Reassessing the Top 6 of Each P4 Conference + 1 on 1 with Jon Sumrall | The BFW Show 9.21.26

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bat I do have a bad brown walker thank you Jake mango pretty cool oh what is that is that just a wait how time out why do you have a Jake mango bat oh he asked me if I want to I said you don't have to do that and they sent me one anyway why do you send you a bat I don't know well why are you best friends with Jake mango look at it says to Liam from Jake mango it's game used here's the model right here see that custom model WS Jm 2629 I can't believe you have you have a Jake mango bat I have a Jake mango bat it's got some pine tar it's pretty cool I see you should get you one you see those bats over there give me one of those bats and I don't no no no no no they're right here at the corner there's bats over here on the corner there's not some baseball bats down there you don't see any baseball bat no baseball bats well what do you see other baseball bats over there son there's baseball where they're right there oh no this Tommy Walker not know the baseball bat is what I want to counter with oh Tommy your brother answered who Leo Franco okay not as cool as Jake mango will Clark game used that's just another Mississippi state guy Hank Aaron not even close to being a school shit you think Hank Aaron has ever played Pokemon go no shot make sure I like the stream chat I got you I got you no you don't yes I do novelist John Grisham this Mississippi state fan and novelist John Grisham okay dude you got me author of the firm and the client and the Pelican brief and the last juror and runaway jury and bleachers and playing for pizza did and a time to kill and a time for mercy John Grisham where college football show you're right I apologize but you threw me off with the Jake mango bat Tommy you you got my tea son maybe that should have been a great segue for you oh Jake mango oh bat oh keep swinging oh keep swinging on offense Camario Taylor can I just say something hello to everyone we'll do your voicemails and a minute we'll do we'll do Liam has a very good stance on what our takes are at the top of the show Liam tell him what our takes are at the top of the show unfortunately for you Chad Bran Walker and I were flawless in week three so there's not that we are wrong about so there's nothing that we're really stewing on in second guessing nothing to really second guess we pretty much nailed week three we pretty we nailed it to the tree like I don't know what to tell you like it is absolutely done I nailed that LSU was going to go in there and beat Ole Miss by two touchdowns I what what is that yeah that one sucks I do think we're going to have time for my playoff bracket tonight so look forward to that at the end of the show here's what we got we have I'm going to reassess the power for conferences through three weeks now a couple of conference the SEC's already into conference play the big 10 I believe there's been two conference games USDB Rutgers and UCLA beat Purdue the big 12's had a couple of conference games the ACC's had some conference games but I'm going to reassess the top six and all four leagues as we're three weeks into the season you know we've lost a couple goodbye Texas A&M goodbye Oklahoma not that Texas A&M was ever in my top six in the SEC but we'll go through the top six in every single conference and then after that I'm going to drop my top 25 for the week after that we'll do some voicemails we'll do our game draft of week four and then of course at the end of the show John Someral the coach for Florida and can I say something about John Someral and I don't know if you guys have noticed this I talked to Jeff Collins the other day I've talked to John Groot and off camera I think I think John Someral at Florida is your favorite coaches favorite coach all of these ex coaches fucking love John Someral they gush over him they're like oh my god this guy this guy's a ball coach this guy's a dude this guy's this this guy's that they absolutely love hello chat this guy says pre-recorded slot yes I pre-recorded it hours ago you called it out thank you very much to sso sso 9461 so you got me I pre-recorded sso anyway John Someral is on the show and he is an absolute dude and every single old coach I talk to thinks he is the fucking man so take that for what it's worth there in one of the big games this week so we have 15 minutes of John Someral coming up at the very very end of the show you need some new glasses Walker yeah these are just readers I've decided I struggle so much at home I struggle so much reading these ads that I just have to I had to wear my readers and if they're too distracting I will take them off Liam voted to keep them on and I was trusting Liam thoughts my thoughts I stick with I continue to vote for the readers to stay on just like I continue to hold my bat we are in an accessory show tonight all right listen if you want glasses off say glasses off you want glasses on glasses on that guy says go big red I don't think he cares about the glasses mr. b-stage should not be ranked don't say silly things before I get into it can I just say something about this fervor ripping apart college football exactly yeah this fervor around college football the same people the same people that will tell you hey college football is the worst now college football there's no loyalty college football I wish we could go back to the days of your I wish we could go back to when the players were loyal I wish we could do all those things I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish college football or the same way it always was the players are just after the next buck the same people that will say that and wax poetic about that are the same people running to Twitter say mr. b-stage has a good quarterback he's transferred next year what if he just loves mr. cippy state what if the comario Taylor grew up with this right this right here what if he just loves ringing a cowbell what if what if what if we have been sitting a player in college football who is going to embrace his favorite school and not just cash it in for the quick buck what if that and what if mr. b-stage been hiding money in plain sight that's what I say to that William what if that's why you get paid so much that's why yes correct I would like to I would like to reassess the the top six in the SEC the ACC the big 10 and the big 12 which conference would you like me to do first go at the ACC go alphabetical all right alphabetical in terms of height we'll go the ACC coming into this season I think it was universally agreed upon that Miami was the number one team in the ACC [BLANK_AUDIO] There's no reason right now to change that at all. Miami is the number one team in the ACC. And Miami might probably be the number one team in America, although they did get bored the other night with Lake Forest. I assume they're gonna get bored a lot this year. Number one is Miami. Number two through three weeks is Louisville. That one's easy too. Louisville is number two. They are gonna be number two all year. They are the second best team in the ACC. And frankly, do you remember what they are in the AP poll? 16 maybe? I think that's all right. I think that's a little low. They've lost one game by three points to Ole Miss. They beaten SMU. They're a really good team. I think like top 13 or 14 for Louisville. Feels