Speaker 1: What's up everybody, and welcome to It just means more
football and coffee.
Speaker 2: I'm Rob Williams. He is Craig McMichael.
Speaker 1: I have no coffee in my cup tonight, in the
spirit of college football. Craig, I'm rocking a ice cold
Doctor Pepper zero tonight. Just leading up on a little
caffeine for us. It's Sunday evening for you, it's Tuesday.
We're recapping week six. We're looking forward to week seven.
I see you got a multi colored can over there,
my friend, what's just sipping on?
Speaker 3: I got a little hard apple setter. I'm trying to
come down from the weekend. I'm still trying to try
to wrap my mind around.
Speaker 2: The Sunday unwinding going on here.
Speaker 3: I think it was your co host who said, oh,
this is going to be a boring week. It's not
going to be exciting. That guy's an idiot. He should
probably be fired.
Speaker 2: But like, let me tell you what, I feel like.
Speaker 1: I should be talking like an auctioneer a mile a minute,
trying to get everything in that happened in Week six?
Are you kidding me? College football delivers? It's undefeated. We
have an incredible, incredible product that we just get to
sit back and enjoy. And what a privilege it is
for us to sit down with you, to grab a
cup of coffee, an ice cold beverage, maybe a biscuit
or a burger and talk about college football whatever it is.
That is our vibe sitting around the table relaxing. And hey,
there was no relaxing on Saturday. There was clenched cheeks everywhere.
This was in Saane. What where do we even where
do we even start, Craig, where do we even start?
Speaker 2: Well, here's go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, So I think we have to start with
our guy, coach Saban. You know, he was famous for saying,
you know, talking and warning about us about the rat poison. Gosh,
the ramp boison with yummy. I mean, let's start. Let's
start with noon at Kyle Field, who had forty one
to was it forty one to seven? Was forty one?
I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was forty one to ten.
Speaker 1: So I did not, Oh my, I did have maybe
a little bit of a lean towards A and M.
And maybe that's some bias showing and just just in
so to Vegas, right, you know, A and M is
a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 2: Coming into the game.
Speaker 1: Missouri had been tested by now what we know as
powerhouse Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: Uh Boston College, winning that game in double overtime.
Speaker 1: They won one score game against Boston College, who I
do believe can get some people this year.
Speaker 2: I really like Bill O'Brien, but this is not an
ACC show.
Speaker 1: Because we would like to keep our show going long, long,
beyond the.
Speaker 2: Future of the ACC.
Speaker 4: However, one after the Grand rates. Yeah, if it makes
it that long anyway. Yeah, So Missouri just putred on
offense here. The one that sticks out to me, Craig
is the rushing stats. A and M gets them two
thirty six to sixty eight, and the Aggies score on
the ground five times out threw them too, for what
it's worth. But my goodness, Connor Wegman comes back. Looks great.
That's the piece of it that I didn't see. If
you'd sold me A and M wins this game forty
one to ten, I would have said, Wow, what a
showing from the Aggies. Can't believe that happened. Well, Miszoo
was just a fraud, and I kind of had a
little inkling there was a little bit of truth to that.
Speaker 1: All along, but I would have never said that happened
with Connor Wegman coming back and lighting them up.
Speaker 2: I would have definitely bet.
Speaker 1: On Red still getting the start and kind of the
dual threat challenge for Missouri was maybe too much, but no,
And I think looking forward this presents some challenges for
people with A and M on the schedule because now,
which quarterback are you going to see? Because I really
think they had two guys they can win with.
Speaker 3: Well, they've got they've got the defense to get, They've
got the defense together, They've got the quarterback situation together.
Alco has come in that was you know, I think
these were two teams that we had questions on in
the off season. Missouri had Missouri had a nice year
last year, but we both said where was the fire?
Where was that? Pizzanz Eli has been very quiet, He
was quite an sec media days has not said a
whole lot. Brady Cook has looked okay, looked very Brady
Cook to me, right, But like Luther Burden, where are
you at? So like you know it? And I'm going
to have to laugh. I'm me have a shout out
to our buddy Brett Missoo. Twitter was talking a lot
of trash and there's a lot of rat boys in
coming out about Kyle Field and it being a JV
field or junior varsity field or high school field. And
A and M just came out and just put it
on them. Did you see one of Miszoo's wide receivers
got a blanket at his hotel room from a Texas
A and M cornerback as like a little bit of
trash shock missus Missoo's wide receiver came out with it
as a shawl during pregame. That Missoo wide receiver had
no catches in the first art for the first thing.
