RICO'S RECRUITING METHODS GET QUESTIONED | PICK EM WEEK 14

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Four additional terms and responsible gaming resources, cdkng.co/audio. Limited time offer. Okay, boys, where's the records? Okay, so we got some stuff we got to hit at the top because Ebo's got to go back to mostly sports. But congratulations, Ebo is back. He's here. He's shown his face. Dave, what's wrong? Do you see this light thing on my head? Yeah, I can't get rid of it. Why don't you move if you move up in your seat? It's if I block my head, I've been. Yeah, it's right there on the. Yeah, it's that window. Yeah, is that that window? Why don't you just move your computer a little? Let me move my computer a little. Like move your computer so it's not directly face towards the window. Stop it. Well, I'm going to tell it. I don't know what options. I think it's the other window. No, I think you know, it's that window. No, no, I think you got it. You got it. I mean, that window too, but yeah. Well, I mean, but the one he was talking about was the one he was at. Yeah, yeah, that's better. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Wait, was that right down my face? Now it's good. Okay, no. All right, so Ebo is here because I told Ebo, Ebo's leading Bob Diaco. He's 9 and 4, Rico, you're 8 and 5, I'm 7 and 6. Jack, Jack McCarthy, 7 and 5, Hank, 7 and 5, Zupi, 7 and 6 to 8, 4 and 9. That's kind of crazy. I feel like you've done better than that. But I had Ebo here because Ebo was talking shit online on Saturday and I sent him to me. He was saying, he was saying, "How's the weather down there? I won my, my, my mortal." And I said, "This guy, Ebo hasn't shown up to one pick him this year." And I know that he's got stuff going on, but I said that he can't win the Bob Diaco if he doesn't at least show up to at least one pick him. Is that fair? I think that's fair. Yeah. So he's here. What's your, what's your mortal this week? Uh, mortal this week is probably going to be Utah. Well, no, we're gonna do the mortals. Well, you want to just do now. Yeah, do now. Yeah. So Utah? Yeah. How, how, how is your, do you want to make a case? Because I do love you, Ebo. And I said, you, you had to be here if you want to talk shit, which you said I have no problem with. He is, Ebo is my fantasy manager as well in the, uh, mic trout league. The, Ebo, you, I have been standing on the table for JMU. Would you like to use like maybe a couple of minutes to, to talk about JMU, to pitch JMU, then you go back to mostly sports? Yeah. Let's, uh, let's talk JMU. I mean, if we're going to start with what is most important to the committee, the four letter word over there. Uh, ESPN said, strength of record. That's their stat. Okay. Uh, we are the number one group of five team in that stat, strength of record, uh, in front of two lane, front of North Texas. I think two lanes getting a lot of credit for being two historically awful, um, power conference teams that they somehow got the schedule at home, which, who they beat Duke and Northwestern, who historically are not good. That shouldn't count. Yeah. You beat two nerd schools. Congratulations. Um, I wish we had thought to schedule two power four teams at home. That's such a good idea that two lane had. Um, North Texas worth, worth strength to schedule than we do. So they can't point to our strength to schedule. They try to point to the wazoo game now that we have a common opponent, but all the matters as you win. Yeah. And also they were playing against an NAIA quarterback for some reason. Okay. Again. So I don't think you can use that as a point. Um, I'd also like to, if, if you would, um, can we stop calling it the group of five spot? Why? It's technically the, the five highest rated conference champions. So if there is a year where there is an undefeated Boise state and an undefeated Sombal champion or an undefeated American champion, so we get two of them, like a 13, no Boise state, a 13, no USF, they would probably get in over a three loss ACCT. Both of them. But this, we would have this hypothetical under this hypothetical. There's two conference undefeated and a three loss AC. Yeah, or maybe a two loss. It depends. I guess just what the picture is. Here's the hypothetical warrior. This is a joke and it shouldn't be in the, in the playoffs and it's a waste of the spot. Oh, no. You can't. How about that? How about that? How about that? How about that? Why is it a waste of time? I don't care about you lobbying to get in over fucking Tulane North Texas and he's one fuck. No one gives a fuck. You're gonna lose by a hundred in the first round stupid. You're gonna go play someone else. No fucking cares. Go, go talk about this on another podcast. I help PFT went there. Nobody gives a fuck when you're lobbying as North Texas fucking Tulane and some other podunk fucking dickhead school. Fair. Well, Ebo, uh, this, this did accomplish the fact that you, you, you, you punch your time clock. Yeah. We're very eligible to win the Bob. Yeah. Yeah. And good job. Good job. Yes. Good job. You also knew that was going to, yeah, probably. We're leading to that. It was basically, is it 90 seconds? Is it two minutes? Is it three minutes? The day's going to be like, fuck this. But, uh, good job. You took your leggings. Now you can win Bob Diaco. All right. All right. See you. Well, take care, guys. All right. What's up, boys? I want Rico. What's up, Diaco? I think Rico's, I mean, that is ridiculous. On a serious, no, it's so stupid, but it's like, yeah. I was all in basketball. Like it, the, the, the cutesy little upset just ain't going