Speaker 1: Just like the Cougar football team, Ben Criddle was built,
not poor, and since two thousand and nineties built himself
into the go to source on the radio and online
for all things Cougars. This is Cougar Sports with Ben
Kredle on one O three nine at ninety eight three ESPN.
Speaker 2: Look bad, Yeah, buddy, Welcome in Cougar Sports one of
three nine ninety eight one pre he at the end
the Fanta Special edition of Cougar Sports, a Saturday edition
of Cougar's was a pregame edition of Cougar Sports. We're
gonna be celebrating throughout the h the pregame show. Why
because BYU's going to Arlington BYU was able to seal
the deal through and Arizona State loss late last night.
U of A doing their part a top twenty five
team and that gives b Y you a nice little
continual resume builder with that win over U of A
early in the season at U of A. By the
by the way, in yeah in ot it's okay. We
loved it. It was fantastic, it was glorious. It was
a great win for the Cougars and it paid off
big time last night is the u of a Wildcats
bear down right Beardown got the win over the Arizona
State Sun Devils in a convincing fashion too. They should
have been won by more points in my opinion, So
we're gonna be celebrating that throughout the pregame show. We
appreciate you tuning in, chiming in wherever you gonna be
tuning in and chiming in from. We're gonna take you
all the way up to kickoff here on your Utah
ESBN Radio network. We're live from the SWIG location just
south of Lavelle Edwards Stadium, and it's a beautiful morning, cool,
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Speaker 3: A little bit of some clouds here, but not too much.
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So come on by get energized prior to kickoff before
by he takes on the UCF Knights. We hope that
the Cougars are not complacent after clinching that Big twelve
Championship invite. No matter what happens though tonight or today, rather,
it doesn't matter, BYU's going to the Big Towl Championship game.
But it doesn't hurt to have a convincing victory, a
twenty one plus point victory, a three score victory today
at Lavelle Edwards Stadium. It wouldn't hurt. Okay, you gotta
come out and take care of business. You have been
the master of your destiny for the most part, but
you got a little bit of help last night with
you of A's win over Arizona State. But boy, you're
gonna be taking on the UCF Knights today. Kickoff is
an eleven or eleven AM local, and we're gonna be
taking it all the way up to kickoff here on
your Utah ESPN Radio Network.
Speaker 3: Guys, let's welcome into the show.
Speaker 2: Also Ronald the three Man Weaver, Roddie, how you living good?
Speaker 4: This is a little not on par right waking up
at you know, five forty five leaving the house at
six thirty. BYU playing in these morning games, it feels
like Oklahoma back in twenty twenty three, except this time
BYU is going to Arlington. We will be covering that
we will be there. But look, it doesn't change regardless
of the time. I know we keep saying at night
because we're like, why is it so early? Where the
Vampire coops? I feel like mays A burning been, But no, Like,
the game plan is the same. You gotta put this
team away early, bin fast. But because you do have
a clinch spot, maybe now you can get guys a
little bit of rest. Maybe they could sit out maybe
a quarter or two. We'll discuss that later on, but
I think that's the mindset now, is when this game
as early as possible, do everything that you were gonna
do before with the same mindset, same game plan, and
then maybe guys like LJ. Bear, Jack, Kelly, Isaiah lasking
everybody healthy for the Red Raiders Part two, maybe those
guys could get a little bit of extra rest.
Speaker 3: Going in the next.
Speaker 2: Saturday, excited to see how this Cougar team performs in
a day game versus a team you see if that's
fighting for Bowl eligibility. One of the key stories is
for UC after is that to be to a certain
to a certain extent kind of the spoiler today and
to limit some of the momentum that BYU has.
Speaker 3: Do you see that happening.
Speaker 4: I don't see that happening, but they're gonna try to look.
Even right now, it's a little cold. The Florida boys
don't like the cold. My pops after he got deployed,
moved to Florida, you know, going back and forth, he
didn't like the cold. Bin He didn't even win a sixty.
They were they wear sweaters. You and I both have
on a jacket, and we're probably just doing that by nature.
Boll He probably take it off. I got a short
sleeve shirt, might have the channel my inter Pat McAfee,
and take it off, you know, and stand on top
of the table. He's shaking the said, I'm joking. By
the way, no one wants to see that that sight.
But no, I think the weather still will be a factor.
I know, will heat up a little bit. But look,
I think they're gonna come and determined. But that's why
I say, you go out there and you dominate.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 4: You go up twenty one nothing in the fourth first quarter,
they're gonna fold. They're gonna be like, all right, gg's
it was a good game, good season, and like they
know that this is gonna be a hostile environment. You
still have to come in and step on the throat.
Don't give an opportunity to take the pebble from your hand,
you know. And I think BYU will go out and
execute and then UCF will turn over because this team
has really hurt been by injuries. I just think when
you're not full fully staffed, and when I mean fully staffed.
We talked to other UCF personnel and earlier in the
first hour. You heard it right, sixty percent of the
team is hurt. That's tough. You can't be BYU being
forty percent healthy.
Speaker 3: I think they're only about sixty percent healthy.
Speaker 4: I think it was forty okay, unhealthy.
Speaker 2: Still, that's not good enough regardless at D level right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, if you're playing D level against BYU,
the backups can go out and torture.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna put your D team against the A team.
Good luck b.
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up early to Lavell Edward Stadium. As I mentioned this game,
although it doesn't mean much, I feel like it does
mean a lot for momentum. Right so you could have
this game be a close one versus Ucia and it
could hurt you from a momentum standpoint, even a public
relations standpoint.
Speaker 3: I don't think it hurts you that much though.
Speaker 2: Because no matter what, in my opinion, I hate to
be dire, hate to be negative here. I don't think
if you go to the Big twelve championship game, okay,
and compete and keep it within ten points or one score,
what have you Versus Tech? I don't think even that
gets you into the College Football Playoff. So you have
to go into Arlington in a neutral setting, and I
hope Cougar Nation shows up at least fifty percent of
the stadium I'm hoping is in Royal Blue.
