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comment from Joe Klatt. Now, Joe Clatt has not been
overly friendly to BYU this season. He has doubted BYU
at every turn. He only recently started to put BYU
at his top ten. And this is what he had
to say about the BYU Cincinnati game. Obviously BYUS light
favorite in this game, but they're going on the road
versus a team that has a prolific scoring offense, a
great quarterback and a wide receiver running back that are
returning into the rotation and starting lineup. This is Joe
Klatt discussing on his show the BYU Cincinnati matchup.
Speaker 4: All right, next one BYU at Cincinnati. BYU is ranked
number eleven in the country. Cincinnati is looked great as
of late, and this line is only two and a
half towards BYU. What what what I'm sorry, I saw that.
So just so you know, and I think I've said
this before in the show. I always kind of think
about the game. I talk about the game with Steve
and Steve and I and He'll be like, well, what
do you think the score is?
Speaker 3: And I was like, fourteen.
Speaker 4: I think that BYU wins it by twelve or fourteen,
And He's like, what if I told you the line
was two and a half? I was like, what what
am I missing? What is happening right now? I feel
like I'm taking crazy pills. I feel like Mugatu just
ran into the room by you looked great last week.
They control their own destiny for the playoff. They continue
to win, they win the Big twelve Championship, They're in
the CFP. They were balanced last week against TCU. I
know they've been better at home than they have been
on the road. They had a tight game against Colorado
on the road, but one. They had a tight game
against Arizona on the road, but one. They played really
well against Iowa State and then got beat by Texas Tech.
But if you watch the game that they played last week, No.
Speaker 3: Two and a half? What are we doing?
Speaker 4: I've got to give Kilanie Sataki a lot of credit.
He's twenty and three, twenty and three since the start
of last season. We talk about Kurt Signety and his record,
Nobody talks about Kolonie Sataki and his record.
Speaker 3: Twenty and three.
Speaker 4: Only three teams with a better record at Ohio State,
Indiana and Oregon.
Speaker 3: That's the only three in all of college football. This
guy gets it done.
Speaker 4: I was so impressed with what they did against TCU
because of the balanced nature that they did it. They
were able to throw it with Bachmeyer on some series.
They were able to run the football with LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin. LJ.
Speaker 4: Martin is outstanding. Their defense is aggressive, they are physical,
They're old. They're old BYU is always old. This is
the same team as Utah and beat Utah. They have
the same philosophy, they have the same players. Klanie Sataki
grew up and cut his teeth as a coach under
Kyle Whittingham at Utah. And you know what Utah did
the cincinnat just a couple of weeks ago, back to
back losses. They were blown out at Utah by what
was it thirty Then they lost at home to Arizona
last week.
Speaker 3: I know that they want to run the ball.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and Soresby has been good, and I think it's
been a solid season, But like, come on, two.
Speaker 3: And a half, what are we talking to the line?
Speaker 4: That what am I missing? BYU? I like them winning
this game. I think Bachmeyer is getting better as the
season goes along. He does not play like a true freshman.
He didn't play like a true freshman last week. That
was a tremendous bounce back after the loss of Texas Tech.
And you see the nature and the character of a
team with how they play when they come back and
play the next week. Bachmeyer was terrific. The run game
was terrific, the pass game was terrific, the defense was terrific.
He was twenty three or thirty three for three hundred
and fifty five total.
Speaker 3: Yards and two total touchdowns. Like you know, I can't
do it.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati loses to Arizona at home, and I just like
BYU in this one at thirty one to twenty four,
I'm coming back to you seven points there.
Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be fourteen.
Speaker 4: I will come towards the line seven and I'm still
covering the two and a half, Like, come on, b YU,
thirty one Cincinnati twenty four. BYU is giving two and
a half. I still I don't understand that. I don't
understand that at all. Absolutely give the two and a half.
Speaker 2: By the way, pulling the spread numbers b YU against
the spread seven and three this season, so they've been
pretty gosh day good good teams cover or good teams win.
Great teams cover, and BYU has has been covering one
of the best teams in the in the college football
world this season. They're like top I think they're top
fifteen versus the spread. All right, let's get out to
the hot line. Welcome and former BA quarterback get a
little scattering report on the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 3: See what he see?
Speaker 2: What he's got cooking up for these Cougars for a
Saturday matchup versus Well, we got bear versus the Bearcats.
