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All right, let's go around the college football world and
let's look at some of the top games what they
might mean to the conversation here in a couple of weeks.
And this is always a fun game to play. When
hell she was undefeated and in the hunt, it's always
a little.
Speaker 4: Bit more fun.
Speaker 2: Everything's more fun.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's look at Texas Tech traveling to take
on the Utah Utes. This is listen to this this
game locally, so for Utah is going to be a
ten am kickoff because of big noon kick, right, so
you got to have it at twelve eastern, So it's
gonna be a ten am local time kick.
Speaker 4: So I'm not.
Speaker 3: Sure what juices you can get going there at Utah
at Rice Ecle Stadium, But ten am kick locally, but
they didn't have.
Speaker 2: To be so literal with the big noon. It could
be like noon whatever, that could be big news noon
that time zone. I think people would get it. I'd
get it. Yeah, So I mean that's uh. We've been
in those games too. The ten AM games stak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're brutal.
Speaker 2: They are the worst. I mean even eleven.
Speaker 4: Conference opponents and that fun. It sucks.
Speaker 2: Eleven AM is bad enough in the NFL. I didn't
like the noon games. No, I'm not you know, you
guys know I'm not a morning person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're getting you there, We're getting there here, getting
you there.
Speaker 2: I'm not a morning persons. Just take a morning.
Speaker 3: Radio gig yep, and turns out it sounds logic.
Speaker 4: I know who did were? Hey, there's no more sleepy
in your eyes?
Speaker 3: When when when I show up used to like first
couple of weeks it was like, oh man, is he?
Speaker 2: Is he there? And I still haven't changed my nighttime routine.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, you've just rewired myself. So what you have
to do?
Speaker 2: Who needs sleep?
Speaker 3: Sleep when you're dead. Joey Hester said that.
Speaker 2: I do love sleep though, Maybe that's why it looks
so youthful. But doing this job maybe all age faster.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd go that far. All right,
So Texas Tech in Utah number sixteen, Utah number seventeen,
Texas Tech. This this is big because I mean it's
gonna put you, maybe not in the driver's seat by yourself,
but the winner of this will be with Iowa State
as the leaders in the clubhouse for the Big Twelve.
And as we all know, the Big Twelve gets an
automatic playoff spot for their champion. These two teams look
like they can't be championship caliber in the Big Twelve,
and I would say this game it might be more
important for Texas Tech. They put a lot of dollars
and cents into their roster right to compete for championships
and to play in a Big Twelve championship game like
Utah's been there, done that, Like Utah outside of last year,
has been a very consistent program.
Speaker 4: For Texas Tech, it's like.
Speaker 3: What's your ROI like, right, what do we got to
see sending some dollars? Yes, as much almost as anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they've done a really good job. And that's
why I think the whole fan base for Texas Tech
is it was so excited and the media was kind
of on them a little bit. I think this is
their opportunity to potentially vie for a conference championship. Finally,
I think it has been a long time. I think
it's been since nineteen ninety six since they've won a
conference championship, and I believe that was the Southwest Conference.
Speaker 3: So I say that because they're a little doe.
Speaker 2: They've had some great teams, they've had some great moments,
but in this NIO world, they can compete because of
the money that they have and the willingness and the Androly.
Speaker 4: Hasn't probably a lot desire to be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the desire and the willingness of people to give
that money is probably because they haven't won a conference
championship since nineteen ninety six. So and we've seen it
with him, we've seen it in softball. How much do
they pay pay that that picture for.
Speaker 3: That as Kennedy got over a million? Yeah, a little
bit over a million dollars and they made it to
the college football final or sorry, softball final. They're in
Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So uh that Texas Tech was my my pick
to win the Big Twelve this year. So I'm going
to continue to ride that train, and I think that
they I think they win the game. I think they
got a lot of talent there. I think pretty just
good top to bottom team. I hadn't watched a ton
of them, but I've kind of kept up with their
stats and everything. So their quarterbacks, almost.
Speaker 3: Ten quarterbacks playing really really well.
Speaker 2: Right, he's almost topped one thousand yards. He's got a
ninety one point eight ESPN.
Speaker 4: Q eleven tudds.
