The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Commissioner of Everything Imaginable

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

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Who's competing? Vote for your favorite nutty fan at Levitard Show on Instagram. We've had a few Alabama winners last couple weeks. No more Alabama fans. You get out of here. This week we have Texas Tech fans competing against Georgia Tech. First, we have Texas Tech fans. Someone can explain this to me.

Throwing tortillas in the air. It looks delightful. The announcer calls them tacos, even though they're not tacos. They're clearly just the tortillas. And why are they doing this? I love that they do this. You just see on the field now, do all the stores get sold out of tortillas the day before game day? I'm just intrigued by every part of this.

The security just allows them to bring tortillas in. Can I bring anything in? So they've been doing this for a while, but you're nominating them for Nuddius fan because they're just, they're wasting perfectly good tortillas. Tortillas are delicious. You shouldn't fris them in the crowd. What's your favorite thing to do with tortillas? I like to dip it in queso.

Texas Tech has been throwing tortillas on the field since 1992 after an ESPN announcer joke that Lubbock, Texas was nothing but Texas Tech football on a tortilla factory. Well, there you go. So now it's a thing, and I love it. Well, they were crushing Oregon State this weekend. I don't see the point of playing some of these college football games. Indiana and Indiana State, that doesn't seem like a nice thing to do to Indiana State. Miami, what would be Miami's food, Mike?

What would we throw at Epa's? Can you tell me, though, what this is competing against? What is the tortilla competing against? That's not going to win. They've been doing it for 30 years. This is compete. Well, it's still a wacky thing. It's very nutty.

So, to me, that can definitely win. I mean, in terms of just nutty things to do that I say, hey, this happens, regardless how long they've been doing it, that's a nutty thing to do. The other thing is Georgia Tech. They had a big win last week, and they brought their goalpost all across town. The journey of Georgia Tech's goalpost is what this is competing with. You see here, it starts in the stadium. It makes its way outside the stadium all across town.

Oh, yeah. It is just, this is nutty behavior. Look, this guy's riding the flagpole, so it's just very exciting. I don't think that Georgia Tech at this point in its program's history should be that surprised by beating Clemson. This allows us, though. Now it's leaving the stadium here, as you can see. Brent Key is seven and one all-time outright against ranked teams. And the one loss came to Carson Beck in like six overtimes last year.

You'll see they had a little bit of a difficult time getting the goalposts out of the stadium. That's just an insane set. They're Georgia Tech. They're not often ranked during this regime. But if they play a ranked team, only one time and it took six overtimes to kill them, they win outright. They are very well coached and it is startling to see a team that was doing the option offense in the name of, you know, in the day of modern space age offense. Yes, Chris. So it seems that the ending spot for this was the president's mansion, the pool at the Georgia Tech's president's mansion.

So can I ask you something? Sure. Why is it okay for students to steal things out of the football stadium and then throw it in the pool in the president's home? Big win. That's right. That's exactly why. And that's a good reason. Because you don't just stroll into Bobby Dodd.

Clemson learned. Other teams will learn. Miami learned last year. There is no place on the planet that want to be at less than Bobby Dodd Stadium at noon. To go from Paul Johnson to that, there cannot be another team in the country that's overachieving more than that one, given the athletes they're getting compared to the athletes everyone else is getting. And it's not like their offense is like crazy advanced either. It's just so college football.

It's what makes it great. Haynes King, not going to have a career at the next level. It doesn't make all the throws. Certainly doesn't scream pro prospect. but in college football, that guy is a nightmare. I did not see a better coaching job last year than Cam Ward, the best player in the country, losing to backup quarterbacks at Georgia Tech. But before we get to the Georgia Tech-Clemson game,

the game in college football of the weekend, if you had to choose one, you got to choose one. Is it Notre Dame, Texas A&M, or is it the one that Zaz was at, Tennessee, Georgia? In that game, such a fun game, I felt bad for Georgia's defensive back when he gave up a 72-year-old. yard touchdown. He falls on the floor, receiver runs into the end zone unscathed, and then they call defensive pass interference as well. They just throw a flag as well. You cheated, you fell on your face, and Tennessee's receiver went 72 yards with the football. However,

every time Georgia got down in that game, they came back. They didn't have a whole lot of business winning that game. Did they accept that they're always going to win that game against Tennessee? I feel like Tennessee is just like the ultimate choker team. You don't believe in them being able to pull it off. And heck, they were up 21-7 in the first quarter that game. Building was going nuts. And then it was all there for them in the fourth quarter. Just make a kick.

