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Speaker 1: Come money, he said talk. He once told Ben Credel

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to get into coaching. Lucky for you Cougar fans, Ben

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Kretel didn't listen. He wants to continue talking Cougar football

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every day here on Cougar Sports on one O three

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nine at ninety three ESPN The Fan.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back the four nine ESPN The Fan.

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Speaker 3: I've been broadcasting from our ulp Mintaild. Get your prep,

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get your ready BYU versus UCM. We're going to take

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you all the way after the kickoff, come on down

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to the South Swig location just just south of Lavelle

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Edwards Stadium. Get your prep getting ready for this below

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Speaker 2: It's a big one.

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Speaker 3: It's a big one because you want more momentum, you

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want confidence, you want to win this game convincingly. You

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want to cover and uh get some more public positive

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propaganda heading your way. You're going to the Big Toe

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Championship no matter what you today. But you need to

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get out there and execute right.

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Speaker 2: In front of all of your fans. Okay.

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Speaker 3: And it's a day game, so that means maybe more

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eyeballs will be on you today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it's a big game. B Why you was

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a heavy favorite.

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Speaker 3: You should win by three scores and I expect that

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guys real quick though, before we get into some more

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football talk here, and I do want to talk a

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ton of football, but we got to give a big

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Cougar roar to the BYU men's basketball team getting two wins,

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two big wins in on a neutral court out in Orlando, Okay,

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and b WAYE football maybe head in Orlando, Well we'll see,

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we'll see what happens there. But solid victories against Dayton,

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and look, I love that dating game because look, we

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are not a first half team. We are not a

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first half team by any means. We are a second

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half team and we come on strong in the second half.

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You could not have played any worse than you did

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versus Dayton in that first half, and somehow you were

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still in it. You were down ten or so and

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found a way to win and down the stretch. You know,

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Cannar Davis Uner needs to hit his free throws, obviously,

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but I was really impressed with Richie Saunders.

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Speaker 2: He almost having a thirty point performance.

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Speaker 3: Richie the Todd Kinge ballin shot colin agent of bons

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and continues to show case his abilities as a first round,

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first overall NBA draft pick in this next year's draft,

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and I can't wait to see what this BYU basketball

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team can do. The bad news, though, the bad news

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of it all is Dawson Baker. You're six man, the

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the bucket getter. Baker went down with a left knee

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injury in this Dayton game and he did not get

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up and he had to be helped off the court.

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Not good, Not good at all.

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Speaker 2: He should be.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, we saw him in a in a wheelchair,

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so the prognosis is, I mean, we don't know exactly

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what it's gonna be, but it doesn't look good, doesn't

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look optimistic. The mechanism of injury seemed to me as

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if it was a It was kind of a semi

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content because I think his right foot or ankle did

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get clipped. The left knee buckled inward in transition as

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he was trying to gather himself and receive a pass

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existing injuries he's had. I know he's had foot and

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ankle injuries in the past. Maybe it was his left

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foot ankle. Before that, the left knee buckles and he's

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his own strength. He was helped off the court by

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his teammates and his trainer. Does not look good for

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Dawson Baker. Now you're down two guards on that robust

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guard line. Nate Pickens out for the season with a

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footter ankle injury. He's on a scooter, and now Dawson

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that's maybe that's the reason why they went out got

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lection coastak. I don't know if he's gonna be a

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guy by midseason, by late season. We'll see how that

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Speaker 3: He's got to get better, obviously, but he's been great,

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and uh so there's some question marks along that guardline.

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bit more and be even more of a facilitator for

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his teammates. So that's the latest on BYU Basketball, the good,

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the bad, and the ugly. There BYU taking on UCF

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eleven am kickoff BLI He's a seventeen and a half

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point favorite BYU per esp analytics, is in a situation

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right now where they should be dominant over the UCF

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Speaker 2: Being a day game, it will be a little bit

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Speaker 3: But I'd rather have a day game, I think, than

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where it's gonna be broadcasted. I got Blaine Anderson by

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my side. Blaine, what do you what do you make

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it's in the afternoons? Now we got BYU versus U

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Speaker 4: Baby, Yeah, I'm looking forward to We got some games

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on here at the Tailgators, so we'll catch these morning

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games and then go home and root for Auburn a

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little bit later today. And I think the kickoff time

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here at eleven is great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited to see how many BYU fans show

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Is the public perception of BYU and why the college

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football rankings are the way they are.

