Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 7.22 - From 3rd and 93 to El Assiquísimo

Episode Date: September 11, 2017

Iowa-Iowa State was the most thrilling game of the day (Boise State-Wazzu took that honor for the night), Auburn is looking positively Floridian, and Lamar Jackson continues to calmly burn your shit down. We also discuss:Conquistador Baker Mayfield and The Curious Case of Benjamin BuckeyeGeorgia finishing bogey-birdie-birdie to beat Notre DameTodd Graham's road to funemploymentSouth Carolina's good and fun and we're fine with it don't look at usUSC destroyed Stanford so badly that we wound up opening the show talking about the Indianapolis Colts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the shutdown forecast. This is the first of our bi-weekly forecast. We've gone to twice a week, the megacast, the mega-cast. We've gone to basically recap and preview, which we take that very loosely. Today's probably going to be pretty recap-ish because week two in college football, oh, you dirty, you dirty thing you. It's just so much action across the board. It's going to take a lot.

we're going to take at least 45 minutes to figure out exactly what just happened i think you've just warned people that they're in for a one hour and 70 minute pocket that would be a two hour of it yeah we're going to go away past 45 yeah you've cursed you've cursed us that we have never done we have never done a podcast where spencer mentions the time either before or during that he estimates it will take and we ever came even close to that yeah i i think we can be done in like 35 minutes two days later oh my god i've shipped myself send food send us send supplies help we're going to do it it'll be fine i um i do want to mention this week though that

that we're just getting jason's going to call out two things that happened we're going to we're going to reserve because a lot of things happened okay you had clemson auburn playing you had oklahoma and ohio state playing in what ended up being a really interesting game. I was kind of down on the evening games for a second, and then that one started to pick up and interesting things happened. That was fascinating. You had

USC Stanford, which because it was on Fox and it was on the West Coast, people might be sleeping on just how much ass USC managed to kick in that game. Just truck fulls ass. Like, as much ass as wasn't

in the Coliseum today for the Rams game, right? My favorite thing, which is, hey, nobody's in this game. Let's take pictures of it. Yeah, because people are smart. Oh, you want to see Scott Tolzeen? No. Why would I want to watch a garbage Colts team where the coach thinks that he just got beat by the 49ers?

A real thing Chuck Pagano said in the post-game press conference. What did he say? Chuck Pugano, you know, was giving his opening remarks about the Colts getting their asses kicked and says, yeah, you know, as you can see, we got our asses kicked by the 49ers today. not the team they played not even the other team in los angeles i mean i don't think it's fair they made the colts play the whole nfc west that ain't right that's you know they only recruit the best there because it's a meritocracy it's not like college football got people who have these like birthrights and stuff nope nope it's uh it's a man's league there got to earn your keep let's check begona's record don't do this fine i'll look i'll look no i'll look no i'll look

don't look he's not what's the equivalent in our sport you say like you're playing ohio state and you're like well we got a big game against the ohio bobcats this week no no it's not even close because like at least that you can be like yeah you know both like have ohio in it one's fucking los angeles

the other one's san francisco the same state it's a very big state so maybe it's like well we're playing north texas no you're playing utep is chugano italian or french like one of those euro tourists he goes i have come here and I'm going to see your country. I'm going to go to

Miami and then San Francisco. Are those close? Those two look close on the map. So there's three hours, four hour drive? Can I walk? Chuck Wigano is 49 and 31 at Indianapolis. So not terrible.

No, no, no. He's doing okay. Not terrible. 8 and 8 in 2015 and 2016. And boy, 8 and 8 would be a goddamn coup if he pulls it off this year. which NFL coach is he is he the bald one or is they have the goate he has the yeah he's got the um chuck pogano sort of looks like he used to have a biker passed but has since given

it up also because wikipedia is wikipedia the picture of chuck pogano is when is uh from his time as defensive coordinator with the baltimore ravens Wikipedia we're trying have we need now spent more time talking about the cults than whatever the internet's greatest cults podcast is yeah so this week sorry so let's but i'm not complaining spencer was alluded here's how i wanted let jason jason only wants to affirmatively talk about two things from week two and how i want that to happen if it's all right with y'all jason whenever you're tired of something spencer and i have brought up just like interject forcefully and bring it you have these two cards you can lay down and we will immediately yield our time to you yeah that's what we're trying

to get to can we bring this back after florida plays i don't i'm not familiar with that school man no i'm what if what if i hang on to one of these cards for after next year oh oh florida you mean the university you mean the university of chicago of the south a school that was great at football and then decided for academic reasons not to play the sport anymore and rejected the big tens overtures to that effect. And just like the University of Chicago, there is a radioactive element on campus. It's very good, yeah, and full of bad ideas. Remember, that's what do the University of Chicago do? What if society didn't exist? That'd be good. What do we have? We have a nuclear reactor. We abolished football. We decided maybe we should rip apart the fabric of society for a dollar.

I mean, the alternative would be a Division I football program that has a nuclear reactor. So, oh, that's Alabama, probably. Yeah. Never. might. Yeah, Florida. Florida had one for a while. Then they sold it. Pondit. Yeah, don't ask what happened to it. I'm not sure. If anyone knows what happened to Florida How did you lose a nuclear reactor

in a divorce? Man, I don't want to talk about it. All right? I wanted the Camaro. And I got the Camero. Pegg wanted to hurt me, okay? The divorce wasn't about sense. It was about emotions. All right. Let's, Spencer, you started talking about U.S.C. Stanford. Let's at least, it's not,

the most important game arguably of the of week two but um yeah just a thorough ass beaten of stanford and stanford hung in there but by the end just just a thorough thorough ass beat yeah no no no this is this is very looking at pretty much the best possible result for usc in a lot of ways came out kind of flat against western michigan not flat here no sir sam darnold had kind of a lackluster day against Western Michigan Not here No sir

21 26, 316 4 TDs His forehead was looking big and glorious He did throw two interceptions But I don't know man Stanford's good You know He's one of the quarterbacks

He's going to throw a couple It's going to happen Yeah when you go 21 of 26 If two of your five Incompletions are interceptions And you throw four touchdowns That's fine That's fine

You know what Someone's catching the ball Keeping the ball off the ground. Complitable. He's throwing completable balls, right? That's the lesson here. Interception should go as completions because, yeah, you are throwing a completable ball, right? Sam Donald should be 23 for 26.

