Andy & Ari On3 - Can Nebraska win eight games? (It's not THAT crazy) | Can Ole Miss make the College Football Playoff

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

We continue our deep-dive series into college football teams for 2024 with Nebraska and Ole Miss. Fanduel dropped a ton of season win totals on us recently, and that gives us a great excuse to examine the schedules of different programs as they enter a season of drastic change in the sport.(0:00-2:02) Intro - Valentine's Day 101(2:03-6:14) 2024 Projected Wins Continued(6:15-11:29) ESPN, CFP Deal(11:30-16:54) Tennessee vs NCAA Update(16:55-37:18) Sean Callahan Talks Nebraska, 7.5 Projected Wins(37:19-1:02:30) Zach Berry Joins to Discuss Ole Miss at 9.5 Wins(1:02:31-1:04:18) Conclusion - Dear Andy Tomorrow!Submit your Dear Andy questions to [e-mail] we get to the Cornhuskers and Rebels, Andy breaks down the news that ESPN will continue to televise the College Football Playoff through the 2031 season.Andy also recaps Tuesday’s hearing in a Tennessee federal courthouse between the Tennessee attorney general and the NCAA in a case involving NIL rules.Then, Sean Callahan of On3’s Husker Online joins to discuss what on the surface appears to be an aggressive win total (7.5) for a Nebraska program that hasn’t made a bowl game since 2016. But a deeper look at the schedule shows there is definitely a chance. The question is how well quarterback Dylan Raiola will play as a true freshman, because it certainly seems as if the star recruit is in line to be the Cornhuskers’ QB1.Next, Zach Berry of On3’s OM Spirit visits to discuss the Rebels’ win total (9.5), which doesn’t seem outrageous considering they won 10 regular-season games last season and have — at least on paper — a more talented roster this season. Can Ole Miss go over? And is that essentially the same question as “Can Ole Miss make the CFP?”Want to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube, live at 8 am ET M-F, https://youtube.com/live/JR41aE7Cw1k

Welcome to Andy Staples on three. Happy Valentine's Day. Hopefully you are not one of those people out there scrambling, going to the grocery store or the gas station to try to figure out what the heck you're going to do for your significant other. Hopefully you had a plan. Hopefully you executed that plan this morning. But as a public service next year, maybe February 13th, we need to have a little tutorial. So just we'll mark that down. We'll put it in the calendar. We'll set a reminder because I know there's some of you right now that are probably within the sound of my voice that are going, it's what now? It's what day? Yeah, it's Valentine's Day. This is one of the benefits of doing the morning show instead of the evening show though, because I can tell you this now and you hear it now and you can do something about it. If this was 8 p.m. Eastern time, you'd be effectively screwed.

Well, you'd already be in the doghouse. So just remember, basic facts for Valentine's day. Flowers are incredibly expensive on Valentine's day because they know you're desperate. Don't do flowers. Do something thoughtful. Nail salon gift cards. And I'm not saying just for the guys to give to the ladies. Cause I know quite a few, my former podcast partner, Ari Wasserman, big fan of a pedicure. So those are one way to go. You could do, you know, promise a night out on the town. If you got kids, you promise a night off. Works every time. All of these things you can do. All of these things you can do today, of these things you can do today if you forgot.

Just figure it out. Get it arranged. And don't go out tonight. Just set up the thing for later because if you're going out on Valentine's Day, it is like going out on New Year's Eve. It is purely amateur hour. Don't fall for it. Don't be a sucker. So now that that's out of the way, we got to talk about what we're doing today. So FanDuel released all these win totals a couple of days ago. And it's very interesting because it allows us to take deep dives into each team's schedule to see exactly where these numbers are coming from. And sometimes they look shocking when you initially open that app and you're scrolling through. But then if you think about it and you look into the schedule, you think, okay, that's not so outrageous. There's a couple that do look outrageous though.

There's one specifically, I'll give you a spoiler alert. We haven't talked about it yet on the show. We're probably doing it next week. It's Oklahoma. Look at Oklahoma. It's a seven and a half. And my friend, Gabe Eichard, former Oklahoma center texted me and said, it actually started out at six and a half and got bumped up because people hit it like crazy, but it's a seven and a half. We'll probably talk to the Sooners group guys about that next week, because I think that one's very interesting. I think it's low. I give Oklahoma the benefit of the doubt because basically all the programs ever done is win. So even though they're going into the SEC, I'm not as concerned. But today we're talking about Nebraska and we're talking about Ole Miss. And there's two questions

here. Like the Nebraska one, you'd think we'd be having the same conversation we have with Florida. Can they make a bowl game? Because Nebraska hasn't made a bowl game since 2016, but Nebraska's win total is seven and a half. And we're going to talk to Sean Callahan from Husker Online about that win total. And I'm telling you, when you look at this schedule and we'll talk about it more with Sean. This feels pretty doable. And I realized they have not been good. I realized that is saying a lot to say, I think they can win eight games, but this looks doable, which surprised the hell out of me. Ole Miss is another story. Zach Berry from Ole Miss Spirit will join us later. Ole Miss is obviously coming in Zach Berry from Ole Miss Spirit will join us later. Ole Miss is obviously coming in with very different expectations for this season.

They won 10 in the regular season last year, 11 total. They feel like they're a college football playoff team. They have seriously upgraded the roster, even though they brought back a ton too. So we'll talk to Zach about what their expectations are, but it's basically CFP or bust. And they're a nine and a half win total at FanDuel. So what that means, if they go over, they're getting into the playoff. So you're basically deciding with your wallet, do you think Ole Miss is going to make the playoff or not? And I think that's, it's a really interesting question. And you look at the

schedule and the thing we have to do with these schedules. And this is why this is such a fun exercise right now, because all of this is relatively new. We've saw it a little bit in the ACC last year with Louisville and the, and the schedule draw that they got in the first year of a divisionless ACC. We're going to see it now with the SEC and the Big Ten. The SEC and the Big Ten, we're so used to the divisional schedules. There's not much room for change. If you have a really good out-of-conference opponent coming in, or you rotate it into either a really nasty or really easy opponent from the other division, that's not the case anymore. It's all mixed up. It is

purely a mixed bag. And the SEC, we don't know what the schedule is going to look like past this year. I suspect they're just going to flip it for next year, and then they'll try to figure out from 26 on what they're going to do, if they're going to add a ninth conference game, or if they're going to stick at eight and adjust from there. But the Big Ten and the SEC, a lot of it is what you drew this year. Now, we don't know exactly what every team's going to look like, but we can have a pretty basic idea. Do you have a

nasty schedule, like we saw with Florida the other day, or do you have something that's a little more manageable? Because it's not just who you get, it's when you get them and in what order. And these things all matter. And we'll talk about that specifically as it relates to Ole Miss, because I do think they went up with a pretty nice draw. So we'll talk to Zach about that later in the show. First, we've got to talk about a little news. The college football playoff TV deal looks like it is done. Maybe. deal looks like it is done, maybe. They do have to get some housekeeping squared away in terms of format for the college football playoff. The commissioners have to agree on some things.

