The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans Take Down Chiefs! CFB Results Cause Chaos?!

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

Texans Take Down Chiefs! CFB Results Cause Chaos?!

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10-1 at H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. They are the third hottest team in the 8th. F. C. Yeah. Denver and New England won Ted Strait.

But from O and 3 to congratulations The Texans are going to the postseason. There were people who doubted him who said they weren't going to the playoffs. There were two of us in this room. And they were wrong. I didn't say that.

Eh. I think you kind of low key did no i did check tape pull it up i can't go check the tape it's month ago plus our audio system is terrible with no way i could check it only goes back 30 days these days yeah that's right i can't go back to september it is what it is what it is what a i mean what a peculiar night rewarding explain what was so peculiar uh variety of things and this is in no particular order i we've all been watching the Chiefs for basically eight or nine years, own this league,

make every fourth down conversion, make every incredible play, come up with a big defensive stand when necessary, but basically the Kansas Chiefs have become a magical team because of, you know, a future Hall of Fame quarterback, who, by the way, played really well yesterday.

His receivers, letting down would be an understatement, maybe? I mean, it was atrocious. how bad they were. Big drops and handing the ball to the competition? Yes, that's number one. Number two, and Andy Reed, to his credit, fessed up after the game and admit it as much. But that was a fireable offense trying to go for fourth down at the 31-yard line.

Your team, your defense, was giving the Texan's fits to the tune of minus two yards. kick the ball and make C.J. Struggle 85 yards. You gifted them at worst, a field goal, at worst. And you eventually gave him a touchdown on the Gumbawalei touchdown, which all of us had in our fantasy board, which is really nice. I put Gwobo Lime in my starting fantasy lineup and look what he got for me, a touchdown. No, you didn't. You're right.

Nobody would thought of that. I'm sure that 25 team league. That's true. That's number two. Number three, as bad as the Texans' offense was for 70% of the game, the good 30%, there were some incredible throws that C.J. Stroud made and some incredible catches and some stuff that frankly, Pat Mahomes probably was jealous of. Number four, Chris Jones wanted to win that game more than anybody else in that stadium yesterday, and he couldn't do it by himself. He almost did.

He tried his best. He tried his best. And number five, you finally slayed the dragon. Not only did you beat a team that you've had no success against, literally, in that stadium over the years. But you knocked them deep down the playoff ladder. You have them questioning themselves. You have them questioning their coaches. Two of their key players decided not even to stick around and talk to the media after the game, which is a BS move.

You got to talk to the media when you're in good, and you certainly got to talk to them in bed. We're fighting too many athletes in 2025 that are only doing it when things are good. And number six, I think I went 60. Sure, why not? Your Texans are going to the postseason, especially after what happened to Daniel Jones and his Achilles into 14 pieces yesterday.

You don't want to root for injuries, Matt. Who doesn't? I think you have to the thunder. I'm rooting for Oklahoma City Thunder injuries. Call me a horrible person. But, I mean, to me, that game yesterday played the expectation. just about, I mean, it was dominant Texans performance and the offense giving you just enough. That's basically what we've been seeing from them on this five-game winning streak.

This defense is, I've been saying it for a couple weeks now and I'll keep saying, it's Super Bowl winning caliber defense. Yeah. This is the best defense the Texans have ever had. But the Nick Cayley offense came back to play yesterday. And if not for CJ's escapeability and a couple of, I mean, the best plays in the game yesterday were not designed by Nick Cayley. It was C.J. Stroud on his own. Avoiding pass rush, scrambling, making tough throws.

Frankly, a lot of throws that you would think would be probably interception worthy, they were not. They were caught. That's what it takes to win. And you have to have things happen for you off schedule. That's everybody. And, I mean, Nick Cayley, yeah, he's not a football genius. He's just not. He also doesn't have a whole lot of work with.

I mean, Woody Marks is a decent running back, but he's not great. The offensive line was having some issues. You mentioned Chris Jones. was, I mean, as bad as game-wrecking one-man performance as I can remember in a while. I mean, we've seen some others, J.J. Watt or Miles Garrett or whoever do that, on to that level. But basically, I mean, behind the velvet rope of game-wrecking performances on a Sunday night, that was excellent from him. And it played out about how we felt. I mean, you said 20 to 16.

Yeah, 2016, something like that. I said, I think, 23 to 18. Like, we all thought it was going to be, the Vegas total was. low we thought it was going to be a knock down drag out we presumed a one score game and it was somewhat close to a one score game for the most the majority of it

that's Texas football what I saw last night I wasn't surprised by much of any of it no the whole scoring was on a surprise the consecutive number of incomplete passes that Pat Mahomes threw of which probably were what nine in a row at some point I think it was when you included

interceptions it was like something like that plus his plus the interceptions it was like the longest streak of his career. So of those, I mean, the Lasseter I and T, that was basically a punt. I mean, it was 43 yards in the air, so that's the same thing. I mean, you can count that if you want to. 80% of those were the receiver's fault drop, I mean, drops. Kelsey, not only drops a ball, but it hits, the ball hits his helmet and it ends up being an interception. That doesn't happen to the Kansas City Chiefs. I, you know, Dauber down is a term you would use sometimes. They didn't look like they wanted to win.

game yesterday. And if Chris Jones willed them, they blitz the hell out of the Texans in the third quarter and there was nothing the Texans could do except for that occasional play that C.J. Strau made running for his life. It was vintage Steve Spagnolo versus the Houston Texans. You

get like seven, seven, eight guys at the line of scrimmage. They can't figure out who's coming. It's loud and arrowhead and then you end up with two free runners over and over and over again. It was tough to work with. C.J. Stroud did miss some easy throws, but he was under a lot of duress as well.

Rice dropped, Brown, Kelsey, the unbelievably dumb fourth and one at the 31-yard line. I mean, you have to take advantage

those breaks and give them credit. You the Texans did. Well, depending on what models you look at, Matt. See, it's funny because I know it was an unbelievable dumb, and I know you know it's coming. It's coming. But the metrics don't tell you everything.

the vibe and I'm telling you Ross I apologize but I will follow my sword on this that's fine the vibe last night was kick the ball 50 yards and force a team that hadn't done jack squat to go 80 yards yeah that was completely and again I'm not anti I like going for fourth down I'm actually not against it I'm and I'm not against the metric of it but as soon as that happened I was sitting in my office with my son watching the game my oldest one and I said if they don't convert this the Texans are going to score and the juju of the game completely flipped. The second going forward on fourth down,

I get it because you're down a touchdown and you're running out of time, so to speak. That early fourth down call was criminal. And that's Andy Reid. That's a Super Bowl winning quarterback or coach. Let's see. It was 10.10. They went up scoring a touchdown, making it 17.10.

That's the subsequent drive. 10 minutes, yeah. 31 well the numbers say go for it the numbers are stupid in that one and and absolutely they're stupid well it's just the counter argument is if you can't get two yards and how are you going to score on this defense anyways so you have you're kicking the ball to stop them to get the ball back to be basically where you are I take my chance I'm I have I have did you not sense it I mean I know you did this the entire momentum shift of the game you're giving the Texans, at worst case, a 50-yard field goal.

Now, Grant's outside, it's cold, but Fairbairns is one of the top 10 kickers in the NFL. It's going to make some of those. Worst case, they score a field goal. It takes one play to get them in the red zone where it makes it an absolute chip shot, and they went up scoring a touchdown with their third string running back. It was preposterous. It wasn't preposterous, no. It was completely preposterous.

It's not dumb or preposterous. It is absolutely, in this particular case, it's preposterous. think that's where or okay i mean i'm i think you're using hindsight no i'm not i said it immediately as a time you got to come to my house i'll cook for you i'm not coming to your house you live in south nacadocious yeah but it's only an hour it's fine it's too no it was a terrible terrible and and andy reed completely admitted it after the game what did he say i would like to read you the quote you had time i promote your twitter account or uh instagram you can follow me at sports rv and instagram that's it you can go more than that i got good pictures

all right I put the guys offensively in a tough position with that fourth down I was trying to stay aggressive with it I take full responsibility for that I thought we could get it it's important that you take advantage of opportunities in hindsight it was wrong

I messed that one up that's the coach that's the NFL head coach yeah that's who made the decision to go for it and it didn't work out I'm gonna start video calling you and say I swear I said it it was a wrong

it was a wrong more than you're going to be right this time I'm right Ross and sometimes I can we ask to you no it's okay you had the vibe everybody you guys watched the game it was 10 to 10 in the fourth quarter it's a close game and he said he wanted to be aggressive that's fine at the midfield that the 31 yard line when you're basically guaranteeing the texas points that was not smart in a low scoring game that's even another point in a low scoring game where a field goal could make a difference i think you don't do that it's it was stupid and he admitted it and everybody i mean he didn't say it was stupid colinth who loves can't see more than life just was ripping the crap out of the call that's what the announcers do and that's okay I'm okay with it too. And it's all right because this was happened, I don't know, how many years ago was it when Bill Belichick went for a fourth down

and everybody was crushing him? And it's been trending in the right direction. It has. And I know America's not ready for this. I'm ready for it. I'm okay because I've watched the Detroit Lions. Hell, the Lions are never other day. The Detroit Lions are getting crushed by it.

Dan Campbell are getting crushed because they're missing fourth downs and people are calling them calling the games. And that's okay. History will prove me right on this. And I'm okay with that. it's moving forward we're not going to go to more punts we're going to punt the ball when you can't when the texans offense can't move it you're going to punt the ball in that particular case if it's a 45 or 50 i probably can give you on that one but in this particular case i can't i just can't on that all right we got a lot to get to today uh texans beat the chiefs a lot of listing on that um college football playoff well that was it was a really weird 18 hours would you agree about what people thought about the poll going in after the games were completed on Saturday and how people felt at about 1115 on Sunday? Actually more like 1130

because Z.S. Pink kept dragging it on and on and on. We'll talk about that. Winter meetings are underway. We have to tell the truth coming up at 1130 today and my cougars are going to knock off LSU in the Texas Bowl. I wonder what that I wonder what that stadium's going to look like. Oh, it's going to be

80-20 LSU. Why? Because LSU fans travel. Big, what? Where's the game? In Houston? Okay, who's playing there? Houston? Okay. I mean, I would like to say...

Big 12 football, let's go. I like it to be... I like it to be... 80, 20. I like it to be 50-50. Come on, that's embarrassing. I speak the truth on the show. About 4th Downs and crowd size.

Ted 16 on the bat-tobber show at Raw. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We would love for you guys to join us today, and ladies, for that matter. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. 713-212-5-790 a lot to get to today a lot on the Texans a lot on now what is a not nearly as congested aFC wildcard race and for that matter the divin hell the Texans could win the afccc south although I think Jacksonville schedule is significantly easier than the Texans although Texas isn't hard either the difficult part of Jacksonville schedule I were if I recall correctly was playing the Colts twice and well yeah well they've got beat him in the Tanner Jones has has has died. I think they've got one Denver game and then the other three are a piece of cakes is what I get. And the Texans have frankly

now, the only game that's left on their schedule that's of challenges the game at the Chargers, but that's if I mean, well, Justin Herbert being uniformed by that point? I mean, he's questionable going into tonight's game against Philadelphia. I'm like the Chargers are, I mean, SoFi Stadium, hell, if you're a Texan

fan, go there Christmas week, you can get a ticket for cheat. You could be among 60,000 of your favorite fans there. I mean, you'd be probably 60% Texans fans. Yeah, the Texans like to be in a one-score game no matter who they're playing. So any of these games, I will say any, well, maybe the Raiders are the least loseable.

The least loseable. I like that term. What is the least loseable of the group? Arizona's mailed it in. The Raiders suck. Indianapolis, I mean, the backup quarterback, I honestly, Ross, and I'm not, I give myself a B-minus on backup quarterbacks. The guy that was throwing yesterday for the Colts, I had no idea who it was.

was. Leonard or Leonard, yeah, from is it Leonard Skinner Judge, Jonathan? Is that who it is? Leonard, you know what? What do you got going on back there? What's the music going on back there? We normally can see you, but... Raleigh Leonard.

Raleigh Leonard. I had audio plan back here on my laptop. That's fine. I don't know what y'all are you on. Are you on some Snapchat's going on a little, you're working on your TikToks back there? No, no, no, no, no. By the way, I am so proud of you. What happened? We're 23 minutes in the show. And on a previous

to tell the truth, I said the Chief's got a legitimate shot of running to the AFC championship. How did you go 24 minutes in the show without Rasmid about what happened last night compared to where they are right now? So this was the game plan. Chiefs Hater won. He's slow-planned. This is the game plan. I was like, yeah, exactly. I'm

slow planning. I was like, you know what? I'm going to wait to tell the truth. And then I'm going to get it. He's letting a slow boil. By way, all four might to tell the truth are college-related, because I did him yesterday so i didn't i didn't have the texans game in mind there but uh should have yeah uh so uh yeah uh it was and i want to go to i want to go to something and look everybody

has an opinion about everything and if you don't have an opinion about it then it's not really worth having a conversation with you about you i mean so the collinsworth there are a lot of people that don't like him because he's not rooting for your team it's very joe buck ask. If he's talking good about your team, you like him, but if he's not talking about your team endlessly, you think he hates your team, and thus you hate him. The reality is this. Chris Collinsworth in the last 10 years has done more Chiefs games than anybody else out there, okay? And by the way, when he does Chiefs games, Rossi, they win typically. Yes, they've been very good. So when Chris Collinsworth does the best game of the week, usually against, they don't put Kansas City on against

Miami on Sunday night football. They don't put Kansas City on against the Raiders. They put them against the Buffaloes, the Cincinnati's, the Houston's for that matter. So you're going, great team versus pretty good team. And Kansas City has won a boatload of games with Pat Mahomes with a

Hall of Fame career. My guess is if Pat wanted to quit tomorrow, he's in a Hall of Fame. He would. Fair. Three times Super Bowl champ? Three times? Did he have three? I mean, how many straight AFC championship games have they gone to? I don't remember. Seven, right? Something like that. Yeah. so folks just logically think for a second he's going to be braggadocious about pat mohomes because he's seen pat at his greatest

and i thought yesterday again i don't have an opinion about chris one way or the other i think he's okay i think he's fine terrible he's not offensive i'm not offended by him but when you've watched as much goodness as he has he's naturally going to side with man what a throw or what a play but i thought yesterday he was exemplary of the Texas defense a lot. He was exemplary of some of the catches that were made. He was foaming at the mouth over Jalen Petrie, not only the deflection, but the interception. He talked about how Andy Reed should have gone for that fourth down.

He talked about, I mean, there was a lot of things. Is it a pro in some respects? Can't see broadcasts? Yes, because human nature says so, because he's only seen the amazingness that is Kansas City Chiefs football. And that's irritating. I get it to people. I understand what's irritating.

I was not offended by it. But remember, again, there are things that I hear on television and radio that offend me that may not offend you. So it's to each his own. Yeah, I was watching at a sports bar, so I didn't really catch a whole lot of it. It didn't seem like he was out of line. People like to crush Chris Collinsworth. And I think the detractors are just louder than the most. I think it's one of those scenarios where it's a loud minority that hate Chris Collinsworth and think he's the worst, I think.

Well, it's like, I mean, we have, there are the lightning rods of sports. There's the Stephen A. Smith that people hate. There's the Skip Bayliss when he used to do his show. I mean, when you are on a platform as high as it is, you're going to have the fans and attractors. But I don't, yeah, Chris Collinsworth's not like some hot take machine, though. No. I think he just didn't talk about, he talked about how much he appreciated Pat Mahomes, probably more than a Texan fan wanted to hear during the course of the broadcast. Yeah, I think people were upset.

