Bussin' With The Boys - Josh Pate & Will Compton Love Oregon Over USC + Taylor Lewan Rides With Oklahoma Over Missouri

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to week 13 of the locker room college football. I'm joined with my handler, Will Compton. Also on the show will be the commissioner himself, Josh Pate. Let's look into the games today. We're gonna have number 22, Mizzou, at number eight, Oklahoma. Then we're gonna have Pitt at Georgia Tech. Now, fun thing about this game is,

I studied for Louisville SMU for two hours last night. Got a text at 6 a.m. said, we're moving that to Pitt, Georgia Tech. That's gonna be a fun one to go over. Then we got number 20 Tennessee at Florida, November, swamp. Very interesting time of year. The Tennessee fans, they're shaking in their boots a little bit. One lost BYU plays at Cincinnati. They've dropped their last two.

And then USC at Oregon will be the true classic game with the week. Let's get into the standings. Well, Compton, two and three. He's almost as consistent as Josh Pitt, who has gone two and three the last six weeks in a row. With gout, and when I have going on my body, It shut off everything. For whatever reason, my brain is wrong correctly when you're coming to picking these games.

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You add they just kind of riffing them right now. How are we doing, man? Not good. Bro, like, we're having fun, right? And this is content. And it's like, we're going to make the most out of a shitty situation when it comes to this stuff. But I'm truly in hell.

Like, I don't think people understand, too, that you're right. Like, content, there's bits, there's this and that. Right. It's as bad as it looks for you. Yeah, it is. And it's slowly. gotten that much worse. Like you've had, you've talked about it on busing at length. Yeah. Like I truly, like, I don't know what to think of my life right now. I don't know what's happening.

I've talked about on busing how I used to be this and now I'm that. But here's where I am questioning myself and my toughness. And Josh, this is a story for you. These guys have all heard this story already two nights ago. I was sleeping. I haven't had a good night of sleep in three weeks since this got to start it. I'm doing the thing where you're sleeping. And your body is telling you, hey, you got to pee, but you're still pretending like you're asleep as if you're going to trick your bite and think we'll just wait until the morning. I do that all the time. All the time.

I pee a little bit. Yeah. I actually did the other night. Did you really? Yeah. But it was very small. But you've done that before, yeah? Not in the last, not in the last several weeks, but yes, I can relate. But you've been in the situation.

Will just said he peed himself the other night. Yeah, no, we're going to. Very small. It was very small. That's a Will comp. You can't walk. You're not over there. Yeah, but I'm not far away from that.

Like that's Will's like, that's his level one. Like he is there, that's Will's baseline is like peeing a little bit in the bed. Which shout out Charo for doing the sheets all the time. So anyway, I go to get out of bed and I stand up and I just fall to the ground. And obviously I have a bad right knee. I crawl on all, like my hands and knees to the bathroom to go and take a piss. And I pick myself up onto the toilet, sit down to pee. P and then crawl back to go to bed only to have my 15-year-old dog who is,

deaf, dumb, and blind, kind of like ticking, tapping her little foot at the door, she has to go out and pee-2, where we're, like, synced up at this point. So I, hands and knees, crawl up. I'm in my underwear by myself. I open the door, let her out. And then I'm, like, screaming for her at 1.30 in the morning. Like, just please come back, and I'm on hands and knees. Like, bang on the window.

She can hear something, but she doesn't know where it's coming from. So that's essentially where my life is at this point. Do you guys have, like, security camera stuff set up in your house? Yeah. So that exists? Footage of that exists? It could. It absolutely could.

The reason I mentioned that is, like, I feel terrible for you. We've established that. I kissed you off camera this morning. You did. I was going to bring it up. You brought it up. I'm glad you didn't. That's how bad I feel.

What I'm trying to say is you said that you're here and we've got to create content. Those are your words, not mine. Yeah. So I think we know where we could go with that. Here's where the issue is, is those cameras that are outside, you're going to see a door open and you're going to see a dog run out, and then you're just going to see a door moving a little bit because someone's banging on it. But I mean, like, you've got kids. I thought you may have the indoor surveillance stuff set up.

Not in my master bedroom. Could, though. A little extra home movie. And you're saying the door where you let the dog out was from your bedroom? Yeah, so, like, my master bedroom, it has a door that goes to the outside. Yeah. Open that door and let the dog out. And then the dog eventually came back in.

But I never peaked my head out. Oh, you did not crawl outside. No, no, no. I stood where I had to be as if I was also another dog kind of just waiting for my dog friend to come back. Hmm. How close are you, do you think? think to like rails being installed in the home parking in different parking spots that sort of thing if the option was given to me to have one of those cool handicapped stickers let's not call it cool

okay if the option was given to me the luxury of having a let's not call it a luxury either let's just call it a detail if i was able to have a handicap sticker i would i would take it and i would be very grateful to have that very great because i can get you one by lunch can you really yeah i can get you one of those luxuries you can't get me how awesome would it be to be handicapped Do it by lunch. Yeah, we can do that. I am handicapped, dude. We got to stand in the handicapped room the night when we go up to New York. I asked Clum.

Clum saw me yesterday. Will was filming four of the dads before we had to do Kay Adams yesterday. And I was laying on the couch after I got blood work done. And Will walks in here, it was that bad, huh? I'm like, yes, dude. It's miserable. Like, just sitting up. Like right now, I am in pain right now.

Clump, he starts, my wife comes to pick me up yesterday, starts talking about, hey, he's acting a little like this and that. some experiences that i've had have kind of been like this maybe you should get him checked out for being septic and talks tailing into taking me to the hospital yet again so two weeks in a row i heard going to the hospital that's that sounds like the kind of thing we're 10 years from now when you're given an inspirational talk to middle schoolers and like it's your survival story that's chapter one jeremy clump saved my life yeah jeremy clump is the reason i'm here speaking to you children today i'm hoping at this point like at the end of day like i don't care what the news is i just want an answer

for what's going on. Because I go to the hospital yesterday. He's like, who said this was gout? I was like, I said this was gout. WebMD, buddy. WebMD said this was gout. No, no, I've had gout before and felt the exact same as gout, so therefore it's gout in my head. He's like, gout does not last for three weeks.

And then he started to get concerned about the possible infection I have going on. But this morning, shout out Derek. He's not in here right now, but he got me this wheelchair. And it's so much help, dude. But I've been in hell. I'm truly in hell. It's awful. Tease and peas.

Yeah, tease and peas. Thanks, ma'am. Thoughts and prayers in the chat for our fallen soldier. Still operating, though. Still operating. Three and two last week? Yeah. Yeah.

You feeling good about the games this weekend? Kind of. Yeah. I mean, I said it in the intro. I took about two hours last night and read up on Louisville at SMU. I was, when we were talking about the Louisville SMU game, I got that same text at six this morning. I'm like, I'm down to do that.

I don't even know why we were talking about Louisville SMU anyway. He texted me and said, Will and Peter are good with this. And I just looked at it. And I was like... He must have started with Pate because he's like, Pate's good with this. All right, all right. So he texts me and I look at it on my phone. I'm like, I don't know if it says I'm in pain that's pissing me off that I'm getting this text

two hours before our show starts or I'm actually pissed off. So I'm just going to leave it on red and just keep fighting a good fight. We're just, we're getting that much closer to the college football playoffs. Yeah. With the rankings dropping last night, we, we are just, that's what I'm excited about. Yeah. Like, I'm ready to see some chaos. There's not a whole lot of chaos potential.

I feel like this weekend outside of like, what, USC Oregon, don't sleep on Mizzou in Oklahoma. But other than that, like, I'm ready to get more, it's ready to get in that mode. Do you think there's an upset alert with Mizzu and Oklahoma? I think they very well could be. All right. Talk to me. Introduce that, introduce that game. Wait, hold on.

Should be, if we're checking on Pete, see how he's doing? Yeah, how's he doing since the rankings came out last night? I heard you kind of talking about the, let's say there's a clip I saw about them getting in some hot water with Notre Dame, Miami. There's a lot of potential, I think there's a potential catastrophe, like right on the horizon. Here's the question I would ask you. Is it a catastrophe just because the way they started ranking Notre Dame, they would just look dumb because they had them, they had them start so high,

and then all they've done is went out the rest of the sea. And then they've slowly trickled down. And then once they get in that, what do you call it, the pool? The comparative pool. The comparative pool. Once they get in the comparative pool of Miami, then they get jumped by Miami for the outlarge bid. Because at the end of the day, it would have still worked itself out. It would have worked itself out.

