Andy & Ari On3 - The MOST IMPACTFUL Transfer Portal additions for the 2026 college football season | NDSU joins Mountain West | Duke-UNC Court Storming

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

As the final football event of the season has concluded in the Super Bowl, Andy & Ari now dive into the top portal additions ahead of the 2026 CFB season. While Cam Coleman and Sam Leavitt headline the list, who are some other names that will make an immediate impact? Watch here as Andy & Ari dive into LSU, Texas, and South Carolina. (0:00) On Today’s Episode(1:16) Presenting Sponsor(3:43) Intro: Super Bowl discussion(5:50) Ari’s Most Impactful Transfers: WR Cam Coleman to Texas(15:04) Sam Leavitt to LSU: Lane Kiffin’s Portal Haul(20:50) Kiffin’s Comments on Leavitt(27:49) South Carolina’s Outlook for 2026(41:20) North Dakota State joins the Mountain West(55:01) Court Storming: Duke-UNC(1:08:01) Conclusion: Thanks for watching! After the transfer portal discussion, Andy & Ari head out west to discuss a new piece of news in the realignment world: North Dakota State is joining the Mountain West in football for the 2026 season. With the Bison joining the conference, Andy & Ari take a deep dive into the rest of the Mountain West and the new look PAC-12 here. To close, Andy & Ari revisit the Duke-North Carolina game from Saturday night. As the Tar Heels pulled off a miraculous comeback vs the Blue Devils, UNC fans stormed the floor to celebrate the big win over their bitter rival. Is North Carolina too established to be rushing the floor? Andy & Ari debate. For Dear Andy & Ari, send in your questions here:[e-mail]@on3.com Our show is also presented by BetMGM! If you haven’t signed up for BetMGM yet, use bonus code ON3 and you will get up to a $1500 First Bet Offer on your first wager with BetMGM! Here’s how it works: 1. Download the BetMGM app and sign-up using bonus code ON3.2. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game.3. You will receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your bet loses! Just make sureyou use bonus code ON3 when you sign up! Make this college football season one for the history books. Make it legendary. See BetMGM.com for Terms. 21+ only. US promotional offers not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US). Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR). First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Rewards are non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 7 days. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Watch our show on YouTube here! https://youtu.be/mWp4vo0sVnw Join On3 today! https://www.on3.com/join Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River Bailey Interested in partnering with the show? Email [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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R.E. It's a long, long time. Yeah, it's sad. And it stinks that the game sucked. It does. Yeah, the Seahawks defense was great. But to get into our topic today of the most impactful transfers, your most impactful transfer is going to Texas. And I thought the University of Texas had a really good showing in the Super Bowl because I thought Byron Murphy, the defensive tackle for the C-Earrow. Seahawks was awesome. And then, of course, the Seahawks punter, who also played at Texas, is pretty awesome, too. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we are. He might have been the MVP. Michael Dixon might have been the MVP. Yeah. You know,

the defensive line last night was insane. And I think that what you are starting to see, you know, and I don't know, like ebbs and flows in football. And, you know, some years you talk about, You must have a number one receiver to be competitive. Are you a pass first team? That's finesse or do you want to run the ball? Like, you know, these trends of how to build a team seem to ebb and flow over the years. But there's one constant. And that's just if you have a great defensive line, like, it doesn't matter what the hell the other team's trying to do.

And I think that the Patriots found that out on Sunday night and dumbasses who bet on them should have seen that coming, meaning myself. So, you know, I do think that. you know, it was a sad end of the year. But you know what, Andy? I think we have people covered here for the next few months as we gear up for August. So I'm super excited to talk about football today. Super excited to get into transfer lists to start talking about teams and visualizing who might be very good next year. And talking season has begun, which is where we excel.

So I'm excited about it. That's exactly right. We're good at talking. But let's let's, yeah, let's hit your list. You had a list last week of the 10 most impactful moves in this year's, college football transfer portal window, which, by the way, there's only one window this year. We'll see if people make their own window in the spring by just withdrawing and enrolling. But right now, there's only one window.

Number one on your list, wide receiver, Cam Coleman, going to Texas. And it's interesting that you were talking about what the Seahawks did to the Patriots last night, because the Seahawks four were beating Texas's five offensive line, is the last 40 defensive line, beating the Patriots five offensive linemen pretty much all night every night. That was Texas' problem at the beginning of last year. Their offensive line got better as the year went on. Now, we're going to talk a little bit about one of the transfer additions they made that will help that offensive line. But the biggest transfer edition they made was a receiver, was Cam Coleman, who gives them another weapon on the outside,

which will help Arch Manning distribute the ball. very quickly because he's going to have a lot of options. And the thing is, if the protection holds up, which I think it will starting now, then you truly unlock what Cam Coleman can be because, Ari, this guy has everything in terms of skill set. Yeah, I just, you know, sometimes I feel like, and I think when we talk more about this going into the list, like ranking who's most impactful a lot of times has to do. with what's already on a team or what a team needs or where a team is at. But sometimes you can overthink that a little bit.

Like, I just think that Cam Coleman is probably the best overall player in the portal. And I know that there are quarterbacks that are very good. There are other position players that are very good, offensive linemen. But like, if I could, like, pick one player who was available to build my team around of all the transfers, I think I would pick Coleman. And I don't know if people see that with me or not or if people think I'm insane. but I also combining who the best player overall is in the portal with what Texas was missing last year and what Texas brings back next year. You just added a killer of a receiver to a quarterback who showed really great signs of growth at the end of the year,

an offensive line that should be better, and a team that should be in the conversation for the national championship this offseason. So like both talent from the player and situation. that he is going into? I think it's kind of hard to argue against this. Well, and I think what Cam Coleman lacked last year was a quarterback who could get him the ball at Auburn. And now he's going to have a quarterback who can get him the ball. And look, look, we had Alex Golish on the show, the new Auburn coach. Should Alex Golish have been over backward and try to keep Cam Coleman? No, probably not. The offense, they're going to run. They're going to be really run first. They went and got in the portal. Three other teams are

RB1 and kept their own RB1 at Auburn and brought in Byron Brown, the quarterback from USF, who's also ran for 1,000 yards last year. You don't necessarily need the greatest receivers in the world if that's the offense you're running. Right.

