Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Unc, Ocho & Johnny Manziel react to Oklahoma win, Texas beating Vandy!

Episode Date: November 2, 2025

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Johnny Manziel react to Oklahoma taking on Tennessee, Georgia's 4-game win streak after defeating Florida, Arch Manning and Texas taking down Diego Pavia and Vanderbilt, and much more College Football action! Later, their joined by Indiana DB D'Angelo Ponds 00:00 - Introduction3:33 - Oklahoma defeat Tennessee12:35 - Georgia defeat Florida Gators17:45 - SMU beats Hurricanes28:14 - Indiana DB, D’Angelo Ponds, joins the show46:00 - OSU have a Heisman frontrunner1:00:00 - Texas beats Vandy (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They got Xavier Robinson had 16 carries for a buck 15 of the touchdown. John Mateer had 16 carries for 80 yards on the touchdown. 35 rush attempts, 192, two touchdown. But it was Tennessee that could not get out of their own way. Aguilar had an outstanding day passing the football, but two very costly interceptions. And he fombered a ball that went back for a touchdown. He was 29 or 45, 393, three touchdowns, two interceptions.

They didn't run the ball well at all. Oklahoma sooner put a lot of pressure on them. I don't know what the right tackle is thinking because he gave up the sack that got the quarterback hit and then he gave up another sack that ended up getting pushed them out of field or push them out of field goal

and then I'm trying to figure out the fullback. Bro, you damn there out of bounds and you ain't got your head around yet. So what do you think is going to happen? What do you want? I mean, if he throw it until you out of bounds, it's incomplete. And then the ball hits you in the damn face.

You're on the football. You can't use your head. Hey, he was there and out of what? He damned me out of bounds. He damned on this, he on this. He damned me about the high five Josh Heiple. I'm like, bro, get your head around, bro. And the ball hit him in his face.

I'm like, Lord, have mercy. This explains why I cannot be a coach. Ocho watching this game, man, look, Tennessee had this game in control because at one point in time, I think, oh, you had like less than 100 yards, but they were like right there in the ball game. because of the mistakes that Tennessee was making, leaving them in the ball game and what happened,

you leave a team around long enough, bad things are going to happen. And that's exactly what happened. Actually, this was a really good game. I enjoyed it, the first second quarter at the half. It was very close. It was going back and forth. And I thought it was going to come down to whoever had the ball last.

And obviously, Tennessee, who had the better number statistically, if you don't look at the end of the score, when you look at the stats, you would think that the Tennessee volunteers won this game because of what they were able to do offensively. But listen, the intercessions killed them. They're the right tackle. I'm not sure what he did when he allowed that end to come over.

When he put the ball in the belly, he faked it, and he came up. And he let dude hit him. I mean, listen, I don't, I don't know what they, I don't know. First of all, I don't know why he stepped down, no, Joe. I don't know why he stepped down because now. There was no threat to even have to step down. The damn end is playing damn there at the nine. all the way out wide he in a wide nine he absolutely is

and there's nobody there's nobody there to block it not only do do they fumble they pick the goddamn ball up and take that bitch all the way back and they couldn't get him on the ground i'm like damn all you just tackle it you've already made a mistake don't exacerbate it just get him on the time he was trying to get him on the ground he couldn't get him down but outside of it was good it was a good game i was looking I was looking for Mathier to do a little bit more through the air. I was looking for him to do a little bit more through the air. It didn't happen, but he didn't have to do much offensively.

They had two, they had two turnovers as well. Obviously, DeVos had three. Let me see, Penal, he's fucking Oklahoma had 11 for 11 for 104. So I'm thinking, when you look at it, they were actually supposed to lose the game. And if I think if Tennessee could have minimized their turnovers, they would have had a better chance at making it either a close game or actually winning this one. I mean, you look at OU Ocho, 19 first down to 28 first down for Tennessee. OU was 4 of 10 on third down.

Tennessee was better than 50%. They were 7 of 13. 456 yards. So they outgained about 100 yards of total offense. But it was that one really costly turnover that led directly to points. And remember, they missed the field goal also. Tennessee missed a field goal. so you can't look oh you have a really good defense material is playing starting to play a little

better he's starting to play like he did the first couple of games of the season before he got that injury when he came back he had kind of got him out of rhythm but if you look at him now he's starting to play a little better but when you turn the ball over and it's evenly matched teams it's hard for you to overcome mistakes it's really hard because you look at it one is 14 the other is 18 and it's not like oh you is a bad team they're ranked right where the supposed to be they've got a very very good team but i just think i just think the turnovers tonight the the miscube okay a fourth down bro you stay on the field you you stay on that and you need that those are those are plays that you got to have in a situation like that you had to

leave you was in control of the ball game now you've given up control of the ball game through poor play and turnovers now you get an opportunity to seize some of that momentum back and and you squander that opportunity give oh you credit going on the road and a hundred hostile environment and finding a way scratching and clawing and finding a way to win. Oh, yeah.

And you know, it's funny. But, yeah, I thought Aguilar made some good plays. I mean, what irks me and not just with college football, but even NFL. Why are you running backwards? Bro, you're in field goal range

and you're going to take yourself out of field goal range trying to make a play. You're not Lamar Jackson. Everybody want to be, everybody want to have one of these heroic plays where they get out of harm's way and they throw it down the field or they break they shake five people and make

somebody miss and they spin and they go bro you're doing too much you're doing too much that's a dream come true that's a dream come true huh you know to be able to do something like that to make something happen for your team shoot you're gonna make ESPN wow they got out what happened Dodgers had the bases loaded with one out

and Toronto got out of it damn the bottom of the tent. Oh, bottom of the tent? Yep. The Sooners did what the Sooners do. They ran for the 100. Man, if I'm not running back, I'm mad.

I go down at the one-yard line thinking we're going to take a knee and then the next play. You let the quarterback run to the hell. If I had to do that, I'd ran it in. He's bad. I take my tub. Because it'll look a lot better, Ocho,

if I got a, hold on. That was like a 50-something-yard run because you weren't right up straight. So a 43-yard run, or a 44-yard touchdown. I think I'll take the 44-yard touchdown. Yeah, absolutely. Hell, if I, if I, if I, if I,

because I thought we were going to, you know, let the time run out. Why do that anyway? Did somebody had to give them that from the sideline and you go down there and take away a touchdown and then they, they run it right in the next place. Shoot, listen, I, I, I, I, I do that too. That's my point. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not doing that.

I'm not, I'm not taking no, I'm not taking no knee. I'm going, oh, we up, and plus, we up three. That puts us up 10. Look, if we can't hold a lead, if we can't hold a lead with a minute left. That's on us. That's on us. That's on us.

