Bussin' With The Boys - BET THE BUS | Michael Penix Jr. Deserves The Heisman & Georgia Is Sending A Message To All Of College Football

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

Recorded November 15, 2023: It's week 12 of Bet The Bus and there are units to be made. As always we tackle the biggest games in college football and there are plenty this week. Oregon State vs Washington UNC vs Clemson Kansas State vs Kansas Nebraska vs. Wisconsin Tennessee vs Georgia Missouri vs Florida The college football playoff gets closer and closer every week but somehow Washington and Michael Penix Jr. are being listed as underdogs vs Oregon State? Maybe it's justifiable. Then you have to wonder what has happened to North Carolina. They are ranked but are listed as a 6.5 point underdog to Clemson who is coming on late in the season. Unfortunately for Kansas they lost their second string QB so it could be hard to get a W over Kansas State BUT maybe there is something we don't know about Kansas that could bring them to victory. Nebraska is still gunning for a Big 10 Championship title shot so a win over Wisconsin is beyond necessary. Tennessee could be the last team on Georgia's schedule that could hand them an upset so the Bulldogs have something to proves this game. ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB/ Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com LISTEN iTunes: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/BWTB_Spotify ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS BOJANGLESFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Deeply Well with Debbie Brown from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your. podcast. Welcome to another episode of Bet the Bus. I am your host, Pay Off Willie, aka it doesn't matter. This show, we bet on college football. Jim Harbaugh is in my seat right now. He would say that this is America's show. We choose five to six headlines throughout the weekend and we bet those games. We squeeze the money stability in your household. We stress your relationships and we come out on top and get you paid. Our record for the year, 39, 23, and two. We will get into the week and recap here in a minute. But there are six games we have on the docket for you. We're talking about Georgia, Tennessee, UNC Clemson, Florida, Missouri, K-State, Kansas, Nebraska,

Wisconsin, of course, and our lock of the week is out at Oregon State versus Washington. Again, guys, you're going to be walking down the cereal aisle at Walmart right now. These games are going to be all over the place. I'm joined by the boys in the back since we're on the stereo theme. We got J.P. Lucky Charms, Hovey. He's got the charms for he. He's going to make it rain out there and he's going to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You go over. Apple Jack, Jackie slips. The boy, he's the Reaper. You guys know him. He dishes out picks. He dishes out Barley slips, whatever you need. He's got it. You go over to Gary Box Tops. You accumulate him throughout the year. He collects Ws because, again, we have 39 of them. Yes, we've lost 23, but we're up

16. And then you got Mitchie. I was thinking about Mitchie for a second. And the biggest head in the game might be the Honeycomb monster. He is Mr. Honeycomb. He's got the big noggin up top. He delivers the data. Jack, please recap us before, hang on beforehand, make sure you comment. Guys, everybody talks about it. This is the most popular college football show in the game. This is this, this is that. Give JP a raise. JPM's the best. This production. This, this, that. The views, we need them up. The views don't relate that. We have a core audience, but you've got to pass this shit around to your friends. You've got to leave comments. We see the Algo Hat comics. Drop your picks because we got a nice giveaway, and I believe people are going to love to hear this shit when we

get to it. But without further ado, Jack, go ahead and recap us over the weekend. Comment your favorite cereal. That's a good pool. That's why you're the social media guy. There we go. There we go. All right. Last week, not what we anticipated. We were trying to go undefeated as we do every single week. But there's a couple spin zones out there. We did go four and five from the leadership of Will in the front, which is okay because I was riding with Penn State as well. I was riding with Tennessee. It hurt me. We went four and five with that. But if you stuck with Taylor and the Michigan men who are potentially going jail this year, we don't know yet still, they went five and four.

So there's positives in all of this, but a nice little quote, because obviously we have to hit one with that from the late great Wilma Rudolph. Winning is great, sure. But if you're really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. And so we're going to get back to the drawing board. We're going to hit with some really good games this week, hopefully go undefeated, take the whole board. You want to get into it?

