Michigan Steals The Weekend | Week 1 Recap | The BFW Show 9.5.26

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This is the Brandon Walker College Football Show. We've got a full couple of hours here of recaps, but we must start with the headlining game tonight. It is Michigan and Western Michigan. For all intents and purposes, Western Michigan has beaten the Michigan Wolverines. They had a 12-7 lead with nine seconds left. Bryce Underwood ran around like an idiot, threw a ball out of the end zone. As he threw the ball out of the end zone, the clock hit zeroes. Zeros means the game is over. And when the game ends, that means the Western Michigan, whoever they are, the Broncos, that means Western Michigan has beaten the Michigan Wolverines. Except the officials who ignored roughing the punter penalty earlier, who ignored a face mask penalty earlier, who ignored multiple things to try to keep Michigan in the game. We're able to ignore the fact the clock went to zeroes and therefore Michigan gets one more chance. Bryce Underwood makes one more throw. I say one more throw, probably the first throw we made all night. And Michigan ends up getting the tainted, rigged, disgusting victory over Western Michigan, which means for one week we will have to pretend that Michigan is still a ranked team. We'll have to pretend they're still a good team. They spent 59 minutes being guarded. We'll being garbage. They deserve to lose. They did lose. You know, I almost regret the years and years I've gone back and forth, Dave Portnoy saying Michigan cheated and all this, because this one, this one, I have no idea how, if you're a college football fan, you can accept what just happened. That is unbelievable. And if the big 10 had any stones or nuts, they wouldn't overturn the result of the game. They would simply acknowledge the result of the game. And the result of the game is the Michigan Wolverines lost to the Western Michigan Broncos. That is what happened. That's what we saw. That's what everybody saw. That is zeros on the clock. The ball still in the air, still, still, still being, this is one of the biggest root jobs you will ever see. This is a Mac team in Michigan would mean the world to them, would mean the world of the conference. The Michigan Wolverines were, were gifted a victory they did not earn. And that is where we are right now. And this is a team that has lived through corruption for years and years and years. And it has sullied the great week one that we have had in college football. And when I say sullied, I mean, kind of make it awesome because this is the kind of shit that you never see coming. Yeah. You never ever see coming. Um, I you're all right. Oh, Blutman is dying to talk. We almost just had a pick six. Sorry. I was reacting. I didn't realize I was, that was one of the all time. I was reacting. I didn't realize I was a, that was one of the all time. I was reacting. I was reacting. Great robberies in sports history. Brown Walker. That was corrupt. Western Michigan should hire a Kalamazoo Kalamazoo judge to fix the outcome of this game. There were zero seconds left. Have you ever seen a game with zero seconds left? Genuinely no time left on the clock. The ball wasn't touching anyone. So the, the in stadium clock in the clock on TV, we're in sync. Zero seconds. What's this? Zero. No time left in. They won the game. I generally don't know how the, the big, how big 10 and college football can let this stand. I Western Michigan walked in there and they beat Michigan. They beat them. They beat them. The score was 12, seven. When the clock went zeros, the ref said, let's figure out a way. And the refs, my God, God bless them. They were trying to get Michigan to win that game. The entire second half as Western Michigan was dominating Michigan. I mean, absolutely dominating them, thoroughly dominating them. And did you see, did you see the look on the face of Kyle Whittingham who seemed almost embarrassed to be given a win like that? He seemed almost embarrassed to have to go shake that man's hand across the, the, the, the coach who beat him, the coach who beat his team. He had to go shake that man's hand. And it almost looked like he was apologetic because Kyle Whittingham is a good man and he's not used to having to win like this, but now you're at Michigan and they have to win like this. This is, it's, it's one of the crazier things. If, if that was a legit one second, I would be celebrating an incredible throw by Bryce Underwood right now. If that were a legit one second, I would be celebrating. What a great finish. Oh my God. What a sport. But that wasn't a legit one second. It wasn't at all. And it's the only program in the country that continually gets away with shit like this. Zero is zero is zero is zero. The game is over. It's a sickening feeling. And then the audacity of Michigan, I guess it was the students rushing the field after being given a bogus win over Western Michigan. I hope everybody enjoys what Oklahoma does to that overrated quarterback next week. It's one of the weirdest, it's, it's unbelievable what happened tonight. I was texting. I was FaceTiming. I was texting. I was FaceTiming. Dave wouldn't answer. He wouldn't answer. He wouldn't answer. He wouldn't answer. Finally, he FaceTimes me back. And I just say, what a coward, what a piece of shit coward. What an absolutely embarrassing, embarrassing turn for college football. This sport is built on the backs of upsets. It's built on the backs of, uh, teams knowing they have a chance. It's built on the backs of app state going, what would they have done if the same officials had been there when app state went in there? Would they have called roughing the kicker on the block? Kill the block field goal at the end. They would have figured out a way. Those guys should never work in college football again. Those officials should never work in college football again. The replay officials should never work in college football again. Unbelievably pathetic by Michigan that they are celebrating this victory. What men thoughts is nothing but a large skid mark on a great college football Saturday. There's nothing else to it. This was a robbery at the nth degree. We should you allude to it. We should be celebrating one of the special upsets in college football history. This mighty Mac team, a great Mac team, the class of the Mac going into the season, who was a four touchdown underdog spoiling Kyle Whittingham's like great introductory to Michigan. Bryce Underwood is one of the biggest wastes of $12 million you will ever see. Yeah. Have you ever seen a greater waste of even $6 million? No, I can't say that I have. I can't say that I have. And I want to put the look, let's need the whole, I'm going to need the whole jug of sweet tea tonight, guys. That's fine too. I don't have enough water in the crib for me a drink tonight. Brown Walker. We watched Western Michigan go into Ann Arbor and beat Michigan. That is the story that happened. We saw Lance Taylor have absolutely zero, not even an ounce of respect for Bryce Underwood in the Michigan offense. They could have thrown the ball and tried to score a touchdown a few times at the end of the game. No, no, no. It was, we're going to run the ball. We're going to run the ball. We're we're going to play it safe we're going to secure the ball kick field goals and that's all we need to do to win the game they didn't even think that they needed a four-point lead they didn't even think that they needed a greater lead they were like hey go down the field try your best and go get them a field goal in the 9-7 game it ain't happening unbelievable what we saw uh it's embarrassing it really is embarrassing i'm sorry for rambling on but we saw it earlier today with boise state and how the country came together yeah for what could have been another near four touchdown underdog winning a game a group of 16 going into a big 10 program and almost stealing one and that unites the country and that brings us all together and this is why they'll always deserve a sea of the tail but yeah i mean it's a heinous robbery a heinous robbery it's just sickening good mark oh my goodness i didn't even realize i've been so knee deep i've been so knee deep and uh the absolute travesty that we just saw in Michigan that I didn't realize LSU was just going complete belt to ass on Clemson. I knew it was like, I think it was 17-3 when I started getting in the Michigan stuff. But unbelievable, unbelievable. You know, if it wasn't so pathetic, it'd be awesome because it is a sport where truly anything can happen. But anything should be allowed to happen. Anything should be sanctioned to happen. It shouldn't be let's get together, figure out a way for Michigan to have one more second. The anything that should have happened tonight was Western Michigan winning the game that they rightfully earned and won, and they won that game. And I know that Dave's doing funny tweets right now probably, and he sent me a FaceTime and everything, but it doesn't mask the ugly