Speaker 3: Steve Clements on the Live Steve, how you living?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 5: How are you living?
Speaker 3: The dream?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Living the dream?
Speaker 2: The BWA you Cougar basketball team dominating the Badgers? Now
I need the BWA Cougar football team to dominate the
Bearcats to have a complete weekend.
Speaker 3: How do you see this game? Steve?
Speaker 5: Uh boy? After last week boy, and when you go
from Texas Tech who where they really struggled offensive laser
move the ball to really not having an issue with TCU.
Granted it was at home. I don't see if a
carbon coffey of the TCU game, but I see I
see him kind of hit a stride here late in
the season, which is good I think for Cougar Nation.
And I see it win him by ten points over
there in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I really do. It would be nice, right, we were
just here from Joe Clad and he feels like BYU's
been disrespected with that two and a half line. See
he says a seven point victory, but it almost seems
like he's leaning towards a big scoring output because he
kind of feels like, maybe I don't know something. Well,
Cincinnati does return a really good running back and a
really good wide receiver from their from their their injury report,
and BYU does lose a few guys to Whalen Laa
who that's a loss for BYU along the offensive line,
uh as far as the injury report is concerned, but
overall by is pretty healthy. H Are you are you
all worried that? Look at top ten quarterback in college football,
Brendan Soorsby per pff Uh, he's been very productive.
Speaker 3: He he's a little bit inged up. He's got a
little ankle injury right now he's dealing with. Uh.
Speaker 2: He gets two stars back in his lineup. Can they
make uh?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Can they score a few more points than than TCU.
Speaker 2: Did being at home and having some more firepower behind
him against his BYU defense?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think playing at home that might give him
another touchdown. But again, defense, this is gonna win championships
all the time, and with Jay Hill calling our defense,
I don't I don't think we're gonna have a problem.
I don't. I don't know if it will be the
blowout that maybe Joel said it might be. That would
be great if it was. But you know, ten points
is that's a pretty good spread. I really do think
that we're gonna hit a hit a high here and
go on a little run to finish the season out
and to make the see if he playoffs.
Speaker 2: So I love it, man, I feel like by us
in the in the in the driver'sy right.
Speaker 3: They're the master of their own destiny.
Speaker 2: They can clinch right now, they can clinch if a
few things happen as far as UH their side of things.
Texas Texas Tech can also clinch too. B WA clinches
with a win over Cincinnati and losses by Arizona State
and Houston, or with a win over Cincinnati and Arizona
State loss.
Speaker 3: And Utah win.
Speaker 2: This maybe the first time BYU roots on a Utah
football team when there when they're kind of separated, right,
So this could be a clinching weekend for BUYU. How
great would that be to head into UCF week? Is
that a good thing or a bad thing to be
able to clinch this weekend? Do they let their guard
down versus UCF at home, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Give me your analysis on that now. I don't think.
Speaker 5: I think there's team's manufactured a little bit differently than
those in the past, as we've talked about really the
last couple of weeks, as far as the maturity of
the ball club, the experience in both coordinators, and then
Klonnie's tenth year, I think this team just feels way
different than it has before, and so I have every
bit of confidence in these guys. I don't think it
would be a detriment UH for their you know, their
psyche to win and clinch. I think they're gonna go
ahead and take care of business at home and provo,
but obviously that all starts with tomorrow's game in Cincinnati
and focusing on that first and foremost, and being one
to oh coming out of the weekend and on to
see what happens and what the ramifications are and a
BYU win and whoever loses. I don't think they're going
to talk about that. They probably don't. I don't necessarily
care about that. It's, you know, focusing on what they
need to do to beat a really good Cincinnati team
on the road, and then chips fall wherever they may
and then we go from there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'm optimistic about the future here. Getting
over the hub would be tremendous, and getting over a
hump with a true freshman quarterback something that's quite novel.
Bear Bachmeyer's doing something that pretty much no other college
football players have done, even like the you know, we
were compared to trasting other true freshman quarterbacks that have
gone undefeated, et cetera. But I don't think they started
as the starting quarterback at the beginning of the season,
whereas Bear has. If BYU gets to the college football
playoff being led by Bear Bachmeyer. This would be something
that is transcended, something that rarely, if ever, happens in
college football. Assess you know the gravity of that situation
for me? And why maybe Bear is built for these moments?