Speaker 3: You got to go in and win that game.
Speaker 2: If you don't win that game, I believe the College
Football Playoff Committee's gonna do everything in their power to
keep BYU out. Why do I say that, Well, because
they've shown graphics.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: The College Football Playoff Committee has been very much open
and honest how they view BYU, and it is completely
and utterly not resume based but eye test base.
Speaker 3: They're leaning heavily into the.
Speaker 2: BYU Texas Tech game and the eye test how they
were never in that game.
Speaker 3: They weren't competitive.
Speaker 2: Even though the defense showed well, the offense and special
teams were out manned, outgunned, out personneled outs gamed they.
Speaker 3: Were just in over their heads, it looked like.
Speaker 2: And they're taking that eye test to the bank and
they're saying, look, even though BYU has the number seven
ranked strength of record, they have a top thirty strength
of schedule, they're only a one lost team, and they're
gonna be a one lost team. I believe after this
this afternoon slate of games, right in this afternoon game
here at Lavelle Edwards Stadium, even all that considered, they
will not get into the colleg football playoff if they
don't beat Texas Tech. So I don't think it really
matters today what happens, because either way, you're gonna have
to beat Texas Tech in Arlington.
Speaker 3: Agree or disagree? I agree. I think the only way
and I've said this multiple times, is.
Speaker 4: That by you could get in with playing a close
game in Texas Tech and losing in Arlington is if
two things happen, two out of the three, either Oregon
in Oklahoma need to lose Oklahoma and Alabama or Oregon
in Alabama needs to be one of those, right right,
Three of those teams need to lose and m just lost.
Speaker 3: But they're not gonna follow the top ten.
Speaker 4: Right, they've been right number three for a while, and
now you have the conversation of I saw your post.
Speaker 3: It has begun.
Speaker 4: Now a three lost Texas team is saying we deserve
to be in the playoffs. Yep, you know how they
feel about SEC. You know what they're gonna do. They
will try everything in their power to put a three
loss SEC team in over you. They said that you
won't be punished, but if you were the last team
to get in and you lost Ben in the title game,
they would punish you and they would put an SEC
team in over you.
Speaker 3: They put a big ten. Hell, they might even.
Speaker 4: Play ACC team in for crying out loud. They have
already been declarat of about that. And that's the sad
part about it. By you. It was on a national stage.
I don't agree that they got dominated on the defensive
side of the ball. I think the offense got dominated.
But they're taking that to the bank, like you said,
so right now, there's no way in my mind unless
two out of the three of the top twenty five,
top ten, excuse me, what's to bed this last week
of the season.
Speaker 3: That's the only way.
Speaker 2: By the way, Texas their strength of record is eleventh,
so they're hovering right outside the top ten here. Their
FPI ranking is twelve. Their AP pole through this past
week was sixteenth.
Speaker 3: Their ap and.
Speaker 2: College Football College Football Playoff Poll was sixteenth.
Speaker 3: Their strength of schedule is six in the country.
Speaker 2: So, like, I don't mind having the conversation about how
good Texas is, okay, and I don't mind saying that. Look,
they very well could be a top ten team in
college football right now. Leading up to November. They did
schedule aggressively. They lost Ohio State early. I don't think
they should be punished for early losses to the number one,
number two team, number three team in College Football League.
I don't think it necessarily they should be punished for that.
They have lost to Georgia. But the glaring loss is
and it's not a quality loss. It's the Florida loss.
Florida has not been good this year. Florida is not
a quality loss. The twelfth team in the SEC, they're
three and eight overall. Their only wins are to the
l Iu Sharks. They gotta win obviously versus Texas. That
it was at home, Okay, it was in the swamp.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: And they have a win versus Mississippi State. Those are
their three wins. They've lost to the UCF Bulls early
in the season. They lost to LSU, who fired their coach.
They lost to Miami. Miami is a good team. They
lost to Texas, A and M. They lost to Georgia,
they lost of Kentucky, they lost to Ole, miss and
they lost to Tennessee. They take on Florida State this Saturday.
So that's their resume, and unfortunately the Longhorns lost to them.
It isn't a way setting though, So I have a
little bit of grace for Texas in this particular situation
because of their resume, their strength of schedule, their strength
of record.
Speaker 3: They're right there. But Ba's not gonna get that same
benefit of the doubt. No they're not.
Speaker 4: And that's the crazy part, Like any argument that all
of these coaches with two or three losses that are
making that are behind BYU. Like and I don't know
if you saw the thing Miami posted, and this is
what's so funny, right of how they come for like
the Big twelve, Miami posted a graphic of BYU's wins
Utah's wins, but yet they didn't come for the top ten.
So you think you should be eleventh. So it's just
about the big twelve. You're not trying to lobby to
be into the College fawball playoffs. You just think you
should be eleventh, and you're doing the same thing. You're
banking that people in the top ten will fumble the back.
Speaker 3: And you get in. Why would you say eleven or
twelve you need to be there when.
Speaker 4: You're gonna play then a SEC title game when there's
a chance you could like no, like, And that's the
issue that I have. It's not to dame all this
like everybody wants to it. The committee does this. The
Committee says, your strength to record, your strength to schedule
matters until we don't want it to matter, until we
want to say, oh, you have a good loss Notre Dame,
Oh you have a good loss Texas, you have a
good loss Alabama. It's like, and this is what they're
gonna have to do. They're gonna have to eat Crow, right,
They're gonna have to eat Crow because if BYU wins
the title game, Ben, guess what happens.
Speaker 3: Now one of those teams has to get out.
Speaker 4: You have to You're gonna have to push somebody out
because you're not gonna remove Texas Tech. You remove a
two loss Texas Tech team, Do you know what's gonna happen?
