The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Nothing To Sneeze At

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

Rece Davis joins the crew for the entire Big Suey to discuss the biggest topics around the world of College Football. We start by giving him the credit he deserves for his heroic performance during the Cal-Miami game when he got sick after a 22-hour work day. Steve Kornhacki joins the show to discuss how the College Football Playoff picture is shaping up halfway through the season and how some of the big results from last weekend impacted the bracket. We also look ahead to a giant Week 8 that includes a Texas and Georgia showdown and Alabama facing off against Tennessee. Plus, we dive into the Heisman race between Cam Ward, Ashton Jeanty and Travis Hunter and discuss one of the great feats in broadcasting history as we have some major NFL news break right in the middle of the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar.

Reese Davis is the host of College Game Day, always nice enough to make time for us. And Reese, we were discussing this before you came on because we feel like you did not get enough credit for your heroic efforts. A week ago when you were at Cal and you were forced into action to call the Cal Miami game. So we want to give you your proper due right now. It was a heroic heroic effort.

That was that was actually it was a really fun game. It was pretty disappointing because early in the week or midweek, I'd been fighting off a little something. And then I was literally on the plane Thursday night going to Cal and I got the call that, Dave Fleming had a family emergency and they needed someone to step in. And I said, look, I've had a little thing with my voice

but I think I've turned the corner. I think I'm in good shape. Made it through the show. And then Saturday afternoon, sitting in my hotel room, going over my boards, you know, putting notes on the board and getting ready for the game and all of that stuff, you know how you start to feel it coming back? Yeah.

And you think, oh no, I'm getting sick. And then I was like just slamming tea. And the thing is, I haven't told anybody this publicly, but because I like you guys, I'll tell you this. I did the last, I would say four minutes of that game with my hands on the table in front of me, desperately needing to go to the restroom, but could not. I mean, desperately, because I had so much tea,

so much water just trying to get through the game. And fortunately I survived without incident that one because I was just drinking. Delicate question. One of the people in the booth said, I don't think I've ever seen anyone drink as much tea and honey and water as you just did in the last three and a half hours. I was like desperately trying to keep my voice going. And you know, and I was a little sick, but I'm on the mend now. Should be in, I'd say about 90%. So now I'm upgraded from questionable last week all the way to probable

and maybe off the list pretty soon. Now, Reese, when you sound like you did during that game, do you grind that tape afterwards and listen back or do you just like- No, man, just move on. Yeah, no, that has to disappear. It's- Well, we'll give you a little taste

of what you sounded like. Oh, no! Oh, don't do this What do you want? This is where the big comeback started? Go and try it again this time make it work And the canes draw closer just It's funny I don't get sick very, but we don't need to dwell on this, I don't guess. But when I do, we get a cold or whatever,

that's where it tends to get me. So anyway, hopefully that's one and done for this season and that won't happen anymore. One thing, Reese, that has been really sick this year has been all of the home atmospheres at the college game day locations that you guys have been to. And most recently, Oregon and Ohio State giving us the game that we were all

hoping for this past weekend. Do you think Oregon really has the juice to take this thing all the way to a Big Ten championship in the playoff? I do. Now look, I do think Ohio State has the better roster, but I think Oregon has the better quarterback. Now, I don't say that the cast aspersions to Will Howard. I think he's a really good player, but I've been a big fan of Dylan Gabriel since he was at UCF. And he was really good at UCF, played great

at Oklahoma last year, and made big plays against a really good elite Ohio State defense on Saturday night. So I do. the Jordan Burch injury is a significant thing. He's their best pass rusher, but they have other guys. So I think Oregon is built to do this. Now, if they were to play Ohio State again, which seems likely, if they make it to the Big Ten Championship game, beating that team anywhere is a tall task.