Speaker 5: Well, well, obviously he's extremely smart, he's extremely talented with
the ball in his hands, and to put a lot
of trust in all was he the uniniteeen.
Speaker 3: Eighteen, nineteen year old man.
Speaker 5: Nineteen year old? I mean, that's kind of extraordinary. I
don't think it's it's foreign to the BYU football program, because,
let's face it, BYU is known for the quarterbacks and
have been for fifty sixty seventy years. So that in
and of itself is not so much a surprise or
a shock that BYU has another really really good quarterback.
Now this one just happens to be a true freshman,
and he's putting kind of the at least the offensive
side of the ball on his shoulders and we go
as he goes, which is fine. Obviously he's been able
to do this and do it very successfully. It's fun
Washington play. It's fun for Cougarnation. I'm sure to rattle
off all these wins and for this season. And I
really do think that this is a different team this
year than in the past because of their mentality and
their psyche. And that's a testament to Kilani and the
way he's being able to focus these guys. After a
win win against our rival Utah and pro bo beat
Ahawa State, and then turn around and lose to Texas Tech,
but then flip that and be able to beat a
decent TCU team at home. I just I keep going
back to mentality. It was really important, especially this late
in the season, to be playing as well as we're playing. Yes,
we're a freshman quarterback at the helm, but I really
think it speaks to Kalani's masterclass of coaching the game
of football and teaching these kids that you cannot rest
on your laurels, you can't get down when times are hard.
It's all about being in the present and playing the
next play and then move on to the next and
step by step, play by play, series by series. That's
how this team has gone. And it's just a testament
to Kwani and really how well he's put this team together,
kept them together and then being successful on the field
and performing at a high level week in and week out.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2: So, if b what you get to the Big Fuel
Championship game and they go up against Texas Tech, which
head coach deserves Big Twelve Coach of the Year honors?
Is it Texas Tech coach McGuire or BYU's coach Kalate Satake.
Speaker 5: Well, we're all biased and Sugar Nations, So I obviously
I'm gonna say Kilani because Texas Tech beat US at
home with College Game Day and and all the hype
and all of that stuff. If they were to beat
if they would have beaten us in provo, yeah, he's
coach of the Year. But like they beat us in Loving,
so they were supposed to. And so I think whoever, yeah,
whoever wins the Big Twelve Championship game deserves to be
Coach of the Year in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Conference.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm right there with you. Look, this is the thing.
Speaker 2: The argument would be centered around losing your starting quarterback,
you know, two weeks before like Paul Camp or two
months before Paul Camp or whatever it was, and having
to go out into the portal and get a true
freshman quarterback that hasn't played a lick of college football
and put him into your starting role at quarterback. I
don't care how many stars he has, and he leads
you to a nine in one season. So I think
that just that alone, getting to the Big Twelve championship
game and not having the same nil offering, is that
of Texas Tech that merits the Big Ten or Big
twelve head.
Speaker 3: Coaching I guess head coaching job of the.
Speaker 5: Year certainly, And again we go back to what you
and I have talked about the last couple of weeks.
Is the big for this team to rebound, Well, that's
I'm sorry, that's because of.
Speaker 3: The head coach.
Speaker 5: They were able to go beat a state in Iowa
after being in their arrival because of CLONEE. They were
able to rebound from a loss at Texas Tech and
beat a TCU gay Or team and really blow him
out of the water the very next week. So those
two instances right there, obviously he would have my vote.
And because I see it a little bit different having coach,
even though it was high school, it's a there's something
to be said about the head coach and their ability
to influence kids and get them back to living and
playing in the present, whether that's a play or a
game or whatever. And Clonnie has now mastered that, and
I think he deserves to be Big twelve Coach of
the Year and have recognition or at least gives some
love for National Coach of the Year. I mean, goodness, Grace,
you want to just get through with Bear alone? Like
you said, the merits would favor that because.
Speaker 2: I think if they get to the colleg football playoff,
if they if they somehow somebody favorite to be Texas
Tech in the the Big Tell Championship game, he would
definitely merit that.
Speaker 3: I mean, kidn me, I mean the over under like.
Speaker 2: The last two years, the total win prognosticators, okay, Vegas
and all the analytical gurus that think they know something
about ball that they think they know something about Brigham
they don't know, but they're about to find out right
that they built different with Kilanie at the helm. The
total wind like mark was four and a half I
believe last year, and this year is six and a half.
