Andy & Ari On3 - How does Alabama RECOVER after losing to Vandy? | Saucy takes on Ohio State-Oregon and Ole Miss-LSU

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

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I have been in the kitchen cooking up saucy takes. I will deliver those to you, Ari. You will judge them later in the show. How are we doing, Ari? Good, and I have zero idea where you're going with these three takes. Sometimes we have preliminary discussions on just what the topic might be. I am completely blind, which means that I'm primed and ready to receive them. Well, I will throw a little tease your way because we have a we have a great interview with Cole Kublik,

who was on the call for that Alabama Vanderbilt game last week and who breaks down everything in the SEC so well every single week. And he's going to tell us about Alabama, about Vandy, about Red River. But I'll give you I'll give you a little hint on the saucy takes. There's one from the Big 12. There's one from the Big 10. And there's one about an SEC matchup that I think is huge that I don't think we've talked about enough this week. So there's your preview.

Okay. this week so there's your there's your preview okay okay but first we got to talk to cole about what alabama does from here can vandy keep this going and what happens in dallas here's cole cubelik I'm from the SEC Network, Mac and Cube, the Cube Show, your best post-game breakdown podcast that isn't ours. Well, Cube, how we doing? Yeah, we don't debate Places to eat on Cube Show So it's not quite as entertaining Which I just, before we get going How you can be okay with

Domino's cheesy bread, which I am And I backed up Ari on this And I told Andy that I'm with him I'm 100% for it I like it, I don't lie to people about it I don't try to pretend like I'm too him. I'm 100% for it. I like it. I don't lie to people about it. I don't try to pretend like I'm too good for that. But then, being as

much of a Tex-Mex snob as Ari is at the same time, I don't know how that works. But either way, here we go. The only thing I can care about, if we were going to continue going on with this interview, is that you think Domino's cheesy bread is good.

I'm for it. Okay, then we can proceed. But whatever the one that comes in the black box, like the deep pan, whatever that thing is, I'm all for that one too. I don't care if people tell me Domino's is terrible. I actually have a buddy that used to produce my show in Huntsville that worked there, and he's like, I promise you don't want that. And I was like, I don't care.

It's good. I like it. You got little kids, Cole. I know the feeling of like when that, that 699 menu calls and you just click a couple of things and it shows up at the house and the kids are fed and happy. Little dough balls, whatever those are called, they call them puffies. I don't know what they're called. They love those things. So yeah, I was with you there. And then you had to go food snob on Tex-Mex and I just, I don't, now listen, I love what I call a dirty Mexican, like OG Mexican. I'm all for it. It's definitely snob on Tex-Mex. And I just, I don't. Now, listen, I love what I call a dirty Mexican, like OG Mexican.

I'm all for it. It's definitely better, but Tex-Mex has its place. And just don't feel like as a fellow fat guy, you should be able to put that down. Well, we're going to get you and the kids hooked on saucy nugs next, Cole. That's our goal. The windy saucy nugs are,ugs are fueling the show this year. But we got to talk about this game that you were just at because when you walk into Vanderbilt Stadium,

what percentage in your mind was the thought that you're going to be watching Vanderbilt beat Alabama? Maybe 5%, 10%. I did think there was a path to competitiveness and a path to being a problem. I had New Mexico State last year, so I knew what Diego Pavia was. I knew what that offense was. I knew what Eli Stowers was.

I knew how Tim Beck called it, and I was really impressed with watching them last year. That was before the Auburn game, and I tried to warn people. I said, now listen, this kid's a bulldog, and this offense is really hard to defend. It has answers for everything. It is multiple on every snap, and this kid is just a freaking warrior. It's one of the things that Greg and I have tried to explain to people this week on our show in Birmingham is that

we forget how many snaps this young man has in this offense. And so knowing that against a defense that is under a new scheme, new structure, we want to pretend like that's not real. But in every other instance, it'd be like, oh, the system changed. It's a new scheme. It's new terminology. But now it's just all supposed to work to perfection. So I thought offensively they would have a chance to move the ball a bit. Defense, I wasn't really sure.

But I also thought Alabama was going to go right at them and would come out and just essentially do some of what Vanderbilt did to Alabama, play ball control. Alabama ran the ball on consecutive plays four times in that game, four back-to-back runs. Like, to me, that's inexcusable. And I had our stats guy look it up in the game. It was, I think, late third, early fourth quarter. And Greg Campbell, I said, you've got to look this up.

And at that point, it was three. And he goes, oh, and I got one better for you. Two of them have been touchdowns. So because of that, I don't, I didn't think Vanderbilt's defense had a great chance, but then when you go 42 to 17 minutes time of possession, like, yeah, that changes things. Well, I heard you on cube show talking about this. Cause people say, Oh,

how come, how come this school didn't get Diego Pavia? He was going with Jerry kill and Tim Beck whereck where they were going so what how how big of a coup was it for clark lee to get those guys and and get this get all of this together eli stowers you mentioned who by the way originally a qb signee at texas a m yeah big time qb shiny like he was highly rated and you i guess you have to hear him talk about each other like you have to hear Jerry talk about Diego Diego talk about Jerry and Tim talk about Diego vice versa although it's like that triangle of affection is real and Diego's got a chip on his shoulder man like he's not afraid to tell you like we asked him you know how did it feel when he

wanted to go to New Mexico and they didn't offer him they didn't recruit him and Tom asked him, you know, how did it feel when he wanted to go to New Mexico? And they didn't offer him. They didn't recruit him. And Tom asked him how that felt. And, you know, what did you think about that? And he's like, I guess they didn't want to effing win. And so he kind of still carries that. Well, Jerry's the one that went and got him later after he got to New Mexico State out of junior college. And it was his only offer there.

So, like, he would die for Jerry Kill. Like, he really would. And so like I saw all these people on Sunday and it was like, oh, Auburn could have had Diego Pavia for a Snickers bar and two dollars. And this team could have had Diego Pavia. I'm like, not without Jerry Kill and Tim Beck they couldn't have. Because I think his loyalty to them was at a place that just a lot of people don't realize, don't understand. And then, too, when you just add to the familiarity with the system and how he can manipulate it i think once the opportunity presented itself to be with them somewhere else he wasn't even considering anything well when you're watching this game you know with the way that upset bids tend to go if a team is up early and everyone turns the channel to watch the game and then the the heavy favorite punches back or gets back in

or takes a lead the way that Alabama did, getting within two points there in the third quarter, when that was happening, did you feel like Vanderbilt was going to be able to keep punching back the way that they did? I have to educate you on my upbringing a little bit, Ari. I grew up in Alabama. I was not an Auburn or an Alabama fan. And then obviously playing at Auburn.

I used to go to games at Legion Field, like Bama-Louisiana Tech, Bama-Tennessee, just your big games. But there was this phrase that floated around the magic city quite often. And it was referenced as Bama magic a lot of times. And that may be David Palmer returning a punt for a touchdown. That may be Antonio Langham pick six or whatever. And I think we all know inherently like that. It's not real, but it was just, it always seemed something always seemed to happen

and not necessarily a break like a bad call or anything it's just they always had a guy that would make a play and sometimes maybe it was a break like a call or whatever and so that's kind of in my dna a little bit like i grew up with people saying that and talking about that and then kind of witnessing it seeing it like i was at the louisiana tech game in 1992 at legion field and chris donnelly returned a touchdown late in that game essentially it was like 13-6 i think like they might not have won that game if he doesn't do that so i just kind of grew up seeing that so i think i always have it deep down inside in me that just like they're going to make a play. They're going to figure it out. Julio Jones is going to catch a hitch and make a guy

miss and go the distance, like whatever. So yeah, once Alabama cut it to two, I think it's very difficult to still believe, Ari, that this is probably going to happen. I mean, with what Vandy did earlier, you're like, all right, can they keep doing what they're doing offensively and continue to be able to make this happen this way? Because you know Alabama's going to adjust, and there's going to be explosive plays. Can they weather that storm when it comes and keep going? I'll give Tim Beck and Vanderbilt credit. They went and made the extra plays when they needed to because a lot of teams would have just said inside zone, inside zone, run clock, run clock,

punt. Let's just hang on by a thread and pray to God we get out of here. They didn't do that. They were in bootlegs. They threw the ball. They were in option plays. And I'm sitting there thinking, yeah, they ain't messing around. They're trying to go take this game. And that's why I tried to emphasize on the broadcast late. And then on my podcast also, this game and that's why I tried to emphasize on the broadcast late and then on my podcast also this game was not given this was not a gift this was not a fluke and I heard you guys talking about it too you guys spelled it out very well very but won this football game like they took this game and they deserve all the credit for doing that so can they keep taking them is my question because given the way we saw them beat Alabama,

I'm looking at the rest of the schedule and maybe Texas is a different story, but they just beat Alabama. But Kentucky, Auburn, South Carolina, LSU, all of those teams, if you play that way, you're going to beat them too. Yeah, there's no doubt. And I think that goes back to what we talked about with Diego reps in the system. And he's got those like he he don't. He is a freaking wizard. Like he has real magic. I call it manipulating that offense. I don't know what other people would call it. But like, he just knows how to run it. And even though a lot of it andy was execution in the right read what i feel like tim beck did so well in this game and i tried to spell it out while we were calling it because tom kept asking me what's wrong with alabama's defense what is wrong with like and he's doing his job he wants me to explain to the viewer like what is happening and to me when i was watching it wasn't what was wrong it was what was right and he kept running that little inside zone read to the backside at a pistol.

And everybody's just like, man, that's stubborn. But what he's doing is seeing how they're playing him on that drive because Kane had to change it up. And so when he saw, oh, they're crashing. OK, cool. Well, let's get the jet sweep going because they're going to have we're going to have numbers on the perimeter. And we'll go, oh, they're playing it upfield. Guess what? Here comes the shovel past the Stowers that we haven't run all year,

and that thing is going to get going. So they set them up extremely well. If they can be that consistent with that kind of a plan and execution and sticking to it, the Texas defense will be a handful, and then stopping the Texas offense will be tough, but they can play with any team on the schedule. See, people point to that Georgia State game, like, oh, they lost to Georgia State.

Well, they got sacked on like the second or third play of the game, gave the ball back. Diego had a bad pitch later in the game, gave it away also. Like, that was a sloppy game. If they're sloppy against any of those teams on their schedule, they can lose. If they don't turn it over and they possess the ball and they go 12 of 16 on third down, hell, they can beat any of those teams on their schedule. Cole, what's next for Alabama from your perspective and how can Kalen

DeBoer get this thing back on track? A couple of things that I saw and that I've seen watching it a couple of times again. I still cannot fathom why you don't go into that game and nothing against Vanderbilt personnel and defense, but they're not a super heavy dominant front. And you got Tyler Booker who I think is the best offensive lineman period in college football. Parker Brails has been playing great this year. Proctor's finally getting it going. You struggle a little bit at right guard. Right tackle's been up and down.

But you also have a 260-pound tight end that benches 500 pounds. You have another 270-pound tight end that knows how to mash people. That needs to be more part of the game plan, and I think more part of the personality. We didn't see it until Wisconsin. That game was over because the backup quarterback was in. So they kind of felt like they could do that. But I would want to lead with that a little bit more.

Oh, by the way, your quarterback runs 23 and a half miles an hour and can run over people. So you add that into the mix and it's more difficult to defend that part of who you can be. It just felt to me like every run play that was for a yard or two, it was automatic. Like hit the eject button, go four wide and turn Millrow loose again. And I don't think that formula can win a lot because teams are going to do what Vanderbilt tried to do and say, we're going to play back. We're going to play off. You can have all the intermediate stuff and you can have every hitch and every cross or you can run your best concept. And that's fine. But we're not going to let Ryan Williams get us five times in this game. We're not going to let Jeremy Bernard get us three times in this game.