Only three of those balls hit the ground because that's just how attractive his throws are. The more important thing for USC in this, though, was against the stout, allegedly stout, Stanford front. Stanford gave up 307 yards rushing. USC had 200-yard rushers. If you've got two guys who can put up 100 on Stanford, you are going to be a fucking handful to play, no matter who you're playing. Which, coincidentally, I'm going to watch Texas USC next week,

just to see this in person, right? Just to see if Tom Herman could sprinkle a little pixie dust. There's no pixie dust in L.A., by the way, it's been incinerated. The last team to run for that many yards against a Stanford defense, the Oregon Ducks in 2010 when they ran for 388. Seven. That's the Darren Thomas Ducks. That's the little Michael James, ducks.

Ken John Barner in there. Like, so yeah, this is a, this is a historic occasion for sure. And also, you know, that Oregon season turned out pretty well, all told. Yeah. Michael, Michael Dyer was down, first of all. I wasn't going to bring that up. I just, as of now, Michael Dyer, even being in the game that you're playing, well, no, that'd probably be better for Auburn at this point.

Never mind. Can't even be better for Orban? Can he block? Yeah, that'd be good. If you didn't have two guys in the backfields we could run, apparently that's what Auburn needs. Apparently, that's what they don't have. I think what it would be nice if Michael Dyer, if they had some spare eligibility, which that sounds far-fetched.

That dude was like an eight-year senior. I think he's still playing somewhere. He's still kicking around somewhere. If you could line him up next to Jarrett Stidham and have like a decoy quarterback and like somehow trick Clemson's defensive line into sacking the wrong guy, that'd be a pretty good idea, right? Sure, like a Saddam Hussein body double. Yes. That's the way to go. And then I mean, Jared Stidham is assassinated because he's taller.

He's the bigger target. Right. Well, he's the statue that gets pulled down. statue the statue's got to be top I mean it's not like Alabama's got some spare statues if you need them I just how many how many false saviors does this make for Auburn under Gus Malzahn at this point like Auburn never has Auburn never it feels like Auburn never enters the season with just like

yeah we got this guy a quarterback we think he's pretty good you know not going to be amazing but like hopefully we'll do enough it's either oh, Auburn's got nothing, or Auburn has Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning's secret love child coming out and he's made entirely of passing yards and he's going to give him out to the world.

Also, he transferred from another school. That's always a key factor. Right. Right. If he's at the other school, then you're on to something. That's so sick and so true. The best

quarter of he's had. post cam, right? Because I remember Gus's offensive coordinator for that team. But the best quarterback he's had was a converted DB. Dick Marshall. Clemson just, Auburn only got to 117 yards. And in confusing fashion, they did so with a time of possession of 32 and a half minutes. Which, like, I don't understand what you were doing in that time span.

were you I feel like I feel like Auburn just decided like let's just run clock from the word go let's just run as much clock as possible this was there there were a couple of teams this week who are guilty of loitering just eating up clock and not doing much with it no one's a worse violator of this than Pitt who pit had something like 38 plus yards of possession and 14 points yeah they had almost 39 minutes of possession with a lot of first downs Yeah But they at least

Pitt at least Out gained Penn State So like they just couldn't finish drives Or like get drives to go long They had shitty field position a lot And Penn State didn't Or they arm punted because Max Brown Well yeah

That boy loves an arm punt But Auburn it's just like How do you spend so much of time doing nothing Well putting your quarterback back together It takes some time you got to find the right socket to put the arm in you got to download the instruction manual if you know because you don't want to just go by memory you might put a leg on backward i feel like i feel like what auburn did was the equivalent of when you wake up on you know a Saturday in the summer and

you're like i'm gonna get some stuff done today i'm gonna go to the gym and then eight hours later you're like all i did was play bioshock shit i spent time time was spent nothing happened Next Saturday, it's going to be different. It's going to be different. I'm not going to be surrounded by nine LaCroix cans. I can't fit to the recycling because I didn't even take it out today. All right, I got 17 to-dos. I'm going to get all of them done.

Okay, I got one of them done. One for 17. So here are, I'm just going to read the yardage game for all of Auburn's drives in the second half. At which the score was 7 to 6. So this was still a close game that Auburn could have won. Are you ready? Yeah. 2, 5, 6, negative 5, 17, negative 5.

That's a damn phone number. Well, it's weird to have negatives in a phone number, but Auburn, you figured it out. Auburn would do it. That's what that dash in the middle is. See, Auburn's got that negative phone number, so it can't be hacked by the Equifax hackers. You'll never have ours 4. Negative 4. Oh, wait. You know

what has two dashes? This is a social security number. So that's what this is. And you know what? No one in Auburn has one. Ain't no security in that backfield, bro. Mm-hmm. It's very social, though. Clemson, come on over. It's true. You know what? You know how many friends Jared Stittam had over last night? Eleven.

He made 11 new friends. I mean, but on the other hand, one of their two scoring drives went for one yard so yeah for that game the main posts we did

right at the buzzer was just that's a lot of sacks basically and we were writing it as if Auburn had zero prayer you know and somebody says something like well they might run back a punt that was it that was the entire only way this game could possibly swing

if like Clemson dropped the ball in the end zone and Auburn fell on it just i it's crazy to see an offense that hopeless and it's a gus malzon offense i mean ryan and i watch florida all the time this was yeah that's true this is this is a this is a hopeless offense even by our standards sorry sorry guys i'm glad hey i'm real glad we don't play this year though abber because no you know what the contamination was it was um florida's ad called to Auburn to see about playing the game there. That's true.

Our Richard Johnson reported. And a worm snuck through the phone. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Gotcha. That's how Russia does it. I want you to think about this. If you do, like, Jared Sidon was sacked

11 times in about three and a half hours, right? Yeah. So, I want you to think about doing anything 11 times in that short of span of time.

If you have 11 drinks, if you ate 11 times, if you you, you know what, if you do 11 heavy reps of an exercise, if you played 11 video games, right, 11 sessions of a video game in three hours, it's excessive when you go, man, doing anything 11 times in that span of time

sounds ridiculous. Now imagine this. Jarrett's didn't got hit at full speed or dragged to the ground 11 times in three and a half hours. he had a very bad game i want you to feel very bad for him because uh one he's not being paid that much and two uh he's in a lot of pain that had hurt like i was watching that and i was like i feel as bad for him as i have felt for anyone since uh c j bethirt in i was last bowl game against florida that's the last time i felt this bad for a quarterback yeah i got to go back to the Kirk Cousins against Alabama.