The offense Texas runs does need dynamic receivers and can really pop when it has dynamic receivers. So you add him to an offense that already includes Ryan Wingo that has a few other really good pieces at receiver, then all of a sudden,

they become much more dangerous. Plus, remember, Texas did add two good running backs in Hollywood Smothers and Relic Brown in the portal as well. So in terms of skill talent, they have jumped quite a bit. Yeah. Andy, it's funny because also whenever you break down Cam Coleman, not you, me, everyone,

people say he wasn't fully unlocked last year because he didn't have a quarterback who could get him the ball, which is 100% true. But let me ask you this. How much was Arch Manning's development last year curbed by lack of insanely good receiver? Now, Texas had some pretty good ones. Ryan Wingo had 834 yards last year. DeAndre Moore, 532 Parker Livingstone was pretty good. A few of those guys are no longer with the program, but they didn't really have a killer

receiver on their team this year. There was like no 80 Mitchell out there that was kind of like NFL trait-ish. And I know that Ryan... No Matthew Golden. Right. Yeah. And Brian Wingo is still pretty early in his career, and I think kind of had an odd year

last season. But now if you add him into the mix with Coleman, like, if you look up the skill position players that Texas is going to have next year with Coleman coming into the mix, like, their offense should be really, really good. Now, obviously, all is going to hinge again on whether or not the offensive line drastically improves because last year they were, you know, at times terrible. if they have an average to above average offensive line, they're going to score a lot of points next year.

And I think that arch... I thought their offensive line was fine by the end of the season. Like, if you go back to the Texas A&M game, if you watch the bowl game against Michigan, their offensive line, I think, was in a good place. And they get Trevor Goosby back as the left tackle, who I thought had a lot of growth. We were talking about their transfer four class, Ari.

And Melvin Siani, the guy they got from Wake Forest, who, it sounds like he, going to be the right tackle next year, which allows, you know, Brandon Baker, who's played tackle, it allows him to play one of the guard spots. I think they're probably in a pretty good place. You know, we said last year, oh, they're not getting offensive linemen out of the portal. They must feel very confident in the guys they have. I don't know that they were that confident.

It might have been they missed on some guys in the portal and decided, okay, we'll just roll with what we got. but their line was not ready when the season started. Their line was fine by the time the season ended. And so I think this is an opportunity for them to have a line that is ready from the jump, ready right out of the gate, and they are good right away. No, we'll find out. They play Ohio State Week 2. Like, we will know where they're at in week 2.

I think that a lot of people that aren't fans, of big time programs resent the annual hype that Texas gets in the off season. But like, I'm just like humbly asking people who are annoyed by this. Like, how are we supposed to react to the talent they brought in? Like, are we supposed to be like, oh, Texas? I just like, I don't know like if they're going to turn out to be the national champion next year. But, you know, as hard as it is now to project who's going to win the championship in February, like, isn't it really prudent to just kind of like land on the, read the tea leaves?

But here's the thing. Like one, people don't like Texas. So they like to see Texas fail. And so they're saying to us, you guys had them preseason number one last year and they sucked. Well, they didn't suck. If they don't blow it against Florida, they make the playoff.

Like, it's funny because when you hate a team, nine and three, you're going to treat that like three and nine. They did not meet their goals last year by any stretch. They should have been a college football playoff team. but it wasn't like they were that they were that far away they were a terrible game against Florida away they you know they played better against Florida they make the playoff and then who knows they probably could have won some games in the playoff given what we saw from you know Oklahoma

from Alabama from you know would they have beaten Indiana in the playoff probably not but could they won a couple games yeah they could have yeah yeah so you know I always feel bad because it's just like, oh, here I go again, picking Texas, number one. And it's like, well, Cam Coleman, Arch Manning, the two running backs, they added, Colin Simmons, Ant Hill. Like, I mean, the list is very extensive of like recognizable, productive players on the team. And I think Sarkesian has done a really good job. I think that there are things that you can quibble with. And I've read the message boards to Andy.

And I think there are people, too, that have questioned like his evaluation and involvement in the offensive line recruiting during the portal season last year and whether they should have added. I mean, there's criticisms for everybody. But like, well, it seems like they've, they've responded to those criticisms this year, though. Yeah. I just think like, you know, unless there's another, there's going to be a new team every year that comes out of nowhere that we

didn't talk about much in the off season that wins a national championship, kind of the way that Indiana did this past year, that's normal, fine. But like, in terms of like the tea leaves that we use to rank teams in the off season, Texas really does have it all right now. So, you know, if I were a Longhorn fan, I'd be very excited about going into next year. And frankly speaking, I'm not sure that anybody could win a good faith argument with me about whether Cam Coleman has the most impact on the incoming team that he's going to, not just because of his talent, but what they have around him? Oh, I think we can make that argument because he's not a quarterback. I think we can make that argument easily.

But would you have put him one? What's that? Would you have put him one? No. Okay. So let's have the argument now. Look, we're going to go to the guy who should be number one. His name is Sam Levitt.

He's going to LSU. Yeah. I did not put him number one because of multiple reasons. One, I'm a clickbait artist. I'm kidding. I'm glad you, I'm glad you're honest about it. They signed a really, really, really good class around him. And he's coming off an injury.

So maybe, maybe that. Oh, signed a really good class coming off an injury. What, who does that sound like from this past year? Who does that? Oh, who? Carson Beck, who took a team to the national title game? Oh, yeah.

I wouldn't go back in time. And Sam Levitt, probably a better quarterback than Carson Beck. Yeah, I wouldn't go back in time and retroactively make Carson Beck number one on last year's list because they made the title game. Well, no, it would be Fernando Mendoza, who we, who's also a quarterback, which is the point of trying. trying to make. Yeah. Well, you know, we're going to, like, I actually think that this is not the one that you should be quibbling with because like I actually think I made a mistake later.

