CFP & Conference Title Picks + Brandon Walker Interview Reaction

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We're atop a glowing downtown Nashville, Tennessee, beautiful sunset underway outside. And look, the reason I got to push all that stuff to later in the show is it's college football playoff prediction time. It's conference championship prediction time. Last year, I was looking at the calendar. We waited too long. Frankly, I think I got influenced by some things that I heard in August and that doesn't matter. And so I want to get it out of the way early and we're going to do it tonight. We're going to do it to lead the show off. Also, the rankings came out today from the coaches. And the coaches are telling you some things without telling you some things, or either their SIDs who filled the ballot out in their place or telling you some things. There is one of the more egregious teams placed in the top 25 that I ever remember in the modern era. And we all know how far that goes back. I've got a ton of fall camp stuff, not like practice until yet, cause most camps are just opening up or haven't opened up yet. But I got my eye on a lot of things. We're finally about to put pads on and start figuring out some of this depth chart stuff. All that plus I will give my own personal recount of my appearance last night, my debut appearance, my hosting duties, basically, on the maiden voyage of the Brandon Walker college football show, the second edition, the first one failed. And so this is the second edition of the Brandon Walker college football show. They're watching us in Lakeland, Florida. They're watching us in Danville, California, St. Paul, Minnesota, Porter, Texas. Look, we're way over halfway to a million subscribers. Now, I don't know what's going to happen the day we get there. But we got a little ways to go. And I just want to crank up the community service early. We do a lot of community service on our end. The only service we ask for in return for this free college football show, which we do multiple times per week is please subscribe to the channel. And then humbly, but forcefully steal the phone to five of your friends and family and close relatives and have them do the same thing with that. We are off. This is a really important show because it's time to pick some winners. It's time to make some predictions. It's time to nail myself down and it's August 4th. And you know what that means, Jesse? I don't like predictions, frankly, because they set me up for failure. Think DJ Lagway number one quarterback in SEC Circuit 2025. This never works out well for me. I went 0 in 5, maybe 0 in 6, picking against Indiana last year. So take this with an entire factory of salt. And so what I'm thinking about doing is a little strategy called hedging. It is early August. And I am going to make predictions tonight. And I'm not writing them in pencil. I'm writing them in dark pencil, but still erasable. Because if I hear some stuff in fall camp, I want to be able to write before the season starts. So I'm going to give you my conference winners. I'm going to give you my playoff predictions. I'm going to give you my national champion. Right here in front of God and Bradley and everyone. But I just want to leave myself a small crack in the exit door over here. With that in mind, let's talk conferences first. And in no particular order, the ACC won the draft. And so the ACC is going to go first tonight. Look, there's no reason to break these games down. Because number one, they may not happen. But number two, even if they do, they're like four months, five months away. But congratulations to Mario Cristobal and Miami. They're going to finally do something that many said would happen a lot. But in actuality has never happened. And that is Miami winning the ACC. Now to quickly remind you the odds over a fandal right now. Miami is the overwhelming favorite to win the league. What's very interesting is who's who's theoretically number two in this conference? Well, the answer is two teams. SMU and Louisville had the exact same odds to win the ACC right now. I slightly ever so slightly lean SMU to face Miami in the ACC title game, which probably means Jesse, probably not definitely means that SMU who knows went on the road and beat Louisville. They do play early in the season. While the rest of the free world has their eyes focused on Oxford, Mississippi, you know, SMU Louisville play that week too. I think on a Saturday, Jesse, we want to check that. Anyway, give me Miami versus SMU in the ACC championship game and give me Miami over SMU more on what that means for Miami and SMU in just a second. Next up, the big 12, the monster energy, big 12 drafted second. And I think we're going to have a rematch from what we had last year, at least in terms of the matchup itself. Texas Tech, even without Brendan Soresby, is still the pretty overwhelming favorite to win this league. Then it's a little drop off in Brigham Young. Then it's a little drop off further in Utah. And there was a rumor that went around not just the big 12, but the whole country last year that I was anti-Brigam Young. Some people made harsher accusations than that. Some people went down roads that were not comfortable going down on this show, on this campus, at this university. Anyway, I heard all of it. And I also watched American Prime Evil, which is it's a tough watch, but I think a necessary watch, because it put the fear of God and me, at least when it comes to Brigham Young, but dude ran a different way back then. And so I think maybe I want to lean Brigham Young slightly right now to win this league. Over Texas Tech. Joy McGuire enjoys this. He'll enjoy it more than any Brigham Young fan enjoys this. So I'm doing favors for everyone here. But I think that when you go through what they went through last year, which is they lost to one team twice. I was on hand the first time when they played in Lubbock. And then they got another shot against them. And Texas Tech was just a better team. And then you go home to Provo for the entire off-season, and you just think about it. And you got all your players back. And then here comes Jesse's private jet from Penn State, and they're like, "Kalani Sittaki, we want to hire you." And he says, "No." And Jesse has to go home empty handed, only to cash in with Matt Campbell. So all's well that ends well there. And it's just you got another shot. That group of guys has another shot. I like Brigham Young. And so I'm going to slightly lean them right now to win the big 12. Next up, the Southeastern Conference. Still going to field 16 teams this year. And they're going to give it to Good Old College Tribe. Right now, the odds in this league. Georgia, the favorite. Texas, behind them. I actually didn't know Alabama had moved up to third. Jesse, is that new? Is it was that odds movement? Okay. Well, it's Bama third, LSU fourth, LSU and Ole Miss are tied. LSU Ole Miss and OU tied for fourth. Okay. We're again, I'm going to talk about this more later when we talk about the rankings in the show. But how do I think this conference is going to work itself out? Well, in early August, before we really got an intel anywhere, why overthink the room? This is Georgia's league. This has been Georgia's league. And even though Texas has had multiple shots at him, it's remained Georgia's league. And every single time, there's this giant dust cloud during the week. Folks, hyping themselves up. I've fallen victim to this at least. And once or twice, I've picked Texas over Georgia, not three times, though, and it's always Georgia. So why overthink the room? Give me Georgia against Texas and give me Georgia over Texas. And you know what? If I hear some hot rumor, if I think regime vials is going to single-handedly up in this entire dynamic, if I think Cam Coleman is going to up in this entire dynamic, Hollywood Smothers, about to run for 1,500, including 148 and three scores against Georgia and up in this dynamic, I'll change my pick. But I don't know that yet, nor do you. So let's just yield the floor to Kirby Smart until we have reason to think otherwise. And then in the big 10, or as they're calling it, America's New College Football Conference patent pending, Ohio states the favorite to win this league, Oregon's a hot team, Jess. Do you see how many people are picking Oregon to win this thing? And then Indiana just ho-hum coaches don't even have them top five. It's just a good for you guys, but it's you peaked last year. Great story. But now order is restored. Okay. USC's fourth. Michigan fifth, Penn State sixth. And there's a big drop off, by the way, after the top three. That fits right in line with perception. We'll see what reality is. So here's where my head's at right now. I think Ohio state's going to be really good. So does everyone else. I think Indiana's going to be really good. And so does most everyone else. I think we're going to have a log jam here of one loss teams. That's kind of how I would envision the big 10 playing out right now. And I think it'd be those three teams at the top there. And the way that I think the tie breakers would work and who I think it would send to Indian apolis right now is Ohio State and Indiana, which is a rematch. Of last year, give me a different winner in that one. This is tentative. So this does not count as me picking against Indiana. Also if I send you to the conference title game, am I really picking against you? I don't think so. But reasonable minds can disagree there. Ohio State over Indiana as of early August is where I'm leaning in the big 10. So our recap in the conference picture, our recap is Notre Dame was the best independent. I should note that congrats to the Irish Miami wins the ACC. Brigham Young wins the big 12 Ohio State wins the big 