Andy & Ari On3 - Coach Prime and Colorado shock the world | North Carolina is still sacking Spencer Rattler | Michael Penix Jr. torches Boise State

Episode Date: September 3, 2023

Deion Sanders made his Colorado debut at TCU, and what a debut it was. Receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter turned in the best two-way performance in decades and QB Shedeur Sanders threw for 510 yards in a 45-42 win. Michigan crushed East Carolina under interim coach Jesse Minter.Tennessee easily handled Virginia.Oklahoma smoked Arkansas State and got an entire half of experience for Jackson Arnold.Washington's Michael Penix Jr. picked up right where he left off. Last year's FBS passing yardage leader threw for 450 yards and five touchdowns in the Huskies' season-opening win.Meanwhile, Kyle McCord took most of the snaps for Ohio State as the Buckeyes beat Indiana 23-3. Wisconsin opened the Luke Fickell era by running all over Buffalo.Texas tuned up for Alabama by dominating Rice.Plus, some comments from Coach Prime’s postgame press conference.North Carolina's defense was the butt of jokes last season, but it came out strong Saturday. The Tar Heels sacked South Carolina QB Spencer Rattler nine times in a 31-17 win in Charlotte. Meanwhile, UNC QB Drake Maye looked comfortable and in command.Drew Allar didn't play a perfect game in his debut as Penn State's QB1, but he showed why his ceiling is considered so high. Meanwhile, Penn State's defense was solid in a win against West Virginia.In Waco, Texas State stunned Baylor in G.J. Kinne's debut as the Bobcats' head coach.Alabama started Jalen Milroe and played him until the end of the third quarter of a blowout win against Middle Tennessee. It sure seems Milroe will be the guy who starts against Texas.

fourth and seven blitz comes peasley hit as he throws it's good touchdown wyoming happy sunday morning welcome to andy staples on three you just heard andrew peasley throwing the touchdown that didn't quite win the game for Wyoming against Texas Tech. That required a two-point conversion that was perfectly blocked right afterward. But what a game. What an end to the first Saturday of week one. It was glorious.

Beautiful finish. Texas Tech took a big lead on Wyoming. Wyoming stormed back. Texas Tech found their offense, tied the game, forced overtime. And then with a hurt quarterback and a hurt long snapper, the Cowboys won it. And Laredyce was partying. It was a beautiful scene, a beautiful way to close out the first saturday of week one but we really have to go back to the beginning because that's what we got to talk about and so the format for these

shows is going to be a little bit different than it was last year last year we would get together at the end of the night talk about all the games but it was very hard to remember everything so now we're doing instant reaction shows after each window of games so you will hear fresh takes right as they happened and then go through the day with us of course this particular saturday the earth-shattering game happened in the noon eastern time window that was colorado going to Fort Worth and beating TCU. Jesse Saminton and I broke that all down. Coach Prime, Shador Sanders, Travis Hunter with maybe the best two-way performance in, I don't know,

five decades, six decades. Somebody with a leather helmet was probably the last guy to have as good of a two-way performance as Travis Hunter had Saturday at TCU it was incredible let's break it down welcome to the instant reaction show from Andy Staples on three I'm Andy he's Jesse Simonton and we just watched Coach Prime go beat TCU. Four 100-yard receivers. Travis Hunter with the best two-way performance we've seen in college football

since I don't know when. Deion Sedlow put a hot tub on the plane for him. No gimmick. Got the receipts. I mean, I'm still coming down from that that was I I was totally wrong I had TCU minus 20 because I just thought this is a team that punted literally legitimately punted on spring practice 50 some odd new players obviously a brand new coaching staff we don't know what Shadur Sanders is going to look like uh you know making the transition and it was remarkable and I mean a transcendent performance

by Travis Hunter was just one of many unbelievable things in this game but man Fox got their money's worth for the big new kickoff to start the season. I thought they would be better, but I thought it would take a while for them to get competitive and that they'd need another year or so to get the kind of linemen that you need to be good at this level. They schemed around it for the most part. You know, Sean Lewis, that offense looked a lot like the Kent State offense, but they snapped it fast.

Shador Sanders got the ball out of his hands very fast. They didn't ask too much of that offensive line. But honestly, they protected him well when he needed time. Well, not only that, I think, you know, Sean Lewis, I thought, did a masterful job manipulating the pocket where he kind of really moved it around on TCU's front. And while they obviously did wear down late, they got the ball into their playmaker's hands.

And it was, hey, these are the two plays. Either run around and throw the ball to Travis Hunter and Jimmy Horn or toss it out short and let maybe the fastest guy on the field in Dillon go run and just scoot three touchdowns. Unbelievable. Well, and I mean, Dylan Edwards was incredible. That's his first college game. And he played high school football in Kansas,

but Dion had known him since he was four years old. And when he flipped to Colorado, it was a big deal. And the thing is, like, all of the recruiting wins that Dion got seem to have come through. Jeff Fuller in the chat, when was the last time the hiring of a coach was validated after one game? I don't care what Colorado does the rest of this year. They've been horrible in seasons prior. Holy cow.

That's the truth. This team was awful. Awful. And they just went and beat the team that played for the national title last year. I mean, this is also, you know, Dion, that opening salvo that he delivered to his team, you know, that went viral way back in December when he took it over. Still had a game to coach at Jackson State, and that was where he delivered the famous, I'm coming, I'm bringing my Louie. But what's hilarious about that message is that when you go

back and read the words that he said i mean he really did deliver on he has the receipts because he delivered on everything he said now the irony is that room basically has five people still on the roster today because it has been largely uh you know what washed completely. But, I mean, to talk as much talk as he did and to back it up, to walk the walk in one game, you know, on the road, 110-degree field, just, I mean, I did not see that coming. And I still am just stunned. And it was so much fun. I mean,

this is what college, this is what we've been waiting nine months for. Did you see who was watching the game? That's the thing. Deion Sanders is like, he has that Tim Tebow, uh, that,

that like Bill Simmons tweeting. Yeah. Like everything he does, people want to watch. And it was people who don't watch college football that were watching this game and talking about it. So Shador Sanders, by the way, 38 of 47 for 510 yards with four touchdowns. That is incredible.

Just incredible. And he said after the game that people were know people were like oh you're f you know hbcu quarterback i've never thrown for this many yards in high school or an hbcu game yeah first first sbs performance well and the thing is we watched nebraska play on thursday night jesse this team can play with nebr Like this team could beat Nebraska. Don't you think they're going to be favored? Maybe. They very well might because Nebraska's offense didn't look very functional against Minnesota's defense.

