Texas stuns #1 Ohio State, Michigan bounces back & Oregon falls apart + Klatt’s new Top 10

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Continue to do that and invite a friend. We've got huge games to talk about. Obviously, the Texas Ohio State game, Texas getting in massive win at home in that 20-point comeback in the fourth quarter. Michigan takes care of business, really, against Oklahoma in the game that Gus Ginny and I called my top 10 more observations, including a big 10 kind of collapse on Saturday and that was really in a nutshell, what happened to Oregon as well at Oklahoma State, all that coming straight straight up on the program. But let's start in Austin, Texas at the monster game between Ohio State and Texas. What a game. I mean, what a game. Just from a pure entertainment standpoint, that was incredible theater. I know that it had massive ebbs and flows in terms of the momentum and I'm sure what the fan bases were feeling. A lot of confidence for the Buckeye faithful during the course of the first half, although I'm sure if you were being honest, there was that shred of doubt when you weren't turning all of those breaks in the first half and all of that field position in the first half, those red zone possessions in the first half into a larger lead. And then lo and behold, guess what happens, Texas storms back archmaning really the performance of his career in the last five minutes. That was something. And let's get into everything. Okay, let's start with this to execute or succumb to a 20 point margin. A lot of things have to happen. And it's not like one of them has to happen, all of them have to happen. Let's start just real quickly from from the lead standpoint. If you're Ohio State, there are, let's see, one, two, three, four things that have to happen during the course of that second half and more specifically the fourth quarter. And we'll be talking mostly about those last, you know, 15, 18 minutes of the game. There's, there's four things that have to happen for you to blow that lead during the course of that second half. You have to fail in every facet and and when I, when I say fail, I mean that in a nice way, but literally the offense, the defense, the special teams, and even in some cases, the coaching and we saw that from Ohio State. Every facet of their team went away in the last 15 minutes and Texas took advantage of that. Now, here's what also has to happen is for a team to come back from that, from that deficit. Like we saw with the Patriots and the Falcons and the Super Bowl are certainly on Saturday night. You have to have a team that is willing to go all in early, I don't mean like middle third quarter, all in all the chips are in the middle of the table and then you have to have players that have enough about them to go out there and not quit and execute during those moments. And that's all of that happened every single piece of that happened on Saturday night. Let's go through it. Let's go from from this standpoint, first and foremost. The defense for Ohio State evaporated in that fourth quarter and more specifically the defense of line evaporated in that fourth quarter. It was basically seven on seven for arch and just so you know, I have watched the film and I was able to watch it pretty intently and so everything that I'm saying is not based on what I was feeling watching the game from a broadcast on Saturday night. I obviously watched the broadcast and then I turned on the film and watched it pretty intently and so everything that I'm about to tell you is is an observation straight from what I saw on the coaches tape. The defense of line for Ohio State, while maybe there was a play here or there where they were able to make a play for the most part it evaporated in that last quarter evaporated. Now think of it this way, they face 78 snaps from Texas. Last year, one of the hallmarks of the Ohio State team was that they were able to protect their defense. Their defense was able to give up, get off the field on third down and because of those two elements, they faced an average of 55 plays a game last year. They were on the field in that heat for 78 snaps and I can tell you right now I'm looking at the play counter as I'm watching the film that thing hit about 56 and the performance of the defense of line, trended directly down. There was no pressure, there were big holes in the running game for Texas and credit their offensive line and their strength and conditioning staff because they won at the line is scrimmage in a massive way when it mattered most, they were able to put a little bit of pressure on Julian Sain with their defensive line and arch was was totally clean. He was able to survey for four, five, six, seven seconds at a time, run around, get the edge, create first downs with his legs. He was basically playing seven on seven at that point and no secondary can hold up in that type of that type of a moment. From that standpoint, that's a fail. One stop, one stop in the last 18 minutes of the game in Ohio State wins the game. They had two fourth down opportunities, a couple of different third down opportunities and obviously fourth and nine, the game is in the balance and they have it right there on their hands and they're unable to get there. Talk about some of the skiing in a little bit. From an offensive perspective, I'll obviously go into what was going on early in the game when they were having success, but they went three and out in two crucial drives in that second half and that can't happen. If you do the math, I think one first down might make it too difficult for Texas to go and complete the comeback, just one first down in one of those series and they weren't able to get one, two straight, three and outs right in the middle of that moment when their defense is exhausted, their defensive line can't do anything. They are just leaning against the Texas offensive line and again, credit to Texas for all of this because they went out there with a purpose and an urgency that only a team with their backs against the wall can have. So the offense can't get a conversion on either of those series and then for the really of the entirety of the game, there was a big struggle in the red area. This team had the ball constantly in the scoring area. In fact, they reached the Texas 30 yard lines seven times in the game and they only scored 23 points. That's not enough. Not in a big game, not in a big match up game. So that's when the execution comes down to it and so Texas gets the stops that they need. For example, after that first turnover to start the game, Ohio State drives down there. They run on the ball decently right in the middle of that line of scrimmage and they have a first and goal from the four yard line and settle for a field goal. That can't happen. The same type of short yardage situations and even red zones situations that crept up last year in the loss to Indiana. So this is something that