1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 1: Checking out college football on the West Coast. This is 2 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:08,599 Get Off My Pylon, a look at the Pac twelve 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,199 and more, part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,519 podcast network. 5 00:00:13,919 --> 00:00:15,679 Speaker 2: Here's your host, Matt Zimon. 6 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:20,359 Speaker 3: Welcome to the twenty twenty five season premiere of the 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,000 Get Off My Pylon College Football podcast, a podcast looking 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,600 at western college football in the United States. This is 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,320 your host, Matt Zemic. I have a special guest for 10 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:34,159 our season premiere, TJ Reeves sideline reporter for the Tampa 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,479 Bay Buccaneers, but wears many other hats, and he is 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,880 the host of the brand new program Big twelve Game 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,759 Day on tune in three hours on Big twelve Football 14 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:49,039 coming at you every Saturday during this season. And so 15 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,280 the Big twelve has its Western component, right with the 16 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,920 Four Corners schools, the Arizona Schools, Utah, Colorado. So t 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:01,200 TG's gonna hit on that. TJ is also based in Tampa, Florida. 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,359 And we have Boise State. And you know, if you 19 00:01:03,439 --> 00:01:07,319 saw UNLV trip over its shoes against Idaho State won 20 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:10,159 the game but looked awful. Got to think that Boise 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,480 State loves its chances in the Mountain West, loves its 22 00:01:13,599 --> 00:01:17,359 chances as being the group of five champions. So TJ 23 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:20,959 being in Tampa with the South Florida Bulls. They host 24 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,840 Boise State coming up this Thursday, so we're gonna get 25 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,959 into that game. So, but also TJ, before we get 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,480 into the games and the specific things that you're looking 27 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:36,359 for in Week one of the season, you know you 28 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:39,920 are part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast operation. 29 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,280 Get off my pileline is part of the family of 30 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,159 College Gridarin Coast to Coast to just tell us what's 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,359 coming at listeners, and you know they have this podcast 32 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:51,480 for Western football, but there are a lot of other 33 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,480 College Gridarn Coast to Coast shows tell people what to 34 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:57,959 expect this year from College Gridarn Coast to Coast. 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,359 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it is great to see we're 36 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:02,920 seeing each other on the video hook up. Hear your voice. 37 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:04,840 This is our time of the year, is it not, 38 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:08,240 my friend? We are ready to go already with Week 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,560 zero games in the books as we do this preview 40 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:13,960 pod for Week one, and you're right, we have got 41 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,560 so much to talk about and all of our podcasters 42 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,199 are lined up on this feed. Obviously, if you're listening 43 00:02:20,199 --> 00:02:23,680 to us, you've already found Get Off My Pylon, which 44 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:25,840 may be as good as any name of any college 45 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,919 football podcast that there is out there right now, because 46 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,759 I tend to be right now a little bit of 47 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,719 Get Off my Pilon guy, I'm going through my middle 48 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:39,360 aged years. But in any event, something for everybody. I know. 49 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,639 The All Sports Discussion guys, Jeffrey Fan and company do 50 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:46,840 the ACC Preview. So if you want to know what's 51 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:50,199 going on on the ACC, it's on this feed. College 52 00:02:50,199 --> 00:02:54,680 Gridiron Coast to Coast Tyler Jones and his guests, along 53 00:02:54,719 --> 00:02:57,360 with Thomas Bridges, his co host, they do the Big 54 00:02:57,439 --> 00:03:03,319 twelve SEC Show, their breakdown show, which is the Big Twelve. Yes, 55 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,240 it's primarily Texas and Oklahoma that they're talking about, but 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,039 they'll talk about everything else SEC of big relevance, like 57 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,240 an Alabama situation, Tennessee, Georgia, whatever. They do a great job. 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,120 Our buddy Jason Powers, our mutual broadcast and podcast brother. 59 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,680 Does Florida Football Insiders anything in the state of Florida 60 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:27,960 from Gators, Seminoles, and Hurricanes, but filtered down to South Florida, USF, Bulls, 61 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:31,240 UCF Golden Knights. Do they have any kind of a 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,599 comeback punch in them now that they brought Scott Frost back. 63 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:39,479 Anything in the state of Florida college football, Jason is 64 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:44,319 all over that. Also. Noah Drury is a new podcaster 65 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:49,199 in the Big Ten area in Michigan. He leans a 66 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:53,240 little Michigan State, but obviously he's going to cover everything 67 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:59,000 with Wisconsin, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State. So 68 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:03,120 Noah's got the Big Ten Paradigm podcast that's on his feed. 69 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,759 How we doing so far again, something for everybody, including 70 00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,199 Price Atkinson and Steve Carney with the Yards and Stripes 71 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,439 podcast service Academy Football, Army Navy didn't they have two 72 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,399 great seasons last year and then air Force is traditionally 73 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,639 good as well when we talk Western football. So Price 74 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,319 and Steve with the Yards and Stripes podcast and a 75 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,079 plug for them that on their preview that is out 76 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,439 on the college gridiron Coast to coast feed. The athletic 77 00:04:33,519 --> 00:04:36,560 director at Navy, the brand new athletic director at Navy, 78 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,439 Michael Kelly, will be their guest. Michael Kelly has been 79 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,920 at South Florida in Tampa, so there's a little inside 80 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,600 connection there to get him on. Michael helped USF get 81 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,519 their new on campus stadium rolling. They're not ready to 82 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,240 play in it yet, but they will be soon. And 83 00:04:54,319 --> 00:04:57,920 he's a fascinating story because Michael used to work for 84 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,279 the ACC as a conference. He used to work for 85 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:05,399 the College Football Playoff, Oh, by the way, before being 86 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:07,680 the South Florida Athletic director. Now he's at the United 87 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,600 States Naval Academy. Hear more about why he made that move, 88 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:15,680 the kind of recent resurgence of Navy and Army in 89 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:19,800 football and that rivalry. So there's another plug on what 90 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:22,839 we have on this feed. But let me say publicly, 91 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:26,040 nobody's more on it than my man, Matt Zimmick when 92 00:05:26,079 --> 00:05:28,920 it comes to college football. And we need you, brother, 93 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:31,040 because a lot of us are in the Central and 94 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,199 Eastern time zone and somebody's got to keep us straight. 95 00:05:34,759 --> 00:05:37,639 Whether you're talking the Big twelve Western teams, the Big 96 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,720 ten Western teams, and as you mentioned, the Mountain West, 97 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:44,040 which is thanks for the memories disintegrating basically at the 98 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:45,920 end of this year. But how is it going to 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,600 sort out? You're going to keep us straight with that, 100 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,319 and we love you for it. So I'm ready to 101 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:52,240 get into all this as much as you want to 102 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,759 go the buffet. The buffet is up. Let's do it. 103 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 3: West Coast Bureau Chief is twenty four seven. Absolutely, So 104 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:03,680 we have we do have a lot to talk about 105 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,439 because you covered the Big twelve, TJ. Let's just do 106 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,079 a first little appetizer before we get to the main course. 107 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:12,160 So Kansas, that's a team you're going to be following. 