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T Bob hebert I apologize my mistake and big enough is here as is Liam Blutman working the phones over there desperately trying to get an offensive coordinator or special teams coach at UCLA I don't know what he's doing I'm doing my job of doing social media and doing more for this podcast on the twitters and the Instagrams. Yes well he's got to promote the podcast after two about Lane Kiffing and paid 500 K because Ole Miss just beat Georgia Bud that is crazy shot at LSU yeah shout out LSU for coming we pay we pay our guy can after all season being told that LSU had no money to even go out and get another coach that's crazy. Yeah shout out Lane Kiffin for tricking somebody else into paying and money for something somebody else is doing anyway I had a plan. Coming in here I decided the game order we were going to go in were the teams that impressed me the most and we had four playoff games and I think all four winners in their own way were remarkably. And almost transcendently impressive but I'd be remiss I'd be stupid I mean idiot if I didn't start with the game that was the best game of this round was the best game of this playoff that was the best game we've seen in a while. And it is my arch rival the Ole Miss Rebels winning the sugar bowl beating Georgia and advancing to the cultural playoff some of finals I put aside my petty hatred and my my life long disdain for everything that is that school and you gotta you gotta call a spade of spade you gotta be realistic here this team this program just stare down Kirby smart and Georgia in a playoff that's hard to do by the way we're brought to you by twisted D. Thank you very much twisted T for sponsoring this podcast I'll start with you Casey I'm I'm a hater to my core but I gotta give a clap what that was an incredible game. Yeah and everything about it from start to finish and I know we all were saying it collectively online we needed that game to be that way after the last three games especially the ones today and just the way that these two teams played in October you kind of had a sense that something could happen like this but the fact that it came down the way the game ended alone. Was just an absolute shit show it was a clown show different coaching decisions Kirby's fate punt the way Trinidad Shamblis played there's so many different ways you can look at this game but that type of game especially knowing that these two teams played such a good game earlier in the season is why the playoff was created to love the way that we do that was fucking awesome from start to finish. Uh T Bob you know you got there you got their coach the most out of focus man I've ever seen in my life um give me some focus on this game though yeah look uh I so we'll talk like as right as I was about Indiana I could not have been more wrong about this old Miss Georgia game I consistently said throughout the entire of the week that Ole Miss was dead in the water. Georgia figured to me out in the second half they don't have their head coach and and it looked like it like that's what we that's what can't get lost here right there was nothing fluky about this Ole Miss win it wasn't like they jumped out to an early lead and then we're kind of holding on for dear light know the complete opposite it looked like Georgia was in complete control they in or half up big it felt like okay George about to run away with this thing and what did this Ole Miss team do they stood up and beat down one of if not these. The best second half team in the entire country for 30 minutes straight and they even overcame the unbelievable Miss face mass they overcome uh a pass interference and you could argue was questionable like it was a just really balls to the wall tough performance from Ole Miss and it all starts with Trinidad that's a bit that's a little bit pointless that guy is the ultimate gamer he said it in his post game he just absolutely stood on his head tonight so if you're a rebel fan man bask in this enjoy this because you earned every single bit of the emotion that you are feeling tonight. and by the way chat I see you say it already big F's gonna have his time to talk about the Ohio State game or what the fuck whatever the fuck that was and we're not gonna judge big F for being an online bitch and retweeting himself saying that oh you said I was going to semifinal because we're paid to predict things and sometimes we're wrong and by the way fuck you great game by Ole Miss. you know unbelievable game it was game of the year that's the game of the year with a stamp on it yeah I mean some of the plays that he made in the second half just unbelievable I mean you want to talk about a guy putting the team on his back like that was it right there I mean unbelievable it was one of those where you lost that and you're like how is that guy not at the highest one ceremony where was that guy where I mean because he really he did that all year and and we're think I just want to get this out because it's been on my mind. it's crazy obviously obviously Simmons starts the earth the starter you give Lane some credit because this the second in a row where he had a guy like the year before he had Jackson dark he brought in Spencer Sanders not that he needed him but this kind of business I'm oh like hey have that second guy just in case and I mean look where got him now I mean another 500 thousand dollar check they're in the final four obviously he's not there but it was just something I wanted to bring up but I mean just unbelievable I mean look at this kid I mean he was playing division two last year. And after thought they're talking about maybe he's going to get to come do some packages some running plays and here he is like arguably the best player in the country unbelievable consciousness unbelievable yeah now I listen he's a guy and this is 100% it'll tonight Pete you old and coach that team but tonight was an example of how good a coach Lane Kiffin is because nobody in the world was going to fair state and getting this guy nobody nobody I had this guy on their radar nobody and he and he plucked him. And he groomed him and he played him and then bam the whole world opens up and this is not the this is just a remarkable story seems like a remarkable guy Blutman as Matt as I want to be I can't even muster myself being very mad right now because I just again go clap to him well you also hate Georgia we just watch time time Blutman you're going to get your tent chance to talk the what the fuck are you talking about I mean you do hate Georgia too what what do you mean. Time I'm in time right now yeah I'm doing the Curry smart okay you got to get the reference bra clapping for me okay I hate everybody I don't like anybody like I hate Ole Miss well no I know but it's not like you're it's against a team that you also don't hate you know it'd be different if it was like a team that you don't feel as much hatred towards go ahead Blutman I'm sorry I just wanted to point that out well also crap to Charlie wise for finding train that shambles through Twitter clips so big crap to Charlie white junior uh yeah I mean we just watched and actually what LSU legend sorry okay for we finally we watch the immaculate college football playoff game in this format that brought tears to some of our eyes that was unbelievable from start to finish in true college football fashion there was excellence in goofiness on display for a 60 minute period I mean heck a few seconds extra if we want to do extra time like soccer the set the stage was out there not once but twice with the uh end of games shenanigans the ice from the gatorade bath was all over the field that's a bit of a lisp uh trea that shambles was genuinely Superman today the dry that he has three back to back to back, game changing, game breaking, unbelievable place that he just plugs out thin air and like, yeah, Evan's right, he should have been talked about and discussed about more as a Heisman favorite. Yeah, Q on Lacey who is doing the BTA multiple times, even when they're losing, there was a certain swagger in confidence that Ole Miss exuded tonight that Georgia really didn't match. And I think we saw a major coaching mistake at the end of the game there when Georgia has the ball on third and goal and they're calling the pass play. I get you an extent, but if you call the run, you've sought away all the time. Ole Miss can't stop the clock and you are guaranteeing yourself for overtime. I didn't understand that from smart. I think Bobo called another future game. Well, Bobo was terrible. He's predictable. He's an old fashioned. I will say on that last throw, gunner Stockton threw it to the wrong guy. The receiver slanting in from the other from the left side got open in the back of the end zone. He threw it to the wrong guy. He threw it to the tight end. He was gunner throw it to the tight end the whole time. But you're exactly right. I thought it in the moment. If they run the ball, even if they get stopped right there, there go 40 seconds. You tied the game. You're going to overtime. You take your chances. As soon as you give, turn it at a chance. Push the ball back with 56 seconds, the game's over and they got him to third and five and then he makes, they blitz him, he sees it, sees one on one, drops it in the fucking bucket. This is one of the best calls for a quarterbacks for saying a long time and I feel like I did a poor job this year giving him the credit he deserves because and along with everybody. He just singlehandedly pretty much won a playoff game over the Georgia Bulldogs. Now again, Bobo for Georgia is fucking terrible offensive coordinator. Almost all their plays. Oh miss was scheming open plays. Almost all the Georgia plays that were successful were great individual efforts. So I just, I hate it. I hate that we're