reality that that is a bad football team with a bad quarterback and a coach that doesn't want to be there because that's what I just saw. That coach was embarrassed to be part of whatever that fiasco was. Kyle Whittingham, again, good coach, good man. Does not want to be a part of that. He was embarrassed. He was absolutely shocked that he had to go shake that man's hand after robbing him in front of everybody. We got a lot. We got a lot to talk about. We got a lot of football because, my God, a week one that didn't look good on paper is just delivering in spades. Now, of course, you got LSU doing what they're doing. I don't even know what UCLA and Cal are doing right now, Blutman. I really don't. It's 7-7 at the end of the first quarter. Both teams had great opening drives. I'd also like to just add on and say if you're an AP voter and you put a number next to Michigan's name after this week, please stop watching the sport and get yourself out of here and go do anything else in the world. There's no point to having you in the sport. B-Walk, don't speak for Kyle. I saw it in his face, man. I saw it in his face. I saw him. I mean, you can't hide your eyes, and it was just embarrassing. Michigan is the biggest joke in college football right now. They just got beat. They just got beat by Western Michigan and had to cheat. Literally, we all saw it. I don't know why the officials were in on it with them, but that's what happened. That's just what fucking happened. It's not even like me being a bitch. That's just what happened. The clock hit zeros as Michigan's last attempt failed, and they got together and said, let's give them another chance. And I guess credit to the guy for making a better throw the second time. At least he hit the end zone. I guess credit to the guy who made the catch. I guess credit to all that, but it's hard to credit it when it shouldn't have been allowed. I don't know. It should not have been allowed. All right. We are doing our Saturday recap, and I guess we were handed manna from heaven tonight because, my God, what a lead-in. What a lead-in of one of the great programs in college football needing to be coddled and shepherded to victory when they did not earn it, when they were beaten by Western Michigan. I think the Big Ten office should announce tomorrow that we're acknowledging the true result of that game, the true result being what happened between the zeros, and that would be Western Michigan. Michigan winning that game 12-7. All right, Blubman. Can we just talk for a second? I started this day in Bloomington, Indiana. I've been on my couch ever since. My voice might go in and out, but that is, you know, that sucks on a Monday when you're doing your first show, but I believe on a Saturday, it's kind of charming. You should lose your voice on a Saturday if you're a college football guy. So let's just go into it right now. I was going to. I got so many things to talk about. I got takes. I got the three big games I pulled out, and then I got nine takes, and then we got our categories that we're going to do. We're going to do our most impressive team, our most depressing team, our most badass thing of the day, the I told you so, the hand up I was wrong, who won the week, who lost the week, and what are we doing? And I do believe what are we doing used to be the shit list. I'm trying to do a face term. But what are we doing is going to be pretty easy now because I had a what are you doing based on what the officials did in Oregon today, but now I have a new what are you doing. Anyway, let's go right to it. The number one game of the day before we got that robbery tonight was Oregon-Boise State. And I would like to point out the hypocrisy of college football fans, myself included. I would like to point out the ridiculous nature of the way we react to things. You know, on a day where Texas was killing some poor sap, and on a day Miami killed Stanford yesterday, and on a day where Oklahoma killed. And on a day where all these highly ranked teams were just destroying bad teams, we were begging for somebody for matchups. We were begging for LSU-Clemson, which is a blowout. We were begging for Ole Miss-Louisville tomorrow and Notre Dame-Wisconsin. We were begging for anybody to play. And Oregon, the number two team in the country, did play somebody. They did play Boise State. They played a very well coached, very seasoned, not afraid team, a team who's been here before. And they fell behind 17-7. They were behind the. And we just destroyed them for it. We killed them. Oh, my God. What an embarrassment. Terrible, embarrassing. You're going out there in week one. You suck. I can't believe I picked you to win the national title. I can't believe Brandon Walker picked him to win the national title. They ended up coming back and winning. They won a game against a very good team, a team that they beat by three a couple of years ago and then went on to beat 12-0 in the number one seed in the playoff. And now they beat them again 34-27. Very good win. A good comeback. Oregon tested its mettle in the first week. Oregon tested itself. And Oregon passed the test. Dante Moore was tested. Wasn't very good in the first half. Was great in the second half. But because they weren't winning 59-0, we're like, oh, they suck. They suck. The hypocrisy of myself and other people is a little bit crazy. Blutman, do we come out of there? Do we come out of there saying this is a team whose holes got shut? This is a team whose holes got shut. This is a team whose weaknesses got exposed. Or this is a team who tested itself in week one, passed the test, and will be exactly what we thought they would be all along. Well, don't forget, not too long ago, 2024, right? They beat Boise State on the walk-off field goal, and they still went to the playoff. It is still early. Wow, singing again. Zero seconds on the clock. Congrats to Western Michigan on a great win. The key thing for me is Dante Moore looked off at times, but the defensive line really got pushed around by Boise State. And that, to me, was the most flat-out surprising thing, is how you saw it in a lot of games today. And again, last year in week one, guys just aren't showing up from the physical standpoint that they knew to in week one. Like, they really haven't got their feet wet. They haven't got hit yet. They don't know what to expect almost. And it kind of just shocks and surprises them. I felt like that happened to the Oregon defensive line. They'll be a great group all year. This, to me, is, hey, man, Boise State, they answered every single question that they needed to as the group of six contender. Because each group of six contender had questions coming in. They answered every question. They're the best team in the group of six, hands down. They've got Memphis. You know that game. They got Memphis. They also go at Western Michigan. What a schedule for them. Yeah. By the way, Lukey, I don't know if Dave has tweeted. Dave did FaceTime me. And I did answer it because I'm not a coward. So I did answer it. I don't know if you've got Dave's Twitter, if you've got that. If you've got that FaceTime, you can play. Because I answered it and I said, you're a coward. You're a piece of shit. Celebrating a win like that. Embarrassing. What do we got here? I haven't seen it yet. I just know I lived it. Let's do a little volume there. Lukey, come on. You got it. Look at him. For Western Michigan. They beat Western Michigan. I did pick up. You spoke too soon. You spoke too soon. You're so dumb. You're so dumb. You spoke too soon. You spoke too soon. You spoke too soon. You've got to wait until triple zero. Didn't let me get word in. Oh, you redneck. I did wait until triple zeros. There were three zeros. There were so many zeros. There were zeros everywhere. I waited until three zeros. The game was over. And I FaceTimed him three times and he didn't answer. I FaceTimed him three times. I had Tommy on my six. Tommy was recording it. I had it. Whatever. Whatever. Western Michigan coach put W's up. Because they won the game. It was over. It was over. Western Michigan beat Michigan. It happened. It's not like, oh, if this call had gone that way, way. If that call had gone this way, no, they beat him. The game was over. The game ended. ended. Big 10 meet tomorrow. Say, Hey, let's honor the fact that this game ended and then fire those officials and then fire the replay guys. You got to do those two things. They're getting the plaque. I mean, obviously they're not going to overturn the results of the game, but I don't think those officials can work anymore because it's not only that at the end, again, they ignored a face mask on a third down in fourth quarter, a vicious face mask. They ignored a, a, a roughing the punter. Like they ignored everything. All right. We got to focus. We got a lot of college football talk about shout out to Boise state and Oregon for giving us something pretty awesome today for giving us the feeling of a good mid season war between a couple of good teams. And you're right. I