The Josh Innes Show - Epic Weekend Of College Football

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

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Hey, it's also a great weekend to college football, right? There's big games all over the place. That's exciting. LSU and Ole Miss is great. Alabama and Georgia is great. There's a lot of, this is a massive football weekend, a gigantic football weekend. And this is exciting. Like this is when it gets good.

Now things are heating up a little bit. Like tonight you get Florida State who's been a surprise as well as they've played. But Saturday, and TCU and Arizona State should be a fun game as well. That's tonight as well in Timpe, Arizona. But you start to look around and see some of the matchups we're getting this weekend. LSU and Ole Miss, and I think Ole Miss is now favorite in that game. They didn't open up as a favorite, but they were. A&M is hosting Auburn this weekend.

Tennessee and Mississippi State. Surprise Mississippi State. They are 4-0, but they're probably going to get their comeuppance this weekend, although they're at home. And when you throw those stupid fucking cowbells out there, you never know what could happen. You've got Oregon and Penn State. You've got Alabama and Georgia. This is just a sexy weekend of football, man. So we can talk a little bit about that.

We will do that after these words. First off, though, a story from USA Today, which is seemingly two weeks late. From somebody named Blake Topmire, the headline reads, Brian Kelly asked a fiery question, and the LSU coach knows the answer. This is dating back to Kelly going off on the reporter two weeks ago. So I don't know why, like, today is the day that we drop a story on USA Today about Brian Kelly when this story is literally 13 days old, I think is when this whole thing went down. But let's see what Blake Topmire thinks. Let's see.

Kelly's fiery exchange with the reporter lasted 80 seconds, but never mind the full text. The crux of it boiled down to two sentences. I don't know what you want from me. What do you want? what do they want? They won a national championship. Was that not clear? That's why LSU hired Kelly at a steep cost and awarded him a nearly fully guaranteed 10-year contract. LSU invested 18 million into this roster. What did Kelly think the money was for? Truth is, he knows the answer to the question he asked. Beating Billy Napier is nice, but a lot of folks do that. LSU pushed its chips in for a

national championship run, not just a rivalry win. We'll learn more about where Kelly's number four tiger stand after they play number 11 Mississippi this weekend. If expecting a national championship in year four is too much to ask, then Kelly never should have left Notre Dame for LSU because Nick Sabin, Les Miles, and Ed Ogeron won a natty within his first four years coaching LSU. Why does this story exist? This story is two weeks fucking old. And by the way, so LSU can lose to Ole Miss this weekend and still very much be alive

in the national championship picture. like they may go there and lose Ole Miss can sling it LSU has had major offensive issues but what if LSU goes up there and they lose 45-44 now does LSU suck all the sudden like it'd be nice to win it and I want LSU to win it and winning it would be great but if they lose to

Ole Miss I'm not going to sit there and tell you that they fucking suck now if they get throttled by Ole Miss then you come back and say oh beating Clemson didn't mean anything because Clemson was dog shit and Florida's dog shit and you beat a couple of patsies to get to 4-0 fine But like they could lose this game. That's the thing about playing another really good football team

is one of them has to win, one of them has to lose. You know this because USA Today tells us winners and losers all the time. I know he likes the roster, the donor dollars bought. He sheld out one million of his own to ignite the fundraising drive that resulted in LSU signing the nation's best transfer class. Kelly peacocked his way through the offseason telling anyone who'd listen he'd assembled the best roster of his tenure. The early returns are that LSU's defense.

defense looks fiercer than it's been in years. It's fine vintage from the portal's bestsellers. The offense is developing. Yes, it is. So, look, speaking of Ole Miss, I watched the Lane Kiffin documentary. Really wasn't even a documentary. See, I hate shit like this. It was an E-60, and it was like, you know, an hour and probably wasn't even an hour.

And it just doesn't go deepened anything. Like, I think Lane Kiffin's a fascinating guy. Like, I think his whole kind of persona, his whole aura. like everything about Lane Kiffin is kind of fascinating. So I feel like you could dedicate more deeper stuff about Lane than they did. Like everything was kind of on the peripheral. Like, hey, here's five minutes of how it went down at USC. They could do a whole documentary about him getting fired on the tarmac

after losing the game at Arizona State. I could see a two-hour documentary about what that 24 hours was like. Or, you know, how he left Tennessee. Like, that's fascinating to just one day go, hey, I'm going to USC. and see how it all broke down and there were like there were like riots and shit in Tennessee there could be a whole documentary about the riots that took place in Tennessee after laying Kiffin left Tennessee for USC like I hate documentaries like this because like they shouldn't leave you wanting more like a radio show every day should leave you wanting more a TV show

should leave you wanting more right like when you watch a TV show you don't want people to say all right you went too far with it now it's old when you're doing a bit on the radio like it's supposed to come right up to the top and then you leave people wanting more before the bit comes back down and crashes and people get sick of it. A documentary should leave you fulfilled. A documentary shouldn't be too fucking long either, but a documentary should not leave you wanting more. You should be fulfilled. You should not be in the situation like that Keeper's 14-part documentary that I watched during the Rona on Netflix where it was a 14-part about priest didlin and it was the same goddamn story every fucking episode and it was like 140 hours and it went nowhere. It should never be

a situation like that, but you should make sure that you get everything in that you need to get in to keep it interesting. And I don't think they did that with this Lane Kiffin documentary. I thought the Lane Kiffin documentary should have been much better and should have gone much deeper. And I get that it's a little 60 minute, E-60 thing. Give me two and a half hours. Give me a two-and-a-half hour Lane Kiffin documentary. But everything was just a quick bullet point. Like, oh, by the way, he was the coach of Tennessee. And then he left and people burned shit. And then he went to USC and they fired him on the tarmac, which is an amazing story. That is a fascinating story that on the plane, the AD decides he's going to fire him, pulls him aside after they get off the plane.

