The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Snaps - Week 6 Reaction: Oklahoma beats Texas, Georgia dominates Kentucky & Alabama beats Texas A&M

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Aaron Murray and T-Bob Hebert react to the biggest games of Week 6. Brent Venables and Oklahoma get their signature win over Texas in the Red River Rivalry. Kirby Smart and Georgia finally put a full 60 minutes together in a dominating win over Kentucky. Nick Saban and Alabama remain in the driver's seat of the SEC West with a win over Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M. And finally, Sam Hartman and Notre Dame dropped a game to Louisville who now have hopes of playing for an ACC championship in December. #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I got some work going on in the house right now, some exposed pipes and what's not. But we do this every Sunday morning. It's a recap of all the biggest action from yesterday's slate of college football games. I am one of your hosts, T. Bob Aber, and I am joined by the especially beautiful Aaron Murray today. He's got the quarter zip on. It's 50 degrees. A beautiful foliage-filled background. Looks like he's maybe at the lake or in the woods.

Aaron, what's up, man? How we feel in this morning? Doing good, man. It was an awesome day of college football. Wow. I feel like we say this every week, but it just continues to get more and more exciting each and every weekend with plays, stupidity when it comes to coaching calls, teams not, you know, teams losing, obviously.

But I think we did get some clarity on college football a little bit, too, of who really are some of the elite teams that have a definitive shot to win a national championship. So excited to be here on a summer. Sunday morning, breaking it down with you and giving everyone our kind of initial thoughts. Yeah, we'll get through it throughout the day. Mario Christopher. Maybe we'll touch on them at the end. Hey, but let's start in the big one, man.

The best setting arguably in all of college football is the triple R, the Red FDLR, the Red River rivalry, Texas State Fair, 50-50 crowd. You could, I mean, game day, big noon kickoff. You could feel the energy from states away. It felt like leading up to this game. And every single play during this game had this massive maker break. You've made it. You've lost it.

Sort of feeling. It's just one of those epic clashes. And in the end, take a bow, Brit Venable and the Oklahoma sugars. I was a massive Venables doubter. Okay. And so I got to eat a lot of crow here. And it's been all lawsuits talking about how we have nothing to fall back on. He's never been head coach before.

The defense was so awful last year. Well, everything's turn around for the Sooners. The defense is great. Dylan Gabriel played great. Making plays clutch when it mattered. Surviving a late lead change in which Texas takes to lead. I mean, you're up 27, 17 to start the second half. It looks like you have the game in hand.

And then slowly over the second half, you watch it erode through the minute. left all of a sudden you're down three. What is O you do? Mental toughness, physical toughness. Dillon Gabriel Fidesway drives out, puts him in the end zone, and the Sooners reign supreme, Sarkesian in the Longhorns and shambles, and all of the, like,

because that's what I kept accusing Oklahoma fans of doing mental gymnastics all offseason, right, to cover up their insecurities and they got the guy wrong. Well, now there's no gymnastics needed, okay? It's clear they got the right guy. They can feel validated. They can feel celebrated. So congratulations, if you are in Oklahoma sooner, the program appears to be just fine.

And I'll say this first, and I'm not here to defend Texas by any means, but Texas is still, both teams, obviously Oklahoma more right now being undefeated, are clear pass to the playoffs for both teams. Like this is going to be the rematch. I think you and I can both agree on that at least. You look at the remaining schedule for Texas in Oklahoma. they're going to rematch in the Big 12 championship game, winner will move on to be one of the final four teams in the playoffs. Like that's how good both teams are,

and that's how down the Big 12 is. And I'm excited for a rematch because yesterday's game, like that first quarter was one of the craziest first quarters I've ever seen. From interceptions to block punts to going to the fake punt, all that. Like it was an epic football game that I wish I could see that type of football game each and every weekend. It was awesome.

And same thing. Congratulations, Oklahoma. to their fan base, to Venables, to Dylan Gabriel. I'll admit I'm wrong because my Twitter mentions were getting blown up yesterday by a bunch of Oklahoma fans. So let me just get it out of the way. Like you had to eat crow about Texas a few weeks ago. Oklahoma, I was wrong.