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Speaker 2: I broke it down on acts. You can follow me

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna read through these one more time for you

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that if you miss the initial segment. Number one, preseason

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rankings are always casting a long shadow. Those teams that

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start high get the grace on the back end. Okay,

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Number two recruiting rankings also feed that machine with preseason height.

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Remember BYU is always overachieving versus their recruiting ranking. Kay

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on average under killine. They've been around in the sixties

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and seventies per two four to seven sports for their

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recruiting rankings, I mean, and they've been a perennial over

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the last five years. It seems a top twenty five

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team year and in year out. They are the most

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underrated team in college football in the ap pol era

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and especially since twenty fourteen. Those traditional powers always benefit

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from the early perception. And you look at the top

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ten currently by the way, in that there was a

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study done recently Texas A and m Oregon, Oklahoma, some

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of the most overrated teams per the eight people since

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twenty fourteen. Okay, so recruiting rankings, eight people, preseason height,

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all of that matters. Number two TV money, geography, population

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density that influences everything. Bigger markets, denser regions, drive higher

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ratings period, more exposure, more exposure, more narrative protection.

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Speaker 2: This keeps the big brands atop the food chain.

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Speaker 3: Number four, Conference perception isn't equal because of all these things.

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The Committee clearly values the Big ten and the SEC

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wins more than the Big twelve and ACC results, even

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when the records say otherwise, even when the strength of

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record says otherwise. Not All power for passer judge the

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same quality wins and quality losses from in conference. Right

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in the SEC Big ten they made trump those out

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Speaker 2: And I've said this time and time again.

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Speaker 3: As the SEC and Big Big ten they move to

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more conference games, they want to take that brand equity

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that they built up in the last few years as

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cheaters the bag men, okay, paying players, and they want

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to take that brand equity into the modern era where

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everyone can pay players.

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Speaker 2: Period. It's that simple. So they want to play each.

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Speaker 3: Other and keep it all in house and not have

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as many P four versus P four data points. That's

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what they want. They don't want Big ten versus ACC.

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conference and then play nine in conference games.

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Speaker 2: That's what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: And then they want November momentum to determine Okay, what

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and who gets into the Big twelve or the into

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the College Football Playoff and the colle football championship games.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so November momendum.

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Speaker 3: Notice everyone's talking about novembera momentum and how good these

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teams are now not what they did in September or October.

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of money you can make if you are ESP and Fox, CBS, Boorts, etc.

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Speaker 2: The NCAA, the coll Football Playoff.

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Speaker 3: Committee, all of these entities benefit from the big brands winning.

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jaje ye. I'm just telling you that is the nature

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of the beast right now. Furthermore, we saw last year.

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lean on big brands. SMU is a good example of this.

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SMU got in and they weren't punished for being a

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two loss team and their only loss of the regular

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season was BYU. Then they went to the ACC Championship

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game and they lost to Clemson and it was a

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close one. They got into the the cole Football Playoff

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and they got bounced with ease. And the Committee said look,

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and the SEC said look, and the Big Ten said, look,

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this is what we don't want. We want the best

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teams in the college football playoff. Boise State gets a

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bye and then they get demolished in that semi final

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Speaker 2: They don't want that again.

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Speaker 3: They want the best him So I understand this November

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with their strength of resume, their strength of record, they

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deserve to be in the top ten of college football.

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And I don't know if the committee will do it.

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I don't know if the committee no matter what Brett

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last night, right, what did they say?

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Speaker 2: What did Brett Yormark say?

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Speaker 3: Let me know when you got a queued up for me,

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ap and we can play that for Cougar Nation once again.

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Speaker 2: But Brett Ormark.

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Speaker 3: Finally making the case less hesitant to make the case

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for BYU. This is what he had to say in

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Speaker 5: I just want let you know that if you would

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have told me a couple of months ago we'd have

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three in the top team, I would have taken it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled where this conference is going.

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Speaker 5: You know, as it relates to Texas Tech, you feel

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really good about them. I think they're showing in a

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this year and they should get strong consideration. As it

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relates to BYU, I think they've been underappreciate all season long,

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and when you compare them to a Notre Dame, there

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Speaker 6: Of schedule and win loss.

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Speaker 5: And I've got a lot of confidences with CFP selection committee.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get it right by the end of

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Speaker 4: Well, Tommy B and Devin the Commissioner has spoken indeed.

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Speaker 2: I'm right in so ap. I'm gonna ask you this question.

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Speaker 3: Do you think the College Football Playoff Committee is going

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to get it right? When you compare head to head

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Irish does BYU went out and do you think the

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College Football Playoff Committee will see it that way?