Speaker 2: I believe a year eleven, ninety one point eight espn
Q rating's pretty pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: So that's going to be a big game to you know,
put you as I said with Iowa State, I think
right there driver's seat in the big twelve, So certainly
want to pay attention to. And it's going to be
that early kick and really the only game in the
early window, as we talked about yesterday, that moves the
needle at all.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 3: If Texas Tech and get it done on the road
against the utah Utes.
Speaker 2: Hey take a look at this picture right here, So
let's just be real quick of this Texas Tech quarterback.
It's a zoomed in picture. Anythink you noticed there the
way he's holding that ball.
Speaker 3: Uh, his on his thumb is on the laces, not
his fingers.
Speaker 2: He's thrown without the LASiS, which is wild. So let's
take a look for that. Guys.
Speaker 3: Anyway, is that not allowed at all? It's like a big,
big no.
Speaker 2: No, it's just strange, like willingly thrown without the laces.
Speaker 3: What if he was throwing just like a smoke and
he had to like get it in and grip it
and get it out.
Speaker 4: Could be what happens when that happens. Do you have
to get the laces?
Speaker 2: Then? Yeah, you would, you would? Uh, you just thought.
Speaker 3: However, you don't judge bug bites cover flud.
Speaker 2: Oh, I only got one picture to judge bout, so
I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Do it all right.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the game of the week in the SEC,
and that is Oklahoma and Auburn. Is gonna be a
three thirty Eastern time kick over on ABC so two
here Central time. This is Look, this is an intriguing game.
Last year, this was just a dirty game. It was
just kind of mucky all game long. Oklahoma makes a
play to win the game. But now I think both
teams are better. Oklahoma's offense is certainly better. I think
Auburn overall is better. Jackson and Arnold is playing now
for the Auburn Tigers. Last year, he was the starting
quarterback for most of the year for, as y'all know,
the Oklahoma Sooners, So there's that intrigue in this matchup
as well.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to this one.
Speaker 3: I don't know how this one's going to play out,
but I think it's going to be a highly contested
football game. I think John Mytier is going to have
his toughest test to date. Let's see if he can
continue to roll on down the road. Both teams have
been physical in the first three games that we've seen
them play. I'm looking forward to this one. I don't know,
Like the number was six and a half for the Sooners.
Now it's up to seven and a half. I'm a
little bit surprised by that number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm surprised that they hadn't tightened up a little bit.
I think it's probably the emergence of John Mattia this year.
I guess I could say emergence, but we knew he
was a good player, but being at a different school
and playing the well that we didn't know if he
could translate. Obviously, we still don't know if it's going
to translate to the SEC, but we're pretty pretty sure
it is going to. So that starts this week to
see if what he brings to the table that move
from Wazoo to Oklahoma, if it's going to continue and
his Heisman campaign continues. But each of these teams, Auburn
and Oklahoma both have one really good win on their schedule.
Auburn b Baylor in that opener. Oklahoma beat Michigan twenty
four to thirteen, so they got one good win. And
they both have one or two purple jersey games, so
whatever their colors are, so we'll see this is kind
of rubber meets the road for them in SEC play. Excited.
I just I'm intrigued by just the the side stories
to this of Jackson arnold potential fringe story come in
full circle. A team that he started for for most
of the season got benched, trans it has the opportunity
to go in there and they're at home it used
to be your home and win a game. So what
an opportunity for him, What an opportunity for Materier. It's
just a lot of good storylines coming out of this
game and the best game in the SEC, so we're
going to be locked in. I'm very excited to watch
that one play out, just as a football fan and
a fan of people and players and the storylines that
come with the greatest reality show in the world, which
is Live Sports.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's two teams out of the SEC.
We're trying to say are you for real? Are you
for real?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: How good are you?
Speaker 3: And I think there's different levels to these teams. I
think oklahoma ceiling is higher than what Auburns can be.
But I do think Auburn right now is playing better
than a lot of people thought they would and let's
see how for real you can be. So certainly, like
I said, when you've got an LSU team that's number
three in the country, you're looking at some of the
teams that you have to play. You don't play Auburn,
but you certainly play Oklahoma's going to be the last
game of the year. That's going to be a road game,
right They're trying to make that a rivalry game, putting
it at the end of the year until we get
a new schedule next year.
Speaker 4: So we'll see if.