Good Lord. That wasn't. That was always the gold standard for me because it was like, I want him to stop. So good news. Jared Stidham, you're going to get a huge NFL contract one day from the 49ers. The 49er Rams. Did you know Jared Stidt Stidham

6'4? I don't know. You might want to look at that young man. It might be something to look into. Yeah, I didn't watch any of this game and I don't regret it. Oh, no, I watch. it was bad there was a lot going on at once so I'll go ahead and slap down one of my cards yeah please this was so the prime time was just stupid stupid stupid stupid loaded and everyone knew it you had the two games we've discussed so far you also had Ohio State Oklahoma and you also

had Georgia Notre Dame which was a far bigger deal than um you know the rankings and whatnot would have suggested which is kind of cool college campus trip and all that but you had all these Big, big, big, noisy games going on, and they were all kind of flat in the first half. They were all, you know, lots and lots of defense, but not defense like, you know, oh, look at this dude got lit up. Look at this pick six, you know, not like, and it wasn't like a single game you could focus on, like, LSU PAMA every year where it's three to three, but it's, oh, those are two NFL defenses. You had all this going on, and there was kind of this weird lull, and then howling. Out of that lull came an 87-yard fumble that was touched by 5, 6, 7, 8 different players and resulted in Louisiana Tech having a 3rd and 93 from their own 7-yard line.

And it just completely took over college football internet for a half hour, an hour, somewhere in there, until one of the big games asserted itself. It might have been looking up and realizing instead of it had been sacked eight times, and we all said, okay, we better get back to serious business. But it was just amazing seeing it, something that stupid, completely steal everyone's attention away from four games that mattered quite a bit. And I was very happy about that.

Well, but what did they do after that when they were faced with third and goal from their own seven? They made up quite a bit of it, if I recall. Like the next play, I'm not going to look it up, facts don't matter. but the next play I seem to recall it being like a fourth and 67 like they made up a nice chunk of it yeah because if you're facing think about it everyone says well there's nothing in the playbook for third and ridiculous number right what's into the defensive playbook for 30 really well go go stand on the 50 like you could just line up 11 men on the 50 right you're just I don't know make a wall that works against BYU you know with BYU you

Every down is third and 93. So they had fourth and goal from their own 28. And at this point, this score was 57 to 14. We are talking about like the start of the fourth quarter at this point. There is no way that Louisiana Tech was going to come back from this deficit. So why not just go for it on fourth and goal from your own 20? Like, isn't it more interesting to say like, you know, what? Yeah, you beat us by

40 points, but we converted on fourth and goal from the 28, because you got a dumb penalty and kept our stupid drive alive. Yeah, like, is there a 1 in 100 chance? You would have landed that shot? I think so. Sure. Why not?

Listen, man, if there's one lesson of 2017, it's, let's just do it and be legends, man. I would say that the all P.I. offense is pretty much the only way to go there, right? Either that or your best screen, because there's nothing more humiliating than trying your best screen. Which team wasn't, by the way, that tried the UMass? The screen in the end zone this week. You're talking about

the Hail Mary screen? No, not the Hail Mary screen. There was another team that ran a screen from their own end zone? Yes. Oh, I missed this. I didn't see this and I don't want to. No, because if you remember, the best example, this was 2010 Rutgers who tried to run a screen out of their own end zone. And I believe George Selvey decided to get himself two points out of that real quickly because when you catch the ball two yards deep in your own end zone on a screen, sometimes they don't fall for it. Ah, it was in the Pitt Penn State game, because Sean Watson called the screen. And guess what, y'all?

Screen when you catch it two yards deep in your own end zone. Sometimes that cornerback manages to beat the linemen because cornerbacks are faster to the linemen and they like to tackle people. And they tackle them in the end zone and got a safety. Thus avenging, by the way, the keychain worthy upset last year of Penn State by Pitt. That's no longer happening, evidently.

And James Franklin wants you to know that this was not a big deal for Pennists. So not a big deal. All right? It was just like beating Akron. Okay. So not a big, not did not matter. Did not, we never think about Tiffany. She left eight years ago.

And we just, we never think, we don't know what she's doing on Instagram or Facebook. We don't know if she's still with Brad. We don't know how they're too. children, Brad Jr., and Bliphany are doing. We don't think Bliphany is a dumb name, because we don't think about Tiffany anymore. Never had a single thought about Bliphanie or Pitt. Bliphany and or Pitt. I love like the, yeah, coach got them.

Coach got those bastards. Yeah. Like, which, which bastards did he get? I can't say. I can't tell you. I don't know. He got some bastards. It was a good day for coaches all up in their feelings.

And this is how we're going to talk about the Notre Dame, Georgia game. I like the segue. I can't give you a more solid burn. And I can't really say anything nastier about Notre Dame or The Effort or Brian Kelly. Because, you know, there's a lot of ways you could go to this because, one, you have, how many points? That's one. They lost this game about one point, right? Yeah.

Yeah. It's 2019. Yeah. Not one possession. One point. Not one possession. Well, coach, wouldn't. that one point okay a point is a is point five of a possession that and that and you could

easily go oh well this is clearly like a georgia team that's not as talented as Notre Dame is on paper there's not and none is organized and probably don't have the recruits that Notre Dame has by a margin he added it up they didn't have the starting quarterback they thought they'd have entering the game. Certainly not. Already on their backup in Jake Frome, right? As Windbush has established the starter there. And a great game against Temple last week.

You could go a lot of different ways. This is played at home. It's played in Notre Dame. Oh, that mystique. All of that mist. Yeah. You can go a lot of different ways. Yeah, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, by that he means MYST, because no, like, uh, the island, Notre Dame fans,

were not there. Nobody was there for Notre Dame. There's nobody there. Yeah. You get lost. You don't know why you're there. Oh, maybe they were, you know what? Since they're such good students, maybe they were stuck in books, just like Mist. It's not their fault. They were studying too hard. Maybe it's just all the locals vaping so hard. Just seeks into the stadium. Seeps into the stadium.

That was, so I have been to a game like that. I don't, I think it was either 03 or 04, somewhere around that. Florida played Miami at home and Florida fans were smoke everywhere yeah well Florida fans were pretty sure that they were that the Gators were going to get killed so a bunch of people sold their tickets to Miami fans and it sucks it sucks to it sucks to have that happen it is it is deeply unpleasant and I understand why some Notre Dame fans are very pissed at their fellows for doing this but as a neutral even though I was rooting for neutral now third party observer I was rooting for Georgia at the time it's real it's real it's real it's real funny when you see like oh the

storied storied South Bend Notre Dame Stadium where legends have lived and died and lived again like you're just like oh boy lot a lot of brogans up in here a lot of brogans and Brady's. Well, no. Brady, I guess, is on the Notre Dame side. A lot of Bortlets. Quick, quick shout out to an actual Brogan, by the way. That would be Brogan Roebuck, a name we are not making up. Eastern Michigan's own starting quarterback, Brogan Roeback, who looks exactly like what you, like, he looks exactly like

what a Brogan Roebuck would be. Brogan Roebuck has a starter. got Eastern Michigan's first win against an FBS opponent. That's right. Power 5. Power 5. Sorry. An FBS ever. They've never won an FBS. The first win ever. Brogan is gone. But Brogan Roebatt got their first win against Power 5. I believe they were 0 for 24 before this, over 25.