But it was, it was a very good, it was a very good game. Very good game, uh, 10, seven and then, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you had to lead at the half, 16, had a 16, uh, because it's kicked three field goes in the second. So they had a 1610 lead at the half as poorly as they play less than 100 yards of total offense, uh, uh, Tennessee is well over 250 of total offense. but the miscues. And, you know, I'm sure Coach Heifel is in the locker room.

Like, hey, guys, we let one slip away. You know, we've got to be better. We got to take better care of the football. And when we get opportunities, Aguilar threw one right to the middle. Right heart of the defense probably would save, what, 10, 15 seconds. And the wide receiver dropped it right over the time. You know, late in the ball game, much when they were,

they ended up, I think, no, they ended up kicking a field goal. They ended up kicking a field goal. Hey, it happens. Before we go into the next game, you want to know what the NFL throw is for those that watch that Tennessee Oklahoma game when Aguilar threw that, I think it was the skinny

or it was maybe a deep slant and he kept his eye to the left and the safety missing and it came right off the safety's ear in the back of the end zone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like towards the end of the game. That was the NFL though.

That was nice. He threw that thing on the rope. Oh, he made some big time play. He made some big time plays, but they just got to do a better job to take care of the football, mainly him. The number five, Georgia Bulldogs. It used to be called the world largest cocktail party. I don't know what they call it now.

Maybe they call it the world largest office party. But they survive, come back in the fourth quarter like they've done so many times this year by the score of... The forces shaping the world's economies and financial markets can be hard to spot. Even though they are such a powerful player in finance, you wouldn't really know that you are interacting with them. And even harder to understand. Donald Trump's trade war, 2.0, is only accelerating the process of de-dollarization, which in a way is jargon for people turning away from the dollar. That is where the big take from Bloomberg podcast comes in, to connect the dots.

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and Georgia took all Georgia could do to come back and win the ball game to have to score seven in the fourth quarter late in the ball games to get a win and they do that Gun of Stockton made some big time throws but it was the running back Georgia was 7 of 15 on third down

Florida was 2 of 11 Georgia had 361 total yards Florida had 281 time of possession wasn't 32 25 to 27 35 but that fourth down really hurt Florida I mean, they weren't even close to get that. That wasn't even close.

Did you get, did you get, did y'all know the snap count? Because the damn show looked like Georgia knew the snap count and y'all didn't get no surge. That wasn't even close. I don't even know why they even brought the measure, brought you up, why y'all brought the tape out. Yeah, it wasn't even close to getting that. Wasn't even close to getting that.

But, uh, no, I'm going to say, watching this game is, as up and down as Florida has been, as inconsistent as they've been, depending on who they're playing, the fact that they played Georgia today and played Georgia so well, you know, played a ranked team as well as they did. I just don't understand what the problem may be with Florida. I think they're not that far away.

If they can find some continuity and consistency in each game, no matter what, not playing down competition. Obviously, it starts with a quarterback play. The quarterback play has to be a little bit more consistent. I mean, Legu, I mean, Leguie wasn't that bad today. It was 15 for 24. No, he's 15 to 24, 166 a touchdown. TD, but to play like they play the day against Georgia, it comes out like, well, damn, y'all

really shouldn't have any losses until it comes to the big boys. Now, sometimes you expect Florida to lose to, you know, a game like this against, you know, one of the, one of the better teams that are ranked very high. I think Georgia's number four, if I'm not mistaken, but I mean, listen, you, there are no moral victories, but to me, with my coach, the coaches got fired, right? Yeah, with Billy just getting fired, to me, there's no moral goddamn victories, but the way they fought today, I mean, it was cool even though they did lose. You're going to Stockton played another good game today, 20 of 29, 2.30, 223, two touchdowns.

He did have that one reception. Bowens was the one that had a 36-yard touchdown that really put, you know, that put them in front. And then Georgia's defense did the rest. Branch is 10 catches for 112 yards. I'm looking at this game, Ocho, and I agree with you. I'm like, Florida, where was this all year? Granted, now, this is a rivalry game, Georgia, Florida, the Georgia Florida line. You know, this played in Jacksonville is not played on campus.

I think this rivalry is almost 100 years old. And so I'm not surprised that Florida got up to play. This is the longest, this is a five-game win streak for the Bulldogs. I think the longest in a very, very long time. I think the record is like six. but Georgia Georgia has a good team you know Kirby

Kirby's a very very very very good coach he gets very good players he coaches them up you know being under coach Sabin I see a lot of coach saving in his mannerisms and having his team the team is prepared

that's one thing you're going to say about a Kirby smart team the one thing you could always say about a Nick Sabin team they're going to be prepared and that's all you can really that's that's all you can really ask for is that is have the team prepared, knowing that you got horses to run the race. Hey, I can win any war.

Just give me the weapon. Give me some weapons to go fight, and I can win any war. And Georgia got those dogs that can run and can fight. And so it was a, it was a, it was a big win because Joe, we saw Georgia come back, who they come back against? They came back against Ole Miss a couple of weeks ago.

They've done this like three or four times this year, either losing that to have, for losing going to the fourth quarter. Auburn was another one. They found a way to come back and win. Yeah, Auburn, Ole Miss. They did it today with Florida. And so, you know, you can't count these guys out.

If you get them down, like, Killenette with a sledgehammer. You get them down, you better, you better make sure they stay down because if they get up off the mat, they're coming. They're coming. But Georgia, look, they still right there. They know they got to hope Alabama lose the game because Alabama's beating them. I don't know how this thing.

is going to play out right now, Alabama and Texas A&M. But I guess they don't divide it up in the East and the West anymore. They just take the two best, the one lost record. So theoretically, it could be Texas A&M playing Alabama, even though they're on the same side. So it used to be East versus West, but they've done away with the divisions this year. So it's going to be very, very interesting to see what goes on, what happens. The forces shaping the world's economies and financial markets can be hard to spot. Even though they are such a powerful player in finance, you wouldn't really know that you are interacting with them.

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bestseller shot ready available now Oh, Cho, your Keynes. Oh, man. 26-20 overtime lost to SMU, a defeat that significantly damages Miami-ACC championship and college football playoff hope as the Hurricanes dropped their second ACC game in three weeks and fell to six and two. Twelve penalties for 96 yards, including another sports and like conduct call against defensive end Marquise-Light-Foot on the final driving regulation when he hit quarterback Kevin Jennings after the whistle. blown for a Miami timeout.

That penalty helped Miami get in the field goal range, and they kicked a 38-yard field goal to send the game in overtime. Carson Beck threw an interception on the goal line in his first possession, and then SMU took the ball in from one yard out, and they won. Miami playoff chances dropped to 9% according to ESPN's playoff predictor. Ocho, over the last three, four years, Miami has always had games like this. They always lose a game that they should win and they're favored.

We've seen this from Coach Presto Bowl team. And I don't know why. I don't know why. We saw this the other night. Who did they play? And he threw those and Beck threw those four decisions. Yeah, absolutely. That was, I think, a Virginia.