10 Georgia wins the SEC. There's no big shot there. That's three favorites. And then Brigham Young's the number two on the odds board in the big 12 courtesy of fan duel. Not gets a little fun and it also gets a little interesting and frankly gets a little tricky. As we try and figure out how this seeding would look. So as you may have heard, Notre Dame's not in a conference. So you have zero context clues as to how good they were by looking at that lineup. But I'll tell you how good they were. They went undefeated. So they're number one overall in the playoff rankings. I would think Ohio State would have to be number two as a result of them being the best team in the best conference. I would say Miami third and I put Georgia fourth and the reason Georgia would be fourth here is I'm just not sure even the SEC champion is making it through the SEC unscathed. Maybe even two losses, but I'm thinking there's a greater likelihood that Georgia emerges kind of like they did last year, kind of beat up a conference champ. But Miami, if their only loss is on the road at Notre Dame and Notre Dame's your number one team. I just think that resume may be good enough where Miami just want a conference title. They look good in the process. I think they may lock down the number three spots. So Notre Dame Ohio State Miami, Georgia is your one through four. This is where I got to figure it out. So Indiana, if they lose the Big Ten Championship game, they're not dropping far. And I think maybe they only drop behind Georgia as a result of Georgia being a conference champ. So I've got Indiana five. I've got Texas six. So I think it's kind of a similar vibe to last year where your teams that were participants in the Big Ten and the SEC championship games, they don't drop much if at all. And then we got to figure out what the committee does with Big 12 champion, Brigham Young. And I also had to figure out if we could have two Big 12 teams. Now I played with this scenario for a second. I thought to myself, self, what if Texas Tech goes undefeated regular season? But if Brigham Young's only loss is at home to Notre Dame and they go to the Big 12 title game and Brigham Young wins, at that point, do I think Texas Tech is going to go from being an undefeated top five team to all the way out of the rankings? I don't think they would. So to be very clear, if that's like one loss, Brigham Young is undefeated Texas Tech and Brigham Young wins it. I think you got two Big 12 teams in the playoff. I think maybe there's one more blimish for Texas Tech. Therefore I think Brigham Young is your seven seed. I guess the better way to put that is the Big 12 champ is your seven seed. And in this case, it's Brigham Young and I think Texas Tech dropped out, which is kind of a wild scenario. But in this scenario, that's how it worked out. I mean, Oregon at eight Oklahoma at nine LSU at 10 USC at 11 certain staff members are shaking their head. You want to doubt Lincoln Riley? Good. You've been very successful over the last half decade. That's about to come to an abrupt halt. Put that 11 seed in your pipe and smoke it, Jesse, not in the building though. And then 12 is Boise State. Look we threw army and navy around. Who else did we throw? We threw UTSA. We threw UNLV. I tossed New Mexico in. There was some Billy Napier smoke at JMU for a little while. It still is. Fire's not out in there for the time being. Let's put Brigha, let's put Boise State in the G5 seed there, the obligatory G6, excuse me, G6, 12 seed. I don't think if you're listening on podcast and you're a visual learner, I don't quite think you understand what just happened here because it's time to look at the bracket. And I don't quite think people understand what it means. If for example, Brigham Young is the seven seed and LSU is the 10 seed, I'll tell you what it means. It means LSU playing a playoff game in Provo, Utah, and December. It means the greatest clash of cultures in the history of this country. I'm talking about Revolutionary War, up to and including everything that's ever happened in the history of this country. If people from Tibido, Louisiana storm Provo, Utah, we've never seen anything like it. That is irresistible force. That is immovable object greater than any WrestleMania ever gave us. And that's not even to determine the outcome of the game. It's just who survives and kind of makes it to the game, so to speak. So we've got LSU Brigham Young playing in Round 1. This would give us USC at Texas in Round 1. I've got Oklahoma going on the road to Oregon. And then Indiana, as a result of being the five seed, which again, in this brief history of the 12 team playoff era, that's been the spot you want to be in. They draw a Boise. So how would this shake out? Firstly, up in Eugene, this is Dan Lanning's shot. Dan Lanning, I think he just had a really good year. He's the eight seed, okay? So he's in the playoff and they've been bounced emphatically two years in a row. They've got to win that game. I think they do. So I think Oregon over Oklahoma is how I'd pick it right now. Again, I've got entire of August or the entirety of August changed my mind. Indiana would route Boise. LSU goes into Brigham Young and I think they leave a part of their soul there. But I think they win the game because they just be better. You also got to understand and more on my thinking here in a second. If LSU's made the playoff, that means Lane got that group of players to come together. And that means they jailed. They coalesced and they're probably clicking pretty good by this point. U.S.C. at Texas and Round 1's awesome. It's a uniform game. It's Lincoln Riley coming home, although Lincoln Riley is a West Texas guy. I don't think he would call Austin home and I don't think they would welcome him home. And I don't think it matters because they're going to lose to Texas. So give me Texas over USC, but Lincoln Riley made the playoff, Jesse. So y'all can shut up. No hot seat. Lincoln Riley made the playoff. That's what we needed from him. Playoff or bust? Well, playoff. No bust. Again, if you're listening on podcast, there are some of us out here who fought against playoff expansion. I'm one of them. I also freely admit to you, I think the sport of college football has grown into 12 teams being perfect because the top of the sport got flattened like Play-Doh. And so as a result, look at the second round of this playoff. These are your matchups. If you're listening somewhere, driving around in Waterloo, Iowa, this would be Oregon going to Notre Dame. This would be Georgia going to Indiana, LSU goes to Ohio State, Miami goes to Texas. Oh, no, they don't do they, no, I'm messing with you. No, they don't. That's the way it should be. We should have two rounds of playoff games on camp, I plural of camp. us. But we don't. So we still get awesome matchups. They're just going to be in sterile NFL stadiums because that's how we do the playoff right now. But nevertheless, Oregon Notre Dame, Georgia, Indiana, LSU Ohio State and Miami, Texas. I guess if you could handpick the lineups, maybe you could make some tweaks here and there and improve it, but you can hand-improve that by much. Like that's an insane second round there. So I'll take Notre Dame over Oregon. That's my one seed and they're sitting there rested. They're ready to go. They've got last year still fresh on their mind. And what that would mean for Oregon, we can figure that out. That's well down the road. I think I'd go Indiana over Georgia. The one what I'm thinking there is if Indiana's in the playoff, they had the first round game and then they get Georgia. And this spot historically is not being good. Indiana's the only team that's figured out how to play rested in the playoff. Georgia has suffered twice in two years in this role. So I think they make it a third year because in this scenario, that means Josh Hoover ended up being really good. And that means I've got Indiana, maybe the best coaching staff in the country, if not one of the top two, top three in the country. Georgia staff not bad either. But if Indiana's humming by that point, you probably have an Egypt quarterback. I would guess. Okay. LSU and Ohio State. I'd lean Ohio State. And that's just an organization thing. That's just they've got a bunch of folks who have been there, done that and are trying to do it again. That's Julian Saiyan's second time around. I just think I'd lean them at the moment and Miami in Texas. That's that's really, really tough. I'm going to lean Texas ever so slightly right now. I'm going to lean Texas. That's a that's a 51 49 coin flip virtually in my mind right now. Your final four is Notre Dame Indiana on one side of the bracket. Ohio State Texas on the other side of the bracket. What a time for the state of Indiana. Just what a moment. This is the biggest occurrence is the birth of Larry bird. I would say in the state of Indiana, I think Notre Dame wins this game right now in August. And on the other side, I think I would very so slightly lean Texas. I think that that combination of players plus them getting on a roll in the postseason at its best is a really, really tough out. And Notre Dame Texas is an unbelievable national championship game. Coin up in the air. It lands. Notre Dame. Notre Dame won the national championship in August. With that schedule, Jesse, not battle tested at all. Imagine a team with that kind of schedule, winning it all. It's almost like the schedule didn't matter once the playoffs started. So and I want to emphasize in early August, that is how I see this entire picture playing out. Now, here's the nightmare scenario. The nightmare scenario is this is a perfect bracket. And I mess it up in late August because I see some things going to some practices. I read some things on some message boards. I