Andy & Ari On3 - Ole Miss STUNS Georgia in the Sugar Bowl | OM Rebels ADVANCE to College Football Playoff Semifinals

Starting point is 00:00:00 on tonight's instant reaction edition of Andy and Ari on three presented by Madeleau and BetMGM what a game that's all I can say Ole Miss beats Georgia I am still waiting on a final score because they are reviewing the final play to tell us whether it was a safety or not but Ole Miss in a back and forth crazy game beats Georgia the team with no coach Well, they have a coach. Pete Golding's the coach now. But Lane Kiffin left, and Ole Miss is going to the semifinals. They're going to the festival to play Miami for a shot at the national title game. We'll talk about it all on tonight's edition of Andy and Arion 3, presented by Madelo and Bad MGM.

Starting point is 00:00:54 Welcome to an Instagram reactionition of Andy and Ariol 3, presented by Maddello and at MGM. And we do have a final score from New Orleans, Ari. It is 39, 34. They have upheld the safety call. All Miss did it. It's everything you wanted. It's the Disney movie. Their coach left. Pete Golding, the Gordon Bombay of college football coaching is going to take them to the playoff semifinals. Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Duxworth, when you wish upon a star. Is that what they Is that what it does? Yes, the Walt Disney Pictures logo

Starting point is 00:01:34 with the fairy dust that goes across. Yeah. Yeah, you sent me a cool picture of somebody doing something with the Disney Dust. Disney Dust would be a great name for a drug, and I would snort the hell out of that right now. That was insane. That game was everything you wanted

Starting point is 00:01:54 because it wasn't like either team played poorly. both teams made massive mistakes. Both teams made incredible plays. I mean, you think about this, at the end of the first half, when Ole Miss blew the clock situation, you thought, Pete Golding's in over his head.

Starting point is 00:02:11 He's not going to make this. And then Kirby Smart goes for it on fourth and nine late in the game, and it doesn't seem like half the team knows they're actually snapping the ball. And Ole Miss gets the ball and scores very quickly. I mean, so many crazy high leverage plays, good and bad from both teams. Andy, do you want to talk about like the game or do you want to talk about feelings?

Starting point is 00:02:39 Let's talk about the game first. It's both feelings and the game. Okay, so the first, the thing that stands out to me because like the first three quarters of the game just were erased from my memory because of how awesome that fourth quarter was. when Georgia was down three late and had first and goal to go trying to go for a win but worst case scenario tie what did you think of the play calling sequence down there because that was kind of befuddled that they remember that was right after Nate Fraser got hurt so Nate Fraser is the one who's breaking tackles who is doing all basically carrying your running game I don't think anybody else could do

Starting point is 00:03:20 what he was doing that that's the issue right there i don't think anybody else was going to be able to run it like him and so i didn't mind running the ball on on the first play but unfortunately they weren't going to get the same performance what did you think of running on third down they didn't run it on third down he's sorry going on develop down and i misspoken there was 50 there was 59 or 100 a minute, minute three left when they snapped the ball. Incomplete pass gave Ole Miss 57 seconds to go down and drive. Do you run it there, try to score on the ground? And if not, kick a field goal with 20-something seconds left to stop them going down the field.

Starting point is 00:04:02 Because the second they tied the game with 57 seconds left, they kind of felt like it was over. Like, I don't know. That was the issue right there. Yeah, you run clock because Ole Miss is out of timeouts. And that would have been the best thing. By the way, the game is not over yet. sorry they made Georgia they made Georgia kick the free kick after the safety they said there was a second ago and Pete Golding's already been doused in Gatorade

Starting point is 00:04:30 okay now they're taking the stage back off the field they're taking the stage back off the field oh my God is it possible to do an onside kick an onside kick from this scenario is there any grab ass that's what they did how what did it look like i'm not watching it what did it look like it was an onside kick that that old miss let it roll and george recovered and the clock never started so now george is running a play pitchy woo-woo you're going to get live play by play for me it's it's going to be terrible yeah go ahead michael's give us your best shot this will be the greatest play in college football history if this works cash lateral's it back i think that's lost and lucky cash again

Starting point is 00:05:18 it's still going hurry this is not over it's not over oh man I am so envious of Sean McDonough and his play it's still going there are flags on the field it's probably over but they're still going how do they end with

Starting point is 00:05:37 Gunter Stockton is in the grasp he is down I believe the game is over that game ended with Gunner Stockton getting sacked that's wild Um, you know, the, well, that was a really good game. That was a really, really good game. Um, all right.

