Week 1 Prediction Show + What Is LSU Thinking?

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But I go back to the season previews from last year and no one was admitting that. So all I'm asking for out there in the team preview sphere is for everyone. If you know something wrong with the team, if you know someone's fatten out of shape right now, don't wait until a year from now and tell me. I want to know now it would save me a lot of embarrassment, possibly some lost money. So we need to know early and often all the flaws, all the deficiencies, all the warts. Don't be telling me. Oh, it was obvious a year later. If it's obvious a year from now, it's obvious today. We have full week one predictions tonight, very fired up about it. And I don't even use that terminology all that much, but we're fired up about it. We got a lot of games to get to Marcel Reed hates Texas as he should need a little more competitive hatred in this world. Lane Kiffin some are saying just misunderstood, Jesse. We will discuss not very long because we've already belabored this point. But even as of the past 30 minutes, like there's some stuff coming out on this. Look at that flag. Oh, the don't tread on Saturday flag. I hate for those of you listening on podcast that you can't see. That flag is starched in the breeze up there. All that plus you know what returns tonight, the Ramanoodle Express returns tonight. I think we could go undefeated this year. You know what? Let's not get ahead of ourselves 70% against the spread. I don't see why it's out of reach, Jesse. If kids and coaches and officials don't screw up, I don't see why it's out of reach. Oxford, Mississippi is tuned in Denver, Colorado, Ashburn, Virginia. It's a good rail cam in Ashburn, Virginia, by the way. In Birmingham, Alabama, tuned in, please, wherever you are, whoever you are, in whatever you're doing right now, by all means, continue to be and do all of those things, but subscribe to the channel while you're doing it helps us. And it's free. Let's dive in to the show. I can't believe we've arrived here, but you know what we have tonight? We don't have to talk about court cases. We don't have to talk about legal battles. We don't have to talk about playoff expansion because we have what are called football games. Right there on the calendar, starting, oh, and a couple of days and extending all throughout the weekend. So, Bradley, here's a good end point for you. The Jimmy John's game of the week is Clemson at LSU. Oh, we've waited so long. By the way, Jimmy John's new partner, they're down there in the fridge. We got him. You can order that $5.99, sandwich deal, Jimmy johns.com, download the app. It's there for you. So, they don't tread on Saturday tour. We'll be in the house. We'll be on the sidelines down there in Death Valley Saturday night looking very much forward to this one. But I do want to clasp both hands together in prayer, emoji fashion and remind you, you're not going to learn everything you need to know in this game. And the evidence is to go back one year ago when we saw these two teams play in Clemson. And we saw Brian Kelly, former LSU tiger head coach and LSU go up there and win. And I was just looking at a video of some LSU fans dancing on the field after the game, thinking that you had learned everything you need to know about this team. And you hadn't. It was just two bad teams. And one of them had to win. That was the long and short of it. So, we're going to learn some stuff Saturday, but we're probably not going to learn everything we need to know. Unless it's 45 to 13 LSU, in which case, we've probably learned what we need to know about Clemson. But you know what, let's dive into the details. We don't have to speak in long term hypotheticals anymore. What I have to see from Clemson is I have to see the offensive line give him a chance. Because the rest of the stuff I'm about to say doesn't really matter if this non-negotiable doesn't show up for them. So, very famously, Clemson could not run the ball last year. A number of big time power programs were off the mark run in the ball last year. Clemson was one of them. They were in the 100s in Rush Yards per game last year. Now Chad Morris comes in as offensive coordinator. And he was in the 30s, 38, I think it was at Virginia. So, I've got a new starter at quarterback in Chris Fizzina and that position's been kind of weird slash unsettled, like he's going to get the start, but it doesn't really feel like it's settled fully, but we're not going to throw a true freshman to the wolves here. We couldn't run the ball last year. We got to try and figure out if we can. All of that hinges on that offensive line at least given you a chance. There can be a plan. Like, I don't doubt Clemson's got a plan. I don't doubt that Chad Morris can scheme up a plan, but there is no plan that accounts for the offensive line being a sieve or being an outright disaster all night. And so, those guys, specifically those tackles, going into this environment against that past rush, at least what that past rush could be. It concerns me. It's not the end of the world. Just got to get better offensive line play there. I think at corner, LSU, and one of the premier matchups in this game, one of the big spotlights, if we just move the spotlight over there, there's DJ Pickett, and there's PJ Woodland, those guys against Bryant, Westgo, TJ Moore, that's a spotlight moment. There will be several of them in this game because you've got several guys that theoretically could be your leading receiver for LSU on a given night. For Clemson, it's really those two guys. It's not an exhaustive list of their wide receiver room mind you, but those are probably your two standouts. If they're going to be different makers in this game, those are going to be the guys. And the question remains, whether Clemson has to live in a bunch of obvious pass downs in this game. But I think that is where running success is so critical for Clemson because LSU against the run. If there's a way this game tilts that is slightly unexpected, maybe it's that for all the promise and all the hype and eventual follow-through that you think that LSU defensive front will have, getting a guy like Doose Gerald's in there, for all the potential they have, maybe they're a little more susceptible to the run early in the season than you're comfortable with. And maybe that's how Clemson doesn't constantly find themselves in third and nine. You know, a bunch of third and two, third and threes instead of that. And they can afford to be balanced and they can afford to, you know, the best way I can describe it is kind of from a game plan perspective, nurse, Chris Vessina through this thing and maybe settle him in instead of just watching him get thrown to sharks because that's kind of what Death Valley at the LSU version can be. If you're just in third and nine all night, it's just a terrible, horrific place to be. If you're a road quarterback in obvious passing situations all night, so I don't like Clemson's offensive tackle matchup at all here, but you know what, it's week one. So we don't really know anything. So that's where the game has to shift a little bit. They got to be able to run the ball. Well, they got to, they cannot put Vazina in a situation where he's the one who has to go win it. I don't care how good they are at wide receiver. Can't do that. It's an unfair position to put him in. There is a scenario where LSU's passing game, I think just turns all of this mute, slash moot. You know, the kind of thing where you're watching a game and the line was 10 and a half, and that's what it is, LSU minus 10 and a half, and then it's the early stages of the fourth quarter and the game's out of reach. And it's out of reach because Sam Levitt showed off his true dual threat 2024 version of himself and he's thrown for 275 or 300 and he's run for 75 yards and everything just clicked. They got half a dozen receivers there that could stand out. And maybe it's just that they're that much better. You know, there is that scenario. Clemson was 120th in past defense last year. And I hold on 'cause I know a lot of your yelling at your screen right now, I know what they did in the portal. I know that, but yet we don't know what it yields yet. That is the great unknown about college football. It's different from pro football and that you kinda sorta have an idea of what NFL teams are coming into week one, albeit still mystery there, but in college football, even the knowns are unknowns, in college football in week one. So I'll tell you what Clemson did. They dispelled that misnomer that they are totally resistant to the portal and they did go get a couple of safeties that'll start and they wouldn't got a corner that'll start. They think they shorted up. They trust their situation in the secondary and the thing about it is you're not playing Citadel and a couple of other teams. You'll be a three or four touchdown favorite against and then we find out in week four. You get tested in week one. So as I'm trying to imagine the style that this game takes on. I think there's the LSU fast start scenario where they come out and they're really balanced on offense 'cause remember LSU sucked run in the ball last year too. So they got that to prove as well. And there is a world where they look really good. I mean, laying through the script and beyond the script, it looks exactly how you would hope that LSU offense looks. And as a result, Clemson constantly is playing from behind early and often and I don't like the prospect of them in catch up mode candidly. There's that scenario. But there is the other scenario where who knows, man, maybe all these new pieces. Not to mention the whole off field distraction piece. It just leads to LSU looking a little off-kilter early and it leads to a couple of short possessions. And then Clemson can run the ball a little bit and they do get a little push on that line of scrimmage against younger somewhat lighter guys early on and they just move chains. And it's kind of a grinder of a game but you look and you say there's already just five minutes to go in a second quarter. Like how is this first half flown by like that? And they're just kind of pulling you out in the deep end a little bit more. Crowd's volumes getting turned down just a little bit more. And before you know it, it's half time and Clemson's got you in a slug fest. Kind of like last year's game was. You're not trying to imagine how it would go. The pucker meter would be rising quickly in the latter scenario as opposed to the former. So let's take a look at what the model thinks. First time I've said that all year, Jesse. The fandall number right now