a little bit better in top 16, but whatever. As long as they went out and get in the ACC title game, they're gonna have a claim to the playoff. Now, winning out is a long way to go. There's nine games left. They're the second best team in the ACC. Number three in the ACC. Who would you have, Liam? I would probably have, oh gosh, number three in the eight. I would probably have SMU by default, I don't believe it. I'm sticking with SMU because I still think SMU might be the third best team. They did lose on the road at Louisville. I think there's no shame in losing on the road at Louisville. I think it's a good solid team. It's not a great team. It's not a perfect team by any means. They could be a little bit better at quarterback at times. They could be more sound at quarterback. And they could be more sound in all aspects of the game. But they are a good solid team. The number four team in the ACC. Who do you think that might be, Liam? I would probably lean Duke. You would probably lean Duke. Well, I am leaning Virginia Tech. I've got Virginia Tech at four. Gruckemeyer seems to have found a groove there in Blacksburg. They are well coached. They are hungrily coached. They are coached like a coach who is hungry to succeed at his next stop, at least until he goes to Florida State. Virginia Tech is number four. Number five, who would you have at number five, Liam? Well, five I would have Virginia Tech. Five I have got, of course, Pitt. I got Pitt. Pitt is, by the way, weird as fuck. They will come out and score 61 points and throw nine touchdowns and then come out and win 12 to 9. It is a weird team, but they just kind of have a neck so far for scoring more than their opponent. And I like, I think God damn it. Hold on, let me get it myself. Let me get it myself. Three for seven touchdowns in the first. This is, I'm 47 years old. God damn it. Keen Holtz is at Louisville. God damn it. This is why. Think of like Germany. I know, I know, I know. Say his name. Hintral. I should name it. Yes, thank you, Hintral. God almighty. Jesus Christ. It's fine. Number six, who would you have, Liam? That's where I would have. Mason Hintral. Thank you very much. Number six, I have Duke. I got the top six in the ACC right now being Miami Louisville, SMU, Virginia Tech, Pitt and Duke. It hasn't changed too very much. Good graphic there, Lukey. By the way, can I shout out my guys because Liam gets all the shine being on the show? Lukey Blutman's a producer. I told Lukey Blutman I have four graphics for him to make and I told him that at five, 29 p.m. It is now 6/11. All four of them are ready for the show. So thank you very much to Lukey for that. That is my ACC updated through three weeks thoughts, Liam. The one thing I'm going to monitor for Miami is health, Marty Brown's out for the year. They've lost a few other guys. It's kind of odd how easily they've coasted and how many bodies are banged up and bruised in out for lengthy periods of time. The other one is continue a monitor cow. They've got Clemson fry at night this week. That Syracuse game was ugly but I mean like that team has all talent in the world and they've got one of the best corebacks in country. Yeah. I will monitor them very much. Thank you very much. Should we monitor Clemson at all? That for coming from-- I'm not monitoring Clemson. You're not monitoring them at all. They're out. They're not even worried about them. No. In the world, imagine a world where we gave up on Clemson or where it's week four of the season and Clemson's already out of the top six of the ACC. Yeah, we're living. That's where we live in. And if they make the playoffs, so God help us all. If you're looking to maintain your home field of energy this fall, check out Ryobi. Now, I could just tell you, I could read this ad copy with Ryobi or I could just show you. I've got this great big industrial fan, maybe not industrial, but it's a big fan that I put in my gym upstairs in the garage. I also have a gigantic rotating light that sits on a tripod that has four lights on the edge. But I have one of my favorite if you're a dad like me. I brought this down. I brought the box down. What am I holding there, Liam? I am holding, of course. And I don't know the official name of it, so let me--it's a high pressure and flader kit. You know what this is? If you're a husband, if you're a father and you have kids with basketballs and footballs and bike tires and tricycle tires and wagon tires and everything that comes through my life, you would be shocked, Liam. How many times in 18 years of being a dad, I have had to inflate something, blow something up in a pinch and I haven't been prepared, I haven't known, I haven't had something. I've had to take basketballs to the gas station to go to the tire pump and try to figure out a way to get a basketball inflated and same with bicycle tires. 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We were at the Super Bowl a couple of years ago and I was looking at my boarding pass and I was doing like that. My wife said, honey, I understand. She takes her glasses off and puts them on and I was like, oh my god. And now she just goes out and buys like 10 readers at a time. So anyway, the big 12 and the big 12, let's reassess the big 12. What is it right now? Would you still have Texas Tech and everybody in the world have Texas Tech number one in the big 12 coming this season? We're now three weeks in. Texas Tech has played a conference game, BYU has played a conference game. Would you have Texas Tech number one in the big 12 right now? I don't think I would, but I don't know who I would put one. Is that crazy thing, say? Well, I do. I don't have Texas Tech number one and I have BYU number one. Well coached, I know what I'm going to get. There's nothing fancy. There's no frills. They already have the big 12 win over Arizona, solid Arizona team. I got BYU number one, Texas Tech isn't going for it. I got them number two. And maybe they reclaim that number one spot. And maybe with Will Hammond, I believe reclaiming the job on Friday night. Maybe they have a more clear identity of who they are going for it. I think that's going to help a lot. The defense isn't quite as good as it was last year. And I've got them right now BYU one, Texas Tech two number three in the big 12. I still got Houston. I know Houston lost the other night Houston has a loss, but they were right in it with Texas Tech. It was 28, 26. They were they were six inches away from tying that football game. Connor Whitman finished came up like six inches short. They were this close this close to tying that game. So I've got Houston number three and number four. I have Utah Utah would be number four. Very good. Kind of just under the radar a little bit right now. But there will be there will come a time where they're playing important games. Number five, West by God Virginia. That's what I got. West by God Virginia. One of the better wins in the big 12 this year is anybody how many other teams in the big 12 have a win as good as winning on the road of Virginia. I don't know. And number six. Well, yeah, that's truly the best the best one of the big 12. But they also have the worst loss or one of the worst losses. So anyway, number six. Do I have Oklahoma State? No, I have Kansas State. I have Kansas State number six. I think Kansas State is another one of those teams that are just percolating and just kind of