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Speaker 7: There is absolutely no chance the College Football Playoff Committee

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is going to put BYU above Notre Dame unless Notre Dame.

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He's the bed today when they play Stanford, like they

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jump them. Should Bye be ahead of them?

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Speaker 2: Yes? They should?

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Speaker 7: And I think I mean what Brett or Mark said

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really doesn't have. They do have that win over pitt

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pit is ranked twenty two, but that I think that

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win over Utah is much more impressive. The win over

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Arizona is more impressive to me all those things. I

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think Boa is a better team than Notre Dame. I

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think that they would beat Notre Dame in the playoff,

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but I don't think the playoff committee sees it that way.

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I don't think that the committee is going to put

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BYU in at large unless there are a lot of losses,

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unless there's unless there's two losses ahead of BYU.

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Speaker 3: Today hoping for the best, right, hoping that these teams

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in front of BYU lose. Oklahoma loses to LSU, Alabama

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loses to Auburn, Right, you hope those things happen. Notre

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Dame loses to Stanford, it would be great, it would

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be grand, It would be wonderful. Oregon loses to Washington.

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That's what your fingers are crossed for. But can you

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bank on it. Probably not. You may have to go

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into Arlington versus Texas Tech in a neutral game, rise

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and shout and show up, buy as many tickets as

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you can, cougrenation and create a neutral setting, because I

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guarantee you that that setting at Lobbing it was pretty loud,

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it was pretty raucous, and they were injecting audio into

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that stadium too, so that was very difficult I think

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for the BYU offense to be able to communicate and

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be able to navigate, and that's why you saw a

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Bear struggle a little bit because of the lack of

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communication between his offensive coordinator and the true fresh quarterback.

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Speaker 2: That has been fantastic.

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Speaker 3: He's been good on in road games as well, Ryan Hancock,

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Ladies and gentlemen, come on up here, buddy, We'll get

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caught up with him real quick.

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Speaker 2: Well, Ben, But I just think it's gonna be different.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a little bit different in

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a neutral game, neutral setting.

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Speaker 2: Ap What do you got for.

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Speaker 6: Just really quick off that crowd. I agree with you.

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Speaker 7: I think that the Texas Tech home field advantage was

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huge for them. I think it's also that Loubvick was

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really hard for BAU fans to get to. The little

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BAU fans section that was there was loud and they

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were great, and it was full of BUA fans, but

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it was a very small section in Arlington.

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Speaker 8: I think that's a that's a there's a difference there.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a lot easier for BA fans to

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get to Arlington than it is to get into Lubbock.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: I think Texas Tech was pretty judicious about how many

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how many tickets were given to opposing fan base. They

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were pretty good about not letting these tickets get onto

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the market online markets.

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Speaker 2: Do not sell your tickets.

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Speaker 3: They people are becoming very aware that EYU fans travel, okay,

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And if you want to win football games, you want

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to win football games at home, you better not give

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up your tickets. And if you do give up your tickets,

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do not give it to an opposing fan. Do not

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put it on the market where a b YU think

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can snatch it up because you know they're going.

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Speaker 4: To well Texas Tech, they got a lot on the line.

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You know they were playing for every competitive advantage they could.

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And that doesn't surprise me one bit. But I like

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our chances. I think we play them a lot better

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on a neutral site indoors. Even McKay mentioned that this

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week that not only the fans, but we know win

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was a factor. There were a few conditions there. Plus

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we get better. I like our coaching staff and the

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adjustments that we make. I'd love to see that game,

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looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's let yeah and We're also want to know

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that stadium versus that you know last year versus the

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Colorado Bucks. We played pretty well and that was that

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was a glorious win in the alible, in the alimble ball,

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no doubt about it. We're gonna go to break guys,

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don't go anywhere more to get you.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a brief time out. Like I said, we're

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taking you all the way up to kick off.

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Speaker 3: We're about an hour and a half away from this

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BYU UCF matchup. Gonna get that dub today. It shouldna

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be a dominant victory. By is a seventeen and a

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half point favorite versus the UCF Knights. I expect a

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great game from Bear and a great game from this

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offense that has been built around the run games.

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Speaker 2: The biggest thing is.

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Speaker 3: You just hope you stay healthy, you know, I mean,

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you come out of this game healthy and prepped and

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ready for that big twelve championship game. So fingers crosses

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BYU Preps. We'll give you a little injury report on

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BYU coming up next.