Dylan Gabriel, under pressure in a big time game was the difference. And I want to start with the quarterback position first, T. Bob, because it's my position. Yeah, well, I mean, you are you should. It's funny. my brother, we were at the Georgia game last night. And I don't know if my brother really watched the Texas OU game because he kind of pulled the stat line.

He goes, man, Quinn, yours was 31 or 37 for 3.46. Like, you know, what was wrong with Texas? I was like, well, the first quarter, he looked like he was still asleep. Like, he kind of had the look in his eyes. But like, we always make fun of Eli Manning for that like days and fuse. Like, I'm lost. Look, like I was looking at Quinn. You were saying he's not in this right now.

The game's happening too fast. He looks asleep. And that was one of the big difference makers for Texas and losing the football game. You can't have three turnovers in a game like that. You know, two interceptions and a fumble. And that's a major issue. Flip it over to the other side. Oklahoma,

no turnovers in the games. Like, was Quinn horrendous? No, he turned it around the second half. I thought he played a good second half, but still in a close game like that, it's going to come down the turnover battles. You lost that. You were not the better quarterback in that game. And then Dylan Gabriel, who I, I, I,

I sent a video out, I think last week on Twitter about he had a goal line run where he trucked the linebacker. Yeah. He's six foot, 205 pounds. It's crazy. Gilling Gabriel plays the game like he's 6364, 230, the way he runs, the way he puts his body on the line. And that was the difference on that side of the football. Him in big time moments making plays with his arm. But more times than not, him taking off and running to me was one of the most impressive things.

I knew he was athletic. His final challenge? Yeah, 113 yards rushing, 285 yards passing, two total touchdowns, no turnovers. Yep. He put the team on his back over and over again. That was different. Quinn yours, I still think it's a better prospect when it's all seven of none. But Dylan Gabriel was by far the better quarterback in that football game,

and that's the biggest difference. And then red zone issues, you know, Texas three times in the red zone, only three, total points. Oklahoma was six for six inside the red zone. You know, turnover's red zone efficiency is the difference in a four point game. Well, so okay, so a couple thoughts here. First, it is so rare to win a game like this in which you allow a punt block to be scored for a touchdown against you. Like against really good teams or really even a match. That's never supposed to happen. So let's score a couple extra tallies in the toughness department for Oklahoma. And remember, we called this game, Aaron.

It's not crazy. I think, I think like how we're, I don't know how we're talking about makes it sound this way, but I feel like the feeling from a lot of people was, wow, Oklahoma really won that game. Remember, this was a robot versus human game. Like ESPN's FPI, the predictor, the game predictor,

gave Oklahoma a 57% chance of winning this game. Dill and Gabriel was the better quarterback on paper. Oklahoma had the better numbers. It was just that we thought that, and text resume was better. we thought they looked better on film in the trenches. And so we kind of thought, okay, the numbers are just a little juice from Oklahoma,

not playing anyone. No, Oklahoma's damn good. They look complete in every phase again. But so did Texas. Like I know, because it's funny, I spent all offseason crapping on both of these teams, right? So I have been both wrong about them. And now I feel like some people are expecting me to maybe come out,

be like, I told you about Sark. Losing this game is not why Texas. has been a laughing stock the last decade, okay? I don't care about this game. It's the other team. Plus, because like you said, if Texas is who we think they are and they take care of business,

this should just be the first of two matches. I'm not dropping Texas outside the top 10. Like, we've had them at one for the past two weeks. They, I think, part to do with the resume, and then they have a hell of a roster. I told you we should have put OU in there, dude.

Told you we should have put OU in there last week. And you said no. And you said no, you shut it down. You know, the most impressive thing to me, too, besides the quarterback for Oklahoma, was the offensive line. And Texas's D-line is one of the best in the country. But for Texas to only have five TFLs in one sack in the game, and I think a little bit goes to the quarterback playing the overall scheme,

like, you know, Dylan's great at getting the ball out now. You know, getting the ball out, getting the ball out, not holding it onto it. You know, which really frustrating. And then, and then, you know, obviously his running ability to. So. Who's the Ose at Oklahoma, Aaron? Do you know? Oh, I'm drawing a blank right now.