I have a stat correction now because I was going just off of our six picks, but you guys were just reminded me that we had some over-unders in there that did hit. In my brain, we went two and four. That's why our overall record was 39, 23, and 2. If we go off the, hey, we're including the over-unders, which is a good thing that we did. And luckily, Gary Boxtops had it on the graphics. We are essentially 41, 24, and 2.

It's great to hit over that 40 mark. That's why I wanted to give that stack correction. and I love the lesson when you have your quote about the losses. Because ultimately, guys, this has been what? Maybe our first kind of weekend, we kind of got a little bad taste in our mouths with going with losing. We didn't go 500. Usually we averaged our bottom of the barrel is 500.

Again, we are 16, 17, 18 games up. But the perspective of it, guys, this league is built just like a horse race. I'm going to use Vrable's terminology here. His video he likes to put up in the middle of the year when the NFL is built for 8 and 8, 8 and 9, 9 and 8 now because they have 17 games. College football, the sports book, it's the same way. This league is built for 500. We are up 18 games right now.

Do not lose that perspective. If you're looking at this past weekend and think now's the time to fade, no, no, get back to that chart. Get back to that chart. Believe potential action result. Believe potential action result. Stay the course. You have to accept the bad with the good because there's been a lot of good.

And trust your jockey on that horseback. Keep the blinders on. That's why the horses, that's why they were to blinders. They got to trust what their jockeys doing up top because they're surrounded in a crowd because this league is built for 500. Just know that we are out front right now. Pay off Willie and the boys, the cereal boys in the back.

We are leading the charge and we are going to get to this finish line. So stick with the boys, just like Mario, just like Super Mario. We're going to start at the beginning and we're going to get you that little white flag and the white polty and there's going to be adversity. There's going to be fire. There's going to be mushrooms. There's going to be things that are trying to take us out. We will get to that white flag.

Jack, go ahead and kick us off of this first game. First game. with the University of North Carolina at Clemson. Clemson seems like they are hitting a pretty good stride here in this back half of the season. The spread is six and a half. Who will you be going with? All right. Let's look at this honeycomb data by the boy, Mitchie.

I have no stars by your data, Mitch. So if you look at the front of the box, we are going Clemson here minus six and a half. And you might be thinking, why are we going to Clemson minus six and a half? If you turn the box around and we look at the back and we look at the details and we're going to figure out why. Clemson is playing tough ball. I know it pains our guy in the back. JP, he is not on board with it. Just know that my words are not a reflection of his.

But Clemson is playing tough ball. They beat a sneaky tough Georgia Tech team. Who, by the way, beat North Carolina. Outside of week one, Clemson, their three losses have all been by one score. And the outside noise has seemed to motivate this team versus a couple weeks ago, accountability hand up. Dabo is dead.

We're not buying the stock, Dadbo. It's still a fraudulent Clemson team. they seem to be playing a little bit more inspired. When you look at North Carolina, they survived, survived a banged up Duke team, backup a quarterback, a couple injuries on offense, and actually both sides of the ball. Their defense has more, and when you look, when you look at the North Carolina team, this is a team that's lost to Virginia. This is a team that's giving up big points to, they've lost to Virginia,

they lost to Virginia Tech. Yes, they beat Campbell, but who's Campbell? It's the school of the blind, doesn't matter. And they survived Duke. This defense has more holes in the LGBTQ community. That is why we are taking Clemson minus six and a half, just like Mario. Punch the top. Punch the top.

Let the coin come out. That's for JP. All right. We're going Clemson minus six and a half. All right, moving on. We have a nighttime showdown in the SEC East. We have Mazoo at Florida. Line is 11.5.

