Shutdown Fullcast - 40 for 40: The 2016 Liberty Bowl

Episode Date: December 29, 2016

Number 28 of 40 bowl previews, in which we may not discuss the Liberty Bowl or the teams playing in it whatsoever! One person on this episode is just brutal towards Georgia. Surprisingly, that person is neither Spencer nor Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ready? One sponsor. It's going to give it away. AutoZone. Second sponsor, FedEx. Third sponsor. Penn's Oil. Fourth sponsor, Bass Pro Shops.

Oh, this is easy. The Zaxby's Bowl. Incorrect. No. We're actually talking about the Liberty Bowl. It's a generational tragedy, by the way, that this game is not played inside the Bass Pro Shops pyramid and we shouldn't rest as a society until we have that game.

You're telling me, we're all nodding. This is a choir and you're doing nothing but preaching the truth, okay? In this game, oh, surely the people on this podcast, hi Jason, hi Holly, hi Ryan. We won't have anything negative to say about one side of this game. Georgia TCU. Look, it's Georgia TCU. Georgia ended up in the Liberty Bowl.

Guess who the halftime act is, by the way. The Commodores. The band? Yeah, the Commodores. So George is going to get shown up by two sets of Commodores this year. Boom! Alleyoop. Shit.

Basketball joke. That's true. Memphis. The opponent in this game, that would be TCU. We've already discussed Gary Patterson enough in this. This was quite enough. quite enough. This was a really bad year for TCU

like one of those things that people kind of I think accepted a little too early didn't discuss enough. TCU was not a good football team this year. What would make you happier? Georgia beats TCU and

Georgia fans get super overinflated by this game and are like oh yeah Kirby's got it all working puzzle pieces put together look out SEC East or Georgia loses this game And Georgia Oh, this is what's happening

We never should We never should have let Mark go He was a good man We gotta go get Lane Kiffin We gotta go get Lane Kiffin I might take issue with the premise That Georgia fans are going to see this game in the first place Because Memphis is too urban for their sensibilities

I mean if they venture outside the Bass Pro Shops pyramid Which is going to be kind of like a spiritual home base for their ilk, I'll be astonished. Wow. Busted out ilk. It's not safe to even put it on TV. Yeah, they're like, I don't know, I feel so economically insecure inside my own home watching this game.

I think, I mean, I think Georgia's going to be top ten next year entering the season. And, I mean, whether they should be or not, it just feels like the way things are going to be headed. and a win in this bowl would really probably speed that along. Well, it would also help because you remember last time when Georgia was in the Liberty Bowl, right? Was that the loss to UCF? That was the loss to UCF that rendered a series of commemorative plaques given to Georgia players before the game was played, factually inaccurate. Oh, life's rich tapestry. I want to go back to

matter what happens in this game Georgia fans winner lose in this game and winner lose next September 2nd Georgia fans are going to be deeply unhappy because do you know who they open their season with it's one of those teams that win or lose they are bound to make you look just stupid

Georgia Tech Appalachian State coming to town Oh what did you do Georgia Why did you do that what the fuck is wrong with you they are bookending the season with teams that even if you beat them are going to make you look so flat-footed and awful at ever you try to do you dumb asses scheduled north dakota state too yeah well you know who scheduled app state early this year and pounded them at home right mark rigged the good reverend yeah the good reverend mark rick so i'm sure yeah i'm sure yeah i'm sure if If the good reverend can do it, then a genius like Kirby, an acolyte from the Church of Sabin, well, just, you know, he'll program his way through this. It'll just be one process-y kind of play after another.

Wait, now, I know that we're straying from the Liberty Bowl and just talking about Georgia's 2017 schedule, but if I could just take us one week further, I am not prognosticating in any way if there's success or failure in week one and week two of the 2017 season. but can I place before you the possibility of the most delicious oh and two start with back to back losses to Appalachian State

and at Notre Dame? Oh, God. Protestant garment rending my stars, Reverend. I could listen to you do this all night? This is great. I can go on. This schedule's not great. Oh, I would like

to redirect, by the way. We talked about how bad TCU's offense was their thing, by the way. I know defensively they're second in the Big 12, which means they'd be like eighth in any other conference, but you really can't take that away from them. Should be second in anything defensive in the Big 12 ever. Right. Well, they were second to Kansas State, which it's hard to be more miserly than Bill Snyder, you know. Every game's going to have like six possessions, maybe seven.

Yeah, he's the he's the Force Awakens Alien. who hands out portions. You get two. You get half a drive. You're playing rock paper scissors with a sloth. Okay? The competition's going to go so slowly. You might just lose that of impatience.

I think you're just playing paper. Scissors too showy. The sloth just threw claw again. Scissors a system tool. If you wonder, Georgia, offensively, they were quite awful, too. They were very bad, very, very much bad. I don't want to play that baby quarterback in there's ever again, and I wish he'd turned pro after his sophomore year.

Yeah, Eason's going to be real, real good. And because, you know what, he fits the bill for a successful Georgia quarterback. He's got a head that's like an Aiton. That Prince valiant hair curling out from under the helmet, just the way they like it. Yeah, there's going to be, he's probably going to, like Matt Stafford, it's going to have some pictures on a boat taken that might slightly embarrass him, but also burnish his lore in Georgia Yore. He has long hair, but, you know, like you're talking about,

it's the acceptably long hair, right? You're like, oh, he's just a bon vivant. He's not subversive. He's going to marry a cart girl. You know that. It's the kind of length where your youth pastor tells you to cut it, but doesn't really mean it. Yeah, because it touches your collar, but doesn't go below it.

Hey, Jesus had long hair too, man. No, he didn't. Is Jesus also going to? take a home loss to Mizzou into the bi-week before the cocktail party? I'm sorry, I'm just trying to manifest my wishes into the universe over here. Don't mind me.

Listen, Jesus followed a big win on Palm Sunday with L. It happens, all right? It's hard to string them together. It was the entire previews just talking about like what trash Georgia is. It's great. What they expect?

Yeah, this was This was also, by the way, like, Georgia, very, very tidy with the ball, but they just didn't do a lot with it. Like, good turnover margin. I just, this game's going to be like 1712. It feels like a 1712 game that nobody wants to win. Georgia's fans were probably very fond of that year.