Speaker 1: It is the Big twelve SEC breakdown time. What else?
Stotin Bridge is here with you with a comprehensive look
at the Big Twelve and the SEC.
Speaker 2: We begin each week.
Speaker 1: As we do with our hot takes and tom My
hot take, I'm actually going to go back in time,
and I feel like I owe an apology to the nation,
to our viewers for my trust the comfort level I
put in into Ole Miss. This is not necessarily a
hot take. This is just being a man admitting when
I'm wrong. I was very wrong about Old Miss. I
thought that they had a chance to go to the
SEC Championship game. I thought they were the best team
nobody was talking about. Even when I lost to Kentucky,
I said, oh it's not over. You know, to one loss,
Kentucky's not a bad team. And then you lose the
LSU and you look at the schedule the rest of
the way for Old Miss. What's ahead? They play Oklahoma
next week. They should win that game at home. Should
But then you still got Arkansas, you still got Georgia,
Florida and Mississippi State. There's more losses coming. I'm sorry,
I hate the minute, but I whiffed on Ole Miss.
Here and maybe it's not necessarily I whiffed on old miss.
I think more so ole miss let me down. I
think that's the more accurate way to describe this. I
was high on them and they let me down. That
that's that sounds more like it. That sounds better, Tom.
Speaker 3: That does sound better. I will say I will, I
will jack my own cock here. Oh oz right, I
have no problem saying it.
Speaker 2: I said, I said last week.
Speaker 3: We disagreed in a lot of games, and I think
for the most part, I came out right. I did
say I would take lsu Uh. It was a night game.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I tell you where we were wrong, or at
least I was wrong. I won't speak for you, but
I'll speak for me. I thought, oh, you was going
to give a better I thought, oh, you was going
to give a better run than what they did. And
and there was a couple of plays, a couple of
key plays in that game in the second quarter that
fucked the whole game. Uh, specifically the two fumbles back
to back, one on Danny Stuntsman gave up for for
a dude who has an upside down uh, Longhorn on
his thigh. The dude, The dude gave up. He could
have pushed that whatever Bolden, He could have pushed Bolden, Golden,
whoever the fuck it was out of the end zone
off that ball when they fumbled at the one and
it rolled out, and then and that ball didn't didn't
really didn't speed up like I thought it was gonna go.
I thought I was gonna be out of the back
of the end zone. M Danny Stutzman looks at the
receiver kind of goes, well, yeah, and he can have
it if he wants to, if he wants to run
quicker than me. He kind of gave up. I thought
I was a little bitch. Move there you go. On
the next possession, Hawkins, uh, well, even you could, you
could call it three You could technically call it three fumbles.
Dude gets tackled at the one. Hawkins fumbles, and then Tatum,
who is very promising, like I think true freshman, fumbles
and then at that point the game was over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it got it out of hand quick. I mean
you were there, baby, Yours didn't look good to begin
the game. Took him a while to get going, and
then it just all fell upon or fast for OHU, Yeah,
I mean that that Owe You team's got a lot
of issues and a lot of people are going to
point to Seth Platrell, and I think Seth Latrell sucks.
Speaker 3: But I think would you put Jackson Arnold in? I'm
I'm I'm interested to see was was it right not
to flex in Jackson Arnold?
Speaker 1: Again, I don't think it really matters. I think they're
both not the answer. I think that OU needs to
spend whatever it takes to go get a portal quarterback.
My dad and I were already kind of thinking about
who could Owe You go by next year, and the
name that we came to the conclusion of was they
need to go spend the money to get Rock Obec
to leave Iowa State and comby o U's next quarterback
next year that needs to be their guy.
Speaker 3: Do you think you would you think you would leave
Matt Campbell if they make the playoff?
Speaker 1: I mean, why would you play for a Big twelve
school and not play what not turn and turned down
the opportunity to play in the SEC or the Big Ten?
Speaker 3: I mean no, no, I understand that, but I mean
if well, I mean Iowa States, I always state very well
could win the Big Twelve in Arlington.
Speaker 2: And Rock Quebec.
Speaker 1: Is what a junior he's like sophomore junior, Yeah, something
like that.
Speaker 3: I can't keep up with like a rich rich or sophomore.
Probably yeah, yeah, I think he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna want to run it back. I mean, well, here's
another weird deal. Here's another conversation.
Speaker 3: Is Iowa State kind of into one of those like fuck,
everybody's fucking each other and we're just kind of in
a weird position where no one's looking at us.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think everybody's looking at them now. They're they're
a top ten team in the country. They're undefeated. They're
gonna get everybody's best effort from here on out. Their
schedule is pretty favorable. I think they're in good, really good.
Speaker 2: I mean they're in good hands. Don't know who's highway
stay play this weekend. I like, that's what I'm saying.
I mean, uh, where do they lose?
Speaker 1: I would state this week they play UCF at home,
and then the rest of their schedule is pretty favorable.
They get TACK at home, they play KU at Arrowhead,
which would be a home game. They get Cincinnati, they
play at Utah, and then k State at home. I
think Iowa States in good shape.