Did he sound like he was loving on Pat Mahomes for getting a face mask, his face mask pulled? which was a very light tug by the way but anyways and he called out the Texans offensive line who was the guy which was it was an nursery

somebody had to ursery was bad ursher was not good ursery had a horrible night by the way yeah oh Danil Hunter was non-existent last night against a third game

against a third team offensive alignment I mean they called him out for that there was a few things like that but to me he doesn't bother me Like other, I mean, I just, it was, instead of spending time focusing on how much this Texan's team was going to Kansas City and playing mono-a-mona with the defending EFC champions, it was, let's just bag on Chris Collins for three hours. I didn't, it was, it wasn't what I couldn't hear it. I saw a lot of it on the Twitterverse, but it is what it is.

I mean, I think he does a good job. I don't think he's terrible. I don't think he's amazing. Like, who's your, you've, you've never had an opinion, unless I'm wrong on this. You've never had like, man, you've never come to me and said, hey, Matt, that person. to do the color analysis was amazing. I don't know. Who is the best? Right now for me? Trigman's probably pound for pound is as good as it gets. And he was considered... And he was considered... And Troy was considered a guy that was very early in his broadcast crew, never critical of athletes, because he was fresh out the football field.

J.J. Watts, good. Jay J.J. Watts. Early Tony Romo. I will say early Tony Romo, I probably would say I would talk about how great he was. Yeah. I'm just... There isn't anybody that's calling a game. Now, there's a call. couple of guys in the lower tier games that I just don't find very interesting, but that's, the general audience wouldn't care who those people are. I'm trying to think of

who else. Um, see, that's what I'm saying. Oh, the years, Charles Davis has been decent. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's fine. I mean, they're fine. Yeah. They're, they're, obviously, he's all right. Let me tell you something. They, they get, they get tested by networks

all the time. And if the networks, people people find they don't like them, they take them off the game. I think J.J. Watt might be my favorite right now. He's putting the work in. Tony Roma was putting the work in. Then he got a big $18 million deal. He's like, eh, we're good. He's done good.

Where are the golf courses in the area? I like Tom Brady. I do. Tom Brady's getting better. I do? He was awful at first. Way too stiff. But he's loosened up?

He's loosened up. His stiffness. So you're saying it's stiff for a while then eventually loosens up? Yes. Well, he was. Tom Brady was. Okay. Thank you.

10.30 on Sports Talk, Let's get to the what had America in a Tizzy, the college football playoff when come back. By the way, if you're a Texan fan, we're here. Five in a row, baby, let's go. Five in a row, let's go. 713, two, one, two, five, seven, nine. As predicted by both of us. Yeah.

And I was so hesitant to make a prediction. Mm-hmm. Because I'm so bad at it. Yeah, I think you were trying to reverse jinks. I got my eye on you. I think you're trying to reverse jinks, but it's okay. You don't know that. The prediction works.

You don't know that. Prediction worked. I was on the record. That's back to back, on the road upsets that I've called. Because I'm the Texan's Insider. 713-212. 5 is 799. All right, I'd rather have Chris's music than this horrendous song.

Don't sing it. Here it comes. 3, 2, 1. Just do it. Just do it. We're already arguing about Annie Reid's fourth down call, and now you're going to sing this. The show couldn't go any worse.

Can I please talk to a Texan fan? I mean, I beg a... I shouldn't say I beg, but we'd love to... I mean, your squad's won five in a row. They're going to the playoffs. Indianapolis is gonzo done. They got beat up badly by the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday. The chiefs, you put them out to pasture.

Probably. What's the rest of their schedule? Arizona, Raiders. Oh, no, I'm talking about the chiefs. Oh, I can look it up. I was going to say, man, you know the rest of the schedule. the chief schedule? No, no, no.

I thought the chiefs were good. I didn't think they were that good. Home for the Chargers at the Titans, home for the Broncos at the Raiders. Two and two with the worst, three and one puts them, what, at nine and eight? That's not enough. No.

They're just not good enough. No, three and one puts them at, yeah, nine and eight. Not good enough. They're not good enough. You did it. Houston, you guys did it. Not you, in theory, but in your spirits. We did it!

I mean, they just weren't the Chiefs of old. They just aren't the Chiefs of old. Hey, your mic is on. Is everything okay back there? I don't know. I don't know. Is there a lot of dust in the control room? I'm a love it to truth.

The Chiefs, they're looking pretty fraudulent right now. And Chiefs hater number one, Jonathan Allen, you have been correct. They're on a two-game losing streak, right? Yeah. They've lost four of the last five. Woof. Ladies and gentlemen, we eyewitnessed on television.

That's it for them. I mean, they're not technically done. It would have to take a lot of work with the teams in front, and they're losing tiebreakers now on this. But you tell me that Rashid wanted to win that game yesterday. I think he did I mean I guess he did but it's about the results

They got a little Texans got a little bit lucky with all the drops And with Travis Kelsey handing them the ball Yeah And them not being able to convert Any of their fourth downs But they also went out there And part of that could be also to the credit of the defense

I mean when you have a tough defense You tend to make some mistakes But there was one catch Help me out I forgot who it was over the middle of the field that was just a flat out drop. I mean, there were several drops. Help me out, who it was it?

Was it Hollywood Brown had one? I can't remember. Rashida Rice definitely dropped a couple. Kelsey literally handed the ball to Aziz al-Shayr, but that was a nice play. I mean, Jalen Petcher earned that pick that he got. Can I tell you when I brought this up on Twitter? I'm obsessed with Jailen Petrie's helmet.

Oh, the guardian cap? Why? It's big and fluffy? Yeah, he got a concussion, and now he's been wearing the guardian cap. I mean, Robio Dabs has been wearing it. Steve Young used to wear it a long time ago. It's different. It's a cap over the helmet.

But I love it. Would you get that for me for Christmas? You want a guardian cap? Yes. Okay. It makes the helmet look twice as big. Yes. And it may look like the great gazoo from the Flintstones.

And there are some people who disagree on whether or not it has any impact, how helpful it is. But, yeah, he came up. back from his concussion, he's wearing a guardian cap. Good for him. It just looks fantastic. I want him to make more plays. There's a... The tip drill, then followed up with a interception of the same play. I mean, look, Jalen Petrie is never going to be known as a great in-coverage guy. He can hit hard, but he's not known as a coverage guy.

That was one hell of a catch yesterday. It was a great play. He's been one of the best safeties in football, and then that Rishi Rice hit where he knocked him. I think somebody said he knocked the sonic rings out of him. That's what he did to Rishi Rice. I mean, he sent him flying. Clean, legal hit, flying all over the place. There are hits on both sides. Texans swarm.

That is Texans football last night. That is the defense that can win you a Super Bowl if you get enough from your offense. I'm worried about Woody Marks. He's just doesn't look like he's running that well. And the Nick Chub left the game with a rib injury.

Woody Marks less than three yards to carry. I mean, that's tough. You have to get something on you're running game and you're not getting it at all. He had some nice runs, but I mean, it's like Dario O'Ogunboale, how long is Chub going to be out? I'm worried about the run game big time. I mean, the reality is this. The defense, tell me if this is too hot-ish, hot of a take. The defense cannot surrender more than 21 points per game at any point between now and the end of the air. they're going to give up points

defenses do it's human it's you got to hold them I mean the Texans point totals the last several weeks 20 20 23 16 and then 36 against the Jaguars with Davis Mills that was an aberration

but that's my that's my you know as wide open as the a FC playoffs are you your defense look I'm giving you no

great breaking news in this defense is going to have to carry you but it's going to have to be carried to the level that I even think the 2000 Baltimore Ravens would be jealous of. I don't the Texans offense can't put up

24 points in the game. And if they do, it's probably because of either a special teams or a defensive touchdown. They're going to have to get it together for sure. I mean, we've seen flashes. We've seen them look good. We've seen them make some plays. But it's

just not enough. And we're really only asking for like, I mean, if you go from 20 points a game to 27 points per game, that's huge, right? But it's one score. we're asking for like one more touchdown a game well we're asking for some red zone efficiency yes and it's getting a little better but it's still too many a little aggressiveness from your coach how do you want to expand that first half again at the end i mean just uh i don't know what exactly i mean i just felt like it was an uber conservative way to end the first half again i mean

but that's who we that's who demico is he's not going to and you know Yeah, the offense to me, if and when they lose, if they do, we're going to come back on the Monday after and go, hey, the Texans just could never get anything mustard offensively. And this is even with C.J. Stroud making some incredible, hard-to-believe passes and catches. He makes insane throws four or five times a game. Make you say, this is a guy to build a franchise around. And then he misses a couple of throws.

Yeah. The one to Christian Kirk, that was like a hot flight of shadow. center field was on a great throw. Even the long one in Nico Collins was slightly underthrown. But, I mean, it was, I mean, 53 yards, so I mean, got an underthrow a guy. The reality is this. It's a really good, it's a really exemplary defense

that might have a chance to be just good enough to get all the way because of the fact that the AFC is so up for grabs. The AFC is up for grabs. I'm not scared of anybody in the AFC. I'm not, even the way Jacksonville disposed of the Colchester? They, they don't does a full Jacksonville stadium and make you worry about going to Jacksonville and beating the Jaguars?

No? I'm not, yeah. I'm not saying that the Broncos and the Chiefs would be favored against the Texans. But I don't think it would be huge. It's not going to be 10 points or even 7 points. The reality is this. The Texans can hang with anybody. You played in 20-degree weather yesterday in Kansas City.

So the guys can go to New England and Denver and playing cold weather. Now, are there defenses of those two teams better than what the Chiefs are? Absolutely. Play the under on both of those games. I mean, Broncos, Texans was 18 to 15. That's what it's going to be, I think. So we're going to have to hold on for dear life and hope that something from the off

and again, or maybe just pray for a defense over a special team's touchdown. I think I'm most scared of the Patriots because of their defense and then Drake May's running ability could possibly pose some problems for the Texas. And the reality is, I don't know how much of that since any Buffalo game you saw yesterday.

Snow and in Buffalo, not pretty enough. Buffalo is going to be the wild card, so you're going to have to see some things move around on the playoff ladder. But the reality is Buffalo is really good at home. They just are. And Josh Allen was fantastic yesterday. Their defense is not great.

And that's even after Joe Burrell got a pick six gifted to them too. Man, the Biggles coughed that game up too. I mean, Josh Allen was great and he made plays, but the Bengals also choked hard. Yep. All right. CFP, let's get to the drama that was yesterday in a moment. 1044 on Sports Talk 790. All right.

So I was in Dallas, and Rockets lost the Mavericks, and that wasn't fun. But I got in the bus and watched the overtime of the Duke versus Virginia ACC game, which was very, very good. And Duke won it, and congratulations, they're the ACC champions. And for that, they get a bowl game out of it. Not a good one, but they get one. It just does their record. Good job, champions. So then everybody is arguing about there are three teams for two spots.

Alabama, Notre Dame, and Miami. Alabama looked terrible in their SEC championship game. By the way, the Big 12 championship game was Lousyton. It was that Duke Virginia game, and I didn't watch in the Indiana Ohio State game because I could only watch one thing at a time, but that came down on missing show goal. Yeah, I was going to say it was a little scoring game. So the argument was, okay, so did Alabama do so poorly that they may get bumped out?

So the three schools went to bed. Alabama's going, we're the mighty SEC. We're in, because that's who we are. Notre Dame's going to be thinking, well, we're good because we were higher ranked than Miami in the last CFP ranking last Tuesday. And Miami's got to be like, uh-oh, we're screwed.

Would that be the general consensus how you thought you saw it going in? No, because they gave a hint. I was actually talking about this this weekend with some people. In their little press release or after whatever interview, said head-to-head could come into play

if teams are back to back, if they're closer together. And that's okay. That was the foreshadowing. The foreshadowing that Miami would pass Notre Dame if they were next to each other, which is exactly what happened. So I guess the question that I would ask is why didn't they think about that last Tuesday?

Because they weren't back to back. There was a, BYU was entwaged in between them, I think. I don't know. My thought is, if I'm on Notre Dame site and I see that I'm above Miami, I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. didn't play a game. Miami didn't play a game. Nobody could have affected their resume since last Tuesday. But it did. And Miami jumped Notre Dame. Notre Dame is out. And Notre Dame

said, not only are we not going to, we're happy, unhappy about this. We're calling this a joke of a system. We're not going to play in a bowl game. ESPN's like, fine. Do what you want. Mess. How many dollars you're missing out on? Because you don't split up with anybody when you get the bowl money. Yeah. When you're in a conference, you split the bowl money up. you get all the extra practices, which people talk about that being a big benefit of a boy. Ross, that used to be a big deal until kids just, that's not playing it off.

Nobody's practicing. Everybody's in the portal anyway, so you don't have anybody to practice with. So, let me give you a variety of things to think about here just for a second before we get to the tap. I will have to tell the truth coming up at 1130, so I don't want to give away too much

because there's going to be a lie amongst my four truths, my four takes. Okay. Why don't we get rid of the every Tuesday get together? and just like the incidentally tournament we have to kind of guess and have brackatology. Why

do we need to do the hour shows? You think it's money? You put it on TV, get it on TV, get it sponsored. But why doesn't, and it builds interest? But why doesn't basketball do that, though? I don't, they probably, I bet you, I'm not going to say I bet you, but I wouldn't be surprised they did at some point.

Because we've gone for decades and decades and decades you can make a show about it, you can get it sponsored, you can up interest because then, oh, Team 14 has a chance to beat a, to upset Team 10 this week and it drums up a little bit of interest in your sport I think it's a good idea overall I mean I don't sit there and watch it

I would say I wait till they come out if the college football committee wants mental health they get rid of the show but the ESPN's like wait a minute we're paying for this shut up mental health they don't care about that in America well I'm just saying that you would not have to worry about Notre Dame going

what the hell are you doing you had us ranked above Miami just a handful of days ago and then they jumped for poor quah, right? That's what I'm saying, is that if you don't give us a little tease, we don't know what to expect. So that's the first thing I'm thinking about, is get rid of the Tuesday shows,

which even Kirk Herbstry on Game Day said Saturday. It's like, maybe we should stop doing those. Because all we're doing is pissing people off. And getting people to talk about college football. They are. Number two. Do we start putting more computers into this thing? Yes.

Yes, yes, yes. I know we hate computers. I know we hate them. The computers are unbiased. The computers are untubes. caring but i'm i'm curious if we went back and looked at the bcs when it was computer driven did we complain i know for a fact we complain about the human element i know we did but maybe you just can't have the best of both worlds that if you go strictly computers you're worried

about the human element if you go about computers if you go a human element you go well you don't you've got human element involved so it feels like to me we're going to get the computers probably more involved than maybe ever before i think you should they should get a vote so let me just tell you as I saw it yesterday and again I don't have a dog in this fight um I thought it probably gathered too much national attention because look we're going to be pissed off for two days rossi and then we're going to think about the games right all my aggie buddies are thinking about how they're going to get tickets and how they're going to spend money there's the biggest conundrum is for people that are that are fans of these schools is do you skip the first round games do you skip the second round

games because you want to play you want to go to the national semi-final if your team think you get a legitimate chance. If you're Indiana and you think you got a shot to win the national championship, do you skip going to the second round game to save yourself some money? These are all the issues coming up. But to me, if the schedules are even

and the strength of schedule is even, don't you want to put the head-to-head as meaning something even though the game was in early September? Shouldn't head-to-head matter? Absolutely. And if you get a head-to-head, guess what? Miami-beat Notre Dame. There's your head-to-head. Very simple. if you got so many like tiebreakers if there isn't a if there isn't a significant advantage unless the computers saw otherwise

unless computers can tell me there is a significant reason why Miami is better than Notre Dame then if we're going to go off of what we've seen and done in the competitions about the same then when it out go to the fifth tiebreaker and the fifth tiebreakers head to head Miami's and Notre Dame's out yeah it's no great tragedy that Notre Dame is out or Texas or Vanderbilt I know they're upset. BYU's not overly pleased. I'm sorry, BYU, shut your bum asses up.