simmering on the stove right now. I like Kansas State. Now Oklahoma State and West Virginia play this Saturday. So if Oklahoma State is better in West Virginia, they will prove it in six days, five days, whatever it is. In the big 10, the big 10 conference coming into the season. A lot of people had Oregon, a lot of people at Ohio State, a lot of people had Indiana. Oregon to me is not is not a discussion for number one. My number one in the big 10 is Ohio State. They have a loss. Yes, it's by one point on the road at Texas. I don't think I'm very much. I still think it's the top three team in the country. It's a remarkably talented team and they will be better in the long run for that loss. So I've got Ohio State number one. I've got Indiana too. It's kind of hard to judge Indiana 'cause they've. played their playing their preseason right now. They chose to not play anybody the first three weeks of the season. And we'll see. We'll see what they are. But they've been really, really just hiding from the rest of college football. And it's always nice when you're defending champion. Make sure that you don't have to worry about watching them play until October. Number three, the USC Trojans. I know they didn't look good Saturday. There could have been a little bit of, you know, it was traveling across the country. It's a look ahead spot. It's all of these things. They've got a big one with Oregon this week. I do think Oregon's probably going to win that game. But right now I have USC number three. I have Oregon for they don't fall out of the top five. I've got Penn State five and I've Iowa six. That is my top six. That is my top six in the big 10 thoughts, Liam Blumman. Thoughts, you know, I would love to be there, but it's okay that I'm not. I'll earn that from you. I think that this is fine. I actually do have more thoughts about the big 12 by if I'm sorry. I did. I did. Okay. What do you mean you'd like to be, be where? I was talking about UCLA being top six, but I know. Okay. There's your big 12. You may go back and talk about your big 12 number one, BYU two Texas tech three Houston four Utah five West Virginia and six Kansas State. Yeah. I'd probably have case eight five in Oklahoma State six. So that's so wishy washi. It's such a whatever calm like even conference Utah is the team I want to bring up. You mentioned they're under the radar right now. They're going to start six enough. You take a look at their schedule. They've got three more games or it's absolutely nothing. They're at Iowa State this week. Got call route like they'll be six and a they are the most interesting like high upside big 12 team for sure. In my opinion, because the two quarterback system. It's not one of these. Oh, if you have two quarterbacks, you don't have a quarterback. They're both legitimate bonafide QB ones. They'll play this feels good doesn't it? They'll play on the field at the same time. Give defenses looks that they've never seen before because how often are you seeing QB one QB one out there with all this reading and misdirection? It is fascinating. All right, going to the big 10. I like that. I like that a lot going to the big 10. Your thoughts on that one. I do have. I do have of course, let's see the big 10 one more time. I have Ohio State one. I have Indiana to USC three Oregon for five Penn State six Iowa. I've already got people in the chat. Michigan fans saying what about us? You lost a Western Michigan. I don't know what to tell you. You're two and one. You have the worst loss in the big 10 so far. So can't really do much for you there. Then you did beat a mediocre Oklahoma team. It was going to go six and six. So yes, Liam. If Michigan beats Iowa, where's Michigan? It could be a number could be a number six, depending on what happens elsewhere. Obviously, you know, UCLA is somebody to monitor. Thanks. Isn't Nebraska somebody to monitor? Bram, we're going to draft our games later. Nebraska, Michigan state has me feeling a really strong way. I'm so excited for that number. Like there's a lot of teams that are just kind of sitting there in the big 10, like right off of that top six level that are kind of knocking on the door. You know, I don't know what we do with Wisconsin. You know, Wisconsin kind of hung in there with Notre Dame for a little while. Then again, Michigan State hung in there with Notre Dame. So I don't know what to make of any of that. Is it more about Notre Dame? It might. It very well might because they don't run game. They don't look like they have the explosive type athlete of the skill positions to make a difference into playoffs yet. So we'll see if somebody comes around. And then the SEC, the South Eastern conference will do my top six right there. Number one in the SEC. I've got the Texas Longhorns. They have the best win in college football. They beat Ohio State. So I have number one, the Texas Longhorns number two, the Georgia Bulldogs. They very well might be the number one team and the best team in this conference, but they just haven't had to play yet. They're practicing against themselves out there against Arkansas. Number three, I've got Ole Miss and I can just see the list, Loki. Number three, I've got Ole Miss. They have the second best win in the SEC this year. And number four, Alabama, which that might be a little wonky. I've got them there. I don't know that I believe in them there. They are a winning football game. So I've got them there as kind of a holding, holding pattern. We'll deal with Alabama later and figure out exactly where they fit in. I got Florida number five. I think it's a seriously good team. I called 6-0 a couple of weeks ago. I think we're headed towards a 6-0 Florida going to the back half of their schedule. The back half gets way, way, way tougher than the first half. And then you've got LSU number six, which I don't know what to do with LSU really, but I put them at six. I don't think they embarrass themselves the other night. And plus I think you get Lane Kiff on an underachieving quarterback. He's going to figure out how to make that an achievement quarterback and he's going to figure it out how to get them going. Yeah, no Mississippi state yet. We've got to beat Missouri. No Tennessee there. No Missouri. They really look bad against Troy, but I think they were probably looking ahead to that gigantic trip. Somebody says Waffle says Ole Miss has beaten two ranked teams. Yeah, that's fantastic and good for them. And that's why I think they're the third best team in the SEC right now. That doesn't armically make them better than Texas and that doesn't make them better in Georgia. This isn't a what have you done this year. This is who I think are the best teams. And that's what we got right there. So that's my, we're just three weeks in. And that's my thoughts about the conferences so far. So yeah, draft Kings. The glasses have to come back on as I'm reading this wonderful ad about our partners at draft Kings. So don't I'm going to Ella Langley at Ohio State Friday night with my girlfriend. Then we're driving back going to the Michigan Iowa Games Saturday afternoon. Great birthday week for me. 