108 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:15,680 And so Kansas played Fresno State. So that's under my 109 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,480 umbrella UH in the West and that this was the 110 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:22,720 debut for matt Enz. You know, multiple national championships at 111 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,480 the FCS level with North Dakota State, he goes to 112 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,240 USC and Lincoln Riley UH to just get that D 113 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:32,639 one credential and then he's able to get a D 114 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:35,439 one head coaching job. And of course Fresno State, that's 115 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,600 a really good job. Klen Deborah coached there. Jeff Tedford 116 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:43,160 coach there, like good coaches coach at Fresno State on 117 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:46,759 their way up the ladder. But Fresno State ran into 118 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,399 a very good, very hot, very informed Kansas team. So 119 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:54,199 covering the Big twelve, what did you see about Fresno 120 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,600 State and also what did you see about Kansas? 121 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 2: It was a it was a decent game in the 122 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,120 first half, but obviously Aalen Daniels of Kansas is a 123 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,279 tremendous duel threat quarterback. He ran for one, he threw 124 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,360 for a couple. And they opened that brand new stadium 125 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,639 in Lawrence. Remember they were nomadic last year, to use 126 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,399 that word on a preview twenty twenty five podcast, they 127 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:22,000 were playing at the Kansas City MLS soccer stadium, they 128 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,959 were playing at Arrowhead Stadium. They definitely were shifting around 129 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,959 because they didn't have their stadium in Lawrence. Two hundred million, 130 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:34,480 what's a few hundred million among friends, two hundred million 131 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,680 dollar renovation. So they debuted it last night. Lance Leopold's 132 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,920 got some expectations. Remember they finished the season strong a 133 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,120 year ago, and it will be fascinating to watch them 134 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,279 in what's a very competitive Big twelve because they're probably 135 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:50,879 a middle of the pack team. You would think the 136 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,319 likes of Baylor, Arizona State, Iowa State who won in 137 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,439 Ireland on Saturday, Kansas State, they're getting all the run, 138 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:01,199 all the attention up at the time, the Kansas probably 139 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,279 going to be somewhere in that five six seven mix 140 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,439 something like that. And again for Fresno. This appears to 141 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:10,560 be a work in progress. You would speak better to this. 142 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,639 This appears to be a work in progress. As you mentioned, 143 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:15,160 that's gonna maybe take a couple of seasons. We'll see. 144 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:18,439 But that's where they that's where the Jayhawks factor in. 145 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 3: So continuing the Big Twelve and moving to the Western schools. 146 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:28,800 It was very conspicuous TJ when the preseason polls came 147 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:32,440 out that not only was Arizona State number eleven in 148 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,399 both polls, and like just a side note, like eleven, 149 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,080 Like it was there some kind of just you know, 150 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,200 magic sense among all these poll voters. Oh ASU is eleven, 151 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,399 not ten, not twelve, not nine, Right, it's happen to 152 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:52,519 be eleven in both poles. Like the group thinking these 153 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:57,679 poles just slays me. Anyway, Arizona State is voted as 154 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,919 the top Big twelve team by several notches, by nine 155 00:09:02,039 --> 00:09:04,840 in the in the coaches pole, and I think by 156 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,120 six over Kansas State in the ap pole, and of 157 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,440 course Kansas State lost to Iowa State. So my main question, 158 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:17,440 my first question is is Arizona State really that much 159 00:09:17,519 --> 00:09:19,519 better than the rest of the field in the Big 160 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,240 twelve Because the preseason polls would have you believe that. 161 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,919 But great questions just how much are they worth? 162 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 2: Where do they stand on that they line the bird 163 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:30,559 cage usually, as we like to say, do we still 164 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,559 line bird cages? Do we even have newspapers anymore? I 165 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:35,840 don't think we do. We used to have newspaper in 166 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,039 the bottom of a bird cage. But in any event, 167 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:41,279 this time a year ago, my friend, fifty two weeks ago, 168 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,159 we were going into the season and absolutely no one 169 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,159 outside of the family members of the Arizona State players 170 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,320 thought that this was going to be a big twelve 171 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:55,840 championship season. Most people believe that Kenny Dillingham was going 172 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,799 to struggle again for a second straight year, and instead 173 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,600 they were one of the stories of the college football season. 174 00:10:02,879 --> 00:10:06,279 And Sam Levitt, the quarterback, is a big reason why 175 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:09,679 last year and a lot of expectation on him this year. 176 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,000 I mean, what a fun player. The running back Camp 177 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:17,399 Scataboo was. Problem is it's was. He's now onto the NFL, 178 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,759 so they've got to replace the dual threat rushing and 179 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:24,879 receiving running back. But Dillingham's got some playmakers. They get 180 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:28,360 a warm up game this weekend with Northern Arizona and 181 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:31,080 then fast, I mean they should win that. Then fascinating. 182 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,120 They play at Mississippi State, who was bad a year ago. 183 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,200 They beat them a year ago, but Mississippi State was 184 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,080 two and ten last year. But they got to come 185 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,480 all the way to start Vegas Matt Zemik early on 186 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:46,840 in the year, and then they played Texas State, who's underrated, 187 00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:49,039 and then they play Baylor. So this is not an 188 00:10:49,039 --> 00:10:51,679 easy schedule at the beginning of the year for ASU, 189 00:10:51,879 --> 00:10:55,600 but so much expectation on them after they won that 190 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,120 crazy game with Brigham Young that kind of put them 191 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,840 in the driver's seat, beat Arizona in the rivalry game 192 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,759 to get them into the Big Twelve title game, and 193 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:05,720 then beat Iowa, stayed in the Big Twelve title game 194 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,600 and had Texas in trouble in a great comeback in 195 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:12,960 the College Football Playoff. A lot of expectation, and you 196 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,919 would agree with me. Western football is alive and electric 197 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,559 for several reasons, not the least of which is if 198 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,519 the Sun Devils are good. So it's gonna be fun 199 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 to keep track of them early on in the Big Twelve. 200 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,679 When we do this Big Twelve game day show in 201 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,399 preview every Saturday. What's up with Arizona State? 202 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,759 Speaker 3: Well, you know, for people who might not know this, 203 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,960 I was born in Phoenix. I've lived here for half 204 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,600 of my life basically, the other half in Seattle. And 205 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Arizona State is a sleeping giant program. You know, It's 206 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,200 kind of like what Florida was in the late eighties 207 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,200 before Steve Spurrier finally cracked the code and learned to 208 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,399 turn that program into a juggernaut. You have the weather, 209 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,279 you have the ability to recruit from talent rich states. 210 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,000 You know, you can go to California, you can recruit 211 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,720 from Texas as well. You know, it's an attractive place 212 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:06,919 to bring players. And so if someone can just figure 213 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:09,759 it out and replicate it, Arizona State can become a giant. 