Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - SHOWDOWN: Clemson Tigers Face ULTIMATE TEST Against LSU | Can Dabo SILENCE Brian Kelly?

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

ACC football heats up as CLEMSON TIGERS face LSU in a clash of coaching titans. Can Dabo Swinney outmaneuver Brian Kelly?Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs break down the CLEMSON TIGERS' defensive prowess against LSU's revamped offense. The duo analyzes key ACC matchups, including NC STATE WOLFPACK vs East Carolina and SYRACUSE ORANGE vs Tennessee. Stanford's shocking loss to Hawaii raises questions about their future. Gibbs offers bold predictions, including a potential SYRACUSE ORANGE upset over the Volunteers.Tune in for expert analysis on ACC football's biggest games and surprising upsets!Listener SurveyWe’ve put together a survey to learn more about our listeners and make your favorite podcasts even better. Go tohttps://lockedonpodcasts.com/survey/ to get started. Everyone who completes a survey will be entered for a chance to win one of ten $100 Amazon gift cards. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!UpsideSimply download the free Upside app in the App Store or Google Play and use the promo code FOOTBALL to get an extra 25 cents back per gallon on your first fill up. Start earning cash at the pump, today!  Click Here: https://getupside.onelink.me/zlLr?af_xp=custom&pid=barrington&c=barrington_lockedon25&deep_link_value=promo&deep_link_sub1=lockedon25&af_dp=upsideapp%3A%2F%2FRugiet150,000 men have made the switch →https://Rugiet.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGEUse code LOCKEDONNFL to get 15% off your order!SupplyHouseJoin the free TradeMaster program today and score serious perks like priority shipping, lower prices, and a dedicated support line. Visit https://www.supplyhouse.com/apply-for-trademasterto 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.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at www.monarchmoney.com/lockedoncollege for 50% off your first year.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.

It's officially week one in college football. And Clemson, Florida State, Miami, all have opportunities to beat top 10 teams. Let's go. 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. We're available free. Wherever you get your podcast.

We're free on YouTube. We're part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Today's episode is brought to you by Fandual. Football season is here. Visit the Fandual app today and start planning your futures bets right now. He is Kenton Gibbs, former NC State defensive lineman and co-host of Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono, host of Lockdown Cains. On this episode, Stanford is off to an 0-1 start.

Will they win a game all year? We'll dive into that. We will take a deep dive looking at some of the matchups for this weekend because Kenton, not only do we have a bunch of top 10 opportunities for ACC teams, we also have the Bill Belichick sideline debut for North Carolina. We have that coming up as well. But before, KG, I want to later in the week take like a real true deep dive on Miami hosting Notre Dame and Florida State hosting Alabama. But maybe for this episode, excellent, excellent matchup coming up. in Death Valley, the one that's in Clemson that Brian Kelly refers to as Death Valley Jr. We'll see. We'll find out this weekend. But in Clemson, you're going to have your top four Clemson Tigers hosting top 10 LSU.

Your early hunch, Kenton, on who's going to win this game and why? There's only one coach in this game that has proven he can win big games. And that's the guy that is going to run his team out and touch the rock. You understand that team, everybody who tells me, oh, can your Brian Kelly hatred is so misplaced. Your disdain for Brian Kelly is so misplaced. Well, somebody show me where it's wrong. Somebody show me where I have been wrong about Brian Kelly. The only time I have ever seen him win a big game was against another coach who has a

pension for pissing down their leg every time the lights get bright in the moment gets big. when you ask Brian Kelly to take his team and play a competent team, they lose. When is the last time those LSU Tigers won an opening game? 2019. Was Brian Kelly the head coach then? Nope. Hmm. And by the way, that was the last time they opened against a non-power 4, Power 5 team.

I think it was Georgia Southern. since then, and not all great teams, but they've opened against power four teams, and they haven't won a single opener since. Yeah, well, unfortunately, the Georgia Southern Eagles ain't walking through that door. It's not happening. I'm sorry to tell you.

You know, Georgia Southern is not walking through that door. You're instead going to see Kay K. Clubnick walking through that door. You're going to see T.J. Parker walking through that door. You're going to see a bunch of dudes that are real, real bad walking through that door. Okay. You're going to see a bunch of guys who are going to have to wait in the green room. They're going to have a new men in the green room for every hair follicle you and I have that's active on the top of our heads. That's how long they'll have to wait in that green room.