So it is amazing how much it has changed. I thought he would be able to win eventually there. I did not think they'd be able to win immediately there. That's the part I think is the most amazing to me. Well, let me rattle off. And I agree with that too. Long-term, I thought that this was going to be a successful, whether he turned them into some top flight program or he was able to use it as a launching point. I do think that Dion was going to be a success. I was just incredibly impressed. and I tweeted it at halftime, just how well coached and crisply competent they looked.

And this is – I mean, TCU was the team racking up all the penalties. TCU was the team making kind of the self-inflicted mistakes, whereas Colorado, yeah, they wore down. Depth is going to be a problem for this team all year but they were not getting in their own way and lo and behold you make just enough plays you get the one stop to tackle on fourth and nine and you pull off a 20 something point upset nathan mirror in the chat all due respect to al michaels but now i believe in maris this is this is the thing this is the type of game that gets a bigger audience to college football because we talked

about dion all season he moves the meter but everybody's watching you know kevin durant's watching this game people who like i saw rich eisen tweeting about it during a michigan game by the way rich eisen doesn't usually uh veer away from the michigan games but coach prime is going to be the show and if they're winning and i still like even after what i saw today i'm still not convinced they're going to be competitive in the pac-12 because that schedule's pretty hard. As you said, the deeper they get, the thinner the roster will probably look. But, I mean, they came out and showed that they have athletes. And the thing is, like, Travis Hunter and Dylan Edwards can compete with anybody. Like, they can play with anybody.

Travis Hunter was the number one recruit in the country for a reason. Yeah, imagine him on Floridaida state tomorrow night cool i mean think about that you wouldn't be playing that much but okay so i asked this question during the game on on twitter and got a lot of good answers who who has delivered this kind of two-way performance in college football in recent years and uh chris gamble from from Ohio State the that national title team in 2002 was probably the the closest champ Bailey Miles Jack when he had to play running back for UCLA where he was you know running for 100 yards and making 13 tackles in the same game but I don't think I've ever seen anything like that in this era I mean we didn't we weren't alive when dudes were wearing leather

helmets and doing that yeah i mean i tweeted at you i i tweeted at you the first my first thought was chant bailey because he wasn't all-american that year and he led a nine and three georgia team and receiving with like 800 yards or something but i think if if edward if hunter plays like this he's to topple those numbers by week 10. He was clearly Shador's favorite target. You watch Succession, Andy? Oh, yeah. You're a Succession fan?

With how Shador Sanders performed today, I think we've now officially reached the Pac-12 quarterbacks are your favorite Succession character. Everybody's awesome. Everybody's awesome, and and everybody's gonna have their own flavor you're you may some are gonna like kendall roy some are gonna like logan maybe you're a shiv fan but i mean with sanders now throwing for 500 yards you throw his name in the list with bo nicks pennix obviously caleb williams is gonna be kind of the star i think he probably is the kend Kendall, but maybe you're a Roman guy. And now Shador Sandoz.

I mean, it's just, I think Shador is the Alexander Skarsgård character that comes in and buys. There you go. Okay. He's the, he's the guy that, that, that manipulates it at the end. Yeah, exactly. It is, it is very exciting to think about this because I said on the show this week, if Dion wins four games this year, five games this year, build the man a statue. If he takes him to a bowl game, you start putting bricks in there right now.

Put the hot tub in the plane, put the statue out in front of the stadium. Just do it right now. I got a text, Jesse, from somebody right after this game ended. How dumb are Georgia Tech people when they could have probably had Deion Sanders if they had really tried to get him? Or South Florida. Auburn? Or Louisville. Auburn?

Yeah, Auburn. I think he was going to be fine there, but still. I mean, again, the guy literally – when's the last time something has been this hyped up and delivered this? Is it like the iPhone? Yeah, that's probably it. I mean, is it something like that that was like this hyped up that literally on day one,

everyone was like, well, yep, totally checks out. No lies told. So here's a stat. Colorado had two 100 yard receiving performances last season for the entire season Dylan Edwards Travis Hunter Xavier Weaver and Jimmy Horn Jr. all went over 100 on Saturday here's another stat for you I saw right at the end of the game uh Dylan Edwards had four touchdowns today, four total touchdowns. Colorado's best player a year ago for the entire 2022 season had four touchdowns.

Led the team. It's amazing. Oh, man. Here we go, Sam. Let's pump the brakes and see how this plays out. No, we're not pumping the brakes, Sam. It's week one. We're overreacting.

That's what we're supposed to do. We only get 12 data points. I mean, you have to overreact a little bit, and that's the fun of this whole deal. Again, no one was picking them to not only win today, but they were 21-point underdogs. So Drano Love in the chat, we're not going to talk about how bad Bryles was.

Okay, so one thing I will say about, about Kendall Bryles and the, and the TCU play calling, there was a point where I might've been yelling at my TV. It's 115 degrees on the field. Your offensive linemen are bigger than them. Just run the ball. But honestly,

they were moving the ball. Fine. It wasn't like they weren't until that last drive. They got stuck. Yeah. I would say that I thought Kendall and I tweeted it during the middle of the game too. You know, moving the ball fine it wasn't like they weren't until that last drive they got stuck yeah i would say that i i thought kindle and i tweeted it during the middle of the game too you know the mike bobo run the damn ball i mean come on like especially because uh i think those backs not only

um the transfer frent sanders from alabama but uh bailey you know had some wiggle back there and some big plays. The bigger concern for TCU is as good as Shador was, this is not going to be the best offensive line, obviously, the Horned Frogs are going to face. And Joe Gillespie's defense couldn't do anything. That 3-3-5 stack was just giving up so much. I think a lot of it was Shador, though, because they could move the pocket around. Yeah, because they're not going to play. They'll play some court.

Now, Dylan Gabriel can move pretty well. Actually, no, I don't think Oklahoma has TCU. But, yeah, they're going to play some mobile quarterbacks in the Big 12. So I think they're going to have to figure out how to deal with that. But, yeah, somebody in the chat said, oh, here we go, have to they're gonna have to figure out how to deal with that but yeah it's somebody somebody in the chat said oh here we go philip smash mouth a majority of the bus remaining schedule will be a cake no it will not no the rest of this month yeah no this is the rest of this month is tough so but this is this is the most excited i've been about something because

again i'm not i was never a dion hater or a dion doubter i thought he'd be successful long term at colorado i just didn't think he'd be successful right away and the fact that he is doing this now makes me wonder how good can it be and how fast yeah because again again i think i think it bears repeating andy because i mean you've covered this sport for so long i've been around it for a good while now neither of us probably could ever remember a team that literally just said we're gonna just punt on spring practice yeah because by by adding 50 new players after the spring, kicking off that many guys are running in what, however you want to,

you know, label it. The fact that this literally was a brand new program, basically starting, you know, in May on May 1st. And to, to have the goods come to this fruition this quickly,

it's insane. Be being as Andy, why didn't the Gators to this fruition this quickly. It's insane. Be being asked, Andy, why didn't the Gators hire Dion? Oh boy. That's a whole nother show. Whole nother show. But yeah, this is going to be very exciting. And you do wonder now where the ceiling is for Colorado. And I realize it's one game.