And that's going to be difficult to consistently make those go specifically when you don't touch the ball because their best players are on offense. Ryan Williams, Jalen Milrow, Tyler Booker, Jim Miller, Jeremy Bernard, those are their best players, and they have to be included in the game plan and on the field to go help you win. I think that has to happen. And Ari, I didn't see this at first. When Roman and I were tapering on a show in Charlotte, he showed me one play from an Alabama defender,

and it was Eli Stowers on a little out route on third down. He showed me one play from an Alabama defender, and it was Eli Stowers on a little out route on third down. He catches the ball at about four yards. He needs six for the first down. Red Morgan's kind of trying to drag him to the ground, and he's grinding, grinding, grinding, and another Alabama defender's coming over, and he kind of jogs and pulls up, and Stowers pulls ahead and gets first down yards, And Roman said, that's what pisses me off. And I was like, yeah. I mean, I didn't notice that, but I get it. And he said, that happened a lot.

And I was like, all right. So I'm on the plane ride home. I'm watching it again. And I was like, oh, man, 13 did that. 11 did that. Zero did that. Like, wow, this is happening a lot. You guys know just like I do, that's usually a group of trained killers,

not even silent assassins, like out in the open assassins that are headhunting in a totally legal way. And it's not that right now. That has to change because one guy making one tackle, it has to be the team making tackles. Well, and that's kind of a hallmark of of saban smart tree defenses like they bring you down and they don't let you get extra yards right it's and it separates us i want to switch to to another game uh red river coming up ari and i

have argued about this a bunch this week and it's one of those things where like the favorite is six eight and one against the spread the last 15 meetings weird things happen in this game i'm curious from your perspective what would oklahoma's path to victory be in this game first off i want to give both of you credit this was an awesome discussion uh i think it was in monday's show because Andy, you made great points about the history of this game, which I fall victim to many times. Ari, you made great points about I got to pick based on the teams. I can't pick because of

the stands are split, Crimson and Bernariums. That doesn't matter, but it does matter sometimes. I think the differential in talent here is enough to where I'll overcome historically what has happened. First and foremost, the offense for Oklahoma has to change. It has to be built around the talents of the quarterback and what's available to the team. Tennessee game,

it was all compressed. It was tight ends and bunch formations close to the line of scrimmage. And my immediate thought was, you have this offensive line that's banged up, that's not good right now. And a young quarterback who's just entered the game, get those people away from the football. I don't want them near my guy. Get them away from me. Let him breathe a little bit and let's get some stuff going. And then you get inside the 10 and it's like, here come the replays. Here come the jet motions. Where was that between the 20s with that guy? If they can build the offense that way around him and his talents, because Ari's right. It's not going to be an 80 yard pass at the end of the game to win this game.

First off, that's a great defense, but they're not going to stop Texas that many times. They're not. This Texas offense is too explosive with high percentage plays and an elite, elite, elite game caller, and their defense is pretty damn good. So the path is a design offensively that maybe Texas has not seen a lot of, which that has been negated this year because of the iPads. And that's a conversation for another day. But the iPads have been massive for teams this year.

To be able to pull the defense, allow your quarterback to be athletic, at least Deion Burks has to be back, has to be, because he needs some quick high-percentage throws that can go the distance. And then your takeover guys need to be your takeover guys. Danny Stutzman needs to be Danny Stutzman. Billy Bowman needs to be Billy Bowman. And go out there and make plays because whether it's Roy Williams, Superman, or whatever, like, you know, Rocky Kalmas,

like this is the game those guys make those plays. And those Oklahoma guys have to make those plays in this game yeah i mean it's i have a difficult time with the game because andy is right where if you go back and look he even pulled today the spreads of of this game for the past 15 years and the favorite i think the spread the weirder it gets the higher the spread the game has been so like that said from a personnel standpoint you know i don't know how to how to go about it but what is your take been on on michael hawkins in what you've watched of him so far and the whole quarterback situation they have going on in norman well quickly ari like side note it's the same with the iron bowl people every year they're like

competitive every year i'm like i've been a part of a couple blowouts and like the best who normally wins that game like it just home field advantage is big but usually the better team wins that's just one of the things I have the hardest time with Cole is that you can't analyze a football game by just saying oh voodoo voodoo is going to happen like you know like yeah who's on the field and who's playing the game? But, you know, that said, I wouldn't be betting a large sum of money that Oklahoma covers that because it has gone off the rails. But with the quarterback situation there, like have you been impressed with Michael Hawkins so far? And when you see a program make such a wholesale change

to maybe not just the quarterback position, but the direction of the program in general, like going into a game like this? Like what's the whole process for you to go through that? I was, it took me by surprise a little bit that they made the change when they did, because I honestly, when they did that in the Tennessee game, I didn't really see a path for them to win that game,

no matter who was at quarterback. But we were there for the houston game and i had multiple people on that staff kind of wink wink nudge nudge nod nod like this backup quarterback you should probably know his name and you should probably start paying real attention to him and i'm like hold on like the incumbent is here the next guy in line is here like the next baker bradford kyler like jason white this is the guy we've been waiting to watch him be the full-time guy and they're like no no just know who he is and pay attention so i'll watch him a little closer in warm-ups and then i ask some of the oklahoma guys that i know about him and i hear about what he did in fall practice and you start thinking okay and then when he was put in a very

let's just say bad situation like that I hate to say fair but that's not one where you really expect the guy to come in and just magically figure things out that's a tough spot to be in at that age where the game was where your team is down receivers down offensive offense hasn't really been going I thought he showed toughness. I thought he showed grit. He stuck with plays, which normally you would expect a freshman to just bail out and either throw the ball or run right away. And the offense at that point wasn't really designed to his strengths.