This is, I'm calling it the Tennessee Stepfather Bowl, because these teams fucking ruined us. Man, they did. I didn't think about that. That's tough. It's tough, but we're moving on. Because the question mark I have going into this game because it's kind of hard to dictate

where the, you know, what to go with here, Missouri's favorite by 11.5. Yeah, what's the over under? 58 and a half? 58 and a half. Night game Missouri, it's going to be cold. I'm reading here by Mitchie Data. Missouri is playing well.

Missouri is, there's a lot of reasons for Missouri to be fired up right now, Tobacco sales are up, cigarette sales are up, and adult video stores, they're flying off the shelves because Missouri is right and high right now. Cody Schrader, the only running back in SEC history, I believe, 200 rushing yards and 100 receiving yards last week. They have LB. the 3rd, Luther Burden the 3rd, Brady Cook, a nice poised quarterback dishing the ball around. I like this team at home. I like them in the cold weather. Florida, they also moved the ball and score points.

We watched them last week. They can move the ball. Granted, it was an LSU defense, but you've seen throughout the year that Florida does a good job moving the ball, or merits, Merts, whatever. He seems a lot more comfortable being the quarterback there, but when you look at their defense, their defense has not shown up in the last

four games. They've given up 52 to LSU, 39 to Arkansas, which they lost that game, 43 to Georgia, and 39 to South Carolina. I like the over. I like going over 58 and a half for Florida at Mizzou. I don't want to touch the line. I think 11.5 is too many

points. I don't know if Mizzou's defense is actually for real or if Tennessee he just shit the bed and I kind of think the latter. So for that reason, for those reasons, we are going over 58 and a half. All right, moving on. We have the Kansas State at Kansas line is seven. The over is 56 and a half. Another night game as well.

What do they call this game? The sunflower bowl, sunflower bowl, sunflower game. Sunflower bowl? The sunflower game. Sunflower game with Kansas State. Kansas. Yeah, that's what they call it. we're getting in that time of the year where every game's got a name and this is the sunflower game

what a name dude it's just like why not battle for the small apple right or i guess k u's not like in manhattan considered the small apple or the windy city or the mild windy city or some shit yeah i think that's right it's somewhere long this goes falls right in line with our boy jp lucky charm hovey in the back this is uh the kansas lock of the week and we're going kansas state because kansas is is now on and JP, this is going to make us feel better. They lost their second string quarterback last week. They're on their third string QB.

They only put up 13 points against Texas Tech. This Texas Tech defense, this is a defense that gives up at least 24 a game. I know we want to ride. I know you found your dark horse, but your dark horse is now on the third horse right now. And that offense is not going to do good against this tough, heady, bigger in the trenches, a little bit more aggressive, more violent, more physical in Kansas State. They play tough defense. They're 50% on third down offensively, which ranks 16th in the NCAA.

That tells all of us, if you are a football junkie out there, they are always playing ahead of the six. They're a good team on the ground. They know how to operate. Again, this is a smart, tough physical football team. I like them to win this game and to cover minus eight at Kansas because they're also averaging 38 points a game, which is 12th in the country. Let's look at Mitch. His data right here. K-State is 4-0-1 against the spreader in their last five.

K-state has covered their last four. Their defense is only allowing 18.5 points per game, which is 22nd in the nation. All of those reasons point to the answer of K-State minus 8. Also apologies to any Kansas State Kansas fans. It is not the sunflower game. It is the sunflower showdown, which objectively sounds a lot cooler. So moving on, we have an absolutely bad. in the Big Ten.