I realize that there was no film on these guys but I'll go back to that the offense didn't look that different from the what Kent State ran with Sean Lewis so it's just there are faster people running it and and a better quarterback running it no offense to Colin Schley but that's it's the tapes there. TC just couldn't stop it. No. And, and, you know, I mean, C fist and some of the, and you know, Des Walker are two really good receivers from Kent state a year ago,

obviously Walker's name, you know, the NCAA completely screwing him. C fist is going to make his debut with Penn state tonight. But you run at that go-go speed, and you then marry that with the speed of Travis Hunter, Jimmy Horn, Dylan. I mean, Colorado's going to score points all season. I think we know that. That's a truism that you absolutely can take away from this game. They're probably going to be highly entertaining to the casual fan as well because they're probably going to give up points all season. That's the other part of this.

I think we're going to see quite a few of these games, and great. I can't wait because the rest of the early afternoon window, Jesse, was not so exciting. Let me throw a score up here for you. Let me throw a score on the screen for you. Oh, yeah. Oklahoma 73, Arkansas state, nothing. Did they let Butch get on the plane? Well, general booty got in the game. That's all I know. We got to see, we didn't get to see a whole half of Jackson Arnold because it was getting too embarrassing. So they let Davis

bevel play a little bit. Then they let General Booty play. But Oklahoma looked very smooth. Not much more to say about that. Here's one. Utah State, Iowa. The first two drives, I was convinced Brian Ferentz is going to get a lifetime contract. They had their first opening drive touchdown pass, first opening drive of the season touchdown pass since 1991, since Hayden Frye was coaching there. And then the second drive, they go for it on fourth down near the goal line, which with your defense at Iowa, you should do that. And they throw a touchdown pass to Eric Hall, and you're like, these guys are going to be great.

This is all fixed. 24-14, he didn't even meet the requirement against Utah State. A point short in the opener. One of my bold predictions was that the drive for 325 was not going to be a sweat. I think it's going to be a sweat. I'm feeling bad because I said the same thing you did. I think there's going to be some drama with that if you can only muster up 24 points against a Utah State team that does not have high expectations this year.

Tennessee, Virginia. First half was a little – J.D. Piquel and I had envisioned this nightmare scenario where Joe Milton airmails a few balls and the Tennessee fans go nuts. And he was one i think it was one of nine on uh passes over 10 air yards in the first half he got it figured out the second half 49 10 tennessee they looked very very efficient on offense after after they got it figured out so not not gonna press any panic buttons there they feel pretty good the other guy who looked really good jj mccarthy in michigan's 30 to 3 win against east carolina i i thought they let jj you know

unholster the uh the cannon a little bit which they didn't do a lot last year free hardball that's right he rolled it he rolled in with the free hardball i love. I love it. I love it. Well, first window, Dion is the story. Travis Hunter is the story. Shador Sanders is the story. Dylan Edwards is a story. This is going to make this season so much more exciting if they're good. I cannot wait to see what happens next jesse that's how you start week one saturday week one incredible the fox the fox the fox folks are just you know they're just making it rain right now how excited they are that they had big new kickoff with dion back-to-back weeks you know they were sitting there before this game kicked off going this could have been a terrible mistake this maybe did we mess up here?

Did we do something wrong? And then after the game, they're like, woo, we're putting a hot tub on the plane too. The middle of the day was about the quarterbacks. You had Michael Penix Jr. out in Seattle just carving up Boise State. Meanwhile, in Bloomington, we were waiting to see what would happen with the ohio state quarterback situation needless to say the way ryan day parceled out his playing time we got our answer

here are me and jesse talking about those games welcome to another instant reaction and it is not the uh the shock of color beating TCU, but we did get to watch some fireworks, Jesse Simonson. Michael Penix Jr. just diced up Boise State. This is a pretty good Boise State defense, and Michael Penix Jr. just went off. Loving my QB draft pick. Loving my QB draft pick. I don't want to talk about it.

I think we both screwed up, obviously, not taking Shador Sanders in hindsight. that doesn't look great um but while Travis Sanders you know put together his Heisman uh reel in in the early window I think both of our guys my Michael Penix Bo Nix had a great showing you know for the Oregon Ducks there I mean the Pac-12s man they got some dudes that can just straight sling it yeah and and now we add Shador Sanders to that mix and you know Michael Pettis Jr. led the the nation in passing yards last year I got a feeling we're gonna see him probably up there again this year the question is is, is he going to get himself to New York?

And I would think you have games like this over and over and over again, and you will. But this is going to be a league where a lot of guys are going to put up big numbers. Now, Bo Nix put up huge numbers against a very overmatched opponent. What makes Pennix so impressive is I think we're probably going to find out that Boise State's defense is not bad. And he made them look really bad. And I would just say as a team, I think this is a kind of a statement for Washington. Because, you know, you end that year with a lot of momentum. Obviously, there's a lot of budding optimism coming into this season.

And for you to come out and beat what I agree. I mean, I think Boise easily, the way they finished the year under Andy Avalos last season, I think they're one of the favorites to get to the new year six from the G5. And so to just straight splattering them in the opener is a heck of a statement.

Roma Dunze, seven catches for 132 yards. Jalen Polk, three catches for 101. Jalen McMillan, eight for 95. Dunze had a TD. Polk had a TD. McMillan had two TDs. I mean, they're not short on targets. I mean, even after Dylan Morris came in, they're still scoring.