And they got a procedural penalty too right before the kick, right? It moved them five yards back. And the kick was not even close, by the way. He pushed it so far right. But the thing was, the crowd started cheering, and they did the thing where the stadium flickers the lights because that means you won the game. But then the referees come on and say, no good.

It's embarrassing. Was that game better than Notre Dame, Texas A&M? No. No. And with apologies to Jessica Spontana, there is no greater story in college football than Notre Dame taking two games to go from national championship hopes to, oh my God, we're not even going to make the playoff. Their schedule's not good enough. They're still ranked. They've lost the two top ten teams. They're not done. Notre Dame does this. I know, but the rest of their schedule, though. They lose at the start of the year, and then they win the games and the media make sure they're in that.

CFP conversation. The thing you're forgetting Zaz is their Notre Dame. But they don't have anyone left on their schedule. But they're Notre Dame. Quality losses are better than wins. They don't even have to be in the top four. It's the reality of the last decade of the playoffs. They can run the table. They'll be there. It does not matter

if you win games as long as you have good losses. A two lost Notre Dame with both losses coming to top 10 teams are there. Hell, they may give them a buy if that's a case. They don't beat a single ranked team. But they've won 10 straight. And what you're saying is probably correct and it's stupid. Well, thank you for that I'm probably correct.

I looked into this tortilla toss situation. So the Big 12 tried to ban before the season throwing of objects on the field. The Texas Tech fans took as a direct shot at them and their tortilla toss. And they said, you know what? We're going to be fine. We're going to do it before the game. And surely, surely the fans would not throw anything on the field during the game that would impact the player or hurt the team in any way.

And even if they do, I think they have like three strikes before there's any real penalties. There's just like monetary things. So the tortilla toss continues. Big 12 rules be damned. As the kickoff to start the game is happening. So technically before the game. That should be like running onto the field to celebrate. You should penalize the team.

It should be a- Camera should cut away. It should be a $50,000 fine to the program whenever... How would they come back from that? Why are you looking down to your phone while talking? Because I'm being a professional journalist here, professional broadcaster. The one thing I agree with is that if any team, is going to be allowed into the college football playoff with two losses.

It's mighty Notre Dame because they want Notre Dame for the TV ratings. So, you know, the team that deserves to be in the CFP more than Notre Dame doesn't have a chance. Have you noticed that as you've aged, you outlaw and sanction and penalize more? Yeah. Well, I should be the commissioner of all sports. Yeah. Sports needs an overarching commissioner with a whole umbrella. Like, I could be the commissioner of everything imaginable, pro.

Of everything imaginable. It's a big job. I think you're up for it. Well, I need a big staff. Yeah. You know, some say I have a big staff. I don't. I need a big staff.

And that'll help me be the commissioner of all sports. I think that what you're saying would be great because, look, a couple weeks ago, I mean, Mike had a decision to make. Is he going to watch Inter Miami play for a championship or he's going to watch the University of Miami play? And if there was a commissioner of sports, surely someone would have caught on to the fact that in the same market, you have two massive games that never would have been scheduled that way. That's right. That's a good point by Billy. And I'd have been there to say UM wins that

because Inter-Miamy continues to let us up, build us up, only to let us down. Three nothing lost to Charlotte. You want to be the commissioner of everything the way Sep Blatter was the president of everything? Let me tell you. I like you. You brought me again into the FIFA.

I stay with you. You have voted for me. Although they have voted for the Prince Ali, I congratulate you. It's a good candidate. But I'm now the president of everybody. So I'm the president of everybody. Thank you. There is no return since.

That's just president of the whole FIFA. You know how Miami Hurricane's tears were so appreciated by the fan base of this show? I would maybe be able to survive three quiet weeks and then inevitably Miami would lose to like Virginia and we'd go for 90 minutes on it. Your silence on the Miami Hurricanes front as a show collectively brings me such a joy. And thankfully, I have other outlets.

So go ahead. Keep ignoring them because the whole hum 40-point beatdown of a top 20 team is so routine around this place. I want to ask you if this is the most balanced UM team since Blank in a second. But just going back for a second to the Notre Dame Texas A&M game. If I'm Notre Dame and you guys talking about them in the playoffs, when they're 0 and 2 is certainly something. Seeing Notre Dame lose that way to a Texas A&M team, this is very rare to have a win on the road when all of these things happen.