And I said earlier in the season, I said, Oklahoma's got a Jackson Arnold problem because all the quick stuff, it was really good, really good. If it was like get out of the mess, throw the ball, it was stuff, it was really good, really good. If it was like, get out of the mesh, throw the ball, it was clean, it was crisp. He had good tempo on the ball, good velocity. When he was asked to run, he's got good wheels, he can do it. Once it got past that, it almost always looked shaky. And I think with Hawkins, you have a guy that maybe is a little more comfortable doing those things. I've been really impressed with him. But no matter what, the offense is going to have to be geared a little bit heavier towards his skill set and how he can hurt you and break you down. And being down offensive linemen and being

down receivers, that is not throwing the ball 40 times in a game. And it damn sure isn't compressing a bunch of things close to the football. You got to get those things away and utilize his athleticism. So Cole, we got to ask it now. Your, your broadcast team, before we let you go, your broadcast team has been shaken up a bit because Jordan Rogers, who's normally in the booth with Tom Hart has been filling in for Jesse Palmer, who is making Ari happy by filming The Bachelor. Big fan of The Bachelor, Cole. Which puts you in the booth. Cole, I'm curious, like when you're in the booth,

is it worse because you don't get to eat anything in the third quarter? Or can you have stuff delivered to the booth too? Yeah, Big Cat was pissed that I'm in the booth because he is always waiting for me to either pet an animal or eat something weird on the sideline late in game. And most people have asked me a little bit of a different question. It's been, are you mad you didn't get to essentially live in that mayhem after the game with not only Diego, but the entire Pavia family

and Clark Lee and the Gatorade bath and whatever, which Alyssa did a great job. And that would have been cool. That would have been fun. Well, and Alyssa always eats something on the sideline too. So let's see what you two are simpatico there. I think if this would have been one of those four interception, two fumble, like kick return, pick six type, like a fluky upset, it would have been maybe a little more difficult. But because of how I felt like I was able to talk about this plan and how it played out and how sticking to the plan was the reason they were winning this game, I enjoyed being upstairs a little bit more because I felt like a lot of what was happening was kind of in

my wheelhouse and I was able to describe that and talk about that you got a sense for that too that was it was great well I I have said I you guys are the best broadcast team in college football I stand by that and uh the more big games that the whole country gets to see where they get to see you guys god bless it, thank you so much. Really appreciate you being here, Cole. Pleasure talking to you. It's more pleasure talking to you, Ari. It's our first time on the same show. Hopefully one of many.

I've had so many things just sitting there waiting to say that I haven't been able to get out that I just yell. Most people yell at their TVs during games. I yell at my phone during you guys' show. What's so funny, Cole, is that most of the time when people say that to me, it's always because I said something about food that made them angry. So it makes me feel good that you came out firing with the Domino's

and the Tex-Mex stuff because that's the stuff that's important. That's old stuff. Trust me, you have some football takes that piss me off too, but that's all right. All right, we'll get into it another time hopefully. We're allowed to have different football opinions. opinions no let's get on board or get out we are gonna have ari and cole sit down for a meal and probably record the whole thing we're gonna make that happen ari mario you're muted. Still muted. That's okay. While Ari figures out why his microphone's not

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All right. Well, I'm glad we're back. I'm glad we're back. Yeah, we're going to put you and Cole together at a table and just let you argue. We'll set up cameras. We can do a dual, like a home and home, our show, Cube show. Yeah. It'll be tremendous.

I mean, I don't want to get into a football argument with that guy. He knows ball. But if he wants to go into the depths of the annals of food, I think I can take him. But, yeah, it was awesome to have him on. I thought he was awesome. And thanks again, Cole, for being here. We're going to do it again. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Goat dog in the chat cuban stench that's matt stenchcomb former georgia offensive lineman college football hall of famer by the way match stenchcomb poster children for us offensive line with great takes offensive lineman are the smartest best looking people in the world have i not explained this to everybody enough times? Like Cole is one of the smartest football people you will ever, ever meet. And stench. Absolutely too. We need to have him on a stench,

by the way, has a dead on Mack Brown impression, a perfect Steve Spurrier impression, a perfect Kirby smart impression. It's like, you think you are listening to Kirby smart when you hear they played together. We have to have them on the show just to do the impersonations. Cause I'm a sucker for good impersonations. it's like you think you are listening to kirby smart when you hear they played together we have to have him on the show just to do the impersonations because i'm a sucker for good

impersonations i think it's great gets a little worried about it sometimes because he doesn't want to you know he doesn't want to offend anybody but we we'll make it we'll make it happen with he'll at least do kirby because kirby's not afraid of because he did again he played with probably probably not kirby uh through the the center of the earth a few times uh blocking out after you know after he blocked his initial guy and then just was trying to find somebody else to clean up and practice so we'll we'll talk about that but let's first talk about the end of an era the worst contract in American sports is no longer. The NCAA is eliminating the national letter of intent.

It is going away. Now, we knew it was going away. This was part of the House settlement. So we knew if the House settlement got approved, which it was preliminarily approved this week, that the national letter of intent would be going away. But it is the end of an era they haven't been faxing it for a while already but we still always imagine the fax machines on national signing day it it is somewhat i i'm sad it's probably not the right word for it but like

it's become such a part of our lexicon like he signed his letter of intent well now we can't say that anymore he signed his financial aid agreement well you can sign a lot of financial aid agreements doesn't necessarily mean they're going to that school so that's it for the national letter of intent though end of an era yeah yeah it's kind of like when the dvd players stop being used you know what i mean like it's like i have a lot of affection for it uh still kind of wish i had them uh but yeah it kind of seems just like a necessary thing because it was really just a one-sided deal there yeah it was so here here's the deal for those who don't remember like the national letter of intent came about because different conferences had different signing days and if you sign like the the big eight and the southwest

conference is where a lot of this went went haywire because you know southwest conference would have its signing day and the big eight schools would come in and sign guys who had signed with southwest conference schools because like let's say let's say you signed with you know tcu or baylor and you're in the southwest conference that means you couldn't sign with anybody or you couldn't be recruited by anybody else from the southwest conference but it didn't stop you from getting being recruited by somebody in the big eight and so they decided to standardize that where everybody would sign this one letter it meant that nobody else could recruit you well that sounds mad the dear players were doing you a favor by having you sign this thing that gives away the only leverage you have.

