Shutdown Fullcast - FULLCAST AFTER DARK - Championship Weekend College Football Recap And Day-Old Bread Emporium

Episode Date: December 3, 2023

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No, no, no, just stop. Just stop there. Yeah. I have to complete them. You have a disorder. All right. I'm going to do a thing. Before we do the welcome, I'm going to drop this in the chat for the last.

whole for the whole for the whole for the whole world to see okay i've already shared it with everyone on this call up in the comments and then let's do a dramatic reading for those listening later all right yeah if you watch a show live you get nudes from ryan you're welcome what you do have a disorder you know what that's fine to say because this is the last forecast after dark of the season so there's no yeah there's we're just bullying people into watching next year or let it hang just like Ryan in that photo. God, damn. All right.

Rod Gilmore, is it fair to say one of the most conservative ESPN commentators when it comes to like football strategy? Now that David Pollock is gone. David Pollock is gone.

Like every fourth down attempt Rod Gilmore thinks it's a bad idea. Every two point conversion, Rod Gilmore is like, you're going to want that back. Like, if there's one button, he will find it and he will disapprove.

Rod Gilmore has three umbrellas in his car. I'm positive of it. Mm-hmm. Suspenders and belt third and two. I think you just didn't take a knee here. Take an earpunt. So that's why I'd like to read Rod Gilmore's prediction of what the committee does. Hold up.

Every copy book is somebody's first, so we should probably whip off the mask here real quick. Which part of it? We're guarding Rod. Okay, can you do that? I think Spencer should do it. Okay, all right. Here's what you need to know. Rod in person is fucking awesome.

He's the best. He's so good. He's so fun. He's not at all. Everything he thinks about football has no correlation to what he would think about the rest of life. I hung out with him in the NASCAR Hall of Fame one night. He's a delight. He's a hoot.

It's like, Rod played on the Stanford team that had the play against Cal. He was he was on that team. And he is also a practicing attorney in San Francisco. I did not know that. Yes, yes. Yeah. I want to go to court now.

Rod Gilmore has lived the life. But this is his prediction of what the committee does. Number one, Michigan. Number two, Washington. Sure, fine. it's curveball time folks number three georgia number four number four florida state he said assuming florida state wins they did we'll get to that here is rod's unassailable jd logic i can't see the committee moving seventh parentheses texas and eighth parentheses bama teams into the top four and dropping previous number one georgia outside the top four those would be massive and unprecedented changes I don't want to engage with whether or not Rod Gilmore is right, because let's just assume that he is, because he's smarter than we are. If Rod Gilmore is right, though, how fucking

shell-shocked is the college football world about to be as they gear up for, should it be Texas over Bama? Should it be Bama over Texas? Should it be both of them over Florida State? Rod Gilmore says, Texas and Bama aren't relevant here. It's Georgia time, baby. So I have a lot of arguments as to why Texas and Alabama could be relevant and should be relevant in any discussion of the best teams in college football right now. However, on the other side is Rod Gilmore saying they're not. And that's a high bar for me to clear because Rod has to be right. So Rod's right. It feels like, so Rod's noted sports conservatism comes into play because this would mean moving a team more than two spots.

and that's really far. Like when we think of, you know, traditionally the playoff rankings have been pretty fast and loose when it comes to teams moving up or down. The AP is a bit more conservative, and the coach's poll takes like weeks to lurch into action. Rod is like one step past the coach's poll here, right? Like two spots, that's about as far as you can possibly move a team.

So possible cabbage, a commenter, raises an interesting point. Michigan would have still been in if Iowa won somehow. So maybe Georgia should still be in. We all agree that Alabama is better than Iowa. No, listen, I got to object to this premise here. I would put Michigan the fuck out. If you lost to that Iowa team, fuck you. Done.

Go home. Oh, boy. I said the thing about Michigan because still win over Ohio State, which is as good as the Bama win that has people suggesting Bama should get in. Like, I just appreciate that as everyone's having the same one and a half arguments, Rod Gilmore is brave enough to just be like, I think Georgia is the best team in the SEC. And not even, and it's the fucking goal, not even, it's not just Georgia should be in the playoff. Georgia should be ahead of Florida State.

Yeah. Crown them. Why three? Why not two? you're going to put them behind the other dogs Washington had an advantage playing a team that they already played Georgia hadn't gotten the opportunity to play Alabama every now and then Ryan reminds me that lawyers can say anything in court

anything anything you can say anything it's totally legal the standard for what is unethical as a lawyer has nothing to do with saying dumb shit why should Michigan move ahead of Georgia when mission Michigan hasn't beaten Georgia that's a really good point Could I provide an example from today? Please. I don't know how many of you were scrolling film Twitter while this was all happening, but this was earlier this afternoon.

I'm going to read the tweet, and then I'm going to read the quote. Will Smith confirms he will star in I Am Legend 2 with Michael B. Jordan. And here's the quote from Will Smith. This is from Screen Daily. I have a call with Michael B. Jordan tomorrow. The script just came in. We're going with the DVD version. where my character lived

attorney rod gilmore says objection at all i'm just saying at all levels at all levels of life it is becoming clearer than it has ever been you can say anything this is and should and should remember until this happens

by the way if you say anything about this people will go well it's like here's what i think it doesn't matter what I think doesn't matter there's a bunch of people in a conference route which Ryan I believe has already said those sparse and plain looking well it was pointed out by I think a long time EBSB has commenter Apple course that there are no snacks visible in the live look in on the committee like they make a big deal of oh the committee this is the first committee sleepover of the season they're all getting together and there are no visible snacks and apricor's i think rightfully said was that hot in the middle though did we ever figure that

out i don't know but yes spencer i think i think there's actually some extremely good shit off screen yeah i'm just waiting for one of them to come around and say we're going with the version uh the dvd version where george was just like barry alvarez walking in the back with a suckling pig held in his hand like a hoagie I mean, that kind of is the argument people are making for Bama. We're going with the DVD version where they beat Texas. Yeah, in the extras. We're going with the good ending.

Yeah. Unfortunately, Bama didn't get the good ending. They didn't collect 100 collectibles. They didn't collect enough DECU seeds. They did. No badges for you. The test audiences didn't like it. I love the idea of a test audience being like, Florida State versus Iowa.

No, no, no, zero stars. no one like this reject okay okay don't use that one I don't remember this comment from Catherine as being true but it feels strictly true so I'm just putting it up they once said that the committee has bacon upon request

I mean so John Urshall who used to be on the committee and just you think they make the newest person just man the foreman grill oh wow that'd be a power move like in the Heisman house commercial yeah yeah but having John Urshel do it's pretty good because he was a lineman um John Urshel

was on Pablo Torre's show recently and he reminded people that like you don't get paid to be on the committee but that just means you don't get like a salary or a stipend you definitely get extremely sweet food that also means there's a financial barrier to being on the committee and you can't have a real job at the same time that's true and drugs let's just start that rumor yeah get all the drugs you can Well, yeah, it's in like Dallas, so yeah. Here comes Dr. Fieldgood, everybody. Congrats to SMU on their ACJB. Speaking of drugs.

Speaking of that, China White. Trying to out-tip this room better. Did you all know Herman Miller makes a gaming chair? I did not. How much is it? Who's that? I was thinking most expensive gaming chairs to see how we could fill out this room better. Jason, you might recognize a Herman Miller chair.

from there are lots of like New York City office knockoff something oh okay I've been in those you have unfortunately I know that's true more recently than you have that's right yeah it's in the air yeah you've been in a Sherman Mueller chair right

all right Spencer you can shout welcome now we're way over numbers so Full cast after dark for men Welcome to the full cast after dark Longhorn noises. Mooh. Pee-ha-ha-haw.

