Andy & Ari On3 - Will Miami coach Mario Cristobal take a knee from now on? | Resume rankings | CFP projections
Episode Date: October 9, 2023Will Miami coach Mario Cristobal take a knee from now on? | Resume rankings | CFP projectionsToday's show is brought to you by PrizePicks, the easiest way to play daily fantasy. All first time users t...hat deposit and use the promo code ANDY will receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100. If you deposit $100, PrizePicks will give you $100. If you deposit $50, PrizePicks will give you $50.Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/ANDYWant to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube, don't forget to subscribe!https://youtube.com/live/O7xIoggBWfwIt's a day after one of the dumbest decisions in college football history, and everyone is still wondering how Miami didn't take a knee as the clock wound down against Georgia Tech. Gary Ferman, the publisher of On3's Canesport, joins Andy to discuss where Miami goes from here with a tough game looming in Chapel Hill against North Carolina. (0:00-16:50)Next, Andy presents his resume top 10 -- the ranking based only on what has happened so far this season. (16:51-29:29)Plus, Andy projects the College Football Playoff semfinals and New Year's Six bowls. (29:30-35:48)Turning ahead to this week, Andy examines some VERY juicy opening lines. (35:49-46:25)Then, George Stoia III of On3's Sooner Scoop joins the show to discuss a signature win for Oklahoma coach Brent Venables in the Red River Rivalry. How much does beating Texas change the expectations for the Sooners this season. (46:26-01:01:04)For the Extra Point, we visit Kirby Smart, who certainly has a preference of which Wrecking Ball song he'd rather listen to, and it's not the Miley Cyrus version (01:01:05-1:04:58)
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Welcome to Andy Staples on three.
What are we talking about?
Same thing everybody's talking about.
Same thing we can't stop talking about.
Why did Mario Cristobal not order Tyler Van Dyke to take a knee on third down against Georgia Tech?
What in the world was Mario Cristobal thinking?
What on earth happened there? We'll just get right to it I called
in an expert Gary Furman from Cane Sport he publishes Cane Sport on the on3 network he's
covered Miami forever like when I ask him during this interview about impactful plays. He'll bring up one many of you weren't born for.
He's been covering the Canes for a long time
and he's never seen anything like this.
I've never seen a fan base turn on a coach this fast.
And maybe it's temporary.
Maybe all Miami has to do is go beat North Carolina next week
and everything's sort of okay.
But right now the Miami fan base is on fire.
Gary's message board is insane.
It is crazy.
And I understand because here you think your team is making all this progress.
You've seen offensive improvement.
It seems to have a different personality than it had last year.
It seems to be better suited to compete in the ACC.
And then this happens.
First of all, you shouldn't be in that close of a game with Georgia Tech
that just lost to Bowling Green.
But second of all, you can't do this.
You just can't.
And it's crazy.
It's been almost 24 hours.
We're still scratching our heads about this entire
situation. And Mario Cristobal, he has said, I should have taken a knee. I should have taken a
knee. But of course, we're going back and relitigating the 2018 Stanford Oregon game when
he also should have taken a knee. He's just not a knee taker. And you'll hear Gary talk about that.
But it's probably time to become a knee taker because you can't just give away wins.
You can't turn wins into losses like that. And I just, I can't remember ever seeing anything
that was that cut and dried where somebody just made an absolutely crazy decision.
But there it was. So let us talk to Gary Furman, who has covered Miami for a long,
long time, who can help us decipher what this means for the Canes going forward. Here's Gary.
Welcome, Gary Furman of Canesport.com. And Gary, your message boards, wow.
I mean, what do you say after something like that to the folks?
I mean, they're in a situation where if Miami takes a knee against Georgia Tech,
the clock is already below 40 seconds.
If they take a knee on third down, they can just run it out.
Georgia Tech has no timeouts.
Instead, they run a play. There's a fumble georgia tech
scores in two plays how do you recover from that if you're mario cristobal in the canes
well uh knowing mario he just goes back to work i'm sure he was at the office about 4 a.m
on the on sunday morning but but uh yeah it was just a very strange sequence you know
you have to believe that the subject of taking a knee came up somewhere on the sideline yeah
between the offensive coordinator shannon dawson the offensive staff mario uh but i will say this
as i've watched mario cristobal the years, he is not a guy that believes
in taking a knee. You could see that he believes in playing the football game
till the final whistle, coaching his guys, maximizing every rep, taking every opportunity
to get his football team better for what he might have been thinking. And I'm certainly
not making an excuse because it was one of the greatest blunders in Miami football history. But I'm guessing if he told Shannon Dawson to run the
football, it was with these next four or five weeks of the season in mind when they're going
to be in some tough football games and they're going to have to play for four quarters. That's
the only rationale that I can come up with because from a football sense, it just makes no sense, Andy.
Yeah, and it's happened before in his career.
He had a situation at Oregon in the 2018 game against Stanford.
Now, it wasn't exactly the same.
There was a little bit more math to do in that one.
But in this case, on that third down play,
all they had to do was take a knee.
I do sense, I think you may be right
about philosophy i do sense that last night might have provoked a change going forward here's mario
cristobal immediately after the game and then uh at the end of the game a chance to put it away
and um should just tell them to take any take a time out right there recalibrate and just take a knee and um so gave him a chance
and they took advantage of it and scored and that may have been what was going on over the headset
somebody may have been saying hey let's just take a time out here figure out where we're at
do the math on it and when we do we'll realize if we just take a knee we're out of here so uh do you do you think Gary that that is jarring
enough to maybe change a philosophy on something like that listen Mario is one of the more stubborn
people that you'll ever meet in your life but I don't think he's this stubborn uh this has been
a career-changing moment for him let's be honest uh uh fair or unfair how you know however you want to classify it he's getting
undressed all over the country in every form of of media over what happened in that game uh look at
the ramifications you're talking about having his five and seven miami team of a year ago in a
position to be five and oh going into a primetime nationally televised game
at North Carolina next weekend, one of the top handful of games
in the college football spectrum next week.
So this was devastating.
This is not something you recover from.
They talk about a 24-hour rule.
Andy, there's no 24-hour rule at Miami.
They may pretend there is.
They got a big game next week.
This is not something you recover from in a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month.
This is going to linger with Mario Cristobal for a very long time,
and I think you're on to something that we will probably see a philosophical change from him in the future.
