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Losing in Ireland typically doesn't go well for you, but. yeah offensively that that looked like a new offensive coordinator a brand new quarterback who didn't really have a good idea of what they were doing and North Carolina's defense deserves some of the credit yeah stymieing them defensive line was very good that was one thing we shouted out in big game breakdown we're like hey if there's one piece that we continue to hear about it's about their their depth and performance along the defensive line they answered that for sure yeah and really like even when TCU was running the football well early I thought a lot of that was like Carolina's misaligned here to some of these like like there's some of these unbalanced like not unbalanced but just like you know some of the trip stuff that they they were giving the angles to the receivers and tight ends to make real like just great angles to throw a block on right like if you've ever thrown a block it's like oh I'm about to ear hold this guy like I just I just got it right and like once they adjusted and actually like fit the front they they did a great job against the TCU run game you know kind of like the last 40 minutes of the ball game or so like they made good adjustments there I you know I think they're kind of limited at receiver from watching that like it wasn't like a whole lot of guys well Dwyer was out are you talking about North Carolina or are you talking about yeah for Carolina okay yeah I mean it was just what it was just Jordan ship or what you could scheme up uh for Thurman I I like myself and Billy Edwards like like if if you get that Billy Edwards every game they could go to a ball game right I did think like man how nasty would this offense be out of too tight stuff if they had Jackson Warren in addition to Jelani Thurman like that that actually be something I'm really excited I mean I know he's hurt now obviously um didn't love the run game as much like I thought they had a chance to maybe mash TCU up front but TCU that is one like TCU is pretty high on their defensive front this year and I thought they played you know pretty well so maybe Carolina's offensive line is is a good run blocking line and maybe maybe TCU's D line is just it's just pretty damn good I just Billy Edwards look competent you know just like okay that's a they're you know not an amazing arm or anything but like just look at a team that just didn't embarrass themselves chip like like like yeah right like hey much better than last year some progress hey listen I told I didn't didn't did I have not pitched this to you what I realized that it's uh North Carolina fans treat the football program like their little sibling did I give this to you yeah uh no it's just you just don't want them okay so it's yeah you just don't want them to embarrass you right like like god chill out man you just don't want them to embarrass you mom said we could go to ice cream if we're good at dinner and you're yelling in the restaurant chill out like you gotta be around my friends come on you're embarrassing me and yeah they were competent they were out there they took care of business and they jumped on the opportunity so it was mature it was a mature win DK how you feeling shout out to Jordan Giorgio on the halftime right now uh our girl doing doing a great job uh out there at the Fargo Dome um I thought I mean it's probably like we're watching two teams and we're like oh my god we're going to we're watching two teams that are probably around six and six seven and five at the end of the season but we're like really excited to watch those teams play so it's like we're gonna talk ourselves into them it was some great game like if that game's buried in November we're probably not watching a ton of it but it was we just saw who's going to the Fenway Bowl someone just got a bid to the Fenway Bowl today yes but I the other thing I thought about too if I was a quarterback and I was in the portal and I was looking at schools I would have it my NIL deal and I would have it that I would not go to Ireland to play in my first game of the season yeah though I it every time you watch it and it's like hello like we see that as golfers like you never know what you're going to get you're going to get a little bit everything and the weather was definitely impacting their ability to throw the football it's just not clean I thought that impacted some of the offensive production the other thing too is I mean Jaden Craig I thought he was going to be really good and still he might be but it looked like somebody who was playing his first game against better teams and I think he was going to be really good I think he was going to be really good I think he was going to be really good I think he was going to be really good he looked like oh I've got another whoa and then all of a sudden he gets hit and he you know fumbles turns it over makes a bad throw so I thought that didn't help him as much either I still think he'll be fine but I think it's part of his growth process chip do you have any concern about like long term of build settling for field goals inside the 10 twice oh I think that checks out I mean one time though were you helping on a were you hoping that he would have a different approach with Bobby Petrino there where maybe they'd be a little bit more aggressive no because they did with the two times that one time for sure that