Yeah. Yeah. Spencer, I would like to read a list to you, if that's all right. I love it. I'd like to read the list to everybody. Okay. incomplete incomplete intercepted sacked set nine yard completion on third and 23 knocked down at the line of scrimmage knocked down at the line of scrimmage sack sack 13 yard completion on second and 16

incompletion sacked do you know what this is it jack plumber Iowa's best drive this is jack plumber's fourth quarter it has 13 dropbacks two completions five sacks one interception and five incompletions. Hi, Ryan. I'm going to do the nice thing first and say, I believe that this is indicative of the overall strength of FSU's ability to affect the passer, pursue runners,

and overall make the offense as uncomfortable as possible. Sure. That's fine. We've just said that. They're outstanding. Yep. Great job, y'all. Yep. I'm not sure any. I'm, God. That's not where

we're going to stay, though. This is just rent, like, I. Is Jack Plummer the worst quarter Rebecca, you've ever seen to get to the ACC championship? No. Are you sure? Are you sure?

Did Richie Ball make one? Yeah, I think that's true. Did Riley Skinner make one? Don't you remember the 2000s? We are in Reggie Ball territory, sir. Jack Plummer, I thought Jack Plummer was playing like his fifth game. He started 45 games. This is his 46th game.

If college football references right. is Jack Plummer in Reggie Ball territory, and it's being obscured because he doesn't have Calvin Johnson down there to bail him out? It's a little bit of that. It's a little bit everyone assumes that he's related to Jake Plummer. He is not. They are not in any way related. It's bullshit that he's not. Correct.

Oh, we all agree with this, right? It's absolute horseshit that he's not. Like, I accept that it's true, whatever, that he's not related to Jake Plummer. it feels wrong it feels very wrong it's true it's true but it's not right yeah there we go it's right but it's not okay it just ain't right

it ain't it's bad it's bad he didn't want to draw the comparisons he should have been named something else yeah this is a guy who one of those guys who looks like he's dirt in the ball wrong you know those guys who looks like he's throwing it

to the wrong guy uh yeah it's just like you're you are right you are right it hurts florida state's defense is very good and also i don't think there was at any point they were like oh shit jack plumber's going to eat us alive no it was never a question do you know one time joy porter got up and they were trying to you know they have to vote on all pro and all pro is a player's only meeting they don't want the coaches in there. And they were trying to figure out how they could coordinate their votes to give somebody a little extra money who was going to need it because they weren't going to be in pro football, like as a mean joke, but also like, hey, maybe we can actually get them

an all pro bonus. So at one point, Joey Porter to all the defenders in the, uh, in the Pittsburgh locker room goes, hey, hey, uh, QB, QB, we can't give any of these motherfuckers any actual money, like any of the guys who already have money. We can't, we don't respect QBs. Uh, who's that slap dick we played the other week and somebody in the back goes J. P. Lozman! He's like yeah, yeah, nominate him. And they all wrote down J.P. Lousman's

name. And that is how I feel watching Jack Plummer. I watched Harry Douglas. Harry Douglas on Twitter was just getting so close, so close to saying it. He's just like, I can't. Hey, speaking of slap dicks, apparently Tony Petitie ran away from the trophy

presentation. What? I am receiving text from Michigan folks at the scene telling me that Tony Petitie fled the Big Ten trophy presentation. That's beautiful. Little Lonnie skittered away. That's absolutely beautiful. Tony Petitie with a skittie.

Yeah, like, I still think I'll still be fine if Florida State gets in. Like, I don't have a problem with that. their defense played super well. And I will say, considering they had to start Brock Glenn, their third stringer, who definitely at points looked like the third stringer, I thought Florida State did a reasonably good job of being like, well, we got to figure some shit out. We have to make some chicken salad here. And between like mixing in some wildcat and like being like, we're not going to throw the ball too much if we don't have to. And asking a lot of the defense, but getting it from them.

Like, I was like, okay, I feel like this worked out. And from Louisville's, like, I'm trying to find it, but there was, there's, I think, uh, on, yes, Louisville kicked a field goal in the third quarter to tie, midway through the third quarter. They had fourth and one at the Florida State 19. They were down three zero. And Jesse Palmer's like, he got to get points here, just doing his best Rod Gilmore. And I'm like,

I don't think you should plan for multiple trips into the red zone with this offense. Like, I think you should go for this fourth and one. And if you don't get it, fuck it. Like, there was a lot of this Louisville game that felt like they were, I don't know, I would have liked it better if they had been more like, ah, fuck it, what do we have to lose? Like, we're underdogs here despite Florida State's injury situation. We've never been to the ACC title game. Like, let's just throw some shit at the wall.

and they did a little bit of it but some of it was just a mess we don't have to I'm sorry I shouldn't have led with no I know I it's the most recent game no like this is the most recent game that's I mean there's there this is always the weird weekend when like there we can't look and see like oh my god UCLA's doing something crazy right now right um you know but this game was it was a fascinating watch because like the entire time it was like SEC fans talking about how shitty fSU was looking because they're trying to lobby for like 17 SEC teams to make the final four um and then like little by little slowly but sure you look up and you're like fSU's covering by nine against the top 20 team what are we like what are we shitting on them for

like they're going to get healthier before uh before before their semifinal game and they'll have time to figure out like what their offense is going to look like with yeah they're going to plan out so much wildcat shit i would love to see the wild yeah triple option in the playoff we have finally made it but like you know the it's this entire game was talking about how garbage fSU is and it's like really this is the kind of football you like cc fan 16 to six you love that shit oh boy all right this is this is by the way uh this is by the way not a quirk but this is tradition okay because everyone's because there are going to be people in uh who are like oh which you know this is this is everything we should go back we should go

back we should do things what we used to do you know and uh i watched florida state start a wide receiver at quarterback in an important bowl game like this this kind of shit can happen anytime anytime you can be the team with the third string quarterback over one play that's how it can happen So I don't know. I have, I don't think, I'm not going to sit here and say like, oh, man, listen, Florida States going to, they're going to have a Ferrari on the road. They're going to have it ready. No, they don't have a Ferrari right now.

They don't. They got like a Chevy Malibu. It also like papers over the fact that we, even when Jordan Travis was healthy, Florida State's offense was capable of like really ripping off yards and points. And they also had stretches where it was just like nothing works. Like the sort of fits and start. to the offense are obviously much more magnified with Jordan Travis out but it's not it's not entirely new no not at all not at all and like they're going to get something that works because

if you have any familiarity with that Mike norville coaching staff those are some ball coach ask ball coaches and they are very fond of figuring out ways to move the ball no matter what happens I think they're like one of the best staffs I've seen and Rod Gilmore says they're getting in And Rod Gilmore said that they and George are getting in. So I look forward. Here is a Rod Gilmore quote. I look forward to that chess match. Easy, easy, easy. Checkers.

Settle down. And chess, you can move like, what, four spots at once, seven spots at once? Whoa, what's the hurry? Whoa. One of the time, please. Rod's the guy who, if you knew him for like two years, on the set two years and one day you'd be like I'm now going to put my hand on your shoulder to emphasize the handshake this is an advancement in our relationship and you're like thanks man and this is as far as we'll ever go this is it in seven years I will give you a brief embrace we have maxed out friendship yeah you see that like a yakuza scene right we have maxed out friendship

So are you going to going backwards chronological? Yeah, sure. So it's picked in time. God. Did anyone watch? Did I, I bailed on this after, after Iowa got, I think, I think the very rough end of a fumble call that was an overturned incompletion. Like, I thought that was a, there were a lot of shit calls today. They were, like, the refs were very rough this weekend, frankly.

but when Iowa got sort of tricked into a turnover near their own 10 yard line and then Blake Quorum scored I was like okay this is it would be rude to linger at this point I just want to note someone named Mike Jones is blocked in the chat and the next comment is who