So the other part with Miami is if you look at the ACC schedules, because that was the big topic conversation after Louisville beat Notre Dame last night,
is, oh, look at who they have left to play in the league.
It's not Duke's their toughest ACC game they have left.
Florida State's got to play Miami, but Miami's got to play everybody.
Miami's got to play Louisville, North Carolina, Clemson, right?
And so I think that's part of it is you can't drop a game that you have in hand in the conference
when you're trying to make the conference title game and you have the toughest schedule of everybody.
And you want this to be a season of progress.
Let's face it, this could go either way now.
I mean, this is a football team.
We're talking about Mario, the head coach.
I'm not so much worried about Mario, the head coach, in terms of bouncing back, working hard, getting ready for games.
But how about the psyche of the players?
You know, to lose a game like that.
And now they got to go through this gauntlet here in the next five weeks or so
and play some very tough football games.
And this is not a program that has held together very well in these situations
in recent history.
Now there's been a lot of conversation,
Andrew about a change in culture about a player led football team.
And we've been hearing it almost on a daily basis down here in Miami.
That is going to be put to the test here over the next month for Miami. How do they bounce back
from this disappointment? If they bounce back well, then at the end of the season, this is just
a blip on the screen. Nobody expected this team to go be in the football playoff at the end of the
year. Well, and the fan base, that's as quick a turn as I've ever seen from a fan base
because last week it was all in on Mario.
That'll waste time down here in the 305.
Oh, you go to your message board today and it is hot board for the next coach.
It is Mario is Ron Zook part two.
It is all of that.
And I understand because that's just one of the bigger gut punch losses that you'll ever see.
But that's the other piece of that.
He's got to win back the confidence of the constituents.
But the quickest way to do that is go beat North Carolina.
Go beat North Carolina.
Go beat Clemson.
You know, get yourself back into this thing
and show that you are having a season of progress
that it looked like you were having.
And I think a few weeks down the road,
people will forget what happened at Hard Rock Stadium last night.
But I don't think Mario Cristobal is going to forget anytime soon.
I think that one stung pretty bad.
You know, you could just look at them in that
post game and tell that this one was hitting hard. So the other piece of that, and this is the,
that gets lost in the decision is the defense did give up that touchdown, which is maybe as
troubling as the decision, you know, for Lance Guidry, the defensive coordinator, what do you
do to shore that up in this next week when you're about to go play Drake May?
Well, you know, they played at Temple.
And they had a play where one of their cornerbacks, the party catcher, made an interception on a fourth down play 20 yards down the football field where he should have just batted it down. And then they
got a 15-yard penalty from one of their defensive players coming off the bench to celebrate on that
play. They lost 30, 35 yards on that play. And I said at the time, this is a major problem.
That is situational football. As a defensive football player, you must be on top of that
situation. You must know to bat the ball down. And it was meaningless in that game. Well, we saw a complete situational football collapse down the stretch
against Georgia Tech, including by an All-American safety who let the receiver get behind him for the
touchdown. And so if I'm Lance Guidry and my defense played relatively well for most of that
game last night,
I'm spending a lot of time on situational football this week before I get on the play in the North Carolina
because that has shown up as one of the weaknesses of the defensive side of the ball right now at Miami.
Guys just got to be more aware of the circumstances of a game
and not give up plays like they gave up at the end of the game last night.
It also felt like a lot of the gains that they'd made on offense kind of got rolled back because
Georgia Tech was a defense that had been scored on quite a bit by Bowling Green in that upset win
for Bowling Green the week earlier. And, you know, we were talking the first month of the season that
Shannon Dawson has been a revelation in Miami,
that this particular offense fits their skill set and their personnel very, very well.
But it looked like it was stuck in mud for a lot of last night.
Yeah. And, you know, Tyler Van Dyke's a very good quarterback.
But where he has shown that he can have problems is when defenses kind of mix coverages on him and sit back and
coverage middle tennessee state did a great job of that last year in upsetting miami and i'm sure
georgia tech obviously studied the full year of miami film uh last year so uh it looked like they
had a game plan that was forced that forcing van dyke to have patience uh throw the ball underneath
and try to limit the shots
that he could take down the field. Conversely, the offensive coordinator, Shannon Dawson,
was calling a lot more inside run plays than we've ever seen him run, maybe in his career.
I mean, this is a guy that likes to attack, run up stats, go down the field. So you put those
two together and Miami was having a lot of empty drives and not scoring points.
Van Dyke had three interceptions in the game, and Miami just never really seemed to be in any kind of rhythm offensively.
And that left Georgia Tech in the game for, well,
I'm not going to call it a miracle ending because it wasn't a miracle,
but for the ending that they were able to attain late in the fourth quarter.
Brent Key, the Georgia Tech coach, that was the crazy.
He said it was like Will Ferrell in old school where he kind of blacked out for a second.
He's trying to be nice.
He's trying not to say anything about, like, I can't believe he didn't take a knee.
But is that one of the – because, I mean, you've covered Miami football for a long time, Gary.
Is that the weirdest ending you've seen at a Miami game?
Since the Hale-Flutie pass in 1984, it probably was.
Yeah.
The Duke kickoff return?
That would qualify, certainly, that Duke play a few years back.
But there weren't many, you know, with the ramifications that this one had.
I mean, there's a big difference between being 4-1,
going to Carolina next week, and trying to regather yourself,
and being 5-0, and, you know, being probably close to the, you know,
top 10, top 12, and people are really starting to make Miami relevant again,
which is what they're trying to accomplish.
This is a big difference now.
Now they're number 25 in the polls.
They're reeling a little bit.
They got to gather themselves.
And there's a big question over what they will look like
when they show up at North Carolina next week.
Yeah, and that's the thing is how do they bounce back?
And you mentioned this has not been a situation
that previous Miami teams have handled well.
And I guess there's no real way to know because of transfer portal,
because of the way that Mario has reshaped the roster.
You don't know how this particular group of players is going to react.
Not at all.
And all we know is what we've been being told,
which is that very positive things as it pertains to the players
and taking ownership of themselves and the team.
Well, now they've got to prove it.
This is their first test to show that.
And I'm sure that's going to be the rallying cry all week
in the football headquarters that we are better than this.
We are not going to let this fall apart like we did last year.
And I'm sure I would like to think that they are going to be
a very motivated, prepared team when they get to Chapel Hill next Saturday.