But they didn't actually back it up on the other side. Like, remember, there was that time a few years ago when LSU over-signed and, like, two guys are like, oops, we don't have scholarships for you. Oh, well, guess you have to go somewhere else. And one guy went to Kentucky. But, yeah, it never did actually protect the players it always protected the schools and then in recent years it didn't even protect schools because in recent years once they changed all the transfer rules you could just leave and the letter of intent which was supposed to keep you in place for a year well the school would just release you from it.

They weren't going to enforce it. So it didn't really need to exist anymore. Much like the DVD player. Although, Ari, I did see on Twitter, somebody was selling Titanic DVDs for $16.71. So I mean, I guess you're going to have a DVD. That'd be the one to have, right? Paint me like one of your French girls.

You know what I thought of when I thought of the Nationals signing? Was the Peyton Bowen fiasco just even two years ago, and now he's like one of the best players in the biggest game of the weekend or one of the bigger games of the weekend. It was just like he signed a letter of intent, but I think misdated it or forget to sign it.

There was a clerical error, which then allowed him to keep his recruitment open. Did not end up at Oregon. Now is at Oklahoma and is a very important piece of that team. Every single time we take a step towards rationality and reason, we are removing the crazy twists and stories that happen that make college football like there's no nfl player that didn't wind up with a team because he misdated his contract you know what i mean like how about alex collins mom stealing the letter of intent yeah right like just the things that went on during the national letter of intent era just the the last second grab ass that we had on that day jonathan cologne

was an offensive lineman he was a big-time recruit out of miami he sent two letters of intent he sent one to florida and one to miami and they eventually decided he was going to Florida because he sent that one first. I mean, did you even remember like last year when we were all just sitting on Twitter, like twiddling our thumbs, waiting to see if Jeremiah Smith was going to send one to Miami or Ohio

state. It's just like, I think we, I don't know what the new system is going to look like, but I will miss the craziness. Or the fun one where somebody kept telling recruiting reporters that DJ Lagway was considering USC a last-second charge from USC when we all knew that he'd sent his letter of intent to Florida

at 7 a.m. Central Time. Yeah. But nobody would say it because he didn't want to spoil his moment when he announced so yeah yeah there were some uh there were some last second dj lagway drama that just wasn't true um yeah so i'll miss all i'll miss i'll miss all that yeah uh well don't worry there'll be more weird drama i mean i don't know alex collins mom stealing the letter of intent or like the day of the portal opening bomb that kyle mccord's leaving ohio state like i remember nakos was was about to break that story and he texted me he's like you're not gonna believe what i'm about to put out and you and he texted me. He's like, you're not going to believe what I'm about to put out.

It's the morning of that Monday. I'm sitting with my coffee about to go into the studio in our home office in Nashville, and I look at that, and I'm like, oh my God. So I think we're going to get our own share of craziness just in a little bit different way i just think that there is a distinction between jaw-dropping shocking story and the weirdness of how we got to that story right it's like the more you the more you piece together these steps that make it less likely that weird things happen uh i'm not saying there isn't going to be interesting stories.

That's college football. It's going to be great no matter what. But like, I just think that the intro, the intricacies and the idiosyncrasies of what made college football just bizarre, you know, where we're stripping away some of the paths to get there,

but I'm assuming that college football will still be the kid that the mom screams out. Why can't you just be normal? You know, it's going to stay weird. Now we still have mom. We may have mom screaming at kids. Still.

It just may work out differently. I don't know how much did you write? Collins was the other one. Remember Lynn and Collins mom, when he went to Alabama, it was like, just freaked out because she wanted to go to LSU. Yeah.

Wasn't there a, who was the one at the uh army game where they were interviewing the mom i can't remember that was it was that's what i thought okay um yeah but the thing that i wanted to ask you is like do you ever i don't know how interested in college football your wife is but like like my wife being a good, a good wife is always interested in me. So she'll ask questions of like, what are you working on today? Or what, what, what happened today? And I will find myself in situations where I'm in a kitchen with a woman who doesn't watch or care about the sport at all.

Trying to explain why something that crazy happened in college football is a big deal and she'll just be like i'll be married to you for another 50 years and i'll never understand what the hell you do with your days like trying to explain to somebody who doesn't love college football or pay attention to college football it's like the peyton bowen story like try to imagine that this has also been their problem in court like when they're trying to explain this stuff to a judge they're like this is totally normal they're just like no it's not none of this this is not normal yeah david in the chat wants to explain the new process so the new process is actually it's not any it's not a change because the players have been doing this all along um you can sign a financial aid

agreement with a school and you can really do that i believe you can do that anytime i have to check the dates on this but i i think you do it it anytime after September 1st of your senior year. And it basically says the school agrees to give you a scholarship. Now, it's not exclusive. You can sign multiple financial aid agreements. And then you just go to the school you're going to go to. And so it doesn't end the recruitment now i think we're we're ultimately headed toward some contracts yeah but that's that's still a little off in the distance where you will just sign and that'll be that but what i think will actually happen ari that will tell us that this is this person's going to this school is they'll announce they've signed an NIL deal with the school. Because remember, the schools can now pay them directly. But what's the day, let's just be clear about this, the day that you can stop worrying that the person that you're obsessed with

going to your school is not going to go to your school? When they set foot on campus, which is what it's really been from a practical standpoint for the past two or three years. When they arrive on campus and go to class that would be the no because when you think about it at this point everything i just said about like the craziness is like i mean you might actually have a different route here to craziness of like what are we going to be doing like waiting outside of the football buildings to see if someone shows up like because you know like i'm doing are we doing that for i know but i'm saying how local beats cover their teams right like yeah the nil or not the nil the nli

was a way of knowing that there was a binding agreement that that person was coming to your school without having i mean there's no bones about it when you sign that piece of paper that's what it meant but like now until about two years ago yeah yeah and then we're gonna have to to you know scout out uh the bus station and stuff like that's that's what now look people have been there on move-in day for 20 years team site reporters have been doing that for 20 years but i'll give you an example the the one that really popped and the one where you knew things were kind of different was when jayden roshada didn't show up at florida he had signed a letter of intent but he didn't show up you knew they would release him from that if it didn't work out and they did so yeah we're gonna we're gonna to, we're going to see that.