Was it Virginia Louisville? Louisville. It was Louisville. That's what they played. Louisville. And I just, I just don't get how every year this time. oh this is Miami year this is Miami year this is Miami year and every year somebody that's not even ranked by you know it's funny also on for the for

those you in the chat that are watching right now they haven't watched SMU play a them boys can play some ball on them boys die net SMU despite not being ranked they can play some ball they're very good goddamn goddamn got damn Jennings through for 365 today T.J Hardin had what but not only only nine but 29 nine for 27 my little nephew my little nephew my little nephew played for SMU, went to Miami Northwestern, Romelo Brinson. He used to be down there at University of Miami. You know, he transferred, he's having a really good season for SMU as well. But I'm not, I'm not sure what it is with Carson Beck. When it comes to games where you should

dominate as a quarterback, playing against what most would consider an inferior opponent, you got to come to the party. You got to show up. And I just talked to you about it the other day, when we talk about the Heisman Trophy candidates and how no quarterback is stepping up. up to the plate where it seemed like everybody's in one pot some some week one week they play good one week they play bad everything just happened to be up and down and inconsistent all the way across the collegiate collegiate football when it comes to quarterback play and um i mean this is this is the game miami should have won this is the game they should have uh i like the kid from ohio state he's playing his ass off you know he is a trans friday of alabama um sailing

saying I think that's his name saying saying the kid that takes say in him he's playing Marcel Reed he's playing well Simpson Ty Simpson for Alabama you know Mendoza's going to be there because this team is 8 and O they're averaging down near 50 points a game but I agree with you Carson Beck 26 and 38 274 two touchdowns two interceptions I mean just he'll play great for a stretch and you're like oh man okay I see I see why George you want. I see why you're the four or five star going to University Georgia. And then you're like, bro, what are you doing? Not only that. Now we're not basing off, we're not based it off just the stats now. Now we're paying your four, five million dollars in NIL money. Now we expect

you to be goddamn, a mini Patrick Mahomes idea. If you're making that kind of, you make you making that kind of cheddar. I expect that at the collegiate level. Absolutely. You're absolutely right. You're judging you're different. Now we expect you to get us over the hump. We're not, you are supposed to be the one that take us to the promise land. making that kind of money it's different it's different and you got to come to you have to be the reason we win

not the reason for us losing that's two weeks in a row now last week you do four today you threw one no the one or two two you threw two come on that and then costly in the goddamn red zone mm-hmm

you got to be the difference maker man and you're Ocho we talk about college football you used to be man that's just the kid they don't get played like professionals if you notice the tenor and the tone have changed because now you do get paid like professionals and we expect a certain level uh uh uh uh presidents and universities they treat them different bro we got we got we're paying you 50 million we're paying this guy we got another 10 15 20 billion tied up in this roster Oh, no.

It ain't no more. Oh, these are kids. Oh, you know, we're going to take some time. No, it ain't going to take no time. You got to get this done. We've given you everything that you've needed. That's just the way it is. Because I remember we used to talk about it,

and I really hated talking college football because, you know, coming from an NFL background, we critique differently than that's a grown man making a salary versus an 18, 19, 20-year-old kid that's not getting paid. But no more. No more. We see guys like Gerald Miles Smith,

and when he drop a pass, like, come on, bro, we can't have that. Or we see a guy like Ryan Williams at Alabama, dropping passes. And they were like, man, Ocho, you and Uncle hard on him, bro. The man getting two, two and a half million dollars. Yeah, things are different. Your judge differently based on. But he only 18. Well, he gets money like he's 28.

Yeah. I tell you what, when he go cash, when he go, when that money hit the direct deposit, ain't got no age on it. It's going straight to it in the account. we have a different level of expectation now with our college athletes after they've started getting paid especially the ones they're getting paid now we don't judge all of them like this but the coaches we hold even higher because of the money that they're getting paid because they're upgrading the amenities because they're doing everything you know you got a red light sauna and you got cryo and you got these dip tanks and you got the best best of offense defense coordinator d line coach linebacker coach db coach db coach db coach you got the best are the best for a staff. You get the best.

I mean, you got these guys. I mean, whatever you need, protein shakes. I mean, soon as you come out the field, they got protein shakes. You get this much protein, this much carbohydrate, this much fat. Bro. So now, oh, Joe, it's, we're looking at collegiate players differently. We're looking at collegiate teams differently because guys are getting paid. And there's so much money involved.

So much. I mean, the payout. What was it? The payout probably going to be $70, 80, 90 million per SEC team, per Big Ten team. Ooh. Yeah. I mean, go to the college football playoffs and, Ocho,

this is paying your athletic budget for you. Let me tell you something. Now, you know what the payout is, you know, 70, 80 million. Again, you understand. Five, four. You understand what the budget is. Now, the fact that you don't want to put your hand in the pot, you know, and see what we can do, you know,

as a coaching staff, you'd be like a president and VP. Oh, so you know, um, you know why I'm good at things? Because I know what I'm good at and I know what I'm not. I try to stay.

You try to stay in your lane. And I stay away from where I'm, okay. So, I didn't try a whole, I didn't try a whole lot of things because I, I don't do good with a learning curve. Oh, you do a good.

Make it out of here. I suck. You look, you do it good. No, hell, I don't. No, I know what I'm not doing good. You got to take that back now. Now, you said you like to stay within your comfort zone. I'm going to take it as that.

You want to do things that you know you're going to succeed at and be good at. But anything you put you. That I like doing because what you like doing, I'm passionate about. You can tell what I'm passionate about. But you love football. You love football. I don't love coaching football. Dodgers win this game.

Yamamoto is going to be the World Series MVP. He's going to do a Kurt Shillings and Randy Johnson. If they win this game, he's going to be the MVP. Who's on, wait? Two complete game. And what it would be three wins? Because he'll have three wins. He won't be a saved because he didn't come in and a save opportunity.

He would have won the game. Wait a minute. It's five four? It's five four at the bottom of the tent. Who's up now? The Dodgers? The Blue Jades. How many outs?

Oh. hadn't started oh um no what i'm i'm the thing is that i learned at a very young age if you're like passionate about something you're going to pour absolutely and it doesn't feel like work it doesn't feel like work this is why i was passionate about playing football i was passionate about training i was passionate about you know getting up and going and going and doing my school work i was passionate about that i'm passionate about this creating content i'm passionate about doing club, Shay, because I'm anxious to know about how this person came to be, to sit on my couch. You just didn't magically appeal on my couch.

What were you as a kid? What were you as an adolescent? What were you as a young man, young woman? How did you get here? I'm interested in knowing that. I'm interested to see how similar or how different our backgrounds were. Everybody didn't have the horror story where they had to work, had to walk five miles of school and they come from broken homes.