And that could be a really good football game because North Carolina is playing very well on offense right now.
And, you know, Lance Guidry is going to bring it defensively.
You know, he is not going to just let them sit back there and carve them up.
So it has the makings of a very entertaining primetime game
on ABC next Saturday night, if Miami can pull itself together. Well, and that's the thing.
If they can, everything's still in front of them because the loss to Georgia Tech is not going to
hurt them from a head-to-head standpoint, and they play all the other good teams. So if they were to
beat them, they're still okay.
But that's a big if when you got to play them all in fairly rapid succession.
Yeah.
I mean, Carolina, Carolina, then Clemson, you're going to have to go to Florida State.
You do get Louisville at home, which, you know, hopefully will be a positive thing if it breaks well.
But I think more than anything, Andy, they got to take one
game at a time. This is not a built program yet. It's not a complete football team. Their depth
is very tenuous. If they get injuries in the wrong places, they're in big trouble.
I think they just got to take one week at a time and keep trying to get better and just see where it takes them.
They can't really be worried about right now, December, for example.
And if there's less than 40 seconds left and it's not fourth down and the opponent has no timeouts,
take a knee. Take a knee, Mario. Absolutely. The game's over. You can just go shake Brent Key's hand and you're done.
Yeah, this might be enough because you're right. He is the type that is stubborn,
that that probably was his philosophy. We're going to keep on. But at this point,
you don't need to worry about philosophy. Just win the game.
Just win the game. And it's never over.
Exactly. Exactly. Gary, thank you so's never over exactly exactly Gary thank you so much
anytime Andy thank you for having me
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That's right. Every Sunday night, we give you the resume ranking and we do this
by taking the games that have been played this year and this year only preseason hype doesn't
matter. It's why previously you'd not seen Georgia in these rankings. If you watch the games this
weekend, you know we're going to see the Bulldogs in these rankings. But that's why. We weren't
saying you won the last two national titles. That didn't count. We needed to see it now. And so we
will start from 10 and work our way up. Number 10, the only team with a loss on these rankings
right now, and that's the Texas Longhorns. They still have that win over Alabama, which is huge. Alabama just below, obviously, because Texas
did beat them head-to-head. Texas losing to Oklahoma, no shame in that, and Texas can come
back from this. They're going to be favored in every Big 12 game they play from here on out.
There's a really good chance they're playing Oklahoma
at Jerry World, get another crack at them at a neutral site, and then we see what happens.
And the winner of that game may be going to the college football playoff. Number nine, Washington.
This is one of those where it's basically based on who they played because how they played,
they've been very, very good, but we haven't gotten to see them against great competition yet. Arizona held them down a little bit. Now we saw Arizona
play very tough against USC as well. It might just be that Arizona is better than we think,
but for the moment, Washington here at nine, they play Oregon on Saturday.
So whoever wins that game moving on up number eight, your Oregon Ducks. Same situation as Washington.
They've blown out everybody they've played,
but the competition level has not been that great yet.
It will get better.
It will get considerably better with Washington this week.
And bear in mind, this is a different situation than Texas and Oklahoma.
Remember, Texas loses to Oklahoma.
They can beat them again in the
Big 12 championship game, and there's a really good chance those two teams wind up playing in
the Big 12 championship game, and neither one loses a game between now and then. It is entirely
possible that happens. For the loser of Oregon-Washington, it's tough sledding. Both teams
have tough sledding, but at least you would have that head-to-head in hand if you're the winner,
because both of these teams will still have to play USC, Utah, Washington State, and Oregon
State. Don't forget that. Number seven, Louisville. You heard a very confident Jeff Brom on this show
last week, and they've just been outstanding this year. They took it to Notre Dame. That was an
excellent win for Louisville. They caught Notre Dame in a really good spot between two very physical games against Ohio State and
Duke before they play USC. So a tough spot for Notre Dame, but Louisville didn't just win this
game. They dominated this game. And I think it was a very impressive showing for Braum's team
in his first year. Remember, I said all offseason,
Jeff Brahm at Louisville is going to be a good marriage, and they're going to be a force in the ACC down the road. I didn't think it was going to happen this year. All the talk about Louisville
was, oh, their schedule's easy, and that way they might win a few more games than you think.
Now I'm looking at it going, their schedule is easier than say Miami. Do we think they could make the ACC championship game? Duke is the toughest conference opponent left on their schedule. Kentucky is probably the toughest opponent in general left on their schedule. So Louisville could hang here. The problem for Louisville is they don't have the opportunities that some of these other teams on the list have to climb the list because
of the competition. Next up, Penn State, number six. Mid-Elias have UMass on Saturday. It is a
tune-up. They are going to Columbus on the 21st. We will have a much better idea of where Penn
State sits and where Ohio State sits after that. But so far, so good for Penn State.
The West Virginia win, looking better and better
every time West Virginia plays.
The Iowa win, it's ugly when Iowa plays,
but I was five and one.
And Penn State beat them 31-0.
So many Lions doing fine.
They will play our number five team, Ohio State,
again on the 21st in Columbus.
That will help us determine where these two belong and the winner of that game probably
moving up. So number four, Florida State. Now the wins against LSU and Clemson,
not looking as good as they did before, but still they're very good wins. And Florida State jumped
on Virginia Tech this weekend. Virginia Tech came back a little bit, but then Florida State pulled
away again. Seminoles moving right along. They're headed down the road, Miami, probably the ACC
championship game. So they've got some competition to face. They can stay here. If they keep winning,
real good chance they're in the college football playoff. Number three, Michigan. Now, this is a weird one because I am big on who you've played,
but how you played matters too. And so Michigan went on the road again in the Big Ten. So they
went on the road against Nebraska and they went on the road against Minnesota.
Both these teams have had their moments this year. Nebraska won a game on Friday night on the road in conference play. They seem to be getting better under Matt Rule. They got annihilated by Michigan. Minnesota, they've been okay this year of similar to the 2021 Georgia team, except J.J. McCarthy seems to be coming into his own at quarterback and really looking more comfortable.
And they're letting him do more.
They are really, really good.
And I can't wait to see them against Penn State and against Ohio State.
But that really feels like their main competition
that they've got to deal with this year.
It doesn't feel like anybody else is going to challenge them
in the regular season.
So we're not going to see the challenges until November.