Your third down defense stinks. You throw an interception and you have a punt blocked for a touchdown. And you have 13 penalties. That's really rare to go on the road and beat a good team the way Texas A&M did. When again, blocked punt return for a touchdown, interception, 13 penalties and can't get off the field on third down because your third down defense is terrible. Notre Dame should not have lost that game. I mean, Texas A&M totally sold that game. Notre Dame was in control that entire game. And Marshall, reading them boys, made the plays at the end.

But look, they've lost two games, both by one scores, both really good teams. If you look at the AP and just what people are talking about, like people, you just said this might be the most balanced Miami in 20-plus years. This is why. Notre Dame was impressive in fighting back. Let me talk about this University of Miami team for a second because Ruben Bain is going to be a top five pick if he is healthy. That guy is not blockable and those are super rare, obviously.

The University of Miami though, Mike is claiming that Carson Beck is better than Cam Ward. He's done this here for a little bit and he said that he looked better this spring than Cam Ward did. And it's not that he's better than Cam Ward because he's not. But his receivers are better. his offensive line is better, and that offense looks like something you can trust to absolutely make the correct decisions, and it has a quarterback that if everything does break down on third and 11 is really good with the throws he's making late with pressure right on him.

He's done it through two games in a way that surprised me. I don't know how you gauge the offensive line is better. They just have different approaches to it. Cam Ward reveled in the fact that he finally got protection. You could have argued that he had the best offensive line in the nation. The personnel is almost exactly the same outside of center. They broke out the RPO yesterday or on Saturday. I have not seen Carson Beck run around like that. I've not seen Miami do a lot of things that I look at and say they're out coaching somebody else, but clearly South Florida was not prepared for a run pass option from the quarterback. Heavy sets, multiple backs in the backfield, a backup center wearing number 46 knocking

fools out. There was a Raskovic getting playing time. This was a whole new running game. that they installed, that USF was clearly not prepared for. USF's a good team. That is not a bad team. We're just letting this beatdown change the narrative around USF now. They beat them all the way down to others receiving votes. That's as impressive. A TCB victory.

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This is the quickest it goes. Hey, this is the quickest it goes. Stugats. Everybody, this is the quickest it goes. Yeah. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Jeremy, why are you soothing yourself with body language cues? I hate both teams so much, and Mike's right.

Like, they thoroughly dominated USF. USF did build themselves up against a really crappy UF team that Miami's also about to beat down. That was their big ranked win that they got to kind of build their resume on, but that is a good team. Like, they might be the G5 representative ultimately in the playoff, and that's why I stayed silent. That's obviously a playoff team.

game days coming to town this weekend, but if you've not seen Miami play, their receivers are a good deal better than they were. And the only reason I'm saying, Mike, the offensive line is better, whether the personnel is the same or not is, those pockets are safe, those pockets are clean. Those are, Carson Beck is back there and he's untroubled. Cam Moore did some loop-de-loops and was relaxed, but Carson Beck is throwing in a clean pocket. They both had clean, they just have different approaches. I won't like that. Of course, K. Mord had the same exact quality offensive line. They just approached the game totally differently.

And Kame Ward, I guess you could look at the receivers and say they're not making drops, but Kame Ward had veteran-laden wide receivers all over the place. He's doing this with C.J. Daniels, who was injured all year last year at LSU, a kid that should be in high school right now in Malachi, Tony, whose instincts for the game jump off. When you watch him play, this dude just has a different feeling for the game. I haven't seen a wide receiver since San Tana Moss. such a great feel for the game. And he's got another true freshman and Joshua Moore making plays.

So it's like these guys are rising with Carson Beck. And Carson Beck, I know that there's this narrative around him. He is a better runner than Cam Ward. And I love that they have that in their arsenal right now. But I will disagree on Florida being bad. They should want a game in which they threw five interceptions in with DJ Lagway. Their defense is good enough to not get blown out ever. I know Banks is out possibly for this game against Miami, but this is a big test for Miami. Championship teams win this game and take care of business. Pretenders, they fall for the rat poison this week, and this is a hated rival that is coming in to save their season. I think it's going to be a tougher game.