Oh, no. They were like 0 for 58. Whatever, man. He got the first. It was a lot. Oh, Brogan. Brogan. Brogan. broken beat Rutgers single-handedly. I'll just say he did it single-handedly. 16, 13, he kicked those field goals.

I mean, sure. He threw a touchdown. He had a fine day. He caught it, too. He didn't throw an interception. He didn't take a sack, taking them out of scoring range on the final possession of the game. Now, did he? Because I tuned in to the end of that.

It was Big Ten alternate, which really made me question whether, as a society, we have our priorities right and that I heard, oh, Eastern Michigan Ruckers coming down on the wire. I should watch that and I was able to watch it. That's not good. That's not right. I shouldn't be allowed easy access to that. I just, how did

how do Ruckers score more points against Washington than they did against Eastern Michigan? Body clocks. I don't understand it. What I like here, well, right now we have on edge every

Notre Dame fan and Georgia fan. Sure. Because every Notre Dame fan knows the burn is coming, the punchline is coming, but it's been derailed by Eastern Michigan Rutgers, which like, oh man, you fell behind them on the fight card, that sucks.

And then every Georgia fan is just, come on, say it, say it, say what we did to their stadium. Well, all right, there is this. First of all, congratulations. Eastern Michigan. Man, Rutgers completely spit the bit of the end because they're supposed to.

Okay. All right. Let's go back to AirB&D. They really did. All right. But going back to going back to the shell of the myth of the wreck of what used to be Notre Dame, they don't have a big alumni base, right? They have about 20,000 season tickets, and then the rest of them are single games, and you can buy those.

And that consequently, if a fan base is bound to determine to just get it in because they're never coming back to this place, i.e. Georgia, then they're going to get up all those tickets and that's why Notre Dame's field looked like some sort of half Georgia Notre Dame alumni function boy that'd be a twisted thing but that's why they'll be anybody at the Masters next year like did our state just empty out its bank account that's right Indiana is rich Delta well no because yeah the people who took the people who took three thousand dollars from Delta not to go to the game they'll go just flipping delta money i saw georgia i saw georgia fans on twitter who were like yo man

those are master's passes on the last day they were already planning they're like now take that then you take that money and you get master's passes for the weekend that's how this works hey buddy that 2025 UCLA trip i'm gonna get tickets right now and turn that in the monster trucks i mean i mean this was this was a pretty this was a very golf football game because Georgia was just for Georgia is just like oh and another penalty that's going to oh that's going to cut oh but he he saves par with a brilliant three on a oh my goodness and Georgia has won the oldest whitest game of all times I like the golf analogy there because it's like I mean shit was real Georgia you know like the penalties weren't just oh darn you know it was it was

like it was like it was like a pickup just mudden all up and down notre dames field sorry about your turf yeah it was a muni wasn't a private course let us bring our dog in here so i like to ask an earnest question and i'm not trying to tweak anybody here why were georgia fans so hype for this game and why were they so hyped to win it other than the fact that it's a win on the road against a ranked opponent et cetera etc like i don't understand what's special about notre dame that has bulldog fans like really really excited they'd never been to south bend before is that it yeah what's part of it's part of it's one part you got to remember we're very like we're very cynical about notre dame

because we know that for the most part the entire mythos of that program is a lie right right based in like crappy recruiting and this insane kind of borderline racist myth about it being like you know the place of opportunity as opposed to like a horrible hive of future hedge fund managers like you know and ted leo and everyone i know in notre dame you're all pleasant people right if i know you personally um but otherwise it's you know just this kind of little wasteoid hive are you are you sure it's not just like a now i can now i can really dive all the way into my 1981 Sugar Bowl sex fantasy I think there's part of that but I think that for most people especially most Georgia fans like it would still represent a chance to go

to some place they thought was significant or interesting as opposed to like a place where you know they I saw somebody on Twitter who was a reporter who was like said he saw two Georgia fans and one was like they got a whole building for hockey well that's what the map says

go thrashers yeah and it was presented with this mock like the rooms they're so surprised we have a building for hockey suck my dick dude first of all you're the one with the building for hockey yeah nobody make you put that there so like I mean the Georgian

this particular breed of Georgian is a person who is all about landmarks as we've seen in the news lately for good and for bad at times you know the masters so like Notre Dame that's the masters of football oh right

a whole lot of ways sure the color scheme kind of matches in some ways yeah you got the green yeah you probably do get a green jacket out of this yeah and I mean food probably is like one dollar because it would be uncouth to charge a dollar 50 so you have that and you also have a bunch of Southern badness

getting one over on some Yankee Catholics so like there's there's two sides of the coin here there's this deep respect and you did see like let's go see Wrigley you know let's get some Notre Dame gear that will never wear and then there's also like you know

you know yeah I don't got a waffle house well fuck you steak and shake sucks you know like you two sides of the coin at once I also think that Notre Dame is kind of the you know television commercial

commemorative coin of football programs right and there's some Georgia fans sold by command of coins off of TV. So that was one reason. There's one big reason we haven't mentioned yet. I think Georgia fans thought they were going to win this game and they wanted to go see it. They were right. Hey, good job, y'all.

I mean, good job, and I will tell you, one of the funniest things throughout the week, a very endearing thing. It's watching Georgia fans just be unapologetic drunk rednecks at every single opportunity through the week. Brian Kelly's call-in show. Did they show up and do the, what's

coming down the track? Did they do that chant during Brian Kelly's pregame show? Hell, yes, they did. Was he annoyed? Oh, yeah, yeah, because he didn't have since the gamer. Usually. Yeah. But yes, he did seem to notice it.

Did they do that at a Cubs game? Yeah, they did it like Cubs game. Was there a video of them doing that in the bathroom? Wrigley Field? Yes, there was. Like, man, man, hey, hey, Chicago, you're a beautiful town. Guess what? Now you're Jacksonville, because George is here.

can't the best part was at every opportunity I'm very proud of Georgia fans for this they were can't take y'all anywhere that was it they're like what is oh man can't take y'all anywhere we're here at Shad's Aquarium and they're looking at a whale like what's that coming down to drag the whale's just like oh god

oh Jesus I went drinking with Champ Bailey once does that go champ he's a good guy he's a good man he's a good man he's a good man uh so yeah but this was big this is big man georgia goes him with the backup quarterback they go to nutter dame it's a pretty good nutter dame team i don't care if brian kelly's a dick that hasn't changed pretty good notre dame team good offense you held them you you kept them in check they weren't able to run the ball for anything they only ran for 55 yards they they they average three and a half

yards per play they were three of 17 on third down um and that's with a whole bunch of georgia penalties so yeah that's real and that's real promising like a super sloppy performance all around in terms of penalties and procedural stuff for georgia they still minute to eke out 2019 win and uh they take over half the stadium this may be as good as it gets for georgia season and that's fine probably i mean i think we saw last year with beating notre dame and highly hyped game can result in. I look forward to USF coach Kirby Smart. Let's talk about Louisville.

