Andy & Ari On3 - Oklahoma beats Texas | Why didn't Miami take a knee? | Georgia flexes on Kentucky

Episode Date: October 8, 2023

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Welcome to Andy Staples on three and welcome to your recap of the best college football Saturday of the season so far. It is 2.30 in the morning Eastern time as I come to you because the USC Arizona game has just ended. 43-41 USC in triple overtime. Not one person who watched that game is confident that USC is going to make the playoff or win the Pac-12 or even be undefeated by the end of the Notre Dame game next week. But what theater. It was incredible. Arizona goes up 17-0.

USC comes back. Arizona comes back again. USC has a very strange end of regulation drive that would have been the strangest end of regulation drive if the Miami Georgia Tech game had not happened. They miss a chip shot field goal because the long snapper gets hurt on the play. And there's a high snap. And they go to overtime. Jed Fish, the Arizona coach, does not go for two when he scores a touchdown in overtime in the first overtime. That probably was a mistake. He almost, or I guess tried not to go for two after scoring a touchdown in the second overtime, but you can't do that because you have to go for two. It's just incredible. Just incredible.

When they finally did go for two in the third overtime, they ran the toss play that had been working all night, but it didn't work. The Caleb Williams bending the ball around the pylon was what wound up winning USC the game. And we're going to look at the numbers and say Caleb Williams had a terrible night. He got outplayed by Noah Fafita. I actually don't think he had a terrible night. One, he did run for three touchdowns and throw for another one. He averaged 8.8 yards per pass attempt, which if you watched the first half, you never would have thought he would have been able to get to that by the end of the game. It was a very good performance by Caleb Williams. It was also a very bad performance by USC's defense, which we should be used to by now. I have very little confidence that they will get through the rest of their schedule,

not even unscathed, because they can lose a game. The Pac-12 is good enough this year that if the Pac-12 champ loses a game, finishes 12-1, I think that team's making the playoff. But they got Notre Dame and Utah in consecutive weeks, and then they've got Washington and Oregon in consecutive weeks. I have no faith in that defense. I don't think anybody who watched that game or the Colorado game or the Arizona State game has any faith in that defense right now. And eventually they're going to play a team that has a defense good enough to get some

stops against USC's offense. It actually looked like it might be Arizona at first because they did get a few stops early in the game, but then Arizona's offense had a little lull and everything evened up. Against Oregon and Washington, I'm not sure you see that lull from their offenses against USC's defense. And their defenses are probably good enough to stop USC's offense every once in a while. Maybe Notre Dame can do that too. It will be interesting. Notre Dame's coming off the loss to Louisville, but Notre Dame's defense is probably better than most of the teams that USC has played so far. So can they get some stops? Will USC's defense make Notre Dame's offense look incredible?

Because it hasn't been incredible against Ohio State or Duke or Louisville. So many questions. What a glorious College Football Saturday that was. We have to figure out how to arrange the various reaction episodes for these Sunday morning podcasts. I think we're just going to go chronologically. I really do. There's so much to cover. It feels like the Red River game happened two weeks ago. But it was Saturday and it was glorious. It was so amazing to see Oklahoma and Texas just battering one another. And then Texas kicks a field goal.

You think they're going to win it. Oklahoma storms down the field and they take it. And now Oklahoma in the driver's seat in the Big 12 and potentially for a playoff berth. You get that Alabama-Texas A&M game, which was not pretty at all, but the result is Alabama in control in the SEC West. You had Louisville beating Notre Dame. You had Georgia flexing on Kentucky and the rest of the college football world. What a day. What a day. So let's start in the noon window at the Cotton Bowl. Perfect day for football and just a tremendous edition of the red river rivalry it's me and jesse simonton we're talking oklahoma's big win we just watched an epic red river rivalry

shootout whatever you want to call it jesse simonton i don't know if we could call that a shootout but it was a rivalry ok. Oklahoma controls most of the way. Texas comes back, takes the lead. Oklahoma with an epic drive led by Dylan Gabriel. Finds Nick Anderson with 15 seconds to go. And Oklahoma wins. Biggest win of Brent Venable's career for sure. Biggest win of Dylan Gabriel's career for sure.

Probably round one of two this year. Yeah, I think they'll be playing this game again come first weekend of December, about 30 minutes away from this stadium in Jerry World. Texas, I've never been to Red River, Andy. It's on my college football bucket list. I've been fortunate to cover a lot of cool games, a lot of cool venues. However, Andy, it's on my college football bucket list. I've been fortunate to cover a lot of cool games, a lot of cool venues. But, you know, I want to go try out the State Fair, see some of that fried food.

I think Texas fried themselves in this game. I mean, I don't really know what Steve Sarkeesian was doing there late with the decision, you know, how they kind of managed the clock that third and nine, and then to just come out and play prevent defense, essentially, to let Gabriel and the Stoops just fly down the field. Well, here's the thing. It's not really, I don't even know if it's prevent defense, because Gabriel would have just run on them if he didn't throw on them. That's the problem is they couldn't stop Dylan Gabriel all day.

Like, if they covered the receivers, he would just run, and they couldn't do anything to keep him from usually moving the chain. So it was a very, very tough problem for them. And look, we had Gabe Eichert on the show on Friday. He said the quarterback who plays better will lead his team to a win. The quarterback who winds up being better. Dylan Gabriel was absolutely the better quarterback between him and Quinn Ewers. He was.

He was. But I will say, just as a counter, Quinn Ewers has that horrible fumble. He fumbles it. It looks like Texas is on the rope. They're down by 10 points. And Texas' defense gets back-to-back stops they they end up uh tying the game rally from that 10 point deficit and they had the ball you know I mean I thought both defensive lines were were awesome at times in this game just stoning the run Gabriel was magnificent at the end there. And he came up with big plays. I mean, the difference in the game, Andy, to me was the red zone. You know, Texas had three possessions.

They had three points. Oklahoma scored, you know, I think every time in the red zone, including four touchdowns against what was the Big 12's best red zone defense in Texas, had allowed one touchdown all season. The goal line stand was probably the biggest, I think, set of plays in the game. Because Texas is ready to take the lead at that point. Or no, they're ready to tie at that point, right? Yeah, it was a tie at 27-20. 27-20.

Yeah, so it would have tied it at 27. They get multiple cracks at it from the one. They bring in the jumbo package, and they get stuffed, and they get stuffed again, and they try to throw it on fourth down, and they still get stuffed. And, I mean, that was huge. Think about what Oklahoma's reputation has been over the years. Does not play defense.

Can't play D when it matters most not this was the defense right this was the defense stepping up with three feet between them in the game because i think if texas scores their texas wins i think you're probably right i think you're right and i think too to your point about the better quarterback you, uh, that, that was going to decide the game. I mean, what, my takeaway from those four plays, Andy, was that that was a sequence where Steve Sarkeesian didn't quite trust Quinn Ewers to make either a tight decision or a tight throw. And he basically, they, you know, they ran through, like you said,

the jumbo package, they ran three straight times. And then the time they did throw was a tunnel screen, you know, they ran through, like you said, the jumbo package, they ran three straight times. And then the time they did throw was a tunnel screen, you know, sideways. There was nothing that, you know, there was nothing dangerous about that play. And so I think that kind of speaks volumes to where maybe Sark thought his quarterback was in this game. And it ended up being a decision. It decided a game. Let's answer Scooby's question in the chat. Is Oklahoma top five now? So they will be in my resume ranking that I put out every Sunday.