Doing it twice would be huge. But I think Oregon is a, not only a playoff team, but a tall task doing it twice would be huge but i think origan is a not only playoff team but a national championship legitimate national championship contender reese uh... let's head back to cal for just a quick second because i want you help me figure out miami uh... they needed a miracle comeback against cal the week before they needed an overturned last second touchdown to beat virginia tech

they're about this close to being 4-2. How good is Miami? I think they're really good and but they can't keep doing this because some of their problems have been self-inflicted. So they they need to you know they need to stop putting themselves in holes against teams they should beat. Now no disrespect intended to Cal or Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, who was supposed to be good coming into the season, probably hasn't played as well as it had hoped. But Miami is the better team. And the good news for Miami is if it were to get in that situation again, having Cam

Ward is a really good way to get out of it. And you know, he's won And he's probably the leading contender for the Heisman Trophy, along with Ashton Gentry from Boise State, a couple of other players certainly in the mix there. But I think Miami and Clemson are the two best teams in the ACC. I picked Clemson to win it before the season,

but then again, I picked him to beat Port-A-State, so what do I know? Certainly Miami is good enough and deep enough to be able to win the ACC and get to the playoff. I think they're very good they just haven't played their best ball in the last couple of games but you guys know this sometimes championship teams get away with a couple like that and you know I think I didn't like the way replay was called in the Virginia Tech game. But I think the result was closer to right than, than the other call would have been. But I did not see indisputable video evidence. And I think the call

on Mendoza, the targeting call was a missed call. So Miami has been very fortunate to get out of that without the two losses that you mentioned, but sometimes championship teams need get out of that without the two losses that you mentioned, but sometimes championship teams need a couple of breaks along the way. I understand that it's been a rough year for Purdue this season. You okay, Billy? The ill-timed microphone being on. Nothing to sneeze at. Historically.

I once said that to Lou Holt when Lou's on the air. Oh, we know. Yeah, we heard that. It's the greatest moment in your career and in broadcasting history. I mean, it is. Chris will find that for us, but go ahead, Mike. Historically, a number two team coming into Purdue, that doesn't go well for the number two team in the nation, although I know it's a down year for Purdue.

But we've seen a lot of upsets so far, and maybe it's catching people by surprise. I think there's so many big games on the schedule now with conference realignment that there's a lot more look ahead weeks and teams are getting caught. But also one of the big things, as you guys experienced in Eugene, and as you called with Miami traveling to Cal is, the conference realignment has meant a lot more air miles

for these teams traveling. Do you think that that is a contributing factor for why this season's been a little bit tougher to predict? Well, the results speak for themselves. Now, I should have updated the numbers before I came on with you guys, but going into the last weekend, teams in the Big Ten traveling two or more time zones

against power conference opponents. So you took the Hawaii game for UCLA out of the mix, but they were one in 10. And you know, Ohio State lost, Penn State did get a win under those circumstances last week. I don't think this Purdue team, despite that rally that they had, it came up a little short against Illinois is the type of team that should be able to be the proverbial spoiler makers. But you had a really emotional win. You have a short week for Oregon and you travel the two time zones. So there are some things working in their favor, but I don't think these are the

types of teams that Jeff Brom had a few years ago that laid the wood to really good Ohio State teams think they maybe beat Michigan State when Michigan State was highly ranked one year. I don't believe this is that type of Purdue team. So I think Oregon should be fine. But your points well taken. I mean, they've got a and nobody has upset top two teams as a ranked opponent at the rate that Purdue has no I mean, they lead the world in that category, but I'm not quite sure they have a Rondale Moore

or someone like that to be able to spark an upset. Chris, let's play for the audience. One of the greatest feats in broadcasting history. Also mentioned Amir Abdullah. Now Marshall, usually it's all Rakim Kato who did throw a touchdown pass in his 40th. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record, nothing to sneeze at.

Just great. Just fantastic. Nailed it. You listen back to that, huh? I mean. Totally. That was better than the earlier clip, although the cadence was a little quick.

Yes. So I need to slow down, but that's OK. Reece, the big game this weekend. Well, there are several big games this weekend but the one a lot of people are focused on is Georgia and Texas and I'm wondering uh can Georgia lose here for a second time and still make the college football playoff? They can um but it would you know, it would certainly put them with very little at any margin for error.

