Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - College Football Playoff Committee EXPOSES Blatant SEC Bias as Georgia Tech Gets Punished During Their Own Bye Week

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

MIAMI HURRICANES jump GEORGIA TECH in controversial College Football Playoff rankings despite the Yellow Jackets being on a bye week. Is the ACC getting systematically disrespected by the selection committee?Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs break down the shocking CFP rankings that have ACC teams penalized while SEC and Big Ten programs with similar losses remain highly ranked. The discussion covers MIAMI's path to an at-large playoff bid, PITTSBURGH head coach PAT NARDUZZI's defeatist comments about the upcoming NOTRE DAME game, and the five-team race for the ACC Championship between GEORGIA TECH, DUKE, SMU, VIRGINIA, and PITT. Key analysis includes why NC STATE isn't ranked despite four wins over bowl-eligible teams, VANDERBILT's questionable #14 ranking with zero quality wins, and a conspiracy theory about MIAMI's betting lines and officiating patterns.Don't miss this passionate breakdown of ACC football's playoff chances and championship race.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!DoorDashWith DoorDash Streaks, you save every Saturday you order — stack it up all season and you could save up to $250. Order this Saturday. Keep the streak alive. Fuel your gameday — only with DoorDash. Terms apply. Promo period through 11/18.SupplyHouseJoin the free TradeMaster program today and score serious perks like priority shipping, lower prices, and a dedicated support line. Visit SupplyHouse.com to sign up for free and use promo code SHCOLLEGE5 for 5% off your first order. GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Georgia Tech fans are big mad at the college football playoff rankings, and it's easy to see why. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Shout out to the Everydayers, and thank you so much for making Locked on ACC your first listen. He is Kenton Gibbs, former NC State defensive lineman and co-host of Locked on Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono, host of Lockdown Cains. Kenton and I, along with Grayson Boone, we'll have a crossover episode later on this week

to talk about Miami versus NC State. We're available free wherever you get your podcast. We're free on YouTube. We're part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, which is now the number one sports podcasting network, your team every day. We'll talk about some weird projections. The ESPN Bracketology has Miami is the only

ACC team in the college football playoff, even though Miami probably won't win the conference. Kenton, let's pull this right up because first, you know, we start with Georgia Tech fans. Now, the last time that GT played, they lost by double digits on the road to your NC State Wolfpack, which is why Georgia Tech, you know, has tumbled. But they haven't played since that game. They had a buy week. and then somehow Miami leapfrogs Georgia Tech during Georgia Tech's by week. Miami just beat Syracuse.

Now, obviously, I host Locked on Cains, and I'm happy to see Miami move up. I thought Miami should have been ranked a little higher than they were last week, where there were eight spots behind Notre Dame, who they beat head-to-head at number 18. So listen, I'm happy Miami moved up, and there is a murky path for Miami to get into the college football playoff. I just can't really understand why they moved Miami in front. of Georgia Tech after having them ranked behind Georgia Tech last week and Georgia Tech hasn't played since. Can you explain this to me? I can't explain it. Nobody can explain it, Donno. Nobody can explain this. At the end of the day, we are looking at a situation where multiple teams in the

ACC are getting screwed all at once. Multiple. For example, if we want to go with the, you know, a team that's on the bubble in terms of being ranked, not being ranked, whatever. there was a graphic that came out today saying how many teams had beaten bowl eligible teams, four more bowl eligible teams already this season. NC State was one of them. And yet saying that they should be ranked feels preposterous. Why? It feels preposterous in the face of what they play in the ACC and they have bad ACC losses.

Well, how many other teams fit that criteria? There are teams. Dono, quick question. Is there a single team in this top 25 that has lost to the floor? Florida Gators. Yes, number 10. Oh, okay. Texas.

Texas lost to Florida. So we see multiple teams here with bad, bad losses. And yet a bad loss in the ACC keeps you out. We'll keep it going, shall we? You look at these, you look at the teams that you just mentioned, Georgia Tech. How did you get moved back from a byweek? How? What?

With all due respect, who was Miami's opponent? last week, Donnell? Syracuse. And last I checked, they're not very good? I was just about to say. Syracuse pissed a drop this year since Stephen and Jelly got hurt. You know, they're struggling with the concept of the forward pass. Forget talking about Fran Brown getting washed the offense stink so bad it's masking his scent. That's what's going on in Syracuse. And yet somehow beating them justifies jumping in front of Georgia Tech.