has to get fixed for Ohio State. We've seen this now in these three losses most recently back to last year's playoff and now here in this one where the offense doesn't play well in the red zone and that came back to bite them in a big way because those points were crucial in a 23 20, excuse me, 24, 23 loss on Saturday night. I'll get to Jeremiah in a little bit, but then there's obviously the special teams collapse. You make the kick games probably over. Now is it a lot to ask a college kicker to make a what was it, 47 yard field goal? Yeah, it is. And I know that that's frustrating because we're used to watching the NFL when those guys are virtually automatic from inside 50. The kicking game in college football is a total crap shoot. I've seen guys that I completely trust go out and miss three field goals. I've seen guys that I have no faith in go out and nail three field goals. It is a total crap shoot. It's just not something that you can completely rely on. And in that last series in the fourth quarter, it didn't you get the sense that Ohio State was thinking to themselves like, you know what? We're fine here. We can just score. We can kick a field goal and score the three points. Maybe although they did target Jeremiah, gosh, there's so much to get into. I didn't want to take too much time on this game, but obviously it deems it. Before I get to kind of the coaching side of Ohio State. And I do want to touch more on what Texas was able to do because listen, Texas got no bounces in the first half. And I'm sure if you're a Texas fan out there, you're thinking to yourself like, Hey, Joel, we were the better team. We got no breaks in the first half and then we showed what we could do late in the game. You know what? Fair enough. I think that you can absolutely have that, that train of thought. Having said that, you know, Arche was missing some throws. They were doing some things and in particular on the defensive side that was giving Ohio state opportunities, they did not play a great game from a turnover standpoint. We know that, although a couple of those are strange bounces. Truth be told though, they went all in and that's what I want to focus on because listen, we know where this Texas program was at. We talked about it before the game last week. They were backs against the wall. I thought that all the pressure in this game was on Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns. I think most people felt that way. And primarily because you felt like there was maybe a cap on what they were under Sark. And you know, they hadn't really gotten that win over like an Ohio state or a Georgia. They hadn't won an SEC championship. They didn't get past the national semifinals and those two losses where they had the ball late, trying to go down and win against Washington and against Ohio State. They weren't able to do that. And they felt like, man, this is a cap and then all of a sudden that first half happens and you're like, oh my gosh, is this it? Is this it? Do we have a ceiling on our program? And and because of that, you got their very best, like a wounded animal in the corner. You're going to get everything out of them. Every ounce of fight that they have, you're going to get it at that moment. And that's what we saw from Texas on Saturday night, every ounce of what they had. Was it pretty? No. Was it perfect? No. But you got everything from them. And this is why it's so difficult to beat a team that's a top five team in their building. It just is. We see it all the time. Last year, remember the old mantra like, oh, it's tough to kill Georgia. Oh, you know, Georgia just won't die in some of those games. You know why? Because those types of teams that have talent, that have pride, that have great chemistry, that have a really good coaching staff. When they're backed into a corner, you will get every bit of them. And that's what Texas gave on Saturday night. And it was enough. It was enough. You see Ohio State in the last 18 minutes, they played to not lose the game. It was very safe. It was very cautious. It was like, man, I hope that we win. And Texas went out there and just decided to like, we're just going to keep swinging head down. We're going to keep swinging. And hopefully we win the game. And that's exactly what happened in these big matchups guys. Here's what typically happens mistakes. It's still college football. This is not the NFL. It's not perfect. So in these huge environments, like, you know, there's celebrities everywhere. Guys are going to make mistakes. There's going to be bounces both ways. The team that wins is usually the team that can take the other team's mistakes and throw huge power punches back, convert into touchdowns, put it into the end zone. Meanwhile, the teams that lose, they take the mistakes from the opposition and they throw like soft jabs back. Well, guess what happened on Saturday night, Ohio State had ample opportunity to run that lead up to 30 to three, 34 to three, 28 to, I mean, they had their opportunities now to create a sizable margin, a margin that quite frankly, I don't think anybody could come back from even, even that talented Texas team, but they didn't, they threw soft jabs. They didn't throw power punches. They threw soft jabs. And because of that, it allowed Texas to come back. And Steve Sarkeesian said, I'm the low stack at the table. They're sitting there playing Texas hold on. We've all watched the World Series and poker. And you know that one person that it's, that's like, man, as soon as they get any hand at all, their chips are just going in the middle of the table. Well, guess what? You've got late third quarter, you're down, it's 23, three. And guess what you're going to get from Steve Sarkeesian at that point, he's the short stack at the table. His back is against the wall and his chips are going in the middle of the table. It's going to be four down territory all over the field. I was not surprised that they went forward on four down at all at all in the third quarter. I wasn't surprised that they went for it on four down on the second four down because they had to, they had to obviously, they scored with 25 seconds left. They had to do that. And then they make the plays, they make the plays necessary to get it done. Obviously a heartbreaking loss for Ohio State, they probably feel like sick to their stomachs, like one got away. And this is a real, I think, I think a real flag in the ground moment for Texas and this program and Steve Sarkeesian. And for them, they've got to feel incredible about that from the point that they convert the fourth and nine and the third quarter from that point on, it was all Texas. And Ohio State was just desperately trying to hang on and you could see it coming from a million miles away. And now we get to the last thing that I'm sure is going to be on everyone's mind and talked about is that last exchange inside of a minute 20. Now I'm an offensive guy. I'm