sitting here doing this. I don't like it. But whatever. Well, it is crazy. When you look at the end of the game like that, like if you would have said, you know, and obviously we know how good Trinidad and Champlice has been all year. But I think again, everybody sitting here watching is like has Kirby smart and this staff not watched how he's played all night. How do you give him the ball back with almost a minute left knowing how easy it's been for him to go up and down the field? And obviously he's the number one guy, but like he won Lacey too. He had an unbelievable night. Just everything that they did offensively was just so good. And I know that the big stories can be like, well, Lane's not there. He's at LSU. He's holding hands with Kim Mulkey walking in a basketball game tonight like it's all whatever. But like this staff, they then being there has made the biggest difference. And that's why Ole Miss letting them come back to coach is why it was so important. Because you're seeing this team really believe in everything they had with or without Lane. I know. Oh, sorry. You got it. You got it. I think you're all right on the third and goal call if you're playing for overtime. But if you're playing for the win, what they did make sense, right? You go for the win and then Ole Miss has no time out soon. They have to go score a touchdown and they probably aren't able to get that done. But the third and five call is also interested in me playing the press coverage. But I don't even mean that as a criticism against the decordinator. I mean, I get it. You're Georgia. You got dogs. You want to trust your dogs. I more highlight it. And just again, the playmaking ability and the balls of Shameless. And I apologize. I can't remember who caught my brains right. I can't remember who caught the ball. It was tripping on the final play. But like just the, I love seeing guys. Looking on the line, gotta have a play. Right read is made. It's one V fucking one with all your life's work on the line and you go and you make the play. Like that shit excites me. That's the most fun part about sports. So what a job by those two and then what a job by Canaro. Fucking Lucas Canaro. Are you kidding me? Three field goals, two of the longest in his own career and insurable history that knocks down the game winner like it was nothing again, heroic efforts all over the field in this game tonight. We now have a final four that has no Ohio State, no Alabama, no Georgia. It has Ole Miss, Miami, Oregon, and the Indiana Hoosers. Looking aside how pissed off I am that Ole Miss is there, a pretty phenomenal, phenomenal turn of events for the final four to produce these four all feel like new money. I mean, Oregon's been to two national titles in the last 15 years but they never won one. Miami hasn't been in this spot in 23 years. Ole Miss has never won a national title and then Indiana has also never won a national title. So like, here we are. If you wanted something new and exciting and different, the NIL, the transfer portal and the playoff have all combined to now give us this incredible world and I was saying that with the Ohio State fans sitting right there, if you could put that aside for a second, it's a pretty good turn of events for college football. Yeah, I mean, it definitely shuts up all the people that are like, "Oh, it's always the same teams like Cooley Knott." I mean, the formats change everything, NILs change everything. It's even the playing field completely. You're seeing teams like Ole Miss spend some money in Indiana, maybe not spend as much money but be very smart with their money. I mean, make the right choices. Mendoza, like, phenomenal pick, obviously, to leave the team and just a great culture. Then Miami as well. Miami spread them. I mean, it was all mocked about Carson Beck, $4 million, blah, blah, blah. They needed, he's a veteran, whatever you think about Carson Beck. And maybe he hasn't been the reason specifically that they've won these games, but I mean, I thought he played an incredibly smart, tough game against us. I mean, he picked up first downs with his legs when he needed it. He got the ball out fast and kind of took away our rush. So I mean, clearly, I mean, it's open, the playing field wide open. And even it's ironically, you look at Elaine where he left kind of because he didn't think he'd win an actual title. And here is his own team is on the doorstep of doing it without him. Well, and that's, I was going to ask you, Brandon, because I mean, obviously we've had this conversation throughout, you know, the last couple of years and even this year when you looked at, you know, Kurt Signetti not going to Penn State and Lane making the decision to go to LSU, like this is now proving because we are going to have a new national champion team. This is now proving that you don't have to go to one of those blue blood quote names, one of those brand names to win a national title because now you have these four teams. And yes, Miami has had their heyday. There's no doubt. Oregon's been there. Getting it Indiana and Ole Miss in the final four and a couple of months ago, everyone was like, well, Lane can't win it Ole Miss Kurt Signetti can't win it Indiana. And they're now in the final four and that's why I've said along the way, it's like it's not like it used to be. You don't have to go to these brand name schools to win a national title and we're like seeing it physically play out in the same year we have those conversations. Casey, do some business and then we will start digging into the other teams and unpack this whole thing. Half Kings, we all know Draft Kings, it's a new year, 2026, that means the gambling luck. It's hopefully starting over for everybody, okay? 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The Indiana Hoosiers 38 Alabama 3 and dare I say, it wasn't that close for all the for everything I just said, the newness, the then I L, the transfer portal, a new day in college football. I want you to just I'm going to say a sentence and let's just all in just react to it. Today we watched the Indiana Hoosiers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide 38 to three in a playoff game. And it wasn't that my, my stupid prediction, notwithstanding, it wasn't that surprising to people. That's a crazy part. That's a crazy part. That's a crazy part. T Bob called it. T Bob nailed that game to a tee. He nailed that game to the wall like he said and is something that I just gave Alabama too much credit. I fucked up on this one, because Indiana doesn't make a mistake every play works. They just execute everything perfectly. And T Bob, you nailed this game better than I did. Go ahead. Well, and again, I don't, I don't want to be like, I knew this game because again, I was the complete opposite in this last game we just talked about. I was, I could not have been more wrong in that game. The only thing I'll say about this Indiana team is, and it's been a consistent thing with them all year long, even going into Ohio State game. We just, I think we still think of them as being plucky, but they're really talented. I mean, the offensive line is dominant. They have the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback. They have NFL skill guys and all this skill was like, like the only group that I think of as plucky and that I can't fully understand how good they are is the undersized defensive line. like I still don't know how they're so deadly effective, so consistently in every phase of the game where they appear smaller than the defense, but it's like, I guess my point is you combine all of that talent with a the just highest functioning, executing team, one of the highest that I've ever seen. And what you saw at Indiana today isn't the exception. It's been the rule this year. I mean, outside of the blip against Penn State, and really, I'm not even going to hold them to the Iowa fire as much outside of the game against Penn State when they have the incredible drive. This is who they have been for the better part of two years now at this point. And it's just, it's, it's another just massive credit to Kurt Signetti and his ability to win and, and to his credit, this is who he has been as a head coach Brandon on every single level of football that he's been a head coach at. All he has done is win. So shout out to Indiana, this is a very flawed, underperformer and under executing Alabama team. Indiana perfectly suited to exploiting them. Look, you cannot be one dimensional and go against the team of Indiana's caliber. And that's what Alabama is. They could not run the ball all year long and it bit them in the ass again today. I mean, you say that and that's fine. They dominate them in every single facet of the game like it's running, throwing the other defense and like every single part of Indiana, I guess, I guess what I'm saying is like when you have a team like Indiana that's already so incredible. And then you provide, it's like serving up meat to a lion when they have a team that is easy to manipulate because they, they're so, because they only do this one thing well. Like that's so easy for Indiana to beat. Jason. Yes, sir. Thoughts on Indiana? Oh, I didn't know you, you act like you were going to have a question. No, I mean, this, you said it perfectly. They play a perfect game from start to finish and this is, you know, and it is one of those things where you look at Fernando Mendoza and it's like, yeah, he's a Heisman trophy winner. And then you see all year going into it, it was like, well, this isn't really a great Heisman trophy class. Like, yeah, he's the winner. They won the big 10. They beat Ohio State and the big 10 championship. Let's give it to him. This guy is nails. Like everything about this team after they beat Ohio State and the big 10 championships. Like, well, they celebrated a