they like really needed it I thought that they attacked the third down in the fourth down it was a fourth down conversion I thought that they attacked that well you know if and the analytics on the screen said don't go they said kick it and he went for it yeah I I'm kind of listen DK at that point that might be Charlie Brown adults for me analytics on the screen might as well be like no thank you I don't even I could pay attention to that one way or another I'm too too hardened by that at this point it all like if you really want to give a benefit of the doubt maybe like their internal model said that the game was going to feature less than 30 total points and like thus field goals were much more precious right um so maybe that like who knows you know I I don't know like I do think there is some of that in terms of melting down you know like let's yeah we we just had the punter kick it out the back of his end zone that's how we got to 12 like if we if we get beyond a field goal then we might be okay especially with the way that this quarterback is struggling and he was he was playing yolo ball from the first possession remember we did the chess pass as he was getting tackled running at the sideline okay um the lewis kid dude is avian lewis 90 that was he he messed tcu up on the d line we shouted out mel cart we shouted out jackson we shouted out johnson we didn't give him love and that's but it speaks to and hey in in words that might not have been spoken a lot here on the cover three podcast allow me to say credit to bob diaco that guy got that defensive line right and I know that with steve belichick out that has been a collaborative approach you know and but one thing we continue to hear is that bob diaco is one of the people who's helping guide the rest of that group and look they came up two red zone turnover on downs in the game in the second half it's huge you won 15 to 10 so yeah one and never ever ever apologize for a win 100 percent um 12 and 0 chip you can't go 12 and 0 without going one and 0 tom that's the right answer 12 and 0 and and look I I think that there is something to be said for that four minute drive at the end of the game and I think that's the right answer and I think that's the right answer at the end of the game and just a team that they told us all through the preseason about these player-led practices and how we're more connected when you just like I know the game ended on a tcu offsides but there were there were some good runs there when they needed to get out there and get like five yard runs on first down and just get out there and push it that's those those are things that are players who want it so that's good you know seems that the vibes there are good for now uh we'll see what happens when the game ends get back stateside east tennessee state next for north carolina for tcu are we going to give them a little bit of a breather or are we getting kind of panicky about how bad this could get are they getting the receiver back pretty soon jordan dwyer I was that was one thing I did mention I was like I I'll get if if dwyer was close to being ready to go and it was a last minute you lost your best receiver because of the foot injury and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and the game plan was ruined and we go back and we mention it like oh and that was the game that jordan dwyer was out but if they knew that the foot thing was going to keep them out and still had that performance I think it's more trouble I I would I bet you they'll bounce back and be better right like I I'm more willing to upgrade unc because I think some of the stuff that they did is repeatable like I think there's a bigger upgrade for unc than there's a downgrade for tcu I told tom uh I think there's a bigger like how many d lines in the big 12 is tcu gonna see as good as carolina like that's not a good d line league that is absolutely sad that you just asked that question like all right blind would you rather have unc's d line or utah whoa whoa hey that one might be like I would take byu text like not even the conversation has a different stratosphere I would take north carolina's over baylor's yeah for sure over ucf over west virginia over you know cincinnati like that's sad over arizona I don't know what I think about maybe not arizona state like would you take it over kansas state I think I would I need to because north carolina's got some guys I'll give them they got some guys yeah and they hit on some young dudes who they got locked in on deals now like things might be all right we'll see one week at a time but I'm just I'm upgrading carolina more just like those young guys playing to that level I think that's repeatable my concern for dcu is even if we want to hand wave this away first game injury maybe completely disrupts the game plan like one of the things that dogged this team last year not just the turnovers which I mean that was cured by josh over leaving remember but like also penalties like dumb penalties all the time like they committed like I think they were worst in the big 12 last year as far as most penalties go but I think they're going to continue to do the same thing and they're going to continue to do the same thing and we're going to continue to do the same thing and I think they're going to continue to do the same thing and I think they're going to continue to do the same thing and I think they're going to continue to do the same