not sitting there, you know, with the emotions going on, but, but I will tell you this, the way that the Ohio State defense had played in the fourth quarter and specifically against the run, they had a goal line situation on the previous series and Texas walked into the end zone. There was an opportunity for Ohio State to allow Texas to score just inside of a minute 20, right there, minute 15 close to a minute and they would have had one time out left and the opportunity to go on offense with a minute left, one time out, down one. That is a better situation than the inevitability of what was about to happen. If you stop them, stop them. And then they score with 25 seconds left and you have no time outs. Now the game is over. Might be a tough decision in particular with the history that Ryan Day has with Ohio State. I don't want to just say like Ryan definitely made the wrong decision. I would have let him score. I think that was the right decision, however, however, this is a guy that just saw his defenses over the last few years, stop everybody inside the five. They have been historically great on goal line defense, including against Texas, this specific team that he's staring at across the field and he's staring at him and he's like, maybe we can do it one more time. That being in the back of his head, I completely understand, but the analytics side of me and I'm not even an analytics guy is thinking to myself, the only real chance I have in this game, based on what I see in the last 15 minutes of game time from my defense and more specifically my defensive line, my only chance is to have the ball and possess the ball with more time and a time out left so that I can try to go down and potentially kick a game winning field goal. I think a lot of people are going to talk about that, but that's kind of where I sit. It comes down to these big games, man, it comes down to some people make the plays and some people don't and Ohio State didn't make the plays in the fourth quarter and sure enough Texas did. Now I still have a lot to talk about. Let's just, let's just for a moment back up. I don't want to overreact either way. Listen, Texas is going to be my number one team. All right, so that's going to come up in my top 10. I'm not going to overreact and drop Ohio State down. I'm not going to do what the AP poll did again. You guys know my feelings about the AP poll. What the AP did to Ohio State is detrimental to college football because we need to keep these games on the schedule. That was amazing. These games are great for the sport to have the entire, you know, sporting world and their attention on Austin, Texas on Saturday night and Ann Arbor at noon with Michigan and Oklahoma. These games are amazing and we will not have them if we just kick the loser to the curb. Texas went on the road in a hundred degree heat, he, excuse me, Ohio State went on the road in a hundred degree heat and lost by one. That's a lot more impressive than beating the little sisters of the poor by 80. I really don't care what you do against a team that you should beat by 60. And that's exactly what Steve Sartkeesian touched on after the game, after the win. Because we could be like some other teams and we could play Jones Jr. Hyde tonight and win 66 to nothing and I don't know what that does for us. What I think it did for us tonight is we found out that we can. And we've been close and we've been knocking on the door. And so I do think that that's helpful for us, that we got an opportunity to play in a game like this before we got into conference play against the lead opponent and come out on top. Surely that's helpful for us moving forward from a mentality standpoint. Totally agree, totally agree. And I think that this could be a huge springboard for Texas this year. Because now, now they believe like, okay, we don't have a ceiling. We can go do it, you know, and it doesn't matter. what goes on in those games, we know now that we learned the lesson if we just keep swinging if we throw the chips in the middle of the table, we're pretty good. You know, our quarterbacks got something to them. Some film observations from the game because that was just a lot of like all thecillary stuff. Some film observations from the game. I didn't think either quarterback played particularly well until arch, you know, kind of later in the game. Julian for Ohio State was rushed most of the night. He's normally super composed in the pocket and right on time and in the timing of the passing game and the pictures that are being provided him and his feet and his eyes more specifically are generally speaking right on and he's very good at that and that leads to a lot of accuracy from him and we see that in his completion percentage. It was off on Saturday night. He was a bit ahead of the timing of the offense and it's it doesn't like I said, it doesn't happen often and it wasn't just late. It wasn't just in the two, three and outs. It was for most of the night. I marked the plays down. Play eight, saying he had a miss. He was hurried. Play 14. Again, hurried. Play 17. Hurried. Play 29. Hurried. Play 48. He's got a touchdown right down the seam on the little RPO. If he connects on that, it's game over. Again, one more play from the offense, one more play from the defense, one made kick, one different decision and this could be a different outcome for Ohio State. It really was that it took all of it. It took the entire collapse for this to come out this way, but and forgive me. I forgot the number of who's running right down the seam. They got a little RPO and he pops up and yes, there's like, there's some junk in front of him. There's no doubt, but he has a wide open player right down the middle of the field and all he has to do is hit him in the helmet and he and he threw it five feet over his head. Again, it's not easy. I I have been there. I've been in the pocket against the elite defense and missed. So I'm not saying that I could do it. I am telling you though that if he makes that ball, if he makes that throw, that game is over. That was play 48 or excuse me, 49. He has the seam right there. That's TD's, it's game. That was play 48, play 49. Next play. He forces it to Jeremiah who's tripled covered on third down and he has the seam wide open on the other side. Eyes just a little ahead. Just wasn't quite there and and because of that, they weren't able to connect. You know, he throws a couple of slants behind. I thought that the whistle on the PI was probably bad on the offensive or excuse me, the defensive PI on Ohio State, but that was going on. And then third down. I didn't love throwing a wide side fade to Jeremiah Smith. I know it's Jeremiah Smith and I know that I sit here all the time and tell you that he's the best player in college football. So I get it. You're going to just throw it to him again. I completely understand the thinking. However, a wide side fade on third down. I don't know. I