mean, Boise state, this is the G, six representative, as far as I'm concerned, obviously North Dakota state will be figured out later. And I don't even know what Memphis is doing right now. They were up 11 last time. They won. Yeah. Did they win by 11? Uh, I think 22, something like that. It's very key. They won by more than a 10 and a half. They, they definitely won more by 10. Yeah. But, but like Boise state and Oregon gave us something today. They gave us a taste. They gave us a taste of some, uh, some, some very good football and, and, you know, uh, Boise state made Oregon, we're not used to it because all these other teams aren't playing anybody, but bleeding in week one doesn't mean you're not going to be what you thought you were going to be. I had a guy tonight say, well, you thought Oregon was going to win a national title. I still think Oregon could win the national title. I mean, they still have the roster. And when they got down, my God, those receivers, like you can't hold them down. Cause, uh, everybody hears about Evan Stewart, Decorian Moore, Decorian Moore with absolutely a joystick touchdown, uh, to, uh, to, to, Juke out two guys. And then McClellan, the other receiver, and then Dante Moore just, you know, he wasn't great, he wasn't great, and then all of a sudden he's throwing darts. That's that game. Auburn-Baylor was just a beautiful mess and a train wreck of an ugly week one game where you got two teams that don't know who they are and don't know what they're going to be. I was prepared to say, you know, Alex Golish looks like a coach who might have won his first game, but he still looks like he's over his head at this level. And then that was topped by Kyle Whittingham winning his game. So that's where we are on that. But as far as Auburn and Baylor, a beautiful mess. What do you make, Blutman, of Aranda going for two down 17-16? Now, let me set the stage for people who haven't watched or whatever. Maybe they only watched it one time. Baylor ends up coming down, scoring on fourth down. They can tie the game, go to overtime, which I think they probably should have because they're going to win. They were the better team today. But anyway, Aranda decides, I'm going to roll the dice and I'm going to go for two to win the game right here. They roll D.J. Lagway out to the right. He throws the ball to the tight end. The tight end looks like he is open. No, the tight end is open. Lagway throws it a half a step behind him. He has to turn. And when he turns, Auburn player's name plays Winters. Eric Winters? Yeah. Eric Winters, form tackle, right on the ball, right in his arms, grabs him, tackles him right there. He gains. The ball touches his hands. He gains 0.00 yards. Baylor ends up winning. But what do you make of the call? What do you make of the execution? And what do you make of the choice to go for two? Going for two, in my opinion, was the right call. D.J. Lagway is playing on a sprained ankle. How much of a better opportunity are you going to get in an overtime game that might just end up being a two-point off anyway? Get your best two-point look out there. They did. The throw is just not good enough. And the play by Eric Winters is incredible. Also, in overtime, I think Byron Brown's just going to run the ball. I think Auburn's just going to be able to run the ball at will over you in the 25-yard span. I like the call to go for two. It was the right move. It was there. The look was there. They had the wit. I think it's the epitome of professionalism that I can keep going, despite Michigan absolutely robbing us of the integrity of college football. And that's a sport that has all the integrity of a Las Vegas hooker after a three-day bender. But still, still, Michigan has even gone below those standards. It's gone below Vivian and Pretty Woman standards. It has gone below absolute dumpster. Oh, my God. Three, two, one, one, two, three. What the heck is bothering me? And now I've got to get on a plane and go to Ann Arbor next week and pretend that that didn't happen. But I'm not going to. Oh, my gosh. You have to go there. Yeah, I'm going. We're going. We're going next week. We're going. What a pathetic place that's going to be. It's going to be unbelievable. They're going to be happy. Wear Western Michigan stuff, please. Hey, listen. What are you thinking? Do you think I haven't already ordered it? Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? I got a big customer. The fact, Liam, they rushed the field. They stormed the field. They stormed the field for beating Western Michigan. Liam, they stormed the field. There were, there were, there were triple zero. Zero's on the clock. What happens when there's triple zeros? The game ends. It's over. Coaches shake hands. I want to throw this out there to you. Yeah. It's not just one referee. It's not just one official. It's not just one game clock operator. It's not just one human at fault here. Multiple human beings looked at those three digits and said, you know what? They looked at that play, saw the ball, not anyone's hands and said, you know what? It's close enough. We might be. We might be able to get away with this. We might be able to swindle hoodwink, deceive every viewer watches this. How many people do you think we're watching? Tens of millions. That was one of the all time. Great moments. All of us. All of us away. What is, why are you blaming Michigan for the referee's decision? Blaming Michigan. What a, what a pathetic, sad, sad question. Why are you blaming us? We're just the ones that, that got, oh my gosh, Kyle Whittingham said there wasn't time. Kyle Whittingham said it. He mouthed it to Lance Taylor. Well, not mouth. They said it. He said there wasn't time. They've got to look big 10 do what's right. I'm just saying, do what's right. Big 10. What a, just also Lane Kiffin said, imagine if we had NFL players at the halftime report, let's sports office heels right now. What bar from him? Oh, he said there wasn't time. He's actually telling him big 10. You got to do it. You got to fix it. You got to fix it. You got to fix it. That is. I told you Kyle Whittingham is a good man. Kyle Whittingham is a good man. He don't want to be part of this crap. He doesn't have to, he doesn't want to have to win like that. Kyle Whittingham, you should quit. I'd quit. I'd quit. If I had to be surrounded, if I had to answer to a Michigan man, I'd fucking quit. And there's no way I'd keep going to work. I wouldn't do it. I can't pretend. I can't pretend that, that, that Michigan and the ways that Michigan are all right and good. I wouldn't take a dollar from a Michigan. Man wouldn't take a dollar. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to have a little throat coat tea. Cause I have a couple of hours worth of, um, worth of shit to talk about. So if you'll just excuse me while Michigan seethes in my mind, why I think of, while I think of a, a program that prides itself in being historic and awesome and iconic, then they have to resort to cheating like this. I am going to drink a little bit of throat coat. You. Guys sit there, do whatever you want for a second. And I'm going to see if I can't coat my throat with some warm bubbly. So I can talk better. That's a lot. Okay. Hold on. It's too hot. If I had an assignment for school and the due date said 11:59 PM and I went to go put in at 12:00 AM, would that, would, would that be on time? Yeah. no no no no they cheated they cheated that's what happened but you know what when oklahoma is absolutely making bryce underwood cry next week we can we'll at least have that we'll at least have that all right a little bit of auburn baylor lagway by the way i alex golish is in over his head at auburn he's not the guy i can tell that immediately um byron brown is not an sec level quarterback correct they're going to get figured out too they're not going to have a great year uh golish is going to have to go get him another quarterback next year because this that that part's not going to work uh baylor did everything but win that game uh and now uh what we got we got lsu clemson lsu is up 31 to 3 at the half an absolute behind the shed whipping is this lsu announcing itself as bona fide national title contender because it looks like it to me this doesn't just feel like clemson um slipping away from the even the middle of the sport the top of the sport it just feels like lsu it feels like lsu announcing you know what we don't have these two nfl players but we got a lot we got 40 million dollars worth of players here and we're really fucking good i disagree with you there i think this is both those things i think this is lsu marching forward saying yes we are with the nfl guys or not we are contending for a national championship this year and we're going to and sam levitt is the perfect you know what he is the perfect quarterback for a lane kiffin offense He's sassy, he's swaggy, he's fiery, he does it all. He's a rollercoaster of emotions, highs and lows, throws and don'ts. Yes, he is, but this is also Clemson not moving forward