thing and I think they're going to continue to do the same thing stupid ones like the one where billy edwards slipped and the kid ran four steps at him and then hit him do i think if the excuse is he doesn't know he's down though if that's the excuse that's just a stupid thing then he's supposed to know that the only excuse i think is that he thought it was a fumble but i guess the only one i would actually buy that like okay like because it it's sort of away from the quarterback's body but he's down and he's holding the ball i mean it's just it's a dumb penalty yeah but i think the view of the ball is shielded because like you see what i'm saying i guess i just like we have the benefit of the camera angle but he's coming at it and like he's seeing the quarterback's back but still you should have enough time to not do that oh baby and we had some like bad off uh bad like holding calls to you that negated what would have been big plays it was there's been a real lack of discipline about that team the last couple years and that was like if you're a tcu fan and you you've probably been annoyed by it for a while and then you come in in the very end and you're like oh my god i'm not gonna do that you're not gonna do that you're not gonna do that first game of the year and you've got 11 penalties for 100 yards you're probably like oh crap here we go again with this stuff not great coming up on the other side we turn our attention to charlottesville where the acc runner up from a year ago sent a little bit of a message to the rest of the conference plus grading usc's 4226 win against san jose state and more next as your team grows you quickly realize that traditional banking isn't built for collaboration you're constantly being interrupted mid-task to approve a tiny software subscription or share a one-time login code from 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mean to listen i didn't even think about it i was really trying to introduce that seriously and then i remembered laughing about this with you all like three hours ago but look this is a good win for a team that like relocked reloaded was zoned in and just i mean danny i think we should we are upgrading virginia clearly right this is a movement okay they probably were the most disrespected team this offseason just forgotten about written off as you mentioned they did play for an acc title do you realize the teams that got first are not first place top 25 votes even within the acc ahead of virginia i mean virginia tech got six votes pit got seven um did florida state get one ahead of virginia only got one vote to be in the top 25 that is incredibly disrespectful i and i think it's a good thing that they got one vote to be in the top 25 and i get it that it was a one year but i think tony elliott showed you that was not an anomaly what they did last year i i believed god i was could not have been more wrong about the pick right i thought cj bailey was going to come in and be able to have some success i thought on both of the sides of the ball that was complete domination and the one thing that i did believe is the winner of that game would position themselves really strongly in that race for that spot to be number two to play miami and i think virginia absolutely just announced themselves on the scene it's a very player in the ACC race this year. That defense is really impressive. They had NC State and C.J. Bailey in a blender. Creating pressures without having to bring extra guys, the coverage was awesome. Virginia's safeties are studs. There's probably a better safety group in the country, but not many. Those guys were all over the field. It was just a dismantling of the NC State offense. At one point, Bo was on pace for 210 rushing yards. NC State was on pace for 96. We were pretty deep into the second half, or deep into the first half there. Offensively, I thought UVA did a really good job of understanding who they had to be and probably who they couldn't be. They just played to that. O-line wasn't getting a ton of push, but they also weren't allowing a lot of penetration. QB run game factored in really well. I thought the backs ran hard, made good plays. Almost every single pass that they had, Bo's throw was either a screen, a trick play, or off heavy play action. I think they only dropped him back in a real drop back one time, and he got sacked. Check this out. I queried this. Before garbage time, Virginia had 11 passing downs. That's insane. They were just so ahead of the chains the whole time. It's like 55 to 11 run pass rate on the day. Passing downs, second and eight plus, third and five plus. To stay out of those negative situations to this level is just a dismantling, and so the success rate on those downs was 36. Zero percent success rate passing the ball in those times. They ran it essentially 50% of the time in those situations. I'm very on board with UVA's defense. I'm on board with them having a dangerous run game with the QB. Still completely not sold on them having a passing game at all. Everything was schemed like crazy, and they had three or four wide open ones that any of us are probably going to hit at least one. But he did. Like, Pribula was pretty, like, accurate and made the right reads. Like, I think they still have more in them that can develop. I thought you have to be encouraged. I mean, would they have three attempts at halftime? You know, like, they didn't need them. Because they were so