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I got number two, Georgia Bulldogs, number three, the Miami Hurricanes, number four Ole Miss. They crashed the top five after beating LSU. Five Indiana, you know two and five there haven't done anything yet. It's just more my respect for I think they're very, very, very good. Whereas number one and four have earned their spots in this thing. It's a mixture of everything. Number six, Notre Dame. I got seven, Ohio State. That's how far they they fell to six last week. I dropped them one because Ole Miss came in there this week. I got Alabama eight, nine BYU, 10 USC. LSU drops to 11. Florida is up at 12. I think Florida is a seriously, seriously, seriously good football team. 13 Texas Tech, 14 Penn State, 15 Tennessee, 16 Mississippi State, 17 Louisville, 18 Iowa, 19 Missouri, 20 Utah, 21 UCLA, 22 Oregon, 23 West by God, Virginia, 24 Kentucky sneaks in there and 25 SMU. They don't fall all the way out. Thoughts about UCLA, Liam. I'd rather you have us unranked or organ ahead of us. This is rat poison. I got, I got, I got problem. What's your problem? I think I like Florida too much. Yeah, it is becoming a thing. But Vegas, boy, just Vegas like him this week, man. I only have point favorites over Ole Miss. Now, is Vegas telling us that that, that, that neither Ole Miss or LSU are as good as we thought they were, is Vegas telling us it's just impossible to come off that emotional game against Lane Kiffin and then go on the road to the swamp. Like, Ole Miss has taken really good teams in the swamp and came out with losses. And that was against a Billy Napier coach team. So, I don't, I don't know, but I can't imagine a world where you can bet on Ole Miss this weekend based on that line. I, I, I, I, I agree. And I am pretty befuddled by the noise about the line. We, like, I feel like big cat would not be surprised by it. So, I wasn't surprised at all when I saw Florida open as a favorite. And it's been about the three and a half. People saw Florida open as a favorite. We're always going to take that and run with it as soon as they can at the best number possible. It's not a surprise to me at all. The surprise to me is in my brain that when you pull up your top 25, all I could think is, oh, I like Florida better than that team and that team and this team and and not even, oh no, I would have them like. top eight, that might be a problem. - I think that's a little early. I think that's a problem. - They did win at Auburn, but they showed some warts at Auburn, like they, they, they, they, I think they're significantly better roster than Auburn and better coaching staff. And they-- - They're getting it better. - They are gonna get better, but what's on my right now? - I know, dude, but like-- - You think, all right, and I'm open to all this discussion. Do you think Alabama, Florida, neutral field, tomorrow? You think-- - I think I would take Florida. - You think you'd take Florida, wow. I think I might too, I just, I would have to look at it. I just know-- - I think Alabama would be like a two and a half point favorite. - Yeah, it's interesting to think about. I think Florida is, again, if they get to 6-0, look the hell out. Lucky, can you find Florida's schedule? Because I know the only thing standing between them and 6-0 to begin the season was a road game against Auburn, and then a home game against Ole Miss. While the road game against Auburn is in their pocket, and if they were to win this game against Ole Miss, that's 4-0, right? And then I think they get two very winnable games, and then the schedule turns for 'em. So you got Ole Miss this weekend, Florida, at Missouri, which I guess that's not too easy. South Carolina at home, and then it gets crazy. Then we're really doing the thing. We got Texas and Georgia back to back. October 17th with a buy into October 31st. Number one, Texas number two, Georgia. Have fun with that. They got Oklahoma at home, which that one is softened up a lot. That one is softened up a whole lot. And then you got Kentucky on the road, that one is hardened up a lot. Vanderbilt at home and then Florida State. So like, man, I think I see two guaranteed losses on there. Yeah, probably. I don't know. There's something about, you talked about what the coaches and your favorite coaches, favorite coaches, John Summerall. It just has me going down like a free fall in my brain of, oh, like John Summerall this, that when he was at two lane, everything in Troy and just remembering how much I absolutely love John Summerall and the way they goes about things and how we've always said, you and I didn't even know each other in, let's say, 2021. But you said, and I said in our different lives, John Summerall's built for the SEC. Just wait 'til he gets the SEC. The way that he could run a program, turn things around, get things rolling, how high class they are and every facet. I just feel like that head coach, who you have an interview with at the end of the show, no big deal, no free ads is built for moments like these and is going to win a whole lot of games that other coaches, frankly, would not have business competing in winning. Agreed, and I like the offensive coordinator a lot. I love Faulkner. There's an issue there is he going to be there next year. Well, that will worry about that next year. Where do you think about? Yeah, in the whole paradox. Sorry, a whole paradox is the offensive coordinator power force school taking a group of six job, head coaching job. Should we be throwing that out the window now? Is that like, is that just a bad path to go down? Can I emotionally deal with that at a later date? Yeah, sure. Okay, good game, Blutman brained. Well, yeah, let's, let's play, let's let him play Ole Miss first. True. Before we farm out their offensive coordinator at every job under the sun. But their offensive coordinator at two lane next year. 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But the online discourse is where is my quarterback going to play next year. And I got admitted hurts. And I don't know if I should take this as a compliment. Or if I should be angry. I know you're not dealing with this. You have a quarterback that the loyalty must be state. You're staying there for his whole career. But I was wondering how I should react. God bless. Goodbye. What's that? Now, it couldn't have been. Here's the thing I've been thinking about this a lot. Having a quarterback that the entire world is hot after and is talking about transferring to Miami or Ohio State is way fucking better than the alternative. The alternative last year, when Mississippi State had, and God bless him, Mississippi State had a quarterback named Blake Shapen. There weren't a whole lot of people out there saying boy, they better hold on to Blake Shapen. They better do what they can. I was a senior last year, but he was a junior the year before. And we've had a lot of quarterbacks over the last 10, 15 years that nobody said, boy, as soon as he gets good, he's out of there. So having a great quarterback is half the battle in college football. And if I've got that battle licked right now, I'll worry about the rest later. That's what I say. I think thank you to Nick from West Virginia for calling it. I appreciate that. Voice mail number two, lookie. Hi, Brandon. This is Alexander from Knoxville. My question is of the three major one loss contenders, LSU, Oregon and Ohio State. Which would you say is most likely to be left out of the playoff completely? And which is the most likely to win the national championship? Also, I've been wondering for a while, what is the picture that's right behind you on your set? Thanks, love the show. Bye. Phenomenal question. What is behind me on the set is the artist rendering of the Walter Payton athletic complex when it was dedicated at Jackson State University in 1999. It is an original signed by Walter Payton, the original plans, maybe not the plans, but the renderings of what would be the Walter Payton athletic complex at Jackson State. I will move to the right, so you may see it now. [ Background noise ] As you can see, we have baseball fields 9, 10. We have soccer fields, which is 11 right here. We have the football field in the middle of the six. Some practice fields, 4, 5. I believe field house and field house right there, 1 and 3. 