Okay. For those of you who don't know, if me and Donald didn't shave for a month, we'd look like George Jefferson and the mad scientist standing next to each other. So I don't see a world where Brian Kelly wins his game, not only because he's terrible at execution, but also because I think Clemson has the best. better players. I think LSU is replacing too much. They're trying to replace too much too fast for me to say, hey, that team can get it done. I think Cain Durham is a fantastic running back. I think that's the only advantage LSU has in this game. I think they have a much better running

back. That kid is phenomenal. He is a burner. But unless he has 200 plus yards, I don't see a world where they win this game. And with all due respect to Nussmeyer, I think that he's a wonderful passer, he's not mobile enough to get away from a Peter Woods and get away from a T.J. Parker all night. And if those of you who are saying, well, he doesn't have to be mobile, you're a place of Will Campbell who started at left tackle for how long down there in the bayou. Oh, okay. So I think that there is, I think this is a serious, serious moment for Davo to stake his claim and say, hey, we're the real Death Valley, we're the real tigers. And also, I don't think week what is going to go well for any of the guys that were talking about.

talking big stuff all offseason. And Brian Kelly was what. Yeah, I mean, for me, this game and why I favor Clemson, I think the game's going to be somewhat close. Like, I think it's going to be, you know, Clemson maybe seven points, something like that. But why I favor Clemson comes down to a couple of important matchups. And you touched a little bit on one of those, Kenton.

So LSU, they're replacing four starting offensive linemen that they just lost into the NFL draft. Like that's, you know, and again, like, they may settle in. Week one may not be the best timing for that going up against T.J. Parker, Peter Woods, Will Held to transfer it in. Yeah, Davos taking transfers now and he got a good one for that defensive line. So that to me, I mean, Clemson, I would already say this, probably has the best defensive line in the entire country. And you're going up against an offensive line that's replacing four starters. I think that, you know, and yes, Garrett Nussmeyer is a great quarterback. But if he's

under duress all night. You know, he doesn't have time to throw. Like you said, he's not that mobile. I think that's going to be a big view there. And then I also, I wonder about LSU's secondary, which is a spot that I believe they have upgraded, but has been suspect for them the last couple of years. And you're going up against one of the best receiver cores in the country against a quarterback in Kade Klubnick, who found so much confidence with the way that he played last

season. He's now got the horses lining up wide and in the slot for him. So that to me is a question mark. I'm sure if any LSU fans find this episode, they're going to be commenting like, you don't know what we got, bro, got all these new points. Okay, you're improving your secondary after it's been an issue for the past couple of years. You're going up against a very good Clemson receiving court. So I think those are the types of matchups, not to mention, you're playing in Clemson's Death Valley, not an easy place to win. I think those are some matchups that are going to decide this game in the favor of the Clemson Tigers. I want to see what matchups LSU has that they feel comfortable as they can win.

I want to know. I want to know. I mean, probably like you said, starting running back versus, which is not an actual on the field matchup, but I mean, they probably feel like they have a running back edge. And to be fair, Clemson wasn't that great at stopping the run last year. So that's something Tom Allen is trying to fix. And that's why I acknowledge that it's going to take a. Herculean effort from Durham to get this done because he's that type of bag.

He's that type of back. I'm not denying that he can go nuclear and you just look up and you're like, oh, my God, that kid just he's still running, right? I'm not denying that. But position by position. If I, I'm not even talking units. I'm just talking position by position. I would say, hey, LSU's got the edge two places, running back, tight in.

That's it. Every other group, if you talk groups, offensive line, you just talked about consistent, steady, everybody's coming back for new gods. Quarterback. Nussmeier to K. K. K. Klupnik, somewhat of a wash, in my opinion. I might even give the slight edge to Nuss, but not if the protection struggles against Clemson's D-Line. And I was just about to say, but even if we give that to them, right? So now we've given you running back, we've given you quarterback. back. But once we get

beyond the tight end, past catchers as a whole, I'm sorry to tell you. In the words of Fran Brown, that's a little homie up at Ohio State in terms of who's competing with this wide receiver court. That's a little homie up at Ohio state. Same thing he said when they were talking receiver two million. Same thing I'm going to answer when you

ask who's better than this wide receiver court. The little homies up at Ohio State, that's it. That's all I can come up with off the top of my head. You look at the linebacking court. I mean, I don't know what it is about Clemsonison. I don't know what it is, but they, their linebacking coaches go scouting, and they say, find me an insane white boy.