I don't know, because I had Texas number one. And I don't know that Texas is going to fall that far, because they still have the win over Alabama, and we'll see what happens with Alabama and A&M. But Oklahoma looked great. Oklahoma looks like the better team for the majority of the game. So I would think most of the voters will agree and elevate Oklahoma pretty thoroughly.

Obviously, they're going to elevate them above Texas unless they're stupid, unless they're like, no, that game you played yesterday didn't matter. But for the most part, they're going to – I would think they put them somewhere in the top five, right? Is that crazy? Yeah, I mean, well, you know what? The good news is, Andy, I think maybe we can circle back

on this question later today. That's true. I think it may have – we'll see how some of the other results unfold Oklahoma certainly is going to rise up this was a game that what would the score of this game been Andy if Oklahoma didn't commit umpteen mistakes on special teams oh it would have not only the block I mean I think I yeah way worse I I think Oklahoma wins by double digits easily. And to that, because we're basically teasing, we both agree,

watered down Big 12. These two teams are going to play again. They're playing again, yeah. Wonder what the line is on that game. Well, I think given what we saw today, the way Oklahoma neutralized Texas' defensive front with a mix of tempo and just toughness from the offensive line, I would think it's a pick-em.

Maybe it's Oklahoma by three. I kind of wonder if OU's not favored now just because the tempo really did give Texas – Texas has not faced a tempo offense all season. That was something that they – you know, Texas was also the team committing penalties today, Andy. You know, even the announcer, Kirk and Fowler, were noting how that was not something that was a problem when they went on the road at Alabama.

No. No false starts against Alabama. None. And then all sorts of penalties today. And you add that all up and that's how you lose what was an instant classic, but it was a game that I think Texas is going to feel pretty chapped that they got themselves in the way at times. So if you're wondering where Oklahoma is going to land on my resume ranking,

which it's going to be, spoiler alert, very high or in the projected college football playoff, watch Andy Staples on three on Sunday night. We do it every night, Sunday through Thursday, 8 p.m. Eastern time on the on three sports YouTube channel. It is of course on demand anytime after that also available on all of your favorite podcast platforms, as will be this show on Sunday morning. So, Jesse, where does this put Texas now? Because this is obviously, it's not Texas is back, but it doesn't feel like Texas is toast either. No, no. I think this is uh Texas TBD you know we're gonna find out how Quinn Ewers

responds that the the good news for Texas is that the rest of the Big 12 is terrible uh so I don't even think if they did have one of these kind of you know whoopsie daisy games that they're really in that much danger of losing you know The rest of their schedule is extremely favorable. Kansas State comes to Austin. Texas Tech is not the same team that I think a lot of folks envisioned during the preseason. So I think ultimately Texas is probably gonna be 10-2

or 11-1 when these two teams face each other again. Yeah, this is gonna be an epic rematch if that winds up happening. And I was so impressed with Oklahoma today. And this is what we were waiting to see from Brent Venables, is can you get them ready for a game like this? Can you win at the line of scrimmage? Because that's, like, imagine if riley and alex drench were there do they have that goal line stand no this this game looks uh a lot like probably looks a lot

like lsu old miss last week or lsu missouri today yeah i think that probably is true today yeah i think you know who else you know who else this is uh you know that gets to kind of i think puff his chest out a little bit? We've talked about the quarterbacks, but let's give even some more shine to Dylan Gabriel. This is a guy who a lot of folks were pining. A lot of college football national people, and I get it. People are lured by five stars and whatever, but they were like,

all right, it's not if, it's when Jackson Arnold's going to take this dude's job, you know, and this is his first red river game. And he, he's not only the better quarterback, he's the guy that wins the Sooners a game that they lost 49, nothing a year ago because he couldn't play in the game. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, uh, Thunder OU Sooner says, can we all agree to put 49, nothing in the past now? I think we can sort of just memory hole 49-0.

I think we can pretend it never happened if we want because it was not representative of anything. Because Dylan Gabriel didn't play. Well, what I thought it might be representative of is Brent Venables not being able to administrate well enough for them to have a backup quarterback ready. And obviously that's on Jeff Levy as well. But they got through it. They got through it. They fixed the defensive issues they had last year. Clearly, they are much better now on that side of the ball.

The way they played offensively today, I was so impressed because they didn't look like that against Cincinnati. No, they didn't. They didn't. This is a big deal. It is a big deal because if Oklahoma can play like this, there are very few defenses in the country that are going to be able to stop them. They're going to score on most teams.

And so you're going to have to be able to keep that up against Oklahoma's defense, which, as we've learned learned is quite a bit better. So speaking of, uh, of defense or, or lack thereof, let us talk about Missouri and LSU because that game went exactly the way we thought it would. But I was, I was very worried for LSU and Jane Daniels went out. He got hurt. There was a play where he scores a touchdown. They call it back because there's a hold, but he got hurt on that play, and they bring in Garrett Nussmeier. All of a sudden, Missouri's getting stops,

and it looks like Missouri's going to go ahead and win the game, and Missouri had led most of the way, but Jaden Daniels comes back in, and he was unstoppable once he got back in the game and he was not 100 but he was just unstoppable uh 15 to 21 for 259 yards passing and three tds 15 carries for 130 yards with a td and it felt like every carry converted a third down that meme that meme was going around because Jaden Daniels, for the viewers that didn't get to watch the game,

he kept taking shots to the ribs again. And there was a meme that was going around. That's that one where it's the x-ray of the ribs and inside of it is the junkyard dog. Oh, yeah. That just is Jaden Daniels. That dude takes shot after shot. The officiating in this game was an abomination. I don't know how Missouri gets away with a false start.

They gave him a touchdown. There is no penalty. It should have been an offsetting penalty on the play that Daniels takes that shot because it was such a late hit. And it wasn't, and they call a hold and LSU actually ended up missing a field goal on that play. But Daniels, Daniels, the drive that you're kind of speaking about, it's a 92 yard drive where he basically did everything. He threw two,

threw two big crossers and then just raced 40 yards for a touchdown, completed the two-point conversion. He's unbelievable. You know, if LSU cannot lose another game, he will be in the Heisman conversation. He's single-handedly winning you the quarterback draft that you and I had. And he is just each week, it's just whether it's running or throwing, making play after play after play.

I want to ask you about what you thought about some coaching decisions in this game, though. What did you think about Missouri? It's fourth and 32. It's the – you know, they kind of go – And you're on Pitsy Woo-Woo? They go Yosemite Sam on themselves where they were in field goal range and then, you know, shoot themselves in the foot. But they had all three timeouts, a minute, four seconds to go.

I did not, I didn't really understand. You couldn't play defense there. By the way, for the gamblers, I apologize to anybody and everybody who had Missouri plus six and a half because major birds with the pick six it's actually not the best football play to take that into the end zone like you're supposed to go down there and then LSU takes a knee and ends the game but I felt majorly burned by it you were majorly burned exactly right I felt majorly burned by it I never once doubted that that like I I thought LSU would win at that point, but I never once doubted it was going to be a Missouri cover.

