The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Snaps - Fiesta Bowl Prediction: Do Jim Harbaugh, Michigan have enough to stop Max Duggan & TCU?

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

Aaron Murray and T-Bob break down the Fiesta Bowl matchup between the University of Michigan Wolverines and TCU Horned Frogs as part of the College Football Playoff. Aaron & T-Bob discuss who has ...the leg up between Sonny Dykes and Jim Harbaugh, plus the odds Heisman Trophy finalist Max Duggan dices up the Wolverines' vaunted defense.  #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:22 Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome back to Snaps, your favorite college football podcast. I'm one of your host, T. Bob A-Bayer, joined as always by my guy, Aaron Murray. Aaron, what's up, man? How you feeling today? I mean, doing good. Just got down my second of three bowl games in about eight days. So just lots of notes everywhere.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Also dealing with the baby Christmas holidays, all that good stuff. But I'll be down in your neck of the woods end of the week. I'll be on the call for ESPN Radio for the Sugar Bowl. So excited to get down to T-Bob Country and then jump on a quick fight and land in Atlanta just as the Bulldogs are kicking off their game. Yeah. It's going to be a fun, fun weekend. So I'm excited. Pretty insane.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Aaron Murray, despite just having a baby. baby and it being Christmas continuously working calling games over the break. I know that we missed you. Well, me and Aaron missed y'all, our wonderful friends and listeners who hang out with us here every day. We missed you terribly over the last few days. Very excited to be back. But here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:02:24 Due to some issues, travel issues that everybody across the country is having right now, our poor, fearless, intrepid producer, Ryan Brumley has been stranded in. St. Louis. Not the worst place to be stranded in as they have the best chess club in America. But still, what it means is that we cannot go live on YouTube. So what we're going to do today, whether you listen on your favorite podcast app right now or you're watching us on YouTube, we are going to have three shows of the next few days. We're going to talk Michigan, TCU, today. We are going to talk UGA, Ohio State, tomorrow. And then on Friday, we got some best bets for you coming up where we're going to pick New Year's Eve and
Starting point is 00:03:12 we're going to pick from some of the games that'll become an after Friday. You get the point, right? So, it's going to be a fun three days. Very happy back. I missed you terribly. I'm sorry we can't be joining you live. I wish we could. But let's go ahead and dive right in, Aaron.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Today's episode is all about Michigan and TCU, the 2V3. And I'll let you go because I've got many, well, hmm, let's. Let's start here. And who is your favorite in this game? Golly, I don't know why I'm such a hater of Michigan. I feel like I've just been hating on them all year. And listen, I like hardball. I love the fact that, you know, he was doubted for so long at Michigan.
Starting point is 00:03:49 They had a rough year a couple of years ago. People wanted him gone. People wanted him to go back to the NFL. And he continued just to do what he needs to do and really mold this football team into his identity, run the football, dominate up front, be more physical. And Michigan fans kind of had to humble themselves a little bit and understand that, hey, we're not Ohio State.
Starting point is 00:04:08 We're not going to be Ohio State. We're not going to have Heisman-like quarterbacks. And yes, we may play a style of football that is, I want to say, archaic, but it's an older. It's more of the stuff that we saw 10 years ago, not the big sexy 40, 50, 60 points per game, quarterback's 12 or five touchdowns. Sorry, guys, that's not us. Because if we try to do that, then we're going to lose that game and end of the season. We're not going to be the big 10 champs.