We'll talk about that in a second. But the deal with ESPN essentially extends this thing through the 2031 season. So the last two years of this current deal plus another four years. And what this will do is makes this an ESPN only event still. It's 1.3 billion a year in rights fees, which sounds like a ton. But when you realize that what the commissioners, when they got together, created the format, what they thought they were going to get, and I don't know if they necessarily thought they would get it just from ESPN. I think maybe they thought it was going to be sold a little more like the NFL playoffs were sold to different networks, but they thought they were going to

be able to get near 1.8 billion a year. So they're about half a billion short of where they thought they were going to be, but the market's a little bit softer now. A lot's going on with the other sports, the regional sports networks that televise a lot of the major league baseball and NBA games collapsed, softened the market pretty considerably. And the other networks did not jump in. Now, it's not necessarily going to be an all ESPN thing. It will be if ESPN wants it to be, but ESPN has negotiated the right to sub-license games. So if it winds up being super popular and Fox or NBC or CBS says, hey, we have to get in on this, ESPN could sell them the rights to some games and they could join in.

And if you're ESPN, you do that if that's the more profitable option. And we don't yet know if that will be the more profitable option. But we also know that ESPN and Fox are about to get into business together in a streaming service. So it may be that it's beneficial for both parties to do something like that down the road. But a couple of things have to get cleared up. They need to vote on format because remember, they want to change the format with the implosion of the PAC-12. They don't want to go six automatic bids, six at-larges. They want to switch it to five automatic bids, five at-larges, five highest ranked conference champs automatically in, and then seven at-larges. Did I say five? I don't, this is a bad at-mass show. But right now it's the six highest rated conference champs. So to do that,

they need a unanimous vote. And there is the sticky wicket that is the former Pac-12, which we are now calling the two-pack because there's only two teams, Washington State and Oregon State. Kirk Schultz, president of Washington State, going to deliver a proposal, according to Ross Dellinger of Yahoo.com, to his fellow commissioners next week, where he basically says, hey, we would like to be viewed as a power conference and get the revenue distribution that a power conference gets, the revenue distribution that a power conference gets, which is significantly more than what the group of five leagues get.

They would like to have that past 2026. Needless to say, there is quite a bit of resistance to that, but he's going to try to do that. And he's going to try to use his ability to block this vote as the lever to get what he wants. Now he says he's all for five at-larges or excuse me, seven at-larges, five automatic bids because the, there was a little rule change that the CFP commissioners made before all this happened, that basically a two team conference is not going to qualify for an automatic bid. You need to be a bigger conference. And also the two-pack needs to get to at least eight schools by 2026 to be recognized as a conference by the NCAA, but they do have a transitional period where they can stick with two if they want to. So basically Kirk Schultz has some ambitions as a writer. He's been through some changes, but he wants the two-pack to get the same amount of money as the other power conferences get.

And basically it'd be a per school thing. So if it's two schools, that's probably okay. I don't think they're going to care that much right now. A power conference school gets about 6 million a year from the college football playoff and a group of five school gets about one million a year so that's what he's saying it'll obviously be more so but he's saying keep your head up i will vote for the five automatic bids seven at larges he might even say how do you want it because he's also going to say i ain't mad at you but the two-pack does have more control than you would think any two-team conference would have. So we shall see. And if you got any of that, I love you. If you have no idea why I was saying the words I was saying, you probably need to listen to some more hip hop, but we will see

what happens. That will get straightened out. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, in a federal courthouse in Greenville, Tennessee, the NCAA and the attorney general of Tennessee went at it on Monday in a hearing for an injunction that would table essentially the NCAA's NIL rules until there can be a trial in this case involving the state of Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the NCAA. We don't yet know what Judge Clifton Corker will do. We know Clifton Corker has said he thinks the NCAA will ultimately lose a trial. The question is, does he feel like there's enough damage being done in the meantime to issue the injunction, which would essentially invalidate the NCAA's NIL rules until the trial happens? My guess is if he does that, there will never be a trial and the rules will just go away.

The question is, is he going to do that? And we don't quite know yet, but we do know there was a moment in the hearing and basically a lot of the arguments had been done on paper. It was a very short hearing, but a moment in the hearing, which did not go well for the NCAA, where Cliff and Corker was asking some procedural stuff about the rules. And one of the NCAA attorneys essentially gave the wrong answer, got confused, had to go back and go through and check the rule and said something was okay when it wasn't. And that was something that Jonathan Scrimetti, the Tennessee AG seized on and something that the judge kind of seized on. So here's Jonathan Scrimetti on the courthouse steps. Our friends at VolQuest got us this video.

He's been asked about this moment during the hearing where the NCAA attorney kind of flubbed up and said, you can do this. Oh, wait, no, you can't. Oh, wait, can you do this? And that probably was pretty helpful for Tennessee's case. Well, I never want to read too much into any one comment because there are a lot of factors at play. We've got a thoughtful judge who's going to look at all the arguments in the record.