at all. And yeah, Dabo flared with the portal a little more and NIL and everything, but it's not full-fledged. It doesn't feel because we know he doesn't embrace this sport in the direction it's going, and I stand with him for that. It is going the wrong way. But Clemson, it almost does feel like they're being left behind and there's a tumbleweed about to go by somewhere. I don't see it the same way as you. Yeah, it absolutely does feel like you're right. Clemson is, even a couple of years ago, they would have put up more of a fight than this. It wouldn't be 31-3 at the half. But yeah, Levitt's answering all the questions, and the LSU defense looks like there's 14 of them. On the field at all times. I mean, just athletically, you can tell the difference in these two teams. They're fast. They're fast. They're big. It feels like they're really, really big. And I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the weather. I don't know if it's the darkness. I don't know if it's the little bit of rain. But this might be the best-looking game I've ever seen in 4K. I don't know if it's a uniform matchup. It's just my 4K TV is fucking popping tonight. We've got a lot of takes to get off. I've got about nine or ten takes from the World of College Football today. Then we'll get into our categories in my throat coat. We'll get into the categories and stuff like that. We have a bunch of new categories this year. But I've got to tell you guys, ooh, we're Reese's out tonight, huh? I've got to tell you about Reese's all night. You know why? It's a Reese's takeover up in here. Shout-out to the Reese's, the official candy partner of Barstool Sports. It is the best. Wherever you go, a Reese's should not be far behind because if you're on the highway and you're stopping to get a beer, you're going to get a beer. 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We're also going to unveil the first time our top 10 players of the week. We've never done that before. We'll do all that. So I'm watching the chat right now. Let's talk about Lenora Sellers. It's coming. We're going to talk about Lenora Sellers. We're going to talk about everybody. We're going to talk about everybody that was relevant. We're going to talk about everybody that has played. Obviously, Michigan kind of stole the headlines there at the top, but that's good. I like a little controversy. I like a little upsetting the apple cart. I just don't like what happened to Western Michigan and everything like that. So here we go. I'm just going to kind of go from this morning, and I'm going to ask you a couple of questions as far as my takes. Blutman, are we concerned at all? Are we concerned at all about Indiana's defense? Now, I want to say a couple of things in Indiana's defense. First of all, they got out game 367 to 365, and the offense looked very good. Marsh looked very good. Josh Hoover looked very good. Josh Hoover with the iconic, you know, bloody face. Are we at all concerned about their defense? It was also a ridiculously hot day in Indiana. We did the show this morning. It was very hot. I want to say it was probably over 100 degrees inside the stadium during the game. There were distractions of being defending national champs and starting the game. Starting the season. But ultimately, North Texas moved the ball a lot, and we didn't think people were going to be able to move the ball against Indiana. So are we concerned at all about Indiana's defense? Unmute yourself before you answer my questions, boy. I have me and myself. You say life up. I'm going to be a consummate professional. I will not. I will be cautiously. I will monitor if that's okay, because I remember last year against Old Dominion. First place, 75 yards. Colton Joseph off rip. There were still. There were still questions at the beginning. This is a light non-conference schedule as per Cignetti's model. It is preseason football. It is getting the kinks out. It is figuring everything out. They're still old. They're still experienced. There were still questions for me. Like, yeah, they got punched in the mouth. North Texas didn't move the ball on them. Taven Jackson, former Hoosier. But I'm going to cautiously monitor. I'm not going to overreact. Brian Walker in 2026. We've learned. Let's not overreact. Let's not overreact. We're not. We're not an overreaction show. We're not overreacting to Indiana. We're not overreacting to Michigan with the greatest robbery in the history of college football. We're not overreacting to any of that. We're not overreacting. And I'm not overreacting either because if there's one coaching staff or fan base, Sam Levitt's 9 for 19 for 123 yards and one interception. They're up 31 to 3. Anyway. It's older than that thing. Good Lord. Good Lord. I didn't realize he wasn't even having a good night throwing the football. If there's one coaching staff, then, then, then we know is going to get it together and isn't going to worry about what happened today. And he's going to take it to the practice field and fix it. It's this Indiana coaching staff. They have the best coaching staff in the country. They have way too much back on defense for me to worry about a sluggish start. It was a sluggish start defensively. It wasn't great, but I'm going to go ahead and say they get a pass. Are we going to overreact or are we right to react to the fact that Ryan Coleman Williams, Alabama isn't very good at catching footballs anymore. Or is Ryan Coleman Williams at Alabama simply, uh, simply a decent player propped up by one play, his freshman season and a high school recruiting ranking of five stars. I think he had 43 maybe catches. He didn't have that many catches his first year, but he had that one iconic play against Georgia. So we acted like he's up there with Jeremiah Smith of the world. He isn't, he wasn't, he never was, and he never will be today. He had a, I think he had a fumble. He had a couple of drops. Alabama looked, you know, as good as they look. Fine. They look fine against a bad team, but this is a guy that we kind of still look at as if he has a five-star pedigree while not realizing that kind of lies about his abilities. Thoughts about that. Tell me you didn't watch the game. This guy says, tell us you didn't watch the game. Brandon. I did watch the game. I watched the game. He's not good. I'm going to leave you stunned right now. Okay. Do it. He had five for one 30. It didn't feel like it. It didn't feel like that at all. No, no, uh, because he should have, because he should have had, he should have had like eight for two 50. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He should have had that. Um, and this is the whiny chat hating Obama again. If you can't handle reality, don't come. If you can't handle reality, do not, do not come watch. That's all I'm asking you. If you can't handle me saying your five-star quarterback shouldn't drop every third ball thrown to him, then, then just please don't watch. I would, I would, I would suggest that Josh paid to be live tomorrow. Go watch him. He'll, he'll rub your little diaper and put some talcum powder on there and said, everything's cute. I tell you, the board is good. Ryan Cole, you can catch. This isn't hate. It's just fair criticism of a super talented player who is very aggravating. The watch was many more drops than touchdowns in his last year and a half playing football. I, why he went no, no gloves was a bold decision. It didn't pay off week one. Let's go back to gloves week two. He also, he also had a fumble. If I'm not mistaken, um, I feel like he's trying to be too cool. Is that a fair assessment? He's trying to be too cool. And he's trying to be the highlight. Well, not wearing gloves is, is a kind of a look at me move and everything. Uh, all right, we got, we got a lot. We got to, we got to keep going. Um, what I just want to say, I just want to say you got a quarterback and I got a football team. I just want a little spoiler there. You got a quarterback. I got a football team. I don't know about your, your football team, but I, I haven't felt this way since Dak Prescott. That's all I'll say. I'm not going to, I'm not going to give you this mother. And there's a lot of people out there feeling like I'm feeling right now. I know Tennessee's feeling with phase on Brandon. Uh, you got a lot of, you got a lot of teams out there that feeling they got a quarterback, but then you got some teams that thought they were going to have a quarterback. I mean, they don't feel that way because in Oklahoma state, you thought true mess to maker is going to come in. We're going to score a bunch of points. You lose 24, 10 to Tulsa. And not only that, not only that Bloodman, but the Tulsa coach goes to the locker room. It goes to the press conferences. Should have been worse. Should have been 30, 10 should have been 37. We should have killed him. Like he's not wrong. I've had a lot of, I've had a lot of guys on this show. Uh, McShay, was it McShay or Staples? Was it McShay? I thought McShay talked them up. Staples might've talked