I don't know what's going on there but I did I like people who bring us news that we already know Mike Jones is like this sucks I'm like yeah it's too bad stick around it's gonna keep going the uh the big 10 game i had it on split screen for like five minutes and then it was like michigan ran back a punt and it's like wow if iowa doesn't even have that this is a wrap i mean i watched far too much of this game michigan covered iowa and and and the under hit and

and iowa under zero point five points in either half hit like magnificent yeah yeah just like Michigan had 213 yards total offense they look like ass and they won 26 to 0. Comfortably. Never in doubt. By the way, when I say never in doubt, I don't mean victory. I mean Iowa not scoring. And also like

I think we have to acknowledge this fucking golf course in Cedar Rapids. Uh-huh. Ex-golf. Ex-golf in Cedar Rapids. That offered a promo where if you booked like a booth time, a bay time with them or whatever, you could get free draft beer until the Hawkeyes score or until the game was over. Some say they're still drinking to this day. So I did a little bit of actual journalism on this. Okay. I, at the end, I saw that and said

everybody must be dead. Then I thought, but I don't know that everyone's dead. Sure. How could I find that out? And I was like, I should just call them. So I looked up their number and I called them and I spoke with the hostess and I said are you guys still open yes the place burned down no it's not burned down no property damage so far I said are you still serving beer and she said yeah we have kegs rolling in we need backup and everyone's having a really great time and I was like fuck yes you are absolutely Like, there were 368 offensive yards overall in this game. Yeah, but you know who just put it 275 from the T on the green?

That's right. Me, the virtual green. They're still serving. Kate, go get us another beer. Man. Yeah, they were deploying emergency kegs. I hope everybody at the X-Golf managed to get out of there all right without getting injured by a flying nine iron. and that you set all the records on virtual golf.

It's also just like to go from, all right, Bama did it. Now it's time for everybody to care a lot about the Big Ten and the ACC title games. Let's see what happens. Now let's watch the two most boring games of the entire day. All you have to do is get this toddler to carry something across the street successfully.

Here we go. We're going to watch. frogger yeah except it's slow slow-mo frogger slow-mo frog oh the frog fell asleep yeah by the way before i forget this i do want to establish this way like what do you think the further somebody has absolutely slammed a golf ball while having at least a point one to bac point point like what's good and drunk point one point one i'm pretty drunk yeah okay so we'll say point one but the point one bac has anyone ever put a golf ball like has anyone ever gone like 320 yeah sure sure why not yeah you don't think john daly's ever done that oh boy i mean bending the curve on this exercise right

come on today that's just fucking that's like all the 90s were four the comments the comments are all daily daily daily yeah however far john daily hits it thank you david paulick i'm glad you I'm glad you came by. David Pollock in the house. Yeah. How many extra quarters do you think we would have had to have played before Iowa scored? I was thinking this as well. Like, a whole other game, there's no guarantee they would have scored.

Because the farthest they got downfield, I'm scrolling through. I have them at the Michigan 44 before they got stopped on fourth and one. Yeah. I think that's it. So, like, their first half, I mean, they literally, the expectations couldn't go down. Like, if their half total was already 0.5, you can't take them down to 0.25. That's another thing in gambling. You cannot go any lower.

Why not? All you could do is just- I don't see why not. You could just increase the odds and make it, like, negative money that they don't score. Right, right. Like, I don't, I think you're right. I think if you played eight more quarters, you would have needed some fluky shit for IOT to have scored. I don't, yeah, I don't think they're doing it.

Like, Michigan accidentally runs back a punt in the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if all things are equal, I don't think they score. You give me any number of quarters. I just don't think it's happening. Like, at some point, this game was so easily in the bag that Gus Johnson basically started working on his Rick Flair impression. Sure.

I'm not making that up. That's a thing that has. happened. Sure. Yeah. And then had the most evil non-sequitur. That's right. That's right. Like he waited a little too long for it. Like a video game fighting character. Yeah. Like I was like, oh, okay. I guess Gus is done with it. Rick Flair, and Adolf Hitler, two bad guys. Different kinds of bad. Mostly. his nickname of the night was Blake the Great

he just kept calling Blake the Great Yeah That's a pretty simple one It's simple It's much better The Maserati Marf Disagree

That's a great nickname It's an awesome normal nickname I've been Maserati Marv pilled He's an expensive dodge Uh There's a time to talk about Bam and B Georgia Ooh baby

Yeah, that's fucking time. Where do you want to begin? Bama beat Georgia. Georgia's three-peat quest is no more. Correct. Well, until Rod Gilmore is proven correct. I'm sorry. Until Rod gets them in there.

For now, the 1930s Minnesota Golden Gophers can rest easy as the last FBS team to three-peat until Rod Gilmore has his say, of course. That's from Rod Gilmore's subtle anti-Minnesota agenda. A friend of ours texted me It was like, don't worry Well, I'll just tell you the friend was It's Josh Black since he was on the show A couple weeks ago

And I'll pull up what he told me Shockingly, according to the 247 Georgia message board, this loss is Mike Bobo's fault Along with not having enough NIL for the defensive line And the transfer portal bleeding depth This passed off season That's right, we're going to blame somebody Let's blame Mike Bobo

And we're poor That's the real way. lesson here. Yeah. A failure of Cruton and Mike Bobo. I like blaming the portal stuff because last year the entire Georgia bragging point was, we won another title despite the portal. So there was that.

The Mike Bobbo Slander is understandable. Yeah. Bobo, they kept, well, all right, it is a double bind for you classic Georgia fan because the thing that actually, I think, got them behind the sticks and in trouble consistent it was an inability to run the ball but a real commitment doing it which is great it's it's hey you know that thing we've been doing all season where we trust carson back to pass the ball because he's had ridiculously good passing numbers he's been super efficient and they basically use that as their they're part of their run game like the extended run game like accurate short passing and in mid range passing to really

good athletes who are better than the guys you have they they didn't do as as much of they didn't do as much that they were like no we're gonna we're gonna run the ball and that's an idea that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's usually a good idea and uh it was not today at all um jalen melrose did not have like i think what is confusing to me about this game is jalen melrose did not have his best game by far like he missed he missed several passes he took a long time in the pocket and took some sacks that it was just like you just cannot be holding the ball this long. But Bama's defense, like, yes, Mike Behoa's side, Bama's defense, I thought, really looked good. Like one of the best games. Yeah. 78 yards rushing. They held Georgia to

seven, eight. And only got beat on like one deep ball, really? Like everything else, they sort of, they kept a lot in front of them and they sort of, you know, like, yeah, Georgia moved the ball at points but they didn't like get gashed which it seems like was the main was one of the main worries was sort of like once you have this lead don't don't let bama or don't let georgia rather get a quick score and sort of like flip things on you quickly yeah this is by the way i think jeline millerow is like kind of delightfully old school bama quarterback and you go what was his completion percentage that was around 50 percent how were the balls kind of tortillae little floaty two touchdowns though two two days got a got a crucial first

down at the end of the game to functionally end the game and run the clock out when he like kind of hesitated looked chose the correct option but kind of got to it late still sort of like managed to like hustle his way through the defense anyway nearly fumbled the ball but recovered and got the first down like yeah yeah that's some that's some old school bama qb shit i love it so bama's not going to the playoff yeah they're not going it's they shouldn't go well they won't so yeah it's too bad yeah and roger and george is going because rotsets that's right so i keep forgetting george's george's like yeah i keep thinking like you know texas will go because they did beat bama unlike Georgia who lost them. But I keep forgetting. Georgia, best loss. I think the single

funniest thing online tonight. By the way, it's an awesome night to just throw out a few like reasons for FSU over Bama and then just immediately mute conversation. Like just look at like, oh gosh, 40 people reply. That's crazy. I'll have fun. Yeah, Nate. Wow. Yeah. That's what I hear. But like I think the single big, the single best thing going on tonight is Bama has the country's best win because they beat Georgia and it's like well did you know someone beat Bama so therefore that team has the country's best win mm-hmm no that's not how it works not allowed no not allowed the team beat Bama about 10 like like anything Bama does further

boosts Texas no not allowed Texas Bama is shoving Texas upward in the rankings just like Notre Dame did with Cincinnati in the rankings two years ago. Like Bama was never going to jump Texas. Except because Rod said they won't. Especially more than two spots. Right. I was never going to jump Texas until Rod weighed in. And now I understand why Georgia instead.