8 is a bunch of tennis courts, trees, the road in, but it's the Walter Payton athletic complex at Jackson State University. And I'm not sure if they ever built the dance thing. Oh, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that's, but I bought this the great part about living in Chicago. When you go out to these antique stores, and when you go out to these, you do the man taking that I do in Chicago. You get access to a great deal of Michael Jordan stuff, Walter Payton stuff, Ryan Sandberg stuff. All these great Chicago athletes, it's so big here. And I am a Walter Payton guy, because Walter Payton is originally from Mississippi, Columbia, Mississippi. So that's why I got it. My guy Steve knows I collect a lot of Walter Payton and Jerry Rice stuff, so there you go. That's what that is. Thank you for asking that question. What was the rest of this question? The one lost teams. Yeah, I got LSE organized. Ohio State's obviously to me the most likely to win the national title. Again, one point lost to Texas. LSU has the longest road ahead. They can drive that road. They're not dead at all. And it includes good for them that Texas A&M looks a lot more winnable now. Oklahoma looks a lot more winnable. So you got all those things, but they still got to play I believe they got to play Texas and Alabama. So they still got some meat on the bone there for LSU. And then Oregon, we find out this week. My gut feeling says Oregon is still gonna have a say and who wins the big 10, who wins the national title, but they got to prove it this weekend. And it's not just beaten Portland State 84 or nothing. Next voicemail, please. Brandon K see from Memphis Okay, the two best quarterbacks in the entire country play in the same state and That would be the great state of Mississippi What are your thoughts? I 100% agree with it. You have the best college quarterback and Camario Taylor and the best should be NFL quarterback in 71 year old Trinidad-Chambles. It's great for him that he gets to still kind of live-action roleplay as a college athlete But Camario Taylor is the best player in America. So there you go Real talk Trinidad-Chambles obviously the best quarterback in America, but Camario Taylor is well on his way to joining him Next voicemail, please Brandon Walker, you can't see me right now, but I am on one knee with my sword in my hand Offering my full sorunder as I then look God fucking awful weekend Now I hate to say it, but you were right about Marcel Reed. He's not a good passer He has no awareness, but that being said Brandon text saying them will go 11-1 We will go to death Valley this weekend and beat the shit out of LSU because if you reminded two years ago Notre Dame lost to a terrible team Northern Illinois and they went on to the college football club and the National Championship Texas A&M will be the same shot up to my girl KC beef the hell of LSU, baby. I Love college football fans so much. He's so close to embracing reality He's so close to knowing and he knows, but he just can't bring himself to do it The only difference in a Notre Dame two years ago and Texas A&M now is that Notre Dame two years ago was good and Texas A&M is very much not if If they were great elsewhere other than the quarterback They could weather the storm, but they're not their their their offensive defensive line. Just aren't great right now Their weapons aren't great. They're like there's nothing great. What's great about that team? What is great about that football team? Nothing and then you're led by a quarterback who takes too long to process throws the wrong guy has turned over Like what what what do you like about that team and it's only speeding up a process that we saw last year They only went to the playoffs because they're scheduled last year. Well this year. They don't have that bird. They don't have that You know that gift And now we're seeing it next voicemail. Please last voicemail. I believe go ahead I tell you and see state, you know Every player on that team should transfer because you know how do you actually walk around campus after choking that part I mean That's heaven's off into Chile in the office. I mean you just got to change your name if you were to do like that I I swear Frank the tank was born to call into this show and leave a voicemail. Thank God for Frank the tank Fleming Shout out Frank the mother fucking tank I I also love that he doesn't call in worked up about his team He just looks around the country and laughs at people And I know there were probably come a day where either no name loses or has a close game and he calls and the mother fucks Notre Dame, but until then I like fun love in Frank the tank who just watches in C state flop around and flail around a lose a game And he just laughs hysterically. 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That's rocket money.com/brandon rocket money.com/brandon All right What's up everybody can we get a brand-in-nose puck show? Yeah soon soon. We we very much can Looking like Edna from the Incredibles in those glasses I've is that me hot. I've met you. I met you with a dozen you two buddy you two I Know him. Yeah, you don't look like Edna Who do I look like you look like the Whatever name is from Jimmy Neutron What whatever whose name is from Jimmy Neutron the teacher and Jimmy Luki Paul. Let me see look you Let me see the teacher from Jimmy Neutron. Yes, yeah, that's foul That's that's it Okay Well, well well played sir well played Jesus Christ you had that one in your pocket the whole time huh? Yeah, Brandon the first stop were those glasses. I pulled up that picture and you didn't see it I think Luki Luki and I have said this for a year Who said Luki gets to talk who said Luki gets to talk I forgot to make a graphic for your playoff brackets. Sorry chat Fuck Let's draft though the top 10 games of the week Liam. Who went first last week? You did You go first. Who's the number one? What's your number one pick for games of the week? Quickly a desperate organ team against the USC team coming back across the country from Rutgers And that was number one pick on my board as well. I think this is this is a huge table setter in the big 10 This kind of going to set the pace for these teams if Oregon loses You can pretty much cancel or you can write the book on Oregon Because if they're losing these games, it's going to be tough to come across a country and you know When these other games so they got to have it. They got to have it So this is huge that was number one on my board and two number two and number three I'll take the Ole Miss Rebels at Florida This might be a tougher man. This probably is a tougher matchup for Ole Miss than the LSU was. I don't think I don't think for Let me show It's a tougher matchup than LSU for