214 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:15,120 So older folks such as yourself, DJ will remember Frank Kush. 215 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,799 Speaker 2: I was going right there. You go back and speak 216 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,240 the Frank Kush language, don't you? And then you move 217 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,000 forward and what is it Bruce Snyder? Wasn't that the name? 218 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:27,279 And then Dirk Cutter after that? And so you're right, 219 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,799 they have had a lineage of success, even going back 220 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:32,559 into the seventies and the eighties at ASU. 221 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, so like Bruce Snyder, wasn't able to sustain it 222 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:39,120 long term. Neither was Cutter, but like they had elite seasons. 223 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,639 At the nineteen ninety sixteen under Snyder just came within 224 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,120 a whisker of winning the national title. You know, led 225 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,679 Ohio State in the final minute of the nineteen ninety 226 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,320 seven Rose Bowl. If Arizona State wins that game, you know, 227 00:12:51,759 --> 00:12:55,279 number three Florida beat number one Florida State in the 228 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:57,759 Sugar Bowl. So if Arizona State had beaten Ohio State 229 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:00,799 and that game right down to the final minute, Sun 230 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:03,559 Devils would have won the national title. And then in 231 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:06,960 nineteen seventy five they finished number two. Under the aforementioned 232 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,480 Frank Cush, they were cranking out nine ten wins with regularity. 233 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,360 Also another great coach who coached at ANSU before Cush, 234 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:19,440 Dan Devine, who wont to about that seventy seven national 235 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,879 championship an order Dame. He took Missouri to the Orange Bowl. 236 00:13:23,159 --> 00:13:26,120 If you do that, you're pretty damn good. So yeah, 237 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,279 Arizona State has a history that people they even snugg 238 00:13:29,399 --> 00:13:31,399 the regions of the country are not aware of. 239 00:13:31,639 --> 00:13:34,799 Speaker 2: They even snuck Dennis ericson the former Miami coach, and 240 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,759 he was kind of nomadic there's that word again, with 241 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,320 several different NFL and college players. They stuck him into 242 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,320 ASU and we're like top ten relevant back about ten 243 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:46,799 twelve years ago. So every so often they perk up, 244 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,360 and they have perked up in the Big Twelve. The 245 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:50,000 Sun Devils, they're gonna be fun to watch, no doubt. 246 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,879 Speaker 3: Absolutely moving along the Big Twelve. But the Western schools 247 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,600 that you're looking at this season, TJ So Colorado the 248 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,919 year after, Should Sanders and Travis Hunter right like that 249 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,320 is the whole ball game in bold. That is the 250 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,120 entire talking point, source of drama surrounding the twenty twenty 251 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,480 five Buffalos, Like what's next? How does Dion follow follow 252 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,600 up what he had last season? Can he sustain this 253 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:22,240 without two rockstar level college players. 254 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,159 Speaker 2: Well, and bear in mind, it's not going to be 255 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,200 an easy start to the schedule. With Georgia Tech as 256 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,480 the first opponent later this week, they are going to 257 00:14:29,559 --> 00:14:32,879 have a drop off. I mean, for all the hype 258 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:38,320 and for all the attention, they they won some games 259 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:41,080 last year, Yes, they won some games that you cannot 260 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,559 take away from them. In the middle of the season, 261 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,360 the one thing we're knocking them last year is they 262 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,879 didn't play any of the best teams in the Big Twelve, 263 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,480 as it turned out, and that is BYU, Iowa State, 264 00:14:53,519 --> 00:14:55,159 Arizona State. They didn't play any of them in the 265 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:58,519 regular season. They ended up losing out on a tiebreaker 266 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,960 with Shadurik to go to the Big Twelve title game 267 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,200 and then got whacked by BYU and the Bowl game. 268 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:09,480 Now they've got this kid, Julian Lewis, and how good 269 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:12,360 is he? How much is he gonna play? Stay tuned. 270 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,720 They've got a couple of playmakers. They're probably gonna be entertaining. 271 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,559 But I mean very early on in the season. Here, 272 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,320 we're gonna see BYU, We're gonna see TCU, and we're 273 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,039 gonna see Iowa State, like right in the middle of 274 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,840 the schedule. So coach Prime got the new contract. What 275 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,639 a country where you basically have a barely above five 276 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,799 hundred record in two years at Colorado and they give 277 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:38,440 you fifty million dollars guaranteed for it. Imagine if you 278 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:41,399 had actually won something what they could have given you. 279 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:43,519 So it'll be interesting to watch the Buffaloes. But they 280 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:45,720 open up with Georgia Tech. Here remember Georgia Tech. You know, 281 00:15:45,759 --> 00:15:48,320 this different different season, but they got Florida State in 282 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,039 the opening game a year ago. So this is in Boulder. 283 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,279 What Friday night? Keep me straight? This is Friday night 284 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,960 in Boulder, right for that standalone game coming later this week. 285 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,120 Fascinated to see is kind? Do you not agree with me? 286 00:16:01,279 --> 00:16:04,200 Colorado's probably something like a five or six win team. 287 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,000 I would be shocked if they're much better. But I 288 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,799 would also be shocked if they're like a two or 289 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,159 three win Colorado. I got them like middle five six wins. 290 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: Yes, I would say Colorado's a middle of the road team. 291 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,480 I do think that. And you know the folks that 292 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:21,799 are other college graden Coast to Coast podcast, the all 293 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,639 sports discussion show covering the ACC I know they're going 294 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,360 to say Georgia Tech should absolutely expect to win that 295 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:32,720 game against ColorADD we think that Brent Key and Georgia 296 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,799 Tech are as good as they think they are. They 297 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:40,519 gotta go back that win against Colorado on August twenty ninth, 298 00:16:40,879 --> 00:16:45,679 Friday in Week one. All right, next up Utah and 299 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,519 Utah plays UCLA and one of the better, more interesting games. TJ. 300 00:16:50,679 --> 00:16:52,159 I don't know if you're going to be able to 301 00:16:52,159 --> 00:16:54,759 stay up really late to watch that. 302 00:16:54,919 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 2: Gotta peruse this. 303 00:16:56,039 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 3: So this is GM kick in Taylor. 304 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 2: But this is where we go to the guru of 305 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,759 get off my pylon. Here on Utah and Ucla, which 306 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:08,000 used to be a Pac twelve game for a while 307 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,880 every year, and now here it is as the out 308 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,480 of conference opener. Give me, give me something because I've 309 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,240 got the Big twelve game day show later this week. 310 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:18,680 Give me give me a theme or two here on 311 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:21,960 this matchup. Utah had all the injuries at quarterback last year. 312 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,839 I mean again, here we go just like Arizona State 313 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,759 fifty two weeks ago. All anybody was talking about is 314 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,359 Utah is gonna win the Big Twelve. They're a college 315 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,960 football playoff candidate. Candidate. Man, they went off the cliff. 