to happen. So like, it's a total waste of a spot. It's stupid. Like, honestly, that was ridiculous to hear somebody lobby against teams who's lobbying against like, I like, I like it just because I do think you should include like, I, you're, you're all spent so much time with PFT. Like you're, you're very, yeah, I don't know. You're only saying that because he says that so much. Yeah, but there's going to be teams that are left out this year that like, honestly, you could see making a run to like the final four and you're going to have a team that is a joke in there. So not a joke, not a joke in a sense. I had a great season, but there's just like no way James Madison, like, can win a game. Yeah, I see your point. I'm just saying more than like, you play the sport and to have it. If you play a sport and half of the sport is just ineligible of ever making the playoff, that's just such a bummer to me. Yeah, I don't know, though, that should be automatic. Like, like, you can have theoretically a JMU or somebody or a boy. Oh, whoever boy's been it, but like, scheduling big teams, they pull off a big upset. They have a big win. They go on to feed it. That's a little different. Like you look at Jamie's schedule. Like they played Louisville. They lost. Like they they haven't beaten anybody. Like, they're this isn't the team. Like, so it's stupid. All right. So Ebo is now eligible to win Bob Diaco because he had, I know he's got a lot going on. He does wake up bars to on Wednesdays and then he does mostly sports. But when he when he chirked me, I was like, well, you can't chirk me. You haven't even been on the show. Now he can. So how are we doing, boys? Bosco. What up? How's that was tough loss for Bama? Tough. You guys are not. Gensag is way better. Gensag is very good. Yeah. Front court is very good. They're in the portfolio. Yeah. And the portfolio. How's fees week going, Bosco? So it's going pretty good. Yeah. Are you enjoying everything? Fun to watch. Wish the players error had a little more juice in terms of the games. Like the environments, you know, it's empty. But yeah, it's great. It's wall-to-wall action. I felt so bad for yesterday with I was. That was brutal. I agree with Bosco. I think the player's era has ruined the Maui and the Lannis. It sucks. It wears my fee suite. My fee suite is gone. I don't know if you've seen this day, but they just don't have the same teams playing in Maui or at Lannis. Every team's now playing in the player's era into empty gym in Vegas. It sucks. The Maui meant something. It means something to me. I didn't know that happened. I've been paying attention if I haven't watched and I've been I'm in one country. I was in Del Marce. I haven't seen any hoop. I was actually getting out of Michigan's out there too. Michigan's out there. Yeah, they won by gave Dan that a leg. Yeah, one by 50 minus six and a half yesterday. Thank you very. I was actually mad at you, Dave. I was mad at you for about an hour yesterday. I want you to know that. Because I know you're in I know you're on vacation. I understand that, but fee suite is important to us. We always lose all fast weeks. Oh, horrific. Oh, horrific. But we do it together. We lose together. Like I like my memories like when people are like, Oh, what's your favorite Thanksgiving memory? It's like when I was fucking standing in in the playground with my like two-year-old and watching the Yukon for overtime game as we sweat that remember that game. Yeah, I was watching it actually at my parents. Then they don't have like I actually I'm going to my parents tomorrow. My parents don't have like a couch in their place for Thanksgiving. So I actually ordered a lazy boy to be delivered just wait. Wait. Did you order the whole couch? Did you order your seat? A sectional a little part. Okay. Because they want the whole thing. My dad doesn't want the whole thing. He he he has dentist chairs that are so uncomfortable and you literally have to sit on the ground. It's ridiculous. That would have been a power move. You got a recliner. You just brought one. I almost did. I asked what was in stock. I almost got a recliner. The other one look more come to I'm buying. I actually knew I discussed it because I know my chair is going to be the most comfortable chair in the house and it's bought for me. And then like my mom's going to want to sit in it. And then what? Because like why did for me? Because you guys won't get a couch. Right. So but yeah, I got a couch. I think you need to do a you need to do a poll on. I didn't even tell them they don't know. They won't even let me. I was going to say you need to pull everyone. You should you should like text everyone in your family being like is if I bought a couch would anyone be upset and anyone who who has any resistance they cannot sit. Well, yeah, we've already gone over. It's like I go over it every year. And it's one of those things. It's miserable when you're there. And then you leave and you forget about it. And then Thanksgiving rolls around you like to know what is said. It's the worst couch setup I've ever seen in the planet. Yeah, it's brutal. In the Thanksgiving sit down holiday. It's all sitting. Yeah, yeah. And they have two dentist chairs. And then these two uncomfortable couches with no angle of TV. You just sit on the floor. It's brutal. So I got a couch coming tomorrow. I remember there's watching that game laying on the floor. So back to what I was saying is I was mad at you because that Iowa State game was so brutal. I I tried to I missed it. I tried to get that in. And it would have been an easy over. Yeah. But I texted you a