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Speaker 1: When Ben Quittal isn't breaking down Coop, he's amounts of

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film on his beloved Cougar football team. He's talking Cougar

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Sports and he's doing it right here. On one O

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Speaker 2: Welcome back of your Shots Club three nine nine eighty

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Speaker 3: I'm in a broadcasting from our Ultimate Tailgator.

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Speaker 2: Come on buy and get your guys self. We just

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got the Holkinson showing up. Baby, we're repp with the y.

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Did you guys get your Monster Energy drinks? Oh you

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don't need that. You guys have it.

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Speaker 3: The Holkinson's already have enough energy and uh, just juice.

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Speaker 2: They don't need the caffeinated beverages.

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Speaker 3: We also have bagels. Come and get fed. Come hang

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out with his pre game. We're just south of LaBelle

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Edwards Stadium at the Swig at South Swig. Come on

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buy sale, talk some ball with us as we get

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you prepped, as we get you ready for this BYU

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UCF game playing Anderson by my side, Ronald the three Man.

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Speaker 2: We were hobbing around here talking with the fans.

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Speaker 3: We got ap behind the mic, behind the glass up

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in Salt Lake City. Come and hang out with us.

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We'd love to see you. BYU seventeen and a half

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point favorite. They should get the win today. They are

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going to the Big twelve championship game no matter what

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happens today. And I'm gonna give you a little injury

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report here momentarily so state tuned.

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Speaker 2: How healthy is BYU?

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Speaker 3: Look, that game at Cincinnati was a great win, a

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double digit win on the road versus a bull eligible

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team that was just just hovering around top twenty five.

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There were a ranked team just a few weeks ago.

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Great win, no doubt about it. But the bad thing

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that happened was you felt like by you got a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit deemed up in that game. Bear took a shot

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to his throwing shoulder.

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Speaker 3: Will he be able to throw the ball effectively today.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Cold, right, It's the coldest game he's gonna be playing in.

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He's a California boy, and he took a shot to

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the right shoulder.

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Speaker 2: LJ.

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Speaker 3: Martin also looked a little bit deemed up on that

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final drive. Now he bounced back. You look fantastic. You

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look good on that final drive. Rumblin stumbling for a

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tunny to finish off this. Uh that Cincinnati Bearcat's team

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know if sands a bunch about that, but still Uh,

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Byu has been a little bit dinged up and offensively

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is where I'm more concerned.

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Speaker 2: The defense.

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Speaker 3: You know, they've been able to persevere through adversity. They

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have maybe, you know, seemingly more depth at certain key positions.

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Speaker 2: If you lose l J. If you lose.

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Speaker 3: Bear, you lost Chase as well. With a hamstring injury

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last week. That could be devastating to BYU's ability to

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beat Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: In love it.

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Speaker 3: Any concerns regarding the injuries in the injury report.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm curious to see what happens with Chase Roberts.

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That was a a big deal if you asked me,

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him missing the second half of last week, So I'll

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be curious to see if he plays and then, uh,

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I want I hope Jack Kelly.

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Speaker 2: I hope he's back. We need him.

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Speaker 3: He is, he should be like he I don't think

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he's been really well. He had the the early injuries

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with his shoulders.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, he's good.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if anyone's one hundred percent, right, Like,

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I don't think anyone's one hundred percent at this time.

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But but he should be ready to go and the

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juggernaut should be built for this game, and hopefully he's

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healthy for the for the Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: Game in Arlington.

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Speaker 4: Do you think with guys like Chase and maybe LJ,

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do they hold him back a little bit now that

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we know we're in this Big twelve.

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Speaker 3: I don't know you wondered about that, Like, if Bear

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has any sort of like right throwing shoulder injury, does

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McKay Hillstead get the second half?

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Speaker 2: You know? Does Traycon Boorgay come in for the second half?

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Speaker 3: If v Yu's up three scores, do you you call

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off the dogs a little bit and bring in some

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of your your others, you know, at quarterback and a

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running back. We know that Jojo Arker Kingston as well

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as uh, you know, I mean you know. I think

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Cody Hagen will get reps more reps this week with

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Chase Roberts being up a little bit questionable with.

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Speaker 2: His hammi yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, and especially being senior night, we got to expect

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that we're going to see more of our seniors if

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they're not regularly playing. So to me, I'm you know what,

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up for putting up some points, running up that score

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a little bit. I'd love to see this score get

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run up some today. We need a nice big statement win.

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I'd like to see us win by thirty.