316 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:36,119 I mean, they went off of one of those mountains 317 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,039 figuratively in Salt Lake. So I don't know what we're 318 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,799 necessarily gonna have with him, But what about this, give 319 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:44,079 me a little meat on the bone here, Utaw Ucla? 320 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,039 What about it? 321 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously you covering the Big twelve and I 322 00:17:49,519 --> 00:17:54,039 cover Ucla, and you and USC you'll want my take 323 00:17:54,079 --> 00:17:57,839 on the Bruins. And so really what's true for UCLA 324 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,799 is also true for USC. For both school. You know, 325 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:06,279 everyone's going to talk about the Polynesian quarterbacks, Mayava for USC, 326 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:13,079 Iamalaiava for Ucla, but they both those two volcanoes. They 327 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,839 need some rocks in front of them to protect them. So, 328 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:21,039 like Nico Iamaliava has some upside, have some talent, but 329 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:23,799 it's not going to come together for UCLA if the 330 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:29,000 offensive line gets shredded. That's really the thing that Nico 331 00:18:29,039 --> 00:18:32,799 Iamaliava gives UCLA a clear upgrade at quarterback from what 332 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:36,240 the Bruins have had last year and in previous seasons. 333 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,599 But if the talent around him, if the ten guys 334 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,839 around him aren't able to step up in their own 335 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,720 ride and aren't able to help him out, Nico's not 336 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,880 gonna go anywhere. Nico's not gonna do anything. His NFL 337 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,960 draft stocks not gonna rise. So, like you know, Nico 338 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:57,799 had dudes around him in Knoxville with the vaults, does 339 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:03,119 he have dudes on this UCLA offensive? Russ Gregy And 340 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,359 that's really the key. And of course where does Utah 341 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:10,079 and Kyle Whittingham, where do they butter their bread defensive 342 00:19:10,079 --> 00:19:13,079 line sack Lake City, right, you know, just we're gonna 343 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:15,200 mash you. We're going to get after you. We're going 344 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:17,160 to be more physical. You know, one of the best 345 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,119 strength training programs in the country like Utah. You can 346 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,519 count on Utah playing physical, rugged defensive football. So can 347 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,880 UCLA's offensive line, and also to a degree, the wide 348 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,200 receivers help out. Nico Iam Aliyava. That to me is 349 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,319 the epicenter of this week one game late at night 350 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,480 in Pasadena and fascinating. 351 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 2: This is a theme a couple of places, and we'll 352 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,039 be previewing this game. I keep plugging it on the 353 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:44,000 Big twelve Game Day show as a late night game 354 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,720 that'll be on on the tune in coverage is that 355 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:51,400 Utah has gotten the new Mexico offensive coordinator and quarterback 356 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,400 in a package deal, and a couple of these have 357 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,960 gone on this year. Hey, bring the coach, bring the player. 358 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,759 We go back to the days of Can and Larry 359 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,640 Brown getting Danny Manning to come to Kansas to play 360 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,200 basketball because he hired his dad, Ed Manning to be 361 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:08,960 the assistant coach. You and I are contemporaries going back 362 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,200 to the eighties on package deals. So this is offensive 363 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,480 coordinator and it's damp Pier, Devin Dampier the quarterback. How 364 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:20,839 will he do for Utah? Again, there's some familiarity with 365 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,279 the programs in recent history. I'll be fascinating to watch 366 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:27,000 that unfolding again. Utah early on in the year has 367 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,720 Texas Tech at home, they play at West Virginia and 368 00:20:31,759 --> 00:20:35,640 then later on Arizona State and BYU. Four game stretch 369 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,119 of Texas Tech at WVU, Arizona State at home, and 370 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,839 at BYU. That's right in the late September early October 371 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,480 range for the Utes look out. 372 00:20:46,599 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 3: And having followed Utah for a very long time and 373 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,920 knowing what makes that program tick or not tick. It's 374 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,319 all about the quarterback. Like that has just been the 375 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,680 consistent theme with Utah teams, because you know they're going 376 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,160 to be it's like a baseball team. They're gonna be 377 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,000 strong up the middle. It's you know what about when 378 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,240 you get outside the trenches, when you get outside the 379 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,400 line of scrimmage. Can the quarterback put the pieces together? 380 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,359 Because you're gonna have good line play, but can the 381 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,680 quarterback bring it all together make the plays he needs 382 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,240 to make? Tyler Huntley was good Cam Rising was great. 383 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:23,680 Cam Rising just made all the clutch plays, all the 384 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,000 big time throws when Utah absolutely needed him. That's why 385 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:30,279 the program went to back to back Rose Bowls, one 386 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,359 consecutive Pac twelve championships, and what was a very good 387 00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:38,599 competitive conference. So when Utah finds the answer at quarterback, 388 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,440 everything comes together. Devin Dampier steps into that pressure spotlight 389 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,119 in Salt Lake, say, it's gonna be fascinating to see 390 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,119 Utah I think has to like its chances, not only 391 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,079 because it feels it should feel that its line play 392 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,839 is going to be better, but also Ucla. This is interesting. 393 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,880 UCLA sent five players to the NFL Draft last year, 394 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,200 and four of them more on defense. And you know 395 00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:05,599 Carson Sweeshinger, he was the number thirty three pick. He 396 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,720 went higher on draft boards than a lot of people. 397 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:10,559 Five first pick of the second round, and he's been 398 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:14,480 crushing it in Cleveland Brown's preseason camp and he looks 399 00:22:14,519 --> 00:22:18,359 like he's gonna be a ten year NFL linebacker. So 400 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:22,799 UCLA has to replace him in Femi Oladejo and Jay Toya, 401 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,519 a run stuffer in the middle who might make the 402 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,119 Dallas Cowboys fifty three man roster Oladejo is with the Titans. 403 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,559 He's expected to make their fifty I saw him. 404 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: I saw him briefly week one in the preseason. They 405 00:22:35,039 --> 00:22:37,079 played their starters a little bit. They're counting on him 406 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,640 as a pass rusher. So UCLA has lost some dudes, 407 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,839 is what you're saying for this game. 408 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 3: On the defense, UCLA has lost some defensive dudes. Also, 409 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:48,039 Caine Madrono, who looks like a guy who's going to 410 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,440 stick on the Washington Commanders fifty three man roster as 411 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,839 a rookie. So that's so UCLA is not just losing bodies, 412 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,319 but losing quality bodies, quality players who who all did 413 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:03,079 some heavy lifting last season. So in Week one, you know, 414 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,799 this is the thing. When you play a good team 415 00:23:05,839 --> 00:23:10,000 in week one, that's when your limitations normally get exposed. 416 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 And that's why a lot of coaches want to play 417 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:15,440 a cupcake game in week ones that you can deal 418 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,599 with your limitations. But UCLA is not in that situation. 419 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,960 Thrown right into the fire, and so it's going to 420 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,799 be an uphill battle for the Bruins. And I do 421 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,920 have to like Utah's chances in that game. 422 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be a fascinating one. And again everybody, it 423 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,359 seems like he's in action somehow, some way somewhere this weekend, 424 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:37,920 and that one will be late night, late night for 425 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,759 those of us in the in the East on a 426 00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:41,519 Labor Day weekend, though with a lot of I mean 427 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:43,119 that's Saturday. It's just going to be an onslaught. I 428 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:44,359 know we're going to talk more about the teams in 429 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,759 Florida here in a few minutes, but that's and you. 430 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 3: Don't have and you don't have an NFL Sunday, so 431 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,160 like you, that's that's definitely points the arrow in favor 432 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,880 of you being able to stay up late, at least 433 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,599 for the first half, if not for the whole game. 434 00:23:58,079 --> 00:24:02,720 All right, So the final Western Big Twelve team Arizona, 435 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,160 Brent Brennan and the Wildcats. What do you see for 436 00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:08,079 that team down in Tucson this season. 