Speaker 2: I think they lose to KU and ahead.
Speaker 1: I wish he With that said, Tom, I know that
I didn't necessarily give a hot take, but I do
kind of have one For the next game. I want
to focus on the game of the week in college football,
arguably the game of the year, Texas and Georgia Saturday
night in Austin. By the way, if there was one
place could be this weekend, it'd be Austin, Texas. I'd
love to go to this game and then go to
the F one Race on Sunday. I hope those Europeans
that are in town for the F one Race end
up fighting a way to go experience this SEC environment
in Austin Saturday night and be like what the hell
is this and just see their minds be blown, like Wow,
this is American college tackle football, Like what on Earth
am I witnessing. I want to see some of those
Europeans like my predictions this weekend, Tom, I got Texas
and Max for staffing to get it done in Austin
this weekend. My hot take of where I'm going with
this though, is, Tom, I feel like this is a
must win game for Georgia. I think that if Georgia
loses the Texas, they will not make the college football playoff.
This is this is an elimination game for Georgia because
if they lose this and you start to look ahead
for what the Dogs have going forward, there's no reason
to think that they wouldn't drop another if they let
this one slip away and they're underdogs or five point
underdogs this week, But you think about once it's ahead
for Georgia, all right, you got Florida coming up in
a rivalry game. Florida has been playing better as of late,
much to my chagrin. That's a whole another story. You
play at Ole Miss, you get Tennessee at home, and
then you got two cupcakes in Massachusetts and Georgia tech.
I would think they would slip in at least one
more if they lose to Texas. And the way that
they have played at the line of scrimmage, they've been
getting bullied on the offensive and defensive line, and Carson
Beck hasn't played that great. I think Texas is in
a really good spot to make the playoff. I think
they can clinch a playoff spot essentially if they beat
Georgia here. I think Georgia it might be jover for
them if they can't get this done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean, and what at that point, what
they have to play for.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you have to look at that.
Alabama hasn't been playing so hot.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, last week we talked about we're
gonna find a lot about kill and Debora and and
and how they played.
Speaker 2: They kind of had to win at least in the
first half. You're like, Okay, they're gonna go ahead and
beat South Carolina to handle it. And then they didn't
get the job done.
Speaker 3: They didn't finish them off, and you're thinking, okay, Well,
if you want to say game of the year, game
of the year right now is gonna be Bama Georgia.
I think that's gonna change this weekend. I think Texas
Georgia is gonna be game of the year. I do
like Texas to win this game.
Speaker 2: It is in Austin.
Speaker 3: But if Georgia does lose this game, I think I
think a lot of Georgia fans say, hey, is the
and tell me if we're wrong, you're jones if they
lose to Texas. And I don't want to be reactive necessarily,
is a window closing for Kirby Smart and Georgia a
little bit?
Speaker 1: No, because they're still getting top recruiting classes.
Speaker 2: I mean they are, but still.
Speaker 1: Doing good in the portal. I don't what I'll say
this though.
Speaker 3: Could you see Kirby Smart Dabo Sweeney kind of uh
no nipe line that they Clemson.
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't see that happening at all. But
what I do see, Tom, is that the way Georgia
dominated the last five years, winning two national titles, playing
in what was it three or four title games, winning
several SEC titles, and all that, the assumption was that
Nick saban his dominance, he was handing the torch to
Kirby Smart, that Kirby Smart was going to take over
the sport and dominate. But I think think from what
we've seen with Michigan winning the title last year and
then all the parody we've seen this year and George
already losing, Georgia is not going to repeat the Alabama dynasty.
I think Herby's going to win at least two more
national titles, but they're not going to dominate the way
Alabama did. And honestly, that's a great thing. I think
that's good for the sport. I think it's not good
for the sport when we have dominating teams and we
have blowout games in the playoffs and all that. Georgia
is as good as anybody of a program right now,
but they're never gonna be what Bama was under. Save
it and that's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is okay.
Speaker 3: And and you know what, you mentioned it just in
your comment there, and do you know, for the rest
of the country, it's almost like thank fuck.
Speaker 2: And for the sport.
Speaker 1: I think we're all worried about it too.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, and then you know, I have Bama
after I'll tell you what, after Bama just started laying
the dickery dog down on Georgia in that first half,
I think the whole country was like, oh, are you
fucking kidding me?
Speaker 2: Like do the rich get really richer?
Speaker 3: And it you know, I know, Alabama ended up winning
that game and and what was right now the game
of the year in terms of craziness and and just
electric you know, just the electricity. The whole game was great.
It's in my mind it's the game of the year.
I don't care if Georgia loses the rest of the games,
it's that's the game of the year. And then you know,
you see Alabama turn around and have the hangover game
against Vandy, and then Van Dey beats Kentucky and and
all year we talked about, Okay, the the Big twelve
is going to cannibalize itself, and now we see the
SEC finally kind of to start cannibalizing itself. It's worked
out great for us so far. Yeah, I don't think
it's I don't think it's all. I don't think it's
Alabama's year necessarily. I don't think it's Georgia's year. By
I mean, we were seeing more parody in the SEC.