What is happening to the Rambling wreck right now is happening to the ACC at large because multiple teams of ours. There should be no doubt, no if ands, no butts about it. Virginia has two losses, one to a bowl eligible wake force, the other to an NC state team that, again, is one of five teams in America with four wins over bowl eligible teams. And you're telling me, oh, well, they're just chopped liver. They should be there.

Louisville, a bad loss to cow, basically. knocks them out, all but knocks them out of the top 25. And meanwhile, we see all these other teams still in it, that, again, if we're talking about bad losses, if we're talking about non-competitive losses, multiple teams in here have that. But somehow the agency is constantly penalized for their teams not showing up. But all of the other conferences, oh, it's just great teams playing, great teams. Stop.

Vanderbilt is still number 14, and they don't have any good wins. Like, you know, their resume is awful. Utah. Like, they're not in the SEC or the Big Ten. Utah's in the Big 12. Their resume is nothing. And they're number 13. And let me run through this for the audio listeners. The top five, I guess, didn't change.

Ohio State 1, Indiana 2. Indiana nearly got upset by Penn State. They dodged a bullet there. I actually thought, if anything, they could have flip-flopped Texas A&M, put them at number two, and flipped Indiana. Canada number three, but I guess they didn't want to penalize Indiana for a win, even if they should have won it more dominantly. So A&M third, Alabama, fourth, Georgia fifth, Texas Tech, Ole Miss at seven, Oregon at eight. They survived a scare against Iowa.

Notre Dame nine, so they move up a little bit. Get used to that theme. Texas at number 10. They don't belong in the top 10. They don't belong in the top 12. Oklahoma 11, BYU 12. Utah 13, Van D, 14. Miami moves up from 18 to 15.

Georgia Tech at 16. They get jumped by Miami. USC 17, Michigan 18. And then here are the ones, Kenton. And obviously, both of these teams failed to take care of business this past weekend. Home losses to sub-500 ACCC teams. Virginia falls to 19 after losing to Wake Forest. Louisville falls to 20 after losing to Cal.

Then you've got Iowa 21, Pitt at number 20. Tennessee 23rd, USF 24th, Cincinnati 25th. Now, the team that holds all the wild cards is Pitt, Kenton, because Pitt, they still have a chance to win the ACC, which would get them a bid more than likely. They also have a chance to give Notre Dame their third loss of the season this weekend. We'll talk about Pat Narduzzi in a second. He's soft.

And they also have an opportunity to knock Miami out of the college football playoff. They play the final week in Pittsburgh. But before we rant about Narduzi, though, well, what is this? I mean, first of all, I think the big winner from the ACC point of view, the big winner was Miami because I think being up at number 15 now, and to be fair to Miami, I know we're wondering why they moved ahead of Georgia Tech. Miami should not have been ranked as low as 18 last week in the first place. So I think there was course correction.

Miami's a two-loss team with a head-to-head win against Notre Dame, with a ranked win against USF who's climbing up the table, right? So Miami has good wins and their losses. I know people say they lost to a couple of unranked at the time teams, but Louisville is ranked now at number 20. And SMU is not far from being ranked. That's another winning program. So the losses aren't good. Miami was favored, but the losses aren't terrible. There are teams with worse losses in this field than Miami. So Kenton, I feel like at number 15 for the Hurricanes, even without a clear path to win the ACC championship, I think Miami's in a great spot for an at-large bid

because if the hurricanes do win out and go 10 and 2, which is an if, right, difficult games in front of them, your NC state, I think Pittsburgh's going to be a very difficult game at the end of the year. But if Miami wins out, I can see them climbing into an at-large bid because Oklahoma, Texas still have really tough games left to play, Vanderbilt still has a tough game left to play. There's going to be teams in front of them that will likely lose and give Miami an opportunity to climb into the field.