437 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is a subtraction of Team ac 438 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:13,759 Titaroa McMillan, who goes in the first round of the 439 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:16,519 NFL draft of the Carolina Panthers. He's not there to 440 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:18,160 help them anymore. Now you still have no off of 441 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,880 feet to the quarterback. They have some other skilled players 442 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:24,839 and it's interesting they're playing a Hawaii team at home 443 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:27,759 that as we do this, get off my pylon. Hawaii 444 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:31,640 has beaten Stanford in the opening game, and I am 445 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,160 big on this. You know, keep an eye on the Kansases, 446 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,200 the UNLVS, the hawaiis that the even Iowa State teams 447 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,680 that played a game on Week zero that now have 448 00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:48,039 a game under their belt. I believe that matters now. 449 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,519 Hawaii's on the road at Tucson here, but I believe 450 00:24:51,559 --> 00:24:55,200 that's going to matter to an extent here for this 451 00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:58,000 opening matchup. But Brennan, I mean, this was a disappointing 452 00:24:58,039 --> 00:25:01,599 season last year. They took their umps in the Big Twelve. 453 00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:05,480 Fafite is obviously a dual threat who's talented. Does he 454 00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:08,880 have enough weapons around him? Defensively? They were not very good? 455 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,119 Are they going to be improved? And I'm just looking 456 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,079 at their early schedule again. They get Hawaii, they get 457 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:19,119 Weber State at home, Arizona, but then Kansas State, welcome 458 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,880 to the Big Twelve at Iowa State. We're gonna find 459 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,079 out right away what Arizona's made out of really in 460 00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:26,640 their first two conference games. Good luck, good luck with 461 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,200 both of those. 462 00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think Arizona I should beat Hawaii, if 463 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,079 for nothing other than you know, Hawaii, and first off, 464 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,000 credit to the Rainbow Warriors. You know, they really gutted 465 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:39,160 one out. They were trailing for a good portion of 466 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:41,839 that game. They were up against it. Midway through the 467 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,119 fourth quarter, you know, Stanford driving for a two score lead. 468 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,960 Hawaii gets the interception, turns around that game late. Credit 469 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,039 to that team. But quarterback Micah Alajado was injured in 470 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:56,720 that game against Stanford. He was lifting around that field 471 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,200 for most of that game. I doubt he's going to 472 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,720 be one hundred percent. He's gonna play, but I doubt 473 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,960 he's gonna be one hundred percent. So if you're Arizona, 474 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:07,119 you gotta think we gotta win this game against especially 475 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,000 a home injured quarterback. 476 00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:11,839 Speaker 2: They come to you, you're at home, you would think so. 477 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,240 I mean, they got off to a huge start. Remember 478 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:17,440 McMillan had the three hundred yard receiving game in the 479 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,839 opener a year ago. Last year's last year, he was 480 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,920 the National Player of the Week for a couple of entities, 481 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,359 and they didn't do a whole lot else the rest 482 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,839 of the year, And they got tattooed a couple of times, 483 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,119 two or three times late in the year. So let's 484 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,720 see if Arizona gets off to a good start with 485 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,079 a late night game with Hawaii on Saturday. 486 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna save the best for last. So 487 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,240 you're in Tampa. Yeah, the state's coming to your backyard. 488 00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:48,759 And again with UNLV looking very shaky, and of course 489 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:51,720 it's Week one, maybe UNLV figures it all out. But 490 00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:55,440 if UNOV doesn't, Boise State becomes the clear favorite in 491 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,880 the Mountain West and the likely favorite in the group 492 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,680 of five sweep states for the College Football Playoff. Berth So, 493 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:07,000 Boise State at USF. It's not just a nationally televised 494 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,559 game on Thursday, but it's a really, really important game. 495 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,279 And it's the Mountain West versus the American two conferences 496 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:18,440 that hate each other, and they both really want to 497 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,640 be the flag bearer for the Group of five in 498 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,480 the college Football Playoffs. So like, it's not Notre Dame Miami, 499 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,759 it's not LSU Clemson, and it's definitely not Texas Ohio State. 500 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,720 But it's a pretty good game and it's a very 501 00:27:31,759 --> 00:27:35,079 important game. Certainly, like you would certainly include it on 502 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,400 the list of the ten best games of Week one. 503 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:42,720 If not maybe even top six. Maybe, so TJ t 504 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,480 it up, Boise State. Here's down to Tampa where you 505 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:47,079 are to play the Bulls. 506 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 2: Here's the interesting thing. So USF has been playing college 507 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,119 football now going on almost thirty years. I believe this 508 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,759 is their twenty ninth season, twenty eighth or twenty ninth 509 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,599 season when Division one finally in two two thousand, when 510 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,839 they made the fastest rise at that time ever to 511 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,400 Division one. They only played like two years of full 512 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:09,960 FCS football before they moved up, So they've kind of 513 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,799 grown as a program. Alex Golish as the coach, the 514 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:17,799 former Tennessee offensive coordinator. He has now settled in for 515 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,519 his third season. Byram Brown is the dual threat quarterback, 516 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:26,400 blazing fast. He's a guy, and Golish wants to play 517 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,200 fast right out of the J. Josh Heipel mindset and strategy. 518 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,200 We want to crack off plays. Literally in seven or 519 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,680 eight seconds of the forty second clock. You will see 520 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,559 them get off off the ground, get on the line, 521 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:42,680 and go in seven or eight seconds. And Boise State's 522 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,599 gonna have to be ready for that for when they 523 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,680 come to Tampa. All Right, it will be hot. This 524 00:28:48,759 --> 00:28:53,400 is an afternoon game Thursday afternoon, late afternoons are still 525 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,279 hot in Tampa. Chance of thunderstorms, the L word lightning possible. 526 00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:02,079 What kind of crap this is being talked about in 527 00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:05,880 the Tampa Bay area. This is a holiday weekend. This 528 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,200 is a weekday afternoon five thirty start, which is which 529 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,839 is kind of strange timing, not a seven, not a 530 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,720 seven thirty. So what kind of crowd are you gonna 531 00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,799 have for this? I think it's kind of advantage Boise 532 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680 State in that regard. You might, honest to God, if 533 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,799 this was a Saturday afternoon game or a Saturday night game, 534 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:28,519 you might have seven ten thousand more people than what 535 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:30,920 you're gonna have on a Thursday afternoon. They're playing in 536 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,519 this game in Raymond James Stadium, where the Tampa Bay 537 00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:37,799 Buccaneers play on Sundays. And I'm fascinated without Ashton genty. 