Ohio St beats Indiana but loses Sayin, BYU over Notre Dame + Georgia, Alabama & Texas lose & Top 10

That was the craziest day and the history of our sport. What's the difference between Indiana and Ohio State? Four inches. Do you want to play BYU in Provo? I don't. We have like the most crazy day in the history of college football the same week that we get the flying car. Hey, welcome into the program. It is the Joel Glad Show. I'm Joel Glad. This show is sponsored by Hilton. Hilton for the stay and guess what everybody? That was an epic day of college football. I mean, my gosh, never seen anything like it. That was the craziest day in the history of our sport. Numbers bear that out right here. And I hope you enjoyed it because I thoroughly enjoyed it. The game I was at was unbelievable. We had five of the top seven teams lose in a single day. First time we've ever seen that. And can we just start to like, let's just start to take stock of what's going on, right? Rather than just thinking like, oh, this is crazy. It'll never happen again. Happens this one time. I actually think this is not an anomaly. And we've been seeing this. We've been seeing the breadcrumbs of this for the last couple of years. Ever since NIL entered the equation. And ever since, name image and likeness I was assuming of, and ever since the transfer portal changed college football and the structure of college football and how rosters are built and where talent is and how it's been dispersed around the country. The breadcrumbs have been there for parity. And I've been saying that. I think a lot of people have been saying that, but I've been trying to tell you guys for a long time that like the sport is just different. There's a totally different feel to it. And the evidence just popped. It just landed like a thud. Bam, right on our laps on Saturday when everybody lost except for you. The fans didn't lose because that was one of the most entertaining and best days of college football that we've ever seen. And I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed it because that was phenomenal. It was phenomenal. The sport has totally changed right before our eyes. And the evidence that we see on Saturday is it should be communicating something to us, right? And one of the things that I think it communicates to us is that our sport is better than it has ever been. And I love it. I love it so much. If you'll remember, if you've been with us from the start here at the Joel class show, you used to have a line in our old open. And we've cut the open down because, you know, listen, we just want to get to the information and everything like that. I used to have a line in the old open that we are at the dawn of the golden age of college football. Welcome. Welcome. Here we are. This is phenomenal. How many fan bases have hope right now? If you're watching right now, you love this sport as much as I do, or at least I hope you do, and you have hope. You have hope right now. You have hope for the top end of the sport. You know that you can turn it around in a year like Kentucky has done and UCLA has done in Indiana did. Like this is fantastic. And in so many ways, this is what I hope for for a long time. And you're starting to see it come to fruition. So I'm not going to sit here and I'm not going to lay waste it. This is the week we got the 2014 playoff expansion news. You know, it's such a terrible, no good, terrible thing. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's actually just where the sport is headed. Now I'm going to talk a lot more about that news in the 2014 playoff model on Wednesday. So on Wednesday show, and I'm going to go through the pros and cons because I know it's not a popular thing, but I will tell you like on Saturday, wasn't there just a part of you that was like, you know what, maybe there are just a lot of good teams and less great teams in college football. And that's not a bad thing. That's not a bad thing. I don't think it's lost on any of us. The same, we have like the most crazy day in the history of college football the same week that we get the flying car. Oh, man, I guess it's not really a flying car. It was more like a jet pack car. You know, it's like, we put a jet pack on a car. We didn't. I didn't do anything. I talk about college football. But you know what, the sport dramatically changed right here. Lots of winners from Saturday. BYU, huge winner. UCLA, how about that big win? Tennessee over Alabama. Kentucky gets a win on the road. Ole Miss shows up, pounds Missouri. Texas tech finally looks like Texas tech. There's so much going on. And for the entire season, we've been hearing about, and I've been guilty of this by the way. So I'll like, I'll raise my hand. And that's kind of my sign for all of you. And I guess you've known it now for a couple of weeks. When I say, I'll raise my hand. That means I'll raise my hand in error. I was wrong about this. I will raise my hand and tell you I was wrong about this. I hope that you guys like appreciate that. I'll always admit when I'm wrong. Everyone was talking about, even all the way back to August, including myself, that there's only seven teams that can win the championship, win the national championship. That's wrong. That is wrong. We got more than seven. And Saturday was evidence of that. I think that there's a lot of teams actually. There's a lot of teams that can win on any given Saturday. And it just shows how spread out the sport is right now. And that, with the backdrop of that 2014 playoff, I think is interesting. And, by the way, I know that it's not popular. And I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody that they're wrong if they feel like they don't like the news of the expansion of the '24. I do think that there is a lot of media and in particular from the sports riders, just hand-ringing. Hand-ringing about like, no, no, this is terrible. Let's all just take a deep breath. Let's all take a deep breath. I'll talk about pros and cons on Wednesday. But I also find it a little bit rich that the same media sports riders and such that have criticized heavily, dabbo-sweeney for not seeing the evolution of the sport and where the sport is going and what it is becoming and how you operate within that structure. Are the exact same media and sports riders and everybody that also are not seeing where the sport is headed and evolving and watching a football, art football, college football through a different lens for what it is now versus what it was back then. Like I think the top 25 poll is antiquated at this point. I really do. We didn't get 25 until 1989 before that, it was 20, before that it was 10. You know, and so it's always been a bit of an arbitrary number. And yet we put all this meaning in everything in like top 25 wins, top 10 wins. I don't know if it means anything. We have a lot of good teams in college football. They can win on any given day in particular, if they're focused, they're detailed, they got an execute, they've got a good coaching staff, and I love that. I love that. So let's get into the games here. I'll start with the game I was at. Ohio State hangs on to beat Indiana 1915. Top five matchup, it was the first top five matchup in the history of Memorial Stadium. It was awesome. It was awesome. And can we all just appreciate the fact that the last two times these teams have met, they have played phenomenal football games. Now one has a win in each of those games. So they're one and one in those last two. You can go back all the way to that third meeting in six first year. But if you take that one out of the equation, and you just look at these last two big 10 championship game