That was such a lousy game too. Yeah, I just thought the whole... Oh, but another thing. Let me see if that's on to tell the truth. I don't want to give this up. Because I don't want to do a take and not to see if you can get this. Well, we can take a break. Well, I want to make sure I don't...

I didn't tell the truth here. Oh, yeah, I can't say what I want to say. You've done that before. I know, I don't want to reveal myself. About an hour ago, you said this. No, no, no, no. Then you can catch you. me to lie. 713

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Astro is going into the Hall of Fame. I don't care. That's not a great tease, is it? And we can probably figure it out. I think you probably can't, too. 1058, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

11-1, Sports Talk, 790. Hi, how are you? We're here, everybody. Hey, we started an hour ago. Let's go. 7-1. Hello, hello, hello. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Ross, how was your weekend?

Weekend was great. Started it off on a Friday, kicked it off with a nice Rockets win. We went to hot pot. Yeah, we did. The spicy was too spicy, but the other broth was fantastic. It was good. I knew it was too spicy when you guys were like, damn, this is spicy. No, I accidentally got some broth in your nose.

In my throat. Oh, and down your throat? Oh, got you. All right. I always do that. I'm always drinking and I just start coughing. people are like, are you okay? Yes, I'm okay. I'm just an idiot. I just rushed when I think.

It happens to. Like, we're on the Rockets playing. Rockets got a good win, had a good weekend. Texans had a good win. I got an I just don't get it from the Sports Bistro is that on Sunday. You're going to save it all the way to Thursday? Yeah.

Did you write it down? I'm writing it down right now. On my show document. We have a show doc? No, it's my own personal show dock. Oh, it's a one. Like, dumb things Matt said. Yeah. No, not that one. The no shirongas.

file we haven't dusted that one off in a while but we get coming up it's coming up when we hear from Kyle Tucker although you know the longer this drags on the better it is for you no don't even set me up that way don't even do it winter meetings by the way this week uh going on which is weird because we're not even technically in winter yet are we I'm not for a couple weeks but it's it's baseball winter it is true it is true um and what we got uh let's see college football Hall of Fame. I'll mention it real quick. A lot of folks really wanted Dale Murphy and Don Manningly to get into the Veterans Committee introduction to the Hall of Fame and they did not get in. Jeff Kent did.

We were talking about this recently, I think. Hall of Very Good or Hall of Fame? Hall of very good. Hall of an A-hole, though. Just one-time MVP, five-time All-Star. four-time Silver Slugger. Very good. Never finished top five MVP ever in the other time.

And just not a very nice person. I'm sure maybe he's older, he's nicer, but as a young sportscaster, was he ever, was he in the... Got in a fight with Barry Bonds, gave him respect for that. Through hands with Barry. He did? With the Giants together, yeah. Were they getting a fist fight? Yeah, in the dugout.

Barry would break him in half. Yeah, especially what Barry was doing. Jeff Kent's pretty strong. Well, what was Jeff Kent doing? Jeff Kent was country strong. Okay. Is that what you call it? I don't know.

I wouldn't doubt he said if somebody's country strong. Yeah, as a young sportscaster, though, he was as intimidating and as unfriendly and borderline rude to people. He was a jackass. Unfortunately, impressions or everything. And sometimes, you know, you hear about how players take longer to get in the Hall of Fame because of the way they treat the media. And I know that's not supposed to be that way. It's supposed to be about the numbers and the facts. But you know what?

We're our humans. Career OPS 855. in the steroid area Career OPS plus of 123 Sorry Jeff, you don't deserve an Sorry You're in though, congratulations Was like a 936

Career OPS or something like that Deserves me in before Jeff Kent And by the way, 5,000 times a better person Yeah, that's fine Congrats to the entire Kent film By the way Kent's son plays it did play And I think he was on the baseball team Didn't he get picked off at first or something

And his dad was pointing to his head Yeah, that's what I'm saying why would you do that? Do you think Jeff Kent's son needed to see that from dad? No, of course not. That's dad to son stuff, though. That was fair play to me. Oh, in front of a national television audience?

Do that in the car. Get your head in the game, son. Get your head in the game, let's go. No, that's a jerk move. No, well, do you think when Carly makes a mistake in volleyball, do you think I'd call her on in front of her teammate? Oh, shut off. Get your head to game, Carly.

Let's go! That's terrible. Come on, Big Red. You are the worst. Just regular race. You're not Big Red. Oh, I'm sorry. She's leaner red, actually.

Girls are working out. She's tall. Yeah, but she's, man, I'm so proud. She has all the things that you want from me. What is that? Work ethic? Determination. You work hard, Matt.

Ethics. You got some other flaws. Big ones. Damn. Call me out. But I don't think I would ever question your work ethic. All right. Thank you very much.

I appreciate that. All right. 713, 212-790. 713-212-5-7. We got some folks that want to say hello. and we want to welcome those of you that are listening to this program and start with Adam and Tom Ball at 1105 on 790. Adam, thank you for holding and good morning to you.

Good morning, Matt. Good morning, Russ. How are y'all doing today? We're good. Thank you for dialing in. Last night, Matt, was a Tank Dale revenge game. Tank Dell revenge game. That's what it was to me.

That's what it was the guys I was barbecuing with last night. It was great. It was awesome. They went to Kansas City, took care of business. Now, we had a crushed city. Can we get a swarm city? Can we get a swarm city started? Because, I mean, they were plastering everybody.

I mean, Travis Kelch was laid out. He was laid out. It was just great. It was great to take down the kingdom. Okay? We're building something here. We'll build something special. We got a Super Bowl caliber defense.

We got a quarterback that's getting some confidence. And, I mean, we need to sign Will Anderson, ASAP. We need to sign the new Hunter again. I mean, Z's. Z's last night was just awesome. That was the Zs that we wanted to see. We didn't want to see, you know, assault, you know, disease. We wanted to see good play disease with these.

But, man, it was just great. I love it. I love y'all's energy and love the show. I just want to say, you know, to me, Last night was a Tengdale Revenge game. And that's all I want to say. You all have a good day. Swarm City, baby.

Swarm City, yeah. Swarm City. Yeah, they were not thinking about Tinkdale. I don't know if Tinkdale's name was brought up any on the plane. Wasn't it a Texans player they ran into it? Yeah, I mean, I don't. No. Takedel revenge game.

I like Tank. Yeah, but that was, there was zero motivation towards that. A Super Bowl caliber winning defense, absolutely. C.J. Stroud needs to play a little. a little bit better, but he wasn't terrible. He didn't cost him the game. I didn't have three turnovers. I put little blame on C.J. Stride, if any, honestly.

I mean, there were some throws he could have made, but a couple throws he could have made, but a couple throws he did make. I mean, he's still, like, falling away, rolling to his right, falling away, he makes the craziest, most accurate throws. Those are throws that, honestly, and I hit me for even bringing this name up. Those are throws of Davis Mills can't make. He just can't make those throws. And that's one of about five million reasons why C.J. Stroud should be the starting quarterback over Davis Mills and I can't believe I'm having to bring this up you know what I forgot to put my

same tweet that I put the week before Davis Mills would have won this game with 375 and 4 touchdowns do you want that Hayes do you want that it's funny to me I like rooting out the idiots it's like mute farming speaking of idiot on tweets may I bring this up go ahead so I put the tweet out yesterday that I'm low-key in factory with Jalen Petrie's helmet okay and I was like yeah that thing is funny and there's pictures of the great kazoo and there's other helmets of other players and some rando guy says would you please stop calling the back part of the back the backboard the heel when a shot goes off the heel it's not a term stop using it what so of course I question myself to say there is a heel I've grown up on

the hill by the way when you are a broadcaster you think of different ways of calling the same thing, different names, because you just don't want to say the same thing every single time. So I wouldn't Google the heel of the backboard. And there is definitely a heel to backboard. It's not a definitive terminology, but it is a slang slash secondary term for

the back part of the rim. It's the heel. Listen to more basketball, dude. I'm talking to him. That guy. So I responded back to him, I said, not only am I going to continue to use it, but I'm going to use it more just to irritate you. Yeah, the heel

the heel of the rear the hill of the backboard like the bottom or are you talking about the heel the heel the back of the rim that connects to the backboard is the heel okay yes yes yes I've even heard that before yeah that's very common but it but it made me sad because I'm sitting here I'm like I've called I don't know two no it's okay and I an eagle says everybody I can think of says heel yes and he's like there's no such thing I'm like there is now you cannot go to a definition say you can look it up everybody calls it a heel there's like you know what I'm talking about. The ball comes off the back of the iron towards the backboard. That's

that little space there, that little, whatever that little how many inches that is, that's a heel. Yeah. But I was like, damn, I just put a nice, jail and Petrie I'm infatu with your helmet and I'm getting rocket slander. It's very easy. It's mute. Mute them. I know, but I just was like, can we not

just enjoy what we're watching in front of me? You're in a sea of negativity and stupidity. We have to be on social media because of our jobs. Yeah. And I do enjoy social media. I do. I do. For the most part. Yeah, I like making jokes and having fun and 97% of the people who respond like tweet or see our stuff, it's fine.

Yes. But there's that 3%. There's just bugs a hell on me. There's miserable. You're miserable human beings. Brian on 790s on a miserable human being. Hi, Brian. Well, it depends on the day and depends on who you ask. That's fair. But, you know, sometimes.

Hey, real quick, I think one of the biggest plays that was actually missed that actually turned out to be huge in the long run was on the questionable fourth down call by the chiefs. Aziz al-Shahir actually missed a tackle on Patrick Mahomes. He tried to tackle him up high, and if he makes that, it winds up being like fourth and five from their own 26, and they probably punt.

So him actually missing that, puts them in that fourth and one, and allows them to go for it, and then obviously you get the stops. So if there's ever a case where it's like, man, you didn't wrap up and tackle there, what are you doing you gave them extra yards by him actually missing that i think actually helped that happen so you know sometimes in a way of not making a play or missing a tackle actually winds up being a little bit better now obviously you don't want to miss too many of those

but i don't know if y'all remember seeing that play but uh i mean the play before that led up that fourth down but he actually missed that tackle and he tried to tackle them up high mahomes got away but uh that was a hell of a game last night especially the defense um i mean that's pretty salty stuff. But Jalen Petrie's helmet reminds me on those you can get from one of the team stores of like the oversized hat. You see fans wearing around the stadium?

That's all I could think of when I see that. You know, there's like three, you know, the ball caps that are like four times too big and people wear them around. That's what I was thinking he was wearing most of the time. But that was really good. Matt, congrats on the,

it should be a good matchup against LSU. Yeah, we're going to win. To the Texas Bowl. Yep. Yeah, y'all should. There's no reason why you shouldn't. And Notre Dame, I give them automatic birth to being D of the year, not going to a bowl game just because you didn't make it in.

Like, you're robbing your seniors and those guys. It was one last chance to play. And it sounds like the players didn't have much, but it sounds like it was an administration. But it's like, guys, like, something to me and see, but it's a bit that it just don't matter. All right, we're going to let you go, Brian. He's got a bad connection.

Yeah. What was he going with on? It's hard to tell. Yeah, it was going to be Notre Dame and about the... Oh, about Notre Dame. Okay. Let me say, make sure it's not one of them I have to tell the truth. I'm sorry, Ross, and you and I'm not even talked about this.

It's a bitch move. I turn the bowl games down. I just think it's terrible. Kirpavok was the AD at Notre Dame, and he's like, we're not playing. I guess I just need to know more. Why are they doing this? What are the long-term implications? What are the financial implications?

Well, we'll read Notre Dame's football statement. Okay. Okay. By the way, do you see the Iowa State and Kansas State have new coaches, and they are also saying, thanks, but no things. That makes more sense if you're trying to get a new coach integrated. So here's the difference really quick. When you don't take a bowl, you cut into the Big 12 proceeds.

Uh-huh. Because you don't have a Big 12, and they split the bowls equitably. Oh, they split them all. I'll split them all evenly. So guess what Brett and your mark just did, the commissioner of the big 12? Oh, you find them. $500,000 each. So we're getting our money.

Don't worry. And I don't blame him for doing that. You tell them, you, if we have slots and you can't fill them because you don't want to play, it's going to cost you. Yeah. So instead of going to the bowl game, probably taking a loss, because you're probably not going to have to have on that many fans. You're not only not going to have the extra practice. You're not going to have an experience for the kids. you're going to, you just cost your school a half million dollars.

I hope this stops. I don't think it's going to, but I hope it does. But we'll read Notre Dame statement and you tell me if it's genuine or full of BS. Okay. 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We look forward to having you all the way with this until 2 o'clock this afternoon.

We have the Tell the Truth coming up today at 1130 right here on Sports Talks. 790. 1119, Matt and Ross, 790 is your station. So, Notre Dame yesterday at 248. So that was, well, the announcement was about 1130-ish, give or take, sent out this following tweet. It says, as a team, we've decided to withdraw our name from consideration for a bowl game following the 2025 season. We appreciate all the support from our families and fans, and we were hoping to bring the 12th national title to South Bend in 2006, signed the 2025 Notre Dame football team. I got to be honest with you.

Notre Dame is they're elitist. And that may not be breaking news to anybody. My God, they're elitist. Already dropping a 12th national championship forecast in their sentence. By the way, I saw this on Twitter, and I believe it to be accurate. Kurt Bevelakwa said that they have a new agreement as part of this CFP that if they're in the top 12

if they are in the top 12 in the CFP rankings they are the first team, they are guaranteed a spot in the playoff. So they would be the first at large team. Okay. Which is again, going along the lines of man,

the Notre Dame, whoever negotiates for them is pretty good. So there was some sort of well they were 11th, right? So there was some sort of contractual obligation Starting next year. Starting next year.

Okay, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Next year. So if there are wild cards. They're the first wild card? They're the first wild card. If they're in the top 12. What?

Yeah. Hmm. Okay. So let me do this. Let me do some more fact checking on that to give you the exact. So they would push out Tulane? No, because they were a conference champion. Or push out James Madison?

Nope. They were a conference champion. Okay. We're talking about Wal-Car. Okay, so then they would push out, they would push out Miami. Correct. Oh, my God. So that would be ranked, if that happened this year, they would be ranked behind Miami, yet push them out via their rule.

This is chaos. Here it is. As part of the new CFP contract starting in 2026, Notre Dame secured unique provisions. The contract includes language that guarantees a top 12 ranked. Notre Dame team a spot in the 12-team playoff field. So if Notre Dame finishes in the top 12, which includes conference champions in the top at-large teams, they will be in the playoff regardless of conference championship outcomes for others.

So if they're in the top 12, they would leapfrog an at-large team. I guess they would not necessarily leapfrog. frog but they would be guaranteed a spot in it yeah they would take out number 10 right i mean would be in miami yes oh man i mean that's probably not going to happen year to year you're taking out a team that that you put right behind that they beat you head to head i wish that would happen this year maximum chaos the rule would be it's an under name rule sorry it's us wow let me ask you this because we i was just listening to a paul fine bomb tweet uh as i was Searching for that.