You think about a Schover? I think, no, I think that Darian Mensa should be higher on the list than he is. That's the one where I will, that I will say, I think I made a mistake. And part of the reason for that too was I didn't want to have two Miami transfer ins way too high. Maybe I overthought that a little bit. So I would be like put my hands up and say Mensa to Miami. Because like if you improve the quarterback position. with some of the pieces they have coming back from last year, then all of a sudden you maybe, you know, get to a place offensively that might have won you the title this past year. So I think it's Sam Levitt, and I want to talk about Sam Levitt at LSU, because Sam Levitt playing for Lane Kiffin is very exciting. I go back to our conversation with our friend Clark Brooks,

the stat cat from on three last year when he talked about Sam Levitt and explained to us how he's one of the best deep ball throwers in college football, one of the most accurate deep ball throwers in college football. You go back to what Sam Levitt did in 2024 when he got to Arizona State, when he took them to the Big 12 title, where they probably should have beaten Texas in the Peach Bowl. But even last year, before he got hurt, who's the only quarterback who beat Texas Tech's defense last year?

Sam Levitt. And he wasn't dealing with the kind of talent he'll be dealing with at LSU. he's going to be surrounded by a ton of talent at LSU and he's got Lane Kiffin coaching him. Has a Lane Kiffin quarterback performed poorly in recent memory? I don't think so. No. And number two is pretty good, you know.

I don't want to like get confused with, you know, him not being number one things I think he's not good or not going to be great. I think he's going to be awesome. This is the internet, Ari. Yeah. exactly what everyone thinks. So I will think it for them. Okay. You're wrong on this. Sam Levitt is the most important transfer. Now, he's a piece of the puzzle at LSU because they also have another person on your list, by the way. They do. They've got Jordan Seton on your list. The

officer tackle from Colorado, which is a big, big addition, not just in physical size, but just in the importance of having somebody you can plug and play right there. Yeah. Um, they are a completely new team and I totally expect them to not only make the playoff, but they make a deep run in the playoff. Uh, Lane Kiffin's track record of overhauling teams using the portal to, uh, really, really good results and that having a great quarterback are all there. Um, absolutely feel like that is a fair judgment to make. Um, and, you know, maybe I would go back and switch them.

I don't know. I'm obsessed with Cam Coleman though. And maybe that's just an unhealthy thing with me. their entire team is different though. They had like four players that could have conceivably made the list on their on their incoming list. All right. So the other, the question about Leavitt is he's coming off the injury. We talked about this Carson Beck last year.

Obviously, he was limited in spring practice. So we got an answer from Lane Kiffin about what Sam Levitt's going to be able to do. We also got an answer from Lane Kippen last week about the other quarter. quarterbacks that they brought in because Sam Lev is not the only one. They brought Hussein Longstreet from USC. And they brought Landon Clark who came from Elon of the FCS, which, you know, kind of is the feels like the Trinidad Shameless pick this year. So it is kind of funny to think because we didn't get to see Austin Simmons play all year that like if something were to go wrong with Sam Levitt, if he were to get re-injured, which I hope certainly does not happen or whatever, that like he has two. other quarterback options that could come in and play at a high level. I think that like Hussein Longstreet should be viewed as the quarterback of the future there. And like this past year, Andy, the guy that they brought in to be the backup took them to a deep playoff run. So, took, you know, this, but took, yes, to Blaine Kiffin's team to the playoff. Yeah. Right. So,

and part of that too is like being one of three players that your position, like maybe I overanalyzed a little bit. I have no idea. But, you know, Sam Levitt should be a very good player. And I'm excited, excited and expecting very good things from LSU this coming year. Here is Lane Kiffin talking about the quarterback room and talking specifically about what Sam Levitt's going to be able to do. Yeah, I think maybe the quarterback room as any position, if not the most. As you looked at it, a lot of change had to happen there,

and there weren't many numbers at all. I think maybe there was one when we got here. and so I'm really pleased about what we were able to do there because again like I talked about I think a huge key is how do you put together the whole roster in this world that's in outlet there's a salary involved and so I think one of the mistakes is made over time is people focus so top heavy that they go get these top players but then they don't really do a good job of necessarily

having really good evaluations of the twos and the threes that make your program better by how you practice, but also eventually play at times. I think the previous place you're at, there was a really good quarterback story that wasn't even there this time a year ago, and then our evaluation process of always grinding, always trying to find players, find a quarterback that doesn't come until the summer in the second window, and that story is what it is. So that's why, as you look at this, I thought this was really critical what we did here, the quarterback position. Sam will be able to throw some and participate in seven-on-seven stuff in the spring.

Probably not the team stuff. And so I think it was regardless, we would have done what we did, but it's also imperative to get quarterbacks. Because that's going to be a lot of how your spring ball goes, which is your first time of your team feeling an offense. And our offense is very much pushed and driven by the quarterback because of the tempo piece of it. So the other two guys, very talented players. And I think that's really maybe as anywhere the thing I'm most proud of from our GM to our personnel to our coaches department of being able to do that at the quarterback position of three guys that I think are really talented different styles of players. and so for them, and it says a lot about them to come to the same place. Nowadays, a lot of guys don't want to do that.

They want to go to where, okay, I'm guaranteed I'm going to start. And so I think it says a lot about their competitiveness. Well, we'll see how they compete because it did seem like three was, he filled the room, which you probably have to do, but, you know, three people who could have gone all different places. you do wonder at the end of the spring, what does that look like? Yeah. And, you know, the different styles thing is interesting, because you would say that Trinidad, Chambliss and Austin Simmons have different styles, right?

Well, I don't know that we saw enough of Austin Simmons to know. I guess you're going to watch some Missouri to find out some Missouri football this year. But, but no, I mean, Trinidad Chambliss does, plays a more kind of scrambling out of structure style than I think Austin Simmons, based on what we saw, the limited sample size we saw. saw based on what he did. So yeah, and Sam Levitt, I think we've seen him enough to know what his game looks like. We really don't know what Husson Longstreet looks like. I'm assuming Lane Kiffin has a very good idea because I'm sure he recruited who's on Longstreet or at least evaluated him early on at a high school. So I would imagine that he knows exactly what he's dealing with there.