also know that even if you run it for no yards, it's the same feel goal that you're about to kick and there's 40 seconds less on the clock. And at that point, you know, those 40 seconds were were were big. From a defensive perspective, I thought Texas did a great job of fighting tooth and nail even on those series when their backs were against the wall on short fields inside the five, they forced the field goal. They get the fourth down stop. Like those were crucial stops early in the game when all looks lost for Texas. And yet they keep swinging. So Texas's defense was it perfect? No, but did Will Mushchamp's group make some plays that became the difference in the game? Absolutely. Absolutely. And they did a nice job late in the game of not allowing Ohio State to just hand the football off and run it. Their defensive line was more active. They were fresh because their offense was out there for 12 and, you know, over 12 plays on a multiple series. Their defensive line was fresh and are able to get off the ball and stop the run. That was really good from them. Ohio State's defense. I'm just reminded when I turn on the film. I within three snaps. I just wrote down on my notebook. There's no Caleb downs out there. And it was like immediate. And it's immediate because for the last two years, I've turned on the Ohio State film. And Ohio State has been able to play pretty safe past defense structures, meaning like multiple safeties deep, which at least allows you to think as an offensive coach that you can run the ball. And they would hand it off. And here comes number two. And he just like flies down like a missile and it's no gain. One yard two yards. And on a few of the first runs, I'm like, okay, that's kind of a similar structure. Not totally the same, but similar structure. And I'm like, where's the support? Oh, that's a five yard carry. There's a difference without downs on the field. Then I'm sitting there and I'm watching it. And I'm thinking to myself, they lost 15 draft picks. I thought they pointed that out astutely on the broadcast 15 draft picks over the last two years. And yeah, like you can see the difference out there. You know, not every one of these guys is NFL caliber. And that defensive line struggled to create pressure. There was no pressure unless they were trying to blitz or create something. They had no one on one wins for the most part. Now again, that doesn't mean every single snap. They weren't dominated by any stretch by any stretch. They played pretty well. But late in that ballgame, they couldn't get anything going. And including on the last fourth down, they finally, Matt Patricia is like, all right, enough of this. I'm not just going to sit there and rush three or rush four and watch them convert on fourth and six. So he tries to bring a pressure, but it was executed really poorly. So they're trying to blitz the safety and drop the defensive end out. It's like a simulated pressure where you've got to try to have the defensive end make make an illusion that he's going to come as well. So that the offensive tackle thinks that he needs to block him and then the safety just screams by right then. But the timing has to be perfect. You can't blitz the safety from depth and drop the defensive end because the tackle is just like, okay, so he's dropping and now here comes the safety. So this simulated nature of the pressure doesn't work because the tackle can see it playing out. It's called blitzing from depth. And they tried to, they blitz from depth. They weren't in position and therefore they picked it up easily. And arch was able to complete the ball on a really nice throw, by the way, on that last fourth and six. So that, that's just something in zone coverage. You could tell they didn't quite have the experience in the secondary, not the familiarity with the system. They were spot dropping. They weren't attaching to their man's in the zone. That happened on the first fourth and nine. I believe it was the true freshman. He's kind of in no man's land as the tight end leaks back to the middle of the field. And he let him just leak back to the middle of the field. But there was no other threat on that left side. So there's a difference between playing your zone and being sticky in your zone. Typically, Ohio State over the last couple of years is very sticky when they play man coverage. And they're, they recognize and they latch on to routes that, that come into their area. And you saw that, I thought you saw a deficiency in that area on Saturday night. So those were some observations from film. I thought arch played okay, much better late when he got into kind of scramble mode, seven on seven mode, he missed some throws early. And then the last thing I'll just say about the game. I still think Jeremiah Smith is is incredible. I still think he's incredible. Again, say and missed him a couple of times, but he was sensational in that game. And man, fun to watch. I thought that that was a fun game to watch. Okay, let me get to, no, let me unveil these teams quickly for my top 10. Oh, I know I didn't want to do this, but it's just too much. It was too good of a game. I didn't want to talk about it for this long, but I had to, um, Texas is going to be my number one team in the country. Um, you know, beat in Ohio State, win a matchup game. I'm giving them credit for playing the game. I'm giving them credit for winning the game. Texas is my number one team in the country. Now, this is why I'm not going to be like the AP. I'm more impressed with Ohio State with what they were able to do. Even though we saw some flaws like we did with Texas, you could come away from this game. If your, um, glass half empty guy is like, well, neither of them being both of those teams showed some areas of weakness. Yeah, because it's a matchup game. It's really tough. It's very tough. It's a lot tougher than playing little sisters of the poor. So I'm going to give Ohio State credit for that as they should get credit, because that's what we're trying to avoid is knocking these teams down for no reason and not giving them an incentive to play Jones junior high school. We don't want them to play junior high football. We want them to play these games for that reason. Ohio State, they had a 20 point lead at Texas on a Saturday night. Yes, they lost it. They lost by one. They're number two. Ohio State is number two in the country. I don't think anybody wants to go see that team. Do you want to go see that team? You can't be sit there and listen, I get it. All you fan bases out there. You're the Miami's of the world and the Georgia's of the world. You're sitting there like, did you see us play? Yeah, against air. Right. So like I did, I know nothing about you. Nothing. Therefore, for you're not going to be in my top two. I'm not going to penalize them. I don't think the committee should penalize them. You know, I made the same argument last year, same argument. And these