Jeff Leby, Jeff Leby, Jeff Leby, Jeff Leby, Jeff Leby. Jeff Leby. But like, that was the, that was the area that I was most concerned about. Like, can this offensive line hold up? And they had the better game when it came to, to protecting their quarterback and, and giving up less TFLs. And once I think a lot of it is, schematically, like Texas wants to push the ball vertically down the field. There's more of a trust with their receivers.

And obviously, their quarterback with a bigger arm. I mean, that doesn't really play in that once again, Dylan's game. But that's still a tough challenge. And I mean, that place was rocking. Like, when you're on your opposing side of the field, you could feel through the TV. And that's when you know it's loud. Like when I can feel it through the TV, you're like, damn, that that ain't fun to playing as a quarterback.

It just makes me, yeah, it makes you so happy that they still do. do it in the old cotton bowl and everything else. It's just so you can feel just the history and generations past of Texas and OU fans and set in those same seats and went just as crazy for, you know, 50 years, 70, 80, whatever, however long it's been. But again, okay, so like Texas fans, you're fine. Yeah, Ryan says, you're called footballs all that. I agree.

Texas fans, like, you're fine. Okay. Again, I'm not victory labbing on Sark or anything like that here. The problem is Texas of the past would lose to one of these upcoming games, like a Houston or a Kansas State or a Texas Tech, like somebody in TCU, like none of these teams are good this year. Texas of the past would trip up and fall. Let's see what Texanados.

Because if you get that rematch, I actually always give the advantage of the team that lost the first one. Yeah. Just psychologically. And I still think Texas is the better football team too. Like I feel like they play 10 times. That's a take, Bo. That's a take.

I do think they're the better football. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on now. Hold on now. Texas got a pump block for a touchdown and did not win the game. Yeah, but they also turned it over three times. Yeah, but that's what Oklahoma does. Oklahoma came into this game with the best. The defense was great.

The defense was great. Leading the nation and picks. Like, that's what, at a certain point, we have to give Oklahoma. I will say it right now. Numbers on paper being real. Oklahoma's a good team. Oklahoma's going to be 12 and now. They'll be 12 and 1 in hell.

Who knows what the hell is going to happen in college football this year? Like, maybe that game is the same game and you flip the scores and it's 3430 Texas wins, and the PAC 12 just cannibalizes itself. Florida's saying the ACC, maybe something happens, kooky there. Maybe Texas Oklahoma won the damn playoffs. I don't know. Like right now, I still believe Texas is one of the best teams in America.

And the fact that Oklahoma beat them, to me, means that obviously Oklahoma is one of the best teams in America at the moment too. So, like, if you do have two 12 and one teams and that second game is as close as this first game, I think both will have really good cases that, hey, we deserve a shot. I think the one thing going to hold them back is the fact that the rest of their, essentially games are, this will be, Oklahoma's only ranked win when it's all set and done this season. Forget about a playoff. Forget about a playoff.

I know. I'm just saying all they need to do is both finish the fight to the big 12 champions. Yeah, and I think that's, no slipper. We talk about Texas. You bring it up all the time. Texas being a team that loses games, it shouldn't. Yeah. This is a moment for me of, were you a bunch of frontrunners or not?

We talked about it with Colorado. And Colorado bounced back like, yeah, they lost to USC a week ago. They had a great win last night. But like they showed me some fight in that loss to Southern Cal. Yeah. I want to see Texas take this game, understand that everything is still in front of them, and just dominate the rest of their schedule and get ready for a big 12 championship game. Like the last thing I want to see is like them go lose next week.

And the narrative continues of, yeah, you're a bunch of front runners. It's all great when you're kicking ass, but as soon as you get punched to the mouth, you just turn back into that old Texas that we're used to seeing it. Yeah, they should nuke a lot of the teams left on their schedule. I mean, they'll be in a close fight somewhere along the way that's been unexpected, but you're just going to come out of it on top. All right.

To college station, we go, Alabama, Texas A&M, a strong start for the Aggies. But in the end, man, Bama just kind of throttles you. you, this new version of Alabama where they want to run the ball and they want to play elite defense. They just kind of like a snake constricting around your neck to slowly but surely squeeze you out of the game. And Jim Boone coming. Like, I mean, Aaron, you know, all this year, Alabama sucks, Alabama sucks, Alabama sucks. Because they go bad there.