Look, my problem is not with the process. If you thoroughly explain the process, they're terrible at explaining the process. Like, do you really think a random person who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, who works a normal nine to five job and it's not like data minded. They just love college football and they watch the rankings on Tuesday night. Do you really think they know the intricacies of the process that goes behind the rankings? Of course they don't. You can't expect your audience to know that. So what you got to do is you got to be really forthright. That's why on that ranking show, you got the numbers, you got the rankings and you got Reese Davis talking with the committee chair for five minutes. The committee chair

is now Hunter Eurecheck because Mac Roads, he's no longer there and I'll let other people in the building talk about why he's no longer there if they want to. Hunter Eurecheck was like sweating Crisco last night on camera talking about the rankings because he's ill-equipped to do it. It's not even his fault. He's running a full-time coaching search at Arkansas. And then all of a sudden he's stepping away to be put on live TV to explain numbers, which is just not ready to do.

So they put him on last night and he was talking about Miami Notre Dame. So remember when the rankings first came out, we talked about on the show how Miami's beaten Notre Dame, but Miami's 18th and Notre Dame's like 10th, and so there's enough gap between them where apparently the head-to-head just didn't matter. Well, it turns out that's not the case. They just hadn't thoroughly enough explain their process. Now, I'm about to explain it. It's going to be really quick. It's going to sound stupid because it is stupid. But the way they do it is they don't just stack all the teams one through 50 and just pick the top 25. And it's not a computer where they go crunch and the computer just spits out the rankings. They do what are you,

They're used what they're called comparative pools. So they take like a cluster of four teams at a time. And then they rank those four teams in a row. Then they move to the next four. Then they rank those four teams in a row. And what he was trying to say on TV last night as we're recording is the head to head actually hasn't had a chance to matter yet because we haven't had Notre Dame and Miami close enough to be placed in the same comparative pool, which means we've never put

Miami and Notre Dame on the board at the same time, which means the head to head hasn't mattered. But unlike the first week of the rankings, if you watched the rankings last night, there were only like four spots separating Miami and Notre Dame. And it looks like Miami could keep climbing. And Notre Dame's done climbing because they play two terrible teams at the end of the year. So there's no way to further inflate their resume. They've also got like Utah, BYU, Alabama between them.

Bama's either going to climb or fall. There's no way Bama finishes between them, it doesn't feel like. So Miami and Notre Dame are eventually going to be close enough, according to the committee's own process where they're put on the board at the same time. If you put Miami and Notre Dame on the board at the same time and their resumes are comparable, you've got to value head-to-head.

That's their protocol. Which is when they will value head-to-head. Miami will jump Notre Dame and that dude and I will watching TV just week after week screaming saying, why do we just keep trickling down one by one? And now we're out of the playoff. And we've been in it the last five weeks I've watched this show.

Yes. And he would have a point because it's been terribly articulated to him. You're going to have watched Notre Dame be ahead of Miami all year. All they did was keep winning. And then at the very end, someone's going to tell you Miami Jump Notre Dame because of head-to-head, to which your reasonable response would be, but you knew the head-to-head the whole time. It's not like we just played.

We played three months ago. So why is the head-to-head all of a sudden just now mattering? It matters because of something called comparative pools. And you don't know. Were you using the example of four teams out of time just to set the stage or set the example? or do you know how many teams get in a comparative pool? I believe, don't quote me on this, I believe, I saw a screenshot of like a protocol from the committee's website

where it's like three or four teams. But if you just do the math, if one of them's nine and one of them's 13, and they're telling me they still haven't been put in the same comparative pool, it's got to be less than four. It's got to be three or four or something like that. So that's going to be the mess. And then the other mess is Alabama's sitting at number 10 right now.

And so I'm wondering, all right, If Alabama beats Auburn and then wins the SEC championship game, are they going to jump all the way back up into the top four and get a first round by? Because if they don't, you're really sabotaging your conference championship games. Because people, I was in Athens last week. Right, as far as that game matter. They're already saying at Georgia, we don't want to play in Atlanta. I'm not talking about Kirby.

I'm talking about their fan base. I was down there last week. I found way more people who were totally comfortable being the five seed than actually wanted to be top four. Let's go to Atlanta. the same thing could be said at a place like Ole Miss. You think Old Miss wants to go to Atlanta? They're set up to have an off week, the first week of December, and then a home playoff game.

They'd love that. So you're already dealing with that if you're a conference and you're making tons of money off these conference title games, but that's all contingent on them mattering. To maintain the value of those conference championship games, you've got to incentivize playing in them and winning them. And if Bama goes to Atlanta, wins it and doesn't jump into the top four, you have reinforced some of the thinking that it started to permeate through the Big Ten, through the SEC. It would just get turned up to 11 at that point?

So would the answer be, we're not going to do conference championship games anymore? I think, not only that, I think people would revolt. I think people would just openly say, we don't even want to play in it. If I were the SEC, like I would look at it. Frankly, you're the college football commissioner. When you are, what's this going to look like? Oh, buddy, we don't have long enough today. We do have to break down games.

I would be very, very transparent about the selection process. You've got an idea about your own G5 playoff, which I've advocated for a ton of times, and I think we ought to explore it, but you've got to responsibly explore it.

You can't just say no G5 team. Okay, yes. So like creating a G5, creating a separate G5 playoff. Yes. Yeah, I am fully on board that. But you got to have the money there. It's like an NIT?

No, not an NIT. I think NIT would be electric as well. People are sleeping on the NIT tournament. what schools are going to go and do that? Because you see all these players now. If you're not in the playoffs, they're all sitting out. No, you're right.

This is more of the fan talking, just having another tournament out there. Like that, when Buston put the graphic together, what the tournament could look like, it's like these games could be. Sick. Just as exciting to watch as the main tournament. But think about the state of college football or the landscape of it right now. Right now, we're supposed to pretend 136 teams are playing the same sport. Of course, they're not.

Like, Michigan and U.O. Monroe have never played this. the same sport. But for the playoff purposes, we're just supposed to believe that. Even though everyone in the room knows the deal, we're supposed to believe that. Because once upon a time, someone upset someone. So we're supposed to believe, yeah, man, USF could go to Tuscaloosa or Athens or Lubbock or something as a three touchdown dog. It's irrelevant because it doesn't even make sense. Like the proper way to construct college football would be to have certain teams that are roughly the same size, spend roughly the same amount, recruit roughly. the same kind of talent, have roughly the same kind of resources, competing for a championship,

and then have teams mainly would be your G5s that would compete for their own championship, but also you still got to subsidize them. Like if you gave me my option, I would let the G5 ranks take the same cut of revenue that they currently take from the college football playoff, but just build their own playoff and have their own TV deal with it. I mean, the Mac gets money to play games on weeknights. You don't think that the G5 ranks, would get enough money on a playoff contract to build their own system, I firmly believe they would. People have just pushed back on it, and I've never heard an actual good reason. I've heard reasons, they're just not good reasons. So maybe we live in a world like in high school sports,

where there's like 1A, 2A, 3A, and then the biggest schools, like who are paying $50 million per roster, they all live in this, the biggest district, and then we go buy money. Who's putting it in the most? This is the district you're going to live in. Yeah, and if you want to say, well, that cuts us off, I would say, well, then I'm totally comfortable with a promotion and relegation system. Because as much as Tulane should earn the right or be able to earn the right to climb up in ranks, if you perennially suck and you penny pinch and you don't spend money, then you ought to fall down the ladder. I got no problem with a promotion relegation mechanism within that. It just makes no sense right now. Let's just be real.

You don't have to, you don't have to be crapping on Tulane to understand a way better team's about to. have a shot taken from them because we baked in a mechanism wherein a G5 team has to have a spot in the playoff. We keep on having the rankings and then Fandul sends us the hypothetical lines and they're like three games where the point spread would be three or four or five. Then there's one where the point spread is like 21 and a half in the first round. It's obvious one of those things is not like the other. Right. And then you got some guy comes and tells you, well, point spreads don't matter and so and so upset so and so one time as a big underdog. Yeah, it's always the Boise State Fiesta Bowl debacle. Our thing on

was, or my thing on Boston was, if you're going to be a G5 team that makes it, you have to be undefeated. Not only undefeated, but you have to win these games by multiple scores. Not only undefeating. You got to. You've got to say something like incredible if you think you're going to go compete against some of those other schools, because then it is allow you to be like a Boise State or some of these schools that are upsetting or, what was it, UCF, that went 12 and O and they just decided they're a national championship team. Right. With Scott Frost before we went to Nebraska. Yeah. Yeah. To where you have an undefeating year.

because what is it? Who is it North Texas or Tulane who lost to UTSA? They've all got losses now, yeah. You've seen some role too. I loved his, he had a post-practice pressure yesterday talking about how average his team has looked at times. He's been totally honest. He's been totally honest about his team.

