The McShay Show - Week 3 LIVE: Clemson Collapses, Georgia Finds Its QB, and Texas A&M Upsets Notre Dame

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

Join Todd and Muench every Saturday night throughout the College Football season to recap and react to the biggest games, plays and prospect performances. 0:00 Welcome to The McShay Show  1:40 LIVE Reactions to (16) Texas A&M vs. (8) Notre Dame 35:00 Week 3 Recap and Takeaways 41:25 (3) LSU Defeats Florida: 20-1052:20 (6) Georgia Sneaks By (15) Tennessee: 44-41 1:13:15 Carson Beck Leads Miami to 3-0 1:17:35 12) Clemson Collapses to Georgia Tech: 24-211:43:10 Saturday Spotlight1:50:45 Worried About Arch? (11-25, 115 Pass, 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 Rush TD)1:52:45 Projecting The Top 12 Rankings The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShay Guest: Steve Muench Producers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, Daniel Comer Social: Alysha Tsuji Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Please visit RG-Help.com to learn more about the resources and help lines available. And listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Must be 21 and older in present in select states or 18 and older in present in D.C., Kentucky or Wyoming. Gambling problem, call 1-800 gambler or visit RG-Helps help.com. Call 1-88-78-88-98-9-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut. You know, Munch, preparing for games, right, you fly in on Thursday night. You meet with both coaching staffs. Usually you go to a hotel to meet with the visiting staff and then you go over or vice versa.

to go over to the home team and their facilities. And you talk to the head coaches, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, some players, right? And there would be nothing worse than spending an entire day on Friday before the game on Saturday and sitting in these meetings

and hear coaches talk about special teams, turnovers, penalties. It's like, yeah, no shit, right? You know what I mean? All the coach speak. Yeah, like, we, like, we, know, but like it's not helping us with our broadcast. Like, tell me, like, cover two beaters or like a player who could emerge or what, you know, but you watch these games and it's like, it just

kept coming to mind tonight, right? We've got Texas A&M, Notre Dame. And A&M's got like Marcel Reed's dealing and they've got this explosive offense going. They've got 34 points here. We have 755 remaining. We just got done with Florida LSU and we're waiting to break in. Let me, let everyone right no no i mean we're just behind the curtain right here we go i'm pressing post we're live so now everyone knows in the in the ex universe that we're live um but but watching ls u florida finish up you ready for this match first downs florida 22 ls u 10 total offense wow florida florida 366 lsu 316 turnovers Florida 5, all from DJ Lagway, LSU won.

Right. And then you watch this Notre Dame, Texas A&M game. And everything's, I don't have the box score, I'll pull it up, but everything's been kind of equal. You look at A&M and it feels like they, a little bit more explosive, but Notre Dame's been great too. But special teams, man. Yeah. And I should say Florida LSU, not just the turnovers. I don't have it pulled up yet.

but like the penalties and the timely penalties, the holding on the 87-yard touchdown pass, when Baugh got open behind the coverage, they should be up seven points at that. I think it was 10-10 at that point. Backbreaker, right? And then the interception from Lagway, and the bad mistake leads to a field goal.

And then the interception later in the third quarter. And then a pick six, every time they were driving down the field or had an explosive play, it felt like Florida had a holding penalty or a lagway interception. And we'll get to a lot more in that game in a minute. And then you look at, like I said, Notre Dame, block punt, return for a touchdown to start things off, pinning them deep because of the punting team.

You know, field goals, like it just, it feels like special teams, penalties, turnovers in these two games have never been more prevalent. And while it doesn't make for good TV, it's the reality of being a coach. You've gone through enough wars who you realize that's the case. Welcome in. Thanks for being with us. Let's pull up this live feed.

So I'm in tune with what's going on tonight because I have not done a great job as the season has started. But we appreciate everyone who's here. And we're going to have fun tonight. We've got a lot going on, right? we've got to break down all the games. My goodness, where there's some good games today. And then as we go through that,

as we watch the end of this live game, when we're done, we'll wrap up Texas A&M, Notre Dame, obviously 34, 34, 554. This was the goal. Catch a prime time game, five, six minutes left. We've got just under six minutes, close game, two ranked teams. Notre Dame's eight, their O-N-1,

can't afford to go to O-N-2. Yes, they can. Maybe they can, but do you want to risk it? No, you don't. And can barely, can barely. We've got a, we got a bunch of people, we got our, oh, it's 150 people in here already on the chat. And we're just kicking things off.

So I love it. So thank you for you here. We see, oh, our boy, Brian Haas. I'm sure he's already on Archman. Everyone's getting fired. Brian Haas is already on Archmanning's ass. Fire them all. Witten Delect,

Carson Beck fan. Did, oh, no, Noel Murphy, good question. Did Mench curse Clemson by saying nice things? We'll get to you, Murph. I think you're right. I might have. Zach B thinks I'm blitzed right now.

Come on, Zach B. People are unbelievable. I'm blitzed on life. This has been an awesome day. Um, Yeo. How about them canes? Timothy Legion,

L-I-G-O-N. Go dogs. And this is a good question from Doc Holliday. LSU's defense legit or lagway bad. Lagway was bad. But this, this defense for Blake Baker is legit. We're going to get to all this stuff and we appreciate everyone who's here.

And we'll interact all night long. Okay. But I do want to talk about this. this A&M Notre Dame game. Because that's why we're here alive. We'll reset. We'll cover the whole day, right? But 3434, 34, it's been good, I don't know about you from where you sit,

Munch. It's been good to see the, um, oh, hold on, hold on. Where are you in the game right now? Ball's about to be snapped. It looks like direct snap to Jeremiah Love. Was that the fourth down play or is it? It was fourth down play. Yep.

Oh, I haven't seen that yet. So I won't tell you whether. they got it or not. So you're a little bit behind me on the coverage. That's fine. Yeah. That's okay. I think that happens with the NBC games.

Yep. By the way, I want to get to this real quickly. Have you seen it yet? The play. No, no, no, no.

Wow, you're way behind. This is a problem. I know. Press fast forward. Maybe you were wound it earlier. Yeah, we're down to three minutes left.

Jeremiah, what are you, are you pulling for Notre Dame tonight? Yeah, I told us. cover. Oh. All right. I don't really care about, I mean, I think Texas A&M is a hell of a football team. I'm just going to break you for it. Jeremiah

Love off tackle left touchdown. Right after he can, right after direct snap converted. Okay. I need it. I need it after all the crap I took for last week. So I mean, I forget. I'm just watching games here, man. My point is on this. Like, we saw like, Jeremiah Love was not a massive, not the, part of the Miami game that we would expect him to be coming in, Heisman candidate, all the hype, talking about him as RB1 in the 2026 draft class, best back in the country tonight,

and especially in these last two plays, fourth down, direct snap to love, first down. Next play, off tackle left to Jeremiah Love, touchdown. Breaks a couple tackles and gets that acceleration in. Oh, now they botched the extra point. Shut up. The holder is, nope, so they're only, up six. The spreads, what, six and a half? That's what you get, Munch, for polling for games while we're trying to be non-biased observers and analysts.

You're learning on the fly here, Minch. Do you know how much shit you mean? What are you must burger? We're covering a game and you're rooting for someone for the spread? Get out of here. How much crap? I got the ringer, the official ringer,

social media mentioned me as ruining your parlay last week, which is just... Well, I mean, it didn't take... Who ruined your parlay this week, Todd? I did. Clemson did. It's never you, huh? Clemson did.

Never make a shea. That field goal kicker. How do you miss that extra point? They didn't miss it. They botched the snap. Whatever. How do you not get that extra point? All right.

So my point on this was Jeremiah Love, who we talked about coming off that first game, just like, what happened? Jeremiah Love, who's a star, 10 carries for 33 yards he had, I think, believe it was in that first game, right? Not a big part of the offense. They lose 27, 24 at Miami. Now we come back into the night, and Jeremiah Love is touching the ball. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh. A&M, I just talked about special teams. Notre Dame, big advantage in special teams. all night long. Huge advantage. There's a flag, though. Yes. Notre Dame

Miss botches the extra point. And then Texas A&M just returned it for a touchdown. And they have a flag on the field and Elko's shaking his head. It looks like it's coming back. Hold on. Holding.

Yep. I want to see it. Was it bad? Well, they haven't shown the actual. No, I want to see it. Well, you'll see it at some point. So love right now is 27 touches. They fix that.

Poor Melon Orstrom, number 17 for A&M. They're saying it was his block. Oh, he tackled the guy. Kind of looks like they got tripped up, but he tackled the guy. Oh, yeah. Wow. All right. That seems like a fair call.

So now it's 241 remaining. Texas A&M's get the ball. I was trying to make a point on Jeremiah Love and then things got crazy. Love has 23 carries for 94 yards, averaging over four yards of pop and a touchdown. Also, four catches for 50 yards and another touchdown. So he's got like 144 yards total offense tonight. Yeah. Two touchdowns.

That's what we expected to see from Jeremiah Love this season, okay? So that part's a positive. Now you're A&M. you got the ball back just a brutal call I mean I just talked about special teams the advantage that Notre Dame had all night long

they botched that extra point then they get a kick return for a touchdown but now they're rolling now they're rolling it was a slant pass over the middle they're in field goal range but he as the announcer just said but like come on

what is this uh Noah Eagle what eagle like field goal range it's two 40 it's like two and a half minutes left in the game, you're down six. Mario Craver and Concepcion have been awesome. Oh, my Lord. Absolutely awesome in this game.

You know they're only four players on A&M? They have 34 points in this game, Munch. Four players on A&M have catches. Craver's got seven for 208, Mario Craver. Seven for 208! We're going to spotlight a guy who's a play. of the day for a losing team didn't have that production. We might have to change that.

Casey Concepcion's got four for 82. They're both averaging over 20 yards per catch tonight. Two other players, Terry Bussie and Rubin Owens, have receptions for A&M. Only two other guys, and they have a combined three catches for 51 yards. These two cats, Craver and Concepcion, have 290. receiving yards together. Is it crazy that I actually think Concepcion is more dangerous?

Craver's been awesome. Well, Concepcion is just a bigger... He just seems like a, like, every time the ball goes his way. I thought he was bigger, just watching him. I mean, they're on the sides. 5-11 and 5-9, Concepcion and Craver, respectively. Craver had that 86-yard touchdown early. No, that was...