clip. And I said I fucking hate fees week. I'm retired. And I think you're in wine country. You deserve vacation. But I didn't get a response for an hour. And I was mad. I was so mad. I had to go because I needed just someone to say, oh my god. That's the worst. I had to go to the big guy. I had to call him the big guy. Elio. Yeah. I texted Elio. I said, he hasn't responded. And then he just wrote back. Oh my god. That's gross. And I just said, thank you. That's all I needed. Now I can go back back to my day. I just needed one person to acknowledge it. It was so so bad. I need the Michigan. So yeah. Then I got Michigan. And I took the Gonzaga over at the end. That Alabama might be my favorite team to like they're the most trustworthy team to be down 10. And they're like, they're going to still hook threes because I was in that spot at like 11 30 at night, where I was like, if Alabama, it was a 10 point game. It didn't matter. It's 40 seconds left. It's like if Alabama hits one, three, we're good. And they did. So thank you, Rico. As we're recording this, I like seating hall today. Oh, okay. Yeah. I faded them yesterday. I got a lot of fight. Plus six plus seven against USC. I don't think USC is that good. Yeah. Yeah. USC struggle with Boise. Yeah. They've struggled. Everything was this good. Hey, pick them listeners. We're going to take a quick break for a message from one of our partners. Football is back. And with Draft King Sportsbook, September comes with a boost. All September long, opt in and get a 50% profit boost every game day with the Draft King's game day boost pass. New Draft King Sportsbook customers sign up with a code BSS and get 50% profit boost every game day. That's code BSS and partnership with Draft Kings. The crown is yours. Gambling problem. Call 1-800-Gambler. 1-800-MyReset. Connecticut call 888-7897-777. Visit ccpg.org. On behalf of Boohill Casino and Kansas, Wagertax pass through may apply in Illinois, 21 plus in most states, void in Canada, one football boost per customer, maximum bet limits, and wagering restrictions apply. Tokens are single use and expire at the end of the final select game each day win offered. Terms at sportsbook.DraftKings.com. All right. Now back to the episode. Also I was telling Bosco at Cincinnati that I was sitting next to the head basketball coach. I didn't know who he was, but met him introduce. I'm like, how long he been here five years? Oh, you know, Rico Bosco's like, no, I never heard of him. That wasn't great to hear. And then the guy offered, I'm like, he's our college basketball guy. He's like, oh, give him myself. I'm like, I absolutely won't do that. No way. Enough to do that too. Oh, man, you got to see that. You got no one at Cincinnati, Bosco. No, we got to work our way in. I text Dave. Thank you for pushing me. We'll be better at work. He's on the list. He's a target. Work our way up. So I'd like an updated list, maybe by New Year's. All right, sure. Just an entire spreadsheet. I'm surprised. Nobody at Cincinnati. Yeah. Some of them, you know, dead zones. I don't know. Yeah, we got it. I got what are you? What are you Verizon? What are you talking about? Like you don't know, you didn't know a guy who came up from somewhere else on your hand. What's wrong with your thumb? Oh, uh, whiteboard. I was writing on a whiteboard. That's all. It's just red ink. Got it. Doing some whiteboard work. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, the whiteboard with your thumb. Sometimes, yeah, if you're making error, I'm a quick like, uh, okay. I did see Joe Yanks did a live yesterday, live spaces. I saw that. Yeah. He was down. It seemed like he was down. Love the one. He's no love the word. Obviously. Why speaking to Joe Yanks and things that across my desk this week, what type of absolute psychopath invites you to talk to high school kids? Oh, I actually forgot about this because it felt like a year ago, but Rico, we have put it in the YouTube, put the picture in the YouTube. We have the video. There has to be a video. I need to know. I will pay. I don't know video. What are there has to be a video? There's no video. This is, this is similar to like when they put out a. How did this come about? Like, why are you doing this? Don't you think this is a problem? We're putting a bounty like on Osama bin Laden's head. I can't tell if Nadoo is serious. He's now saying he's going to speak in front of a class. College. No, he doesn't do high school. He does college is this first time in a college class. Um, well, we're education shaming now. I'm just saying. Uh, yeah. The one of the teachers there is a friend of mine. Obviously friends with a ton of the school. They're like, listen, we, it's a journalism class. English, we've been studying podcasts and like your history, obviously, you've been around forever. And, you know, with the actually know your history. Yeah. How much did they look up? I think they looked up a lot. Yeah. Like, you're not, you're not been doing this for a long time. But what does that mean? That's like, that's like, oh, we know your, your aviation history. Like, bin Laden, like, I need this video. I'm putting a bounty on the video. Definitely a video. Cash prize for the video. There's no video. If you, if you get me Chris video with audio, 5K cash, no, what is your message? It was, listen, I, like, as a senior in high school, I think I was just kind of saying it's okay to not know what you want to do in terms of things that were asking questions about that. Obviously, the fire department, like, how you get into things, bounce around a million different jobs. I was basically