get influenced by corrupt members of the staff and all of a sudden I got Penn State with the first round by somehow having won the big 10. I'm trying to guard against it is what I'm saying. But none of us are perfect. None of us are perfect. And even when we are kids, coaches and officials can screw it up for you. Famously, that's happened to me a lot. People don't know that I picked 100% winners last year in games that kids, coaches and officials did not screw up. So prayers up for us all. All right. Let's move on. Coaches pole drop today. I don't know if you heard this. Let me make sure this screen is right. There we go. So the coaches pole drop today top 25. Some of it makes sense. Some of it is so bad. I thought that we were looking at typos. I thought it was I thought we were getting pumped dead serious now, not in the top five, but there is a team in the top 25 that defies all conventional wisdom and I can only think it's a wizardry at work. I'll talk to you about it in a second. So your top five Ohio State's number one. That's pretty supreme respect. The top five for the record. I couldn't see. I don't think anyone's going to rank Georgia number one. I could see someone ranking any of the other top six number one. So Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Texas Notre Dame is the top five. Indiana was six. Notre Dame at five. I'm not going to argue a coaches pole in August. I would just humbly love to know what's the explanation there because I think Notre Dame belongs higher than five. So what's the explanation? Best I can tell. I think some coaches held it against them that they opted out of the bowl game. I think there's some of that residual and that's fair. That's the way you feel. I think some other coaches look and say, I don't like their schedule translation. I wish I had that schedule. And I think they just took it out on them. No, and it won't matter anyway. And so it's the best I can tell. That's why Notre Dame's ranked number five. Indiana's number six. I lived this life last year so you don't have to. Don't do this to him. Don't let Kurt Signetti get you in his crosshairs. He will ruin you. I was showing Jesse a film, a Johnny Depp film earlier today called secret window. Good movie. Jesse doesn't believe in movies. And so he hasn't seen it. Read the book, Jesse. And there's a crazy guy who is. It turns out it's not real spoiler alert, 25 year old movie. And he looks at Johnny Depp at some point and he says, I will burn your life and everyone in it like a cane field and a high wind. The reason I remember the line is that's essentially what Kurt Signetti told me last year, every time I picked against him and you people, hashtag you people, have the audacity to put this man sixth when the teams that he went three and oh against last year are ranked one two. Have we learned nothing? No, not we. I learned. I won't have them outside the top five, but the coaches do. And you guys actually have to face him. That's the crazy part. I just get to sit here. Miami's at seven. Fair. Does that conclude tier one? This is a growing point of debate in the college football ethosphere right now. Are there seven teams and then the end of tier one? Or could you make the argument for like an A&M or an Oklahoma or Ole Miss? My tier one stops at seven that I don't know that there's a massive drop off. It's not like a touchdown differential on a neutral field, JP poll coming soon. But the coaches have A&M at eight, Oklahoma nine, Ole Miss at 10, Bama 11. So you know in any rankings in the preseason, there's going to be this kind of glob of tier two SEC teams, those conditional teams. And I think they kind of got it right here. In fact, LSU 13. I'm going to skip over Texas Tech for a second. I'll come back to him. A&M, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Bama, LSU. That means seven of the top 13 in the coaches poll are SEC. The coaches are going to tank for the SEC. The coaches are drunk on SEC bias. Everybody is. These are like a bunch of if then teams basically. Texas has a lot that they have going for them. These other teams like Bama with the quarterback situation in the run game, Ditto for LSU, A&M, all the talent they lost to the draft, got a lot of churnally offensive line, Oklahoma same thing, run game, how good is material this year? He comes back from injury, a lot of if and any of those teams, if those ifs get answered in the affirmative, they could be French national championship contenders. I think that's fair. Texas Tech's at 12, which begs the question, where would they be if they had sores B? I was wondering if they have sores B do the coaches rank them top 10. My guess would be around nine or 10. They're at 12 with Will Hammond. We move on. 14, 16, 17, 19 and 22 are big 10 teams. It's kind of weird when you look at the tier two of the SEC just below them begins the tier two of the big 10. We don't know if this is going to be reality, but if I had to do my top 25 right now, I think it would feel somewhat similar. That is, I think the top of the big 10s better than the top of the SEC. Then I think the second level of the SEC is probably a little bit better than the second level of the big 10. That's why answering that question is one of the most important storylines in college football this year. Cause if that's wrong, if Ann M and Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, some combination of those kind of crap out in Washington is a surprise team this year. Bryce Underwood just balls out of his mind at Michigan. USC really is a playoff caliber team. Penn State goes 10 and 2 or better. Well, that up into the whole sport because that means the top of the big 10 and the second tier of the big 10 were better. Or do we have a total inverse effect? Is the top of the SEC better? And then there's a huge gap. And then the big 10s tier one and tier two kind of snuggles between the SEC's one and three. I don't know. But I would think it kind of works out this way where you've got USC in there, Michigan, Penn State, Washington. And then I was at 20. to. I think it's kind of fair. So far, I don't have a big problem with all of this and mixed in between there. You've got Brigham Young at 15. SMU's in there at 20. I think maybe, just maybe I'll go a little higher than that on SMU. We'll see how that works out. Tennessee's in there. Tennessee, seeing some opinions on them, seeing Tennessee start to have a little bit more spark, which is interesting. We'll see how that quarterback battle plays out. It is very much a quarterback battle right now. Jesse, is this a typo at 23 because I see the Clemson Tiger Pond. Certainly that can't be reality. Certainly, you meant to put something else. Certainly, this is just a graphical oversight. No, they're telling me that the coaches ranked Clemson 23rd. Drugs. Debo himself had to have looked at this when it came out and said, "Who's really 23rd, though?" They're like, "No, sir, we're ranked based on what? I've got to think the sit down Debo did with us on the Speaker Series had to be watched by enough people that they just got roped in." I'm not saying Clemson may go 11 and 1 for all I know, but there is no basis for the most hardcore of Clemson fanatics on this planet to rank that team in the preseason. So much so that Clemson addict, friend of the program, on Twitter said, "If we're being 100% honest with ourselves, like brutally honest, 7 and 6 team coming off of nine players getting drafted, we're only ranked to give LSU a ranked win and we won." The SEC media machine thinks they're slick. Now, I want to remind you, this is not the Associated Press Top 25. These are the coaches, so there's a growing conspiracy that the coaches are in the tank for the SEC. I don't even know who all votes on this, but just picture Bob Chesney if he's an AP voter saying, "What do I want to do here?" I think I want to rank Clemson because four months later, it's going to help LSU in the eyes of the committee to have had a ranked win in week one. Go Bruins. Is that really the conspiracy right now? If Clemson addict says it, "Who am I to push against it?" I can't believe, I can't square Clemson. It's hard for me to square him in the top 30. Number 23 is insane. Houston's 24, Missouri's 25. So the teams that aren't here, Louisville, Arizona, Illinois, Illinois. Again, you're kind of, I don't have a problem if you're projecting with your ranking. If Illinois had a good year last year, but they lost a lot, and you're going to bump them down. Okay, but what are you projecting with Clemson? Is my whole question. I don't want to get too up in arms about this because it is August 4th after all, but neither of the Arizona's are in there. Florida's not in there. Auburn's not in there. You may be thinking to yourself, "Well, those aren't good teams. They shouldn't be ranked." Okay, but you see who is, is my point. Great job, coaches. I got big news on this piece of paper that Jesse has freshly printed off. So recently, it's still a little warm, and he has put in my hand. PaystateMaterial.com is your one-stop shop for all things wardrobe, has been for a while. A mountain of new items are about to get dumped in there, by the way. Not that the old ones are bad. We've still got a ton of good stuff in there. The football is coming shirts are moving and moving in a big way. I'm just telling you, Alex has got some new stuff that is about to roll off the assembly line. However, that's not the big news, although it is big news. The big news is last year. A lot of people, as it turns out in our audience are designers, and they wanted to design shirts. We just didn't have time. It was the middle of the season, and it was one of our season projects. That's why Jesse took a break in July to get his hands around this sort of thing. So you wanted