Speaker 3: So they're twenty and three right now.
Speaker 2: They could end up by the end of the season
twenty two and three. If they get to twenty three
and three, I mean, look at that. I mean that
is significantly overachieving versus the expectation. And you lost your
starting quarterback right before this lesson. I mean, to me,
it's not even close. To me, it's not un close.
Now Signetti is right there with Indiana, right, he's gonna
get it. He's gonna get it because he's in the
Big Ten. But goodness graces me o mi versus the expectation,
I mean, Kilani deserves it.
Speaker 3: Kilani's right there.
Speaker 5: Sure, And I mean do the math. That's what ten
wins they were supposed to have only the last two
years to a potential twenty two maybe twenty three wins. Yeah,
that's that's quite significant. And you're right, Indiana's Big ten
conference and they're gonna give it to one of those
cats over there.
Speaker 3: And they're falling here they are.
Speaker 5: They're good. He's great, cool, Yes, he really is. I
tell you what that Bachmer kid, I ever tell you,
who're reminded me of Kenna? Reminds me of right handed throwing,
better throwing Tim Tebow? I ever tell you that.
Speaker 3: Just saying.
Speaker 5: That's just me. I don't know, that's just what I
I see.
Speaker 2: It's any hate mail by the way for that, you
get some DMS.
Speaker 3: I know, I you know.
Speaker 2: See this's why I love Steve because like he's not
gonna we we took that quote, ran with it, and
he got all the bitchrial right, all the hate and.
Speaker 3: Howbody's been validating and indicated.
Speaker 2: Right, You're sitting at the top of your mountain and
you're like, hey, who knows ball?
Speaker 3: Who is a ball Nober? My name is Steve Clements,
the ball noer.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that. But that was fun. It's
it's continued to be fun. Yeah, I got I got
a few dms, but you just breathe in, breathe out,
move on. It's kind of fun and then chuckle at
the same time.
Speaker 3: So yes, a good yes, indeed.
Speaker 2: Steve Clements here on ESPN the Fan talking to BYU
Football as we get prep get ready for the Cincinnati
Bearcat matchup on Saturday. B YU was never lost to
the Bearcats, big new kickoff will be there.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I just I wonder if if.
Speaker 2: This team is built different, you know what I mean,
if what would the lessons learn in Lubbock that propelled
them to greatness versus TCU, And do those translate over
to the Cincinnati game, of your opinion, But I.
Speaker 5: Think again, it all starts from Monday to Thursday during
their practice and the mentality that Klannie's allowed put them
in between or really in the locker room and in
their meetings and staying sharp and being focused. And you know,
I don't know if we ever talked about this, but
it seems as though it seems this year was different.
When I watched them early in the fall, this is
before the season started actually out there. Back then it
was late mid to late August, and I'm watching practice,
and really in the past, honestly, Ben, I would go, Okay,
these guys play their first game in four months or
three months. Just the sense of urgency it did seemed
like it was there. To now, it's every practice from
August to even a couple of weeks ago when I
went down there, they're getting ready to play the National
Championship in three or four days. And that's the difference.
I think, not just well in the past that I've
seen practices, whether that's spring or just before fall season, well,
that's Clinie, that's coaching, that's j and that's a Rod
and the entire staff putting way more focus on this
program to be where it used to be, which was
naturally ranked and recognized. And I think we're really honestly
seeing a change in a consistently that what puts us
back in the top ten, top fifteen every single year,
and we're we're on the inside looking out rather than
outside looking in.
Speaker 3: Now. Great day to be a Cougar, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they can continue to win when their way through
the schedule and find ways to get w's. Hopefully it
happens again this Saturday versus Cincinnati. APPRECIATEHS Steve always appreciate
our time, great insight, great commentary today on a keeping
up with the Cougar segment.
Speaker 5: All right, buddy, go coog, All.
Speaker 3: Right, we'll catch up in the end next week.
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Speaker 3: We got Max Chadwick on the line. Max, how the
heck are you good? Are you guys doing doing fantastic?
Speaker 2: How have your preview shows gone thus far this week?
Speaker 3: Good man?
Speaker 6: It's gonna be an interesting week this week, you know,
it's not as many massive games. It kind of feels
like the almost the entirety of the SEC is almost
on a bye week or a pseudo bye week this week.