saying, like, you know, I am where I am, but it's a, it's a convoluted path. Like, just, you know, work hard, whatever. It was, it was kind of just a bunch of things. There's a lot of Q and A. Yeah. Well, it was some of the questions. First question, how late were you to the funeral? Because they used to watch some of the episodes. So that was one love it. That was good. Fans, uh, what was your answer? I said five minutes. He didn't make it. Yeah. Were there any parents who afterwards were like, what was that? We have not got any complaints from the parents. Because if I was a parent of a child at that school, I definitely would have had a couple of real texts be like, what's wrong with this world? From who? Are you going to withdraw your, like, kid from the school principal has to be fired? No, he's a good guy. Do you know? I was saying what world? I got to get air it out. I'm not trying to find it. Did you pick up any new riders? Uh, I don't know if I picked up any, but it's always good to add to the numbers. Yeah, you get, recruit a little bit. - Bosco with the mayor and I got one. - I got one. - I got one. Imagine a dad at home that is a fan of parcel hearing his son randomly say this guy named Rico Bosco spoke to our senior class today about success. He has to be fired. You have to pull your kid from the school. His name rhymes with Bill Compton. - Okay. - Imagine sitting at Thanksgiving dinner and the kids calls his dad a scale. He's like, "Where the fuck did you learn that word?" How do you know that word? - We'll take, we'll make sure we take Bill off the old text, staying in touch list. - Okay. - Did you, I mean, did anyone ask a meek fill question? Is that Photoshop? It's very funny. The meek fill. - That was a very funny Photoshop. - No, they didn't ask. - That's the thing that's not beyond like being real. Like you're not, like yes, you're having like the public conversations and the side corners of the gym. The real conversations are going down and like real recruitment of like Al Qaeda. - Yeah, I got you. - Did you request no video? - No, it's just how it is. - What does that mean? Like they don't have phones during the school day. - Well they were taking photos. Those definitely came from a phone. - Yeah, that was the faculty. There's gotta be a video out there. - All right, Jack, we'll hunt down the video. Because what is, it's just something I never learned. What does Zap Bruder mean, Dave, when you say that? (laughing) - Zap Bruder. - Zap Bruder? - As I never, that's what the JFK is, isn't it? - It's the name of the guy who took the JFK video. - Oh, okay, I had no idea. - His name was Zap Bruder. - Got it. - So we need the Zap Bruder fill. I thought it was a type of camera, so. - No, it's like the way. - Abraham Zap Bruder, he was the guy he would have. - Yeah. - You don't see a lot of Abraham's anymore. - That's a ridiculous name. - Not a lot of Apes. But it was born in 1905, that's a 1905 name. - That's a throwback. - Yeah. Yeah, he was, so we need that fill. - All right, let's take a second to tell you about our friends at Roe. This ad is sponsored by Roe. Roe Sparks are two in one prescription treatment for longer harder erections. 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And then if Mendoza loses to Ohio State in the big 10 championship game, I think it's live. - I'm gonna put my card ahead of the horse there a little bit, but that's okay. - Oh, what do you mean in terms of Mendoza losing to Ohio State? - Yeah. - If Mendoza loses, by the way, where did the pick of the show? - This line is rocking the other way, like it's 9 1/2 now. - It's 10 right now. - I sorry, 9 to 10. - I had 9 1/2 now. The, but it's crazy that Jeremiah Love is back. And I love, I usually can't stand the new X algorithm where if you click on one thing, then that's all you see for the rest of the week. Like you click on one death video or something and you just get gnarly shit. I love it right now because I tweeted about Jeremiah Love like three times and now every single tweet I see is Jeremiah Love's the best running best player in college football just smashing a retweet on all of them. It's great, it's great. Shout out Elon for the algorithm. All right, so any other, Rico, you got any hypotheticals? - No, we got the Big Ten tie breakers. - Yeah, go ahead, give it to us. - So I guess we're obviously, Ohio State and Indiana win they're in. If for Michigan to get in the Big Ten Championship game, it'll be Indiana wins, Michigan wins, and then Washington wins. And then for Oregon, Michigan, it would be, I'm not even gonna write that down 'cause Purdue would be Indiana and that ain't happening. So really the only case is Indiana wins, Michigan wins and Washington wins is all very live. Dave, you might be in the Big Ten Championship game. - Would you want to be? - I think you're right for not wanting to be. - My ideal scenario is we win Oregon beats Washington. They go, I don't, and there is no way that Michigan's not getting in if they beat Ohio State. I firmly believe that, I don't, I know, I know you're saying, well, I'm saying no. - No, but I'm saying if they went to the Big Ten Championship game and lost, I think they would be out. - Yeah, that's why I don't wanna go. - Yeah, yeah, right, right. - You think they would be out if they went to the Big Ten Championship game? - Yeah, I think they could. - Yeah, that'd be a third loss. I think they would, 'cause it's not like they're, - Yeah, but it's a game they caught, that's where it gets hit. - But it's like, you caught them automatically out. A lot would dictate how that game was played. - Right. - Like, if