REACTION: Ole Miss Beats Louisville + Notre Dame Rolls Wisconsin

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But I want to ask people, you know, as we're kind of looking at it in a totality now, we can pull up a box score. You can watch a replay. You just look at the final for yourself. How did this go any different than you expected it to go? Like I'm someone who thought Notre Dame would win pulling away. I didn't think they'd win being up 28.0 in the first quarter. So it was kind of like watching water boil. And I know if I put a pot of water on the stove and I turned that thing past 2.12, it's going to happen. It's a matter of time. And there was no point. I'm speaking personally. For me and watching this game, where I thought anything other than the damal eventually break or the water will eventually heat up. And then you'll start seeing some steam coming off of it. And then you'll see one bubble, two bubbles, ten bubbles, and then it's boiling. But you don't turn the stove on. It's taking a finger in. It's like this water's still cold. The stove must be broken. No. And similarly, a dominant football team does not have to race out to a 3 plus touchdown lead right off the bat. To me, that was never the way this game was going to go. So that doesn't mean Notre Dame played perfectly. So let me pull something up right quick actually. So I think it's really, really important. Like when you're talking about these teams, when you're talking about college football teams in general. And you're talking about week one. Everyone has an expectation of what you're going to be, you know, for the season. And maybe you're someone who predicted Notre Dame to win a national title. You got to be really careful projecting that finished product prediction onto a week one result. Week one is just that week one. I mean, need I remind people Miami lost two games last year. Looked obviously pretty poor against Louisville or SMU. They go on to win the national title. So you kind of have to view this stuff in the proper context. So when you look at these team stats right now. It's just rushing out put 3.5 yards per carry. One of the big questions that I had slash still have about this Notre Dame offense is when you play high caliber teams. They won't face a lot of them in the regular season. But when Miami comes to town, you know, can you turn out 4.2, 4.3 on the ground? If you need to, can you can you make sure that you maintain balance in play calling not from a true 50 50 stand point, but from a they got to take us seriously and respect us being able to run or throw the ball on any given down. Can you achieve that? I don't know that this game definitively answers that I don't know if this game definitively answers, you know, is there a wide receiver one like a top 10 in the country type wide receiver one. Phase on stepped up. But you got several guys who are capable in that room. I still think it's a good room. It's a very good room. Do we end up attaching the word great to it? Does it end up being a strength of the team? I don't have to have that figured out in week one against Wisconsin. I don't have to have that figured out at all. But I will say once this thing settled in and there was going to be that damn breaking moment and it did I forgot what it was, but it was multiple scores in this fan of like 90 seconds. Then it's on the route is on. And at that point, if you're a Wisconsin fan, you know, you're kind of holding out hope, holding out hope, holding out hope, and then that moment happens and it's like, all right, at that point, you resign yourself to defeat. You're just hoping they don't run it up and they ended up pulling away a little bit. So 41 to 13 is the final. I think it was 13 to 10 at half. And so what I was talking about with the text is someone text to me and said, man, this game's a lot closer than I thought it would be. And they text to me at halftime. And I said, you haven't seen a game. You've seen a half. Maybe the half was closer than you thought it would be. I don't know what you predicted for the first half. This game hasn't happened yet because the very nature of what makes Notre Dame what they are is you got to play them for four quarters and midway through the third quarter late third quarter early fourth quarter, you check back in and oh wow. Well, this game was close. No, game was never close. The first half on the scoreboard looked close, but what was going to happen to Wisconsin was already in the process of happening to him. So I'm going to get back to Notre Dame in a second. One thing I will say is I kind of got what I expected from Wisconsin here. And I floated my whole theory to you guys about what I expect from Wisconsin. I expected them to lose and failed to cover in this game. So I thought Notre Dame was going to be a three plus touchdown winner. And that happened. Okay, so check one. Two, I think Wisconsin is an improved football team and they're pretty good football team. I think they're physical Colton Joe. So if you got to get more out of him production wise, but this is a really tough draw in week one. I think they're going to disappear for a couple of weeks because they don't play high profile opponents and then a couple of weeks down the road. They've got Penn State and that's their chance. They go in there. They got to go in there. But that's their chance to reemerge. Remember, this is obviously not a conference game tonight. So they've still got everything that they would hope to achieve in front of them. And I'm just really interested to see when they reemerge. What do they look like? Because I still think this could be a really good team this year. I say really good. I think they can be a pretty solid team this year. And we'll see Colton Joe. So if you know if his if his game continues to evolve, Abu Sama like that tail back room, if that room starts really, really pounding out yardage, who knows they can win some one possession games. If they stay healthy at quarterback, like they haven't been able to do the last couple of years. I'm not selling that team is what I'm saying. I'm not selling on him yet. So I got exactly what I expected to get out of them tonight. We'll see down the road. But with Notre Dame. I don't want to talk about it this way, but like everyone understands this with the scheduling dynamic here. You got to watch them differently this year. Like if this were Ohio State or Texas, they're looking at half a dozen opportunities to lose if they don't bring their A game on their schedule. Well, Notre Dame's not looking at their schedule like that. And so when I watch them this year, I'll kind of watch them through that prism of taking bits and pieces. Throughout the season any given week. And I'm going to kind of treat it like a rubber band ball. Okay, this is the rubber band. They averaged 8.2 yards per carry. Oh, well, a Jaden great house went off seven catches 138 yards and three touchdowns and just down the road. When it comes time to play Miami or when it comes time to tee it up against Oregon or like Georgia and the playoffs and I put all those rubber bands together. What does that ball look like? Because that's really what determines the ability to win a national championship. So good game. First half close, second half, 28 to three sort of pulled away when exactly as I would expect it expected to go. I don't really. There's not a big takeaway. It's not a big takeaway game. You acknowledge it. You credit the teams for playing a big game to open the season. And you re you regroup if you're Wisconsin and you learn from it. If you're no today and you move on. Hey, everyone. I'm Mike. Yeah, and I'm Trevor Sikama and together we host the NFL fantasy football show. 