Craver did. Craver did. Yeah, yeah. Craver did. Yep. So, but man, this has been fun to watch. This has been, what an awesome. I didn't expect this kind of offensive fireworks from either team.

Like A&M, I think can get hot and can kind of be streaky. But defensively, Notre Dame, I expected more out of. Notre Dame didn't look like a team that could put up 40 points. And granted seven of them from special teams. directly from special teams on the on the on the punt block for a touchdown but this has been a wild game absolutely wild game yeah love and price have uh 35 35 combined carries that's the recipe for success man you've got a lean although you have the best backfield in the country maybe no i don't think maybe anymore honestly pen state Penn state's pretty damn good we'll see we'll see

against good company. Did you see, by the way, that backdoor cover by Villanova today? No. I didn't. I didn't play it out. Like I don't, but I was just reading on, like, I, I, clearly was not watching Penn State up 52. Nothing. Three, fourty-eight, 48 and a half, something like that. Three seconds left. And not only did like, did Villanova score a touchdown with three seconds left, the play itself was like quarterback scrambling out of his mind rolling to his right as if the game was on the line threw back against his body against the grain middle of the field finds an open receiver in the back of the end zone touchdown cover love it you know van pelton and our boy for steve are going to have i mean that's going to lead the that is my favorite piece of television

bad beats yeah it's the best it's the best you know a and m is oin 13 versus ranked opponents on the road since 2015. Wow. Since it would go back to 2014, they beat Auburn on the road. So here we are. Marcel Reed in shotgun on the 32-yard line driving in of Notre Dame, driving in. It feels like every play is just a scramble drill at this point. And that Melon Orston guy just had his first catch. He's the one who had the holding. He's trying to make up for it. Had the holding on the kick return.

Theo, Melon Orstrom. He's a tight end. They scored. Here's Melon Orstrom again. A guy who didn't have a catch really wasn't a big part of this game come up to the last three minutes. Holding penalty and now two catches in a row

and just pulled himself out of the game because he's got an injury. All right. So we got second and eight, one 11 remaining. I don't have the sound up. Who's wearing this yellow jersey that they keep going to? This yellow penny. Incomplete pass.

I don't know. I saw that too. Strange. CJ cars looked pretty good tonight. Yes. Growing up, right? Like a little bit more in control. All right.

Spread the ball around. I think I might have cut up. You're a third and eight right now, right? Yep. Third and eight. They're at the line of scrimmage. Minent 107. remaining.

You got these edge rushers for Notre Dame. Keep an eye on them. They were teeing off. You see that? They've timed up the snap. Oh, here goes Marcel with his legs. First down. Inside the 15.

Down with the 14. One minute exactly remaining, fourth quarter. A&M's 2 and O, Notre Dame's O and 1. I already got out. By the way, I worked with Blackwoods for a few years. I wouldn't say I'm biased.

I love the guy. But I've worked with almost all these guys or friends with them or have some association. I don't know that there's like, I don't want to get into, like he's up there with the best of the best. If you really like football and you understand the game and you listen to a game that Todd Blackledge calls,

we're going to get him on the show. I was with him at the Manning Passing Academy. He wants to come on. He's such a great hang, such a good dude, but like his timing and understanding of the game, and the way he relays it, like real time, he's just phenomenal. How do you miss that extra point?

Yeah, they're replaying it now. All right, so here you are, right? Is it third down? Is that right? No, second and six. All right, second and six. Balls on the 10. You can get a first down.

You got a quarterback in Marcel Reed, right? Who is so explosive with his feet. But now you're in a confined area. You want to utilize his feet. I almost wonder if you try to sneak one in and hand the ball off here on second down. I don't think they will. You've got these two receivers that have been terrors all night. Oh, no, they fumble the snap.

Whistle blew. Something happened. False start on A&M. So it's now going to be second and 13. But my point was you've got these two receivers who have been dynamic and explosive and big plays all night. but they're not big target guys. Right. Okay.

Yeah. And your tight end 17, Theo, pulled himself out of the game a few plays earlier. By the way, Duke's down to Tulane by 10 by 10 late. Now there's, who is? Duke is losing a two lane by 10 late.

You're really caught up in these fan dual picks. I like it much. I feel a little scored down for last. week. Is that another one? Is that back to back? Back to back. They're saying that Notre Dame's clapping pre-snap. I didn't see any, I didn't see any defensive linemen for Notre Dame clap, to be honest with you.

All right, so it's second and 16. Where's the clap? Who is that with the yellow on? Is that car? No, no, no. Oh, it's a kicker. Is it the kicker? Why is he wearing yellow?

No, I don't know. I don't know. They just threw it away. Now, third and 16 from like the 20. This is a problem. They're going to need. Now, Regis went over to his quarterback coach. He saw something.

That was interesting. You don't see a quarterback go over to a coach on the sideline. It's the holder. Okay, Vin. Thank you, Vin. Someone's saying it's Buckner, but it's the holder. Phil Buckner. I love our chat.

I love our folks. They get us. Guy in the pennies the holder. All right, people, sometimes I notice with the people on our live chat, our fine folks and supporters,

they don't even know what we're talking about for lengths of time. They get in their own argument. Is that a passerference? Let's see. Oh, it's Tyler Butner. So I thought they're called,

wow. Are they saying that it's all offensive? It's on it's on it's on gray The cornerback Yeah he held the receiver He held the receiver it's past interference Absolutely Is it?

It's holding though Is that a five years? Sorry, yeah but it's first down I know but still it's there's a difference of Yes yes absolutely The difference of half the distance to the goal line And yeah right I understand

But it was holding It wasn't interference because the ball wasn't thrown To who he was covering but he clearly impeded the receiver from breaking back outside. All right, Marcel Reed carrying the ball nowhere to go. Oh, A&M's got two timeouts left. 32, 31. All right.

31, they call a timeout. What are you waiting for, though? Oh, really just get out of bounds, man. I don't love that play call. Oh, he got the right away. I agree. Josh Goldberg. I agree with you, man.

I get vertical if you're going to run it don't but I yeah but I just there's got to be a run pass option at all times if you're going to utilize his speed at this point Evan holly's from the south I love it just means more y'all yeah running to the boundary I like Raj I'm with you brand and self I'm with you QB power into the boundary all right 34 seconds remaining second and goal A&M's got one timeout remaining. That's important to note. Down six and this poor Butener guy, my gosh, is NBC wearing him out. Let's show him again.

Oh, man. Oh, I didn't like the way he delivered that. Oh, it should have been picked. I didn't like, you heard me. The second he delivered that ball was kind of fading away, no conviction in it. I don't know, like, he's so athletic. What? Oh, no, no.

Do you're right? I'm a little bit behind you. You're exactly right. The delivery. If, if, and then they show behind, they show, watch the replay from behind, the end zone copy. Look how much room he had to run to his left side. Why is he trying to hang in the pocket? All right.

They had a defender looping around like kind of kind of have contained there. And he would have beat that guy outside in the second. Third and goal. He's under pressure. Again. And complete. Here we go. Oh!

Fourth and goal. I might have to mute you. Oh, fourth and goal. Terrible, like, sequence of events for A&M. I hate the first down call. I'm with all of our, all the guys on our chat. The power into the boundary. Second and third down, both times.

It's kind of like Marcel Reed's almost like wants to be in trouble throwing the ball. The second down play he should have taken off running. to the left. He had plenty of room. Maybe to score. Marcus Freeman calls a timeout. That's just smart coaching, right? Let's see what they line up in, get an idea of the formation, personnel on the field. Let's call a timeout, reassess. Oh, this is fun. Oh, by the way, we still have to talk about Clemson going down. We've got to talk about Georgia, Tennessee. We're going to talk about Florida LSU. We'll reset and get all the arches struggling. I see you. I don't want to talk about that.

I don't either. And I'm going to watch the tape. I've already started a film session on it. And it'll be in the newsletter this week. Google it. Like Signetti. Google it, the McShea report. I'm going to do, I'm going to have to be honest about what's going on and why the

struggles continue. But there's a lot to get to today, man. We had some big time performances from some wide receivers today. There are some teams that I think are a little underrated right now. munch oh we're figuring out now it's starting it's right sorted out starting to see a clearer picture this can we stop showing this kid please honestly enough and bcc o's him owes his whole family an apology and they're showing the kid with the holding call i mean it's just back and forth ping pong of shame i mean the whole is 17 deserves to be shown you're ruthless we're ruthless we're paying we're

him. All right, fourth down. I don't even like, go. Oh my gosh. It was another throw with no conviction. Nate Borker. The other tight end. No way. Those two tight ends, I don't think either of them

had a catch coming into this drive. You're going to lose on the extra point. Maybe they should have been showing the, yeah, I'm telling you. Coming into this drive, the tight ends did not have a single. A single catch.

And I talked about, I opened the show, special teams and penalties. And A&M almost gave it away with the penalty. And let's see. Now, A&M for the lead with 13 seconds remaining. Notre Dame to go 0 and 2 on the season. Oh, he snuck it in. Devastating. Borkature.

He's a blocking tight end. He's just your Y who comes in to block. He releases out. Oh, here's a messed up thing, man. Watch the replay. He pumps it and then throws it kind of like half-assed. Oh, my gosh. When he kind of boppled it too at the end, but he had it secured it.

I'm at a loss. Why? You weren't winning. Like, if you weren't, oh, my gosh, there was a holding on the defensive tackle. Oh, my gosh. 41 got held so bad on that touchdown. Chase Fassantis. Oh, my God.

Did you see it? Oh, my God. Get tackled. Wow. This is why we break into the prime time games. This is it. Oh, man. What do you do here?

You just go right to the pitch, right? You just go. Got 11 seconds left? No, no. You got two timeouts. I'm throwing a quick out. I'm, no,

I don't need it now. I'm getting a quick hit for 15. Yeah, you could still use the middle of field. Then I'm getting another quick hit for another 10, and I'm throwing a reasonable Hail Mary. Yeah, you're right, two timeouts. I'm losing my mind. That's exactly what you do.

You can only, yeah. You use the whole field. You're good. I mean, I'm literally, I'm throwing it to, like, my number two receiver on the bottom. What are we doing? No, get rid of a car. I should have been picked.