I love the transparency. Last thing before we get into the games, playoffs, you talked about in your show last night. Everyone's talking about a 24. Is the game playing here, hey, we're going to say, hey, why don't we do a 24 team playoff? just to land on 16.

Is that kind of the, hey, we're going to do this, everyone freaks out, then you go to 16, and it was like, okay, that makes sense. So negotiation tactic, basically. Maybe. But it sounds like the Big Ten really wants that 24 team. For real. They're really, like I thought initially what you thought.

I floated that to a Big Ten athletic. It was Pat Kraft. I floated it to Pat Kraft. Pat Kraft said, no, that's not what we're doing here. Because I had just done a show where I talked about that. Then I went up to Penn State. And he was standing on the practice field. I talked to him about it.

He was like, no, that's kind of not what we're doing, though. Like, we really think there's a lot of merit behind this model. I, of course, disagree, but at least he was honest with me. In their shoes, what's the merit for the 24th of the 12th? They think the oxygen. Well, first off. It would be awesome for the viewer. Like, how awesome would that be.

But it really wouldn't be. Why not? Because it wouldn't be more football. More football is like more meaningless regular season games. Totally meaningless. Totally. Texas. Like, then you'd be starting to think like, okay, somebody, you know,

We could rest certain guys in certain games. Like truly regular season games get very diluted. My big fear was when we expanded to 12 that was going to happen. But it really has not happened to the degree I was scared it would happen. 12's been awesome. So we're good at 12. We're good at so my biggest fears were not realized. Fingers were crossed.

Biggest fear's not realized. If you move to 24, just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here, like Texas is squarely in a 24-team playoff with room to lose another game. if we're talking about a 2014 playoff. So think about the urgency that is removed from that Texas Georgia game last week. The best commodity college football has to me is regular season games. So I got to come at it from that position. If you're a playoff guy, if you're the kind of person who says like college basketball,

I start watching in March or in football, I start watching in December. You probably don't feel the way I do. But if you're a big fan of regular season like fall Saturdays, and that's the most precious thing, you've got to protect that thing. This is really easy to see like they want more money. So a bigger playoff would print more money for them. These are not people who share the same sentiment about college football being great that I would or you would. They don't necessarily care about the fall Saturday stuff.

They look at P&L. They look at KPI. They look at the kind of stuff you would hear in a boardroom, which is okay. I just don't prefer those kinds of people having their hands on the wheel of college football. The last two big ideas the Big Ten have had totally sucked. Michigan and USC stood up to one of them and put a kabosh. for the time being on the private equity money infusion. Yeah, I still don't fully understand that whole thing.

You don't need to. It's just terrible. So then the second thing is, hey, if we can't get that, then let's expand the playoff to 24. It also looks like that's going to crash and burn. Like, I watched for quite a while Kevin Warren be one of the worst power conference commissioners I'd ever seen. And so when the Big Ten replaced Kevin Warren, I thought, hey, nowhere to go but up. I can't even tell the difference. So that's where we are right now. I have one last one because as we were talking about the college football playoff, the SEC championship in particular, like seeing that Alabama is, they're more likely going to be in the SEC championship. And I agree with you. It's like if they win the SEC championship, they take down a top four team in A&M, like valuing the SEC champion and the wins that Alabama has on the resume would warrant a top four seat.

My question would be if they go into the SEC championship and they lose, they're out of it. Yeah. There's no way. There's no way. I could not see it. There's no way to let it happen. They didn't let it happen to SMU last year. SMU was a-

SMU lost and they ended up a two-loss team. But what I'm saying is a two-loss Alabama would still be viewed above and beyond a one-loss SMU because of the conference they went through and because of the number of ranked teams they played. So if Alabama, like what you're saying to paint the picture for people who aren't like thinking with the rankings board in their head, bam is 10 right now.

They beat Auburn. I don't know if they would climb or not. Let's say they climbed to nine. But they're nine or ten. So they're right there on the bubble. They'll probably jump Notre Dame. But let's say they do. So let's say they're number nine.

Yeah, the Notre Dame Miami stuff. You're saying they go to Atlanta as the nine seats. So they're in the playoff bubble as they go to Atlanta in the conference championship game in the SEC. Yeah. So they've earned the right to play an extra game. Ole Miss sits at home that week. Georgia sits at home that week just knowing they're safe in the playoff. Alabama loses that extra game.

they earn the right to be in. And some are saying, and you're floating the scenario, they fall out because they have another loss. And what I'm telling you is kind of the same point I was making a little while ago. If they win the game and they're not put in the top four, you greatly diluted the value of your conference title game. Even if one of your participants loses the game, if they drop out of the playoff because they lost a game they earned the right to play in, you have completely, like you've taken a blowtorch to your conference championship game.

And the point I was making is SMU was in that spot last year. SMU played a way weaker schedule last year than Bama. That's why I would say a one-loss SMU, two-loss Alabama comparable. SMU went in the ACCC title game right on the bubble. And they lost to Clemson and going into selection Sunday. That was the big talking point. Are they going to drop SMU behind Bama or Ole Miss or South Carolina? And they didn't even drop them.

So no. I've seen a lot of people agree with you. I would have to see that to believe it. There's just no way I could see that. I'm not saying it's right. You're saying it could happen. Right, right. Just because where my brain goes, like, let's just, if you pretend that Vandy wins out,

they're a two-lost team. You got Oklahoma, if they went out there, two-laws team. You could have USC there. You could have Oregon there. You could have a bunch at Notre Dame. Like, there's a log jam, potentially of two-lost teams. Brigham Young could be there. Utah could be there.

I'm saying, like, I know someone's got to make it and a bunch of people have to be left out. That's more so what, that's more where I'm coming from, is they would. a three loss. And, you know, obviously we're playing a bunch of hypotheticals right now. But it's only two weeks away. But realistically, if everybody else stays course, you're looking at Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon, then you're looking at Vandy, Georgia. I don't know the Vandy's guaranteed if they went out. I'm saying in the scenario that Bama goes and loses the SEC championship.

Oh, yeah, you're talking about the teams they'd be fighting against. Yeah, you'd have four SEC teams. You'd have two that are two laws. Could be Miami up there too? Yeah. Because you're going to have to have the ACC champion in there. Michigan could be up there. Oh, absolutely. Michigan could be up there.

Yeah, it creates a hole. Do you guys go to the Big Ten Championship if you beat Ohio State? I think it has to do with if USC, if USC beats Oregon this week, I think the answer to that is no. Because then USC has the, I think they have the tiebreaker over us. Yeah, yeah, because they'd be a two loss. That's right. You're right. But if Oregon beats USC, we have the tie break over Ohio State because we're only one loss in our conference.

I could be getting that wrong. I don't know about the Big Ten tiebreaker. I was just saying, if there's a three-way, like, would Oregon get back? If Oregon beats USC, there's still a one-loss team. They lost to Indiana. They're still a one-lossed team in the Big Ten. There's a world where USC, Michigan, and Ohio State are all one-loss big-10 teams. Because Michigan's other loss is Oklahoma.

Oregon would be a two-loss team there, two-loss big-10 teams. So they're not going. Right. You're asking, like, so we got the tiebreaker of Ohio State. Ohio State has a tiebreaker of, I don't know it. So I don't know the Big Ten tie-breaker scenarios, but if Oregon wins, this weekend and then you guys go beat Ohio State all of a sudden you're in indie and we're asking the same question that he was asking about Alabama I think that's way more interesting because Alabama

I think there's you you can easily see them staying in it but with Michigan team who's been inconsistent this year we're seeing around the 18th like we're far away from the bubble how much do you jump if you beat Ohio State you jump in the best win that's the best one of the year top 10 like 10 9 8 then that's the same question if you jumped if you jumped to number 10 I think six seven a little too far. That's true. But I think you're 10-9-8, Canada situation. You go, you play Indiana.

Let's say you lose to Indiana. Let's say you lose by double digits to Indiana. But you were in the top 10 going into the game. You're not dropping out. See, that's where it's going to be chaos. I love the cinema. I'm giving the worst case. Like you beat Ohio State, go to the Big Ten Championship and you lose that game.