games need to be a staple of college football because of what we had on Saturday night and we had what we had Saturday afternoon in our game, Gus Jenny and I called Michigan and Oklahoma. That was a great game, great game. And again, was the Texas Ohio state game perfect? No, there was a lot of mistakes was Michigan, Oklahoma perfect? No, there was a lot of mistakes. Was it awesome? Yes. It was awesome. Michigan comes back from what can only be categorized as like a wild, crazy, stressful week after the win over Western Michigan, their public enemy number one, lot of criticism to their quarterback Bryce Underwood, including on this program. But again, like I watched the film, everything that I said about the way Bryce played against Western Michigan is true. Then he came back and he answered the bell, he played so much better, so much better in every facet, throwing the ball, running the football decision making, he was much, much, much better. Now, let me start with this with with this Michigan Oklahoma game is I want to talk a little bit about coaches, okay? And Kyle Wittingham is going into Michigan and he is charged with doing something that is very difficult to do, which is when the culture in a locker room that's already proud, it's a blue blood. So those players go there and they already think pretty highly of themselves. Wouldn't you agree? And not in a bad way. I'm just saying like, there's talented players in there. They went to Michigan. And so there's an idea of like, well, we're Michigan. And so Kyle comes in like this, very similar when a Kirby smart goes to Georgia or a Nick Saban goes to Alabama or an urban Meyer goes to Florida or Ohio State. And here comes Kyle Wittingham. And let me tell you what happens in those moments, okay? Either you as a coach, you become the temperature of the players or the players, they become the temperature of you. I've given this analogy, it might be a bad analogy, but you're either the bottle of water or you're the refrigerator. Guess what the bottle of water does? It turns into the temperature of whatever it's around. You put a bottle of water outside on a hot day. It becomes a hot bottle of water. You put it in inside of your living room, leave it on the kitchen counter. It becomes room temperature water. You put it in a refrigerator. Guess what happens? That bottle of water turns cold. So what are you? Are you a refrigerator or are you a bottle of water? You're either going to say like, no, no, no, whatever touches me becomes my temperature or I'm just going to go with the flow. You see, coaches are like that with the culture of their locker room. I've seen guys go in and they try to assimilate because they don't want to rock the boat and they want to assimilate. And it's like, ah, it's a big program. These are good players. And you know, like, hey, like we're all going to do this together. That's bullcrap. That's bullcrap. The best coaches hold their own standard and holding your own standard means that everyone's going to turn into your temperature. Everyone's going to get a little bit of your DNA, a little bit of your DNA because you're going to go and you're going to play a very certain brand of football. It's going to be your way or the highway. And it's a winning way. Okay. So we see this all the time in the history of college football. Um, I bring up those three guys. Okay, Nick Saban. When it first, like when the bottle of water first goes in the fridge, is it immediately cold? No, it takes time. It takes time for the fridge to win out, right? It takes time to win out. Nick Saban's first year, tough year, six losses at Alabama, including Louisiana Monroe in November at home in Tuscaloosa, Urban Meyer at Florida. He lost to an unranked South Carolina team in his first game at Ohio State. He was down seven, nothing to Miami of Ohio Kirby smart. In his first year in, in Athens at Georgia, he lost to an unranked Vandy team and an unranked Georgia Tech team at home. It's not always pretty. Was last week pretty for Kyle waiting him in Michigan? No, it wasn't at all. And there's always going to be criticism and there's going to be naysayers. And guess what? And those moments and those moments like those coaches had in their location and like Kyle had last week against Western Michigan, that's when the tug of war becomes really, really tough because the players are looking around and they're thinking to themselves, is this going to work? Are we going to buy into this? And then you've got to get in there and you've got to play the most rugged game of tug of war in your life as a coach and you have to win. You have to win. If you don't win, there's no future at that school. And eventually the great coaches win. They win the tug of war because they know that they have to and their culture wins out. Their DNA wins out. Their style works out. Their discipline works out because they know they have to win. And last week, there was a game of tug of war going on and Kyle waiting him one. That's what that game against Oklahoma was. Kyle winning him winning his game of tug of war. It happened for Nick Saban at Alabama. They won at Georgia early in his second year. Urban Meyer. He beat Tennessee in Tennessee with Florida his second year. Kirby smart. He won a big game at Notre Dame early in his second year. And then he goes on to play for the SEC title and beat Auburn. Okay. Like it happens. They won. And Kyle, I know it's a shorter time span because it's still his first year. But that was a winning tug of war pull from Kyle winning him on Saturday. And the reason was because of the style that Oklahoma comes in and plays with. And the style that Michigan then beats them with. See Oklahoma comes in with a rugged defense, a good strong quarterback that beat him up last year with his legs and big playability. And they're sitting there and it's just like, well, what's Michigan going to be? Oh, my goodness. You know, the quarterback didn't play well and the offensive line didn't play well. And you know, what what's our defense going to be like? And they went out and they played the 11th ranked team in the country. And they beat Oklahoma with Kyle's DNA. They did it with a rugged run game in particular from their quarterback, which is exactly what Kyle likes to do from his Utah days. And they did it with man coverage on defense, which is exactly what he likes to do. You see, Jay Hills defense and Jason back and like they won. They won the tug of war. They they absolutely destroyed Oklahoma with man coverage out of their secondary. Nice was able to do just enough offensively with that quarterback run and they were able to get the win. Was it pretty? No, like there's still things to clean up penalties need to clean up clean up so on and so forth. But that's exactly what he wants it to look like. Underwood runs it. What was it? 18 times in that game for almost a hundred yards. They'll get the run game going a little bit more from