Speaker 1: And I think Texas is the team to beat in
college football, but kind of last week, they're just the
flavor of the month. At this point, they're the meat
market special at this point in time, I don't think
what I've seen from Texas is significantly better than Ohio
State or Oregon.
Speaker 2: I imagine both in Nashville and loses a May.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that won't happen, but whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: I'd have a heart on sandwich baby.
Speaker 1: I look at Texas going into this week, Tom and
Quinn Yours. I think it was so important for him
to play in that red River game and get that
bad first quarter, that bad first quarter and a half
out of the way.
Speaker 2: Maybe healthy.
Speaker 1: Now he heads into this game and you know, a
game under his belt and everything returning at home. I
know they're not gonna have Isaiah Bond, and I think
that's a big deal. I think Bond's a great receiver.
But I think that this comes, this Georgia game comes
at a good time for Texas of not only just
having you weers healthy, but also having a game under
his belt, beating a rival school and to dominate the
way they did. Like, You're not gonna be setting yourself
up for a letdown going into the Georgia game. You're
you're gonna carry the momentum over from the week before
based on the way you dominated.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, And you know what you saw, Wingo,
you still golden, he said Bolton, he save Jayden Blue.
I'll tell you what I was more impressed with. Watched
in that Red River and you, I said, you were there.
Speaker 2: So the.
Speaker 3: Main one of the main running backs for Texas this year.
He gets injured what like I don't know, three weeks prior.
Speaker 2: To the season opening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it goes Texas is like, hey, guess what,
we still have Jayden Blue, We still have this other motherfucker.
Uh And yeah, it kind of hurts that the running
by that got injured.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of sucks.
Speaker 3: But or Texas and they had Devond Devandre Sweat, they
had Jordan Winnington, they had Jatavian Sanders, they had Exevier
are Worthy, they had they had so many other great
players they had. They legitimately one of the all time teams.
Like if you if you want to think about who
they had and like give us, give us five years.
Devandre Sweat for the Titans right now is flirting with
the defensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL. Exavier
Worthy's already made his presence felt for the Chiefs. Is
already what Chiefs are five and zero? Yeah, Xavier Worthy
has already I'm not gonna say won the Chiefs two games,
but he is very at a very evident playmaker and
two of their wins that were close. Yeah, I'm not
going to call him the offensive rookie of the year.
I think that belongs to Jaydeon Daniels. I think Jane Daniels,
it could even be in the top five MVP conversation. Honestly,
that's another conversation for another day. But in terms of
the Chiefs getting Xavier worthy at what the thirty second pick, thirty.
Speaker 1: Twenty eighth, they traded up a few spots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty eighth pick. I mean he's made his his
no pun intended worthiness felt right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just done a good job to replace those guys.
They're even better.
Speaker 2: They're even better.
Speaker 3: And they have as to the and the defense is
not let up. They get I mean, granted, oh you
offense not worth the fuck, But when's the last time
you scored three points?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, uh, you go back to two
years ago when they.
Speaker 2: Got or is it stark or are the players that good?
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of both. I think it's a
little bit of both. Yeah, they get they they're clicking
right now. That's a good team. They're fun to watch.
Let's let's talk about this real quick before we get
to the slate. I gotta bring up Cam Rising. Cam
Rise out for the year. Tom's already laughing before I've
even gotten to all this. Eight season eight season of
eligibility potentially available, and all of a sudden, it sounds
like Remember I made this bold prediction the beginning of
the year. I said that I felt like this was
gonna be it for Kyle Whittingham, that he and Cam
Rising we're gonna go out of Big twelve camps and
make the playoff and all that. Now Utah is basically
out of the playoff hunt, and it doesn't sound like
that Kyle Whittingham's going anywhere, and Cam Rising might be
back for another year. I gotta tell you, I am
so sick of Cam Rising. I am so done with him.
He looked horrible the other night against Arizona State. He
didn't look like a top quarterback at all. He wasn't healthy.
That Utah team played terrible. They haven't played great all year.
I'm just done with Cam Rising. Go away. I don't
want to see you play an eighth year of college football.
I don't want to see him back at Utah. Go
play in the XFL. He's not an NFL quarterback. I
am so done with him. But I have a bad
feeling he's gonna come back again. Winningham's gonna come back again,
and they're gonna try to put it together one more time?
How many more chances is Cam Riseing gonna get? Just
watch he'll get hurt again next year and go for
a ninth year of eligibility.
Speaker 2: Hit the deal and I read a lot into it.
On read it. I think that Cam Rising is done.
Speaker 3: I think they cut. I think that winningham and and
it it sucks. It sucks for him, you know, like
he's older. He think thought he had one more run
in him. I think you give Zach, you give Zach
Wilson the reins. He's He's won you a couple of
I wouldn't say won you a.
Speaker 2: Couple of games. His game managed enough to not fuck
it up.
Speaker 1: He's played better than Cam Rising, right, I.