Rod Seasel. Rod Seasel. Thank you, Rod, for setting me straight. I did appreciate, like, it's not an enviable job. He had to do it. I did appreciate Kirby Smart doing his like well they said it's the four best teams and if these aren't two of the i think every man woman and child sees that these are two of the best four teams and just like i don't think he

wanted to do that shit no i don't i don't think any part no i don't think any part of kirby smart was like prepared for all right it's time to argue in favor of this team that just lost get like i think he would rather have his team just beat the shit out of liberty or whoever they draw in a non-playoff please please

that's what I want to clarify what I was saying I think commenters think I'm saying transit of win no I'm saying Bama surely ranks ahead of Georgia now right well Texas ranks ahead of Bama therefore Texas has the best win that's it that's it all now muting conversation

of wolf wolf no time to mute Get that thread as well. Y'all have fun. What, they're really going in there, huh? Okay, keep going back in time. What's next? Oh, God.

Oh, shit. So, SMU 2 Lane was at the same time. Uh-huh. In which, you know, in the New Year's sixth race, the woke liberals of the Walt Disney Company, they're going to, they're going to, they're going to send a team to a New Year's Six game from, you know, from one of the group of five conferences.

And I have a bad feeling that that team won't be Southern Methodist University. That's right. The Methodists will be snubbed by the woke Disney liberals. I don't know who they'll send. Not a Christian school, I would assume. It won't be a Christian school. It'll be Troy.

The New Year's Sixth spot. Troy, Trojans. That's a foreign power. Once again, Greek money controls the sports. Report. Liberty's gone from January 6 to New Year 6. SMU's first conference titles since they got the death penalty, yes? Yes. Okay.

Since before then, yeah, yeah. And now they get to take the American, I assume they just take the AAC trophy with them to the ACC. Yeah. There's a lot of that going on. Yeah, like Rick Flair. Yeah, he's just going to take the belt with him. Yeah, like, oh, we're back in the territory days. We really are.

These are territory days. You're going to take the belt with you. We got, we got Washington. is taking the Pact 12 trophy to the Big 10. Texas is taking the Big 12. Big 12 has a literal title belt, literally handed to them by the Undertaker. By the Undertaker.

Okay, yeah, exactly. So, one, it's official. Two, did you see Brett Yourmark after Texas got finished absolutely drubbing Oklahoma State? Did you see Brett Your Mark get Gary Bettman? Did you see him get completely booed? It was, listen, it was not a good day

for conference commissioners. between the Big Ten and Gary Ormark and Greg Sanky having to be like, this is good, right? This is probably good for our conference. Yes? No? This is like Sesame Street. Yeah, one thing is...

Greg Sanky, yeah, one thing isn't like the other four. They're in the playoff. But yes, Brett Your Mark at a very bad time as well. Yeah, and it kind of stood. I tried to post through it. Yeah, he kind of was like, oh, okay, guys, okay. And then Texas fans were like, boom! It was very much like, oh, this substitute teacher is not going to get control of this classroom.

No. They're going to happen. All right, guys, let's settle down. Why not just send out an assistant commissioner who no one has ever heard of? Why not send out the undertaker? He's there. Send out the fucking undertaker. No, because they've got to be done with that thing in five minutes, and it takes them 10 minutes to get to the stage.

ESB They've got to get the smoke machines And you don't want that guy talking Like you have You have a ton of wrestlers there With Mike experience Send one of them out Don't make Brett Yormark do it

That's what the big tension I've done too frankly Actually you know what you do You have the Undertaker Chokeslam Brett Yormark there go Everybody's happy He gets a pop Heat heat

He sells He looks humble Win win win And now SEC Commissioner MJF I can't wait to get the fuck out of Charlotte. You're fucking talking. That is kind of how Texas acted for the past 20 years.

It is. It is. They acted like MJF. The Pitting War of 2024 is literally what they did. Yeah, quite literally. And then when Brett Yormark, the commissioner was up there, they started chanting SEC at him. Which I have to say, rookie members of the conference, superb use of the chant, y'all. Now, SMU is doing an ACC chant as well.

And now we get to get Texas fans being like, the SEC sucks. Like the winner shouldn't get in. The conference wasn't very good this year. That's why we're leaving the Big 12 to go to it. Next year is when it'll be good. That's what it'll be awesome. Ryan, you don't understand. I'm not going there because it's classier than me.

I'm going there because they need me. Yeah, we're going to go, yeah, we're going to go make it tough. We're going to teach the SEC how to football. Yeah, they don't call it big conference. They call it big cow. I'm there to size the place up. Put beef on the menu. I would imagine on this podcast, like when the Texas SEC thing got announced for, like, oh, boy, we're going to have to toughen these folks up.

They don't know what they're in for blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, shit, they knock the SEC out. Yeah. Hope you're ready for the cop. Shit, they're undefeated. Hope you're ready for the grind of going to Starkville. um can we go slightly out of order here to talk about the mountain west championship yeah that's perfect because it should be on right now yeah so yes that is true as well um just the journey boise state

has been on in the last two years uh 2020 boise state starts two and two with lot uh got beat to hell by organ State and lost a very bad game to U-TEP. And it is around that time that they fire their offensive coordinator and bring in Dirk Cutter. And there's all these like, I don't know, I don't think Andy Avalos has what it takes, whatever, whatever. They write the ship. They make it back to the Mountain West Championship game, which they lose to Fresno State last year. But Andy Avalos wins Mountain West Coach of the Year. to 2023 where things only get more chaotic where after 10 games they have already lost five times

but then they rip off three wins to get back to the Mountain West Championship game under interim coach Spencer Danielson and win it this time with a fucking interim and are now I guess Yes, they are, I think they're going to play in the L.A. Bowl presented by Gronk. They're in the Gronk Bowl, yeah. The Gronk Bowl. Which is so much better than being in the Jimmy Kimmel. With their defensive coordinator who is the interim coach, who was like a GA just six years ago. It's not like this is like, oh, this guy's been, he's younger than all of us. He's 35.

He gets to look that room with a straight face and go, guys. we're going to do it for the gronk we we made it all of our all of our goals were in front of us the whole time and we we didn't falter we made it to the gronk bowl my my favorite thing is that spencer danielsen he he originally was uh at boise state under brian harsen brian harsen took the arbin of the auburn job and spencer danielsen was offered a job at auburn as well i don't know what the position was but he declined it and that's one of the smartest fucking choices anyone has ever made good call in this sport good call buddy the smartest spencer in college football 100% uh it really by the way UNLV they they lost by 24 and that sucks but uh fucking amazing year

like yeah absolutely fantastic work their best season in 40 years yeah yeah yeah like not a not a, not a, ah, our best season in a generation. No, no, no, no. Our best season in many generations. Yeah, multiple generations, yeah. Yeah. Like, not just like, oh, the last time we were good, the cicadas came out. No, the cicadas have gone and come out like four times since you were this good.

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Yes, please. The Big Sky Conference, best conference in college football. Had a rough time earlier today. Sacramento State lost on the road to one of the Dakotas, doesn't matter which one. Montana State. Oh, heartbreaker at home. The Bobcats lost to another Dakota, doesn't matter which one.