Four seconds left. That's what you couldn't do. Pick up 20 there. Pick up 20. there. Oh, you can't hold on do it like that. Come on. I mean, the game was lost before the drive, but you've got, you got one wide open pick up 20. He threw it in a triple cut. Like, what are we doing? Again, I'm not, what a game. I mean, you literally could have, you could have picked up 25 there. That's past interference, right? But now they're doing the pitch drill.

Like, what are we doing? Wow. A and M. 16 in the country coming in at Notre Dame. Ooh. My pen out. Wow. I'm stunned. All right. We got a show to do now, Munch.

You ready? I guess. Let's go. Tucker, how many days left till the NFL draft? He's looking that up. I do want us. 221 days left till the NFL draft. Ments, you good?

I'm good. Bet your ass you are. Let's roll it. Talk. Where do we begin? I mean, let's just get right. Let's knock it out. A&M, Notre Dame.

We kind of covered a lot of it, but I just want to just circle back now that we have it. And welcome in everyone. And thank you for being here. We've already got like 300 plus in the chat. We've got all sorts of comments. Ments you good, bro, from stay focused 1102. Please roast Arch. Brian Haas, you need to get something going for yourself.

You need to get some Zen, some happiness in your life. It's hard because you're here every Saturday night. So I love you on one hand. On the other hand, my goodness, you feed off a negativity. You're not different from a lot of people I grew up with, a lot of my friends. So, all right. Here's what I want to talk about. Huge day in college football.

Ments, you look stunned. Stunned. Trying to figure out where this all went wrong. I wouldn't worry about the fact that you had some pick and fan duel. I'm talking about like the actual game. I'm not. I just think I honestly think big picture before we go macro or micro, whatever, these both are playoff teams in my mind.

This is O and 2 Notre Dame is they've lost to a damn good Miami team and a damn good Texas A&A team. And I actually think that they should have won that game tonight. And the turning point was that interception, the car threw where he tried to float it to his back instead of just running and that just turn the tides in this game. I'm just, I'm stunned. Now you've got an 0-2 Notre Dame team that can't slip up

or they're not going to get in. Well, they've got Purdue at Arkansas, Boise State, NC State, USC, all at home, then BC, Navy, at Pitt, which lost to West Virginia today. Syracuse and Stanford. Like, they are going to be pretty decent to sizable favorites in every game moving forward. Okay?

So, yeah, it's not over. A two-lost Notre Dame team, Ty will go to the runner, and they'll get in, very likely. Because there's going to be a lot of carnage in college football today. I mean, college football this season, and I started to see, like, there's a lot of, a lot of, like, bumps in the road in college. Like there's a lot of teams that are flawed every year. But there's not a massive gap between anyone and the other. No.

Truly. Ohio State was, listen, it was a, you know, it was an absolute throw away, throw your helmets on the field game. And I get it.

But Ohio's giving them trouble. After, 70 nothing, the week before and obviously a huge win in week one against Texas. But Texas doesn't look great. Clemson doesn't look at anywhere near what Clemson should be. Clemson's got a similar predicament. And we'll get to them in a little bit where they've got to run the table.

And that might not be good enough unless they win the ACC. There's just, there's a lot to go through here. Texas A&M better than I thought, man. I thought they were good. They're even better than I thought. This is a wild stat line for Marcel Reed, by the way. Go ahead. 17 for 37.

360 yards, two touchdowns, one interception. Say it again. 17 for 37. Sheesh. 360 yards. Conception on and Craver. Yeah, but that's the thing about this team, man. You can bottle them up as much as you want.

No, they're all or nothing. They are deadly. they are they will strike and leviott moss is a damn good back too man yeah 24 81 tonight he's just a grinder a grinder a grinder oh will these a damn good corner they've got a pretty good defensive front this texas an m teams for real that offensive lines pretty good i honestly like if i'm a not a notre dame fan i come away hugely encouraged by my offense tonight hugely yes um because it's not an elite. It's not a great A&M defense,

but it's a good competitive defense that's going to keep them in some games. It's going to do some good things. But yeah, I do want to finish the show. We're going to get to a spotlight player and I get some personnel notes that I want to get to, okay? That'll be towards the end of the show. At the very end of the show, Tucker pulled up the AP top 12.

We're always going to focus on the top 12, 12 get into the playoff. I want to kind of re-rack it. Instant reaction, kind of overreaction to where teams should be ranked and have some fun with that. But for now, let's stick with this, right? The thing with A&M, the thing with A&M is I'm just, I'm curious. I'm trying to stay on our feed. I'm terrible with this thing.

No one should have let me on this. Here we go. All right. I mean, A&M's in the SEC and things don't get easy. They get Auburn next. Not a joke. Nope. Mississippi State,

winnable, Florida, who knows where you're going to get. Arkansas is a tough team at Arkansas. Then you get at LSU, at Missouri. Missouri is better than we thought. Yeah, they are. Then you get South Carolina.

Lenore Sellers got knocked out of that game tonight. Well, there's not a ton to get to. South Carolina gets knocked off by Vanderbilt. And then at Texas to finish the season. So that's a brutal schedule. But right now, you're looking pretty good sitting at 3-0 at Aggie fans.

Yeah, moving on the other game that was in that window. We came on at the very end of it, LSU, Florida. How about Witt Weeks get knocked out for targeting in that game? Florida's up 3-0 in driving. I already told you what Florida did in terms of outperforming. And I'll circle back because a lot of people are joining now. now. Florida had in this game, Florida had 22 first downs compared to 10 for LSU. 23 first downs compared to 10. 366 total yards compared to 316 for LSU.

67 more passing yards. But penalties, actually, actually, you know what, their penalties were just so brutal. They had the time, the time. I almost, I'd, identical penalties, but every penalty, and they almost all, all seven of them felt like were holds, the one for brought back the touchdown that should have been an 83-yard touchdown, or 87-yard touchdown to a ball, the running back. Wido. Wido got open behind coverage. It was a breakdown touchdown.

Called back. Holding penalty after holding penalty in the five interceptions. Five. Florida possessed the ball 37 minutes. in 46 seconds compared to 2214 for LSU. And LSU went on to win that game, 20 to 10. That penalty that brought back the 87-yard touchdown pass would have put up. If they had scored that and gotten the extra point,

Florida would have been up 10-0 at the first quarter, late first quarter. Yes. And then up 3-0 in driving, lagway, bad decision, poorly placed, ball, right-side line, interception. Then right after that, that penalty, we just talked about, 87-year touchdown patch, changed the whole complexion of the game.

Florida also had two touchdowns called back for penalties last week against South Florida and that loss. Yeah. One time it's like a fluke, like now it's becoming this trend. They can't get out of their own way. Such a physical game.

Florida did a lot of good things. Got shippie before it. I like it got chippy. Every time, every, it felt like two out of every five plays at the end, there was some kind of scuffle. And I loved it. Blake Baker is proving to be one of the most important coordinators in college football.

If you're an LSU fan, you've got to be absolutely thrilled. Yeah, you gave up 366 total yards, but they were on the field the entire game, in part because your defense had the pick six and short fields. And, you know, five interceptions. baited Lagway into two of them. Purely. Absolutely.

Bated. Absolutely. Like that one. Spears, Robber. Deshawn, Deshawn Spears, 58-year touchdown return.

Brilliant disguise on that. Lagway doesn't see it. That at the moment was this third interception of the game, just eight minutes in the third quarter. That put him up 2010. That was the final score. It didn't change after that. Really interesting to me is how Baker is using his safeties.

He had three safeties had a pick tonight. Three safety. Spears had two. A.J. Halsey, the grad transfer from Houston, I believe, had one. And to Marcus Cooley had another one. The way he's using his safeties and rotating and hiding coverages. And then you had it in Harold Perkins. And he's in his bag right now. Blake Baker's in his bag about what he's doing.

And to do it without your best linebacker on the field, I thought it was an impressive performers for him. I know DJ Legway didn't play well. I know that Florida team looks like it's. spiraling a little bit. I know it's at Baton Rouge at night, but he was causing havoc. Is that a hybrid of

havoc and chaos? I don't know what it is. No, it's a wild night, Mitch. A lot of football today. A lot of football. It's a wild night. Let's talk, I do want to talk about my guy Nussmeyer. Underwhelming performance. What you think about that pick?

not pretty. Did you think at any point, like maybe here we go again with the from Texas and M last year? No, I wasn't. Neither did I. No, I really didn't. And I honestly, I felt like I felt like he settled down, became more efficient.

Like, but it's almost honestly, it felt like watching a pitcher who knows he doesn't have his best stuff that night. and Florida was doing some good things defensively. They were playing their asses off. And it's just they, they were doing things to LSU that was limiting what they could do. And at one point, I think it was after the interception, it was almost like, let's, our defense has got this thing. Right.

Let's let's, let's just keep it down the middle of the fairway. Let's be smart. We don't need, you know what I mean? let's let the other player go go shank a ball or you know miss a put or whatever it is yeah they did enough but but let's put it this way if I'm an LSU fan I'm walking away from

we're now 3 and 0 the biggest question mark the two biggest question marks coming into the year can this LSU defense actually be a championship level defense and the answer is flat out yes agree. They've got dudes on all three levels. They play with an effort level that is championship quality.

They've got pass rushers. They've got versatility. They've got guys that make them multiple. You talked about the three safeties. You got Harold Perkins playing the star. They've got corners who can cover. And corners either become a liability for a defensive coordinator or like a limitation, I should say. Corners are quite simply this.

they become a limitation for the defensive coordinator and what he can do schematically and gameplay calling. Or they become the freedom finders. Right. And starting with Mansour Delane, who's been brilliant, but these corners for LSU are freedom fighters,

freedom finders, whatever you want to call them. They have created freedom for for for for Blake Baker to dial up what he wants, get creative and do some of the things that he did today to disguise and to make lagway uncomfortable and the result was five interceptions and an absolutely dominating performance on defense now offensively we watched that offensive line in the first game against Clemson and they're like we're like maybe they're better than they were but like LSU kind of wasn't awesome against was it Louisiana last week right I didn't study that but but then it kind of carried over into this so now the questions kind of go back to and I don't think it's the offensive line but I think it'll be interesting to go back and like really watch the tape but is this LSU defenses I mean offense as good as we thought it's interesting that I like Aaron Anderson the slot receiver we liked him all along this Bauer Sharp kid for the the tight end the transfer from Oklahoma is he stepped up tonight

he had that 65-yard catch. I think he's a guy, I thought this all along. I think he's going to get a guy that's going to play a role for them. The question for me is, can a Chris Hilton develop on the outside? Can a Nick Anderson develop more on the outside?