from a year ago, and then what we saw on Saturday in Bloomington, phenomenal football games, just heavy weights going at it, playing great football. Now, I'm not here to tell you that it was all clean, that everyone played well, 'cause that's not the case. And in fact, for a large portion of that game on Saturday, I felt like the quarterbacks were really playing poorly, both quarterbacks, Julian Sanfero, Ohio State, and Josh Hoover for Indiana. But that means somebody else is playing well. What I can't stand, this is a little peek behind the curtain. What I can't stand is when I'm watching a game, and the broadcast can't adjust to a defensive matchup. Like we all want points, and that's great. But man, that means somebody's succeeding, right? Like I don't care if I get a low scoring Super Bowl. Look at the defenses and what they're doing, and both defenses were fantastic, and they were rugged. The defensive lines were getting after the quarterback, those quarterbacks, both of them, Hoover and San, and obviously San getting knocked out of the game. They were getting rocked in that game. Those guys had to show a tremendous amount of courage, just to operate the offense, how they were operating it. Because of how well the defenses were playing, they were outstanding on both sides. And for Ohio State, man, I tell you what, what a gutsy win for them. Obviously it's going to come with a lot of questions because they're going to lose Julie and San for what now Ryan Day is saying, quote, several weeks. So we'll see about that injury. The ending was epic. I mean, obviously, I was thinking back, I was thinking back when the ball was in the air, and Josh Hoover threw the ball, I'm sitting up in the booth, and I'm thinking to myself, like, man, all I can think about is Mendoza to Omar Cooper, a Penn State, and like, here it is. Here's a touchdown pass, late in the game, big matchup, and then his foot's not in bounds, and that's why I actually gave the same line is his foot in, like, is his foot in bounds. Is the same line I gave in the Penn State game after the call from Gus, and this time it wasn't. And that's the margin of these two teams. The stat sheet is remarkably similar in both the championship game from a year ago and Saturday's game, and it's four inches. It's four inches. Like, that's all it is. Four inches at this point, and I tell you, it leads me to kind of this question about both teams. How do you feel about both teams coming away from that game? Well, there's questions, there's areas of belief, there's areas of confidence, there's no doubt for both programs, but if I was being honest with you, I would say that what I learned about Indiana in a loss was that the entire country is going to have to deal with again, Indiana. They're not going anywhere. You're going to have to deal with Indiana because that was a fantastic game. They're not going to go away. And by the way, that was probably the worst game that they've played in a long time. It's certainly in the last 22 and they're 22 game winning streak because of the turnovers, two fumbles. For some, they've fumbled since the first game of of 2025 against old dominion. You know, so like they missed a couple of kicks, they've got to feel pretty good about themselves walking out of that game, even at a loss, thinking to ourselves, uh, themselves, man, I, I hope we get another crack at that Ohio State team at some point, very similar to how we've, we felt about Ohio State coming out of their loss to Texas. Like you got to think after that game, the Buckeyes are like, man, I wish we had another crack them. We had our opportunities. Well, I think Indiana had their opportunities in that game. There's no doubt. So what did I learn about Indiana? I learned that the entire country is gonna have to deal with Indiana again. And I think that that's candidly a difficult proposition for a lot of teams in particular with the way that we saw them play on Saturday. That team is not going anywhere. Now what do we learn about Ohio State in a win? Well, we learned about Ohio State in a win is that they're back to square one. And that's the unfortunate part of getting your Heisman finalist, uh, and, and second year starting quarterback Kurt. So Julian saying, I hope it's not a long term thing. But as Ryan Day said, it's going to be several weeks. The hit was, oh, my gosh. And we're showing it right now on YouTube. Mario Landino, the defensive tackle for Indiana, just crushed Julian, saying it was a play action pass or trying to get the ball down the field. Mario Landino beats Filip Daniels around the right side of the offensive line and bam. I mean, arm is pinned back shoulder, elbow, everything is, is right there. And then he comes back sand does after going to the locker room and he walks back onto the field in the sling. And so now if you're in Ohio State fan, yeah, I'm sure you're, you're thrilled that you won the football game because it provides some level of margin moving forward now that they still only have one loss. That's great. That's great for them. Again, room for error is good in this college football season because there's a lot of things going on. But square one, because where do you go on offense? You see, let's go into just like the idea of backup quarterbacks. So and I talk about this with coaches all the time. Let me give you a peek inside some of these production meetings that we have. So for instance, and this is just like a rough draft. So I have these charts and I'm holding them up on YouTube. And this is not my actual game chart, but it's a replica of it that I just print out on a normal size sheet of paper. And I have all the lineups. I've got four of them right. I got each offense, each defense sitting here. And then we go through them and I talk about all the players that are on the list. And I talk about their keys to victory. And we just have, we have a production meeting. Well, when I get to the quarterbacks, a lot of times we talk at length about the starting quarterback, their mentality. Tell us how they work. What are they good at? Here's what I see on film. What is it? So on and so forth. When I get to the backups, here's generally how the conversation goes. This guy is our backup. And he can come in and we really believe in him and he can operate the offense. There's no doubt. Now, if it's a long term injury or something happens drastically to the starter, we've got this third string guy. And he's just really talented. And you know, that might be more of a long term answer. Okay. So that's how a lot of those conversations go. Well, now Ohio State is in that not even gray area. They're in that mode where this is a several weeks is a long term answer. You're going to have to go out there and likely when multiple games with somebody other than Julian Sain. So the question becomes like, is that Luke Fahey, the backup quarterback to Julian Sain? Is it Tavian St. Clair? The highly recruited number two recruit in the country. I think the alarming part for Ohio state fans is that you see Fahey goes out there and you could tell like that game was totally sped up. He throws a screen pass off the back of his offensive lineman's helmet. And it's like, oh my gosh. And listen, I will tell you this. I was already 20 almost 21. The first time I ever stepped foot on a college football field, I had played minor league baseball. And I airmailed my first pass so far above a drag route. I'm rolling out and I just airmail it. And the game was going light speed. And the very next time I walked on the field, it slowed down drastically. And so maybe for Fahey, that happens because walking out in that moment on the road against that