The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - INSTANT REACTION: Alabama Blows Out Wisconsin

Episode Date: September 15, 2024

Colin reacts to Alabama crushing Wisconsin 42-10 in a matchup between SEC and Big Ten powers. He explains why Bama may have moved directly from the greatest college football coach of all time in Nick Saban to the best coach in college football with Kalen DeBoer. He also breaks down the reasons Wisconsin may struggle in the new Big Ten. (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates!  #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and watching the game first on my phone, and then the last three quarters, I'm sitting at home, and Alabama's Alabama. I mean, Nick Saban to Cahlin-Dibor is going to be one of the all-time great pivots. And by the way, throughout the years, Ohio State's had some, you know, great coach to great coach. Oklahoma has done it a few times. But even for the great programs like a Texas or in Michigan, sometimes you have a great coach, then you give the job to his top assistant, and it just doesn't go anywhere. You know I'm not a fan of that.

I tend to be like if you've created a legendary program, then you go, you know, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC, Alabama, certainly. They're just too big to give to an assistant, unless you have like a Steve Sarkesian, which Bama had for a brief time, but he went and took the Texas job, right? So Kalin DeBore is a phenomenal coach. He got Washington into a national championship game last year. Now, they had some really good offensive pieces. Michael Pennix, the receivers, they didn't have NFL bodies on defense.

Think how many great college football programs. There's 130, 131. There's 8 to 10 stacked rosters every year. NFL bodies both sides. Washington didn't have that on the defensive side, and they played for a national championship and beat Texas badly in the semifinal game. So this guy is really, really good. I think strategically in player development, he is,

every bit as good as Saban. Now, Saban may be a better recruiter. Nick's got a certain persona. You see it on game day. I mean, Nick's great. The all-time best coach. But I think you could have a best coach ever into best coach in college football with Kalin Nabor. I think that highly of him. And Jalen Milro is a fascinating player. You know, I don't know if he's an NFL prospect. Here's what I know. He throws the prettiest, most accurate deep ball more consistently than anybody right now in college football. And, you know, he's going to have, you know, Ryan Williams on the other end of those things. So Bama, Saban did something amazing. And Kailen Bore, I'm sure, will hit on it, is that Nick did a really good job to pivot when

defense was running the sport to offense. You know, Ohio State and Bama are wide receiver U right now. And Bama's always got guys on the other end. Can they develop quarterbacks? Now, they've won national titles with OK quarterbacks, but the game is becoming NFL college, more quarterback-centric, more offensive. And Kailen Dabor, I don't know what Jalen Millrow is, as, as, as a pro prospect, I know as a college quarterback, he is exactly what Alabama needs. He's athletic.

And the SEC can't be a sitting duck in the pocket. The kid can move around and he throws a gorgeous deep ball. It's so pretty. And this is a really good year for the SEC in terms of quarterback play. I think the big 10 stacked, but the quarterback play, you know, Michigan's going to be down at quarterback. I like Ohio State's quarterback. I like Oregon's. I like USC's. We'll wait to see on Washington to make a big judgment on them, but I think the SEC's got some really good quarterbacks, and Jalen Millroll is one of those. You know, Wisconsin's in a really interesting spot. So I think the playoff is good for Wisconsin. I think they need it because I never saw them as a playoff team having to go through Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State, which always just recruited better players than Wisconsin.

The state of Wisconsin doesn't have many Division I guys. I don't know how many it have on annual year, 10, 12, maybe. Washington State maybe has 10 to 12. You got to get a great coach and have big boosters in this era to get to a four-team playoff with Wisconsin or a Washington level of in-state recruiting. Now, Washington obviously has the advantage, the proximity to California where they take half their class or more. So that's always boosted Washington significantly. But now Wisconsin, now you add USC, which has better players than Wisconsin. That's the next game that Badgers play in a couple of weeks. And now, now, now you add USC, which has better players than Wisconsin. and they play, that's the next game that Badgers play in a couple of weeks. And now you add Oregon,

which because of Phil Knight is infused with huge NIL money, top five NIL money in college football. So now Oregon gets better players than Wisconsin and Penn State and Michigan and Ohio State on an annual basis. You know, whereas Wisconsin's going to sort of recruit in the Washington level. So then you get down to having the sixth or the seventh best roster on an annual basis. So I think it's going to be, and I truly believe I had this conversation with some, somebody at the gym today, that Notre Dame eventually, over the course of time, will join the Big Ten. I think the ACC is going to unravel. I think Florida State Clemson, you know, they're going to head to the SEC. My guess is over time in Notre Dame. Academically, it's a good fit with the Big Ten. There's a lot of money in the Big Ten. I think they like the Big Ten. Stanford thinks the Big Ten

wants them. But what the Big Ten wants is Stanford-level academics, Notre Dame, but they want the football program and the identity and the marketing of Notre Dame. So that's not going to help Wisconsin. So Wisconsin's in a tough spot, and you saw it today. There was two moments in this game that really defined Wisconsin and Alabama. End of the first half, Alabama has no time on the clock. Boom, boom, boom, touchdown. Three big plays touchdown because they have so many playmakers.

They're an elite recruiting school. Wisconsin's most impressive drive was the 17 play drive. And that's how Wisconsin doesn't have layer after layer of wide receiver running back talent. So they have to just pound on you and lean on you. And a 17 play try is great. But a 17 play drive, how many times a game can you do it? How many times a year can you do it? You're going to have penalties. You know, you're going to have fumbles. You want to be able at college and pro football to score multitude of ways. You want to be able to have a run game. You want to be situationally smart. You want to be able to go over the top. And that's what the top programs in the country can do. The top 7, 8, 9 programs can do because they have multiple playmakers. You know, They've got NFL bodies both sides. They've got, I mean, like Wisconsin may have at any one time a really good running back and a strong tight end. Okay, maybe one great receiver.

You roll over cover to take them out of the game. So Alabama's ability to strike at the end of the first half, that's Alabama. That's Georgia. That's Texas. That's what the top teams can do. That's Ohio State. Wisconsin doesn't have that kind of personnel, so they got to grind stuff out. And I think you ask a lot of a program when you have to score on long drive after long drive, after

long drive. So this game was, you know, now Georgia is Alabama's next game. That's Alabama a couple of weeks to prepare playing Georgia. That's going to be a good football game. That's a top three or four football game of the year. Georgia plays Texas later. They play Alabama early. So Georgia's going to earn their way into that playoff. They can split those games. On FS1, I have my big 10 bets of the week. I really like the over in Bama, Wisconsin today. And it hit, I think in the third quarter it hit. But I think, I think Wisconsin's always been a really proud program. Great fans, amazing support, tremendous athletic department. And Luke Fickle is more than capable of winning 9, 10 games a year. But boy, you put them up, even at home against an Alabama,

there's a big gap. And I think you're going to see a gap like that, maybe not as great, but you're going to see a gap against USC and Ohio State. I think Penn State's got really, really good defensive talent. It's going to be hard to move the ball for Wisconsin. the Nittany Lions. So that's what we got today on Saturday. I'm going to try to, on most weekends, give you little updates and thoughts on what we're seeing. I know, I'm a little scruffy today. Hey, you're tossing around iron. You know, you're throwing weights all over the gym. I can't come in here looking like Pierce Brosnan, all right? You get what you get. Okay? Talk soon. The volume. Hey, I want you to grab your smartphone and download the GameTime app. It's really

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