That'll be interesting to see. They ran the ball well enough tonight, man. I don't, when you look at where they're running back, I know it was only 3.8 yards per carry, but but Kate and Durham had 6.2. He had a big run. I know that kind of whatever.

They ran the ball well enough against, I think, a pretty good Florida defensive front. So could it be better? Yeah. but remember where it was last year. I think there's some progress there. So I'm a little encouraged by that and to see how it develops. Is it where you wanted to be?

No, I get that. But it was, they ran it well enough. I'll say this for the schedule gets really tough for LSU. But the good news is they're working in this new offensive line and getting everyone on the same page offensively and trying to kind of figure out what's not, What's holding them back from being what we thought that we thought they could be? They've got Southeast Louisiana.

Yeah, they're at Ole Miss. Won't be an easy game. But it's a winnable game. South Carolina at home at Vanderbilt. But then things get, like, they better have everything buttoned up. Because you got A&M at Bama, Arkansas, and at Oklahoma, as four of your final five games of the season. But if it's not easy.

But if I'm a Tigers fan tonight, I'm like, you know what? We're pretty freaking good. And it took some transfer portal guys. And it took us moving Harold Perkins to the star. And it took plug in guys in. And we got this defensive coordinator that's like the right guy. Our quarterback is the guy. Like I like, you know, I like where we are.

They haven't had the early season stumble yet. They haven't had that hiccough. So if I were them, I'd be excited too. And tonight was the night. With last year's defense, they lose the game tonight. Period. Period. Last year's defense doesn't have five interceptions.

True. That's true. They don't. No, you're right. That's true. They don't have the leeway for Blake Baker to dial things up. They don't have the difference makers on the back end. They don't create the pressures.

There's no way. So if Nussmeyer and that offense had the night they had tonight with last year's defense, this is another early season loss for Brian Kelly and the Tigers. Like this is to me, while it wasn't pretty, this is like, oh, we've got something here. I don't know. I love this win, even though it was not beautiful. Yeah, if I'm a tiger. That's fine.

That's fine. Win ugly. Hell yeah. There was nothing ugly. I mean nothing ugly about that Georgia Tennessee game. Oh, man. That was flat out beautiful. I mean, let's stay in the SEC and let's transition to that.

Six versus 15 at Neeland. There's the first time I sat on the couch with Tate today, my son, just loves football. I didn't think he was going to be the case when he was like five, six years old. All of a sudden, he's become a nut and it's a lot of fun, right? To see it through their eyes. and he's really gotten into the college game in the last two years, right? Huge Gators fan. I went up and told him the lagway through a fourth interception before we came on live.

And he was punching because I told me he had to get like, it was time to go to bed. He's 10. Punching his mattress, you know, which is cool too, because I remember those moments too. And I look back on him fondly, like if you care that much. But I'm watching it.

We're watching the pregame with Herb Street and Fowler. They're coming on and they're doing the, you know, before the T, then the entrance at Nealem, Checkard Stadium, and I'm like, hey, but watch this.

I'm like, watch the band. This is one of the coolest entrances in all of college football. He's like, what do they do? And then they did the USA, right?

Yep. And he's like, he's like, USA's like, the band's awesome, yeah, but he's like, really like that? And I'm like,

no, watch. I'm like, they're going to go like this. And all of a sudden, and I said, watch them separate. And he's like, and then the plan,

You know what I mean? And then the players come running out. He's like, Dad, that's awesome. So like the scene was set. It was perfect. And the game starts, man. And the question was, Aguilar,

community college out in San Francisco, hour and a half trip from where he was living to 4.30 in the morning till 10 o'clock at night, back and forth, grinding through it. Not sure if he's going to keep playing ball, transfers to Appalachian State and then Appalachian State to UCLA.

Nico comes and steals his job. Tennessee's like, we'll take him, play him $1.2 million, which is bargain basement these days. And he comes out and that son of a bitch goes 11 for 11. And I think it wound up being like 14 for 14, whatever it was. He was dealing. 14 for 14, 213 yards, two touchdowns, and they're up 217. meanwhile Georgia comes out and I tweeted before the game because I was thinking about like what

what's going to what's the deal in this game and I'm like you know what these 10 no one's really talking about the fact like Tennessee's corners are injured for the guys who are supposed to be starting the season are both out including Jermad McCoy who's yet to come back from the ACL which is as expected but he's progressing but you got this gunner Stockton guy who like He's a runner. He's gritty. He's all the things. But can they exploit that?

And Colby Young is their dude. 6-4, 215, big guy who can run, but they've got to get him involved a little bit more consistently. Can he strike down the field to Colby Young? First play, first offensive play. It's 7-0 Tennessee drives down the field and scores. Georgia's the physical team. Grind it. Run game.

Defense, right? but they wanted to send a message. Yeah, we know our guys, not Carson Beck. We let him go to Miami for all the glitz and the glamour and all the passing and all that. But we can still beat you on the perimeter. 47 yards, whatever it was, first play of the game. So I'm like, it's on.

Here we go. But it took Georgia a while to get going. Take me through your ebbs and flows of this game. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. this is what's everything that's great about college football. But to me, it's all about Kirby. And it's all about what Kirby does for his players.

And I want to talk about, we've seen a lot of, I would say, skittish coaching with quarterbacks and their new quarterbacks. And to me, the key play in this game is late in the first quarter. Tennessee's up 21 and 7. It looks like for a second that Tennessee is going to run away with it. right. Tennessee looks unstoppable. The Georgia corners cannot cover the Tennessee wide receivers. It's going to

be a track meet. Tennessee is going to run away with this. Yes. Now Georgia has the ball. They're down 14. It's fourth and three at the Georgia 48. So midfield. What do you do? And I've seen a lot of guys either they're going to run the ball in that situation

or they're going to punt and they're going to protect their young quarterback. Not Kirby. Not Kirby. Gunner Stockton. hit Zacharii Branch for a 13-yard game. Here we go. We continue to roll. They go down and make it a 21-14 game. I think it completely changes the complexion of the game. Kirby shows that he has faith in his quarterback, his receivers.

He has faith in his defense that if it doesn't, if it backfires, I don't know. I think Kirby, Kirby Smart is obviously one of the best in the game. And I just love watching him do his thing. And that to me was understanding the moment, understanding what needed to be done. and understanding that, hey, at what point do you put faith in your players? Are we going to wait four games and maybe lose this one? Because I'm concerned that they might be fragile. No, I'm going to let them compete now.

This is what we need to do, and we're going to go for it, and they came through for them. To have a team that trusts your coaching staff the way Georgia trusts it's. And you can actually see them like stay the course. they're teaching during the game. You can almost see them teaching their kids and motivating their kids instead of, like, go compete, go compete, go compete. But I'm sorry, I don't mean to cut you off, but it's, no, it's a case study and how it should be done.

They do it the right way. No, he's, he's, he's, he's, this generation's or whatever, like, he's, he's what Sabin was. I mean, different kind, but like, different approach to a certain degree, but same, same, same, process, same teaching, coaching. Everything's a coaching moment. Nothing's about big picture. Nothing's about the next game. Nothing's about the season. It's about this moment, the next play. Process. Stick with us here. Right. And the only thing that earns that is success.

And seeing my, I told you, Frank D. Felice, my baseball coach growing up, he's some of the best quotes of all time. Like, he'd let you try it your way, right? And then you get to a point and you muck it up enough and he'd come over and he'd put four fingers to one he it's always how we always talk and he'd be like you tried it your way got news for you news flash news flash boys your way don't work and that was when it was like yeah you're right so now i got to do what you're like it's always the process right right i just can't express enough though this agi r guy oh my god because because it felt like for a little while after you got hot early 14 14 14 to 14 i just told you 213 up 21 7 that it was falling apart and i'm like the moment wasn't too big

early but they had the first 20 scripted george's made some changes they you know like you like you said you can watch on the sideline they're literally making like in-game adjustments they're figuring out. And it seemed like Kirby and their defensive coaching staff, it seemed like they're like, we got the beat on this kit. Right. Days done.

Right. It's a cute story. I'm glad you got to tell it in pregame and game day covered it. And I'm glad we did the thing of him, you know, the community had every day, an hour and a half, two and from community college up in San Francisco before coming down to Appalachia State,

UCLA, Tennessee. I'm glad you showed all of that. It was a great story, but it's dead because Kirby's got his number. But Heepal, he ain't a bad coach, too. No, Hypole had a good day, man. And Aguilar, believe it or not, even though this is his first, like, big time, like welcome to the SEC national broadcast coverage, like this moment. Agiard's got some onions to him, man.

because everything was going poorly, but he just kept going, kept battling. And now he was finding open receivers, and they're figuring some things out, and they get the offense going. Because it was, you know, it was like 21, 21, and they keep battling back. And now it's going back and forth.

You threw the bad interception, and then Georgia got the field goal to go up six. And it kind of felt at that point, that that pick was, okay, this is going to be where the dam breaks. This is where it's going to be. And then they came back, and they,

to touchdown. Five plays 75 yards, quick strike. And so what he did today, not only is awesome for him individually to be able to show ever as he was a zero star recruit. I can tell you how that feels because it's the only thing I have in common with Aggie are and any in any other quarterback playing in the SEC or any one of these great schools. It was accurate for you though. It was deadly accurate for me. But a zero-star recruit is not a good feeling, right? And so to be able to show up in that moment, things go great, gets torn away from you, and then you come back is awesome.

And also, more importantly than the individual, because it's not about that for him or Tennessee. Tennessee's got, they got someone that they believe in. Today's a brutal loss. But you can hang your hat on this guy's never going to stop fighting. and we got some weapons, man. We'll get to Chris Brazel in a minute. The second.