opponent, opponent can be totally overwhelming. We saw him, you know, he was breathing heavily. He's a young player. He's just a true freshman. He's a three star recruit. And so they'll try to have a plan for him moving forward. But I do think that they're also at square one because they're going to have to evaluate at this point who gives us the best chance to win. Not who's the best backup for Julian Sain if he leaves for a series or two or we need a half out of the backup quarterback. And it's not the guy that can just operate what Julian operates. Like this is our offense with Julian. If we need a stop cap, he's going to go in there and he can just do those things. Now you're at square one, if you're Ohio State and they've got to go back and thank goodness for them that they've got an off week at this point before they go and travel to USC. But they get to now answer the question who gives us the best chance to win football games, who gives us the best chance to maximize number four, Jeremiah Smith for his last few games in an Ohio State uniform. Right. Like that's a major question for them in that coaching staff. Who is it? Is it Luke Fahey? Is it Tavian St. Clair? Is it a combination of the two? Is it something that's outside of that box in order to move the football? How do we give this defense the best chance to win? That's still an elite defense and they proved it on Saturday, even though Hoover and Martian Becker were able to get the passing game going in the fourth quarter. So Ohio State is going to have to answer that question. And again, hopefully, thankfully for them, they've got the off week to go out there and do it. I think that there's pros and cons to each, you know, Luke Fahey clearly can operate the offense as Ryan Day wants him to better than Tavian St. Clair. There's no way he's the backup over St. Clair unless he can do that. So that's a proven commodity in practices. And I'm sure that the players trust him to a certain extent. But you do have to answer the question who gives us the best chance to win. How do we maximize Jeremiah Smith? Is it arm strength? All of these questions are going to be on the table for Ohio State. And that's why you come out of that. You win. You feel great about the margin that it provides moving forward. But man, more questions than answers out of a win. So where do we leave these two teams? Let's just start with Ohio State. Where do we have them in the top 10? They're both obviously in the top 10. Did I put Ohio State all the way up at number one? I did not. I did not. I've got to Ohio State at number two. Number two in the country after that big win. Top five matchup on the road ending a 22 game winning streaks. Got to feel good. They've got some margin for air now and the rest of their season. But again, major questions surrounding the most important position on the field. Who can maximize their ability to win? Who can maximize Jeremiah Smith? Now for Indiana, this is still a team that's a national championship contender. The defense is still outstanding. It's not like Ohio State went up and down the field. I'm looking at Josh Hoover struggling through three quarters, getting it going in the fourth quarter. I'm looking at a team that did not necessarily run the football well. And that's a problem because they need to run the football well. It's a team that has has been limited from an offensive scoring perspective against their best opponents that they've played. Northwestern, Nebraska, now Ohio State. All of those teams have decent defenses to very good elite defenses in the Ohio State case. But I knew I do know they've got Becker and Marsh. Charlie Becker is an elite player. I think that he based on Saturday's game film. I think Charlie Becker is going to be a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. I don't know that to be certain. And I think there's going to be questions about his ability to separate. But there is going going to be no, no questions about his ability to make contested catches down the football field. He's fundamentally sound. He's fast. He's got elite speed. He's probably the fastest player in Indiana has. On any given day, he's the fastest player on the field period. Remember at a high school, he won the 110 hurdles. He won the 300 hurdles. He was a four by 400 champ. Like guy can run. He's got track speed. He can fly. There's no doubt. I do think he's going to need some nuance at the next level with his route running a building and separation skills. But in a contested catch area, nobody in college football is better than him. He's got the highest catch rate in contested catches in all of college football. Becker's amazing. Marsh is amazing. I feel terrible for for Nick Marsh, making a mistake like that stepping out on that play is going to haunt him and it's going to haunt him for a long time, a long time. Hopefully he can continue to produce because he's an elite player. There's no doubt he just lost his way a little bit on that. And I think Josh Hoover probably unlocks something. I hope he's healthy. He was wincing a couple of times after getting hit by Ohio, Ohio state. But I hope that he's healthy moving forward because I think that he found something in particular in that fourth quarter throwing the football. So where is Indiana? After that loss by four inches, everyone's going to have to deal with them. Indiana's for me at number four. Indiana's number four and a day when everyone lost, maybe Indiana in a loss also won. Couldn't you make the argument? By the way, your four inches away from them winning that game and then the narrative of Saturday is actually completely different. Think about this just for a moment, thought exercise. If nothing changes from Saturday except for those four inches, where Nick Marsh stepped out of bounds in the end zone and he scores and they win that game, then guess what we're talking about? I can't trust anybody in college football, except for Kurt Signetti. The only consistent. in college football is Kurt Signetti. Like that's how close it is. Those are the margins right now. And that's what I'm telling you. Like parody is here. Anyone can win on any given day. You just got to go out and execute. Other huge games around the day. B-Y-U, come on. Beat and Notre Dame at home, 28, 24, and Provo. Scene was epic. There's no doubt. We kind of knew that would be the case. They're seen as always good. I've done, I've done, uh, one, two, one. I've done a game from Lavel Edwards. They played Arizona a couple of years ago. Awesome scene. They've got one of the best fan bases in all of college football. They are loyal there. There they are loud. They love their team. Love their team. It's like for a lot of reasons. It's a part of them. It is a part of them. And the game on the field, I was so impressed with B-Y-U because they didn't even have L.J. Martin. He was the big 12 offensive player of the year a year ago. And they're playing the best defense that they will have faced this year by a wide margin. And you don't have arguably your best player outside of your quarterback. And you go out there and still perform offensively bare-buck Meyer. Yes, sir. I'm a huge fan of bare-buck Meyer. And I know B-Y-U fans are going to be like, don't jump on the bandwagon now. And so listen, I'll just, from afar, I'll just tell you bare-buck Meyer put himself squarely in the Heisman trophy race on Saturday. I think I don't think you can watch football on Saturday and not come to that conclusion. Personally, run in the ball, throw in the football. And here's what I really love about Bach Meyer. He wills his team down the field. There's a T-bow quality to it that I, that I