Starting point is 00:04:33 so we're not going to be able to face teams in the playoffs. So I love what he's done. I respect what he's done first off. But to me, as a quarterback, I still go to that position first because I still believe you need that guy at quarterback in order to win big time football games consistently. Listen, JJ McCarthy won versus Ohio State. He had the best game maybe of his career there a few weeks ago
Starting point is 00:04:57 in order for them to get to the Big Ten championship to put them in this position. So I give him credit for that. I still doubt him a little bit, though, T. Bob, I still doubt can JJ McCarthy realistically and super competitive games in the playoffs, big stage, go out there and play the way he did versus Ohio State. I just, I don't feel it. I don't know. You tell me, that's where I'm stuck right now. I'm stuck with Max Duggan, who's had a hell of a season, a guy that deserved to be in New York, that was in New York, that has been heroic this whole year against a guy that has asked to play
Starting point is 00:05:31 one really good game, which he did. But other than that, it's just not as tested as I like to see at this point. I don't know, man. Are you talking about Michigan TCU? Are you jumping ahead to Michigan, Georgia? Because a lot of what you're saying, yeah, maybe I'll give some weight to it when you're talking about the Georgia game. But I don't know, man, the more that I read about this game, the more fascinated I become
Starting point is 00:05:55 about Michigan. And the more I start to talk myself into not only will they soundly beat TCU, but they can really. punched Georgia much more effectively than they did last year. Okay, on the quarterback front, yes, Max Duggan is better than J. J.J. McCarthy, obviously, right? I'm not arguing that point. But you can appreciate this more than anyone.
Starting point is 00:06:12 You know what helps great quarterback play? Great offensive line play and a great running game. And still, to this day, the biggest mystery of this college football season is how in the hell that TCU defense shut down Bejohn Robinson and that Texas rushing attack because that TCU defense is garbage. I mean, they're bad. So many times this year and must have in situations, you have watched them give up the big drives, give up the big plays, only to be bailed out by Max Duggan. And I like Duggan, okay? And I like TCU. I've been a horn frog this entire year, right? I mean, Max won me, a lot of bets. I love this whole story,
Starting point is 00:06:54 but they really disappointed me in that Big 12 championship. And I think there's a bit of lot in the water. I think the defense is too bad. I think Michigan's defense is too good. So whatever gap you're seeing between Dougan and McCarthy is negated by every other position on the field where I think Michigan is superior and especially I keep going back to that offensive line. And it's kind of insane that I'm here with Michigan because like there's a really great write-up in the athletic by Bruce Feldman and Austin Meek right now. And they, and they're kind of recapping the journey, you know, that Michigan's been through the last few years to think about where they were getting your ass kicked by Ohio State for the
Starting point is 00:07:37 better part of a decade, two and four in 2020, right? At the time, the idea was that Harbaugh couldn't win games against rivals. He couldn't win the big games, right? I mean, they were ready to fire him. He agreed to take a 50% pay cut from $8 million to $4 million. He gave his bonus that he was contractually due back to Michigan. employees who were affected by COVID. I mean, this was a man who had to concede a lot, and yet he has been rewarded from it. And he did it in a fascinating way, Aaron. Jim Harbaugh, after this kind of come to Jesus moment, the year of 2020, where they go two and four,
Starting point is 00:08:19 he adapted to the times while maintaining his core philosophies, which I find to be fat. It wasn't wholesale change. It wasn't like the Ed Ogeron story where he had to complete. remake himself into something new. He still maintained, like, okay, he became more emotionally open with his players, right? He became more vulnerable with his players. But he still stuck to the belief that they were going to create a tough, old school team where they were going to out physical opponents.
Starting point is 00:08:46 He gave his players more of a say-so in everyday decision-making, making things looser, making things more fun, but still maintaining that they were going to do some really hard work, right? And so in the end, he has, he threaded the needle that I thought would be impossible to thread. He has created a modern, old school, tough football approach that is working at the highest level of the sport. Because like Ohio State is more NFL talented than his Michigan, but they've gotten their ass kick now two years in a row. And the only separating factor that you can come up with between the two teams is toughness. And the toughness is played by Michigan.
Starting point is 00:09:30 And so I don't know, man, I'm starting to feel really good. And you read quotes from guys like Mike Sandor Still who had the big speech on the sideline against Ohio State. Like these cats are bought in. And the quotes that I see out of this locker room remind me of the quotes that you see out of everybody's great championship teams, right? Where everybody is fully bought in. Everybody's moving in the same direction.
Starting point is 00:09:53 There's no dissent. Any dissent is quickly snuffed out by the players themselves without the coaches even have and do that? Like, I feel great about this Michigan team. I feel like they are going to beat down TCU, and I think they're going to give Georgia a run. You feel, you feel just as good at this game that you did for LSU versus Tennessee. That's kind of the feeling I'm getting to you right now.