Not only Brett, your Mark's gonna uproar the college football world.
Might that's been a top five team all year, they
lose one. They lose one game in the title game
that you said wasn't count against them, But now you're
gonna hold that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: If you lose, Alabama might miss the playoffs. You might
have to knock Alabama for losing to Florida State early
in the season, because there's no way you can bounce
both of those Big twelve schools. So if your BYU
calls havoc, force the committee to make a decision that
they have to l either an SEC or a Big
ten school, it's gonna have to happen a BYU wins
down in Arlington.
Speaker 2: Ben by use resume right now as it sits seventh
and strength of record. They are fifteenth in the FBI
Football Power Index. There are eleventh in the AP and
College Football Playoff Poll, as well as twenty eighth in
strength of schedule, And with that resume, I think they
deserve to be in obviously, and you know who else
thinks they deserve to be in the College Football Playoff? Brett,
your mark the commissioner. I sent you some sound here.
Speaker 3: AP. Let's also welcome in Andrew Peterson to the show. AP.
How you living, buddy?
Speaker 2: How you feeling about BYU's chances in order to get
into the College Football Playoff without winning in Arlington?
Speaker 5: Well, then I think it comes down to, Obviously, it's
gonna come down to if teams ahead of BYU lose
beating UCF is not going to put BYU above in Alabama.
Whether we can argue whether or not BYU should be,
the committee just won't unless Alabama loses to Auburn or
Oregon falls to Washington, something like that happens. BYU cannot
get into the playoff unless they win the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: The Big Twelve championship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unless they won the Big Twelve championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Brett Yormark, let's get this queued up. He was
being interviewed in the middle of the U of a
ASU game on the sideline, I think it was maybe
in the south end zone there, and he made a
case a case for BYU. He wanted to get it
in too. He he wasn't even asked the question. He said, hey,
I want I want to get in on one more thing,
and then he elaborated on BYU.
Speaker 3: Choice.
Speaker 2: And quite honestly, I'm surprised he didn't go on record
soon enough. I it's a little bit late for propaganda
for me. He should have been pushing this propaganda.
Speaker 3: Why why, why why.
Speaker 2: Was Brett not is actively engaged in promoting b YU
up to this point.
Speaker 4: A man tells me everything, just like he tells me
about a woman of the order.
Speaker 3: He lists them in. Who did he list first? Tech?
Who did he lists second? Utah? He didn't list by
U s Utah second? He likes be a strong, can'tiation? Right?
Speaker 4: And then he mentioned by you last. You can say
all say the best for last last shall be first
all the scripture funny things. No, he mentioned Utah second
because that's what he wants the title game to be.
He wants it to be tech in Utah.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, guess what, Arizona state you fum with that opportunity,
Thank you Arizona. So that's what he wants, but it's
now by you and he The reason why he mentioned
by you last is both are true he wants Utah,
but also to be declarative and to have the rant
about you, b Yu is what you have to have.
The last point be, because the last thing for the
committee to remember will be what Brett, you or Mark said.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the ASUU of a game last night,
this is what Brett Ormore had to say about BYU
and its resume.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to.
Speaker 2: Know that if you'd have told me a couple of
months ago we'd have three in the top thirteen, I.
Speaker 3: Would have taken it. And I'm thrilled where this conference
is going.
Speaker 2: You know, as it relates to Texas Tech, you feel
really good about them.
Speaker 3: I think they're as showing m ACFP and Utah as
he They.
Speaker 2: Won their tenth game this year and they should get
strong consideration. As it relates to BYU, I think they've
been underappreciate all season long, and when you compare them
to a Notre Dame, there.
Speaker 3: Is no comparison when you think of strength of strength
of schedule and win loss.
Speaker 2: And I've got a lot of confidence in the CFP
selection committee. I'm sure we'll get it right by the end.
Speaker 3: Of the season.
Speaker 4: Well, Timmy b and Devin the commissioner has spoken indeed.
Speaker 3: And I'm right in step with him. And you noticed
he wanted to get that in. Yeah, that was a
question that didn't even need to be asked. He was
gonna get that in. And I don't blame him.
Speaker 2: There was enough lob that's going to take place for
most conferences and a better metrics and you know who
I'm talking about, turn down on the yard to go back,
all right there, So there you have it. He calls
out specifically Notre Dame. Where does Notre Dame currently stand
in strength of record FPI strength of schedule? Notre Dame
is thirteenth per strength of record, so significantly behind BUYU
at number seven. Notre Dame's FPI, though is number three
in the nation. AP and College Football Playoff Poll is
at ninth. Their strength of schedule is thirty six in
the country and the remaining strength of schedule is sixty four.
Speaker 3: Because they're taking on Stamford.
Speaker 2: One of the games that you're rooting for right now
is Stanford to win at home.
Speaker 3: Stanford has always.
Speaker 2: Already done something I think this year that was a
surprise to many, and they're not a great football team
by any means, but they've had a few good wins
this season. I would say surprising wins this season. I
don't think they're good enough at four and seven to
knock off Notre Dame, but they just got a thirty
one to ten victory over Col Cow I thought was
a decent football.
Speaker 3: Team this year.
Speaker 2: They've won some games, Yes, they've lost some games earlier
the season. Stanford also beat Florida State, who's a little
bit down fraud. They beat Santose State as well as
Boston College, so they've played a little bit better at
home at their home stadium. They've been winning some pretty
good games. Like I said, they beat Cal at home,
Florida State at home, Santjose at home, and Boston College
at home. So all their wins have come on their
home field. So something is brewing.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe an upset. I don't think it's happening, but
you know, well, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Can I be honest? Look, and I just want to
commit consistency right from the committee. If Stanford plays Nor
to Dame tough, do you do what Utah and Kansas State?
Do you drop them?
Speaker 3: One?