little too much. They've not been battle tested. They haven't had the loss. I've been punched in the mouth and they just come out and then now they are, they broke the spell of being the first team with a buy to actually get a win. And I know it's only been two years, but just everything about this Indiana team is playing out perfectly and see how quickly Kurt Signetti has done this. It just makes sense because everything he did from last year to this year, all the criticism they got with the scheduling, which was fair last year. He went out and got the guys he needed to. And then you watch Fernando Mendoza play. It's like, I don't know how anybody that's not playing him could hate watching him play. He's unbelievable and he's just so disciplined and then he has the great interviews. It should be really hard to hate this Indiana team at all and you have to give all credit in the world to Kurt Signetti because that's what he's built at Indiana in two short years. Big out there from your conference and now they look, uh, it's just unbelievable what they've done. It's unbelievable. I mean, no, they're the team to be. I mean, they just don't have a flaw like they don't have a hole that you can pick on. And I think all the other teams do like, I mean, Ohio State, you saw it got exposed. The offensive line had struggles. I mean, saying there's a young young inexperienced quarterback who's rattled like they're just so good and ever. I mean, they block well. They tackle well like they get out to the passer. They have elite wide receivers. They have an elite tough quarterback that can run a little bit too like they just have everything. I mean, they have the best coach in the country like they just check every single box. Um, and I think he's not a team like Alabama like they had never seen a defense like that even close all year because obviously some of the offense look great. They went up and down the field and obviously they scored a million points, but it was just the way they just suffocated them. Uh-huh. And I mean, they couldn't, they couldn't do anything like they had never seen a defense like that all year. They not only check every box big out. They check every box on every play like like they, they, they, they're never in longer than like third and three. Third, Amanda said you said they block well, right? It's not just that they block well. The running backs always pick the right hole, the, the, the, the whole might be six inches wide. They always get through it. If the play is designed to go into this one specific gap, that's where the fuck it is going. And it's going to work. Mendoza, if it's third and four, he's either going to roll out, throw a perfect pass to a receiver or he's going to pick it up with his feet. And then at the end of the game, you want to say, say, no, he has an unlikeable edge to him. But that's what put him in the spot, but then they put the mic in front of his mother fucking quarterback. And he said, oh, I, oh, I'm Brandon, you're, you're my cutoff, you're my cutoff. Nope. You're so muted. You're so muted. I don't know how you did that. Uh-huh. I love, I love every time Fernando Mendoza doesn't interview. I know people talk shit about him at the Heisman ceremony. I thought that was incredible. Incredible. He's the anti-povia. He is, he is, he is the anti everything of the age. You're good. Go ahead, Brandon. Test. You're good now. You're good. Go ahead. No, you finished your thought. My thought was they put a mic in front of this motherfucker at the end. He just goes into politic in mode and he's like looking into the camera. He's the most likable thing you've ever seen in your life. He's like, hey, what about that game? He's like, well, first of all, I would like to give honor and glory to God. I would like to give honor and glory to my wonderful opponents. I would love to give honor and glory to you. Your earrings are beautiful, by the way. Like, he's just, he's incredible. Did you, did you hear, did you, my, my mom could not stop talking about that apparently, like, he asked whoever it may be at the Heisman Trust that he could get bios of every single Heisman winner that was going to be there. He's the first ever one that's done that to like go so he could know, like, details about every single other winner. I'm like, of course, his kid did like everything he does is great. Like he's just, I love him on Christmas Eve. He brought, he's a very Catholic man on Christmas Eve. He brought the Heisman trophy in an Amazon box to his church so that the, the fathers could all see a Heisman trophy as a little Christmas gift to his, to his priests. He's, he's, he's, he's unreal, dude. I'm gonna fly right now. It's not fake. It's sincere. And, and you say he's the anti-pavia. He's the anti-everything, the age that we live in. An age defined by cynicism and anger and being too cool. And all this kid is, is fucking nice and sincere and genuine. And I fucking love him. And he and his brother doing the little rose thing together. It's just so cute. He's cute. What, man, you get a chance to talk about this game. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, we'll get to the highest day because I don't think I've ever been more wrong about anything in my, in my life than them. But I don't think I've ever regretted anything more in my life than, I don't know if bailing is the right term to use, but being so in on Indiana last year and then not rolling right back with them, thinking that they could contend for a national championship last year and not believing in them from the jump this year. I've had so many thoughts about today, just second guessing things and like that's brutal. But you guys hit the nail on the head. When you watch this team, they are, they're like Brandon Walker playing NCAA football and freshman mode. They are so attentive to detail and they are so precise in every single facet of the sport. Brandon Walker, when you're hyping up your virtual players, nobody does a better job at pre-gaming than you, except for Kurt Signetti. When you're making reads, pre-snap, nobody does a better job of you in the RPO game than Fernando Mendoza. They are exceptional in every love. How many times see Bob Diaz go to you and I was like, you, you see that blocking on that point? They don't miss any. It's unbelievable that you guys talk about on defense. They swarm. They gain tackle. They gain tackles so well, it's like tackles. They don't miss tackles, they don't drop footballs, they, they don't miss blocks. They don't miss gaps in the running game like, it's unbelievable. May I interject here for one second just because you're setting this up so perfectly? You're right. They don't do any of those things. They don't miss tackles. They don't miss assignments. They don't do anything to get you beat. You're exactly right. You know who does and you know who didn't? Alabama used to not do those things either. Alabama used to have the attention to detail and now Alabama's missing tackles, Alabama's getting their ass blocked. They're soft. Alabama has turned into a soft and the attention to detail is gone. They are a, that was a joke. You can lose to Indiana. That's fine. There's no shame in that. It's great. Being that toothless in that dominated like they, they fell behind 17 of the Oklahoma and caught up. They fell behind 17 nothing and went to the locker room today. They just fucking quit and something happened to Ty Simpson in about middle of October. Yeah. And I don't know what happened, but he has not been the same sense. He was flat out awful today and I'm not just talking about, I mean, he wasn't making reads. He was scared to throw it. He was awful. They were scared. And that's just Indiana. No, but he's been like that. I mean, I understand that, you know, they beat Oklahoma, but going back to the preview of that game, like nobody was really that impressed with Oklahoma, either. I mean, Liam, you said Mizzou, like what broke him? Like, when you go back and you look at that. is back cracked against Masoo. - Hmm. - Oz. - So you just think he's played-- - No pause. - No pause, there's a clip. There's a clip. He got his back blown to smithereens against the blue. - Oh my God. - You know who got his back cracked eight times tonight? Fucking gunner stocked and turns out rolling out and dumping it at the last second makes big plays. It's not a sustainable play to play off. - It's gonna happen. - Also jumping while you throw it. - So he got fucking hurt. - Major hits. Oh my God. - People would be dead if they got hit like that. - Oh. - You know, the biggest star of today, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't Fernando Mendoza. It wasn't trying to outchambus. It was T-bop. - No, I just don't. - T-bop. - If you wanna say T-bop guys, stop it. - Oh my God. - If you wanna say T-bop, maybe there's a asshole. - No. - T-bop. - How in the world does a grown man not know that's happening? - I gasped, I texted him immediately. He was like, you need to turn around and tell him to get his shit together now. - Casey, it's one thing to have a hole in your pants. But do you have a hole in your pants and underwear in the same location? - No. - No. - I don't know what it is. I've looked at the picture a lot. - Are you an adult? Like how does this happen? - I, look, I got, I knew the, okay, to be fair guys. I knew the pants had holes in them. I got thick thighs, they rubbed together. Every pair of jeans that I bought this summer have holes in them now. I was not aware of the under-added holds in them. So that's on me. You gotta toss underwear once they get the hole in it. And normally on Wub, whatever shows we do, you can get away with it. So it's not a big deal. That gambling couch is an unforgiving angle. And it just, it just, it promotes brown eye. And it caught me at a bad time. I wish Oldie was saying