What is in your mind, what is Notre Dame's cachet? To me, it has its own TV network and it has a national following, but it's not what it was 10 or 15 years ago. The question is, I think it's not an indictment against Notre Dame. I think it's a push that the SEC is just so much more powerful than everybody else. That's part of it because their matchups week to week aren't going to be great. But the list, did you see the, on three had put out a list of most watched teams. is basically the whole

SEC. This is by millions of viewers via Nilsson week to week. Bama, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Michigan, A&M. So Notre Dame's not in that group? Notre Dame's not there. So A&M is a better

national television viewing audience than Notre Dame is. Well, because if A&M is playing the teams that are above them every week, they're going to get more viewers. If it's Notre Dame Boston College Well, I'll tell you what. That's, that's just one measure. But by these eyeballs, they're not in the top 10. You know, Notre Dame has to play four ACC teams. I mean, they played

this year, North Carolina State. Nobody cares. Pittsburgh. Nobody cares. No. The Miami game was super sexy. And the fourth was Boston College, who won one game this year. To tell the truth, bottom of the hour. Oh, the foreshadowing folks. It's what we call a foreshadow. You know, you're such a radio professional, man. I'm trying, Ross. I'm trying. Let's talk to Alan on 790-11-24. Alan, good morning to you. Good morning, man. How are y'all doing this morning?

Fantastic. What's up with you? Man, I just, I'm very disappointed in Notre Dame because Marcus Freeman's a terrific coach. And I just, I'm not on, you're, you're taking away an opportunity from a lot of seniors also not to mention the other seniors that you would be playing in the bowl game so i mean it's it's just that's just a woe way of not getting your way in my in my opinion yeah i don't i'm never yeah alan i'm never a fan of take my ball and going home under any circumstance especially over this this was notre dame would have played in a huge bowl game Notre Dame would have drawn, got a lot of money towards their school.

Not that we're worried about people in the checkbooks, but it would have given some kids some more games. And here's the thing, Alan, and maybe we're just stupid to this. But there are still kids that don't make millions of dollars in NIL that just go to enjoy play college football, that will end their careers playing college football, that when you get to go to Orlando or Tampa or Miami or Pasadena or Tucson or Phoenix for five or six days and get loved on and play football, have a nice bowl game to end your career, I think there's some value in that.

And Notre Dame just said, no, there's not. And I disagree with that. Yeah, that's, I mean, they just screwed those kids. They really just screwed them out. And, I mean, I'm 100% with what you're saying. I'm 100% of board. And it's really a sad thing because I like watching Notre Dame football. You know, I like watching Notre Dame football.

But, I mean, beef up your schedule. Stop crying. Beef up your schedule. Yeah, because you, yeah, thanks Alan. Yeah, thank you, Alan, for the phone call. They do control their own schedule. No one, the only thing they have to do is they've got to play 4ACC now. How they do that, I don't know.

I don't think they randomly call them. I don't know if there's a rotation or whatever the case may be. Yeah. It's tough because you schedule it years in advance. I'm trying to pull up their schedule. I mean, A&M and Miami are a good schedule. Generally, you would think USC is a good. USC was its top 25 team, right?

That's a good schedule. They normally play every year. They always play USC, which I think. is in doubt at this point. For the gilded chilele, they're gonna stop playing? I think it's a old school rivalry. Come on now.

They play Navy every year. Yeah, I mean. Which, maybe it was a joke 30 years ago, but that's not a joke anymore. But still, I mean, and they always wound up having, they played Boise State this year, which was no great.

That's no good. That's no good. Arkansas, you would figure, would at least be decent year by year. Right. I mean, they crushed Arkansas 56 to 13. Good guy. In Fayetteville, too, I think. So.

Yes, that was on the road. I mean, you've got about five games that you would think. Pitt was 25 when they played Pitt. You beat them like a drum in their building. Boston College did nothing for you. Syracuse did nothing. Syracuse has had some good years. It honestly doesn't look like the weakest schedule ever.

Well, I mean, I think... In theory, just by name... When you make these years in advance? Well, the reality is this. Isn't Miami and Notre Dame schedule just about the same? because they're playing ACC teams Yeah

And if anything Maybe even Notre Dame had a slightly difficult schedule Because, you know Miami doesn't mind me Play like Bethune Cookman Or somebody They did play Bethune

Something, you know South Florida or something Yeah, they played South Florida this year Which turned out to be better Than they were supposed to be Yes Florida, Florida State I mean they play all the Florida teams

Yeah Lost to Louisville, lost to SMU Oh no And Miami year out They lost the Louis And SMU I'll get out of here but you did beat Notre Dame

they beat Notre Dame and if there's tiebreakers we got to use it as some tiebreaker do we not Texas is better than this just saying you don't know so lie

you're telling the line I never know why you don't know how to tell the truth truth you don't know how to tell the truth yeah 1134 Rossi and Jonathan I have four takes I believe three of them Jonathan how many lies am I going to tell you then one oh no Ross of these four one is a lie how many of them are truths one two three three that's right gentlemen it's for you to decide which one I'm telling the truth one lie one lie three truths number one I know people are bagging on conference

championship games. Okay. I like them. I don't want nine-way ties to determine a championship. I think when you have these mega conferences, which we have, you have to have a championship game. You can't have a five-way tie with one loss. So for conference championship guys, get rid of your championship games. Screw you. They make a lot of money for the league. Television buys them up. Keep them. That's number one. Number two. Eliminate weekly CFP rankings. All it does, gang, is create angst. College Hoops doesn't do it. So why? should football. I get rid of the weekly CFP rankings.

That's number two. Number three. I know that Notre Dame plays in the ACC with these four opponents. Every common opponents they have to play every year, right? And there's part of their schedule. Notre Dame, this is the nine millionth

time. This should explain why you should join a conference, but you should not be joining the ACC. You need to go to the Big Ten conference because the Big Ten frankly needs you. SEC supremacy on television sets and viewership. Notre Dame, you need to decide for yourself what you want to be.

The Big Mighty Independent or join a conference and give your shot a legitimate chance of being in the tournament every single year by winning a conference. Notre Dame, go join the Big Ten Conference. And number four, either you eliminate Rossi, the automatic qualifiers, which we had the five highest conferences, two of which were non-power four schools, or you go to 16 teams. We can't have this happen again.

There are people annihilating the fact that James Madison and Tulane are in the college football playoff, as they should, or for Notre Dame and others. Either eliminate the AQ or go to 16

teams. We cannot have history repeat itself again. Which one of those four? I'm lying about? Number one, I like conference championship games, keep them. Number two, eliminate weekly college football rankings. Number three, Notre Dame should join the Big Ten. Wow.

Number four, eliminate the automatic qualifier or go to 16 teams. One or the other. Which one of those four am I lying about? These actually aren't crazy takes for once, Jonathan. Well, thank you very much. I'm actually shocked. You're being reasonable. And there's only one line here?

This seems like an easy week here. Oh, you think so? I think so. Okay. I kind of gave you one already. Mm-hmm. Um, I think he thinks

Notre Dame should join the Big Ten. That makes sense. That sounds like Matt Thomas Brain to me. Yeah, that seems reasonable. They're complaining. Might as well join a conference. I just coined a new term today, by the way. Matt Thomas Brain.

I'm going to study it for generations. You hear that, Joan? You donate to science? What? mean that's not how was that mean Matt Thomas brain it wasn't it wasn't a complimentary phrase oh okay I guess thank you you're welcome I think he was kind of saying eliminate the weekly rankings earlier right is that the one that he's talking about that he said

earlier Jonathan I think that's what I'm having trouble with because I think he was kind of like going to it that he didn't want to you know what was the number one you like conference championship games you want to keep him yep For TV, I mean, yeah. I'll go with four. I don't know. What was number two?

Number two was you eliminate the weekly college football rankings. Because they don't do it in basketball. Why do it in football? You know what? I'm gonna go to. You think I'm lying about that? Yeah. Jonathan, I just brought this up an hour ago.

I said eliminate these things. You don't listen to the show. You're too busy to listen to what it on your computer. I'm just, you know what, every time I think you're doing it, though, I think you're right. I wasn't trying to psych you out. I wasn't trying to lie to you one hour and tell the truth the next. I take my lose. Take that law.

That's a bad loss of your fire. I take it on 10. I take it on 10. I don't care. As much as I don't mind automatic qualifiers, I'm afraid that James Madison and Tulane are going to get annihilated, which is going to basically say, how do you, you're going to have to, if you're going to put AQs in, conference champion, you're going to have to. go to 16 teams we can't have this again oh wait so you do believe that i do believe i'm sorry i'm stupid yeah i do believe so we so i'm sorry so i'm so i'm supposed to detect the lie we went over this no i know i'm stupid see i see i was worse i went for the die of lie the rob was completely messed out no i think you believe that i don't know i'm an i'm an idiot

i believe that yeah uh so it comes down to i like conference championship games or notre dame should go the big 10. I like conference championship games. Duke, Virginia would have given us a very mid-ACC champion. We had a dramatic, awesome finale in Charlotte over the weekend. Plus, again, when you have a five-way tie,

you're going to go to six different tiebreakers to determine who's a conference champion. I like conference championship games. Notre Dame is so arrogant. They're never going to join a conference. Yeah, but you were saying they should. I'm not saying they should. Why would they? NBC's running a

check for being mid. I'm Notre Dame. I want to keep that money coming. I think you're stupid for turning the bowl game down because that's collecting all the money themselves instead of sharing it. Yeah. Why would Notre Dame want to share anything when they can make all the money? And, oh, by the way, they're in a conference with everything else.

It's pretty good. ACC basketball is excellent. How long is this NBC? It feels like it's been forever. Yeah. They renew it all the time. Yeah. In Notre Dame and NBC's like, yeah.

You get to play on our network or we get the fourth best. Big Ten game. Notre Dame, you stay right where you are. So the lie was Notre Dame should join the Big Ten conference. Okay. Good job, Matt. I'm not mad at you.

I'm mad at you, Jonathan. I just brought this up an hour ago. I just brought it up. That doesn't mean that you believed it, though. You get what I'm saying? No, no, no, no, no. That's not bad diabolical. No, no, no, no.

Matt has said some stuff. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, Matt says a lot of crazy stuff. You said Matt Thomas Brain? That's what it was. You know what? I'm sorry. You know what?

You've brought it up. No, you've got to go. I apologize. I apologize. That's terrible. All right. So that was tell the truth. Thank you, Matt. Mm-hmm. I, yeah, I would, if I'm the CFP, I know that, again, it's brought to you by the Ro and Re Row. Yeah, they're getting sponsors. They're going to keep doing it.

And you get chatter. You get midweek chatter about, because that's a perfect, that's why they're doing it on Tuesday. Yeah. Because games happen on Saturday. You get a couple of days. You get into the middle of the week and then you do it on Tuesday night. Then it's talked about on the shows on Wednesday. They're smart.

But they're not going to keep it. But they're not doing themselves in any favors. They're being ridiculed. That's how it's going to be. No matter what. I mean, it feels like there's controversy every year. No matter what, whether it's two teams, four teams, 12 teams. Nobody's happy.

I'll say this, Ross. And you have been the leader of the do not let the Automate Conference Champions Top Five get in, which would be, this year's James, Madison and Tulane. If you're those schools and you are the non-power five, the group of six, whatever it's called, if you're in one of those schools, which is about 75 schools, right? It's the Mac, it's the Mountain West, it's the new Pact 12, it's Conference USA, it's the American.

You are rooting like hell, they're competitive. Because if these are blowouts, we've already seen it, Ross, these Colin football playoff will alter things in a heartbeat. and apparently they needed votes there was like 10 conferences and they needed some kind of vote to get to the 12 team so that's why the automatic qualifier exists in the first place so I don't know what kind of voting they need for me now I think I've got to shut them out I'm gonna go right now with this official stance and I don't think I'm gonna I like 12 as it is yes but I'm gonna deal in realities let's go to 16 let's have let's have the automatic let's have the automatic qualifiers the bet the five best get in So when you have a James Madison and you have a Tulane in the same year, it doesn't hurt nearly as much. I still want, and again, maybe I'm, not mad, maybe I'm just for the underdog once in a while. But give me, give me something if you are Colorado State, if you are James Madison, if you're Coastal Carolina, if you're Navy, give me something to play for. Give me at least a shot. At least invite me the dance.

I maynebill stay out there very long, but give me a shot. Get the top 12 in there. If you're in the top 12, you make the dance. Boise State would have made it last year. They were good enough. In the years past, Central Florida, whoever would have made it because they were top 12. You make the top 12, you're in. That's it. That's what I would do.

But I don't run college football. But you know they're going to 16. This feels like this is the next step. Duh. It's because it's more money. Yeah. But if there's blowouts, oh my God. I mean, every college quote is a pun that's going to go on this. I can't wait. Yeah, let me look at. I haven't seen lines.

Oh, I have some lines. One is, I believe, Ole Miss is an 18.5 point favorite against Tulane, and I want to say that James Madison is a three-touchdown dog to Oregon. Am I right on those? I can't. I haven't tried on. Let's go the phones

next. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, on the phones, we go. We talk to the great people of Houston, Texas. We do actually like talking to you all. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's go to the phones and talk to Matt on 7-90. Matt, thank you for holding, and good morning to you. Good morning, love the show. Thank you. I just wanted to comment on the Notre Dame thing. I went there decades ago, and none of my alumni group seems to be all flutter about it. And have you discussed the opt-outs, how many guys,

sit out because they don't want to risk injury in these types of games. Oh, it's crazy. And the amount of schools that are doing it, I mean, amount of players on every school is doing it for sure. And it sounds like, again, Willie Fritz, the U of H coach, just using one example, was asked if all the players are anticipating playing, and he said yes, but that could be, that could change by the day. But yeah, it all depends on what your draft status is

and whether or not you're going to head to the portal or not. Yeah, I mean, like Jeremiah Love, there's no chance in hell he plays. probably some of the if so many of the linemen are going pro they're going to sit out so I think that kind of lessens some of the jazz of it on the other hand

if Texas and Notre Dame went and played in like South Florida or you know the Bahamas or something I think the alums would get a kick out of that but other than that I think the bowl games are losing irrelevance you know by the year and also if they go on if you're in the CFP can the alums afford to go to three

games. I mean, if you keep going on, they're going to just keep milking you. You know, the up-pricing for flights and hotels and everything. I mean, you got to, I would imagine, I was talking to some A&M friends, and they're like, well, you go to the quarterfinal and then that's about it. Well, that's what we were talking about just earlier is that, yeah, is that you're asking, there are a lot of people, frankly, Matt, that are skipping the first round matchups because of the fact that they want to save their money, especially they think they got a chance to play for the whole thing. I mean, even though Indiana is widely respected. and beat Ohio State, I think, frankly, perhaps more people are nervous about

facing Ohio State for the championship than they would in the end. That maybe Indiana isn't this knockdown, dragout, defending the number one team. So if you have hope that you can get there, why not save your money for a semifinal game around Christmastime as compared to trying to spend money here in the next 10 days? Yeah, exactly. And lastly, about Notre Dame schedule, I mean, any things are made years and years out. And when I was there in the 80s, you know, we played Michigan. because Michigan was the first game of the year, and that almost defined your season.

So I don't know who caved first, us, or them, but then they put in an Appalachian State, or maybe we played Central Michigan or whatever to kind of get you a tune-up game. But I don't know. I think our out of conference could be better. As far as joining the Big Ten, back in the day, both Schembeckler and the people of Michigan didn't want us in the Big Ten. They actually blocked those initial movements and discussions. So, and now that the Big Ten is coast-to-coast, I don't really want to be in the Big Ten.

for frankly, I'd rather be in the SEC. Yeah. Yeah, that was a lot. Again, if Notre Dame, I mean, I, Notre Dame has no injuries. Why would you? Thank you for the phone call. I wouldn't share the money.

