The Josh Innes Show - LSU With The Biggest Win Of The Weekend

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

How about the Tigahs? Brian Kelly finally got that season opening win. The biggest takeaway from that game was that LSU's defense looked like the LSU defense of yesteryear. Was Klubnik the biggest disappointment of the weekend? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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See the Tim's app for details at participating in restaurants in Canada for a limited time. I forgot who it was that it tweeted that it was either on radio or on a tweet. I don't remember. But over the weekend, somebody said that Cade Clubnick was the biggest disappointment. at the quarterback position, out of all these big-name quarterbacks, whether it be, you know, Arch making his debut, or Bryce Underwood, or Nussmeyer, who going into the season, I think, was number two in the Heisman race. Klubnik, who I believe was number one or somewhere in the top two or three, I think, among Heisman trophy finalist in terms of odds. And somebody tweeted that Kade Klubnick was the biggest disappointment. And, yes, I'm aware that there was a lot of hype coming in with Klubnick because Klubnick was experienced.

had a lot of dudes coming back with him. I forgot the number of returning starters Clemson has, like over 20, I think. And people get all hyped up over that, oh, they got all these returning starters and Clubnik. Yes, he was disappointing. But to me, Clubnik's sucking wasn't the story as much as it was LSU defensively being back, question mark. Like that looked for the first time in a long time. Now, that might be a one-off. They might come out against law tech and give up four touchdowns to Law Tech and have to win in a shootout this weekend. That was the first time LSU's

defense looked like LSU's defense in years. It's the first time under Brian Kelly. I mean, we talked about it. A couple years ago, they should have won the National Championship with a Heisman trophy all-world quarterback, and they lost three games because the defense was terrible. Even last year, they had to play a lot

of shootouts. If you go back and look at some of their previous schedules, you'll see them against some, I mean, throw away, directional schools that put up 20-something points on them because LSU's defense was terrible. That was the first time we had seen LSU defensively looking like LSU. And when you think about the hallmark of LSU, when LSU was LSU, before this new era of everybody's spreading shit out, and Jane Daniels winning the Heisman Trophy, and before that, Joe Burrow, when you think of LSU Primeless Miles, 2007 to 2014-15, LSU was line it up, run-toss sweeps, run-toss dive, throw when you have to, and play nasty defense.

And when you need a big play on defense, you get a defensive stop. And then LSU went away from that. Last Saturday was the first time you watched LSU defensively and go, holy shit. And they had a couple of games recently where they've been decent defensively. You know, the game they beat Alabama a couple years ago. They got stops when they needed. stops. Against Ole Miss last year, they got stops when they needed stops, but you would have never looked against Missou last year. They got stops when they needed stops, Arkansas when

they needed stops. But you would have never looked at them defensively and gone, oh, shit, LSU's balling. That was the first time, like late in the game when they've got the ball, when Clemson's got the ball driving, trying to tie the game, I'm like, I think these motherfuckers are going to make a stop. And they did. It was wild. But let me play a couple of commercials. and we'll continue. All right, it's game week, baby, and we are ready for football with Draft King's Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the National Football League.

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Digital games and commercial use excluded. Restrictions apply. Additional NFL Sunday ticket terms at YouTube.com slash go slash NFL Sunday ticket slash terms limited time offer. Back to Klubnik, though. I don't think Klubnik was the biggest disappointment of the weekend. Like, Arch was the biggest disappointment of the weekend. Nobody told me that Kade Klubnick's the greatest thing ever.

Like, we've got enough tape on Kade Klubnick to know who he is. We also knew that he was facing Louisiana State University, one of the, you know, power institutions in college football. Like, yeah, should he have played better? Yes. But his poor play had a whole hell of a lot more to do with what LSU. was doing defensively, right? So I don't think Clubnik sucks. I don't think he's particularly

great either. But like going into that game on Saturday and all the other games on Saturday, the biggest name that people wanted to watch, the person people were most interested in seeing on Saturday, was Arch at the shoe versus Ohio State. So you cannot tell me

that after every game is done, now every college football game from week one is over, you cannot tell me that Clubnik was a bigger disappointment than what you got out of Arch because Arch came in with all of the hype. A guy that

had never played a down of like real meaningful football in college and was already one of the top two or three Heisman candidates. And he comes out and played like total dog shit. After you spent the entire year last year, shitting on Quinn Ewers saying this guy's the chosen one.