Dad was drafted, by the way, in the six round, the NFL. Chris Brazzled, the OG. Brayland Staley, nine for 97 today. Mike Matthews, five for 59. Like, they got some dues. But it was, go ahead. I know we're going to get to Brasel in a second. And I don't want to cut away from this too much.

but how about Gunner Stock to 2, though? No, I was coming back. I just wanted to make sure before we got on it. I want to make sure we get to him. Before we got on the Georgia run, and I'm about to flip the page. I just want to say, like, let's not forget this was 44, 41.

It was an overtime game. Tennessee jumped out to a lead. Georgia came rallying back, and then Tennessee hung in there and went like punch for punch, right? It was 17, 13 was the score in the second half. Or then the fourth quarter. I mean, let's see. It was 27, 2720 was the final two quarters and overtime.

You know? So like they, this, this was an even fight in the second half. It was a brawl. I mean, it was a brawl. And the score would lead you to believe was just a lot of big plays. It was a fight. And it was awesome to watch. So for Tennessee, it's like, and I do,

when we finished the show by going back over the rankings, I actually, Tennessee came. in ranked 15th, but the AP for whatever the AP's worth, I promise you, I'm going to fight you to get Tennessee in my top 12. Okay. I think they're that good, okay? Georgia. Colby Young was big.

Zachariah Branch had big moments. London Humphreys had a couple. London Humphreys had just two catches, but man, they were clutch and they were big. 59 yards on two catches, one touchdown. Nate Frazier. I don't know that throughout the game, they showed the commitment to the run that you typically would expect from Georgia.

But when it mattered, they did. And they had to because they were down. I mean, you get down two touchdowns, you got to throw to get back in. I thought that Georgia declared bully ball on Tennessee after the first quarter. Yeah. I mean, they have 55 carries in this game.

No, I know. I'm just saying Fraser only had 14 carries, but it was 5.2, and there were some runs where I'm like, yeah, he's, he's, he's a dude. End of the third quarter, Tennessee got the big play from, from Brazel. Brazel, right? Yep. The long touchdown catch to make it 28, 27. But I really felt like Georgia found a way to continue to throw the ball and be effective passing it.

But like as the game progressed, you just felt like, don't forget we're the, we're the bully in the alley. Right. And it was capped off with the three, they get the ball in the 25 yards out, three plays, three runs, stuffing it down Tennessee's throat in on their home field, in kneeling. It's like, don't you fucking forget. it. Don't you forget. You got a big lead. You got some playmakers.

We're the bully on this block. Come back next year and try again. And I think that sends a message to this whole team. I never felt like they had that in them last year. And maybe that's why Carson Beck is in South Florida. And it's working out brilliantly for Carson Beck there. And we talked a lot about, excuse me, everything in college football.

and a lot in life, it's just about fits. It's the right fit. And Miami's the right fit for Lamborghini driving, Cavender twin Dayton, Carson Beck, who's super talented

and is doing an awesome job down there and is distributing, showing up to work, teammates love them, doing all those things. But it wasn't, he wasn't part of that Georgia DNA. Gunnors Stockton is.

They're going to war now with a guy who's their guy, who everyone in that locker one believes in who everyone in that town Athens like the text I was getting from people who are like you know yeah last year when it was gunners they get don't worry about it gunner's our guy don't don't you worry about men gunners are yeah you know and I'm like huh because cars and be first round draft pick what what what what right and I saw why today people in Athens were like there's the highway. We've got our guy here. Because I told you at Manning Passing Academy, I'm watching him

throw with Nussmeyer and Clubnik and Sellers and all these other guys. And he didn't look the part very much. Right. Shorts, T-shirt, seven-on-seven, one-on-one, throwing against air. Does it not, he's not one of those guys. Put pads on him. On a Saturday in Neeland Stadium. him with his guys. I saw why today. And that's a pretty cool thing. I was super encouraged overall. I mean, he plays with a lot of poise.

I mean, when I say poised, I mean situationally, the moment was never too big for him. There are times you want him to stay in the pocket. He's a younger quarterback. There's all those things, right? But when you're talking about onions and being on the road and Hootspa,

Kuyans. And making, yeah, making a play when your team needs it most. And when you're putting a tough spot in the game, I came away with this more encouraged about Georgia this year than I have been at any point so far. And it's because of Gunterstockton more than anything else. I will say, I will say not to rain on the Georgia parade right now, the past protection was an issue at times today.

And that's going to be something to keep an eye on going forward because those talented edges, Joseph's were starting they were starting to tee off. Yeah. West. Joseph. Yeah. It was a problem. They couldn't protect. There was the right tackle where they had some injuries and they're rotating eyes. And all of a sudden, their left tackle is getting beat clean.

And by the way, Stockton handled that marvelously. He was so tough in the face of pressure. It was an impressive overall performance for Stockton. Really was. C.J. Allen, by the way, past breakup, 12 tackles. Kiron Jones, 11 tackles.

Dude. C.J. Allen is being C.J. Allen. He's just everywhere, isn't he? Yeah. He's just everywhere. Yeah, so I'm interested. This is why I wanted, because I finally feel like after week three,

I don't truly know, like, who the best and, like, what the rankings are, but I'm really excited to get to get to this part of the show at the end. Yes. Because, because where, now where did we rack Georgia? Are you going to allow Tennessee to be in the top 12 after this last?

Like, I'm excited to get to this. It was, this was a good question from MLS, which is talking about trust because it was coming off of my conversation about LSU's defense and Georgia's offense, how both have exceeded expectations in this small window that we've had to look through this year, right?

Tiny sample size of three games. Quarter of the regular season. Do you trust more? And I'll throw this to you, Manches. This is from MLS Weech, Georgia's offense or LSU's defense? LSU's defense. Completely. Yeah.

I just, I just, that defense is flying around right now. I still, as much as I like Gunner Stockton today, and as much as I like some of the weapons they have and they seem the receivers seem to be figured out a little bit more this year, like I said, that offensive lines a little bit more of a concern. Stockton, you know, is going to have a bad day at some point. How they handle that, are they going to be able to run the ball well enough to cover that up? All those things are still question marks to me. LSU's defense, I've seen enough at this point to know how multiple they are

and to see what Blake Baker is doing with all those guys. to me that's that's you know that's a scary unit yeah someone's saying on our Jordan Tyson's having a monster game right now look that up mensch on it MLS we each again uh yeah and and people were agreeing with you the tackles for Georgia we're having a tough day I was just I was just looking to see before we move on yo I mean Tyson's got five or a hundred and but you know agrees like I wasn't buying Gunner before this game, but he can play some, some, some ball. Yeah.

But he also said those Georgia tackles were getting fried at times today. So, um, Jordan Tyson five for a hundred and a touchdown in the first half against Texas State. So yeah, I mean, and yeah, Arizona State's going to have to beat somebody after, after the start to their season that they've had for us to get overly excited. I mean, I love Jordan Tyson. and it'll get me wrong. Sam Levitt's got all the talent in the world, but has not looked up to Sam Levitt.

Standard so far. Yeah. What about your Saturday night? Saturday night spotlight. Well, we got to get to Clemson, Georgia Tech first. You're going to double back after this game? I think we're going to do it during the game. All right. No, I lied.

I was, but I want people to look forward. There's one player that I thought was a spotlight player today that we're going to circle back on. And there's some other personnel notes as well that I want to get to towards the end before we re-reacted the top 12. Okay. Beck versus Miami, I should say, versus USF. We hyped the game up because it was exciting, but we kind of all knew. We kind of agreed that this is not going to be a close game.

I do want to cover, though. I'm going to fuck with Beck all year long. I want you to understand, like, I'm going to mess with Beck all year long because he made it too easy for me to do that. And I'm only doing it to get to bring people into like an understanding of what, forget what people in Athens were saying, no offense, but what NFL scouts were talking about during the summer and off season where it's like, check back with me if he,

if he makes me want to like even get enticed by the conversation. right? Right. Now we're all enticed. Now we're all intrigued by what Beck's doing. Yes. Because USF shut down Boise State. USF shut down Florida and made lagway look pedestrian,

unless you did it again tonight. So maybe that's a lagway in Florida thing. But my point is USF was playing good ball. And we all kind of thought Miami would play well. But I want people to understand that Carson Beck came out again tonight and delivered against AK. competent USF defense. Not the level that they're going to play if they get to the college football

playoff. Not the level they'll play. They don't play Clemson, but who, um, who they play Florida. Let's see who they've got their schedule right now. They have Florida State. They have Florida and Florida State next two games. So we're going to find some stuff out. All right.

But so far this year, throw out Bethune, but Notre Dame in South Florida, Beck's been pretty awesome. Beck again today, 23 of 28 bench. I don't have my calculator, but I think that's like low 80s, low 80%. 340 yards. He did throw two picks. I didn't see those. Mark Fletcher had another good game at back, but he distributed the ball.

Six to Keel and Marian, six to Malachi, Tony, my favorite player in college football. Tony Johnson had two catches, one for 51 yards. Joshua Moore had three. C.J. Daniels had four. Mark Fletcher had two. Luca Gilbert and Charmar Brown, tight end and running back respectively, both had a catch two.

Just distributing the ball. The reports we were getting there in the summer towards the end, decisive, knows where to go with the ball, in control. And by the way, and running, I'm telling you the dude looks, I don't know if you lost weight,

what it is. He gets six carries for 28 yards. It's 4.7 per pop with a touchdown. You look good. that from Carson Beck. So I'm just, I just wanted to mention that. Because it was a big game coming in. Then they go blow them out, what, 49 to, what was it, the final? That was it 40, 49 to 12. And I didn't want people to think we just kind of brushed over it. One thing really quickly, I give Mara Crist's a hard time. I do, because I think he deserves it the hard time. They handled the, what, these weather delays are weird,

man. These weather delays. I just want to keep you out of trouble. You, you give, we all agree that Mario Cristobol is an unbelievable. believable recruiter. Yes. Leader of men runs a tight physical ship, like all that stuff. But in-game coaching, game management decisions, right?

Okay. Correct. Game management. I thought they handled that weather delay really well today. They came out and they were ready to go. Me too. That's something like people don't talk about it.

These weather delays where you got to go in for two hours, come back in, you're cold. You know, you could lose momentum. Something could happen. Whatever it is, they handled it well. came out, they took care of business from the start to the finish, overcome whatever obstacles they had.