So Major Burns took care of that. And I will say this. I wrote a column scathing – rightfully so, but scathing LSU's defense, kind of taking Matt House to task. It looked terrible again in the first half. In the second half half whether it was adjustments or they just found something defensively they did get multiple stops they got that pick six they ended up sealing the game they got a turnover on downs uh and they saw the thicker kicker just you kind of whiff a 44 yarders so there was at least a pulse there uh which we had not seen the previous six

quarters with with the Ole Miss game and then uh the first you know first half against you knew they were going to be able to cover Luther Burden and they didn't like Luther Burden was awesome 100 yards in the first half and and you also know they're not going to be able to cover people with functional passing offenses and right they also gave up 116 rushing yards on 21 carries they got 411 passing yards and 116 rushing yards on 21 carries so uh burden ended up with 11 catches for 149 yards like they're they're gonna lose again because their defense is not gonna hold up like like that's what Jalen Milrow may throw for 350 on them it's rare it's rare that you it's rare that you can give up 550 yards and that's

150 yard improvement overall miss exactly yeah so that that's gonna change let's let's move to Columbus Ohio which for a minute looked like a game that we'd be talking a lot about. Another backdoor cover. Yeah, and then Ohio State decided, okay, we're done here. But Maryland played very well early. The Ohio State long snapper snapped one off his butt, set Maryland up in good field position. They scored the first touchdown.

And you think when they score that, you're like, okay, that's kind of fluky, but Ohio State will just take over. No, it was 10-10 at halftime like and Maryland scores the first touchdown of the second half it was 17-10 and then Ohio State just rips off 27 straight points well and in the in the hypothetical what if game though Andy you know Maryland ended up the the Turks turtled in this game. Yes. And it started at the end of the first half because you're right. They came out and marched right down the field and went up 17 to 10 after completely botching the end of the first half.

It looked like they've screwed up by just settling for a field goal. Then they couldn't even get the field goal off because they completely mismanaged the time outs and the clock Talia throws it short I mean it was just so they go into halftime honestly feeling poorly about themselves because it was 10-10 it probably should have been 17-10 or 13-10 in their advantage they still come out and score a touchdown to start the second half and then they could just do absolutely nothing. Marvin Harrison Jr. got cooking. Mbuka leaves the game, but then they start running the ball a little bit better. A little bit better.

A little bit better. They finished with 33 carries for 62 yards. Now, 20 of those are sacks from a court, or you lose 20 on sacks from a court, but they ran the ball very poorly in that game. That is something I am concerned about Ohio state. Now, Trey Henderson didn't play. So that's a big,

big difference, but running backs get banged up. And we've seen Ohio state have issues where running backs get banged up and they don't have the depth at that position and have to do some different stuff. But that concerns me going forward for them when they play Michigan, when they play Penn State, those are teams that are very good up front defensively. And if you are going to be one-dimensional against those teams,

it's dangerous. It's very dangerous. So that concerns me for Ohio State. No, you're right. And, like, let me tell you on. Henderson didn't play today. There was it was a lot you know, Bruce Feltman had the report that the backup Myron Williams, you know, I'd lost 10 pounds in the last couple weeks and was looking svelte and best week of practice and you know, sometimes that stuff just doesn't come to fruition, but they're gonna need more from him. They're gonna need

more from chip train them. And they're going to need more from him. They're going to need more from Chip Trenum. And they're frankly going to need more from an offensive line that I think has continued to kind of show that it has some question marks. Replacing both tackles that went to the NFL a year ago, that they're not pushing teams around. They certainly couldn't push around Notre Dame. That was a game that they probably lost in the trenches but just kind of ultimately won that war. That's a solid but not utterly dynamic defense.

Right. It was times they could not block Maryland today. Yeah. Whereas they're going to play dynamic defenses October 21st and at the end of the regular season. Yeah. October 21st and at the end of the regular season. Yeah, in my mailbag this past week, I got asked, you know, which is the best Big Ten defense between Penn State, Michigan State, or Michigan and Ohio State

because they're 1, 2, and 3 nationally in scoring. And those two, the fronts at Michigan and Penn State are going to come at you. So we're going to find out these answers, you know, in a couple weeks for the Buckeyes. The middle of the day was all about that game in College Station. It was not pretty, which would be a theme for the rest of the night, actually. But Alabama found a way to get out of College Station with a win,

and it is a huge, huge victory for the Crimson Tide. Tough loss for Texas A&M. Lots of questions for Jimbo Fisher after this one. There's some decisions he made that he's probably going to regret. As for Nick Saban, he was smiling on the way out because he knew that Alabama didn't play its best game, but now controls its fate in the SEC West. That's about all you can ask for at this point in this season. Alabama, Jesse, they control the SEC West now. They are in the driver's seat. Really, they got to beat LSU. They got to beat Tennessee. If they do those things, not in that order, they will be playing

the East representative, the winner of the Kentucky-Georgia game probably, maybe with a playoff berth on the line. I mean, this is an Alabama team that went on the road at Texas A&M, committed 15 or 14 penalties for 99 yards. You have a bad interception, kind of O-line struggling in the first half. And yet if the first, you know, the first set of these videos is about the validation, I think, for Dylan Gabriel and Brent Venables and the Oklahoma Sooners.

Today was, you know, this was Jalen Milrow's moment. Texas A&M is susceptible in the secondary. And he went out and torched them. They blocked better in the second half. And he, you know, he connected on some huge throws. Now, there was some I-don't-know-what-you're-thinking plays at the end of the game, and there is the Texas A&M certainly. It's a cliche for a reason, I think, Andy.

You got a chance to step on the head of the snake, and you got to cut it off. They pick Milrow off to start the know, the start to second half. And two plays later, Alabama gets an interception right back, right back. Well, let me, let me run down some plays for you. Cause we can, we can question both coaching staffs here. If we want to that you can question Nick Saban less than, than Jimbo. Cause Jimbo had some moments here where you're just like, okay, well,

all right. So we'll, we'll go with fourth and one on the Alabama 45 tied 17, 17. You go for that, right? Like analytics tell you to go for that. Gary, Gary Danielson, Linux say punt. Those are the only analytics that tell you to punt in that situation. Yeah. Yeah.

That was, I mean, and this is chatting with a producer before we hopped on here. I mean, there is just Jimbo's decision-making in these games. It just constantly comes back to haunt the Aggies. It just really does. So he punts in that situation. Alabama goes 80 yards and six plays in 237 to take a 24-17 lead.

Now, A&M catches a break because they're going to kick a field goal. It gets blocked. One of the more amazing things you will ever see. Chris Braswell blocks a kick and catches it and runs it in for a touchdown. But because Dallas Turner blocks somebody 15 yards behind the play, blindside, it gets called back. So good news for you, Texas A&M. You're in good shape. It is not going to be 31-17.

Still 24-17. You get a stop. And then Aniyah Smith catches the ball. And this is not Aniyah Smith's fault because he's just trying to make a play. He's trying to get the end zone. But his foot scraped out of bounds at the two. A&M can't get that one in. They had a holding call that got the touchdown called back.