Starting point is 00:10:15 I literally chose Tennessee to win. You are a line sack of trash. What game was it that you felt maybe it was a Florida State? It was the first game of the year, dude. I think, I think, I want to go back to one topic you brought up. and that was the Texas game because Bijan Robinson for those that have seen like, you know, Todd McShay or a lot of these draft experts and their, you know, their first renditions of a mock draft for the next NFL draft in the spring, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:40 saw Bejohn at number five. Bejohn going to, I believe it was Philadelphia with number five pick in the draft. And you talk about why did they have so much success defensively against Texas? It's because Texas was one dimensional. They knew what Texas wanted to do. They wanted to run the ball with Bejohn. You know, they were able to put an extra hand in the box and just fully commit saying, okay, listen, Uers, if Texas is going to win, we're going to give you those one-on-one opportunities on the outside,
Starting point is 00:11:03 and you better execute in a very high fashion. And Uers had a terrible game. They were one of 13 on third downs, and TCU was able to win that in, you know, 17 to 10, and that's a big win for TCU that got them to this point. That's going to be the key. It's going to be the, it's the same mentality that Ohio State had. And I love what Ohio State came out with versus Michigan, because that was their philosophy. It was, hey, listen, if they.
Starting point is 00:11:27 can't run the football, we don't trust J.J. McCarthy to throw it as a consistent rate. Obviously, that fit him in the butt for the fact that it was, let me just, it wasn't J.J. McCarthy going out there and threading the needle. It wasn't J.J. McCarthy going out there and putting the ball between defenders and making these incredible throws. The guys were wide ass open. I mean, go watch. The guys, I know you love when I say this, T. Bob, watch the damn tape. The guys were wide open. I mean, five, six yards behind defenders where it was an easy catch run, touch. Touch. on all that good stuff. So is TCU a little bit better on the defense side of the football than Ohio State,
Starting point is 00:12:02 especially in the secondary? I would say so. So that gives me confidence that they can match up a little bit better on the back end, put that safety in the box, not give up the home run balls to JJ, and make this a lower scoring game where if you get this thing into the fourth quarter, I still have faith because of what I've seen from this year from TCU. If this is a four quarter battle, Max Duggan is the quarterback that I want with the ball in his hands over J.J. McCart.
Starting point is 00:12:27 He has to get the ball in his hands. And he will not get the ball in his hands when Michigan, by the fourth quarter, has erased TCU to bloody frog-legged stumps that can no longer stand up. I mean, that's what they are going. They are going to wear them down. And again, yeah, you want to sell out and stop the run like Ohio State did okay. But watch out now. Michigan still got talented in that skill position. And well, they proved it then.
Starting point is 00:12:54 I mean, they proved to that game. I'm, look, I'm, I just, I think I'll go, I'll go more our house. I mean, go the week before, first Maryland. And, and Maryland just torched it. Talia had a hell of a football game through it all over Ohio State. And what was I say the next week? That's fine. Like, Ohio State, you know, you got torched through the air.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Maryland had a field day. You won the football game. That's not Michigan's MO. So you're going to be fine. As long as you can stop the run, you're going to be okay. Well, I think Ohio State proved that they can't stop the run and they can't stop the past. and this defense maybe was not as good as we thought they would be with their new defense coordinator with the guys they brought last year.
Starting point is 00:13:30 They're just an average team that, you know, like you alluded to, is not very physical. Then you look at TCU, first half the season, not great on defense. And then they've kind of, you know, transformed themselves into being more of a physical team, more of a team that can play four courses of football, a team that could be a little bit more complimentary to their offense, get a couple stops, get some throwdown stops, get their offense good field position, get some turnovers. I just think they're a more of a competitive. complete football team. And once again, continue to go back to the quarterback position, because that's what it's going to come down to big time games, T. Bob. I know you hate it because you're an offense alignment. And I know you want to talk about the physicality. And you want to talk about offense alignment, having the spotlight in this game. And, oh, it's offensive
Starting point is 00:14:10 alignment. And they're the best offense on the country. Let's, I know, this is a game that in the playoffs, what quarterback plays the highest level? What quarterback can, can, you know, lead you on a drive and a two-minute drive at the end of half? What, quarterback can come out there in the second half. What quarterback can lead you on a drive in the fourth quarter. My money at the end of the day is on the better quarterback, which he's proven. So you're just ignoring. You're just ignoring the fourth down, the fourth quarter touchdown drives at J.J.