your shot, and you got it. So we're about to launch our first ever merch design contest, and there are cash prizes involved here, so you really need to pay attention. As of midnight tonight, tonight is Tuesday, August 4th. So if you're listening to the replay Wednesday, it's already live. As of midnight tonight, paystateMaterial.com. The design contest will launch. We're going to run this thing for 14 days. That's how long we're going to take submissions. Then there's going to be a seven day period where the best ones are going to be available literally on the website. Your mom and dad can buy them. In fact, I would encourage your mom and dad to buy them, because we're not going to choose the winners of the design contest. We're just going to kind of choose who makes the cut, and then the audience is going to choose based on their purchasing. Who wins this thing? And then there are cash prizes for one, two, and three. These are not small numbers in these cash prizes. There's more on the graphic than there is on the paper. Oh, well, I thought we were, Jesse says we're actually giving out more money than is written on this piece of paper, and there's a lot of, this is my money. We're giving out a lot of money. I'm giving out a lot of money. That's fine. That's fine. It's just going to come out of someone's paycheck, but that's fine. So I would strongly encourage everyone who reached out last year, and you know who you are, or if you didn't reach out last year, and you just think you're really good at designing stuff, this could be pretty lucrative for you at the very least. And hopefully, eventually, for me, one day. All right, let's move on. Hi, this is Kylie Breakman, Angel Jaretana, Jeremy Colhane Cash McDonald, and we're the hosts of the artists on artists on artists on artists podcast. The Improvized Character Comedy Podcast, where each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft. Join us for a panel of wellness influencers. 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Listen to NFL Daily on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What a day last night. That's not how I want you to intro it, Perez, when you cut this in a little while. We've got a lot of friends of this program. We've got some people we don't care for. We've got some people who have been outright hostile towards us in the past, but that doesn't mean that we have to completely ignore opportunity. And Brandon Walker, Burger King Brandon, as he's kind of become known, is someone who we've been familiar with for a long time. Brandon Walker and I have corresponded behind the scenes in what I would call a hostily cordial manner in the past. He's said some things about me publicly. I've said some things about him publicly. Most of what I've said has been true. Most of what he said, I think is more a defense mechanism than anything else. It's kind of like the kids and I'm running away from home. I'm never coming back. He doesn't mean it. What else is he going to say? He's seven. What else is Brandon Walker going to say in a lot of these situations? But here's the thing. He used to have a show. It went away. There's some conflicting opinions as to why, but it went away and now it's back. And so I got in an offer. I got an invite to bar stool headquarters in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. People thought I was going up there for big 10 media days. It was great. No one asked why I was in Chicago, but I didn't go up there for that. I went up there to go record a lengthy 90 minutes sit down with Brandon Walker for his debut show, which happened Monday night, and it's like two hours 45 minutes total. Probably not a great idea because his voice was shot in the first 20 minutes. I don't know if you saw that or not. A lot of you did. Big viewership on this show, but it was the debut and I wanted to go up there and I wanted to participate and I've got some more news about how that's not quite finished yet. But I also got to tell you, there's some other people I know up there that work in that Chicago office. And one of the highlights of my trip was not Brandon Walker. I would not call Brandon Walker the highlight of the trip. Our good close personal friend Ben Ments, I think, was probably the highlight of my trip. And Mensey suffered an injury a few weeks ago. He's been how old. He's been on the shelf. But you know what? Nothing is impossible. And so one of the first pieces of audio and video that I want to play for you is sort of Brandon Walker recapping the scenes when I first walked in the building and I got to say for a dude who stretches the truth a lot, this is a very accurately told story. Let's roll it. Ben Ments and Big T Ben Ments broke his leg, Ben Ments broke his leg three weeks ago and has not moved an inch since we can't get him to work. We can't get him. He has to be led to the bathroom to pee. People have to hold it for him. They got to wipe him. They got to do everything. We have to send a crane in to to bathe him every night and he is useless. You show up. Ben Ments jumps out of his chair and he skips. He skips to you. Like, oh my gosh. Josh paid. Yeah, you don't have to hold that. The boom arm will hold it up. So I walked in and Ments, Ments drug a peg leg all the way down the hallway yelling, "Let's talk about Peptides!" Let's cry. Peptides. We're going to talk to you about Peptides. We'll talk later. Well, you can be Nashville for Ole Miss Louisville, we'll talk later. Ben Ments is sitting there, all of a sudden he goes, "Peptides!" I don't know that you can appreciate the moment. If you don't know Ben Ments, you can't really appreciate the moment. It's the most surreal thing because I knew about Ments' injury. It's been well documented and I have seen the videos and I thought for a little while the dude would never walk again. I walked in that building and you're like taking your sunglasses off because it's bright outside your adjusting your eyes and boom. This was captured. This is like still photography images of when I first walked in, so there's Mentsie, that unmistakable posture and he's in a boot there and he's in a walking boot, like an Alabama running back after the LSU game and then we start walking down the hallway because Brandon Walker, like we're on kind of a time crunch and so he's trying to peel me away and in that picture on the right, Mentsie tried to chase us down the hallway a little ways. So that's an accurate portrayal of what happened there, amazing trip though, amazing encounter there. Get well soon, Mentsie, we're all pulling for you. So anyway, this was a wide-ranging conversation. You can find it over on the Brandon Walker College Football Show, YouTube channel, what a combo of words coming out of my mouth here on the show, but here's the thing, okay, and it's going to happen a lot I would imagine because he's doing a solo show. As we all know, I am very measured and calculated and responsible with the words and predictions that come out of my mouth because I hold myself to account. If I pick Indiana to go 0 and 6 and they go 6 and 0, I'm throwing the clown nose on, okay, so we do a healthy inventory and I try to keep myself honest. Brandon Walker lives in a fantasy world. He has a high air balloon with absolutely no sandbags and so sometimes when you finally get face to face with that kind of person, you can get him on tilt really quickly. And you can see that they're about to go a direction because it's in the eyes. You can see it in the eyes. You can read the body language and what you do at that point is you just nudge him. So Mississippi State comes up last night and I'll just give you a quick example. This happened like a hundred times over the course of 90 minutes. But one of them was Mississippi State's, his team. Mississippi State's over underwent total is four and a half at Fandall right now. With that information on the top of mind, let's hear how Brandon Walker thinks the bulldogs are going to do this year. We might have some things percolate down there. You going to go to a bowl? Tomorrow, Taylor? Yeah, I know who he is. Woo! I've read the preview magazines. You're going to go to a bowl? Well, I told a bowl last year. But so what is the standard this year? Like we're cooking some things. Everyone speaks in these hypotheticals. Eight wins? Are you high? Eight wins? Eight. Eight. And you know what? We got Oklahoma and Alabama coming in back to back working on one of them. You got that right? Eight and four, minimum. At least eight and four and either OU or Bama fall victim to Mississippi State. And it's not like I'm down on Mississippi State. The way to handle this is the over under four and a half, let's call six and six. But no, we got to go eight and four. So it's important to get that sort of thing on the record early because that's on the internet now. You can't get rid of that. That'll live forever. It's no different than that kid from Texas catching that dagger touchdown pass right in his face. And the live broadcast catching him right there in the corner of the in zone, their lights are on. No one's home dead behind the eyes, which came up by the way. And I got him to discuss it on record at length. So here's the heartbreaking part that sometimes happens in life. The heartbreaking part that you can only imagine if you get into the media business is some people you like, some people you're indifferent on, and some people you despise. When you would think, oh, the folks you like, those are the ones you have chemistry with. And oh, man, the folks who you can't stand, oh, you never be oil and water. No, no, no. The heartbreaking part is when you love folks, but you have no on air chemistry with them. And then you turn around and you sit down with that and it just clicks. You know how it is, Jesse? The heartbreaking