They looked really good. I still think South Florida is going to get into the playoff, by the way, is they at large. Yeah, I can see that. I mean, this game doesn't help, but who else? Yeah, we'll see. I mean, Tulane, did they beat Duke? I'm sure it's official now.

Tulane could be, I mean, there's some other teams out there, but they certainly have done enough early this season to get some street credit, right? Clemson, Georgia Tech. here we go you knew it was coming and you still put it in your parley by the way uh i'm voting ls u defense i like this we get polls going up which unit do you trust more join the poll georgia's offense or lsu's defense uh 81% on lsu's defense so yeah i don't take you start on this one man i've been talking too much as always sloppy and it's in and Clemson, just sloppy.

And I think one of the things that is such a tease and it stood out is the Clubnick to Wescoe over 73 yards, great anticipation, great accuracy and touching the thrower from Clubnick because he's moving to his right. Wesco takes the ball and just turns on the jets and runs down the sideline, touchdown. It's what you think this offense can be. And they're just so freaking inconsistent and so sloppy at times. that it just doesn't come together. And then today, when you need that all-world defense to step up and make a play when it matters.

That's the thing that piss me off more than anything. That's the thing that piss me off. Because Klupnik is clearly like battling inconsistency because of, because of, and I'm not blaming it on inconsistent past protection and you're missing your number one receiver, Antonio Williams. I'm not because part of it's in his DNA. I think he comes into games. I think he's too hyped at times.

I think he's too, not panicky, but like, too eager to, like, move around and just won't get settled and operate smoothly and comfortably. And I never feel early in games like he's just kind of everything's under control. Let's go run the offense. It just seems like it's, it's like pushing a fucking stone up a hill. Like, every step is like a grind. And then you try to make sure you get your foot in there. You've got to bring my right foot with me.

Like, it never feels easy and smooth. And we're rolling. again. It never feels like that with Clemson. I agree. Period. But with like Clubnik and this offense, it just never feels like, like sometimes like when Nuss is dealing in that opener in the second half of that game, it was just like, here we go. Today, watching like Agujar in the first quarter, like, I never get that feeling. We're like, they're rolling, man. Yeah. And they should be. They have the talent. And even when they were scoring, it was like,

It took four downs inside the goal, inside like the five to score. And it took a fourth in goal to get in. Everything's so damn hard with Clemson and Clubnik in this offense. But you see some flashes and you're like, well, if Antonio Williams would come back, the best thing that ever happened, the best thing that happened to Westgo Jr.

I'm convinced of it. And like, I'm just talking on a personal, development level. He needed, Bryant Westco, Jr. needed for Antonio Williams

not to be there as a security blanket so he could grow up. Under fire, in the pressure cooker, it's either you or we got nothing, kiddo.

Right. Because, like, TJ Moore's. I like TJ Moore, but TJ Moore shows up and has a two-for-16 game. Like, what are we doing? You are the guy.

We don't have the tight end that we had last. our five-star receiver. You were being talked about in the same breath as Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams and Keon Coleman. You're 6-2, you're 185, you're fast.

It's time to grow up. And you know what he's done the last two weeks? He's grown up fast. I agree. He's a bright spot. He is the bright spot. He is different. Keep feeding this guy. He's

starting to become more reliable. He's in the places as he should be. He's not having the two or three drops. Maybe it's one drop. Maybe, you know, and he finishes with 7-126, averages 18 yards per catch and had a touchdown. He showed up. He played his game. For all the stuff that went wrong in this game, and for Georgia Tech dominating the trenches for two and a half quarters, two quarters, all of the stuff that went wrong, Mench, it's 1413 going into the fourth quarter. Do you understand that? I do. I do.

And it was like, here we go again. Clemson football, like ugly. Don't, you know, but they're going to grind it out. And it's a comeback and it's dabbo and it's all this stuff. And I was, I want you to understand it. I was at that NC State game where they came back in one of their championship years. And Venables comes running down from the press box and tries to knock me out. He's so excited.

That NC State comeback where they missed the field goal, I think it was at the end of the game. I was at one of the Syracuse comebacks. It feels like it's always like this with Clemson. It's ugly, but they find a way to win. But my point is, and I wrote this down, great defenses, great defenses don't allow six plus minute drives for a 90-yard touchdown, ending the third starting the fourth quarter. And great defenses, when your team,

when your offense is sputtering the way that Clubnik did, And the struggles that they had offensively, they found a way. Like Randall had some big time runs. Finished with 80 for 15. Not a big game. He made some big time carries in clutch moments. They were delivering just enough in those clutch moments to get them a lead in the fourth quarter. Going in the fourth quarter.

And it's like, here you go. It's a tiny lead, but you got fucking Peter Woods and T.J. Parker. Avion Terrell You got all these dudes That we talked about for the NFL Wade Woodhads Demonte Capehart Sammy Brown

Who's not in this year's draft class But could be a first round Sammy Brown's a damn good player Will help Purdue transfer Wasn't sure about him in the offseason Why they dropping him into coverage Why aren't they rushing him?

Is he going to be a good play? He had some big plays Jeremiah Alexander Listen to all these names I'm rattling off, man. Yeah. It's not the 86 bears or 85 bears, but it's like this is one of the elite talent defenses. And by the way, we got Tom Allen from Penn State. And now we've got a one point lead on the road.

We've gotten it, got it out. And you allow a 90-yard, six-plus minute drive for a touchdown. And then we come back and score. And we get the lead again. Right. Your offense actually does it. Actually does it in the clutch. Club Nick, that like got to have it. Drives them down. Touchdown. We got to lead. Right. Yeah.

And that defense with all those dudes I just talked to you about, they give it up. Can't figure it out. They can't make the stop. They give it up. I'll say this. I'm just looking at this. 326 left. Adam Randall runs in for two-yard touchdown. To tie it, right? To tie it. Sorry, tie it. Right. All you got to do is get us to overtime.

We got Club Nick. They got a great guy. And we'll get to Georgia Tech in a second. Yeah, I want to get to Georgia Tech. But this game was about Clemson, number 12 in the country, backs against the wall, all this talent. And they give it up. And they allow them to drive down the field.

And don't tell me they were overlooking Georgia Tech. Oh, hell, no. No, no. Georgia Tech's a giant killer. and everyone has been talking about this this was a trap game for them or a potential loss for them. They, this was not one that snuck up on them.

So what do you, where do you turn now if you're Clemson? How do you fix it? How do you fix it? You're not playing team ball. You're not playing complimentary football. You're not clicking when you, like you're,

when the defense needs to make a play, they're not making a play. When the offense needs to make a play, they're not making a play. It's just, they just, they're playing, like the weight of the world is on them.

I don't see a team playing fast, loose, fun, excited, laughing, dancing, rallying. I just don't see that from this team. They look like they're playing with the weight of the world on their shoulders. I agree. And that's weird for me to say,

I'm not a big, like, rah, rah, you know, like emotional. I mean, I'd love the emotion of it, but I'm saying I don't normally comment on that kind of stuff. They just feel heavy. You know, like that girl you date? Like, yeah, she's really pretty. She's got everything going.

She's a 4.0 student. She's got, blah, blah, you're, you know. But, like, everything feels so heavy. Yeah. You know what I mean? I do. It feels like Sammy Brown's the only guy running around on that team right now. Sammy Brown seems to be playing with some joy.

And that's really about it. And I haven't watched the tape, but like, I didn't hear Parker and Woods names called a lot. I thought Parker played well, but even when he's making plays, you know, it's, you know, that old story about Belichick

showing the Patriots tape about, hey, here's a guy making a great play. And no one goes over and celebrates them. Yeah, when you guys don't do that,

it shows up. The energy is low. And it felt like that today. Guy will make a play and no one's running over to, you know, Avion Terrell had a corner blitz that forced the fumble.

There was like a 12-yard loss. And it was, you know, it didn't feel like the appropriate amount of, dude, that's awesome. Here we go. Let's go.

You know what I mean? It's not like it's just the energy is just off. You know, you lose that first game and then you have a bad second game. And now you're starting to worry about the wrong things. And it just feels like everything is snowballing a little bit on them. And now it's up to Dabo to get it straight. Dabo. I love when you call him Dabo.

I know. Dabo when he loses. Will you call him Dabo when he wins? Yeah, exactly. Georgia Tech. Oh, man. I mean, it's Florida. It's Florida State, Miami and Georgia Tech now, right?

ACC. Yeah, I don't know if I'm ready to put Georgia Tech there, but, but man, Branky's the best. He is the head coach is just the best. Why won't you put them there? You know what? Maybe I'm being unfair. I just feel like they're the ultimate underdog.

And because they're the ultimate underdog, I have a hard time seeing them as a frontrunner. I think they could beat anyone on any Saturday. I don't, I really mean anyone because Haynes King is just an absolute. pain in the ass who's going to empty the tank on every play in every game and he's going to find a way to get that first down that extends a drive that eats clock you know they're just and brent key's going to push the right buttons and pull the right levers and all of these things are going to happen but i but i i i hear you and i know and i look at miami i look at miami and i see more difference makers and i see a better i see more talent i look at florida state and

I see, can Castellanos keep it up? What if they get behind? They get a throw and all that. But I see a lot of talent. And I see a team rolling in confidence and fun and they're playing fast and free and all that. But I want to remind you of this. Temple, Wake, Virginia Tech, Duke, Syracuse, NC State, Boston College, Pitt. And a lot of those teams are struggling right now, by the way.

Virginia Tech, cratering right now. Cratering. Cratering. Towers. They are, I mean, there's a lot of teams on that. Wake, nah. Temple, nah. I mean.

How do you really feel? No, that's a good run, man. That is, you're right. That's, that is a good run. The toughest game could be Pitt. Pit lost to West Virginia today. Backyard brawl. Tough one.

I know, but that's, yeah, but pits at home. They get Pitt at home. I mean, don't, I mean, no disrespect to, And I'm not purposely leaving out Georgia, but I'm having the coverage, because they obviously finish the season. They get Georgia at home, or it's versus Georgia.