next to you. - I would like to thank my brother in Christo, Brandon Walker, because my man had emergency pants ready to go, very expensive, very nice pants that he allowed me. And I've heard of a man giving somebody the shirt off his back, but never the pants out of his car. So thank you, Brandon. That was very kind. - The fact that you are on a podcast with two fat loads like me and Big F and Casey Smith, and you're the first person to ever show the asshole on camera is fucking shocking. It is shocking. - I would also like to point out not just this podcast, like just in barstool in general. Like he's like, oh, my legs rubbed together. I get holes in my pants. I don't know. Here's my asshole for the internet to see. It's crazy. - Who is a, you know, it's pretty disastrous guys. I'm not gonna lie, I think. - I have a question. I have a question. How did you not feel it? Like. - I did a lot of people are asking. I guess I've been wearing holes in my pants for so long that I forgot what it feels like to not have a hole. - Your legs are spread open. Like did you not get a draft on your ass? - And when I tell you, I could feel the blood drain from my face when I reached my fingers down and felt skin to skin. - I mean, that was a terrifying moment, truly terrifying moment. - All right. - Whatever, I'm take Bob now. It's okay, it's okay. It is what is, you know, we make our beds. We have to lie to them. - Forgive it is time. It is time. Last night, the Miami Hurricanes go on the road, not on the road. The Miami Hurricanes face the Ohio State Buck guys, nine and a half point dogs. Miami takes control from the start, gets out to a 14 nothing lead, ends up holding on to the end, wins by 10 points, physically, up front, dominating Ohio State to a level. I'm not sure anybody on this show, and maybe any other show in the country thought they could do. Miami barely got this playoff. They were the last team in this playoff. Now they're in the final four, after ending the reign of the defending national champions, this show has an Ohio State Superfan. His name is Big F and he will talk now. - I mean, yeah, it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. I think the biggest surprise to me, I mean, it definitely wasn't their defensive line, playing well. I think to me, honestly, it was day having the team so under-prepared. So I think that's one thing I've given him to play in the past. When he said extra time, they haven't lost these playoff games due to lack of preparation. And this was the first time I think that generally happened. They weren't ready for it. Like even immediately, like first drive, they are left side is much stronger than our right side. They immediately have a new starter on the right side at guard. They immediately tack the right side. They have us in hell. I mean, saying was rattled instantly. It took him a while to get out of that. And now I don't even, even he got a little bit of rhythm in the second half, but he still never fully got comfortable. I mean, the defense overall played well. Obviously, listen, we needed one stop at the end of the game. They couldn't get it, but I don't, I feel a little, we are putting the blame on them 'cause the offense was the blame. 14 points is not enough. It's just simply not enough. When you have a Jeremiah Smith, Cornell T on your offense, even a Max Claire incredible talented tight end. Like when you have guys like that on the outside, you can only score 14 points. That's a disaster. And it was because they neglected things like the offensive line. They didn't invest as much as they need to in that. I don't know if they're not blaming it on the kicker, but the kicker definitely didn't help anything. The fact that we just don't add, just have not had a competent kicker for years, is a massive problem, it's caused us national titles. And deeper runs, no, it's just embarrassing. I mean, they just have played us like they, there was nothing really to say like it, some other ones I've had in the past last few years, it's felt worse because it was like, we should have won that game. And listen, you can argue like they had opportunities in the second half, they had the ball down three. Like they could have went and won the game. And they just didn't, they just couldn't get it done. Couldn't block well enough. Yeah, and saying it was rattle then. I think also a big thing, saying being zero threat, like a total non-factor with his legs, I think it's becoming, it became a problem. And it was a glaring hole that hadn't really come up. And you saw Carson back to it, do it to us, who's not a runner, but they said, hey, when you need to go run and get three, four yards, go pick up a first down, go do it, saying just as completely incapable of that. I think in college that is a problem. Like you see, Mendoza, even though it's greater with throwers years, he can go pick up a first down, the shambles is electric. Like you said, he saw back to it. Dante Moore obviously can do it. And I think it was a massive, massive problem. Him being so young, it's such a gifted thrower that I think it was something we overlooked. And even I think he even kind of took for granted, I like Will Howard, who was super veteran, you could design runs for him. Maybe he isn't the prolific arm talent that Julian Sayon is, but he's a fucking gamer, he's a dog. And I think we missed that. I think we missed that as a leader of our team. Like we've got Caleb Downs, who's an incredible leader, but I think we missed that immensely at quarterback, not having a guy like that. He really could rally around. And yeah, they just kicked our ass. They were just better yesterday. They were better. It's funny you say that, 'cause in this job we, we all do a lot of shows, right? And so we all talk about these games multiple times, a multiple different shows. And so you're constantly kind of evolving your ideas in the game. And I don't think we talk about this in the pod, yesterday or Wednesday, we're doing Wub and me and Brandon are talking, and that's the exact question that something popped into my head like. Did we, like, are we just taking it for granted that Julian Sayon's going to be able to do what Will Howard did in one of the most legendary playoff runs we've ever seen when Howard had the legs, and he had the experience of Sayon does not. And he couldn't, and again, Sayon's put in a tough spot there because anytime, how do you beat any elite quarterback throughout football history? Consistent four-man pass rush. Like anybody would have struggled with what Ruben Bain was doing to that offensive line. It's just that when combined with what you were saying, Sayon's youth and lack of legs, well then you're just dead in the water. And this is an Ohio State offense that three times played elite defenses. And in those three opportunities did not look like the offense that they did every other week of the season. - Yeah, I mean, to me, the shocking part was how immediate the domination was. Like they ended up leaving 14, nothing after the pick six, but you could just tell that front of Miami with Ruben Bain and Mesodora, like they were just so fucking locked in from the very beginning. And Julian Sayon, I'm just going to say it. I think I did a poor job of realizing Ohio State started this season with a 14-point effort against Texas. They ended it with a 10-point effort against Indiana. They didn't play any defenses in between. They just didn't. There was a big gap. And I should have noticed, we also noticed that when the good defenses showed up, they had problems. And Miami had a fucking great defense. And they looked fantastic. Carson Beck, Fletcher, I'd like more, CJ Daniels was good. Like they got enough playmakers on offense. They can win the national title. In fact, I don't think I've ever thought this. But I think of the four teams left. I think I can see all four winning the national title. I would favor Indiana. I think the coaching in quarterback is elite. Miami's got that defensive line. Ole Miss has something magic about it. And then Oregon is just like a mixture of all of them. Yeah, it's just phenomenal final four, KC. And back to Miami, KC, sorry, I got that off. No, no, I mean, you're absolutely right. Because I think did anybody pick Indiana? I think you did, right? T-Bob, he picked Indiana to win. I think the rest of us have all lost our national champion, right? in the title game. Yeah. So I mean, like you look at that, and I mean, it's like it is crazy to think, but when you look at this Miami team, and I mean, I, I said that they were going to lose 35 to 10 after what I saw in round one up close and personal at Kyle Field. I thought there was no way this Miami team could hang with Ohio State, and that's also a credit to and, you know, I was throwing shit around on Twitter last night, but it's and Brandon, I know you were getting in the mix as well, but it is why it is so dangerous when you look at different conferences, and you say, this team is quote fraudulent, and another team in a different conference is doing the exact same thing, and you're not throwing that out either, because it's like, well, these super conferences are really making this a difficult situation. But the way that Miami's offense came out last night, and I know when was in a factor at AT&T Stadium, and that is a big thing, but this offense looks completely different than they did in round one. They immediately started running the ball. Carson Beck looks phenomenal. Carson Beck was terrible against A&M, and the fact that they were able to push that all together against Ohio State, who, you know, obviously until they beat in or until they lost in Indiana, people said there was no way they could even lose to anybody. Miami is a problem, and when you go back and look at those two games that they did lose in the regular season, it's all