Now, will Notre Dame be up their schedule? I don't know how, you know, what they can do with, but the ACC, look, the ACC, Rossi is what? Miami, usually it's Clemson, Florida State is down, Syracuse down, Boston College, I mean, you had Duke and Virginia playing

the championship. That's not necessarily carrying the flag for the conference. You know what I mean? Maybe of basketball, that sounds pretty good. Yeah. Football, not so much. But you don't mean? I mean, it's not overly sexy. No. So it means you got to, if you're going now, as I said it brought up

before, if you're in the top 12 next year, Notre Dame, you're getting in. There is a new caveat that allows you in that there will not be a debate next year. You're getting in. So maybe you schedule kind of as you are. Play your four ACC, say, hey, that's the rules we signed up with.

Do you reinvest in the Notre Dame, the USC game? Do you always play Navy? I mean, look, A&M and Notre Dame played, so that's good, right? Yes. Nothing wrong with that. The Home and Homes? Yeah. Big series.

Yeah. But, yeah, the Bowls, by the way, yeah, they're not very sexy. In fact, they're getting, what is, when something is getting sexier, what is getting anti-sexier? I guess that? Luglier? Yeah? Fatter? Here's our schools that are not playing in bowl games this year. Notre Dame, K-State, Kansas, Iowa State,

Florida State, Auburn, UCF, Baylor, Rutgers, Temple, and Rutgers. Who's left to play in these games? Well, you got, Rice is playing in a five and seven. They're going to a ball game. Oh, really? Yeah, playing the Texas Bowl. Wait, playing what? In the Texas, excuse me, the Armed Forces Bowl. Okay.

Against Texas State. That's a huge one. Wait a minute. So let me get this straight. If you're telling me that Baylor's not playing, UCF's not playing, Iowa State, Kansas, and Kansas, that's five from the big 12 that aren't playing. Are they all getting fined? Why would you find two and not the other ones? Yeah. Oh, you know what, though? Baylor was five and seven. So they probably, you know what, they were eligible because there were not enough teams and they said, we're not going to do it. What a mess.

This is a mess. It's good. It's been too many bowl games. as it is. I'm sorry. The system's been broken. I like, I like this. This is chaos from a system that was already way too broken and we're uncovering the warts. We're turning over this rotten log

and we're seeing a bunch of termites and bugs. Let's go. So do we just tell bowls by? Because ESPN funds them. But see, ESPN funds it Ross because they want programming to put their ads on. Yeah. Somehow they still get ratings. So XYZ

grocery store, Yes. Spends $20 million on a package of games. Right. Well, you've got to have games to be able to put those commercials in. Now, am I watching the Book of a Tom Bowl? No. No.

But they're looking for eyes. Oh, yeah, I'm trying to see. Cricket Celebration Bowl. You know, the Bahamas Bowl is gone. The bucked up L.A. Bowl? Is this real? Am I being trolled? Did I not go to ESPN.com?

You know, it used to be the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl. He took the name off of that. Isn't that crazy? The Myrtle Beach Bowl? I never even heard of this. You know, the Matt Thomas Las Vegas Bowl is coming up. Oh, is that right? Yeah.

What is it? I don't know. I'm just saying I would... You versus the craps? You versus Dice? What's the matchup? Me versus 75-year-old blue hairs. Oh, my gosh.

That was in Lake Charles. Oh, I put a Lake Charles Bowl to go. That'd be awesome. Hi, Jim. You're on 790. Good morning. hi guys i'm a little depressed about what happened yesterday and i congratulate all the teams that got in uh notre dame first of all they don't join a conference and that goes way back to you know the

irish catholic thing when they you know when irish catholic was discriminated against and another thing maybe you didn't know is notre dame didn't start accepting bull bids to like the 70s because if it wasn't for the national championship, they didn't accept it. So you can look that up. Another thing is, you know, they say they haven't done anything. Well, I mean, they beat Georgia last year. They went to the championship game. Another thing is they voted on this to not play in a ball, and they decided not to.

And I think the recruiting class is pretty good this year. I'm just, I'm disappointed that they were ranked ninth, ninth, ninth, ninth, ninth. and then they're out. I'm okay with it. I think Alabama got screwed last year. I'm just, I don't know. I just am disappointed. And I'm not saying it's right.

You love them or you hate them. But Notre Dame can draw. And they were favored. Vegas had them favored. Five and a half against Miami. Three points against Alabama. And I forget the other team. Nine against Oklahoma if they would have played.

Vegas had it that way. and you can look it up. You don't have to trust what I say. So they were a decent team. They were a good football team. And I'm a Texas guy. So I just grew up. My dad, he went to UT, but he was a Notre Dame guy.

We're just, you know, we like Notre Dame. But just disappointing, but that's the way it goes. And I wish, I'm happy about U of H's season, always loved U of H. Danny Davis, Bill Yeoman, always love falling U of H. I like Texas, and I root for Texas teams. I'm just disappointed in the way it went down. And who was the head guy? I think we beat Arkansas, his team, 56 to 13 at third place.

I know they're not that good, but, you know, come on. All right. Thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it very much. All the good comments there. Yeah. That's, if you were to pull, I haven't got a few Notre same friends on Facebook.

And their number one argument was, you had us in front of Miami. You can't flip-flop it. We didn't do anything. Miami didn't play a game. And whether they were tiebreakers or not, you still had one over the other. And if one has to be better than the other,

it's underdame. Yeah, but you're, I mean, the counter argument, of course, is, I mean, how can you, how can be mad to be put behind the team you lost two? Yeah. That means scoreboard. Literally.

So then the argument then would be then you should have had Miami in front of Notre Dame so you didn't get Notre Dame fan of the mat at you. I know. Well, Texas is behind Oklahoma. Texas is behind A&M. They beat them.

How do you feel about Michigan? You're ready for Texas, Michigan? I mean, I guess. You're going to go? I'm not going to go to Orlando for the Citrus Bowl? Lovely in December. No, I'm good. All right.

I'll watch it on TV. Listen here on 790. I will. Craig Way on the call. Do a great job. Yep. Say good night to this one. Give you every high school player from Michigan. Grand Rapids, Dearborn, Detroit.

Maybe. Livonia. Let me have any more Michigan. Warren. You know more than I do. Sterling Heights's where I'm from. You spend some time up there or something? I was born there.

Yep. Okay. Another one bites the dust. Said five weeks in a row, sports RV. Your Texans are going to the playoffs. Not guaranteed, but. Pretty much. Unless it would be a depressing collapse.

Yes. It's not going to happen, though, because they have the best defense in football, the best defense in Texans history. And I'll go ahead and say it. The best defense in Houston professional football history, unless those Thunder Bears teams are really shutting them down, Maddie. You know, some Cougar football teams back in the early 80s. Are you sure?

No. That's not a good And the sanctions came down My Cougars are going to beat LSU in the Texas Bowl Looking forward to that Okay And we'll have it for you

On December the 27th Be a big sports day With the Rockets that's A road environment In Houston It's fine Just fill You know

Buy tickets Just go Cougar fans Just go Because look LSU fans I mean They have nothing else to do There's a lot of

There's a big base here in Houston Yeah We work with 80% of them And matter of fact We're going to have The building ourselves of I-Hart employees. That's true. All right.

You know what? It's 1209. We got some phone calls to get to, but first we must present to you the news and dudes. Oh, thank you, Matt. Yes, we do lead with your Houston Texans defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 20 to 10 last night in Arrowhead on the road, five straight, slaying the proverbial Kansas City Chief's Dragon, knocking their playoff odds all the way down. down to 16%. Now, by yards gained, Texans actually lost there.

274 to 268. Also didn't have as many first downs, but they won the turnover battle. 3 to 0. You also had a doink from Harrison Butker to the right that helped out Pat Mahomes with his worst game as a professional. Just 14 of 33 with no touchdowns and three picks. Texans doing just enough on the backs of a dominant defensive performance to get the job done.

Where have we heard that before? Great interception by Jalen Petrie with an amazing helmet. Also sent Rashie Rice flying into the shadow realm. Yes. Travis Kelsey bouncing one off his noggin. Yes. Rashid Rice, by the way, left before media availability was available to the media in Kansas City. And Travis Kelsey was asked two different times to speak to the media and he said, no, I'm getting ready for my wedding.

He didn't say that. No, he didn't speak. He didn't say I'm stamping invitations. He's getting married about 20 minutes from where Cardley's going to go to school, and Carling wants me to get an invite for the wedding. I'm like, I don't have, I've got connections. I don't have great connections like that. Come on, Matt. You're going to talk to your people at UMG or something.

I could try. Yeah. Don't you know people who know people? I'm trying. All right, continue on. All right. Elsewhere on the news at noon, you had other big NFL action as the Buffalo Bills came storming back. I mean, really didn't.

Literally a storm. Yeah, it was snowing. It was only 29 degrees, but it looked like it was snowing hard. Lake effect. I don't know what the feels-like temperature was out there, Matthew. They kept trying to clear the snow, but it kept snowing. That lake effect snow snowed so fast, you can't clear it in time. 39 to 34, the bills get the victory over the bingles.

Elsewhere in the AFC, a big one, Matthew, with AFC South Implications, a 36 to 19 victory for the Jacksonville Jaguars. How are the Jaguars 9 and 4? frankly it's their defense and Travis Antean and of course Daniel Jones going down with an Achilles injury Riley Leonard

your favorite Notre Dame quarterback Matt Rodin Leonard is a guy that your daughter went out on her first date with Riley Leonard it's an enterprising young man

he was an enterprising young man but isn't enterprising enough as the Jaguars stomp the Colts they are a game up on the Texans, Matt. Here is their remaining schedule. Home for the Jets. Yep.

At the Broncos. Yep. Could be a loss. At the Colts. And then home for the Titans. Three and one. Probably sounds about right. So that means the Texans would have to win out in order to tie the Jaguars. And then it would come down to conference record. Record with the AMC South. I'm sorry, AFC South record. That's what I meant.

Divisional record. As of right now, both teams only have one divisional loss. Then I would go to conference record, right? After that. I think so. Texans do have a leg up. They are seven and two in conference. Jaguars are six and two. And Texans only have one NFC game left, but the Jaguars have none. So that could end up tied as well.

By the way, this is a non-sizzle game coming up with Arizona was horrendous yesterday against the Los Angeles Rams. They allowed Pooka Nuku to get to the end zone twice. Matthew Stafford. You happy about that? I'm very happy about Pooka Nakua. I figured you were. That's the first time he caught two touchdown passes this season.

Isn't that strange for him and Jackson Smith and Jigma? Well, DeVante Adams got like 15 touchdowns. That's true. That is true. It's ridiculous. It's making me upset. Jeff Kent is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dale Murphy is not.

Don Manley is not. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds get sent to the Veterans Committee now because they have such a low vote. That's a shame. How are the vets going to feel about these users? They ain't getting in. Probably not. I think Clemens and Bonds should be in. And the Sports RV Hall of Fame, they are in.

Jeff Kent is out. Jeff Kent is out in the Nice Person's Hall of Fame. Yes. And the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Hall of Very Good for me. There's a great player. Yeah. One-time MVP, four-time All-Star.

He's insanely rich. Did very well for himself. Sure. Great mustache. Not a good person. He's in the Mustash Hall of Fame. For sure. It's frothy.

Yes. Got layers to it? Sure. Why not? Not in the Mustash Hall of Fame. Reed Shepherd. I think he's cutting it. He cut it off.

yeah he's done he had a nice right-hand hammer of course the rockets lost but that's a different issue for a different time yes rockets will play until thursday the l-a clips will be in town minus chris ball they got three days to lick their wounds mavericks have been actually playing decent ball yeah they've won four to five i think cooper flag anthony davis maybe that team's not so bad ad was good yes he was good all right uh kerpavakwa no that's not i'm getting it wrong uh the ad at uh noveval aqua i'm getting it wrong uh the ad at uh noveval aqua Beville. Bevacua? Pavakua? Pavakua. Pete Bevacua. Sure, why not? Is the AD in Notre Dame.

We've got some quotes for him about who he's mad at. Let's look in the mirror, Notre Dame. Do you want to take a guess who he's mad at? Everyone else. Yes, but one group of people in particular. We'll tell you about that next. Plus, we're going to talk to Dave about the Texans. Scott about Notre Dame and Yankees Keith has an RB steak review on these steak nuggets.

That's what the Matt Thomas show and with Ross is about right there. food reviews and sports topics. 713-212-5-790. That's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, we've got a lot of folks that are patiently waiting really quick. I want to run this by because I think it's good information.

So the athletic director at Notre Dame is making the national media tour because he's got to explain why his squad is not going to the bowl and how mad he is. I'm going to paraphrase some quotes that were taken off of this ESPN story. This is Pete Bevalakwa,

who's the athletic director at Notre Dame. Rossi, I asked you before the break who he's mad at. He is really mad at of all people the Atlantic Coast Conference. Really? Why? He is upset with how the ACC pushed for Miami over Notre Dame leading up to the selections. Quote, we were mystified by the actions of the conference to attack their biggest really partner in football. They're not a member. And a member of their conference in 24 of the other sports, except the big one.

They didn't say that. I've just said it. I was paraphrasing. Actually, we have some audio if you want me to just play that. Please. They have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference in Notre Dame. Last month, the ACC's official X account posted a

side-by-side comparison of Miami and Notre Dame. Oh, my God. He may have a point on this. He says, it says no hypotheticals just facts is Miami beat Notre Dame 27 to 24. The ACC network also played the game on a loop 12 times between Thursday and Friday. Oh my God. That's great. Nobody's watching the ACC network. That is true. We didn't, this is more Bevel-Aqua here. We didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled out repeatedly and compared to Miami. Not by Miami.

Miami has their right to do that. But it raised a lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots at us. Asked about the relationship between the conference in Notre Dame right now, quote, I would just say

it's been strained. You never say irreparable, but it's opened our eyes and it's caught our attention. We're confused, we're sad, and we're frustrated. Confused?

What are you confused about? don't know. The committee had to take one and not the other. They don't get any of your money from football. What is confusing? They beat you head to head. What is confusing? And all this whining. Seriously, this

is epicly, this is epic whining. I know. And maybe what do we? Longhorn fans too. Let me ask you this. What if we were, we were Notre Dame Alums? Would I be spending four hours a day on this? I don't know. I mean, I'm not crying. I know there's a lot of Longhorn fans crying and whining, but it is what

it is. I ended up behind BYU. Man, ooh, they're mad. And then said no. So what they did is they said no to the bowl game because they're thinking, well, most bowl games are on ESPN. That would, we're going to take away television ratings.

You know, ESPN said, we're fine. They're going to be all right. They're going to make it. The Role and Reaper already paid their check. They'll make some more cuts so they can pay Stephen A. Smith And Pat McAfee. Yeah. All right, that's all I want to give you on that I just want to tell you that there is a lot of

A little bunch of whiners He is pissed Is it the winiest sport College football in their fan bases? Everybody has got whiny fans Everybody does But college football seems like another level Like in basketball if our school doesn't make the tournament

We're mad for a day Yeah But this feels like this is going to go for a while They're literally declining bowl games And the 80s on a press tour He literally is on a press store. It's crazy. Let's go to Dave on 790.

Dave, thank you for holding and good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt, and good afternoon, Rossi. Hello. Hello. Well, let me tell you a little bit about the college football system. It is totally broken. UIL and players getting paid. millions of dollars, the whole system is broken.

It's broken. And that means, and that leads me to, to my Texans' comments. Well, I have, I have a question and then a comment. My question is to both of you guys, is the Houston Texan defense a Super Bowl caliber defense, yes? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. because they're number one in points and they're number one in yards. They forced three interceptions yesterday. They forced three interceptions. That's awesome. Three interceptions. And in my comment about the Texans,

I just believe that when they get into the postseason, I don't think New England or Denver is going to be. able to face them because of C.J. Stroud and that Texan's defense. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Dave. Thank you, Dave. Yeah, I think the Texans are going to be dangerous in the playoffs. Like I said, I'm not saying their favorites, but is there anybody that's really scaring you? Like, they don't have a shot? No. Because of this defense.