Carson Beck is now a close second in the Heisman balloting, or not balloting, but odds, deserves to be. Miami's got three first place votes now moving up from five to four, deserves to be. I've been a big fan of Mario's the whole four years. This is Miami's best team better than 2017, in my opinion. This is startling, yes. That team rose to number two, was undefeated and then lost on the road to Pittsburgh. This is the most balanced University of Miami team I have seen in a while. Game days coming.

Florida is up next. Florida lost to LSU, and LSU has now played three straight games where they've held their opponent to 10 points or fewer. or obviously one of those great athletic LSU defenses. But let's check in here with Brian Kelly. He continues to do things in press conferences that make people not like him. Let's try and get video that has sound on it so that we can hear what Brian Kelly has to say.

Although checking out the arrogance via his body language, just leave it up there so we could just watch it. You can have a clip. We could guess what he's saying. Just put it up there without the sound and do it as B-roll without audio so that we could just watch. Brian Kelly do that. What are you seeing with your offense? Stop. Really? Is that the first question?

We won the game 20 to 10. Try another question. What do you want me to tell you? I just laid it out for you. We played the game to win the game. We played the game to win the game. All right. How about third down then? What is going on with third down? It's one game. Last game, we were great on third down. You're micro, you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. LSU won the football game, won the game. I don't know what you want for me. What do you want? You want us to win 70 to nothing against Florida to keep you happy? No, I think people want to know why you can't run the ball, quite honestly. We can run the ball. Did you see the last play of the game? That's all you need. You just need one. There's some ridiculous questions. And I'm getting tired

of it. Yeah. That football team just worked their tail off to get an SEC win and you want to know what's wrong. You know what? You're spoiled. You're spoiled. This team is 17 and 1 at night. 17 and 1. Give them some respect. How about that? Give them some respect instead of micro-analyzing every little thing. This is ridiculous. For a group of seasoned reporters, that kind of question is so out of line. This is ridiculous. Lackable chap. seriously i don't know what you want for me have an answer just answer a stupid question actually that is that a work that that is better than whatever else he could have said isn't as good as that that that's what we want i don't know what you want for me exactly that another reason i hate you

more that's exactly what i want every time i tune in thank you what do you want me to tell you just just sound like a jerk please slow do it more slowly how about that I mean, their offense sucks this year. It's been bad. They've all been sucks. Yeah, the bad offense so far. But I understand a big night game over an SEC opponent against a hated rival in Florida. Maybe you don't want it to be the first question.

But that guy was coming in really hot when he heard. He was ready with the stop immediately. It's not the worst press conference behavior I've seen from a leader in the last week, but only because I saw what boxing journalists did to Dana White for trying to change all of the Muhammad Ali rules that protect the fighter. It's a little different when the reporters aren't scared of you, Dana. It's a little different when they can undress you in public during your first boxing promotion.

Because, again, you're trying to change the rules that are named after Muhammad Ali for protecting the fighters during a broadcast, during a broadcast pay-per-view extravaganza where, because I do want to talk about Crawford-Kinello, Terence Crawford has become one of the greatest fighters ever quietly somehow, because I've only seen Floyd Mayweather do that to Canello, but again, Canello's second most undressed person in the sport compared to Dana White trying to answer questions from the boxing reporters on unequal pay, because Conor McGregor, these are some numbers I can give you.

Connor McGregor, $13.4 million, $13.4 million pay-per-view buys made $150 million in MMA. In boxing, against Floyd, he had $4.3 million pay-per-view buys, and he made $100 million in boxing. And now Dana's trying to change the rules in boxing because he wants to make it the economy of the MMA, where they abuse the fighters in exchange for pay in a way that's unreasonable, and finally he's being asked them difficult question about it. As Ariel Hawani always has, but Dana bullies the MMA. This is ridiculous. How would these purses so big in boxing? I don't know. I don't understand. How do so many people care? They don't. Who are these people watching? Who are these people watching? You know, like Tyson Fury, you know, $150 million for a fight? Who's watching this? Yeah. How is this happening?

I don't get it. I don't get it. Where are they getting this money? Older people still have money, guys, the demo of boxing, the boxing still has an older demo and those people still have money. Not still, they have all of it. I mean, the old people that say they can't figure out how to order something? Paper view, we figured out. It's just kind of crazy that this thing, that

people in sports in this country that actually talk about the sports programming never talk about boxing. The most they talk about it is when a celebrity is doing it. You're so right. And yet, you're here like, well, this is one of the richest athletes in sports because apparently people wanted to pay Anthony Joshua $200 million to go to Saudi Arabia and knock around some guy.