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Speaker 3: So game day update real quick for byu Max Alford

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linebacker is out. He was your backup mac linebacker behind

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Sialia Sera running back.

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Speaker 2: Cioni Boas still out.

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Speaker 3: You hope he can maybe get back for a bowl

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game or a college football playoff type of game. I

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don't know if he's gonna be back for the Big

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twelve championship game. Winland Lapuaho also out. You're starting left

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guard a Nissi Percell defense to tackle out and then

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defense stackle.

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Speaker 2: Ulevi Fittulli also out.

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Speaker 3: Game time decisions Chase Roberts wide receiver and Tavian Beasley,

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So these are both game time decisions. I thought Tavion

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had a really nice game last week, a great TfL

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and force fumble that changed the tides of the game.

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Cincinnati was marching, they were in the red zone, and

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that turnover was pretty devastating to the Cincinnati Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Should have been a scoop and score should.

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Speaker 3: Have been more devastating in my opinion, But that's your

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recent injur report.

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Speaker 2: Now, UCF is much more injured.

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Speaker 3: Jae Curry Brown quarterback out, Cam Fartcher out, quarterback, Isaiah Reid,

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defensive back j j R. Brown cornerback out, Stacey Gage

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running back out, linebacker, Jade McDonald out. They have three

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offensive lineman Carter Miller, Jacob Mayaba, Keegan Smith all out,

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tight end Max Drag Out defense snackle, Derek LeBlanc out.

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and they all said, look, UCF is ding dum. UCF

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is not healthy whatsoever, and and so by you should.

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Speaker 2: Be heavily favored in this game.

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Speaker 3: There's this should be a dominant victory for the Kops

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considering that, you know, for the most part, boy is

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pretty healthy. Like Baar didn't show up on the injury report,

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LJ didn't show up on the injury report.

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Speaker 2: It's Chase Roberts, right, Chase Roberts is the guy.

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Speaker 3: Tavian Beasley is the other guy right now that you're

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looking at that or game time decisions.

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Speaker 4: Well and relatively speaking, it seems like we've done all

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in all pretty well this season with injuries and so

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hopefully nothing changes today.

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Speaker 2: But that's not bad.

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Speaker 4: That's not bad being this late in the season, having

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the availability that we do with a lot of our

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star guys.

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Speaker 3: Ap Any thoughts on the injury report, any takeaways from

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the BYU injured report? Are you concerned at all about

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bear Bachmeyer's throwing shoulder?

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Speaker 2: Remember there was only.

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Speaker 3: One a ten up passing attempt after the UH the

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hit to his shoulder where he's scrappley getting east west

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rather than north south, and that was an interception on

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the two point conversion attempt. Any uh any concerns about

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his throwing shoulder.

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Speaker 6: I still feel pretty good.

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Speaker 7: About Bear, I think he's they if there's anything, I

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feel like the strength and conditioning staff have probably done

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a pretty good job of taking care of it. I

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think he'll throw less today. I think it's gonna be

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the l J.

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Speaker 6: Martin Show.

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Speaker 7: My takeaway from from Chase Roberts being out, I think

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that we're we may maybe we see a little bit

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of Tay Nakua because he's listed as the backup on

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the depth chart four Chase Roberts. I think we also

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get a bit more of of Cody Hagen.

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Speaker 6: Maybe sliding in a bit.

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Speaker 7: I think we're gonna get some some touchdowns from guys

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that we haven't seen a lot from today. I'm gonna

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call a Tiger Bachmeyer touchdown just because of the receiver depth.

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I think they're gonna rotate him a lot more, try

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to keep the main guys healthy as long as the

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game is in hand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is uh, it's an interesting game.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, the biggest thing that I'm I'm concerned

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about is just staying healthy, staying strong. Coming out with

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a victory today at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Gotta get a dub. Obviously,

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it's gotta be a convincing one, no doubt. But we

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gotta come out of this game healthy. Let's take a

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brief time out. That's your injury report as we prep

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for this byu UCF Game. We're live from our ultimate tailgater,

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Speaker 3: One of the stats I wanted to bring up today

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is this we all know BYU is underrated, underappreciated right

544
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by the College Football Playoff Committee, by the eight pe Pole.

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Right you saw that study that was published prior to

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kicking off this season in BYU was ranked as the

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most underrated program in college football in the ap Pole

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era and furthermore since twenty fourteen, So in the modern

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era that was through independence and into now BYU's first

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few years.