They're going to bad. They're going to go bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're in control the West. And they clearly look like the team that's going to win the West because LSU's defense continues to be, affront to God, humanity, babies everywhere. You can't tell me if you looked at the end of the game and said Alabama was only going to run the ball for, what was it, 23 yards? 23 yards. I mean, this obviously includes sack numbers, but 23 yards that they were going to win the football game.

That's true, actually. A&M came down and both the lines just dominated. Like A&M is scary up front. And the same thing with Alabama, like neither team had any success. Alabama had less than a yard average per carry. A&M had less than two yards at 1.9. That's insane. These D-lines absolutely kicked ass,

and then it goes to the second. Then you look at the secondary. We didn't ignore, but we looked at that Miami game for A&M and said, you know what? Are they going to face another passing attack like Miami? And we'll get to Miami's shit show last night for Georgia Tech. But probably not.

Like Alabama's not that passing attack. Well, maybe they don't have to be. if A&M's DBs are that bad. And the game plan, I rewatched the game this morning. The game plan for A&M was obviously stopped the run. We're going to load the box. We're going to play a lot of three-man front. I mean, the twisting, the stunting, the containing Jalen was there.

But they played a lot of man on the back end. They're just going to say, if Jalen's going to beat us, he's going to have to be accurate. And Alabama came into it saying, we're going to try and run the football. And if we can't, we're just going to take a bunch of shots. We're just going to take shot after shot after shot. And if we can connect on three of them or four of them, we believe in our defense enough that that's going to be enough to win the game. And Alabama did.

They connected on enough shots down the field on double moves. The first touchdown was actually really great on Jalen. He looked the safety to the right. The inside slot receiver, fake like he was going to run a deep cross and hit it up the middle of the seam wide open. Great design. But I will say this. The really impressive throw was he was fading to his left through the burn on the deep cross in the red zone. And I was like, wow, that was one of the better throws I've seen him make.

but but A&M came with the mindset of if we're going to lose it's going to have to be on big shot plays down the field because we don't trust Jalen throwing the football but the problem with that T. Bob is him throwing the ball down the field is fine like I told you like a lot any quarterback can throw a go ball any quarterback can throw it 40 50 60 yards down the field maybe 40 50 area. Jalen's problem is it that. Jalen's problem is throwing it between the five to 25 yard range. That's where he struggles. So like him taking shots, he's done that this year. He didn't be showed his

first middle Tennessee. Like he can throw the ball down the field with accuracy, you know, 25 plus yards. So like I think there's an area for A&M defensively where man, man I'm not going to, I'm going to make him play that game until he screws up, not play man-to-man coverage and allow their receivers to beat us down the field and, you know, Byrne had his best game in the season, 197 yards, two touchdowns. I thought he was great. But I thought for A&M defensively, man, like, you can't give up the big explosive plays. And they did that the entire afternoon. Yeah, so the evolution of this Alabama team continues. Jaila Milro, definitely, like, that's a scary sign because it was thought that if you put the game on Milro, that that would be the path to victory, Miller's and not so fast. Remember,

it's been like this all year long, but you look up and you look at the stats, and Jalen Milro remains, even after yesterday's game, which Carson Beck was great, Jackson Darts been great against LSU, and then they got the win over him. So yesterday, Jailn Miller, remains the third highest rated quarterback in the SEC right behind Jane Daniels and Brady Cook. So, yeah, I think, you know, the more life changes, the song remains the same, and it's Alabama and the West again. Like, Aaron, do you still think Alabama's going to lose three games?

Because who are they going to lose to? Maybe an SEC championship. You still have zero faith that LSU and that offense. No, no, no, no. I don't have no faith, but anything with LSU, you cannot predict LSU to. No, I know. They're not to accept that. They're like, they're like a, they're kind of like, you know, LSU is kind of like just a,

a heavyweight who doesn't care about, you know, defending himself. He just wants to go over these huge haymaker knockout punches. Maybe you get lucky, you get him on the chin and you end up with a dub, but chances are you're going to open yourself up, get counterpunching it up on the mat yourself. So I still think LSU can, I think LSU is going to be able to score in anyone. So like, yeah, I agree that. They will keep them in the game no matter how bad the defense is. LSU will always have a chance to win.