takeaway from all this is it was great. The feedback we got was incredible to the point where I'm happy to announce right here on this show tonight that that was only the first half of a home and home. There's no buy out here. You can't go Indiana Notre Dame. You can't get out of this one. And so I'm not going to give you exact dates, but it'll be in August. It'll be later this month. Think about these words, Jesse. Take take camera one, Bradley. Think about these words. On this stage, in this physical space, Brandon Walker in studio, for part two of whatever you want to call what happened last night. Subscribe to the channel, please. Both of them. We move on. They're watching us in State College, Pennsylvania, Franklin, Tennessee, Daytona, Beach, Florida. We do have great news to report. It's a little delayed, frankly, we should have talked about it the other night and I just forgot. So we had a question about a rivalry, a rivalry I grew up on, a rivalry that should be eternal, evergreen, should never die. USC in Notre Dame is back. After a brief absence, it won't be played this year or next year or the year after that. But the good news is it's coming back in 2030. So one of you asked, how am I supposed to feel about this? Am I supposed to celebrate that it's back or am I supposed to be mad that I got to wait to 2030? Well, 1,000% celebrate that it's back. This was a historic rivalry that it looked like we were going to lose and now we do get it back. It's in 2030. You can be mad that it's come to this. I was. I know I was. I view rivalries in the kind of light that I don't even view the playoff. I don't even view the concept of the national championship game in the same light. It's like the Pope me, man. I'm holding. Notre Dame USC here, above and beyond the college football playoff logo, cause I grew up like that. I was raised like that. I was raised properly. And so rivalries mean everything to me. It's the very bedrock and foundation of college football. Rivalries should be more secure than Fort Knox. And yet we let people touch them and we let people mess around with them. And it is my opinion. If I were college football commissioner and everything I just said goes, I wouldn't care who the idiot Notre Dame is or USC is or they had coach at Notre Dame or USC at any given point in time, you sign up to be part of Notre Dame. You're signing up to play USC every year. You sign up to be part of USC. You're signing up to play Notre Dame every year. Case closed. And if you don't like that, the answer is not, oh, let's, let's rework the schedule. The answer is head on down the road and go somewhere else. Go coach somewhere where you do have full autonomy over the schedule. But it just so happens that this is ordained, okay? You don't get to touch this. It's like the sky is blue, water is wet, Notre Dame and USC play every year. And if you don't like it, that's a you problem. And if it messes up your path to the playoff, your head's in the wrong place. So I'm not casting a spurs in here, you remind me to tell you who I had to ignore a call from just being unbelievable. So rivalries are everything to me. So yes, I was I rate when this happened. And yes, I'm very happy that it's back right now. Here's what we have to resist, okay? And it's as a cautionary tale. It's not the last time we're going to have to deal with this. I want to make sure everyone understands. Playoff brain rot is a very, very big danger to college football. Playoff brain rot sounds like this. We got to make the playoff no matter what. And that means that if we got to soften our schedule to do it, so be it. And if this rivalry has been played for 500 years, but moving it would help us go to the playoff and so be it. No, no, no. And then there's this group of fans that I think have fallen victim to playoff brain rot. And that group of fans, no particular group here. But a generic group of fans, feral in nature, they wander the college football landscape. They say, well, why should they play that game if it makes their path to the playoff tougher. Because it's college football, that's why that's it. I don't have bullet point two, three, four and five because it's college football. And it, it happens. This is the whole nature of the sport. It happens. Now I do get the logic. I do get it, just like Sark last year, Sark came to the end of the year, Texas is nine and three. They don't get the playoff. And he looked and he said, now, wait just a second. We could have easily scheduled Abilene Christian in week one instead of Ohio State. And it's a fact in his opinion, it's a fact in his opinion that had we just 150 to nothing and then done everything else the rest of the way just like we did would be in the playoffs. That is true and irrelevant because that's not how a competitor should think. But there is merit to the logic of it. So my gripe is not merely with people who want to do away with historic pillars of this sport in advancing their, their playoff likelihood. I also, I also look at the entire rankings process and there's a big difference now. There's a big difference in when we get to the end of the year. And do we think that the resume justifies making the playoff? I'm starting way, way, way, way back in the like the table of contents in this book. Not on chapter nine. The table of contents is how does the playoff committee operate? How should they operate? And to me, what I would tweak is the way resumes are judged because I think there should be a world where there's a nine and three team and I don't mean last year's Texas. But I mean any given year, if someone loaded their schedule up and they go nine and three against it and there's another P4 that went 11 and one, I want to live in a world where there's room to put nine and three over 11 and one because if you thought that just loading up on creep puffs was going to be this double barrel middle finger to the system, which is basically what Indiana is doing with their out of conference schedule. Mind you, it's an embarrassing situation that Indiana is in right now. But you know what? There's like a part of me that can't even blame Indiana because number one, Indiana can do no wrong right now. But number two, Indiana is looking to say, Hey man, we already playing the big 10. If we take care of business in conference, it doesn't matter if we play three high school teams out of conference. You won't box us out of that playoff, watch and see. And you know what? You won't play off committee won't. It may happen as soon as this year. What if Indiana's 10 and two this year didn't play anything with a pulse? Out of conference and they're being compared to a comparable 10 and two, maybe even a nine and three from somewhere, you're not going to keep them out. You won't play off committee won't they know they won't they've spoken publicly about it. So you know, until that dynamic changes a little bit, you're going to deal with playoff brain rot as the basis and the foundation of the logic for some of these decisions. Anyway, I am glad we got USC and Notre Dame back. I hope this is the last time we have to deal with that, but it won't be. Okay. Transfer portal was a buzz this past year. And we didn't have a post spring portal window. So I kind of like that world that we live in, but also now that fall camps open and up like it gets real. So we find out when you look at the industry composite, you look at the on three portal rankings and you think you know, but then after every single year, we look back at that top 15 top 20 and inevitably there were guys that you expected to be impact players that it weren't. And this is like the great period of unknown where we're trying to figure out like LSU goes and get Sam Levitt. Is Sam Levitt going to be a true difference maker at quarterback? Is Sam Levitt a guy that if LSU draws like Texas in the SEC championship game, which would be a second time they played him this year or if they're playing Ohio State in like a quarter final and it's 24, 24 and quarterbacks got to go win a game. Can he do it? And Jordan Seton, how does he pan out? Because that's a big deal for LSU because they were the worst team running the ball in the league last year. And there was some wofl historic powers in terms of rushing numbers in the SEC, but LSU was the worst, but LSU tried to make moves to correct that. So that's a top offensive tackle. I think he was the best offensive tackle in the thing and peak was the only other one that could have maybe challenged for that and he got hurt. So they were last in the SEC in rushing last year. They are making moves definitively to try and upgrade that. They got you, Mon Miellen, yeah, I got to say it slow. They got Jordan Ross. I mean, those are two really, really big time edge players. So if LSU falters this year, it won't be for a lack of immediately trying at Miami. This is kind of a story every year. Miami is very active in the portal. Damon Wilson kind of coming in. I think it may be the wrong way to look at it to just say, well, Miami, everything about them depends on how much they can replenish the lost production of Ruben Bay and in a key mezzador. They lost 22 sacks. Well, Damon Wilson only had nine last year. First off, no one only has nine sacks. That's the first thing. The second thing is it's not like the rest of the teams of carbon copy. What if Miami, oh, I don't know, maybe is only 82% as effective in their past rush as they were last year, but they're better in the secondary, especially at corner, better ball skills and oh, by the way, they got Darry and Mensa down there now and he's an upgrade at quarterback. That's a what if. I believe it. So it's kind of a prediction for me. But technically, it's a what if what if they don't have to be exactly what they were, what if they're more