Well, what's also impressive, and this is getting into the weeds for some folks, because they see this score and they're just like, oh, overmatched opponent. Washington, they got that makes this thing go. But that's still not nothing. The kid rushed for double-digit touchdowns at 800 yards last season. So for them to not miss a beat there, Kalen DeBoer in openers remains money. It's just a cash cow. This was the reason Washington minus 14 was on my best bets. We each did best bets picks for on three this week. That Washington minus 14 in this game was one of my best bets,

and it was no sweat. And I think you also saw why Ryan Grubb was so sought after this offseason, why Alabama was interviewing for its OC position, and why everybody else wanted to talk to him too. This thing is tough to defend. Well, it's just, I mean, the way they spread you out, but they play with a little bit of tempo, but just the precision. I mean, it's Texas precision and it's just,

he's going to slice and dice you. And I mean, in the PAC 12, you may have to score 40 to win a lot of these games. Did you see what Cal did? You talk about fireworks. Even Cal has 58 in the fourth quarter. I was going to say against a solid North Texas team. They got a first year head coach, but that's still a solid team.

I mean, that's don't sleep on Spavital and what he's doing, you know, back, back and back in Berkeley. So Daniel Jones asks, is the Pac-12 that good or is their schedule that favorable? Pac, 8-0 start with four teams left to play. Well, Arizona, Southern Utah, and Oregon, Portland State, yeah, that's favorable. But TCU's a tough opener for Colorado.

Boise State's a tough opener for Washington. Yet this is the best Pac-12 we've seen in a long time and it's the last Pac-12 we're ever going to see it's just it's just a shame that no one wants to watch these teams Andy and they had to break up the league and couldn't get a TV partner and could only find eyeballs for these teams if they were in other conferences it's just a shame it is amazing because you know you're shipping this off to the Big Ten, what we just saw. Now, obviously, Pennix won't be there. But it is what I think about this, though.

Like the day that Washington went to the Big Ten, my first thought was, oh, they're going to get to keep Kalen DeVore now. Because they'll have the money, the finances to do it. Well, even if they're not getting a full share, they'll make sure they compete with the other teams in the league. And if he, if let's say the Pac-12 had stayed together or if they'd been kind of lost with everybody else, then somebody from the Big Ten or the SEC would have swooped in and taken him. But now they can keep him.

And I think that's a very promising thing for them, for football on the west coast because look Washington is not like most west coast teams their fan base is rabid they care deeply about football like this is and that and that's why Washington and Oregon are going to the big 10 to be perfectly honest but I was very concerned that he was going to do a great job and then somebody in the big 10 who said you know we we played against you when you were at indiana we thought you drove us crazy and then we saw what you did to washington they're gonna throw money at him and he'd be gone yeah like indiana i mean like tom allen and and yeah and the hoosiers showed themselves serviceably today.

And I'm sure we're going to talk about Ohio State. But, I mean, Indiana is a team that absolutely could have come calling, you know, as soon as next season. Because while obviously Washington, as you just explained, is a much deeper and, you know, prouder program. There should be no universe where Indiana would be able to outbid Washington for its head coach. And that might've been possible if Washington weren't head of the big 10 now, but that that's not possible. Now I'm glad you mentioned the Hoosiers though, because Tom Allen, very good defensive mind. And I'd say they, they played pretty well defensively in a 23, three loss to Ohio state. Now we have a question in the chat right off the bat

from Matt in Cleveland. Realistically, Ryan David said both McCord and Brown would play. Do we think he got scared and just figured let's play consistent with McCord and leave with a W? I would say so because he played Devin Brown one series in the first half, and then we didn't see him again until mop-up time. And I think I would center those concerns around what a lot of us had circled about Ohio State before the season or coming into this season. Obviously, there was the question, who's going to play quarterback? But I think Ryan Day was going to figure that out. That was going to solve itself between McCord and Brown.

The bigger concern was could they replace these offensive tackles that went to the NFL. Well, they just, the offensive line could not really, you know, generate a lot of prep or push up front for a running game that only averaged, I think four yards of carry. And while the pass protection wasn't bad, you know, it was just, they, they did not, we were not able to scheme up big plays to Marvin Harrison and Mbuka and, and some of these guys, I think it was the first time they haven't had a passing touchdown, you know, since the tornado, they played in against Northwestern last season. Yeah, it was a slog. It was not fun to watch. Look, Indiana, if they're good defensively,

then we'll figure this out because Ohio State will look better against future opponents and Indiana, the defense will show. It looked like Indiana was was pretty fast on defense and we can agree that that Tom Allen knows what he's doing in terms of defense so that part I'm not completely worried about Ohio State yet but it was I don't know it wasn't pretty it was not smooth they've got Youngstown State and Western Kentucky before they play against Notre Dame. Now, Western Kentucky is not going to be the easiest thing in the world because they're probably going to score some points on you. So I just I want to see more from Ohio State. I was not particularly impressed right off the bat. I didn't expect Indiana to score much on them anyway, but that's the part, you know, people say,

well, how could you pick Penn State to win the Big Ten? Because I'm not sure Ohio State is what it has been. I think it might be Penn State's got to beat Michigan to win the Big Ten. So, I mean, you led me right where I was going to go, which is I did pick Ohio State to make it to the playoff and lose in the national championship game. But what I was thinking about for the majority of the fourth quarter

as they were just kind of winding this game down is what sort of opportunities does this present for Penn State later tonight? And obviously the listeners will hear this, and you're going to talk obviously, the listeners will hear this, and you're going to tease, you know, talk about it after that game. But if they can make a statement against West Virginia and come out and say, hey, we are here, you know. Deion's out here saying, you know, I am him. Travis Hunter is him.

Penn State has the same chance to do that as a team collectively tonight against a Power Five opponent, you know, big 12. I know there's not a lot of expectations around West Virginia, but if you put a spanking on, on them, you know, suddenly folks will believe that, Hey, maybe it really is a three team weight race in the big 10 East. Yeah. I'm very excited to see what, what Penn state looks like, you know, Michigan. I think they looked about how I thought they'd look. I was actually kind of impressed that they let JJ McCarthy throw it around a little bit more than they did early last season. And I would imagine that's probably calculated because you're going to need to do that if you want to win another Big Ten title.

So get him ready and let him throw and be prepared when you get to those games when you're really going to need him. As far as some of these other games, let's talk about Wisconsin, speaking of the Big Ten, the Dairy Raid. And we've been telling you all along that when Phil Longo has good backs and a decent offensive line, he's going to run the ball. They ran all over Buffalo. Chesma Lucy and Braylon Allen let's see I'm not great at math but they combined for 298 yards on the ground on 30 carries that's a pretty good average yeah I mean Longo told me I mean I had a column with him uh at on three earlier this summer and he literally told me that,

you know, the one disagreement he ever had with Mike Leach was about how he does like to run the ball and he would run the ball. And he did it Sam Houston state. And he certainly did at times in North Carolina. The problem I think for Wisconsin today, just getting some eyes on that game, you know, there's still some kinks that's got to be worked out with Tanner Mordecai. You know, the raw stats that he has at SMU were unbelievable. But when he kind of made that leap, when they would ever play, you know, Power 5 competition, he would struggle. Obviously, this was not that. This was Buffalo.