Starting point is 00:14:37 McCartney orchestrated against Ohio State. Like those don't count. It's one game. Once again, it's a one game sample. What about the game winning drive against Illinois? Good drive. It's a good drive. I'm just saying.
Starting point is 00:14:48 I'm just saying. I'm not. Look, look, look. Yes. In a vacuum. Duggan is a better quarterback. But it's a team sport, you son of a bitch. And two, not one, but two, Joe Moore Awards back to back for the best
Starting point is 00:15:05 office of line in the country. Yeah, that works out there in Ann Arbor. That Joe Moore Award worked really well for the last year where they got their ass whooped by Georgia in that first. Again, again, again, again, again, you're feeling a little bit's interesting. Okay, I'm seeing it now. You're feeling a little threatened by Michigan. And I like this because you should be.
Starting point is 00:15:21 You act like every time I go against the team, whether it was Alabama. Oh, I'm scared of Alabama. You tweeted that. Now, you tweeted that. Now, all of a sudden, I'm scared of Michigan because I think TCU has an opportunity to win this football game. So I'm scared for Georgia to get that rematchers Michigan. No, no. If I'm Georgia, I would prefer to face Michigan because I said.
Starting point is 00:15:42 No, you would not. No, you would not. Yes, I would. Because Michigan wants to play the same brand of football that Georgia does. And Georgia is a better version of that brand of football. I would gladly welcome that if I'm the Bulldogs. We're okay. In this latter comparison, yes, I maybe am reading between the lines here,
Starting point is 00:16:02 but I can see that maybe a little worried that Georgia could finally get out tough by someone. But the bottom line is that, yes, Doug is better quarterback. But when you factor in the rest of the team, I do think Michigan's on a different level than TCU. For TCU, you have a nice story. All the pieces have come together. And I've been a big TCU fan all year long. But for Michigan, you have a team that has had a singular goal and been fully bought in and fully expected to be here now for two years. I mean, everybody, like the same disrespect that motivated them the beginning of this season where despite the fact they be the shit out of Ohio State, they win the Big Ten.
Starting point is 00:16:39 What happened to Big Ten media days this year? All 36 votes vote Ohio State as the Big Ten winner. What in Michigan do? They ran it back. They did it again. This time in Ohio State, you know, on the road, beautiful weather, no excuses, Big Ten champs once again undefeated and they're not happy. They're not satisfied.
Starting point is 00:17:01 It's like Sandra still said in that speech against Ohio State. You want to win an addie. The road starts here. And the next step in the road is TCU and I'm sorry for the horn frogs. Great story. They don't stand a chance. Michigan is going to beat them, going to beat them. and pummel them.
Starting point is 00:17:20 It's going to feel like one of those matches where multiple body shots and the guy's coughing up blood. The college football semifinals are here and Fandul wants you to get in on the action. What up y'all, T-Bob, from your new favorite college football show, snaps. And check this out right now. New customers get a no-sweat bet up to $1,000. That's right, that's $1,000 back in free bets
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Starting point is 00:18:50 Of the two games, I feel more confident that this game will be a closer match, a one score game than I do actually Georgia versus Ohio State. I think Georgia has an opportunity to really run away with that football game based on what we saw and what we saw Michigan do at, like you alluded to, at Ohio State there in the horseshoe. So I'm going to go with TCU. I like TCU to cover this football game. I like TCU to cover.
Starting point is 00:19:12 I think it's six and a half points right now on Fandall. I think they cover. And once again, I think it's seven and a half. I'm sorry. Even better. Even better. I don't love seven and a half. You're telling me that's six and a half.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Sorry, it was Georgia versus Ohio State. I believe that six and a half. You're telling me TCU with that offense and with a Michigan offense that has still been up and down this season. Can't keep the game with inside a touchdown? The one thing that should give you confidence, I think you did. Absolutely. The one thing that should give you confidence if you're a Michigan fan is the fact that you've been there done that. mentality. Like you understand what this week is about. I would say there's less jitters in preparation.