By double digits. Double digits, multiple touchdowns. Like where it's like, oh, these are, these teams are not in the same world. You can't let it happen if you want. to maintain the sanctity value, whatever you want to say. Because if you're in the same position next year and you look at Michigan, you're like, well, we don't want to play in the Big Ten championship. Yeah.

Well, you're looking at your conference commissioners and your league ADs and you're saying, so wait, you're telling me if we had just been Georgia or Ole Miss or if we had just been Oregon or any of our at-large teams and we've just not been good enough to get to the conference title game, it would have been better for us. If you say yes, why do I even show up to play a conference title game? Like, why don't I boycott the game? Why would I even go? Why would my fan base want to be there?

Why would my players want to be there? You're going to punish us for earning a reward. That's really what you're doing. Yeah. So if we want maximum chaos in college football, we need Michigan and Bama, both going to their championship games and losing and then sitting back and seeing what Selection Sunday looks like.

And you want, what you also want? You want Miami to win, you want Miami to blow out pit so that you could have the comparison, the comparative pool comparison with your Notre Dame, Miami. Also, what would help is if BYU is in the top 10, and they go to the Big 12 championship game and lose. Because that could be three of them.

It could be Bama, Michigan, and Brigham Young, all in the same situation. Just a gun to the committee. What decisions are you going to make? All right, let's dive in, boys. Let's dive in. How long has been? 33 minutes into the show.

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as part of my Cultura Podcast Network, available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Missouri goes to Oklahoma. Right now, Oklahoma is favored by seven and a half. The over under on this game is 42.5. Taylor, what do you got here? Oh, I got, I'm going to take Oklahoma. When you look at both these teams, what does Missouri do so well?

They run the ball incredibly well. Oklahoma is the number two defense in all of college football, rush defense. So when I look at those two things, I believe I'm using this correctly. This is a crowbar theory type that could happen in this game. Where Missouri walks in, their hopes and dreams of a playoff is over, and quickly they find out that this defense is really good, and they could just be like, you know what? Maybe not consciously, but subconsciously,

they've been in the need of this type of situations. I think John Mateer has played better. I think getting a win over Alabama, there's two things that can happen when you get a win over Alabama. You can drink the Kool-Lade way too much and sleep on that win, ends up in a loss this week against Missouri. Or you can say, oh, we are a legitimate playoff contending team now.

We have to go finish the way we're supposed to finish the rest of the year. John Mateer has gotten better. That Oklahoma defense is incredible. And I think Oklahoma's best matches up well with Missouri's best. Bo Prubula, they're saying he may or may not play this week.

I don't think that matters very much in the passing. Statistically passing, Missouri's in the hundreds. So I don't think that changes a whole lot. They did a good job. And Beau was playing, I think it changes big time because Zollars, like, he couldn't. One thing we talked about, Pennsylvania. Clump been right about Zollars. He couldn't piss in a pool with a full bladder and nobody around.

Like the guy has, you look at his box score in his games, it's tough. They are incredible running the football top 10 rushing attack. I'll be taking Oklahoma. Minus seven and a half. Is Bo, do you know, are you like an Adam Schaefter in the college football world? No, I don't even had tattoos. I'm nowhere close to Shepard. I got nothing.

I don't know if he's going to play. I think he may be a game time decision, but I agree. Like if he plays, or if he's good, if he's cleared to play, is it him starting? Like, is it him playing all 70 snaps? I don't know that that's the case. And I don't know how, like, I don't know how big the gap is. In other words, between QB1, QB2 at Missouri.

There's a reason the guy was QB1. Yes, I trust him to throw the ball more. But their bread and butter, it's a term I hate. Their only way to win this game is by running the ball. Hardy had 300 on the ground last week against Mississippi State. Now, they finally clicked offensively a little bit. Mississippi State's probably mailed the season end. And their run defense has been tough.

We saw what George did to them. In the triple digits the entire year. So I think a lot of people are wondering why this line is what it is. A lot of people looked at this and said they would have guessed Oklahoma minus double digits. I think the public would have guessed that. Missouri backup quarterback, playoff dreams out the window. Oklahoma just beat Bama. It's going to be a home game for Oklahoma, seven and a half.

is a low number, but I think what people need to realize is Missouri does a lot of stuff really good defensively, too, and Oklahoma hasn't shown the ability to pull away in games offensively. So in a way, it's kind of the total inverse of last week's Oklahoma game. Oklahoma goes to Bama, and Oklahoma's great run defense, Bama can't run the ball anyway. So it's all about what Oklahoma can do against the pass. And Bama got theirs through the air, but it came with turnovers. So this week, team can't throw the ball to save their lives. all about can we stand up against the run. There's no world where Missouri is like dominating this

game on the ground. There is a world where they do just enough on the ground to where they balance out field position. Like last week, I think BAMO started eight or nine drives inside their 20. So Oklahoma just tilted the field on them all day and they eventually made them pay for it with a loss. Missouri can do that kind of stuff. Like Missouri is very frustrating. Their top 20 pass and run defense. and Oklahoma's like bottom half to bottom two-thirds of the country in every major offensive statistics. So if you're wondering how this game could be a game towards the end, it's because it could be like a 16 to 12 type game in the fourth quarter to where like one ball batted up in the air and taken to the house is the difference. You can't predict that kind of stuff. Like how do you predict a punt return or a muffed pun or like, oh, you punching a ball out on Ryan Williams last week?

That's how I think this game comes down. So in a game that's really compacted like that, like I looked at some of these, they're both in the 80s in turnover margin. They're both top 20 and third down defense. They're both top 15 in sacks. Those are the factors that will probably change the game. And there's no statistical edge there.

I think OU is way better at field position than Missouri is. So the way I looked at this is I would take Oklahoma if we were picking the winner. Anything above a touchdown, I would take the underdog in the points. So I think it's going to surprise some people, the way this game plays out and how competitive Missouri is, relatively speaking, in it.

So I'll take Missouri plus the points. Don't feel great about them winning the game, though. Mazook could, you know, they're in the mode where they can ruin somebody's season. Sure. Still playing for a lot of ball and just to add to your, because that was well said about their top 20 and past defense, top 15 and run defense.

It's sack percentage their third. And when I look back and see kind of the running quarterbacks that Mazuse played, Povie only had 27 on the ground. Daniels from Kansas only had 25 on the first. the ground. Jackson Arnold only had 14 yards on the ground from 17 attempts. I like Missou here. Willie boy, I went in there Sunday when the line came out. It was eight and a half. I got it at plus eight and a half. I'm still taking him plus seven and a half. I like Missouri here to cover. I still think Oklahoma wins just because, again, it's hard to kind of quantify what special

teams and turnovers does in a game, being able to flip the field and control the line of scrimmage. And Mathieu, he's only thrown for one 200 yard plus game since the Red River rivalry. And I just think Mizzou's going to do well as far as getting after the passer going back and forth defensively with them. Zollars, he will not be able to, you know, win through the air whatsoever. Is he going to throw it for over 100? He might have a stat line of 103. Yeah. 103, 12 for 15. One explosive play. One explosive play that they need. They're guessing run here. Maybe they pop for a play action or a screen that takes them, catching them in a zero blitz or something like that. But yeah, I got Mazoo keeping a close.

Mizzu could upset him, but I'm going to take them with the points. This is an 11 a.m. kickoff. It's the same time window as last week's South Carolina A&M game. Just if anyone is ready to be surprised by an early kickoff, don't get surprised by this stuff. So you're saying that Zuzu could go up 33 by halftime.

No, no one would let happen to them what South Carolina let happen to them. He's not even make eye contact. He won't even look. He won't even look. I mean, that was the hardest. Oh, I felt so bad. I felt so bad.

I rarely text the prayer hand emojis, but I texted them. Did you? At what point did you send the prayer hand emojis? After the game or before the game ended? Long after the game ended. Because what's your phone life? I'd text the JP with seven minutes left in the fourth. 11.

Do you still have unopened texts? Yeah, I figured. Shane Beamer, too. Yeah. A lot of men, I'm so sorry. A lot of men. Man, I'm so sorry. Yeah.

All right, so Missouri, Missouri, Oklahoma. Separation Saturday, Part 1. Separation Saturday. Part 5. Here we go. Now, I know that you're two and three every single week. I just got to find myself on the side of your two. Yeah.

That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. You're trying to find the 40% here. That's what you're trying to do. Right. The issue is, okay, I've gone opposite of you once, and that's the first game. So I really need to be smart about where I go. A lot of ball left in this show.