it's closed, but I think they're 100% in if they beat Ohio State, and that's it. - But like, nobody's been able to hang with Ohio State if they took down Ohio State, you get more points in my book for that. - I understand what you're talking about. - They're a bubble team, and if they lost their third game, it's not like what if they go play Indiana and lose by 20? They're not getting. - Right, yeah. - It's not like Indiana going to the Big Ten title game and losing, they're fine. - Right, well, that's where it's hard, 'cause it's like, all right, oh, they lost to Indiana by 20, so we're gonna penalize of that. But hey, they also qualified to make that fucking game and took down a monster that everyone is saying is nobody can play with. They played a one-score game back when we were still in a fucking pools in August against Texas and ran through everybody else. Michigan beats them, they lose points for that. It's tough. That's where this committee, it's very, it's interesting, it's compelling, it's dramatic, it's why it's the best. - What? - Interesting, compelling, dramatic. - This is why it's the best. - I just defended Michigan, he had jumped on my adjectives. - You're not really, I mean, I think it's a fair thing, you're saying. - Did you attack his adjectives? - He attacked my adjectives. - No, he did, no, you did, Dave, you attacked my adjectives. You said the mocking, compelling, interesting, and drama, huh? - No, you never attacked another man's adjectives. - Yeah, come on, so. - That's the first rule of writing. Come on. - Obviously, that was Joey Yanks, obviously. - Obviously, I was not attacking him, so. - Yeah, you should listen to, just tune into a little bit of Joey Yanks, live space, Dave, he sounds a lot like Rico. - Shocker, he loves the Johnny's though. Loves the Johnny's. - I did hear it, actually. - Yeah, I did see it. - I did see it, yeah, Rick Petino's a white suit. - Rick Petino's doing podcasts. - Yeah, I saw it, I saw it. - Radio shows. - They're not concerned about that. - Okay, what? - No, nothing. Rico, where people coming at you for your five TVs? - Yeah, a little bit. - It's deceptive when you back up, like, yeah, the other two were very nice gifts for you, Dan. I think they're 27 inches. But they're old auxiliary TVs. They're not, it's not like I'm coming down, I mean, like, look at how great this is. They're four and five. Like, when you really gotta go big, you roll out four and five. Like, people like, they're small, they're computer monitors. All right, good thing is it's my basement, so. - Yeah, it's your basement. - That's your basement. - And that is, that is your world down there. - Yeah, that's your safe space. - Like, nobody should, yeah, that is your escape. Imagine a pick 'em from there. - I'd be interested. - I'd be interested. - Something. - I mean, you'd have to take down and probably a lot of stuff off the walls. - There's probably, there's probably David, I had a dartboard somewhere. - There'll be one of those things to be like a basement, and then there's a secret door to the real basement. (laughing) - He cleans my door. - We show up and there's just no sports, not, huh? There's nothing on the walls. Like, hey, where's, if you can see the outline of where all the frames were. Wall is propaganda. - Okay, let's, let's dive into the games, rivalry week. - Hey, pick 'em listeners. We're gonna take a quick break for a message from one of our partners. - It's Fran from Chicks in the Office. The weather is getting cooler and Abercrombie's fall drop has everything I need for the season. The best selling A&F Sloan Taylor pant is a closet staple for me. I'm always wearing it to work events. 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Guy caught car into the pain. Listen to done. And I'm fucking foul. Why are you talking about? It was two seconds after the play ended card. Maybe he didn't say fuck. No, he did. No, he did. He goes a fucking foul. Car into the pain. Listen to done. He might say blocking. I said blocking. I thought it was fucking. I wish it was fucking. But yeah, that guy gets even better. Yeah, he's just he goes right after him. It's unbelievable. Okay. Uh, let's get into some games. We got rivalry week. Let's start with loaded loaded card, loaded card. Georgia versus Georgia tech. Oh, by the way, the Pat Hill standings, Rico, nice week, seven and four. Good to be back. I'm at 52%. Dave, you're at 51.2% and you were seven and five. And then I was 11 and 12 last week. So I'm 52%. You're 51.2. And then Rico's 43.6. I fucking hate. I didn't for some reason put Charlotte on my card. Even though we talked about it, Dave, I gave you the stat. I put it on. It's too many shows. That was easy. That was easy. The Kirby stat. I took Bears picks last week. He went one in one. He had Mercer. They lost by 100, but he also had pit. So those are one and one for me in real life. I think that Georgia tech may be on the show. Yeah, you got to you got to you can't you can't lose with other people's picks. No, you cannot. It's the killer. Okay, first game. Georgia at Georgia tech. Georgia tech plus 13 and a half over under 59 and a half. Rico, I'll start with you. I love Georgia. I called it last week with with Narcduzi. That being a brutal, like a, not a brutal spot. Tough spot for him. Go show it. Georgia tech game at home for them. They just lay an egg. I think it's a dead team. They're losing. Dizzy stuff a little bit. Pit played Georgia tech last week and coming in. Pit was coming off an awful loss to Notre Dame when he said he didn't care about it. I backed pit in that spot against Georgia tech. So I went