They get sacked. Max Johnson hits Jake Johnson on the two. Jimbo burns a timeout and then kicks a field goal. I mean, it's just, again, there was no urgency. I mean, the play between, I think, second and third down, they ran off almost 30 seconds. Just as if they were up, you know, bleeding the clock. I want to take you back to another.

What did you think of the decision to punt? I think it was fourth and five in plus territory alabama maybe you're on alabama's like 44 yard line i think um you know early in the fourth quarter andy and they punted the ball and they gained like 20 yards it was a net of like 20 yards. I mean, Alabama, it was just – On fourth and five, I'm a little less – it's obvious. It's not – I agree. I agree it's definitely not obvious.

I was just wondering. It was a straight because you literally gained hardly any field position with the punt. Yeah. And so you just gave it away. Here, Buckeye PJ, and it's interesting because, you know, the A&M fans probably thinking back to when Texas got a second put back on the clock against Nebraska when that last play happened. Buckeye PJ asked, shouldn't there have been a second on the clock

for A&M at the end? How is there not an automatic booth review on that? They did look at it. They look at everything. But I think they said that, you know, it was still in the air when the clock hit zero. And we had Elias, one of our other commenters, mentioned it looked like a spectator touched the ball with the second left. So that's one of those weird ones where they're probably never going to give it back unless, I don't know, it's the big 12 championship game and a trip to the national title game for one of your teams is on the line so it it it was it was strange though

that was a strange sequence by the way we've been hammering on jimbo let's hammer on alabama a little bit for that last sequence because first of all if jace m McClellan doesn't bobble that ball on third down. So remember, he has his knee on the ground. The ball comes to him. He bobbles it. He takes his knee off the ground, catches it. That allows him to run for the first down. Amazing catch.

Amazing situation. But then immediately, Jalen Milrose throws an incomplete pass. What are you doing? And Danielson was like, yeah, it would have been a nice play if he had completed it. And it's like, why are you even passing? Just run around. Yeah, well, I mean, it was – that was not Milrose's finest moment. But today certainly was his finest game.

And Jermaine Burton's. And Jermaine Burton's. Well, you know, he had his own goat moments at times with getting the personal foul when Milrow got sacked. And then later he had the fumble,

but he still did have a monster game, had some big catches. But I mean, Milrow had hit. Alabama had eight pass plays over 15 yards in this game, including ones of 45, 21, 21, 52. I mean, they were just bombing the ball at times against, again, the Aggies' front seven has lived up to its billing the last three weeks.

35 tackles for loss, I think, in the last three games. Another five sacks today. But their secondary is Swiss cheese. And Milrow and a wide receiver group that has struggled throughout this season were able to find all sorts of holes and running room to go yeah they did they took advantage because what a and m was giving them most of the time was intermediate stuff along the sidelines and they were they were taking full advantage of that if you want if you want 11 yards along the sideline, you can have it.

And that allowed Alabama to, to keep the sticks moving. And so I thought it was a pretty good job by Jalen Millrow. And you know, that one, that one sequence, the touchdown that put them up 24, 17 was prime prime Jalen Millrow. He can dump it to jermaine burton on second down easiest throw in the world five yards in front of his face nobody there right he overthrows that one but then he throws a seed all all the way down the field in only a place where jermaine burton can catch it because he was actually covered pretty well in that play. On third and long. He had a play similar, what was that, against Ole Miss where he just got rocked. He had missed like a wide open throw on a play before.

And then, you know, he gets rocked and throws a perfect dime touchdown. You know, the intermediary and kind of short passing game, I don't think is ever going to be Jalen Milrow's strength, but the guy can hit some home runs. He's got some Mark McGuire to his game. I was impressed with the intermediate stuff. It was the short stuff that they seemed to have a problem with. But the intermediate stuff is what really got that offense moving because they were struggling in the first half

and they were struggling to protect him in the first half. So it seems like he and Tommy Reese kind of figured some stuff out. And that's the thing with this Alabama team. It's like, they're just good enough to figure everything out, but not quite good enough to put it away. And you feel like when they play against a really, really good team, that's going to bite them in the butt. Obviously it did against Texas. But they still, given what they have left to play, feel like they can make the SEC championship game. Alabama LSU feels like it might be a track meet. Yeah. Well, I mean, especially if what we're seeing from Jalen Milrow is true growth,

then you're going to score on LSU anyways, but if you can throw the ball, you're really going to score on LSU. And that could be a 60-minute barn burner where both sides are just throwing haymakers and scoring touchdowns. I think Alabama has a better defense than Ole Miss or Missouri. So I think they'll be able to stop LSU enough times, especially in Tuscaloosa, that that shouldn't be as big of a deal. Tennessee will be an interesting one too.

But yeah, they're good enough to make the title. This was a 12-team playoff here. We know they'd be in the field somewhere. We just don't know where. Four-team playoff,, we know they'd be in the field somewhere. We just don't know where. Fourteen playoff years, you've probably got to beat Georgia. And now we know this was another major missed opportunity for Jimbo. And with the schedule that you go to Tennessee next weekend, you still have to play in Baton Rouge.

Speaking of LSU, you know, this was a major missed opportunity. And, you know, some of their five stars, the Walter Nolans and the Shamar Stewarts and these guys, they're showing out. But they're also – they just can't – there always seems to be something that gets in the way, whether it is time management, whether today, you know, in the second half you just couldn't pass protect at all. It's we're, we're going to, we're in for a long, long, I think, you know,

next few months in college station because of what A&M has left on the schedule. I think there's going to be plenty of questions, you know, certainly surrounding Fisher and this staff. I think they're good enough to win every game left on their schedule. I agree. No, I don't disagree. Inconsistent enough to lose a couple. So that's the difference.

It's not going to be like last year. It's going to be better than last year. They're going to be 9-3 or something like that, and they're going to be significantly better than they were last year, and it probably still will not make the fan base happy because you'll look at this and you'll go oh my god Alabama tried to give us the SEC West and we wouldn't take it well I mean but don't you think I I think that's reasonable though I mean this is year what is this year five I mean you still your six probably not your six and you're

not going to win 10 games again so I I think the consternation is absolutely reasonable. They might win 10. Like this team's talented enough to run the table, but I think everything we've seen so far says there will be another one that they drop. But they could also lose to Tennessee, Ole Miss, and LSU. Correct, correct, exactly. So we'll see what happens with them.

Let us move on to another team that that got a big piece of news during the week and celebrated in grand fashion on saturday north carolina the news on thursday was tez walker eligible to play the ncaa said we got new information north carolina's like we didn't send you any new information jerks you just realized information was yeah you realize you're gonna sue your asses off and change your mind so they North Carolina Tez you know comes out holding the North Carolina state flag he catches seven or excuse me six passes and a 40 to seven winning in Syracuse remember Syracuse undefeated going to that Clemson game and then Clemson beat them and now Syracuse four and two, but North Carolina just annihilated the orange. Tar Heels look great, Jesse.