They'll they'll then start needing things to go well around them. I think, you know, if you have, I mean, it also depends on how the game is played, but you have a last second loss at Alabama, you have a, if they were to have another last second loss at Texas and still come through the rest of the schedule with the trip to Ole Miss still looming. You know, I think they could, but a second loss would certainly put them in peril.

So it's a really, really big game for Georgia. And it's a Georgia defense that by mere mortal standards is still good, but by Georgia standards has been a step behind. And with Ewers, Quinn Ewers having a week to sort of knock off the rust and get his timing back against Oklahoma, that's probably, you want to be as sharp as you possibly can be on defense.

I think that goes without saying. But, you know, on the flip side, Texas hasn't seen a quarterback or an offense, anything like Georgia has up to this point in the season. I think I put in my notes yesterday that Texas has faced among its power for opponents. They have faced a former walk-on making his second start and two freshman quarterbacks and they haven't seen a passing offense. Four of the six teams they've faced rank up 100th or worse in passing offense and the

best passing offense and the best passing offense they faced is forty fifth. So this is going to be a different type of challenge for Texas as well. But I do think the Georgia defense needs to elevate its play particularly in the secondary if they're going to have a chance to win Saturday night. You mentioned George's remaining schedule if they do lose to Texas. They would also have to beat Tennessee this year. Tennessee is playing Alabama this weekend, but Tennessee's offense just really hasn't looked right over the past few weeks. Nico Iyamaliyava I think only had four completions of over 10 area yards last weekend against Arkansas. He's not looked as good as they looked early in the season playing against the non-SEC teams on their schedule. So when you have Tennessee's offense,

which has been struggling versus Alabama's defense, which has struggled against the last couple opponents that admittedly run a very different offense than what Tennessee has, who do you have coming out with a win in that game? I wish I could tell you. I'd probably lead Tennessee a little bit because they're at home.

And I think that they probably are going to play better in the passing game. Combination of factors, one, Iamaleava is a very talented quarterback who hasn't played his best. But they've also, I think the thing to remember is I know Hypo is built on going fast, up tempo, you know, a small amount of time between plays. But the strength of this Tennessee team is its defense, particularly its defensive front and the running game with Dylan Sampson.

So the Hypo is playing to his strengths a little bit. It'll be interesting to see though, if they attack downfield because Alabama's secondary, while I think they have talented players, they have a lot of young guys back there with a couple of veterans at safety and implementing a new system, new coaching staff. There have certainly been some bumps in the road.

There's no question about that. So I think you'll see a better Tennessee passing attack. And the real question becomes, can Alabama be consistent on offense? We know they have, I mean, they have dudes who can erase mistakes. I mean, Jalen Mill Road, Ryan Williams, Jan Miller, there are a number of other guys. They can go, you know, negative play, zero yardage, 79 yards to the house. I mean, they're very capable of doing that. So, if Tennessee can limit that and maybe get just a little bit more out of that passing game, I'll probably lean Tennessee a little bit on Saturday. Reese a question that I don't

believe has ever been spoken aloud in the history of college football. Does the Army-Navy winner actually have a chance to make the college football playoff? Yes a chance yes especially if they both were to remain undefeated and both have to play Notre Dame before the end of the season So that'll be a tall task It'll be one of the strangest things if they if they both were to make the conference championship game in the American Play that game potentially with a college football playoff berth on the line and

Then turn around and play again the next week in their regularly scheduled game, which will have no impact on the playoff whatsoever. Now, I do think that they'll probably need Boise State and possibly UNLV maybe to lose another game or two out of the Mountain West in order to be that fifth highest ranked conference champion and get one of the five automatic bids into the field. I think it's a little bit of a taller task for army or navy to be in that large selection. So that would be, you know, that would be the challenge for them.