Starting point is 00:19:54 This is a big game. Like we'd all be stupid to think that like these kids aren't staying up a little bit late at night. They can say whatever they want. Like no, I'm sleeping like a baby. I feel good. Bullshit. Like you're you've agreed. You're thinking about this. And you should. This is for a lot of these kids the biggest game of their life. This is the biggest game they've ever played it. If you're not a little bit nervous, then it doesn't mean enough to you. So every kid right now is is thinking about the game, thinking about their ability to have some, some glorious moment that goes down in the record books or legend for Michigan or TCU.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Like you're thinking about all that stuff before this game. Well, Michigan's already thought about it. They've been there. They've done that. This is all brand new for TCU. So how do they handle this week in preparation? How do they handle the pregame warmups? Being in the stadium, the spotlight, the interviews, all that is just a little bit unique
Starting point is 00:20:45 to them at this moment in Michigan should have a little bit more confidence as they get ready for this game. So I would not be surprised that Michigan comes up, you know, a little bit more aggressive early on. I think TCU will settle in lately in the first quarter and beginning of the second quarter though. Okay, okay, okay. I thought you were
Starting point is 00:21:01 about to try to hit a little both sides defense. Wouldn't be surprised if Michigan ran away with this one, but you caught yourself there. No, no, no. I mean, okay, how did TCU handle all these elements when it came to the Big 12 championship? Right? Something new. A lot of pressure. It's not easy to be the same playoff in the
Starting point is 00:21:18 season. I'll tell you that. Hello, I know. I literally lost to a team we'd already beaten and it cost me a national championship. You don't need to tell me. But the God's honest truth there was that we just got out-coached. And I think TCU is about to get out-coached and they're not as talented and outplayed. I'm sorry, TCU, they broke for me. And it sounds, if you are a loyal listener of snaps, you're probably like,
Starting point is 00:21:42 team up, where's all this coming from? TCU really disappointed me how they called those last two plays of that game. Not putting it in Max Duggan's hands, the offensive line, not being able to get the push to finish in the end zone. You know who would have finished that? Michigan would have finished that. And again, I'm so fascinated by what Jim Harbaugh has done from 2 and 4 in 2020 to, like I said, changing his attitudes, keeping the core philosophies,
Starting point is 00:22:10 making staff changes, going younger, empowering those coaches, do have an impact. It's all paid huge dividends. And it's made me into a big Michigan believer, man. Again, I think the problem that, like you said, when it comes to Georgia, which I'm getting ahead of myself, is that Georgia's similar.
Starting point is 00:22:30 Like Georgia has the toughness advantage. Like, like, don't, don't peek too soon, T. Bob. Let's save some nuggets for next week when we break down if it is Michigan versus Georgia. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right.
Starting point is 00:22:42 I love Michigan here. And I'll leave you with this. I'm going to go a bit, Mike. So you're still feel, I know it's seven and a half. You started to waver a little bit on me there. I'm taking TCU with the seven and a half. I didn't waver on shit. I knew it was seven and a half.
Starting point is 00:22:53 All right. So you're standing strong. Or excuse me, you're taking Michigan. Yeah, I'm taking Michigan. I'm taking Michigan, dude. I think there are clearly two best teams in the country this year. And it's Michigan and Georgia. And it's a win for tough old school football, which you don't appreciate,
Starting point is 00:23:09 Aaron, because you're all about finesse and the spread where I'm about. the five fingers balling into a fist and breaking the will of your opponent, right? Why are their five-o-leiman? Because when they come together, they form an unstoppable punch. Allow me to go full Michael Ichian here, though, because this is also part of my love affair with Michigan right now is sometimes things line up in your life. And I almost take it like it's some sort of portent or omen from the gods. And so I'm reading this incredible athletic article about the reinvention of Michigan. and it's an innovation that started from within. Well, it happens to directly coincide with this incredible Twitter thread that I'm reading by this guy,
Starting point is 00:23:52 cultural tutor. It's my new favorite Twitter account. And he's discussing the Renaissance and how the secret key to the Renaissance. And this is actually really good information, I think, for any coach, who wants to be a football coach, that like the key to the Renaissance wasn't creating just new ideas from out of nowhere, it was looking to the past and the ancients and innovating off of that. And I'll read you the last few lines from here. So I apologize.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Stick with me here. He's talking about a philosopher of this guy, Gerard. He says, Gerard believed the main prerequisite for real innovation is, quote, a minimal, respect, end quote, for the past and the mastery of its achievements. Minimal, key here, means there shouldn't be so much respect that it becomes a reverence in which the possibility of improvement is seen as impossible. So you have to respect the past enough, but not to the point where it paralyzes you, right? You have to be willing to make some changes.