because Carson Beck, not completely his fall, but it is all the turnover he had. If he protects the ball, and they keep him upright, they're incredibly dangerous, and they just put it together again from start to finish that is absolutely horrifying for the other teams in the playoff, but I was shocked at how bad Ohio State played yesterday. It was appalling to me. Yeah, here's your chance of Bloodman, because you big have Ohio State fans, so he's whatever, but you said the cave all day that this was the most wrong you've been in a long time. Yeah, I mean, I've been a long time. I'm 27 years old now. Yeah, I'm 27 years old now. I've been a long time self-inmitted idiot. Now you all see it. I am an idiot. Great. That Casey was correct the whole way through Ohio. She was 100% right about how I was 100% wrong to I didn't understand the defense of philosophy yesterday of just giving Miami anything and everything they wanted underneath and how lacks they were playing in coverage. I never understood that. I'm not near as smart or qualified as Matt Patricia, so I leave that to him. Regardless, you brought up Brandon was Ohio State was, you know, fueling offensively and doing enough against inferior opponents and then in big games they didn't hit it and we just kept taking it for granted. And I was trying to fall asleep last night just thinking, "Hey man, there were red flags all along the way that I just didn't want to admit maybe or like talk about." And one of them is Ryan Day straight up tricked us when he said this offense has another gear. Just you wait. This offense has another gear. And when it's go time, you're going to see it. Well, Ryan Day, it was go time. You were even the guy calling the plays play. And I didn't see there was no go time. There was no offense that had the gas, the all gas, no breaks mentality. I'm listening to Luky next to me on the couch for three hours begging for tempo. It was the tempo. When they finally went tempo, it was successful. I just, I don't know. Julien saying there were so many opportunities for him to just avoid a sack by throwing the ball away. And he did against inferior competition. Ruben Bain breathing down his throw. He never once did it. There's been opportunities for him to hit the seam. He had a chance to hit Max Claire up the seam. That was easy touchdown. Misses it. He has an opportunity later in the game. The hit car now take down the seam. Misses it. It's an unsuccessful dump down. And I just, I'm looking for progression from him throughout the year. I see how talented he is. I understand you guys point like. Yeah, he doesn't have the likes and everything. But this is supposed to be a lethal pocket passing quarterback. You need to be able to stand in there. Take a hit and throw it and rip the seam. And why he can't do that doesn't make sense. I'd be very, very curious to see one of his passing charts and just see how much of his just all all sideline, all sideline. Well, I mean, I think I think one thing. Car now tape was scared to get injured in that game. He's focused on the NFL. Don't worry. Yeah, you saw that clip. It's a back clip out there. I would as far as attacking the middle field. It's a great observation. Liam. That's something that young quarterbacks tend to fear to do. And maybe in some sort of weird inverse way him having the talent on the outside that he does meant that during the vast majority of the year he didn't have to develop that skill. But then when you run in a team that's going to force you to have to be able to take advantage of those opportunities, he didn't wasn't ready because he just couldn't rely on some of those playmakers just be so much better than the other team. I'd like to say something. Really insane. Um, he is. And we forget this. A 19 year old red shirt. Yeah, it's got a lot of time. Yeah. And he was this, this schedule did not put him in a lot of learning situations. Um, also if you could, if you could design something to help your quarterback against a team like Miami, Ohio State just ignored all of that yesterday. You need to give him an offensive line that can give him at least half a chance. They didn't do it. You need to give him a running back who can take the, and I feel like Bo Jackson had a couple of moments yesterday. But they really kind of like they really it just never got going and like. And then, and then again, I think Bloodman said it. Their tempo in the second half was bizarre. They were, they were kind of fighting from behind, fighting from behind. Uh, and they kept putting the play clock down to one. But for all of that. For all of the Ohio State. Miami got the football back with a three point lead with six minutes to go. Mm hmm. And Mario Christopher Ball has often gotten in trouble with his game management. People have said this and that about his time management. Miami Carson Beck has made mistakes in the past. Miami has, uh, not closed out games in the past. And that all went out the window. Yeah. One of the biggest grown man drives. I can remember. Yeah. Last night when Miami took that ball down the field and took the air out. And Ohio State never had another chance. That was shocking. And it was a quarterback. A coach in a program standing up and saying not this time. Motherfuckers. Yeah. I'm glad you. I'm glad you're highlighted in Brandon because that game flow. That was the. That was the moment where we knew that this Miami team was different. I think when Ohio State made a 17 14 a tweeted that it felt like at that point. It was Ohio State's game to lose. Right. Maybe this was fluky. Miami came out big early. But they weren't good enough. They weren't able to hold on. And what did they do at that moment? They went to the run game. And they fucking started punching and pounding. And kind of represented with Carson Beck's entire game. He didn't do anything over the top. But he was very composed. And he got the third and three. He got the third and four. Made good decisions. And really that's what Bex. That's where Bex age. I think really showed in this game and his maturity and what he learned at Georgia and what he's been through is that whoever said it early. I can't remember. I apologize. Again, he's not winning you the games himself. But his composure was really big on this stage. And I'm officially retiring Christopher. I had to retire. I had to retire fart keysian. Retiring Christopher. I no longer Mario. You proved me wrong. I love him guys prove us wrong. Congratulations to Miami. And as someone who's getting a lot older, there was something wonderfully nostalgic about watching that uniform on that stage. Hit that hard last night. I feel that too. I get it. I kind of. I'm one of the main guys that says. College football isn't better when a certain team is good, but I have an nostalgic little thing for mine. They were the dominant team when I was a kid, like eight, eight, nine years old. And then they were dominant again when I was in college. Like they've always kind of been there. And it's it is good to see them back. Well, then you also have you also have Michael Irvin, you know, which is that, you know, there's a nostalgia on the sidelines, acting like an absolute crazy person. There's just it's just fun. I mean, he's he is an animal. And I think. He's a real. Yeah, he does. And it's just isn't it. So jarring to see ACC champion Duke have so much success and ensemble and be left out of the playoff when Miami is doing this. The team won the ACC and do this too. We could we could have been on Duke Miami collision course for a national championship and ACC rights. Finally, you there. Listen, I and and for very good reason, you know, the ACC people and the Miami fans are being like, look, see like the SEC's been dog shit in the, you know, in the bowl season, which I mean, you can make that arguments maybe for another time. But it's like, guys, we knew how good Miami was. We were making fun of ACC. The conference. The conference made Duke the conference champion with five losses. It's not how bad Miami was, but besides the point game time. Oh, the fuck did they lose this game? So I just, I mean, just bad. Just crazy. My it's crazy. Miami lost this game. Shout out to America. And you called Chris the fraud is why they lost those. I know, but I know, but you'd rather be. But you know, that's again, I don't want to end on that. I want to end giving credit to Miami because you, you would rather be doing it now and have the mid season foibles and doing it now credit to him. Also, count they Scott. All right, sorry. Well, and also Carson Beck had six total interceptions. I believe in those two games like that. That's the difference. Game time, college football playoffs are here. The semi finals are set, which means tailgate cheering crowds and the excitement of being in the stand for kickoff are all here too. Obviously, we love game time on this podcast. They've taken us to hockey games concert baseball games football games. They've got it all on game time. From the game time app gives you the advantage back to the fans. It's a hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences. And just a few taps is incredible. easy to use in the game time guarantee means you can trust you'll get a hundred percent authentic tickets on time and at the best price take the guesswork out of buying college football tickets with game time download the game time app create an account use code ruf r o u g h for $20 off your first purchase terms to apply again create an account and redeem code ruf for $20 off download the game time app today Brandon do you think a mincy will be using game time to go to the next round of the playoff no but I am I am I'm thinking about some things over here if mitsy if mitsy and Ole Miss goes to the national title I got to go sit with him right a hundred percent because he doesn't care