Some came from big, great two parents. But I'm eager to learn and to find out and to hear their story. So I'm passionate about that. I ain't passionate about no coaching. I got you. I got you. I ain't go to lie. I ain't go.

I go. Okay, okay, okay. I just thought, I thought, you know, there was a huge incentive there is a huge incentive that I continue to see all the time. And we talk about it. And the pot seemed to get big and bigger for those that are at the collegiate level. And I understand what you could do and being able to pay. down some of that knowledge that you that you would you you you attained and achieved

over the years and passing it back down to the youth you know you could be like another Nick Sabeman you could be like a prime you could be like a who else who else a Kirby what's up what all right all right who's your who's your cornerback DeAngelo Ponds shamanad McDonald Prep and Hollywood whole team what they do right he was also a track star he won a hundred and and the 200 meter dashes in the state of Florida, his senior year transferred from James Madison to Indiana.

Bro, if you win the state track meet, if you win the state track meet in the 100, in the 200 in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California. You can run one thing about eight. Hey, we can't do number about down. We gotta give you your flowers, bro. Bro, so hold on, what was your time in the 100? What was your time in the 200?

In 100, I was a 10-4 and 100. 200. I was a 21-1, something like that. So, yeah. Hey, that's a good time, now. That's some good time. Now, you know I had a chance to be Olympia. And when I was at, you know, I'm out, you know, I'm out of the city now, right? Yeah. Yeah, you know, I won when the beach high, you know, in the high. What's you ran in a hundred? In a hundred. Oh, I, uh, in high school, I was like a 9-9, 9-9-a-half school at Beach.

Yeah, gosh. Now, I'm just saying, listen, I was 9-9 in the beach in, in the 200, I was like, I was like a like a 10 one unc no night no I was 19 19 something 19 man not not not for real I'm hey I would I were flying that I would fly in that I come I come I come from a time man we used to race in the street you know light pole light pole stops out and stop sign car to car no shoes that's a crib thing that's a crib oh yeah absolutely absolutely i just i want to know i'm gonna let you go i i have i have to i have i have to ask what is it about this indiana team that got y'all boys playing like this

like y'all y'all beating up on everybody team that or a game that people are counting y'all out as a team y'all coming in there and making making the opponents that are supposed to beat y'all look damn near inferior yeah i feel like the outside end they didn't expect us to beat as good as we are, but in-house, we expect to beat them teens, like all them top teams. We're the top dog, I ain't a lot. Yeah. I'm looking at you guys.

You beat Kennesaw State 569, and you win 73-0, and you win 63-10, and you win 566, and you win 55-10. And after last season, I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to hold you, DeAngelo. It's like, man, I like this on an anomaly. This is a, hey, they won and done. You followed it up basically with another season that is as good, if not better. You're saying, look, we're not one and done.

We're here to stay. We're just not a cute story that, oh, Indiana, you remember the year in 2024? When Indiana did, that was so cute and cuddly. No, guys, you guys, Coach Cignetti got you guys bawling. No, definitely. I ain't go out. Last year, it was like we were making history every game. Like, they ain't never had nine, nine games won in a row, but we're doing it again.

year showing everybody we could do it again it would have luck it matter of fact you know what i think about obviously there's a there's a deeper route to why you guys are having this kind of success most of the time you know you look at the nick saving the nick saving years you look at the kirby smart and some of those coaches that have always had those great teams where are most of the kids from that on indiana's team uh they from the south they from the south somewhere down south see you see what i mean you see that yeah for sure that I'm trying to figure out, bro, and you say that from the South, man, it get cold in Indiana.

You don't know, I want to, you know, I want to stay out there as nice and sunshine, man. It'd be cold. Y'all be outside practicing in the cold. You know, Penn State and get cold. Ohio State, it gets cold. It gets cold at all the hour. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

This is, hey, I ain't really signed up for this. So how did you get your body acclimated to it? Bro, you're from Florida, South Florida. I ain't a lot. When I first got to college, I had to adjust. It took some adjusting to do, but it's a little tricks I figured out like some Vaseline and stuff like that

that gave me right. But I just got used to it just by going out there and putting Vaseline on angle. I don't feel nothing when I put Vaseline on. So I think that's one of the tricks I learned. You know what? I have one more question too, especially both of being from Florida,

being from the crib. What is it about Indiana? How did they get some of the players that are coming from Down South to actually go to Indiana when we have so many other options to choose from when it comes to going to play in college football um i i just feel like we come to them with a good good opportunity like just tell them what they what they have in front of

them see we win it so i think we got the upper hand we're recruiting like okay everybody want to win right right it's not that hard to tell them like yeah we're going to win so you just come come join like you're going to play okay and it ain't really hard to do right and you know what de angelo it's funny that it's great that you say that because if you guys continue this 10, 15 years from now, you'll be a part of the class that started this. You'll always have a

place when you go back, oh yeah, I remember him, man. He was part of that coach signetting class that came here and kicked that thing off. They went to the college football playoffs. They went back, possibly won the college football playoffs. Brug, y'all'll be like mythical. It's true. I never thought about that too.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once that Because, when I went to Savannah State, we hadn't really never had a winning season. Everybody still to this day talks about that class of 86. Everybody, that was my freshman class.

Everybody talks about that class. I've seen a year we was 8 and 1. The previous year we were 70. So we won like 15. In two years, we went like 15 games. Nobody had, no team had ever done that. So this is what, you know, you guys have a big 10. Can you imagine a.

Big Ten Championship for Indiana, a college football playoff national check. Bro, you're a legend. You will never, ever have to pay for anything in Bloomington, Indiana, ever, ever again in your life. Thanks. You might have to think about moving back yesterday. You, shit, man. Too easy right here.

I ain't got to pay no rent. I ain't got to pay no mortgage. I get a car. Hey, you know, you know, it's so funny, the way you're all beating teams. Like, do y'all even watch film? Bro, do you see what y'all did, the Maryland, man. I mean, do coaches just give you all the day off? Like, what is there to watch at that point

when you, when you, I'm talking about completely dominate teams in every, oh, hell, nah, damn. Don't worry, don't worry, right? To answer that question, no, yeah, we watch film. We ain't taking nobody lightly either. Right, right. I don't know if you watched the game or not, but we was into like four minutes left.

The starters were still in. We was up. Yeah, we was up still. So we ain't taking nobody lightly. everybody get the same treatment right right I mean no I'm saying so so what do you guys do do you guys do you get treatment watch film or do you give you Sunday off and then you guys get ready to hit it again on Monday how how what's your so on a Sunday we'll go in for health check no film or not like that we'll do some little hamstring work uh and health check really

that's it it's just treatment and then you get to go home you off on Sunday okay Monday we'll come in and watch film yeah no oh you know no no practice on Monday, but y'all hear the Tuesday Wednesday. We practice on money. It's a walkthrough though. Right. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Damn. We were third. Man, we got there thuddered up on Monday.