You're just hearing about it. I don't get it. Which part do you not understand about the business model that they were ahead of streaming? The business model. They were ahead of streaming. They get all your dollars because they put it all behind a payroll. They were ahead on streaming? What does that mean? What does that even mean? No, they weren't. They were on DeZone. They were ahead on pay-per-view. I don't know anybody with DeZone. Boxing's had pay-per-view since Ali was fighting Foreman.

Right, because that's when I really followed the heavyweights. I used to buy pay-per-view. I was on closed circuit TV, right? Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest businessmen in the history of sports because he figured out long before anyone else how to own all of his own shit with pay-per-view. It's gaming the system. Everyone's now figured it out, but when Mike says nobody talks about boxing, he's not wrong, but it's all because the partners are all basketball and football-related.

Yeah, but I think the question that they're trying to ask is, So when you put these fights on Netflix, how is Floyd still making $150 million when no one really cares and they only watch it because it's free? Because Netflix is getting into the live sports game. What happened there, Greg? There was a mishap. Greg, but you ate all?

You ate the entire bag of peanuts? In fairness, it was a small bag. Yeah. Fairness to who? It was great peanuts. Damn good peanuts. I wish they were more. It tastes like more, as my dad used to say, wouldn't like something.

Wild Bill. Yeah. I'd like to see the numbers. Netflix doesn't give out. They're going to give you some bullshit 800 gigaseconds for watch. It's like, great, perfect. Amazing. Eight hundred billion gigas seconds were watched across, like, oh, my God, a new record.

It's like, well, because no one measures anything in gigas seconds. What are we talking about here? You're not going to believe this. It's a new record for Netflix. Wow. And the numbers we keep entirely internal, and we just let you know, which we want you to know. You guys think that Netflix put on a boxing promotion because it doesn't make money?

because it's not. Yeah, because Netflix famously a company that does things to make money. They spend crazy amounts of money on content and haven't actually finished in the black yet as a company. But you think it's a bad investment for them to do Crawford and Canello? Look, I work in sports media. Spend all the money you want. Spend all the dumb money that you rationalize.

But we don't know the new signups that we have for this. And hopefully someone forgets that their credit court is on file for several months. I didn't even think about that fight on Saturday. It's not on my rail. If Jake Paul and Canello, maybe. Okay, but you guys, okay, that's how you guys consume this stuff. But there's an entire sport that people do love that you guys don't love. And I do understand how it is the media partners have made this.

It's just going to be basketball and football. But you get awfully pissed when they don't do hockey correctly. And you have for many years when they don't do hockey correctly because your sport isn't the one represented. But I hear from our audience every time we're talking hockey, the way that some of them would like us to be talking boxing or baseball when we never do, because it's not like this group doesn't have narcissistic opinions about what, that was a giant fight this weekend, and Terrence Crawford deserves to be revered as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters ever,

because what he just did to Canello Alvarez was an absurdity, neutralized. One of the great fighters of all time wasn't able to use his strength advantage, even though Terence Crawford was essentially essentially coming up three weight classes. After Floyd and Pachial, these are the two guys in boxing, but you guys don't care about it. You'd rather talk about Jake Paul. And I'm sorry, who is Terrence Crawford?

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Football. Football. Football. Football. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. It could be a big fight, but it looks like there's a big match at the front on Friday. I don't know. It's talking about that either, you know?

Best draw on highlight history. We can talk about that with expertise. When it comes to boxing, I don't know enough about the sweet science. I can't break it down. I just go one guy hit the other guy harder and hurt him more. I'm pretty cut and dry and I like seeing two guys fight don't get me wrong

I even like boxing I'd say upper quadrant in terms of people that work in metal work that like combat sports me but does nothing The most famous box of all time is famous for trying to not get hit Okay cool boring

Since Pacquiao and Floyd These are the two guys They've dominated the era Jake Paul's the guy Yeah we don't care Don't do anything for me Okay I'm glad we talked about it Let's get back to college football

Guys got some spark Unda and Robin. What a doubles team. Did you guys, let me talk about a bad beat here. Something about them. That is, that will entertain all of you. Did you guys see the bad beat at the end of Penn State Villanova, where Penn State, okay, is favored, and the over is, the total is 48.5.