kind of love. There's a beauty of it. It's like, it's not the prettiest thing of all time. But man, it's just like, I'd love it to be his teammate. No, granted, I would be the backup because bare would be the starter, but like, I would love to be his teammate. He elevates the play of those around him, both with his ability, but also with his competitive character. And he's again, he's just willing to team. He's true in the energy, choose, and I'm like, this is, this is awesome, man. Like only in college football. And then he goes out there and his double digit number and he's just like, I'm just going to will my team down the, down the field. I thought the game plan from BYU was exceptional. They knew that they probably couldn't just line up and just beat Notre Dame. And so there was a lot of things that were misdirection. They forced Notre Dame to be detail-oriented and execute and be disciplined on defense. And Notre Dame wasn't. Notre Dame's defense was maybe one of the more disappointing things of, of the entire day on Saturday. That was supposed to be an elite defense and they did not tackle well. They did not have quality recognition. They were not disciplined in their assignments. And because of that BYU took advantage. They took advantage right on the opening series. They went down and scored that touchdown. So that was, that was a phenomenal win for BYU. It was a phenomenal win for Bear Bachmeyer and now puts himself in the, the Heisman Trophy race. Incredible win for Kalani Sataki, who everyone already wanted and they were able to keep last year. Remember that Penn State basically had a memo of understanding with Kalani Sataki. Some folks stepped in in Provo and they said, nah, you didn't say the magic word. I love movies, references. Any stays in Provo and then Kalani is just like, man, I love Kalani. I've covered him for a long time. I've covered him all the way back to when he was the defense coordinator at Utah, covered him when he was the defense coordinator at Oregon State. I remember he went there for a year, obviously as a head coach now at BYU. Kalani Sataki is, is first and foremost a great man of character. I think it's reflected in the way his teams play the sport. They play with, with a character that is uncommon to the rest of the sport and, and I know that they love that there. But like Kalani is that he is a, he is a great man. He's also an incredibly smart coach. He's a great motivator. They evaluate well and they get the most out of the things that they have at BYU. So, I'm, I'm super high on BYU right now. I do think that this win could be transformative for not only BYU for the entire big 12. This has not been talked about that much. I have not read much about this. I have not heard people talk about this. I do believe that this is a transformative win, obviously for BYU because their playoff hopes are now super real. And I don't think they even have to win the big 12 because of that. That is a notch in your belt that is going to carry you a long way, beating Notre Dame like that. So their resume is intact. There's no doubt there are undefeated and, and people are going to have to deal with, with BYU. But now you look around and you're like, for the entirety of the big 12, that's a massive transformative victory for the entire conference. Now you look up and like, you've gotten an Oregon win out of Oklahoma state. Utah drilled Arkansas. You've got, by the way, Auburn who just beat Georgia, they had to beat Baylor because Baylor fails on a two point conversion by inches, you know, the four inches that, that Indiana lost to Ohio State. Well, that's how Baylor lost to Auburn and week one. And I'm looking up right now and I'm like, okay, what happens if Utah were to beat BYU or the other way around and Utah only has one loss. What if one of those teams don't go to the big 12 championship game? The winner of the Holy war, they don't go to the big 12 championship game, but they're 11 and one. That happens to Texas tech, you know, they could easily go undefeated. I think that the big 12 is now very, a very serious contender for not only two spots, but maybe three spots in the college football playoff. So that went not only transformative for the team in Provo, but for the entire big 12. And not many people are talking about that right now. Our Notre Dame, whoo, back up against the wall, back up against the wall. And the reason is, I know it's only one loss and there's other teams and there's always this sentiment that like, well, this year, you know, a nine and three team is definitely going to get in. I don't know about that. Notre Dame is now going to have to deal with somebody out of the big 12 that doesn't win the big 12 because of that loss to BYU. What if it's BYU? What if BYU were to lose to Utah, don't they don't play for the big 12 championship? And they're 11 and one. What it like, what if they get compared directly to Notre Dame? So Notre Dame can't lose to Miami. Notre Dame lost their two most difficult games a year ago and because of that, they were left out of the playoff. That in a wild, terrible tie break that ended up hurting Miami, the ACC, I'll give you that. But like it's not out of the question, if Miami were to beat Notre Dame, then Notre Dame would have to beat SMU. And then SMU would be by far their best win on their resume because to date, their best win on their resume is Wisconsin and Wisconsin just got beat by UCLA. So I think Notre Dame is going to be under some serious pressure when they face Miami because they will be in the same exact boat that they were a year ago where even if they're 10 and two and they lost at BYU and to Miami at home, then we're sitting there and it's like, okay, you lost at home, you lost on the road. And by the way, those were the two best teams that you face. It's like, who did you beat? Who did you beat? So this for Notre Dame is not great. Their strength of schedule right now is 42nd in the country. Their best win is Wisconsin. Maybe you can throw North Carolina in there. They won this week. And their remaining schedule, we've got Navy, I mean, okay, I love Navy, but it's Navy. And they've got the Miami game, Boston College SMU and Syracuse. So they're going to have an off week. And then here you go and that Miami game back against the wall, back against the wall. I want to reveal BYU in a moment, but let me reveal Notre Dame in my top 10. Where did I put Notre Dame in my top 10? Top 10 was horrendously difficult. I don't know. Throw them all in there. I was throwing darts, guys. I might as well been blindfolded and I kind of closed my eyes like this and I throw the dart and I'm like, where'd they land? Notre Dame's at five. How's that? Nice round number. Where do you want me to put them? I don't know. Now where did I put BYU? Oh, BYU. I know where you think I'm going to put them. And I'm not. Everyone wants to put Miami up there at number one. Nope. You don't go to double over time with Florida State and get the benefit of a horrendous call and get the benefit of the doubt from me. Well, Ohio State beat Indiana on the road, BYU beat Notre Dame, BYU is my number one team in the country. The Cougars get it. They deserve the respect. BYU is my number one team in the country and quite frankly, I think that they've earned it at this point. Right. I mean, Ohio State has a loss. I know Miami doesn't have a loss, but I'm like, what has Miami done? I mean, come on, guys, like Florida State is not a very good football team. And we have seen that proven out like double over time with them and you've got to survive two Hail Marys. I'll get to them in a moment, but that's why BYU is number one. I don't. I don't think anybody does at this point, not in that scene, not in that scene. So BYU is at number one crazy day in the SEC. Oh my gosh. Texas. Let's start with Texas. Oh, what Texas loses their second straight. It's time to Florida. Florida. I know we all love Florida. I was on Florida at one point, right? And it's like that big win over Ole Miss. They pounded Ole Miss and then they rolled out and got drilled by Missouri. You know, I'm looking up and I'm like, hold on a second. Texas scored 17 offensive points. Now, I know Texas's offense has not been great and a lot of us have talked about it. And I've watched a lot of their film and I watched this film and I'm going to give you my thoughts on everything going on with Texas here in a moment. 