But you know, certainly it could happen if they're undefeated, they'll be in position not only to be that fifth highest ranked conference champion or maybe fourth highest rank, and certainly they'll at least be on the cusp of at large consideration. So it's not out of the realm of possibility at all. And if you haven't seen either of them play this year, they still run option. I'm not trying to suggest otherwise, but they put some really fun wrinkles into the offense, particularly at Navy and Army has found its own version of it. And they're a little more explosive

through the air at key times than you might imagine. And this Blake Horvath at Navy, the quarterback is a ton of fun to watch. Reece, the show is better than ever. It really is, which is saying something, College Game Day. But I'm wondering what has surprised you the most about working with Nick Saban because he's been great. He's been great. He's been phenomenal.

I think, Stu, the quickness with which he has adapted to television. He's one of the most gifted communicators I've ever been around. I mean, he can explain things and grab your attention in a way, both football, psychological, or if he's telling you about his business ventures.

I mean, he can communicate. Everybody knows this. This is why everybody in the world wants him to come speak. But television and fitting into a group is a different dynamic. And usually, for most people, I think it almost takes a full season. And for him, I mean, he's adapted very quickly. He understands team, he's a great advocate for the show. He comes up with ideas.

He's certainly, as you guys might not be surprised by, he's not shy about expressing his opinion, yet he is not overbearing. That guy listens to everybody and takes it into consideration. So he's been great. And I think probably how quickly he's been great has been the only thing that surprised me.

Reese, the most stressful part of me watching College Game Day is whenever McAfee stands on the chair. But luckily the last few weeks you've gone over and you've been a helpful friend kind of holding the chair for him. Now I will say, while that's very nice of you and very helpful, if he falls on that chair,

it's gonna crush on social media. So I really think you need to reevaluate. He should push him. Even Pat, I mean Pat loves the viral moment. I feel like even Pat would like the viruleness of him falling from that chair. He might, you know the funny thing, I got a text from him a few weeks ago

and because I've been doing this for a while when he was sitting right beside me, I would always reach over and steady the thing. But I mean, these chairs are not made for people to stand on them, right? So I got to protect my guy. I got to make sure Pat doesn't take a spill to the best of my ability. I have thought a couple of times, okay, what if he comes off the thing anyway? Am I sturdy enough and strong enough to absorb the blow and maybe all of us will come out

in underworse for the wear? But yeah, I'm gonna steady that thing for him because I appreciate your desire for a viral moment, but my desire to keep the show from completely going off the rails and making sure that one of my teammates doesn't get injured is going to supplant your desire for the viral moment.

I have a McAfee take as well. I think, Reece, that he is getting tired of writing these checks for made field goals. Yes or no? He's one of the most generous people you'll meet. I mean, you guys are familiar with the show. He's always giving away money and he was very wise after the floods and the hurricanes you know that came through to say hey let's as a group you know and he said this during a break of the show hey let's as a group commit to putting putting in you know I think he said $500,000 and he said whatever you know you guys want to do we'll make sure to

make it all up and that'll be the total. He is an extraordinarily generous guy I think he likes the fact that you know the people get a chance to make that kind of money but I mean he's bringing this on himself these are all second chance opportunities you know and I tell him every week hey look if you want me to get you out of it you know I'll say no no no we don't have time for a second chance but you know so far he's been good. We'll find out this week if he wants to say this is a one and done venture for whoever the kicker is.

Reese, what's been more surprising to you this season? Pitt winning mostly with an offense first sort of game plan or Vanderbilt beating Alabama? Oh, boy. Oh, that's both are great questions, particularly because of the way Pittsburgh has had to rally. And Eli Holstein has been terrific. Their new offensive system is fun to watch a little bit. I mean, they had a good offensive with Kenny Pickett, but it's a little bit anti-Narduzzi, one would think.