But if they keep beating teams like this with no drop-off,
perfect consistency, I don't see how you can leave them out.
And so I was leaving them out saying,
well, they haven't really played
anybody. I can't keep doing that because they're just crushing people. And eventually you're going
to play that way every week. You're going to win almost every game. So we got Michigan here.
Number two, Georgia, probably not where you Georgia fans want them, but that's okay.
They can probably work their way up to number one, and it doesn't even matter.
You just need to be in the top four to make the playoff,
and then you could be number one at the end.
But Georgia, we needed to see it from them.
We needed to see that they had that other gear.
Yeah, they had that other gear.
Against Kentucky, they looked like the dominant team
that just won two national titles.
This is a different group,
but we needed to know
they had that setting in their arsenal, and they do. Kentucky's the best team they've played.
Kentucky is a very good team. You're not going to get revisionist history from me saying,
Kentucky must stink. No, I don't think Kentucky stinks. I think Kentucky's better than the Auburn
team that challenged Georgia quite a bit at Auburn. I just think Georgia came to play.
Everything came together. They started fast for the first time all season. They went vertical
early on the offensive side of the ball because that's one thing I've wondered is it seems like
they really get going when they start throwing the ball down the field. But in previous games,
they've been
kind of slow to do that. They've kind of wanted to establish the run and just be a little bit
conservative, but they did not do anything conservative on Saturday. They came out chucking
the ball and Carson Beck was unstoppable and Kentucky just could not do anything with Georgia.
And that's the version of Georgia that can beat everybody in the country.
Like when they play like that, there version of Georgia that can beat everybody in the country. Like when they play like that,
there is no one that can beat them.
And that's what we needed to see from them.
The thing is,
we've seen this other stuff from them too.
So it's not the sure thing that last year felt like it was,
or that the year before felt like it was,
but it's still,
that's a pretty good thing.
Knowing that,
knowing they have that in their toolbox,
that they can flip that switch.
I think we can be very confident in Georgia going forward.
Number one, Oklahoma.
They now have the best win in the country
with that win against Texas.
They were already undefeated.
They're not going to be challenged as much in the Big 12.
You look at the rest of their games,
they're going to be double digit favorites
probably the rest of the way until they get to the Big 12 championship game.
They will have to fight against complacency. But that looked like a different version of Oklahoma
than even what we've seen most of this year. It's sort of like Georgia finding that other gear.
Oklahoma found another gear. We saw them playing better on defense than we've seen all season.
We saw Dylan Gabriel doing things that we haven't seen him do all season.
And I think knowing they have all that capability,
you feel pretty good about what they can do.
I don't know if they'll stay in this number one spot
because there are some opportunities out there.
Oregon, Washington, for example.
Penn State, Ohio State coming up.
Where teams can get some really good wins.
But Oklahoma right now will have them number one on the resume
with the best win in the country so far.
Congratulations to the Sooners.
You are the top dog for this week.
All righty. We now need to go
to the New Year's Six
and college football
playoff projections.
That's right.
These are the projections
for what we think
the playoff will look like,
what we think
the New Year's Six Bowls
will look like.
This is different
from the resume ranking.
This does include
your preseason hype
and you're guessing
what's going to happen
the rest of the year.
So this is a different look. the teams will be in different places
like for example last week the SEC team I had in the playoff was Alabama
why because Georgia was coming off that game against Auburn and I thought well if Alabama
makes the SEC championship game and Georgia plays like that, Alabama may win the thing, maybe 12 and one,
and go to the playoff. Now, no, if Alabama, which increasingly looks like it will make the SEC
championship game, has to play that version of Georgia that we saw against Kentucky,
Alabama ain't winning. Georgia's winning that game. So Georgia, back to number one
in the Sugar Bowl. I've got them against number four, Michigan.
I know what you're thinking.
You've got Michigan winning the Big Ten
and being number 14.
No, I do not.
I have number two, Penn State,
playing number three, Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl.
I know you Pac-12 fans, not happy about this.
But at this point,
I'm predicting the Pac-12 will cannibalize itself.
Remember, I just said who Oregon and Washington have to play after they finish playing one another.
Both of them have to play USC.
Both of them have to play Utah.
Both of them have to play Washington State.
And both of them have to play Oregon State.
That is a meat grinder.
So right now, I'm predicting that that league cannibalizes itself,
which is why I have two big 10 teams in the playoff.
Penn State, Oklahoma, Rose Bowl sounds like it would be a lot of fun.
A lot of fun.
I don't know if it'd be as good as the Georgia, Oklahoma, Rose Bowl,
but you know what?
I'd enjoy watching that one.
Rounding out the New Year's Six in the Orange Bowl,
I have Florida State versus alabama this require
florida state to drop something along the way if florida state's undefeated they'll make the
playoff but this this supposes that they end up dropping one or two along the way but when the acc
oregon versus texas in the Cotton Bowl.
Texas, this is assuming that they lose to Oklahoma in the rematch. They'd still wind up in a very nice bowl game like this.
But I don't know.
I just, I think Texas has a chance to get back in this thing.
And it was very interesting watching that happen the other day where people
were like,
Oh,
you guys,
you overrated Texas again.
They stink.
They're never going to be any good.
Well,
no,
they,
they were really good and lost to a good Oklahoma team.
That's all it was.
And they still may be really good and they still may beat the, good Oklahoma team. That's all it was.
And they still may be really good and they still may beat Oklahoma
when all is said and done.
But for now,
this would be a really fun Cotton Bowl,
this Oregon-Texas one.
They played the Alamo Bowl
in Mack Brown's last year.
But I know Oregon has its sights
set on bigger things.
Texas obviously has its sights
set on bigger things. Let us has its sights set on bigger things.
Let us go to the Peach Bowl, Ohio State and Louisville.
I know what you're thinking.
Andy, you're just putting Louisville in here
because they're the big winner of the week.
They beat Notre Dame.
They surprised everybody.
But here's the thing.
Again, look at Louisville's schedule the rest of the way.
This is the most favorable schedule
they're going to get in a while in the ACC.
Theirs for next
year is not pretty, but it's going to be hard for them unless they really just
don't show up a couple times, which could happen. This is a first year coaching staff, new team.