And, and I do, I do think when they announced that the guys signed the NIL deal with the school is going to be now when we know, okay, that's Andy, which big time player, there was a big time player,

a five-star somewhere like two years ago or three years ago who didn't have an announcement ceremony, didn't post anything on his twitter didn't tell anybody uh and the way that the school found out that they got him was when he showed up on the first day and i'm trying to remember which player it was um but yeah i'm blanking on that one too yeah uh but i thought you were going to talk about roquan smith who refused to sign a letter of intent because no i think jt tuamaloa was did that i think it was him uh but like or was going to do that but that's going to be the norm now that is going to be some crazy you know flip could you imagine like if you're a florida fan and you think you have a player who's

going to come change your program and that guy just shows up in morgantown like i mean it's just like it's it's going to be fun it's it's going to wild. It's going to be wild. You know what's going to be wild, Ari? The Oregon-Ohio State game. We've got to talk about that. Let's do our PrizePix preview of the Oregon-Ohio State game. So the PrizePix board has been populated with some of the big games this week. PrizePix, download that app. Play $5.

Get $50 instantly using the code STAPLES. And really, you can play $5 and get $50 instantly using the code staples. And really you can play $5 and get $50 if you do a four square play and you win. But if you use that code staples, you don't have to even win the four square play. But we got a game here in Eugene and some of these numbers are very interesting. We'll start with Will Howard, 244 and a half passing yards. So if Will Howard throws for around 250 yards, Ari, are we to assume that this was a balanced Ohio State performance and that the running game contributed a solid 150, 200 yards as well?

Yeah, I would think so. I don't know that I even like the more than there because I think Ohio State's going to do a very good job of running the football, and I don't know that Oregon's going to allow very many huge plays through the air. So I think that that's exactly where I would have anticipated it being, and if he is in the 240, 50, 60 range, you know, your hope, if you're an Ohio State fan, is that they ran for 150 or almost 200 yards on top of it.

And then that would probably, in my opinion, if they get to, you know, 200, 200, 250, 250, probably result in a win or a pretty comfortable win. Let me give you a really interesting one. So Jordan James, the Oregon running back, his number is 77 and a half rushing yards. He is, he is, you know, he's had more than that in every game this year. His lowest rushing total is 86 against Oregon state, but like he had 166 yards against Michigan state. This is the guy. If if if Oregon gets him going Oregon's gonna win this game if he if he has a 100 yard or 125 yard rushing day I think there's a really good chance Oregon wins this game because it means they are moving the ball on the ground but also probably they're breaking some tackles

which means when they catch the ball they might be breaking some tackles too so that's the number I'd watch. And again, I'll point out. So if you go to prize picks, you click on a square, they will show you the last five games for that person in that category. And I think it's really interesting with Jordan James because they've only played five games. Every one of them, he's rushed for more than this particular total.

Now, none of them have been against Ohio State's defense. And I think that's the key distinction here for both of these teams because Oregon has not played a defense like this. Now, they've played a superstar offensive player in Ashton Genting. I don't think they've played multiple superstar offensive players

like Jeremiah Smith, Emeka Abuka, Quinshawn Judkins, Travion Henderson, but they have played a superstar offensive player in Ashton Genting. They have not played a defense like this. Meanwhile, Ohio State has not played anything like this. Yeah, and that's the thing that you have to fear coming into it, is that you have a sense of what you think Ohio State probably is, but you have no proof, no testimony or nothing to show that they're able to exist in a high-powered game like this. Now, their players would probably be a pretty good hint that they can, but Oregon is going to be in a completely different battle for Ohio State, a team that hasn't really had

to break a sweat this year. And we're going to find out a lot about both of these teams, when they play each other i cannot wait cannot wait this is the first time we've gotten to see what we think is an ohio state super team play against elite competition i'm so excited ari it's time for my wendy's sauciest takes you have to decide which is the sauciest take of these three. I'm going to stay in Eugene. I'm going to stay in Eugene because one of my takes is regarding this game. Okay. The Oregon-Ohio State game will be the only meeting between those two teams this year.

That's pretty saucy. Because in the Big Ten, it's not like the SEC. The SEC has Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee. There are a lot of options in the SEC for which teams you think can actually go run the table. So by saying it in the Big Ten, I think that you're dismissing, not dismissing, you have to acknowledge that the two top teams in the Big Ten are Ohio State and Oregon.

There's no debating that, right? So by saying what you're saying, you think that Indiana is going to be in the Big Ten championship game? Is that basically what your take is there? Are we forgetting Penn State? Yeah, we are. Yeah, we're forgetting Penn State. Yeah.

So if Penn State doesn't blow USC's doors off this weekend. Now, Penn State plays Ohio State. But that's the thing. There's a couple ways you can go with this. If Oregon beats Ohio State, then it means Penn State maybe can beat Ohio State too. If Ohio State Ohio State, then it means Penn State maybe can beat Ohio State too. If Ohio State beats Oregon, then it opens the possibility of a one-loss Penn State or a one-loss Ohio State. Or a one-loss Indiana in there.

You're right. Penn State should be in there too. I was wrong. That was stupid. Because in my head, Penn State had to play Oregon too, and they don't. So they have the same pathway to get to the Big Ten championship game as Indiana does. So yeah, okay.

But I do think that when you look at the Big Ten, the two best teams in the conference are more clearly identifiable than they are in the SEC, right? I have no idea who the SEC championship game is going to feature. I don't know how clear it is because I don't know where Penn State, like I feel like Ohio State is the best team. And again, Oregon may prove us wrong on that this week,

but Penn State and Oregon could be similar. Penn State, if Oregon beats Ohio State, again, like I picked Oregon against the spread in this game, Ari, I don't know what Ohio State is going to look like against a team like this. Well, okay.