Absolutely. Miami will have an opportunity to climb in the field. And the biggest thing that I want to emphasize here, we should be judging these teams based off of the information that we have, not the information that we thought. Right. If we judge these teams and who has what left off the information we have, Pitt is one of the tougher outs in this. season. So far, that's what they have shown. That is a quality win as opposed to, and this is, I could not believe this when I saw this, Dono. I, when I tell you, I was legitimately in disbelief about this. So on a year, the Vanderbilt Commodores have a total of two ranked wins. Those two, I'm sorry, they have a total of three ranked wins, rather. They have a total of

three ranked wins. Only one of those ranked wins came against the team that currently has a winning record and only one of those wins came against a team that still has their head coach or has a record. You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? Like there, they're, so this is what I mean in terms of I don't like preseason pose at all, even though it keeps you guys like you and me getting paid i still don't like it because it gives people this false impression of oh yeah you're being a great south carolina team well how's that going oh yeah pits nothing pits they're not going to be good hosting may be good he may not be good we don't know that too and what have they done what have they done right it's just it's and the worst part about all of it is there's so much brand bias that goes

into the rankings that then goes into factoring who goes where and who's what, that we're watching all of these SEC teams be ranked that if they were in the ACC, even if they had the exact same schedule, you just change that patch on their chest. And nobody would think to spit on their schedule and say it's a decent one. And so, you know, ultimately Miami is in a great spot. And they have a big enough brand to get in that large bid. And let's be real, Dono, because of how this. thing shakes out and how the committee is acting,

Miami is the only team that get out at large spot. I love Georgia Tech. I think that they play phenomenal football. And if they beat Georgia, that's their only path to an at-large bid. That's their only path. No other ACC team has a path to an at-large bid. I'm sorry. It's unfortunate.

It's a shame. They deserve it because the more I look at these other conferences, the more I say they look funny and alike. But right now Miami is positioned very well for an at large bid. Yeah, you're right. the only way the ACC gets two teams in is if Miami is one of them at large. And Miami has to win out, like not a guarantee. They have to do that.

NC State this weekend for Miami at Virginia Tech the following weekend at Pittsburgh to end the year. I think if Miami wins those three games, they're more than likely in. Now, we mentioned Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has an opportunity to disrupt not only Miami, but they have an opportunity to disrupt Notre Dame this week. weekend. You got to hear what Pat Narduzzi, though, said, the pit head coach. Kenton can tell me if I'm overreacting, but Coach Narduzzi completely lost my respect. You want to keep it locked right here. We're only getting started on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACC. Folks, when the opening whistle blows on a new repair, get your crew moving forward with

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That's supplyhouse.com. Real people, real service. Thank you so much for making Lockdown ACC your first listen. Make sure for your next listen, you check out our other shows. Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone host Locked on Wolfpack. I host Locked on Cains. We're available wherever you get your podcasts and available on YouTube. All right, so it is weekly press conference, Pat Narduzi, whose Pittsburgh Panthers are about to host Notre Dame, a college game day there.

It's a huge game. Now, I guess in this day and age, from Narduzi's point of view, and from the point of view, I would imagine Manny Diaz shares this point of view, given that his team has a terrible non-conference resume, but an opportunity to win the ACC. So a reporter asked him, and kind of a dumb question, but an even dumber answer to this question, they asked him if the game against Notre Dame is a must win,

for for for pit and i don't know hearing a lot of coach speak over the years kenton i would expect the answer to be like you know what we approach every game like a must win we give our best each and every saturday instead of saying something like that and i guess i can credit narduzzi for not going the coach speak but he took it somewhere i didn't expect him to take it he said absolutely not it's a must win and he explained i gladly get beat he said this, I'd gladly get beat 110 to 10 in that game as long as we win the next two after that. Prioritizing the ACC victories over the non-conference. I don't know, Kenton, you know, you've been around a lot of coaching throughout your life,

Kaz Tech and NC State and all pee-wee ball that you play. How many coaches did you ever have that went into a game saying, you know what? We might lose this one by 100, but it doesn't matter. It's the next one that counts. This is why I say Narduzzi will give you a tale of two cities as a coach because he has moments where you look at him and you say, I want to run through a brick wall for that guy. And then he has moments like this where you sit there and scratch your head and say,

how in good faith can you sit here and say, we could lose this game by 30? It doesn't matter. I'm focused on the next two. Not by 30, by 100. By 100. I'm sorry, by a hundred and worry about the next two. That's, see, there's a championship standard and a championship mentality.