Ole Miss Florida's gonna run the football Florida can control the clock Florida can do a lot of things. I don't think they're gonna have a quarterback Absolutely freaking out because he's not on the road in this hostile environment Ole Miss has to deal with the emotions of going to Gainesville The place they haven't handled very well in the past And they have to bottle the emotions from Lane Kiffin. So there's that number three pick Give me Texas at Tennessee. I think Texas is probably gonna walk in there when this game But Tennessee is somebody who is just kind of Kind of sitting there right off the top top couple of tears in the SEC threatening to get back in there They've got athletes that you know bishop's a great running back The quarterback has been good so far now. He hasn't been tested anything near like he's gonna be tested this week So phase on Brandon. He might be my player to watch this week. That's picks two and three for me. Who's picks four and five? I can't wait to watch. Hopefully an old school big 12 shootout between Oklahoma state and West Virginia Very fun offences who could fly up and down the field One is gonna do it with the dangerous rushing attack with their cubian running back The others gonna do it best makers nasty arm and then in the third round I can't believe this ends up in the third round Give me a little missu missus hippie state Austin Simmons Camario Taylor for as much as we talk about those carbacks How about Donovan Oloboode? I'm so bad saying his name. Why do you see where one at missu and fluff Both well fluff is kind of fallen in the cards and people aren't talking about enough. He's still getting better He's still the most Dangerous runner in missus hippie. What cuz key on a plane Really cock sucking move out of you to take this game, by the way just a dick fucking move. What I what I got in the third round But you took my you took my team. You took my team. You had opportunity to take them. Can I say something about Can I say something about fluff bothwell? He is a battering ram He is somebody nobody wants to tackle in the fourth quarter You see guys shying away from tackling him and it is such a juxtaposition with a missus hippie state Having the precision quarterback and the the the speedsters on the outside who are burning their their men deep So you got to worry about covering the entire field and keeping those guys and then soon to just start worrying about that Here comes the fucking hammer right up the middle. It's a fascinating offense because it's not You would think an offense with those receivers will also have a burner running back and just try to outrun you But let's say you can Jeff Levy can do both he can he can pound the rock and he can throw it wherever he wants to throw it on the field It's it's fascinating So picks so that was picks four and five. I had missus state was already four on my board I had Oklahoma state West Virginia six on my board So I'm getting a little value here is I'm getting my number five and uh sometimes Yes, I put a monster I can take him off sometimes You just got to embrace the stink You got to just walk in, knowing a plate, knowing a fart's going to stink and be like "Fart smells good." And this weekend in Ann Arbor's, "Fart's going to smell good." It's going to be ugly, it's going to be nasty, it's going to be terrible, you're not going to want to tell your kids about this game. If your kid comes and you're like "Who are you watching, daddy?" No, never mind, I'm watching porn, just leave me alone. You don't want him to know you're watching Iowa, Michigan. That's how fucking ugly it's going to be, Iowa, Michigan. But why do you keep making faces? Helping enhance the show. Okay, yes, you're doing your part, thank you very much. And my number. Give me Boise at Western Michigan. Yes, that's a lose. Yes, because listen, I don't know if I could craft a better day than Iowa going to the Big House and beating Michigan and Boise beating the piss out of Western Michigan. That would just really make me happy. That's all I want to say, who are your next two picks? I was hoping to really get that. Just give me A and MLC by default, I don't really, I mean, that's a fart. Sure. Well, smell good, I don't know. Pretty sour on LC, you after what happened, I don't enjoy watching Sam Love at Play Football. I really don't enjoy watching Marcel Reed play football. Here's something that I thought during that voicemail. How did Texas A&M fans now finally realize Marcel Reed's not going to go back just because the L's next their name when it was the same exact quarterback and product on the field as it has been for the last year? Nothing changed. Because fans are emotional creatures and will not accept what's obviously right in front of their face because it hurts their feelings. Got it. You know, I brought up earlier, I'll take it, Nebraska, Michigan State. Michigan State gave Notre Dame a bit of a, it's hard to say test, but I love the effort level there. It's such a different program with Pat Fitzgerald calling the shots. I really just want to say in Jamal rule for Nebraska is a star in the, a star in the making. So there's one pick left? Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Two on my board. We always do this wrong. Yeah. I know. Shut up. Oh, let me go. I don't think we've won it. I might. There's no way. I could. It's not like you do it, but maybe it is doubt it. Give me Wisconsin to Penn State. George is going to, George is going to beat the piss out of Oklahoma, right? Yeah. Oklahoma's got the defense to muck it up, but even mucking it up like, can they score? At all. Can they score at all against Georgia? Like, I, maybe they're best case scenario. They make it a 10, 6 game and maybe they have a defensive score. But like George, George Oklahoma just doesn't appeal to me that much at all, especially early in the day too. Give me Wisconsin, Penn State, just because Wisconsin, I'm just waiting to see if we can see something out of this team. And then Penn State don't, they don't have a lot of opportunity to prove how good they are on the schedule. And this might be one. So give me. Give me that. Somebody says wait for us, Louisville. That's a decent one. Oh, so I appreciate all these case date, since see, Iowa State, Utah, right? Utah, yeah. And then the, yeah. So lastly, let me tell you about my friends over at IQ bar because, you know, we're all trying to snack healthier and do all that. This episode brought to you by IQ bar, our snack sponsor on the show, IQ bars are better for you. Clean, plant protein bars packed with fiber and brain boosting nutrients with zero added sugar. You no longer have to choose between healthy and delicious snacks. 