538 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,599 Do they have another go to running back this year 539 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:45,119 for Boise State? South Florida? Kind of okay? Defensively, a 540 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,480 lot of unknowns here. Bulls can run the ball a 541 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:52,519 little bit. Uh, this is this is gonna be. It 542 00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:55,400 kind of kicks off the weekend a little bit by design. 543 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,599 National ESPN game, but late afternoon with the weather and 544 00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:02,680 with the heat, and Boise State have gonna come all 545 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,000 the way across the continent diagonally southeast to Florida. Let's 546 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:09,799 see what this looks like. You would be better to 547 00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:13,279 speak to. Does Boise State have something on offense that 548 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:15,559 makes this interesting where it could be a score fest 549 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:17,400 in Tampa on Thursday? We'll see. 550 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:21,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean no, Ashton Gent means this is an 551 00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:26,680 entirely new Boise State offense, just just in terms of 552 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,720 how is Boise State going to attack opponents. So it's 553 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,480 just it's gonna be new, right for Spencer Danielson and 554 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,839 his staff. TJ the question I'm most interested in, and 555 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,319 like five thirty that is unusually early, Like there's always 556 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,440 a big Thursday game that's usually on around six six fifteen, 557 00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:51,200 six thirty eastern, five thirty a little bit earlier. So yeah, 558 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,720 it's not technically a night game. It's gonna end at night, 559 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:58,519 but it's gonna start late afternoon. My main thought is, 560 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:02,759 you know, like that doesn't sound very comfortable for Boise State. 561 00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:05,680 But on the other hand, at Boise State could consider 562 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,920 itself lucky because I remember South Florida having some big 563 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,559 games in the noon window on Saturday, and I think 564 00:31:13,599 --> 00:31:16,000 that would have been the worst case for Boise State 565 00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:20,559 and conversely the best case, well for USF you get 566 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:23,319 a body clock game. So this isn't a body clock. 567 00:31:23,079 --> 00:31:26,519 Speaker 2: Game, true because obviously if you're a Western team and 568 00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:30,119 you're coming even a day early, you're still playing very early. 569 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:32,599 It's tough to acclimate very early on your body clock. 570 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,559 That's a nine am or a ten am start on 571 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:36,920 your body clock. So it's a little better, but again, 572 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:41,480 very humid, very hot. You got a hydrate. Cramping will 573 00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:43,400 be a factor. It'll be a factor in these games 574 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,720 that we're talking about early on in the year, So 575 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:47,960 stay tuned. This will be wild to kind of open 576 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,240 it up in the American season, kind of a marquee 577 00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:54,319 game for the American Conference, to be on ESPN and 578 00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:55,759 to have Boise State and all of this. So I'm 579 00:31:55,759 --> 00:31:58,359 fascinated to see what's going to happen Thursday. Again, I 580 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,160 would expect from a couple of people that I talked to, 581 00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:05,519 South Florida has probably about fifteen thousand season ticket holders 582 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:08,039 something like that. They usually for the bigger games will 583 00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:10,640 get eight or ten thousand student involvement right now. The 584 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,839 crowds are around twenty thousand for their biggest games now. 585 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,640 Obviously if they're playing Alabama, if they're playing Florida, the 586 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,079 place is gonna be full. They've played Florida State in 587 00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:22,799 recent years the place was full for a game like 588 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,599 this in the middle of the afternoon, late afternoon. Are 589 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,200 they gonna have twenty twenty five thousand people there? Again, 590 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,839 that should be advantage Boise State. We'll see on not 591 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,400 as loud a crowd, crazy a crowd as what it 592 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,200 could be. Stay tuned, yep. 593 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,759 Speaker 3: And just the final note, if there're storms, we all 594 00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:41,599 saw how poorly Kansas State and Iowa State dealt with 595 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,799 the wet ball. That was a greasy peg in Dublin, 596 00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:49,680 where you could say a greasy corned beef with the cabbage. 597 00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:54,119 No one could tuck the cabbage away right in Ireland. 598 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,279 So if it's stormy in Tampa wetball game one late August, 599 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,039 take care of the rocket. 600 00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: And another factor, we have hillacious lightning and thunder thunderstorms. 601 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,799 Full disclosure, you and I are doing this interview while 602 00:33:09,799 --> 00:33:12,000 we're having one of those thunderstorms. You haven't been able 603 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,119 to hear it. Yet on our connection, and so the 604 00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,680 l word comes into play, the lightning word comes into play. 605 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,799 And do you have delays and who handles the delay? Well, 606 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,519 we see that sometimes where it might take a half hour, 607 00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:25,519 an hour or more delay. We hope not. But you're 608 00:33:25,559 --> 00:33:30,839 in the peak season of late afternoon thunderstorms with lightning, 609 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,519 so that could be a factor on Thursday. Stay tuned, yep. 610 00:33:34,559 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 3: And you know, if I'm a Boise State player, I'd say, hey, 611 00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:40,680 let's have some rain and lightning. The game winds up 612 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,279 starting at eight pm. It's a true night game with 613 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,839 core temperatures after the rain. To me, if I'm a 614 00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:52,559 Boise State player, that's my that's my best Thursday. All right. TJ. 615 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,240 Reeves done so much. And of course you're part of 616 00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,279 the not just you're part of You run the College 617 00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:02,759 Grade on Coast to Coast podcast operations. So you've mentioned 618 00:34:02,799 --> 00:34:05,359 all the different shows, so folks give a look at 619 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,920 all the different places you can learn about college football, 620 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,360 whether it's the ACEC, the Big Ten, the Service Academy 621 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,920 is the Big twelve, you name it. College Greater on 622 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,719 Coast to Coast is part of it. So Apple, right, 623 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,199 Apple's where you go primarily any other places where people. 624 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 2: Spreaker, Spotify, wherever you get podcasts. Follow on social media 625 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,840 at Gridiron Coast on social media, listen, we love talking 626 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,519 college football and we didn't even get to Alabama, Florida State, 627 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,239 Miami Notre Dame in the Sunshine State for this weekend. 628 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,239 What a weekend this is going to be with. 629 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 3: All the game and that's where people can find the 630 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,679 Florida Football Insiders Yes Coast podcast with our friend Jason Powers. 631 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,519 Speaker 2: We love JPO Jason Powers. Who's got Jeff Colhane, the 632 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:55,840 voice of the Florida State Seminoles and Josi Gaki, the 633 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,360 voice of the Miami Hurricanes. Full season previews from both 634 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,760 of those guys. They're talking Alabama, Florida State from the 635 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,559 Florida State perspective and a Miami Notre Dame from the 636 00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:09,639 Miami perspective. With those two guests. It's on this feed, 637 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,119 on this feed Florida Football Insiders, the podcast, the preview 638 00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:17,840 podcast is already up and by the way, I don't 639 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,000 know what the update is on this Sunday. I know 640 00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:23,280 as a Friday afternoon, they had not installed the turf 641 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,880 yet at Dope Campbell Stadium, they're doing what's called a 642 00:35:27,039 --> 00:35:32,440 game grown turf grown where they're growing the field somewhere 643 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,320 else and then rolling it in and implanting it. I 644 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,559 believe they were doing that either Friday or Saturday. They've 645 00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:42,239 had last week, they've had a dirt field at dope 646 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,960 Campbell Stadium. Maybe trying to slow down Alabama a little 647 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,920 bit if they could. So new turf going down for 648 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,360 that matchup in Tallahassee, and they'll be tremendous publicity on 649 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,800 that one for this weekend. So cannot wait in the 650 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,960 Sunshine Stadia as you mentioned South Florida and Boise State 651 00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:00,239 is kind of the appetizer. It gets the weekend underway. 