against Georgia tech. That was good to me. I think the air is out of the blue now. Don't love Haynes King. Light Kirby smart way better. I think Georgia blows the doors off of him here. Just the games at Georgia tech. Is it a neutral site? Actually, where it's ever seen? He spends them. Yeah, right. So I apologize for that. But Georgia tech just after laying an egg at home last week, I don't think you get off the mat. I think Georgia kills him. Kills him. I think they get off the mat. I like Georgia tech here to keep this game close. I do too. Plus 13 and a half. I'm more just whenever there's a rivalry game, I'll just take the underdog just because he's weird shit happens. Remember, I like that it's actually at that dome. I feel like that Georgia tech may be able to move the ball a little bit in that dome. Yeah. Okay, next one, the Friday game, Texas A&M at Texas, Texas plus two and a half over under 51 and a half. Texas A&M is in. Texas A&M has not played anyone in the SEC. Texas still under Rico's hypothetical still has a shot. I do not think they do. But obviously big, big game. I'm going to take Texas plus two and a half. I'm going to do the same thing with rivalry, home team, getting points. Weird chicken. You don't think they have a shot. You don't think they have a shot at all, Dan? No. There's too many two two losses teams in front of them. And they're lost to Florida stinks. Yeah. Who are they going to jump? Yeah, who are they going to jump? Well, if Vandy loses to Tennessee. Okay. I'm trying to look at what else. I think Georgia tech, they jumped Georgia tech. Well, that doesn't matter. Georgia. It's whoever's going to be in the ACC championship. Right. So that does yeah, there's definitely there's definitely work to do. They didn't they didn't help themselves. I mean, but I put my yeah, I'm rooting for them to at least have a case. I think Texas wins. Remember, they have for a couple of weeks. It's not they have to get to to 11 or 12. They have to get to 10. Cause of the bottom two. Yeah, right. So I don't know. That might be yeah, maybe that might be difficult to do. If Alabama loses, if BYU gets smoked in the in the in the big 12 championship game, if Vandy loses, Michigan has to lose. Utah probably has to lose. That's there's a lot. There's a lot they have to do. I'm going to take Texas. So where do you got Dave? And I'm I think they I listen. They've been good all season. It's one of those things you go on to fear that conference. I don't care if you've avoided something big big boys. They beat Notre Dame. That's a great win. I don't think Texas great. It may be playing a little better, but I like A&M here. I also like the over. I'm going to take 51 1/2 the over. Rico. Texas. Okay. Trust them. Take in Texas. You trust them. Trust them in this spot. Yeah, I do. I've been saying I'm just going to put my line in the sand like I think I think they deliver at home. We'll see. I think they take care of it. Okay. Next up we have Vandy at Tennessee. Tennessee minus two and a half over under 65 and a half. I took Tennessee in the college football show. I'll stick with it. This is a game. I don't really have a strong feeling about Tennessee impressed me. That was I think that was my first bad flip of the year. I flipped from Tennessee to Florida because I had a good flip. The organ flip was good. The organ, you know, covered against USC, but I'm going to take Tennessee here minus two and a half. Rico. I would take Vandy and the over. I really like watching Pavia play. I think this can be a lot of points. I like the over and I like Vandy. Dave. I'm going to go Vandy. I've been on Vandy the whole whole year. This is a huge win for them. Would it shock me if they lost? No, but this team they've been ready the whole season. They, you know, this is not a team that came in settling me. I go, we get a couple of wins. I really, I think they know their seasons of line, playoffs, chance on the line. I got Pavia in company. Okay. Next up, Iron Bull, Alabama, Auburn, Auburn plus six over under 46 and a half. Same, same thought. Home team rivalry game, catching points. I'll take Auburn plus six. Their defense can keep them in this game. So I'm going to take Auburn in this game plus six. Rico over over like the over. Yeah, I heard Brandon saying Auburn's offense caught a little bit of lightning. They seem to be a little rejuvenated. I don't know why we keep re regurgitating that step. Brandon did say that when you, you can't say when they play the Mercer. Yeah, that's, that's a tough sample size to use for that. I go, it look good against Mercer. It's fair, take the over Dave. I'm taking Bama. I mean, excuse me Auburn. I don't think Al Bama's and great. I think this is a very close game. Even if you told me you have to pick a winner here, I would, I would pick Auburn. Really? Yeah. I think they go in the game. That would, that would obviously open up some spots if Emma went down here. Okay, last game, the big game. Dave, you will be there. How you feeling about being here? It's obviously in Ann Arbor. So you, you'll have a King's welcome. Michigan's plus 10 over under 43 and a half. I don't know. It's Jeremiah Smith and Carl Tater. They definitely playing. It's definitely playing, I think. Okay, because that's yeah, they didn't play last week. I'm sure they're going to play. I like Michigan. Michigan is definitely getting better and and they had obviously lost Oklahoma and a game they weren't really in. Lost the USC in the game. They really weren't in. But they beaten everybody else. They should have beaten. You win the chart. You lose the turnover battle. Five