I need to go back to school now. I should have been born back in 2000. Yeah. 2003, 2004. Hey, damn. What I was talking about when I was talking about watching film, I'm not, I'm not talking about before game. I'm saying we're dominated game like you played Maryland most of the time.

Let's say the Bengals, we played the Steelers. Obviously, you play Sunday, but sometimes Sunday, I mean, Monday, you know, you come in, you do your treatment, do whatever, you go upstairs and you watch the previous game. But when you dominate games like this, y'all still watch film when you win a game, five to ten? That's what I meant. Yeah, there's always mistakes made in each game you can learn from. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, okay. I was just curious. She, I, see, that's why I couldn't be no head coach, but we beat somebody 5210 or we consistently dominating people week to week, scoring 40 plus. And y'all boy, take the day off, man.

Nah, our coaches demand perfection, so they're going to perfect you no matter what. Yes. Okay, okay, I got it, I got it. Never accept anything in a win. You wouldn't have a loss. So even though we beat somebody 55, 10, and somebody missed some assignments,

that's not acceptable. I'm not going to allow that to happen because then you'll think that play because we want is acceptable. You guys have the third best defense in the country. I mean, God damn. Well, you think of Indiana,

I don't know if you really think a defense. I mean, you're putting up 55 points. You're probably thinking about offense. But when you see 10, you see 6, you see 13, you see 15, you see 10, you see 9, you see zero. You're like, okay, yeah, okay, I see. If that your mindset, is like, look, if we get turnovers, we create short fields for our offense. Our offense is going to cash in, and then that's going to allow us to really put our, pin our ears back, and then we can just sit on stuff because we know that ball.

That's definitely the mindset. just to have our offense back each game, make it easier for them. And they make it easier for us some games too. So that's definitely the mindset that's to not give nothing up. We don't like catches. We don't like yards. I don't like none of that.

So that's why we were on the top defenses in the country. Let me show you. What made you choose Indiana? Because obviously, first of all, you probably have some opportunity to go somewhere and run track. You run 10-4 in high school. They probably figure it's like, you know what, with the right training.

Because they're looking at it like in high school, they're guys ain't really getting training like they're supposed to. But we get the right training, we get the right supplementation into them, give them the right nutrition, right track coach. We can probably get this guy down to the 10, maybe even sub 10. We definitely feel like we can get him down low 20, low 20s, maybe even dip below 20.

So what was your thinking when you went to Indiana, did you want to do a dude? Did you want to run track play football? Or was in there where you all in on football? The crazy part with me is I didn't have no, like, big offers out of high school. I went to James Madison with Coach Finetti. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, okay. I went to James Madison.

No, I wasn't thinking about running track either. I ran track because everybody who played football had to run track. So I had to run track, but I went to James Madison. And then out of James Madison, I ended up in the portal. And it was really a no-brainer to follow Signetti to Indiana. So that's how I ended up at Indiana. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, okay, I see, I see what you put in down now.

You know, hey, you know what I said? Oh, they drop a little breadcrumbs. You know, Hansling Grotto. You know how they got back home to have breadcrums. Yeah, you know, Co-Signetti dropped a couple of breadcrums for it. Like, hey, I believe it's right here for you. You go pick it up. You have a little something on the flow for it.

He grabbed it in Bloomington, Indiana. There he is. Hey. So, look, you got three games left. You're at Penn State, Wisconsin at home, and then you got Purdue. everything that you guys, I'm sure, everything that Coach Signetti put up on the board of what the goals and what you wanted to accomplish,

your three wins away in the regular season. That's not the ultimate goal. Obviously win the Big Ten. Obviously getting to the college football playoffs. This year, I obviously cash it all the end. Your three games away, how do you keep the focus? How do you stay right here and don't get here? Like, man, Penn State, they already don't fire.

They coached, they don't gave up on the season. We got Wisconsin at home. Ain't nobody beating us at home, and then we got Purdue. Nah, hey, we got them. Even though that's a rivalry game, Purdue and Indiana, that's a rivalry game. We just keep that same one and no mindset.

We ain't got to change that enough. Just go one and no each week, not looking ahead. It'll come. Whatever we got in store for us, it's going to come. So just go on one and all each week. That's the goal for us. Yeah, I remember.

That's it, man. Man, congratulations. Thanks for joining us tonight. We really, really appreciate having you on nightcap tonight, man. Best of luck. Tell everybody, hey, congratulations. Keep your head down, keep your ears open, and full steam ahead, man. Hey, when y'all win the Big Ten, come back and tell us.

Oh, I got you. I appreciate that, man. DeAngelo Barnes joining us tonight. Hey, that was dope. For the Indiana Hoosiers, he's the cornerback on the third best defense in the country, and they give up 11 points a game. less than 11 points a game, actually, 10.9. Hey, you know what?

That, uh, that, uh, that Wichita Call the game is going to be really good. That, that, that's going to be really, really good. Uh, that's going to be, that's, that's going to be a tall tail or a tough tag. Hey, John, hey, what's up, what? God, what's what they do, right? I had a, like a, I guess we'll call it like a Nissan, I guess I had like a Nissan I guess I had like a Nissan Ultima on the World Series. So I've been sitting there, uh, trying to,

Yeah. You took the Dodgers? Maybe. I took the Dodgers. Wait, they lost? No, they won an extra innings. Yeah, they won in 11. Yamamoto was sensational.

I mean, Earl Horchiser in 1988 did the exact same thing. He was World Series MVP. If you go back and look at 2001, I think that's when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees. And that's when Kurt Schillings and Randy Johnson shared the MVP. And I said based on what he had done, the first game, complete game, and then he followed it up in game six to get him in game seven. And I say, you know what? If he comes in and get the save, he's going to be the MVP and rightly so for sure. Wait, hey, hold on. I'm confused. Now, you say you, you bet a Nissan

Ultima on the Dodgers to win this game, right? No, the series. When the series first came out and I saw it was Toronto versus L.A., immediately was like, I think the Dodgers are going to win this game win the series 100% and i went to game three 18 innings i sat in left field until 1230 in la and watched every play of that game probably the best sporting event i've ever been to in my life right and crazy what a series what a game the last two nights unbelievable world series everybody who's a baseball fan should have thoroughly enjoyed that sure and what a wild day of college football too oh yeah absolutely unc if i'm not mistaken so the series is what uh is it tied it's over it's over it's over four three that was that was game set that's it that's it

yep god damn the judges then went back to back back back back back that's the first time that was the first time since the big red machine 75 76 that a national league team has gone back to back with johnny bench and joe morgan and all those guys that tom see don't know what they're back in the day and see listen when you think about the investment you when you think about the payroll and that they put on these players. Freeman, Otani, who else?

Becks. Mookie. Bets. They got Yamamoto. They got Glass now. They played Blake's nail. Yeah. I don't know why the Dodgers figured it out, Johnny.