about the job he just cares about being an Ole Miss guy anyway not getting mitsy on his shows damn shame you think he's gonna do this show that the fuck is not going to tweet about this for a fucking three hours can we do a dome report right now I need a dome report I haven't got a dome report while all right there's one there's one other team we haven't mentioned Casey you you had something as caddy to say I don't like to look on your face when you had that or you about to say nothing yeah you're right nothing all right we have one more team the Oregon ducks the Oregon ducks got to buy in round one when they played JMU or so we thought and that was like that was probably your toughest game of the playoff so far but today they big Texas Tech 23 did nothing and because I'm trying to turn over a new leaf in 2026 I'm gonna try to stay away from telling you how putrid that effort from Texas Tech was on the offensive side of the ball I'm not going to mention how how the fuck was bearing Morton even even college football quarterback this year based on what I saw today I'm simply gonna say Oregon's defense was nasty the freshman Fannie Fannie yeah Brandon Brandon do you yeah hello what's up Casey no I just said his first name is Brandon who's on first anyway Oregon lights out knocked him out defense was incredible offense Texas defense was good I don't give them credit they were good but they just ran out of gas because they were awesome they were awesome but like Texas Tech's offense was so overmatched so overmatched by by Oregon didn't matter big-have Oregon ducks yeah I mean no that was dominant I mean I was what was it 23 nothing fine I mean it should have been like 40 to nothing I mean the amount of points to left on the board in the first half that was rough I mean Texas Tech is dominant as they were defensively that's rough way to go out just had no I mean even landing he went for a few times there's even one time where he I really wasn't in the third quarter where he didn't kick the field gonna go for and he instead of punting and I kind of was like why not just pin him deep like this I mean they really had two plays the entire game and one was a total fluke where the two defenders like take each other out yeah in like a barrel roll and he breaks it for 50 and then they still take it points and then they hit the one throw to Douglas on the sideline that was basically only impact plays they made the entire game I don't think I've seen such an offense in the playoffs it's like when we got blown out bad with urban and that J.T. Barrett Clemson playoff game that was let that was maybe think of it where they just couldn't do anything offensively but Oregon's really good Oregon's a very complete team there are team as well that doesn't have a good ton of holes no yeah a lot of talent offense like they have a very good offensive line they have a very good defensive a very smart quarterback good coach like there I mean I think they're definitely like them in Indiana is going to be an unbelievable game I think they're definitely live to win it all too well and that's why when you when you look back to I mean they're lost against Indiana I mean I know I didn't I picked Oregon to win that game and that was kind of shocking but that's really when Indiana kind of came on to the national stadium like this is not the same team as last year this is not the same hey we have an easy schedule like and that's when you look back now and you look at Oregon's loss you're like oh no shit they lost the best team in the country and they've just continued to get better on but landing when you look across the playoffs like the coaching decisions made such big differences you look the signety you look at landing you look at what Pete Golding did tonight it's like across the board these guys are showing it's like when you have good coaching you're gonna get in that situation what confused me about Texas Tech the one loss they had this year was without Baron Morton Baron Morton looked horrible today like he just didn't even look like he was playing the same game he played all season and that confused me the most I think it was defensive yeah they didn't they didn't they didn't play at defense like Oregon I mean remember the Utah game where like in the Utah game the Texas Tech offense was actually doing what they did against Oregon and they were awful the Texas defense kept standing on its head only in that game the offense was good enough to overcome but here's more in the tournament with the lowest QBR of any QB in the field you saw it you ran into a top five defense uh and and I think Texas Tech's defense actually again I don't even think they played good I think they played great yeah like Texas Tech deep interest actually great they just got nothing complimentary and so eventually they broke in the final score looks really bad but yeah Oregon Oregon Oregon feels like you said have like like Indiana so complete no holes is maybe a bit of the difference are they a bit more youthful or less experienced in Indiana I feel like in my head they are but I don't know if that's um factual or youthful yeah yeah so it's like like Oregon next year you look for are going to be like a fucking super power eat but um the yeah man uh Brandon Finney Jr here's I compiled some some stuff on them so he's a true freshman um this year he had the highest forcing completion rate in the big 10 he had the lowest completion rate against him and coverage in the entire country he's the highest graded freshman corner in the country second player in college football playoff history with three takeaways in a game um and he's like 18 years old he so he's kind of representative of Oregon as a whole and that their future is incredibly bright they're awesome now can they get revenge against Indiana I cannot wait also a young Galilei was awesome uh I can't wait to see that rematch wait you are a little lehley could be good in the postseason apparently you just can't be named DJ what the hell you have in the hotel you said it you said it confused you too and so I know I'm not alone in it like I understand that they ran up against a really good defense but still his decision-making and the way that he played the game I understand he played a much better defense but he just didn't look like the same quarterback to me listen there there's running into a good defense and struggling and then there's whatever the fuck that was today thank you that's what I'm trying to say uh listen I have seen guys struggle against good defenses you know saying did it last night against Miami uh you know people people struggle against good defenses Baron Martin looked like he didn't understand the plays they were running exactly the pick the the the second pick by fanning in the end zone yeah double cover yeah yeah I don't know what we'd be our rating going into the game was that he looked like he'd never played the game today in the light if you said if I hate to use the same analogy but when you use but if you sat down and played college football 26 and you had never played the game ever and you played it on heisman level that's what it looked like he looked like he didn't understand and so my friend and Finney's a dude to start he certainly is but that's the second pick he had was the easiest pick he'll ever have he could have fair caught that thing he was just he's all he did was drop back in zone and Baron Martin threw it right to him he was scared there was something about him I actually thought he could have read it back for a touchdown I just I just think you guys are misremembering the Utah game he wasn't good in the Utah yeah he was bad he was like the fix in the youth if you actually look at the lines today and in the Utah game they're very similar Texas Texas offense got a jolt in that game against Utah from their defense and from Will Hammond Will Hammond you see they because he's been hurt for a few months yeah and and we should also mention it's it's kind of saying the Texas tech tackles got their ass kicked yeah and there's got to do anything separate uh it's not fine but they can it sucks because like the Texas techs defensive front was everything they were hyped up to be I mean fucking Lee in the middle was awesome uh height barely I mean the baby was still the best player in the field yeah unbelievable uh but yeah Oregon Oregon looks so live to win an anti that again more complete Oregon team than we've ever seen and that's a lot given that they played for two national championships in the in recent history all right we do it every week and we will do it now who won the week who lost the week and shit list hmm big Ev who won the week uh I'll give it to Miami I mean that list there were there were huge dogs I don't think a lot of people gave him much of a chance I mean the wheat we across the board picked a high state when comfortably and they didn't uh Chris I'm like all the Christopher Auden all the shit Carson Beck Scott they were the more prepared uh tougher team so I mean they I mean they go and it's almost double jaded favorites and just I mean they were winning the entire game so I mean yeah they got it Miami got it Casey Smith who won the week I mean I think it has to be all myths you can obviously make an argument for all the winners this week but I do think it's all missed because at least and I can can say this that I did not think that they had any shot of beating Georgia and all the drama that they're like I would love to know exactly you know the conversations that are going on in that coaching staff right now what Lane's thinking but to go into this game without your head coach and to be left at the altar and the whole thing of like oh you can't win a national title little miss. He got to go to LSU if you're going to win a national title and they're now in the final four and to