I think New England and Denver will get the most run because they've got these halations and long winning streaks and they're going to crush their division. They should be. And they deserve those props. Ravens lost If the tech Roles are going to be a problem The scary part is I brought this up again You are putting

So much pressure You can't allow Look for instance If you give up 21 points in a game That's not a terrible defensive performance No I don't know if the Texans can put up 21 points Unless they get incredibly short field

Or they get a defensive turnover Or special teams touchdown Now they did put up 36 against the Jaguars. They did. I'm trying to remember if there was a punt return score there or something like that. I can't remember.

Well, there was a touchdown late that was interception. That was, that was, that wasn't that the final play of the game? Or was that another game? Yeah, that's right. It was a pick six at the end. That was six points on top. So it was 30 to 26. Okay.

And so I scored 30 points in that game with Davy Mills. Davy? We're calling him Davey Mills now? Yeah, why not? Davey? Does he know this yet? Davey Millsy. No, you just could, Millsy would have been better. Davy's the heart is the one. All right, let's take a look at the last eight weeks,

okay? Okay. Uh, 26 against the Titans, that doesn't count. Why not? Although the Titans beat the Browns yesterday. See? And Schroar Sanders. Uh, Texans did put 44 up against the Ravens, but the Ravens at a CFL defense. Oh, see, no, see, you're just, 44 counts, baby. 2719 of the Seahawks lost. Seahawks are good. 26 against the Niners. I see at home. 18, 55. lost to Denver at home, scored 36 against the Jags, one at Tennessee was 16,

one at home against Tennessee with Bill, Buffalo by 23, one with 20 points in Indianapolis, one with 20 points at the Cheaps. It's going to be like 20, 20 to 16, that's Texans football. That's how they play. That's how they win. That's how they coach. If I were the Texans, I would feed, like, for instance,

you know, there's like different classes of food and hotels and airfare. give them the first class airfare give them the better meals give them bigger beds give them better you know like sweets they need to rest because they got a lot of heavy lifting to do between now and the end of the Texans are going to really go to the Super Bowl a lot of heavy lifting

I think we know that that's kind of their recipe every team's got like a recipe for success things that we want the way that we want this to go the script if you will that's Dimeco Ryan's script we're going to play conservative we're going to kick the ball

all on four downs. We're not going to get aggressive. We're going to try to win with our defense. But that offense we saw yesterday with two to three incredible C.J. Straud throws. Yes. Chris Jones running amok. A lot of three and outs.

And three yards of carry. There's your offense. That's not changing. It's got to be better. Yes. The offensive line is getting a little better. Now, they're probably going to slip in the rankings this week. Your PFF grade.

PFF grade going back to the 20s. Chris Collinsworth owns it, so maybe they'll keep it up because he was there. on the phones next keith scott scott and just way is the guy's name way w-a-y maybe is way lynn could be jenics no he wouldn't be calling if he did we'd have a really freaky show 1230 on sports talk 790 7-1 3212 5790 if you want to chime in that 713 212 5790 if you're on twitter want to follow us there you can do that as well at sports m t at sports rb and our station account is at Sports Talk 7-9.

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All things about Notre Dame football, how whiny they are. Notre Dame football. By the way, Notre Dame's going to have a press conference tomorrow at 11 o'clock. What are they going to do? What? They're having a press or two?

Yeah. We're not playing football, goodbye? Are they going to try to get out of their ACC deal? Think so? I'm sure there's outs. Gosh, they are throwing the biggest hissy fit. So what would make you most mad?

The ACC tweet or the endless running in a Notre Dame Miami game on ACC Network. I mean, just turn it off. They did. Just turn nobody's watching. I had no clue. They did poke the bear a little bit. Come on.

That's pretty funny. That's like Texas USC on the Longhorn Network I miss the Longhorn Network Let's They ran an ad actually In the game of DKR Friday Longhorn Network's not dead

They still have the app And you can check scores And get news or whatever Scott on 790 Scott good afternoon to you Afternoon gentlemen Hey I just wanted to touch base

With Notre Dame And you know The crying Meme is is perfect for this. But, you know, if you look back, I think it was 2023, Georgia was ranked number one in the nation.

You know, the question is do the championships or the conference championships mean anything, right? Or should you be penalized, you know, for losing? Well, Georgia's number one goes in, loses Alabama by three,

gets kicked out of the college football playoffs. Does it bitch too much. Oops, excuse me. doesn't complain too much, and then FSU, go in FSU, beat them 63 to 3. So my question to you is, does the conference championship, in your opinion, does it mean something? If it does, you know, the question is, why wouldn't Duke get in? You know, I get it 8 and 5 or whatever, but they won their conference championship.

So just curious about that. Scott, thank you. Scott, they could have gotten in, but the current, 12-team tournament says the five highest-ranked conferences. Conference champions. So if Duke was a very highly ranked, they could have gotten in. They were only held back because of their losses and their ranking. It wasn't because somebody screwed them over.

No, they somebody, I mean, you have a sunbelt, you have an ACC, you've got an SEC, you've got Min American, you've got conference. I mean, you have all these conferences. The CFP format says the five best. and this particular year the American had a higher ranking and the Sunbelt had a higher ranking over ACC and that's why

I want to go ahead and guess that I want to say that there's going to be a secession. No, you can't. Notre Dame can't secede from there's too many Olympic sports going on at the ACC. In the ACC level. They can't. No. They depend on them.

They need that. Unless like you were saying that you didn't believe they can go to the Big Ten. I can't imagine the Big Ten's like, we'll take care of you. do that? Why not? You get that big fan base? You get that cash? But I don't think Notre Dame would because they have to split their money. But you can't have that conversation so fast. Better Rock would not call the Big Ten moments after this happens and hey, we'll take you, we'll go in now.

There's no way. It feels like the, I mean, it feels like the Pack 10, Pack 12 fell apart in like three days. Okay. So if, so you guess, can you even guess what, what are they going to do? Just going to bitch and moan some more? They're going to cry and wine some more. Wow. That is incredible. State their position. I don't know. I don't know if there's, I don't know if there's going to be any earth-shattering news. We, are we messed up guys, and we'll go ahead and accept bowl bids, are bad. No. Doesn't NBC want them to have a bowl game?

Nope, doesn't care. Oh, because they don't care as old. Because the ESPN gets them. Right. I think CBS carries one bowl game, and I think everybody else is on ABC or ESPN. Okay. TNT carries some of the first round games. Oh, wow.

Do you see how that lined out? What is, is Charles Barkley on the call? So there are. Ernie Georgia is terrible. There are four CFP quarterfinal games. You know, the five, six, seven, eight. The first two games are the best two. The last two games are one involving James Madison, one involving Tulane.

You're saying, well, why would they do that when you want to build a crescendo? The same day, there are a pair of NFL games. They do not want to lose that television battle. they were already going to lose it with James Madison and Tulane playing. So those of you that are going to see A&M play in Miami, and those of you that are going to see Clemson versus Oklahoma, those are the first two games because they are not going to be opposite an NFL game. So Alabama, Oklahoma.

Alabama Oklahoma, that's right. So savvy television partner TNT saying we ain't taking the loss of the old Fox uncalled on NFL. football because NFL football just said we'll put on anything we don't care we'll beat you by the way how is Bama in Texas is out because they lost to Florida

correct losing to Florida State as early Ross very early and losing to Oklahoma and then losing by 21 to Georgia I guess by playing in the conference championship game Do they have three top 10 wins?

I don't think so. Uh-oh, here it comes. I'm just asking. It's like two hours and 40 minutes in. I'm just asking a question. I'm waiting for this all day. I'm asking questions. That's all.

Scott on 7. Hi, Scott. What's going on, Matt Ross? I can talk about the college football stuff all day long. I'm very excited for U of H to help me gain early revenge on my now hated LSU since I'm a half U of H, half old Miss fan. I'm super excited. I'm definitely going to that game.

We are here for you. I am going to be greeting LSU at the airport, maybe. We'll see with a sweater that I just purchased that says you can't turn a H-O-E into a housewife. So I'm very excited. Very excited to welcome them to town. But I wanted to talk about the game last night and give credit to Tony Dungey. I listened to like a Sunday night football podcast that they did during the week. and he predicted the Texans would win,

and he predicted the exact theme that would be, ended up being the difference in the game and why he said that they would do it. He said, Andy Reed, you know, as much credit as he has built up in Kansas City the last three lifetimes of coaching, so I don't know if they're killing him today, but he said that they really should try and run the ball

and play conservative, but it's just not in his nature, and eventually he's going to try to win the game passing the ball. And that's exactly what that predicated going for it on fourth down, from the 30-yard line. I mean, it just, you know, you have a hard time blasting him because he's Andy Reed, but that was, I mean, just a horrible decision, absolutely horrible if you look at it from the Chiefs perspective.

I mean, that, our offense was doing absolutely nothing, you know, it felt like the next field goal was going to win the game. Mm-hmm. And you gift to them at least a field goal by the field position. I mean, so, yeah, Ross and I had a good debate about it earlier, and we're never going to change others' mind. That's fine. It was, I'm right with there with you, Scott.

It was horrific, game-changing momentum shifting. And again, I wish I could have called Rossi when it happened because I'm not doing this after the play. I thought it was a terrible play call to begin with way, way, way too risky to do it, especially because the Texans offense, especially in that third quarter, had done nothing and to pin them back. I will take Chris Jones trying to go 80 yards with blitz and left and right as compared to giving them a short field where they were gifted a field goal and they went up scoring a touch. down. Yeah, and to the Texans fans listening, which I am as well, too, that's not taking away credit from us, too. If the Chiefs make that decision against over 75% of the teams in the league, I believe they probably do pick up the first down on that play. First off,

that doesn't guarantee them points anyways. They're only at the 30-yard line, so it wasn't the right decision. But you do still give immense credit to our defense, which I mean, you just can't say enough good things about for completely dominating not only that play, but the entire game. Thanks, God, for the phone call. And that's another thing, Ross, you and I did not talk about a couple hours ago, is that if you want to go with the metrics of it, that's great, but that was also the Texan defense. It was a good defense. That was a team that, that you would maybe

not try that because you're not going against a plain Jane Buffalo Bill's defense. Yeah, but the chiefs are supposed to be able to get, no matter who, and they were. They averaged more than two yards per play last night. I mean, they just did. So what I was kind of confused is Kareem Hunt was doing very

well in those short yard situations. I don't know why they didn't run Kareem Hunt in that situation to where The Texans were having some trouble stopping him because he's such a strong, hard runner. It's like the old cliche. You need one yard to get you three yards. You need five yards. You get you three yards.

You get you three yards every time, no matter what. He's just not going to get you much more than that. Frankly, Mahomes was having a success to run in the football. You could have been in an RPO or something and got him the first down. Generally why the analytics say go for the most part is because when you have the ball, I mean, it's very simple. Computers are very simple. You can't score unless you have the ball. Keeping possession is very important.

And if you can get two yards, which generally they're going to be able to do, you go for it. You wasn't able to do it. They weren't able to do it, and the Texans won. You got to live by these decisions. You've got to die by these decisions. Dan Campbell's been doing it. And it's also a very marginal, like thin margin. To call it like egregious one way or the other is just, I think is not accurate.

You go from like 50% to 51%. And then the other, like, say, go, because we're going to get one extra percent. And yeah, if Andy Reid doesn't think they can get it, it's not worth the percentage, one percentage point, then he doesn't do it. I just think it completely shifted the momentum of the game. I know. I think we're not talking about it nearly as much as they get two yards. It's one of those things.

I know you said, Ed, and in the moment you say to do it, but that happens every week. I hear Tony Romo like, I don't know. I don't know. And then they get the touchdown. They don't say anything. Brilliant call. Great aggressiveness. Like, oh, nope.

They scored a touchdown. Let's you and I watch the game together soon. No, I'm going to rip my hair out. I'll come down to the city. Oh, really? Yeah, I will. Get in the loop. Let's go.

Yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it. All right, back with a R.B.'s steak review. That's a tease. Okay. And Way, W.A.Y, wants to ask a question about UT should get. Ooh, should get what? Are we playing match game over here?

1246 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 21, 2, 2.12.5.790. 713-2-790. How is promised we had Yankees Keith gave him a job assignment We did not get him any money to do so I feel kind of bad about that Ross will get to Keith's Vimmo account

So you can pay him some money back for his Arby's Nuggets He can afford it All right Keith give us a rundown of the Arby's Steak Nuggets, please First I want to congratulate Ross On health in America Get rid of the Chelsea's

and Mama and Taylor Swift for a long time. What? We're sick and tired of the Chiefs. Okay. So, I did go to Arby's

on Friday. We went, me and my wife, we went inside. Wow. Daynot. I'm advising you to go inside as opposed to going to the drive-thru. But those steak nuggets

were actually I want to give them a B or B puffs. They were actually really good. Wow. What do they come with? Horse radish, Hollandays? You probably got asked for your sauce of choice, right? A1.

They come in a little tub. You get either five or nine pieces. And then they also have a choice to get a sandwich or they got a choice to get a bowl. And they're relatively cheap. And they were smoky. They were moist. They were really good.

They were really good. But let me tell you what else happened. And I want to kick myself square in a head. I ordered the spicy chicken sandwich. And that had to be like on my list of things they eat, that has to be in the rotten tooth. Next to when my mama used to cook pig feet, it was nasty, and I've been sick ever since Friday.

Do not get the spicy chicken sandwich. from Arby's. But the nuggets are pretty good. Okay. How do you know it wasn't the nuggets that tore you up? Yeah, you don't know that. No, I know. We ate the nugget.

Was it the Buffalo Krispy chicken sandwich? Whatever the hell they call it. Spicy chicken sandwich, it was nasty as hell and I've been sick. Wait a minute. It's a fried piece of chicken. How could it get you sick? Was there a sauce on top of it? The sauce.

It's the sauce. It was the sauce. I'm still tasting the sauce. All right. That's a nice. We're done. We're done. Thank you, Yankiski.

What? How many locations of Darbys are there in Houston? There's one in Porter. That's the closest to us. There's one in spring. Like by Louetta and 45. I don't think there's any in the metro area. By the rank of Ararica.

Like, you can't get any. Redis in Central Houston either. A what? Ready Steak burgers. Oh yeah, you can. One in the city. Oh, I mean, well, you know, 45 and Cypresswood's pretty close. That's not the city. You know better than that.

I know it's not, but people try to say it is. That's Metro Houston. That's pretty close. You can't get a Redis, you can't get a Rarbe's. You can't get, I mean, get a Merger Ming all over the place. You can't get a renting route. in the city. By the way,

somebody told me that going to get the Cajun turkey from Ravarize super expensive. Really? Yeah. I heard they were good.

I mean, I can't imagine you would screw that up, right? Just take the turkey deep fry and call it a day. Yeah, we get the one from

Mageen Bajun. Man, it's pretty good. Their food is terrible in mid, but their turkeys are good. How about the turducken? I don't know if they have...