But there are some huge games in the ACC and
the Big Twelve and also the Big Ten two of
USC oregan, so kind of whittling down this playoff picture
and also whittling down who can make it in a
wide open Big Twelve and ACC conference right now for
those championship games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the how what do you make of the SCC
scheduling right obviously that conference games, uh uh and then
having this bye week before their rivalry weeks.
Speaker 3: Do you agree with it?
Speaker 2: Do you think it's strategically beneficial for the SEC?
Speaker 6: I think it makes sense for why they do it.
You know, they're still playing I think, you know, still
playing one of some of the hardest schedules in the country,
So it's not like they're you know taking it easy
uh on their on their teams this year. But uh, yeah,
I think it in extense, you know that a lot
of them are going into huge, huge games uh next
weekend against their rivals, and they either take a bye
week or they just scheduled sts opponent in order to
U to kind of get ready for those games. But
we still have a couple of big games in SEC.
You know, we still previewed the Oklahoma Missouri game as
a massive, massive one this weekend.
Speaker 7: It's one of the biggest games of the weekend.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then you also have Vanderbilt against Kentucky, and Kentucky's
actually been a dangerous team the last few weeks too,
so Vanderbilt has to be careful because they cannot afford
another loss if they want it's the playoffs. So this
still is a couple of big games in the SEC.
Texas plays Arkansas two. It should be a fun game.
But in Tennessee plays Florida. But some of the big teams,
you know, like Ole miss who has a bye week
this week. You got Texas A and M playing Stanford
this week. You got you know, sorry, you got Alabama
playing Eastern Illinois this week too. So George is playing Charlotte. Yeah,
it's just like a lot of the top teams right
now are kind of on a either an official bye
week or unofficial bibey playing SCS team.
Speaker 2: Let's move over to the Big twelve real quick BYU
versus Cincinnati. How do you see this game in particularly
by you only a two and a half point favorite
heading on the road to take on swordsby of the Bearcats.
Bear Bachmeyer versus the Bearcats, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Exactly, it's it's gonna be a close game, it really is.
I think BYU has to be prepared for Cincinnati to
try to win with this ground game. I think the
one big advantage that BAU has defensively is that, Yeah,
Brenton Sorosby has been phenomenal this year as Cincinnati is
starting quarterback, but their receiving core of Cincinnati has really
really struggled to separate against man coverage.
Speaker 7: Is really why they lost through.
Speaker 6: Their They are three games, all three of them this
year to Arizona, to Utah, and to Nebraska. All three
of those teams play a lot of man coverage and
they completely shut down those receivers. BYU also plays a
good healthy amount of man coverage too, and BYU secondary
has been really good this year too, So I don't
think this is gonna be a game where Soresby is
gonna win as a passer. I think if they're gonna win,
they're gonna have to rely on their elite rushing attacks.
But BYU's run defense, it has been kind of average.
I would say overall this year. They got to be
ready for that rushing attack in this game.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like this BYU football team is ranked
appropriately for the College Football Playoff Committee?
Speaker 7: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: I think b YU should be somewhere in the top ten.
I had them in my personal ranking and have the
number eight in my ranking. I think, you know, still
with a nine to one record, best that says a lie,
you know, so I think they should be above all
the two loss teams with a nine to one record. Obviously,
they beat Utah this year too, so they got that
big win on the resume. Yeah, they lost in convincing
fashions of Texas Tech. But I still think b YU
has been a really good team this year and Texas
Tech is going to be maybe a first round BI.
Speaker 7: Well see what ends up at the end of the
year or two.
Speaker 3: But I think b.
Speaker 6: YU should be firmly in the playoff picture right now.
And you know, it seems like, you know, they if
they lose another game and go ten and two of
the year, for example, I don't know if they can
be able to get into the playoff at ten and two,
So they've got to win out at eleven and one,
and maybe even an eleven and two record might not
be enough the way the playoff committee is recking them
right now.
Speaker 2: One of the things we've been debating because of the
rankings is who's gonna lose, who's the most likely to lose?
In front of BYU, I have my Tier one guys
right that you would ideally like.
Speaker 3: To those those two loss teams.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma they got Miszoo at home, and then they take
on LSU.
Speaker 3: After that, they then Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: They take on Syracuse at home, and then Stamford away.
Alabama has what is it like Eastern Illinois, and then
they have.