And you've got Penn State in the game is up 52 to nothing, okay? Penn State's up 52 to nothing, and the spread is 48 and a half. Villanova at the end of the game has fourth and goal, and the last play is from the seven-yard line. And the quarterback on fourth and goal spins out and goes beyond his own 25-yard line, then headed toward the sideline. It's kind of like the Cam Newton. I mean, the Cam Ward play. Just sort of throws the ball against his body toward the back of the end zone,

where the Villanova receiver makes a catch with one. hand to get the touchdown as the clock expires and Penn State does not cover while favored by 48.5. Greg, have you- And the ball just kind of like dropped into the receiver. There were defenders there. It was on, it was really unbelievable. He wasn't open. If you had Penn State minus 48 and a half. That's a kick a hole in the TV. That ball's in the air and you're feeling good about it. Even still. Right. Right. That's like I'll be caught. You're like, this is fine. No, but this is the nightmare scenario. The only way you can lose in a way. way that really hurts is for the quarterback

to go to his own. It goes back 20 yards. There has to be chaos. And gets a one-handed catch from the receiver that was better than either one of the catches DeAndre Hopkins made yesterday. Don't look now, but Penn State hasn't covered a single game this season. Let me

ask you guys, whoever here knows more about betting than me, which is most of you. Didn't the 48 and a half point line used to be off the board? No, not in college. Money line would be off. the board in that situation. What is the biggest point spread you would see? You'll get a 50. You'll get a

50s. Alabama play games that have yeah. 55 I think I've seen before. But that's new though, right? Back in the day, I don't think that was the case. No, college football pretty routinely has 50 points spreads. I don't know why Indiana and Indiana State would play that game. Like I understand it's an in-house rivalry, but I felt terrible for Indiana State. That's how Cignetti roles. You made the playoffs doing it this way. Look at their out-of-conference. schedule for the next three years. It's ridiculous.

And then he'll talk all tough. I don't know what Miami's doing down there, but we do things a different way down here. We're no bootstraps. Shut up. You win within the schedule margins. The teams... He dies his hair. Oh, no. Oh, like, oh, come on. Like, he doesn't. Who's going to... Anybody want to take the stance that Kirk Signetti doesn't die his hair? This is ridiculous. I dare you. I dare you to come out and say that he does not his hair. You're the expert at these matters around here.

They work for Sabin. You get more than just coaching wisdom there. It has to look a certain way. We are in agreement that Clemson has now been removed from the list as we're looking. I'm assuming we're doing this with Alabama as well.

You tell me, of the last 10 years, the teams that have dominated have been Ohio State and Clemson and Georgia and Alabama. Whoever's number five, I guess we can put Michigan in there? Whoever's number five, I think in terms of dominance over 10 year periods, some of these schools have now fallen, correct? We're not pushing, we're not going to put Michigan, we're not going to put Michigan in this class

anymore now. We are not going to put Clemson anymore in this class, right? Now, Georgia, though, remains in this class because of Georgia going to Tennessee, winning that game. The Gulf is gone, right, between the space, between Georgia and everybody else. Alabama, we taking them out now? Are you taking your... Unless in two weeks they go to Athens and they beat Georgia. Then I'll put them back in.

Parity's here. I mean, Ohio State doesn't... It's not looking like parity given what Ohio State has done recently. I think the Ohio State only made the playoffs last year to win the national championship because it expanded to 12. Like last season's playoff teams, two losses, two losses, three losses, two losses, two losses, two losses. Parodies here, if you want to say it based on record,

because there was only one undefeated team last season headed into the playoffs, which was Oregon. And they got bounced early. Ohio State has beaten top seven teams, like seven of them, lost to Michigan in the middle there. But they have, for the moment, it's Ohio State more than Georgia, correct? on how you guys are feeling about a program's ability to actually throttle everyone else. We can talk about parity, but not since Ohio State was winning the championship with its third string quarterback.

Do we have an Ohio State team here where you might not think that Ryan Day can win big games, but he's beaten the last top seven or better ranked opponents that he's played. That's a die job right there. He can't be Michigan. He almost lost his job last year. It's crazy. If he even win the national championship, he probably would have lost his. job. And I believe that actively he has the best win percentage as a college football coach. He has historically good win percentage as a college football coach. He might have lost his job last year if they simply hadn't

expanded the playoffs as you did. Right? He might have lost. As soon as he lost to Michigan, that would have ended his job last year. What if he lost in the national championship game to Notre Dame? It would have been close call. If he would have lost the round before, he probably still had lost his job. He's been trying to get out of there for years. He wants to go to the next level. Some guys just hate this college life. Now, he's got the security of a national championship. Let them fall on their faces here. It'll be right back again.