Speaker 3: That continues on but yeah, I think it's a game
that LSU fans certainly can watch and pay attention to
and see what both these teams look like, but certainly
Oklahoma knowing that they are going to be on your
schedule here later on. All right, let's go to two
Lane in Old Miss, the Green Wave traveling down to
take on the traveling up, I should say, to take
on the Old Miss Rebels. This is right now a
thirteen and a half point line in favor of the
Old Miss Rebels. Two Lane has already beaten Northwestern out
of the Big Ten, they put the hammer down on them.
They've beaten Duke out of the ACC the score much
closer than that game actually was. So I think two
Lane's going to be highly competitive in this game throughout.
They've played Old Miss a couple of times recently, and
that's just kind of been the story of that game.
They have been competitive in the it's been like a
play here, a play there. When you're trying to pull
off that upset, it's like, can you make that one play?
You have one opportunity, you have that one moment, and
they haven't been able to get that done. But they've
been in these games in this two Lane team, the
Retz laughter quarterback. They're not backing down from anybody.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You talked to John summerw and I talked to him
earlier this week. This is this is not a situation
where they're going to go in nervous to play Old
Miss and Ole Miss is gonna probably play with their
backup quarterback who played incredible against Arkansas last week. But
I think the Green Wave are going to be in
this game for four quarters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of depends on how how the game starts.
I think if they can stay in the game and
not do anything silly at the beginning to get behind
the eight ball. Their quarterback, like you said, it, is
playing well leading. I mean he's got five hundred and
twenty two passing yard leading brushing yards at two hundred
and eighty eight. But you know, we'll see a backup
quarterback playing at ole Miss and is that it would
it be his first ever start. I don't know a
lot of information on.
Speaker 3: The back of corp pro miss. It started last week
against Arkansas, he started.
Speaker 2: Last yeah, yeah, I thought he came in okay, uh yeah,
so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think two lane has a really good gritty so
if they can just stay in the game and not
get down by that two three scores early on, I
think it'll be tight. So give to Lane a little
punching puncher's chance there at the end to win it.
We I you know, I usually want the opponents for
LSU to do well before they play LSU or after
they play LSU, because I want that same I want
the resume builder. But it's Dulane, baby, it's Louisiana team.
I want them to go up there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do too, and beat the piss out
of it. So same thing, go ahead, and you know,
get their spirit all.
Speaker 4: The way down there.
Speaker 3: There is no way that I'm doing anything opposite than
hoping tu Lane goes out to Oxford and beats them. Uh,
Michigan in Nebraska in Memorial Stadium. They're in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Michigan still ranked twenty first in the country. Nebraska trying
to prove that you're number three under Matt rule can
continue to be the year he is look year three
a Temple, year three a Baylor. That's when they made
their big stride. Can he do it here at Nebraska.
I don't think Michigan is a great football team. I
think they're a good football team.
Speaker 4: You're at home.
Speaker 3: Even if I don't think Michigan's great, I know that
they have the wing helmet that everybody recognizes.
Speaker 4: It is a brand.
Speaker 3: It is a team that won a national championship a
couple of years ago. I say all of that to
say this could go a very long way for the
corn Huskers. They need a win against a brand. Beating
Cincinnati in Arrowhead cool, but.
Speaker 4: It's not enough.
Speaker 3: Like you gotta get Went, you gotta beat you know,
you gotta beat Penn State, you gotta beat Ohio State,
you gotta beat Michigan, you gotta beat Oregon. If you
want to change the narrative, I'm not saying all those teams,
but you got to get wins against those teams if
you want to change what a lot of people think
you are as a football program, which is a team
that's going to Stottthart, start fast and hard whenever you
play against direct school you But what can you do
against the big boys?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For for Matt rule in that program. I mean,
maybe it's just because of our age, when the age
that we grew up as kids watching Tom. To me,
it's like college football is healthy, is better if Nebraska
is good, and maybe maybe the next generation doesn't feel
that way, but oh yeah, something about.
Speaker 3: Like my kids probably like you know nothing about Nebraska football,
nothing about it when you and I like we knew
like all the major players because they were some of
the best players in the country.
Speaker 2: And just because of Tommy Fraser is the reason why
I always, like, in the back of my mind cheer
for Nebraska at least a little bit, like just come back,
come back to reality a little bit, come back to
being dangerous. And this is one of those.
Speaker 4: Not danger Russ, but dangerous.
Speaker 2: Don't be danger Russ. Yeah, be dangerous. Yeah yeah, really
good pool.