Starting point is 00:24:49 It goes on regardless of whether innovation is itself good or bad societies in which the past was revered to the extent that it was viewed as unsurpassably greater, showed relatively little innovation. That was early Harbaugh. He was trying to capture the past with a full old school staff, full old school mindset. There was no growth there. Okay, that was also Europe pre-renazons. Go on. Rather, Gerard believed there simply had to be enough respect that changes were built on what came before
Starting point is 00:25:23 rather than totally diverging or overly revering it. I talked about threading the needle, right? And that real innovation means renewal and rejuvenation from the inside rather than novelty from the outside, which is what we think of the word. as meaning today. So basically, that's exactly what Jim Harbaugh did here. And if you look at any great coaches, what do they do? They take the concepts that the ancients employed, your old triple option attacks, and they make it into something new. You don't have to go to Mars and come up with
Starting point is 00:26:00 some formation or something that's never been done. You have to innovate on the concepts. And that's, and Harbaugh said, look, I want to remain tough. We're not going to be able to out talent Ohio State. I think that's our path to getting there. but I need to change how I'm creating that toughness. And I find that to be fascinating. I find that to be forward thinking, I think that that has created a culture at Michigan where every single player and coach is fully bought in,
Starting point is 00:26:25 and I think you're going to see it pay huge dividends come this playoff, and it starts with TCU getting waxed, and then maybe the Georgia Bulldogs after Dax. T. Bob is such a Michigan man right now. He's gone from a, obviously, Nelche Tiger to a VFL to the petite Trojan boys. Yeah. Now he is the Michigan fan.
Starting point is 00:26:46 I mean, T-Bob is a, I mean, he, when he loves you, Teabop will get on both knees and, you know, make you feel real love. Look, I again, again, I just find it endlessly fascinating. I know, I'm with you. That I was having my mind blown about the idea that innovation actually comes from building upon the past, right? Yes. Everything, everything always comes back in style.
Starting point is 00:27:05 It's like fashion. Everything like my wife wears, you know, stuff from the 70s and 80s. You know, it's supposed to be in now. All of a sudden, I don't know. But so Jim Harbaugh did this, and he has like an off meta team. It's not spread. It's not any of this other stuff, but it's working. Now, the problem is that Georgia seems to be the best blend of future and pass,
Starting point is 00:27:24 as they have the talent, everything. But whatever, we're getting to you in a second. So, yeah, look, I love TCU. I loved you all year. I supported you all year. But I am very much off the bandwagon ahead in this game. I think Michigan and McCarthy rolls. All right. T. Bob's got Michigan rolling covering that seven and a half point spread.
Starting point is 00:27:43 I got TCU. I think they can win this football game, but definitely covering that seven and a half. So we leave it up to you guys. Go horn fraud. I mean, also, I hate this thing. I'm doing the what does Michigan even have. What do you mean? Do BM. You never seen that? That what that is? Okay. I have no idea. I don't know if they do that or not. I'm new to this Michigan thing. Okay. I'm like one day in here. I'm still learning. So kind of learning my ways, in the tradition, learn how we feel about all these different teams. But you know what? Us here, Big Blue Nation, we are very happy to be back where we belong atop the Big Ten in the playoff fighting for national championships.
Starting point is 00:28:23 All right, look, I hope you enjoyed this. Thank you so much. Remember, guys, like always, please, please spread the word. Rate and review the podcast, wherever you listen to your podcast. That really helps. Like and subscribe to the YouTube channel. Please, the algorithmic gods that rule our existence. Sign up for FanDuel.
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