from the running backs. I'm convinced of it. The offensive line looked better. Bryce was making better decisions in the passing game. You go over to the defensive side. They were all over the place. ATFL's three sacks defensive line. One against what is now just can only be categorized as a question mark for Oklahoma up front with their offensive line. You see that that defense. There was nowhere to throw the football. The man coverage was stifling. Those guys were getting home. John Henry Daily, Dom Nichols, like those guys can rush to the passer. They've got good guys in the middle of that defensive line. They can run their athletic. Meteor had nowhere to go. He had nowhere to go with the football. He targeted Isaiah, satania. What was it? Eight times satania has two catches for nine yards. So like that just shows you the level of covers that was going on on their giant year heel. The big pick Smith's node and transfers in from Utah that they threw out him five times. No catches. That's a that is a winning week of a tug of war. And for Oklahoma, how frustrating is that? You know what Oklahoma fans are realizing we're the same as last year. We're a really good defense in an offense that can't drive the football. Their best matchup was their tight ends. They couldn't get a wide receiver loose to save their life. John Mateer missed several throws. He doesn't understand how to choose his pitch. Every throw has the same trajectory. And because of that, he'll miss high or he'll miss low because when he's trying or when he should throw with touch, the ball is too low. When he should drive the football in there and throw it right on the frame, the ball stails high because everything is arm down elbow down kind of a layered ball. So he was missing high into the right and over outs. Then when he needed to throw it deep and get it over a giant year hill, he throws it flat. And he throws that flat ball. Hill steps in front. He picks it off. And that was game set match with the way that that defense was playing. So frustrating for Oklahoma, there's no doubt and for Brent Vinnables, they need to go back to the drawing board on the offensive side because if they don't get some run game from their running backs, then they're back in the exact same situation they were in last year, which is we have an offensive line that is not good enough. A good defense and a really tough schedule. Look at Oklahoma's remaining games now. You look up, you go loose to Michigan in a week in which Michigan is unranked. They're going to be, I mean, they're tough games coming up. They still have to go to Georgia. They've got to play Texas in the neutral. They've got to go to Florida. They've got Ole Miss at home, A&M at home at Missouri. I mean, my goodness, my goodness, that team, that team might lose five football games. And that's a really good team with a lot of NFL talent all over the place. So tough, brutal loss for Oklahoma, in particular with the way that we all thought Michigan was walking into that game. But again, credit card winning him. We move on to Oregon. Oh my goodness, Oregon. They went in and they didn't get upset by Oklahoma state. They got crushed by Oklahoma state. That game is 3931 and it wasn't even remotely as close as that score indicated. Here's Dan Lanning before I get into it. Closer than it really was because it wasn't close in a lot of ways. We got our ass kicked in a lot of areas. This is a game that we needed to show improvement. We didn't show improvement. So we have to see that now. I'm moving forward with our team. We've got a locker room that's hurting, obviously. But on the same note, Oklahoma state went in one that game and we didn't do the things that you have to do to win that game. That's an understatement. That is an understatement. And listen, I don't know what's going on at Oregon. I have no idea. I don't know. I can't like, is this a coordinator issue? They are way too talented for that to happen. Now, I thought that Oklahoma state could be a better team. Certainly than what they were against also week one more in that a little bit. But that wasn't even close. They outgained Oregon 554 to 281. They nearly doubled them up in yardage. That is absurd. Oregon had two defensive scores, which is the only reason that this game was close. Mestemaker was phenomenal. Phenomenal for Oklahoma state threw it for 300, ran it for 100, Hawkins they're running back. He ran it for 100. Here's my question. This is a defensive line for the Oregon ducks that all had a air quotes decision to make last year about the NFL. And they all decide to come back. So you have a defensive line filled with NFL defensive lineman. And they had no sacks and one TFL. How did what I'm sorry. They gave up 237 yards on the ground. You see like this isn't just like, oh man, you know, there's there's some sort of like clunky noise in the car. This is every light on the dashboard flashing and smoke starting to come out of the hood. That's what we're seeing for Morgan right now. We thought that maybe boys who was like, oh, it's week one. Maybe boys. He's better than we think. And maybe that's the truth. And they're going to get you know, they'll write the ship. They're too talented. You know, they've got the all of these guys, all these NFL guys. This is one of the most talented and expensive rosters in all of college football. That was a terrible performance. Terrible. Now you have to start to wonder your wonder to yourself like, is this this year's version of Clemson? Is this this year's version of Penn State? Both of those two teams last year had so many players coming back experience where you needed it. NFL bodies all over the place. High expectations. Both of those teams were in the top five, not only in my poll, but in the AP poll to start the preseason. They were nowhere to be found. nowhere to be found after really a month, month and a half in the regular season. Is that what's going to happen to this Oregon team? I mean, Oregon has been good for a long time. They'd been in the playoff each of the last two years, two years ago. They were the number one seed last year. They were in the national semi finals with these players. This is like, it's blowing my mind. Their head coach is still there. What's new? The coordinators. Do they have a coordinator issue? They lost both their coordinators. Tosh LaPoi goes and he's now the head coach at Cal. They got a big win this weekend. Will Stein, their offense coordinator went to Kentucky. They had the lead on Alabama at halftime. Kentucky did this and they promoted from within. Now I'm all for promoting from within, but something is going on at Oregon. And you hear it in some of the comments by the way. The Oklahoma State linebacker, Tate Romney, he said they found an O line tell in the run past stance that they had. Aiden Fisher, by the way, if you go back to the game against Indiana and the national semi finals a year ago, he had similar