So like I'm not going to count LSU out, rich Alabama. But yeah, like if you look at Alabama's schedule, man, like that's really it. Like Arkansas, Tennessee, no, you get both them at home, and you get LSU at home. You're the next three weeks at home. Kentucky, as we're about to talk about a little bit with Georgia,

that ain't going to happen. Chattanooga, that ain't going to happen. And then probably all run into the season. So it's really one team because of their offense can make it interesting in LSU. But right now, yeah, Alabama's the front runners. But they also have a lot of problems. Ole Miss Nade and M were the test, and they passed a test.

You know, the offensive line still is not what it should be for Alabama. Like they are still not dominant in past pro. They're not dominant in the run game. They are one of the biggest bus of the season so far. Like if you had to say to the first half of the season, who has been the most, what unit has been the most disappointing in college football? I think you have to put Alabama offensive line up there.

And I think part of it's their fault because they talk such a big game this offseason where they set the bar as is so incredibly high. Like this is going to be the, the Jor Moore head winning offense aligned and no one's going to be close. And they've, you know, far been below that mark. I mean, way down there. So that part of the offense still needs to get better. And do we still really trust that Jalen's going to continue to have games like that?

Like that Alabama, if you can't run it, are going to win games on Jalen's arm. Like, yeah, that was great yesterday. And I know the stats for you sound crazy. They will against LSU. I mean, Jailen Morrow can definitely do it against LLLNs. you all say that. I just think that there's going to be some slip-up. And I don't know if maybe it is against Georgia and SEC championship game.

But I'm still, if I'm an Alabama fan, you know, I'm saying that we have to win games like that where Jalen Milrose throwing the ball to win, that ain't going to win a championship for this team. This offensive line has to find a way to be significantly more dominant for the second half of the season. Yeah. I don't know that they do, you know. I can get everything you're saying, but they're going to,

I mean, the only time it's going to hold it back is maybe against Georgia, right? Yeah, maybe. I don't think it's going to matter any other game. So we'll see. I hate it. Shout on Nick Saban. I hate you so much, but I respect the hell out of it.

Literally his worst team he's having a decade. This is not even close. Every other Alabama team since 2012 would probably wax this team. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You're the goat, you're the goat, dude. Shut out. Speaking of being the best,

Aaron is so fat and cocky and just putting so much in Kentucky getting dominated by the Georgia Bulldogs, 51 to 13. You know, I don't know, dude. I'm like, okay, sure, when I see this. Carson Beck played great. Dr. Barr's Beck, which really good.

Brock Bowers is unstoppable as ever. what I'm saying is this doesn't really change that much of how I view Georgia. I still think, I still believe they are clearly the best team in the SEC. We have said that all season long. And like I continue to say, I don't think Georgia is going to fail until like the playoffs, right? But I damn sure knew Mark Stoops wasn't about to go in there and run power and counter in Athens and get a victory. Like this was an awful style matchup here between the cats and the dogs. No, it was.

I get that. But a couple of questions were answered for a lot of dogs fans. Like one, can you just can the defense aligned in that front seven at least man up and perform better? And I thought they would. Like we talked about last week on our shows, I get that, T. I get that. But still, but still, it needed to be seen. Neither is Auburn, but Auburn ran for 200 plus yards against Georgia.

And it was a very different schematics of how they did it with a lot more triple option, which is harder to defend than your traditional. It was not a good matchup for Kentucky. Yes. But you still answered the question of how really dominant can this defense be. And they were suffocating. And then you flip it over to the other side. And finally, they put the ball into Carson's hands.

That was big. After five weeks of just easing Carson into the season. And I was on the field before the game. And I went up to Bobo. We're talking. And I was like, man, man, like, I know you're getting a lot of shit and Carson's getting a lot of shit. But I think you guys are kicking ass right now. I think you're doing a really good job.

I've loved it. And he said, man, it's just wait for the. Oh, I see. So that's how you got the sty. All that brown on your nose. Ah, yeah. Yeah. Of course.

I'm right. Yeah. What was my boy? What was my boy? Yeah. You know. So what I'm sorry. I had to get that joke.