17 offensive points. They did score a special team session in this game. Florida had allowed, wait for it, 38 to South Carolina, 45 to Missouri, 28 to Ole Miss and 39 to Auburn. And Texas scored 17 offensive points. Guys, this is supposed to be one of the best offenses in the country. This is supposed to be one of the best teams in the country. What is going on with Texas? Everything. Everything. Defense gave out. Defense was supposed to be elite. Simmons leaves with a leg injury. Defense gives out. Offense. Supposed to be better. They were supposed to be able to run the football. They're supposed to have an offensive line. Arch was supposed to be more experienced and play the way that he did in the second half of last year. Failure. Let's go into the film real quick. I have a couple of notes here. The sequence in the game. I'm watching that game. And even when when Texas was able to get a couple of drives going, I will just tell you right now, none of it is clean. And primarily because I think Texas's biggest weakness right now is not archmaning. It's their offensive line. The offensive line played terrible. That does not excuse any other position group. Okay, I'm not telling you that arch played great because he didn't. And I'm going to get to that in a moment. But you don't have this type of collapse on offense like Texas is having unless everybody is involved. And trust me when I tell you, I just gave Sabin hands right now, by the way. I don't know why I did that. I do Sabin hands. Everybody is involved. Everybody. The scheme is is I thought was subpar against Florida. And in particular for what Florida was trying to do defensively, I think Steve Sarkeesian has a hand in this. I think the offensive line has a hand in this. I think that arch has a hand in this. I think that the wide receivers when they get one on ones are not winning. The routes are not crisp. There's just not a lot of detail going on with Texas's offense right now. Let me give you a quick example. Okay, a quick example from the film. It's fourth and one at about the 50 yard line with 245 left in the half and the in the first half. It is 17 to three. Okay, it's 17 to three. They've gotten the special teams touchdown. I believe. Wait, yes, they've gotten the special teams touchdown up to this point. And and here they are. And it's fourth and one. Okay. Florida's defense shifts down. Okay, so now what you have is you've got two players lined up directly over the guard and you have two players lined up directly over the tackles. So you've got four defensive linemen, well, two of them are on the guards and two of them are on the tackles. And then the middle linebacker, the mic linebacker walks up and just blitzes into the A gap. The A gap is right on the side of the center. So basically, he's blitzing right over the center. And they're trying to run the ball directly up the middle out of the pistol. Texas is an arch is just going to take the snap out of the shotgun. First of all, I hate, hate, fourth and one goal line taking the snap out of the shotgun. But whatever, they take the snap out of the shotgun. It's out of the pistol. And here he comes right up the middle. And they just don't block the mic linebacker. What is going on? Like guys, there has to be one of two things that happen. All right. And if you, if you can't execute this, then something is going wrong. Either the coaches aren't coaching it right. The players are not getting it or they just can't execute it. But all three are a mess. At this point, you've got one of two options. You either gap down with your offensive line, meaning like everybody is going down and you're basically going to turn into a wedge because you have to protect inside gap when you're trying to run downhill and a fourth and one. Or you have to check out of the play. Those are the only two options. It's basically turning into bare defense where you've got five defenders covering up all five offensive linemen. They don't do either. They don't check out of the play. And then they run it right into the mic linebacker who runs Scott free and drills the tail back in the face. Like you can't do that. So that turns into a score for Florida. So they get the ball right there. They turn that into a score. So now they go into half time with momentum. Now it's 17 to 10. Florida gets the ball to start the second half goes down and scores. And in between, Texas has one offensive snap with 18 seconds left, 15 seconds left in the in the first half. And it's just like a nondescript run. And so the next time that that Texas actually walks on the field from a fourth and one where there's an epic failure of a fourth down proportions. The next time they walk on the field for a meaningful snap, it's 17 17. You see, if you just get some points on that drive and it's that small of a margin in college football, I'm getting in fatacure because like I'm watching that film thinking to myself, what is happening right now? What is going on? So that's that's wrong. And then you get to arch. And he's turning down open throws his eyes are in the wrong spot. He's getting a blitz. He's got a guy wide open, not covered by like 10 yards. And he tries to scramble. I don't understand what he's looking at. He's he's got deep routes where the shot is the deep over is open. And he throws the post instead. That ball should have been picked off. Uh, he's late on out out breaking routes. Those break out breaking routes are sloppy. They're rounding heavily and allowing guys to drive on them. So the film is all bad for Texas. And I believe Steve Sarkeesian when he says like everything's going to be evaluated because everything does have to be evaluated. Texas is playing awful on the offensive side, the offensive line, allowing a hundred, uh, they're 108th in quarterback pressure rate. The run game is 120th in yards per carry. This is not Arches fault. Arches playing really poorly, but this is not Arches fault because everybody is playing poor on that offensive line. So now they've got two losses and how much trouble is in Texas? How much trouble is Texas in? Check out the remaining schedule home to number seven Ole Miss. Good luck home to Mississippi state. At Missouri at LSU Arkansas and at Texas A&M. I don't know guys like I really don't. I don't know what the future holds for Texas, but I don't know if it's a playoff birth. They would have to turn around so quickly. Um, and get better. I I don't know if that's going to happen. How about Georgia Auburn? Whoa. So Georgia goes up 14 nothing. Then they kind of like let off the gas and all the sudden Gunner Stockton turns into a turnover machine and he turns it over three three times, including a butt fumble. Like I thought I thought Georgia was better than this. The way that they played against Alabama, the way that Alabama played and then played this week against Tennessee. I was not expecting that. I really wasn't and it just goes to