comments about a tell that they figured out exactly what they were doing, run past situations. And in particular, the way that the offensive line were lining up. So something's going on, right? You have now an inexperienced coordinator that's trying to run the exact same offense and the bad habits that were developed in in previous regimes have continued and maybe gotten worse. And that might be going on the defensive side as well. Like what's what is happening? They've got four NFL defensive lineman didn't have a TFL or excuse me, didn't have a sack and had one TFL in the entire game. Meanwhile, Michigan against Oklahoma has eight TFLs and three sacks. Like this is something is something is going on right now. And again, is this this year's Clemson or Penn State. And I think that that in a nutshell was part of why I thought it was a really tough Saturday for the big 10 and what looked like early. So when when Michigan beats Oklahoma, you're like, wow, this could be one of those like banner ripple effect days for a conference because that was a game that a lot of people didn't think was going to go the big 10s way. And then you look up at the end of the day and you're like, okay, well, Mississippi State got blown or excuse me blew out Minnesota on the road at Minnesota. Mississippi State, by the way, it's got a great quarterback. Washington barely slips by Utah State, Iowa barely beats Iowa State, Purdue lost to wake force and overtime and Illinois lost to Duke. And then Oregon loses to Oklahoma State and then Ohio State loses a 20 point lead. I mean, whoa, what could have been an incredible day for the big 10 conference now puts the big 10 conference in a position where you're like, okay, we're fighting and it's like, are we going to get three? What is the narrative going to be? Because certainly, we all know that even before the game Saturday, like the narrative is just so thick from the other's place, like all of those guys, that's all they talk about all the time. They don't they don't want to they don't want to talk about the fact that Ohio State, you know, any one play in the last 18 minutes wins the games. They don't want to talk about the fact that Michigan after the way they looked about against Western Michigan beats Oklahoma, they will only look at the negative and there were some negatives for the big 10 conference on Saturday. And that's not good in this era, not when we've got a selection based playoff criteria and certainly a narrative plays a huge part. Now, part of that is that, listen, college football is amazing, but we talk about it a lot all off season long. I'm thankful for that personally, you know, I mean, we're all here. I think you're thankful for that as well. We've got a show and you guys listen to it all year long, all off season long. And then we get to week one. And what we failed to realize a lot of the times is that that was just the first stare in a long flight of stairs. And we failed to realize that it is not definitive. And it won't define or encapsulate these teams moving forward because what you have to understand is that there are two words, okay, that every locker room and coaching staff, they're trying to fight one and capture the other. And this happens every day of the season. Great coaching staffs, fight complacency and attain capture urgency. It's complacency and urgency, complacency kills your team. Urgency drives progress in every football team. And what we failed to realize in week one is that those two things are going to take place because we have such a definitive view of teams after all this off season of talk. And then we see it and we're like, okay, now we saw it and we draw these definitive conclusions about these teams and what happens is some get complacent and others get urgent. And so generally what that means is that week one is a liar. Week one is a liar. Oklahoma states lost to Tulsa liar. I think LSU's dominant performance over Clemson liar. Look at what happened in the first half against La Tech through three picks. And the first half, one of them a pick six. Levitt will put the ball in harm's way. His legs were great against Clemson. the world beaters that everyone makes them out to be? No, they're talented, but week one is a liar. You've got to either fight. Well, you've got to do both. Fight complacency, attain urgency. You've got to do that. Michigan week one is a liar. Iowa week one is a liar. And it reminds me of a lot of the conversations that I have with actual coaches in this sport because I get what what an amazing job I have. I get to go around and talk with all these coaches. Every one of these coaches over the last two years, I'm reminded of the fact that they keep telling me, man, it's harder than ever to win in college football. Parity is real. And we should know that. Look who just won the national championship last year in Indiana. Parity is real. Coaches tell me this every single week that everyone is kind of good, that they don't think that there are the teams that we had. There is no 2019 LSU out there this year. There, there is no Georgia 21. There's no Nick Saban, Alabama dominant team. There's no O one Miami. There's no O4 USC. There's no O5 Texas. Like that team doesn't exist in college football right now. Even a couple of years ago, that Ohio State team, like we knew they were an insanely talented team. They would go on to win the national championship. We don't have that team right now. Parity is real. So it matters what you do every single week. Can you fight complacency? Can you attain urgency? That sense of urgency that drives progress. Are you hungry as a football team? And we see some teams that didn't play well, that get much better and some teams that did play well. And then they kind of retreat. And that's why an old adage that coaches will you will generally say is that you treat winners like losers and losers like winners because losers need confidence and winners. They need to fight complacency. That's what you normally normally see from college football. It's just human nature and we'll continue to see it. And it's never definitive and it's always moving and it's always a moving target because these kids and these coaches, they're different every single week. They're dealing with different things. We're never going to get the exact same version of these teams every single week. We want them to be, but they're not. Let's dive into the top 10. Here we go. I know this has been long already and I did a lot on just a few games. I'll, I'll touch on a lot more teams on Wednesday's program. And I hope you'll join me for that right here on the YouTube program. Subscribe if you would. But let's get into it. 10 to one. You already know my top two teams. I've got Ohio State to Texas one at number 10. Let's start with a little bit of a surprise here. And I have an apology because I did not include you in my preseason top 25. I don't think or did I wait. Hold on. I can