Speaker 4: Havn't no business dealing with the team that they should
blow out. Yeah, if it's a one score game, then
do you do you drop? Do you drop them a slot?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think they're gonna drop. No,
they're not gonna drop. The proximity of margin of victory.
I just don't see it happening. That's only if it's BYU, because.
Speaker 3: That's only if it's the twelve.
Speaker 2: He does have the brand equity, right, they don't have
the fifty years of cheating in college football that has
built their brand. Right. They've had to do it from
the ground up. They had to do it by revolutionizing
the pass game. They had to do it through Uh
just just this outside think tank, right, bringing in Lavelle
and Level did so many great things. He told the
young men to go serve mission. Right, that was a
game changer for many. I think just like the mindset
of missions. He started throwing the ball, bringing in fantastic quarterbacks.
And you know, we have all these awards, we have
all these championships. That's not good enough. Because it was
in the whack, that was in the Mountain West Conference,
that was eventually in the Independence b Why you realize
I put together the reasons why I believe that the
rankings look exactly you know how they are right now,
So I put it out on Twitter.
Speaker 3: You tell me what you guys think.
Speaker 2: Why do the CFP rankings look the way they do?
Number one preseason rankings, in my opinion, still cast a
very long shadow. Teams that start high get the grace
they just do overhyped overrated teams. What's interesting, Remember in
the preseason when we discussed overrated and underrated Since two
thousand in fourteen in the per the Apeopole, BYU was
the most underrated team historically in the Peopole era and
from twenty fourteen to present day, meaning they start outside
of the top twenty five in the Apeopole, by the
end of the season they're in the top twenty five.
So BYU is the most underrated college football team since
twenty fourteen. Traditional powers benefit most from that early perception
and it lingers all season long. Most overrated teams check
this out since twenty fourteen include many of your top
ten teams currently Texas A and m Oregon Oklahoma. Those
are the teams that start high in the AP pole
and they end up being ousted of the AP pole.
Speaker 3: By the end of the season.
Speaker 2: So number two, that contribute to this recruiting rankings that
feeds the machine, the monster. Same big brands dominating recruiting,
which enforces expected greatness, boost preseason positioning, strengthens brand equity
throughout the season even when on field results. WAF will remember,
we've had We've had Matt Brown hop onto our show
many times, the uh the owner of extra points.
Speaker 3: He's gone into the data.
Speaker 2: Okay, college football and bagman in the SEC and the
pictenna and even going back to the Ivy League spool
that has been a part of the college football landscape.
Now we have parody. Now we have equality, We have
the ability SMU BYU, everyone has the ability to pay
players a fair market rate for their donor base whenever
they want to pay them they can.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: That has elevated the ability of these teams to compete
at that level. So all of what I'm saying is
the brand equity has been built through cheating over.
Speaker 3: The last fifty years.
Speaker 2: Now everyone can do an option great as these other
teams have. Yeah, So number three TV money, geography, population density,
they matter more than anyone likes to admit. Bigger markets,
denser regions drive higher ratings, more exposure, more narrative protection.
Speaker 3: This keeps the big brands atop.
Speaker 2: The food chain of the college football landscape. Number four,
Conference perception isn't equal. We know this, so all of
this is sequential. The committee clearly values the Big ten
and sec those wins more than a Big twelve or
ACC results, even when the records say otherwise. Not All
Power four passer judge the same quality wins and quality
losses from in conference play ny Trump. Any out of
conference loss is sustained versus the Big twelve for ACC,
and by the way, the Big twelve was pretty gosh
ding good versus their power for foes this season in
the non conference slate Number five, there aren't enough true
power form versus Power four match early to create this clarity, right,
there's not enough data points. September is filled with these
tune up matches, not measuring sticks. Without a larger cross
conference data set, the committee defaults to brand history and assumption. Furthermore,
November momentum is now playing a key role. Are you
seeing all this November momentum coming into play? Texas is
a good example of that. Right now, it just is
November momentum, Notre Dame, even Miami to a certain degree,
November moments is playing a bigger role per the colle
Football Playoff Committee up to this point, No matter what Brett,
Marty or Mark says, he has confidence that the colle
Football Playoff Committe's gonna get it right. Are we confident
considering all these things, all of these points that I
just made, I'm not either trus The human elements don't trust.
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, the human element just told you that
that by you can't be in Oh well they just
the eye test one. I'm like, really, one game. So
you're telling me, because they're not in a premier conference
that SEC team could lose to three teams even if
it's a formidable opponent or not a formidable opponent, and
they can be in the top ten above BYU. That's
what you're telling me. That's exactly what they told me that.
So Alabama cluse to Florida State the first week of
the season, it happens, Well, can I be honest with you?
Been you know what I was thinking about all last
night as I was trying to fall asleep, it hit me.
I went back and I rewatched the entire Bau.
Speaker 3: Texas that game. I did that because I couldn't fall asleep.
Speaker 4: I was not a bit I woke up at one
thirty again, watched it, went back to sleep, and I said,
I got it. If by You would have lost to
Texas Tech the first day, the first conference game, they'd
be in the timing of it is what happens. Even
if it was on national television. If they would have
lost early, like Ohio State and Texas they did, it
had been way different because then now your lobbying would
be different. I'm like, it's when they lost and it
happened again, just like it did last year. The timing
of November to what you mentioned. If BYU loses that
game in September doesn't matter, doesn't matter because they're probably
in the top ten.
Speaker 3: That's really what hit me. It hit me finally at
the end there, Ap, what do you got for me?
Speaker 5: Well, I just want to add on to Ron's point.
I don't think it's necessarily just like I agree with
what he says, it's when you lose.
Speaker 3: It's not just if it's November.
Speaker 5: I think it's when the college football playoff rankings start
coming out. Because the first time that the committee really
pays attention. I think they get off on the ap
pole doing their job for the first however many weeks,
and once they start doing their poll, then they pay attention.