dominant on the defense side of the ball, they didn't really need them to do much. It's a service academy. They had a 23-play drive that went 12 minutes and 15 seconds, which, A, a hat tip, or excuse me, a salute to UVA, but then also the disrespect for the Wolfpack D. defense dude do you know the last time we had that you know that last time we had that high of a run pass ratio in an ac game oh no come on let's go all right 2023 the game was in yankee stadium all right and there was a tight end named dan valari who lined up at quarterback for syracuse do you guys remember this yes 65 rushes nine passes for syracuse and they beat pit 28 13 like this was like a like paul johnson sorry pat didn't mean to bring that one up for you i hope your saturday night's going well pat you didn't play today had to get reminded about when syracuse started a tight end and beat you this was this was old school like just thumping on the ground and just insane defense yeah um not not everybody was disrespecting virginia danny there were there were seven cbs sports experts who were asked to give their underrated team for the ac this year and one of them had the foresight to say virginia was the most underrated team in the acc and that was me some of us took their season one total over see that's right i will also say like it's the beginning of the season and it's one game but i i was on somebody else's show earlier this off season we were talking about beau pribula and we dared make the mistake of saying that we think beau pribula is pretty good and that his ankle injury kind of killed him last year and mizzou fans were lighting me up for it who were also defending him to me last year the same ones are now telling me that i was an idiot for me and i'm not going to defend him for the rest of the season for the game for you it was any good he looked pretty good today and i think that if you play to his strengths and i think he does a lot of the same things they did with chandler morris last year that they were very successful with i think it's a pretty decent fit now there's the other side of this equation i texted this to you guys in the group check text earlier today a few years ago kyle mccord anytime he did anything it was dismissed as well he's just he played with marvin in high school he's playing with him in college he's not that good i saw marvin harrison just noticing with cj bailey who played in high school with jeremiah smith who and jojo on the same team in chamonix yeah no hey but i don't think i don't think the jojo davion goss uh reunite like i don't know if that's all going as swimmingly as you know you'd hoped adversity is going to really test those bonds he's he's got plenty of time to get better i'm not saying it's done but man that was really really not encouraging today not like 12 of 23 for 84 yards just getting passes batted down not seeing things really quickly folding under the pressure and panicking and moving around like that did you would think or this point in the season after all the practice after everything you've been working on you would look a little bit more polished at least at this point coming into this season than he looked today today he looked like he hadn't played before today he looked like a first-time starter and for a guy in his second season not encouraging now that's only one of the many problems i saw with nc state today but i think that's the biggest one that they have right now because if he doesn't play well what does this team do right we talked about some big game breakdown like he had like he was gonna have to take his his game up another level and kind of be superman for this team oh what just happened they just dropped a wide open wide open touchdown how did they get the ball back was it a turnover i wasn't watching penalty penalty okay florida state penalty oh you gotta catch that one that's that's why you're at new mexico state is that twice my daughters are yelling in the other room they don't even bet you did this to them you're the one who brought them into this you're the one who brought them into this nc state and tcu were the ones that i was tying did you play bad or are you bad did cj bailey have a bad day like did he show up and just play really poorly it's week zero he's been talented enough across his career i'm willing to give him the it was a bad a bad day but with the absence of anderson with the absence of joe lee with the absence of smothers like there's with no rogers who's now going to be at alabama i mean there's there people are asking questions and they're questions i'm willing to give him bad day but that that easy schedule looks a whole hell of a lot harder now doesn't it i know that's a great way to put it that you know go ahead i was just going to say i've noticed it even in our chat people are already looking for the next head coach in raleigh which i don't love to see but if it is another season that's kind of below where the standard has been for the wolf pack we might see it that i still think cj bailey's good i think he'll be fine i think it's a really good defense on the road you know danny i think there's something there to that like i i do think there's a lot of ac defenses i can't do to him what virginia did yeah virginia virginia might be an acc championship contender i think you're like contender to go to the game yeah yeah that means you're a championship contender to me this was an elimination game for