nothing versus Northwestern and still win a game. That's actually a positive. And I think last week was their most complete football game against Maryland, who's not obviously great. But it's the first time they really stepped on somebody's throw. Clearly, they're opening it up more with Underwood getting ready for this game. Marsh number four, the wide receiver last couple of weeks coming out of nowhere. So it gives them a nice one to punch. And obviously the mental edge is clearly with Michigan. I am seeing, I mean, I saw Titus say it a little bit. You know, there is a bit of Ohio State trying to say the game don't matter, not everybody. But, you know, they're in the playoffs, no matter what. I like Michigan here. Michigan wins this game. They're in the playoffs. It's at Ann Arbor. We've won what four in a row. So yeah, I'm going to take Michigan. And I, am I like guaranteeing a Michigan win? No, but I think they're going to win the game. What? So there's no chance that you're going to let Tate stream with you. No, he's too. Tate does it. He's a psychopath, you know? Like you're That's the reason I'm looking at that. I don't like that you come across, you're like, I don't know that this guy even knows where, like a joke or a line of the saying, he's a true lunatec, so I don't want him in my orbit. Like, I still go back to unfortunate van when he said, I was trying to sabotage his life because he knew I had a girlfriend and like I was trying to break them up and I still don't know what he was talking about, but he was dead serious. He will be there, he'll be at the game. He, I mean, his Ohio State fandom cracks me up 'cause he is, it's 365. - Like, you can really root for teens without like, he's somebody like, I could see burning down someone's house. - But I also could see it happening and being like, yeah, he was justified. - No, Ohio State fans being like, yeah. - Like, if Ryan Day loses, he's not beyond burning down Ryan Day's house. Like, he's capable of anything. So you and Big Ab are gonna be streaming from Ann Arbor. - Yes. - I'm excited to watch that stream. I'm gonna take Michigan as well, plus 10. If you had gun to head, I'd say, Ohio State's gonna win this game, but it's just-- - Oh, Ohio State fans, the thing is, I know what they're going to do. When we beat them, they're going to say it does not matter. It obviously matters for us because they're playoff in the line, and I love beating the piss out of them and they'll never get the sense, like I will never crown them anything. Like in this rivalry to me, if you really want to be like, we had the banner year, you have to win this game and the championship. You can have a good season. Michigan wins this game, good season. We're in the playoffs, you beat Ohio State again, it's a good season. To have a Hall of Fame season, I don't care if you're Ohio State or Michigan, you have to beat each other and then close the deal. Much like what we did when we won it. - Rico, I think Michigan's gonna make it a dog fight. I worry again, it's good that they're getting on the wood to air it out a little bit, I think they're gonna need that. You're not gonna be able to ground the pound of Ohio State, despite Dave might think you'd be able to. I mean, but we'll see. I like that they're gonna air it out. I think it's gonna be a dog fight. I think it's gonna be close. I like Michigan plus the nine and a half. I think they'll be right in it. Late into the third, into the fourth, and then we're gonna see who makes a ball. - We gotta see what's saying can do. I've been tutin' this guy. I'm very impressed by him. I think he's very good. He hasn't had an ounce of game pressure. And if we can keep this game close, as I keep saying, half time third quarter, and he has to make plays, I'm very curious to see what happens. He may be able to make them. He strikes me as a very good quarterback, but I know the guy on the sidelines is going to have a panic attack, right? Dave, this game is close. So I love to see it. Let's see if this guy has what it takes to beat Michigan. - Yeah, Michigan gets out to any type of lead. It's, I mean, it's, I'm excited for this game. It's gonna be fucking awesome. Last year you couldn't have had a better like story for the rivalry in terms of-- - Do you agree with what I'm saying? - What? - Like that, for Ohio States, they have like, they had a hall of fame season. They need to beat us all year. - Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, especially with what's happened in the last few years. You have to, Ohio State has to beat Michigan. They can't just keep doing this where it's like, oh, we want to natty, but we keep losing to Michigan. - Yes. - And this is Ryan Day's, this is his issue. He's got to beat Michigan. He's got a Michigan problem. - Right, 360, four days a year. - Yeah, we saw the same thing when Harbor started at Michigan. He had a Ohio State problem. This is what the rivalry is. It comes down to this game. I'm excited to watch. - Me too. - I mean, other than Texas, Grandling State, Ohio, Washington is a good win. We're very early in the season. - I mean Michigan smash Washington too. - Minnesota, Illinois is good. Wisconsin, state pen, we know what they are. Purdue, UCLA Rutgers, Wisconsin's getting better. - There's not, there's not, it's not a team. - I don't know, it's not a team. - Two ranked teams in November. - It's just not a murderer's role for Ohio State. It's been a while since they've been in a fist fight. We'll see how they respond. - Hey, pick them listeners. - Feel lucky, you should be. Meet the new lucky one, Sweet Tea, from Miss Peaches. The vodka drink that's positively doing good. Made with real tea and real vodka, non-carbonated, the hundred calories. And here's the scoop. Their new Sweet Tea is the only Vodka-based Sweet Tea on the market, simple ingredients in a smooth full flavor that makes it taste just like the real Sweet Tea. 