Starting point is 00:05:56 So, um, if Ole Miss wins two more games, is Lane Kiffin getting a ring or what? Like, do we don't like, he's not getting the bonuses that LSU will pay him that he would have gotten at Ole Miss, but, uh, no, I don't think they made 500 grand on this. Um, and some. discourse from the boys chat i don't know if people are having this discourse too is lane kiffin happy right now yes and no would you be happy if you were lane kiffin i would be happy for the people that i love i would be very mad at the situation because i would want to be the one coaching the team like i know everybody wants to pretend like they've got a pure heart and that they're a good person

Starting point is 00:06:40 i feel like if i felt like i were him i would be upset or i would not be rooting for them I don't know. I mean, maybe there's a part of him that's not, but I think it would be hard to not root for all of these people that you have relationships with, that you helped get where they are. But it is, this is the weirdest situation we've ever seen. It is, I mean, we have seen it in basketball.

Starting point is 00:07:06 We saw it in basketball in 1989. Bill Frieder is the Michigan coach. He makes a deal to take the Arizona state job after the NCAA tournament. Bo Schoenbeckler finds out. he fires him he says a Michigan man will coach Michigan he elevates Steve Fisher and Steve Fisher wins a national title yeah um he goal these two games away from doing that well I understand that so much of coaching is about roster development and creating the team and all those things but I do find it somewhat amusing that Pete Golding now has a bigger on the field moment

Starting point is 00:07:46 less than a month into this thing than Lane Kiffin does in his entire career. Yeah. Well, look, and Brian Kelly went to LSU thinking he was going to be in the playoff every year and he didn't get there once. So you'd never know. And that was what was so crazy and why we said,

Starting point is 00:08:04 is there a chance Lane doesn't take the LSU job or doesn't take the Florida job and just stays at Ole Miss? And that's what I, I mean, I think that's what I would have done. I think that's what most people would have done. It makes me wonder, like, if Lane Kiffin thought in the back of his head that this team wasn't good enough to actually make the run. And when you see who's out of the field and, like, who they're playing,

Starting point is 00:08:29 like Miami's very good. Like, if Ole Miss, we'll break this down this week, but like if Ole Miss scores 28 points, like Miami's going to have a hard time keeping up offensively. Right. And Ole Miss score on Miami, not many people can, but Ole Miss would be capable of it. And I think Ole Miss also would be able to mitigate some of their ends with the way that, dude, Trinidad Chambliss played like an absolute dog in this game.

Starting point is 00:08:54 He was incredible. The sequence where he, he's about to go down and then I think he left hand shovel past it out. And then the next play, it looks like he's running back toward the end zone. And it looks like he's going to lose about 20 yards. And then he gets free and uncorks a pass. And they end up getting a first down. And then he rolls right. It's a guy, I think it was stribling.

Starting point is 00:09:18 You hit down the right sideline. Like that, it was incredible. Mm-hmm. He's just unbelievable. This guy was at Ferris State last year. He signed to be a backup at Ole Miss. It's unbelievable the way that he played. And I saw some NFL people even saying that he's climbing up the draft boards.

Starting point is 00:09:34 You know, I mean, I don't like in terms of his athleticism and the way that he extends plays Andy and keeps his eyes down the field and always finds the open man. It feels like when he rifles it down there. Like, you know, you get the sense when you're watching. quarterback when they throw the ball down field that like it's going to be completed like i had that feeling with trinidad chambers this game the play that the play that got them into field goal range at the end that throw was like a seeing eyeball that that curved around the db and landed in again i think it was scribbling who caught this pass just as he got to the spot and he caught

Starting point is 00:10:09 it in stride i mean it was incredible just incredible this is it right here the $20 question This will keep me up tonight. When we're done, I'm going to think of this before bed. I will not lose one wink of sleep over this question. I don't know why it'll keep you up at ask. Does Lane Kiffin get recognized as a championship coach and get a ring if they win at all? And I know, I will not get a ring. You're not going to make him a ring, but would you view him as a championship coach?