He fires him on the tarmac. That is fascinating. Give me a whole documentary about that. Give me more of that, please. I don't know if Ellisu's going to win this weekend, though. I mean, that's tough. Ole Miss can sling it and they found Trinidad Chambliss, their backup quarterback who came in. Who were they playing when he came in?

I know I bet on the previous guy that got hurt, so I was pissed. But this guy came in, he's slinging it. Nuss Meyer hasn't played well for LSU, so, I mean, look, these dudes are, like, this can be a great game. It's going to be fun. I could see a scenario where LSU gets their dicks knocked off in this game, where, like, they just get shell-shocked by the fact that Old Miss isn't going to throw the five interceptions. So, Auburn and A&M, A&M's due for a letdown, but it's not going to happen at home against Auburn. look there are certain things I will not do and one of those things is I will not take Penn State to win a meaningful football game I don't care that it's the whiteout I don't care about any of that Oregon is an underdog am I seeing this correct that Oregon is an underdog at Penn State

I will take money lying Oregon in this game all day don't care that it's a whiteout you can tell me all about your whiteouts and how tough it is to play in Happy Valley and maybe it is I've been there one time it was like a noon kickoff against Temple. It was not a very exciting time. But I will all day take Oregon to beat Penn State. There will never be a scenario where I'm like, hey, I'm going to take James Franklin to win a big game. I will not. I will take Oregon. Alabama and Georgia. Georgia's fascinating because there's nothing that's overly impressive about them. There are no skill guys that you're overly impressed by Gunner Stockton. Look, he slung it around against Tennessee. He had to make throws against Tennessee,

and he made throws against Tennessee. You know, people are kind of like in this Alabama's backworld because the last two weeks they've gone out and they've dominated a couple of games after losing their opener to Florida State. Mind you, those dominant victories were 73-0-0 over ULM and they throttled Wisconsin who sucks. Georgia does not suck.

I don't know how good Georgia is. This doesn't feel like a typical Georgia national championship Kirby Smart Squad. I think Georgia's going to win this weekend. I don't buy Alabama at all. buy Kalin DeBoer at all. I don't buy that they're back because they beat the shit out of Wisconsin. I don't care that they scored 73 to show how big their dick is against ULM. I do not care. I think Georgia, who's already been, you're talking about battle tested? Go win a game

in Neeland Stadium. Go rally to win a game in Neeland Stadium, which they did. That Tennessee team can play. I kind of feel hella bad for Mississippi State because Mississippi State feels like they're a little bit of something right now. And I get the Joey Aguilar, who's been phenomenal for Tennessee has to go on the road for the first time and maybe this will expose him it very well may. Tennessee's or Mississippi State rather is feeling good. They beat Arizona State at home a couple weeks ago

and they're feeling good about themselves. I think Tennessee goes in there and beats the shit out of them because until proven otherwise Mississippi State is still Mississippi State. So give me Tennessee to win that one. Notre Dame and Arkansas. Notre Dame's one and two, but Arkansas

is so bad. And they've lost a couple of close ones. I get that. But I think we're probably looking at the end of old Sam Pittman. His two wins, you've got Alabama, A&M, and Arkansas State. Look, give them this. They have hung extremely tough in their last two games. They hung tough with Ole Miss, could have should have won that one. They fumbled going in against Ole Miss.

Could have been a win. They could have had their third win. They could have been 3 and 0. They did the exact same thing against Memphis. At Memphis, they're driving to take the lead late in a 32, 31 game. They have the ball like inside the 10 and they fumble it. So for all the issues that Arkansas has, Arkansas could, would, should be three and one, two, and oh. At least, I mean, they should have beaten Memphis.

Not that Memphis is a bad team. Memphis can play. But based on just the factors of the game and where they had the ball on the field, they should have beaten them last week. And they fumbled the ball and lost the game. But then look at what they have coming up. They've got Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas, A&M, Auburn, Mississippi, State, LSU, Texas, Missouri. will they be favored in any of those games? The answer is no.

Is there a chance that Arkansas loses 10 games? There is a 100% chance that Arkansas loses 10 games. But there's also a chance, and they could have should have been 4 and 0. If they were 4 and 0, they'd be a top 12 team right now, and this would be a much sexier matchup. Notre Dame's a two-loss team as well. Let us not forget. Notre Dame is nothing special. But man, this should be a good weekend of college football.

That's exciting stuff, kiddos. More to come.