Speaker 3: Think they walk away from Cam and I think I
think Cam does hang it up.
Speaker 2: I don't think he. I think they he he Utah
retired him. I don't. And he could transfer. Let's say
he could go to fucking Tulsa.
Speaker 1: It could go to you. He'd be better than anything they.
Speaker 2: Got, right Like, I don't. I just don't think he's
gone to right.
Speaker 1: Like what you think we've seen the last of Cam
Rising in college.
Speaker 3: I do think we have seen the last of Cam Rising,
and if it's in and if Gundy, this is another story.
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna touch on it
too much until you won't let me. But I think
we've could could have seen potentially the last of bowmen. Uh,
because there's there's no Bowman's not going to the league.
Came in, won the last whatever. If Rising came in
and threw for one hundred touchdowns and zero interceptions and
a million yards, he's not gonna go to the league.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go to the big twelve sec slate this week.
We'll run through these real quick. Let's start with Friday
Night BYU taking on Oklahoma State. I know os U
hasn't played well. BYUS a nine and a half point favorite,
but even with BYU at home on a Friday night
and things being spooky and provo all that time, and
I know Reslof has played very good, but Oklahoma State
still got Olli Gordon. They can still run the football,
and BYU cannot take this Oklahoma State team lightly. As
bad as they've looked, they're sitting at three and three.
It sounds weird to say, but this is a trap game.
For BYU. If Oklahoma State can find a way to
run the football, they'll have a chance.
Speaker 3: Well here's the deal, Jones. They're not gonna find a
way to run the football. That's just that's I mean,
you know they're not gonna do it. It is in Provo.
They're gonna have the cougar tills in their fucking ice
cream truck out front. You know, I did think about
going to this game at the beginning of the season.
I'm so glad I buy a flight to the East
coast instead of the West. I still do want to
go to Provo one day to drink their bars dry.
But even front of the show, Billy Locke, I said,
how much are we going to lose by this weekend?
Speaker 2: He goes thirty five.
Speaker 3: Now I know BYU this morning was an eight and
a half point favorite.
Speaker 2: Now it's moved to nine and a half.
Speaker 3: I will be in, like I said, I will be
in a betting state this weekend. I am considering putting
one hundred dollars down on BYU money line. I think
that's I think BYU money line is a lot safer
if I put one hundred dollars down on BYU, covering
nine and a half means that by ten, I feel
like I can end up disappointed at losing one hundred.
Speaker 2: By you know, she would still up losing the.
Speaker 1: United State Cincinnati eleven am on Saturday. As much as
I've been humble and admitted how much I've been wrong
throughout this segment, Tom, I was very right about Arizona State.
That was probably my take of the year, is how
right I was about Arizona State.
Speaker 2: I think I told Arizona State as well to be.
Speaker 1: Utah, Well, I mean I've been right about Arizona State
all year. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Fair.
Speaker 1: Now they go on the road play Cincinnati. Early kick.
Cincinnati has been better than advertised. They're four and two.
Cincinnati's a five point favorite here. If you're looking for
a good bet this weekend, I think Arizona State down
the road. I like what they're doing. I know that
they're playing a black quarterback, that Sims is going to
get the start, that Levit's out, but Scataboo. Scataboo might
end up being the Big twelve offensive player of the year.
That that dude's fun to walk. She's like a poor
man's Toby Gerhart.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, he's like a skinnier Mike alstop brother.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got some wheels on him too. My goodness.
All like Arizona State, k you taking on Houston games
that arrowhead. KU's a five point favorite. These two teams
are bad. But man, it's gonna be a new low
if Kansas loses to Houston. They just they just can't
lose this game, right, You got to stop the bleeding
at some point. These are ones you can't lose to.
Kansas got to find a way to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they really, I mean honestly, they really do. And and.
Speaker 3: I mean and at this point, if if KU doesn't
win this, then you can just kind of you might
as well just go ahead and ride off.
Speaker 2: The you know, a potential Bowl BAWL game, right.
Speaker 1: Pretty much have to win out to go to a
bowl game. At this point, they're one and five.
Speaker 3: So I mean, yeah, what I mean, if you had
to bet, what do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Oh? God, I look at the rest of their schedule here,
Case State's a loss, Iowa State's a loss. B why
use the loss? Colorado's a toss up, Baylor's a toss up.
I mean, what maybe four wins, maybe five. I mean,
it's not looking good Colorado taking on Arizona. Colorado gave
Case State all they could handle last week. Arizona has
not looked good. They've been up and down. They're three
and three. The game is at Arizona, two very good quarterbacks,
Noah Fafida and Shador Sanders. I think this is gonna
be a high scoring affair. Tom I would not have
said at the beginning of the year, but I know
Arizona's favored by three. I think I lean towards Colorado.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know, Colorado took the Purple Cats
to the limit in the hell of a game, and
you know, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Up and down, up and down, up and down.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked if if if Dion and and
crew pulled us off, it's gonna say a lot about,
you know, Colorado, if they do pull this off. I
think I think that Colorado is a little bit mentally
tougher than Colorado.