A lot of ball left in the show. I don't know how you guys. feel like obviously three and two like uh if you're sitting around 500 three and two is always like just a good it's a good record if everybody else is two and three but nothing just gets me like to me even if i was three and two like i want to see the four and one to me four and one is like domination or above i feel like undefeated is three and two is way too rare and two is all right yeah good for you yeah but it's nothing it's nothing to call home about you're kind of sitting back like oh at least i got the winning percentage on everybody if anybody kind of talk shit but the way you actually feel

about yourself you're like man i got to get four and one there's nothing to sit there's nothing to sit there and be like truly proud of that four and one five and oh at this point if i go five and oh your first question is what did you know yeah has anybody gotten five and oh this year uh no no has there been an o in five you had one didn't you uh delaney walk well has delany been o for in the nfl show did you get an ofer in college oh yeah you know what i did go oh and one ofer it was a it was a michigan u sc day it was the michigan u sc day it was it's been a what i've been a above 500 ever since then right So not quite.

So I was doing real well. Taylor throws up his finger. So I've been doing three, three and two and one and four. I guess not. Josh, why don't you take this one since I know nothing clump about this game? Pitt at number 16, Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech's favorite minus two and a half.

Yeah. Total points in that game is 61. As an individual that has not looked in this game. And was it Narduzzi? Mm-hmm. His conversation, though, they could beat us about 100. The only games that matter are these next two games. This is one of the two games that he says these are all that matter.

I hate that. I would lean Georgia Tech to cover that in this situation. Do you want to talk me off that ledge? No, I feel like we're going to be on a ledge no matter what. I mean, you're either taking the guy who mailed in a game last week or you're taking a team that struggled to beat Boston College. Either way, it's bad.

So we're looking for the least of the bad here. I have taken a completely different approach on this game. I could bring you numbers. I could have written a little mind map like a psychopath, bunch of highlighter. Paper poppers. That's getting me two and three every week. So, I mean, I'm in the mode where I want to go favorite mascot, favorite uniform colors.

Do you play on turf or grass? Just coin flip. Yeah. Because that's better than two and three, as you know. I think there is a game out there for like Brent Key and Georgia Tech. They've just been like getting by. They've been like keeping their head above water. And I keep waiting for him to do like a poor man's version of what Georgia did last week.

Georgia has been playing close games. all of a sudden they just like hulked up on Texas. And I keep waiting for Georgia Tech to do like the ACC's version of that. It's like a middle school kid who first started working out and he's flexing in the mirror and you're like, yeah, I mean, for a middle school kid, that looks good. That's kind of what I'm looking for. Yeah. I'm just saying I've got to get this thing elevated a little bit.

You go onward. I'm in hell. Taylor's staring at you and he's doing his best to listen, but he's got a war is happening in his head right now. There could be a whole clip made of my face just while you, you were talking just me, you didn't blink. And your eyes started to water. That's why I stopped.

I'm not okay, man. Like, I think that I'm so not okay that I'm locking my seat in place. Yeah, no, I know how you feel. Like, I mildly strained my neck yesterday, so we're in the same. Dude, how shitty is a little neck kink, though? It's bad. But I think this. Honestly, if we want to think.

It ain't this. We'd love to take five minutes of the show and talk about it. Like, I'm not great either. Look at this. I'm not great either. You look great. Yeah, thank you. Who, buddy.

I'm taking Georgia Tech. the points. I think they're going to middle school flex. All right. Brink, he loves when you talk about him like that. Just a solid middle school gym mirror flex here. You're still a little lean. You haven't had the chance for your metabolism to slow down. You don't have a gut or anything.

But you're just a little popcorn muscle flex here for Georgia Tech. That's the extent of my analysis on this game. I'll take pit. I'll take pit. For me, I guess anything I wanted to know is that Narduzi last week didn't matter to him. They were probably script and practice plays for Georgia Tech because these games are all that matters. I'm taking Pitt because I want chaos in the ACC.

I want to beat up on the ACC fans when Pitt beats Georgia Tech. And then we have all these multiple lost teams. And we can just sit here and I can yell from the top of the mountain that only Miami deserves to get in from the ACC. So I'm going with Pitt. I'm going with chaos. And I like Pitt against a Georgia Tech team. He struggled against Boston College.

He struggled against Wake Forest. Who's Georgia Tech lost to? Georgia Tech has lost to. NC State. NC State. NC State. We know NC State. They're five and five. Like, what do we, what are we talking about? They've beaten Virginia and Georgia Tech.

Yeah. So, sure their wins. Yeah. What are we doing here? Yeah, I'm taking Pitt. I'm taking Pitt. Okay, so Georgia Tech minus two and a half, minus two and a half, Georgia Tech, pit money line. Pit plus two and a half.

That's what I've heard. Pit plus two and a half. Okay, so you don't, you want chaos, but not that bad. Yeah, listen, pit plus two and a half. You know what, fuck it. Go ahead. No, no, no. What you need to do here. though. Pit,

money line. That actually, I just baited Will into that. It worked, but that's why Pits gonna win this game. You did it. I knew the bait was out there, but I just grabbed the bait. And I just, I just jumped into your boat and I said, cut me the fuck open, dude. This is exactly what I want. Let me tell you that doesn't work on.

It's Pat Narduzzi. You're telling me this isn't a must win? That's exactly what I'm telling you. Dude. You don't want this one? Not all that much. Eat us by 100. I don't give a shit. We're focused on Georgia Tech. Was that not the easiest bet of the week last week?

Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. I didn't make it. But yeah. Just that, like, the fact that he's talking so big, if they really are scripting Georgia Tech plays, I hope they lose by multiple. It may be like 24-0 at halftime. Because what he's doing is essentially was your fear when they went to a 12-game play-up. The mockery of the game. The mockery of the game.

Every game in college football is a must-win. And he made a mockery of you in your stance. And for that reason, I got a mockery of you. I got to stand with my boys. I'm a foxhole guy. Georgia Tech. Pitt Money line. I'm just laughing because Pacee.

Yeah, I didn't bet it. And I'm just thinking it's... Free money. Not for me. Yeah. For everybody else. Some of the bets I made over the weekend. Like I didn't bet on...

I took my unit from Broncos Chiefs and put it. I doubled down on Detroit. I took Detroit Money Line. Then I also took another SideQuest bet of Detroit minus nine and a half just for... Just for they're going to win by double digits. So I'm just sitting there like. God damn it. Got gutted against the Eagles. The Eagles, ma'am.

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Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nick? news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how did we, how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas

brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. The story I've told myself about love or relationship, can then shape my behavior, and that can lead me to sabotage the possibility of connection. This Mental Health Awareness Month, tune into the podcast deeply well with Debbie Brown and explore the journey of healing, self-discovery, and returning to yourself.

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So I'm Leanne. Yeah. This is my best friend Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later. We're still joined at the hip.

Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drink. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it.

Do you want a white collar or something here? Just take it. What are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? I would buy it. Cut through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious.

Oh, you're lucky I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You're lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This next game is number 20 Tennessee at the swamp at Florida. I would love to hear from our number one Florida fan, Jeremy Klump, on his views in this game,

and then quickly after that, we'll turn to Jack McPherson. I'll go quick. This is Florida Money Line all day to show Lane Kiffin that it's time to come home and come to Florida. Florida Money Line. Tim? Florida recently lost. Jack Tennessee at the swamp. Erie time.

time the balls beat the Gators in the swamp. The iPhone did not exist. Nick Saved and never coached the game in Alabama. Facebook was still strictly for college kids. But the one thing that separates this game is that Florida now has the worst possible fan that has tagged along, Jeremy Clump. I truly think Jeremy Clump will be the fall and demise of the Florida Gators, but it's a really scary one. Vol's struggle in the swamp historically. So I just hope to God that we can get out of their life. But I do think clump's going to truly fuck him over. So yeah. I was ready for Jack to hang with a banger there. He had me locked in on everything he was saying. I mean, he did. So I hope to God we get out of there surviving. Yeah.

That is interesting. They haven't won a game in the swamp since before the iPhone. 2003 last time Tennessee won in the swamp. They play every year. Yeah. Oh my God. He's just looked up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I honestly, I have no idea where to go. I want to say this whole streak is going to get broken with Tennessee, but Florida just weirdly pops up. Out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. At the most random times, the times where it's like, oh, they're a wounded animal. I love wounded animals. Oh, they're dead. I love dead animals.