Starting point is 00:10:36 You've got plenty of money from LSU. You can make your own ring. But would you view him as a coach, a championship coach? Nope. He left his team. It's wild. It's wild stuff. If Pete Golding leads into a championship, it's Pete Golding's championship.

Starting point is 00:10:51 In 2019, before the NIL and Transfer Portal era, 2018, what would you say was the percentage of the coach's job? How would you do the pie chart of it? Roster assembly, coaching, X's and O's culture, all the things. Like, would roster assembly be like 85% in 2019? Yes. And what is it now? Is it still 85%? Yes.

Starting point is 00:11:15 but it's different. It's a different 85%. There are more ways to assemble a roster which allow teams like Ole Miss to be in this and not like in 2019, Georgia and Ole Miss play and Georgia beats Ole Miss 40 to 19 because Georgia's backups are as good as Ole Miss's starters.

Starting point is 00:11:36 Yeah. And that's not the way it is anymore. What you saw tonight were two very evenly matched teams who played a game earlier this season in Athens in which they were also very evenly matched. And that's what Lane Kiffin did for Ole Miss, is he took advantage of the changing rules, read the room on the new era faster than anybody else did,

Starting point is 00:11:59 and allowed them to step up. Now, it wasn't him alone. Keith Carter, the AD, Walker Jones, who runs the Grove Collective, they were smarter than everybody else. Keith Carter is smarter than other ADs because other ADs are like, well, oh, I got to keep building this new stadium.

Starting point is 00:12:15 edition. And Keith Carter is like, no, we're going to put the money toward players, because you know what makes a stadium better? Better players. Yeah. Andy, you've got a better photographic memory of the last time coaches have done something. When's Kirby Smart's biggest win? Like, when's his last big win in a high leverage moment? Are we going back three years now, four years? I mean, beating Texas this year was pretty big. Beating Texas in the end. No, I mean, like a big post season. I mean, I guess they won't. the SEC championship last year. So that would probably

Starting point is 00:12:47 Yeah, I mean, the national championship after the, I'm just like, I'm just like, how Alabama fans were reacting to DeBoer today. And obviously, it doesn't have as much equity built up with the program as Kirby Smart. I see how some of the Ohio State fans were reacting to Ryan Day. And I'm wondering, like, are Georgia

Starting point is 00:13:03 fans getting stir crazy? And like, how much equity does Kirby Smart have? Don't do this. No, no, I'm not saying, is he going to be fired or something? Don't know. No, they're yelling at Mike Bobo. They're mad at him. They're probably blaming Mike Bobo for whatever the play call was on fourth and nine or whatever the poor communication was that caused half the team to not realize they were

Starting point is 00:13:22 snapping the ball, or at least the left tackle will not realize they were snapping the ball. They're not worried about Kirby Smart. They're not. Twitter's just maybe a scary place when teams are losing, and I got to separate those two things. Those are the ultimate psychopaths. And then the other thing, I mean, I just said stir crazy. like wanting them out or anything.

Starting point is 00:13:47 No. Of course they're bad. They want to win national championship every year. They're Georgia fans. And then how much does Ole Miss's performance in the last few weeks, their first two games under Golding, make you feel like they got the right guy? Like can you learn a lot about this too?

Starting point is 00:14:05 Like can you just say like it's a fact. Ole Miss found their right guy and this is perfect? Like have you seen enough already to say that? Or like do you need to see more roster building how they, I'm pretty good with it right now. I'll be honest with you, I'm pretty good with it right now. I think being able to prepare this team

Starting point is 00:14:22 in this situation and win a game like this tells you an awful lot about a person. Now, Pete Golding is still going to have to assemble rosters as well as Lane Kiffin did, or this all goes away. But as long as he can do that, we've now seen him in two playoff games,

Starting point is 00:14:40 one that was extremely tight, back and forth. he made mistakes in that game. Like the clock management at the end of the first half was an abomination. But he also kept his team together. I mean, think about how much of the poor Mies Ole Miss could have had. Remember when the refs missed the face mask call? Ole Miss should have had a first down there.