So you can get away with the loss or two
before the playoff rankings. But after the playoff rankings show
starts going every week you have to win every game.
Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, I agree with you.
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Speaker 3: You should be rooting for. Facts.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna break down line on them by lying
on them. The teams that we were rooting for last
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you earlier this week, you and McKay Hillston. I thought
McKay gave us some good keys to victory for this
Cougar football team this week. And then looking towards the
Big twelve Championship which was sealed last night with the
u of a win over ASU in that rivalry match.
I feel like BYU is built a little bit different
than than what they were going into that that Texas
Tech game.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be healthier.
Speaker 2: J Hill discussed that they're gonna be healthier heading into
that Big twelve championship game. And I'm gonna bet on
Jay Hill and a Rod the second go around versus
Texas Tech in Arlington.
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I love that take.
Speaker 6: If it's anything we seek to get better than second half,
I can only imagine in the second game, in a
second time against Texas Tech. I gotta think that we're
gonna play better, play stronger. I did like listening to
McKay as well. Sounds like the guys are pumped with
love us a rematch and I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Well, these are the other teams. We're already sealed, We're signed, sealed, delivered.
These are the teams that we need to be rooting
for today. Obviously, Mississippi State did not do their job
yesterday in that rivalry game. They got They got beat
up pretty good. Ole miss is a good football team.
At eleven to one to seven to one in the
SEC they lost thirty eight to nineteen. They did not
keep it close. Utah got the win over Kansas. That's
actually a good thing for US. I think it's better
for the resume in my opinion. Thirty one twenty one,
that was a nice dub for them. Texas A and
M didn't do their job. I felt like I thought
it was better for Texas A and M to win
that game and keep Texas out of our mouths, out
of the College Football Playoff Committee's mouth. They lost seventeen
to twenty seven. I don't think Texas A and M
is dropping out of the top ten yet Texas may
be inserted into the top ten when all is said
and done.
Speaker 3: So that was not good.
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech did not do their job. They did knock off,
they did not knock off the Georgia Bulldogs. Georgia Tech
lost sixteen to nine. It was a close one though
it came down to a final possession. Yet you of
A did twenty three to seven versus Arizona State and
BYU got the bid and they are still the master
of their own destiny as they take their talents to Arlington.
Other games you need to watch out for. Oregon's heading
out to Washington. Washington has been a good team this year.
Oregon could fall to the Washington Huskies, so you're rooting
on the Huskies obviously. This week Auburn versus Alabama the
Iron Bowl, Alabama heading to Auburn.
Speaker 3: That's at Auburn.
Speaker 2: Auburn has like five losses in which the average scoring
margin the losing margin was like three and a half points.
They're close in every single game that they have lost
this season. Go through the schedule, Auburn has just lost
by one score every single week.
Speaker 3: They've been competitive.
Speaker 2: So you hope they keep it close versus Alabama and
that magic can happen in a rivalry game at Auburn. Okay,
it just means more than the SEC Auburn. Let's make
it mean more. LSU is at Oklahoma. That's a big one.
LSU had a coaching change, obviously, they have an interim coach,
They have an interim staff essentially trying to make their mark,
trying to be retained here.
Speaker 3: Making his decision today was just announced. Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Nope? Did that just happen? Okay, okay, just double check it, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lan Kiff will make a decision today. I just
saw on ESPN about what his future is, so LSU
will miss what will happened.
Speaker 2: There, So we'll see how that plays out. The other teams,
Stamford versus Notre Dame. Notre Dame's head out to Stanford.
As we mentioned, that's a big one. I don't predict
that that Stafford's gonna win that game, but their four wins.
Stamford's four wins this season have come at home, and
they just had a twenty one point victory over Cal,
their rival, and I thought Cal actually looked pretty good
this season. Now, Justin Wilcox and his entire staff was
just let go after that loss. But up to this point,
I mean, I thought they were in the Bowl eligible.
They beat Oregon State earlier this season, they beat Minnesota,
they beat Boston College, they beat UNC, and they beat Louisville.
Those are their wins this season, and they've been close
in many of these other games. They lost to Virginia
Tech forty two to thirty four. In doubt, they lost
to Virginia by ten, So they're a decent squad. Stanford
dominated them, okay, just pumbled them at home. So anything
is possible in a game in which you're playing on
your home turn So watch out for that one. Noe
stands a much about that. Also, Pitt versus Miami, you're
rooting for Pitt there. You'd like to see them come
up with a victory. Ohio State at Michigan that is
another rivalry game, so you're you're looking to root on
obviously Michigan there. You wonder if Michigan wins that game,
if they're gonna have a similar type of momentum as
that of Texas Texas having that type of momentum after
beating Texas A and M.
Speaker 3: We'll see how that plays out and then you.
Speaker 2: Can, I guess you could say like Iowa State oklaom
was anything to build your resume. Any of the teams
that you always played up to this point, e. CU
playing Florida Atlantic. Those are the games that you're rooting
for right now, Ronald Any in particular, what's the most
likely Which game is most likely to end up going
in BYU's favor?
Speaker 4: Probably the Auburn Alabama one. That's probably your most likely one.
Right it's Iron Bowl. Auburn's gotten Alabama before they're looking
to get bow eligible. Margin of loss, like you mentioned,
has been basically a field goal, so and that would
knock Alabama out, and look, Alabama was out last year.
The committee doesn't mind doing it back to back years
of Alabama puts themselves in that situation.
Speaker 3: But now this answers the conversation.
Speaker 4: Do you bump a three lost Texas team if that's
the case in Oregon gets knocked off, But that will
prove my point of you know, then two teams in
the top ten will lose. You're gonna put a nine
and three Washington team in?
Speaker 3: Do they get in?