Yeah. And he's a five star, so you know how I feel about him. We'll see how it all, how it Can't five. What could you possibly go wrong? No five stars ever failed. I mean, he's right, though, to be able to get a five star player who has yet to play yet come in to be the backup is a pretty nice boon for what LSU did there in that one room. So, you know, I think that it's cool to hear Lane Kiff and talk about what makes a good portal hall work. The evaluations of the twos and threes, Andy, like he pointed out, I think are really important. And to hear a coach talk about like, well, how they practice, how they set the tone and how they may be play. has a huge impact on the program. And you know, you bet with what do they bring in 35 players or something like that?

Like they probably had a lot of really good evaluations of guys that we're not going to speak a lot about that will have an impact on the program. So. Well, and Levitt being able to throw right now. Because we talked a lot about like DJ Lagway last year when he had the shoulder situation and he wasn't throwing with the team. And he wasn't throwing with his receivers. Levitt's going to be able to throw with his receivers. Kiffin said he can't do the full 11 on 11 stuff because of his foot. he's coming off foot surgery.

But I think this probably will make sure he's ready to go. Because the one thing Kiffin said that you get out of the 11 on 11 is learning to push the tempo and control the offense at a really high tempo. Sam Levitt has a lot of reps doing that. Because obviously, Kenny Dillingham runs a very uptempo offense as well at Arizona State when they want to go fast. So I don't think that's as big of a problem. Obviously, they're not the same offenses.

but it's one of those things where he's got a lot of reps already that I don't know that he needs all of that but at least he can work on the timing of throwing his receivers during the spring and summer. Yeah, we do make a pretty big deal out of spring reps from players who have no experience. Like San Levin played so much. I don't even, that's not even a...

I think that was the Carson Beck thing last year. Carson Beck had tons of experience too. So he came in and he didn't. look Rusty at all when he was playing in the fall. So I think Sam Levitt is going to be a massive impact transfer. I think this is the guy you would have said, okay, Lane Kiffin, you have your choice of everybody who's going to be in the portal quarterback-wise. Who do you want?

I think that's the guy. Because I do think that LSU and Texas are probably the two teams that are or should be viewed as the favorite to win the SEC in February. Now, that might turn out to not be true, but those are the two teams I'd pick. I don't know if you have a different opinion on that. No, I think it, I mean, I think it probably is. And it's weird to say that because no Alabama, no Georgia, but I have questions about both those teams.

I don't have as many questions. And a lot of this is more faith than Lane Kiffin than anything else. I actually put Ole Miss up there. Because I feel like if they get Chambliss back, which is a topic will probably hit a lot later in the week, But if they get shameless back, I feel pretty good about them. So this is going to be fascinating because it does feel like a little bit of a changing the guard situation in the SEC. So speaking of the SEC and impact transfers, here's a name.

I don't know that a lot of people know unless they follow the transfer portal really closely. But the circumstances of this, plus some of the other guys this team got back, I'm very interested in this team as currently constructed. I'm talking about South Carolina. So your number four player on your impact transfer list is offensive tackle Jacourius Peak, who was the starting left tackle for NC State last year. So it's really interesting to see South Carolina go out and get a guy like this when they've already got Josiah Thompson.

But what makes this really interesting is just they did not think they had Josiah Thompson coming back. their former five-star star left tackle last two years, didn't think they had him coming back. And offensive line was the problem, I mean, the biggest problem of several problems for South Carolina last year. It feels like they really aggressively hit it in the portal, and they did.

But what's so interesting about it is, I think they were getting Jacourius Peak because they thought they were not going to have Josiah Thompson. So let's hear Shane Beamer, recount Josiah Thompson going into the portal. So this is their starting left tackle at South Carolina, telling Shane Beamer first week of January, hey, by the way, I'm going to the portal.

Shane, Josiah Thompson got into the transfer portal, I think it was there nine days and then came back. So what was that process like specifically? What were the conversations like with you and him with, I don't know if it's the right term, but you allowing him to go? Yeah, I think every situation is, is different and I typically don't.

The conversations I had, they went back to prior to Christmas, you know, David, with Josiah and exit meetings, conversations with his parents before Christmas. And then I'll be honest with you, I was completely blindsided and shocked when he called me after Christmas or January, whenever that was, to tell me that he was going to, enter the portal and we had a conversation about why and didn't necessarily agree.

But he chose that path to go initially. I moved on. He moved on, I think. I told him, just full disclosure, that understand there's, I have to go replace you. And if you're going to go in the portal, then there's, let's be real, there's a money aspect of it. Now we have to go find offensive. and offensive linemen.

And we did and wished him well. I mean, we left on great terms. And any school that called me about Josiah, I had nothing but positive things to say. I love him. I love his family. And then he, to his credit, he reached out to me on his own.

And we had a great conversation about the possibility of coming back. Obviously, at that point, things had changed here in a lot of ways with some more offensive linemen that we brought in. But I know what kind of young man, Josiah is. I know what kind of player he is.

I know his family. I've been in his home in Dylan. And no, I would not do that. We had other players, just to be completely honest, that went in the portal and reached out and wanted to come back. And I said, no. And that happened on more than one occasion because of how they left and maybe the reasons they left for Josiah wouldn't put in that boat.

So typically, no, I wouldn't let them come back. But I do believe every situation is different. And Josiah and I both had some open and honest conversations and shot each other straight. In the end, he makes our team better, and I'm happy that he's back here with us. So remember, this is a team that already is getting Lenore Sellers back. They're already getting all everything edge rush for Dylan Stewart back. They think they're losing the best piece of their offensive line.

So they go out and get a guy in Jacarius Peak who was considered one of the best offensive tackles in the portal. And when Jacarius Peak committed to South Carolina, Josiah Thompson, and not decided to come back. And so South Carolina may have stumbled into, I stumbled into, I think, you know, it's something about the running that Josiah Thompson decided to come back. Yeah, yeah, but it was funny what you were about to say. It was like they might have stumbled into having the two best offensive tackles in college football next year.

I don't know about that, but they're going to have good ones. And that their offensive line is going to be better. And it's not just those two that they went and really revamp that offensive line. Like they went and got a bunch of interior guys. They got somebody from Purdue. They got somebody from New Mexico State. You know, they brought a lot of new players in to try to shore up that area. And so I think they're feeling pretty good about it now.