Speaker 2: But I don't I don't think that's saying too much.
Speaker 1: In Arizona, I mean, yeah, yeah, right over unders fifty
eight and a half hammered the over in that game.
That's gonna be a shootout.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tayler taking on Texas Tech tom Tech Rise. They're
five and one, they're at home. I know it's a
rivalry game, but there's no reason why Tech should lose
this game.
Speaker 3: Well it's crazy. Look at look at Look at your boy,
Joey McGuire, he's like, my boy. No, not necessarily, but
you know, you have a team that should have lost
to Abiline Christian and then your fans get drunk and
then run into the Abline Christian bus and that whole
shit show that happened. Well, they've kind of bounced back
from that, and Tech has looked a lot better. Tech
looked like the dark horse we thought they were after
that game. Yeah, and I don't think they have any
problem beating Baylor this weekend.
Speaker 1: Iowa state number nine team in the land, six and
oh taking on ucfter at home. It's a night game.
UCS played terrible as of late. No reason why this
game should be close. I think Rocko backing company. They're
going to go off. I like I would stay big.
Speaker 3: All right, I do too. I told you last week.
When I tell you last week, I said, you see
a fucked me. They fucked me and they made me
look like a fool. They made me look like a fool.
I said, I will not pick them again. I was
still not picked them. They gus males on may look
a like a mall full.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't play kJ Jefferson last week either.
Speaker 2: I won't do it again.
Speaker 1: KSE State on the road at West Virginia. It's a
night game. I know some weird stuff can happen in
Morgantown at night. But k State nice road win against
Colorado last week. Now you play West Virginia. K State's
slight favorites. I think k State they're the much more
talented team, They're the much better coach team. I like
k State by about ten plus.
Speaker 2: Here, I think I like k State by about fifteen.
K State.
Speaker 3: KSE State's getting in that role, baby, They're getting in
that groove. They're getting in that groove. I I mean
Chris climbing, Baby. I like the groove they're getting in.
You get a tough winning boulder at night. We talked
about the game last week and how tough they would be.
Who do we see when we see that? We would
would we see an Avery shit job? Or we would
would we see an Avery masterclassy.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know they're running the football well with Gindons
and company.
Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, I think Casey has something to say.
Speaker 1: By the stock TCU and Utah. Last week twelve game,
real quick. Utah's at home. This is an old rivalry game.
These two teams don't like each other, first time they've
met in a long time. I don't need the team's
playing that great, but Utah is at home. I lean
towards Utah, but not by a whole lot here, Tom.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna go with TCU. I'm gonna
go with the purple team again. Okay.
Speaker 3: I think I think that Utah is having some identity issues.
Speaker 2: I think you know, I don't think they can ride
the ship.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the SEC slate now. Miszoo taking on Auburn.
Miszoo had an ogly loss A and M a couple
of weeks ago, blowout UMass last week. Auburn isn't a
very good team. Missoo's at home. I think Missoo wins
this one by at least a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I know that that Missoo had some
trouble with Texas A and M. I don't think Massoo's
a bad team. Uh you know, they could have had
a bad game. I feel like missou here.
Speaker 1: Oh you taking on South Carolina, owe you one and
a half point favorites. South Carolina has played better than
I think any of us thought they would. They're three
and three, They're on the road in Norman Shane Beemer's
first game back. I think this plays out similar to
that Auburn game for Ou Tom, where Hawkins makes enough
plays the defense keeps him in it. I don't think
it's pretty, but I think oh you wins ugly wins
an ugly game. They you know, low scoring, and they
make just enough plays. I like, oh You at home.
Speaker 3: I think South Carolina is better than Auburn. I've seen
Auburn or I've seen South Carolina almost beat LSU and
a game that they should have. I'll take South Carolina here.
Speaker 1: Alabama and Tennessee both teams in the top eleven. They
each have a loss at five to one. And it's
interesting about this game, Tom. Neither one of these teams
are playing good football right now. Alabama's struggling, Tennessee's been struggling.
Tennessee the home team. I've been going back and forth
in this game all week, I think I lean towards Alabama,
but I don't say that with a lot of confidence.
And I think it's a playoff elimination game too. I
think the loser this game is probably out. I lean
towards Alabama. I like mill Row right now more than
I do Nico. I think Nico's talent quarterback. He's got
a bright future. But I'll take the veteran over the
freshman and Nico here. I lean towards Bama.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I leaned towards Bama as well. I think I
think you're absolutely right. I think it comes down to experience,
and I think that I think Alabama has a slight
advantage here. If you wanted to put Canla de Boor
and Josh Heipel in a vacuum, I think you could
kind of count.
Speaker 2: Them as even.
Speaker 3: In this case, I will go ahead and roll with Bama,
because you know what, it's Bama, and what did you know,
Tennessee already had.
Speaker 2: Their win of you know, they their five year win.
So I'll take Bama here.