Well, how come the Yankee can't do it? Because the Yankee did the same guy, had the same goddamn philosophy. Pitching. And Yankees, I mean, if you think about it,

it was the Dodgers pitching that actually saved them. Yomamoto game, because Yarmamoto game, a complete game. he gave him six he gave him a complete game he played he played nine in is he gave him and he came in tonight he came in tonight he came in certain situations after last night he gave him six inning last night and he came in how the hell he going to come in tonight after just

pitching nine and your shoulder supposed to be so off the bone because you don't play until next spring you ain't got nothing yeah we worry about that that that's why they gave him what they gave okay okay okay when when you when you when you pay when you pay that and that's That's why the Dodgers, the Dodgers guy is the same guy that just brought the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they're going spend money. They say it takes money to make money. You see, Muki Betz got a $200 million contract, Freddie Freeman got 150, show hey, got 700.

You got, uh, glass now, you got snail, make. Well, congratulations, you Dodgers fans. I, you know, I'm not much of a baseball fan, despite me being a five-tooler in high school, but congratulations to y'all boys don't worry about it I'm a bigger I like baseball I don't watch it like I used to

I used to watch the World Series all the time I'm very familiar with the players I'm very familiar with the history of the game but man the Dodgers are mean think about it it's been 7576 that's 50 years that you've had a National League team go back to back

I mean the Yankees you remember the Yankees Yankees won what 92 no 98 99, 2000, they lost in 2001 to the Diamondbacks. That was the 9-11 series. But, man, Dodgers, congratulations. I mean, hey, I guess they got the best team money can buy. Ohio State hasn't had a Heisman trophy winner since Troy Smith captured the award back in 2006.

But heading into the final month of the regular season, the Buckeyes now boasts a Heistman frontrunner. Julian Sayin delivered another performance in the 38, 14th. team went over Penn State. The sophomore quarterback completed 20 of 23 passes, 316 yards, four touchdown with the latest outings saying junked Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson and Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza to become the Heisman favorite. Johnny, what you thinking? I mean, he was an Alabama, he was an Alabama transfer.

Coach Sabin said today that, you know, he was the, he was the coach that had him running scout team. Yeah, I mean, look, this guy is playing really, really well right now going into the last month of the season. Obviously, things change in the Heisman race. But when you look at Ohio State's picture, the way that they're playing, the way that he's playing, you think all of us would probably have to agree here that he's a shoe in for New York. He's going to end up as a finals for sure. Now it's kind of hand somebody else. There's that moment, right? We talk about it all the time.

There's the moment that comes. Has he played stellar enough to get to New York? Absolutely. Do I believe that Marcel Reed so far has played stellar enough to get to New York? Absolutely. I think Mendoza as well from Indiana has probably played well enough to get to New York. But look. Tass Simpson, Alabama.

I said she played well enough to get to New York as well. If you had to ask me those four guys, obviously leading the odds right now, if you're going by the odds makers, but there is still that time to capture a moment. There is still that time to go out and have a game or a play or a series that sets you apart from the rest. Is Ohio State going to have a game that they're actually in for him to have something like that?

Or are they just going to breeze through, undefeated, kick everybody's ass. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. Michigan didn't look very good today, but you know that game, you throw everything else out the window.

I'm really looking at Marcel Reed. He does get that moment. If Texas plays the way they did today, you go into the last game of the season. You take care of business in Missouri next week. You go beat Sanford. You get Texas day after Thanksgiving, on the road. You look what just happened.

I'm really interested because no way would I have thought that Vandy would have been favored or would have been underdogs in that game today. Vandy was never in that game today until the onside kick was wiggling its way out of bounds. They were never in that game for a second. So Texas manhandled them. That was the best Texas team has looked all year.

You have to, for the first time as I've sat on here and bashed Archmanning, bashed the way Texas's look. They still have no run game. Did his receivers and their outside blocking scheme, Ocho, that was some of the best hat on hat, outside blocking I've seen in a long, long time. Open up

the play, first play of the game. Arch didn't have to do a lot to get started in the game, but you get the ball out of your hand quick, get it on the perimeter, hat on a hat, take it to the crib. I would do this with Mike Evans all the time. So you do have to give Texas credit. They have a very solid O-Lym

because Vandy threw everything they could at them. Their defense and pass rush pretty solid. They played really well. So if Arch can play like that, I think you go into the last game of the season, Texas versus Texas A&M, you may have Texas favorite in that one too.

I think the thing is, Johnny and Ocho, when you look at it, Texas played for three quarters, they can't play any better than what they played for three quarters. Their defense was outstanding on Pavia. Arch Manning was, I mean, he got hit in the chest and he threw a ball in the end zone. I'm talking about he took a shot right to the chops,

and he let hey i'm like okay walking to him arch and then all of a sudden come to fourth quarter they forget how to play football two blown coverages bro how you leave how twice they got a third and 19 and you let a guy pick it up i'm like bro no it was fourth and 19 what third night he was yes and and you you let two i mean you had three plays where i'm talking about dbs what are you doing Yeah, the one, the one play touchdown, the one play touchdown. It was, that's just, where does that come from? And on the fourth, on the fourth and 19, I'm like, Corner, why are you sinking so much?

The guy catches a 16-yard route turned. He's already at the first down. You don't have to sink that much. Hey, I was like, back to saying, he has four games this season completing 85% of his passes with 300 yards, and at least three passing touchdowns. No quarterback in the country has more than one such game, San who backed up Will Howard last year's championship run

is putting up big numbers in his first season as a starter. 2,224 yards, 24 touchdowns, only three picks. Top-ranked Buckeyes are trying to win back-to-back national championships for the first time in their program history. Uncle Johnny, they got a good chance to do it. They got a good chance to do it. Listen, San, San, what, it was, 20, 20 for 23 today four t ds and when you and when you got weapons like carnal tape you got jeremiah

smith you know having to come to the haven't hey listen having to come to the job it's easy to get the muffled job done when you got them kind of weapons they got over there in ohio state but what i wanted to say about the heisman trophy the heisman trophy case right and those that are all all of a sudden the names are now in the pot towards it what would joddy what uh what game we in what we in week what 10 week nine something like that oh yeah the fact that it took this long for for i was really i was really like 10 like yeah okay i'm just i'm just i'm just say week 10 the fact that we're finally seeing names come out of the hat where nobody has separated themselves for the past nine to 10 weeks says all you need to know that says everything you need to know you know they're

good they're okay but ain't no goddamn johnny mansells it ain't no cam newton's ain't no Ain't no Joe Burroughs that from week one all the way through, they cut in the fool. I think the thing was what happened is that there was really no quarterback that was in the Hivesman running last year that came back to school. So normally, you know, Johnny, you normally have a guy that was in the Hivesman running or, you know, he was on the, and then he came back. But you get a Travis, he leave, you get all those guys that's leaving. you get a, uh, uh, uh, uh, Ashton Genty, he leaves. So most of the think about saying wasn't even starting. Todd Simpson wasn't even starting.