to get to make it to charlotte today yeah well it's also an elimination game in terms of being a measuring stick and i think that nc state might have fallen short of that to the point where all those that easy schedule does not look as easy that that the the proclamation that nc state holds the most favorable acc draw looks a little less favorable based on the quality that was put on display at one point i forgot what stats filter i had on but for players that had played at least 40 snaps through the end of that game bailey was the worst rated player on offense in the country and bo was the best it was like a lot of people were like oh my god i'm not going to be able to play this game i'm not going to be able to play this game it was like a very like it's like that's kind of just yeah he was horrible today yeah there's really no other way to describe it couldn't run the ball couldn't hang on to the ball yeah yeah yeah no no run game doran did at halftime he's like our receivers are getting basically said they're getting clamped like nobody's getting open either um do you know what do you know what uh right oh actually no he said this out loud never mind hey did you see uh obvious said doran stopped short of saying the receiver cj wanted can't get open talking about jojo ryan in the chat said nc state is a bunch of miami rejects and that makes them like a b minus ac team that's that's kind of what it looks like today i mean tough don't don't love that don't love that like one of the things and this is all pure speculation on my part but it's like one of those things in this era where you try to do the dominoes it's like nc state put a bunch of money into the basketball program when they hired will wade will wade jump ship after a year and then they've really got no money left to go back to the boosters to ask for and it's like all these dudes leave in the portal but you got to keep bailey so then you spend whatever you do have left on bailey and you're just kind of discount shopping for the rest of your football roster which is just not gonna work they got every nc state season is three seasons all right we all know that they've got to go they've got to be three and five and then turn around and have their rally moment right they need chaos they play at vanderbilt in two weeks we'll see we'll see if they're able to blaze berlowitz um on the usc side of things i mentioned earlier 42 to 26 winners here against san jose state now that is not the margin that was projected you know um you know we got three total touchdowns for jade maiva young pups got out there and ran what do we think about usc some very encouraging stuff i think with like the young guys they spent the money on kicking ass like true freshmen coming out there you know mosley baker obviously like bowman blocking really well for the most part he got blown up on one but i thought he had several nice i mean the uh the the pass rusher luke like also looks great it felt like a pre-season game man like just watching it like the the energy the vibes all the guys they didn't play you know we talked it like on summer school i remember you know we had a shotgun on it was like from usc football like they kind of had like a three-game pre-season before this thing gets really real and you're gonna need to play these young guys a lot and see what they got if you like just to know if they can kind of hey this is how a college football game goes and and so this guy's bald man like mosley's gonna mostly it's good you get you get ham anderson and heinz out there you i thought it was a really like i thought it was a b plus performance it would have been an a if they didn't give up some garbage time touchdowns and points i i was like i i didn't even watch the fourth quarter because i was like and so like what i watched was an a and then when you come back and you look at it you're like oh what happened and i think lincoln riley even said it after the game is like we played really solid except for some late you know i think it was a b plus performance it would have been an a if they didn't give up some points given up by some of our backups so i feel really good about usc yeah he he made clear that it was the threes that yeah so remember when james franklin was saying that yes true yeah um i i will say like to your point danny like i i'm not worried about it i would be much more encouraged had the defense played better now saying that even if it was the threes in there at the end of the game giving up those points and even if it was a vanilla game plan like i I can't say I was watching super closely, but I don't really remember a lot. I think it was a whole lot of we're just going to rush for and do everything else, you know, whether we're playing zone or man behind it, but still only one sack. And I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly, that sack was really more of the quarterback scrambling and getting tackled at the line of scrimmage than it was an actual like drop back sack. So if you're playing San Jose State and you're spending all that money on these players and you've got this defensive line that you've talked about that's been improving, only getting one sack, even if you're not bringing extra pressure and you're just playing straight up, to me, concerning. So overall, I would agree with Danny, a B-plus performance. I think the offense looked great. I think that Jaden was, I mean, Jaden was damn near perfect for