than one or two ways to skin the old cat as Mimo, I would say and Morio Crystal would also say Cooper Barcai coming in just casually pairing an 1100 yard receiver last year with Malachi Tony. First world man. That's the world Miami lives in and Texas. Of course, this is the most all in of all in teams and in the portal, going and getting Cam Coleman, Cam Coleman, there's a world this year where he matches his career production. See, did we say around 1300 career for Cam Coleman right now somewhere around there? He'd have 1300 this year. So I mean, Ryan Wing goes on that team, they're loaded. They went and got some others. They went and got a really brown two tail backs. Most teams out there would have died to have one of them, but also Rashim Biles, one of my favorite players out of the transfer portal, huge addition at linebacker. He's not going to catch the ball. He's not running the ball. He's not throwing the ball. So he's not going to get as much attention, but man, the mentality they need to play with. Or in other words, when you think back to Texas Georgia games and you think about Georgia, just having a little more of that, Rashim Biles is one of the kinds of guys that you bring in in order to maybe change that dynamic a little bit. Indiana had the number one portal class in the country, per on three. And it was a small class, but it was a really, really high impact class, Josh Hoover, of course, at quarterback. Josh Hoover, you know, if you think about Curtis Rort two years ago, and then the them upgrading to Fernando Mendoza. I'm not going to say those are the two bookends of the scale, because it's possible that Josh Hoover is better than Fernando Mendoza. Who knows? I'd be tough, but I'm asking if he's between those two. Where is he on that scale? Little born rock or a little closer to Fernando Mendoza, because really that's kind of what it comes down to here. I went and got Nick Marsh, the Eric Singleton of the Big Ten, as I like to call him. By that I mean Nick Marsh is a potential superstar caliber player that was just in the wrong situation last year. There are few truths in an uncertain world, but I promise you he's in the right situation at Indiana. There are a lot of passives to be caught there. I was going to say a lot of balls to go around, but that would have been an early August immunity. We don't want to do that. We want to take ourselves down that road this early. I get the vibe and got the vibe when I was talking to SIG when I went up there. Perez, you remember you were you were setting up the cameras. I was asking them about Hoover and Signetti just said, we got what we need there. Yeah, I think we got what we need there. Well, that's the only scouting report I need. The other guys, I mean Drew Mestemaker, this hall in general that they brought in at Oklahoma State just taking Drew Mestemaker, who was a 4,800 yard 40 plus touchdown guy last year. Could end up being the best quarterback in the country this year. And hardly anyone has him on his radar unless you're a die or college football fan. Caleb Hawkins also transferred up there from North Texas. That's a 1,400 yard rusher last year. That team in general is going to be fun to watch because they're going to be some people out there who halfway know what they're talking about in the sport. The pick Oklahoma State to play for conference title. And that would not be the biggest shock in the world. Just as Haynes, he's gone from Bama to Michigan and now to Georgia Tech. And if you think about what Georgia Tech doesn't have, you think about Haynes King being out the door. And then the offensive coordinator is gone. And probably the guy that would have been the starting quarterback is gone. And you think about some of the portal moves they made elsewhere trying to trying to gain size overall. There's a lot of uncertainty. Justice Haynes is certain. He's a good player. He may lead the ACC guys. He may lead power for in total carries because I can promise you he got paid to come down there and they're going to get their money's worth out of Justice Haynes. Eric Singleton, I just mentioned him. This is a guy who had Georgia Tech two years ago was a really good player went to Auburn last year and did what everyone did at Auburn last year, which was disappear. And now he pops back on the scene at Florida playing with Dallas Wilson, or Vernell Brown, playing with Aaron Filo, who I think will win the quarterback job there. Eric Singleton's a really good player and he is not alone down there and he can be a really, really good breakout player this year. And then Rocco Beck, who has Jesse, you know, he's like, I'm trying to think of who I want to compare him to. He's like the, he's like the new camera rising guy who's just been around forever. And he, he's your quarterback now. You own him. He's your quarterback. So whatever he does, you do. You guys are one of the same this year. Fourth year starter at quarterback, veteran running backs, veteran tied in, kind of a veteran team. That's got an old team up there, Jesse, that work for Indiana. So those are some of the impact portal players that I've got an eye on, not an exhaustive list. Obviously. Hi, this is Kylie Breakman, Angela Jaretana, and we're the hosts of the Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists podcast. The Improvized Character Comedy podcast, we're each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft. What I try to do is faux journal. I don't know, I think I sort of faux journaling. Yeah, it's reading. It's called reading. Okay, a panel of New Yorker cartoonists. Have you guys done Terry Gross' Peloton class? No! I've been dying too. I'm so sorry. I'm seeing a reading of Sadako in the Thousand Paper Cranes by Audrement Donald at the Wonderland bookstore. That's crazy. 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Last year we had Mike Bucdonald, Sam Darnal on the field after the game, but that was last year. It is in the name, NFL Daily fresh content in your feed every day, all season long. Matthew Stafford coming off his MVP sees on a dazzling darts from Matthew Stafford. Big time trades that shake up the NFL. AJ Brown is loose. And of course, those Seahawks trying to run it back and win another Lombardi trophy. The Seahawks win Super Bowl 60. If it's happening on a football field, NFL Daily will cover it. Listen to NFL Daily on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. It's a beautiful time of year. Camps are open. Fall camps opening all over the country. And I got to tell you this quarterback situation in college football from a preseason standpoint is unlike anything I remember in my lifetime. I was just looking like I opened my notes up this morning and I just started to write names of quarterbacks. And this is not, CJ Bayley's not even on this list as I got pointed out to me. DJ Legway is. But I just wrote some names. And I don't know. That's like 20 or 30 names there of guys who are notable. And I told Jesse earlier today, take the top 10. Go go to the highs monods at Fandall. Take whoever they have rank top 10. Take them off the board and think about the names who are still there. If you take the top 10 quarterbacks in terms of preseason highs monods off of that list, you've still got John Matier, Marcell Reade, Lenora Sellers, Demon Williams, Will Hammond, either Austin Mac or Keelan Russell, Bear Bottomire, Rocco Beck, Drew Mestemaker, Kevin Jennings, Austin Simmons was slated to start for Lane last year. This is an insane quarterback year, which means the potential for week by week upsets greatly increases because any of those quarterbacks hot on any given Saturday could theoretically beat almost anyone else. It's going to be incredible. And if you think about the best of them filtering out over the course of a season, think about what the playoff bracket would look like, not even predicting the teams, just kind of think about the quarterbacks. in the bracket. So that obviously is something to watch in fall camp. There are some quarterback battles that I really have my eye on. I think the Alabama quarterback battle is the most important one in the country. So Keelan Russell, Austin, Mac, now I do owe you this. We're just going to delete this if it doesn't come to be. But I think I went through spring. And I thought Keelan Russell would be the starting quarterback there. And my feel, nothing's changed in spring. But my feel is Keelan Russell still ends up being their starter like by November or something like that. And he may start week one. Who knows? I do think there's some legitimacy to the theory that's floated around that if you have a little more trust in Austin, Mac, you start Austin, Mac, understanding that from a psychological standpoint from a, from an ace in your back pocket standpoint, you don't have the toughest open to the season. They play East Carolina. They go to Kentucky. They got Florida State at home. And then they get into conference playing at South Carolina. Point is, look, we saw last year with BAM up. There is no gimmie. But they should start five and no should start five and no. But if anything goes sideways in any point, I think you want to be able to say, all right, it's time to start Keelan Russell. Like that's, that feels like the start of a new season if you do that. I'm not saying that's the way it'll go, but I think this quarterback battle is plenty competitive enough where that's the way it could go. Camp, I think opens there tomorrow at Tennessee. George McIntyre and Faeson Brandon, my default stance in spring was it's George McIntyre's job to lose. And I still think that's the case. I just think it's razor type because I think Faeson Brandon is going to do a lot in fall camp. And he's only going to get better, but he's going to do a lot in fall camp too. I think