But a couple interceptions, the passing game just wasn't quite, you know, in kink. But it's week one one so you kind of expect some of these little hiccups now you're in there yeah you're not going to average this much per carry against better teams you're going to need tanner mordecai to bail you out sometimes so he will have to do that the but i was i was pleased to see this because this is what i thought they were going to be and this is this is what they need to be personality because this is what I thought they were going to be. And this is what they need to be. Personality-wise, this is what they need to be. And I think Wisconsin will probably grow into this offense.

We'll see how Mordecai does. But yeah, it did look like he was forcing a little bit at times. I saw there were a few drops, though, as well. So they just got to get that cleaned up. Rice and Texas also no drama. Texas is tuned up for Alabama. They were a little bit sluggish at first, but then they just turned on the Jets.

And I was pretty impressed. I like what I saw from Quinn, and I love those weapons. I've been so high on JT at tight end. And then obviously A.D AD Mitchell caught a touchdown. You have Xavier worthy with a big game. You hit your over in your, in your picks, uh, or prize picks over, what is it? 68 yards or whatever.

I think more than 67 and a half yards on, on my prize pick square on, uh, on Xavier worthy. And I also had more than 310 uh more than 310 and a half for Michael Penick so I got that that those two cashed and uh it's yeah uh Worthy but the J.C. Sanders touchdown the catch and run like that's what you want from him and again I know it's Rice but they again this is what I keep saying about Texas I need to see them do it when they're not, you know, when they're not motivated by the opponent, when it's not Alabama or it's not Oklahoma.

And they looked like they cared. They looked like they were ready. And that's all you could ask for in a game like that. Yeah, some offensive line, the offensive line got off to a bit of a slow start and definitely picked it up in the second half. I think they ended the game allowing eight tackles for loss. That's not going to cut it in Tuscaloosa, but I think you're going to get a sharper performance to your point when they kind of

play one of these bigger opponents here starting next weekend. Yeah. So by the way, we're not done with Deion yet, Jesse. He had a press conference after the game. We talked about that game as soon as it ended, but his press conference hadn't happened yet. Are you ready for some Deion postgame? Here's Deion postgame. What we accomplished the other day, ain't none of y'all believe that. Maybe a couple of y'all that knew me and know how to get down, they know I'm a winner.

We're going to end up winning. Ain't none of y'all thought you was going to be sitting up here. You was supposed to be on the other side, you know, interviewing that or coming and asking me, what happened? You said this and you said that, yeah? Now what? Now what? Everybody quiet now.

Now what? Come here, dog. Yeah. I appreciate you. That's one of our guys that does the podcast. I appreciate you, dog. Yeah. This is one of our guys that does podcasts. I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you, dog. I appreciate you, dog.

Keep on doing what you do. Thank you. That's one of our supporters when none of y'all was supporting us. He had our back. You believed in you. I did. All right. What's up, boss?

You believe in that? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, no. Do you believe now you you hold on hold on hold on oh no do you believe that huh oh no no no i read through that bull junk you wrote that i read through that i sipped it through all that oh no come on do you believe you don't believe you just answered it you don't believe next question people like dion shouldn't be chiding the reporters they're not supposed to be true he's having fun let the man have some fun he just beat tcu and in this particular case he did have a lot of people say that this couldn't happen. This wasn't Kirby Smart convincing Georgia that people were saying they'd go 7-5.

This was – there were a lot of people who thought Deion would fall flat on his face today. As I wrote at the end of my column about this game in On3, if you were sick of the Deion Sanders infomercial before this game, before they played now that he's one and oh man it's it's it is going to be prime time all the time and and he's going to tell you he told you he was coming and the dude delivered in spades in his first game as an FBS head coach so how about Travis Etienne the Jacksonville Jaguars running back former Clemson star writing tweeting little bro needs to go play for prime talking about trevor etn who plays for florida right now travis later said he was kidding but here here here's a question that somebody asked me in the dear andy mailbag

and i think this is if this works if this one game isn't a flash in the pan, if the Deion thing is successful, and by successful, I mean they're winning. Even if they go a bowl game this year, that is very successful. Even if they miss a bowl game by a little bit, that's still successful compared to what they were. But let's say they win like seven, eight, nine games.

Like, will every coach in the country who takes over a program now try to completely flip the roster yes and I think the larger question is will Deion Sanders still be at Colorado next season uh or admit I guess he probably will because he probably I think he probably would he wants to coach Sander he wants to coach Shador travis you know one more year uh but man if if he wins seven or eight games he will not be in boulder long no it's it's pretty amazing how much the the profession is cop you know a bunch of copycats and we we've seen like lincoln riley flip that usc roster pretty thoroughly hugh freeze flipped the the Auburn roster. Kenny Dillingham flipped the Arizona State roster, but nobody's flipped it as much as Deion flipped

Colorado's roster. I do believe that if this works, every single new coach is going to try that. You just said it though. Think about what we saw just a couple of days ago. Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State, 55-ish new players on that roster. Jay Machado looked good at times. I think there's a lot of promise there, but that was a very sloppy win for them. It was a three-hour lightning win.

The weather got terrible. I understand the weather got terrible, but that was an FCS opponent that did not come in with a lot of expectations, and you squeak out a three-point win. Whereas, again, Deion basically just says, we don't need spring practice. We're going to bring in all these new faces.

I'm bringing my Louie, too. Yeah, I mean, the luggage is the finest of quality for sure. I mean, just incredible game. Speaking of first-year head coaches who came from somewhat non-traditional backgrounds, we got a little check on our favorite fashion icon, Charlotte Coach Biff Poggi. Oh yeah, no sleeves on game day. Now we get to North Carolina and South Carolina, Drake May and Spencer Rattler. And of course, Drake May had a lot more help than Spencer Rattler.