We're going to have us a great linebacking court. That was the problem before. They had Trotter and they had, what was his name, Barrett Carter, and they needed, they missed just that one. They needed that one. I feel like I should stay any, I'll just let you go because I don't, I don't have anything to add to this. But honestly, but honestly,

linebacking court, I like Perkins a lot. I think he's playing out of position. I really do. I don't think that they found the proper way to utilize Perkins down there at LSU. I don't. So you look at that lineback accord. LSU has a deficit there. Defensive backplay.

That's not even Clemson's strength. Their safeties are a group that you look at like, what are you going to be? And yet, if anybody who's being honest with themselves, Clemson has a landslide advantage there. So I'm not sitting here saying, Clemson by a thousand because we believe in the Tigers and go ACC. Instead, I'm saying Clemson by 10 because they have the better coach.

They have better matchups almost everywhere on the field. And again, go position group by position group. It is possible for Nuss and to do something that's so special that it transcends all of these guys not playing well around it. The only problem with that is, I'm sorry to tell you, in order for them to have great games, they're going to need to neutralize Parker, Woods, Woodass, Brown, and I don't think they got those horses in a stable.

Well, coming up next, I want to talk about why I think, and maybe Kenton agrees, why LSU has a lot more pressure than Clemson does in this game, and then we'll take a look around the rest of the conference, because, yeah, week zero was not good for the ACC. That's an oh-and-one

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you'd love to see Clemson win this game, right? Because they went 0 for three against the SEC last year. You know, you'd love to see, you know, Davosweeney set the season on the right path. But I look at it from Brian Kelly and LSU's point of view. And this has nothing to do with losing their previous, you know, five season openers or anything like that. But if you look at LSU's path to the college football playoff, far less likely LSU wins the SEC than Clemson wins the ACC, right?

Clemson are heavy favorites to win our conference. You know, LSU is among a group of teams that could win the conference, but, you know, Georgia, Texas, Texas probably being the favorite. So LSU's path to the CFP probably involves an at large bid. And a non-conference win is going to be a lot more important for them than it will be for Clemson, assuming Clemson are the odds-on favorites to win the ACC. You're muted. The Brian Kelly Lobby was coming for me because he knows I'm coming down the pipeline.

Donno, let me cook here for a second. Clemson versus LSU, two very proud programs, two programs that have won multiple national championships, two coaches that have won multiple national championships. But do you know what the difference is? Brian Kelly's last national championship came at Grand Valley State. FCS. It's in Michigan. I've got some wonderful former teammates and, you know, guys from my high school that went there.

So shout out to Grand Valley State. I'm sorry to tell you, you look at the amount of first games lost. You look at the fact that Clemson before Davo had one national championship ever. Yeah. Dabo Sweeney has more. It's like 81 or something. Yeah, 80 or 81, one of those two. Yeah.

Dabo Sweeney has more national championships as the head coach of Clemson than Clemson has without him as the head coach. He raised the floor, the ceiling, the expectation, the belief, the hype, the NIL, the relevance nationally. He raised all of that. Brian Kelly is Ed Orgeron's predecessor. or he's the guy following at Orsera. Did Coach Ove win a national championship there? He did. Hmm.

Who was the coach before Coach O? Was that Les Miles, I believe? Les Miles, who won championship there? Oh, okay. All right. Well, who was it before Oh, Les Miles? Who was the coach before Les Miles? Who had...

The Nick Saban? Whoa, Nick Saban. Well, he surely didn't win a national chance. Oh, look. There's one outlier in the group. And it's you, Brian. It's you, buddy. So I'm sorry to tell you.

Every bad thing that happens to Brian Kelly on a football field gives my heart joy and delight. And therefore, week one, I'll have lots of joy and delight because they have all the pressure on them and they know it. Clemson has a path to the college football playoff, even if they lose every out of conference game they play. There's a path. For LSU, not so much. There's a, there's a, there's not a world where people look at dabble and say, you've been disappointing and underwhelming as Clemson's head coach.