Starting point is 00:15:05 That should have kept the drive alive. They should have been able to salt the game way right there. Instead, Georgia comes back, Georgia ties it. And Ole Miss does not even blink, gets the ball back with less than a minute to go, does not blink. That's coaching right there. Yeah, for sure. And also, given the way that he has, like, illustrated his charisma, Andy and the way that he has handled like this otherwise impossible situation that is really hard to put anybody in, let alone a first time coach. and the resources that Ole Miss had to have

Starting point is 00:15:44 in order to do what they did in the portal the last few years, it seems like a relative lock that he would be good at recruiting. I can't imagine how somebody with his charisma and there's another type of recruiting that he's got to be good at. Yeah. He's got to hire the offensive staff.

Starting point is 00:16:01 Yeah. So that's the other piece of it. Yeah. But it feels like all the early returns here are like way through the roof right now, obviously in the moments after that. You think Lane expected his new offensive staff at LSU that was his offensive staff at Ole Miss? Do you think he expected them back for a staff meeting in Baton Rouge tomorrow?

Starting point is 00:16:26 Yeah. They're not coming, buddy. I think that Lane Kiffin leaving his team, although LSU is a amazing opportunity and I totally understand why he took it, is almost a admission. through actions, not words, that he didn't think the team was good enough to win the national title. Because I think if he thought in his heart that they were going to go do it, he would have maybe stayed. Is that a fair, like, hypothesis? I think so. Now, what did we say the entire time that was all going on?

Starting point is 00:16:57 The ceiling at Ole Miss, LSU in Florida, is the same. And Lane proved that. Lane proved that by building this team into what it is. But by leaving, he said, I think LSU has a higher ultimate ceiling than Ole Miss. Otherwise, why wouldn't you just stay? Because they were going to pay you the same. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:27 I think early lines I saw had Ole Miss as a four-point underdog to Miami. I don't know if that's real or not. I think, you know, Twitter sometimes. Let's check the BetMGM app and see if we got any lines yet. That's up yet. I can try to check my app too. But this is just incredible. I mean, Trinidad Shameless.

Starting point is 00:17:49 And that's the interesting thing is we've been talking about Trinidad Shamblis as almost a, you know, a foregone conclusion that it's going to be a fight for him trying to get the waiver to play next season in college. Nobody's really even talking about him to the NFL until tonight. But Trinidad Shambliss has been one of the best quarterbacks in the country all year. I mean, slippery, poised, big arm, athletic playmaking ability. How tall is he? Accurate.

Starting point is 00:18:22 He's not super tall, but he's tall enough. He's not Russell Wilson. Yeah. I mean, it seems like he has all the traits that would make, I mean, and obviously what he's doing on the, you know, on the biggest moments. But, man, I'm kind of blown away.

Starting point is 00:18:39 Question for Mr. Reds, 44. Which of the former Sabin assistance joins Kirby with the title? While there are four former assistants left and Bama fans

Starting point is 00:18:47 would take any over their current coach. So that's Mario Cristobal, former Alabama offensive line coach under Nick Saban. Pete Golding, former Alabama

Starting point is 00:18:57 defensive coordinator under Nick Saban. Dan Lanning, who was an analyst at Alabama, who then went with, he ended up with Kirby Smart as the defensive coordinator after a period as the defensive coordinator under Mike Norville at Memphis. And then you've got, why am I blanking on?

Starting point is 00:19:19 Oh, Kurt Signetti, former Nick Saban assistant, who was on the initial Alabama staff with Nick Saban. Wait, is Dan Lanning pretty credible? Do you consider Dan Lanning to be on the Sabin tree or the Smart tree? He's on the Mike Norvel tree and the Todd Graham tree. He's bounced around a lot. So it's some Mike Norvel, it's some Todd Graham, it's some Mick Sabin, it's some Kirby Smart. Like he legitimately picked up a lot from a lot of places.