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Oklahoma minus 10 1/2 against LSU. I like weight plus 1 1/2 against Duke. Penn State minus 13 1/2 against Rutgers. TCU minus 4 1/2 against Cincinnati. I think Cincinnati has done Washington plus six and 1/2 at home against Oregon. I actually think they keep that game tight. Vandy plus the two and 1/2 against Tennessee. Wisconsin, third week in a row. We're going to go with these guys down your guys. This right almost is shocking to me the way it's going right now. But what are they plus 1 1/2? Yeah, against Minnesota. I like them Auburn plus six and 1/2 against Bama. Northwestern plus six and 1/2 against Illinois and North Carolina plus 7 1/2 against NC State. There it is. Okay, my card real quick. Iowa minus six. Iowa Nebraska over 38 1/2. Iowa State minus 14 Virginia Texas Tech. Sorry minus 24 Virginia minus 10. Washington plus seven against Oregon. I do think that's going to be a tight game. Especially after Oregon had, you know, that was a big statement win against USC. Now this is a this is a sneaky like very hated rivalry. Oregon in Washington. Mississippi State plus seven Arizona minus 2 1/2. Arizona has been playing good ball. Wisconsin plus 1 1/2. hottest team in November UNC plus 7 1/2 pit plus 7 and the over 50 1/2. USC team total over 40 1/2 against UCLA Rico. Navy Memphis over 58 1/2. Jack, I was trying to update him as I go. So anything that's changed. Let me know Utah minus 11 1/2. Ole Miss minus the seven it is now. Air Force minus 2 1/2 Colorado State's really bad. And you're paying a service academy end of the season. I think Air Force they're bad too, but they're going to run all over them. Triple option they'll run all over them. K state minus 16 1/2. It's it's going to be ugly for Deon out there BYU minus 17 1/2. I think they get some style points against UCF. Kind of saw a state credit to them. Had a great year minus 2 1/2 against Liberty to Lane minus 30 1/2 against Charlotte. UNLV minus 8 1/2 against Nevada. Wake plus 1 1/2 against Duke. - Barbershop barbershops, baby never never wrong. Just early Texas pit plus the six and a half. I think they can win the game outright. Michigan plus the nine and a half. Vandy and the over and Auburn, Alabama, over 47 1/2. Okay. Mortals time. Hank. Michigan. - Plus 10. - Plus 10. - Good, good, good, good. - Zooey. Miami pit over 50 1/2. - Okay. - Fuck, that's mine too. I'm going to take North Texas minus 19 1/2. They've just been fucking pasting people as a respect pick. I took their team total over last week. They had, they didn't score their first touchdown. It was team total over 38 1/2. They didn't score their first touchdown 'til there was like 40 seconds left in the first quarter. They ended up scoring 56. That's all they do. Rico. - Georgia is 13 1/2, Dave. So it's going to be the Georgia bulldogs minus the 13 1/2. - Okay. Dave yours. - Michigan. - Michigan. - It would just be crazy not to. We beat them every single year. We're getting 10 points at home. Teams playing well. Michigan. - How much would this bum you out if they lost? - It's a lot. - Bad losses, you know what I mean. - Lessons, the story, ends the storyline. - No. The playoffs are in the line. So like, you know, I want to be in the playoffs. Like we win this game. We're going to the playoffs. So I really, really, really want to win. You're going to have to deal with all these Ohio people. I mean, this is about Michigan more than anything. We got to get to the, if we win the game, we get to play. So the playoffs start this weekend for us. So it would really bum me out if we lost. - Okay. - What you're holding Michigan as a future as well, Dave? - Well, you're not. - You don't know what I did with them. I think, I already lost. Like, I don't think I did them alone. I think I was doing like. Caitlin Clark, when the World Series, Celtics, Patriots. I did something with the playoffs. I don't I gotta look I actually don't know. What are you holding dad? Texas text 60 to one and Jeremiah love 25 to one. That's a great pick. That's my portfolio I need Texas tech to get that by because I do think that they're if they can get into a final four game I would I would potentially head just because I don't know if they can win it all but they would I think they can't I I think they're I think they can defense is awesome. They're defense is awesome. I know that yeah You're you're you want to what are they slated for right now you think a home game the home game or learn the five But I I don't know what the committee will do. I I feel like the loser of Indiana or how state would maybe drop to the five people are saying that's crazy, but I don't know Penn's other game goes. Yeah, yeah, it's very close I know they depend on the bulls, but a Texas tech home game at night that get that 08 games that like at night Texas techs gonna be dialed up. I got already in a 25 to one Very early in the season. I just grabbed Georgia 10 to one last night. Okay I don't think you're you're they're never gonna be a 10 to one dog. I think they're very very live here. I like my spot I don't hate that pick. Georgia's looks really good Okay, boys. Happy Thanksgiving. Good show. Happy Thanksgiving. See everyone next week. Yeah black Friday sale 20% off all week And we've got some great stuff. There we go, boss go quick exit huh