But I would say probably with Alabama coming off that win over Georgia, losing to Vanderbilt is you know, and bandies better than people think and Diego Pavia is a great story But they really had no business losing that game and you know, and they didn't they didn't blow the game They got whipped. I mean Vanderbilt beat them on the line of scrimmage as Pavia said after the game Pretty much from kick until the end they they got whipped. I mean, Vanderbilt beat them on the line of scrimmage, as Pavia said after the game, pretty much from kick until the end, they got whipped. So, but seeing that was probably still the most surprising result of the season. Look, Alabama is going to have some bumps in the road. This transition, when you go from the greatest of all time, and who had a certain way of doing things, and you change that even

with an accomplished coach like Kaelin DeBoer and I think he's an excellent coaches record indicates that it's not going to go without a hitch it's just not you know and so everybody's getting used to each other things happen but I would say that even so that that's probably the most surprising thing that's happened this season. That and Northern Illinois beating Notre Dame. Reece, you've been generous with your time as always. I am interested, we play a game around here if the season ended today.

Would you be interested in hearing from Steve Kornhacki? He is outside right now on the whiteboard and he can give you the playoff matchups if the season ended today in college football. Would that interest you? I'd love to see that. Let's see that. Thank you, Stu. We're out here in Korn Hackie's corner, taking a look at if the college football season ended today

with 50% of the results in from our polling thus far. We take a look at the AP poll, Texas, Oregon, Miami, Iowa state. They would have buys thus far if the college football season ended today. So when you look at the matchups, LSU and Alabama as Alabama hosts an SEC showdown, you'd have Georgia and Clemson, a couple of staples of the college football playoff, Ohio state who just lost to a Hypal disciple in Dylan Gabriel taking on Josh Josh Hypal's Tennessee Volunteers Texas Oregon Ohio State the highest percent chance to make the college football playoff according to the New York Times

But the matchup I want Reese to take a look at swing state, Pennsylvania Penn State hosting. I'm just running back in the nation as Boise state would travel to happy Valley reach your thoughts on this potential. I think Boise state is legit. I'm having a hard time, you know getting past the attire but I know we're going for the election night. But he put the roll up the sleeves and get in there.

Gotta work on that tie for him. Yeah, we'll work on the tie a little bit. But we're okay. I like the whiteboard, it's good. I do think that Boise State, look, Oregon needed a couple of special teams touchdowns to beat them, and Gentie hit them for a 70-yard touchdown as well.

This dude is legit. He's the best running back in the country. He's going to be a tremendous NFL running back because he's also a great receiver, played a lot of receiver in high school. So I think Penn State would have its hands full with that game 5-12 even in Happy Valley but I would favor Penn State to win the game but that would be you expect this 5-12 matchup to be a bit of a blowout. If that's it, it won't be a blowout and Boise State would have a chance to win that game. Hey it's Mike Ryan and there's so many great things about football. My favorite thing is

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You have a star player playing two ways. You have a running back potentially doing something historic with a talking about 3000 yard season. You have Cam Ward who is seems like he has a transcendent star quality about him with the celebration. Is this the best Heisman race since maybe the 90s? It's, uh, I don't know if I'm going to go quite that hyperbolic. I'd have to go back through all of them. The, um, you know, the Lamar Jackson year was a good Heisman race that we pulled away with it. Kyler Murray versus Tua year was a good Heisman race, so he pulled away with it. Kyler Murray versus Tua was a really good Heisman trophy race at the end and somewhat, you know, I think somewhat in dispute.

So I think all of those races were good, but this is a good one because it's got different layers, meaning that Colorado is much improved. They're not going to be a playoff team. They have the guy who's the best football player in the country Nobody else is doing what Travis Hunter is doing now got hurt the other night If he's going to stay in the Heisman race He can't miss games because they're not likely to have the grand stage of the huge game conference title

Implications all of that type of thing. They're certainly not out of the conference race by losing that game but you know they they're not likely to have as many huge stages he's going to have to do special things and be a highlight reel which he is capable of doing. You have Gentie who's playing outside the power four structure has one big game against Oregon you know against the big boys and is putting up numbers at a Barry Sanders rate, which is kind of ridiculous. And the more traditional candidate would be Cam Ward. Now, he's not the only one, you know, from the traditional structure, but I would say that he is probably the guy in my judgment that would be, that would be most likely to