Now it's like, okay, they're officially dead. I love dead animals. I'm going to get off of it because they're officially dead. Then they win. Yeah. Then they pop one. They keep it close against Georgia. I have no clue

with it. DJ Lagua, he gets benched, he comes out, he has a game. I don't know. The beautiful thing about these, first off, did you make a pick? No. No, you did not make a pick.

I'll make a pick. I'm going Tennessee and minus three and a half. We got to understand, like we live in Nashville, Tennessee. A lot of fans here, and then there's more Vanderbilt fans popping up now, but for the most part,

it's Tennessee. At some point, you got to be getting the foxhole with these guys and just say enough is enough. I think Jeremy Klump and his fandom, the way he's got about his fandom, is enough to finally change all of that. This whole year we've kind of waited,

like we've wanted Tennessee to get one, Alabama, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, like we're just like, hey, we got to get one. And this is the one, dude. This is the one that's going to happen. Florida going against a bad Tennessee secondary, but DJ Legway, he's as inconsistent as they come. So I'm going to go with Tennessee. Tennessee has a very unique, great defensive game.

through the year. They have a unique, great defensive game. So I'm going to take Tennessee. This is going to be a big win for them. The talk about Hypo possibly should be gone in Tennessee is so blasphemous to me. That is crazy, especially the world we're living in right now. Allegedly it hasn't really been said. That's what the message board is doing. Allegedly it hasn't really been said. I imagined reading that in my email inbox. I imagined that. And people have you heard a whisper at all? I've heard more than whispers, yeah. Wow. But it has not been said.

It's been said by psychos. I'm just saying psychos exist. It's not, it is a minority of the fan base. Yeah. But it's not a 1%. It's not a 1%. Yeah. Maybe like a 5%. This is a more middle of America, rational brains start to think about or start to get involved in that conversation if they lose to Florida. Could lose to Vandy the next week too. Yeah, this is an important stretch for them.

Extremely. Yeah. I mean, these next two games, they haven't won the swamps, 2003. And they got to go play Vandy, who's hot. Hot to Trot right now. And still in the playoff picture. And still in the playoff picture.

Yeah, I'm going to go Tennessee. Makes the next week that much better. It makes that much more exciting. I'm going to go Tennessee minus three and a half. If you're out of the playoff race, which Tennessee is, there's always the risk of, you know, your players mail in the season. I'm not saying this is a Tennessee problem. This is like a college football problem.

The reason I love them to stay dialed in is because if I'm out of the playoff picture, it's so great for me that I've got two rivalry games as my last two games because that's the best shot I've got of keeping my locker room dialed in. Like we're not going to make the playoff. We could go down to Florida and do something no Tennessee team has done in over two decades. And then we could like just clown-stomp our little in state neighbor over in Nashville and knock them out of the playoff. That's a lot of reason to stay bought in.

I think that's going to work. Hyple's a really good coach. I think they're going to go down there. And the old version of me, the two and three version of me, would have picked Florida here. Two and three version of me, overthinks the room, hadn't won down there,

and you're giving me three and a half points. I can even lose last second field. I could lose like Tennessee did to Georgia. I could lose and still cover. Nope. Nope, we're going to win by seven or more. So give me Tennessee to win, Tennessee to cover. I'll jump in with you guys, GBO.

GBO minus three and a half. Clump eight week. Clump eight week. Clump eight week. Clump eight week. Oh, clump. Caring about me. Go to the hospital.

You might be septic. You might be septic. You might be septic. I want to save you live. I care about you. You're a good person. Whatever, dude. Eat shit, dude.

Tennessee's beating your ass this week. We got BYU, ranked 11 in the country going out to Cincinnati. BYU favored by two and a half. The over under on this game is 54. 5. Does Cincinnati have a shot?

Cincinnati's last two game. The last two games has been bad. They played Arizona, lost that game. BYU played Arizona. BYU beat them. And then they got destroyed by Utah. Was it 41, 14? It was ugly. It was ugly.

Yeah, dude. Ben Soresby wasn't looking good. Wasn't looking good. I think his name's Brendan, but it's Ben now. I just think, I just think BYU is a more consistent team. They got, they got their ass beat by Texas Tech. I think they want to get their ass beat again by Texas Tech. Absolutely they do. So I'm going to go BYU. My astronaut, they have more to play for. I mean, see what you want about American Primeval? That's a well-coached team. They don't make a whole, lot of mistakes. Cincinnati is, you know, very flashy at times. Soresby, Soresby, very flashy at times. But I like BYU, minus two and a half here. I'm taking the over. Over 54 and

half. I'm looking points. Prime time game. A lot on the line. Yeah, my boy Ben Sorsby, he's been kind of rattled the last two weeks. I'll see a get back game here because he went on a run there. He was, what, over 2,000, a billion touchdowns. I'll say he gets back to that form a little bit, just enough to get the over. I do think BYU wins this game. I like offense. I like offense night game in Cincinnati. The old me rides with you not on the total but on Cincinnati. The old me thinks, all right, so you've disappointed. This is a double due up spot in gambling terms. Brigham Young's always been a little overrated point spreads versus what they're ranked. But you know what the model did this week for the first time. The model, the JP poll introduced

Brigham Young at number 17. Wow. They haven't been in the model all year. They haven't been in the JP poll all year. I just think, say what you want about American Prime Evil. This is a hard no squad. Yeah. It's tough to sell on them.

And so old me, two and three me is going Cincinnati. But the new me, the four and one this week version of me, perhaps five and no, is going to go Brigham Young, lay the points on the road, dangerous spot, prime time in Cincinnati. I mean, it was the last team that won a primetime game in Cincinnati's home stadium. Don't know. We don't, has it ever happened? We don't know. It's going to happen this week, though.

I don't know, man. No one loves BYU football like I do. That's what I'm trying to say. That's well documented. Say what you want about American Prime April. Good ball. What kind of look in the mirror do you feel like your model did to get on board with BYU? I think last week was the most impressive game they've had all year.

They beat Utah, but I'm not making excuses here. I'm saying from a predictive standpoint, like from a modeling. standpoint. When you're plus two in the turnover battle, a predictive model looks at that and says, good for you. That's not necessarily the best indication you're going to duplicate that moving forward. But then they went to Iowa State. I think they were like plus four turnovers, plus three turnovers. A predictive model still looks at that. This is why BYU fans get so mad at the modeling crowd because BYU is so good at winning games and winning the turnover battle. And yet the predictive modeling and the point spread crowd, they don't fully respect it. Last week,

they got TCU in their home building. The line was three and a half, and they just smoked them. There was nothing fluky about it. I'm not saying the other results were fluky. I'm saying even from a predictive standpoint, they just took Utah and Viscryptum. So last week's result from a modeling standpoint was actually the most authentic, true, dominant performance

that a computer will have seen them have all year. That's why all of a sudden, like they're in top seven, number 17, and they go on the road here and they're still favored. People look at this and think it's a small point spread. A couple of weeks ago, BYU was projected to be a point spread underdog in this game at Cincinnati. So things have changed in the last couple of weeks. New flavor of BYU right now. And you say what you want about American Prime Evil?

It's not easy to go on the road and win in the Big 12th. Yeah. And they've done it. Yeah. I'm one in two betting against BYU. This is the first one I bet for BYU. I'm excited to see how it turns out. I'm excited to see how it all turns out.

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Our boy, Dan Lannings, Another big one, Bellas. Another big one. Josh? I don't want to start. You don't want to start? I want to defer. Okay.

Can I defer? Do you want to go? You want me to go? I mean, we know, I feel like we know where we're going. Where are you going? Oregon. To cover? Yeah, of course.

Like, I'm riding with the Oregon Ducks. I'm going USC plus nine and a half. Oh, no. I think Oregon wins this game. I think I really. So there doesn't, we don't even need to talk. There is no messaging out there of the shit talking for Dan Lannning. It's happening right now.

It's not happening. It's like, what is, what have we done to get to this point? Northwestern. We picked them to cover. They didn't cover. Indiana, we picked them to cover. They lost. Yeah. Iowa, we picked them to cover. They didn't cover. So for me, I think Oregon, the most surprising thing to me was when I'm looking up stats last night is seeing them as far as like yards per 10 when it comes to the rush, like 6.7 or something like they. They are like top three. Jesus Christ, these guys with the 6, 7. I think USC, Jordan Maillata, left tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, he won't be playing that game. But Jaden Maiavo, he will be playing in this game. I think those two wide receivers, they're explosive enough and they handle business enough to keep this game within one score. I believe the ducks win this game, but I'm going to take USC plus nine and a half. Both these teams are sitting in a half-to-half situation. Yeah, because there's a lot of the college football world saying Oregon drops this game. they could be out of the college football playoff.