But I think it's important for the public to understand that these kids are subject to potentially severe penalties for rules that have been changing over the last few years and that still today in a federal courtroom aren't totally clear. And it's not right to subject people to serious punishment when they don't know what rules they're supposed to be following. So I did think that was an important point that came up. Yeah, that's a pretty effective argument. And especially if you're trying to argue that it needs to be tabled now because there could be people harmed in the meantime before

the trial happens, it makes it a pretty easy argument where you say, listen, they have some fairly significant penalties, especially on the player side, if they enforce these rules, but they don't even know what the rules are themselves. And it's understandable. The rules have been changing, going back and forth, and it has been a very influx process. So Scrimetti was also asked whether he thinks the judge is going to grant the injunction. And he said he's not sure. Yeah. Whatever happens today is not going to tell us what's going to happen in the long run. This is about immediate relief and whether the NCAA can continue to threaten enforcement of these rules in the long run. This is about immediate relief and whether the NCAA can continue to threaten enforcement of these rules in the short term. In the long run, we're fighting about

whether these rules are legal at all. And that's the most important part of it. That's the big fight. So it'll be maybe a week, maybe a couple of weeks before Clifton Corker issues his ruling on the injunction. And once he does, we'll have an answer. Are the NCAA's NIL rules in effect right now? It's going to be pretty interesting couple of weeks. So once he issues that, if he says the injunction's granted, Katie bar the door. If he says, no, we're going to wait until the trial, then everything's still in effect. Tennessee potentially still being investigated by the NCAA. Florida still being investigated by the NCAA.

Other schools possibly still being investigated by the NCAA over NIL, quote unquote, violations committed over the past couple of years. It's going to be a fascinating process if that happens because they'll be trying to invalidate those rules of trial side by side. The investigations would probably still continue. Although I, again, I don't know why the NCAA decided to do this now because it does not work well for them in the long run. It ends badly, no matter how this goes. But if the injunction gets granted, then it probably just kind of ends. So we shall see. But now we got to talk win totals. We got to talk schedules. We got to dive deep.

We're going to start out in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they have not made a bowl game since 2016. But things are looking up in Matt Rule's year two. One of the biggest recruits Nebraska has signed Dylan Ryle, the quarterback. He's on campus now. And there is a lot of hope heading in to Matt rules year two, including from our friends at FanDuel who set the over under for wins at seven and a half, which seems pretty high for a team that has made a bowl game since 2016.

We talked to Sean Callahan about whether that number is too high or possibly too low. Join now by Sean Callahan of Husker online. We're talking wind totals this week. Cause our friends at FanDuel dropped a lot of win totals on us and speaking of a lot of wins the folks at fanduel predicting more wins for nebraska than we've seen in a mighty long time sean the number is seven and a half yeah i'll be honest andy i was a little just surprised how hot it came out of the gates i I thought, hey, they'll get it 6-6.5, but when you take a couple steps back,

look at the schedule. Look at their first seven games. Look at the Power 5 opponents. Yes, Colorado is in Lincoln, but it's Rutgers in Lincoln. It's Illinois in Lincoln. It's Purdue and Indiana on the road. Year one coach in Indiana. Purdue was arguably one of the you know worst teams they lost a lot of players that were good off that team a year ago so it's about as manageable of an opening seven games as you're going to have and if you have a freshman quarterback like Dylan Raiola it's a heck of a lot better than having to open back-to-back weeks on national

televised games at Minnesota and at Colorado like Jeff Sims had to do this past year yeah and you think about that really one fewer turnover in the Minnesota game we're looking at Nebraska's season entirely differently because it does end in a bowl game probably and you know they're coming with a little more momentum but this does look like it sets up nicely for the first bowl trip for the Cornhuskers in a long time you mentioned Dylan Raiola and I think that's another very interesting piece of this because the way that quarterback recruiting shook out and the the way that depth chart shook out you know Kyle McCord took a visit but then wound up deciding to go to Syracuse this This is Dylan Ryle's show, it feels like.

Yeah, he's got to come in in the spring. There's three scholarship quarterbacks. Heiner Carver, who was the primary starter a year ago, is back, but he got hurt and obviously down the stretch struggled once his body got banged around. And then Daniel Kalin, another Elite 11 freshman, will be here, but it's all set up for Ryola. I mean, if he comes in and, and does what everyone thinks he can do, um, it's hard not to see him as a

starter, the arm talent. They just haven't had that in this program in a really long time. Well, and I'm curious because like the Colorado game is a great litmus test. I feel like, because they played them in week two last year, that was the, the turnovers again, got out of control at the end of the first half, and then the game just completely got away from them. It feels like it'll be a good way to see how far the rest of this team has come under Matt Rule. Obviously, if it's Raiola, the starter, he's new, but everybody else who's been there, what do they look like? Tony White's defense is back.

Are they still as good as they were? Yeah, Tony White's defense is going to be really good next year. There's a reason why Nebraska had no NFL combine invites because all their guys that are good have come back for the most part. Nash Hutmacher, Ty Robinson, Jamari Butler all come back on the front, and then Prince Wailuma and Yellen and some really talented guys on the next level, pass rushers, MJ Sherman. You go down the line and then they return five of their six top DBs

led by Tommy Hill, who led the Big Ten in pass breakups. He's back. Isaac Gifford returns. So it's a really, really good back. So that Colorado game, when you just kind of start to look ahead, they're a really good matchup because the secondary is going to be good, and that stadium will be a hornet's nest for Deion Sanders to come in here because that game just didn't sit well in the state. People obviously did not like to see Nebraska lose in that type of manner to Colorado, and you've got to believe that will be big noon kickoff on Fox 230 CBS or NBC that will be a big stage for that game when Deon

Sanders comes to Lincoln and Colorado will just finish tangling and it sees an opener with North Dakota State which is not really an easy out like that's it's not a that's not a guaranteed win either there so that's that's going to be very intriguing. Nebraska starts with UTEP. So you're breaking that in. Northern Iowa. Illinois opening Big Ten play September 21st in Lincoln. Like you said, Illinois is not a way to ease in because Brett Bielema's team will punch you in the mouth but it's a good another good kind of test of here's where Nebraska is relative to where it was yeah I think the best way to phrase it is the first seven games they will not play a team that recruits higher level

players than they do like there is no Ohio State there is no Michigan or Oregon USC you know where you know that they have higher-ranked recruiting classes than you most years. Nebraska recruits higher-ranked classes than all of those first seven opponents. When you break that down, now do they develop and build a program? I mean, that's where Matt Rule has to kind of take that big year to step forward that he's been known for. You mentioned that opener against UTEP, Andy.