is LSU minus 10 and a half. Okay, for the models part in all this, it does link Clemson a little bit, not straight up but against the number. The model has LSU minus eight and a half. Now I instituted a new rule around here this year because we're allowed to do that. And that is if I'm gonna take something, I don't strictly have to stick with sides this year. So like for instance, I love under 50 and a half in this game. So what I'm gonna do is I will, of course, I'll lean LSU to when I think there are a few too many variables that have to go Clemson's way for me to be comfortable with that. Although I will say, man, there's some external dynamics here, there's some intangibles that do not make me discount Clemson. To please don't misunderstand me, I'm not doing that at all. And in fact, if I had to pick against the number, I'd probably go Clemson slightly there, but I feel a lot better about the under. So under 50 and a half is my official pick on this one, not a Ramanoodle Express edition mind you, but my official pick, but I'll take LSU to win the game. We'll be there either way. Be there Saturday night. Quickly before we move on to other games on the docket, I did wanna address one thing 'cause this has been, even as we've gone throughout the day, there's more and more and more on what's about to happen Thursday preceding this game. In an ideal world, the football game, is of primary and total focus, but we do not live in a perfect world. We live in a real world and it is full of all kinds of headlines that we don't really love talking about. But this one does warrant a little bit of discussion because I know that a lot of people, in fact, everybody has an opinion on what's happened at LSU. Give me that question someone asked earlier today. Jeffrey from Houston hit me and he said, why is Lane Kiffin and LSU doing what they're doing with the NFL guys? Pay attention to this part. It's not gonna work and he has to know it's wrong. Okay, I have spoken my piece on this. I hate it. Most people hate it. I mean, there's consensus amongst the college football public and apparently most everyone else, that we don't like the idea of guys who have been on even a practice squad, much less trying out for camps and in the pro game coming back to college. Okay, pretty easy to understand where people stand there and then the LSU folks like, well, we're not the only one trying to do it. Correct, you're just the face of it. It's pretty obvious why, but you are correct. The T-babs of the world are correct. No, it's not just LSU. So I didn't even want to focus on that 'cause everyone, including myself, has spoken our piece on this. Keep this up for a second, Bradley, 'cause I want to focus on the why. Why is Lane and LSU doing this? Why are Lane and LSU doing this? Very simple. Lane Kiffin wants to win football games and he thinks he found an edge. He thinks he found a way potentially to make LSU a better team than they are right now and they're pursuing it because they think they can, whether you think they should, whether you feel good about it, whether it ends up being allowed, that's beside the point. You asked why I'm telling you why. Now, as for the last sentence there, it's not gonna work and he has to know it's wrong. That's kind of the part I wanted to focus on here. 'Cause look, as much as I think the overarching principle overrides any of the details, the details do exist. And the details are, the NCAA is the entity that screwed this up nine ways from Sunday, as usual. And then when everyone starts fighting over a screw up that the NCAA is guilty of, then people kind of tribalistically take sides in the argument, it's either A or it's B. You know, it's black or it's white, it's one or it's two. No, no, it could just be their fault. It could be their fault over there. You could want to point that index finger over there. And the point I'm making specifically, as it relates to this, is these people pass this rule in June. After these guys had already left to go to the NFL and their argument, which has validity to it, is, well, had we known that rule was gonna pass, or had we known that these court rulings were gonna go in our favor, we would have been more equipped to make the decision not to even go to the NFL, to begin with, and we would have rid ourselves of this mess, translation, pass the rule in December or something like that, or wait and pass it later after the next season's already started. But no, no, you had to wake up one morning and, you know, like spin the wheel or drop the little plinco dice and, oh, it landed on, we're gonna make the announcement today. So from Lane's perspective, he doesn't think it's wrong. It's not a, it's not a sort of a moralistic stance or a viewpoint along those lines to him. I'm not asking you to agree with him. I don't even agree with him. But I'm not the head coach at LSU, he is. So what I said before, and I've said often, and I'll say at least once more, is I don't put it at the feet of a competitor to voluntarily avoid pursuing a competitive edge that they think they can legally gain. That's why rules exist. And if your rules aren't enforceable, that's not Lane Kiffin's fault. That is many, many, many other people's faults that preceded him long ago, up to an including current leadership or lack thereof. And my point is still that. So I got no problem