So like, listen, if you're gonna come out, you're gonna
come out and talk, and you don't put that rat
boys in out there. You better show up and and
and then and so this to me says Miszoo is
not a serious person. Thank you. Go enjoy your new
year six, go enjoy your bowl game. We're moving on.
I think this sets up very nicely because now A
and M is starting to galvanize under Alco and I
think we're all going to start, you know, and we're
already talking, We're already looking towards you know, when Texas
when they host Texas at the end of the season.
I'm gonna caution you. If I learned anything this weekend,
it's that we need to take every week as it comes.
But more importantly, and this is something I wanted to
chat with you about before before we look at you know,
whatever happened in Nashville. I think what this weekend showed
us and what last weekend showed us when Old Miss
lost to Kentucky, is how hard it is to play
in this league with expectations at Missouri and Old Miss
both playoffs. Ideas they're talking about being that big dog,
but is freaking hard. It is really, really difficult. We're
seeing the challenges that Alabama had last week. Georgia continues
to win, but it has not looked pretty. This league
is very difficult. The expectations are really hard. And you know,
one final thing, I'll say, we have a lot of
naysayers in college football that Nil and that transfer port
are going to ruin this game. The reason we had
chaos this weekend and IOL and the transfer portal. Clark
Lee brought in fifty one players and this may be
is our transition to Alabama. Clark Lee brought in fifty
one players to Vanderbilt this year. He uses the high
school model for a bit. Him and Barton Simmons realized
that they had to pivot a little bit, so you know,
he brings in the transfer portal to really reinvent the roster.
What that has done is that's taken that depth that
Alabama in Georgia has been able to stack year after
year and just be able to wear these teams out
and has now dispersed that talent. Kirby brought it up.
I'm gonna get more into it later this week in
the article.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 3: This idea of having two three, four, you know, going
for two or three deep with defensive lineman offensive lineman
is a thing of the past, and so I think,
you know, we're going to get more of this cast,
and all I say, bring it on. Bring out the
twelve team playoff, Bring on the sixteenth team playoff, because
this is the caass that we're gonna want. We're no
longer going to have these like dynasties and absolutes going on.
Speaker 2: So come on, is there is there anything more fun
than this sport? Right here? This is just incredible.
Speaker 1: Hey, look the thing, last thing I'll say about Missouri,
and we'll see this come up and again us a
minute is there was zero turnovers in the game either direction,
and so that tells me that this isn't fluky because
you don't have something wild, something weird.
Speaker 2: You don't have short fields, you don't have these little things.
Speaker 1: The thing that the other thing that sticks out to
me is Missouri turns the ball over multiple times on downs.
So Eli really pushing it, trying to go for it.
Part of that is the situation in the game, and
you have to push it. But it just speaks again
to Elko's defense and shutting people, shutting people down when
they get four tries. All right, let's slip over to
Nashville where the goalposts are still being fished out of
the Cumberland. And oh, I don't even know where to start,
because this is had.
Speaker 2: This was just an.
Speaker 1: Incredible, incredible, mind blowing result for every everybody across the nation.
If anybody was gonna do this, no one expected it
to be Vanderbilt against Alabama.
Speaker 2: I've credited twenty four to sevens J. C.
Speaker 1: Sherbert on highlighting the fact over and over again in
the off season that UNLV or sorry New Mexico State's
team last year brings head coach Jerry Kill as an
analyst to Vanderbilt offensive coordinator and former D two national
championship winning coach Tim Beck to be the offensive coordinator
for the Commodoes and of course starting quarterback Diego Pavia.
This is the same new Mexico State team that beat
Auburn the week before. They were one miracle away from
taking down Obama last year, So there's a little bit
of something there. We knew that Vanderbilt was going to
jump up and bite somebody.
Speaker 2: The style of offense.
Speaker 1: Like you said, the transfer portal, bringing in fifty one players,
you have this ability to get more out of from
some of the coaches that were brought in to the
staff for this year, and so the expectation was they're
gonna clip somebody. They did it in week one, they
got Virginia Tech. Then you see them take Missouri to
double overtime and they're a miss field goal away from
taking that one out, and so I thought, you know what,
they're dangerous, but I think that it's run its course.
You know, they've gotten the Missouri There was their shot.