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Speaker 2: In the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 3: The other component that shows that BYU is the most

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underrated team or one of the most underrated teams in

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college football. Is how they fared against the spread? How

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Vegas views BYU okay in order to get betting dollars

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on the table into the bookie's hands. BYU currently sits

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at eight and three against the spread this season, and

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it was similar last year. I'll pull that up here momentarily,

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but that would put them, I believe, tied for eighth

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in college football this season. The only other teams that

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are better than BYU against the spread, and by the way,

562
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great team, good teams win, great teams cover, and BYU

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has been covering. Texas Tech is actually ten and one.

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They're the number one team against the spread this season.

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I don't know if that surprises you at all if

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you're tuning in. Ohio State's nine to one and one

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against the spread, Utah State and Bronco Meno ten and

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two against the spread.

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Speaker 2: They've been competitive.

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Speaker 3: They almost knocked off Boise State yesterday. North Texas ten

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and two against the spread once again. Another underrated team,

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Washington Kentucky is nine and two against the spred Vanderbilt

573
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eight two and one against the spread, and then you

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have Santo State nine and three, Western Michigan eight three

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and one, Central Michigan eight three and oh. And then

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Iowa is actually eight three and one against spread. And

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then you have b YU at eight three and oh

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against the spread. Behind them is Wake Forest Pitt. They

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are both eight three and oh against the spread. When

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I give you that number, right and you know ap

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that BYU Innba people is the most underrated team of

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the a Peopole era. This once again just kind of

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you look at how the College Football Playoff Committee views

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BYU and you wonder. I was just talking to Ken Anderson,

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big BYU fan, He's like, Bro, I think it's this

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combination of being independence, not being not having enough brand

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equity within the power force structure. No matter how many

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individual wars, no matter how many conference championships you had

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in the WAG in the Mountain West Conference, no matter

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how many times you you won against Power four Power

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five teams during independence, it's just not enough to sway

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these committee members to thinking that BYU is ranked inappropriately.

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That's where we stand right now, Okay, is every single

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metric besides the computer algorithms. The computer algorithm loves BYU.

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The strength of record loves BYU. Right, so you're looking

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at the You're like, throw the.

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Speaker 2: Human element out right now, and let's just rely on computers.

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Speaker 3: I know that may sound crazy to some, but all

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of my nerds rise and shout, we want the computers

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now to start deciding who gets into the college football playoff.

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No longer this human committee. And we are a people

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of committees too, We are people of councils. But I

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think we're all leaning into the AI robotic algorithms right now,

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are we not?

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Speaker 2: Ap well for me?

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Speaker 8: Like as of right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Here's the funny thing about this preseason narrative that is

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carried into.

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Speaker 8: The college football play for the second year in a row.

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Speaker 7: By the way, is that if Jake Rudsloff at State

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at BYU and eleven to one BYU is probably sitting

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around six or seven in the country, and Bear Bachmeer

614
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is a better quarterback than Jake Rutzloff is, And so

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it just goes to show you gotta get rid of

616
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I'm okay with preseason polls as long as the College

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Football Playoff Committee stops paying attention to them. The problem

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is that they pay too much attention to them. They

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don't really do their job until November. I don't know

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if they watch very much football until November. Quite frankly,

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they just let the apeople do their job for them,

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and then they kind of assess things based off of

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how the A people is doing. The ap pole is

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really just a bunch of power rankings based off of

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preseason rate rankings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, no matter how you slice it, no

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matter what metric you look at that has a human

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element involved in it, every single human element right to me,

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is slanted against BYU right now. For whatever reason. Some

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within our culture, within our people will say it's religiously.

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Some people say it's non P four brand equity base.

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Some people say, well, it's because BYU doesn't have premiere

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personnel and talent NFL caliber talent, right and hype surrounding

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him in that regard, right and when we have had

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many and Dave R two is one of those guys

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that hops onto a show colleg football matrix and they'll say,

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00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,640
look big BYU Overchiees by one or two games versus

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their talent every single year. So, however you slice it,

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BYU is underrated, underappreciated, under ranked, Okay, real quick, I'm

641
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gonna pivot here. Let's talk some BYUCF for a moment.

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00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,079
BYU is three and one against the UCF Knights. The

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Cougars beat the Knights in twenty twenty four on the

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road in Orlando, thirty.

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Speaker 2: Seven to twenty four.