Speaker 3: The Iron Bar Auburn.
Speaker 2: At the end of the they're at Auburn and Auburn's
kept it close one score games in all of their
games and teams and then I have like my Tier
two teams, is like Oregon's facing USC. They could if
they lose to USC or Washington, they drop out of
the top ten.
Speaker 3: I don't think Georgia.
Speaker 2: If Georgia lost to Georgia Tech, I don't think they
would drop out of the top ten.
Speaker 3: I don't think if Texas Tech that's ine.
Speaker 2: If Texas Tech loses to West Virginia that they drop
out of the top ten, it wouldn't be good for
the Big twelve, but maybe BYU moves up.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Give me your thoughts on these teams in the Tier one,
Tier one, Tier two. Who's most likely to take l's
do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, I think the one, the big one is probably
Texas A and M. But the problem is that they
go eleven and one at the end of the year.
I still think, you know they're gonna be ranked above
above b YU because they played Texas at the end
of the year too, So I think even if it
was the Texas they're still probably be ranked above b
YU add an eleven to one record. The problem with Oregon,
I think Oregon's on upset alert this week is usc
problem with that though. If Oregon loses, I think Oregon,
honestly this is they might be out of the playoff.
Speaker 7: Altogether if they lose this weekend. I really think so,
even with a ten and two record, I just don't
know if they have the.
Speaker 3: Top ten they'll be out.
Speaker 6: I would say they should, yeah, But the problem with
that though, is that USC could all of a sudden
make a massive leap and maybe even jump b YU
if that happens too. Right, So that that's the problem
with BYU right now, and why I think that the
playoff committee's had this kind of bad precedent for BYU.
Where again, I think they should be ranked number eight
or number nine right now, and the fact that they're
number eleven, it just it makes it a dangerous proposition
for them. I don't know if BYU, maybe at eleven
and two, if they lose in a close game to
Texas Tech and the Big twelve title game, maybe they
could pull up an SMU last year where SMU got
in you from losing the AC title game. Maybe they
could pull off that if you lose in a close
fashion to Texas Tech.
Speaker 7: But other than that, I just don't see a way.
Speaker 6: Obviously, they win the Big Twelve, they'll get an automatic
qualifier into the playoff, but they got I think.
Speaker 7: At least lose in a close way to Texattack.
Speaker 6: Otherwise I think they're probably out of the playoff altogether.
Speaker 2: Max Chadwick Pro Football focus here on esp and the
Fantuck and College Football, Big twelve Football and BYU football. Yeah,
it's it's unfortunate that by you had some PR issues.
Speaker 3: Is it more is it more BYU based? Is it
more Big twelve based? Do you think what's.
Speaker 2: The issue with BYU from a committee standpoint?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think I think the problem is, you know,
the SEC they consider like these two lost SEC teams
that have a way better resumes than BYU and one
loss in the Big twelve, which I don't really think
is that's that should be the case right now? And
then I'm the other one that I just I'm dumbfounded by, honestly,
is Notre Dame.
Speaker 7: I just think, you know, they do not have the
resume to be ranked where they are at number nine
right now. I have them, I think number twelve in
my personal ranking, I think they should be behind.
Speaker 6: It makes no sense to me why they're ahead of
ahead of Alabama when you know, according to this same committee,
the Alabama has two wins better than Notre Dame's best
win and then two more wins better than Notre Dame's
second best win, right, so it makes it, I just
I makes no sense at all to me why Notre
Dame is ranked where they are. But what the committee
is telling US is if hey, if they go ten
to two, they're gonna be in the playoff with wins
over Syracuse and Stanford. I just I don't think that
should be the case right now. But that's the problem
I think for you for BYU right now is that
they're behind the teams like Notre Dame and right now
that they got a pretty easy schedule the rest of
the year, and I just I don't know if BYU
can jump Notre Dame. Maybe maybe if they went out
and obviously win the Big twelve, they will, But I
just it's a tough proposition right now.
Speaker 7: When this committee is ranking these teams.
Speaker 2: Max, you know, always like to get the PFF grades.
As far as BYU Football is concerned. Who's been their
highest graded players thus far this season? Offensively, defensively, and
even on special teams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so obviously offensively, I've been really impressed by, really
impressed by Bear Bachmeyer this year. I think he has
been a phenomenal player for that team, and you can
see by the way he grades right now, he's the
highest graded offensive player for BYU with an eighty two
point one grade this year. He has been I would
argue right now, probably He's been the best true freshman
quarterback that we've had in college football this year. We've
had a lot of them start in college football. I
would say Bear might be the best one right now.