Fifth year in a row that Montana State had been knocked out by a Dakota. On a blocked extra point in overtime. brutal just brutal uh but we're still in this thing because montana is whooping delaware's ass in the snow it's 4919 that game's almost done and idaho is driving against the salukies so two big sky teams uh i feel good about having to uh having to into the next round that is in the kibbi dome yeah where we are unstoppable in that warehouse where you can catch a t-d and run immediately into what appears to be an industrial kitchen that is just off of

the end zone. If you just keep going through the door, that's where they make all the mac and cheese for group events. I wanted to also salute Troy Trojans. The Troy Trojans, this is a program. This is one of our

nation's most program. Program programs. That's a program ass program. Listen, this is more they're more Auburn than Auburn is. right now okay they are closer to jesus i feel pretty safe saying that okay you want to know why because you know what they did in this game they're going to play some defense they're going to get turnovers and they're going to run the ball well how much did they run the ball by the way

they ran the ball with um comani vidal they're outstanding running back they're like hey he scored one t d what what are we going to do let's get him two that's nice how many we're going to get him three no give him four that seems like an adequate amount of touchdown. Run them again. Five TDs. They ran them. They, you're closer to the earth to remind you of your mortality. We come from dust. You get close to it. You run the ball. You put their ass in the dirt to remind them of that. And then you're closer to the Lord. That's how it works. They won 4923 against App State and are champions of our nation's second finest conference, I think, the Sunbelt Championship. Big Sky being the best,

of course the big sky and the sun just we're always looking up they're always their partners yes you can't have one without the other john somerald now is 23 and four at troy coach and he and he did not inherit like the neil brown troy he took over the chip lindsay never made a bowl game Troy and he turned into a program he turned into goddamn program he did we're going to do things right way we're going going to graduate our kids and make sure they'll go to class and our kids our kids and we're going to play you know tough hard-nosed defense I can't promise we're going to win every game but we sure we sure as hell going to try we're going to be diligent we're going to be we're going to do our we're going to do our jobs yeah we're going we're going we're going boys

we're going get it done we're just going get it done in the classroom usually you sometimes weight room always wait always stays well so yeah thank you thank you thank you to Big Bull, Big Bull Jefferson or strength coach. Hey, Big Bull. Everybody go move. Move. Don't get your asses to chapel. The Sun Belt thing that I am saddest to report is that I didn't know that there's a tailgate for Louisiana blowing up their stadium.

Like, I would have absolutely tried to have conned this. Yeah. What the hell? I mean, why wouldn't there be? Like there's an open ball. at it yes yeah we're about to blow that bitch up can you just imagine sitting in like a I will tell you this by the way there was a car crash on my street tonight everybody's fine but the people who were in it I just got a bunch of lawn chairs

and let them sort of sit in the driveway for a while where they waited for the officials and the tow trucks to come up and they we just hung out for like two hours watching the Georgia game on a phone and talking and it was great fun now sure imagine just the fun of hanging out with strangers while they get ready to a goddamn stadium up and people are just handing you like Cajun food and mysteriously powerful alcoholic drinks and red solo cups. That's a good time. That is a good time. Yeah. That is a good time. The weather's going to be nice. Yeah, absolutely. We haven't hit the Mack Championship, Miami of Ohio winner there over Toledo. Yeah, Toledo's quarterback had a very bad time.

I watched about 30 minutes of this game. Very bad time. Miami didn't have a great passing day themselves but it really didn't matter like they they ran the ball pretty effectively and just kind of like push to leader around a lot frankly yeah this was this was more of a this was more of a shoving contest and uh myabohio superior shovers in the end congratulations to them a massive massive win for the red hawks i have a question what is the midwestern uh corollary of program because I think these Red Hawks are that the like excellent special teams

the team I think them is it a Bo Schembeckler the team oh this is a team okay yeah got a great team really happy for our guys guys that's what it is yeah our guys great bunch of guys great bunch of guys we got a good

group a good group a good group a good group of guys yeah it's a great hey listen it's a great group of guys it's a great group of guys it's a great group of guys a band of brothers yeah could be happier maybe happier for you know it could be we got a strong locker room that's good that's good like that's it all starts the locker room somebody in the locker room somebody in the comments that these men these yeah these men they don't give up

not not one of them these are Miami men when when I look at these this bunch of dudes so we say group of guys is all one word group of guys group of guys this locker group of group of guys fucking love it but yeah this is a defense and special teams team this is a program ass midwestern group yeah 100 percent um how far back in time can we go and does that give me an excuse we didn't we didn't actually we should pause we didn't give texas enough of it's due i don't think we did either like when you were is through for 452 fucking yards.

This game was over immediately. Which is apparently a Big 12 Championship game record, as was his four passing T-Ds. And like, man, Sark was pulling out all the fancy shit. Yeah, this was beclownery. He was calling up

all of the plays that make you look like a dick. Like, you know when you're watching an NBA blowout and you see like a player throw it off the backboard to himself? Sark was doing the play-calling version of that in this game this was uh yeah we were going uh we were going reverse halfback pass pretty pretty early in the script uh we threw a touchdown pass to

tevondre sweat devonre sweat does not play receiver he weighs 365 pounds his jersey number is uh 93 i believe his jersey number is like 933000 it and it would fit hell yeah and like obviously because this was a 4921 blowout Oklahoma State didn't run the ball a ton, but their longest run of the day was for nine yards. Yeah, they did not have a good time. Well, I mean, Bama beat this team and Georgia played Bama, so that's why Georgia's number three. That is why Georgia is number three in the unassailable Rod Gilmore College Football Playoff Committee. Congratulations for Sark for pulling out the pull down your huge pants and then immediately pull down your huge pants and immediately do the BAM Margera. flying kick into someone's head. That was it. It wasn't like, ha ha, we've just pulled down your pants.

No, someone's airborne and flying towards your skull. Why your pants so huge. But I assume, Spencer, you want to talk about the Pac-12 championship game. Hell yes, I do. Okay, please go ahead. Absolutely, I do. Because the best description of Kalin DeBoer and the way that this Washington team plays was given, of course, by very smart person. And Washington fan, Mina Kimes, who described them, i'm like to describe cailin de boar specifically as i believe chaotic good in terms of like play calling and then lawful neutral in terms of demeanor which is terrifying and that is 100% correct if you watch calen de boar on the sideline or the demeanor of anyone else who is in the management class for this team or even most of their star players they are very even they are very chill and then

the things they do on the field are absolutely terrifying and i don't mean just in terms of oh the physical aggression and violence of football now i mean in terms of why did you call that why did it work why was that your first option why did you call it on fourth and goal i'm scared things are cold yeah it is the kind of like washington is the kind of team that is designed to kill rod gilmore if he was watching a game they are daring daring at every single point there is a goal line series in this game where they call three things in a row

and all of them are nuts now all of them are fundamentally sound and they execute them well they don't all work but all of them are like wouldn't call that nope wouldn't call that either how they scored on that

I would not have called that there yeah they ended up scoring on a tight end leak out of a like tackle over formation that was their that again that was their best play they were like yeah go with that tight end leak out of tackle over

they'll never see it coming and they didn't and they didn't i love this team absolutely love it and not just because of michael pennicks they are top to bottom weird you have an offensive lineman with a church of the subgenius tattoo you know they have they have a running back from mississippi state that mike leach basically said was a bitch um and he was so important for them against oregon and ran for over a hundred yards in the form of uh dylan johnson who who's been great all year and just seems to be getting better. Their defense, I would not say their defense is great, but they are good when they have to be.

And for some reason, the timing there has been superb. They are always just good enough. Yeah, yeah. You're like, hey, could you guys get a stop? And they're like, oh, is that what we're doing? Okay, cool, yeah. Just one, right? That's all you want, just one.

They have a very Muppet band kind of defense, right? But they're like, where Kermit walks in and goes, guys, guys, we're on. And they're like, oh, okay. Then they show up, they beat the shit out of somebody, and they're like, you just had to ask. I adore them. So you're so the like, not to jump too far ahead, we'll have plenty of time to talk about this shit, but we're looking at a situation where it's Sark versus DeBore. Like that seems like a likely semifinal game.