It could happen. They could get shocked by some people, but they just, they're going to be
favored in a lot of these games and almost all of these games going forward. I don't know if
they'll be favored against Kentucky, but I'd imagine they'll be favored in every other ACC
game except maybe Duke. So there's a chance they wind up in a game like this. And Ohio State,
I have in here, which this is suggesting Ohio State loses to Michigan again, and that they lose to Penn State. Again, the 21st is going to tell us
a lot about what happens. So Elias Gray, good point here as I talk about this ACC situation.
Have you looked in the insane ACC tiebreaker? It could end up with them contracting out to an
analytics firm to pick.
That's right.
Our friends at SportsSource Analytics, they have that contract.
If you have three undefeated teams, they're going to have to do that.
And it is conceivable that Florida State and Louisville and North Carolina could all be
undefeated.
And then the SportsSource is going to have to pick
which two teams play in the ACC championship.
It's a little bit like when you had the three-way tie
at the top of the Big 12 South in 2008
and the BCS poll chose who would represent them,
and it was Oklahoma.
So it's entirely possible that that could happen.
And I think they're hoping that randomness and you play that many games,
somebody's going to lose, that it doesn't happen.
Ideally, they have two undefeated teams playing each other
in the conference championship game.
That would probably be the most anticipated ACC championship game ever.
But we'll see what happens.
The Fiesta Bowl, I got Wyoming and Washington,
and right now Wyoming, I have being the highest ranked group of five champ. They might be in the
spot one week because they are going to Air Force next week, and that is a really good game. Fresno
State-Wyoming turned out to be a fun game. Wyoming took a big lead, ended up hanging on to win,
but Wyoming has to go to Air Force, which is 5-0,
and that is going to be another great Mountain West game.
Right now, it's looking like the Mountain West champ
will be the highest-ranked group of five champ.
I know that Memphis and Tulane feel like they're going to have something to say
about that by the end of the year in the American.
So that is your projected college football playoff and New Year's Six.
We also need to talk about next week because we just came off what I think was the most fun Saturday of college football of the season so far.
And I think they're going to get more fun as we go because you look at the matchups.
Just as you get into conference play really deep in it, you're going to get more fun as we go. Cause you look at the matchups, just as you get into conference play really deep in it,
you're going to get some surprising results.
You're going to get some teams that have been really beat up for,
you know,
a couple of weeks in a row,
like Notre Dame going to Louisville and not a conference game actually,
but they,
they are,
they,
they caught Notre Dame at a very good time and you're going to see
situations like that happen.
So a couple, well, more than a couple,
really interesting lines to open up here.
You got Oregon at Washington.
Washington's a three-point favorite.
This is essentially, this would be a pick-em at a neutral site.
They usually give three points for being at home.
So this is them saying, we don't really know. We think these
teams are both about the same. Washington's at home. So we're going to give them the three-point
edge. The next one that I think is very interesting, and we'll talk more about Oregon and
Washington later in the show. Justin Hopkins from ScoopDuck will join us to give us the Oregon side
of things. We'll be talking to people from Oregon and Washington all week.
This game is going to be fantastic.
It was a great game last year, so just get ready for that this year.
But here's another one, and I'm glad this game has some luster again.
Lost a little bit when Notre Dame lost to Louisville,
but USC at Notre Dame is still a huge game.
Notre Dame a two-and-a-half point favorite coming off the loss at Louisville, but USC at Notre Dame is still a huge game. Notre Dame, a two and a half point favorite
coming off the loss at Louisville. So the people making the line knew that Notre Dame had lost
Louisville and still installed them as a two and a half point favorite against USC. That is,
that is basically them putting their hands up and saying, we do not trust this USC defense
to go on the road and win them a game. Because if you watch that USC Arizona
game, and I know a lot of you were staying up with me watching that game, USC's defense actually got
better as the game went on and then got worse again. Caleb Williams saved them, saved USC's
bacon. The passing game was not particularly effective a lot of the night. Caleb Williams
with his legs did a lot of the damage.
But a lot of that was because Arizona couldn't spy him very well.
Justin Flo was the guy they used to spy him.
And he was getting shaken out of his shoes a lot of the time.
Notre Dame, more solid on defense than Arizona.
They should be able to cover USC's receivers pretty well.
We'll see if they can get Caleb Williams down on the ground.
That's a big if.
But also, Notre Dame's offense will be playing a much more porous defense
than they've seen against Louisville or Duke or Ohio State in the past three weeks.
This will be an offense or a defense that they can score on.
So it's a 61 and a half total.
I actually think it might go over that by quite a bit.
But Notre Dame, the favorite in that game.
I find that very, very interesting.
Let us move to Chapel Hill.
Miami.
All we're going to talk about is the knee with Miami.
But the thing is, if Miami looks like it did in the first four games and not against Georgia
tech,
they're going to be playing a very competitive game against North Carolina.
North Carolina opens as a three and a half point favorite.
You saw Drake may just decimate Syracuse's defense on Saturday.
They looked outstanding.
Tez Walker's eligible to play.
Remember they got that news on
Thursday. He ended up catching six passes, but didn't do anything particularly spectacular in
the game. I imagine he'll be a bigger part of the game plan this week because they'll know the whole
time that he's eligible. But Miami got really conservative on defense against Georgia Tech. Now,
perhaps that's because Georgia Tech made a defensive coordinator switch last week. Remember after they lost to Bowling Green, they demote Andrew Thacker.
They promote Kevin Shearer to play caller. It could have had something to do with that.
They've been able to study North Carolina's defense all year. This is going to be the
defense that we've seen all year from North Carolina. So it's not going to be anything
surprising to them more than likely.
Shannon Dawson had been calling great plays for Miami. They had looked very smooth,
very coordinated. The offense fit the athletes they have. Tyler Van Dyke had been protected
pretty well. This could be a bounce back game in a big way for Miami. I know everybody's looking at it and going,
well, their season's going to go in the tank.
They just did something really stupid.
How do you lose to Georgia Tech?
That's fine, but the lights come back on
and they want to prove themselves
and they're pretty good and they have good athletes.
They have a good offensive line.
This could be one of the more fun games of the weekend.
West Virginia at Houston.
Houston's still looking for its first Big 12 win.
West Virginia trying to go 5-1.
This was a team that everybody assumed Neil Brown was going to get fired.
They lost to Penn State.
The assumptions continued.
But West Virginia has done nothing
but get better. And Neil Brown said last week, he feels like their best football is in front of
them. They are a three and a half point favorite on the road. This was a team that was picked to
finish last in the big 12. Neil Brown said they're not finishing last in the big 12. Well, they're
definitely not finishing last in the big 12. Now, 12 now. Now they're still in position to try to make the Big 12 championship game.