As we saw, Spencer Rattler had a great game, but was sacked nine times in North Carolina defense that looked much better than anything we saw last year. And actually probably changed my opinion about North Carolina in general for this season. But we'll see, because it might have just been that South Carolina offensive line. But we also saw Penn State, James Franklin, making some betters very happy and making some very angry and an upset in Waco. It's me and J.D. Piquel breaking it all down. J.D., we had, some intrigue in the night games and then it felt like teams just pulled away and well, we'll get to James Franklin 31-17 Drake May looks awesome with the exception of a couple interceptions but the surprise is North Carolina's defense sacking Spencer Rattler approximately seven million times yeah yeah they got I think about a third of his

last year's total in one game and the unfortunate reality and Andy you and I both know this like being the quarterback of a high profile college football team you're going to get a fair amount of the blame but I'm hoping we can all kind of hold our water a little bit here on the blame Spencer Rattler train because he was dealing tonight for what I saw I mean didn't turn the ball over a ton of times like he was good Spencer Rattler tonight instead of what we see from him previously just had next to zero time to throw the football. So you look in the mirror a little bit with what's up front and what you can do with that running game around him. But all in all, man,

outside of Drake Mays turnovers, like you mentioned, he was absolutely dialed in. I mean, they were on a softball tonight. Well, that scares you for South Carolina because after Furman next week, it goes Georgia, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Florida. And if you can't block North Carolina, you're not blocking these guys either. So good luck with that. But Amari Gaynor, the transfer from Florida State,

had a great night for North Carolina. And then the rest of their defensive front was just awesome all night. It was just pick a name. Like who, who do you want to go get the sack next? Like it was, it was unreal. And what you mentioned about the rest of their schedule, like going into this game, Andy, we talked about, okay, who's going to play any kind of defense,

much less get to the quarterback 10 times. I don't think any of us saw this coming going into this one. So for North Carolina to be the team to not just play some defense, play a lot of defense, you've got to feel encouraged and kind of have your confidence boosted to play that way against a team like South Carolina, what Spencer Adler did at the end of the year. But no, for South Carolina, like you mentioned, what they have ahead of them, that climb looks a lot more steep than it did before this game.

Yeah, and so you look at North Carolina and Tez Walker was the big story coming in where he's still ineligible. They're hoping to shame the NCAA into letting him play. I don't know if that's going to work, but they had nine different players catch passes. That's a good sign. Kobe Pacer was the leading receiver, seven catches for 66 yards, but you know, that's not a huge number but drake may was spreading it around and i mean he just looked so comfortable back there which i just wasn't sure in a new offense with a bunch of new receivers what that was going to look like but he he looked very at ease he just controlled the tempo of the entire game, it felt like. Even when he was getting pressured, even when he had to step up

and kind of extend plays, never looked panicked, always so calm. And that was one of the questions going in was, okay, no Josh Downs, no Tez Walker, who's going to catch passes? And, I mean, we've seen that's what great quarterbacks do, is when you don't have that alpha dog wide receiver, you elevate the rest of your receiving core and you can go make plays for yourself. So I think with Drake May, outside of those picks, which I don't know if you're overly concerned about if you're if you're a North Carolina fan uh they're they're going to

be in a lot of ball games just by the sheer fact of what he's going to allow them to do offensively so he picked up right where he left off it looks like JD I wonder do we need to reappraise North Carolina I know a lot of people had North Carolina as kind of a, a long shot ACC contender with Clemson and Florida state. This is a team that played for the ACC title last year. Maybe we need to consider them a potential ACC title contender. Again, I think that the assumption was that Florida state has taken a leap and that Clemson is going to be better with Garrett Riley.

And we will see Clemson play against Duke on Monday night and we'll see Florida state play Sunday night against LSU. But I mean, if North Carolina is going to be that disruptive upfront defensively, there's a good shot. They can play with anybody. Yeah. I'm really curious to see what they look like once they play an offensive line that has a less Swiss cheese kind of feel to it. Yeah, I think you're probably right. I love what Drake May does, and I think that he will keep them in every single ball game just by nature of what he does.

I mean, he's special. I think they're probably in that three spot. Now, how far are they behind a Florida State or a Clemson? I don't know that answer. So it's a great data point, but I think right now you celebrate it as it is and maybe not try and project to what they'll be. If you're a North Carolina fan right now. Yeah. We've got some, got some angry South Carolina fans, pookie poo, not, not happy with, with Dow Loggins, play calling Bravo,

Dave South Carolina, unworthy of the hype. I'm not sure they were incredibly hyped anyway. But no, that offensive line is going to be a problem unless they can do something drastic. And it'll keep being a problem. Let's go to a team that did not have a problem on the offensive line. That was Penn State. They controlled this entire game against West Virginia. West Virginia hung around, was very pesky,

was down only a touchdown at halftime but Penn State pulls away and yes for those who had money on the game the late touchdown and by late I mean very late with a backup quarterback in the game covered the spread and hit the over big for the people i mean james franklin solidifying himself as a as a man that truly is for the people making sure we all get paid who everybody had money on the over and the spread i didn't know that was for those of us who had west virginia cover and lose yeah i guess i guess in that way he wasn't for the people so much but no i mean i i mean first game of the year you got your backup quarterback in there I probably wouldn't do it unless I did have money on the game but it is what it is I mean Drew Aller

looked good though man he was he was as advertised in this kind of stuff well and that's the thing about him that we kept wondering okay how much of an upgrade if at all will he be over Sean Clifford you saw tonight there are a lot of things he can do that Sean Clifford just couldn't. The one play where he ducks under about two rushers, steps up, and then just unleashes one. I mean, you're never going to see that from Sean Clifford. That's not... That was the play, yeah.

That was an NFL throw, and that is, you know, the body control and the escapability. I mean, that's the sort of stuff that they've been waiting for in State College. And then you had, you know, the guys up front, Chop Robinson, Abdel Carter, were in Garrett Green's face all night. West Virginia's line is actually not bad, and they did a good job with them. So I think you're gonna see them be very disruptive with just about everybody they play and seeing going back to what you said about

Drew Aller like that is the one play that you can point to and say that's what he gives us that Sean Clifford did it like that play in itself not to say Sean Clifford couldn't get out of that maybe check it down but to have the sheer arm strength where he just kind of flicks the wrist goes down to counter lambert smith strike up the band another one he's rolling to his right i believe it was one of his tight ends maybe coming across the field or maybe it was lambert yeah just effortless back across the body almost easy first down just making it look so casual that vertical presence they have now with him playing quarterback that they have access to on top of the run game like that's why I think people are so high on Penn State and to see it happen in game one Andy you know I thought there might be an acclimation period might take a second

to see him in game one look that way you got to be fired up if you're instead well yeah those of us who pick Penn State to make the playoff feeling pretty good about that and so they've got Delaware next week and then they go at Illinois. At Illinois was what I was worried about. Remember that Illinois came in there for the nine overtime game a few years ago and that Bielema ball style slowing it down. Illinois did survive Toledo Saturday night, by the way. But yeah, I want to see Penn State more because it's very fun watching Drew Allard play. And you kind of imagine the possibilities of, oh, once this guy gets really comfortable,

this could be really good. That's the scary part is it was game one. Like if this is the base where we're standing on, not to say there won't still be like some peaks and some valleys, but if this is like the steady trend we're on upward by the time that it comes to games against Ohio State and against Michigan later in the season, like what version of Drew Aller are we going to get then? And also how does he react to teams having some more tape on him?