What do you say when you told that? He said, just wait for the night. and he reiterated how impressed he's been with Carson. Bubba was really honest to me. Like, Bobo will tell me if he's not. Like, he'd be like, eh, like, you know, there's still some things. He looked at me and said, no, like, this kid is doing everything that I want him to do. Okay.

And it's been really impressive. Like, that was a sign of me or of him telling me somewhat of like, I trust him. We trust him as a staff to put the ball in his hands and let him go win football games for us. And like last night was, and Kentucky secondary was the big question mark. Like they told us that in the offseason. And it hasn't been really exposed yet. And that was kind of the first side that we really got to see. Like, okay, yeah, they get some major issues on that side.

But I don't know how much of the game you watch, but the throws that Carson was making, like that first deep cross he threw for touchdown was. It was unbelievable. It's as good as thorough as quarterback to make. He is. He looks like a five-star giant like that you've been saying he's good. He's the first time, to your point. Yeah.

It's the first time all season longer. They trust him, but it's also the first time all season long where he has looked like the guy that you had me put a very big preseason bet on to win high. Not you did that. What? No, that was slightly more a little baby bet,

but I mean, listen, if they would have let him cook like this for the entire season, like who knows? But he is, he's special, man. And I think you're going to see a guy that continues to gain more and more confidence,

especially after the past two weeks. To do what he did in the second half versus Auburn on the road, then to flip it around and have the game he just had versus Kentucky, I know you say that this doesn't change your mind about Georgia. It does a little bit for me.

I think we had a, what, at four or five in our poll last week? I think now, and this kind of goes back to what we talked about earlier, now it makes me kind of get back to the mindset we had before in the preseason. It really is, in my mind, Georgia and Michigan now back again. Like we've been fumbling and bumbling and we really weren't sure how good these teams really were because of their schedules beginning the season. But now we're seeing them kind of take that next evolution for both teams of really dominating the way we know they can dominate and flexing in certain areas that we had questions about.

And if Carson looks like this and we know the defense is going to be still, you know, even if they're not as good as they were the past two years, still going to be a top 10, top 15 defense when it's all said and done. It's going to be hard to beat the dogs this season. Yeah, look, I think that I think in terms of national championship hopes, yes, it's still Georgia and Michigan probably. But that in terms of resume, like if we're doing our top 10, this is a good win, but let's not make too much of it. Like this Kentucky team's eye. But they finally dominated. No,

yeah. I know. The way which they won is the B. But Michigan's dominated every game. And they played teams that are equivalent of Kentucky at the Big Ten. So it's like, you know, it's just like,

you know, I don't know. It's, I'm still, look, I mean, what are we so impressed with Kentucky about? They beat Florida.

Yeah. Like, that's it. I think it's still, like, which the manner in which they win some of these games, too. Like,

for Michigan example, like, to dominate Nebraska and a team that was actually pretty darn good. Like, we've thought about Nebraska, the ability to stop the run. Hey,

told you they're on Friday, baby. Let's go. I mean, Nebraska may, may still, you know, have a chance on that side.

We'll see. But, you know, then they go and turn around and beat Minnesota 52 to 10. Like, Michigan is, is,

it's not only the, and that's why we kind of hesitate on Oklahoma a little bit last week, still kind of favored Texas. It was like, yeah, Oklahoma hasn't played necessarily a tough schedule,

but they've looked apart in all the, games. They've done what they needed to do to say this isn't just a fluky wins or way we're like, no, we're kicking ass. So Georgia's done that once this season. Michigan's done it every week. I agree. I agree. All right. And then the final game that we bring it out on this morning recap show, even though there's a lot of good football to get to yesterday. Notre Dame, man, going on the road in Louisville and close for a while, but Louisville pulls away in the end. I actually didn't get to watch this one as much as I wanted to yesterday,

so I'm playing a little bit of catch-up here. I got to put it. Look, we talked about it. It was a really tough, physical, mental spot for Notre Dame entering third-ranked game in a row. The last two were, you know, true 60-minute battles where you lost one and last second, and won one in the last second. You're on the road again. You got USC next week.

Very talented spot schedule-wise. And I think I was just guilty, though, not really taking Louisville seriously. You know, I knew they were undefeated. I knew they played nice. New Jack Plummer had good stats. They've gone into Intense. They came out of the 1310 win.