That was the one that we were expecting. They blew
it in double overtime. They choked it away here it
is what it is. But no, the number one team
in the nation, the most successful franchise of college football
in the twenty first century, comes into Nashville. And I
heard someone say this morning they were watching the game
last night with a friend, and their friends said, I
thought this game was at Vanderbilt, and it was, but
you couldn't tell that from looking in the stands because
it was Crimson everywhere, as it is every time at
a Vanderbilt game, and all ten Vanderbilt fans were able
to carry the goalpost all the way down Broadway into
the Cumberland.
Speaker 3: Three miles, three miles in any cow.
Speaker 1: A twenty two and a half point favorite for Bama,
and it's forty to thirty five final. The number one thing,
Craig that jumps off to me forty two minutes time
of possession for the Commodores, seventy five offensive place to
just forty five for the Crimson Tide. Bama turns it
over twice long drives for Vanderbilt, a seventeen play drive
there on the sheet, you what were you? What were
you thinking as this is going down? As you're kind
of watching it. I'm sure you're you're tuned into Georgia
as they're lockdown with Auburn for a large portion of
the game.
Speaker 2: So maybe you got this one in the quad box.
Maybe you're tracking on the bottom of the screen as
you see the score continue to progress. What's going through
your mind during this game?
Speaker 3: So you know, I expected, I expect to Vanderbilt to
jump out early, and you saw it in the first half.
I think it was like twenty one to seven at
some point, and you're like, okay, cool, Well you kept
waiting for Bama to come back, and they did. They
came all the way back. You know, they came up
all the way back. Ryan Williams makes another highlight highlight
grab for a touchdown. By the way, did you know
he was seventeen? I don't know if you knew that.
And I don't know if you heard that.
Speaker 1: ESPN maybe mentioned it once or something like that. But
it's it's been hard. It's been hard to track down
on information.
Speaker 3: Right right, But like, what what got me was you
saw them race out early and what I think I
think this was the key. Clark Lee talked to the
team at halftime and just told them to breathe for
a minute before they went back out, before they got hyped.
Just embrace the moment, like realize you're there to play.
And I think that is awesome because when you are
coaching those athletes, it's a mental game as much as
it is a physical game. And you're able to keep
those players in there, they're able to weather that storm.
And it blew my mind because I like, you kept
waiting for Bama to come back, and I kept thinking, like,
what's up with Bama? So they were up thirty to
seven at Georgia. Since that time, they have led up.
I think, again, this is not a math podcast, as
a college football podcast, something like sixty seven points. I
think it's they've gone off. I think opposing offenses have
scored an all but like five or six drives. When
you look at the Georgia game and you look at
the Vandy game, So like if you're talking about yummy
rat poison, like right there in Tuscaloosa is where the
rat poison is biggest. I think Alabama thought they won
the national championship that first half against Georgia, and they've
absolutely struggled. And this is where it's interesting for Kitlin
de Boor. You know, we talked about a little bit
last week. One of Debor's challenges is that sometimes he
will blow these late leads. But here's the deal. At
Bama and in Tuscaloosa, you're not in Seattle anymore. Brother.
You can't lose to Vanderbilt. You cannot have these eggs.
And it goes from something where we were very positive.
I wrote a couple of very big articles about them.
I was very complimentary of Debor, very complimentary of Alabama.
And now you're like, holy crap, Superman just puts his
pants on one leg at a time and he gets susceptible.
So I think it's going to be interesting. I believe
Bama is off this week and then they go to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: In two, sir, they're not off this week.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry. Who do they play this week?
Speaker 1: They opened as a let me get the line again.
They opened up as a twenty and a half point
favorite noon at home against the South Caroline of game
Cocks on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So no, no, no, no, no, no, no disrespect. Sorry sorry,
sorry game Cocks.
Speaker 5: Sorry Stephen Garcia stein Beemer and the game Cocks catch
Ole miss off of an upset, and uh, the talk
all week was ole miss is going to be pissed
off coming off of a lost from Kentucky and so,
and you know that's kind of hit or miss, to
be honest, Sometimes teams come out motivated because they lose.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the loss sticks in their mind a little bit
and it doesn't serve as much as motivation. You know,
the Rebels got the best of the game Cocks for sure,
twenty seven to three in Colombia. And I think something
much worse is going to happen in tuscally So on Saturday.
Speaker 2: But let's not week seven yet. Let's not preview week
seven yet. Because the upsets Graig, they keep on coming.