I don't know if they play that game in the dome or if not. I don't know. But it doesn't, it doesn't really matter. Well, I'm not talking about it at large bit. I'm talking about the ACC. I'll be,

mark this down right now. 12.37 a.m. September 14th now, 2025. I will be shocked if Georgia Tech is not playing in the ACC championship game. Wow. Shocked. Who are they losing to on that schedule, Mench?

That quarterback is an absolute warrior. So they lose to Georgia. You've got a kicker. That's their schedule, man. Yeah. I promise you, sweetheart. I promise you, sweetheart. Haynes King is a warrior.

That defense is a fighting bag of knuckles. They will come after you. Haynes King rushed 25 times for 103 yards against T.J. Parker, Peter Woods, Woodaz, Brown, K-Part, help. I got it, guys, don't worry. Nope, I got it. Not today. 20 he was 20 for 28 passing didn't throw a pick didn't turn over the football run games not working

james jamaul haines only has a couple a couple big runs averaging two point he doesn't know his longest run was eight yards average 2.2 i got this haines king 25 carries 103 yards i hear you you make a strong point my man in this situation though i mean there's a legit shot now that the ac cc gets three teams now and none of them are Clemonds. No, Florida State or Miami will will knock itself out one of those two teams.

You think Miami's going to, I mean, Florida State I could see the argument. Miami, I don't see it, man. And then those two have to, I'm telling you, it should be Georgia Tech versus, I mean, Clemson, Clemson's only got one loss. I get it. But right now it's looking like

Well, they have one conference loss, right? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, okay. Yes, one conference loss is what I meant to say. Why won't this pull up? So that Florida State Clemson game is still a big game? Yeah. We're trying to pull up.

Miami's schedule. There we go. And I don't care if this is a bad show. I mean, we're giving you. Yes, you do. No, I actually don't. We're giving you two hours on it. It's one in the.

the morning. We're so grinding. Yeah, Miami's here at Florida. How big is that game? Miami at Florida State now. Yeah. I love that. That's old. That's just throwback. They used to matter. That game used to matter. It's going to matter. Florida State's 10. That's what I mean. It's going to be, it's going to be awesome. Awesome. And they're actually legit this year. There have been so many times where it's like they're back in Miami, Florida. state. It's like, yeah, one of them's a paper tiger fraud. Yeah. They're both, those are two damn good football teams.

Agree. But Georgia Tech's playing in the ACC championship game. And the winner that Miami, Florida State came could very well be the opponent. Yeah, you're right. Because the ACC has 75 teams in it. So, and quite honestly, I mean, that, and we're not wrong. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. We're ruling out SMU because they lost to bail. We'll see with SMU. But SMU's defense has not looked like it's up to snuff, but we'll see. Can we talk about Aiden Burr, the kicker, man?

Yes, please. And how Brent Keel, he just managed, Brent Key managed that situation at the end of the game. I mean, I know I use onions. Cold-blooded, man. I'm going to drop my-go-head. He's eight of nine. I don't have the exact scenario stuff,

but eight of nine when the fucking game's on the line. That's my stat. Eight of nine in like fourth quarter or two over time, game tying, game winning kicks. Eight of nine. First of all, how do you get that many opportunities?

This was second of all. Five yards, bro. 55. This is no chippy. This was no chippy. No. 55 yards. drilled it. Good from 62.

Easy. It looked like it might, it might lead right, though, right? For a second, you were like, oh. And then it had that beautiful little draw at the end. Yeah, it came right back in. Unbelievable scene. I mean, just awesome by Brinkie. We're going to take it all the way down.

We know what we need to do here. And to trot them out as the clock is ticking down, you know. And my favorite shot of the whole thing. favorite shot of the whole thing was like my heart's pounding through my chest watching it's it's the it's the um the overhead camera it's the sky cam is is right there they're racing all this stuff and then there's no time out right there's timeouts no they didn't have any timeouts they planned it this way because they're so confident in their in their mechanics and their procedure that we we've practiced this a thousand times and you even heard the announcers say

We watched to do this. We were at, we were at walkthroughs yesterday. And they were practicing this exact moment. Come on. And there, there was this like two second spot. When the holder looked up and like everyone was still, two seconds. It wasn't like they raced on and they did snap. Right.

They were set. It was like watching a military procedure. Mm-hmm. It was like watching what you think the Navy SEALs should be like in an operation. Like when they jump out of helicopters and they get, but then there's like that two seconds before they go in to kill Osama bin Laden. And there's this like silence and calm to it. It's like, yep, like holder.

55-yard game winner. You want to talk about coaching. and like top to bottom buttoned up everyone same page that was awesome stuff man even the the uh two point they had the two point play that they ran after they got it to i think was 19 they were up 1914 and then they had the two point play it was everything was just perfectly executed they had a plan for everything that that play was a perfect two uh two point conversion play for King who's not the best passer. It was this little pick play that they ran.

I don't know. It was great, I thought. It really was. Is Georgia Tech a legit threat to win the AC? Get involved in this poll, Mitch. Click it. How do I do that? Well, you got to be watching our show to keep up with all of our friends who are with us.

That's how you do this. Uh-huh. Yeah. What do you think I just guess? I just guess what blink 12, 6, 8, 9 is saying and Cole, Cole Marie. I am actually, Colmarie is awesome, dude. Saints chair, Brandon's self.

Amazing that I couldn't figure out this out. I'm going to actually throw this to our chat right now. You ready? Yes. I'm about to rip off some players and I'm going to throw it to you too, Munch. I'm not going to leave you out, I promise. I'm going to throw this to our chat right now. I'm going to go through some guys, personnel notes, and there's so many from the day.

But I just want to spotlight a few. And I want to start with the spotlight player the week. Oh, and I want to say this, here's a rant. Stick with me here, folks, on the live chat. Here's a rant for you. Fan Duel turns these lights on and they make this whole thing go. And we absolutely love Fandual. It's a great partnership.

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I'm wearing a Sunday jogger 2.0 hoodie right now, okay? So like, we work with our sponsors. By the way, lemon perfect? Like, come on. I get carts being dropped off here. You know the cult, the colts get, get a crate every, every, every, two weeks or something like that. Oh, really?

Lemon Perfect's taking the NFL by storm. I don't want to say I, but like maybe people are getting smart. But I want to say this. Tucker, you hear me, I know Tucker's always listening. Tucker runs this whole thing.

He's the Wizard of Oz behind all this. I'm done wearing these headphones. This is a rant. I can't do it anymore. I like to, I need another camera. I like to stand. I like to move around.

I don't like to. being limited by this. We're going to change some things in the show, okay? Bose reached out. Apparently, they've got unbelievable technology, wireless headphones, different, like, Tucker, get Bose back on the line. I want them to be part of this show.

I want them to be part of this show. I want us to be wearing them, and I want to tell everybody how awesome they are, okay? That's what. They're pretty awesome. Number two, the show does not live without YouTube, television, multi-view.

If you guys don't have that yet and I want YouTube television I want to get them involved. I don't know where I was going on this rant. I was definitely going on a rant. But my rant was we're changing things up. We're changing things up around here.

And so we had the reason I brought this up is we've got this segment that we're now doing. We started it last week, basically off the cuff. Spotlight player. every week. We'll go through personnel notes. What Metsch will tell you his guys. I'll tell you my guys.

I want to know from you in the chat. There are almost 500 people in this chat. Evan Hawley loves the onions. I'm with you, man. Saturday's all about figuring out who's got him, who doesn't. I want to know. You guys go on a run on this chat right now. Figure out who are some of the spotlight players,

individual performances. You were watching college ball today. I was probably focused on five, six games too much, didn't get to see some other ones. Same with the Mench. You tell us and I'll rip off some of the guys who had awesome days, okay? While I, while you think that up and start firing these throughs in this chat that's been going a mile a minute,

and I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm caught up in the chat now. I know. It's distracting. That's why sometimes I pause and it looks like I'm having a seizure or something. But what I'm doing is I'm just, I'm getting cut up.

I want to do my spotlight player of the week. And I know it's in a losing effort. But Chris Brasel the second was. absolutely phenomenal. And I love stories and I love, I love, I don't, the word journey just can't come out of my mouth, but I love like when the players have to go on paths and overcome. He starts out at Tulane, a little bit overlooked, six, five transfers after a big 20, 23 season has a solid year last year. But this brazel guy is coming on and he's an absolute star. He had 29 catches for like 3.31 or something last year.

year. What were his final numbers? Today versus Georgia, six catches, 177 yards and three touchdowns against Georgia. Who does that? And he had nine for 125 and two touchdowns. I get it. It was ETSU or ETSA. I don't know if that's wrong. Whatever. It's pretty wild. He's pretty wild what this guy is doing. And to see Agu, ETSU, or ETSA, I don't know if that's wrong, whatever. It's pretty wild. It's pretty wild what this guy is doing. And to see Agu, have a big wide or six five receiver and by the way texting with a scout today and we talked about I think in the preseason this is a guy who was viewed as a mid-round prospect

because he hadn't broken up but the talent was there don't like there's definite top 100 buzz for brazzal who's dad the OG was drafted in the sixth round I want to say by the jets a long time back um I'm not saying first round but like won't shock me if this guy's an early day two pick. If he keeps playing this way

and keeps stacking tapes like this. His body control. I know. In the air. And I wonder if some people thought that was, I didn't think any of that was the offensive pass interference. I mean,

there's a little. No, it wasn't. I didn't see anything. Well, I think they did a good job explain it. It wasn't a put, LeMontier,

Bill LaMontier, it was the man. Like, they were touching. They were still like handchecked, but like you didn't see his hand. and push the defender away. Right.

There was no like full extension. Separation created. But the other thing that was kind of wild to me is you can see guys go up in the air and like contort and twist or whatever. He's like a cat, man. He goes up and does these like weird, you know, contortions. And then he lands on his feet and can finish the play and run after the catch. He's not just going to go up and make this crazy catch and then go to the ground.

He was doing things today where I thought he was catching the ball in kind of awkward body positions where his upper body's outside of his feet and then he gets to continue to like to regain his balance and then run it's a unique skill set to me all right uh they always show up on the chat you ready here we go so here's some names bryce underwood joey aggie are kind of obvious that's fine yep jeremiah smith i did see you got off to a fast start today dj lagway l.m o'l okay um do you see the ryan Liam's cut in the Wisconsin game on the right side line when he cut inside? Yes.