Speaker 3: There, thank you, noble to do that, Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this is one of those games that could
be a program uh, could go a long way and
be in a program changer. They probably don't have the
firepower to be a Penn State or Ohio State, but
this year they certainly can pick this game off, especially
at home a little many manyie Patrick Mahomes has got
to play well, and he's been playing pretty well this season. So, uh,
this this game intrigues me just for the sheer fact
that I want Nebraska to be back and not in
like a huge they don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a slow process.
Speaker 2: And I really do think Matt Rule is a good
program builder in a college level. Yeah, I'm clearly not
with the Panthers, but who is but.
Speaker 3: A god, I mean outside of my guy Foxy, who
is seriously pets so that that's a pro football team.
Speaker 2: But he did what I mean, what he did at
Baylor was great.
Speaker 3: Baylor too, Yeah, I mean, brown stuff was going on
and they were down and out. It was bad, that
bad like that.
Speaker 2: After all, Brown saich you that Baylor program could have
spiraled out of control, absolutely out of control. But he
right of the ship. Yeah, sure did a really good job.
So I do think he's that guy. And Nebraska's got
a lot of money and.
Speaker 3: A lot of desire to be great, like those fans
want to be great.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, in the social
media world, it's you know, it's still in Nebraska, so
it's not the most sexy place for a transfer A
guy in the transfer a portal to go to. But
you know, money talks, so if you got money, you know,
people will live anywhere.
Speaker 3: But let's go Cornuskers, all right, we got a couple
more games, certainly that we want to break down throughout
the college football slate, and we'll certainly get to those games.
Speaker 4: There was one comment inside.
Speaker 3: The chat that I wanted to highlight here, and it's
from bo Knows. Sorry I'm late, but just watch a
part of the stream. But have we forgot Key started
versus Florida last year?
Speaker 4: He started four games.
Speaker 3: I think we all expect expected him to rotate in
this season. I'm on to Mond Keys linebacker for LSU.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I certainly did not forget, and I think part of
what we were talking about earlier we did mention that
Blake Baker loves Keys, like absolutely loves him, one of
the players he like. When I had like one on
one conversations with him in the all season, was probably
the most excited about. Now it is a very tough
room to break into. Now, I would expect devink Keys
to play even more. He played incredible last week against Florida.
He led the team in tackles. He played great against
Florida last year. To your point, I mean he almost
had that interception that might change the game, change the
math of the game and the game flow. There So
no nobody's forgotten about the Vine Keys like that linebacker
room with the Weeks brothers, all three of them with Keys.
Singleton played pretty good when he came in, and then
you throw Harold Perkins in there because Flynn tells me
he's a linebacker and that's how we're going to identify him. Yep,
it's one of the deepest in the Matthew turned this
down there because we had somebody come up to exp
for else's. But no, he's one of the I mean,
it's one of the deepest rooms in the country. So
he is a player certainly that I think is going
to continue to help LSU win football games. He's gonna
play even more. It's just hard to get the rotation
when you have, you know, older guys, older players in
front of him who are playing so well. But yet
the mind Keys has certainly earned some playing time. All right,
we will take a break. We've got more OTB coming
back your way, breaking down some of these games across
college football when we come back here live from Ross
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Speaker 4: Oh I told you, yes, which one you want?
Speaker 3: What's his favorite? Uh? Any easier and he's here. We're
good figured out you high Catholic tonight here in the
capital city, over a cub complex. Looking forward to that,
a little bit of a Hess bowl. My younger brother
coaches a Catholic. My son starts for you high.
Speaker 2: So how's the how's the team looking so far through
the season?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: One in one played Woodlawn beat them, played Rum on
the dome last week, lost to them thirty to seventeen.
Uh shut up, Stilts whatever, Stokes, both of you.
Speaker 2: Not just Craig, Yeah, just Kevin. We're killing just too big,
talk that mess.
Speaker 4: Uh So one in one on the year.
Speaker 3: I know Catholics too, and oh gosh, I know they've
beat seen Thomas Moore in week number two a week
one to be desterrah hand too. So uh yeah, look,
good game. Gonna be a tough game, but I'm excited
for it. I'm excited. I'm excited that my son gets
to play in a game like this, absolute, you know
what I mean, it's exciting that this big magnitude game
is gonna be sold out. It's gonna be people.