show you the parody and college football is real Auburn rules in there and Alex Golisch gets a huge win for his program and now they can get some momentum and belief in that program. I was most surprised with Gunner Stockton's play in the turnovers. Even though he was able to drive them into position, uh, late in that ball game and he got that that game into a position where they could win it. Fumbling the ball after running into your own offensive lineman is is certainly something. And then Georgia just doesn't typically make the mistakes like they did late. The the roughing the passer late and I typically try to give a pass to the defenders. I don't love roughing the passer. I really don't. I understand if it's high and I understand if you put your weight on the quarterback that there's some things that are just going to come out. But if it's in a gray area and it's not late, I think that it's the flag is thrown too often. That wouldn't those pretty clearly like a head butt up to the head area and the flag comes out and at this point is kind of like a man like you can't do that. And Auburn kicks the field goal and Georgia loses. Now Georgia's not going anywhere. I don't think I think that they'll be fine. And I think Kirby will be fine. In a lot of ways, this will allow them to look at some areas of need and fix those areas of need. So where does Georgia fall in the rankings? I have no idea guys. I really don't. I was throwing darts. I could have put Ole Miss higher than Georgia. I could have put Tennessee higher than Georgia. But I didn't. So I put Georgia at six. And at this point, it's just kind of like I kind of believe still in Georgia, even with the loss. And by the way, credit to Auburn. And I hope that Alex Golisch gets it going at Auburn. I really do. He seems like a really good guy. I don't know him very well. I haven't had the opportunity to cover Alex in much capacity. But he seems like a guy that believes in his program, believes in his players. And for the guys that stayed there, I'm really happy for him. I'm really happy for him because that program was not going anywhere the last couple of years. So to get a win like that, then you got tumor scorer and they're throwing the toilet paper. That was awesome. But Georgia is still at six. How about Bama? There's so many games. Oh my gosh. Bama, second loss in a row. And this is coming off a week in which we felt better about Bama than we had in a long time because of how they played against Georgia. I sat here and said that very thing last week. Like it just felt different. They were different on the offensive line. They could run it. They weren't quite Georgia, but they were better on the line of scrimmage and they rolled out against Tennessee and got dominated at the line scrimmage. Like that's a problem. That is a problem. They were held to 10 points just over 200 yards and lo and behold, what did I tell you about how to stop Alabama? You've got to get to the quarterback and they sack them five times. Here's the thing about that offense is having a great passing offense is a lot like being a power hitting baseball team. It can be great. It really can. And it can look awesome. But you get matched up against the wrong picture on the wrong day and you're going to lose. And in this case, it's always a pitcher that has a pass rush. If a defense can rush the passer on the line of scrimmage, that offense has a hard time. As good as Keelan Russell is and I still think that this guy is excellent. This one was a headscratcher for me. I did not see this one coming with what's happening at Tennessee at the quarterback position. You know, and what what I thought I saw from Alabama on film, I just thought to myself like, is that really happening? Credit to Jim Knowles, the defense coordinator at Tennessee. And I know Jim well. I think we all forget because of how poorly it went last year at Penn State. That went south in a hurry, obviously. And for whatever reason, it just didn't materialize with Jim there. Let's not forget though, like Jim was the defense coordinator of the number one scoring defense in America that won a national championship the year before that at Ohio State. Let's not forget that he came in and largely fixed Ohio State's defense, which was a major problem for Ryan Day at one point. Do you remember, like I do, 2020 COVID year in Alabama running Ohio State out of the building, running them out of the building. Within the elite offense, Steve Sarkisian, I believe he was still there for that game. Maybe had just taken the job, but regardless, Devonte Smith, Mac Jones, Najee Harris, running them out of the building, right? And so Jim Knowles largely fixed that. He turned them into a dominant defense, a number one scoring defense that won a national championship. That Jim Knowles showed up for Tennessee. And he got after Alabama and he held them to the 10 points just over 200 yards. And now, Bama's sitting there on two losses and they're in danger and you take a look at their remaining schedule. And it, you know, it's not quite Texas's remaining schedule as far as difficulty, but there's some difficulty out here, namely at LSU because guess what LSU can do as well as anybody in the country. Rush the passer. I'm telling you, it's like a power hitting baseball team. It's great. It's great. And the analytics tell you it's great. It's the three point shooting, you know, NBA team. It's great. And tell the night it's not. And if they get against a team like LSU on the road in Baton Rouge and that pass rush gets going, then Bama could be sitting there with three losses already sitting on two back against the wall for Bama. I think we may have been under rating Tennessee a little bit. Dishon, Bishop was awesome. 32 carries 159 yards and two touchdowns. So this improved Bama defense that we stopped. We were getting over the last couple of weeks. Did not materialize. And Tennessee was able to do that even with struggles at the quarterback position. So it's not like you're sitting there as a defense and you're threatened in the passing game and you're like, well, you know, we just can't commit resources to stopping the run because of this passing game. It's not like Tennessee is like that right now. At times in the past, they have been with high pulls offense and the deep choice offense. That's not how I feel about the volunteers right now. And yet they're still able to go 32 carries 159 yards, grind it out to touchdown. So Dishon Bishop doing well. And then that defense, Jim Noles didn't just sack Russell five times. They're actually the nation's leader in sacks. Okay. So everyone that plays Tennessee, you're going to have to deal with Tennessee. Now they're only a one lost team. And here we go. Tennessee. They almost beat Texas. I think people failed to realize that. And we kind of passed that office. Texas was beating Texas, but this defense is pretty good. Not even just pretty good. I think this defense is an elite defense in college football. Tennessee has an elite defense. So where are they in my top 10? Yes, they're inside of my top 10. I've got Tennessee at number eight. There are one lost team. That's a huge win over Bama. You can run it. You can play defense. You can get after the quarterback. Those things travel. Those things last. Tennessee is at number eight. And they might be making the playoffs for the second time in three years. Let's go over to Michigan. Michigan beat Penn State in the game that I could only categorize as this. You couldn't lose the game either coach because obviously sky is falling for both of those programs. If you lose that football game, now the sky is only falling in Penn State. I