But damn, 6-0, Notre Dame win. Brom, take a bow. Yeah, the cardal's rolling right now. Notre Dame get their ass with the line of scrimmage, just dominate at the line of scrimmage. They couldn't run the football. Estimate had 20 yards on 10-carry. They were in the backfield constantly getting after Hartman, five sacks on the day.

They whoop their ass at the line of scrimmage. And Notre Dame is not good enough at the receiving position to make up for a lack of a running game. Notre Dame is the team that is your quintessential. We play great defense and we run the football and we look like an NFL team that wins games similar to how they beat Ohio State. And that's how they're going to do it. if Notre Dame can't run the football and they're turning it over, I think what, five total turnovers for the Irish, there is no way in how you can win.

They just don't have the dudes. You don't have the dudes at receiver to be able to make up for that. And that was a problem on their side. That's going to be the continued to plague them. They just, they can't win one-on-one battles, and the offensive line was horrendous. Flip over the other side, like,

we'll impress me in a big way. Yeah. Warmer looked really good, and they got this little running back, Jordan. Oh, I got it right here. I've 10, 185 yards. You got some speed. 21 carries 143, two tuts for Jordan on the back. He hit a couple runs and just took off.

I was like, and that's a good Notre Dame defense. Like maybe they're not elite at, like, athlete-wise, but that's a solid defense. It's fundamental. You know, Freeman's a hell of a coach. They shut down in Ohio State. We saw it. Yeah.

But that little dude can run. Woo, we. He was fun to watch. that's a good Louisville team man like I know we maybe didn't do we even seen a lot of their games and all in a lot of them I haven't seen a lot of games this season but that was my first time really watching them you know I watched the rewatch the game this morning and really impressed with once again like them dominate at the line of scrimmage and then Plummer taking care of the football which was a question mark and then how good Jordan was running they're going to be a contender

in that in that league it's well and I think their schedule is pretty favorable too as well So that's what's, let's see what they got left here. On the road at Pitt, home against Duke. So you get Duke at home. That's great. And what's the Riley Leonard's status? I think Riley's going to be out for a while. I don't even think Riley's going to play in that game.

Virginia Tech, Virginia, Dub, Dub, at Miami. We'll get to that in a second. And then home against Kentucky to end it. So there's some fights left. There's some fights left there to be sure. But I'm so about just to get to the ACC championship game. I mean, I think they beat Pitt. I think they beat Duke without Riley.

Virginia Tech, Virginia. And then Miami got their first. lost last night in the ACC. And Louisville should be one of your favorites right now because they don't play Florida State. They don't play North Carolina. They should be kind of the favorite to get to the ACC championship game. Aaron, did you ever play like a street fighter or Mortal Kombat or any fighting game growing up where when somebody else picks out the remote, they press start and it's like a new challenger

has entered the ring? Like, to me, that is Louisville in this ACC race. We already knew, you know, Clemson out early. We knew about Florida State. We thought Duke was there. Unfortunately, due to the injury, they're probably out. They've probably been knocked out the race. UNC is still very much there.

They got Tess Walker back now. They dominate. UNC is just kind of quietly doing their thing in the background. Undefeated, playing great defense, actually. only given up seven yesterday against Q's 47. Drake May hasn't really gotten it going, but they're undefeat. That's kind of scary. And now, and now, look, after the debacle of Mario Cristofrod yesterday,

Louisville looking like, no, they're serious about this thing, man. And this is Brom's dream job. He played there. That's why he left Purdue after winning the Big Ten East last year to get back there. So what a time to be a Louisville. cardal fan, especially because, like, you hate Kentucky, and so you got to watch Kentucky get smashed yesterday, and then you come away with a 13-point win against mighty Notre Dame.

Signature win early on, you know? Some of these coaches have to search so, like, probably took Mark Stoops half a decade to get a signature win. Brom's got one here in year number one. It's just Notre Dame, man, five and two now. And, you know, I got to go back and watch that USC game. I just was way past my bedtime. It was a long day for your boy.

I tried, bro. I tried. It was like 1230. I just don't have a order. I'm a little bit worried about them next week. I mean, this is going to be four straight ranked matchups. And you saw that fatigue factor kick in versus Louisville last night.