Speaker 2: So what's the what's the football field.
Speaker 4: Called Cup Complex?
Speaker 2: Cup Complex? Right? I called?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure there's another name, but Cup Complex.
I think Jeff Boss it could be. I'm gonna look
that up. Don't quote me on that. I think it's
I think it's Jeff Boss obviously, near and dear, it's
the LU football program forever.
Speaker 2: I got a good friend that can tell us.
Speaker 4: Do you think chat TBT knows that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it does, that's impressive. Yeah, that's right, very impressive.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know.
Speaker 3: All right, we still got some other games that I
want to get to before flint Sy's another squirrel. Uh,
South Carolina and Missouri in the SEC. This is going
to be a six pm local time kick over on ESPN.
Missouri nine and a half point favorites in this contest. Now,
the North Sellers is a game time decision. I believe,
I believe the you know, pretty tight lipt here, but
I'm pretty sure it was a concussion last week for
Leonora's Seller so he's in concussion protocol.
Speaker 4: But Missouri right now nine.
Speaker 3: And a half point favorites against South Carolina certainly not
the line we thought would be on that game before
the season. I'm a big believer in Missouri. They've been
kind of the team that I've been trying to champion.
But still I would not think that that line would
ever be right there. We talked a lot about South
Carolina as well. Bo Perbula has been awesome. Yeah, he's
been awesome for Missouri. Running the ball, throwing the ball
through the air. He's got seven ninety one seven touds,
only one interception.
Speaker 4: A Mott Hardy who is RB.
Speaker 3: One on our field, still all meatthead team over on
off campus. He's got fifty seven carries for four to
sixty two and five touchdowns on the ground. Man, this
Missouri team, and they got a lot of really like strong,
like solid players at the out of the portal like
no like true like superstars. But they got like four
or five solid players to add to their defense. Which
if you've got money to spend, you're like, I can
get two superstar, are can get five solid players? Like
superstars are great? But I think you're seeing better be
a game change. Yes, I think you're seeing a lot
of people that are taking the approach of let me
go get like some more depth, let me go get
some good players, but also multiple players. And so I
think Missouri did a really nice shop in the portal
and they've got a great opportunity we South Carolina if
Lenori Sellers doesn't play, because again I'm going to say it,
until we get to October the eighteenth, that's the first
time they go on the road for Missouri. They are
playing Incomo until October the eighteenth. It's wild, Okay, So
you have to take it's a great scheduling. You've got
to take full advantage of any opportunity you get in this.
If Lenora Sellers doesn't play, is a great opportunity for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this line is so surprising for us at this
point of the season because before the before the season started,
we were talking about how if South Carolina is in
the top ten fifteen, that means Lenor Sellas is having
a great season. That Heisman campaign that has certainly been
like the furthest thing from the truth to this point. Now,
let me ask you this, if Sellers does get announced
as playing. What kind of line movement you think we
see from that? Do you think it changes drastically?
Speaker 4: I think you'll look at a three and a half.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm thinking like the way they've looked thus
far in the season and the way in comparison to
how Missouri's like. I don't even know if Seller's playing
really moves the needle that much for betters. Maybe it
moves it closer to seven and a half something like that,
maybe seven, but.
Speaker 4: I think it maybe a moved down to six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is under a touchdown, But I mean what
Perbula is doing, what that offense is doing, and just
a consistently they just look like a real consistent, well coached,
disciplined football team. Do they lack a little bit of
that sexiness? Maybe because they're Missouri. Sorry, I know that's
your team, but they're a good football team, and South
Carolina it's just to this point is not looking like
a good overall football team. I think they that. I
think they are starting to realize what they've lost from
last season and how much they reliant on Lenora's Sellers
to be good. So if defenses can flip and adjust
their game plan and figure out they've got they got
a year of tape on Lenora's Sellers. If they can
flip it around and figure out how to contain him,
then they really got nothing else behind them.
Speaker 3: I was just about say so when you were saying
that was making me laugh because it made me think
of and you talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
So there was one time when Hanny and I were
doing the show together U for I guess like six months.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: I think it was daring COVID or right after COVID.
We were trying to, you know, do some different things
at the station. And you know, so Flynn had had
always come on the show with me and every single
like at least once a week.
Speaker 4: Right and any and he's sitting there and he's in
the host chare and.