That's not what Rod said. That's not what Rod said. In the non-Rod, non-canon non-Rod universe. Okay. In the apocryphal playoff that you're describing. Yeah. Yeah, in NCAA 2024, we can play Texas versus Washington.

And that'd be a pretty fun shootout if that were going to happen. Obviously, it won't because it'll be Georgia. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, I would love to see the deeper that both Sark and Sark yours, right, the combination of the two, and DeBore Pennix, or specifically Grubb Pennix, their offensive coordinator if you want to get super specific, the deeper they go into any playoff either now or in the future the better because they call some breathtakingly ballsy shit they really do and like after watching you know a season full of mike bobo like i'm ready i'm ready for you know what the safe play on fourth and three is four birds yeah i'm ready this was yeah i know it was a weird weekend and i know like the the playoff committee has problems deal with although rod has already shown them the way so whatever but like i think if this result

which very easily could have gone the other way if this result had been flipped i really don't know what the fuck would like then it really would have been just like an unholy mess this is this is like the biggest the biggest favor they got i think in in a realistic sense so at that point it would be oregon versus bama sure let's go with that yeah like you can tell me anything about that sounds right yeah yeah it's probably bama yeah i would guess most likely and that that didn't happen is kind of a shame because that also would have been a nice story this is not one of those matchups and games where i go um i'm really like i'm bummed that uh like or i'm happy that it happened this way because i have antipathy

toward one team or really vastly prefer another i don't i thought watching bow nicks be good was great i thought like that's i'll miss that he was a delight to watch this year it was a delight to watch for large stretches of this game sucks to watch him lose a delight to watch for 60 games of college football right not all 60 jason i would i would say we're all delightful one way or the they were entertaining yeah like i i one more yeah i'll give him that one board mix is the only quarterback who I've ever seen throw a, like, spike the ball the wrong way. How many boring Bo Nix games

have there been? That's right. Come on. You know what, man, that's true. Always got my money's worth. I'm sorry for disrespecting you, Bo. 100%. All-time college football player. Yes. Yes. I will do that. And very likely a Heisman finalist, so. I think so. Yeah, I think, like, even though a more uneven game for him, I would be

kind of surprised if this knocked him out. Yeah, I mean, he was the favorite entering this weekend. Right. I would assume some people have already voted in the winter. Voters have until the fourth, and some voters will 100% take all of the time possible. A lot of them don't. What is the case for voting early, though?

I don't know. I'm done. I guess that. I don't want to watch anything. I don't know. I don't. I get itchy having an email in my inbox that I haven't responded to. Like, I think that could be it.

I mean, this year, there is. is a case for voting early because, uh, the guy who should win didn't play today. So, you know, but, but even then, like, wouldn't you want to wait and see like if something truly crazy happened? Yes. Yes. I'm just saying this year, it's possible to have your minor already made up. Yeah. Most years, no. Some of us will wait as long as possible. Isaiah Bond, Heisman, whether. Damn it, Ryan. Diego Povia. Diego

Listen, I can speak publicly about this one Diego is a BVP finalist Maybe he's the winner That's right Tori Taylor Yeah Bradley Van Pelt Award winners Punt Master

The Iowa The Iowa punt hype-up Reel for this was Absolutely incredible So I want to look at something real quick So last year um iowa i think

average 17 points a game including their bowl game which obviously they still have to play one of those which they don't have to but they will um and right now i believe they are at yeah they're at 16.6 like they and look we've talked about the injuries we've talked about like the problems and we get all that but like they

gave Brian Farrants a goal that was like you need to get better by a touchdown or more like a touchdown two point conversion and he got slightly worse and in your last game you're going to let it all hang out we're going to call all the trick plays we're going to do the crazy stuff we're going to go ahead let him show we're going to end my and my last game ever as a coordinator oh god please please let this be his last game ever as a coordinator I just like they're they're virtually guaranteed to beat the fuck out of somebody in bowl season and it'll be like 17 to nothing. Yes. Yeah. It'll be, it'll be horrendous.

If you watch it, it'll be like that other team never had a ghost of a prayer. But the score looks like nothing. Yeah. But what did Brian call in this last game? Seven first downs. Bang! As I came in, so I leave. We stick to our

guns, and they're very tiny guns that don't actually fire anything. Uh-oh, the Salukis are driving. Uh-oh. I also, I also appreciate that, like, look I don't really have anything against the Hawkeyes and I'm sorry if this makes it sound like I do but there is a cleanliness to losing to Michigan 26-0 so we don't have to hear about like that review in the Minnesota game that punt

return it doesn't it absolutely doesn't matter we don't have to what-if this because it's a two-loss team no matter what and a two-loss team that could not score in the Big Ten championship and like sorry guys it's like it's good and get lost in all of the iowanness of it but like when is the last time a team didn't made it to a conference championship game it didn't score um yeah so yeah right yeah that's it's pathetic okay that's that's the word that's the word for it um if i were if i were a defender i would be doing very unsafe things in that locker room towards the offensive of staff and no would not a judge in the world will convict me i'd go back to io and i'd be like

yeah i totally challenge brian ferrance to a fight and if that can't if that means assault and you want to charge me with it you go right ahead and that judge would be like son walk out of here today a free man someone has pointed out in the chat very helpfully that ohio state in uh what is this 2014 uh yes the 2014 big 10 championship game did beat i uh did beat Wisconsin, 590. So, yes, there is precedent from this very conference. Yeah, it's happened. We're just saying it's been a lot. It's not normal. It's great. And also, it just so happens to be the Big Ten over and over, I mean, the Big Ten West over. And that's not going to be a problem going forward. So, I'm going to miss you, Big Ten West. Big Ten West teams in the Big Ten Championship. Yeah, that's, it's, that's like once a decade now.

Oh, Joel stop, eh? You flew too close to the sun. which in Wisconsin is like several million miles, but still, what'd you do? I got up on something high. It's hot up there. That's true. I do want to go back to one thing, one thing. This is, this is like, historically, this is the end of Georgia's dynastic run, right? Could it be the start of another?

Again, it's the end of the streak, yeah, but, well, to be fair, Rod hasn't been in the play. Those who believe in the word wisdom of Rod will be shown the truth. I'm sorry. Rod's right. Rod's right, but, you know, if evil prevails. The kingdom of Rod is nigh. Yeah. The kingdom of Rod is within you.

That sounds sexy. There is no Rod but Rod alone. Do not. Do not. Love the Lord, your Rod with all your heart. Yeah. Rod is not mocked. in the beginning rod is this is the end of one streak right yes the end of one

definitely yes they have lost they can confirm that they've lost like that's done yeah that's over i have one thing that like i'm like i if i wanted to go ahead and say i have one piece of evidence that they're not going to start another streak of that length their magnitude um it's this it's that i really think this ended when they hired mike bobo I think when they brought Mike Bobo back, it was over. It was just a matter of time. I have no science behind this. I'm just like, that guy.

Yeah, like as a, you know, Bobo's first stint was a lot better than Georgia fans made it out to be this time around. Okay, they're right. Yeah. No, no, no. No, by the way, I'm not saying that like he's doing a bad job or that the numbers are going to look bad when you put him down on paper or that even that he did a bad job. I thought you did a real good job before, but, um, but they're not, it's not happening again. Not when he's your coordinator. I can't explain why.

You can win 11 games. You can, you, you might be able to win 12. It's not happening. I don't know why. Please, please give me data. Please send me theories. I feel I'm right. And I'm working toward an exact explanation scientifically of why.

I, I think it's a little bit that. but I think it's also that like the last two Georgia defenses when you look at them from like an analytics basis were not only the best defense in the country but they were one of those or it's like oh the difference between them and number two is like the difference between number two and number 10 they were like otherworldly all-time good defenses and the offenses were good too but yeah you knew that if you got into most games and you needed the defense to like hold the line or flip the field or fuck some shit up for you. Kimby Dome overtime.