But the spend you have to commit to get a guy like Jacarius Peak who was a quality power conference left tackle. Like, that doesn't happen unless you think you're losing your guy. Yeah. So, Andy, when I first put together the list, I had Peek as one of the first names I wrote down. And part of the reason why, and I don't know if you remember this, you might not off the top of your head, but like, Jacarius Peak was on Bruce Feldman's freak list. Yeah.

And the thing that I found interesting about him more than anything is, is that in, the conversations that you and I have had routinely about South Carolina over the course of the past 18 months has been centered around what? Freaks, right? Like they have a pretty high freak count. Yeah. When you think about what Dylan Stewart can do, remember guys, aliens? Lenora Sellers is a freak. Yes.

I agree. And now you're adding a new freak to an offensive line that you thought was being plugged in to replace somebody. who was actually coming back and now was kind of a luxury edition. Like, I don't know. At some point this off season, we're going to have to do our own, like, alien list and try to come out with the teams that have the most aliens. But like South Carolina now coming into the following season,

after a very disappointing 20, 25 might be one of those teams that has five of them, which puts you in a really, really good spot. He was 380 pounds going into a senior year of high school. and like ran like a 4.8640. Like this is what we're talking about here. Yeah, he's down to 308 now. He plays in the low 300s. And according to Bruce Feldman's freakslist story,

the NC State folks told Bruce that Jacarius peak hit 19.8 miles an hour on the GPS, which is really fast. That is not offensive tackle speed. That is like a linebacker speed. It is really fast. So they have somebody like, It's like good linebacker speed.

Who's the, who's the, isn't there like a single voice that does all the like animal planet shows that like narrates like David Attenborough? Yeah, we should get him to narrate Bruce Feldman's freak list. That would be awesome. And it's a 3008 pound specimen. I can't do it. But like you try.

You're 3008 pound. Well, our friend Seth Emerson did call me the, the David Attenborough of the SEC when I was on that documentary on Netflix last. year so I don't feel like I have the right accent anymore now the one I when I grew up talking like this I think it would work fine that would have been that that's what you need in a football documentary obviously David Attenborough very British so yeah I don't know if you want to give yourself a shot at doing a British accent right now but it's not great Bob I've tried it I've tried I just want somebody with a British accent to send us an MP3 of them saying the 308 pound freak

ran 19.8 miles on the, on the treadmill. So, 308 pound offensive tackle ran 19.8 miles per hour. I should be using kilometers here on the GPS. While tracking its prey to rip its heart out. Yeah. Yes. While defending another freak. No, actually, while defending Hollywood Smothers from oncoming defenders,

Hollywood Smothers is going to play for Texas next year. All right. Maybe that's not as bad as I thought. It's better than I could have done. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if it was great. Maybe I have a future in documentary voiceovers. Yeah, you know, Morgan Freeman's coming out with one about the,

he's the narrator on a Netflix about dinosaurs, documentary. Oh, yeah. Listen, I've always said if anyone could narrate a day of my life, it's Morgan Freeman, because we already know how beautifully he says the name Andy. Yeah, he does. How did they get the poster to go when he went, when he crawled through the tunnel? How did they get the poster to get so perfectly flat? You can't seal it from the inside of the tunnel.

That's a plot hole in Shawshank. Spoilers for Shawshank Redemption. If you haven't seen Shawshank Redemption right now by now, then like you're the problem. Before we go, Ari, though, before we get off this topic, I do want to play you one more Shane Beamer clip because this man is excited about his offensive line. We've talked about, you know, we've already explained the circumstances of how it got to be where it is. But this was South Carolina's biggest weakness last year. This sounds like a coach who believes it's going to be one of his biggest strengths this year.

Here's Shane Beamer. You know, so a lot of guys that we signed on the offensive line and can talk about all of them. But, you know, they play with an edge. They're older guys. They've got a lot of production. They've been part of, you know, winning programs, athletic. It's just a pretty cool mentality. in that offensive line room right now with that group of guys

and how they're approaching their work day and day out. So we wanted to, you know, we needed to find interior guys. We needed to find tackles on the outside. That's what we went into the portal looking to do, and that's what we've been able to do. And a bunch of guys that have come in here either from, you know, higher levels that have played power for football, some guys that have come in here from lower levels,

but really talented guys we feel like that have a really strong work ethic and a hunger to just prove it and get better. I think Shane Beamer is pumped about the guys up front. And if they can flip that, if they could flip that from being the weakness of the team to the strength of the team with Lenora Sellers, with Dylan Stewart still in the team,

with Nick Harbor still on the team, I think there's a chance of South Carolina can, because they're going to come in with no expectations because they were bad last year. Right. Isn't that better? But perhaps they could be the team this coming year that we thought they were going to be last year. Yeah, I don't know what to do

because I feel like South Carolina fans would probably prefer if like we just kind of played it cool. You know, they're happily sailing under the radar right now. But, you know, kind of going back to what I was talking about with Texas and how to evaluate teams coming into a year, they got some pieces to get excited about. And, you know, I don't know what Florida is going to be, but if you look at the schedule, they've got a pretty friendly first six games of the year, too.

So, you know, I know they've got a, play Alabama on the road there. But if Florida is... If Alabama can't run the ball right now, I don't know what we're talking about with Alabama. So we're going to find out because we don't know what Clemson's going to be. We don't know what Florida is going to be under John Summerall. Tennessee, we're still waiting to find out if Joey Aguilar is coming back.

Oklahoma couldn't run the ball last year. They made the playoff without being able to run the ball. So can they add that to their arsenal? Because if they can, they're going to be really good. A&M, I think they're going to be really good again. but yeah, South Carolina is going to be challenged, but look, a nine-game SEC schedule, you're going to have some challenging spots.

That's a pretty rugged schedule from Halloween on there, Andy. Go look at it again. It is, but we said the same thing about Oklahoma's last year, and they actually, you know, pounded their way through it. So I think South Carolina is one of the more interesting teams of this offseason because we are coming in with zero expectations. But if you look at what they bring back, they actually could be kind of good.

If you put South Carolina in your top 15 in the offseason, I would be fine with that. Right. And most people would say you're insane. But look, there will be teams that come out of the quote unquote come out of nowhere. If you read the tea leaves on this one, it feels like the things that made them bad last year they fixed. We'll find out.