Speaker 3: Flynn shows up and he's like, all right, do y'all
think do the flestering thing you'll do. You'll do it,
be funny, funny, just do a flustering thing like he
said that on air. And we started lid like, what, yeah,
do you whatever that thing is, you'll do, y'all do that.
When you said that about the North Sellers, that's what
it reminded me.
Speaker 4: Of Hey, go do your thing.
Speaker 3: Do your thing what I don't really know what you do?
I do Leonora Sellers things, and that's kind of how
their offense was. Yeah, do you thing whatever that is.
Speaker 2: That's right. So you're comparing the head coach for South Carolina.
Speaker 4: To Haney Seane Beamer, Handy, the same person.
Speaker 2: Hey, in the same room at that time that you're like,
you're just better and like faster and everybody, and you
just score touchdowns one versus eleven. Just do that, please?
So when the defenses can figure that out and stop that,
they have proven to be pretty pedestrians, So we'll can
they get a turn around? Yeah? The weapons around them,
that's tough. So yeah, I if certainly if Leonora Sellers
is not playing, Yeah, I mean that game has the
potential to kind of get ugly.
Speaker 4: So it's a great opportunity.
Speaker 3: I really do think that for Missouri, and we'll see
if they can take advantage of that. Let's get to
one more game here at least before we step away
for this break, maybe even two more, because I think
there's two more marquee ones on the slate and kind
of finishes there. You've got Florida and Miami. Florida traveling
to Miami. Miami and nine and a half point favorite
in this game. This game's intriguing you one because, els,
you just played Florida. You want to see, you know,
where they're at and kind of stack up against another
top team in the country. For Miami. Are they back?
Are they truly back? They've they've shown flashes of being
back even last year. Can they win a game like this? Florida,
Your back is not just against the wall. You are
engulfed into the wall, like you are part of the wall.
You're back is firmly in there. Okay, You're like the
kool Aid man bursting through the wall right now.
Speaker 2: Now, you're like the gift of Homer Simpson back and
into the bit that yeah that is you.
Speaker 4: Okay, go play like it.
Speaker 3: Don't be tough guys before the game and in victory
formation for once in your existence. Go be tough guys
there in the game, yep, and go try to save
your coaches job, all right. Like, if you can't be challenged, Florida,
if you can't be challenging this game an in state rival,
you're a nine and a half point dog to them.
You played high school ball against like all these guys,
so you already have a past history. And if your
coach gets embarrassed, he's going to get fired. After this game,
Florida for the first time, show signs of life in
the actual sixty minutes of the game and not the
tough guy stuff before and after the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe trying to refrain from slapping other players
in the face if you're a coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't have your coach slap yep.
Speaker 2: Oh, maybe maybe not. Try not to hackelugi and the
other player's face.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that also happened.
Speaker 2: And walk through and trying to ruin people's pregame routine
and then go out and lose every game. Yeah, so yeah,
try not to do that. I'm always cheering for your demise,
So I hope Miami whips you. I do, and we
keep talking about Yeah, Miami looks back. Like you said earlier,
if you had an AP vote, you might vote them
at number one right now, just for their body of
work thus far in the early part of the season.
Speaker 3: And watching the film.
Speaker 2: But it's one of those deals where we've talked, we've
we've we've said these things before about Miami for sure,
just like Texas for a long time. Are they back?
Speaker 3: Are they back?
Speaker 2: It's one of those things. I'm not going to ever
believe it until I actually see it, till you prove
to me that you can do it for an entire season.
I'm certainly not going to believe in Carson Beck until
he proves that. Tommy, uh got to close your mouth
when you breathe try it, try it out of your nose.
It's nice, not as obvious. But yes, I don't think
you know the the tough guy mentality from Florida.
Speaker 3: We've we exhausted that last week.
Speaker 2: Added fuel to the fire when they're their stupid coach
punches or slaps a kid in the face, what an idiot?
So it just but it's so, it's so right on Park,
it's that's that's Florida, baby. I know that's Florida. That's
Florida experience. I never changed, though, never changed.
Speaker 3: Don't change.
Speaker 4: I know that, don't.
Speaker 2: Change because it makes it so good. It makes college
football so good, It makes the rivalry so good. And
this is a big rivay, like they don't play do
they play Miami.
Speaker 3: Every every year?
Speaker 4: Not every year?