them up. Um, somebody did multiple people have talked to Oklahoma state. I believe for Nelly talked them up. For Nelly picked them. You've talked them up. I've kind of just gone along with it and agree with it. Cause yeah, it sounds about right. Sounds, sounds pretty good. Yeah, sure. Sure. Um, absolutely garbage debut. They almost got saved. They almost got saved by, uh, by winning him sucking so bad, but, um, you wanted more than that from Eric Morris. You wanted more than that for mess to maker. And I know their offensive line was just getting gashed all day. Just wasn't there. But, um, one of the more disappointing results of week one, Oklahoma state. Yeah. Uh, Trey Lamb told us head coach was right. I watched every snap of that game. You want to talk about refereeing gang in the way of the little guy trying to beat a powerful opponent. That was happening. Felt like two touchdowns. Correct. Again, he said it should have been 34 10 or whatever. Every big play Tulsa had us coming back laundry on the field every single time kicker missed two field goals as well for Tulsa. It can't go understated. Mess the maker was not good. Held on to the ball too long. Throws too high wasn't in sync with his guys that offensive line look like they won't be good enough to play a Sunni Cortland. Yeah, it was bad. It was bad. Moving on phase on Brandon. Once again, 226 yards, three touchdowns. Just trying to think of the the teams in the quarterbacks that were excellent today. Like Kenny Minchie was excellent for Kentucky. Four touchdowns Mason Heinzel and you know, take a lot of these with grains of salt. A lot of them played, you know, bad opponents. Mason Heinzel, I believe 453 yards, seven touchdowns at Pitt. Ridiculous. Just just throwing the ball around the yard. You can weigh in here with anybody. I guess what I'm saying is all these great quarterbacks, all these great showings today. And yet tonight we were subjected to a five star bust who was bailed out by a referee and crew that should never work again. And Michigan stole that game from Western Michigan. That is what I say. Nate Shepard told the ball 35, times Lenore. Lenore Sellers was very good today. Cam Cook. Steve Angeli was good today. Thank you very much. Arch Manning shout shout to Arch Manning because they didn't play anybody. Sure. Fine. But they also didn't play anybody in like week weeks one and three last year. Actually, week one was they lost that game like week two or three last year. They didn't play anybody and he struggled. He was bad. Well, this year he was sharp. He was ready to go two touchdowns to Cam Coleman. I don't know what Arch threw for like 300, 305 yards. They write it down. 305 yards, four touchdowns. Again, I'm not saying he invented the wheel or he beat a great team, but he was miles ahead of where he was this time last year. So shout out to Arch and I'm just going to do it. I'm going to do it. There's a special, special talent in Starkville, Mississippi. He's six foot four. He threw the ball 70 yards tonight on his back foot. It's he he he runs like a deer. Camario Taylor, will be the best quarterback in this country at some point over the next three years. That's what I'm saying. I don't care. I don't care about these hoes, man. I don't care. I'm I'm tired. I'm tired of hiding my cowbell. I'm tired of hiding behind not being very good. We got a fucking dude. Now I'm going to go further. One more take here. Lost in the Michigan, lost in everything that happened today is how stunningly good Miami looked last night. Now Stanford not going to win any Super Bowls this year. Stanford not going to win the World Series. Stanford not going to win the I did a ride, but Stanford at least is a power for opponent. They're at least you know, they're not who do we play? ULM they're not ULM. They're they're they're a level above that and Miami just oh my God. And if Camario Taylor if he's Camario Taylor is not the best player of the week because Malachi Tony 12 catches 234 yards. Really took a big step towards the Heisman. And then of course the quarterback there. I meant it was almost perfect. Like Miami was good at every level of football and taking it with a grain of salt that they beat Stanford 45-6 even for just beating Stanford. It was remarkably impressive in Miami. Looks like a top three to four playoff contender championship contender thoughts to go and do that coast to coast opening week against the team again, I'll be at Stanford. They already got their feet wet. They already played a home football game to go and do that from snap one is as impressive as anybody had all weekend Malachi Tony hit the Heisman post three times. Maybe he should have hit six times. I think he should hit it every single time he scores this year. I believe that's what he's going to do. Darian Mensah first game in a new system Brandon third new system in three years, right? And he goes and he does that. He was perfect. Let me stop you. There is the Heisman button being pressed too much. I don't think it is. All right. So because my guy Camario hit it tonight after his first touchdown. I love that. No Jeremiah Smith hit it today. I assume Jeremiah Smith was in response to Malachi Tony hitting it three times. Is it too much? That's all I'm asking. I it's hard for me. KT hidden is really fun. If Tony and Jeremiah both did it every touchdown they scored this year, which unfortunately Jeremiah all right, didn't that would have rocked so much just back and forth like they just go back and forth with Heisman's. Yeah, I want more and maybe we maybe we start putting spins on the Heisman. Maybe we do a little 360 and then hit it. Get dainty with it. Oh my gosh. That he is. I got 38. I got 38 three here for and this is a statement by LSU man. This is an absolute statement. This is this is coming out saying you know what all the distractions everything doesn't fucking matter where we got the coach. Now we got the roster. We got the quarterback. We got everything. They are absolutely going out there and and playing like a team that belongs in the national title conversation. Let's move on a little bit. Let me we'll get to our categories in just a second. So we talked to Oregon Boise State. We talked to Auburn Baylor. We talked to LSU Clemson a little bit Oklahoma State. Of course, just make sure I didn't miss anybody here. Florida looked pretty good. Took him a while. Who else looked bad? Is there anybody else to look bad? Colorado beat Georgia Tech the other night. We hadn't really talked about that shot of them going on the road and doing it last night. You had Oklahoma that defense is just going to be so lights out all you that defense is so nasty. I think from a level to level standpoint level one to three line linebackers defense of backs. I think they're the best in the country. I don't know who's better than them. I I know George on the back end is is elite and great and perfect. But on the front end they need to get a little bit better. They need to get a little bit more pressure. I think Oklahoma is just so good from front to back. I do as well. Also Satania ever you can't really you can't pawn to Satania. Yeah, yeah, and material while I material just needs to be like 70% of a really good quarterback this year for them to attend to. He doesn't have to be 100% good every week. He just needs to but I don't know. Do I wear Oklahoma next week or wear Western Michigan? Do I wear a combination? What do I do? I don't maybe maybe both. Maybe you do both. Do you want to would you like to get to our categories? Could open it up to the chat right now. It's all about Michigan cheated again. Virginia Tech look real good. Did you see not to toot my own horn, but we have the Liam Blutman cover your eyes game of the week. I haven't gone back and check the final score, but I think we've got a team emerging that we need to pay attention to every single week. Now last week last week Northwestern State lost to Louisiana Christian and in a in a ia school this week with four minutes ago. I see the phone God damn it with four minutes ago in the third quarter. They were down seven to three. They did score. I take a feel called the fourth quarter to lose 80 to six to Louisiana Tech. I think I might be addicted to Northwestern State. They lost 80 to six and then they lost Louisiana Christian. I'm following them all year. So this I pitched a category to you a few days ago and that brought up our least win strapped. I pitched we should pick a team to not win a game all season. Check in every Saturday night. Ain't no way they win a game and we're doing it. Ain't no way they might. They might not win a quarter. They might not want to drive. They might not win a snap. They lost 80 to six and listen, I you know, Kansas State, Kansas State beat somebody 71 to three, you know, Pitt scored a lot of points. Georgia scored 63 points. They lost 80 to six to Louisiana Tech. I'll see you six Louisiana Tech God. I want to look at these stats for Michigan 1312. They win the final score 221 total yards for Western Michigan 276 