Speaker 4: Man? If that's the case, if a Michigan beats Olio State,
do they get in? Because we have to take into
account resume at this point just because people have the
same amount of losses. When it starts to get late
in the season where you beat someone, it doesn't just
todary mean this person gets automatically. But no, to your point,
Auburn Alabama is the first one. The second one is
probably Washington Oregon, and then I'll go the third is
LSU at Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: AP.
Speaker 2: I know you want to chime that all days, which
game or games are most likely to go a BYU's
favor here. Well, I'm gonna start off.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna agree with Ron a little bit on that
Alabama game. That one feels like it might get weird.
I'm not gonna expect Auburn to win, but I won't
be surprised if they do. I like Washington over Oregon.
Something about that quarterback at Washington. I like watching him
play nice. I think he could cause Oregon some problems.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna.
Speaker 5: Disagree with you here, Ben. On one point, you said
you want Michigan to beat Ohio.
Speaker 3: No I don't actually, no, no, no, I I was.
Speaker 2: I was saying, it depends on how you view it, right,
if you think that Michigan beating Ohio State puts them,
I'm gonna say that to the top ten that you
don't want no caveat was this like, it's like the text.
Speaker 3: It's the same situation with two a degree.
Speaker 2: I know, I know Michigan's a two loss team in
Texas is a three loss team, but it seems very
similar right now.
Speaker 3: Michigan's on the outside looking in with their two losses.
Texas was on the outside looking in.
Speaker 2: They beat a top ten team, and now they're being
maybe I'm probagated as a team that should be in
the top ten and and or receiving at Lard's bid,
and that would be the same thing that Michigan would
have going for them playing great in late November, saying hey,
well we're one of the top ten teams.
Speaker 3: In college football. We deserve to be there. So that's
my caveat. It depends on how you view it.
Speaker 2: Some people say, hey, they're out no matter what. I
don't think that that's the case.
Speaker 3: I think they're in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you there because their two losses
are to whom right now? Right they have some have
they have quality losses.
Speaker 3: Well, very for me.
Speaker 5: The difference between Michigan and Texas, I think the committee's
gonna slot Texas one slot behind BYU. They're gonna jump
Utah on Miami, I think absolutely Texas. I think Michigan
would jump BYU with the win over Ohio State.
Speaker 3: I think that their two losses are to USC.
Speaker 2: They had a double digit loss at USC thirty one
to thirteen.
Speaker 3: That was back in October, so it was October eleventh.
Speaker 2: Their other loss came early and it was non conference,
so it's a those early games now are being thrown
out the window.
Speaker 3: Tea the Oklahoma they weren't looking Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: And then even if they do go that deep in
the back of you know what, they're gonna say, Oklahoma's
the top ten team. That's a quality loss the USC
guess what they lost by w They scored your game,
You got wax.
Speaker 3: That's what they're gonna do to jump BYU. So I
agree with those poor guys.
Speaker 5: I'm going to give you two official predictions here. I
have Washington over Oregon. I think they beat them by three.
And I'm gonna say LSU is gonna make things weird
for Oklahoma. They've got athletes, they haven't put it together
this year. I wonder if Oklahoma's maybe they they think
they're a shoe in. They feel really good, especially after
that Alabama win. I've got LSU over Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to see that.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm kind of teetering between that LSU at Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma's gonna play well at home.
Speaker 2: You want to think that these games are going to
lean By's favor whenever the opponent that needs to lose
is heading on the road, right, And that's why you
lean maybe that Oregon game versus Washington.
Speaker 3: Who is Washington? How good has Washington been this year?
Speaker 2: Early in the season, they were ranked. They had a
lot of momentum in their favor. They were winning football games.
That's an eight and three team, a talented team, a
well coached team. Remember U of A was a pretty
gosh dying good team the last the last, Like if
you go back three and two years ago, right coach Fish.
He was the head coach of u of A and
a lot of his talent and retained a lot of
the talent. Remember when Kaylyndmore went over to Alabama and
they got a swad. Demon Williams played at Basher where
my nephew Tommy Brass play. That dude's a dog. He's
a fan tastic football football player. They've lost to Ohio
State twenty four to six. Okay, that was at home
though in the Ohio State. We know Ohio State's a
good team. They listen closed to the four. They lost
to Michigan. That was at Michigan twenty four to seven,
and then they lost in Wisconsin. The most disappointing thing
was they lost a close one to Wisconsin thirteen to ten.
But that was at Camp Randall, so you kind of
take all that into account. They're gonna be playing at
home at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 2: They destroyed Colorado State thirty eight to twenty one. They
beat up on UC Davis they should have had seventy
to ten. They ended up beating Washington State fifty nine
to twenty four. Washington State was kind of hovering around
the top twenty five for a moment there.
Speaker 3: They beat Maryland. That was in Maryland.
Speaker 2: They beat Rutgers at home thirty eight to nineteen, and
then they beat the Fighting Line. At that time, the
Fighting a Line I were ranked twenty third in the country.
They did him forty two to twenty five at Husky Stadium.
I remember they destroyed per forty nine thirteen at Husky Stadium,
and then they beat UCLA at the Rose Bowl forty
eight to fourteen this last week.
Speaker 3: So they're are a two game winning streak right now.
Speaker 2: They're bouncing back from that Wisconsin game, and they may
be primed to upset Oregon that Lees spoiler.
Speaker 3: That would be fantastic.
Speaker 5: Well, that quarterback plays especially well at home. His touchdown
interception ratio at home ten touchdowns, no interceptions.
Speaker 3: He plays very good at all.
Speaker 5: He's on tre He very well could be a three
thousand yard passer this year. He just needs two hundred
and he needs two hundred and seventy nine passing yards
today to be a three thousand yard passer.
Speaker 2: That's a good quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He kind of reminds me of a kind of a
better running goal of defeat.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: So he's five to eleven one ninety can he can
scoot a bit u but he can sling it. Noah
sands or butts about it. This season, he's completing seventy
two percent of his passers twenty seven and twenty one yards,
nineteen touchdowns, six iron t's. He He's also ran for
five hundred and sixty eight yards one hundred and twenty
one carries in six touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Staball Wallings is a good quarterback.