This is the first time since 2019 that nebraska will open the season at home it's the first time since 2019 they'll open the season against a non-power five team really man i didn't even but you're right they have been on the road or you know like last year was there yeah they went to ireland to play northwestern uh last year was a thursday night Here's the first big 10 game of the year situation. Yeah, this is a much more gradual easing into the schedule. Now, it closes in a nasty, nasty way with Ohio State, UCLA, at USC, Wisconsin, and at Iowa. But when you, when you kind of break that down, obviously Ohio state's going to be brutal. That's, but they're going to be brutal for everybody, but we don't know what UCLA is going to be. They just hired to Sean Foster. Actually question. How worried were

folks in Nebraska about Tony white, the defensive coordinator getting plucked by his alma mater as the head coach? Well, I think people were naturally worried because it is a good fit for Tony White. And obviously, if they came with him with an offer, I think it'd be hard to turn it down. He's from UCLA. He played there. He has been on the radar for jobs. I mean, people believe that he turned down Lincoln Riley to be his D coordinator. He kind of pulled back from the San Diego State job opening when that was there. He was in play for that position.

So his name, you know, all the jobs that you would think Tony White might leave Nebraska for, they kind of all opened this year, San Diego State, USC, UCLA. But I think Tony knows, you know, he's making $1.6 million. He's one of the highest paid assistant coaches now in the Big Ten Conference, I believe top two or three now. So he's well paid. And I think another good year with this defense kind of sustaining what they did in year one. He's going to be up for some more jobs.

I mean, he'll be a head coach. It's a matter of just kind of when that process happens. So it's possible that Nebraska can split the L.A. teams. And we don't we actually don't actually know what USC is going to be. I mean, I'm curious. I mentioned this on the show yesterday. Does Lincoln Riley have the benefit of the doubt anymore? Because we came into last season going, oh, they just got to get the defense a little bit better.

They got Caleb Williams back. Now they don't bring Caleb Williams back. You know, it's, it's Miller Moss or, you you know it might be the transfer from nevada but we don't know what that's going to look like deanton lynn we think is going to improve their defense but again believe it when we see it like it other than ohio state i don't see a guaranteed loss on this schedule which is wild considering nebraska hasn't been to a bowl game since when? 2016. Wow. I mean, I think Iowa, you know,

if they were still doing West and East divisions, I think Iowa would be the heavy favorite to win a West division again. I mean, I do think the Hawkeyes return a lot, you know, with McNamara and some of the key guys coming back on their team. But Nebraska's played them so well lately. That's the thing i i can't i i can't automatically plug in iowa as beating nebraska and i love the la stretch for nebraska because you get ucla in lincoln and deep november so i kind of say that's advantage traditional big 10 team when you bring a team like that into possibly cold conditions, then Nebraska goes out to LA for USC and their offense won't be limited. You know, when you play

a November 15th game in the Big Ten, you might have to cut your playbook down to nothing because of the winds and the cold. Well, Nebraska gets to go out to LA, play USC. You get the full version of Dylan Ryle on that game where we've seen games in late November in this league where you have to really scale down what you do because of the cold and the wind conditions that time of year. Yeah, it is amazing to think about that and how UCLA and USC have to adjust. I don't know that Washington and Oregon have to adjust as much because they get pretty cold there as well. But it's funny because you go. Yeah, they go to L.A. and then a week later, they're back against Wisconsin in a game that both teams should feel very comfortable in.

Right. Yeah. And you never sometimes it can be 60 degrees that time of year. Other times it can be below 20 with 30 mile an hour winds out of the north. And when that's happening in the stadium, you know, it really changes special teams. It changes how you throw the ball down the field and what you do, and you better be able to run the ball and you better be able to stop the run. And I think Nebraska is built to do those things right now. They return a great offensive line group, a very good defensive front, and they're deep at running back.

So they are built for those kinds of games but I love the fact that when they go to USC Dylan Raiola more than likely will have a nice 70 degree night in LA that to play which doesn't always happen in late November in the Big Ten Conference it does now baby it does now well and like Wisconsin's an interesting one because that's one we we don't know what they're going to be. We saw the first taste of the Luke Fickle team last year with that offense that Phil Longo runs. I am of the opinion that if Wisconsin does develop some team speed on the outside, that they're going to be a pretty tough offense to stop. But Nebraska is actually kind of defense that's built to stop an offense like that.

Yeah, their defense matched up. I mean, the mobility last year of Wisconsin's quarterback is what hurt them. I mean, they played well enough to win that game in Madison, the way they jumped up with Chubba Purdy's quick start. And, you know, they had a chance to win it in regulation. They lost it in overtimes. So that one, yeah, just like the Iowa game, I mean, Nebraska's been right there with Wisconsin. I think if the Badgers make a jump, it's going to be on defense.

I mean, look at what they did in the portal. You can argue that they brought in by far the best linebacker group in the portal with three highly rated guys joining that roster. So that's probably been the most impressive thing from afar is watching what they've been able to do in the portal as he's upgraded that roster there in Madison. Well, and I just think this is going to be a fascinating year they've been able to do in the portal as he's upgraded that roster there in madison well and i i just think this is going to be a fascinating year for all of these former big ten west teams

because we've talked about it with with wisconsin like clearly they are trying to not be a big ten west quote unquote team anymore they want to be able to to compete with the ohio states and the penn states and the Oregons. Nebraska doesn't seem like that. I mean, Rule's been in the Big 12. He designed a team at Baylor to compete in the Big 12. He designed a team at Temple to compete in the American. He seems to kind of figure out what the lay of the land looks like. But I am fascinated to see what Iowa and Illinois and Minnesota, and I know Nebraska doesn't have minnesota this year but but what what do those teams look like because their personality was built for the west and the west doesn't exist anymore yeah if you don't kind of advance your thinking here you are going to be

trapped in this kind of six to seven win purgatory in the big ten where it's going to be hard to advance out of that level um you know to get get up to that next year 8, 9, 10 win type program, you're going to have to beat some really good teams. You're going to have to beat teams that recruit at a high, high level, develop at a high level, have great coaches. And, you know, the Big Ten West kind of allowed you to maybe bump yourself up to a 9 win type season, maybe a 10 win season. Those type of years aren't going to be easy to come by now

in this 18-team conference. And we were talking off talking off air might be 20 by the summer you never know if Florida State North Carolina and some of these ACC teams join the league down the road so yeah it's going to be hard to to get to a nine win type team in this new conference yeah I mean you've got to recruit differently you've got to think differently and I I that's where rule coming in when he did probably helps because he had one year of the big 10 west but not enough to kind of color his judgment about what the program has to look like he probably came in with the idea of i got to get it ready for what's coming and then you think about the injuries he battled with quarterbacks and running backs and all of his top receivers were down i mean he lost his top running backs his top receivers and the transfer quarterback they