Speaker 3: Shout out, shout outs to Sam Pittman. He has been
really on the hot seat and I've called for his job.
I know many people have called for his job. And
Fayetteville was rocking Saturday night. What an amazing atmosphere you
put that offense. That Tennessee's offense came in averaging over
fifty some points a game. You held them to fourteen points.
And I'm sorry, but like this, this is the one
that we talked about, like this could be dicey for Tennessee.
You know, like I think we both took the foals.
We both said, hey, watch out, this could this could
be something.
Speaker 1: I expected to be to be competitive. Yep, not fourteen points.
You know it's again you look at time possession. Arkshall
has the ball a little more. This is another one
like A and M and Missouri where no turnovers happened
in this game. And if you told me, Craig, if
you told me Arkansas is going to beat Tennessee, if
I'm going to draw that up, I think the Hogs
have an incredible day on the ground. You got your
Quentin Jackson, who has been one of the league's leading rushers.
You have a dual threat quarterback. I think, man, they're
gonna smash them running the ball wrong.
Speaker 2: They out threw the balls.
Speaker 1: Ninety seven to one point fifty six. And Nico looks
very pedestrian. He looks very red shirt freshmen. And how
about the play at the end of the game where
he scrambles, he ducks around and then he dips out
of bounds with no time on the clock.
Speaker 2: A freshman mistake.
Speaker 1: Everybody had him right in the thick of New York
and the Heisman race, and he can stay.
Speaker 3: That was Joe. That was Joe Milton versus Old Miss
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one esque. I remember that.
But look.
Speaker 1: The skin and the thing for me and this is
the last thing I'll say, and I'll kick it back
over to you. Is Arkansas has a couple of those
drives there, sixteen plays and thirty team play drives. They
opened the game on a sixteen play drive for a
field goal. They later had a thirteen play drive that
ended in a turnover on downs.
Speaker 2: So you got them bleeding clock and not even scoring points,
which is how you end up with a nineteen to
fourteen point game.
Speaker 1: Tennessee fourteen point favorites heading into this and the Hogs
to pull it off. Sam Pittman can actually coach some ball.
Speaker 3: No, I'm right there with you. And Nico looked like
a first year quarterback. You know, he's played very well
this year. He has been. If there's one thing, the
turnovers have been an issue. But you know, you look
at him trying to like he was forcing stuff quite
a bit, Like everything seems coming out of his hand
when he's throwing those costs and crossing. Also those ten
to twenty yard routes everything, say he's coming out two
hundred miles an hour and like it looks like, you know, hey,
maybe they need some touch here. I mean, the boy
he throws a phenomenal it throws one of the nicest
deep balls. He has one of the best arms. But
I think this is part of that maturation process. And
you know, Nico's got to figure out where does you
know those crossing routes go? Where does that touch go?
Because they had a hell of a run game. I
mean I think I think the running back had almost
I think he had a one hundred and sixty five yards.
So you have that that offense should go. So now
I think it's it's going to be on Hypel now
to say, okay, now, what are you going to have
for Obama? Because that one I think is gonna uh
I wind up that. I think that one could be
a shootout there in a couple of weeks, you know.
Speaker 1: I think on that note, the Hypel offense has still
looked the best under Hindon Hooker because Hindon Hooker at Tennessee,
that is the Henden Hooker is the most accurate passer
that he's had. Joe Milton spent six seasons in college football,
couldn't hit the side of a barn and only threw
laser being bullets out of that bluka that's attached to
his show.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal with Nico.
Speaker 1: I think he's already a much better quarterback than Joe Milton,
But you talk about the maturation process.
Speaker 2: And the lack of touch at times. The lack of.
Speaker 1: Touch and an uncatchable ball is like throwing a steel
rod into the spokes of the hypel offense. Because if
you don't complete passes and you don't keep it moving
and you go three and out, then you're putting your
defense in a buying because they're absolutely gassed going back
onto the field over and over again. The question for
me becomes, and I think that the answer to this
question is absolutely yes, he can. But we still have
to ask the question, can Nico mature enough to find
the touch and to increase in his accuracy in some
of these situations or is there still going to be
some fluctuation inconsistency. As long as there's inconsistency and accuracy
at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: Tennessee is not going to win ball games.