Speaker 4: Good quarterback of football player. Got our Tatum Portal's gonna
come after me. You know how it goes these days, Ben,
I must to know blame what your rootables? Who are
you rooting for?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: I love the commentary about that Washington Orientan game. I
think that's the one we got the most likely scenario.
Speaker 3: I love the rivalry.
Speaker 6: Oregon's got to be Washington's number one rivalry, so number better,
nothing better than to beat them. Come off that loss
like Ben was talking about with Wisconsin and beat Oregon
at home.
Speaker 3: I one game I'm looking at.
Speaker 6: I know it's it's not necessarily a chance of winning,
per se, But just as we look at Stanford versus
Notre Dame. We beat Stamford twenty seven to three, I
just wonder if if Notre Dame, we're going up against
them in a lot of ways with the eye test,
a lot of teams and people across the country are
comparing us. Hopefully Stanford can play Notre Dame tougher and
maybe we get some points there by just beating in
a head to head matchup Stanford better than Notre Dame
can do today.
Speaker 2: Once get a couple the games you're gonna be rooting for. Obviously,
Washington versus Oregon they're at Washington, Auburn versus Alabama, They're
at Auburn, LSU at Oklahoma. You have Stamford versus Notre
Dame at Stanford, and then I guess I mean as
far as pitt versus Miami, you kind of want Miami
has momentum right now, you want to beat them in
so you want, I know, and right now, pitts I
think what Pit's a three loss team if I'm not mistaken,
but I don't see them jumping in to the top
ten with uh.
Speaker 3: We got Georgia Tech. You know they got Georgia Tech
last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, right now, Yeah, they were they were
an eight and three team. They they did beat Georgia
Tech last week, and prior to that they lost. They
were competitive versus Notre Dame. They lost thirty seven to fifteen.
So they have Miami and they're they're at pitt Okay, so, uh,
they're fighting for maybe a pop Tarts ball type of
bit here.
Speaker 4: Hey, look, I know fans don't want to hear this.
This might make you blame and Andrew Peterson. Look, b Y,
he already has one win against Miami this year. Yeah,
you might be able to make it too in the
pop Tarts Bowl. Look, listen, al moo just telling you
leave b Yu alone. Don't take by Utah.
Speaker 3: Wait, what are we talk? Are we talking worse? Yeah,
we have to talk real quick. Let's let's stop promote.
We can talk worst case scenarios on the because you
have to talk worst case scenarios.
Speaker 2: Let's talk worst case scenarios on the flip side. But
best case scenarios as we have two or three of these.
Speaker 3: Teams three I want, I need three, not two, I
need three.
Speaker 2: B Y, you is ushered in to the top ten
and they stay there with a loss. You have to
in the Big towelve Championship game, a close loss if
you only have two losses in there to a top
five team in college football.
Speaker 4: Both of them, and you played them competitive the second time,
and you said you wouldn't punish in the championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your words, not ours.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Got they got a dub They got a nice tournament
victory yesterday. Yeah, they hoisted the trophy and we had
an MVP performance from the top. King Richie Saunders will
celebrate that and also give you some bad news. I'll
give you my prognosis of what the Dawson Baker injury
looks like and how that affects the team. Don't like
to see your guardline being dismantled by injury.
Speaker 3: Lost two of them.
Speaker 2: You've lost a Pickens and now you lost Dawson Baker.
You have depth, you have talent, there's no doubt, but
this is adversity to start off to tip off, the
season that you didn't want and they didn't want, and
you didn't plan for it.
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about worst case scenarios here as well, because like I'm
a spectrum guy. It's the good, the bad, the beautiful,
the ugly, the bitter, the sweet of life in football
is a great way to teach us these things, right,
the undulations, right, you.
Speaker 3: Know, the the highs, the lows.
Speaker 2: And look, I'm optimistic, like I think BYU is gonna
get some help from one of these teams that we
just mentioned, whether it's Washington or Auburn, any one of
these teams that's LSU. You hope that they knock off
one of these teams in the top ten and BYU
finds its way as a worst case scenario, maybe a
two loss team right coming off of another Texas Tech
loss in the Big twelve Championship game. Like I said,
we're talking these worst case scenarios in best case scenarios,
best case scenarios that they go into to Arlington.
Speaker 3: They have sealed the deal. Now they're going to Arlington.
Speaker 2: You will a beat ASU last night, and so that
means b yu's gonna be taken on Texas Tech in
the Big twelve Championship game next week. It's gonna be glorious.
I know many of you Cougar fans are gonna be
heading down to Arlington, show up show out, rise and shout,
stay loyal, strong and true, and let's neutralize that neutral field,
if you will, because at Loubbick they were doing a
lot of things to disrupt that offense, and I don't
see that happening. I don't think the offense is gonna
be nearly as impotent as they were in Lubbock.
Speaker 3: I can gosh darn guarantee of that.
Speaker 2: But like I said, I'm talking these worst case scenarios
because I'm like, Okay, well, what's the worst case scenario
for BYU football? What's up, nailor good to see it?
Come on up here, man, hang out with us. Worst
case scenario right now? If you're looking at the the projections, okay,
this is where BYU is currently predicted to go, per
Kyle Vondegera of ESPN and Mark Schlabach of ESPN. How
would you feel about this, kuganates, I know we want
to go to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: I do too. I want to beat Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: But if we fall from great so they were two
lost team, how would you feel about going to the
Alamo Bowl once again and playing a ranked USC team?
Speaker 3: How did you feel about that? Is that a good
consolation prize.
Speaker 2: Is that a good enough consolation prize to play USC
in the Alamo Bile or would it.