I know. I can't wait. I'm shaking my head because this was on my cutting room floor for best bets this week. And then the line moved dramatically in response to the Tez Walker news. It went from like eight, eight and a half to almost 10, nine and a half in a lot of spots. So I got a little, you know, trigger shy there, but I, I mean, Drake may, I think accounted for almost 500 yards in this game. He was unbelievable. You know, he's, he's, he's kind of gotten off to a slow start, which actually makes what North Carolina has done this season all the more impressive. Gene Chizik, that defense that was so floundering a year ago,

suddenly creating more havoc. The defensive linemen are living up to their potential. They're getting after the quarterback. Syracuse really limited with Garrett Schrader, not having the weapons there now that they lost their top playmaker a week ago. Yeah. It's in the end, but it's, I mean, the Tar Heels have a lot of reason to be excited. That's going to be a monster game against Miami.

They feel like a very complete team. We'll see if they are. Cause it might be a function of, of who they played to this point, but they feel very complete and Miami, you know, I think you saw the way they played against texas a&m miami versus texas a&m alabama versus texas a&m i know we're not doing transitive property here but i i think everything we've seen so far suggests that miami is pretty darn good i say i say this now miami has yet to kick off against georgia tech watch that can be like 17

to 12 but Speaking of. Yeah. Why don't we just talk about Clemson Wake Forest? You just teased yourself, but I teed you up for it. Yeah, why don't we just talk about Clemson Wake Forest? Oh, God. I mean, yikes. You know, Wake's bad this year.

Yes. Yes. Wake is bad this year which yes yes Wake is bad this year uh so this this is particularly concerning for Clemson you know I mean could not Club Nick could not do anything throwing the ball he was he did he ran the ball a million times I think think, in this game. But this was the Will Shipley game. He kind of put it on his back, I think 19 for close to 100. But nasty, nasty. This belonged on the old Jefferson Pilot type games. Oh, yeah. This needed to not be in HD. They needed to shrink it back down to 4x3 and make it very, very fuzzy and grainy because you didn't want to.

You don't want to direct. Look at this. Your eyes might bleed, but. I take back all the stuff I said about Clemson. Mike will run the table the rest of the way. I feel bad. They did play really well against Florida State. They gave Florida State their best shot, but this this team doesn't have it.

They're going to have to really upgrade the roster. The Garrett Riley thing. I, this is his offense? Are we sure? Are we sure? Yeah. I mean, it's air raid and name only right now because they're not doing a whole lot in the air. I think they're just trying to get through and survive games, which is fine.

You won. So take for that what you will. Elsewhere in the ACC, Florida State also beat Virginia Tech. They went up 22-0. Virginia Tech came back a little bit, but then Florida State put the hammer down again. Let's go out west.

Washington State falls from the ranks in the unbeaten. UCLA forces four turnovers. This is just really UCLA sticking this one out because I thought Washington State was going to come back. And then in the fourth quarter, UCLA forced another turnover. They ran for two early, two touchdowns early in the fourth quarter, and then they just shut it down defensively so good job by by chip kelly and the boys i didn't think washington state was going to go undefeated this season but i did think they could go to the rose bowl and win this game so uh this is i guess

jesse probably another example of what we think is going to happen in the pac-12 where there's a lot of teams that can beat somebody we think is really good. Yeah, carnage. I mean, this is a middle bird from the gamblers out west that said all the folks on Twitter and when columns and stuff saying wrong team favored because UCLA was actually the favorite team despite Washington State being ranked in the top 15. They were one of my best bets this weekend. I liked the Bruins in this game. I thought they would have a bounce back showing after against Utah.

Dante Moore was not that great, but my man Carson steel was, yeah, I was going to say this, this week I had a, you know, updated bold predictions piece for the rest of the season after the, you know, month the month of September. Well, one of my preseason bold predictions was that Carson Steele was going to lead the Pac-12 in rushing. He hadn't gotten a ton of carries, been splitting the carries with a couple of the guys, but he was the hammer.

He was the horse today and just kind of moved the chains. And like you said, they did just enough offensively because Wazoo kept turning the ball over Cam Ward's Heisman, you know, uh, candidacy went up in smoke, just like Quinn yours is,

I think they're going to be plucking each other off. Yeah. As I say with, with Bo Nix, Michael Penix, Jr. And Caleb Williams in the same league. I don't think there was much of a chance anyway,

but you're right. Right. If they'd have been able to keep this rolling it would have it would have helped before we let everybody go watch these night games and oh by the way George is already up seven nothing they they went vertical on the first drive shocking this is maybe their quickest start yet but we'll talk about a team that didn't go vertical ever never really tried they tried to go vertical a little bit. It was to tight ends. Iowa beats Purdue 20 to 14. Jesse, let me find the, I gotta give proper credit where credit is due. So Iowa, they did complete passes in this game, but it was only

to tight end Eric All in running back Caleb Johnson. There were no passes completed to receivers. So Matt Benson on Twitter today was Kirk Ferentz's 307th game at Iowa and the first without a completion to a receiver. I might've lost that bet, Andy, honestly. I absolutely would not have surprised me. Yeah, it absolutely would not have surprised me if Iowa had won a game or played another game

when they had not completed a pass to a receiver. Like, I'm actually stunned that they hadn't done that. Do you know how hard that is to do if you're not an option team though you know who else did catch catch a pass today andy our boy cooper to gene there you go he had another interception put the man on offense and throw him the damn ball it's too too complex jesse can't do that no we talked to tom caker last week and cooper has said there's stuff in the works on that. They are willing to do that.

It's not them being completely obtuse about it. They do understand. But here's the thing. So 20 to 14, the under hits, I believe the total when we picked the game was 39 and a half. I think it went down to 38 at some point. But they still won they're five and one they're gonna if they win against wisconsin they're gonna win the big 10 west

yeah and i don't know what i don't know i don't know how would you pick that game today because again i was still can't do anything offensively but i don't know the wisconsin salty enough and i that's what i'm saying i don't know how good the biggest thing wisconsin has going for him in that game is that it's in madison right because you know they're going to try to run braylon adam braylon adam braylon allen at them but i don't think you're gonna lost the backup you're like uh what's hisname is out for the season. Chesmalusi, yeah. Thanks.

Couldn't pull it off the dumb. Yeah, and then Tanner Mordecai is okay, but they're just not very fast at receiver. They're going to get tackled where they catch the ball. So they're not going to move the ball very well against Iowa. I cannot. I can't believe it this team which might be worse than last year's team at offense might win the West and last year's team did go into the Nebraska game with a chance to win the West well if they do have some sort of package for Cooper to Jean, I say you busted out in that Wisconsin game.

Yes. Because if not, then when, and we're getting a look, we just got flashed a nice picture there for our YouTube audience. For those listening on podcast of, of Brian Ferens. I don't think he's getting fired,

Andy. I think that new AD came out. I think that new AD came out and was basically like, that was the old AD that had that contract. So while we can still have fun and laugh about the drive for 325, I don't even think it's going to matter. I think they're going to rip that thing up and figure out a way for that. He just comes back.

His contract terminates. It doesn't say that they can't give him another one, which they will. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't say that they can't give him another one, which they will. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's amazing. Truly amazing. So that game is next week, kids.