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Big win over the weekend, it was Florida, it was Auburn 2-2-0 teams, so one of them comes out 3-0 and now playing a top five team in the swamp this weekend is of course the Florida Gators. First year coach John Sumeral, we've had him on Wake Up bar still before, now we have him on the Brandon Walker College football show for the first time. Coach, what's up, man? Thank you for being here. You have me, Brandon Hopeall as well. All's well, I was messing with you before we started. The other night, John Groot and my colleague was there wearing an Auburn hat until the end of the game, and then he found, he mysteriously found like a bar still hat or something. But you gave him the business after the game. Yeah, look over. I think it was the second quarter, he's on our sideline. I think we had the lead, and I think you wanted to be on the sideline of the team that was winning, and it's wearing hats on the other team. And then at the end of the game, hugged my family, look up, there's coach Groot and no longer wearing that hat. He's got a completely different hat on like he had a band and ship really quick. And so I just put my hat out, worn a sideline, I put on him and say we can easily get you one of these. And I figured you wanted to be a winner, so we'll let you wear that. That's all free stuff, Groot and that's that's our guy right there. Speaking of another freeloader, you used to when you and when he was at Tulane, you would have like these celebratory parties and you would have been meant over to a couple of them, you know, widespread panic guy, been meant never wanted to turn down free food and anything else. But you're playing Ole Miss this weekend, so you know, some are all Mincey Collide, thoughts about that. Yeah, you know, Mincey's ole is a friend. He probably might get the text of the bar being open and the food being ready after the game this weekend, have not heard from him if he's coming or not, but we do have that widespread panic connection in common for sure. A real question now, you're off to a three and a half start, things are things like seem like they're going well from the outside. Do you know anything about your team now, three games in that maybe you didn't know in the offseason? Maybe you were like, I wonder if this team is this and they've answered that through three games. I think our toughness is improved. You know, when I was new here, just get here, maybe one of the things I thought was lacking was just mental toughness and a competitive edge. So I think we've responded to a lot of those questions I've had. I'm not saying we've arrived, but I felt our intent in that area, taking up tick, if you will. So that's been positive. We still haven't played great football, the big one, honestly. We've played pretty average, like we've done plenty of dumb things that self inflicted at times that we need to grow in a lot of areas. But I think our guys are playing with a demeanor and an edge that gives us a chance. You mentioned mental toughness the other night I'm watching that game and I think I was pretty convinced you guys were winning when your quarterback early in the game through a pick and it started off Auburn on like your 10, your 15 year online, immediately your defense made him go backwards. And then your quarterback gets a ball back and goes right back down the field like the pick never happened. Is that the mental toughness we're talking about? Yeah, I know that, but the worst catchable we didn't make it for play. We kind of knocked it in the air. Their edge guy caught it, you know, and they have the ball inside our red zone real quickly. And then they have to kick a 40 art field goal. Well, that response, there's three or four responses in the game where I knew like I, we got control of this thing. And that was one of them, for sure, because our, we had an airception from them on the third play of the game. We're going to score a touchdown. We throw, we have an airception that we, they get from us and, you know, really tight to the goal line. And we force a 40 art field goal. So when you win those, those swings like that, that bodes well for your opportunity to win a game. So you've coached in the swamp, but, you know, you were just on the road at Auburn 90,000, 100,000 people going crazy, absolutely nuts atmosphere. And for the first time I believe this weekend, when you welcome, I mean, this will be the swamp at its swampiest like this is going to be crazy. He's going to be a great atmosphere. He're going to be everything. If you thought about that atmosphere, what's going to feel like on Saturday? Yeah, I mean, for the disclosure, our FAU game blew me away. Yeah, opening game and really not like our FAU game, the crowd I felt was livelier than what we played in on Saturday night. Like, so I can only imagine what that's going to feel like when you bring a top five team into this place. And Ole Miss is a really good football team. I have a lot of confidence. Our fan base is going to have an impact on the game. Somebody asked you today in your press conference. I think it was today. Was it today, Liam? I have Liam sitting off to my right, like, as some sort of help. I don't know why you're even over there. But somebody asked you about being favored over Ole Miss. And you said, you were like, what? Now, there's some awful, there's some, a lot of good drugs out there. Now, you guys are a good team, too. Do you take that as a sign of respect? Or are you still on the drugs thing? Well, I'm on the drugs thing. No, not personally on the drugs thing. No, I didn't say you were on the drugs. Yeah. So I didn't know we were, by the Vegas odds, like, I've watched them play enough. We should not be the favorite. And I like our football team. I'm not down on who we are. But they, they were 13 and two last year went to the semi-final, and they got, you know, the best quarterback in college football right now. Like he's, he's a dude. And so when I got asked that this morning after practice, I didn't know we were favorite. And I just responded like, who has this as a favorite? They said Vegas. And that's where I'm like, all right. Well, there's a lot of great drugs, evidently, and Vegas because that we haven't earned to be a favorite against the team like Ole Miss. And listen, you are facing Trinidad Shamlis. I mean, this is a guy that's been around. He's a, is a hell of a winner. If he wasn't already the face of college football, Saturday nights solidified him as maybe the star in college football. You've had to prep for a lot of quarterbacks, a lot of great players over the years. Where does he stack up as prepping for somebody and how you come up with a game plan of slowing him down? He's a tremendous challenge. He can beat you so many different ways. He can beat you on time throwing the football just normal past game. He can beat you and plays break down with his arm and his legs. And then he's going to quarterback called run game like he and he just executes at a really high level in their system. He's a smart guy. He's a tough guy. He's a competitive guy. He's a complete football player. And he's instinctive of a guy as I feel like I've ever played against the game's very natural for him. So it's a huge challenge. You know, coach against him twice last year. I don't know if he forced him to punt the either game. I don't remember him punting at all. This guy's a real handful. So I'm just trying, I'm just trying to think your coach, your fan base doesn't like me right now because I had the audacity in the offseason. I had the audacity to say, uh, Jaden ball from Florida. Yeah, I think he's the fourth or fifth best running back in the country. You know, there's Ahmad Hardy. There's this guy. There's that guy and Jaden ball is really good. But boy, these Florida Gators fans, our guy is the best in the country. And you don't have to argue about the rankings, but tell me about that running back and how awesome it is to have somebody like him. Yeah, I love that fan base because they're passionate. And I have a great appreciation for