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Speaker 3: The last time UCF made a trip to Provo was

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in two thousand and eleven, and BYU needed a kick

648
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,759
return touchdown from then Cody Hoffman. Shout out to Cody Hoffman,

649
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one of the best wide receivers who have donned the

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white and blue. They pulled out a twenty four to

651
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,359
seventeen victory at Levelle Edwards Stadium. Now BYU's college football

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00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,720
playoff resume going back to who they are. The Cougars

653
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,559
are currently ranked number eleven in the College Football Playoff rankings. Okay,

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00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,799
BYU has earned it it's ten to one record with

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consistent and resilient complementary football in twenty twenty five to

656
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build its playoff resume. Nobody wants to hear about complementary

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football this day and age.

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Speaker 2: They want to hear.

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Speaker 3: About game control and margin of victory. That's what they're saying. Okay,

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that's what they want that's why Utah had risen.

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Speaker 2: In the ranks.

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Speaker 3: If you've been watching, BYU is the only team with

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four or more road wins against Bowl eligible Shout out

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to Vic Cram showing up, staying healthy, staying strong. Four

665
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or more road wins against bull eligible teams this season,

666
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more than Oregon, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Alabama. So Oregon's

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got one, Oklahoma's got two, Notre Dame's got one, Alabama

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has two. When you look at like, just take the

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brands out of there. If they're Bowl eligible, they're better teams.

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These teams aren't playing bull eligible teams.

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Speaker 2: They're just not.

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Speaker 3: So this whole strength of schedule, even strength of record

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metric for some doesn't even suffice, especially when you're not

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playing bull eligible teams. That's why BYU seventh did strength

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the record this season because they've played more bull eligible

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teams and they played them on the road and they've won.

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BYU has a six and one record versus teams with

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current winning records as well, which ranks fifth nationally and

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is more wins than Oklahoma at five, Oregon at five,

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Notre Dame at five, and Alabama at five. BOI has

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more double digit margin wins seven, then Alabama who's at six,

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and o clam at six. So when you compare it

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to trash BYU to the teams that are in front

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of them, BYU wins out on every metric minus your

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subjective eye test that is laden with bias. BYU is

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one of two teams in the nation with its only

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loss coming on the road against ACFB top ten ranked team.

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Speaker 2: BYU and Ole Miss have those They're one of two teams.

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That's it.

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Speaker 3: BYU owns the number seven strength of record. They were

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at six prior to Ole Miss getting the win over

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Mississippi State yesterday, and so that's where BYU currently sends

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out their number twenty eight in strength of schedule. So

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ESPN Power Football Index is a head of their strength

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of schedule. That's the Football Power Index. They're ahead of

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Old Miss, Notre Dame. Ole Miss is at thirty third,

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Notre Dame at thirty four, Indiana's at thirty eight, Ohio

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State's at fifty two, in Texas.

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Speaker 2: Is fifty six.

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Speaker 3: That's a straight the schedule rate twenty eighth of the

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country at the top thirty ap your thoughts, your commentator,

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your follow up, well.

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Speaker 7: Just going along with this. This is the frustrating thing

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about this year's committee because all everything that they are

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00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,800
asking BYU is doing, including the eye test. By the way,

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seven of BYU's ten wins are by two scores or

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more so, it's BYU's had three four games, or they've

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they've had three one score wins, and they're mad at

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BYU for winning the one score games.

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Speaker 6: And it's it's not like years past when we're.

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Speaker 7: Maybe taking one metric as a fan base and just

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valuing that above all else, Like say, like twenty twenty,

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we had the eye test, but we didn't really play anybody.

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This year, we've played teams, we played, we played three

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top twenty five teams. We're two to one against them.

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Speaker 6: Right now.

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Speaker 7: We've won seven games I believe by I think it's

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double digits. Seven games I double digits this year. And

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they're not valuing that. And that's probably the most frustrating

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thing about this committee is they're just not looking at

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what BYU has done.

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Speaker 6: They just don't care.

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Speaker 7: It's like they do they're trying to find ways to

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ignore BYU despite BYU fulfilling everything that they're asking BYU

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to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely disappointing. You're hoping for a little magic

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in front of you. You're hoping for some of these

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teams that are ahead of BYU to lose. We'll discuss

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that again here momentarily, but look BYU's going to the

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Big twelve title game. They're gonna be taking off Texts Tech.

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They they they are the master of their own descent.

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They could be Texas Tech and get into the College

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Football playoff. And one of the things that have been

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kind of a born in our side is not being

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able to get over the hump ap When were you born?

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When were you born?

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Speaker 8: I was born in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so two thousand and three. You're a young pump.