How do you feel about the turduckins? How do you feel about turdux? I've never had a turducan. It's delicious. I'd give it a shot. He gets the best. of both worlds you got turkey duck and uh chicken and you get like rice beel off in the middle of it it's very good okay at the raging region yeah uh way way is that a short for something else or

just your name w a y yeah it's a w a i but i just uh tell people w a y that's very smart on you very smart of you to do that yeah so uh hey guys enjoy uh listening to you thank you when i have the opportunity. Matt and Ross there. But yeah, I don't want to be a whiner. Full disclosure. I'm biased. All three of my children are, or three of the first are our UT Austin students or have graduated from there. My wife, U.T. Longhorn. And, you know, hey, Arch and Steve Sartesian, they, you know, they lost to number two rate, Ohio State, number three. ranked Georgia, and we're being penalized for basically that loss. They put it on themselves. They lost to Florida. But, you know, if I'm on the committee, I'm putting them in the playoffs. I'm biased, full disclosure, but don't want to be sour grapes, but just any comments on that whole system.

You know, they beat A&M. They beat, who else did they beat in the, you know, Oklahoma. right and and anyway any comments you have i don't want to be whining and all that but that's i'd be putting them in there i'm biased but all right we understand thank you waive we understand your biasness we as uh very intelligent children and very intelligent your wife let me tell you you see you get three kids into uti you're doing something right way shout out to you mm-hmm hope they're not arrogant though i mean i hope your kids are normal but you know going to texas baby because texas has an arrogance it got a little nonderdame in i don't think so i think

there's a lot of it actually. I don't think you even talk to any UT people. I thought to you people constantly. I'm on a UT group chat. No, you're not. You don't know that. Yes, I do. All right, so kick you out, Aggie Matt. Explain to our friend Way. Yeah, you can argue

them and you could argue for Texas and the simple argument is they beat three top 10 teams. Nobody else in the country did that. BYU, no. Notre Dame, no. Miami, no. Alabama, no. And Alabama has a bad loss to Florida State. Texas has a bad loss to Florida. Tell me what the difference is there.

Then A&M 7 beat them head to head. Oklahoma's 8 beat them head to head. Yeah, there's an argument. But it's that third loss, and I think the playoff committee did a good job of pointing out how bad that loss was. They have never hidden the fact how disgusted they are by the Florida loss. the Texas Longhorns rushed for 52 yards on 26 carries in that game they got dominated in that game even the 29 to 21 score

does not reflect how bad and hopeless of a game that was they got outgay I'm pulling it up right now they got out gained 457 to 341 in that game 22 first downs to 16 a couple of interceptions bad running game Like it was a dominant performance by a horrible Florida team.

It just was. So it is what it is, win that game. Or, hey, be Ohio State or beat Georgia. You can also poke hole in the wins, quite frankly. Vanderbilt, okay, cool. Everybody talks about A&M. They didn't play anybody. Wasn't the counter argument when A&M came into Texas.

They haven't played any top SEC teams. They've had a cream puff schedule. Okay, so then you beat a team with a cream puff. If you want to argue, you can't have it both ways. either A&M played a cream puff schedule and they're not that good or they're a top three team that you beat. You can't have it both ways, Texas fans.

You can't. Is it a good winner, isn't it? We're going to debate this every single year. We just are. It's just, it's right, we have Thanksgiving, we have tax day, and we have argued about why my squad should have gotten the CFP.

That's what sports is about. The easiest thing you can do is win. You know, the truth will set you free. Wins will set you free. Wins will set you free. wins will set you free. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, our time is 106.

It is the Mac Thomas show at Ross. I was talking to Schmidt's morning during the break. Ross. He believes that Kurt, Kurt. It's Kurt Belknapavala. The AD at Notre Dame is going to announce tomorrow. This is his gut feeling. Is this gut feeling time tomorrow?

Is it that they're going to pull out of the football side of the ACC and say we're not going to play those guaranteed opponents? that we are so scorned by this that we'll stay in your conference for basketball and volleyball and track and field and stuff like that. Does the ACC just have to bend over and take that? I guess, I don't know.

It's got to be a violation of some kind of agreement. You would think. Oh, well, you know what? You could be very right. I'm not saying... That's what does Gordy said. I mean, I'm saying, yeah, Gordy could be very right. Because, I mean, the guy was ripping the ACC today, right?

He was going on every show saying our relationship is permanently damaged. Yeah. Not beyond repair, but permanently damaged. Which I guess is, that's not the same thing. Or is it the same thing? They've certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame. Yeah, maybe they're pulling out of the ACC. Maybe your thing that you didn't believe is going to be true. No, no. Oh, but no, no, they're going to have to stay in the ACC for the basketball in the Bessup. Why can't they join the Big Ten? Because you can't make that move. You're not doing this

move. You're not doing a Big Ten move unless it's the same kind of agreement, but with the Big Ten. Why would the Big Ten want to do that? Notre Dame's got a big cachet and you get to a little bit of extra eyeballs? Absolutely. Why wouldn't they? Depending on what the revenue shares come down here. The big, Ohio State and Michigan are not going to let Notre Dame do their own TV deal. There's no chance of that.

Okay. Well, they don't get the only votes. There's like 20 teams in the league at this point. How many teams are in the Big Ten? Seriously. 16? 16 or 18? No, it's 18 now.

it now because you get the West schools? Nope. I think tomorrow, I'm going to go with Schmorty on this. I'm going to go with that they're going to pull out of the football side of it only. How would the ACC? Why would the ACC agree to that? I mean, they only had, they, the ACC made them agree to the four games because initially they didn't have to do that, correct?

Correct, yeah. It used to be even 15 years ago, you just scheduled who you scheduled. And it has happened to make sense because you built this relationship with the ACC basketball that you would play some of your ACC opponents. I'm very You know what We might be able to carry a little bit of that live I don't know

Again I don't know It's not that you have been a huge Notre Dame base here But I think it's a great Debate conversation About who really is in power in college sports The SEC Yeah They're the dawn

He's like Y'all just argue I can do what you want We got a bunch of teams in the championship We're collecting more money anybody else Yeah how many teams did the SEC get in We've got Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia. Georgia, it's three.

To A&M. Four. Ole Miss. Five? That's five. That's it. Five of the 12. Pretty good.

What does that quick math tell me about 40, 38%? 40%? Sure, why not? Ooh, Lordy. Good to be SEC. That's why y'all left. Better, bitter. By the way, we, the big 12.

I got honest. More money, more eyeballs. I like the Big 12. I'm really enjoying it, but that was a lousy big 12 championship game. That guy weren't 40, 70 to change his uniform. number. Why? I thought it was the fullback was in a QB. God. Well, he heard his, he heard his leg and

part of who that, is it Retzloff? No, it's, what's the guy's name? It's the BYU quarterback. I don't remember. Drawing a blank. But part of his goodness is his ability to a scramble, and when he couldn't move, it was a disaster. I believe he said it was for every

child that he baptized on his mission in Guam. Bear Bachmeier. Is he LDS? I just made that up. Did you? Sounded good, though, right? It sounded somewhat offensive to the LDS faith. Was it?

I think so. Baptized 47 kids in Guam. That's good. I don't know. I wonder if he is LDS. Let's see. No, he was raised Catholic. Oh, what?

You had the B.Y Jew and now you had the B.Y. Catholic? Is that what they're corning him? The B.Y. First of all, again, change your uniform number, bro. I like that. How do you feel about the name Bear? It's a real name. Well

You know You're always I'm not here to judge Yes you are You're judging McJudge It's got to be a nickname Nope No there's no way it says that

On his birth certificate Hi I'm Bear That's it His name is Bear I don't believe Not Grizzly Not a gummy Not gummy bear

Not Teddy He's he's Bear Bear Bachmire I want to see this guy's birth certificate There's no way You know, I'm telling you, I wouldn't lie to him. And that name sucks. I'm going to talk to his parents.

Are you sure it's not like Bayer? Because is he like German? Bayer of Bachmeier. Maybe it's a German thing. What is his right hand raise up in the air too? Oh, come on. Hey, Matt, geez. I didn't say that you did.

Hey, whoa. What was wrong with you? That was Matt. That was Matt. That was Matt. Technical foul. Jimmy and Tomball. Hello, Jimmy.

Hey, guys. Hey, I've enjoyed the show today. Thank you. Hey, so just real quick, we got to R. out here in Tallball, and ever since they did away with the dollar menu, you used to get, like, their version of the Frosty and Curly fries or whatever

on their thing, and it was pretty good. But now, their prices are worse than Chick-fil-A, and they ain't nowhere near as good as Chick-fil-A. And I'm not joking, when I tell you, the only thing people, there's nobody at Arby's ever. The only thing people use it for is they go through the Chick-fil-A drive-to, and then you pull

into Arby's before you get on the highway to sort out all your food for the kids and open up their straws and dip in sauces on all that. Like, that's the only people that are ever in the Arby's parking lot. That, and there's a homeless guy. But, uh, and not only that, they don't even mow. They, so they're between, like, the Chick-Glae, the Sonic, and the tire store, and they're all mowed up real nice. Arbys just gets out there and sprays Roundup, just weed killer. I mean, they don't even care. I, I don't even know what their deal is or how they're, I mean, a lot of people suspect they're selling drugs

out of the store. Nobody knows what's going on, but I mean, this is just disgusting. I don't know how they're still open. So. All right. Let me tell you. I'm going to give you a take right now. I don't know the last time I ate there. I love Barbies.

I just do. You would. Let me tell you, first of all. Curly fries, exceptional. Nobody takes your food take seriously. Number two, the roast beef, delicious. I don't like the roast beef and cheddar, just a plain roast beef. How do you get a beef and cheddar without cheddar?

I get it without the cheddar. The Arby sauce, put that cookies and pour that in my veins. That Arby sauce is crack. It's fine. It's delicious. A horsey sauce or Arby sauce? Arby's, the red. Horses better.

Nah. No, wait, no, Arby's is better. I think you're right. Yeah. They have a sandwich, apparently you can go into and get one slice of meat of everything they have. Uh-huh. But you have to order it inside. You can't get into the drive-thru.

By the way, quick note, Bear Bachmeier has a brother. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Bear. Is it an animal? Yes. Wow, bear, what would be an decent first? Hurry up.

Just say an animal. Tiger. Tiger's correct. Yes. That's good. Their dad is Hank Bachmeier. By the way, getting a word from a friend of mine who's LDS says Bear is not LDS and that 47 baptisms are rookie numbers.

Well, I'll give a little behind the curtain. I was going to say 47 something else. What were you going to say? What was Tim Tebow doing in the Philippines? I'll just leave it at that. Not Tim, don't you besmirch his name? There's somebody who gets that reference. I know.

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Tim Tebow in the Philippines. Just don't. Why not? Because. God. Just don't. Okay. Let's get back to the Texans.

Bobby, you're rooting tonight for Philadelphia to win because if Philadelphia beats the chargers, the Texans, a bump from the seven to the six playoff spot. Sounds good. I guess. Well, I mean...

As long as you're not getting a home game anyways. No, you're, you'd have to win the division. Well, that's still a possibility. I mean, Jacksonville has to stumble. They could falter. They're not very good. It's not like they're world beaters. Yeah.

They've got to be the worst nine and four team on the... To be brutally honest, I only watch Red Zone yesterday. I didn't watch large chunks of that game by itself. nobody's going to break down that game. But, tell me, I mean, Jacksonville's hot. They won four in a row, I think. Yes. Texans have won five straight.

Texans are better. Texans are better than Jacks. Yeah, I mean, I've said it before. Jacksonville's a fraud. I'm never going to say Jacksonville is better than Houston. I don't care. I mean, they do have wins against him, but not a lot. And Trevor Lawrence reverts to who Trevor Lawrence is.

An underachieving mid-level quarterback at best. Yeah, Trevor Lawrence versus this Texans. defense. I ain't scared. But they don't play each other. It would have to be the playoffs. How's the bracket looking? If the playoffs started today, man, I asked you. I'm glad you asked. You know, I'm a bracket-a-holic.

I know you are. That's why I asked. I'm even doing brackets on the Astros playoffs and they haven't even started the season yet, which makes me just troublesome spot. All right, if the playoffs were beginning, let's do this hypothetically. You ready? Go ahead. All right. I just saw it. Denver would be the one seed. Uh-huh.

7V2 would be Houston at New England I was there at the last time the Texans and Patriots played a playoff game How'd that go for the Texas? Not well I believe both Aaron Hernandez and Rom Grancowski got to the end zone Oh, they Okay 3-6 would be Chargers at Jacksonville

Buffalo 5 at Pittsburgh 4 How in the hell is Well, again, Pittsburgh is barely about 500, so somebody has to win the north. Yeah, then they re-seed. So if the Texans as a seven-seed won, you'd be playing the Broncos. You'd have to play the two toughest opponents left in this league. Okay, let's get up from the seventh spot. Let's go.

You'd rather be at the – so if they did, let's say, like you said, the Chargers lose today, then Texans would be the 6th, then they would be at the Jax. Way better than being at them. Way better. Instead of having to play one cold weather, really tough team. You'd be, excuse me, playing two, you'd only have to play one in theory. And you'd be playing Trevor Lawrence. Okay.

Let's go, let's go Eagles. All right. Eagles win? Oh, you're saying let's go Eagles in general. Yeah. The three teams on the outside looking in, Indianapolis, Baltimore and Kansas City. Two of those three were legitimate AFC title contenders. By the way, Cincinnati at four and nine is still eligible to make the playoffs.

it would take a seismic shift of everybody losing everything the rest of the way. No, they're out. Miami has won four in a row, by the way. They're still technically in. They're at six and seven. I wonder if Mike McDaniel's keeping his job after this.

I still say no. They kind of rallied. They are rally. It's a week to week league. It's funny how everybody says he's the worst coach ever. Now they won four in a row. Including a beatdown of the bills. And do you see who's not making the playoffs?

The playoffs were to end the day in the NFC? who the Detroit Lions they are the 8C right now at 8 and 5 3 games above 500 they lose the 7 and the 6 seeds bless you are 9 and 4 dang god bless it NFC there must be who are the teams that are terrible

oh giants come in they have 4 teams with 3 or fewer wins that's what's happening man Tampa 7 and 6 they lost to the Saints at home yesterday I'm surprised we didn't have a company day off here in the building. Speaking of the NFC, did you see that there's a candidate out there for the Giants job, apparently? Steve Sarkeesian? No. Oh, who?

Marcus Freeman. Really? Do you think he would leave? Yeah. Why not? The NFL is a better job these days. Now it's higher pressure. You're going to be, well, I mean, oh, is it higher pressure?

Not really. Is it higher pressure than Notre Dame? Not when you got alum spending millions of dollars to win. I mean, James Franklin says Penn State was pretty high pressure. You go to a semi-final one year, then you lose three games the next year, you're out. Yeah. So if Marcus Freeman was to, believe, that would mean in the last six years, Brian Kelly leaves your school to go to another college,

and Marcus Freeman leaves to go to a low-level NFL team. What's Brian Dayball up to these days? Good question. Do you like the Houston area? It's Mike McDaniel like Houston. I don't know if he's going to be available. Chip Kelly? Yes or no? Passes Brian?

No. No, they just had bad players. It's like Chip Kelly's a genius when he's with Ohio State and they have all the best players on the field and then you have the worst offensive line in football and Gino Smith regressing and all of a sudden and Ash and Gentie not running well. And no wide receiver help.

The NFL Insider told you that one. Oh, my God. I'm sorry I'm right, Ross. I apologize. I'll start being wrong. No, I'll let you be right if you actually make an informed decision on something. I didn't make an informed decision. I told you by the before the draft.

You watched zero tape of Ashton Genty. I live for Ashton Jente. I'm like undersized playing in a low-level league. Sorry. It's what it is. He's been all right. They're offensive line. I think it's like he's got like minus two yards per contact, average contact.

He's getting the ball handed off to him. He's getting crunched my three defenders every side. He's having to run 11 yards to get nine. Exactly. A rare nine-yard gain he's ever had. All right. I want to know what happened to the mystique of Notre Dame. They're getting slighted in the tournament.