Your Nebraska Cornhuskers at Wisconsin, lines five and a half, the over's 36 and a half, and another nighttime showdown. I don't even have to ask where you're going, so go ahead and give it to us. I just can't. If we were huge underdogs, like if we were now playing Michigan

after losing, dropping two, I would be able to lay the sword down and take Nebraska with the points as an underdog. But when you're minus five and a half against Wisconsin, who, by the way, in their last couple weeks, has lost to Indiana, in Northwestern. They barely survived Illinois. We handled Illinois. There was a lot to be excited about two weeks ago before Michigan State, before the referees ruined that game and then gave us

a bad taste in our mouth. And between turnovers and bad situational play calling, I will say that, but I'm also not going to be calling for heads just yet. I want to be steady like my head man, like my head coach, you got to teach, you got to develop, you got to inspire. I don't know how we inspire those arms that we have under center right now because those arms work about as my erectile dysfunction works right now. They're non-existent. They're throwing each guy through a pick last weekend. And we are in a tough situation because I want to be for the boys and I am for the boys. I'm going to swing the sword till I die. To me, this is a Nebraska Money Line game. You don't have to follow me to that water, but I will tell you this, I'm going Nebraska Money Line. And when

Nebraska wins, those bastards that rode with your boy on Nebraska Money Line that shows me on Saturday that you rode with me for Money Lion. I am dishing out Victory Lattees. I'm talking, I'm going to be calling a couple local coffee shops in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm going to give a tab, and you're going to say, hey, I'm here for my victory latte on Payoff Willie because Nebraska won the Money Line. That is my promise to you, and if you ride with your boy, that is what we are going to get at the end of this, at the end of this Super Mario level.

We're going Nebraska Money Lion at Wisconsin. the badgers haunt me. They haunt me for life. If you want to show a little every running back scoring on us in the Big Ten Championship, you can do that. There's no rules in this for JP and his production levels. They haunt my life, but I like us, Moneyline, Nebraska Moneyline at Wisconsin this weekend night game.

Get it rocking. Where do you guys play Iowa? Home. Okay. I was going to say, because what happens when, if Nebraska wins this week, what does that mean for them? Honestly, I haven't looked at it.

The good thing is Wisconsin and Minnesota both lost. It means you're going bowling if you get this win. Sorry, sorry. I'm still operating from a Big Ten championship perspective. I'm still thinking, what are our chances of getting into this game in Indy? Because Michigan and Wisconsin lost over the weekend, which only helps us. But I believe Iowa has to drop their last two.

I don't know who they, oh yeah, they play Illinois this weekend. Illinois's been a little frisky, so they might be able to pull that off. But you are right, we, for the love of God, now that we've dropped two in a row, it has now kind of become, all right, let's get bow eligible. Boe eligible. We need that sixth win. We need that sixth win. Money line, Wisconsin, if we die, we fucking die.

Moving on to a game that makes me a bit nervous. SEC East. We have Georgia at Tennessee. line is 10 and a half, over 59.5, 3.30 game. You go ahead and you just let me know. This is tough. We know it's GBO after GBR. We know it's GBO after GBR.

However, I do not swing the sword for Tennessee the way I do Nebraska. I think this is a game where you cannot trust Tennessee right now. They had six points against Missou. The defense got boss around more than I did last night before bedtime. Georgia's now starting to look like Georgia. And we're talking bulldogs here, and I have a little bit of experience with bulldogs. They're stubborn, they're immovable, and they're hard-headed.

Waffle, come on. It's time for a walk. Come on. Hey, come on. Come on. Come on, let's go for a walk. Come on. So no matter how hard you hit those motherfuckers, dude,

they don't feel pain. They don't go on walks, they walk you. And I do believe, that Georgia is going to show up this weekend because although they are, they have clinched their SEC, or their SEC championship birth, I do think that there's good football that they have to prove before going into that SEC championship because Bama's hungry.

Bamma's chomping at the bit at the bit to beat their ass in the SEC championship. I know Bama can't look at either, but you just look at both these teams. I think Georgia, I think Coach Smart is going to find ways to motivate this team like he always does. I love those little snippets he has in the locker room. But we are going, Georgia. at Tennessee, which, by the way, Mitch, he has some data on that. And it might be favorable for you, Jack.