So this will be a good one on a Thursday night, 7 o'clock Eastern time.
This is one that we're going to have some fun watching this one
because I bet Houston, this is their best chance probably
for a little while to get that first Big 12 win.
Meanwhile, West Virginia wants
to keep things rolling. Stanford at Colorado. The Buffaloes did not cover against Arizona State,
but Coach Prime's team did win game number four. If they can get win number five, it sets them up
for a tough stretch where they're only going to need to win one to be bowl eligible. And I'm telling you right now, based on what Deion took over,
if they are bowl eligible, that is a pretty impressive feat in year one.
We'll see what happens.
10.5 is a bigger number, but Stanford hadn't been very good this year.
So Colorado may get win number five, and then we're on bowl watch for the Buffaloes.
Texas A&M at Tennessee.
Tennessee opens as a three-point favorite at home.
Texas A&M, how do the Aggies bounce back?
Because they had the driver's seat in the SEC West if they beat Alabama.
Some puzzling choices down the stretch.
Punting on fourth and one and plus territory.
Kicking a field goal when maybe you should go for it
and try to put the screws to Alabama a little bit.
They need to show that they are better than they were last year.
The only way to do that is keep winning.
They can't let this loss beat them twice,
and they will be going into an atmosphere that is really tough.
But Texas A&M is talented
enough to slow down Tennessee's run game and force Joe Milton to beat them with his arm,
which that was a problem for Tennessee against Florida. So this will be one to watch. This could
be a really fun one. And Tennessee, remember, they're not out of anything yet. They lost to
Florida. They still get to play Georgia. They still got to play Alabama. Not out of anything yet. Staying in the SEC, Florida at South Carolina.
South Carolina, two and a half point favorite in this game. Billy Napier, his struggles on the
road as Florida's coach are well documented. The only game he's won on the road thus far
was at Texas A&M last year when a whole bunch of Texas A&M players had the flu.
The Florida fan base is not going to be very pleased if they go to South Carolina and lose.
In fact, the last time they went to South Carolina and lost, it was really, the decision was basically
made to fire Dan Mullen after that game. It wasn't executed for two more weeks, but you knew it was over when Florida lost at
South Carolina.
This is not going to be that because again, as you learned on last week's show, the buyout
is so big.
He's not going anywhere.
As long as he doesn't do anything that lets him fire him for cause, he's fine, but he
needs to win some games like this.
The fact that South Carolina is a favorite in this game, given the
way they played this year, that doesn't speak well of what the line makers think of the Gators.
But this is an opportunity for them, also an opportunity for the Gamecocks, because
if they can hold serve at home, it makes what has been a slightly disappointing season so far a little bit better.
One more.
Iowa at Wisconsin.
This game probably will decide the Big Ten West.
I'm not going to lie.
Wisconsin's a nine and a half point favorite.
But having watched them all year,
I don't think they're going to find it very easy to score on Iowa.
Meanwhile, I don't know that Iowa is going to score at all,
unless the defense scores or Cooper Dijon returns a punt or Cooper Dijon plays offense. The total on this is 37 and a half. I find it very hard to believe that Wisconsin covers if we're under that total.
So I think I'm probably leaning toward the under again.
We'll see when we get to the pick show.
But this game, while it probably will hurt you to watch,
it's a big one because again,
it will help determine the Big Ten West,
may actually determine who plays
for the Big Ten title this
year, which is just insane to think about. But that's the situation that they're in.
Those are your juicy opening lines for this week.
Team that is not playing this week, basking in the afterglow of a win in Dallas. The Oklahoma Sooners, huge win, program-defining kind of win,
given what their program has been through the last couple of years.
George Stoy, the third of Sooner Scoop from the On3 Network,
joined us to talk about where the Sooners go from here
now that they have proven they can play with the best in their league.
We'll be joined now by George Story III, Soonerscoop.com. George has made his way back from Dallas, Oklahoma victorious in the Red River rivalry. And I'm curious, George, you saw Baker
Mayfield on the field after the game. What did he think of Dylan Gabriel? He said he was gutsy.
And it's so interesting hearing that from Baker right we saw that throughout his career at Oklahoma he was a guy
that always came up in the clutch moments those three seasons that he was the quarterback for OU
you think back to his OU Texas game in 2017 the game-winning touchdown pass to Mark Andrews. So for him to be like, man, he had,
he had some guts, uh, that final drive. I think he said, you know, to see the poise, the calm,
the collectedness of him to go down in that environment, um, when the stadium was as loud
as it could be, it was truly something special. So, uh, it was awesome to catch up with Baker,
the video of Baker, uh, in the end zone, he was right there where Nick Anderson caught the game winner,
and he's losing his mind.
So it was really cool.
Baker actually spoke to Dylan.
He called him the night before the game and said,
hey, do whatever it takes to win this game.
Obviously, Dylan went out and played arguably the best game of his career
in terms of given the situation and everything that went into it.
So awesome to hear Baker's perspective on Dylan.
What was the mood like in the stadium when Oklahoma came out for that last drive? Texas
has just kicked a field goal. It feels like Texas has the momentum at that point, but
it didn't look like anybody on Oklahoma's sideline was phased on the TV, but how did it look
in person? Yeah, I think that you're right on the sideline. Iased on the TV, but how did it look in person? Yeah, I think that you're right
on the sideline. I think that the players definitely thought they had a chance to go
down and at least kick a field goal and send the thing to overtime. But I would say among the fans
and even the media, it was like, man, they played such a good football game. It just slipped away
in the fourth quarter. Texas, I thought, played really well. I mean, I was really impressed by
Texas on Saturday, but it felt like, man, this is really well. I was really impressed by Texas on Saturday,
but it felt like, man, this is just going to be a really tough, heartbreaking loss for Oklahoma
because at that point, Oklahoma hadn't been able to move the ball very well. And Dylan hadn't been
able to connect with his receivers down the field really since early in the third quarter on that
touchdown drive right out of the half. So I think a lot of people thought, man, it's going to be really tough. Zach Schmidt had just missed a 45 yarder in which he was not
even close. I mean, he wasn't even close on the length. It was short. So I think there was not a
lot of faith that they were going to be able to move the ball. But then all of a sudden,
you get two chunk plays. You're across the 50. Then you get the big one where Dylan steps up,
scrambles a bit, and finds Drake Stoops. And all of a sudden you're thinking, okay, they can, they could win this thing right
here.