People are already saying, we live in the world where people are saying that about Brian Kelly. We live in that world right now. So again, the pressure is all on the tigers that are going to be wearing that purple and gold. The pressure is going to be on the boys that, you know, they know the trimay area and all of the wards down there very well. That's who the pressure is on, not the guys from Clemson, South Carolina. That's not it at all. Looking at other games this weekend involving ACC teams, your NC State Wolf Pack open up against East Carolina.

You guys are 13-point favorites. I mean, do you believe that's a dub, right, Kenton? Like, you're opening up with a dub. Yeah, this game is personal. ECU beat NC State last year in a bowl game and ECU fans have not let NC State fans live it down. Dave Doran, you know, they didn't take the, I don't think they took it seriously enough last year

because they were all, oh, we're above this team being our rival. I'm sorry, I'm one of those people. If you think I'm your rival, I'm going to bring more smoke than Cheech and Chong bought in the 70s. You understand? If you think you, my rival, I don't care if you're below me. If I was Miami and fam, you said, we're your rival. Oh, really?

Oh, if I'm the head coach, oh, it's rivalry week. boys we're going to ratch up the intensity since they think they're our rivals since they think they can wear the orange and green like we do they're our rivals now congratulations now i think dorn has a sense of that and i think this game is going to get ugly early you got some games where the spreads are not so close uh duke is going to host elon uh thursday night by the way those games are both on thursday the nc state game and the duke game duke is favored by 34 and a half points against elon now kenton you know my rule and i was able to cash in with id Idaho State against UNLV.

Anytime a week one team is an underdog by 30 or more points, I always bet the dog. And I'm counting my money after Idaho State. So J.J. Jackson, if you're listening to this, it's nothing personal. I am going to be betting against the spread. You know, I'm going to be betting the opposite way of your Duke Blue Devils. And I'm going to be rooting for Elon to hold them within five touchdowns. That's going to be the weekend I'm going to be having or Thursday night I'm going to be having. Friday you've got Wake Forest hosting Kennesaw State. Wake is favored by 18.

This is, I like this as a spicy matchup on a Friday night. Kenton, Georgia Tech is going to be on the road in Boulder, Colorado. You still got Dion there, but no more Chidor and Georgia Tech, as they should be our favored by four points. Now, this is personal between you and me and Drake Toll, because we want to make sure the ACC gets a big victory against the Big 20. 12 on Friday. Absolutely. And you know, you want to talk about the whole we play for clicks. They play for and it, you know, or they play for clicks. We play it on the field type of thing. Oregon was the wrong team to say that. Georgia Tech, however, that actually does apply. That actually is a thing that's happening there. I see Donno's pulling out his stop for the clicks and getting the family affair rolling. He said if Diago get rid of his son, I'm going to bring it my son.

That's what we go. My kid is asking me, what if we just had some, soccer earlier today. He's like, oh, when can we go out in the backyard and play soccer? And I'm like, you don't see that I'm on right now? Literally right now. He felt the spirit of the family affair, Dono. You mentioned Colorado. He said, he lost two sons. Let me bring one son on the air. But in all seriousness, I look at this game and I say, in the trenches, I think there's too big of a disadvantage. I love seating. I think his body has trimmed up in an amazing way. I think he's going to be a fantastic left tackle. Unfortunately, you cannot just run behind the left tackle. Unfortunately, you cannot just run behind

the left tackle the entire game and win a football game, not against Georgia Tech. I am sorry, they don't have it in them. So I think that Georgia Tech and the Yellow Jackets win the one, they win one here, that I don't think it's particularly close late. I think Georgia Tech, I think, no, I'm sorry, Colorado does a good job of keeping it close early, but it gets out of hand late. All right. How about Syracuse on the road, or I guess not on, no, it's in Atlanta.

a neutral site against 24th ranked Tennessee. Now, the volunteers are favored by 13 and a half points. And it feels like a ball's dub. I think our question is, can Syracuse pull it off? Now, I noticed our guy, our good friend Jackson Holzer, put out a social media posts like, you know, what needs to happen for Syracuse to pull off the upset. And I noticed one of the comments he got from a Syracuse fan was,

I wouldn't even call it an upset based on what Fran Brown is building. I don't know. I'd go that far. Like to not call it an upset of Syracuse wins. Syracuse has one of the top two schedules in the entire country. I would love to see them win this game against old Rocky Top. I just don't see it, but I think they can keep it close and maybe keep it within 10.