Starting point is 00:19:47 But the fact that the four remaining assistants at least spent some time in some role under Sabin is wild stats. Yes. It's crazy. Yeah, it's another one of those crazy Sabin stats that just can't, you can't believe it exists. well it all comes back to Nick Saban and look again this is probably why Nick Saban quit because a team

Starting point is 00:20:10 like Ole Miss can beat a team like Georgia now and that's that's not what Nick Saban wanted he didn't want those types of teams to be able to have a chance he didn't want to play in a world where Ole Miss Indiana Miami could be in the playoff

Starting point is 00:20:25 and win man are you are you at this Miami? Ohio State, and I get it, Miami won all those titles in the 80s and 90s and in 2001. But Miami has been basically an ACC also ran for most of this century. Indiana is the second losing his program of all time.

Starting point is 00:20:49 Ole Miss, since the SEC split in the divisions has never played in the SEC championship game. Think about that. And these are three... of the final four team standing, and no one is doubting that they're deserving of being there. They deserve to be in that spot. All four of them. When's the last time we got to the final four

Starting point is 00:21:15 and we felt like all four could win it all? Never. Because we've only had a final four since 2014. We never had one in the four team. Right. It's like the field is wide. open yeah last year we didn't feel that way because ohio state was just crushing everybody this is it this is the first time the final four has felt like anyone could win it and i i

Starting point is 00:21:45 legitimately believe that i i don't know who i'd pick if you we'll have to pick it like tomorrow we're going to pick the semis i if you if you said right now give me your national champion i'm not sure i could you won. I don't know. I mean, I think Indiana would be the favorite, but we'll see how they match up and, you know, laying four against Oregon. I mean, it's a tough proposition. And you always feel like, or you definitely feel like no matter who wins on either side of the bracket that they will be able to beat whoever's waiting for them on the other side. And it goes both ways. Yeah, it really all comes down to how do you play and how do you match up against that individual team? How do you play that that day? And this is, this is, this.

Starting point is 00:22:32 This was so much fun, and this is what this tournament needed because it had a couple of blowouts earlier today, and there were no fun to watch. The better team won in both games, but it was no fun. This game was all manner of fun. It is shockful of storylines. We were going to get a great storyline either way, because it was either going to be Ole Miss with Pete Golding coaching his third game in the college football playoff semifinals, or it was going to be Carson, Beck playing against Georgia. So either way, we were going to get something amazing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:09 The Uno 93 says NIL really brought parody to college football. It did at a certain level. Among the SEC and the Big Ten teams, I think it certainly did. You know, not necessarily below that level yet. Yeah, Miami. Yeah. But the thing is, Florida State and Clemson were always kind of assembling rock. as the SEC and Big Tim teams were,

Starting point is 00:23:36 and Miami certainly hired Mario Cristobal with that mindset. So I guess, yeah, we'll put the ACC in there, too, or at least the top of it. I don't know about the Big 12 yet. Need a few more years of Texas Tech. You know, I had a really bad year picking games, Andy. Three and O today. There you go.

Starting point is 00:23:56 4 and O for this round. Thanks to your Mulligan, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was three and one. I missed Ole Miss, Georgia. But that was, I thought, I'm trying to think, because when Ole Miss got the ball back with 58 seconds left, I was pretty sure Ole Miss was going to be able to get in field goal range.