challenge there. I think the fallback for Hypo, either way is, hey, we got a pretty good offensive line here. We got a pretty good ground game here. The jury's still out on how good they'll be defensively year one under Jim Knowles. But if you think about the style of team, you're not probably asking either one of these guys throw the ball 50 times a game. You're looking for the best decision maker. You're looking for the guy with the best poise. And if that's a true freshman, by the time week one rolls around, so be it. And you're not married to that decision that you make in week one. But the one that has a lot of people scratching her head right now and I'm with you is Clemson. Top 25 Clemson. The 23rd ranked team in the country, according to the coaches, is in a situation where Chris Vaseen has been there. How many years, Jesse? Three and he has not taken the job yet. And Tate Reynolds is there. And look, I'll be honest, when we went through spring, I listened to the feedback from Clemson and I kind of took this as a cosmetic quarterback battle. That's how I looked at it. We have them every year. But I don't think it is that as we get closer to fall camp open in there, that just feels like a battle where I'd still pick Vaseen to win the job. I just he hasn't taken it yet. And remember, Garrett Riley is not the offensive coordinator there anymore. So you got both guys learn a new system and there's some people around that program that would tell you, hey, Tate Reynolds maybe fits the Chad Morris offense a little better than Chris Vaseen does. It just feels kind of weird. I don't know. I thought that it'd be locked up already. And here's the other thing to keep in mind. They open against LSU at LSU. And that offensive line to be generous, it's probably in the state of flux coming into the year. It's not the place that I would want to go to figure things out. And so whoever gets the start there, you got to keep in mind, it could be rocky in week one to quarterback battles. That's something to watch. The hot seat thing, which I kind of talked about the other night. But since fall camps are opening, it's a good time to just remind everyone. Pete and echoes did a really good job sort of summarizing all this over on on three.com earlier today. Yes, today or today, I saw it this morning. So yes, yes, of course, Mike Norvels on the hot seat at FSU, Dave Miranda at Baylor. Yeah, the whole Bella checked thing at North Carolina, not a lot of sand left in the old hourglass there. I don't think Mike Loxley at Maryland. Yes. Oh man, they do Chris Creighton on here. Hmm, tough times at Eastern Michigan. But that's not who I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to talk to you about Luke Fickle at Wisconsin. So Luke Fickle has had the worst quarterback injury luck of any major head coach over the last few years. Luke Fickle did not do himself any favors with how he filled out his offensive staff when he first got there a few years ago. That's ancient history. Can't do anything about that now. He's tried to rectify it since then. Here's what I'm trying to tell you. Unlike some of these other guys, if Luke Fickle gets fired this year and I were North Carolina or someone like that, I'd go after Luke Fickle in a second. Luke Fickle is not a bad football coach. He got down the wrong road too far. You know, sometimes I look at these situations where maybe you turn down a dead end road and you just don't have enough gas to get back to the main road. But if I could just get this car back to the main road and fill it up a little bit, it'd be fine. It'll run fine. Luke Fickle, all I'm trying to wait and see is did he get down that dead end road too far? And if so, and if he gets fired, Luke Fickle would be in high demand. Like Pate State has an opening. I would very aggressively go after Luke Fickle, but I don't know that's how it ends up this year. You got their schedule, Jesse, by chance, the Wisconsin schedule. I didn't ask for it, but hopefully it's just in the system. I think they may be okay this year. They open it against Notre Dame in Lambo. So I would guess they lose that game and then they're off everyone's radar for a couple of weeks. They play Western Illinois and Eastern Michigan. And then the next time you see them would be at Penn State week four. Now I'm going to tell you right now, Jesse's people have penciled that in as a W. And the only W you should be penciling in is the Wisconsin logo because there's nothing given about that day. You need to be careful. All I'm saying is they do not play Ohio State. They do not play Michigan. I'm having to scan it in real time. They do not play Indiana. They do not play Oregon. Check me on that. But I think that's accurate. It's a far cry from this time last year when we did the strength of schedule rankings, which Rhett Lashley is a huge fan of preseason strength of schedule rankings. And Wisconsin was like a run run away number one without a close number two in the big 10. Things have changed. I think I think Luke Fickle's going to be okay. A lot of people disagree with me on that. Also, the first year head coaches getting ready to open these fall camps, Lane Kiffin, of course, at LSU. Kyle Whittingham is the head coach at Michigan now, which I know is old news, but it's kind of something you have to remind yourself of every now and then because of everything that's happened up there. Matt Campbell, of course, at Penn State, James Franklin at Virginia Tech. Here's what I want to ask you, Jesse and everyone else, because Jesse can't speak for himself. Do any of those guys make the playoff this year? Take Lane out of it. Let's just pretend Lane's a different category. Are we going to have first year head coaches or a head coach singular or plural here in the playoff? I think we're going to. I just don't know who and we're taking Lane out of it again, because that's a different category like Morgan Scali at Utah. He technically is a first year head coach, even though he's been there for a long time. I mean, what if some were all just it all came together for him? What if he made the playoffs? What a Billy Napier at J.M.U. making the playoffs while Florida doesn't would be a poison pill for a lot of people in Gainesville. So yeah, fall camps opening. I'm extremely excited. And then I pull this up. This story in case you can't tell I've moved on. This NCAA suspension of area and Carter, I wanted to wait a couple of days on, because this is a pretty family friendly show. And I don't want to blow up in front of the kiddos. And so Sammy hit us and I'm going to answer this question tonight. He said how much of a joke is the NCAA for suspending area and Carter for a plane ticket? Don't they have better things to be working on? Great question. No, they don't. There's no other rule that they have on the books that they can actively enforce. So this is kind of what it's come down to. They have to lick the old index finger and flip past the first 19 chapters of the NCAA bylaws. And they get down to something they think maybe they won't get taken to court over. And this kid let an agent pay $400 for a plane ticket. Put him in prison. Put him. Get him out of here. Put him in prison. So what happened here for those of you who haven't been following this story and think that this is a joke? It is, but it isn't. Terry and Carter, really good player for Tennessee. He tested the NFL waters and what happened was he had an agent cause everyone does now. And that agent purchased him a $427 plane ticket. We don't know if it was round trip or not. And then he decided not to go to the NFL and he paid back the $427 to the agent case closed, except that it's not because the NCAA got a win of this. And they were like finally something for us to do. And they came down hard. Aryan Carter and they suspended him three games actually and Tennessee appealed the ruling and I think the appeal was something like you can't be serious and the NCAA said, "Okay, fine." Two game suspension and apparently that's where we are right now and here's what's wild. What's wild and again, I'm about to speak in pure hypotheticals because there's no way that the purely hypothetical scenario that I'm about to paint would ever actually happen. If Aryan Carter's agent would have just gone and charged Tennessee a $40,000 consultation fee and then handed a lot of that money to Aryan Carter would be fine. Again, not that that ever happens in the real world, strictly hypothetical but no, no, no, in steady bought the kid a 400, let's round up to 500, why not? About a $500 plane ticket, prison, prison or suspension, whatever comes first. So, Josh Hyple spoke on this today and I said this is a family friendly show but there is going to be some language mixed into this sound bite and I did not have Bradley and crew edit it for content because it's just too accurate. So they asked Josh Hyple at his first press conference of fall camp today, "What's the latest here? How do we feel about the Aryan Carter suspension?" And here's just a bunch of facts from Josh Hyple. The ruling that came out from the NCAA, the two games suspension, I truly believe is bullshit. You look at the landscape of college football, the rules from NIL, everything. I think the ruling is completely outdated. But it's a rule, Josh. It don't you know, it's a rule even if you don't like the rule. You got to enforce the rules, hey, did you know that it's illegal to coast down a hill in the state of Tennessee? Did you know that it's illegal to shine shoes after 1 p.m. on Sunday in New York State? Be careful. Did you know that, Jesse? I didn't either. You know why? Because there are some laws that we collectively as a society have understood are laughable and we don't enforce them. The NCAA is not familiar with this concept whatsoever. And