So as a whole, what you said, like there's just certain things that God gave Drew Aller that Sean Clifford just didn't have. And that's no knock on Sean Clifford. It's just what you're excited about in state college right now. No, I definitely don't have it. That's why I'm right here in front of this camera talking to you. Otherwise. It's just that you're excited about Penn State College right now. Not many people have. No, I definitely don't have. That's why I'm right here in front of this camera talking to you. Otherwise, I might be doing something else. I might be playing right now. But that's, I mean, that's just the reality. And it's one that you're not mad at if you're a Penn State fan. No, it's something they haven't had. Because even Trace

McSorley, as good of a QB as he was at the college level, didn't have the kind of NFL measurables that Aller has. And I think that's probably what gets you pumped about that. Let's move on to a question from Michael Blair in the chat. And it's about another game. Andy, is it a week one overreaction to say that Dave Aranda needs to be fired before the end of the season? That's probably a bit strong. I don't think I'd fired it.

He did win you a big 12 title a couple of years ago. So I don't know that I want to fire him quite yet, but yes, Baylor did lose to Texas state. GJ Kenny's debut as the Bobcats head coach starting a party in San Marcos. And well, the party never actually stops in San Marcos. This just revs it up a little more.

Yeah. I don't think there'll be a whole lot of sleep in San Marcos this upcoming Saturday. What if they open the water park? Like 2 a.m. at the water park to celebrate? I think that needs to happen. In Waco? So my wife, Andy, is actually a Baylor grad, and she's in the other room, so I'm going to kind of keep my voice a little bit lower here. But no, with what we saw tonight, with them scoring,

I mean, Dave aranda specialized on the defensive side of the ball and texas state scoring 40 plus points like how did we get from winning the big 12 title to where we are right now and it's interesting too that the public perception around dave aranda is very fragile because he is more stoic he doesn't get as fired up and so when when they're winning it's hey he's wise he's unflappable he's calm and when they lose it's like oh he needs to land why is it more emotion why doesn't he get after him more and so it's I mean you kind of look at it both ways depending what happens in the game and I understand that uh should he be fired after this first game I'd probably pump the brakes on that a

little bit I mean I think we've got a lot of ball left to be played I'd maybe let this thing bake a little bit more than that. Well, the other thing is, if you were wondering where T.J. Finley wound up, he's at Texas State, and he had a hell of a game. 22 of 30 for 298 with three touchdowns, no interceptions, and he ran for a touchdown. So T.J. Finley, for those who don't remember,

started his career at LSU. He got thrown in there as a true freshman against South Carolina, played those who don't remember, started his career at LSU. He got thrown in there as a true freshman against South Carolina, played the game of his life, was incredible. We're like, this guy's not going to win a Heisman. And then the next week he goes against Auburn and just gets destroyed. Winds up transferring to Auburn. Saves their bacon against, oh, what FCS team did he save them against?

Was it Samford? I believe it was Samford. believe samford yep sounds right saves their bacon against samford probably kept brian harson employed a little bit longer than than he was and then now he is at texas state and he was dealing baylor was not ready and also they they got to blake shapin. Blake Chapin had his leg wrapped up, and Baylor tried Sawyer Robertson for a little bit, but it just wasn't enough, and it didn't work. So that was the surprise result of the night. That was probably the most surprise, other than obviously Colorado beating TCU at the beginning of the day.

That was the shocking score in the night games. Let's go to a not so shocking score jd but but there there are things to talk about with this not so shocking score and that is alabama 56 middle tennessee 7 jaylen milrow started as we suspected he would but he played until the very end of the third quarter this was not a we're playing two guys to see Jalen Milrow is their star yeah very uh Ohio State-ish if you will from what we saw earlier in the day hey both guys gonna play and then one guy just plays pretty much the whole game uh I'm just curious to see what Jalen Milrow he did some really athletic things against Middle Tennessee like the snap kind of goes past

and picks it up runs around and scores a touchdown. I'm wondering, is that like, Hey, is that Jalen Milrow weekend and week out to what you're going to get? Or is it, Hey, we had middle Tennessee. Right. But that's not going to be what it is. Yeah. The picking up a snap and scoring a touchdown is because it's against middle Tennessee. Right.

Right. That ain't happening against Texas next week. That's a sack. Yeah. It's a sack or maybe a gain of one or whatever. But that's the part that they got to figure out. I didn't think their passing game looked particularly dynamic, maybe because it probably didn't need to be.

But this is who they're going with. That is the decision that Nick Saban has made. And Tyler Buckner came in second. I think that was what we were waiting to see was who comes in made and you know Tyler Buckner came in second I think that was what we're waiting to see was who who comes in second it was Tyler Buckner so there there you go if Jalen Monroe falters against Texas we're probably going to see Tyler Buckner that's that's the safe bet hey who's to say they're not just saving Dylan Lonergan for that first series trot him out there ambush just Nick Saban just sneak not just saving Dylan Lonergan for that first series? Trot him out there, ambush just Nick Saban, just sneak attack on Texas.

Dylan Lonergan's warming up the arm. But no, I mean, like you said, there is no two-way go here at Jalen Moreau's team. I can't tell if you're doing that to get at me or to get at the BAM Online message board posters who feel like me. We've adopted Dylan Lonergan. He is our pet cause for the year. I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

I'm just waiting. I'm here for it. You never know with how things can go in Tuscaloosa and how volatile that quarterback room seems to be. But, no, having the best athlete on the field playing quarterback, it's hard to make a tremendous argument against that unless he's turning the ball over a ton which which he didn't so all is good right now but we're going to find out a lot more week two without

question one more night game I want to talk about and it was Georgia and UT Martin Georgia started very slowly in this game the offense looked pretty sloppy for the first half and then it just sort of started rolling so I don't know how worried I am about Carson Beck and honestly like they got Ball State after this and then they get their defensive line against South Carolina's offensive line so I I don't know what I would even worry about them it kind of reminds me of last year with Kent State like we're checking the box score and we're like whoa George whoa, George is – like, what is it with Kent State? Yeah, they're up, but, like, that margin should be much, much wider. And then George went on and kind of just kicked it into gear.