the most part. He was 25-29. He wasn't really taking a ton of deep shots. I was going to say, this is the kind of game that if Jaden Maiva is contending for the Heisman at the end of the season, checks all of the boxes for what you would want to see. Like when you pull up all the game log and the season statistics, the fact that he started out there 25-29, 258, three total touchdowns as he added one on the ground. Like this is, he is on pace. You know, if Tom, you called it, right? I can't remember. The key is, guys, now that the season started, we can tell you, if you say everyone. Everyone's going to win the Heisman. You're always right. But at one point, Tom did just say Jaden Maiva is going to win the Heisman. I feel like today was a good day to at least get that started. Fair? Oh, yeah. I mean, they looked, they were everything you were hoping to see on offense. I mean, the run game, I don't think it was perfect. But again, they weren't really doing anything. They were just running a few plays for the most part, and they were working, and they just kept running the same plays over and over again. And they are, they are approaching this, I think, as if it's the preseason. So I'm not going to come away with huge conclusions. But again, I would have liked to see in the defense be a little more overwhelming, even without getting exotic. Can we give some credit to Luke Weaver, too? Oh, yeah. San Jose State quarterback. I thought he was really good. Like, they, they seem to have hit on him. Like, that, that's. He was going to back up to Alohato last year, right? In Hawaii? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, running around, making a lot of really good plays. I thought he would be, I mean, look, I think USC should have been somewhat better on defense, but. I don't know. Like, he looked like he belonged. So they, they may have one of the better, better QBs there in Mountain West. Okay. So we, do we want to just hammer San Jose State Mountain West futures now? Wait, are they Mountain West? Yeah, they're Mountain West. They're the only. Let's see how UNLV looks tonight, and then we'll decide, do we want to run and hammer San Jose State? Yeah, listen, now, there are some problems coming up here, because that run defense is sketch, and they got to play Fresno, they got to play Wyoming, they got to play New Mexico, which I. I assume will be even more run heavy now that their quarterback's out. They got to play Air Force, they got to play UNLV, and they got to play North Dakota State. So, I don't know if we're going to hit the futures quite yet, but backdoor could be open quite a bit with San Jose. I like where your head's at. This is why we do it. All right. We still have a little bit more to get into. I see Eastern Michigan has just scored again. We'd love to see it. Stanford, speaking of Hawaii, extending its lead, and Florida State, 7-0. 17-10 right now. We'll get into all that in. Driving. We're driving, Chip. We are. We are driving. Come on. It's like student driver in the back window. This is not Tesla autopilot, but we are still on the road. Driving. At home. Against New Mexico State. And more. Next. Hey, before we jump back into the show. Let's take a quick break. But not just any break. This is a refreshing break with Snapple. We all know about Snapple's iconic real facts, so let's take a minute to go over some of my faves. Snapple Real Fact 2064. The first college football game broadcast on TV was on September 30th, 1939. Snapple Real Fact 1896. The tradition of playing football on Thanksgiving originated with college football in 1876. Snapple Real Fact 1983. The first player drafted to play pro football never played in the league. Snapple Real Fact 1119. The Grand Canyon could hold about 900 trillion footballs. That's a lot of footballs. So grab a Snapple, take a second, and enjoy the moment. Because let's be honest, this might be the most refreshing part of your day. Snapple. Make your break more interesting. All right. Now let's get back to the show. Back here on the Cover 3 Podcast. Driving. First downs. Scoring position. More updates to come. How about the statement that was made out in Fargo, North Dakota State? Went final right as we were up here getting things started on the Instant Reaction Show at youtube.com slash cover3. The final is 33-7. They got up there. They mashed them. Jacksonville State started. Things got late early is what it looked like. It looked like the leverage just started getting tipped and tipped and tipped. Tom, what did you see from the Bison as they got their FBS career started with the 1-0? I mean, they come out in the very first possession of the game, 75 yards, eight plays, touchdown back. And it was like the reason I was going for on my lockspot pick. I just thought that they were going to come out really fired up. And they did. And they played well. Now, they also struggled a bit early. After they scored that touchdown, you could tell their second, third possession. They were kind of, you know, I don't know if it was nerves, what it was, or if it was Jacksonville State was just overpowering them. It did not look nearly as sharp. But fortunately for them, Caden Creel, the Jacksonville State quarterback, North Dakota State's defense did a very good job of putting him in situations that he had to throw. And that is not a winning formula for Jacksonville State. It wasn't a winning formula for him last year. And it clearly