And oddly enough, Coach Narduzi is the last ever coastal head coach to win an ACC championship. Outly enough, it is just a factual statement. Regardless how you want to cut or slice it, no other coastal coach has done it. Nobody else will do it because the coastal no longer exists technically. But with that being said, this is not championship mentality. This is not the mentality of a team that wants to make the playoffs. And I mean at a serious clip and be competitive in a playoff game. You don't just, oh, well, it's not a conference.

No, no, no, no, no. Why would you not care if your team gets beat by 100? You pay your guys too. Y'all got NIL too. There's a reason it's not called Hardsfield no more. And you play there. It's about the money. And you know.

So to see this team or to see Narduzi say this rather. And I truly hope that this is one of those situations. Because, Dono, you corrected me on some context last week from Miami. And so I hope that somebody has some context on these quotes for Narduzi to say, hey, in the frame of it, they said, would you care if you won, lost this one and then won the next two or which would you prefer? Because maybe that would make it better. But even then, even still, it's like, no. we want to win every game.

Yeah. You know what? My coach, Coach Thomas Wilcher, love you. I know you listen to coach. You know what he told me in terms of whether or not we wanted to win every competition. We were at a track meet and they said that it was going to be a big man relay there. So it was me and three other linemen running up against the fastest guys in the city. There was no big man relay.

It was just us. Okay. Oh. And now we get beat by a country mile because mind you, I'm the anchor. And I'm not going to lie and say I was like the fastest guy in the universe. I was not. I was fast for a defensive lineman. We got kids in Detroit that got speed, speed, okay?

Sure. And when I finish, our coach brings us all in, and he says, big fellas, I love the effort. I love the effort. But next time, y'all better finish somewhere besides last. And we're sitting up there. We all got 100 plus pounds on the guys who run against. And he said, I don't care if it's a pissing competition. Y'all better be standing up against the fence with water jugs and water pills.

Because that's the mentality of a champion. I want to win every rep. I want to win every play. I want to win every game. Not, well, I'll strategically lose this game. And then I win this one. Because this one is the one that out of here. Yeah.

And like, I don't even like that being put in the universe. And I also, I want whoever wins the ACC, I want it to be just a good representative for the conference, right? I mean, you've got the possibility of a four lost Duke Blue Devils team. Three of their losses are non-con. They could theoretically win the ACC championship. But, like, Duke has been so bad out of conference, Kenton. They've lost to Yukon, lost to Tulane, got, you know, turnovers, but they got blown out. The scoreboard said they got blown out by Illinois.

Like, they've been so bad non-conference, there's a chance that if Duke wins the ACC, they might not even make the CFP because it's the top five highest ranked conference champions. The power four are not guaranteed bids. And so then, and listen, like Pittsburgh, you lost to West Virginia was rough out of conference. But if they lose, like if they lose to Notre Dame, they're not going to lose by 100, obviously. But if they lose by 30, 40 points and they end up winning the ACC, it's not a good look for the ACC. So do you want to talk about the standings, Kenton, when do we come back? Because it's interesting because the ESP.

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All right, so Kenton, as we know, there are no unbeaten in conference teams left. Everybody's got at least one conference loss. Virginia suffered their first this past weekend against Wake Forest. So atop the standings right now, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, five and one conference record. The Virginia Cavaliers, five and one. Pittsburgh Panthers, five and one in the ACC.

SMU, 5 and 1. Can they get back to the title game for the second straight year? The Duke Blue Devils, 4 and 1 in conference. Louisville, 4 and 2, Miami 3 and 2. And then you've got Wake Forest 3 and 3, Cal 3 and 3, Clemson 3 and 4, Virginia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, all 2 and 3. Stanford 2 and 5, Florida State 1 in 5, Syracuse 1 and 5, Boston College, 0 and 6. So you have five teams right now, Kenton, with one conference loss. Which two do you think are going to get to Charlotte?

You know, honestly and truly, I see this as Georgia Tech. And I hate to say it. I hate to say it. Who does Duke have left on their schedule, Donno? I will tell you in one second. All right. Duke is at home against number 19 Virginia at North Carolina and home against Wake Forest. I hate to say it.