feel terrible for Matt Campbell. It has not gone well for Matt Campbell at Penn State. And here's Michigan. And guess what? That Michigan first half, it was like pull your hair out. Oh my gosh. Is this actually still happening? Bryce Underwood starts the game and they do nothing in the first half offensively. Turn the football over. I will say a couple of those picks from Penn State were incredible plays by Penn State. Trying to throw the football down the field, bouncing off the chest. That's kind of a lucky one. They get the one handed interception. I think if you under throw the football like you did on the first interception, that's on you as a quarterback. The second one, you're trying to let your guy make a play and it was just an insane interception from Penn State. One handed. That's not necessarily on Bryce Underwood. But it's now not just the specifics. You can't you can no longer just say like, well, is this play his fault or not his fault? Because guess why? The offense isn't doing anything. It's zero points. And this is off of a by week. And this I think is what's so frustrating for Michigan fans. I'm sure. And maybe even the coaching staff as well is like, you had a by week. You think that you fix some things and then you roll out there and you realize like, nope, it's the same. And by the way, I got wind of this exact type of thing when we came in week two for the Oklahoma game. We rolled in there right after that Western Michigan debacle. And Kyle, who I admire, you know, to a degree that I admire very few coaches in this business. And he said, we practiced great. I don't understand what happened. And I've heard that from him a couple of times this year where it's like, I don't understand what's happening on Saturday because this is not what it looks like on, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday during the course of the week of practice. I can only assume that the by week went great for Michigan and the practices were looking fine. And they thought, you know what, it's fixed. We'll be okay. Let's go out there and maybe the guy that played against Oklahoma will show up. Maybe the guy that played against Iowa, even the loss offense did fine. Maybe that guy will show up. And then you're sitting there and you're playing Penn State, which isn't even a great defense. This is not like, oh, it's Iowa's defense or even like, you know, Minnesota's defense or whatever. No points. He's forced into a position like you have to make the change at that point. You have to make the change with everything that that was going on in the Michigan program, going leading into the off week, everything that that was talked about during the off week. And then to play that way on Saturday against Penn State, like, I think his hand was forced at that point. So Tommy Car walks into the game. Production is the proof, guys, like at I think this is the coolest part about the position of quarterback is that it really doesn't matter what it looks like. It really doesn't matter what your bio says, what your recruiting ranking says. It doesn't matter how you look in shorts and a t-shirt throwing the football. It doesn't matter what your 40 time is or all those things. Can they be important? Sure, sure. I don't want to minimize any of that because obviously that can tell you a story, but, but at the end of the day for a quarterback, your job is to go create first downs and score touchdowns. That's it. That's it. And the guy that does it the best goes out in place. And at least with the evidence that we have in front of us, the guy that does that the best at Michigan is very clearly Tommy Car. The proof is in the production. They scored three touchdowns after the second half. You know, so like you can't, I don't think you can like go back to that, that well, you know, the yardage and the production. It's not just the points. It's the total yards, total yards, first half, 80, total yards, second half, 221, rushing yards, first half, 37, rushing yards, second half, 174, turnovers, first half, two, turnovers, second half, zero. They played winning football in the second half. They did not play winning football in the first half. So you stay with the variables in the equation that created the success of the second half. defense deserves a chance for this team. This is a defense that is now number one in the country and yards per play and they will keep them in every single game. So you just need somebody to go out there and and be serviceable on the offensive side. Tommy card doesn't even have to be amazing. You're not out there to score 45 points. Tommy car if you do great, but you're out there to not turn the ball over. Don't create short fields for your defense. Don't put them in a precarious situation. Can somebody get the Iowa Bible to every quarterback out there because at at at the bottom level of it all every quarterback's job is to first not lose the game. Kurt Signetti gave us a line and I wrote it right here. I just showed you guys this earlier. I'm in the production meeting this week and we're talking about, you know, you guys don't turn the ball over. You do all these things, you know, like what do you emphasize so on and so forth? And he looks at me and he's like, you know, he's going to go in. He's like, well, you know, before you win the game, you got to first not lose the game. He's chewing his gum and I was like, well, that's a great line. And I know I've heard that line in some way, shape, or form several other times, but it's like, yeah, before you win the game, you got to first not lose the game. And as a quarterback, that's kind of what it is. And so here Tommy car is going to be I would expect. And I'm recording this on Sunday night just so that you guys know, I would expect I'm headed to Michigan this week. I would expect to see Tommy car. Let's get into my top 10. We'll finish things out. And then a quick final thought at the end. Actually, I'll do the thought right now before the top 10 before the top 10. Can I just get this off of my chest? Here we go. Man, the officiating has been hard. It's been frustrating this week. It's been frustrating all year. It was frustrating week one. And they keep trying to put band-aids over, you know, open wounds in the officiating circles. There were a lot of calls this week that were just downright frustrating and wrong. And that's tough. That's tough to swallow. In particular, when we're entering this era that I praised at the beginning of the show, which was this era of parity and close games. And anybody can win on any given day. And guess what? The officials directly impacted results. And that's not what they should be doing. And I'm talking about like with incorrect calls almost happened in our game. The BYU Notre Dame game was so poorly officiated at the end. I almost didn't rank BYU number one. I did anyways, but there was a part of me that was like, that is so egregious of the officials at the end. Number one, that is as blatant to pass interference as you will see equal to the pass interference we saw last week in the Bama Georgia game. How do you not call that? Like I don't understand. I don't understand how you're an official and you can't officiate the game. That's number one. And number two, how in the world is nobody else seeing a second on the clock? That's all my text chains are seeing all of us in real time. Isn't there a second left? Every replay that we saw every angle had some clock in the background that was very clearly one second when the ball hits the ground. Like have we not gone over it? The one from the low end zone behind Notre Dame. It's right behind the incompletion. Ball on the ground. One