652 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,440 He but FSU, Alabama, Miami, Notre Dame. This weekend gonna 653 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,840 be a lot of fun to watch all the college football, 654 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,280 including keep doing a great job keep us straight on 655 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,360 the Western teams, whether it's Oregon or Arizona State or 656 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,800 I mean, we look to you for all of this 657 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,360 with the Western football on this show. 658 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 3: All right, final thing, TJ so Big twelve Game Day 659 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,199 on tune in. Tell people where they can find tune in, 660 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,840 and tell them when your broadcasts are generally going to 661 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,719 start on Saturdays if they have a regular start time 662 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,199 every week. 663 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 2: Thank you, free plug. The Big twelve channel is on 664 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,400 tune in Free to hear Big twelve Radio. It's called 665 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,400 free to hear. Just search Big twelve Radio on tune in, 666 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,599 go to the tune in app and search it. Search 667 00:36:43,639 --> 00:36:46,880 it online. Big twelve Radio on tune in. The Big 668 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,360 twelve Game Day show is nine am to noon Eastern Time, 669 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,239 so three hours of previews with me, my guests, analyst. 670 00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:58,239 You hear from coaches, you hear from players. We've got 671 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,400 a full scale Saturday preview, so every week for three 672 00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:05,760 hours nine to noon am Eastern Time eight to eleven 673 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,920 Central Time, where a lot of the Big twelve schools 674 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,079 are located. If you're in the West, that means you're 675 00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:15,119 with us six to nine am in the Pacific time zone, 676 00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:17,760 what is at seven to ten am in the Mountain 677 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,320 time zone. Adjust your time zone accordingly. Big twelve Radio 678 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:25,480 Free to hear on tune in, no subscription necessary. Check 679 00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:27,159 it out on the tune in app or on tune 680 00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:29,639 in dot com and I will be there previewing all 681 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:34,000 the Big twelve action, including as you mentioned, asu Arizona, Colorado, Utah, 682 00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:37,960 all in action this weekend. So here we go. Here 683 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,360 we go with week one of college football. My friend, 684 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,039 thank you for the plug. I'm excited to be with 685 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,039 you and let's see you as things get underway. What 686 00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:46,760 happens in week one, So. 687 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,199 Speaker 3: Folks, make TJ. Reeves your friend for Big twelve college 688 00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:53,800 football coverage throughout the season. TJ Reeves, thanks so much 689 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,440 for joining us on the season premiere of the Get 690 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,559 Off My Pilon College Football podcast. 691 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,599 Speaker 2: Great to be with you, my friend. Happy college football, 692 00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:02,039 it's back. 693 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:08,599 Speaker 3: Thank you. All right, we continue along on our show 694 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,960 and we have to deal with teams that we haven't 695 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,599 yet talked about Oregon, Washington, USC they're also part of 696 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:20,320 the family out here. So the main thing that we 697 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,760 need to establish is that you know, you're probably looking 698 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,800 at quarterbacks and offensive lines with these other Western teams 699 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,079 in the Big Ten. You know, we've talked about Boise State, 700 00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:34,199 talked about Fresno State, talked about the four corners schools 701 00:38:34,599 --> 00:38:39,880 in the Big twelve. But in terms of Oregon, Washington 702 00:38:40,159 --> 00:38:42,920 and usc I. You know, we did talk about UCLA 703 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,960 in the preview of the Utah game. But quarterback and 704 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000 offensive line is are the are the main centerpiece elements 705 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,079 of these teams and how successful they're going to be 706 00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:56,559 this season. I think with USC, obviously Jade and Mayoba 707 00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:58,639 has to perform up to a certain standard. You know, 708 00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:02,800 Miller Moss was inconsistent last season. But offensive line is 709 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,599 the key unit for the Trojans. You know, when USC 710 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,159 is at its best, right, the offensive line is rocking 711 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,000 and rolling student body right late nineteen seventies, John Robinson, 712 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,440 John McKay. You know, that's when USC is a superpower. 713 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,239 You know, obviously the offensive lines were able to block 714 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,199 for Lendale White and Reggie Bush and protect Matt Liner. 715 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,559 You know that you don't get the great superstar skill 716 00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:32,400 position performances without an offensive line that was able to 717 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,719 carry the freight at a very high level. USC did 718 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,840 not have a consistent offensive line last season. If it did, 719 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,119 Miler Moss would have been a lot better than he 720 00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:42,960 actually was. 721 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:43,519 Speaker 2: Now. 722 00:39:43,639 --> 00:39:48,039 Speaker 3: Jade Mayava, he's a runner in addition to a thrower. 723 00:39:48,199 --> 00:39:50,400 You know, Miler Moss was just the seventh step drop 724 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,519 back guy chained to the pocket Jade Miava. You're going 725 00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:57,320 to see USC use an option package from time to time, 726 00:39:57,599 --> 00:39:59,599 and so that is an extra dimension that could help 727 00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:02,679 the Trojan, but still the offensive line needs to make 728 00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:05,440 it come together. If you talk to people who follow 729 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,920 the USC program, not just me, but like the other 730 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,880 people I talk to about USC, they're convinced that their 731 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,360 defensive line depth is there, it's gonna be ready, it's 732 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,039 gonna be able to hold up through the rigors of 733 00:40:17,079 --> 00:40:19,400 the season at a level it did not last season. 734 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,719 You know, Anthony Lucas gets hurt. Also, you know, linebacker 735 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,920 Eric Gentry gets hurt, and USC was not able to 736 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,960 deal with those losses. The staff thinks that the defensive depth, 737 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:35,320 particularly the defensive front, is going to be at a 738 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,920 much higher level this season. So you know, and Jacoby 739 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,599 Lane and Mikayle Lemon give USC one of the best 740 00:40:41,679 --> 00:40:44,480 one to two wide receiver combinations in the country. The 741 00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:48,599 running back room, by all accounts, is very deep. Offensive 742 00:40:48,639 --> 00:40:51,519 line is where it's at for USC. Now, as we 743 00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:56,199 move to Oregon, Oregon has had great success churning out 744 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:02,519 elite Oregon's had great success sending offensive linemen to the 745 00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:05,360 pros and not just doing that, but first round of 746 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,880 the NFL Draft. You know, Piney Sewell, Josh Connery. Oregon's 747 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,840 been able to you know, place offensive lineman very highly 748 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,079 on the NFL draft board. So you know that is 749 00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:20,119 where Oregon feels comfortable. That's where Oregon has the great 750 00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:24,360 track record. Oregon in twenty twenty five no longer going 751 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:30,119 with