Hey, Dono. Is Tennessee's quarterback from last year coming back? No, he's not. What about Samson? What about that running back that was the guy last year? What about Sparrow White? Leading receiver? Is he?

He's in Florida State now. Dono, I'm going to say something. And people are not going to like it. People not going to like it. The wrong team is favored, Dono. I've got Syracuse pulling off the upset here on a last second field goal. Fran Brown has woken up everybody on the recruiting trail. This is going to be the game where he wakes everybody up nationally to how great of a coach he is in terms of on the field.

I think he's learned some lessons and taking some lumps last year. I'm not sure that he's going to win seven. or eight this year, but this is one of them. I think I'll admit this. I think I'm secretly rooting against Fran Brown, because he's taken too many recruits out of South Florida. I'm just like, all right, slow down, Fran. Slow down.

I don't need you getting signature wins this year. Let's slow down, and Calvin Russell can come back home to the youth. In the words of Uncle Jerome, teach him as Mario how to squabble, okay? You got to teach him how to squabble down there in the state of Miami, okay? He's got to do what he's got to do to build a wall around the state of Miami. He's not doing it right now. Because like you said, he's a national guy.

My secret anti-Fran Brown agenda is no longer a secret. I don't want him showering all season long. I want him going 0 and 12 and smelling like an outhouse. That's what I'm. Oh, come on, man. Come on. Don't do them like that. Don't give 112.

Oh, and 12, which means they won't make a bowl game so they can't go 0 in 13. but I got all 0 and 12 this year and all the recruits coming back to Miami. Well, the worst part is we might actually have a team goal on 12 at ACC this year, but I guess we'll get into it. Yeah, we'll get into that. And again, folks, we're not intentionally ignoring a couple of big matchups between Miami and Notre Dame, which is going to be on Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium and Florida State hosting Alabama on Saturday, which is a massive game.

We also have real quick, though, before we move on, Kenton, how you feeling about Bill Belichick's debut, North Carolina is going to be hosting TCU on Monday night. So primetime on Labor Day, 8 p.m. TCU favored by three, though, in Chapel Hill. Is the wrong team favored on this one? No, Sunny Dikes and the boys are going to cover that three comfortably. They're going to cover that three with their feet up,

smiling and laughing all the way to the bank. I don't think that TCU is a particularly great team. I just think that UNC has so many defensive. They'll be at that level where it's like, you're above a power 14, I guess. But like, I don't think the TCU will be that bad this year. Yeah, I hear you. All right. So, and again, we're not ignoring Miami, Notre Dame and Florida State, Alabama.

We're going to take deep dives on those games throughout the week. But let's talk about Stanford when we come back. Like, I get it. Your academics are great, but can we focus a little more to get your football team back on track? you want to keep it locked right here. We're not done yet on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACCC. Guys, I am so pumped because August 26th, that's tomorrow. Tuesday, depending on when you're listening to this.

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alex dono alongside kenton givs all right so kent and i'm not even to say i'm surprised because you know stanford they were three point or two and a half point dogs depending on where you look going against hawaii this past weekend so some folks i see react you're like wow i can't believe stanford lost to hawaii like i'm not going to say we didn't see this coming but kg they built a 10-0 lead early on, including a forced fumble recovery touchdown in the end zone. It was really looking like Hawaii's offense was going to have problems. And then they figured it out.

I mean, credit to Hawaii, their quarterback, what is it, Ahedah, ended up playing really good in that game. And their Japanese kicker who grew up learning how to play football from YouTube videos. He grew up playing soccer in Japan. He watched YouTube videos, learned how to speak English through YouTube. too, like sensational story, but when Stanford has the 10-0 lead in the game and then the 2017 lead very, very late, you've got to be able to hold on to that. And so honestly, Stanford, who lose to a group of five team in this case, they do not

look like a power four team this year. And the schedule only gets tougher for them. You're muted again. Now the Frank Reich, the Frank Reich, the Frank Rag lobby is trying to shut me out. I feel like you should just do that as a running joke. Every time we start a segment, just be muted because all the big lobbies are coming after you. Yeah. Hey, hey, I'm a controversial guy.