won't be a winning formula for them this year because that is not what he's there to do. He's very much a mobile quarterback. So they put him in those positions. He wasn't able to, you know, execute. He was only 12-23 for 85 yards. And then at that point, it just kind of did the thing that you tend to see with North Dakota State games, like especially when they were dominating and winning all those national titles. It just, it kind of starts to snowball. Like they don't really put together a bunch of huge plays, but they just wear on you for 60 minutes. And that's really what it was. And then the dam broke in the second half, and they just completely took the game over. Is negative 13 EPA on 26 pass plays? Is that? It's not my goal. It's not your goal pregame. No, I hadn't pulled up the advanced stats for this one yet. That's a good one. Oh, I did not get to watch all this. Man. Yeah. When he drops back, not necessarily the best. They would have been better off taking a knee every time. I do still think, though, like once they get into Conference USA, I do think Jacksonville State's one of the better teams in that league. You've got some guys on defense that I think are pretty okay. Yankle playing North Dakota State's front seven. Every week in Conference USA. No, but I just, I think that, you know, the environment, I think, really got to them, too. Like, that's a hard place to play. And once it gets going, it's just really difficult to get yourself back in the game. 12 of 23 for 85. Yeah, that's rough. Yeah, not great. But we had Brian Kelly also up there. Adam Brenneman, Rich Waltz, Jordan Giorgio holding it down. Good to see everybody out there celebrating the time in North Dakota State. Yes. One correction for Brian Kelly. They were doing a Serie A promo, and they were talking about teams in Italy. And Brian Kelly said that he loves the team in Como because he was in Lake Como this offseason on vacation. But then he said, of course, they don't actually have a team in Como. Coach. They're in championship. They very much have a team. They were one of the top teams in Italy last year. They haven't been there long, but they are new money, and they are doing pretty damn well. And they're spending all the money on Fiorentina's best strikers. And Fiorentina's losing to Froze. I ain't even got a chance to watch a second of that. That's not great. Has Fiorentina scored yet, Chip? No. No, they scored in Europa League. No, Coppa Italia. They scored in Coppa Italia. Isn't soccer season almost over? It's going to go. No, it's starting. It literally just started. Is it playing in the winter? Yes. Yes. Oh, wow. Okay. They've got two Mercados. There's two transfer portals. It's a man sport. Got it. Playing in the winter. Yeah. Touchdown, Knowles. Let's go. We're so back. We are so back. What's any other? Oh, before we hit our top 25 look ahead, which in just a second, but any other inaction thoughts? I mean, we did the best we could. I've appreciated everyone's attention to the conversation at hand. These things can be distracting at times. Stanford defense looks pretty solid. Yeah. Good point. Yeah. That's how you should treat a team from a lower division. Offense, not really in love with, but they have several offensive linemen out. So I don't think Stanford's going to be real deep on the O-line. It's not 2010. So, you know, yeah, like good job, Stanford. It's 23 to seven to say this in case they, you know, 735 left in the third. I mean, lots of time left, certainly. But to, to say that they've had the upper hand on Timmy, Chang, Mike Alejandro, and the Hawaii offense is definitely fair. You know, Sac State struggling. That's a lot of money they're spending to put up that kind of performance. Yeah, no Stanford. And I spent too much money on a Hurricane Stanley Cup shirt. So what? Okay. That she'll never actually wear. Do you guys know all the conspiracy theories about that? No, let's go through. I actually know it. I'll tell you after the show is it like Bishop can't bring it up on the show and then say we'll talk about that. I thought you guys were like, I'm like, are they in on the joke? I don't realize they're in on the joke. Okay, I will. Let's talk after the show and we'll say we can sit on there. Chat. Can we get actually a striker put a poll up chat. Should we talk about this on the air before the show? Just make Bud say it. Is it Bishop Sycamore allegations? No. Okay. This instant reaction show and every instant reaction show will include a look at the top 25 changes that could be coming and that is brought to you by Modelo. Now, we only had one top 25 team in action. That was USC and like we said, they were pretty impressive along the way. Now, we got some potential movement in week one. SMU will be playing in Tallahassee against Florida State. Ole Miss, Louisville, LSU, Clemson. Top 25 where do you think we could see some pivot points? Any chance that USC makes moves up or gets jumped in the upcoming week? I don't think they're likely to get jumped. I think that they could move up, but I think more than anything, they're very likely to stay kind of static. I don't know if they're going to get a ton of respect for beating San Jose State and as we discussed with not being completely sharp on defense, I don't think they're going to be able to move up too far, but I don't think anybody's going to knock them either, so I'm going to guess they're going to stay somewhere in that 13 to 