4. PM. Eastern time in Madison. It will make your eyes bleed, but it will be probably for the big 10 West. We're only in the middle of October, but we already are at that point. That game deserves the middle of November, Wisconsin, where it's 28 degrees with snowflakes, you know,

wind chill, just nasty because that's what that game's going to be. What's going to happen is depending on how things go down like maybe iowa beats them but drops another one down the road and obviously wisconsin loses to to ohio state and somehow you get a game where iowa has to beat nebraska for the west title and a suddenly resurgent matt Matt rule, Nebraska gets bowl eligible by beating Iowa. Come on. They, they won.

They won a nasty gross game on Friday night themselves. It was blowing 35 miles an hour. What are you going to do? It was going to be nasty no matter what, but the wind didn't help the evening window of games. Well, no matter what, but the wind didn't help. The evening window of games, well, it started out with Georgia just annihilating Kentucky. We knew this game was over in the first quarter. Then we kind of moved on to Notre Dame and Louisville,

and that was an incredible performance by the Cardinals. But then once that ended, everybody's attention shifted to Miami Gardens, Florida, where one of the dumbest things you'll ever see on a football field happened. Here's me and Jesse talking about it. Brian, what the hell did we just watch in Miami, Jesse Sockinson? Let me set the scene. The clock is ticking. The clock is ticking.

They're doing the milking thing. They're doing the milking thing. Yes, but not theouts. They're doing the milking thing. They're doing the milking thing. Yes, but not the milking thing. Not the milking thing, but the milking thing. Not the Jonathan Smith, but the actual milking. Yes. There are fewer than 40 seconds on the clock. The play clock is 40 seconds long.

Georgia Tech has zero timeouts. It is third and 10. Miami, instead of taking a knee, which is all they need to do, they can take a knee and walk off the field. They take a snap in the shotgun and hand off and fumble. And Georgia Tech gets the ball back with 26 seconds. And scores a touchdown. Is that in October? Two plays. Yeah, well, the only exclamation I would add on that, Andy, is the irony that Haynes King, formerly of Texas A&M,

who lost to Miami a year ago and got benched in that game, the Aggies lost to the Hurricanes again this season. Just beat said Hurricanes as the starting quarterback at Georgia Tech. Transfer portal, giveth, taketh. You know who Haynes King completed a pass to on the day of the Texas A&M Alabama gameiami game, or Texas A&M-Alabama game last year? One, Mr. Andy Staples. Me!

Yeah. And I was beating Miami. Mario Cristobal, man, I'm telling you. Oregon, Miami, it doesn't matter where he's been as a head coach. He's phenomenal in December, phenomenal in January, February, whatever the two signing days are. But when it comes to Saturday's in-game management, game management, clock management, it's just been a calamity of errors at both stops. Today was the Nadir. I mean, this is a game that, yeah, Tyler Van Dyke threw three interceptions.

He was terrible. But you outgained Tech by more than 200-something yards before that final 75-yard dash. And you should have won the game, should have been undefeated, going to North Carolina, a big maybe top two, top 15 teams, you know, competing for the ACC or trying to be in the mix there with Florida State. And you just go full Yosemite Sam like we have not seen in a long time. I just, I have never seen, well, I haven't seen anything like this.

I know that the Herm Edwards scoop and score when he was with the Eagles, that happened because of this. But that was before teams took knees. There used to be some sort of thing where you were unethical if you took knees. But since we decided common sense should reign and if there's less time on the game clock than on the play clock, you can just walk it out, take a knee.

Like, what? How? How does that happen? Well, what's crazy about that too, Andy, is that I think it was Brock Heward that was on the call was criticizing Cristobal and Miami for their clock management

that was West Durham West Durham and Matt Hasselbeck it's a Hasselbeck Matt Hasselbeck not Brock Heward I got my NFL quarterbacks confused Matt Hasselbeck he was criticizing Miami before the fumble for the way they were operating the clock.

That they weren't bleeding it down. That there was no reason after they got the first down to be running the ball anyways. And they should just be kneeling it. And then they do fumble the very next play. You get a busted coverage two times in a row. Hanks King was terrible before that in this game. Just a, what an awful, awful loss for the Hurricanes. I mean, cataclysmic.

We're going to talk about Louisville in a minute. But here's what you need to know. You can't afford a loss in ACC play if you want to win the ACC title. Because Louisville doesn't have to play Florida State and doesn't have to play North Carolina. North Carolina doesn't have to play Florida State. You don't have to play everybody who's good in the ACC. Miami does.

And they have to play Clemson. So this is just an abomination. This kills them because they're not going to be able to recover from this and win the ACC title probably with all they have left to play. Georgia Tech lost to Bowling Green last week. Yes, Bowling Green. Bowling Green. They lost to Bowling Green.

They did beat Wake Forest before that, though. They did beat – but as we discussed earlier this afternoon, Wake Forest is terrible. This is – the Demon Deacons are not the typical Demon Deacons of old. But, I mean, just a, yes, complete meltdown. The comments are doing our analysis for it.

Curveball saying it's shocking the refs called it a fumble when Don Chaney's left elbow was clearly down. Look, they reviewed it. It's a fumble. It should be a fumble because they were so dumb

to run a play in the first place. Like, they should be penalized possession for being stupid. Yeah. I mean, it was. Dang. And you know what? And frankly, they got in their way even before that. You know, they get the big interception,

and then they kind of completely go backwards in the red zone. At least they kicked a field goal backwards in the red zone. Uh, on a play goal there. They didn't kick a field, but I'm saying, but like they had a chance that it could have gone up a touchdown. That was still a missed opportunity. Um,

yeah, big, big win for, for Brent, for Brett key there. I mean, that, that was especially coming off a,

a humbling loss. I was talking to a Georgia Tech person on Friday, and they were lamenting the Bowling Green loss. And I said, but yeah, but you did beat Wake Forest, so it feels like it's kind of even. Well, now it's way more than even. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is the sort of results he delivered late in the year last year that got him the interim job.

Curveball in the chat won't give up on the elbow being down curveball it's a ball don't lie situation they lost the ball for being stupid that's why they lost the ball here's here's a curveball for curveball call me the next time mario makes a smart late game decision when the clock is involved because we have yet to see it at both Oregon or Miami they have gotten in their way every gonna say this himself his press conference hasn't happened yet he's gonna say this himself like oh yeah I believe that what he's gonna say he has to I mean like there is you can't say anything else you can't't put it on the kid that fumbled. You're the guy that's making $10 million. You need to take some ownership there.

Yeah, I don't blame Chaney at all. That's not Chaney's fault. He's going crazy on the sidelines and beside himself. He should never have been put in that situation. The person making all the money should have known to tell him to take a knee. The day that the narratives died, Andy, Texas is back and the U now just stumbles again. Well, those narratives. I'm joking. Oklahoma's back.