Oh, my goodness. Ryan Williams. I had him on the list of other personnel people I want to get to. There are a couple repeat. So, no, but I mean, he, Ty Simpson, by the way, might be a little bit better than I, and I, than I anticipated. Had a nice day. He's had a nice, he's had a nice season.

He was the lone bright spot, really, for Alabama in that opener. Jeremy Bernard's still, my dog. Didn't have massive numbers there. but Ryan Williams, five for 165 and two is the last time I saw. Mateer, I mean, it was Temple. I get it, but putting up big numbers again. David Stone was one name thrown out here. Jeremiah Smith got it.

Brazzly, yep, we just said that. Mario Craver. That's a big. Craver is a big one. Deshawn Spears, good call. We talked about him. Huge game. Pavia, Vandy.

Yep. Nelson Cesar at Houston is a problem. Got me. He says definitely top 100. By the way, our boy, the Oklahoma Titan, Jaron Kanick, had another big day. Did he? Four catches 86 yards. I know it's Temple, but man, that kid could play.

Nagy had a great line about him. I've got to pull this up about Kanik. Because he watched part of our show and was like, I love how you guys are giving Canick some love. He's like, Canick's a throw, a throw. back dirt bag. Dude wears Motley crew t-shirts into the facility.

Oh, I love it. McShea, you'd love him. You know, like he's just old school. Yeah, right. Mark Fletcher, the running back from Miami had a monster day. Yep.

Yeah, we talked about that a little bit. So, way to show up. I appreciate it. We're now pushing 1 a.m. But we got to do it because I promise it. Oh, I did what it says, Jaden Mayava,

USC. just I said it before the season. You didn't disagree. I think you agreed. USC might just have something going. Sleeping giant, man. Sneaking around the chicken coop a little bit. This my Yava guy,

he started off the night 10 for 12. I didn't go check in. All right. But that's another person I'll know what I wanted to make. The Ty Simpson, Ty Edwards running back for West Virginia. Remember, they lost their guy. Big numbers.

What's the starter? a draft prospect. Flanking, it's one in the morning. But Ty Edwards has been thrust into that starting job at West Virginia. 25 for 141, three touchdowns in the overtime win for West Virginia. They had a debilitating, just depressing loss. Game day is supposed to be going to Morgan Town. Right.

But to bounce back in the backyard ball. The whole thing. So, my Ava for USC, Ty Edwards, West Virginia, a couple of guys that you, jumped out today. Like, I'm going to, you know what? I'm going to do the smart thing. The seller's injuries, depressing, Lenore's sellers. I don't have any more information.

Did you see what happened after that hit? There's a targeting. Go ahead. Tell it. He gets target. There's a targeting. I don't think they call targeting, by the way. So they, he gets hit.

He's down on the ground for, I think, a minute and 30 seconds, I think is the time. They finally get him off. They walk him off. The backup, I think his name's Dottie comes in. and throws a dart to Nick Harbour, catches it in stride. They pull the play dead to review targeting. You had a minute and a half to two minutes to review targeting. You let them get the snap off, throw that play.

Nick Harbor looks like he's going to go a long way, if not all the way. And they blow the play dead. I'm South Carolina fans have to be besides themselves. But that aside, the hit is the injury is obviously something to monitor. and brutal. Yeah, and that's a tough one for South Carolina today. I'm not ignoring or overlooking the arch thing. How in the hell I was going to watch that game closely enough to come on

and make a comment on something that is such a hot button. I'll give you a comment that everyone else in the media is giving. It doesn't look good. It's not what it should be. Boy, it's hard. Or I could go too far and say, oh, this is the, he's a bust. Or I could start protecting him.

How about I just do it the way we've always done it? I started a tape study on them last week and I found some things. And I want to go back and compare it to fresh brain, apples to apples, the tape that we studied from last summer of the starts that he hit, the starts in the game action he got last summer. And I'm going to watch some more of this past game. Because now we're stacking performances that, don't line up with the talent level, the expectation, and even just a starting quarterback at Texas,

even if his name wasn't a Manning. So I'm not ignoring it. I'm here for the conversation. I will not run away from it, but I'm going to do it with the right information so that we can have a really good conversation about it. And it's probably not going to be Monday. It'll probably be Thursday show, to be honest with you, because I want to do, I need to watch enough to feel good about it.

And there's no rush. I don't live in the world, Munch. I never have. And it probably has hurt me to some degree. Don't care. Doing just fine. Kids are happy.

Family's happy. You know, life is good. I'm not here for the shock jockey stuff and like the quick reaction and first to market. Because first to the market turns out to be a farce. But we will address that this week on this show, I promise. pour one out for the spiders

ha ha oh did not go well it did not go well it did not go well really cool to go play bill bellichick if you're a senior Richmond or you know to get that opportunity but it did not end well so pour one out for the spiders against unc um all right top 12 let's do it it's a holy mess

it's a holy mess and i expect everyone here over 400 people still on this chat at one in the morning. I expect everyone here to, yes, thank you. Absolutely. Start with that. But tell us where we're crazy. There's a lot of places, but I want to go through this.

Tucker, pull up the rankings from last week, AP rankings, please. Let's get this going. Yeah, they are. All right. Ohio State is at one. And just because they're where they are for the AP, I'm not here for that. I'll give you my rankings, Munch. Okay.

And I'm doing this on the fly. Overreaction, not a ton of thought, but like just watching today's games. Ohio State can stay at one. All right? That's nice of you. I think so. I wouldn't have Penn State at two. Nope.

I have LSU at two. Wrong. Who do you have at two? Oregon. And I know they haven't played anyone. All right. I get Oregon three, so let's not fight over it. Okay.

So it would be Ohio State, LSU, Oregon, for me, one, two, three. Would you have LSU three or? Yes, I would have LSU three. No, sorry. I would have Miami three. Number four. Georgia. Okay.

So I'm going, I'm agreeing with you on the top. Well, I go Ohio State, Oregon, Miami. LSU then Georgia. You had Miami in there? Yeah, I said I would not do LSU 3. I would do Miami. I was going to say, I was going to go five Miami,

six Penn State, but if you wanted to push Penn State 5, I could do that too. I think six is good for Penn State. Actually, I'm going to stay true to it. I'm going to put five Penn State Miami 6. I want to see a little more. Okay.

That's fair. But either way. So 5-6, Penn State. So essentially in our top six, we would tend to agree on in some ranking, Ohio State, LSU, Oregon, Georgia, Miami, Penn State, Penn State, Miami, right? Anyone in my top six that you wouldn't have or that you would have in place of? No. I mean, the Penn State things, I mean, they played no one. and they do scare me,

but I still think when you're looking at this, this group, that's just the way it's, that's just the way it's going to go right now. That's that, they're still there because they haven't had that, that loss or fall yet. And maybe they won't,

but I am, I think Penn State is six for me. I actually think Notre Dame, if they had won the night, I would still put a one loss, Notre Dame team ahead of Penn State. Notre Dame, we'll get back in this thing because of its schedule and because they're a damn good football team.

But they're out of the top 12? Absolutely. They're owning fucking too much. So that you're, are you doing this based on record or are you doing it? Because they've played two teams that you're probably going to have in your top 12. But yes. But like you got to win and you got to find ways to win.

At some point now, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, played valiantly in two games. We came back and we did this, but like you're not winning games. So we'll see Notre Dame back in this thing, but it ain't going to be on my watch tonight. Okay. Seven, this is where it gets tricky.

I think those first six are pretty healthy. Seven, I'm going Oklahoma. Don't hate that. I actually like that. Eight, I'm going Tennessee. Asinine, huh? I don't know. It's not asinine, but this is where it gets tricky. Well, South Carolina was at 11 in the AP poll. They're out.

Notre Dame was eight in the AP poll. They're out. Clemson 12. Out. I know. Texas, Illinois, and Florida State were the other three. I'm just going to be an asshole and say it should be Texas A&M because they haven't lost a game, Todd. I mean, at some point, you just got to win games. All right. Fine. A&M. Then Tennessee.

that gets us to 10. I'll put Texas in there, but my goodness, I got to see more. And then I would have 11, Florida State, and 12, Georgia Tech. And the O-L-I's, as my good friend Stugats would say. He's got a new show, by the way.

Dude, you're out of your mind. Do you know that right now? Illinois is O-L-I. Yeah, it's one in the morning, and I'm having brash reaction. You got Georgia Tech in the top 12 right now. USC? Yeah, I got Georgia Tech in the top 12. Okay.

Georgia Tech's going to be 11 and O going into that Georgia game, undefeated in the ACC. Yeah, but this is the thing. So you're doing this based on where you think of, uh, they beat the number five. They beat the number eight team in the country today. God, man. Sorry. I'm sorry. These are facts.

I like that. Illinois's O-L-I. You're putting me in a difficult position. You're putting me in a difficult position because I like Georgia Tech, all right? But no way. But no way. No way. This is instant reaction, overreaction Sunday night, Monday morning.

Illinois's O-L-I, U-S-C-S-C-O-L-I. I tell you another team, Utah. Utah. And by the way, Texas Tech, that game next week. Utah, too. Awesome. Two Utah. Missouri.

Keep an eye out on them. There's 35 teams in Todd's top 12. I actually feel like Stugats right now. My list is absurd. That Iowa State team feels like a soft 14 right there, huh? Iowa State. Yeah, they're 14. They're 14.

Kansas State is a paper. Paper puppy. I was told that you had an Iowa sucks. I was, that's what I was told. If you're telling me that you think Notre Dame and Georgia Tech are going to line up on the football field, and Georgia Tech's going to win that game seven out of ten times, eight out of ten times, you're out of your mind.

Love Georgia Tech. Notre Dame is a better team. Schedules should matter, right? Dudes forgot about Illinois. No, I didn't. They're number one in the OLLI. Outside looking in. Mama Mia, what are you laughing about?

What's so funny, Mama Mia? All right. Yeah, blink, blinked. Yeah, they definitely teams were overrated in the preseason. I thought Clemson on paper. Clemson looks so good. Nope. This is going to be a fun season.

It already is. Today was awesome. Today was up, I mean, the first eight week, you read all the flash and all that stuff. A gift. A treat. just like this show has been five stars, Mitch. We'll see you guys Monday morning.

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