Let's talk about Louisville, North Carolina. Oklahoma, no, Oklahoma, Ohio State, we will get to you. We're saving the entree for last. Are we going to do two straight episodes where we just keep punting Oklahoma, Ohio State. No, we'll get there. We'll get there after this, I promise. Well, it'd be even better if we swore we would.

and then didn't i mean that does sound extremely on brand we should have like a ticker like espn does the debate subjects that are coming up and like it just it the tickers like always like what the fuck is happening we don't know we've lost the plot oh no now we're back to the cults who's now um Lamar jackson is averaging 5005 yards of offensive game if he if Lamar jackson were a team by himself. And I would posit that in many ways he already is. He would be 26th in the nation. He's awesome.

North Carolina has problems, although so does Louisville at this point. Big problems. North Carolina has massive problems. Lamar Jackson has not missed a beat at this point. Just looks amazing and awesome. And does he make the occasion bad decision, yep, does he have to? Because this team might have to score 35 to 45 points a game to win. Yeah, that too. Is this all going to come crashing down against that Clemson team? It really might. And not because, not because I think Lamar Jackson is going to, I mean, listen, he's probably not going to put a 505 against Clemson. But Clemson might not.

not let him on the field because Louisville, your defense, it's got some issues. They have some issues, and those were less noticeable because the UNC defense is on fire, just playing with gumballs and sparklers on their heads. Just, hey, out here to have some fun on fire the entire time that they're on the field. what you should know about Lamar Jackson in this game, though, is this. And I ask you, did either of you watch a substantial portion of this? I would say I watched about 20 to 30% of it, yeah. Yeah, I probably watched 60 to 70% of this game.

And it was stunning how relaxed he is right now. He is so smooth. Like last year, I remember on past plays, it was, all right, I got to look at this guy. And I got to look at this guy. I got to, okay, now I have to run, right? he would go one read two read go and now lamar jackson is kind of seeing the matrix and letting everything flow and it's really cool to watch and in this game even when he was harried i think it was his

second touchdown pass where they got a corner blitz as greg mackerel called the cat blitz right just boop right off the corner and he dodged the dude shook him off of his ankles look downfield and through the longest touchdown pass he had ever thrown right down the seam in a perfect coverage splitting two safeties right to an open wide receiver and it was a bomb it was beautiful he now can do things like when receivers like he can throw out a running backs and wide receivers in the flats because defenses are so committed to just himming him in that there's space there when he takes off on runs now he doesn't do it with that kind of pell-mell picking his way through no Oh, just collides. It's scary how good he could be. Now he's keeping his head up is the football cliche. You know, like on that one touchdown, he could have easily scrambled for a first down. He could have made an amazing play.

He could have gained 20, 30 yards, and everyone would have loved it. But, you know, like you say, he is learning how to keep his options open as he goes. he had over 500 yards of offense and 6 TDs by himself and in doing so I never felt like he forced a thing how the hell do you do that how how in football it came where it's like well just take what the defense gives you typically means you're just sort of nibbling down the field he averaged 10 yards completion

he averaged 6.9 yards a rush he did terrify things all at this pace that just like that's how talented it is and how fast he is that he was doing everything at a pace that appeared to be different than everyone else on the field so this is just me i'm going to be in awe of like at least two people this week he's one of them baker mayfield's the other right in a very different kind of way lamar jackson doesn't look like he's hurrying at all baker mayfeld looks like he is playing with his hair on fire every single minute of every single play. And now we can talk about Oklahoma, Ohio State. Thank you. Yeah. I'm not kicking that

down the field. Segway's here. It's about flag disrespect for me. First of all, flag and field disrespect. You know, I mostly watch, I watch the games to see if somebody will do something disrespectful. Because otherwise, I view football to be the most respectful thing you can do to another person. And when you decide that hitting somebody in the head of, ribs and legs repeatedly, which we've all decided is okay, is not enough for you. And you decide to to bring a flag out? Like, you're not Neil Armstrong, son. You get in a goddamn Apollo rocket if you want to put a flag somewhere.

Purdue is not on this sideline. Purdue is not on this goddamn sideline. And if they were, well, they might have put up about as much fight as Ohio State did actually. Sorry. however isn't it true that all flags are worthy of standing at detention and respect

and anyone who does not do so is disrespecting the flag because I mean I think it could be argued that Ohio State laying down was disrespectful to Oklahoma's flag I have to just go ahead and cite that it is a delightful piece of coincidental irony

that Oklahoma home of the land the original land thief went and staked a claim on Ohio's field. They stakes a claim on a place called Columbus. Layers. Like you went and named yourself after Columbus, and that didn't even stop it. No, no, no.

You slip in the script. You take this crystal ball, Cologne. Aye. And J.T. Barrett has smallpox, so it all works out. Mm-hmm. A whole offense. Whole offense is diseased at the moment. A lot of scurvy all throughout.

The wide receivers, their hands, I think they've melted. More of a nutritional deficiency overall, right? A space issue, a real estate issue, because nobody's got yards. Yeah. This is bad. J.T. Barrett, you can't, I don't want to blame J.T. Barrett because nobody's open. Nobody's open downfield and those crossing routes that they relied on against Indiana. they just weren't there for some reason like Paris Campbell looked like a god against Indiana

and against Oklahoma he had 27 yards and three catches that's it oh like their leading receiver was KJ Hill Kaja Hill didn't have 50 yards receiving they kept it all in front of them now you know Kevin Wilson's a really really smart coach and urban Myers a really really smart coach and this must be bad because those are two smart guys who can't get this loose whereas lincoln riley the leading receiver for oklahoma for for baker mayfield to give you an idea of the brilliant night that baker mayfield had who was the leading receiver don't look well just tell me the position of the tight end yeah tight end no backup tight end better snap long snapper demich close demetri flowers a full back oh came two yards shy getting a century

on the ohio state secondary demetri flowers had seven catches for 98 yards and a TD a crucial TD early to keep oklahoma in this game this could have been so much worse y'all it's 31 16 but there were two fumbles early they doubled them up by over 100 yards of offense. They really probably should have been 37 to 40 to 16 if they were looking at this. And Baker Mayfield almost threw for 400 yards on them, through for 386. What was really depressing to me was it's 31, it's 3113, like with about eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. and Ohio State's got the ball, and they're driving, and they get all the way to the Oklahoma 17.