I mean, Kendall Briles comes in as the offensive coordinator. How well will that work? how will he mesh with Lenore? So we don't know those answers. They also retained most of the things that people were excited about going into last year. Right, right. They kept what was good, and it feels like they worked very hard to fix what was bad. So we'll find out.

But I think this is going to be a really interesting team. I think, you know, it's one that if their portal additions really work, we'll be talking a lot about them as the season goes on. Are we going to talk about another team? that will be very interesting in the 2020s season that probably when the last season ended, we weren't sure we'd be talking about in the FBS, but now we are.

North Dakota State, winners of 10 of the last 15 FCS national titles, they're joining the Mountain West in football only in 2026. The news came out before the weekend. Our Brett Mc Murphy had on three. Ross Delinger from Yahoo reported it. And then we got an official word on Monday morning. North Dakota State put it out.

They will be in the Mountain West next year, which, by the way, I'm glad Producer River has the graphic up because this is one of those where we're going to have to quiz each other on who's in the Mountain West and who's in the Pack 12 now. Because a lot of what was the Mountain West left for the new Pack 12. So here is the new Mountain West as we know it. By the way, they've not released a conference schedule. yet for this very reason because they were adding North Dakota State. But here it is. Noted mountainous region, Northern Illinois, U-TEP, they do have mountains and they are in the West. Air Force very much in the mountains. Hawaii Mountains West, Czech, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming, North Dakota State. So that's the, that is the new Mountain West.

Producer River, do we have the new Pact 12 so I can explain that to people? Okay, new Pact 12. Okay, so obviously Oregon State and Washington State still there. They were the last holdovers, but also Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State. They leave the Mountain West. They're going to the Pact 12. Texas State also joining. Oh, and basketball in Lincasaga.

That Gonzaga logo, it was throwing me for a second. I'm like, oh, wait, yeah, that's right. Gonzaga is going to join them in basketball. So that's the leagues right now. But North Dakota State, the bison in the FBS. And I used to get these questions all the time. People say, well, they're so good in the FCS. Why don't they just join the FBS?

And my thought was, well, they're really special in the FCS. If they joined the FBS, could they still be special? Would they be one of the best teams in their league, or would they just kind of fall back to the middle of the pack? And I think that's the question. I think they're looking at this situation like an opportunity with this New Mountain West that they can come in and win right away. So two things.

One, is there any possible way that we could convince on three to send us to North Dakota State for their first conference game next year? Well, it depends on what the other games are. But yeah, maybe. I don't see why we very much like to go to hit the Fargo dome yeah um because I think that this would be an interesting thing to see like a team's first foray into a higher level of football um but even if we can't I do believe and maybe I'm off on this you're you can't help me with some historical context that you'll just have in your encyclopedic memory um if you

are a place that's functional and has been able to dominate a level of football to the lengths of which they have in the FCS, that usually is a pretty good recipe for consistency, you know, at the very least when moving up a level. Like, I don't know if you're going to go win. Who played, who played against Oregon in the, in the college football playoff this past year? I'm forgetting. Hold on. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. It'll hit me.

The place coached Sig coached, Bob Chessie left. Oh, yeah. I was Madison. It was 73 to whatever. I can't remember. James Madison, very recent FCS national champion. Like Kurtzeghetti, while he was there,

they moved from the FCS to the FBS. And so James Madison was very competitive along with North Dakota State, obviously, for FCS national titles before they moved up. Appalachian State was really good in the FCS. They competed pretty much right off the bat once they got in the Sunbelt.

So I do think it's possible. Now, will they dominate? I don't know. It's crazy because North Dakota State now adding 22 scholarships. You operate at 63 in the FCS. So they're going with 85 scholarships. I think their offense is going to mess with some people in this league because if you've never watched North Dakota State's offense,

I was going back and watching Marty Brown clips as we were getting ready to cover Miami in the college football playoff. and so Marty Brown, they're running back. That was behind Mark Fletcher came from North Dakota State. And you see like two and three tight ends. You see the eye formation. You see an honest to God fullback. Like it's like my high school offensive coordinator in the 90s got a shot to come into college football.

Like this is old school stuff. Well, there is so much fun to watch. It has to be a correlation between area of country and offense you run, right? Like if they ran the air rate, it just wouldn't make any sense. So, like, you have to play football the way that you would anticipate you would play football in Fargo, which is exactly that, right? Which, by the way, they play at a dome. So it's not necessarily weather dependent, though they understand that. Like, the FCS playoffs, there's a really good chance you could be sent somewhere where you're playing in severe cold weather.

So those offenses do tend to proliferate at the top of the FCS. Have you been to Fargo, the city before? I haven't. I've never been to either Dakota. They're both on my list of states I haven't been to. I think that you and I might have the same exact states we've never been to. All I've only been, there's only four states that I've never been to. Funny enough, one's Washington state.

I've been to Seattle, but I've never been to either Dakota or Idaho, and that's it. Or in Montana. Idaho, too. Yeah. So I need to go to the Dakotas. I need to go to Montana. I need to go to Hawaii. and I need to go to Maine and New Hampshire, I believe.

Have you been to Wyoming? Oh, I've never been to Wyoming. So I have five, and they're all in the same general area. So I think we can knock that out in one college. We did the Mountain West. We just covered some Mountain West games. So because I need to go to Hawaii and Wyoming and North Dakota. So that's great.

And you love Vegas. So there's a problem there. I used to argue when I was the beat writer at Ohio State that being on a beat, being the beat writer for a Mountain West team back in, 2010 would have been the best road trip existence for beatwriters in existence. I mean, you had Hawaii and Vegas and all these beautiful mountainous towns like it's insane. And then, of course, you have beautiful Northern Illinois now. The mountains of Northern Illinois.

Known for being scenic, truly. Well, didn't we find, we found that the machine shed, which I know started in Iowa, but they have multiple locations, best cinnamon roll I've ever had. That was near Northern Illinois campus. So that was already. That was pretty sweet. I already stick to your ribs food. Yeah, that's exactly right.