15 range. Danny, if you were an AP voter and let's say we do see Louisville take out Ole Miss and the one ranked on ranked, do you think Ole Miss would fall below the Trojans? Where would they fit in that BYU, USC, Michigan, if that is a loss for Pete Golding and the Rebels on that Sunday of opening weekend? That's the one thing I was looking at in terms of if Louisville beats Ole Miss, Ole Miss has to get put somewhere. I think that that would be one question. Where do you think they would fall in relation to USC? I would say below them easily because you have to move Louisville up above them too. And I think they'd probably jump Louisville probably to, they wouldn't give Louisville as much respect as they would to an SEC team, but I could see Louisville getting to like 15, 16 and then you have to have Ole Miss behind them since they just played and just got beat by them. So I think Ole Miss could drop to 17, 18 somewhere in there. I'm going to push back a little bit just because I'm not sure that all the AP voters actually are going to stay around and watch that Sunday game before they put their votes in. But if they do, yeah, like Ole Miss is not one of those kind of legacy brands to where they're going to get the benefit of the doubt. If they lose to Louisville, it's going to be like, all right, hey, that was a magical run last year. They lost Kiffin, you know, that they're just back to being the same old Ole Miss. Yeah, they'd still be in the top 20. I mean, depending on the score, like if they get run, they would drop out. But if they lose pretty shocked if they got ran with with trend ad and with that deal with that deal, we're talking about like a win, like they're going to, they're already like they're a touchdown favorite. So right. We, we definitely do not think North Carolina cracks the top 25, right? I'm not going to rule it out. You know how these AP 24, 25. Don't you think Virginia is more likely to crap the top 20 top 25? Yeah. But then who do you drop out? We're not playing Missouri. No, Missouri's team pick was justice for both ribs. You can't get rid of them. That, that team pick was too good. No, there, it, there's, um, there's an opportunity. I think Virginia is a great call. Virginia was ranked at the end of last season. You know, they, their drop from finishing where they were to where they were in, in the preseason rankings was large and obviously an overreaction that is wrong. You know, the CBS sports one 38 from the end of last season, to these preseason rankings, Virginia's move down was one of the larger moves among power conference teams. That was not fair. That was wrong. And I imagine that will be readjusted. Virginia is a great call. I don't know who ends up getting cut, but Virginia is going to show up on a lot of ballots after that kind of performance. Can you really jump Virginia over Missouri though? I think so. Why not? Dead pan. Sorry. I will say, you know, this is somebody who has usually it's later, you know, well, I'll give shout out to Eric Johnson of WSLS TV and Roanoke, literally the only person who had Virginia on a ballot in the preseason. Well done. Let's go. Somebody knew all along and his name was Eric Johnson. Eric Johnson. How about him? Shout out to you, Eric Johnson. All right. Last word here. We've got the kickoff in about half an hour for Memphis UNLV. The Knowles at the end of the third quarter have a 14 point lead. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. Any any final final comments? We are going to be back on Monday, of course, at 11 a.m. upon further review, which will allow us to react to some of the later results as well as set the table for what's going to be a busy week one reminder big game breakdown on Tuesday for the biggest matchups of week one locks on Thursday. We'll be right back. And we are going to be on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday. That'll be noon Eastern time on CBS Sports Network. You will be able to get it later wherever you get your podcast. Shout out Elon volleyball. First one of the season. First sub of the season over old Dom old dominated last team to beat old Dom in the first game of the season won the national title. So who knows anything's possible. Somebody did say that about Florida State. At halftime right as we went live. They're like, hey guys, Indiana was struggling at halftime against old Dominion to you saw how that turned out. See, I think Indiana won by more than the current margin in Tallahassee. There's a whole quarter left chip. I already told you two offensive scores and a pick six late puts us over gives us the cover. Come on playing with pride playing with pride. We'd love to see it live. What are you getting them live? No, I ain't throwing any more money that way. 17 and a half. No, it's actually not bad. Hold on. It's bad. It's not smart. Isn't it like 10 right now, right? And New Mexico State has the ball, I believe. Yeah, we need two more scores. I don't know. No, no, it's 14 right now. It's 14. I thought it was only 16 and a half lamb. Oh, good side of key number. Let's go like 138124. All right, 120. I'm going to pour this on air before we are going to be back. Oh, Sacramento State just scored serves me right. Did they really? Yeah, they just backdoor you. No, no, no, we still got time. It's going to be competitive coming down the stretch. We've got so much fun in store for you. 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