Yeah, Clubnik was a disappointment. Like if you wanted to rank disappointments, he's on the Mount Rushmore of disappointments over the weekend. Sure. But like the Washington monument of disappointments was Arch. So either way. But to the LSU game defensively, they were nasty. I haven't seen LSU defensively play that way in forever.

Nussmeyer made huge throws. And look, they tried to screw them. I don't know how many actually watched that game. But LSU should have had another touchdown on the board. The touchdown was taken off the board after a review. Everybody in the booth is like, oh, that's going to be at worst a stands. And I know Stans isn't a thing now. It's all upheld, which whatever.

But if you watch everybody on TV is like, I'm talking to the rules analysts and everybody, you're like, all right, that's going to be a touchdown. And then it wasn't. I'd like an explanation. Like, I want to know during the game, I want some XFL type shit where during the game, you explain to me what you are seeing in that room and why. Like, that may, like, stop the steal, stop the steal, because that was a touchdown. You also stole $200 for me because I bet on that guy to score a touchdown. And maybe that's the reason I'm real pissed off about it. But I'd like to know.

I want those details. I want to see what discussion is going on in the replay control center that will tell me why that obvious touchdown, at worst, a stands. Like, I thought they were reviewing whether or not he went out of bounds at like the half-yard line. When they overturned the catch, it was mind-boggling. But it didn't end up mattering. I mean, if you think about the best win of the weekend, it's LSU. I mean, Florida State, yeah, I mean, that's good for Florida State. We don't know what Florida State is, though, right?

Like, Florida State may come out in their next game. They might still lose three games. I don't think anybody's looking at Florida State as a contender. They just happened to catch Wounded Bama in the Kellyn-de-Bore era. And look, they were a 14-point dog, but they were at home, and they got the W. Give them credit. That's probably the most unlikely victory of the weekend, right? Like, if you look at, you know, all the big games, right?

Like, I don't think anybody shocked Miami beat Notre Dame. Although the way people talked about Miami and Notre Dame, as you would have thought it was a foregone conclusion that Marcus Freeman's the greatest coach ever. It doesn't matter who the quarterback is. Miami's going to crush Carson Beck or Notre Dame's going to crush Carson Beck. And to be fair, I thought Beck would suck too because I think Beck sucks. But Notre Dame goes out and doesn't play well and they look terrible offensively for most of the game. I know they kind of turned it on late. But they look terrible offensively for a large stretch of the game.

And I guess people have to halt blowing Marcus Freeman for five minutes. So, you know, good for Mario Cristobal there. So that was a good win for Miami, but that's Miami playing at home, six and a half, five and a half, whatever it was, point underdog. That's a good win, right? But if you, I would say that the most unlikely win out of all the major schools and the big matchups, the most unlikely win, obviously, was Florida State as a 14 point, you know, two touchdown underdog coming off the year they had last year with a Boston college transfer as their quarterback. that was probably the most unlikely win, but that's at home against Alabama. I would say that the best win for anybody this weekend.

Like good win for Ohio State. Like you're facing a machine in Texas and the whole world's told you that Archmanning's going to be great. You made him look like shit. So that's a good win. But again, you were at home and you were slightly favored in that game. LSU, I think when the game kicked off was a four and a half point underdog on the road at Death Valley, to go in there and win that, and not just win it, but hold Kade Club Nick, top two, top three Heisman odds to 10 points, and to win the game with

defense, LSU had the most impressive win of the weekend. Speaking of Death Valley, and you know, both schools, you know, use Death Valley at their stadium. First of all, if I ever get elected president, I'm going to make these fucking games that say they're going to start at 730, 830, start at 730 or 830. Like the LSU kickoff was, it's scheduled at 7.30 and it didn't kick off until 7.52. Just tell me exactly when the fucking game is going to start, please. I really don't give a shit about watching your pregame show.