total yards for Michigan through one interception 276 yards. They end up winning the game. Bryce Underwood was 12 of 22 for 170 and one touchdown and one interception. The touchdown, of course, was the bogus one that happened at the end. What do you got? I was listening to Wayneham. I'm trying to I'm just trying to go back through through my head just to make sure we get all the all the takes out because I want to be fair to the teams that played on Friday. I'm just gonna look at the scores real quick before we get to our categories and open this thing up, you know, Purdue 4419. They didn't look very good for a while. Kansas 516 Michigan State was in a war, you know, several several first year coaches and I think that's a good thing to talk about right now. Several first year coaches then might be wondering if the job they've taken might be bigger than they anticipated. And I think I think Michigan state. I think Michigan, obviously Kyle Whittingham, they can have fun and they can celebrate. They got Oklahoma on the schedule. They got Ohio state on the schedule. They got Indiana on the schedule. They're going to have to answer a lot of questions throughout the year, and they're going to do it with a bad quarterback and a bad roster. So like is Kyle Whittingham happy where he's at? Golish, I think, looked like he was out of sorts. Golish looked like he didn't really belong where he was. So I don't know. And of course, Ohio state and Oklahoma state and Eric Morris down there, that wasn't impressive at all. A lot of first year coaches kind of limping out of the blocks is what I'm trying to say. Unmute yourself every time you go to talk. I'm listening to the Whittingham and Lance Taylor. Well, don't listen to Whittingham, Lance Taylor. I have to, I got to do social for the show. I got- You are! On the show! I got to build your brand! You're on the show now! Also, my first year head coach is showing up! Good Lord. Will Stein looked pretty good. I guess I'll give it that. Oh my gosh. Minchie, Minchie's a dog. Yeah, Minchie is a dog. I, hey, Kentucky hosts Alabama next week. We, we, we saw a few weeks ago. Kentucky hosts Alabama next week. That's all I'm saying. Arizona State hosts Texas A&M next week. Okay. That, that's a team. Houston did not. They didn't impress at all in week one. Houston didn't look good at all. They ended up winning about double digits at the end, but they, they really struggled. I thought they were going to be way better. But you know what? He hit on so many transfer guys last year. You just assume he's going to do it again. And when you're trying to do that every single year, there can be a lot of volatility to that. Um, before I get to the categories, I want to tell you about Reese's one more time. Nothing goes better than a day of college football like Reese's. I had Reese's on the plane today, coming back from Bloomington, Indiana. So shout out to Reese's, uh, the peanut butter cup. They had a great year. We have all manner of candy. We have the Reese's room that has the, uh, Hershey's cookies and cream bar, which I love. Uh, but at the paydays, like there's all sorts of candies in our Reese's room that are fantastic, but none better than the old fashioned Reese's peanut butter cup. Reese's is taking over this show tonight. So shout out to Reese's. Shout out to college football. What a great marriage. All right. Are you ready to do a little categories? And then we will go down the rabbit holes as the categories allow us. Are you ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready. Who was the most impressive team in week one? Would you like me to go first or would you like to go first? You go first. I will go first. And I, since I'm, I'm going to leave you Miami because I got to say LSU, what they're doing right now is pretty eyeopening. Um, the chat and other people will, will say, oh yeah, but it's just Clemson. Maybe Clemson's terrible. Maybe Clemson's this. I think we've got enough evidence over the last 15, 20 years that Clemson isn't out and out. Terrible. I think Clemson is, is, is well coached. Clemson, uh, is a, um, a dependable power for a program. They're not at the top of the sport like they used to be. And maybe they're not even top 25 like they used to be, but still 38, three midway through the third quarter. And your defense is absolutely suffocating them. Your offense is going up and down the field. You have to give credit for an LSU team that decided last year. It wasn't good enough. They went out and spent all the money. Now you look at their defense. You've got six foot four, 300 pound gazelles running all over the place. You've got an offense. It's spreading the ball out. This is remarkably impressive from LSU. It is remarkably impressive. And I don't like anybody's and we want, yeah, but it's just this team. It's just that team. Everybody's coming off an eight month by week. Everybody is. And a lot of teams are coming off an eight month by week with entirely new rosters and coaching staff and LSU. This is fucking impressive. They are the number one most impressive team of the week. Who's your most impressive team of the week? It has to be LSU. I was going to say Boise State for all the reasons I gave at the top of the hour. But if I'm not going to go LSU, I'm going to go with the officials in the Michigan Western Michigan game. It is beyond impressive that they were able to swindle, deceive, hoodwink and rob tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people watching that game. And it hasn't. It hasn't been said yet. Crazy what they did to the, to these poor players and coaches. I can't, I can't imagine what the players in the Western Michigan, uh, locker room and how they're feeling on this bus ride home. It's impressive what the officiating was able to do to rob a bunch of kids and men of a great life, lifetime achievement. Like, yeah, it's been, it's, it's been 19 years since App State beat Michigan. We still play the clips. We still know the call. We still remember. We still remember where we were and that moment was happening tonight and the officials stepped in and didn't allow it to happen. And I think what you just said is one of the better points I've ever heard on a podcast. The officials, there are six of them. They're a team of officials. They are a team and they were the most dominant team in college football history tonight. They were able to ignore a face mask in the fourth quarter. They were able to ignore roughing the punter or running into the punter really, but it would have been key. And then they were able to find a second where it did not exist. That second didn't exist. Second was gone. It was a fart in the wind. Didn't, it wasn't there and they found it and they gave it to Michigan and they gave him a gift. Kyle Whittingham didn't want it, but Michigan fans took it. You're right. But Miami also Miami, if we're talking most impressive teams in week one, I think what LSU is doing right now is super impressive. I think what Miami did last night was super duper impressive. They just, they just stole the heart and the soul of Stanford and did it all night. Did it for four quarters. Just never, never let them breathe. That's when, when you go on the road and do that, you are a super good team. Let's try, Blutman, let's try to see if we can't answer these questions without falling back on the crutch of what happened tonight in Ann Arbor. Are you ready? We could, we could try. We could give that an attempt. Who is the most depressed team in America after week one? Now, now, now, now, the most depressed team was going to be Michigan and it should be Michigan. It was going to be the team that spent $12 million on a faulty quarterback. It was going to be the team that hired a coach to come in and fix things that didn't get fixed. It was going to be the team that lost to Western Michigan in real time. But that was stolen from us. So the answer is Rutgers. Is there anybody more depressed than Rutgers right now? Maybe Oklahoma State, maybe. Maybe. But Rutgers, Rutgers was playing a team that hadn't won in two years. Rutgers was playing the worst team in the country and got their ass kicked. That's depressing. This is actually a great debate. Is it Rutgers who didn't have expectations? KJ Duff, Antoine Raymond, two of the best players in the Big Ten. KJ, one of the best shooters in the country. So for touch on favor against a team that can't compete with almost anything. Or is it Oklahoma State who had all this belief, all this rejuvenated energy, two touchdown favorites on the road against an in-state school who beat them to get their last coach fired? So what you're talking about is hope versus sadness. Hope versus despair. Hope versus despair. And Rutgers is the epitome of despair. But what is more despair than entering the season with hope? And immediately having it sucked out of your body. Oklahoma State fans spent nine months talking themselves into turning the page. Talking themselves into now we're paying money. Talking themselves into Mestermaker. Talking