Speaker 2: For them it's like as hyped as they would as
coming to LSU would be like playing an in state
rival like that, it's a we don't know what that's
like here at LSU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't get me fired up thinking about those idiots.
Speaker 2: You don't play them again.
Speaker 3: I'd love to tell Hell, tell them to come to Rouses.
We'll do it right here on this stayed concrete.
Speaker 2: Fist fight.
Speaker 3: So what you're saying, choose your weapon. I don't care.
Fist fight, football game, I don't care forwards. I was
replaying in my mind, like them running around the field
through your warm up in front of your student section
and like thinking that was tough, and like their little
dorky five six strength coaches doing the less mile clap
and coach, I love you, I'm saying they like they did,
like the over exaggerated clap and like shaking their head.
My guy, you're not going to do anything, just like
your team's not going to do anything.
Speaker 4: Yep, bums, all of you, bum all of you.
Speaker 2: Jake wants to market right here.
Speaker 3: I can't stay in them. I can't do.
Speaker 2: We have to fight current players, can we tight older
players both?
Speaker 3: I don't want to fight at all. I'm not a
fighter who's called we taking thank you, that's what. Don't
turn in like I need you to not be t
Bob in this situation.
Speaker 2: I got you, brother, I'm all in. All right, let's go.
Speaker 3: I need I'm more hydrated, like I need you.
Speaker 4: To fight for no reason. It'll just ask you to.
Speaker 2: The longer the fight goes, the better chance I got.
That's fair because I'll be hydrated, super hydrated. All right,
Florida made me mad, so we didn't get to the
last game. We'll get to that last game when we
come back, and we'll do it right here live from
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This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn Baton,
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Speaker 3: All right, and welcome backga in it is OTB. We
are live here from a rous It's been a lot
of fun today. Had multiple people stop by, lots of
funking mine in the house, brought the powder blue Chargers jerseys,
look in Jersey in the NFL shout out Bolt up.
Speaker 2: Hester one the best one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, How many of those? How many of those you
ever seen?
Speaker 3: The wild?
Speaker 4: Dozens?
Speaker 2: I saw one recently. Someone posted video on social media.
I saw in Jersey in the wild in Seattle, the
Seattle Niners game that is in the wild. Yeah, I thought,
I don't know if they're wearing it. Sarcastically, I'm assuming
they are, which respect yeah.
Speaker 3: No matter not seriously, ye, I don't care how why
you're wearing it.
Speaker 2: Or they were like, well, I's put the money on them,
gonna get my, gonna get.
Speaker 3: My, you know, good thirteen years out of it. I
was about to say it might have been one of
those situations where they like went all in on, like
the custom custom, and they're like, look, I'm gonna wear
this sure, Like I went out and I got the
stitching and everything, so I got to wear it. Stitch it,
you know what I mean, Like you didn't get the
iron on like you guys a right with the stitching.
Speaker 2: You never It's always fun to see one in the wild, though.
In Green Bay we see I see thousands of ten
jerseys in the wild in Green Bay right now. We
saw one here at else's we.
Speaker 4: Saw one here. It certainly did not say love on
the back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to update the people that were listening in the
hour one earlier when there was a flint no flincher,
a ten Jersey Green bit Packer Jersey right behind us,
it did not say flint on the back love.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: The best ten Jersey Green Bay ten Jersey story I
have was in twenty thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 3: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: Pearl Jam came to Milwaukee when we were in I
think it was either during I think it was during
the season, might have been right.
Speaker 3: Before or something like that. Well, a lot of the
packer's a big Pearl jamfan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big Pearl jamfan. So a lot of the packers
and their significant other there's lazy what it was. We
got like a big bus we drove down to Milwaukee. Yeah,
we go down So I'm a big Pearl Jam fan.
I love them. I love Eddie Vedder, And you know,
at that time, I was really into it, right they
I think they think the documentary had just come out,
and it's a really good documentary, one of the rockumentaries.
And so we go down there and we're all fired up,
and I'm like, man, I hope we hear this song.
I hope we hear that song. So beforehand we get
to go and actually go backstage and meet Pearl Jam
talk to Eddie Vedder and it was like awesome.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I'm sure that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was really cool, and so we
actually got if you've ever seen the documentary about him,
they like Eddie Vedder hand writes in a sharpie on
a piece of paper the set list for that show.