So can North Dakota State come in and compete right away? I think they can compete in this league right away. And I think that's probably why they're doing this right now. And it's interesting because my initial thought was, why are you doing this? Why not just be the best in the FCS? And my son immediately is like, no, you just try to be the best everywhere. Yeah, I disagree with you on that too. I'm with your son.

I think that, and honestly, like I don't know. I've never been a fan of a team that's won eight championships or 10 out of 15. But at a certain point, like, don't you want to challenge yourself with something new? And I'm assuming that the people there are fired up about this. If I were a fan of North Dakota State, I'd be fired up about trying to borrow like that term from that part of the country, a new frontier. Oh, yeah. Now, I would say Dan Mullins, UNLV is probably the favorite in this league as it stands right now. but I bet

I mean I think North Dakota State can jump in and be very competitive right away here. Like maybe even win the lead first year. You fly to Dallas on Sunday evening. We wake up on Monday and we hit every college football program from here to North Dakota.

Then we cover the game on Saturday. We drive it. I like it. I like it. I don't mind going to Fargo in the early season because you don't have to worry about the engine block heater with a rental car or anything like that. My car has a battery.

So we'll just, we'll just do it that way. We're not driving your car to Fargo in the cold. It takes you off the beaten path to random places and then you find yourself in places that you never would have ever been like organically. And it's kind of cool. You know extreme cold kills the range on an electric vehicle, right? Does it?

I don't know. I don't know how that works. So we're not driving your electric vehicle to Fargo. we're going to get a nice giant pickup truck. I drove a roll around Fargo like the good Lord intended. Andy, I will be honest with you. And I don't know if I'm speaking to people that, you know, are considering buying electric car or they think I'm just an idiot.

But I drove at the Colorado from Dallas last August when we went to vacation up there. And I was like, this is going to suck. You've got to you've got to stop and charge for 30 minutes like four times on the way up there, which adds two hours to your trip. But actually what I found was the places were actually really cool that you stop in. And like I found myself like in random parts of like New Mexico and stuff that I never would have ever been. And they all have food near them and stuff. So you just get to eat more.

It's great. No, it's it, you know, but you know, maybe not the right, right vehicle for North Dakota in the winter. Well, like I said, we probably don't have to go in the winter. But yeah, I'd be curious to see how this goes. North Dakota State is breaking a new starting quarterback. Cole Payton, their former starter, was at the Senior Bowl a couple weeks ago. But they've had no problem finding quarterbacks. They've been very productive at that position through the years.

They've produced great offensive linemen. You just watched Gray Zabel play in the Super Bowl for the Seahawks. And as a rookie, maybe the best rookie offensive lineman in the NFL. Well, one question. for you, though, Andy, because I don't know the answer to this. Since they just got approved to join for this upcoming season, how does their roster assembly work? I think they were assembling as if. Okay.

So the players are already on the team? Yeah. Now, they probably aren't as deep as they want to be, but I think they were probably this offseason assembling as if that was going to be the case. Okay. So I'm excited to see it. I am excited to see it because they've been so consistently good. And again, I love this offense. I want to see this offense against modern college defenses

because it's very similar to the offense that I grew up playing in. And I'm like, why don't, why doesn't anybody run this anymore? And I've had coaches explain to me like, this is why you can't do this. You can't do this. But it is a great natural reaction to how small defenses have gotten. defenses just got physically smaller to play against all these spread offenses, these uptempo offenses. Well, how do you handle a physically small defense?

You run giant people at them as often as possible. And that's what North Coast State does. So I cannot wait to see this offense against modern defenses. A swinging pendulum of the way things go back and forth. It's an overcorrection. Then you get hit with the old way. And then it goes back the other way. Exactly.

I do think that like I have a proposal. it would be cool if Montana, Montana State also join the Mountain West. You get that entire region of the country as a part of it and some of the cool rivalries. But like, I'm pretty fired up about seeing Utep and North Dakota State play football. Well, New Mexico, our guy, Jason Eck. We got to get Jason Eck on the show, by the way. Yeah. He's awesome.

He's funny as hell. But love to see him against them. We talked about Dan Mullen and UNLV. Jackson Arnold, your UNLV quarterback this year? Ha ha ha. Used to be five, sorry. I don't know. You know, listen, buddy.

Life worked out okay for him, I think. Like, I don't know what's, what's to, but he's a millionaire who lives in Vegas, which, by the way, is my entire life goal. So congratulations, Jack, Arnold, for accomplishing my life goal. What are you? 22 now?

21? Yeah. Oh, no, not even 22. I bet he's 20. 21? Maybe. Is he old enough to gamble? I believe he is.

think he's 21 by now. But yeah, he's got the life you want. Although the life you want may just be playing fullback in the Fargo don't. I don't think that's a bad life either. And now I can't wait to see that fullback, like a real fullback, real eye formation in the FBS. It's coming. The Bison, they're coming to the FBS. All right, one more thing before we go.

We get to this discussion, I think, during football season, during basketball season, every year it hits us the field and court storming discussion and when do you do it and when's it appropriate and i thought it was interesting the other night because watching duke north carolina first of all i thought it was over dude i duke was up 11 late and i was like this is done but north carolina comes back they they hit a shot with well it looked like time it expired to win the game, but it hadn't expired yet. Seth Trembal hits the three-pointer with, I think, 0.4 seconds left is when it went through the net.

So the fans stormed the court. They clear them back off. They run, you know, Duke runs the endbound. Nothing happens. The game ends. The fans are back on the court. And John Shire, the Duke coach, said that there were North Carolina fans that were messing with Duke staffers during this.

this period. So let's watch from our friends at Field 68. This is John Shire after the game. For any questions about the game. For me, it's hard to talk about the game when I was most concerned just for the safety of our players after the game. Like I don't want to make it about that because Carolina, they played a great game to win. And that's a heartbreaking loss for our team. You know, I got staff members that got punched in the face. My family pushing people away, not get trampled and that's not what this game is about. And you give them all the credit in the world. It's not about the game. But obviously that was a scary ending and that this rivalry is not about that. As far as the game itself. So on Monday, North Carolina said they're going to pay the

fine from the ACC. They said that they actually didn't see on video anything that John Shire was talking about. John Shire went back in on Monday and said, no, no, no, this happened. But I'm more interested in the decorum part of it. Not that like, because I'm not against field stormings or court stormings. I've been on many fields when they got stormed. I'm trying to think if I've ever covered a court storming in basketball. I actually did cover a buzzer beater in a Duke North Carolina game at the Dean Dome, but it was an Austin Rivers buzzer beater. So Duke won, and obviously they just dogpiled in the middle of court and the crowd went silent and walked out.