We're probably going to end up with Georgia Tech and Duke. I hate to say it. I hate to say it, Donald. And that's a rematch too. Yeah. Like I want to see two teams that haven't played each other this year. Yeah. I hate to say it, Don't know.

But those are three games that Duke is probably going to be favored in. And I think, I hope that Virginia hasn't let go to rope. I would love to see Virginia there. I really would. I would love it. I think Georgia Tech, they've got. the most comfortable way in. I really and truly do because amongst the teams that have only one conference loss, I feel the best about Georgia Tech on any given day. I really do. Given the

fact that their Achilles Hill is their passing game and their ability to stop the run, I think I'm pretty sure that Coach Key will get that put together. He'll figure it out. And Haynes King, with all due respect, I think it was more so a matter of he didn't have to throw the ball at a high clip more so than he cannot do so. But after seeing the NC State game and after seeing, hey, when you get down, you're going to have to do that. I think they'll be a little bit better in that area going forward. I'm a little concerned, though, because they still have 22nd rank pit.

It's a home game, but I think that that's a loseable game. Like, that might be a awesome game. Their other conference game is at Boston College, which is the free space on the bingo card this year. But the pit game, Here's why I say that. Here's why I say that, okay. Pitt, they have the potential to beat them.

Explosive passing game, lineback and court that can stop the run. That's what the blueprint seems to be. And, you know, they have that. However, Narduzzi just exposed the loser mentality that's going to permeate throughout that locker room. You don't lose a game by 30 this late in the season and then come back and win a championship off of that. You just don't.

Yeah. You don't. I'm sorry to tell you, if you've got bad habits in week 11, getting beat by 30 in week 11, you could tell yourself, well, I'll just focus and lock in on the last two. Your team won't. The residuals of that behind kick and will carry over. So there's that. But I do think Georgia Tech wins, gets in because, again, they have been dominant all year.

And by dominant, I don't mean running the score of winning by 60 and 50 on team. I mean, they have five ways to win. And for the most part, most of those games, they've been. in control of for a good amount of it. The Wake Forest game is probably the one game I would say they didn't have any control of, got some good breaks down the stretch, good breaks being bad ACC officiating, let's be honest, down the stretch. But other than that, they've been good.

Duke, on the other hand, I just think that they've struggled too mightily out of conference to come back in conference and, again, just right to ship out of nowhere. The only other team that I would say could sneak their way in because of their schedule only SMU. SMU has an opportunity to get at all the teams that they need to beat and they already have a head-to-head win over one of the other two lost teams in Miami. So if it is to be who's going to get in between those two, SMU gets the knock.

Yeah, SMU has their home. They only have two games left. They're both conference games, home against 20th rank Louisville. It's tough game and at Cal. Which, you know, Cal's like a wild card. Cal could lose or win on any given Saturday. You don't know what Cal you're going to get. You never know what Wilcox and the boys,

but that SMU squad, that Louisville game is a vital importance. That is a vital. That's a huge game. That's everything. That's the season. That's the ACC championship right there. If I'm SMU, every game from now and it's the playoffs. Every game is the playoffs.

If you are serious about it, every game is the playoffs. They can make it, but Louisville is going to be a tough task to get over. Well, and don't you think in the case of SMU, just having gotten there last year, and, you know, many of the same players back, most importantly, your quarterback Kevin Jennings, having gone through that gauntlet first year in the ACC, getting to the college football playoff, I feel like that experience is valuable, right? It's something that, you know, the other teams in the field have not done, right? Because it was Clemson and SMU. Last year, Clemson's out of it now. So I think for SMU, that experience is going to help them down the stretch. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

Playoff experience would not help Clemson this year. They're going to compete in the Macron Bowl. But you talk about what SMU did last year. That's a winning culture, Dono. Winning in the American. Dominating that conference. Dominating being in back-to-back conference championships there. And then coming to the ACC,

continuing saying, hey, we are a winning program. This is the standard at the Pony Express role with it. a get rolled over. That is what champions are made of. That's what champions are made up. Did they start off the season in a very disappointing fashion? Absolutely. Have they been disappointments out of conference?

Absolutely. Not denying that at all. But when we look at the constitution of that team, when we look at the makeup of that team, like you said, you've got the experience, you've got the quarterback, the defense is coming along. I think they can get it done.