Arch Manning wasn't starting. So you, you coming back with the, and guys have to show you. You know, they tried to what archmanning is the favorite based on what? Now, he's played well the last couple of weeks, but how are you going to say he's the favorite? Now, Marcel Reed, he, he, he was a starter last year. He probably, was him and Mendoza. was they like the only starters that we can say like, okay. You can really only say that for Marcel

after he comes into second half versus LSU last year. If you looked away Texas A&M ended the season last year, you weren't putting him on no Heisman list. If there was any quarterback that was returning this year that you would have had on a Heisman list early in the season, it would have been Penn State's quarterback. It would have been Drew Lahr. Oh, yeah, oh, but yeah.

I don't know. Don't get me started. And Mateer, what Mattier did me? material transfer into a Oklahoma. There was a lot of Heisman Mateer talk earlier in this year for sure. Yeah. And so I think that's, that's what you have to. And you said it, Johnny, you go back and look at Joe Burrow.

He had his Heisman moment against Alabama. He had that run. They come out there and they go ahead and head. Because, you know, it's Star versus Stars. Look at all those wide receivers that go in the first round. The quarterback is number one. And then you get two are going, what, number five. And then you have all those receivers.

You got Burrow. I mean, excuse me, you got Jetta, and you got Chase. You got Judy, you got rugs, you got DeVante Smith, you got Jalen Waddle, you got Naji. Man, bro, look at all the talent out there. So, and then Joe has that moment. You have DeVante Smith, who just goes crazy. Jalen Waddle gets hurt, and every week he's having 180, 200. He's running a punt back.

He's doing something that, no, you got to stand up and pay attention to me. Well, like you said, Johnny, I'm just waiting on, I don't know who or when they're going to have that moment. You had your moment down in Tuscaloosa. That was Johnny Mansell's coming out party. From that point on, they got a kid man down there and Texas. I needed help, though, even after that game. And this is a crazy thing the way the college football universe works. There's a offensive coordinator right now who's sitting at Texas A&M and Marcel

Reade's room every day coaching him. The name is Colin Klein. On week 12 of the season, Colin Klein. Oh, from K-State? Colin Klein was going to win the Heisman that year. Colin Klein was winning that race. I was making a late push,

but they played Baylor after we played Missouri, our last game of the season. I had done everything I could do. We went out, smoked Missouri, had an unbelievable game. And when we got out of that game, I went to a party with all my boys on the team. and everybody was doing a ring dunk at Texas A&M

and I was glued to a Kansas State versus Baylor game and Baylor beat the brakes off of Kansas State. Colin Klein had a really rough night and I truly believed that when I left that night and went back home, I knew that I had won the Heisman that night. There used to be a thing called Heisman Pundit. And for nine years in a row, this guy had a website that had predicted

eight of the nine years. He would collect enough votes from voters to see who would win it. And I was on this site every day checking. And when he had tallied up enough votes and said I was going to win, I kind of knew. But I needed help that year

to even be able to get there. And when I was going into the Heisman, I thought, man, I might sneak in and take it. The way the media was around then, I thought, because you came from so far. You got to realize where you came.

You weren't even on nobody's radar. I was lucky to even be on the field. on yeah hey johnny who did you say might who you say you thought was going to win it anti-tao that whole girlfriend thing came out yeah yeah yeah yeah okay okay okay the way it was feeling like even at the heisman even because you do the college football awards the ESPN and disney before that and right he came through won a lot of awards um and then we got to new york doing all the press and everything i'm like man this guy might really have a shot Notre Dame's a really beloved team in college football.

He was a great player that year, got his team into the national title. Luckily, you know, and I had the freshman bias, too. That was a big thing. Yeah. Well, they had forgotten about that because once they let Tebow had won it

because they used to be a situation, Adrian Peterson could have easily won the Hizman trophy. Herschel Walker could have easily won the Hizman trophy. Marshall Falk, his year, you go back and look at the year that Gino Toretta won it. How the hell, Marsha Falk didn't win that a war? I don't know.

But there are a lot of guys there. There are a lot of guys that won that we go back and look at it. Like, hold on. Like, I mean, hell, if I'd play D1 ball in 2001, I think I'd have won the Housman because Eric Crouch ends up winning it. I'm like, how to, like what? And then Jason White wins it one year. I'm like, y'all just giving it.

You got to give you. I figured y'all got to give it to somebody. No, respectfully, Ochoa, as you like to use the word respectfully. But Eric Crouch, rushing for 1,000 yards, and throwing for like 700, that ain't no Heisman. I'm sorry. And it took him throwing the ball in the ends on and hitting somebody getting kicked up in there, Johnny.

You probably was too young to remember that with that happen. But, man, it's going to be close. I think we're going to have a very, very close Heisman trophy race this year. I think if San comes in and has a good game in the Michigan game, they go to the championship game, they roll things out. He continues to play the way he is, throwing for a lot of yards, throwing touchdowns three plus touchdowns every game if he does that continues the streak that he's on he's going to be tough to go beat but the thing about

Marcel is he has so much ability to be able to bring in like he he had a couple flashes that almost looked Lamar asked last week versus LSU yeah you know he's kind of skirting into the end zone he's so deadly with his feet his receivers you know he's chunking the ball around I think he has that dual threat that fits what you've seen from myself from a Marriota type. Now, does he throw it as well as us right now at this point? No, but he runs it well enough to have a dual threat with, you know, is in line for Heisman guys in the past.

So obviously, I'm going to be a homer. I'm starting my Marcel for Heisman campaign here relatively. I think about November 15th, I'm really going to fire up the train. But nevertheless, I think we'll have a good race. One right now that seems a little bit unclear. but in a couple weeks, two, three weeks, I think we'll start to see some people fall away. It'll crystallize itself.

Arch Manning and the Texas return to Darrow K. Royal Stadium for the first home game in 42 days on Saturday. Arch went 25 or 33, 328, three touchdowns. No, I&T's. The number 20 Longhorns held off the number nine Vanderbilt Commodores despite the Commodore score in 21 fourth quarter points. Arch became the first player in Texas history with 300 passing. three touchdowns, 75% completion percentage against a top 10 opponent.

Manning was blitzed on 10 of his 34 dropbacks. He finished 8 of 10, 145. All three of his touchdowns came against five or more pressure. His career touchdown against the blitz. He has the most touchdowns against the blitz in his career. And all three came on play action. He had a three touchdown. He had such three touchdown passes in his career coming into today.

Longhorns fans chatted, overrated at Commodore's quarterback Diego. Shit, but he wasn't no overrated. Well, Pavia was 2738 for three TDs. And he had 365. Man. Ooh. Yeah, and he only turned the ball over once, that one turnover. I just think the thing was, look, Texas got concerned.