They've got first and 10. They go three-yard run, incomplete pass, incomplete pass. It's fourth and seven. There's six and a half minutes to go, and it's a 18-point game. And they kick the field goal. And on one hand, it's like, well, yeah, you know, 18 points is still a three-score game. 15 is not but it's just like y'all y'all y'all no you knew that was you knew that shit wasn't gonna work that was like see we're still trying see i'm eating my brock i'm eating my broccoli mom be proud of me i'm going to school just like you said i don't ohio states then this is looking a lot like the ohio state michigan game's gonna be like 1410 oh in like quintuple overtime yeah We need to talk about multiple overtimes to round this thing out, by the way.

Somehow two safeties in overtime. Yeah, that's it. Just multiple safeties left and right and missed field goals. Is J.T. Barrett some sort of, like, is he one of those elements at the end of the periodic table? And we're just seeing his half-life go real, real, real, real, real fast. It's just a... I think he's Benjamin Buckeye. Okay.

He's a freshman now. Oh, no, I'm 12. Right now he's a true freshman. He stepped in the game as, you know, leading the playoff run and all that. Yeah. You go back in 2014, freshman J.T. Barrett, 64.6 completion percentage, nine yards of passing attempt. The next year, 63.3 completion percentage, 6.7 yards. per passing attempt the next year yards per attempt to stay the same that percentage is down to

61 and a half this year yards per attempt are at least up to seven but he's down to a completion percentage of 55.7 it's just i mean i i kind of want him to get a grad year somewhere just to see if it'd be like no he he plays cornerback now that's how it went yeah you know where he needs you know where j t barrett needs to play because i was watching it and i thought what kind of quarterback does he look like the arena league no better better he looks like a Utah quarterback oh one of those random random event generators if he keeps it up he might look like a BYU quarterback at this point oh that's that's he's got three or four more years to get there 28 year old J.T. Barrett kill me kill me yeah like so last year coming in it was

you know, hey, let's look at J.T. Barrett's career pass a rating. How are we not talking about this guy as like a Heisman contender? Coming into this year, it was, okay, JT's had a rough year and a half, but here comes Kevin Wilson. You know, one of the greatest offensive coordinators ever. Urban has had, you know, a whole offseason of yelling at these kids about 31 to zero. They're going to be fired up. Kevin Wilson's going to take the charge of this thing, and nah, nope. So, you know, if you want to see somebody, who's working with nothing or relatively speaking nothing but a bunch of five stars yeah yeah that's nothing but a bunch of five stars but like look at oklahoma

oklahoma doesn't have a bell cow running back right they don't um you know tray sermon was good trace sermon average 3.6 yards carry Oklahoma only rushed for 100 yards in this like i remember watching this game going like man they're running the ball real well you know why because they ran it well when they needed to and they still only had 104 yards. Their receiving core, there's not a real bunch of game breakers on here. They just threw,

they threw to tight ends and to otherwise unremarkable wide receivers and Grant Calcutera for a big reception. Like, they ended up with 386 yards out of dudes just getting open. You know how they got open? Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield will just tread your defense because once he starts moving, it's terrifying.

He wasn't able to. run for a lot like the defense tried to keep him in front they tried to limit him and for the most part they did but it didn't matter because the way that he can sort of pong around inside a pocket like just moving left right a b a b up down up down uh inside the pocket got dudes free there is a moment in the third quarter where and i don't know if you saw this play but they get a really long completion uh to put them in position to score i believe it's to michael jones where Baker-Matefield fakes rolls right there's a guy right there and he just glides past him and throws the ball over a defender and in front of one for a 42-yard gain that would eventually become the score that put them up 17-13 for good and it's breathtaking and it's just like it's just a coordinator who understands what he's working with and a quarterback who can do it and they generate space wherever they are in the field with whoever they have and sometimes. all they have is an hback fullback named demetri flowers and he gets seven receptions for 98 yards

and destroys the ohio state defense at home and then you throw a flag on the field i like it was it was i'm going to watch it again because he is that much fun to watch it is a ways off but i am fairly intrigued by the oklahoma tCU game at this point because and listen oh let's let's this is a bold statement all right i don't want everybody emailing me being like you sure about that i listen i recognize this is maybe one of the brashest things i've ever said arkansas is not as good as oklahoma but their states are right next to each other shit and their colors are very similar shit you know what arkansas is as good as oklahoma you convince me thank you jason all uh please

forward all emails to jason.k at boxmedia.com I don't even think that's his email. It doesn't matter. Just, and we're not going to talk about this game a lot, but Austin Allen's passing line in that game. Austin Allen, a guy who has plenty of experience playing for Arkansas, 9 of 23 for 138 yards and one touchdown.

That's bad. That's real bad. I don't know that, you know, again, I don't know what it's going to mean. by the time we get to, I think that game's in November. But it will be really interesting to see what the Big 12 looks like with that Oklahoma offense and the Oklahoma State offense as well. And TCU may be becoming the kind of defense that they have been in previous years. All right, it's time to throw down the other card.

Yes. We are moving to Boise State versus Washington State. um broncos up by 21 in the fourth quarter with something stupid like eight minutes left i'm not looking at any of this up um and everyone had given up i had gone ahead and on the board i had moved boys state number one on the group of five new year six playoff bowl list um for a conclusion i had decided to go to bed by the way well when did you when did you decide to go to bed hitting it and then uh and then at 135 i was like how this will probably get stupid yeah you barely missed it because i i was going to say i made a decision i sort of made a strange

decision the only reason was it was even able to get this game to overtime was because on what should have been their likely last possession they got held to they got stopped on like fourth and 20 or they got to fourth and 20 and they punted the ball away and when they did it bounced off the back of a boise state not that not the returner another another player near the returner for boise state couldn't have seen it coming total fluke and that bizarrely is when i said no this game's going to go way longer now because this is just gone full stupid and i went to bed at that point even though that was the peak of its craziness yeah so you saw it coming down the tracks and said no, no, I want no part of this.

I'm bail. No, this, this, this, this, it's sort of like watching the trailer for it and being like, yeah, that's going to have kids die. No, thanks. Yeah, not my, not my kind of viewing. So, so Spencer turned in because he is a greatly advanced age.