themselves into Morris. And at least we're just opening with Tulsa. I know we got Oregon week two, but we're going to get our feet wet with Tulsa. We're going to score a lot of points. And then we're going to deal with Oregon. Now all that hope is gone in one week. It's gone. And you can't really get it back. I suppose they could beat Oregon, but they can't beat Oregon. So, that's that. But there's a whole different world entirely than coming into the season at home against a UMass team that is a free win. That is how they were looked at. They were a free win. And you were 29-point favorites, and you lost by double digits. It's a fascinating debate. Who's more depressed, Oklahoma State or Rutgers? And I guess Western Michigan right now because they've been jobbed. Yeah. I don't know. I got something else for this later, so I'll save it. What was the most bad? A new topic. New topic. We got most impressive team, most depressed teams, most badass thing you saw today. I told you so in the hand up. I was wrong. What's the most badass thing you saw today, Blutman? You got QB1 coming into a new program. And somewhere in his debut, his face is a glusher. His gushing red liquid. It's blood. His face is bloody. He will be bruised for days and weeks after this. But you look that, man. You look that leader right into his eyes, right into his bloody, gory face that looks very akin to a wolf hunting its prey. And you know I could go to battle. I could go to war. I could die on this battlefield every single week for this man right here. The warrior of the week is Josh Hoover, and it's not even remotely close. And all he did after being look like he was in a five round bound in the UFC was throw a touchdown pass. my bad my most badass thing of the day other than my voice getting uh getting tougher and tougher you're doing well though thank you my most badass thing of the day eric winters was the difference in a win and a loss eric winters was standing near his goal line if he makes a perfect tackle auburn wins if he makes anything less than a perfect tackle auburn loses now he was helped by dj lagway who couldn't throw a ball on target to save his life at times um who turned and and had a wide open tight end if he leads him at all it's an easy walk-in touchdown he didn't he made him turn around but eric winters saw that gift wrapped him up grabbed him took him straight to the ground a remarkable tackle when an inch here or an inch there is a difference in winning and losing and that's unbelievable somebody says rocky beers hurdle by the way that's a fantastic one uh you guys in the chat can you guys in the chat can weigh in too i've got eric winters tackle but rocky beers hurdle on that long touchdown last night from john matier uh against utep i believe was fantastic but mine mine personally and yes the quarterback for uh for for indiana the the bloody face i mean indiana's like almost got an embarrassment of riches as far as like memes and and iconic imagery over the land like they're catching up to the rest of college football by just spamming the button you got signetti you know looking at the game and you're like oh my god i'm gonna win this game i'm gonna win this game down the line last year you got signetti saying google me and now you got your new quarterback in his first game with a busted up nose looking awesome looking like he's playing in 1962 in lambeau field unbelievable unbelievable uh jamal rule three touchdown game as a true freshman um yeah i suppose we can be charitable and let that be the story from nebraska's game and not the fact that they were just absolutely looked not ready to go in the season and they don't look like a contender again but yeah rule was good and i think that's a good thing and i think that's a good thing and i good. Jamal rule was a very, very, very good. Lemon. Do you have an, I told you so from week one of college football, I told you so that the group of six deserves to see at the table for any chance at all that they get. That was unbelievable. It just happened. I know. So you've seen that. What is happening to Clemson and LSU? Dill, Dill Jones is going crazy. I also got a field. We're about to pick JKS off right here. What if we just did it? We had nine through a dot shoot. I told you so that the group of six deserves to see at the table for any little tiny chance that they have had a successful storybook upset is worth it. It's so far outweighs what a group of six national championship would be. And we had this talk, you evil and I on mostly this week, the best times and college football are when we all come together and we root for the underdog. We root for the little guy. We root for. What would tell what would become the whole story of their program? Brad Walker, what's your, I told you. So I told you that Oregon was a national title contender. I told you they're going to win the national title. And for about a quarter and a half today, I was wondering, is the Brandon Walker curse real? Is this, is this real? Are you actually going to do this every time that you say somebody's going to win the national title, they fall apart. And second half, if you, if you just. You're not going to do this every time you say somebody's going to win the national title, you're not going to do this every time you say somebody's going to win the national title. You're going to do this every time you say somebody's going to win the national title. um again oh i'm starting to get concerned that there's this might be a safety issue at this point uh i got mason heichel uh seven touchdowns 453 yards kenny minchi was great 300 yards four touchdowns uh and number 10 i was saving for the uh i'm saving for the running back from western michigan after they ended up finishing off that game so just give me whoever the best player he is for lsu here maybe sam levitt even though i hadn't thrown the ball that well uh liam do you have your top 10 players of the week in college football uh yeah malachi tony and darian mensah what they did to stanford is uh so so so so impressive eric winters 11 tackles nine of them solo two tackles for loss he game he sealed the game with this stop on two-point conversion jamal rule nebraska he got mentioned already he had three no yeah he had three total touchdowns today he was terrific uh true freshman armies and naves offensive lines army had 57 carries for 569 rushing yards and eight touchdowns navy had 73 carries for 506 rushing yards and six touchdowns amari thomas eight catches for 133 and touchdown nasty moss anytime he touches the ball he's a threat to score mason heichel as he said nate shepherd the one star from duke who stayed loyal and true to duke he had 35 carries for 227 and two he's the offense this year uh walker you get could not throw a complete pass save his life javon tracy minnesota receiver had two-part return touchdowns of a769 yards as well as five catches for 98 yards i left the last spot open yeah i did two reese's uh reese's uh the candy partner official candy partner of parcel sports this reese's takeover is brought to you by guess who reese's uh they they are fantastic uh the reese's is just like the reese's peanut butter cup is the best thing in candy it's my favorite uh love nothing more on a road trip than getting just a little pack of those two of them great for a flight you know one on landing one on takeoff all that so reese's is fantastic reese's sponsors this show reese's sponsors all our shows here at barstool sports the official candy partner of barstool sports shout out reese's um a lot of great players this weekend i i got um fazon brandon in the chat he was he was good he was good gunner stockton 15 of 16 down there georgia was good keelan russell was good a lot of good a lot of a lot of teams played bad teams a lot a lot of a lot of guys look really good uh we're gonna see next week who's real and who's not uh did you have the memphis running back by the way who is uh forgot them jalen carter four touchdowns i think 185 yards rushing speaking of next week we got obviously we got oklahoma michigan and obviously we got texas ohio state we got we got memphis boise state next week right yes that really good special pretty really really good william blutman who won the week uh the group of six still won the week even though those guys got robbed in kalamazoo the group of six could play they can beat you they could do a lot oh cool graphic trey lamb talked his talk before during and after a game lance taylor's a winner of the week handles it all with class legend bay his touchdown for ohio state today was absolutely filthy rated our stuff he's the best running back on that roster has the best name on that roster decorian moore's touchdown the stop and the start oh my goodness that was like a fast car name a fast car uh lamborghini oh that was like a lambo and then a miami master class clinical so i'm gonna go ahead and uh double down a little bit uh i i think lsu is in the midst of winning week one right now uh true western michigan would have won week one