Tennessee is undefeated at home and hasn't lost the home game since 2021, where they lost to Georgia. So never mind, that doesn't play well. We're going to go Georgia covering against Tennessee. I can't be mad about it. We just got fucking pumped in Mizzou. So, I mean, for the number one team of the nation

not to come into our place and take care of business, it wouldn't shock me. but, you know. You guys are eighth in the nation and rush yards. Yeah, and right now, this is, you know, our Super Bowl at this point. If we can put a little asterisk on Georgia season, why not? But, yeah, I'm just here as a fan of the game. Eighth in the nation and rush yards.

Georgia to cover. All right. Moving on, Washington at Oregon State. Line is two and a half, the over 63 and a half. And another night game. A lot of night games. on this slate. A lot of night games. Where are you at?

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case to go in and solidify themselves not only in the Pac-12, but try and play for a college football playoff spot. Pennix, he's a stud. He's a He's a Heisman front runner right now. We're taking Washington Money Line and also the over 63 and a half. I think Oregon State can move the ball. They can score. They have one of the best rushing offenses in the country. That is where Washington is weak. Washington is allowing 143.5 yards per game. I know you had one.

Oregon State's running backs, already over 1,000 yards on the ground. This will be a shootout, just like the Pack 12 always is. Somebody's going to be up late. Probably this is 7.30 Eastern. Somebody's going to be up around midnight keeping up with this game. But I love Washington Money Line and over 63.5 points. Washington at Oregon State, do, are there any holes in that lock of the week right there? I feel like that's buttoned up, man.

Washington, I don't see what they've done to earn an underdog slot against an Oregon State team who it's not like they're undefeated. Parlay hubby, you got anything for us? I got you. I'm going to keep it quick for you. This is the Carolina boys parlay. Ooh, we got a theme. I don't know why I did not come up with this sooner. I probably would be undefeated.

We are rocking with coastal. Carolina. I hate to go against the troops, but over Army. Are we going? Is this money line? What are we doing here? We're doing spread. So minus four and a half for them. Okay. We are rocking North Carolina plus six and a half versus Clemson. The Carolina boys. The Carolina boys parlay. I understand. Lastly, we got South Carolina versus Kentucky at home under the lights. Right now it's plus one and a half. So we're going South Carolina. line of money line. We have to win this game to stay bowl eligible. And it makes it even better

because the following week we play Clemson to go bowl eligible. And there's a special guest that will be there to see us go bowl eligible. And that is 45. We'll be in Columbia. Who is going to come out to? I am American badass. You guys see that at UFC, dude? Yeah. He's out doing his wave. Yo, he's going to be at that game? Yeah. That is awesome. Odds are plus 669. Is there any way we can sway your opinion to go with the Carolina boys at Clemson? No. Then it wouldn't be a Carolina boys parley.

Coastal Carolina, North Carolina, South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't hear of Carolina and Clemson. Okay, all right. I'm just checking because I know, but I respect that because you are, that's why I love you. You are who you are all the time. There's no deviating. Yeah.

And I like that money line game. Matter of fact, I'm going to jump in that one with. you just South Carolina money line because that's a that's that we need that we can play you guys in a bowl game I know right now if we get bowl eligible I feel strong about being in this music city bowl down here because it's a base you want it's a fan base that's going to get selected you know whether there are a couple slots low they'll get selected higher than they should be just because the Nebraska fan base travels well and yeah the last one I saw I think it was Nebraska Auburn but I'm sitting there in my head I'm like we just we got to win a game because the Michigan

in State 1 truly has messed with my sleep over the last two weeks. But we've got to be Wisconsin. This is Money Line. Again, free victory lattes. I'm telling you, ride with your boys. Thank you for tuning in to Bet the Bus. We are your host. Payoff Willie.

All the cereal boys in the back, we're making you money. We're getting you paid. We're getting you laid. Signing off from the bus. Have a Saturday. Comment if you think South Carolina would be Nebraska. Hey guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers.

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