They had Brian Kelly leave. And now Marcus, now it doesn't mean just because Mark is Freeman's name is being brought up in conversation, he's going to leave. But I think that's, you need to, he's going to take the phone call. I almost guarantee it. He should go. He should go.

You're limited at Notre Dame in so many different ways anyways. They haven't won a national championship in 1988. I don't know what you're trying to talk about. There's this crazy good power that wins every year. And they should have more money than God because they're taking ACC money when they're not in football. And they get all the NFL TV. They get all the TV dollars from NBC by themselves for the home games. Yeah, I don't know about that and how that ends up with their budgets and stuff.

I mean, how much more is it than an SEC check? I don't know. Let me ask, I got a new ruling on this. Should you run to Facebook with sports opinions? We'll discuss that next. 127 on Sports Talk, 790. Believe it or not today, are we doing Notre Dame? Are you going somewhere? You're going to go with James Madison?

James Madison, maybe some Tulane. Tulane. Maybe some Texas Bowl history. Lord, we got some work to do. 20 minutes for Believe it or not next on 790. All right, two quick things to get to before we get to Believe or not, which is in about 18 minutes. now. Ross, I've told you this before a hundred times. And again, I'm not the site surveyor

and editorial board leader of Facebook, but I like Facebook for things like pictures of your kids, nice trips you go on, wishing somebody a happy birthday, maybe once in a rare while showing your food like when we went to get hot pop today. People were commenting on that, asking where the McRibs were in the middle of the government. You've got a lot of big rib comments. That's your shtick. I did. That was funny. We had a good time, by the way. Hot Pot's good. I would take Korean over Hot Pot, but I...

You don't have to choose, Maddie? I know, I'm not going to choose. I had a member of the Rockets Traveling staff said, you went to Hot Pot without me. Like, we can go back again. Let's go. It's always open. Lunch price ain't bad.

It wasn't bad. We ate well. I mean, flight from Deals was a little iffy for me, but that's... That's poor Craig. It was sitting next to me, but that's a different issue for a different time. I was feeling tired. Me too. I didn't get a nap.

So I drew... You were texting me. We finished hot pop. We drove right to the Toyota store. Don't do it before we have a game. And I put my chair back and had a pillow on the back seat of my car. I snoozed up until 5 o'clock. I meet with email at 5.15.

So, I mean, literally, I was like racing to get out of the car, walk in the arena, sit down, get ready to talk to him. But, yeah, that was a tough call. So I would say, if you're going to do hot pot, don't plan. Clear your calendar. Clear your calendar. Nothing to do the rest today. Jonathan, you liked it? I loved it.

Yeah, no, it was actually really good. I don't know if I wanted it better than, I was talking about a girl. I don't know if I like it better than the Korean barbecue, but. It's like a hard toss-up. It was like 40 degrees outside. For value, for 22 bucks, that's true. The value is in the hot pot.

That's true. Definitely, yeah. Okay, so what I don't... Bone broth. I have never given sports takes, I think on a single Facebook post, I've ever had my entire life. A good friend of mine,

I will not name him, put out a... He's a Notre Dame grad and loves him in Notre Dame. He does save his money to go watch his team play in these tournaments. He wrote maybe a thousand words, on it.

That seems like, that seems excessive. That's what I'm saying. Is Facebook a spot to put 1,000 word essays about anything much less Notre Dame not making the football playoff? I probably put sports takes back on there in like 2009. When you first guys started. You know, Facebook just started as a place to get laid during college.

Correct. I've watched the movie. Okay, good. Yeah. Wasn't bad, actually. It was a great movie. It was a great movie, actually. But yeah, you were going to get laid.

I mean, that's just the reality of it. Now it's just, where grandma complains about fake news. Yeah. And what's AI stories and what or not? And by we are not AI here on 7-9. Guaranteed human. We are guaranteed humans.

Very excited about that. But yeah, I was like, I didn't want to mention this person. In person, what are you doing? Go, go hug your kids. Go take your wife out for a nice dinner. People are angry, man. Not everybody has a forum to scout out their sports opinions like you. And I'm blessed for this.

We're very lucky. But if you of age got screwed, I mean, look, I was. pissed off with UBH loss of championship, but I didn't read a thousand words about it. I wrote like three, like damn, damn, damn, damn. I guess what I did exactly. Yeah, I wrote two words. So sorry? Choke City. Oh,

I'll get those Kug fans on you. Don't worry. That's fine. They know where they're all muted. They know where to find you. Yeah, okay. Well, how come there's 30,000 coming after me and my mentions, but there's only 20,000 in the building? Fill up the Texas Bowl, then, Kug's fans. We're going to start coming

after people. No, they're not. We're going to have 50-50. you're not changing of mind i'm already i've already got i got a couple tweets ready already in the drafts don't do it yes sir don't do it don't do it yes sir 50 50 all right and then take number two i brought this up early in the show today worthy repeating again um a lot of chris collinsworth hate on those streets last night and i brought up the attention that look some people that you deal with and this is color analyst this is not the guy calling the play by play this is the color analyst is the guy describing what happened and why, i.e. Trey Ackman, Terry Bradshaw, not Terry Brad, his studio, JJ Watt, Tony Romo, Tom Brady. That's the analyst. Yes, there is a separation between play-by-play and analyst. Chris Collinsworth was getting harassed by Texans fans because he felt like that there was too much loving for Pat Mahomes. And my point was, and I brought this up earlier in the show, it's worth repeating, I think again, if there's been any team that has been on Sunday, the night football, it's either the Dallas Cowboys or the Kansas City Chiefs, for good

reason. Dallas draws eyeballs in Kansas City has been one of the elite teams, the elitest of all the NFL teams in the last seven or eight years. So, and when Chris Collinsworth does a game involving Pat Mahomes, he's usually pretty good. You don't go 11 for 34 over three picks. Usually goes 27 or 36 for four touchdowns and 285 and has two and three credible plays. So is he going to have a little bit of a bias towards Patrick Moore Holmes? Of course he would. Ross, if you were in the role of Chris Collinsworth, you did the exact same thing. I'd be unbiased. I didn't, like I said, I don't hear the specific things that people were getting all upset about because I was at a

sports bar. We couldn't hear the audio that well. So I honestly don't know. I would say, go get a transcript of the game last night. If you are that bothered by it. And I promise you, you're going to hear great things about Will Anderson. You're going to hear great things about Jalen Petrie and the deflection and the interception. You're going to hear about you're going to hear about Kamari Lasseter

who played it even though it was game time decision. Nico Collins. You're going to hear about Nico Collins. You're going to hear about Ogunboale who scored after, basically he said, let me guess that Ogunba Wale did not get very many carries in the red zone during practice this week.

As soon as he says that, which was accurate, he scores a touchdown. Beautiful. So, y'all relax on the Chris Collinsworth hate. Again, I don't, when I've never met the guy before, he's obviously doing it, he's done 502 games in his life. All of them have been big. Well, there's probably people in Kansas City saying that they were loving on the Texans

too much. So, I mean, that's just how it goes. You hear 10 nice things about your team who cares. One nice thing about Patrick Mahomes, they're biased. That's, I mean, we've been dealing with this for how long? I would say this, if you're going to. critique media and that includes us everybody's a critic everybody there's no qualifications about whether or not you are a good critic or a bad critic but if you're going to critique just take a look

at the hot takes who has hot takes who says stuff just to gather attention or who does stuff and says things based off of homework preparation knowledge and it kind of a little bit of a bin there done that and chris collinsworth checks all those boxes stephen a smith does not check those boxes stephen a smith walks into his studio at 830 whatever it is local time and says what am i going to do to fire people up even though i really don't believe what i say skip balas lived off of that nick right lived off of that i saw that firsthand the reality is that's how they've got to where they are based off of their careers chris collinsworth just analyzes things And Chris Collinsworth has seen Pat Mahomes perform in his finest.

But he was critical to the fourth down call. He was critical of the drop passes. He was critical of Travis Kelsey. So just anybody that would take unnecessary jabs and won't mention names. Chris Collinsworth is fine. He's not more bias or less biased towards your football team. And that's all I would say. Okay.

I can't, like I said, I didn't hear the broadcast. So I don't have a strong opinion. Strong takes So we are here 3 to 6 Sports Talk 790 2 to 6 Yeah

Oh what do you You wear a C.J. Strawn jersey Plantin is, yeah Why not? Let's go Texas They won five in a row Eight and five Going to the playoffs

He didn't He didn't wear that when they were Oh and three Yeah, he did No, I didn't I got proof I got a day out of the video You're probably hour charting his outfits

It's a little obsessive Hello Ray Ray you're on Sweet baby Ray Hello? Ray, Miami, hello. Let me get that or no? That's too old. I don't know. What is that? Don Imus? That was Larry King. Okay. Ray. I was kind of close.

Ray, Miami. You're on. Hello. I get it now that you're saying it. Thank you. All right, Ray. Thank you, Ray for calling. It was a nice call. Good talk. Good talk. What else you got? Nothing? Too late football? How should you believe we're not coming along? It's going slowly. worried about you you should be actually you know it gives me an opportunity to remind you a lot of simple believe it's today folks it reminds me to give you an opportunity to uh follow my instagram

yeah go ahead and follow that at sports i mean the material's not the greatest but at least it's something follow it hey sports mt i am let me tell you what i've got going here what do you got going i'm at 3701 i need 29 wonderful smart beautiful people to follow me on instagram at sports mt so if you're one of the 29 people out there that are not following me Let's get the 3,100. We'll have a small celebration. Oh, we'll buy mimosas for us next time we're out. Sound good?

By the way, how do you feel about the new, not new, the cranberry juice and champagne? I believe they call those. Well, I prefer a pineapple? Pineapple. Okay. Cranberry's good. I was offered cranberry and of... Cranmosa? I don't know what they call it.

I'll look it up, but it was offered to it. It was quite refreshing. I'm a big cranberry juice guy, too. so we know vacadine cranberry work at the tables oh I got a lot of tables coming up next week New Orleans

ooh baby you're going Denver right it's in the mountains it's a little further it's a little bit of an Uber ride I don't want to do that all right 142 on Sports Talk 790 you want to play believe it or not

all things about James Madison and Tulane 713212 5790 713 212 5790 Ross him and give a shout out to the the brand new Instagram followers of SportsMT. Thank you very much to Gray, Danny, Kenneth, Rob, Ron. You guys are wonderful people.

Thank you very much. And you'll be invited to our Mimosa Celebration at 3,100 people on Twitter on Instagram. Instagram seems less toxic. More photos. A couple of jabs here and there, but everybody's pretty good. I got somebody complaining about me

calling a heel off a basketball on the basketball goal. Can't have that, Rossi. Trying my best. Trying to change the knack. Let's go. I'm just trying to shoot different terms. All right, we've got,

believe it or not coming up in just a minute, but we're going to go back to our buddy Ray in Miami. Ray, are you still on your Jetsky right now? Oh, no, no. No, no, it's Monday. That's a set weekend thing. Good for you. I want to say something first of all.

I stopped at a random gas station. I got a pack of cars for five bucks, and I pulled a I pulled a rookie card for Hunter Brown. So I want to know from you guys. When are the pictures and catchers reporting here to West Palm and who's coming from 790 and everything? I want to know all that because I'm planning on Hunter signing this card.

You want us to help you with this? That's going to be difficult, but we'll try. Mid-Fiburring sometime. I'll take care of the rest of myself. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, we haven't talked about it yet. I mean, I guess, I'm super-go. can do. I mean,

you want me to go? I can, you know. Yeah. Why not? Of course. Yeah. It actually works out well because the All-Star break is at the exact same time as the West Palm. We stayed where we stayed last time. It was nice. Yeah. We're not staying in that. Can I, look, I'm going to say this for 30 seconds. You were fine. You were never in any danger.

Two years ago was the most disgusting hotel I've ever lived in, hotel, motel I've ever been in my entire life. I mean, the floor was greasy for no reason. There were bloodstains in our tub. That's not true. That was rust. We had a telephone that was not connected to anything. That's true.

And we had a remote control. Somebody stole the batteries out of the remote control didn't work. The guy had the crack shivers at the office. And when I went to check us in, the girl was eating a cheeseburger for McDonald's. She laid the cheeseburger on the desk while she went and got the file. which basically was like an open invitation to take a bite out of it, but I didn't do so. I don't think she was offering you to bite it, no.

Last year, I chose the hotel, much better selection. I didn't choose the year before. Gordy travel sucks. Gordy travel enterprises. He stays in like these four diamond places. We're at a half star. He's got to get his orbits points. I'm sorry, Borbitz.

Yeah, he's too big in the Borbitz. Orbit's not your friend. Yeah, we got to let Matt get the points Then we're good Did you sleep better? Did you have a full breakfast? No, the bed was better It was

We had remote control It worked Hey, we got it to work Once we got batteries at work We weren't worried about prison We remember about somebody Vanalizing our vehicle We made sure we took everything in every night

The craziest part about West Palm Is it separated by a freeway Once on the freeway where the stadium is Sketch That's pretty normal The other side, beautiful. That's many towns. Austin, Texas says hello.

Yeah, 35, that's true. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it be, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is all things about the school,

that are in the college football playoff. Namely, it is our friends from Tulane and James Madison. I'll read your statement about one of those two schools. Statement completely not only accurate, you'll say this. Believe it. If the statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Two, believe it or not. It's in a row. When you have prize, we're playing

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Let's play. We'll start with Randy on 7-90. Randy, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes. Randy, the official colors of Tilling Greenway football are olive green and sky blue. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it.

Statement number two for the win. Tulane Green Wave has one claim national championship. And they won it back in 1948. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, no championship. Sorry, though. Thank you for playing.

Matt on 790. Matt, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? Matt? Matt. All right. Mike on 790, Mike, was your fair part of today's 10-2 radio show? All the Texan's talk. All right.

In 1896, Tulane had to forfeit in the middle of a game against LSU after an argument broke out over an in eligible player. Believe it or not? Go believe it. You should. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. James Madison University was founded as a women's college back in 1908. Believe it or not.

Go believe it. You should. Congratulations. Gil on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. The all-time James Madison passing leader is Jeff Hostetler. Believe it or not? Not.

That's right. Ross made that up. Statement number two for the win. The James Madison University School newspaper is called the Daily Constitution. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, it's called The Breeze. How do you not know that?

I get a description at all the time. Now, Ross, you got two Duke football questions in here. Why is Duke in this mix? They won. Okay. ACCC Chaps. All right. Mike on 790, ready to play, believe it or not?

Mike. Let's do it. All right, Mike. Duke football is all-time leading passer. Is Thadius Lewis? Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it.

How do you not have Thadius-Lews stats in front of you? Aaron on 790. What was your fair part of today's 10-2 radio show, Aaron? Duke Football Sports 1 Heisman winner. It was halfback Tom Harmon back in

1956. Believe it or not? Not. That is correct. Congratulations. Two winners today, Rossi. Not bad. You're going to get away some prizes. All right. On the show tomorrow we will find out

at 11 o'clock exactly what's going on with this Notre Dame situation. We're going to have to carry it because we're going to be very curious, right? I don't want to foreshadow under that. Let's do it. All right, we've got that. We got gut feelings at 1130. The news at noon and complete breakdown of Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Chargers.

Go Philly if you want the Texans to bump up from the seventh playoff spot in the AFC to the six playoff spot. Which we do. We do. Because it's a much easier opponent. Correct. Be Jacksonville as compared to Denver or New England. Yeah, good New England And then you'd be the seventh seed

If you win that, then it reseeds And you'd have to play Denver on the road Yeah All right up next Two of the biggest Chris Collinsworth fans You'll find it anywhere in Houston Huge It's Wexler, it's Clinton

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