Speaker 1: If you go all the way back to twenty twenty
two when South Carolina upsets Tennessee. I think Spencer played,
you know, out of his mind that night. He throws
six touchdownds. The game calls offense was clicking. But one
of the biggest keys of the game that never gets
talked about, and the reason that South Kolb's able to
blow them out, is that Hooker had a very uncharacteristically
off night and even you know, the South Koina defense
played really well, but in the opportunities that he had,
Hooker missed a couple of throws. Missing a couple of
throws is all that it takes when you run into
a bus saw and the other team is scoring the
football and you keep putting your defense on the field.
That goes right back to what I said about Arkansas
staying on the field long periods of time. Sixteen plays,
thirteen plays, you're just wearing that defense down. If your
offense comes out and can't move the ball and you're
going super super fast, you're basically putting your defense out
there for twenty plus plays at a time, and that's
that's not a winning recipe.
Speaker 2: So interesting, interesting time.
Speaker 1: Couple of notes that I have as we look back
over those three that I would say, Uh, the biggest
concern for me is Missouri. I think that they are,
like I said last week, one Luther Burden away from
six and six, seven and five record, things could snowball
if he doesn't continue to bail them out.
Speaker 2: They can have a They have a very.
Speaker 1: Weak schedule, but you still have some games against I
believe that they have Alabama, Oklahoma. You still got a
Jacklin Hyde South Carolina team that, depending on which version
of the team shows up, can get you and so
and of course I would say that I believe they
have Arkansas as well. So now that that schedule for
Missouri looks a little bit different, so there definitely have
some concern there.
Speaker 2: We just kind of talked about Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, quick question, quick question on Missouri. Is Drinkowitz
thinking about Gainesville? Is drink having this attention on Gainesville?
Maybe maybe that's the idea.
Speaker 1: And you know, if I was, if I was, I
would if I was kipping, there's not a shot I'm
thinking about getting yep.
Speaker 3: So, so I want to get before you get to
those other two. We take a look at the AP
top twenty five. We've got nine teams right now in
the SEC ranked. We've got hook them number one. We
got Georgia at five, Alabama seven, Tennessee eight, Old Miss nine,
l s U thirteen, and then we got A and
M at fifteen. OU and Missoo are both at eighteen
and twenty one. I've got those two out of the playoff.
To me, I start, I start to see us as
we hit the final five six weeks of the season, Texas, Georgia,
Alabama probably are going to be those locks. And then
I think we get one or two more out of
that Tennessee, Old Miss, LSU, Texas, A and M, depending
on depending depending on, depending on on what the season goes.
I think I think SEC is still in line for
four or five because I'm not really seeing a whole
lot like like in the Big ten or A. SEC
really kind of kind of taking multiple spots.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I think that.
Speaker 1: As as as we're looking at it, I want to say,
like Texas is now a clear cut favorite for me
to win the SEC. But as soon as I say that,
something else will happen. Vanderbilt beating Alabama is just the
key to everybody saying, look, everything is on the table.
Speaker 2: Nothing is guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Absolutely anything can happen, so we just can't write anything off.
I mean we can look at I have the season
predictions for the entire for the whole SEC that we
did back in the spring, and that was really accurate
through about four weeks. The past two weeks, it's gotten
it's gotten really shaky.
Speaker 3: So well, you know, case in point, we've got red
River this week, the first time red River is going
to be SEC, Texas and Oklahoma playing at three thirty.
I would love to see the Texas State Fair get
a little bit We'll get a little bit wild at
that as a seven thirty game. But you know, hey,
we're on the new slot. But that game has gotten weird.
You know, in Sark's first year two years ago, very weird. Long. Yeah,
Longhorns laped them. And then last year Texas forgot to
play defense for about the last two to three minutes
of that game. You know, you kind of kind of
snuck up on them. So like, as much as I'm
counting out with you, and as good as as Texas
has looked, I know they're talking about Quinn coming back,
Archers looked very good. As we have talked about yep.
I'm curious to see what does that look like and
what I think what I think is gonna start happening.
This is the part of the college football play if
it's going to be interesting Texas and Oklahoma this week
Red River, I'm gonna call this a pseudo elimination game
for Oklahoma. Oklahoma loses this game, they are probably on
the outside looking in. More importantly, I think more interesting
is that game that's going to be Saturday night Tiger Stadium.
Old Miss. Ole Miss is traveling to LSU. Right now,
Old Miss is nine, LSU is thirteen. Again, I feel
like LSU is quiet. We're not hearing a whole lot
about them. They started this season off by losing the USC.
USC has done their part by now losing to Michigan
and to Minnesota this week. Old Miss bounced back nicely.
