Fetulli is out. Defensive tackle, Chase
Roberts wide receiver in Tavie and Beasley cornerback your your
nickel corner there behind Johnathan CABEYA. Uh, they are game
time decisions. All right, Let's take a brief time out.
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