that. Jaden's a good football player, man. He's, you know, 230 pound guy. Um, really great change direction. Short area, quickness, lateral movements are off the charts, uh, plays with physicality and toughness runs behind his pads. Um, loves getting coached. That's my favorite thing about him is like, you know, Saturday night in our game, uh, they scoring stuck the ball out and it wasn't fort down. I grabbed him and I'm like, Hey, we don't do that. He's again, I know coach. That wasn't smart. Like he owns it. He's a great kid. I'm grateful. He's a Florida Gator. You know, when I took the job here, there's a lot of concern that he was sought after to go into the portal. Um, and, uh, we worked hard to retaining. And I told him before he played game one, I said, man, I'm glad you're still here. Thank you for staying. Uh, and I thought I knew what we had in him. When I took the job, man, he's been better than advertised. Not to impune anywhere you've been before, but you know, when you get an SEC coaching job, it sounds like one thing and it sounds like it could be daunting. But then last week you had the emotional, like going to Auburn and winning that game, uh, in Auburn on Saturday night, that is very, very, very tough to do. And the second you get done with Auburn, the second you get done with all of that, you got to turn your attention to a top five team coming. Like there's no break at all. Is it, is it as advertised or what you thought it would be? Or I know we're just two games into the SEC season. But how do you view that, that part of the job? I think what makes this league so unique is weekend, week out, man, you were in for a four quarter fight. Like there's no off week. There's no layup. There's no give me. There's no catch your breath. And, um, the, the challenges from here are only are going to get harder as we move forward. Ole Miss is a great team. We've got a schedule where we look up. And I think right now in the eight people, we play the number four ranked team, the number two ranked team, the number one ranked team in three of the next six games. And so it's like welcome to the SEC. Like it doesn't, there are no, there are no give mes. And that's what you said out for your competitor. You like that. It's a challenge. But you do have to turn the page really quickly because if we play like we did last Saturday, we have no shot this game. Like none. We will get run out of our own stadium. So we got to keep getting better. Everything I've ever heard about coaching a Florida, you know, you always hear the Spurriers hanging around our desk or that. And obviously the T-bows of the world are out there and meeting everything. I know in the offseason, maybe you talked to those guys. But once the season started, now you're three and oh, if you heard from the Spurriers of the world, the T-bows of the world, are they are the gator legends weighing in on you? They've all sorts of to me. I try to tell me, hey, you should do this differently or that differently. I actually saw Coach Spurrier last Tuesday night. We live in the same neighborhood and then had an event I had to go to at his restaurant. He's been great. Him and Jerry is wife. They've been awesome to me and my wife texted with Urban Meyer this morning. Texted Coach Meyer last week and I was like, all right, going at Jordan Hare any any advice. And so he's been great. And Tim was by here about a month ago. You know, Tim stays pretty busy with his schedule with everything he does. But all three of those guys have been unbelievable supporters. Been very encouraging. Coach Spur, his only real advice is just win. You know, just win everything works out. And so he reminds me of that. And then Urban always has great insight as to some things that just, hey, reminder, like when you're riding high and your three and oh coach everybody hard. And he does a great job. I'm very, very grateful for all those relationships for sure. By the way, that's amazing advice from Spurrier. Just, just win, man. The job is easy. If you just win, that's like telling a NASCAR driver, just drive fast. Yeah, drive fast. Drive fast to turn left. Liam, you're still sitting over there. You've got a question I need to ask him. I don't even know if the mic's on. You can tell me and I'll ask him. Yeah, ask him about all these guys, you know, you talk about body, you talk about file, core mind. Sure. But who's the player that's putting it on the workplace? He's having. All right. So there's the filoes of the world, the Jaden balls of the world, the core mind and the claims of the world, the stars, you know, the great players. Is there anybody that has through three games really stood out to you? Somebody that put the work in, maybe not everybody's talking about that you want to give some big ups to right now. Yeah, it's a great question. You know, um, I think Harrison Moore Center has done a really good job and, and been very consistent and steady. I look at on defense, you know, Emmanuel, our big, our big field in defense alignment has really risen to the occasion. Jaden Woods has talked about, but I think he's, he's an arrow up guy that's really ascending. You know, Cliff Jackson, who does a lot of dirty work for us, a mere Jackson. They tied in does a lot of dirty work. Our tight in room is probably the room that has outperformed what even was my expectation. And not so much necessarily just from a past catching standpoint, but just how they've affected the game from physicality standpoint. Our tight in room, I could not be more pleased with the way they've developed. So there's a lot of guys have stepped up and we got we got to have more guys do that for us to continue to grow as a team though. He said great question, Liam. He said phenomenal question. Good job, buddy, fist bump. Coach, I know you only got about two minutes left. So I'll just ask you a quick, a little quick hitter on the way out here. You used to coach in a city where you could get the best gumbo in the world, the best poe boys in the world. My guy, what a great food city. Have you settled into your food life there in Gainesville? Well, pretty much living at the office so they eat our dining facility downstairs more than anywhere, but yeah, there's a couple good spots here, man. We got it. Dragonfly sushi downtown is really good. We got Mark's prime and it is a good state spot. Ember's steakhouse is also a great state spot. It's a little bit closer to my house than Mark's prime. So it's I like that one because of location. And then coach sprayers restaurants legit. They got great wings last night. Sprayers can't at our staff dinner on Sunday night. And my operations crew like hey, they brought wings, right? My operations crew is like no coach. We just we got salmon and grilled chicken. I'm like, we didn't get the wings from sprayers. Like what are we doing? And so though, it's it's hard to top New Orleans of food city. I don't know that's possible, but games was been good. Look at that. Spurrier hadn't coach there in years. He's still cash and checks. Just cash and checks left and right. Now I did get a text message that Mincey said he'll be by about an hour after the game. So just set aside whatever you got to set aside. Mincey's coming. Okay. All right, I'll make sure to make sure to secure your guard. Hey coach, I appreciate your time. Good luck and awesome start, man. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.