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And this is Big Lives. Listen to Big Lives on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get podcast. And an instant classic in Nashville, the whatever the sponsors are, there were a million different logos on the field, but it was in Nashville and it was all mislewable and it was a classic 41 to 38 is the final. And dude, I'm not sure that was my projected final score at halftime. I'm trying to pull up a bot score right now to remind myself what that halftime score was here. Yes. So 10 to 6 at halftime, 41 38 final. If you told me that was going to be the final at halftime, I would have said how many over times are we going to? But yeah, so a lot to unpack here. One of those games, one of those situations where you know you got to start quarterback on one side. You think maybe there's a guy who has the potential to do some big things on the other side. And sometimes in games like you guys know you watch football games all the time like I do, it feels like somebody who you know is capable of a lot stays bottled up for a little while. But then once pretend this is a coat, once you twist that top, you know carbonated beverage goes everywhere and there's no cleaning it up at that point. There's no putting it back in the bottle. It kind of felt like it happened with both offenses here. So we talk about winners first. So Ole Miss, I think it's a big deal. First off to just remind ourselves who Trinidad Chambles is, he's 21 to 36 for three touchdowns, one pick in this game overall, unbelievable. When he turned it loose, when it finally got going, let me mute that right quick, when he finally got going, that was unbelievable, four total touchdowns in this game for him. And there were several plays, I say they don't show up in the box score, technically they do, but what you don't see, which we saw a lot from him last year, on the plays he makes when the original play breaks down, is what would have happened if you didn't have him. So there are several times, even on one of those final drives. There are moments where Trinidad Chambles is if he's a normal human instead of an alien is dead to rights in the backfield. And because he's not a human, he escapes. And it may be for a gain of six. But when you account for the fact that it would have been a loss of 13, and then you combine those two, it's a game changer, obviously we don't need to explain to anyone how dynamic that guy is. It's just nice to be reminded, but think if you're an Ole Miss fan, think about what you're dealing with here. Kiwan Lacey's out of the game for an extended period of time. Duce Alexander goes off, but he's out of the game for an extended period of time. There are minus two turnovers in the game. And I think most people who know Louisville and who know Jeff Brahm had immense respect coming in. There was no overlooking or anything like that. Maybe by fans in some corners of college football there was, but not by Ole Miss's team. So if you do that and you miss some field goals and you're minus in the turnover battle and you've got some of your playmakers go down and they miss extended periods of the game, that's normally a loss. And instead, it's a win and it ends up in a very close game, but you extended on them. You got margin on them and then Louisville has to come back. And so I think it's a really good sign for Ole Miss on the plus side. On the downside, yeah, you can't really deny what you saw in the secondary. You can't really deny that there are several chunk plays that Louisville gets, including when they need to come from behind and they're able to get chunk plays in your secondary or against your secondary, that are problems, but I keep saying this. Like none of these teams looked perfect in week one. Miami may be notwithstanding. Some of these teams played way, way inferior competition, but anyone who plays legitimate competition in week one, especially in the modern age when so much of the roster overturns is going to look clunky. Next, can you avoid the utter disasters and can your individual playmakers come through for you? Ole Miss avoided enough individual disasters and their playmakers came through for him tonight, but they could have scheduled, you know, two below community college. And they could have won 63 to three and we didn't really learn anything. I think you learn a lot in this kind of game, especially if you can come out on the winning side, obviously. You learn a lot. You don't have to pay the price. You don't have to pay the lesson or get the lesson in exchange for a loss. And so I feel really good about it moving forward. It's just something to keep an eye on. Like if that secondary ends up being a vulnerability instead of just something that peat in those guys can clean up, those are obviously two different stories down the road. But overall, I mean the yardage battle 478 to 469, 23 to 20, first down penalty yardage was even roughly similar. Ole Miss 142 on the ground, Louisville 162 is just an awesome game to watch. Unbelievable. So also, credit, you know, Jeff Brahm and Louisville coming in there. And I keep trying to pull this up, but it auto plays and a lot of music goes off and we don't want that. I'm trying to remember. So Keenhol's 18 of 29 really came alive in the second half, but the thing I was excited about with him, which ended up validating, is what they could do with his legs. And he had nearly 70 yards rushing. They didn't run him by design 14 times, but he ended up running it 14 times. I think Louisville's a good team. One of the more underrated wars, let me hold off on calling it a war until I see SMU versus SMU. But one of the underrated battles early in the college football season is a couple of weeks from now. When Ole Miss is playing LSU and everyone's paying attention to that, SMU plays Louisville. And if you're trying to figure out whether the ACC is going to be a one-bed league or not, whether it's Miami and then everyone else or Miami and someone, I think that game will go a long way in determining that, we'll see what Virginia does down the road. But you give it another month. You saw the starting point with Lincoln Keenhol's tonight. You give it another month with him and Jeff Braum together. And I think that could be a really, really interesting dynamic to watch. You lose a little bit of your wiggle room now. I think it turns that SMU game into a must win for you. If you're going to contend for a playoff spot, if you're going to contend for a postseason spot. That awesome game, a lot to be excited about, I think, for both teams, a lot to clean up for both teams. That's so redundant because it's college football week one, so that applies to everyone. But we are back. We are blessed. Cannot wait for week two. Must be 21 plus in present in select states for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas, San Marcosino, or 18 plus and present in DC. First on my real money wager only, $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandual.com. Gambling problem. Call one. 1-800-GAMBLER or visit fandual.com/rg. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chatinconnected or visit ndgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. 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