Johnny, you know, you get a big lead like that. You start running the ball, and next thing you know, you're in third and eight. And then guess what? the field. Now, team get a little momentum. Okay, they score. Okay, you keep the ball for two or three minutes. You kick it back to them. Now you blow a possession. Now you blow a coverage. Now guess what? The guy just scored in 10 seconds. Now you got hell on your hands. Now you're like, okay, now what do I call? I want to make them burn the time miles, but I also want to give us an opportunity to try to, you know, run some time off the clock. Now they get the ball and you can

They had it, they had, the guy bobbed the ball, the linebacker had, I mean, you won't get a better shot at the on side than what Van de Hay. I get hearing them talk, this infuriated me. Why we got linebackers on the, on their hands team? Because, they ain't none of those boys that were touching that ball, ever felt leather in their life other than the couch. And boys ain't touched a rock in weeks. You put linebackers on there to go blow people up.

Because you hope it was a liebacker touching the ball. They didn't know what to do with it. It looked like an ice cube bouncing around in somebody's hand. I mean, look, Texas throughout that game, yeah, you get comfy, you let off the gas a little bit. It is hard to keep that pace and keep that tempo up when you're just trying to get out of there, right? But at the end of the day, Texas, that was a dominant performance. One that I have to give to them, Sark, game plan, that, and Banderbill. very, very well.

They knew their offensive line was really struggling at Vanderbilt. They did the week before. They brought some good blitzes, Colin Simmons. They had some guys really getting after Pavia all day. The pass rush really didn't settle down until the fourth quarter on those last drives where I think sometimes you get enough plays in college football where the play count starts to get up there and guys just get gas. It's just what it is.

But that was pure domination. I mean, from pretty much until nine minutes, eight minutes left in that ball game, it was all Texas. And it could have, you know, there was a late pass where Texas ended up missing a field goal to give Vandy the ball at like the 35 or 40 that kind of started the whole thing. On third down, they threw a deep ball. The guy bounce and hit the ground when they reviewed it. But when they put the points up and said that it was good and I looked at the scoreboard

and it said 40 to 16, I'm like, oh, this is a, this ass whooping. Yeah. Bad. And that's how it felt really throughout the whole day. I think you got to see a glimpse of what Texas could be or where it's expected to be this season. Right. And this is giving them, it should. And I did an autograph signing today with Marcel Reed, Concepcion, Cravers, all my Aggies,

because they're on a bye week here in Houston. And we're watching that game. And I'm like, oh, Vandy's getting their ass. kicked and they're like oh really i'm like this just give texas the momentum they need going into the schedule that they have in my opinion you know you be the top 10 team you go in this gives you a little spark listen one of the reasons why they can be the top in team one of the reasons why texas look the way they look you know these past few weeks it's because of the quarterback play archman is he act archmaning is decide to come to the party he decided to come to the party yeah and play much much

better than what he looked like at the beginning of the season. And in the game, again, again, if he had been playing like this, Ocho, from the beginning. Oh, I'm not saying that he beats Ohio State. That's not what we're saying. They have one loss. That's what they would have. Only one loss.

Yep. Well, if he plays like that, you have a defense like that, an offensive line that can protect. You got a good coach. The one area of the flaw that you haven't seen in their game, the entirety of the year. And Sark even said this, said this today. If we can just rush the ball for. 100,

125 yards, we'll be okay. He's on his knees every day in that building begging to be able to find a running lane. They can't run the ball nowhere.

In a Pop Warner League right now, they couldn't run the ball. And that's just like one thing that's going to catch up to them. Like, you run into a defense like A&M

who plays the run pretty well. Like you're going to have a hard day when you become one dimensional. Yeah, you're one dimensional. I mean, you can't, you've got to be able to make people think you could run the football. You might not be able to run it, but if you just, if them guys just say,

they can't run the football, they're not going to try to run the football because they can't and we just going to go hunt your quarterback. You can't. You're in for a long, long, long, long and Johnny, you know, that goes for the NFL as well. If you, if you can't establish the run, if you can't push and apply pressure to players against their own will and having the running game to kind of save you so you can pass the ball. Most of the time, you know, you've got to run the ball to open up the pass. Your play actually goes out the window.

What are you thinking for? You ain't got no threat to run it. Once you become one-dimensional, it's a rap. It's a rap. Johnny, the Aggers are undefeated in rank number one in ESPN's strength of schedule metric. You guys beat Notre Dame, you beat Auburn, you beat Florida, who's as they say, you beat LSU,

You got Missouri, who's ranked 19th, but you got also, you're on the road against number 20th, Texas. I don't know if you guys already spoke about this, but that Florida win for us looks a little bit better after today because they had Georgia on the road. They had them on the road. I don't know if it's, you know, sometimes you get an interim coach in there. You get somebody else calling plays. Lagway showed a little bit of flashes. I mean, they played Georgia really, really tough today. I think, you know, Georgia had to go out and make some plays.

I think once again, you know, they're kind of lucky to be able to escape out of there. But getting back to the Aggies, look, you've got to go still continue to take care of business. And one game at a time, take care of business. Everything is setting up for an unbelievable showdown. This is why the rivalry was brought back. And I think there's a lot of guys in our locker room. And I know there's a lot of guys in that Texas locker room that remember how last year felt. I went to that game and I sat through four quarters of that.

we didn't come close to winning that game not for a moment. Both teams have a lot of people back. Obviously, Arch is the guy now, but Arch got in that game last year, brought a spark, scored a touchdown. He's going to feel confident coming into this game against Elko. I think for our guys at A&M,

listen, this is the chance to get to that game undefeated and do something that hasn't been done at this school in a long, long time. Marcel, you want that, Heisman? Go and take it. Go and take it. Against a team. that Texas by then, but they were, what, 20 this week? They're going to be ranked closer to the top 10.

They're going to be a little bit number 19. They beat two top 10 teams this year. They might be 12, 13. You go beat, you have a number. Because Miami lost. You're going to have a number three versus a number 12 matchup in the last week of the season with a ticket to the SEC championship on the line. You've already punched a ticket to the playoff.

You win this game. This gives you a two seed and a buy. Everything you want right there in front of you. How bad you want it? You want to hit the club. You want to go chase girls? You want to mess around? You want to get in the book.

You want to be blessed you. Or you want to go get it. For A&M, I think you're starting to get some respect. I heard Saban say this the other day. The two teams that have been impressing the most that have shown complete from top to bottom where they really look like they don't have a ton of flaws and look solid fundamentally through all areas of football, special teams, offense, defense. I have a head coach that's not putting you in bad situations.

it's Ohio State and A&M. So for my Aggies, it's still premature because anything can happen in the SEC if you have one of those off days, but everything that you want is right there in front of you. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock elite gaming tech at Lenovo.com.

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