a veteran transfer such as Dylan Gabriel last season 752 00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:33,239 or Bo Nix the transfer from Auburn before him. They 753 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,480 both worked out really well for the Ducks. Now Oregon 754 00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:41,119 goes with not the veteran transfer, but the inexperienced transfer 755 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:46,239 Dante Moore from UCLA. He sat behind Gabriel, observed, studied 756 00:41:46,599 --> 00:41:49,039 last season. Now we find out if all that studying 757 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,199 leads to elite performance. So Dante Moore is the question mark. 758 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,719 The offensive line should be there for him, but the 759 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,519 question is if Dante Moore can put the pieces together 760 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:05,360 in ug at Washington in Seattle, I think it's a 761 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,400 little bit more about the quarterback, a little bit less 762 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,519 about the offensive line, but of course both units are 763 00:42:09,519 --> 00:42:13,440 going to be really essential to Jetfish making the leap 764 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,719 in year two of his tenure on Montlake. Last season, 765 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,480 Washington's offense very inconsistent, mistake prone. The Huskies could move 766 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,119 the ball between the twenties, but they didn't finish drives 767 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,280 nearly as well as they could have or should have. 768 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,800 So many Washington games were sabotaged by not being able 769 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,920 to finish drives. So, do you have an offensive line 770 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,000 that can mash in the red zone in those type spaces? 771 00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:40,559 Do you have a quarterback who's going to be able 772 00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:42,679 to make those key plays? You know, on like a 773 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,559 third and six from the fifteen, That's the kind of 774 00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:49,679 play Washington's gonna need to make this season. So, like 775 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,320 to me, it's a little bit more down the middle 776 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,039 with Washington, you know, quarterback and offensive line. Oregon it's 777 00:42:56,119 --> 00:43:01,280 clearly quarterback. USC it's clearly off defensive line in terms 778 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:06,440 of those different Western programs. So definitely wanted to hit 779 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,760 on those stories. And and and this was briefly alluded 780 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,760 to by TJ in our main segment. You know, talked 781 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:20,159 about Stanford in Hawaii. So Stanford is in real trouble. 782 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:25,119 Stanford's in big trouble. And one thing that the main 783 00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:27,880 thing that strikes me after that loss to Hawaii. It's 784 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,039 not just that the Cardinal lost to a Hawaii team 785 00:43:31,039 --> 00:43:33,760 whose quarterback was injured and was basically limping most of 786 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,559 the game, including late when Hawaii rallied to win that 787 00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:40,159 game at the very end on a walk off field goal. 788 00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:46,079 Not just that, but Stanford's quarterback. Did you notice Ben 789 00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:51,639 Golbranson remember him? And he used to quarterback at Oregon State. 790 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,119 And the best thing that Ben Golbranson did at Oregon 791 00:43:54,159 --> 00:43:58,079 State was hand the ball off right within Jonathan Smith's offense. 792 00:43:58,559 --> 00:44:01,000 You know, the Beavers have a great, great offensive line 793 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:03,480 under Jonathan Smith. They had a great running game and 794 00:44:03,519 --> 00:44:06,199 they were able to run the ball very, very successfully, 795 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,239 even without a really good passing game. Ben Gobranson was 796 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,280 not a good passer at Oregon State a couple of 797 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,039 years ago. So it was it was it was revealing 798 00:44:16,119 --> 00:44:19,000 to see that two years later. Nope, he has not 799 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,440 improved one bit as a passer. That interception he threw 800 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:28,480 against Hawaii with six minutes left was absolutely atrocious. So 801 00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:32,800 Stanford has one of the worst quarterback situations. If Ben 802 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:37,239 go Branson is your QB one, that's a nightmare. That 803 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,840 is a train wreck. And so you know, Stanford, this 804 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,719 I don't think this is hyperboles. Stanford really could be 805 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,320 a two to ten type team. Stanford could be the 806 00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:51,360 worst Power for Conference team. Now you might say Perdue, 807 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,239 and that's a decent answer, is like an alternative. But 808 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,000 Barry Odams now coaching Perdue, and I think Purdue is 809 00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:00,599 going to be bad early in the season for like 810 00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:02,880 that team was atrocious last season, so that it's not 811 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,360 going to be a quick fix by any means. But 812 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,679 Barry Odin probably by Thanksgiving, by the end of November, 813 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,719 he'll have that team in a better place. I don't 814 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:18,559 know if Stanford has any path to significant improvement over 815 00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:22,159 these next three months. You know, Mississippi State's probably the 816 00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,719 worst team in the SEC, but I find it hard 817 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,280 to think that Mississippi State's going to be even worse 818 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,840 than what we saw from Stanford. Like, Stanford has set 819 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,840 the bar very very low, and it's gonna be really 820 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,400 hard for a team to have the bar lower than 821 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,000 Stanford will this season. So also wanted to touch on 822 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,800 that game from Week zero before we look ahead to 823 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,000 Week one. So that's a first look at western college 824 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,239 football from Boise State and UNLV. And like with UNLV, 825 00:45:55,519 --> 00:45:58,239 I mean not a whole lot to say, right played 826 00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,719 an FCS team barely won very shaky. Was Week one 827 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,679 a clunker and clunkers happened in Week one, and is 828 00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,320 this team just gonna snap into focus or is un 829 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,719 OV really not all that good? It's one game, so 830 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,480 we're gonna see. We are going to see what UNLV's 831 00:46:16,519 --> 00:46:20,320 made of. Un V plays UCLA in September, so that's 832 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,360 a game we're gonna be looking at down the road. 833 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,920 But I don't want to say like UNOV is a 834 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,800 fraud right now. Could be, but we just need to 835 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,000 let the season play out there. But like I would say, 836 00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:33,440 Boise State if you had to pick between the two, 837 00:46:33,559 --> 00:46:37,639 Boise State over UNOV right now for sure. But of 838 00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:40,599 course then we're gonna see Boise State plays out Flwarida. 839 00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:44,159 That game that TJ. Reeves teed up for us. We 840 00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:46,320 talked about the four corner schools in the Big twelve, 841 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,280 talked about the Big ten schools from the West and 842 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,159 what they're looking for. Fresno State as well. You know, 843 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,039 Kansas looks really good and Jalen Daniels was eighteen of twenty, like, 844 00:46:59,159 --> 00:47:02,280 can't that was more about Kansas than about Fresno State. 845 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,440 So Fresno State, let's see how the Bulldogs learn from 846 00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:10,800 getting beaten by a really good team. Kansas looks good. 847 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,960 Kansas figures to be a quality team that's going to 848 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:19,199 win maybe eight even nine ballgames this season. So that's 849 00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,400 our first look at Western college football here on the 850 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,480 Get Off My Pilin College Football podcast. Keep coming back 851 00:47:24,519 --> 00:47:28,119 to us each week this season, but of course, also 852 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,920 visit your favorite college gridiron coast to coast podcasts in 853 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,320 the other conferences around the country. Lots of good football talk. 854 00:47:35,679 --> 00:47:38,519 You've waited seven and a half months for the return 855 00:47:38,559 --> 00:47:40,559 of the season, so come back to us, but also 856 00:47:41,079 --> 00:47:44,559 go to Apple, go to Spreaker, go to Spotify, wherever 857 00:47:44,599 --> 00:47:47,280 you listen to your podcast to get more from the 858 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,119 college gridiron Coast to Coast family of podcasts. So this 859 00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:54,280 is Matt Zenich. 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