Well, I'm just trying to do the math on this then. So you think that if Oregon wins the game that Penn State's going to beat Ohio State? Is that what your base? I think it means it's possible that Penn State can beat Ohio State. I think that's a pretty saucy take that they're not going to play twice. Yeah. Now, and the other part of that is, even if they don't play in the Big Ten championship game,

there's still a possibility they play again. Yeah. At first, I thought your saucy take was going to be that they're going to play three times, which would have been a really good one, too. No. I mean, that's certainly possible. Yeah.

But I think we're just assuming we've picked these two teams as the best teams. They're just going to, they'll play this and then it'll be on a collision course again for the Big Ten Championship game. We've seen enough already this season in all of the leagues that our assumptions are going to go by the wayside these next months. Yeah. And I think that's, we need to understand

that. So don't assume that you're going to see this again. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. I mean, we did it. We saw Oregon Washington twice last year. Yeah. The first one was great. Maybe this will be a classic, and then we'll get another one. But I don't think we should assume that. All right. Yeah. Let's move on. And Penn State's doing a lot of heavy lifting there because they have to be.

Right. Yeah, I'm putting a lot on Penn State. Yeah, okay. But I'm also putting a lot on Indiana. All right, Ari. Let's move to another league the loser of the lsu all miss game is not making the playoff they are eliminated even though mathematically they won't be even though we we've said a 10 and 2 sec team can certainly get into the playoff

whoever loses this game gonna lose again is not gonna make the playoff yeah no i'm with you this is this is uh this is mild i think that this is an important game for both of these teams and i know that we want to uh you know build up these games that are still between two one loss teams but i think that both of these teams have to come into this game you know preparing for this as if it were a playoff game like i'm like i'm with you on this i just i think the schedule is too hard for both of them going forward to to run the table for for given what we've seen from these teams so far And, you know, I'm curious what you think. Like, if Ole Miss comes in and just scores like crazy on LSU. Because I don't know that LSU's defense is really built to stop.

Which is on the table. It's on the table. We saw Ole Miss do this to LSU last year, but obviously a different defensive coordinator this year. Yeah, absolutely on the table. And I like Ole Miss a lot in the game. So, you know, it may be part of that too is, and maybe in the off season, Andy,

you can go take me to a therapist so that I can let go of preseason notions once we get halfway through the season. But I just am too bought in on what old miss built from a roster standpoint this year and if you would have told me before the year with looking at their schedule that they would have two losses by you know the beginning of october i would have been like wow what a terrible failed experiment what the hell went wrong there like we and we are three days away from that potentially being a possibility so like for me i still believe that old miss has a chance and and maybe

would go as far saying a likelihood of making the playoff eventually but as you illustrated on monday show they've had a hard time in in tiger stadium they've had a hard time in death valley and uh you know they have lost to kentucky, so they could lose to anybody. Now, without Harold Perkins, LSU's defense, are they up to the challenge of being able to slow this team down? Because I still am on Ole Miss watch when it comes to just randomly dropping 50 points on somebody. It's going to happen at some point, because when that offense gets going and the defense can't keep up with the individual skilled players that they have, it's going to happen. I think it's possible that we see

Ole Miss win. You have this over-under of 64.5. I think it could get there because Ole Miss is in the upper 40s. That's what happened last year. The difference was LSU had Jaden Daniels and Brian Thomas and malik neighbors and i think you're an usmeyer is a good quarterback but he's not jayden daniels yeah so you saw a shootout last year where if that if they let old mess almost do that to them this year they're gonna lose and probably buy a lot so yeah goat dog says the rest of the lsu schedule and went out situation is better than

old missus schedule now i i agree that old missus schedule is not that easy because they have the the at they have the at arkansas the oklahoma at arkansas and georgia like all of those games are losable but let's throw up lsu schedule again yeah that's that's tough, dude. At Arkansas, at Texas A&M, Alabama, you ain't winning out against that. Not happening. You've got to win this game. And then maybe Oklahoma figure something out by the end of the year.

Like, that's not an easy game either. And Vanderbilt isn't an automatic win anymore either. And don't forget about how intimidating the Swamp is, Andy. That one's a joke. It is. It was very intimidating last week for UCF. It's intimidating intimidating but it might not be by then by then things could be very different so uh let's remember the schedule

turns into the to the worst thing i've ever seen like i feel bad this week yeah this week yeah it does so i i am very curious to see what happens in this game because I think that the takes will flow either way. Like we're either going to be, you know, Ole Miss is making the playoff and is this Brian Kelly thing going to work out at LSU or is he out of his depth here? Or it's going to be Brian Kelly does it again and Lane Kiffin's not making the playoff

and he can never win the big one and they can't win in Baton Rouge. Like this is, this is a take storm no matter what. Yeah, no, this is, this is, and hopefully, you know, with teams that are meeting on October 12th with a loss already that even in this new system that the meaning of the game is going to matter. Like I'm hoping that the meaning of the game is going to matter like i'm hoping that the loser of this game is going to feel like their season's over

and and probably will they probably will feel like their season's over now that there is a chance that they could miraculously run the table but you just saw those two schedules like yeah it's if you if you lose this game you're gonna lose to lose another one. Period. So, I see in the chat, everybody's saying that's not saucy at all. Fine. I will redeem myself with this one. Plus, I had a very saucy one at the beginning. I will redeem myself with this one.

Colorado will emerge as a contender for the Big 12 title this Saturday. Now, I picked Colorado against the spread in this game. I did not pick their Colorado money line to win. The more I think about it, though, the more I like the matchup for Colorado against Kansas State. But here's my thing, Ari. Colorado has not lost a Big 12 game. Kansas State has. Colorado essentially can eliminate Kansas State from Big 12 title contention or at least put them in win or die mode.