No, I turned in and then I reneged and said, no. Oh, right, right. Yeah, I was like, this is going to get stupid. Caught your third wind. Caught my, caught some, caught some bad strength and bounced back. Whereas Ryan gave up. Yep.

I was around for the duration. And my single favorite thing about it, other than, yeah, it was extreme Pact 12 of After Dark, and it was very, very, very dumb. And if you like long football games with a lot happening, it was your kind of thing. The single greatest thing about it was Rod Gilmore, the ESPN announcer who is extremely by the book,

extremely 2% milk. Just the most... He's perned happily. He's perned happily. Yes. Like, and it's not even... Like, him calling these super nuts West Coast games, there's one way it could go that would be funny,

which would be if he was completely frazzled by it. You know, like, I just don't know why everything is breaking and going wrong. But what he does takes it to the next level, in that he remains sober and sensible and rational, even when the whole world is crumbling around him. And it's admirable and it's awesome because he remains himself and he keeps trying to force insanity into something that makes sense. Like, you know, well, if you're up by 17, I think what you should do is hang on to the football. And no, they're not going to do that.

They're not going to do that. You know, like, oh, well, if you're in double overtime, here's what you should try to do. They're not listening to you, Rod, but it is so admirable that he still believes in everyone around him enough to keep trying. um and i i think that like part of it is just screaming hilarious to listen to but part of it is also it's inspirational this man believes in us this much even when things are going wrong he believes we can make the correct decision on the goal line and no matter how many feces these idiots have smeared on their faces he's still going to believe they can pull through and just kick the field goal on fourth down he does there's a there's a rational world out there somewhere that rod gilmore

believes he can lead you to. And I can't decide whether that makes him football's greatest fool or noblest soul. I'm not sure which one. He is the character in Fallout that you encounter who insists that nuclear war did not happen. Come on in. Have a glass of orange juice.

I think he knows it did, but he's the only one on Earth who thinks we're going to be fine if we just kick the ball on 4,000. And it is great because every, time in this game we'd come up and be like you know it's fourth and six here you know you got a kick leach is going for it boy's like you know fourth and three what i do here is i give them a run pass option this is by the way run pass option this is rod rod gilmore like juicing is to your your newly health conscious friend as the run pass option is to rod gilmore in the red zone there is no play

no fourth and short thing that cannot be remedied by an RPO. This is his fitbit that he won't stop fucking talking about. I think it's like an iPod Nano or something you could have a 6 foot 7, 2007

The thing about the run pass option is that it holds up to 800 songs. You could have Jamarcus Russell back there on 4th and 6 and he's like, I think you got to roll him out and see if he could do something with his legs. Or maybe get a ball to a receiver you know

he can move a little bit that's third down that's third down because on fourth down you better kick that ball yeah kick that you gotta take the points well hold on hold on can you run field goal can you kick a run pass option oh a run kick option if you come out and start

doing rugby plays rod Gilmore would say finally they've learned all they've learned they've ascended from me Rod Gilmore I can leave now I can return to my own planet man Rod Gilmore We're at Gilmore watching Aussie rules.

And they go, oh, finally! Here is the best summation of how dumb this game was. All of these things happened to Luke Falk during this game. He set the school record

for career passing yards. He got benched. After that happened. And then after the benching, he came back in and got hurt. It was amazing. Like, Luke Falk experienced every conceivable emotion. after that he was lingering by Mike Leach

like trying to get put back in and of course this entire time Rod Gilmore was seemed to be convinced that only Rod Gilmore could stop Luke Falk from taking the field and like you know they'd be discussing something barely related and by the way they need to remove Luke Falk's helmet can someone please go down there and do that well that's because he knows that's that's the weak spot on this boss

if you take his helmet away and you punch him when he flasked I'm kind of surprised Rod Gilward doesn't wear a helmet at all times, or it was a hard hat. Like, just, you know, one of the most common causes of death is an accident. Most of those from falling, especially if you're over 50, and at my age, I find wearing a hard hat just makes sense everywhere. You never know when a broadcast booth might collapse. People fall in the shower, and that's why I just climb inside the washing machine. this is by the way Boise State had the same thing happen

Brett Rippin Brett Rippin was out Montel Cozart comes in it's not really clear like Brett Rippin was injured or I'm still not exactly sure why he was benched shit got weird

Yeah I mean Just a tremendously dumb game Yeah Also Mike Leach called his offense Constipated But Wazoo has now Open the season

by beating an FCS team and beating Boise State, so they will finish three and nine condolences. Yep, that was it. That said, I would like to mention briefly that, oh boy, the race for first Arizona school to fire their coach. It's on. It's on and popping. Which did you like better? Did you like Arizona losing to Houston? Or did you like Arizona State getting beat by 10 points by 7?

San Diego State so many choices so many options to choose from did San Diego did San Diego State pass for I don't know even 75 yards in that win no no they did not that they need to again no no they did not because we when you can run for six and a half yards and attempts on Arizona State yeah you're gonna win that game when you got Rashad Penny in the backfield Rashad penny shot penny of 216 yards on 18 carries i think i like asu more here because arizona is probably going to beat you holy shit that catch by cole beasley just now sorry i looked up and saw the nfl happen but um so arizona is probably going to beat utep next week Arizona state has to play texas tech and texas tech can keep you under 75 points now

not that you could ever get there as Arizona state after that They have to play Oregon at Stanford and Washington. Yeah, Todd Graham, Todd Graham, he's so fired, dude. Oh, but maybe you can pick it up at the end of the season. Nah, buddy, you got to host USC. You got to go, you got to host Colorado, who still looks good. He's gone. You got to go to UCLA.

You do get to go to Oregon State. Oregon State is hot trash. They lost to Minnesota 48 to 14. boat's been road so Oregon Oregon State is kind of like your your checkpoint your your save

you can save your game if you get to Oregon State but you're still down to like half a life yeah you're you might you might you're probably dead before you get there attack Graham you're all your armor is at 1% let me point this out by the way

at Oliver at Oliver in that game their safety had 11 tackles and Oliver at Oliver had 11 tackles and a tackle and a half for a loss and blocked a field goal he was not handleable and keep in mind

this is with them reading him a lot right and in a defense and an offense where you're trying to get the ball out of the back field and running options designed around him he still had 11 tackles I overall it was a much better week for college football in the state of Texas

Houston got to play and got a win over a power five team even if it's not a very good one. Taylor lost to an FBS team this time. I would posit that as UT San Antonio got a win. That's a Texas school, right? Kept the win in state. Right.