I'm joking. I know. I literally wrote a column that it's not about the Texas' back narrative. It's about validation for Brent Venables. That was tongue-in-cheek completely. Well, we got to talk about everything else that happened on Saturday night because it was a very eventful evening. Let's go to Louisville where Notre Dame is eliminated from the college football playoff race by the Cardinals. And if you listen to the show all week,

you heard why this would happen or why this might happen. I didn't think this like 33, 20. No, I did not expect them to dominate the second half the way they did. I didn't expect it to be that much of a runaway, but I did expect it to be very difficult for Notre Dame because they just played two incredibly physical games in a row at night. They got another night game. They have USC next week. Everything was working against them. This was the biggest game in Louisville in years and years and years. And Louisville was spectacular. You heard Jeff Brom on the show last week. Seemed very confident going into this game. I don't know that he thought this would happen,

but they're way ahead of schedule. And if you look at the rest of Louisville's schedule, by the way, they're playing Pitt next week. Their toughest game, well, their toughest two games, their toughest game in the ACC remaining as Duke, their toughest game period is probably Kentucky. Yeah. I picked this game individually wrong. I did not see the Irish running the table ultimately and getting to the college football playoff,

but I am someone that was throughout the off season was extremely high on Louisville I've ever written a couple different columns calling them a dark horse contender for the ACC in year one under Jeff Braun because I like the work he did in the transfer portal I think for as much shine as Deion Sanders and some of the other guys have gotten for what they've did uh or hauled in you you know, through transfers. The guys that Braum brought in have just been impact players, both defensively and offensively. Jamari Trash, the wide receiver, another monster game tonight, big touchdown. Jack Plummer has just been okay. He had five touchdowns in a game earlier this season, but he was serviceable tonight. But this is – I think it comes down to, Andy, frankly,

I think this Louisville defense that was really good a year ago, then they lost some of those best pieces, Yaya and some of the other guys, to the NFL. But they've kind of reloaded, and they are nasty again. I mean, this is – Louisville is a house of horrors for Sam Hartman. He had six turnovers the last time he was there tonight. He had five, three picks,

two fumbles, and he probably could have had six or eight because Louisville dropped three interceptions. I mean, it was just a, a, you know, they put their, they, they put their cleats into the ground

and they said, we're going to win this game. And they took it to the Irish. Full stop. And let's not forget Jawar Jordan, who was a Scott Satterfield hole-over, who was just fantastic on Saturday night. He was breaking long runs. He was running tough in between the tackles. He was breaking long runs. He was running tough in between the tackles. He was awesome. So it is going to be a fascinating race in the ACC because

now Florida State has to play Miami. But again, we just saw what Miami did and we saw what Florida State did in Miami last year. But North Carolina has miami left it's possible florida state north carolina and louisville wind up undefeated in acc play all three i'm gonna i'm gonna have to call the acc office and get a get a tiebreaker on that because you you know there's tiebreakers for teams that have is that the office meme where they're all, like, pointing at each other? It has to. They're all undefeated. Yeah, exactly.

They're all looking at each other. It's a little office meme. How likely is it that they all go 8-0 in ACC play? Not likely. But it's possible. Someone's going to somewhat – because of the result that we saw tonight with Georgia Tech-Miami, someone's going to get likely got. But I will say this.

You talk about Jordan had the big game rushing. As impressive was what Louisville was able to do to Audrey Guest to me. Yes. Notre Dame could not run the ball. And, I mean, I jokingly tweeted but I mean whatever you know Parker's short yardage play sheet is he needs to throw that thing in the trash the rest of the season because it's been multiple games now Ohio State Duke and now Louisville that they have lost two or two or three of those games where they can just not Notre Notre Dame could just not get third and one,

second and short, fourth and short, and it cost them. Good news, Jesse, for the Irish, though. You ready? They're going to move the ball next week. They give up some points, but they're going to move the ball. We will talk about USC. Well, I will talk to you guys about USC Arizona

in the podcast version of this show that drops tomorrow. In the wee hours. Or I might just get on video and go, how does this keep happening? Because USC's defense is struggling currently against Arizona. But let us go to another game. And this game was over so quickly. It feels like it happened on Friday. Georgia 51, Kentucky 13.

The Bulldogs have arrived for the 2023 season. This is the team that we thought they were going to be all year. Holy crap. You know what this is? We've heard a lot about the cake baking from nick saban the cake's gotta bake the cake's gotta bake you know you can't take it out of the oven too early you gotta check on it you gotta let it make sure that it you know rises enough you take it out you let it rest that's what this was andy. You're using the same metaphors for this? Yes, because people want to know. I guarantee you've been asked this a million times in the last couple of years. I know I have on Twitter, emails, whatever. What does the process mean?

What is the process? I hear it's about the process at Georgia and the process at Alabama. This is what the process looks like when it comes to fruition. It's that it may not, it may take a little bit longer, but there is a plan in place. You and I talked about in this very space a week ago, what does Georgia need to do? They need to pass, basically pass to lead. We were doing the reaction show to the Texas A&M Alabama game, and I'm watching in the first quarter,

as we're talking about Texas A&M Alabama, watching Georgia go vertical on their first series, and I'm like, this is going to be a bloodbath. And it sure was. 100%. And, you know, this is a game that in the last couple of years has been played in a phone booth. And Mike Bobo and Kirby clearly said, no, that's not our strength.

We have, it's not Brock Bowers is the best player not named Caleb Williams in America, I think right now. Marvin Harrison, Brock Bowers is an argument, but whatever. But they have a lot of other playmakers on the perimeter. Rah-Rah Thomas, Rosemary Jack Saint, Dominique Lovett, Arian Smith, these guys, they have a bunch of guys on the outside that can make plays. Carson Beck clearly is a guy that can distribute the football. So what do they do? They throw for 175 yards on their first two drives, march right down the field and score

two touchdowns I mean it's just and and so I think that this is going to become the identity again you and I spoke about it in this very space last week that's going to become the identity of Georgia the rest of the season and so Kirby Smart and this team has been at its best the last couple years when they've been you know challenged the most or when they felt, quote unquote, challenged the most. And they certainly answered the bell tonight. Kentucky was held under 200 yards, could not really run the ball. You know, Leary was a complete mess. This was Georgia, you know, kind of cementing, hey, we still are the number one team in the country.

Yeah, and that was against a good team. There's no revisionist history on Kentucky. Kentucky's pretty good, and Georgia just demolished them. So if you were wondering if Georgia had another gear, Georgia has another gear. So when I do the projected rankings, last week I had Alabama projected to win the SEC. No, I'll have Georgia projected to win the SEC again. Don't worry. They have the other gear.

They are capable of that. Probably you have them in your resume rankings, you think? They're going to be up there because it's pretty impressive now they still the other games count too that's what i was wondering that's what i was wondering yeah i'm not gonna have them number one but i am gonna have them up there now a team that's also not been in the resume rankings that is going to make its first appearance in the resume rankings is Michigan because yeah, they have not played anybody yet, but all they do is smash everybody. They play like there is something to be said for being consistent. They go to Minnesota. They had a couple of defensive scores. They were very efficient on

offense. It was just easy, 52-10 win. And so, no, Michigan has not played somebody yet. I cannot wait to see them play somebody. I don't know about you, Andy, but folks may laugh at me, and that's fine. You can riddle me in the comments. I'm someone that likes to sleep with a face mask. I want it totally dark. I want it totally cold. Blinds totally closed, curtains, all that, air conditioning way down, face mask on. You could put a face mask on for Michigan this

year. It doesn't matter if they're playing a Big Ten team, a Mountain West team, an AAC team, a Sunbelt team. They are beating all of them the same. They are just killing them and sucking the life out of them. And basically in the second half being kind of like Georgia a la 2022, Boa can trick her in the second half and just squeezing the life out of them. I mean, it's been impressive. Now, can they do that against Penn State? We don't know. We won't know until November.