And also, I mean, like you said, Andy Carson Beck, new quarterback, also new OC in Mike Bobo. So I think there's an acclimation period. I imagine they kept it the epitome of vanilla in terms of what they have in that playbook. So not tremendously worried, like you said, but, I mean mean i hope we learn a lot about them against south carolina i hope that's the game where we kind of see a little bit more of the horsepower even though i don't know that we will i hope spencer rattler doesn't die when they play georgia that's that's what i hope i mean awful uh texas a&m, New Mexico, that looks smooth.

Connor Wegman looking in control of that offense. We talked about it this week. The nightmare scenario was if they scored 21 or something like that. No, no, they got over 35. All is well. They're ready to head to Miami and play a Hurricanes team that now has a running game. So I'm kind of excited for that game next week.

Yeah, I mean, in terms of what could have happened in week one with Texas A&M, like, you know, you should check this box, right? But even so, last year, like against App State and how that went and how they didn't look like super clean the first couple of weeks of the season. Like so far, it's like the theme of this week was look how you're supposed to look against the teams that you're supposed to destroy. Now, obviously, South Carolina, North Carolina, different games like that have other, you know, assignments to them.

But for Texas A&M to look the way they did, like, okay, great. Stage is set for Miami. Let's see what you got in that game. Yeah, and what else this week stood out to you? Obviously, I haven't gotten to talk to you about coach prime yet what was what were your thoughts as you watched that game the amount of pressure on Colorado even the TCU was you know national title runner-up and all these things with the expectations for them like the team that won one game a season ago had all the hype had all the

pressure and they went out there and just absolutely delivered like if I had no idea which team finished second last year in the national title race I would have said oh that that Colorado team they seem like they have it together and they mesh so quickly like I don't know about you Andy but once they had that field goal blocked I was like okay this could be the turning point like what do you have when you get punched in the mouth and things don't go your way? Because it started so fast. And then for them to just answer scores, continue to battle,

find a way to get that stop on fourth down to win the game, like the composure of that team just blew my mind for 86 new players. It was unbelievable. That's the thing. I mean, nobody played any defense in that game. No, Colorado played defense critically at times with the fourth down stop, the Travis Hunter interception near the goal line.

They did make some incredible defensive plays. In general, they gave up a lot of yards, but they were playing a very good offense. They were playing a much better offense this week than they're going to see next week. Oh, without question. And they'll be at home next week. They'll be at their place with

altitude and all the things kind of wind up their back a little bit more and the interception in the red zone that was huge by the one individual that did stay at Colorado with Trevor Woods making that play like it's not going to look great in the box score like you said but the moments that it came at where like you have to be composed you have to make a play like Colorado did that in spades and I mean there's no such thing as a bad win especially given that they had one win a season ago it's interesting because it feels like the the guys who were supposed to look like stars have looked like stars so Caleb Williams had another great night the the highlight we saw I mean they crushed Nevada but the highlight we saw from that game where he's just dancing around I he's magic. Drake May looked every bit the Heisman contender.

Shador Sanders put his name in the mix, but Travis Hunter is the best player on that team. So I would say his name should be in the mix. I mean, if we power ranked Heisman candidates, and I get it, it's only one week, but Travis Hunter, I mean, we have not seen anything like that in years. It was unbelievable.

And for folks that decided to watch college football for the first time today, like that is a super human kind of effort. I think he played over a hundred snaps combined. Like, yeah, you even at the high school level, you don't really do that.

Like maybe some small high schools, but it's becoming less and less common to get that many snaps and to not just be, I think Joel Klatt talked about it. He's like, he's not just out there playing quarterback and something else. He's not out there playing like, you know, a position where you don't exert yourself.

He's running with receivers and then going and playing the, probably the top receiver on TCU's team and being extremely effective. And they tested him. I think he got targeted like seven times on when, when TCU had the football, when he was playing corner, like just the fact that even have to specify that he was being targeted as a corner and not a wide receiver in this conversation just tells us all we need to know about the effort he put forth today and I'm so fascinated to see like Jenny Tapp asked coach Brian like hey how do you keep him fresh and his answer was he is him

which which is great but I'm just I'm curious biologically what that means throughout the course of his season how we keep him healthy. But remember, they did this at Jackson State too. So they have experience with it even if we weren't all watching it game to game. So the thing about it that amazes me is somebody texted me, and I hadn't thought about this, but if Travis Hunter had gone through with he was committed to Florida State forever, if he was at Florida state right now,

I don't think they'd be using him like this. And that's not a knock against Mike Norvell. He's a very good coach, but nobody would even think to do that. No, only the only guy who in the course of history has done it at an elite level at the professional level who happens to be his head coach and has a one and two on his Jersey.

Just kind of switched over unreal. Yeah. But there's, there's no head coach in the a one and two on his jersey just kind of switched over. Unreal. Yeah, there's no head coach in the country that would be using Travis Hunter this way. And, I mean, Coach Prime deserves a ton of credit for the composure he showed that was top-down throughout his team. And, yeah, I mean, I'm genuinely speechless the way that they handled business today. Unbelievable. I love that they don't do captains. They do leaders and dogs, L's and D's. Is that what that is? I saw the somebody gave me an L. I think I'd ask for a D.

I think I would ask for the D instead of the L because, you know, people are going to assume about the L. But J.D., you get a D. We're putting a D on your jersey next week. You're a dog. I appreciate you. Likewise, Andy. What a week. It was amazing. Hey, all right, before we go, JD, let's give the folks what they want. Quick pick, Florida State, LSU, Orlando, Sunday night, who you got? Andy, I've been terribly off base this weekend with my picks. So if you're a betting man, I would fade fade me right now I like LSU to win I like LSU and but you know in that sense not to cover but I think they do win so very very close game um I just think the team speed of LSU and the players they have playing in this game that

weren't a factor last year with Harold Perkins I think Jaden Daniels takes another step from where it was last year so I like LSU to win I I think it's very, very close. And I think Keon Coleman, Florida State, goes. I think Florida State's going to have those receivers taking advantage of LSU's secondary. I think it's going to be a high-scoring game, a close game. I think Florida State edges LSU. So we are in opposition. One of us is right.

This is good. This is good. Yeah. You can fade JD. You can fade me. Just whoever you like the least, but he's got the D on his Jersey. That's all I need to know. Thank you so much, JD. Thank y'all for listening. Hope you are making your breakfast and listen to this podcast version and just enjoying week one of college football. Cause it's not over yet. You got Northwestern Rutgers, you got LSU and florida state and we got clips of duke on monday night it's it's like the greatest