went all in on bust um so his year one just to even get five wins um and they should have made a bowl that's that's the disappointing thing they could have probably won seven or eight games um and and i think that's what upsets a lot of husker fans how close they were to getting back to a bowl but if that would have played out, maybe they don't get Dylan Raiola. I think the way the quarterback spot reopened itself back up because Chubba Purdy, Jeff Sims, Heiner Carberg really never grasped it. That probably played as big of a factor of getting Dylan Raiola. So you can argue that the way things ended probably played a huge factor to get Riala to Lincoln yeah it definitely feels like early playing time was was very important to Riala because if you look at the timing of of the flip from Georgia coincides pretty closely with when Carson Beck

made a definitive decision to come back where obviously that job was not going to be open this year so you know this is like you said, Ryola's show. What's it been like for him in Lincoln early on? Is he is he as big of a rock star as you would imagine? Yeah, I mean, he's everywhere. I mean, you know, he's already probably having to go into back doors and wear hats around town because, I mean, he's more recognizable than anybody in this town. And I mean, I was coaching a first grade girls basketball game and one of those giant multi-gym complexes and he rolled in and you know took a bunch of pictures with a group of second grade boys and and autographs and you know you see him sitting courtside at basketball games next to the

athletic director of trev alberts i mean it's it's been wild just to think the first month what it's been like for him here and obviously the, you know, we don't know the terms, but we know he's got a significant NIL agreement with the 1890 Collective and other things in place. So he's unlike any other student athlete that's probably come on this campus in a long, long time, especially in the NIL era. Reminds me a little bit of when I was covering Florida

and Tim Tebow was a freshman. And my wife and I are in Best Buy. And this is, so he's played the majority of his freshman season at that point. So it's between the regular season and the bowl game. And my wife and I are in Best Buy. And as we're walking out, we see Tim and his older brother walking in.

And I just kind of pointed out to her, I was like, hey, that's Tim Tebow. And she's like, oh, that's interesting. So we walk out and I ran into uh the wife of one of the assistant coaches a couple days later and i said yeah we saw tim at uh at best buy the other day and she goes you know i had to call the cops to get him out of there right i was like that but that's that's what happens in some of these campuses when when you have that highly touted kind of savior the program quarterback well and he was identified as a freshman in high school, and that helps add to the marketing of a guy like Raiola.

When fan bases learn your name when they're that young and follow you through, there's obviously been a lot of drama with how his recruiting process played out. I don't know if there's ever been a more recognizable recruit come to campus in Nebraska in a long, long time. Well, it's going to be fascinating to see what happens. been a more recognizable recruit come to campus in Nebraska in a long, long time. Well, it's going to be fascinating to see what happens. And it's interesting because it feels like that defense will take some pressure off him. And you're like, we keep talking about him, but somebody like Nash Hutmacher will be the one who kind of helps him along because

he won't have to score as many points. Well, and remember, Rule wants to run the ball. He wants to play with tight ends and a fullback. I mean, he uses that San Francisco 49ers model as the style he wants to play on. I mean, that's how they want to build their team with interchangeable parts, you know, guys that can come in and play tight end,

fullback, receiver, running backs. And he believes, like like that's their their way that they can build a winning roster so yeah rio is going to be a huge part of it if he wins the job and everything goes fine but they want to have a lot around him too yeah and we know that rule like he has this fullback camp to go find his kyle use check the question is can you can you get your christian mccaffin your debo samuel that's the the tricky part yeah i know you're right the fullback camp's back by the way and and all right and the in the postgraduate camp and they they found like two players from that camp uh james williams who had some sacks and games this year from like the

postgraduate just show up and try out camp wow it's it's amazing and it's a little old school flavor from nebraska you know the program that had the best walk-on program in the country like they they seem to that's the interesting is rule does seem to have embraced the things that nebraskans love about their program but he's also trying to to build it for the new big tent when they can also pay walk-ons now and that that's the thing i mean the collective has been huge i mean there's probably three or four guys they signed as walk-ons that would have been scholarship level guy any other year but because of the flexibility of nil they can get these guys in

as walk-ons and then they can enter some nil agreements it is a brave new world of college football, Sean Callahan. And it might be a world where Nebraska can go over nine and a half, excuse me, nine and a half. I'm mixing Nebraska and Miami up there. Miami is actually nine and a half. Nebraska might be able to go over seven and a half, which I think they'll take over nine and a half, but I think they'll also take over seven and a half right now. People would take six a trip to detroit right now i mean just get to a bowl game i mean that that's the first step this program needs to get back to kind of build what they want to be well m m has a restaurant at ford field called mom's spaghetti so if they were to make it there there you go although you go over seven and a half the bowl destination probably gets a little

warmer steve simple's in the background he just got excited about that detroit report so that's the way to do it get get excited about detroit and if you wind up in tampa that's just all gravy i'm looking for it should be a fun year and um spring ball doesn't start until the end of march so we've kind of got about six weeks of just dog days before spring ball. That's just more time to get excited about Dylan Raiola. Thank you, Sean. Thanks, Eddie. All right.

After the deep dive into the Nebraska schedule, I am feeling a little more confident about that seven and a half. And I also am a believer that luck sort of balances out. And that was not a lucky team last year. That was a team that there were a couple games probably could have swung with a different balance of the ball. And I do feel like those things even out. So kind of like the, like the over in that one and did not think I'd hear myself saying that when I first saw it, but it is a very interesting number. Another number that I think is about right,

but I kind of expected it to be a little higher is Ole Miss. So they are at nine and a half and Ole Miss obviously made it to New Year's Six Bowl, brings a ton of people back, also added a lot through the transfer portal. Huge expectations for Lane Kiffin's team in 2024. We talked to Zach Berry from OM Spirit about that nine and a half, and how do you feel about going toward double digits? We welcome Zach Berry of OM Spirit, and win totals week continues because Vandal dropped all these win totals on us, and we – well, first of all, the Super Bowl just ended.

There's no football for a good long time. We need to think about football. We need to think party positive football thoughts, Zach. So what better way than to try to figure out how does Ole Miss get over nine and a half wins? Because that is the total has been set. That is the same as Alabama, the same as LSU. And the only two schools in the SEC that have a higher projected win total, Georgia and Texas at 10 and a half. So interesting spot. That's not where Ole Miss is used to starting the season, but given the way last season ended,

given everybody who's back, it feels like the right spot. Do you have that stat handy when the last time Alabama's win total was this low? 2016. Okay, so it's kind of recent. Yeah, they were losing Derrick Henry. They were losing a ton on the defense. They were losing Kenny and Drake.