You get the PI call that puts the ball at the six.
And then, you know, Dylan finds Nick Anderson.
I mean, it just like that, it was, it was phenomenal.
I mean, it was something that, you know, it's cliche to say, but it's, you know, I think
it was Andrew Rehm, the starting center that said, Hey, it's like something out of a movie.
And it really was.
I mean, it was, it was incredible. Well, you think think about that that throw to Stoops that set up the touchdown pass
like that's reaching across eras of OU football essentially you've got the the transfer who came
in like the day Caleb Williams left Jeff Levy called Dylan Gabriel who was about to start class at UCLA throwing to the nine millionth year senior son of Bob Stoops.
I, I, I, all I could think about too, during that play is man, Texas fans have got to be tired of
the last name Stoops, right? I mean, he's just been a killer. You think back to even the comeback
game, he was big in that game. I think he caught a two point conversion to tie the game in 2021.
In 2020, he caught the game winning touchdown pass pass in the four-overtime game.
So it's been a remarkable stretch for Drake Stoops.
But you're right.
I mean, and I think it was also, Andy, just a culmination of what Brent has built.
I mean, you had guys that were returning players that played in that game a year ago,
knew what it felt like to lose 49-0.
And then you had a bunch of newcomers that were making big plays that didn't play in that game, have never been in
that environment. Even Dylan Gabriel. I mean, he didn't play obviously in the game a year ago for
him to his first time in that sort of environment, play the way he did. It was just a really,
truly special performance. What did I have? 49 med ball sit-ups for all those workouts because of 49 to nothing.
Jerry Schmidt reminding them pretty much every day of what happened last year. But for Brent
Venables, this has to be vindication in terms of he is the right guy to coach this program.
Because I was one of the people who, after that game last year, was like, okay, I get he's a first-year head coach, but how do you not have a backup quarterback ready?
Are you sure this job isn't too big? And now you look at it and you say, okay, yeah, no, he's got
it. And after the game on Saturday, he talked about the game last year and said it was a complete
embarrassment and his hands were all over it. And this year, I think the word he used was proud.
And I think you look at what he's done.
I think he did a lot of self-reflection, Andy.
You look at the guys that they went and got in the portal.
I mean, they didn't have those type of players.
You look at the players they recruited, the game management.
I thought the game management, that's something here in Norman that was very critical of Brent
a year ago.
He wasn't calling timeouts when
he was supposed to. He wasn't handling the end of games in which they played a lot of close games
a year ago. He wasn't handling those situations right. He handled all that stuff the right way
on Saturday. And I think that that was part of the validation of, hey, OU does have the right guy.
Look what he's been able to do in just one year, flipping this roster upside down
and also developing the guys that did stick with the program. And you can tell Andy, there's just
buy-in from this group. And I think we've always known that it's just, can they get the results on
the field? That's been the question is everybody says the right things in this program. It was,
but can they win the big one? Can they take the next step? And they did on Saturday.
When you came on last week
you were talking about the talent upgrades that oklahoma had made on the defense let's talk
specifically about the defensive line because that group was outstanding on saturday they were all
over quinn ewers and you know if you'd said going into the game who's going to have more sacks the
texas d-line or the ok the Oklahoma D line. I think most people,
even including Oklahoma fans would have said, yeah, probably going to be the Texas D line.
That was not the case at all. No. And it was guys like Dajon Terry, who they get from Tennessee,
who, you know, that was maybe their biggest get in the portal in terms of a guy that played,
you know, from Tennessee, uh, played in the sec is it was very productive there. All of a sudden,
we hadn't seen a whole lot of him in the first five games. At least he wasn't super productive.
He gets a big sack in the game, right? I mean, he had a huge game, was a monster in the run game as
well. Jacob Lacey from Notre Dame, who they didn't even know if he was going to play this season
because he had blood clots before the season. He comes in and gets the big sack down there right before the field goal. And if he doesn't get that sack, Texas might just run
out the clock and be able to kick a field goal with no time left. So you're talking about guys
up front that are making plays that weren't on this team. P.J. Adebare at the end, the Hail Mary,
he's in there. He's the one that gets the pressure on Quinn years and maybe makes him throw it a little earlier than he wanted to. And so again, you're just, there's guys that are making plays
that weren't on this team. And then even a guy like Ethan downs, another guy that stuck with
the program had a really tough year last year. I mean, he was somebody that faced a lot of
criticism from the fan base. He comes up with two massive sacks in the game. He's been arguably
their best defensive end this entire
season. So that defensive line has been really good so far through six games. And I think there's
a lot of hope that they can get even better. Well, and the goal line stand, I think, was another
really key moment in that game where Texas had four cracks at it from the one yard line. They
bring in their defensive linemen to be fullbacks and they get stuffed multiple times. I doubt Oklahoma fans were
watching the USC game when they didn't finish off their goal line. So no, USC did still win,
but they did have a goal line situation where they did stop them three times,
but did not stop them a fourth time. I think back to those days right after
Lincoln Riley left, how are Oklahoma fans feeling right now? Because that's the thing that they've
been dealing with psychologically is this guy left, but we think we're an elite program and
one of the country's best. Why would you leave for somebody else when you're already somewhere elite? Does what happened yesterday kind of validate those
feelings? I think they feel vindicated for sure. I mean, I think that last year was so tough on
them. You think back to the national media and the national narrative, you know, was Brent
Venables a bad hire? And I think there's a lot of fans wondering that too. And there wasn't an
identity for this football team, right? I mean, when you hire a guy like Brent Venables, you're
supposed to be built on defense and they weren't a year ago. They were really bad on defense.
In fact, they were worse in a lot of areas than they were under Alex Grinch and Lincoln Riley.
So I think that the vindication is what they feel right now. And they have an identity and
Oklahoma for a long time has been
built on great defense, going back to the seventies with some, the Selman brothers,
the eighties with the boss, you know, early two thousands, Rocky Kalmas, Teddy Lehman,
the great linebackers that played for Brent Venables before he left for Clemson.