Sorry game Cocks. You know, after losing two weeks ago
to Kentucky, they took care of business Saturday in Colombia.
I view this game on Saturday night. First, I love
the fact that we're playing Saturday night at LSU. But
I think this is this is an elimination game because
what's going to happen the loser gets two losses, and
that's probably going to go to three or four. So
give me, give me some give me some insights if
you on what you're thinking. I know this was a
track meet last year, but what do you think about
Saturday in Death Valley?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So for me, it's going to be pretty simple. Ole
Miss is a two and a half point favorite. This
comes down to defense for me, because I think you
have two offenses that are able to to do some damage.
There is a question mark for me on Trey Harris.
He leads the game against South Carolina about midway through
and we did not see him come back. I'm not
exactly sure what the extent of that injury is. And
I'm just gonna be honest with you. If it was
not for Ryan Williams, Trey Harris is the best receiver
in the SEC, and we're not even We're not even
questioning it.
Speaker 2: He has been an absolute machine.
Speaker 1: His stats are are unheard of at this point in
the season, and even leaving the game halfway through, he
was only a couple of yards short of still leading
the team in receiving in Columbia yesterday. So as much
as I would love to sing the praises of Juice Wells.
There is a big drop off between Trey Harris and
the rest of that receiving corps. But make no mistake,
Ole miss has weapons all the way around the board,
so they're gonna be able to perform well without him.
But he has been Jackson Dark's go to guy. We're
talking about nine ten receptions a game on average, and
so it'd be interesting to see how they make an
adjustment if he's out. I trust Garrett ne Smeier. I
think that he's seasoned.
Speaker 2: I think that he has been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think he's shown me the ability to make the
heads up plays that he needs to make. And it's LSU,
so you're always going to have some weapons on the
outside down there. They're just athletic. But this comes down
to defense for me. And although LSU is much better
than I expected, and black Baker has been able to
do more with less, I think he's an elite. If
it's a coordinator in Baton Rouge, by the way, that's
probably a big piece of why Missouri looks the way
they do. But Old Missus defense, it's just on another level.
Walter Nolan is absolutely the real deal best defensive tackle
in the SEC in my opinion, and I think that
they have pieces on pieces on pieces across.
Speaker 2: That not only front seven, but they were.
Speaker 1: Able to to blanket the South Carolina receivers. I was
able to look back at some stuff from the game
in Columbia on Saturday, and although Leonora Sellers made some
very freshman decisions and mistakes that at times you can
look and see that he really had nowhere to go
with the football for much of the for much of
the game, and so credit to the secondary from Ole Miss,
and so that gives me a little bit of confidence
in them as well. So I think this really comes
down to who's going to be able to make stops.
And I think as much as we love to talk Lane,
and I think Lane is the closest thing we have
to Steve Spurrier, and that's fantastic and we love everything
that he does and it's just fun offensive football. This
comes down to defense for Old Miss and the their
ability to actually play ball in the trenches and their
ability to uh to make big stops. I know what
Kentucky did, yep.
Speaker 3: I don't think lu. I don't think LSU is there.
Speaker 2: I really I don't either. I think it's a style
of defense. Type of thing.
Speaker 1: In Kentucky defense is a clog you up style. We
saw South Carolina. South Carolina's defense has been really good
over the course of the season, but they are more
of a blitz and gamble corners on islands type of defense,
and with a quick strike offense like Ole Miss, it's
not a great matchup. I don't think LSU is to
clog you up, slow you down type of defense, and
I think, Oh Miss, really, I think Ole Miss is
it done.
Speaker 2: I like them by more than the two and a
half for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, let's look at the drag chart from
last last year. Last year is a fifty five forty
nine game, and basically the two teams were trading scorers,
they were trading dutchdowns, they were traded field goals, and
what it came down to is Pete Golden got one
more style then, uh, you know, than what LSU did.
And I'm right there with you. I think LSU is
I think the number one right now in the nation
in sacks and what they're doing consistently is exactly what
Leane is looking to build. And I do think that
they're going to be able to take it out, and
they're going to knock out LSU out of that playoff
and make it a little bit definitely more challenging. You know,
as we take a look at it, there's not a
lot to maybe look at. Maybe I think, I think, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Georgia's careful. You've said that before.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Mississippi State, Mississippi State, go take your cow bell
and go enjoy yourself because you're not meeting Georgia. It's
not going to look pretty. It's maybe not going to
be thirty four and a half, but that game will
not be competitive. Missouri, why are you going to UMass?