Is that a happen to know? I haven't heard that. I guess sometimes. That's a casual happen to know. Wait a minute. He wants to go to the next level. Oh, my God, he knows. He happens to know.

Come, everyone. Come and listen. Happens to know. He happens to know. I don't think that's known that Ryan Day wants out of Ohio State. I mean, he wants to go to the next level as soon as all this stuff happened in college. He wants to be a head coach in the NFL. Really?

Yeah, the NFL knows that if they won't Ryan Day, he's there. I think that that might be news to Ohio State fans who might not want to think about him that way. I don't think they appreciate him fully. I'm just going to go on the record and say that. I don't think Ohio State knows what they have in Ryan Day. What do they think they have? They're taking him for granted.

Let me tell you what. When I've gone through those streets of Columbus, I can see, this is a group of people that doesn't really appreciate it. When's the last time you were in the streets of Columbus? It's been a minute. It's been a minute. But when I was there, I didn't get the. feeling that there was a lot of appreciation for him. Also, like, in terms of parody,

there's also basically just two conferences now, so they all have to play each other, so they're all going to lose games. What am I to do with that Georgia result, though? Because I feel like Georgia's obviously come back to the pack in a way that whatever the distance was, these things are hard, right? Nick Saban had this distance between him and everyone else, and then Georgia took it. In the middle of it, Dabo was in there, even though Clemson's been bad, the entire time Clemson's existed, except for one other year before Dabo took over. But what am I to do with that Georgia result? You go into Tennessee, you win that game that way.

You're still Georgia. You're still regarded the way that I regard Ohio State. I think you applaud their resiliency. And you also take a different look at Tennessee. Still early in the season. I don't know what to make of a lot of these results. I feel pretty good if I'm Tennessee. I mean, it's a super bitter loss.

But I guess I think Georgia is still really good. And Tennessee, like those two quarterbacks were both. Awesome. It's pretty clear that you upgraded at quarterback despite your offseason being totally taken over by Nico's decision to try to leverage the school. So you're UCLA fired Sean Foster. Yeah. Nico could end up right back in the portal because kids from UCLA and Virginia Tech, they now have a 30-day window in the transfer portal where they can transfer. And we haven't played four games this year, so they can all redshirt.

The chili is better than the spicy. Yeah. And you see on the hatch chili, they have a heat spectrum. And there's like a dot for mild, the mediums in the middle. There's a flaming logo right here at Hot would suggest we're on the far end of the hot spectrum. Nick Wright was sent 60 pounds of peanuts. We're literally paying him peanuts. Has he going to spin the Chiefs Owen, too?

Overpaid. How do you spin the Chiefs Owen, too? He'll find a way. No, but how... They're hurt. They're hurt, and they've played good teams. No receivers. No receivers. No worthy. No she right.

Did you guys give me a third biggest story from the weekend in pro football? Burrow? Are you agreeing with me that Burroughs broken toe and the Chiefs O and two are the big two stories? Yes. Yes. So what's third? Maybe Daniel Jones. Taylor Swift having like her outfit blocked from the media arriving at the game yesterday. Cowboys not being as bad as we thought they'd be. Cowboys are a good story. If you're watching on video, you're seeing it right now.

They just literally brought a wall to block the media. If you don't want to be seen, don't go to the game. Right. Like, I don't understand. I'm not going to lie. I am very pro-Taylor with almost everything. And, like, look, as she moves, you see them walking with the wall. That's ridiculous.

Well, what could it be? Like, she hasn't done that previously. Right. I don't know. Like, was it a special outfit? Did they show her during? Was she naked? I didn't see her at all during the game.

Maybe she was naked. Yeah, probably. I bet she was. I mean, it begs the question. No, it's a great question. No, no, she did this, though. I'll bet she was naked. She did this.

Okay, victim blaming. No, but she did this to us. We're the victims here. Yeah, we're the victims. We didn't get to see Taylor. If she just walked normal, we would have seen what she was wearing. She shouldn't go to the game naked. Taylor Swift nude.

It begs the question.