win under traditional circumstances. But I do think that Hunter and Gentie are going to get a lot of support, deservedly so. And a lot of it depends on whether Travis is able to play, how effective he is, all of that type of thing, after missing a big portion of the game Saturday night against Kansas State. Okay, I think the only power conference we haven't talked about yet is the Big 12. So right now, BYU, Iowa State and Texas Tech all have three conference wins. Iowa State's obviously ranked the highest of those three. But do you have any idea what's going to happen

finishing out the month of October into November when these teams start playing each other? Because I really don't know who the best team in this league is. I think the best team is Iowa State, but BYU is getting better. But what I've said about this, and I've coined it, tried to make it a catchphrase and get Brett Yormark to pay me for it, is that the Big 12 is wide, not deep. And what I mean by that is that everybody's kind of on the same level. I don't know that I see a team even now that has this tremendous ceiling in which they could win the national championship.

But I see a lot of really good teams, even teams that have gotten off to terrible starts in conference play. I mean, Oklahoma State's one of the most experienced teams in the country, and they were in the big 12 championship game a year ago, and they can't get out of their own way right now. You know, Utah is at the, you know, another injury, unfortunately to Cam Rising. Those were the teams that were the favorites to begin with and they're kind of at the bottom of the league.

And then you have, you know, then you have these other teams who have risen up. Iowa State has made an art form the last several years of finding ways to lose close games, but they found a way to win it this year, a close game against Iowa. They'll probably have some more if they can avoid that rearing its head again and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as they have several times over the last few years. I think it was something like going into the year they'd lost 13 of

their last 16 one possession games, but they've got a terrific young quarterback in Rocco Beck. They've got three running backs. They've got two receivers who are dynamic. I think Iowa State's the best team. BYU is coming fast, but I think there's a lot of losing left to be done in the Big 12 because there are so many good teams. Nobody, including me, talks nearly enough about Texas Tech, who's off to a great start. They they didn't have their best player and they lost a game out of conference to Washington State and I think everyone sort of forgot about them after that

Ah Reese I am What happened? We have breaking news here. Ian Rapoport tweeted one minute ago. The Raiders are completing a trade of star Devante Adams to the Jets sources say yes. Whoa, we are back. Anyway, Reese I am told that

Kornhacki has fixed his tie. We'll check in with him one more time. Yeah, and we'll get you out of here. Go ahead. Thank you, Stu Gotz. I appreciate you sending it over with the fixed tie. I want to tie things together. Oh, jeez. With the first round by, we look at Texas and Oregon, a 94% chance according to the New York Times model of making the college football playoff. Miami standing at 88%. Iowa State just at 51%. So, Reece, I'd like your percentage chance

that these top four remain the same headed into the end of the season. Back to you. Okay, you've got a... I'm gonna say a 41% chance of remaining the same. Because I know this is not going to make me popular there in your hometown. I think Miami is going to think they'll make the playoff. I think Clemson will beat them in the ACC Championship game.

But you know, we'll see. I think both teams will end up probably end up making a playoff. So it'll be close. And then Oregon still has a way to go. I do think Iowa State and Texas will probably hold their spot. All right, Reese, we appreciate the time. Check him out, college game day,

and give our best to Lee Corso. We miss Coach and we hope he's feeling better. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it, I will. All right, thank you, Reese. Devante Adams, huh? Wow. Mike, you seem bored by that news. I was bored by it in July when this was going to happen.

They've been flirting with each other for two years. This is a scenario that Devontae Adams chose. He chose the money. He wanted to go to the Raiders, his childhood club. And ever since he stepped foot into that organization, he's just been trying to get back to Aaron Rodgers. They've been publicly flirting since they broke up. Just give him what he wants. Aaron Rodgers gets whatever he wants in that organization. And I got to believe that for both these guys, they think that it's going

to go the way that it did a couple of years ago. It's not. This continues to go poorly for the New York Jets. And then Aaron Rodgers retires at the end of the season. Do you guys realize how close we were to having Diana Rusini on twice in a row with breaking Jets news? Oh wow. She's coming on later in the show and we were so close to doing this to her again.

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