You're an SEC team? Stop it anymore.
Speaker 1: They've done it a lot. They continue to schedule these
games and I don't remember exactly who it is, but
this is not the last trip they're making.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not in the twelve anymore. Just stop. I
think honestly, the one I'm looking at UK and Bandy
I think is going to be interesting. But I'm gonna
want I do want to see what happens with Tennessee
and Florida. Florida knocked off Tennessee last year in the
swamp sort of kind of let them know what's going on.
This was a very interesting game two years ago in Knoxville.
I was kind of one of those back and forth games.
Tennessee pulled away in the second half. Sick yeah, and
listen to Newland State is not is not a whole
lot of fun to play at. So to me, if
I'm looking at another interesting game, LSU and Old Miss
are going to be on the primary screen, I will
have the quadbox on the iPad, and Tennessee and the
Gators will definitely be one that that I'm looking at,
because you know, sure, Florida, you see great, you know what, Colorado.
Speaker 1: It's fifteen and a half. For what it's worth. I
think Tennessee covers. I can't say I'm doing it. I
can't see him doing it two weeks.
Speaker 2: In a row. And the difference is Florida.
Speaker 1: I get it with the what they did the UCF
last week, but just body of work. There's just no defense.
And it's in Knoxville at night. I just don't see it.
Speaker 3: No, I'm right there with you, so like to me,
I'm I'm most excited about red River. I'm excited about
you know, LSU, Old Mess, And I'm right.
Speaker 1: There I'm actually I'm excited about red River because of
the tradition and this is the first time the SEC.
Speaker 2: We're gonna make a really big deal out of it.
Speaker 1: I've had the most commons in Texas since April. I
continue to have the most commons in Texas. It's a
fourteen point spread as of now, and.
Speaker 2: I like Texas to cover that. I like it more
like seventeen twenty one points.
Speaker 3: Well round Texas. Maybe College are our friends at the
College grid are in coast to coast. Since now we
are officially part of the team, maybe we need to
go to red River next year.
Speaker 1: Maybe, so maybe let's let's let's focus on that first
round of the playoffs in Oxford because.
Speaker 2: We're still riding the We're still riding the rebels as
of right now. Hey, a couple of things.
Speaker 3: I got I've got the table at City Grocery. Ready, buddy,
let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: A couple of things let's hit before we close up.
Don't let the paant button on Alabama. Kaitlin the boor
uh just for just for everybody's reminder, one hundred and
four and twelve all time record as a head coach.
So he was twenty five and three in Washington, a
couple of national three national championships at Sue Falls, which
is the NAI equivalent of Alabama where he replaced the goat.
Speaker 3: Were seeing are we seeing? Are we seeing Sue Falls
of Alabama? Is that what you're saying, game Coy?
Speaker 2: Is that saying I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying on the NA level, he's coming in replacing
a multi national championship head coach, and he all he
did was win three national championships of his own. And
so you know, I don't think there was time to
hit the pantic button on that. I think that this
is an unprecedented loss for sure, but I'm not panicking
bonus material outside of the league. Who do you like
out of the undefeated teams left? You've got Service Academy's Army, Navy,
you got pitt out of the acc WOA, Iowa State
BYU Miami pulls it out. How about Indiana and then
a higher state Penn State.
Speaker 2: Oregon in the race there in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: And then of course Liberty, who has like one hundred
and thirty fourth worst strict to schedule in the country,
So we're expecting them to go undefeated, any anybody sticking
out to you outside of the SEC.
Speaker 3: If I'm looking at it, what Kirchson out he has
done in Indiana has been impressive. He's got actually he's
feeding the rap in, but he's making sure his team
is not doing it. I think you saw a classic
point this weekend Indiana played Northwestern. It was a close
game for a little bit. There's a there's a let
down there sign that he took care of business. Penn
State is a joke and I am going to say this,
sorry Maggie when you hear this, but Penn State will
miss the playoff. Their offense is absolutely brutal to watch.
It's almost as bad as that mascot. So I am
out on Penn State, and I'm looking forward to your
boy Dan Lanning hosting Ryan Day this week because that'll
be the best game outside of outside outside of our
CC mashups. So what about you, my friend? What do
you got?
Speaker 1: I would I'll just start with with Iowa State. I
think Matt Campbell takes another job this time around. I
think we've already seen the first time when Iowa State
had a major surge and they were.