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Speaker 7: This day since the three this is the first conference

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championship game of my lifetime.

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Speaker 2: Well, well I'm trying to.

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Speaker 3: Think here, yeah, because well were we won the Mountain

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West Conference in six and seven, but we didn't necessarily

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have a Mountain West Conference championship game, and then we

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wonted nine as.

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Speaker 2: Well, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, the last one

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maybe the last one O seven.

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Speaker 7: The last one's seven. The last championship game was nineteen

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ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness gracious. Okay, so.

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Speaker 3: Since that, since that time, right, since you were born, right,

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you look at Boiu's trajectory, right, and they never were

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able to get over the hump, even though our six, seven,

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eight nine teams, very good teams, top twenty five teams

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in college football, even in the Taysome era with Tamal Williams. Okay,

756
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couldn't get over the hump twenty twenty, couldn't get over

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the hump.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Mama, hey, matthew. I couldn't get over the hump

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in twenty twenty, couldn't get over the hump.

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Speaker 3: And two, come on up, just come on up here,

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couldn't get over the hup in twenty twenty one. So

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during that time, who got over the hump? Utah TCU

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got over the hump, UCF got over the hump.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Boise State got over the hump. You go down

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the list of teams, n IU got over the hump.

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Speaker 8: All these teamsoff.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati got over the hump. In Cincinnati was a Power.

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Speaker 3: Four team for a long time in the Big East, right,

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So you know, but like all these teams that were

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on the outside looking in got on the hump, and

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BYU was never able to do such. They were always relevant,

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always you know, hovering in the top twenty five or

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just right outside the top twenty five, but couldn't get

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over the hump. You hope that this is the year.

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You hope that this is the time. This is the

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place to get over the hump. Now with everything going

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in BYU's favor with power four affiliation right with a

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true freshman quarterbacks, arounded by out fantastic supporting cast, a

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great special teams unit, a great defensive unit, and an

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offense that per esbnsp plus is playing at.

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Speaker 2: A top five and twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Efficiency rating right now, six days ago when the predictive

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metric sp plus on ESPN dropped.

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Speaker 2: The most recent BYU is sixteenth overall.

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Speaker 3: By the way, twenty third in offense, nineteenth in defense,

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in twenty fifth in special teams. This team is truly

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a resilient, gritty, complementary style football team that can compete

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and beat the best of college football. Are they an

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elite team of collforot are their top five team in

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colleg football? No, not up to this point, but they

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sure heck on a neutral setting or even not a

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home setting, can beat just about anybody. And there's there's

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a reason why SEC schools, Big ten schools right, very

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rarely did they ever want to come to Provo and

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compete against the Cougars on their home football field. It

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was a difficult place. Look at Tennessee canceling. Look at

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others canceling not wanting to come out to Provo. They've

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seen many SEC SEC schools come into Leavel Edward City

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and take ls, not only in the past, but in

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the recent past as well. Guys, we're live from our

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swig location just south of Leavel Edwards Stadium, taking you

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all the way to kickoff.

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Speaker 2: We're about an hour away.

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Speaker 3: Before we kick off this BYU UCF matchup. It's a

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big one for momentum, it's a big one for the

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public perception. BYU getting eleven o'clock kickoff on ESPN. Two

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more eyeballs. Maybe we'll be on this from the East

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Coast voters. BYU needs to cover. As I mentioned, BYU

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is one of the best teams in college football at

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covering the spread. By is a seventeen and a half

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point favorite. Are you feeling like By's gonna cover to day?

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I believe they will. They shall the injury report is

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not too critical here. As we look at unavailable players,

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the one that maybe hurts me.

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Speaker 2: The most is uh, it is probably the.

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Speaker 3: Anisi percell I. Don't like seeing that. Nissi is a

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good football.

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Speaker 2: Player that has actually been playing with the club.

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Speaker 3: But Max Alfred out, sim out wail out a Nisi

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percell out, lu Levi Fetulli is out. Defensive tackle, Chase

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Roberts wide receiver in Tavie and Beasley cornerback your your

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nickel corner there behind Johnathan CABEYA. Uh, they are game

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time decisions. All right, Let's take a brief time out.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back.

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Speaker 3: We're live from our Ultimate Tail Gator. Come in and

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We got flat screens. Come on into our warm Ultimate

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tail Gator. We're just south of the Lavelle Edwards Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Go to break.

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Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere more to get to this is Cougar

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Sports on one of three nine ninety eight point three

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