so, they're still enforcing 1997 logic based ruling in 2026. Do you understand there are teams paying over $40 million to their roster this year? Legally. You can't do anything about it. And Aryan Carter said, maybe I want to go be a professional athlete, $427 plane ticket. Oh, actually you weren't supposed to give me that. Let me pay it back suspension. Here's why I can't be a head coach and this is really the only reason I'm not a college football head coach. I'd play him anyway. That's why I can't be a head coach because if I'm Josh Hyple, I don't really care what my legal team tells me. I don't care if my AD tells me, truthfully, Danny White would probably be on board with me doing this. I'm like, Aryan, you're in week one. Just say what happens because clearly when you step to the podium and you talk that way about the governing body of the sport, you don't have any respect for them. No one has any respect for them. In fact, I know Tennessee is going to be playing at home week one. Tennessee could play on the road. Tennessee could probably play in Tuscaloosa. I think it was, oh man, who was it? It was Andy Staples, I believe, but I can't remember which show, but they floated a scenario the other day. And if you were to take this to trial in a Gainesville courthouse or a Tuscaloosa courthouse, Tennessee would probably even win there because that's how egregious this is. So it couldn't be me. You want to know why Josh Hyple gets paid a lot of money. It's not even because he can dial up game plans. Well, it's because he has to just like grit his teeth and deal with this nonsense. And yet Tennessee's still going to be probably pretty good this year. But if you don't believe that, you can go to Fandall right now and prove me wrong. Fandall, the exclusive odds provider of our show, several games are up over there now. Like some of you love to go old school, you just love to bet the games. Others of you say, no, I think I want to go bet no on Texas tech making the playoffs. Or yes, on Oklahoma state making the playoffs. Look, I don't care because wins or wins. So value is value. 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LSU wins the national championship. This is from tweeting an Elon until he gives me 1 million legal name. So this is a 9.5, but it's not insane to think LSU could win the national title. Yes there is a lot that has to come together for them, but you know my philosophy on this. If you're predicting a single team to win the national title from this far out, it's like trying to sink a half court shot. The rim is the same size as if you were shooting a layup. The ball is the same size, but just the percentages drop significantly. Big basketball guy. So if they get in the playoff, then obviously it's a game changer for two reasons. Number one, because you're in the playoff, which you have to be to win the national title, but number two, if they're there, that means it all worked. So like you felt, if you tell me LSU is going to get in the playoff, that's kind of like Miami making it last year. That's Miami made it in anything's possible, but they've got to make it. And I know by SEC standards, this is a workable schedule, but it's still a hard schedule. So give me a 9.5 on them winning the whole thing because even if they make the playoff, they're going to have to play two or three of the best in the country and that's just tough, not impossible, but tough. Next up, Jared from Mechanicsburg PA, Penn State wins all of its games and route to Matt Campbell's first playoff appearance so close a couple of years ago. This is a 9.5. Remember Penn State is not at schedule. Penn State is a team who plays at schedule and they're over under win totals nine and a half right now, but we're calling for them to go 12 and oh, I believe in Matt Campbell implicitly. Some say I got him hired, not me, but some, but do they win everything they should? So let's take a look at their schedule. Do they win all the games they should? You know, the marshals and temples and buffaloes is a, this is a, man, I forgot. I haven't looked at their schedule in a while. This is Indiana-esque. This is pretty rough, but that's okay. It goes to the big 10, man. No one gets to take shots at the big 10 right now. It's so comforting having that patch on your chest. Anyway, eventually they will be less than a 5 touchdown favorite when Wisconsin comes to town. These are games they're supposed to win though, Minnesota and Rutgers later in the year at Maryland. So Purdue, if we are to assume they win all the games they're supposed to, that gives them to about nine and oh, and then we got USC at Michigan and at Washington. Those are the three games that are still in a state of balance here and I just got a tough time seeing this. I also have a tough time assuming that the schedule is going to be as big a cake walk outside of those three as other people are suggesting, just cause that's not how the sport works. So that's a nine and a half, 12 and an open state though, would be very entertaining because that means they're going to the big 10 title game and who knows what happens there, but they're in the playoff either way. [BLANK_AUDIO] If they make it that far, next up, we have some controversy out of Lynchburg, Virginia in the ACC SMU wins their first ACC championship before Miami. I don't like it. I love it. I'm not picking it, but I love the, I love the spirit of this prediction. It's a 9.25, Jesse, you thought I should go higher, right? You didn't think I should go higher? You think this is accurate at 9.25? But you don't think it's, you think it's bold, but it's not insane. This goes you doubt Miami's ability to ever win a conference title. They haven't. They haven't won it yet. Cursed? Did you say that? I didn't say that. Cursed? Wow. Miami is the overwhelming odds on favorite to win this league right now, but you know what? That doesn't mean much. I think they're going to win the league, but that doesn't mean much either. In a one-off scenario, Kevin Jennings gets hot. He beat Miami last year, mind you. These teams played last year. We were there. We were on the field. They're in Dallas and it was, it was like a rainy game early. Then it was complete blue skies second half. We talked about George Bush that day, senior. So it was an eventful day there in Dallas. Look, here's what I want to point out. This is a big time schedule alert, red flag, double warning situation. Look at SMU schedule right now. It's on your screen. You're listening on podcast. This can't happen. How do you let this happen? SMU plays at Notre Dame, November 21st. They then play at Stanford, November 28th, back to back road games to end the year. And if they're in the conference title game, that means it's a third straight road game because they have to play it in Charlotte. So think about being in Dallas. You fly to South Bend and back. You fly to Palo Alto, California and back and then you fly to Charlotte and back. This could have happened to Miami last year. The ACC schedule makers had Miami playing back to back road games to end the year last year. But Miami just said, okay, a little work around here. Let's just not make the conference title game and still play for a national title. But this, this prediction says SMU wins the ACC. So on top of probably playing Miami, they're going to have to play Miami and beat them having been on the road three times in three weeks. That's hard. I changed my mind. Jesse. It's a 9.5. I'm going to bump it up to a nine point schedule dynamics. I'm going to bump it up to a 9.5. And lastly, this will raise some eyebrows, taco cat from West Chester, PA, Indiana will 100% not make the playoffs this year. There's not a lot of wiggle room at 100%. I think this is a 9.25 because here's really what it takes. Indiana has a dog water out of conference schedule. So if they lose two conference games, throw the schedule up, Bradley, whoever punches that thing in there, let's just walk through this for a second. Let's say Indiana goes 10 and 2 because they're not going to be bad, but let's say they go 10 and 2. Their losses, let's just say our Ohio State USC, we're like Ohio State at Michigan. But my point is let's say the teams they beat like USC in Washington, let's say those end up not being good teams this year. So there's not really signature wins to hang their hat on and they get docked for playing North Texas. Some do name Howard and Western Kentucky and out of conference play and it's like Vandy last year. It was 10 and 2, but it was just a log jam of teams and they get left out. Now, it's really tough to envision this. I know because you've got the, I don't believe in defending national champ, but you've got last year's national champ being left out if they're on the bubble. But that is kind of the way this could go. I still think it's unlikely. So I'm going to make this a 9 and a quarter. But if they do get left out, that's how I think that would happen. It showed a night in case you can't tell we are back to 3 shows per week and that will last until January. So we're locked in. Do me a quick favor, check and see if you're subscribed to the channel. If you are, thank you. If you think you are and or if you're not, just look and subscribe because it's free and it doesn't cost anything. It doesn't sign you up for anything. It just helps us. And so we always get a big influx of new audience this time of year. So we just kind of want to keep the show the same as it's always been and we want to keep that indefinitely. So subscribing to the channel helps us out. Appreciate you guys so much. We'll be back here Thursday night. Until then, for a director, Bradley producer, Jesse, I'm Josh Pate. Have a great rest of your evening and God bless. 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