Speaker 1: Texas, Texa A and M plays at Mississippi State. Their
seventeen point favorites. A and M's playing pretty good as
of late. I think A and M is gonna win
just fine to L s U against Arkansas. That game,
uh rivalry game, We've seen some classics between those two
gonna be played in Fayetteville. Total trap spot for L
s U. Here.
Speaker 2: I give me, give me the Hogs.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go well s you, But I don't say
that with a lot of confidence. I think not Smeyer
makes enough plays to win.
Speaker 3: You have, you have a big let you have a
big hangover win. Maybe not a big not a super
big hangover, but you beat Old miss and Death Valley.
Speaker 2: You go into Fayville, whoa big say you here?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know old old Sam's He's gonna be like, I
think I'm gonna drink some old cold beer.
Speaker 1: Vandy takes on ball state credit to Vandy. The win
over Alabama, the win over Kentucky. They're four in TEA.
I mean the schedule gets a lot tougher after this.
I think they're gonna find a way to get to
a bowl game and get the six wins. I think
it's a great story. And you know their their quarterback
uh has been such a uh pavia. I I think
it was Jordan Rod the other day, Paul him the
best quarterback in the SEC right now. I don't believe that,
but that's a testament to just their success. How good
he's been. Best quarterback they've had since probably Jay Cutlers.
We talked about Georgia Texas earlier. Both of you and
I like Texas, Florida and Kentucky. The games at Florida,
I'm going with Kentucky. I like Mark Stoops more than
I do Billy Dappier by a lot. I think coaching matters.
Coaching makes the difference. Is this the game that finally
gets Napier fired? Or does he last another week after this?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I think I think his game against Tennessee, as close
as it was, saves his job for one I think, yeah,
I think he's done enough for right now, save his
job for one more year?
Speaker 2: Right here, right they still lose.
Speaker 1: Here you have it. That's our Big twelve, he SCC
breakdown for this week, Mortacomb, stay with us, trying us
now all the program this week. Please to welcome in
for the very first time my former colleague, great friend.
And he's not in Dallas at the moment, so we
are having to do this remotely. But I appreciate him
taking time from his vacation to join us here on
the show. This week it is Jake Ripa formally at
Chaps Sports now doing a great job with the fan
in Dallas, also with the Lockdown Network covering the Detroit teams.
He joins us right now, Ripa welcome, long time coming.
Glad that we can finally make this happen.
Speaker 5: Tyler Jones, thank you so much for having me, and
there is no doubt about it. This is long overdue,
especially one of my very very.
Speaker 4: First friends in Dallas and best friends in Dallas. I
appreciate the time, and you.
Speaker 5: Know what, we're all over the map, so a little
bit of time in Michigan, the home state, but you're
never really on vacation, so we're always plugged in. We're
always dialed in, especially with everything that's going on. What
a time of year, everything from the NFL college football,
MLB playoffs, you name it. So happy to be on
the Jones Report and let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Let's do Jake. First off, let the folks know a
little bit more about you. I mentioned some of the
things you're doing. You're you're one of the hardest working,
busiest guys out there right now. I mean you got
basically no days off right now?
Speaker 4: Man, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get to kirk Curves Street's level where
I can get a private jet to take me from
one venture to the next, and then have somebody.
Speaker 1: Please don't take a dog everywhere. I'm so sick of
that dog. I love the dog, no jealousy. That dog
got leukemia. Now, I don't find it at coincidence. You're
not supposed to take dogs from coast to coast every weekend.
Imagine that.
Speaker 4: No, that's a that's a fair rebuttal. But man, the
ladies love the dog. He's always with the cheerleaders. I
give him props there.
Speaker 5: But uh yeah, a little bit working on one O,
five to three of the fans so excited to be
on the air the Cowboys flagship. Obviously, we're for now
still reigning World Series champion Texas Rangers for a few
more weeks and then I'm being busy with Lockdown Podcast
Network doing Lockdown Detroit stuff, So trying to stay plugged
in and and like you said, you know, I love
just being a.
Speaker 4: Part of it all.
Speaker 5: And I hate to use the cliche the grind, But
you know what, it doesn't feel like a grind when
it's it's things you're passionate about and that you enjoy
so love hav them being plugged in on one O,
five to three of the Fan in Dallas, and then
with my Roots and my Michigan Roots in the State
of Michigan and Lockdown Podcast Network with Lockdown Detroit.
Speaker 1: Best of both worlds and also doing some high school
football too.
Speaker 4: This Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you he's staying busy. He's doing a
great job. Raybout. Let's talk now about Georgia and Texas
and one a matchup that we had this weekend. I
saw Texas in person for the first time last week
as they dismantled my Oklahoma Sooners. They get quinn Ewers back,
and I'm of the belief RBA that the timing of
this game, I think is very already good for Texas
because George is not playing great football, for one. But
on the flip side too, you come off a win
against a rival where you dominated and you got when
you weres back one hundred percent. After the first came back,
he got off to a slow start and then started
to find his footing here. I think this is a
great position for Texas to get this win against Georgia.
Speaker 5: What say you, hundred percent there's something to be said
about the you know, kind of getting your sea legs
under you a little bit and knocking that rust off.