And you got stomps. You got beat up physically and obviously mentally too, getting that L. And now knowing that, like what is Notre Dame playing for the rest of the season? Pride. That's it. Like your aspirations.

of being, hey, man, we went out this offseason. We got Sam Hartman, who in our mind was the missing piece. Like, hey, we got one of the best quarterbacks in the country. We had a really good team last year. We didn't have a quarterback. So now that issue has been solved. We are a national championship contending team. Like, this team really felt like they were, and they should.

And now it's over. Like, that's the shitty thing about being an independent team. Like, that is over. There's no conference championship to play for. There's no playoff or national championship to play for. You're playing your New Year 6-bowl. They are. For whatever that means to you nowadays.

That's what you're fighting for. And that's also why the expanded playoff will be tighter. Yeah, but you have that depression level on top of now your fourth ranked football game. Like there's no like, man, we just need a game to feel good about ourselves. Yeah. This is where, though, this is where your leadership's got to come into play. You know, and you got to say, F it, man. Like, you know what?

If we're going to be in the mud, let's drag these motherfuckers down there with us. know what I'm saying. It's a little pretty voice out of L.A. Just drag them down and they're shit with us. But I feel you. I don't know they're going to do that. That's a big morale blow. Yeah.

So that'll do it for today's sense. I thought you want to just put on Mario. I was about the transition there. On the way out here, though, we have to talk about that greasy motherfucker Mario Cristofrod. In one of,

of the most inexplicably poor decisions I've ever seen in my entire life. Miami has the ball. They're up 2017. There's 33 seconds. It is third and 10. And they're running zone read. Tort de Tech has no timeouts. There is no need to get the first down.

There is no needless risk. There is absolutely no reason at all to run the ball. None, full stop. You're not going to cover. You're not going to cover if you pop a touch. you ain't going to cover the spread. It doesn't like, yes, exactly. Like you can't even create a reason out of thin air as to why you run the ball.

You end up running the ball. It gets put on the ground. Georgia Tech gets it. And then Haynes King, who doesn't have a touchdown on the day, manages to throw the game winning score as times expiring. Haines King also, shout out him, beating the team that beat A&M on the same day that Texas A&M loses. I love modern college football.

But look, man, this is why people say things like Mario Chris Fraud. This is why he has a 500 record as a Power 5 coach. He did the one thing that opened the door to a loss. It's inexcusable. It's indefensible and it's inexplicable. I tagged you on a, there's a player for them on the sideline saying, you can see it on TV saying, what are we doing? And he's crying.

I felt so bad. Yeah, because like loss of Georgia Tech, you're about to be undefeated top 15 team in America, Miami. Even with how bad you played for Georgia Tech, like whatever, you found a way to win an ugly game. Like it sucks. We probably would have given you crap. By the day, like, you still won the game. Mario's great at recruiting. He's a hell of a job of assembling a football team.

And he went to Miami for that specific reason. Can you put together a bunch of really good guys in the state of Florida? But when it comes to coaching and coaching decisions, you've said it all offseason. he's a fraud. And this was a prime example of one of, I don't know if there's a worst decision I've honestly have ever seen in football. You have the win in your hand.

The game is over. Everyone in the stadium knows it. Georgia Tech knows it. The game is over. And you run a play and you end up losing it. When all you get to do is take a knee and the game's over. One of the worst, if not the worst decisions I've ever seen in my life from a coach. The worst.

If you're listening right now, and if you've experienced something that was worse than that, please hit me up, hit T-Bob up, because I've never, never seen anything as piss poor as that from a head coach. Let's see. I talk so much shit about people with the off-season. You lose confidence in a head coach there, too. Like that's, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. They're saying, what the foot are we doing? Yeah. In the locker room, everyone is looking at each other now and saying, what the fuck was our coach? Oh, they all, they all talking about, they all talking shit about Mario. They're talking about Mario.

They're hanging out later that night. And that's a, yeah, it's a tough place to be, man. If you don't have the respect of your players, all your messages get a lot harder to push through. Well, I'm just opening my mentions for the first time all night. And yeah,

it looks like I'm getting a lot of Oklahoma blowback. Oh, yeah. From when I went on the herd right before. All right, where the season started. Damn. I also forgot saying this in my LSU post game show. I said I wanted LSU to boot cocky me with success. Yes.

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