Speaker 3: Just be too bitter to handle?
Speaker 2: And would you go in there unmotivated as a fan,
unmotivated as a player, trying to put your your your
feet into the shoes of these BYU football players that
have been kind of disrespected for two years in a row,
you know what I mean, even going back to two
thousand and I want to say twenty one when BYU
was a two loss team and they had to contractually
as an independent go to the Independence Ball after having
a great season, after being undefeated in Pac twelve play.
They were the Pac twelve South champions in twenty twenty
one arguably, and they got relegated to the shree Port
shri Vegas Ball and uh and they were unmotivated, you
know what I mean. Like, so, I wonder how the
reaction of the fan base would be and the reaction
of this college, this BYU college football team would be.
Speaker 3: If they they were relegated. And look, it's a it's
a blessing.
Speaker 2: That's the highest non CFP Bowl, highest payout, and the
viewership was insane last year with prime being in it
a by USC matchup that's gonna draw eyeballs. It's two
ranked opponents that are, you know, on the outside looking
into the colle football playoff. Like I said, worst case scenario,
would that be a good enough consolation price for BYU?
It's football team, it's an organization.
Speaker 6: Gosh, if you're you're asking me from a BYU fan standpoint,
I'd be pretty disappointed. I'll tell you for a couple
of reasons. Number One, I went out to the game
last year. I was there in San Antonio. I enjoyed
the hype around Colorado. I don't know if there'd be
as much around USC. I know they got a great
fan base, but still, Lincoln.
Speaker 2: Riley is a personality that brings a lot of pomp
and circumstance.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a quarterback whisperer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: USC has been good this season. They're not great, they're
not elite, but they've been good to great at times.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: Right now they're sitting at eight and three. That last
week lost to Oregon was disappointing, but they kept it
very competitive. It was a forty two to twenty seven loss.
Remember it was at Oregon. That would have been a
different story. I think if that was at the Coliseum.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I was watching that game closely, just as
we talk about Oregon and then losing. So I saw
USC last week. It would be good, but gosh, it
would be a bit of a disappointment. And a lot
of it is because of what you said earlier. We've
been building, we've been stacking, and I feel like coming
into this season now only losing one game. Last year
we lost too. If we only lost one game, finished
the season ten.
Speaker 2: And one, eleven and one in the regular season and
then going to the Big twelve championship game, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So to me, it would be a bit
of a disappointment, to be quite honest. And san Antonio
wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 3: You don't like san Antonio. I didn't love it. I
didn't love.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We did that and I've seen it and been there.
Speaker 6: But I'd prefer if we have to talk worst case scenario,
I'd rather be in Florida pop tarts.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that that matchup could be Miami. You know,
it could be uh a Miami team that's on the outside.
You look at the COLLG Football Playoff current rankings, right,
and you're looking at the top ACC teams, and Miami
would be that team. If Alamo passes on b YU,
which I don't think they will, they first bid, they
have first DIBs.
Speaker 3: They could, though let's say they do.
Speaker 2: Let's say like somehow, some way, then you would probably
take on Miami.
Speaker 3: Would that feel a little bit better?
Speaker 2: Would you'd rather have a b YU Miami in the
Pop Tards Bowl or a b YU.
Speaker 3: U s C and the Alimo Bowl?
Speaker 6: Well? For me, so officially speaking, I'd rather face Miami
in Florida. And we've had we've had a good run
in Florida lately, like some of the outcomes that have
taken place there. So you know, But here's here's the thing. Really,
it's it's uh, it's six seven for me.
Speaker 2: As they say, oh goodness, gracious, goodness, gracious. Uh that
that's kind of like what I'm saying is these are
worst case scenarios for b YU. They're not gonna lose today,
you know, and they'll stay in their spot, in their
position right from a college football playoff ranking standpoint, They're
gonna be the first team out. If they do lose
to Texas Tech, they'll be the first team out, and
they they have the Alimo Bowl that will pick them
most likely, and then second slot would be the Pop
Tards Ball. Both of those matchups, either one of those
matches that they get USC or Miami great opponents. When
you consider BYU's history in bowl games, they don't always
get matched up with prominent teams that are two loss teams,
that are.
Speaker 3: Power four teams.
Speaker 2: They don't get like this ranked versus ranked type of
scenario with a big and and just a robust payout.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean from an eighty standpoint.
Speaker 2: If you're Brian Santiago, you know you're Tom Homo, you
maybe didn't get to experience it.
Speaker 3: But when you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Eight million dollars payout to you know, to the conference,
and you're getting a trickle down effect. It was kind
of nice in the Independence because you'd get like you'd
get all of the one million paid to you as
an independent.
Speaker 3: But it's uping like you, good to see you, buddy,
Good to see you.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna have more more cash to you and
more more pomp and circumstance around you with that that
power for title to you and the big twelve title
to you.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good. Is there any other matchup beside
Southern cal or would that likely be the well you're
you're if you're looking at I guess they could.
Speaker 2: They could pick the because of the Alible ball is
Big twelve versus PAC twelve.
Speaker 3: PAC twelve no longer exists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you have, uh, these situations where you're like, okay,
well you have the legacy the Legacy pack, So that
could be I guess Washington could be that.
Speaker 3: Oregon, any of the legacy teams.
Speaker 2: I guess they could match up b y U and
Utah and the Alimo ball again a holy war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they guess they could do that. I don't think
they would do that though.
Speaker 6: Well then USC doesn't sound so bad of that group.
Speaker 3: I think USC would be a great game. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's uh, any of the existing I guess Pack
twelve teams or the technically the legacy PAC twelve teams.
So those are the options there. Worst case scenario, guys,
is what we're talking about here. Let's go to break,
let's come back. Let's talk some BAU basketball. Recapping the
BAU basketball wins in this past week in Orlando, nice
dubs essentially on these neutral courts.
Speaker 3: We'll break that down.
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