You didn't know who the quarterback was going to be because, remember, Hurts was a freshman. So everybody was thinking it was Blake Barnett. Yep. Kiffin had just left. Yeah. Full circle. Full circle.

That's exactly right. You know, we talk a lot about it on our show. I believe you and I have briefly touched on it. I think this is Ole Miss, Jackson Dart coined the phrase, you know, kind of stealing from Michael Jordan, calling it the last dance. A lot of guys came back on this team. They added a ton in the portal. And, look, I do think this is the window for Lane Kiffin.

I think this is when you have to strike and you have to take advantage with, in my opinion, the two toughest games on the schedule are at home in Georgia and Oklahoma. You get Georgia November 9th and Oklahoma late October. You get a nice runway in the beginning of the year with four, I call them cupcakes, Furman, MTSU, Wake Forest. At Wake is not anywhere near as dangerous

as it was in recent years. Yeah, two or three years ago, you're looking at that like a coin flip, but now you're not thinking that way. And then Georgia Southern, and then you go head first into SEC play. Yeah, I think 10-2 is absolutely a realistic thing. And I know with FanDuel, with the 9.5 at the hook, it makes it tricky because let's say Ole Miss loses one. It's not supposed to.

Or, you know, there's some injury concerns. You know, guys are banged up. They lose a tight one. You know, last second field goal type deal, nine and three. I'm still sticking with 10 and two. I think the amount of talent and experience coming back on offense and then the added firepower of Juice Wells. The word is still that Logan Diggs is going to be ready by conference play. I don't know if that'll be Kentucky or if it'll be into October.

But I know there's been some back and forth on that. You know, how's the knee? Is he going to be ready? I think that's just an added bonus, Andy. I think Ulysses Bentley is more than capable of being a number one guy. And it's not talked about enough, but Ole Miss really likes the true sophomore that will be behind him. And Kedrick Ruscano, four-star guy from Texas that Ole Miss beat out a ton of really good programs for. He's just chomping at the bit waiting for his turn.

So Diggs would be an excellent addition to that backfield as you get into SEC play. And I also anticipate Ole Miss at least kicking the tires a little bit in the spring period in the portal if there's any guys that get in. So I would go over. I feel pretty confident with the defensive additions and Jackson Dart in the third year. And what makes that so interesting is in the new SEC, in the new playoff format, 10-2 in the SEC feels like you're asking are they going to make the playoff or not because if they're 10 and two I would think they're in I would think I would

think so um you know in in truly nine and three nowhere near a guarantee but depending on what especially with their non-conference schedule yeah if it. If it's a weird year where it's a bunch of people are losing, it'll be top heavy. It's always going to be top heavy with at least two or three people running. Michigan, Ohio State running the table. Maybe you have somebody in the ACC, Florida State, keeps pace with what Norvell's built down there. But, yeah, I mean, if it gets kind of bogged down

around that, you know, six, seven, eight seed range, that could be something that you could slide in there, you know, depending on, you know, I don't, do you know, Andy, the metrics that the committee looks at? Because I feel like it changes every year. It's allegedly the same ones. It's supposed to be 12 best and not 12 most deserving or anything like that.

What will be interesting to see, like I am curious, like you just mentioned, what are they going to use? Because I do think strength of schedule probably should matter quite a bit more here. And a nine and three team that played a brutally tough schedule or a nine and three team that played a brutally tough

schedule or a nine and three team that played what is perceived to be an easier schedule. I would think that would be an easy tiebreaker for you. So that the, the, and Ole Miss, I mean, as these things go,

got a nice draw from the sec and their non-conference is not so bad. Like you think about it, they get George at home, They get Georgia at home. They get Oklahoma at home. Kentucky, South Carolina, not too bad. At Florida, Lord knows what Florida is going to be at that point in the season because they will be in the teeth of one of the worst stretches of schedule you've ever seen in your life.

It's so bad. Yeah, it is terrible. Nick Del Torre and I talked about it this week. Every time you look at it, it is terrible. Nick Del Tori and I talked about it this week. And every time you look at it, it looks worse. Now, that said, you've got to go to the Swamp the week after you play Georgia. There is a, you know, do you get beat? Well, actually, there's an open date. That's right.

It's a two-open-date season. I keep forgetting that. I hate they don't put it in the schedule because Like, cause I don't want to do math. That's why it is. But it is, this is, this is fascinating because let's talk about what Ole Miss brings back. Cause we, we, we keep saying it, but I think offensively to, to help people understand Trey Harris had a great first season in Oxford and then had an NFL decision to make. He decides to come back.

Prescore in the tight end decides to come back. Everybody knows what happens with Quenchon Judkins. He left. Ulysses Bentley, who averaged 6 yards a carry, 6.7 yards a carry, is back. And then most of the line. Yeah, so bring back pretty much everybody up front. And then, oh, by the way, you add two guys from the Joe Moore award-winning offensive line from Washington and Nate Calipo, Julius Buelo.

You also bring in Jerquan Scott from Southern Miss. The guy's played a ton of football, experienced guy. That's going to be on the interior. Help with, you know, again, Kiffin. That's Kiffin's MO we're gonna run the football we're gonna be physical and then we'll set everything up off of that um but yeah i mean it got to the point last year where trey harris was just he was he was damn near automatic i mean in the peach bowl i was shocked that everybody in the bins knew number nine was getting the football.

And Penn State just couldn't stop it. I mean, it was nothing fancy. It was just an over route or a comeback or a curl. It wasn't a trick play, no window dressing. There was nothing fancy. Just, hey, he's our best guy, and we're just going to keep throwing it to him until you stop it. And Penn State couldn't do it.

And nobody really could last year. Well, and the juice wells edition is, is the one that it kind of depends on which juice wells you're getting. Are you getting the healthy version who was just, you know, unstoppable, or are you getting the one who has banged up for most of the season last year at South Carolina and you never really got to see it. There's a possibility that juice wells might be the best receiver in the SEC if he's healthy. Well, I think it's big for Ole Miss with Trey Harris and Jordan Watkins coming back. You're not having to ask Juice Wells,

hey, we need you to come in and be the dude and catch 10, 12 balls game. Now, he very well could catch 10, 12 balls game if people are just bracketing Trey Harris, taking away Jordan Watkins in the slot, but he's not having to be the number one dude. There's not a ton of pressure on him to get those touches every single week. But yeah, I think from what I've been told by people up in Columbia and around him, the foot is good. Um, and, and I, I think it's also fair to say that Ole Miss probably did their own research and make sure that he was good to go.