No show's ever the same, they're all different, and he
writes the set list out on two columns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I actually.
Speaker 2: Got the copy of that afterwards, and I still got it.
So I got the copy of that set list. So,
but those those guys came out and they took two breaks,
they rocked their faces off. They played for like three
and a half hours. And we had brought him a
ten jersey with vetter on the back because their first
album was ten, right, right, and so but of course
I'm ten. Yeah, so we're we're doing I'm like, man,
I to hope we hear these these set of songs,
and of course they play them all and it wasn't
like all the hits to some it was some like
random some random songs they played on the last part.
But the last set that they came and played, he
had the ten jersey on and of course it's not
for me, but it is, but it is in my brain.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: And so guess who went crowdsurfing?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 4: Boy, you went crowds Sure did? How'd that go?
Speaker 2: It was amazing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But people touching my bum?
Speaker 4: How long did that last?
Speaker 2: That's the thing about crowdsurfing is like people aren't really
watching where they're touching, so you kind of get all
the parts and it's not not great. But it was fun. Yeah,
And we were juiced up. We were looped up, hydrated,
not with my high, not with my high. But we
had a great time. The best concert I've ever been
to because and it was really cool because Eddie vedder warm.
Speaker 3: So do you have like that frame somewhere like him
wearing tin and also like the rundown.
Speaker 2: There was actually an article written about the concert. Yeah,
and the headline was Matt Flinn had an awesome time?
Sure it did?
Speaker 4: Did you end up on the Famous Web?
Speaker 2: There was no doubt that anybody I was. There was
no doubt in anybody's mind in that entire building or
Milwaukee or the state of Wisconsin. Uh that I had
a good time that night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody knew.
Speaker 2: Everybody knew, and yeah, just sorry, guys, don't be jealous.
Yeah I had a great time. You should have had
as much fun as me.
Speaker 4: Do you have to have fun in that situation?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah. I wasn't going to sit there and just
pe you're a fan of Pearl Jam Pearl Jams playing.
He's wearing a ten jersey? You got the set list? Yep?
Speaker 4: Also, like, what do you have? Where's that at?
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna sit there and sway and snap my fingers.
Speaker 4: You won't tell me where that's at?
Speaker 3: Did you lose that?
Speaker 4: What the set list?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I got it?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's in the random box of the attic somewhere.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: But was that not like framed up?
Speaker 2: I don't know, probably should be, I guess right. Well,
I mean I've moved, you know, quite a few times
afterwards to a couple of different teams, so I had
to box up a lot of things. A lot of
things stay boxed.
Speaker 3: That's true for a lot of boxes. You're like, wait,
where's that box? It's probably in Like, yeah, a Stords
locker in Denver somewhere, probably.
Speaker 2: With the other boxes that have been there for decades. Yeah,
I'm sure my kids will look at it once and
like it once and then put.
Speaker 3: It back in a box. You get to get that out.
Go find that. We need an update on that next week.
Speaker 2: No, let me find that article.
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Speaker 3: We'll give you what's the ticket A lot coming up
in our number three. But this isn't I hope, I
hope this is an old fashioned throwback big ten game.
I want this thing to be three yards and a
cloud of dust. It is number nine Illinois, number nineteen
Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana. Right now Illinois six and a
half point favorite. Luke Altmeyer playing really really high level
football there for Illinois.
Speaker 4: How do you see this one going?
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the Hester Bowl?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, you know what it's.
Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy because your attitude, your mentality. I
feel like you're a big, big ten guy just year
like spiritually, maybe not like mentally physically. You just you
like that kind of that style of ball. And uh,
I don't know. I think this is just this game
right here. It just speaks to you right now, Illinois, Indiana,
like but two really well coached football teams we got.
It's a top twenty matchup. Illinois is you were really
high on them coming into the season, and rightfully so,
they're playing well. Like you said, Altmeyer is playing like
a stud right now. Seven hundred nine yards, eight touchdowns.
The line seems Does this seem like a stinky line
to you to be a top twenty matchup?
Speaker 4: Yes, very so.
Speaker 2: The stinkiness it seems because it seems like a little
too big for this type of situation. So I don't know.
I think Illinois is the real deal this year. Now,
how real of a deal is it, I don't know,
but I think they're pretty darn good. So I like Illinois.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back to kick off hour
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