Speaker 2: Able to hold onto him. I think that he can.
Speaker 1: He realized, much like this current situation with Kiffin in Oxford,
that there's no point in going somewhere else when you've
just absolutely got it made. Expectations are below actually what
you're doing, and so you're kind of just everything's icing
at this point. But I think now he gets his
second chance at life. They kind of had a dip
for a few years and nobody mentioned his name in
any coaching searches. Now it's just shot. I think he's
gonna take. I think he takes it this time around.
But of course, the big big matchup outside of the
SEC is Oregon Ohio State.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to stick to my guns.
Speaker 1: Remember when we wrote off Oregon and now they're ranked
third in the country. Uh, I'm gonna take the Ducks
in the upset this week, Big ten champ Okay in coming.
Speaker 3: Let me know what the stakes are, because I've got
I've got the buck ice. Because I still don't trust
your your Oregon Ducks.
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Speaker 1: Want to absolutely love that along with doctor Pepper and
everybody else that we shout out on here.
Speaker 2: Okay, last words.
Speaker 3: So I've got I've got this one for you.
Speaker 2: Take it away.
Speaker 3: So I think no tweet encapsulated the weekend better than
the Texas A and M Police.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Here is what they responded to this week. Responded to
an intoxicated subject Section two thirty two released a sober
wife ejected. And then there's something about b t h
O Missouri. I don't know if that's a dance move
whatever that means. Texas A and M. But Rob, here
is my question for you. Say you and the missus
get down to Columbia and things get a little out
of control. Do you want to be released to your
wife or you just want to go to the patnyway
because I feel it's worse that this guy got released to.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a few things here.
Speaker 1: First of all, Texan and Police having a Twitter that
posts what they're responding to is funny.
Speaker 2: Uh. This like live PD on on X but with
the campo.
Speaker 3: Uh So you know, who they're emulating here, right, Like
Oxford does this all the time, and an old mess
like Oxford police are always posting all the shenanigans. So
stop at Aggie's you're not as cool.
Speaker 1: Well, it fits in Oxford, the yell leader. It's the
only thing I can imagine, even though this is definitely
the cops.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The second thing that I see here is the obviously
the released to sober wife.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure why that's relevant to the tweet
other than they're.
Speaker 3: Just because she was not happy.
Speaker 1: Because they just feel like they needed to give her
some credit, Like was was the scene of her picking
him up so dramatic that they just had to give
it some little subtle nod.
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I just answer, go back and answer your question. There
is not a shot I would want to be released
to my wife. In fact, I don't think she would
be present to pick me up.
Speaker 3: No, she she's not. Listen, I guarantee you both are
wise They're like, nope, I don't know him, that's it.
But like, here's the deal. You're a grown ass man now, dude,
you're married, Like that's college aide stuff Like stop like
because I really.
Speaker 1: Should have some stats on this guy, like an age,
maybe a height and weight would be nice, you know,
wearing you know.
Speaker 3: Did he you know, was he was dancing? Did he
have a weight jumpsuit?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: What the what's the demographics here? That's what I want
to know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's just agree it's not a good idea.
But yeah, I so just a PSA to everybody. Go
out there, go enjoy the tailgate, get some coffee, get
some water, mix it up a little bit, go enjoy yourselves.
But by all means, don't get reals to Soper life,
because that's not good for you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just just just pass out in the holding sale
at that point for tim that you pretend you can't
wake up, maybe they'll take you in an ambulance for
a wellness check at the hospital, local hospital.
Speaker 2: Hey, this has been really fun. I'm looking forward to
an action packed week.
Speaker 1: October twelfth has been the long awaited date of this
entire college football season. We have killer matchups, but not
to be outdone. Week six said, we're not waiting until
October twelfth. We're gonna make things happen here in Nashville,
in Fayetteville, and all across the league, shout out to
College Station, shout out to in top skateed subject in
two thirty two, and definitely shout out to his sober wife.
Speaker 3: Shout out to the Texas State Fair. Shout out to
the Texas State Fair. Let's go get us serve as
a corn dog, Let's get us some fried butter.
Speaker 1: Let's go nothing better than life in the SEC. We're
looking forward to this week. It's been It just means
more football in coffee and also Go Ducks. I'm Rob
Williams and he's Craignancmichael. We'll catch it next time. Make
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Speaker 2: We're looking forward to talking with you next time right here,