And that's kind of my thing with Logan Diggs too, is Ole Miss signed him expecting him to, you know, contribute. Um, but yeah. And then I don't think Priest-Korn gets talked about enough. He was banged up all last season, up and down. He had some off the field stuff with a death in the family that just incredible. I mean, just to play through that

and continue to improve. And by the time it got to the Peach Bowl, I mean, he was unstoppable. I think his presence in that offense, along with a guy like Daquan Wright from Virginia Tech, who is an athletic freak, Charles Power and Cody Belair loved him out of high school. He was a late bloomer, a really versatile ex-tight end who I think will compliment priest corns kind of throwback, you know, almost like a, like a Jeremy shocky type tight end who's a big physical possession guy.

Who's going to get those, those first downs for you. But Daquan writes a dude that can really spread the field and get out in space. So the offense, it's crazy to even think the offense is getting so much attention in the same cycle when the defense lands Walter Nolan, Princey Umami-Ellen, Pooh Paul, Trey Amos. I mean, the defensive additions are pretty loud as well. Well, and the defensive additions are pretty critical because offensively, we kind of know what we're getting from Ole Miss.

And obviously, if Juice Wells is a healthy version of himself, you're talking about an offense that could be as productive as maybe that LSU one last year when they had Jaden Daniels and Brian Thomas and Malik Nabors. But this one on defense, you saw in the Georgia game, it was like, okay, this is where Ole Miss is deficient. This is just upfront defensively. This is where they have to get better. And they did, they went out and got, so Prince Lee, a man, me, Ellen was, was one of Florida's better defensive linemen. He hopped in the portal

and then they picked him up. Walter Nolan, everybody knows, was the number one overall recruit, signed with Texas A&M. It was kind of up and down, but when he's on, he lives up to the hype. Yeah. You get the number one defensive lineman in the portal, the number two edge, the number three wide receiver. Trey Amos, I don't think, is getting enough pub. Oh, from Alabama, yeah.

I mean, when I talked with Travis Rayer from BOL, I was like, you've seen him. I want to hear what you have to say, but here's my scouting report. Nick Saban thinks that he's legit, so there you go. Well, yeah. When Terryon Arnold went out against Tennessee last year, they threw Trey Amos in and felt completely comfortable with him in their defense. And you saw how good that secondary was last year. So if he was good enough to hang in that secondary, he's going to be good enough to play pretty much anywhere. Yeah, I mean, he's the number one corner there any other year. Kool-Aid McKinstry and Terryon Arnold are NFL guys.

But, hey, in the SEC championship, Kool-Aid gets hurt. They bring him in, puts the clamps down on Brock Bowers. Had a couple big pass breakups late in that one. So, yeah, it's a seasoned guy. He was really good at Louisiana before he got to Alabama. So, again, the theme of experienced, older guys that are going to come in, know the deal, they're going to buy into the whole pro mindset, the culture that the locker room already has

with the returning production on defense. Because J.J. Pegues is back. Jared Ivey's back. T.J. Dudley got to play in the bowl game. He will be eligible for the full season, coming off the edge, playing some outside linebacker. So it's a defense that is still, you know, John Saunders is back. I think the secondary is going to be very different

and look very different. But I think, you know, Yam Banks is someone that doesn't get talked about a lot as a lot of these guys committed in kind of a flurry where it was two or three at a time where it was a lot of excitement, a lot of excitement. And then there are a couple of guys that don't get talked about enough, but Yam Banks, NFL scouts love him. He had a decision too and decided to play one more year back closer to home.

So it's going to be a fun defense. It's going to look very different, but I'm excited to see what Pete Golding does with them. Well, and the Lane Kiffin question is, is he going to start winning the games that maybe they aren't supposed to win? Because that's, they've gotten to the point where they're win the ones they're supposed to win now.

And last year it was Alabama and Georgia. Okay. Cause you get over the hump and it doesn't happen this year it's probably you're probably it will definitely Georgia at home I honestly don't know if there's another one of those because I think Oklahoma depending on where they're at Ole Miss good chance of favor in that game at LSU we don't know what lsu is going to be yeah and that's mid-october it's on the road so winning on the road in the sec is hard no matter what that's the big thing that you i'm sure you've talked about plenty with people with texas and oklahoma i've heard

uh a couple you know national guys um you know shout out to to roddy jones he mentioned it on a show a couple months ago where you know hey texas and oklahoma you're not going to have these sleepy road games anymore where people are you know reading a novel and just kicking back and this is going to be week in week out raucous environments especially texas no disrespect to oklahoma but i mean texas is going to be everybody's Super Bowl this year. Everybody hates Texas. Even teams that have never played them before hate them. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, I think that's a very underestimated thing that people are talking about it.

But I think once it's a tangible thing that you can see on a Saturday where, and I know Quinn Ewers in Texas beat Bama in Tuscaloosa already, so they can do it, but week in, week out. Yeah. It's actually funny with Texas because sort of the knock on Texas was they would play up or down relative to the level of competition. You almost worry with Texas, if they come into a hyped road environment against an inferior opponent, they're like oh we are supposed to show up today and so yeah although i i think they've probably solved that like the consistency feels there with texas we don't know yet with oklahoma like it's interesting

that you mentioned kind of the sleepy somebody reading a book well now i wasn't reading a book i believe it was knitting at kansas a few years ago uh the book reading guy was at florida state back in the willie tag yeah but the there was a there was a young lady knitting uh while while the kansas game was going on that doesn't happen anymore either as oklahoma learned the hard way last year so yeah it's it's gonna be wasn't it a couple years ago in oklahoma or excuse me k, just let people into games for free? Yes, yes. I've been to a game in Kansas when they were terrible, and it is friends and family only back then.