Bruce Mitchell, the center, also has an eighty one point
one grade, so he also has been really good. And
then you look at the defensive side of the ball.
I love the middle of BYU's defense and you can
see it by the grades too, especial as their safety
duo that they have and follow tabs Atsawala as an
eighty one point four grade being the defense, and then
right behind him is his teammate Tanner Wall at eighty
point three leading.
Speaker 7: That defense too.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think that the middle of BYU's defense,
whether it be the d tackles, even whether it be
the linebackers or the safeties, that's been the best part
of BYU's defense this year. And you can see it
with Satawala and Tanner Wall both leading the defense in
PFF grade.
Speaker 2: Great breakdown for Max Chadwick. Max, what else are you
guys previewing this week on your show? What have you
guys already broken down that our listeners can go and
consume on your platforms.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we did a full preview on Tuesday of
every single one of the ten biggest games in week thirteen.
Obviously BYU Cincinnati is one of those games. So if
you want to check out our full in depth preview
and also our predictions for that game, go check out
the PFF College Football.
Speaker 7: Show on YouTube and anywhere good podcast.
Speaker 6: And also Dalton and I will both actually be at
that BYU.
Speaker 7: Since the game this weekend, so if you see us,
make sure to say.
Speaker 3: Hi, love that.
Speaker 2: I was just reading through a couple other previews want
to get your reaction to it. There's BAYU Cincinnati game, Like,
how do you really see this game playing out? Because
I want you to think about it here for a minute,
as I don't know if you've ever read through Bill Conley.
I love his metrics as well. SP plus Texas Tech,
BYU and Utah are the three nastiest most physical teams
in the Big twelve et States, and they are combined
twenty seven and four to twenty twenty five three three
against each other in twenty four to one against everybody else.
BYU responded to a loss at Tech with a forty
four to thirteen blowout of TCU. Now the Cougars face
the Cincinnati team that has run aground, losing to Utah
forty five to fourteen.
Speaker 3: That was an away setting.
Speaker 2: And then Arizona, who I think is a I think
it's a good football team. They lost thirty to what
twenty four, falling to the thirty seventh best team at
SP plus. Cincinnati quarterback Brendon Torosby has been good much
of the season, but he could be a little bit
dinged up. East States Boy's offense still battles inconsistency at times,
but against defenses ranked thirty thirtieth or worse and SP plus,
they're averaging thirty eight point eight points and six point
five yards per game. To Cincinnati still have enough gas
so to take to match burnt lines two and a
half s p P less projection BYU by four point
two points and then FPI gives it BYU by four
point four.
Speaker 3: How do you see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I had it actually right around there too.
Speaker 6: I had twenty eight twenty four BYU was my final
score in this game. And like I said, I think
it's all about whether or not BUA you can bring
their hard hats and run defense, because I think they've
been okay in run defense, kind of maybe a little
bit below average. You got to bring it this week
against Cincinnati. Maybe that means stack in the box on
Cincinnati and trusting that your corner is on the outside
could win in man coverage, because I think they can
because I think, like I said before, since these receivers
have been a big problem with that offense this year,
that they just cannot separate.
Speaker 7: One on one right now.
Speaker 6: So I think BYU be wise to stack the box
in this game, to play a lot of man covers
in this game and trust those those corners to win
on the outside and man coverage. And then on the
other side, Cincinnati's pass rush has been basically non existed
this year. They kind of run very similar to Iowa State,
where it's a three down lineman d so you're not
gonna have a great pass rush to begin with, and
they've been one of the worst of the country getting
after the quarterback this year. So Barrett Bockmeier is gonna
have time in that pocket to make some throws and
attack the outside of Sisty's defense, because like BYU, I
think the middle of Sisty's defense is really good with
their linebackers and some pretty good safeties. The outside is
where they're a little more vulnerable. So I think Barrett
Bakermeyer has been really good. If'm run outside the numbers
this year, he's probably gonna do it a lot in
this game too, So I like the YU to win.
This one is gonna be a really close game, should
be one of the best games of the weekend, and
it's an absolutely massive game for determining who makes us
a Dallas for the Big twelve title game.
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