But they keep beating everybody exactly the same way. And God help poor Indiana next week. Good Lord. They've got Indiana, Michigan State, and Purdue before they play Penn State. So all we're going to see is three more of these. Yeah, and it's just more opportunities for this offensive line and running game to continue to get humming. J.J. McCarthy to continue to kind of spill the pill.

I mean, it's just – and their defense, they don't have the names of Abdul Carter, Chop Robinson, some of the guys on Penn State, JT Tuolumoto. But collectively – Yeah, everybody in Michigan's defense is going to play in the NFL. Exactly. Collectively, they're just an awesome group. And they may have, you know, seven offensive linemen drafted.

It's crazy. No, they were absolutely dominant and they're dominant every week. And there's something to be said for that. Even if your schedule is not great, there's absolutely something to be said for that because it's what we talked about with Georgia. Where is that? Well, how come we haven't seen that? Well, we saw it against a very good team tonight, Michigan. We've seen it every single game. So that matters. You know, we can't get out of here without talking about coach prime

coach prime went on the road, beat Arizona state. Is that a huge accomplishment? Probably not. But, uh, I believe a lot of tickets cash tonight, Jesse, because it wasn't the wind total at most places, three and a half.

It was. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, I, this was closer than the, than the,

uh, the experts thought, but yeah, I mean, Arizona state, as you, as you kind of, You know, this was closer than the experts thought. But, I mean, Arizona State, as you and I were kind of discussing offline here, you know, they've become a little bit better offensively ever since Dillingham kind of took over some of the reins back there. Colorado engineering, Shador, you know, last-minute field goal drive. This was a big one because if Deion Sanders is going to win six games and get this team bowling for the first time in a 12-game schedule,

I think since 2016, they needed this one because you have Stanford coming up too. But if in terms of winnable games, you look at this game, Arizona, Colorado still has some tough games on the slate. So this was this was a big one. And, you know, you went on the road. It was not a lot of folks probably saw it. Pac-12 Network. It didn't it didn't bite it.

It certainly didn't get the eyes and Twitter engagement that the recent Dion games have received. But it was definitely a big win for the buffs and let's not forget a game that more people could see because it was on big fox i love wyoming beats fresno state and laramie so wyoming took a big lead fresno state came back uh 24 7 yeah mikey keen got knocked out and the backup came in and they were it looked like there was a chance but then uh a giant was wyoming defensive lineman that guy oh he was huge he intercepts lo Logan Fife to seal the win, and he looked like a Coke machine running with the football. I was so hoping that we were going to get a nice fat guy touchdown there.

You know, so I do this, you know, predicting the AP top 25 the next day, Andy. You and I have to kind of discuss this before. Cole Godbout, by the way. Cole God I have to kind of discuss this before. Cole Godbout, by the way. Cole Godbout is the name. Cole Godbout, that's a great name. What a name. All-time. What a name.

That's an all-time. He definitely deserves on the all-team 2023 name team. So who would you rank, Andy, among these two teams? Wyoming, now 5-1, just beat the top 25 Fresno state only losses at Texas tech, only losses at Texas or Missouri team that is five and one beat a Kansas state team that just lost at Oklahoma state, uh, lost, you know, basically a one score, but ended up being a two score game against LSU. Who would you rank over those two teams? Because we've had a lot of other movement in the top 25 based on some of the other next teams that were ranked. Those teams all lost, A&M, Kansas State,

some of these other guys. So it's going to be like a Wyoming or an Air Force or a Missouri that stays at top 25. I think they'll both, they might both get ranked. Now, here's the thing. Wyoming plays Air Force next week. I know. So the inside track on the Mountain West, and I don't know about you,

but I think the Mountain West champ may be the one that goes to the group of five spot in the year six poll. Yeah. I think it's either them or Tulane, right? Right. And Tulane has a loss to Ole Miss already. That's going to be very interesting to see. Fresno State has the wins against Purdue and against Arizona State. They shut out Arizona State. They shut out Arizona State.

So I think Wyoming will be ranked. And then whoever wins next week will stay ranked and go up between Wyoming and Air Force and the other one will drop out. Because Air Force might wind up ranked this week too. But they may be penalized because they're off this week. That's the only reason. That's true.

They don't have a win to ride in. And you know how AP voters are. If they don't see a result on the schedule, they just forget those teams entirely. Well, here's the deal. I don't think a lot of AP voters have watched Air Force at all this year. So that's – Here's the deal.

This probably will be the first game that... This game next week against Wyoming probably will be the first game most of them watch. I totally agree. I guess here's a follow-up question, though. Do you think Kentucky drops out? Because of getting the demolition that happened. The win against Florida doesn't really hold them up much.

But the problem is you've got Florida and Tennessee, and Florida beat Tennessee, but Tennessee's only got the one loss. So you can say, well, Florida also lost to Utah, so we can rank them below Tennessee. So I think you can probably do whatever you want with Kentucky right now. Yeah. Because I don't think Florida is going to be ranked, so you won't have to make sure you keep them above Florida.

A little eye of the beholder there. Yeah. That's a little pull inside baseball. Exactly. Here's the thing. Teams 15 through 40 are the same. I've long said. I haven't actually dropped it quite that low.

I've always said basically 20 to 35, 20 to 40, but you could probably go all the way to 15 for sure. As we saw tonight with Ole Miss basically playing with its food and beating a Hogs team that kind of looked like they were laying down a week ago. I mean, that's the thing. And we're going to see weird results that don't make sense.

Miami could very well go play North Carolina in a very competitive game. What we saw today against Georgia Tech suggests that North Carolina is going to beat Miami by a ton. I don't know that that's going to happen necessarily. One week to the next could change a lot.

Arizona's still beating USC, but it's halftime now. Yeah, USC just scored right at the end of the half. So we will see what happens. But Jesse, this has been a phenomenal Saturday of college football. It has been. I will probably be back at the start of the podcast talking about Arizona and USC. So if you haven't gotten enough of me already, you will get more as the opener to the podcast

because we will have to talk about whatever happens at the end of Arizona-USC. Jesse, this has been awesome. What a day. Started with that amazing, amazing Red River game in Dallas. Oklahoma's back, baby. Georgia decided to join the 2023 season and be like, you know what?

We may just mess around with repeat. If that's all right with y'all. Alabama is in control of the SEC West. Notre Dame is out of the college football playoff race. Louisville is 6-0. That's it for the show. Thank you so much for listening. What a day.

My favorite day of the college football season so far, but that just means there's probably a few more Saturdays that are going to eclipse it. Hope to have you back for Sunday's show. It premieres 8 p.m. Eastern time on the On3Sports YouTube channel. We will have our resume ranking. We will have the New Year's Six and college football playoff projections. We will break down all the stuff that happened Saturday. The press conferences will add more context to our initial, oh my God, did you see that reactions?

Then we got a whole week of shows after that to get you ready for another incredible Saturday. Because if it's anything like this one, it's going to be amazing. We'll talk to you soon.