We've watched months of pregame for this game. I don't need another 22 minutes of it. Then they show the big entrance where the players run down the hill where these Clemson doofs take a bus to this hill. And then they just tiptoe down a hill. There is nothing cool looking about watching big off dudes tiptoe down a hill. hill in fear that they're going to fall down. Like, everybody hypes up this Clemson entrance, like it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.

Like, Virginia Tech, that's a fucking entrance. Little inner sandman, places going nuts. There's no hype music for this Clemson entrance. It's literally just some doofs running down a hill. Cool. Congratulations. But I'm glad that we had to start the game 25 minutes later than the scheduled time. And look, I understand you got your own problems.

I live in the Eastern Time Zone now. like so every minute counts. I slept for three hours last night because I stayed up to the bitter end of that shitty North Carolina game and then and then I couldn't go to sleep. I was too jazzed up. So I didn't end up going to sleep until close to 1 o'clock. I got up at 350. I slept for less than three hours last night.

But that's kind of what I'm working against. Like when Monday night football starts, like when the Lions play a late game, my ass is going to be up till midnight. And I get it. I signed up for that. That's part of the experience. But every minute counts when you live on the Eastern Times. Whenever you're over in L.A., most of the shit doesn't impact you.

It's all going to be over by 8 o'clock for you anyway. Life is good for you. Shit ain't getting in until midnight, 12.30, 1 o'clock for my ass. So every minute counts. So if you're going to tell me a game is going to start at 7.30, and then 23 minutes later, I'm watching some dickheads running down a goddamn hill. You're fucking with my day. And speaking of these ESPN broadcasts,

got to sound dickish, tired of Kirk Herb Street's dogs. Like, bro, like, why the fuck do you, like, why do you always have your dogs? Like, I get it must be like some comfort thing and they allow you to bring your dog with you. But like, bro, grow the fuck up. Like, I love my dog and it's cool that you get to bring your dog. And it was fun for a while. Now it's like he's in the booth with you. He's at game day with you.

Like, how fucked up is Kirk Herb Street? Right? Like, this guy must be. be like, what about Bob if he's got to have his fucking dog? Look, we all have anxiety in some way. We all have panic attacks in some way. Whatever. Everybody deals with some form of anxiety. It's 2025. Life makes you anxious. But like this guy must be like baby steps to the door, like grabbing napkins and tissues to open doors, calling Dr. Leo Marvin nonstop. Like the fact this guy's fucking dog is with him everywhere. Like he's successfully making me

like dislike dogs. Like not even, no, I take that. back. I can't dislike dogs. He's making me become a crotchety old man that's yelling about the fact that he's always got his dog with him. And I don't like being that guy. I mean, good for you, I guess. Like, cool. Like, I guess it'd be great if we could all have our dog with us.

I don't know. I also just really hate Kirk Herb Street a lot. I despise him. My sister apparently thinks he's the hottest guy on the planet. But my sister clearly has questionable fucking taste. No offense, Brian. But she has shitty taste. And if she thinks that Kirk Herb Street is hot, that smug-looking dufous.

But anyway, LSU were the best win of the weekend. And Garrett Nussmeyer, you talk about a guy that, I mean, like, did he need a big win? I mean, the guy's play is very good. He's now the Heisman favorite. That's the other thing I also love. LSU wins this game. And every story I see across LSU world is, LSU projected to be number one in college football

playoff after week one. It doesn't fucking matter. It doesn't fucking matter. You got two months until you get the first poll and you're out of here. We're number one of the college football playoff. We'll go beat Lotech and you're going to lose some games along the way because your schedule's a fucking beast. You got Florida coming up.

You got old miss coming up. But, man, but LSU does a very good win. And look, look, they got the month. monkey off their back, if you will. I mean, they had one of a first game in five years. So, like, they had the one-and-no T-shirts and everything, and people thought that was some sort of shit-talking, like bulletin-board material or whatever.

Not really. It wasn't bulletin-board material. They were just, like, it's actually just kind of a sad statement that a big program, like, LSU cannot win that first game. And they view every game as, hey, we need to go one-and-o. And they did. So good for them. Anyway, more to come.