Now they love it. Lance Leipold's done an incredible job, and they bring people. But what Oklahoma and Texas are walking into, what they will see, well, but what, what Oklahoma and Texas were walking into, like what they, what they will see if, well, Texas knows about at Arkansas, they just went there a few years ago, but like when you go to Fayetteville, when you go to Oxford, when you go to Starkville, like it's going to be wild every single time. Yeah. Well, I was talking with some guys last night about Oklahoma's schedule. Um, and it's pretty tough too. Yes. The non-conference is whatever.

But hosting Tennessee September 21st at Auburn, then you get a bye, then you get the Red River game against Texas, host South Carolina at Ole Miss, you get a break with Maine at Missouri. Then you get an open date hosting Alabama at LSU to close. Brutal. I mean, even with the Maine and the open date, like, it's just – we talk about it all the time. And, look, I hate to do the, like well we we we know about it we've lived

it like you're gonna find out but like that's true i mean just it just pounds you just weekend and like it's impossible to get through a year without getting banged up and that's what it's so important to mention that when talking about these win totals is, you know, Jackson Dart dude is, is tough as hell, but he is yet to go through a season without being banged up. And you're going to run if you're an Ole Miss quarterback in this offense. Yeah. Yeah. And look, I don't know if Kiffin's had these conversations with, with Jackson Dart. I know his, I know his dad has joked about it, but it's like, man, you got to slide. You got to get to, I mean, he did it in the Georgia game.

Andy Ole Miss is down 30 points, and he tries to run over two Georgia guys. And he did, but he also got hurt. So that linebacker mentality at quarterback gets you into trouble. Is Walker Howard the next guy if that happens? Yeah, I think so. It's interesting with Austin Simmons, the kid from Florida that almost flipped from Florida, that jumped up two classes. The staff loves him, raves about him. And talking with him, he doesn't sound like an 18-year-old.

He sounds like he's 21 years old, 22, very mature kid. But, yeah, Walker Howard would be next man up. And I know that they're excited about him as well, obviously. But yeah, it's just, it's tough. And how's Jackson Arnold going to respond on the road, down 10 with eight minutes to go type thing? Yeah. Incredibly talented talented no doubt about

all miss fans just had flashbacks to johnny manziel his his heisman year golly mike hilton probably still wakes up in a cold sweat all the time that was cold-blooded what what he did to all miss that year it It was unbelievable. But this is a different, like that's the thing, like this feels different for Ole Miss because even in the freeze years when they had a pretty good, pretty talented team, there was still those moments where it's like, oh, they're plucky Ole Miss.

They're not supposed to be here. Like they will walk into this season where they are supposed to be one of the best teams in the country. Yeah. I think that's one of the bigger things about the experience and the older player that Ole Miss has targeted out of the portal. Outside of, I think I went down the line and looked at it, outside of Amorian Walker, the corner from Michigan. Pretty much everybody in this portal class are experienced dudes that have played, started at least a full year or played multiple years.

So, yeah, the expectation of, hey, we're no longer the underdog. We are the hunted now. I think Ole Miss, they were the hunted for most of last year but you're still the alabama the georgia like no one expects you to to get it done you're not expected to win this game it's just hey free shot like that was that was the term that was used all the time with with old miss when they were you know the spunky underdog now you're you're you're getting some some early preseason odds to, to win it all. So how do they manage those expectations in the locker room and, you know, staying up

every week, um, you know, with some of those sec games that, Hey, you might be a nine and a half, 10 point favorite. Yep. Now better, better get used to it. Cause I, I think Lane's kind of figured out this system. Now, maybe the system changes as we're recording this. They just had a hearing in Tennessee that potentially could change the NIL rules. But it feels like Ole Miss is one of the best at dealing with this new system and navigating it.

So, I mean, until something materially changes, they're probably going to be able to put together some pretty good rosters. And like you said, the get old stale mentality, it's like it's like basketball. It's like, you know, the that's what the basketball coaches always want, because they feel like that team's gonna be tougher in March, like, and Ole Miss has, I think, has more depth than we've seen in a long time for sure yeah especially on both sides now with the offensive linemen that were picked up in the

portal um because Ole Miss has some dudes on the offensive line already that have played a ton of football played a lot last year now you bring in two guys from Washington, played a lot of football, going to compete. That's been Kiffin's whole mantra since he got to Ole Miss. We saw it last year. They get Spencer Sanders, they get Walker Howard, they get Austin Simmons. Why do you have so many quarterbacks? Kiffin's, I'm just going to find who the best guy is. Yeah, because they're going to transfer anyway if it doesn't work out. Like like you don't need to be sentimental about it. It's, I mean,

it's fine. It's the lottery ticket mentality, like in baseball recruiting. Yeah, sure. You sign all these guys for your, your baseball class. Okay.

Maybe the top four or five are probably going to go pro, but what if they don't? Right. What if two, what if two pitchers decide to come play for you? Now you got them for three years. I think you're right. It's amazing how different coaches have approached all of this differently.

But Lane Kiffin, Mike Norvell, those guys seem to have figured out this is how it works best. It's a good – look, nobody's better at segues than you, Andy. I wrote a piece the other day drawing some parallels with the Florida State team this past year with Ole Miss with some guys at crucial spots and how basically Norvell and the Knowles built to last year. And we all know what happened, but the Jared verse coming back, getting Braden Fisk,

getting Keon Coleman, um, that they had all of these high caliber instant impact transfers that just knock it out of the park, play lights out. They run the tape. Braden Fisk and Keon Coleman are top 100 NFL draft picks. Like they are very good play and maybe, maybe top 50. And that's exactly, I mean, that's what, that's your juice wells. Like juice wells, Keon Coleman is, is, is the hope you hope that juice wells.

Yeah. Does for Ole Miss what Keon Coleman did. Yeah. I mean, that's, you're exactly right. Well, Zach, I think you may have convinced me. I think I may be able to go over on Ole Miss too. Because it is literally FanDuel asking the question, do you think Ole Miss is going to make the playoff?

Pretty much, yeah. I look at the schedule, and i think it's a distinct possibility so zach berry thank you so much yep see you thank you to zach berry of om spirit thank you to sean callahan of husker online we're doing some more of these deep dives into the schedules because this is so much fun and i it's got me pumped for this season. I know it's a long time. I realized they just played the Super Bowl. It's a long time till we get another football game,

but this is helping me get through these days. And I just love diving into these schedules because it's so different. This is gonna be such a different season. It's gonna be very exciting. It's going to be very exciting. You know, this is very exciting. Tomorrow is a Dear Andy show, which means you drive the show. You decide what we talk about.

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