Starting point is 00:24:19 Yeah. And their kicker was lights out all night. You know, and I don't like to just, everything's revisionist history. But like, when they threw it on third and goal, I was like, I'm not sure I would have done that. But if they would have scored, then it would have been the right call. So like, you know,

Starting point is 00:24:31 And that's the thing, like, I go back to the fake punt earlier, which wound up getting Georgia a field goal that they obviously needed. That fake punt was a crazy call because it was a really cute play. There was a lot going on with that play. It could have completely failed. It was almost going to be smart fake punt redemption. Yes, for the 2018 SEC championship game, one of the worst fake punts ever called. Which was actually somewhat similar to the Kalin-de-Bore freeze play where they tried to hide Ty Simpson because they remember they tried to hide Justin Fields on that fake punt

Starting point is 00:25:07 and Alabama players were just pointing at him like that's Justin Fields he's not supposed to be there yeah it was like Lloyd Christmas said in the booth and dumb and dumber yeah so all right this is going to be a blast of a week as we get ready for these games we have Miami Ole Miss in the Fiesta Bowl. We have Indiana, Oregon in the Peach Bowl. The winners of those games will play for the national title where I am right now in Miami in a couple of weeks. This has been so much fun. This has been a fun season. The playoff, we didn't get every game tight and fun, but we've gotten more than we did last year. And that is the, was the Georgia, old miss game the best game of the 12 team playoff so far in the two years that they've had it okay um

Starting point is 00:26:06 Penn State Notre Dame was really good last year but I'd say this one was more fun yeah this one was maybe the most fun I mean the Ohio State Texas game last year was pretty good that was really good too yeah but Texas and Arizona State one might have I actually think that Texas Arizona state was the most fun of so far that was an insane game now with the overtime needed a Yeah, Texas needed the fourth and 13 to stay alive and they win in overtime. Yeah. Okay, so, but this one, this one definitely is either one or two. And listen, if Ole Miss can beat that Georgia team, because Georgia was one of the teams I said,

Starting point is 00:26:45 I definitely think they can win the national title. If Ole Miss can beat them, they can beat anybody left in the bracket. Miami can beat anybody left in the bracket if they can beat Ohio State. Indiana is probably the best team left in the bracket. Oregon is talented enough to beat any of these teams. We are in for a thrill ride these next two weeks. I can't wait. Tomorrow, by the way, we're going to pick the games of the semifinal.

Starting point is 00:27:12 So live show 3 p.m. Eastern Time on three sports YouTube page. So set your calendars or subscribe to the On Three Sports YouTube channel and you'll get a push notification when we go live. Live show 3 p.m. The transfer portal has been open for 17 minutes, Ari. we'll see who winds up in it. Now, we already know some people who've announced it, but now we'll see who actually puts their name in. And so our guy Pete Nacos is probably pulling it all night or tonight.

Starting point is 00:27:43 But we're going to learn more about that tomorrow. We're going to break that down. And then we will fire away with the picks for the semi-final games. in the Peach Bowl you've got oh wait we got we have our first transfer portal prediction arey

Starting point is 00:28:03 a little preview for tomorrow you ready this is going to stun you former Iowa state quarterback Rocco Beck has been crystal bald RPMed sorry RPMed

Starting point is 00:28:19 to Penn State I know you're shocked that Rocco Beck might rejoin Matt Campbell at Penn State. It's great fit. We'll break that down tomorrow, but I'm wondering this. We're going live at three weeks. If only we have evidence of what Rocco Beck looks like playing for Matt Campbell.

Starting point is 00:28:38 It might be a wild morning, though. We're already in the portal era where the portal is open. So, yeah, it's going to be a great day tomorrow. And I'm super excited to break down these games, get some good sleep. And, you know, here's the last thought I wanted to have. If the playoff has four teams. in the final four that all

Starting point is 00:28:59 could conceivably win the national title. This is the playoff working. You might have some you might have some games that aren't great but like this is functional. This is working. Let's just try to keep it on.

Starting point is 00:29:16 If you wanted a multi-round playoff, which I did, you wanted fun games in each round, which they weren't all fun, but we had some fun games in each round. And you wanted a situation where when you get to this point, everybody's got a shot. Everybody's earned their way there. And I feel like everybody has and everybody does.

Starting point is 00:29:36 So here we go. Buckle up everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow. 3 p.m. Eastern Time live. Transfer Portal update and we pick the semifinals. Talk to that.

Andy & Ari On3 - Ole Miss STUNS Georgia in the Sugar Bowl | OM Rebels ADVANCE to College Football Playoff Semifinals

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