But I don't think there's a problem as long as you give the visiting team a chance to get off the court. This was a little bit weird because they'd already stormed the court once, then they cleared it and they brought everybody back. But my question to you is this, Ari, you're North Carolina basketball. Do you storm the court for anybody? I mean, if you are going to storm the court for anybody, it's Duke, right? So, like, I understand.

But, like, I feel like this is like Alabama football storming the field for beating Aubrey. Like, they would never do it. They just don't do it. Yeah. They're college kids and they're having fun. I don't really, I don't really feel like you have to have a, how good do you have to be, like, level of whether or not your, your fans can have fun. but I also think that storming the court also makes it worse on your rival. And like if Duke had a terrible experience, then like I think they're probably happy they did it.

Well, and look, I get at college students want to party on the court. Yeah. And I've never had a problem with that. Like you and I were together for field storming at Ole Miss when they beat Georgia in 2024. It's not, it's usually not a big deal. And especially like in football, it's not a big deal because football players are patted up. they're protected. In basketball, I know it can be a little bit tighter quarters, people aren't wearing pads, but I think the way they've got it set up now at most places is they have a process

to get the people off the court. And then they're like, yeah, come on, let's go, party. I just, with North Carolina, they hadn't done that, they hadn't done anything like that in a while. So I don't know if they had the procedures in place necessarily, but that that was my only question because I'm watching it Saturday night. I'm like, North Carolina? Like, I don't think Kentucky would storm the court for anybody. Well, what's your opinion? Duke wouldn't storm the court for any.

Like, let's say, do, now would Duke do this, like if they went at Cameron in the rematch later this season, would they storm the court ironically? But I don't think they would. And I also think the way that their court is set up, their student sections directly behind press row, like they'd come, they have to come straight over the tables.

I don't know if they even do that. I mean, I've covered a basketball game at Duke and the first fan is touching your back. Yeah, they're on you. They're on you. Like, if you lean back, you're in their, like, in their torso.

So, like, it would be pretty easy to do it. Now, I understand, like, there's two separate conversations here, which one is proper safety methods, but I actually find it to be more dangerous for the person who storms the field than the people who are, on it in football. Right. And if you do that, by the way, don't sue. It's your own fault. You know, remember we were at Old Miss last year, those psychopaths who were like climbing up the

goalposts. It's like, if that thing snaps and you fall face first from like that high, that's on you really hurt yourself. Or if the goalposts fall on people who are already like on the field, like that to me is scarier. But do you have an opinion on whether a team or a program can be too accomplished to storm the field? Like, even like, I feel like there should be like, like a fan-wide vote. Maybe we put it like on our team site message boards. Like do we, we have the poll.

Do you do this? Like inside Carolina, are you a court storming school now? Is that what you do? Yeah. I don't know. You know, I actually think it's coolest when a court storming happens naturally

where a insane finish occurs. And everybody is so, hyped up in the moment of like I think that's what happened here it's just yeah weirdly the ball because it's basically the clock is supposed to stop but the ball clears the net and there was 0.4 seconds left like there there's no instant replay if we weren't in that era the game would have just ended right there it looked like a game ending buzzer beater to the naked eye yeah but if Alabama stormed the field and I'm just using Alabama as example don't get mad at me if you're an Alabama fan. Would we have a segment the next day or that night saying this is stupid,

they should never storm the field because they're Bama? I would have this segment. I would ask, because I don't feel like I should speak for the fan base. Like I don't think, I don't, I don't, I didn't go to North Carolina. I have no right to speak for the North Carolina fan base and say, no, you should not storm the court or yes, you should storm. I don't, I, I'm curious to see what their, their thoughts on this are. And obviously we have inside Carolina and on three. they probably enjoyed this. I'm sure the students involved enjoyed it. Like, I remember being a college student.

Yeah, because when you say accomplished programs can't storm the court or field, that means if you're a student at a great program, you can't have as much fun as other. That kind of sucks. Exactly. You should happen to go to a school that won a bunch of championships before you were born. You can't storm the court? Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, so I got to go to Cal to storm the court? Like, what's the deal? here. Like when you if you're doing an admissions process, make sure that you're applying to a shitty place so you can storm the field. Right. Maybe. You can't be too good because I'd like to storm the field or the court at some point in my career as a student here. So but I was at an Ohio state game in 2006 that Ohio State stormed the field against Michigan when they beat Ohio State or when they beat Michigan in 06. So like they were a favorite in that game.

favorite in the game. So I do think that maybe if there is a, if there is a rule about how accomplished programs could be that like there's like an amendment towards like if you're playing your most bitter rival in a huge game, then maybe you like maybe there's like a different maybe we need to do that. Maybe that's a project for this week. Because we got we got some, it's off season. We got some time to fill here. Maybe that's a project. We decide who's to accomplish to storm the field or storm the court historically. And of course, the fans will be like, shut up, buzz kills. Yeah.

But I also think that in every case, whether it's yes or no, if your team is in an emotional place and captures a dramatic, important win against a arch rival that those emotions are allowed to be carried over into more fun. Like, that's just kind of how I feel. I would agree. And that's what happened here. That's exactly what happened here. This is a, it's an archeryl.

And remember, it's strange because North Carolina has had pockets of success in the last few years, including, including making it to the national title game in a year where they beat Duke in the national semi-final to end Mike Schochevsky's career. It's like Hubert Davis did that. This was in the Hubert Davis era. But nobody in the right mind would argue that North Carolina has been as consistently good as Duke over the past 10 years. a Duke has been right there every single year, basically. And so it's a different situation. Duke's in a different place than North Carolina

in the echelons of college basketball right now. Now, I will argue that this North Carolina team in particular, since it's funny, I was talking to a North Carolina fan, I know early in conference play, and this person was just to spawned like, I don't, this is not going to work out. We might have to fire Hubert, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No.