and they did win week one but unfortunately i went back and looked and we still have a second left in the day so we're gonna have to take that away from them in corrupt fashion um western michigan truly did win this day because they truly did beat michigan but we live in the world of reality and the reality is that uh lsu right now spent all season fighting spent all season building spent all season getting ready for this you go out and get lane kiffin to make a splash to make a noise to make uh to to to make ripples and they're making a ripple right now they're absolutely looking incredible they're looking like a team who is ready to compete for a national title um so i think lsu won the week who's facetiming me what yeah you're on the show yeah i'm on my show but if it's you i'm always gonna pick up what's up pick up and just say what like i'm some huge no you're not a huge it's hardy it's hardy what's up what's up man did you see cabario i'm just trying to talk a ball for a second let's talk ball i i i was good i was i'm just trying to talk 780 fucking yards dude it was unbelievable did you see were you able to watch the game did you see his throw his 70 yard throw of course i saw the whole thing i watched the whole thing dude it was unbelievable it was unbelievable i i have never been more excited i think week one since we beat or not since 2014 i have not been this excited about a mississippi state football team since dac prescott yeah so cancel whatever concert you got next week pick me up in the pj let's go to minnesota bro i don't have pj money let's chill out first oh okay okay all right let's all let's make you you don't have pj money no fuck no if i did i mean i do but i would be broke okay fine fine fine uh no it was great it was it was fantastic we got to run the ball a little bit better it doesn't matter today was awesome today was awesome did you see the michigan thing i did i texted you about it you didn't write me back i was i was live on this i'm sorry i was i was live here jj hill's a fucking dog i fucking knew it bro i've been hearing robbie and hey dad and all the guys talk about it for a year yeah jj hill is a fucking dog i know he's a freshman but he's a freaking dog dude and he's gonna be a stud bro when he dude it reminded me of like when i was like younger and i saw like cadillac williams and the fucking biceps that guy yeah dude yeah shout out tupelo mississippi jj hill golden wave i'm trying to think let's see um i feel good i know it's i know it's monroe but i feel like our our o-line i feel like camario had all the time in the fucking world dude dude we haven't looked that good on the lines of in years i don't care if it's uom or we've been playing the uom and rose of the world for five years and we haven't looked this good yeah he's comfortable dude yeah he's so good he's so fucking good dude he the ball pops out of his hand dude it pops out of his hand yeah dude if we are four and oh uh-huh going into october 3rd we're going to fucking beat alabama we're going to beat alabama at home we're gonna fucking do it dude i know we're doing it and we're both gonna be there Pump the brakes on that one. The last time we were both there, let's just pump the brakes a little bit. Okay. All right. I got to go do the show. All right. I'll see you. Yeah. That's Hardy. Hardy, the musician, the country musician. He always calls me after Mr. Steak. Anyway, where are we at? Who won the week? We did that one. Liam Blutman, who lost the week? Fuckers, Oklahoma State, DJ Lagway. God didn't forget about you. That was one of the most egotistical things a man has ever said. Please just work on your craft and getting better at football. I promise God will thank you for that. Bryce Underwood, the biggest waste of $12 million ever. I love Dave Portnoy. I love working at this company. I will tell him to this face, please spend your money better and wiser. Do not ever do that again. Unbelievable. I don't care if you put a dollar into it. That is too much money. Going to college football games, having the urge to want to go because you miss. I wanted to go to UCLA game really bad tonight. I know I should not miss this show, so I did not go. But also it is you go to a college football game. You miss greatness. I would have kicked myself for a decade plus till I died, which will be in nine decades. If I miss that Western Michigan ending and beating Michigan, you like there's just the sport never stops. It never takes a second off. What a great pun. What a great pun. Also, Brown Walker College football show bus. They did you so dirty. That is not cool. Well, that's been that's a little fake news. Oh, buses have two sides. So it's on the other side. I'm not on the window. The other side. It was represented like I'm that's the only place I'm on there. Katie got done worse on the bus than I got. His picture is so fat. It's so fat. Like even for Katie, super fat. Oh, you know, we haven't mentioned and this is good. Thank you, chat for shouting this out. Crazy. We haven't. We haven't mentioned this at all. Darth Hodor Hodor shuts us out. Shout out to the Ohio State seniors who have given so much to the program. Shout out to the Ohio State seniors who have given everything through one game. Just shout out you guys. You guys had a hell of a senior year and we honor them today before the season. Why? Because Ryan. and A didn't want to have distractions when he beats this Michigan team by fucking 90 in a couple of months. Ridiculous, fucking ridiculous. Uh, who lost the week? Decency, justice, America, all great things, all sullied tonight, all in darker times because of corrupt officials, all in darker times because of corrupt people, all in darker times because the Michigan death star has risen again. And it's just ridiculous. It's terrible. It's awful. And lastly, last category, what are we doing? Blumen, what are we doing? What are we doing when the lifeblood of the sport is anything going to happen? Then everybody has a chance. And Western Michigan goes on the road and does it. They do it. They did it. They beat Michigan. They went across the state to the halves in their state. They went across the state to the team that has millions and millions and millions of dollars. I got on a bus. Like you said, the bus ride, they got on a bus and went over there and they beat them. And what happened? Officials took it away. The big 10 took it away. Justice was not served tonight. It was terrible. It was awful. What are we doing? How can that happen? How can six officials, how can an official go under the hood and find a phantom second? How can he cheat like that? How can he do that? What are we doing that that was allowed to happen? What are we doing that that's allowed to stand? What are we doing that we take that away from Western Michigan? One of the great moments in college football history, gone. What are we doing? Blumen, what's yours? There's no point to give another one. It's just that there's no point to go on. So that is, uh, that is week one. Now what happens tomorrow night when Ole Miss and Louisville have a classic Notre Dame, Wisconsin have a classic. Maybe we go live. I unfortunately believe despite Labor Day, there will be a web this, this, this Monday. I'll have to go face Dave Warnoy. Um, but Oh my gosh. If we have to go face Dave Warnoy, we'll have to go face Dave Warnoy. Um, but if we have to go face Dave Warnoy, we have to go live tomorrow. We have to go live. Otherwise this is the first, uh, this is week one of what 15 or whatever, however many weeks we're going to do this. It's been incredible. Thank you for watching. Thank you for being here. Lookie. We got anything. Um, yeah. Your ultimate winner of the weekend brought to you by Reese's my ultimate winner of the weekend brought to you by Reese's. I'm going to give it to Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin kind of pulled the wool out of my hair. All over all of us. Lane Kiffin acted like the battle was in courts. Meanwhile, he was getting ready to stuff Clemson in a locker lane. Kiffin, I think will dominate this sport in 2026. And that doesn't mean from a winning every game or national title perspective, but he's going to have a hand and a say in every single week. We're going to talk about him every single week. We're going to talk about LSU every single week. I believe tonight is an absolute, absolute, absolute win for the LSU Tigers who are back on the big stage or back in a big time college football. And Lane Kiffin is back and better than ever and louder than ever. He's going for two up 44 to three. So that's the show. We'll get better next week or get worse. We'll see until then. This has been the Brandon Walker college football show. Do you want to tell us about Reese's one last time? I just told you. Takeover was amazing. Reese's has been fantastic. Nothing goes better with college football and Reese's. I'm going to go have some Reese's right now. Try to wind down after a crazy night of football. That is the Brandon Walker college football show.