second left. We're showing it right here. Tweet from Yahoo. Did we just think it would be too hard to clear the field after the field storming? I'm old enough to remember a couple of years ago. Maybe it was even last year. Maybe when ASU, I believe it was the beat Texas tech. I want to say it was the Texas tech game. I could be wrong in this one, but there wasn't ASU game. Kenny Dillingham is the coach and ASU storms the field. And the officials pulled the entire field off. It took him like 15 minutes in order to run the last play because there was time left on the clock or some officiating, you know, mechanism that that the game wasn't over the game wasn't over. And this is where I'll just say like I'm going to go back to the things that I argued week one after the Michigan debacle, which was it can't just be screens and like, Oh, is it and these frames and everything like that because of the routing and the systems and the delays of all this stuff, we need lights just like they have in the NBA. And now this is two games that had impacted in the same year, in the same year. This is wild. I don't understand how that happens. And then we guys, I keep arguing like we need to nationalize officiating because now it's like, well, the big 12 has to come out with their why are conferences responsible for their own officials? This is madness. Why do we have all these different replay centers? What are we doing? What are we doing? And then I'm sure there were other calls and I'm sure you guys could like throw others our way, leave them down in the comments. The other one that I was watching in real time was Miami, Miami, Florida state. How do you call that hold in the in double over time? It's a snatch block. Awful. It's so frustrating. And they're not accountable to anybody. And then they just like, throw these statements out. No one has to step in front of a microphone. No one has to sit there and say like, tell us what you saw. Meanwhile, all of these kids, granite, they're being paid. But all these kids have to sit in front of the microphone. CJ Carr has to sit in front of a microphone and be like, why'd you fail? CJ? And he's like, well, I wish I would have had one more second. Maybe I wouldn't have failed then. You know, like the story can be totally different. So now CJ Carr is a failure. And he's, you know, and he's got to sit there and he's got to wear it. And he's got to bear the brunt of it. And he's got to read the articles. I'm not going to read the articles, but like you've got to sit with that loss as a player. You got to sit with that loss as a coach. Mike Norvel might get fired. Do you think a win over Miami would have helped Mike Norvel? Like the, the, the officials calls matter. So get him right. Get him right. Drives me insane. Drives me insane. Top 10, here we go. The top 10 at number 10. First time debuting in my top 10 is going to be Texas tech. They destroyed Arizona State. Finally looked like the tech that we thought we were going to get. Jacobi Williams was outstanding. They win that game 53, 28. So watch out for tech. And by the way, you look at their schedule. They've got a pretty clean path. They already beat Houston. And now Houston's a one loss ranked team inside of the top. What is it? 15? I think it's 15. I don't know. Something along those top 20 win. And there's not much left on that schedule. They could easily be in the big 12 championship came again and easily be back in the CFP UCLA. Give me an eight clap for UCLA is going to be in number nine. Only undefeated left in the big 10 only undefeated between the SEC and the big 10 left standing is Bob Chesney's UCLA Bruins. Their defense has been relentless the last few weeks, not the greatest schedule in the world. Certainly the benefit of the schedule lottery in the big 10. But don't look now. This team is likely likely. We'll see in the parody driven college football. likely going to be a 10 and 0 team going to Michigan. You know, they've got a Minnesota in there. They've got an Illinois in there. But Michigan stands there. That would be what is it week before the end of the season. So the 11th game of the season. They might be 10 and 0 when they go there. They beat Wisconsin 17 seven defensive game. Unbeaten Bob Chesney man. How about all the how about all the schools that had openings last year that's probably thinking of themselves like, I wish we had given that Bob Chesney guy and a harder look. Well, UCLA did and they're reaping the benefits. You already see Tennessee at number eight. And number seven is going to be Ole Miss. That was super impressive over a Missouri team that was rolling and running the ball. Well, Missouri and back to back weeks had almost 250 yards rushing right around there right around 250 yards rushing. And they roll in to Ole Miss and Ole Miss. Thumbs him on the ground. How about this from just a run game perspective. Ole Miss 257 Missouri 39 yikes. That's how you get beat 31 to three. So Ole Miss tip of the cap. We all kind of wrote, wrote you off after the Florida loss, but Trinidad Chambers didn't even have to be Trinidad Chambers. Lacey went over a hundred yards. That team is still very good in their defense. All the sudden is playing great defense. How about that? That wasn't all my bingo card after some of the games that they played, but if their defense plays well, then Chambers is going to be a guy you got to deal with. That team could win the national championship if they play defense because Trinidad Chambers. And it's Lacey's back and healthy. Yikes. Yikes. Six is Georgia. As you see, number five is Notre Dame. As you see, Indiana is sitting there at number four, which leaves Miami at number three. You can be mad at me about this ranking right here, but I got to tell you, you can't just survive against Florida State. And maybe it's the rivalry thing. And I, you know what? Okay. Red River rivalry. I give that excuse. Michigan Ohio State. You say throw the records out. Maybe throw the records out. And this one as well. Okay. I'll give you that. I will just say Florida State is not that great of a team. They're very good on offense. They are not not on defense. And Miami is just, you know, I know they're banged up a little bit, but man, yeah. Come on now. Like some of the tackling douche Robinson gets that late touch now. What was that 75 yard touchdown? They couldn't stop douche Robinson in the first over time. They get that egregious holding call to go their way on the first kind of Hail Mary and the second over time. So they survived, but I couldn't with good conscience put them ahead of Ohio State who beat in the end ahead of BYU be it would be Notre Dame. Even with that call. So Miami's going to be number three Ohio State to and BYU one on Wednesday. I'm going to be talking about that expanded playoff. We're going to give pros and cons. I don't want to dismiss those of you that don't like it. And and candidly, you know, I'm a bit, I don't want to say impartial. I'm 50. I can see both sides of the coin. And I'm going to try to explain both sides the coin to you on Wednesday about the playoff. And why the playoff is coming the way that it is going to be implemented in college football. So that's coming on on Wednesday. We're going to have picks and previews on Thursday. Did not go well last week on picks and previews. If anyone did well on picks last week. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. There's no way. I've got to tell that to myself to make myself feel better when I go to bed at night because I'm like did we really just go one for seven one for six. I believe that was the case. Thanks for listening. Please tweet and come back on Wednesday.