Yeah. As a two-lossed Big Ten team. And Dan knows that no one's going to have their team more prepared than Dan Lannie. I think USC... Well, I think you're saying he'll have him prepared enough, but not to cover it. Oh, yeah. He'll have them prepared enough. I mean, this whole year has been Oregon almost covering for us.

We've done 13 shows on college football, and I think they've been a part of the show six or seven times. Yep. However, I think they've only covered one or two of those. You have a question mark with Dan and covering for us. I have a question mark what Dan covering for us. And it's not me hating. It's the proofs in the pudding. Like I have...

You are what you are. You are what you are. Your record against a spread with us. You are what you are. We're week 13. Like you expect me for you to be different. Now, I would love to be wrong in the situation. We're streaming the game this Saturday.

We're having a nice little breakfast stream on Saturday. You're more than while you're traveling. Breakfast stream. I'll be rooting for Oregon. If they cover nine and a half, I'm happy to have that as my one when I go four and one this week. When we go four and one this week. week right but I'll be taking I'm taking USC to keep this game close this game is

extremely important to both teams like win or go home type of situation of both these teams and I think it's close I think it's exciting I think Oregon Ducks come out with it but I think it's close do you do you know what this is that's a piece paper we got some paper poppers do you think this paper tells the truth or do you think it's lying let me tell you what the paper says it's unfair for me to force you to answer right before I tell you Oregon's got the number one defense in the country is it lying or is it telling the truth because last week Pitt had the number three run defense in the country and it was right so

is this paper lying or is it telling the truth I'm trying to rattle through everybody that they played it could be more of a fluff that it that to me when you say number one past defense in the country that reminds me of Nebraska going to the big game play when we played some you know I was going to say some ducks but some duds could I give you some context five of the seven power four offenses or Morgan has faced have been 100th or worse in pass offense. Paper could be lying.

Paper could be lying. If it's lying, I got a kid by the name of Lemon. I got a kid by the name of Lane who could come in there and do everything that Surat and Cooper did. You said no one prepares their team better than Dan Lanning. Kurt Signetti did. They went into Austin and handled them pretty thoroughly. Oh, wow.

This is all Dan Lanning fodder right here. You know Dan watches the show. And the tone you're having right now about our boys. strong. Hey, keep going. Here's the problem. The problem is it's not going to rain in this game. So something's got to get him dialed in.

I am a guest of his this weekend. Okay, I will be there Friday. I will be there Saturday. This is nothing I won't say to his face. But they got their pants undone, just yanked down against Indiana in Autson Stadium. It's not supposed to happen. Is anyone ever won in Austin Stadium?

I don't think so. I don't think so. It was the first home loss they've ever had. Problem is, Surat and Cooper went in there and had 15 catches for 179 and a score. Begs the question. Aren't they facing a better wide receiver combo this week than Indiana had? But the follow-up, this is where, like, Dan understands you've got to tear him down to build him back up. He understands that more so than anybody.

The follow-up to that is we've watched USC go on the road this year. We watched him go on the road against Illinois, and Illinois ran it for a hefty amount. 171. We watched USC go on the road against Notre Dame. Notre Dame handled them. USC went to Nebraska and won, but what was the situation before Dylan Riola went down? Nebraska was on top. You know Dan Lanning's in there right now watching that Nebraska defense. Listen, don't get gash in the run like we got gash on the run. But to kind of shut down the passing attack, Iowa held them another 30. I said that USC was going to score 40. Oregon last year went wire to wire number one seed and they end up getting the first round by. It didn't matter. They got smashed in the

playoffs. And Ohio State, conversely, peaked at the end of the year and won at all. And I've said to you guys for like six weeks in a row, Oregon, yeah, they look flawed, but they keep winning. People are a little critical of them. We've been mildly critical at times. But I keep saying you don't give up on a team like that, just like Georgia. You don't give up on a team that's got that much roster talent because if they rev the engine at the right time, you see the best version of them at the right time. Georgia just did this against Texas. I got a strong suspicion that Oregon's about to do this against USC and against Washington, and then they go into the postseason and do whatever they're going to do. But it's the ground game combined with maybe getting healthy at wide receiver at the

right time, keep an eye on the wide receiver health at Oregon, and the inability to scale on the road like USC has at home, I think Oregon's going to win in cover. No repeat of the Indiana game here. It's my fault because I wasn't there for the Indiana game, but we will not make the same mistake twice. Looks like partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. We're not looking at rain gear. We're just looking at just normal, good old fashion. Let's wake up at 3 a.m.

Let's pound seven Red Bulls and let's go get a win against the Trojans. That's the style of game. What are you wearing for this game? I don't know yet. Are we going to get a full cotton? Are you going to dump a bucket of water on you before the game? I did plan on in a show of solidarity wearing cotton. wearing something that's absorbent if it were going to rain.

As it stands now, Kenny Far, don't even, you guys know Kenny. We know Kenny. Love Kenny. We love Kenny. Turn to the program. As it stands now, what I like to do is I like to go to Oregon on a Friday, walk in like a straight up hobo wearing tattered clothes because he'll give you a new wardrobe. And so he will probably decide what I wear on Saturday. I love that. Basically what this show is saying about the Oregon Ducks, if Dan Laining happens to be watching, but when is Dan Laning and the Oregon Ducks, but when is Dan Laning and the Oregon Ducks,

going to wake the fuck up and earn their right to be in this college football playoff. People are saying that if they drop this game, they're out of the college football playoff. Like they will be squeezed out based on their schedule. People are like to talking to Iowa win meant nothing when they were ranked. When they beat Penn State and they were top five, it meant nothing. Think about this. This game is Alabama, Oklahoma.

Last week, Oklahoma goes to Tuscaloosa. Bama's ranked kind of sort of where Oregon is. Oklahoma was ranked kind of sort of where USC is right now. That was a close game. Oklahoma didn't blow them out. That was a close game. Bama dropped seven spots from like three to ten. If we get a duplicate of that drop, Oregon drops out of the playoff bubble if they lose this game with no guarantee that they can jump back in.

So I think what the show is trying to say, if I'm hearing you correctly, is we believe in Oregon. We believe in Dan Lanny, but don't embarrass us. Yeah. Don't embarrass us. Don't embarrass us. Don't embarrass us. Great show. Those shows on over.

Dogs of the week, I'm going to take Mississippi State plus nine and a half versus almost a lot of conversation about Lane Kiffin. He goes on Pat McAfee show yesterday. There's a whole thing about, hey, we're going to go, we're not going to go. He kind of dodges and moves around the question. One thing we know about that interview, that was fully authentic. There was nothing performative at all about that. 100%.

Yeah. That's what they do over there. Absolutely. But I'll take me. Mississippi State plus nine and a half. William? Dogs of the week. Nebraska's double-digit underdogs

going into Happy Valley in Penn State. Now they're nine and a half point underdogs. Nebraska. That is my dog of the week. DJ Lateef coming off a by week, going in a Happy Valley. Nebraska. Now I know that there were cameras in your faces

before this show started. Dylan Rayola, his brother, decommitted to Nebraska. Now a lot of Nebraska fans are saying he wouldn't have played there anyway. Does that say anything for maybe a Dylan Rayola leaving? Nebraska or is that not even worth talking about?

I have no clue. I don't have a whole lot of information on the situation at hand. So I have no comment. Okay. I have no comment until I learn, you know, until I furthermore learn about the situation. The biggest mistake you can make is just saying shit. Yeah. Yeah. What I've always respected about you is you really keep yourself at an arms length from Nebraska football.

Yeah. You really don't involve yourself much. Will does a great job of not making it about him. Absolutely. Listen, when I came in and the paparazzi, everybody was in my face. you know, I'm learning about it. I was learning about that for the first time. So I truly, I have no clue.