So to have that identity back where you can have a goal line stand, and there's a lot of people
that felt like they could make those plays is something that Oklahoma hasn't seen in over a decade. And so I think that that's
where Oklahoma fans feel really good about this thing moving forward is, hey, we're built on a
great defense and they're scoring like, look, is this as good as the Lincoln Riley offenses?
No, but it's still a top 10 offense in the country. They can put up a lot of points and
they've got a lot of
weapons. And so I think people are feeling really good about the direction. And again, the buy-in
of the program and the way this thing is being built, it just got accelerated a lot over the
weekend, Andy. Well, and one thing that impressed me about the offense was, you go back to the
Cincinnati game, it didn't feel like they could finish drives in that game. They did that when they had to against Texas, which it's a tougher opponent. It's better players,
yet they rose to the occasion. And I think that was a pretty critical moment. But Dylan Gabriel
using his legs as effectively as he did really felt like it opened things up because some of
those times where guys were
covered and somebody else is getting sacked, he's turning those into positive plays. It feels like
that becomes its own kind of cheat code. They were six for six in the red zone on Saturday,
and a large part of that was Dylan being able to make some plays with his legs. I mean,
you even think back to the first touchdown. I think they ran maybe five QB draws. The first one of the game goes for a 10 yard touchdown run. Dylan was really
effective in that area and even getting out of the pocket and making some throws down the field.
So, you know, I think it's something that we're going to continue to see moving forward with
Dylan. Obviously last year, they weren't able to do those things because they knew if Dylan went
down, they had nobody. And so this year, if Dylan goes down, obviously you have five-star Jackson Arnold
and I'm sure that they don't want to play him just yet, but you would feel comfortable with him
coming into the game given his talent. But yeah, I mean, Dylan's a guy that, you know, he was
recruited originally by army. I mean, he was supposed to be an option quarterback coming out
of high school.
So this is a guy that can definitely run. Is he going to beat you in an 80 yard dash down the field? Probably not like Caleb Williams, but he is a guy that can accelerate. He sees the field
really well in terms of things opening up and when to take off. And it feels like they kind of Andy
waited till the Texas game to really unleash that. It was almost like it was a whole part of the game plan coming in. I mean, they did some other stuff too,
some direct snaps to Jalil Farouk, who's been a big time playmaker for him. So Jeff Levy really
unleashed the clip on Saturday and kind of pulled everything out of his bag. And I thought he called
a really, really good game. And he had a great game plan in terms of letting Gabriel use his
legs. So I realized the team is going to be thinking about West Virginia and Kansas and TCU
and the team, the teams they still have to beat. How hard is it for everybody else to not look
ahead to seeing Texas again? Because yeah, this is, it's interesting because like Washington and
Oregon are playing this weekend in a game where they might be the two best teams in their conference but it feels
like the loser might not get back to that conference championship game in the big 12
it still feels like Texas has a very very good chance of seeing Oklahoma and Jerry World it was
a big topic of discussion for us after the game it was already what do you think the line would
be if they played next Saturday uh you know do you think the line would be if they played next Saturday?
You know, I still think Texas might be favored if they played again.
It might be obviously a closer line, maybe a pick-em game,
but I think that's already on the minds of a lot of people here.
I mean, it was clear to me those were two really good football teams.
I thought Texas played really well.
Quinn Ewers was really good.
Other than the two interceptions early in the game, he finishes, what, 31 of 37 over 300 yards. He was really
solid in that game. I think Texas has a lot of playmakers. I think their defense had somewhat
of a bad day, but I think these are very clearly the two best teams. You look at the Big 12 right
now, and it seems like there's just a lot of six and six, seven and five type teams. And one
of those teams can sneak up and beat you and surprise you one weekend. But if Oklahoma takes
care of business, I think everyone, you know, and that's the thing about Sarkeesian after the game,
I thought that the way that they handled that press conference, they are already looking forward.
They weren't sulking in the loss. It felt like, and I think that they're going to get back on
track too. so it does feel
like a collision course which is only it's only right right andy last year big 12 brett yormark
has to give one of those teams uh the big 12 championship trophy i mean it would just be gold
so uh i just let greg sankey hand it to one of them i who knows he might show up to the game i
mean he was at the game on saturday i think he ended up leaving at halftime to head down to college station for the Texas A&M Alabama game. But yeah, he was there.
And again, it's just, it's very fitting that the last year it does look like it's going to be a
collision course between Oklahoma and Texas. Round one done, round two on the way. George
Sawyer III, thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for having me, Andy.
Happy, happy days in Norman.
We're going to have happy, hateful days coming up in Eugene and Seattle
as Oregon and Washington get ready for that game.
We'll have Justin Hopkins from ScoopDuck on the show tomorrow
to talk about the Ducks as they get ready for the Huskies.
One more note on Georgia.
I got a good question here from Matt.
He asks, Andy, have Kirby and Mike Bobo
turned the corner on realizing finally
that this year's Georgia team needs to throw to win?
Throw the damn ball, Bobo?
Question mark.
I think you may be right.
I think you may be right.
Carson Beck came out throwing daggers
right out of the gate against
Kentucky. It reminded me of the spring game, to be perfectly honest. And it was the first time
we've seen them be that aggressive right off the bat. And I think that does make them slightly more
dangerous offensively, where they're not trying to establish the run and be conservative.
That may not be this offense's personality. Kirby Smart's personality, though,
not changing much. He got asked, well, he was talking about the team as a wrecking ball,
and he got asked about the Miley Cyrus song, Wrecking Ball. It went about how you would imagine.
Go back to that wrecking ball that you were talking about. In my head, I'm envisioning It went about how you would imagine.
Okay, so Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball is a banger.
How Kirby does not know that song, I get.
How he doesn't know Miley Cyrus,
I would really have enjoyed the after the press conference conversation where somebody explains that Miley Cyrus is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
and somewhere deep in Kirby's memory banks,
Billy Ray Cyrus' mullet pops up
because Kirby was in high school when Achy Breaky Heart came out or maybe middle school.
He remembers that song. They played that song in Bainbridge, Georgia. I do not doubt for a second.
And you could explain to him that this man with this mullet, his offspring did a song called wrecking ball. And it was pretty good.
You should listen to it. Or Kirby smart is already trying to figure out how next to boa
constrictor an opponent, or maybe as Matt suggested, he's figuring out how to say, throw the damn ball, Bobo.
Just feel it.
It doesn't roll off the tongue like run the damn ball.
It just doesn't.
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