Sorry, go ahead. That's all right. I think that's the right time to jump in. And this defense is good, but not best defense in the country, but not like can't be beat. Like it's still very, very good defense. It's just not the same thing. And I think like, I don't know. much as anything sort of reared its head tonight like there weren't there weren't a lot of points

where it was like oh Alabama feels like they when Alabama bogged down it felt like it was because they were failing failing to execute and not oh Georgia is imposing their will on Alabama yeah and that's I think that's different that's all yeah Bama I mean yeah Bama look flawed all year even in the even in their their moment of glory like it in i mean it ended up being a really good season and like an incredible season considering where they were at one point but this was a flawed team all along like the team that has the defense that does the impose your will thing is michigan yes at least have the teams that are going to make the playoff they do can have voice in addition to georgia it's 1 a.m so i can go ahead and voice this because nobody's listening there's still

there's no here i can say it's we're not going to believe according to this thing according to this There's 1,100 people here. There are people typing things that you say as you say them. You know, numbers on the internet, Ryan, they know how to work those. That's true. Rod knows. Rod knows. Rod will tell you.

Yeah. Michigan's offense, I know. They're playing Iowa, but I'm going to go back a couple of games. I just don't feel like if they're in a close game that. They just played a close game. They just played a close game against Ohio State. Yeah. The Penn State game was.

close if they play a good team you're saying yeah if no i mean if they are if they play any of these teams that aren't florida state yeah if they play any of these teams that aren't florida state watch florida state beat them god damn that i let i've said it um if they play any of these teams that aren't florida state and you got to go hey j j mccarthy take us out of there i'm nervous as hell i'm so so absolutely nervous why about about michigan's so about so about Michigan getting in a shootout? Is that what you're saying? I think if they have to score more than like 24, 28, you know, if it gets into,

if it gets into a more contemporary game, so to speak, if we've, if we enter the 21st century, if we're pushing it into the 1990s at least. No, I mean, I get entering, this is not updated through this week, through Saturday's games. But J.J. McCarthy ranks 86th in the country in passing. attempts like his his completion percentage is very good his touchdown to interception rate is good his yards per attempt like all those numbers are good but they have not had a game where they have said okay we need to like they have games where they will but they have not had a game where they're like we

need to put this on JJ McCarthy's arm well there's also a direct correlation between I'm nervous about JJ McCarthy and their offensive line has had a slew of injuries recently so those two things with when it comes to quarterbacks tend to be connected but but doesn't like michigan's defense mean that they are more likely to get into a low scoring defensive battle than into a shootout so i i have thoughts on that i think that that there are teams that can i think there are teams that can challenge them in ways that they may not have experience and just sort of thinking uh of one washington what sure washington's interesting just on wide receiver talent alone yeah uh washington's one team where i go ooh um i am intrigued by what

texas would present sure okay in terms of both weaknesses and strength in terms of both challenges and opportunities for michigan because i feel like quen yours quen youers and j jay mccarthy brother we are the same in terms of in terms of man i just did something cool on the next play i'm also going to try to do something cool it was cool maybe not for me maybe for you i i think the difference between them is like texas i think texas is more comfortable getting to a place where it's like yep quinier is through the ball 35 times today and like jim harbott doesn't want to do that yeah he doesn't want to do that at all like even last year when in in the semi final lost the tsu it's a 50-1-45 game jay j mccarthy through 34 passes that's not like that many for a shootout yeah

they just don't want to play that style of game and i think they usually have like the defense and the ball control where they don't have to i'm also a bit worried about jim harbaugh looking up and seeing that mountain of texas in the middle of their defensive line and going we're going to climb it no go go round go round i like that you've turned him into wreckett ralph he is how is he not record ralph this is a slender rickett rickett yeah yeah but michigan i mean like i'm i'm guessing fshu is the draw a touchdown plus spread there so yes i mean not punching michigan's ticket to the title game but they're sitting very pretty and and look like i think florida state will Florida State is maybe the team, I don't know, Texas has been good at this too,

so I shouldn't necessarily say that. But I think Florida State is the team that has rolled with punches in some of the most interesting ways this season, both during the season and in games. Like Florida State does a very, very good job of figuring out how do we get to the fourth quarter and make us look better and make you look worse. Like they don't stumble to the, they'll stumble early. They don't stumble to the finish line that often. And I think that's valuable. Okay. So these are all completely valid concerns.

And I don't want to be the one who's just like, ah, I see problems. No, because there's something very important about the potential field, if provided Rod Gilmore is not right, which is, again, something I can't entertain because it would be damaging to my worldview. Theoretically. Theoretically speaking.

But if the field that might happen, happens, we could get somebody new are you wait what are you talking about um if we went with a field of undefeated conference champions all right um we could very easily get and boy michigan to be all yours you could get a michigan or a washington national title sure those are 100% on the table and that would be welcome relief a tex a texas national title has not happened in a long time either. That's true. It's been a minute. Like of it's crazy to say, but of the ones you're talking about Florida State is the most recent by far. That's still a decade. And like, all right, let's let's maybe close with this because I don't know how much time it deserves.

Idaho, Idaho with the I&T. Yeah. Is it a pick six? That's what I'm seeing in the chat. I think I'm behind the chat. You are behind me on. It might have just happened to our boys. Yes. We're getting a Idaho has scored an OT to go up 20. 317 unfortunately they have just had the TD wiped off the board by an unsportsman-like penalty drama come on i told you the refs were having a shit weekend for those who have asked and i think we should have brought this up earlier holly is on not feeling the best that's why you haven't heard or yes again send blood we always want your blood never never turn down blood there has been a lot of television speculation that Florida State's going to get left out. And I think Jason has probably

the smartest take of this on this that I have seen about like how the committee will think about this. And so I wanted Jason to ask you a little bit about like to sort of lay that out, that case out a little bit for why you don't think that's going to happen despite Florida State, admittedly looking like fairly limited in their win against Louisville. So I mean, I think the, I mean, you can argue, like, okay, they're undefeated. And you can go, you can take the argument seriously, right? You can say, okay, they both played LSU and FSU beat LSU by more than Bama did, right? You can play the game and do all the data points and stuff.

Or you could just say, which would feel more embarrassing if it went wrong? If you leave out Bama and they go on and they win the Orange Bowl and they're 13 and one, and they pout about it, okay, no one cares. There's not a whole, like, who cares? Unless the title game sucks or something, no one cares about a 13-1 Bama that feels like you got snubbed.

If you leave out undefeated FSU, that has, like, you know, also an inspirational story, like you didn't give the backup quarterback a chance, right? And they go win the Orange Bowl to finish 14 and 0, you've made the whole playoff look stupid. Like, if FSU wants to go claim a title,

it's not going to be the same as when UCF did. It's not going to be a sideshow punchline, and I want to emphasize UCF claiming a title is fine. But if FSU went to do that, it would make you look stupid. And nobody likes to look stupid, especially not people in suits who sit around in hotel rooms all day for photographs.

Yeah. I think, yeah, like hearing it again, yeah, I think that's right. And it's, you can't point to like, oh, well, the AC, like, and people are saying, like, Florida State wouldn't be Georgia. That's fine. Yeah, all right. That's totally fine. Every year wouldn't be Georgia. So it would be of a 10-point spread.

Have we seen any 10-point upsets this weekend? We have. Yeah. Also, like, it's college football. Yeah, do you build any sort of perspective playoff on wood? No. Like, that's not. That's not what we do.