So that's important. And Texas A&M, probably everything went fine. You know, that was not the case, Ryan. I mean, they got a win. You know what? The board says W. And I'll put it that way. but until late and sometimes that just means why why did they do better against the nickels colonels than kirby smart did in your one

shit well this is like kevin someone and what i'm going to assume was year 11 in texasana and a few been being paid a ridiculous amount of money for this and um yeah they were they were tied with nickels at one point in the fourth border nichols formerly nichols state not not an FBS team. They're an FCS team. So, yeah. Yeah, they got problems. They got deep.

Yeah, they got serious problems, massive problems. You know, it doesn't have problems? South Carolina's 2 and O, man. South Carolina looks awesome. They got Debo Samuel, just returning kicks left and right. Their defense limited a pretty, pretty solid, pretty impressive Missouri offense to, I don't know, less than 700 yards. I mean, South Carolina last year, it took them six games to score nine touchdowns on offense.

And this year, they've done that in two games. South Carolina, I mean, I think Georgia still looks like probably the best team in the East. And Tennessee is like weird and fluky enough that maybe they'll still be good. Florida's garbage. I think we can establish that. Yeah, correct. South Carolina is going to make, going to make for some trouble in the SEC East this season. They look good and they look fun.

And I know we're saying that about a well-mush-champ team, and I'm fine with that. I think they look like. I've learned that it's not Will Must-Champ. That's the problem. It's Florida. It's a fun, elevated version of a Mushchamp team. Because, yes, they're still scoring on special teams and three-yard drives and all that and getting, like, wildly outgained by the teams they're beating.

It just works. Like, do you want to beat the Rage and Cajuns on a punt block? or do you want to lose to him? We probably want to beat him, right? Okay, so let's do that. That is the stuff that has carried over so far. I don't know, man. They're throwing more than 20 passes a game.

I know that's a low bar to set, but it's real, and it's true. And it happened. Yeah, I'm confused by this, and I don't want to think about it to process it emotionally yet. Okay. Hold on. We have been very remiss in leaving out what I would argue. was the most entertaining and most unexpected game of week two. Play that song. Play that horn for me.

The damn Matador started stabbing each other. It was amazing. El Asico. You lit it the fuck up. 44-41, overtime, both teams, over 450 yards of offense. My goodness, both teams over 300 yards passing. I liked how it felt like everyone was proud of us, that like our pet game was actually good. Like, we didn't do this.

We didn't have anything to do this. I'm glad people watched it, and anyone whose decision was pointed in that direction because of us, cool, cool, cool, great, great. These things just happen sometimes. I think I laughed when Bleacher report said, oh, El Asico's over. Oh, oh, in their push notification. Yeah, it was on a, somebody got, well, I guess thousands of people got a push notification that said El Asico, and I would imagine they said, what the fuck does that mean? And then Googled it and found y'all's post explaining what it is.

I saw that shared in several points. It was like, here's actually what Al Asico means. Here's what all the yelling is about. Yeah. No, that was actually probably like, that was probably my favorite game to watch. It usually is in week two for reasons that I can't explain. This year, I could explain them because it was awesome. And good for you, Ohio State. You were there. You're right there. Like, you look pretty good. You look pretty fun. You know how bad Iowa State is historically? You have a quarterback who can slag it a little bit. I mean, his accuracy is not crazy amazing. but well it also helps when iow occasionally just like don't cover the deep man

he looks like a charlie whitehurst cosplay guy and that's cool you look like a team that had texas fans saying oh we have to go to aims this year jacob park kind of looks like if charlie whitehurst lived in asgard you mean if charlie whitehurst was from wales like He was his own part of it. What is he saying? I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know.

God, he's got a lot of tattoos. But I think he's trying to fuck my wife. Yeah. Definitely. Cardo to the house. Take a park. Yeah. And a good win for Iowa.

Sure. Yeah. By the way, Iowa just doing it the way they've always done it with dazzling passing. well well well well dazzling passing two running backs yeah that's perfect perfect this is completely on brand just so we're totally clear here because yes you're a leading receiver acrim wadley yeah it was a badass he's great he looked he looked absolutely fantastic elassico um you know i figure we can we can address this when somebody goes well if it's a good game you can't call it El Asaicco.

Ass is great. We're going to call it El Asico no matter what. And if it's El Asico and the game sucks, it's because it was ass. And if it was El Asico because it was good, guess what? Because it was ass.

It was ass. I would like, now, ass is not always good, though. And that's how I'm going to talk about Northwestern Duke. Because, you know, this off scene, when we were doing previews, and I,

decided for whatever dumb reason, probably because I was bored to go in on Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern being kind of an unachieving, underachieving program in the last few years. You two, and lots of other people out there were like, you're an idiot asshole. Fair. I usually am. Based on this game, fuck all of you. Because Northwestern looked like shit against Duke. These are real numbers. Total yards, Duke, 538. Northwestern, one-nine. Duke on third down 15 of 22 Northwestern 1 of 10

Northwestern's rushing game Such as it can be considered 21 rushing attempts 22 yards Time of possession Time of possession Duke 41 minutes and 18

fucking seconds Sure Take everything you had That you used to defend Pat Fitzgerald and explain how it makes sense in a world where they get absolutely crushed by Duke and really barely beat Nevada.

Simple. Simple. Who was Northwestern's motivational speaker before the Nevada game? That would be, wasn't that Darren Ravel? It was Derek himself. Derek Ravel. Donald Rovel. has changed the program's brand and that's a bad brand.

I like that. I would want to go ahead and say I have no defense for it, and Ryan was right. I do want to, can I give one plot it to a team that I guarantee you they will get no other specific mentions in terms of national media? Sure. None. That would be it was a big weekend. for New Mexico State. It was massive because in week two, the big rivalry of the atomic republic of New Mexico happens.

It's New Mexico Lobos versus the New Mexico State Aggies. And as you all know, the Aggies are a homeless program. They don't really have a conference or a plan for their future or any real sort of existence planned, you know, beyond. this season next season though we get together and be like i guess we'll play some football new mexico meanwhile doing fairly well bob davy they actually got a guy you can write bob davy's their head coach they run like a quintuple option real exciting real interesting um and new mexico state won 30 to 28 in a thriller where new mexico state was up and they allowed 23 points in the fourth quarter and still won

Which the quote was, my favorite quote of the weekend, which was from the quarterback for New Mexico State, Tyler Rogers. Man, that was stressful. 23-point rip-off in the fourth quarter, and they still held on. So way to go to Mexico State. No one else is going to love you up. Bring it in. Now we're going to tune in to podcast and play nobody,

and I'll have spent 37 minutes on New Mexico State. I'll talk about this for 37 minutes in detail. Well, you know, I was breaking down the film of this. You know, when I talked to coaches about New Mexico State, they've never heard of it. We're like, we couldn't find Las Cruces on a map.