check that immediately. It's right back in my notebook. It's right here. Did I? No, I did not. Oh my gosh. What a miss from your boy. Well, it's back. Death taxes and Utah football. Utah is number 10. Two and no. Watch out for Utah. They. I know Arkansas is not a great program, but it's a no C.C. You know, like here we go. With all of that, they fell behind a three nothing in that game and then scored the next 43 points. That's all Utah did. They were up 43 to three when Arkansas finally got a kind of a late touchdown. We know they can run it, but they threw it for three hundred yards. They've been using bird fickling and Devon Damper Morgan. Scally, their new coach. He's been there for years. He knows the culture. He knows how to win Utah's number 10. Gosh, I love it. I love it. I love that they're death taxes in Utah football. And you know, when I say that, you know, it gets most angry and Utah fans. You'll love this. BYU fans. They hate it. They hate it when I say that. At number nine, I'm going to go USC. They're three. You know, um, wasn't the best performance. They beat Louisiana 4930. I like Mark Bowman. He had a big game six catches 83 yards, a couple of touchdowns. Now 10 touchdowns, one interception for Jay and my off a through three games, wish their defense would have played a little bit better in this one. Um, but that's a good team. And would it surprise anybody if they were to beat Oregon. Now that we see Oregon play terrible, really two weeks in a row, uh, they're going to welcome Oregon here in a few weeks. At number eight, I'm going to go Alabama. Um, okay. So Alabama didn't look great early. In fact, when you look up, Alabama, I had it written down here somewhere. Alabama, um, in the first half, 16 carries for five yards. And I'm like, here we go again. Alabama can't run the football. They won't run the football. Then they come out in the second half and they run it for 150 yards and just bludgeon Kentucky to death. Um, found themselves in a battle outscored them in the second half. 32 nothing ran it for over 150 on six per carry. That's something now sustaining the run game. This is something that I don't think Ryan Grubb says has historically done. It's one of the reasons why Seattle had such a problem with him, the Seahawks. He needs to sustain the run game. They were finally able to do that last week. Notre Dame is seven. Um, yeah, I get it 52 nothing against rice. But like, come on, come on. This is one like this is one of those games. I know nothing about Notre Dame. I'm a little concerned. That's two straight games under four yards per carry. It was 5.7 last year, which was fourth in all of college football. I know that they lost Jeremiah love. I know that they lost a dairy and price. But we're seeing that two straight games under four yards per carry, uh, this year for the season three point six yards per carry. That's a hundred and 17th in the country. I like CJ car, but it's really tough to play quality quarterback all the time without a run game independent of a run game. And number six, I've got Indiana. They beat Howard 55, nothing, uh, nothing we learned there. Charlie Becker, by the way, he's got six catches on the year five touchdowns. Charlie B from Nashville, Tennessee. Number five, I've got LSU, uh, moved them down a little bit. They struggled through the lot tech game before kind of pulling away in that second half again, complacency and urgency. Obviously, they were urgent against Clemson. I think they were complacent last week. They are probably never as good or as bad as we think. No team is, by the way, that's an old adage. I also really love is that you're never as good as you think you are after the game. You're never as bad as you think you are after the game. You are what the film says that you are. That's why the film is so important. Um, Miami is for gosh, I really like Miami and I know nothing about them. I want to like Miami a lot. No, nothing about them. They beat Florida, an M 77, seven, 856 yards of total offense, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Mensa, uh, twice as many touchdown passes as incompletions. Malachi Tony is the real deal. I mean, Miami and Notre Dame, we're going to know nothing about until they play. It's so frustrating. It's so frustrating. Their schedules are so drastically different in difficulty from like, let's say Texas in Ohio State. In fact, you know what I want to do? Let's unveil three, three is Georgia. They beat Western Kentucky by 50. They're averaging 8.7 yards per carry. They might be great. I just like don't really know it before we get out of here. So you might wine and cry and be like Notre Dame was dominant. Miami was dominant. Georgia was dominant. Ohio State lost. Yeah, but they played Texas. They played Texas. Okay. And the Miami schedule and the Notre Dame schedule are like night and day compared to what we're going to see for Texas in Ohio State. So not only do Texas in Ohio State have to play the game that they just did on Saturday. But like, for instance, let's put up, um, let's put up Ohio State's remaining schedule. Some of those tough games from Ohio State. Ohio State not only played against Texas. They've got remaining on their schedule at Iowa, at Indiana, at USC, Oregon at home, Nebraska and Michigan. Not easy. Okay. So not only do they play that game, but they're going to continue to get tested during the course of the season. Miami plays Notre Dame period. Notre Dame plays Miami period. I know that Notre Dame is going to go to BYU and they've got an SMU matchup. And by the way, I do like SMU, but throw up Texas is remaining games. They're tough games. This is a gauntlet as well. At Tennessee, Oklahoma and Red River. By the way, of course, AP just throws Oklahoma in at the end of the ranking, but I digress number eight Ole Miss Missouri is in there at LSU at Texas A&M. So like these are real, these are real schedules as opposed to what we're going to have from some other teams. I know everybody harps on Notre Dame. And rightly so, their schedule is just not what it should be. But the same could be said about Miami. We're going to know nothing about those teams come the end of the year outside of the game that they play against each other against each other. So, you know, what is that? I don't, I don't quite know. We're going to have more programs this week. We're going to be back on Wednesday. We're going to be back on Thursday with picks and previews. I've got a lot to get still get into. I know I didn't get to cover a ton of games. That's why I wanted to go over the top 10 there and make sure that I give you some thoughts on the top 10. I appreciate you joining the program, remember to invite a friend of the program as we continue to grow it's better to talk college football with a friend you can follow us and subscribe at Joel class show you can follow us at Joel class show on social media and as always just please remember please tweet