Yeah, I think they can too. It'll be interesting to see. Let's take a look at the quick, schedule for this coming weekend, which we'll talk about more later on this week on lockdown ACC. Big game for Louisville on Friday night. They host Clemson. You know, Clemson, again, like they're having a bad season, Kenton, but they're still a team that has enough talent to beat anyone in the ACC. Like I favor Louisville. Louisville's two and a half point favorites at home, which kind of tells you the betters think it's a toss-up, right? You usually get about three

points at home. They're two and a half point favorites. So that one is being looked at like a toss-up. Other games for this weekend, you've got, you know, as we talked about, number nine, Notre Dame at 22nd rank pit, college game day. Notre Dame's favored by 12 and a half. They might as well be favored by 100 if you listen to Pittsburgh's head coach. Notre Dame minus 100 should be the line there. NC State at number 15 Miami. Dave Doran can play spoiler for Miami's slim hopes.

Miami favored by 14 and a half, which I think, I think, I think, I think it's too big of a number, but I say this every week, Kenton. I think, you know, for Miami has been a Jekyll and Hyde team, and yet they're favored by two touchdowns plus every single game. I don't fully understand it, but it happens every week. Let me tell you something. Fade knows Miami spreads, not the money line. Fade the Miami spread is good eats.

That's good eats right there because they're going to give it to you every time. And there's been a weird occurrence, Donald, with three games this year, or not three games this year, with three games in very recent history, Miami has had massive line drops out of nowhere. And that, my friends, it's interesting. It's not,

all three of those games turned out to be upsets against Miami, too. God, I wish I had my tinfoil hat standing by because, I'm just saying, if there's time, take it early. When that Miami line is first announced,

fade them points early. Ken Gibbs said it first. Do so responsibly now. Don't you be a gambling degenerate betting the mortgage, but do so responsibly, and you'll be getting some good eats in no time. I'm like one page into a hundred page expose, but can I give you a quick,

can I give you a quick teaser on this? If I can go down the conspiracy corner for just a second, right? Okay, we got Miami County Staliers in the better. Go for it. So, all right, so in these games, when there's a conspicuous line drop, like on game day, right? Where Miami's favored by, you know, 14 and a half, and then suddenly the numbers are less.

a couple hours before kickoff. And normally, when you see a line make a drastic move like that, you're finding out pregame, oh, my God, like their quarterback is injured, right? There's like a really, that's not what's happening here. But do you know what does get announced a couple of hours before kickoff? The referee crew? The referee assignment. Ah!

Mm. And would you also like to hear, Kenton, that the team that has the why, widest gap in the entire country in penalties called against you versus penalties called against your opponent. The team with the widest gap. Do you know which team that is? That's definitely Miami. That's definitely Miami.

Yeah. 33. They've had 33 more calls go against them than for them. So that's page one of the 100 page expose. We'll get to 2 through 99 on a later episode. For those of you who are listening and not watching, Donald has a. on his glasses today because he's doing the knowledge. He's got those 3D futuristic glasses.

Jarvis is installed inside of them. And by Jarvis, I mean Jarvis Davis and Jarvis from Iron Man. They're both in there feeding them information. They're crossbreeding information. I see what's going on here, Donald. In all seriousness, I would say Miami's probably going to win that game. But 14 feels like a lot, especially giving their pace of play, especially given like how they like to do things.

I don't really see a 4. 14 point win coming out of that. And C.J. Bailey, everybody knows. He had Miami recruited him harder to start with. Yeah. That recruitment might ended up different. Thank God's did, Mario. We're glad to have it.

We're glad to have it. Couldn't get him then. We can get him later, perhaps. Hey, watch out. Watch out. Steve, Steve, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, Donald. Now when I make a trip down there to Florida,

don't nobody save nothing, you know what I'm being? Me and Mario already had our little spat. So I guess I'm just had to roundhouse these hands while I'm down there in Miami. Don't worry about it. I'm going to come see about you. We appreciate Kenton Gibbs as always. Vixchew, follow him on X at TGIF underscore Kenton. Follow him at Lockdown Wolfpack. Follow me on X at Alex Dono and at Lockdown Canes. We'll talk to you next time right here on another episode of Lockdown ACC. We are part of the Locked on podcast network. Now the number one sports podcast network,

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