And I think the Texas Longhorns as a whole, and
when you were specifically had that luxury. No disrespect to
Oklahoma Sooners, They're just not what they've been in in
years past, and so you have kind of that that
window to essentially rev up the engine and get to
top speed so that you're thriving on all cylinders against
a team like Georgia. That I mean, yes, they had
the one lost to Bama, but they certainly came back
strong in that game and gave Bama everything they bargained for.
And I think that was one of those games whoever
had the ball last was gonna win. But with that said,
I think Texas is a tier above anybody else in
the entire landscape of college football right now, and I.
Speaker 4: Think they've been that way Obviously.
Speaker 5: The setback injury wise with Quinn viewers will kind of,
you know, maybe slow that down a little bit and
and Arch Manning had the luxury of playing against some
lesser competition, and so I don't think that's necessarily fair
to him to say they took this major step back
when ultimately, you know, Arch Manning at quarterback, quin Youwers
at quarterback, they're winning.
Speaker 4: Those games by plenty.
Speaker 5: But go all the way back to when Texas played
at Michigan, and I remember, you know, covering Michigan for
the Lockdown podcast network and trying to tell anyone that
would listen, No, Texas is a level above anybody right now,
and especially the University of Michigan.
Speaker 4: And I'm not, you know, necessarily suggesting.
Speaker 5: That because they blew the break so off of Michigan
that they can beat anybody. But it has been with
a nice, steady climb for the University of Texas.
Speaker 4: I believe in Steve Sarkasian.
Speaker 5: I believe in really the entire weaponry that they have
offensively that quinn Ewers can distribute the ball to and
I think defensively they just do so much to keep
the opposition off balance and make them uncomfortable that it's
truly a complete football team. And I think the odds
makers have it right. I think Georgia is a little
bit of a step below. And I don't remember exactly
how long it's been since Georgia was this big of
an underdog, but for them to be an underdog, and
granted it's at Texas, so you know, you get a
couple points for being at home. But I think Texas
wins this one, and I think Texas is in fact
the best team in all of college football with quinn Ewers,
and you believe in everything that Steve Sarkasian has going
at the University of Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's pretty remarkable. And you know, timing is
everything in sports. And you know when this was announced
that Oklahoma and Tech since we're going to the SEC,
everybody said, Okay, Oklahoma has been a fantastic program. They
got their work cut out for them, but hey, they're
they're in a good spot. And then obviously if the
coaching change with Lincoln Riley and bre Inventables, things go downhill.
Texas was just a mess at the time. Now what
sark has done building this thing year after year and
this transition feels like it's been seamless for them in
the SEC that they basically just changed the conference banner here.
What they've been building year after year to get to
this point. It's a testament I think right back to
their head coach, Steve Sarkisian, because it wasn't Tom Herman
doing it, it wasn't Charlie Strong. I mean, they they've they've
done this the right way and in this nil era.
I mean they've they've taken advantage of every opportunity in
front of them to be sec ready for this moment here.
Speaker 5: You're absolutely right, and you kneel it with the timing part,
and you know things will play out. That's that's the
ultimate cliche. But I don't think Tennessee is as good
as we thought. I don't think Alabama is as good
as we thought. And we thought there might be a
little bit of a step back. But Texas is entering
enters the SEC the year Saban leaves, and you know,
there's still plenty of.
Speaker 4: Football to be played.
Speaker 5: And Georgia sometimes can't get out of their own way
with some of the cultural issues that are going on
at the University of Georgia and Texas, it's almost like
they've they've seen the opportunity there, and to their credit,
they have.
Speaker 4: How about this cliche.
Speaker 5: They've grabbed it by the horns and really really made
the most of it. And I'm you know, I'm not
fan boing by any means, but it's been really, really
impressive to see how they've made this transition, and you
couldn't chalk up a better way to enter their first
year as members of the Southeastern Conference, where we know
it just means more.
Speaker 1: It does. With that said, when you look at the SEC,
you mentioned Texas at the top, a lot of good
teams with Bama, Tennessee, Georgia, LSU just to name a
few here. Who is Texas's biggest challenge? You said, you
have them on a tier by themselves, But who do
you think can potentially get in their way the best?
Because I look at those other teams and they all
have some obvious flaws. It seems even this weekend against Georgia,
this is the worst offensive and defensive front I've seen
of a Georgia team in a long time. They're not
playing like Georgia we've grown accustomed to the last.
Speaker 5: Few years, right right, You know, when you think of
Georgia football, you think of guys that just manhandled the
opposition in the trenches and at.
Speaker 4: All three levels.
Speaker 5: And I still there's something to me where you look
back and granted it was it was Clemson and it
was the first week, but Clemson has gone on and been,
you know, a very formidable team since then. Now, granted
the level of competition hasn't been the same, but if Georgia,
it kind of feels like it depends on what Georgia
we see. If we see that Georgia from week one,
I still think they represent the toughest tests for Texas.
But you mentioned it's it's such a deep conference, and heck,
I mean, we're talking about a conference.