win the game the way that they did and after they lost to Georgia, just everything about it. And Kirby Smart, you know, there were decisions that he made throughout the game. They're like no shit. He's one of the best coaches in the country. And then there was some questionable calls he made as well, but it didn't matter to Ole Miss. And I think that now going into this and you're looking at the fact they don't have their head coach. And he's sitting at a basketball game at LSU and they're going to play in the semi finals for the coach ball playoff. It's Ole Miss who hadn't won 10 games before Lane got there. That's pretty fucking cool if you're an Ole Miss fan. T-Bob Aver, who won the week? I'll go Indiana. I'll go Indiana. Now, I think too much is made of this probably when you look at who the teams were on the buys, but they're the one team that handles the buy like a well-coached and high-excluding team should, like a team that gets the buy should. But again, it's not just the win over Alabama. It's the nature of the dominance, doubling the yardage, doubling the first downs, holding the ball ten more minutes. And let's just talk about the rush yards. I hate that whenever 17 attempts for Alabama, 23 yards, 50 attempts on the ground from Indiana, 216 yards. It's just unbucking believable that we are sitting here in a reality where Indiana is winning in that manner against what has been the college football boogie man for the better part of two decades. Liam Lutman, who won the week? The fan bases of Indiana, Miami, Oregon and Ole Miss that have a chance to see their team, their program win a national championship is pretty insane to think about. Mincey's dome reports were immaculate tonight. I know we make fun of Mincey here and there, but you gotta give credit where credit is due. He was an incredible sensational on on the scene reporter tonight. So a lot of credit goes out to Mincey. I'd love an update from him. I hope he's doing well. I don't know where he is. We don't we haven't had we might need to ask TJ where Mincey is if he still got the air tag on him. I mean like Fernando Mendoza wins again. Trey, that chambles wins again. You have a lot of the same winners, man. I think us two like college football fans as a whole finally get a win. We finally have a banger of a college football playoff game. Brandon, you hit the nail on the hand in this game. I know you didn't bring the NL of Bama credit to you for saying Georgia Ole Miss had the most potential for a blowout of any game in the college, but also the most potential for an instant classic. Find me a better read on the game than that from Brand Walker. Oh, Brandon, you're good at this thing. You won the week. How'd you do that? Brandon, how bad are your mentions with Alabama fan? I mean with Indiana fans right now. No worse than usual. My mentions are always the worst thing on the internet. So it doesn't help. You take it, buddy. Take a dive through mine. I was in mine after a buck I lost mine are pretty well. You want to go into the mentions of my post game video. Ev, I will say this and like and I know you're a rational person and you did the same thing like when my team lost in the playoff last week I came in was like that we were shit. I don't know what you want me to say. The amount of Ohio state fans that were trying to argue with me about that my guys just take it on the chin where we both lost Miami. Keep it moving. You know, it is what it is. Brandon, who won the week. Oh no. The Ole Miss Rebels won the week. Petty rivalry differences aside. That has to be one of the coolest experiences for a fan base of all time. A coach, a piece of shit ass hole coach that built this team, given credit for that, built the team, found the quarterback, did everything, looks you in the eye a month ago told you you're not good enough, looks you in the eye and said I'm going somewhere else. I don't think you can do it and they're doing it and they did it tonight and they took out a two time national champion in Kirby smart. They went to the sugar bowl right there in their backyard and they stared down Kirby smart. They stared down the George Bulldogs. George has been here before. This is nothing new to them. Kirby smart. This is nothing new to him at all. It is new to Ole Miss not only them being in the playoff this deep, but Pete Golden coaching at all. He's in the second game ever as a head coach and they go out and they're coach better and they're resilient. A lot of teams could have folded up shop and that funbore turn in the first half. They they fumbled around the first half and ended up down after outplaying George in the first half and then the second half they took it to him and they weathered the storm at the end when Georgia looked like they might have been coming back but they weathered the storm. They go right down the field. Trinidad Chambus is is is is a miracle of a quarterback. They found him for Ferris State. He's incredible. It's just everything that is right about college football is is you know your coach tells you you're not good enough. He leaves. His ass is gone. We closed ranks and we win a football game and we're deeper than we've ever been before. I hate it for for for so many reasons but I will I refuse to not be the guy that faces and sees reality because I see it better than anybody in the fucking world in college football and my hat is off. Was that was that you that tweeted from the main account the the hot yoga tweet? No, that was not me. It was very funny. There was like Kirby smart talking about this Pete Golden and it's like Lane Kippen doing hot yoga somewhere is just incredible. Big head who lost the week? The Buckeyes did. I promise you I refuse absolutely refuse to use the bias as an excuse and I don't care that's one in seven Indiana showed right there when you're well on the machine. It does not matter now. Was it Bamba the worst team in the field? Sure. Don't care. Don't care. I mean you can be sharp with a week or two with two weeks of three weeks off whatever it was. You can be sharp still. Yeah, I mean it was just embarrassing. They just didn't show up in the first half. They didn't make adjustments. They were under prepared. I guess they did make so much adjustments in a half time. They took out some linemen but they just weren't prepared. They had opportunities to win the game still amongst all the mistakes and all the the shortcomings and just couldn't get it done. Couldn't make that play. Couldn't make that kick. Couldn't get that stop. Yeah, I mean I think they were I think talent wise they were good enough to make something happen and they just did it. So I mean Miami was just better. We were losers. Tiva of A Bear who lost the week? Ohio State fans. It was a it was a boring season. It was a boring season. Every single week just beat the fuck out of everyone and then in the big moments where you finally got to feel alive a little bit just left in inner disappointment. Casey Smith who lost the week? It's Alabama. I mean just a couple of years ago if you would have said like everything that we've been saying that Alabama going into the Rose Bowl would get absolutely fucking Molly walked by anybody let alone Indiana. We would have said you're crazy and to look that Nick Saban has not been gone for more than two full years three years now and this is what this Alabama fan base has to look at and you look at you know all the arguments going into the cultural playoff should have been Notre Dame. Should we have left Alabama out for the way they played against Georgia and everything and they beat up fine. Oklahoma was not very good either and then to lose the way that they did today and just get absolutely humiliated and like you said Brandon losing Indiana is nothing to hang your head on. It's the way that they lost just everything about it was disgusting. It was embarrassing. And if you if you're not three years old if you've grown up in Alabama and you've been paying attention to this like you just can't fathom living in a world where that's the way that you lose a football game and how soft and everything going into it like that's just humiliating Ohio State fans are upset everybody else upset Alabama fans are actually fully humiliated if they really want to tell themselves the truth. Liam Blutman who lost the week? Yeah well thank you brown Walker for for thinking about me and going to me for his question first off I'd like to thank my Lauren Savior Jesus Christ and I'm really thinking about a 2026 I'm really contemplating about where we don't do losers we're we're very positive and we're we're treating life as if Fernando Mendosa has shown me the light so no losers in 2026 everybody's a winner I want to thank you guys my podcast co-mates for co-hosts for being such gracious co-hosts and we're gonna have a great 2026 there's no losers here nobody's not a bad job everyone's trying their best in 2026 and well beyond Brandon who lost the week? Well it is a new year and I would like to turn over our new leaf as well uh because Blutman is exactly right we focus so much on losers but really in life we're all winners we're all part of God's happy fit fuck this Alabama. Alabama is such a fucking loser no we're not are you are you fucking kidding me Alabama 38-3 your quarterback quits halfway through the third quarter calendar board has no answers two years ago Indiana had a coaching vacancy and Alabama had a coaching vacancy Alabama went to the west coast and brought in the softest football you'll ever fucking see then Indiana went and got the toughest fucking football you'll ever see Indiana is what Alabama was Alabama is what Indiana was it is unbelievable that they showed up and that was their effort. And I, I just, I just can't fathom a world where Alabama's losing 38-3 to anybody that this happened under Nick Saban, motherfucking