What can I say? But I'm going to tell you this, Dono. I'm disappointed because, like you said, you jump out to two leads on a group of 16. You have to maintain those leads. You have to maintain those. And here's the worst part for Stanford. The schedule gets no easier. the schedule gets no easier.

Everybody keeps saying, oh, San Jose State, that's the one. They'll get a win there, San Jose State. That's the one. I don't know if y'all know this, but San Jose State was actually good at football last year. I'm sorry to tell you, guys. I'm sorry to tell you. San Jose State was actually a pretty decent football team. So, and here's the other part about it that would really blow my mind about San Jose State

if they were to win that football game. that would be the biggest recruiting bump that they have seen in quite some time. Do you know why, Donna? They're recruiting the same players. You think that Miami and Florida or Miami and Florida State are close to each other? You think that NC State and UNC are close to each other? Those two schools are 28 miles apart. Do you know how far Palo Alto is from San Jose?

I'm going to guess. And you were just out there, right? So you probably know, like 10, 15 miles away? 17 miles away. Wow. Listen, Stanford, y'all better get it together. Y'all better get it together. Because not only is this going to be terrible for recruiting

if you go defeated for a season, let's be very honest. It's terrible in terms of getting a new hire. Because that new hire knows, I've got to come in and deal with. with defeated. I've got to clean my locker room of defeated. I've got to get in one of the most academically rigorous power for schools there is, and I've got to recruit some football players. That's tough.

And nobody did it well since Harbaugh. And now, knowing some of the things we know about Harbaugh, makes you kind of look at those wins. What's going on there? What foreigners were we cutting back then? Exactly. But in all seriousness, Stanford, getting together, man. We knew this was going to be a failure.

We knew this was going to be tough. And that's why even with an underover, what was it, two and a half, you and I both hammered the under and that. Yeah. All right. So I don't know if there's such a thing as like a big Hawaii Warriors lobby. But if so, they're coming after me to mute my mic because I totally butchered. I froze up and I couldn't remember their quarterback's name.

I knew there was one of those like silent Js in there. there. So let me apologize to Micahe-Alejado, the quarterback from Hawaii, who threw two touchdowns and had a really nice game. And I should have remembered him because he was he was a, he played a Bishop Gorman, you know, mega high school in Las Vegas. He had a nice

game for Hawaii and their kicker. Let me get the kicker's name as well while I'm apologizing to Hawaii. Kansai Matsuzawa, who hit went three for three from his field goals, including the game winner. That was a big game from them. And yes, like you, I am

legitimately worried that Stanford comes out of the schedule 0 and 12. Like I legitimately worried. Hey, Donno, you said the line was two and a half and their kicker made sure that they won the game by three. Yeah. All I'm saying is check his interpreter's fan duel. And they, we've learned our lesson. Have we learned our lesson or not?

You know what? I wish I was the interpreter, but I didn't have any money on that game. But at least I could count on Idaho State to cover that 30 and a half against UNLV. We had that one. And now we're counting on Elon to just lose by less than five touchdowns and five extra point. Even if you just block an extra point for us after you go down five touchdown, we'll be all right. You know, Donald's got to pay.

You see his son came in to make sure that is that slip right? Did you put it in the way I actually put it in there? You know, we make sure little Donno is really the one way. He even asked me, like, if any of the lines moved in the last couple of hours? And I think actually, I think the. Clemson line did move a little bit because I checked it within the last couple days. And I think it was Clemson like minus three or three and a half. It's Clemson minus four now.

So the people are realizing what a mush Brian Kelly is, LSU and the money is starting to come in. Make sure you guys check Fandual for all the great odds. And we had a great time as always. Make sure you follow Kenton at Lockdown Wolfpack and on X at TGIF underscore Kenton. Make sure you follow me at Alex Dono and on Lockdown, And we'll talk to you all again next time on another episode of Lockdown ACC. We are part of the awesome Lockdown Podcast Network.

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