Speaker 4: Where Vandy beat Alabama.
Speaker 5: You know there is an element of that unexpected nature,
Arkansas beats Tennessee, and you know, I'm not quite ready
to close the book on the lane Kiffin left at
Ole Miss Rebels, even though they let one get away
at Death.
Speaker 4: Valley and LSU too. So I still think Georgia is
at the top of that list.
Speaker 5: But it's not like there's any type of game where
you just take the gas pedal off and put it
in cruise control, because the Southeastern Conference just doesn't.
Speaker 4: Allow you to have that luxury, and so they.
Speaker 5: Have to bring it each and every week, which going
back to kind of the original point of all of
this is you and I both believe in Steve Sarkisian
and what that coaching staff had and the level they
have this team playing at that I don't see it being.
Speaker 4: A problem for the Longhorns.
Speaker 1: Last thing one on this rabo on the college side
of things, obviously Texas Georgia is the main event, But
what games are you looking forward to watch it? I
know one of the teams you cover, Michigan there has
got interesting tests with Illinois.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michigan Illinois afternoon game. Illinois.
Speaker 5: What they what they've done has been has been really
really impressive, and they've they've had some close calls, and
you know, I think the rest of the landscape just
continues to be intriguing through the Big ten. You know,
I know a lot of people are talking about what
Indiana has been able to do. They're sneaky good that
it's just the whole landscape of the twelve team playoff
just allows you to have a conversation about more teams.
I think that was ulultimately the goal coming in and
and heck, I'll even make it local for a second.
The the ACC's wide open with SMU having a couple
of big wins, and I don't necessarily think they're gonna,
you know.
Speaker 4: Rise to the top and be able to be a
team like Clemson.
Speaker 5: And and compete for an ACC title, But the big
twelves wide open. We got a number of undefeated teams
in the Big two well, and then on the other
side you got coaches who are are really fighting for
their job. I look at that West Virginia Kansas State
game and I am of the belief that if Neil
Brown in the West Virginia Mountaineers don't find a.
Speaker 4: Way to win that game, that he might not last
through the entire season.
Speaker 5: And obviously kant Kansas State has sustained a level of
success this year.
Speaker 4: They had that late win over Colorado last week.
Speaker 5: And it's just it is so fun the way this
twelve team playoff has opened up the entire landscape.
Speaker 4: And i'ven't even talked about Miami. What can Ward is doing?
Speaker 5: So I know we could we could go on and
on for hours and hours, but the fact of the
matter remains, I am a huge, huge proponent of the
twelve team playoff because it just opens everything up. I mean,
what the Oregon Ohio State finished from the other night
was absolutely electric.
Speaker 4: Probably not if you're an Ohio State fan. I mean,
what was Will Howard doing?
Speaker 5: But I certainly don't think Ohio State's out of it
by any means. And what Dan Lanning's doing at Oregon
is is kind of I wouldn't expected, but I felt
like he, just as Texas has made that transition into
the SEC, I felt like Oregon could sustain a level
of success in the Big Ten, and we've seen that,
and Penn.
Speaker 4: State's still unbeaten.
Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna name every single program out there.
And I'm sorry program, I've been watching too much McAfee lately.
Speaker 4: Program, But you know, in all seriousness, man, it is
it is. It's been so fun.
Speaker 5: And you know me, I'm not the biggest fan of
the portal and nil and everything, but you take that
out with the twelve team playoff, I think college football
is in a great place. The pageantry is alive and well,
and these games still mean a whole hell of a
lot even though they're the you know, the doubter said, well,
the twelve team playoff, might you know, take away from
the meaning of some of these games and it just
it frankly hasn't and I think as any college football
enthusiasts could could recognize that this season has been a
ton of fun and we're kind of just getting started.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no question about it. The playoff. I can't wait,
but certainly enjoyed the journey to get there from what
we've seen so far. At this point, Ripa, before we
go plug away, you get so many things. You're doing
social media.
Speaker 5: All that working people find you been absolutely on Twitter
at Jake Underscore Ritma. But we're talking, Uh we're talking
Dallas sports on one O five to three the Fan.
Speaker 4: I'm a DFW guy.
Speaker 5: We're talking Detroit sports on the Lockdown Podcast Network.
Speaker 4: So we do postgame shows all the.
Speaker 5: Time on Lockdown, and uh, that's a great thing about
the Lockdown Podcast Network. It's it's it's your team, it's
every day and if you the content is curated for you.
So between that and I know you mentioned the high
school football and having a blast on the play by
play and the Frisco Sports Network, we all know how
great high school football is in the state of Texas,
and uh, you just staying busy and trying to be
like you man, trying to be like Tyler Jones.
Speaker 4: It's always great to get together. Brother.
Speaker 1: He is the pride of Northwood University of America's Free enterprise institution.
Jack Riepma joining us on the program this week, Rima,
thanks for the time. Can't wait to do it again
and we'll talk in down the line.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, man, anytime Tyler Jones in honor to be on
the Jones' Report, will do it again.