You only look at what is. Like, right? Every other playoff. frankly in almost any sport in almost any team sport allows for the possibility that you can get in without being quote unquote good without having a like strong chance to win the national title i'm not saying that's true about florida state but if you take take like the most negative view at them at this point like we we have let sub 500 teams get into the NFL playoffs we have let wild card teams do massive damage against teams that win 100 games in baseball. Like, I just, we've talked about this before. I just don't think it's that big of a deal. And yeah, like, if ultimately it means no SEC teams in,

weirdly, I kind of would like us to get back to, I hope that Bama fans can get back to a place where, like, just winning the SEC title is fucking awesome. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I feel like this one, they might come around to it and realize, like, even, like, everyone wrote them off in week three. Yes. Yes. The USF game. This is an incredible Bama season. It is. Jalen Milrow is an absolute, like, I am going to remember this Bama season very, very, very fine. You had,

you had a, like, amazing highlight win over Auburn. You potentially, like, we don't know what the voting is. You potentially beat the Heisman Trophy winner. You ended. Georgia's 29 game winning streak and kept them from winning three titles in a row. Yeah. You did a lot of cool shit. There's a decent chance. Your only loss was to the national champ. Yeah.

This is an incredible season. And the SEC's not making the playoff. Both of those things can be fine at once. I do either of, do any of you, because I don't know if I want to be in here, do you feel like, like the other thing I've heard is that if you don't let this, if you don't let Bama in, teams aren't going to schedule out of conference anymore. They're just going to say there's no point. Like, we'll just take our,

we'll just take our unimpressive, you know, we'll do what Michigan did this year. Granted, a lot of Michigan's out of conference schedule ended up being better than I think anybody thought it would between you and LV and polling green, but certainly wasn't on paper an aggressive scheduling place. So, like, there is an easy counter to this, is Texas scheduled.

tough they scheduled bama they beat bama yeah uh fs u scheduled lsu in florida it's not fs u's fault that florida sucks the teams that are in scheduled tough like like we're talking about three bubble teams all three of them scheduled a tough non-conference one washington washington scheduled michigan state it's certainly not their fault the michigan state right yeah yeah so like bama can pout about well we should have played um uh uh uh uh charleston southern twice or whatever right but you should of beaten Texas. That's it. That 100% beginning, middle and end of the argument. Texas is being rewarded for scheduling tough. I'm seeing in the chat that the vandals have won on a walkoff field goal. God damn right. Big sky. Big sky for fucking ever. Big sky sunbelt,

everyone else. Where you can look up and see the big sky once you walk out of the kibby dome, which is indoor. The sky's so big, we can see it from the inside. Yeah, that's right. They set that kick straight to the cameraman who's got a sock. gold net strong in front of him so he doesn't get hit by the ball best building in college football that's right you should be the the vandals by the way should be allowed to burn the kibb dome down after every season is a ceremony and rebuild it like the goat yeah like mitzomar they should exactly they should burn the they should burn the kibbi dome down be like now we build a new one for the next season yes that's that's our like off-season activity that is that's our team building

That is. That's our team building. We build a new kibbi dome. They don't fix the dimensions at all. The wall is still like, the wall is still in the end zone. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, the gods have deemed that these dimensions are perfect and heavenly. It's just like Noah's art. It must be, it's very specific numbers of cubits. That's right. What? Inch? I'm sorry. My divine ears don't understand that. Yeah. What the fuck is an inch? Get that shit out. You're in Moscow, Idaho, pal. We do have a lot of weird religious ideas around. You bring you get that heresy out of here. I need nothing but the holy cubit to build me a new arena. This is orthodox. Doug Wilson says there has to be rafters in the end zone. This is orthodox football. You're going to respect it. Yeah.

That's the wrong shade of industrial gray. Bring me back some fucking industrial gray paint. This is the kibby dome. It's kind of got to look like a dentist office in 1993. Lowercase O Orthodox, to be clear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel bad for whoever. Again, they're making the playoff because,

said so i feel bad for whoever georgia plays in a non-playoff game they're gonna be so mad i don't know last time that happened texas one so i have no the last time that happened they beat cincinnati oh that wasn't a game the orange bowl without looking things up i'm trying to i'm trying to do in my head the orange bowl will be uh bama louisville okay and then fellas i think we get georgia ohio state in a in a where does where does uh the peach bowl the peach bowl has to take the G5 team, right? Peach or Fiesta, I believe. Okay.

I'm doing this all napkin math back on my head, I haven't done this shit all year. Because I do, I think Georgia Liberty is on the table. Oh, my fucking God. Ugh. Disgusting. Just Kirby's speech for that game.

Yeah. They think they got God on their side. That's fine. That's fine. I want you to punch God the dick. Just Kirby trying to. satisfy the demands that his heart, his broken life is placed upon him. He's like,

Satan rose up against God and he failed. We're going to finish the job. Yeah. You know who, they don't believe in you. Well, we don't believe in God. I want you to take their faith and I want you to punch it in the fucking ass.

A militant atheist, Kirby, Swetty, sweaty, sweaty God. Kirby Spark. Yeah. be smart making like Neil deGrasse Tyson smarmy jokes about flying spaghetti monster and shit you tell them you tell them about before who they serve you're about to get what you

deserve you tell them big sky daddy's gonna get it as I'm his daddy he's going to get spanking some old small small spank god brighten his ass so this has been the full cast after That's your Peach Bowl preview, folks. Boy, Chick-fil-A would love Liberty, wouldn't they? Listen, if you, GA plays Liberty, man, it's go dogs. Go dogs. Oh, woof, woof, woof, woof, brother, I'm barking. Yeah, I might do a little barking myself.

Are we going to, like, I don't know, some people have asked, you may see more forecasts after dark during bull season. We reserve the right to do them or not do them. That seems fair, right? Sure. Yes. We won't, but, you know. Yes, we weren't.

Also, Henry Kissinger died. Yeah, fuck yeah. Listen, man, Georgia lost. Henry Kissinger died. It's been a week. It's been a week. It's been a week. Are the two related?

Who's to say? Who's to say? Yeah, I don't know. Two tyrants downed. Yeah, exactly. I want you to take Andrew Kissinger. I want you to make his ass quit. Make his ass quit.

Somebody said blood week. His blood of Henry Kissinger is finally extinguished. Do not send him your blood. No. He can't use it anymore. Well, he doesn't deserve it mainly. Well, yeah. Yes, if you have been along for the ride here and are still with us at 1.18 a.m. either.

Oh, Henry Kissinger didn't get to see The Undertaker at the Big 12th battle game. Oh, no. Sucks to suck. He didn't get to see Nelly. Yeah. He loves that song. Somebody pointed out how winded Nellie looked. Like, yeah, he's 45 or something.

Yeah. Yeah, he didn't get to, he didn't get to boo Brett Your Mark, which would, you know, sounded like, boo, I booed at your mark. He's like Frankenstein's monster. He is, he is, he is, Frankinstein's Monster. He is now. Yeah, he. Man, imagine you're digging up parts of Frankenstein's monster.

You're like, fuck, is this, Henry Kissinger? Oh, God. Oh, I got the hair. Yep, it is. Yeah, oh. It definitely is. Do you know he had a tattoo? It's fucked up.

It's up Nelly. Oh, my God, someone point out the Pac-12 outlasted Henry Kissinger. That's right. God damn right. All right, Spencer, do you want to thank the people? I do want to thank the people. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, no.

the 2016 music city bowl was the last nebraska bowl game henry kisinger saw well i'm sure he savored it please go ahead yeah by the clarence thomas is 75 you're on the clock wow next man up next man up wow come on oh yeah listen hypertension's a program on the rise that's capable of doing a good thing James Dobson's next on my list, but Is he? You all already know that. All right.

So we've got, uh, we, thank you for riding with us, uh, either the entire season. If tonight is your first one, boy, what a unique treasure you just stumbled on. Sorry to the one dude who bailed. Sorry that it sucked. Yeah, sorry, Mike Jones. If only you had told us week one, we could have gotten better, but you waited until this week. You left your, yeah, you left your notes until the end. Never do that. Lazy ass Mike Jones. You're a bad editor, Mike Jones.

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