Colorado losing this game does not end Colorado's chances. And if Colorado is within a couple of points of Kansas State, they are in it. They're going to be in this Big 12 title conversation. Would you say that this is the biggest game of the Dion Arrow so far? Absolutely. Yeah. A hundred percent in terms of like game in the conference,

that means something to where your season's going and it matters. You know what I mean? Like last year they got off to a good start and there was some hype at the beginning of the year, but then they ended up losing what like six or seven in a row. Yeah. It didn't matter last year. We saw some improvement.

We saw that Colorado was an interesting story, but from a football standpoint, it turned out to be a not very good football team. This year, I thought we were getting a lot of the same of what made Colorado go on that loose streak last year. And now, after what they did to UCF, and I think we're finding out that maybe UCF isn't very good, we're in a position where they're playing against a team that I thought was going to win the Big 12 before the year started. And if they come out with a win at home, and this is a night game, it's going to be like, I think that this is going to be a crazy game just because of the setting and

the time it starts. And they win. My entire thought process of what Colorado can do in this conference changes. So they already have a quarterback who's going to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft, and they have the best player in college football on their team. If they are able to exist on both sides of the ball on the lines and really control the game in a way that I didn't think was possible a month ago, then you have to start doing some math in your head of like, the skill position talent on this team is better than most other teams in the Big 12 have. Their quarterback is dynamic, and they're starting to feel good about themselves.

I think that that – your take to me sounded like you thought they were going to win, and then when you explained it – I do think they might win, but I also think if they're close, they're in it because K state's already got the loss to BYU because you could, because you're receiving it as this team is built to play with teams of this caliber. Yeah. And,

and the thing is like, we talk about the skill talent at Colorado where, where I think they did well in the portal is the edges, the defensive ends that they are the ones that, and then when you play teams that run read option, they're important. They're critical. If they can get pressure on Avery Johnson, or if they can make Avery Johnson make bad choices in the read option, then they're going to be in good shape. Now what Baylor did to Avery Johnson was pressure him in ways that made him just kind of lose his mind. He threw two horrible interceptions in the BYU game, and that was what cost them the

game, really. It's where the game got out of hand. But the other question is is can Colorado's interior offensive line hold up against Kansas State's D line because that's where Nebraska got Colorado Nebraska was coming straight up the middle there was nothing Shador could do but if they can hold up because I don't think anybody else I don't think anybody in the big 12 has what Nebraska has on the interior of the defensive line I don't think anybody in the big 12 has anything like that. Maybe Utah, but I definitely think if Shador has time, those receivers are going to get open against Kansas state. So we'll, we'll find out. But I mean, Ari, think about this. Cause let's say Colorado wins this game, November 9th in Lubbock, Colorado at Texas Tech. That might be the biggest game in the Big 12 all year. Yeah.

I am cautiously optimistic, and I think that Colorado is probably pretty fortunate to not have to play Iowa State because Iowa State probably mirrors more of what Nebraska is than anybody on their schedule here. Right. Cause Iowa state is kind of that like Midwestern tough team that actually has really good skill position players. So like they're,

they're a really good football team and Colorado doesn't have to play them in the regular season. So here's what I'm going to say. And it's probably going to get clipped and they're going to call me a Dion hater. I'm just going to say, I'm cautiously optimistic about Colorado because I don't want to overreact to what happened in the UCF game. I still, to this day, don't know how they were

14 and a half or 14 point dogs in that game to begin with, but they were. But I don't know that it's that insane to me to say that you think a team that's only a five and a half point underdog can win a game or be close in a game. Like the spread is telling you it should be close. Yeah. So if they ended up winning this game, I would have to shift my thought process on what I thought Colorado was able to do this year. And that's where. Yeah.

So I think the shift is you shift it to they can beat anybody in the league. Yeah. Look, as Scott points out, a lot of teams look that way. How many teams in the Big 12 still have a shot? Texas Tech, BYU, Iowa State, Colorado, West Virginia. Remember, West Virginia is undefeated in Big 12. Undefeated in the Big 12. So it doesn't necessarily mean we're saying they're going to win win but the fact of the matter is we went into the season thinking they were not capable of competing for the conference championship

and they can tell us this saturday if they are or not yeah i am very excited to see that and i also think it's within the realm of possibility too that they lose by a lot you know and that they are who we thought they were too at some point so yes i think that colorado is an inherently interesting discussion um they are entertaining as hell uh i cannot wait to watch this with you i think we might be watching it during the show i'll get my ipad all set up over here on the table um but i don't yeah okay i think i'm ready to rank your takes all right let's do's do it. I think number one is the Ohio State-Oregon won't play again. One time. That was the sauciest take, I think.

The Colorado take is the second sauciest. And then the Ole Miss-LSU one was not saucy at all. That was a dry one. But here's the thing. The dry take is going to produce the sauciest takes out of the weekend. Yeah, that's true. I mean, we're going to have some blazing, like, spicy ghost pepper takes off of whatever happens in this game.

We will make massive assumptions. And I understand what you were doing there. We had to talk about this a little bit because, you know, I think that regardless of what happens, depending on what times this game starts at 730, maybe one of us will write one side and one of us will write the other because we're going to talk about it a lot. But when you think about that night window, Andy,

we're going to the Red River game, and then we're coming home, and we've got this game. We've got the Colorado game coming on after. We've got the Ohio State-Oregon game. It's going to be one of these 4 a.m. nights, and I'm here for it. I cannot think of a better way to spend it i also can't think of a better way to spend my thursday than by letting you guys take over the show it is a dear andy and ari show

send us your questions we've already gotten a few really good ones you know how to find us andy underscore staples twitter and instagram Instagram. Ari Wasserman, Twitter and Instagram. AndyStaplesOn3 at gmail.com if you have a longer question. Send them in. We will talk about them on Thursday. We will answer your questions. And also, hey, throw some questions into the chat. Come on and let us answer.

But this is my favorite day of the week because I love how twisted our viewers and listeners' minds are. And they go places, Ari, where we don't necessarily always think about to go. But I'm telling you right now, having gotten a preview of some of these questions, this is going to be a fascinating discussion on Thursday. So send those questions in.

We'll talk to you on Thursday.