heads would roll. And what, it's just about as my mind, what has happened in Tuscaloosa, and I just can't, I can't get over it. In such a quick amount of time and Brandon, you said this, like you said it, you know, last season, you said that the way that this is going to unravel, like Alabama fans aren't going to be able to even accept it, like even you couldn't have expected how bad this looked, especially after they beat Oklahoma. And again, that's fine. I know Oklahoma's on good, but this was just an absolutely putrid, putrid performance by a dynasty in college football, that it is, the body isn't even cold yet. It's just warm as it could fucking be, and they're getting beat 38-3, and it should have been much more than that. All right. You guys don't have to have a shit list. I have one. If you have one, you, you, you, you, you, you just did a speech about how there are no losers, but you have a shit list. It's a bit of a reverse. Okay. Big F, do you have one? I don't know the, I wouldn't say I have a shit list per se, but as long as it was about a high state, I mean, SEC played a bitch-ass brand of football this year. Let's just call it once. Yeah. Which is called when there's a lot of people trying to be a hater. I mean, you saw, even the field right now, there's four teams. I mean, all the other ones play defense, and I think you saw some of these teams, they, they ran like a band, but they ran into a team that actually played defense, and they got their asses kicked thoroughly. And you saw the, I mean, Georgia Ole Miss, like, there was no, there was not much defense being played. And I'm, I think I'm fascinated to see Ole Miss Miami because of that such a contrast of styles, but I think it was shocking how little defense, the SEC has a hole really played this year. I will, as a whole, and like, I agree. The SEC, I mean, Texas obviously killed Michigan, and that's fine, whatever, Michigan's in disarray. And like, Texas played really well in arch, by the way. I know this, and we're trying to have the call to play up, but arch in that second half of that football game was insane. I will, and I'm not trying to bring up old shit, but I do want to, like, A&M did play good defense against Miami. Like, we, we were able to make fun of it a couple of weeks ago, but like, they did play better, they played better defense than Ohio State did. They scored ten fucking points. Where are we talking about? I guess, but I mean, you also work, I mean, also, we also got a pick six, and you played in a wind tunnel. Well, I understand the bad. I mean, like, this is like the rewrite of that, like, you didn't score, so they didn't really need to score. We scored a little bit at least. I, I understand, like, say a throw for, like, almost, he threw like 280 yards. We, I mean, did move the ball some. The fact that Carson back on, like, the first, like, couple drives was able to do whatever the fuck he wanted against Ohio State, and they didn't score until the very end of the game, and Kyle, does, does whatever he wanted. I think that's it. And you're not going to sit here and try to, try to say Carson Beck didn't have a good game against you guys. He did what he needed to do. He threw for a, he had like 18 completions for like 125 yards to say he, like, did, after the, after the, I didn't think there would be any argument here. After the A&M game, you sat here and said that Carson Beck was worse than Marcel Reed, and that he, that game he was, he was awful. Right. He was really bad. And he was not that bad against Ohio State. Well, I think there's difference between not that bad, and he, quote, he did whatever he wanted. I'm saying that he had an intense play against Miami's offense, better than Ohio State's did. They didn't score until the end of the game. I guess, but also there was 51 hour wins. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Ohio State defense played really well against Carson Beck. My bad. T-bop. I mean, they didn't play terrible. My shit list is the fact that I showed my team to millions of people. And now I'm tamed up for the rest of my life. So, you know, it was only a matter of time. And we both know that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, fair. PFT didn't say he probably would have scored me top three most likely at the company to show my butthole to the internet. What was the other two of them? I don't know. Max. Max is one. Max was one for sure. Well, Brandon, we've seen Brandon's almost butt crack. Yeah, we've seen a lot of cracks. I don't know. Fair amount of cracks. Also, shit list. Killed the board. Kiggy to feel well down 24. Nothing. And then Alabama, than Alabama's social media like celebrating it. Yeah. Casey, do you have a shit list? I do not. I was going to say T-bop's ass hole online, but he took care of that himself. Yeah. What man? You said you have one? Yeah, mine is just like telling voters again to do better and be better. And of course, it took the granddaddy of them all to show people you can reward the hoggies up front. You could reward the offensive line. Pat Kuggen and the Indiana offensive line shared the offensive MVP award for the Rose Bowl. That's sensational. Look how much it meant to do everybody on Indiana's roster. That was such a raw wholesome emotional moment that they got to share. And we don't get to see that enough, but it's so crazy to me that this game is truly it's one in its lost where in the trenches on the offensive line on the defensive line. What is going on in that war zone is where these games are won and lost and they set the table for all these great skill players to do there to show off their god-given abilities. These guys, these hogs up front, these behemoths of men that are just such incredible specimen T-bop. You were one of them. You never get the shine. You never get the credit. You go to war each and every Saturday, Sunday, whatever it be, Wednesday, Thursday. And you go out there and you grind endlessly and never get credit. It's crazy to me. Hey, man, if the best player in college football is a left tackle, he should be up for the Highest Men Award. That shouldn't even be a discussion. It's crazy to me that just because they're not in the sexy stats, they never get the credit, the praise. So shout the Rose Bowl in Brand Lockers face given a bunch of credit to the offensive line. Also, I want a lot of apologies to James Madison University. I would like to, I've been a spokesperson for JMU all season. And in the past, I would like apology to JMU. Brandon Shitless. I want the apology. Cool. I'm sorry. Why did you do that? He's anyone. I conned one, man. I could do it again. All right, my shit list. I would like to give away Brandon Walker's first annual, hey, shut the fuck up award. Now, there are a lot of there are a lot of nominees for the Brandon Walker. Hey, shut the fuck up award. But the group that has won it has done so with the effort that you wouldn't believe with a stick to this with an incredible fervor. This group just won't shut up, but they need to shut the fuck up. And ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the 2026 Shut the fuck up award goes to. Fans of Notre Dame. The fuck up every playoff game. Somebody's going to win and somebody's going to lose. And every single time somebody lost Notre Dame fans were like, hey, we should have been in there. We should have been in there. Hey, you went on to against Texas A&M and Miami. You played two quality teams all year. You lost both of those games. Nobody gives a fuck. You spent the rest of the year beating the shit out of nobody. Okay. You had two chances. You failed on both. It was a tough break. A very tough break that the world gave us a playoff with two G five teams. And that's just kind of how it happened. And that screwed you out of it. But the team that got put in over you, Miami is going to the final fucking four might win the national championship every single time where there was A&M losing or Alabama losing or Ohio State losing Notre Dame fans were all over Twitter saying that this team didn't belong. We belong. We belong. No, you didn't shut the fuck up. Notre Dame fans. I think I think BAM is the only team they would have that shot that deep. Like I think I think if they if they just shut up today and played it Indiana, they would have got dog walked in a similar fashion in my opinion. Because I can't in Notre Dame's defense sucked. And Indian's defense is elite. They would have suffocated them and then they would have scored it will. Like if Notre Dame would have been a bad matchup for a lot of these teams. The I because I agree with you. It was it's everything. I will say though that the way Alabama lost today, if they were able to talk a little shit, it was the Alabama game today because it was either they were Alabama. Miami, Alabama, what a playoff game. No, I know, I know, but no, listen, Notre Dame fans, especially because they opted out, especially because they decided to just not to play. I understand that completely. But I Alabama was just so embarrassing, just so, so bad. All right. Um, Thursday night, Thursday night, I believe we have the fiesta bowl with Ole Miss and Miami. I might have these bowls wrong. And then Friday night, we have the peach bowl with Indiana, Oregon. I believe I have the bowls right. If I'm wrong, I apologize. But there you go. Thursday and Friday, we've got our final four. Again, I said it earlier, I think four teams, all four can win the national championship. If I had to guess, you know what, I'm not impredicting, but Indiana is the best team so far. Yeah. There's three teams of destiny. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And then there's Oregon who might be playing for clicks. All right, that's it. Thank you for watching. Uh, we're out. And we will see you later about you guys. All right. Oh, wow.