If I, like, if it's not Dylan Raola's brother and it's just Dayton Raola and he decommits from Nebraska, I'm thinking the old boy, he's watching T.J. Lateef play like that'll eventually be the future when Dylan Raola is gone. Like when Dylan Raola wins us a national title with the Huskers and then goes on to the NFL. It's going to be T.J. Lateef's team. He doesn't seem, Dayton seems like a ball player, a baller who could be a starter somewhere. Maybe he doesn't want to compete I have no clue

Again I don't know a whole And the more we talk about The more we dig ourselves as a whole I don't think we're digging ourselves in a hole I'm just trying to compartmentalize and separate it And be like yeah look it seems like he decommitted You can't trust anything these commits are saying these days Right now

Nebraska's got like a top five recruiting class in the country For 2027 but I'm not buying any of that stock Because we're what we're a couple years away Literally Yeah You just said Dayton Raola doesn't like to compete That's why I said maybe Maybe he doesn't want to

want to compete, I don't know. A lot of G5 teams out there in need of a quarterback. Do you go to Husser's Money Line? Yeah, I'm personally going Huskers Money Line. But for Dog of the Week in the segment, I do have, like, just for the people. But everybody knows that. Everybody knows Willie C's going money line. And listen, if I'm going to ride with Willie C, I'll just get in the foxhole, but with

nine and a half points. Model loves Penn State this week. I'm going rice plus 18 and a half against North Texas. Nice. Yeah. Don't lose to food is one of the big rules in college football. Absolutely. But if food is an 18 and a half point dog, you can beat them, therefore not losing to food, but still not cover.

North Texas, Eric Morris is up for big jobs right now. I've just been making bank betting against coaches that are involved in coaching searches. That continues here. Rice plus 18 and a half, you have something to say. If you're going to shoot me in the face, I want you to look at me when you do it. I don't want you to say a jab, and I don't want you just staring in the whole time while I'm sitting here bleeding. I could have put it there. But I didn't.

I could have put Penn State on this sheet. I did. You should have. I did that for you. I don't want to dig us a hole. You just did. You know what's fucked up is you said, oh, I did this for you, the parlay. I didn't do this for you, but two weeks ago, it was Purdue. You did that to me. Remind me who covered in that game. Purdue, but we're talking about respect. We're talking about, I'm not going to do this to you, Will. And I'm sitting there like, well, shit, 14 days ago, he did that to me. But what you're not telling the folks is last week I walked in the building and you were talking about Northwestern. I said Northwestern's covering. Michigan's going to win. Yeah. Northwestern's going to cover.

What do you think is going to happen this week against Maryland? No, no, no, I think you're going to run it up on Maryland. No, it's different this weekend. Oh, really? Because I'm ready to sit there. I think Maryland's going to cover. I was going to say, Michigan wins. Like, what are they giving us?

13 and a half points? I don't think Michigan's covered this entire year. No, this week they're going to cover. Just wait until we get to our final bites I don't do. I got something for that. Michigan's going to play like Michigan, and then it's Ohio State Week. And then it's Ohio State Week. Yeah, then it's a completely different ball club.

Michigan is sleepwalking. Do you have many teams since 1940 have 1A football game being minus 5? in turnovers. Was SMU one of them against Duke last year? No, they weren't because zero. Zero? Minus five? Minus five.

Wow. You can't wait to check that. I just remember SMU had some crazy game last week. Exactly minus five. Maybe they had minus six, but a minus five. Exactly minus five. No team has won. Exactly minus five.

No team has won in college football. What's up, Clay? We're up this episode to let you know. Boosting with the boys. If you don't already know, the boys have a profit boost token available every college football Saturday. That's a profit boost on any college football Saturday bet. Just open up the Fandle Sportsbook app this Saturday and look for the boosting with the boys. PBT. Okay, Parlay. I got James Madison minus 13 and a half versus Washington State. We know JMU watches the show. We know they watch Bustle with the boys. I disrespected them this week being a G5 teams.

And if you have one loss, which they do have, you should not be in the playoffs. they're playing a bigger school. I think they cover it in a big way. Two touchdown favorite over the bigger school. And then their argument is you saw Washington State what they did to Ole Miss, what they almost did to Ole Miss. Close. This close.

Yeah, two touchdowns I'm taking them. Washington minus 10 and a half at UCLA. Wasn't it fun to root for UCLA for a little bit? For a couple weeks, yeah. What were they three and O? They were undefeated. They were undefeated. Had a good little run there.

Had a good run. Fun run. In fact, for college ball. For one or two weeks, The sentence you don't want to play UCLA right now was uttered. Yeah. Not on this show per se, but it was uttered. I would like to take Western Kentucky plus 22 and a half at LSU for the same reason I like Tennessee against Florida.

I will gladly bet you if you're walking into someone's backyard where the main focal point of conversation is who's going to coach that team next year. The entire purpose of Tiger Stadium Saturday is for people to gather together and talk about who their head coach is going to be. They don't even care about Western Kentucky. Yes. So I'll take WKU plus 22 and a half. WKU.

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if I were Eli Drinkwitz, if I were Lane Kiffin, if I were John Summerall, any of these guys who were up for a head coaching job elsewhere, there's no way I would stand in there and let people criticize me right now. If I were an athletic director, I would not take a second of criticism

because I would say, it's not my fault that our calendar looks the way it does. I'm not the one who made signing day the first week of December and the portal window open early January and not able to rework the academic calendar where we couldn't put signing day in February and the portal opens after the national championship game because if that changed, not everyone would be in a hurry to fire coaches and rehire them in late November right now. So someone came and made the mess and then they walked away. Like someone threw you in the pool and now you're getting criticized for being wet.

That's not Lane Kiffin's fault. Like you don't have to like Lane Kiffin. You don't have to like John Summerall or Eli Drinkwitz, I don't care what you think about them, but those guys are getting criticized for being put in an absolute no-win position. Like, unless you plan on staying at one program, your entire life, and for everyone out there who says you should, don't ever tell me that if you've changed jobs. If you've taken an advancement opportunity, don't ever criticize someone else for at least listening to the opportunity, or at least listening to the pitch. So right now, these guys are getting criticized. The agencies do a woeful job of PR and crisis management training. like I would love to insert myself and just say,

here's what you ought to say. Don't stand there and take this. That's a reporter from Topeka, and he's throwing grenades at you because he never has to show his face, and he understands that, like, you know, the clapping seals of his readership are going to lap it up.

Don't stand there and take that. You're not the one who made the calendar the way it is. So I don't know if that qualifies as an extra bite, but that's where I am. That's a great fight. I'm going to say, that's a great fight. T.G.O. The chief does what?

250. 250 total or passing? 250 passing. 250 passing. No, no, no, no, no. Amid Johnson over 200 yards on the ground. Are both going to happen? Do both.

Emmett Johnson over 200 yards on the ground, and I'll say T.J. Lateef over 200 yards through the air. Because if Emmett Johnson's going to eat, he's not going to have as many opportunities on the ball around. This is on the road at Penn State. On the road at Penn State, Nebraska upsets Penn State in Happy Valley. To me, it doesn't feel like an upsets.

Has Penn State won a conference game yet? I don't think they have. I'm sure they've won a conference game somewhere. Did they win last week? Yeah, they beat Michigan State last year. Oh, they beat Michigan State last. There you go. They're won in whatever.

But you guys also beat Michigan State, so it's like... That's right. Yeah, we're 7 and 3. Penn State is... Northwestern beat Penn State. You beat Northwestern. Yeah. I don't see how we're double-digit underdogs. Yeah, me either.

But you're right. Like, tomato, tomato. Yeah. DJ Lateef 200, Emma Johnson, 200. Final bite. I'll stay with my alma mater as well. did. Jordan Marshall out against Maryland. Justin Hayes. Justice Hayes, he is now out for the entire season. Multiple guys heard on defense. Bryce Underwood, if you just look at the stat line,

you don't watch the entire game of Michigan. That was probably his best game he played aside from the two interceptions. Like he was had touch on the ball, was pushing it down the field. You can see him doing reads when he got into the situation. When he got into situations, he would run and gain the first down. Bryce Underwood throws for his. first 300-yard game against Maryland this week. And they win the game through the year. Wow, a lot of people seem to be doing it against Maryland. Onward. A lot of people. So you think Maryland, you think Michigan covers against Maryland? Yeah. Wow, I need that. Yeah, it's like, it's like just rev the engine right before. Fanduel has the Ohio State Michigan line at 12 and a half, by the way.

Oh, so it's our, you can bet it right now. You can bet it right. Iron Bowl, Bama minus five and a half. Terrifying. But the game, Ohio State minus 12 and a half. That's huge. But there's a lot. minus 20 and a half last year. But they're within, they're within reach. All you got to do is grab them by the short collar, drag a man. My next hole and a half, I do feel like it would have been longer. Longer. It was three touchdowns.

Michigan is a much better team than they were last year. Ohio State may be the same. Maybe. They're better on defense, they're worse on offense. It balances each other out. Not to start the game preview a week early. That being said, Michigan Money Line. And we'll see if I have some Foxhole guys with me next week.

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