saying, oh, I hate all this. I've got no problem saying, I wish Lane wouldn't do that, 'cause that's how I feel. But I can't say that I wouldn't do the same thing if I were to head coach at LSU, 'cause I'm not. So neither are you. So you can't really talk about how wrong you would or wouldn't think it is. You can think you know that. I like to think I wouldn't do it. I absolutely like to think I wouldn't do it. But I don't know, and even if I wouldn't, it also doesn't mean that I'm going to paint the dude who is doing it as evil. Or, you know, I can't serve to the game. The very structure or lack thereof that made this possible. That's your problem. Cause Lane Kiffin could retire from LSU tomorrow. And it'd be a big story. But then after the dust cleared from that, you know what you'd still have these problems? It just wouldn't be in this machination. It would be in another one. But I will say this. This is going to get really interesting and could get really ugly this Thursday. Cause it feels like LSU is pretty resolute. Like even as recently as just last couple hours, these players, the leadership down there, some of these captains, I think with weeks included, said, hey, look, we know our roster situation. And we got room. And by the way, that's been the case all along. I think that's kind of been misreported. LSU didn't have to cut a bunch of guys for this. They've got room. I don't know if people know that or not. Yeah, they got room. But the players have been adamant, hey, we're okay with it. You know, Lane for his part said, hey, my player said, it's okay. That went over very well yesterday, by the way. And on the flip side, Don De Plowman, who is the chancellor at Tennessee, one of the most important names in the SEC, reaffirmed today. Hey, we're not budging on this. There will be consequences if this happens. And then I saw Dellinger right as we were about to go on air reported that the college football playoff committee met today. And they talked about two things. One of them's great. One of them's horrible. One of them was they are talking about disqualifying teams who roster pro players. The other thing they talked about was a 2014 playoff. But I digress. This is not the show for that. So I don't know what's going to happen Thursday. I greatly prefer to just talk about the game. Okay. But this is going to probably get a lot uglier before it resolves itself because it's only Tuesday right now. I don't know what we're getting ourselves into going down there. But I got a feeling that we're going to have to know some legal references that, you know, it's like the movie almost famous when the band is arguing with each other about responsibility and whatnot. And then all the sudden, Russell. I can't remember if it was Russell or Jeff. One of the band members said, hold on. Wait a second. Didn't we all get into rock and roll to avoid responsibility? That's kind of me right now. It's like hold on. 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Does Wisconsin have any shot against Notre Dame? This game preview brought to you by Fan Dual where you could go to see the unfortunate news that Wisconsin is a 20 and a half point underdog. You could also see the unfortunate news that these stadiums are two of the great on-campus stadiums in college football, so naturally we're playing this in an NFL venue, at least it's Lambo, but that's out of our control. What's in our control is trying to find a way to paint the path towards potentially, possibly flirting with the idea of an upset. I'm trying, Jesse. I'm really trying because it's hard to envision. But a lot of times on the show, when we get point spreads this big, we have to look in the mirror and say, let's be real. This point spread is what it is for a reason. Notre Dame is very, very likely to run this thing Sunday night. But there is a truth. one of the truths is I think I like Wisconsin a little bit more than the public does in general, not in this game, but in general. Another truth is I just despise this matchup for them. So I've got a theory that's going to be in play here. We've never debuted this theory on the show, frankly, because I've never had a reason to debut this theory on the show, but new theory coming in a few minutes. Anyway, what I like to do with these kinds of games is I just like to take my own opinion and set it to the side. Okay, pretend that's my opinion. I'm going to set it to the side for a second. And I'm going to transport myself to an alternate universe where it is Sunday night and it is a dogfight in the fourth quarter. And Wisconsin is about to pull it out by kicking the last second field goal. And let's ask ourselves, "Selves, how did this happen?" Well, the first thing that probably happened is Wisconsin remembered that they were Wisconsin. You know, once upon a time, this was not a fun team to play, because they could really take it to you. They didn't take a back seat physically to anyone. Here's the problem. They forgot somewhere along the way what that felt like. And now they're trying to rediscover that identity against one of the most physical teams both sides of the ball in the country. So Abu Sama, who plays at Wisconsin now, by the way, he's got to run it early and often. Colton Joseph, who's the old Dominion transfer, he's got to be a godsend. He's got to be everything that the quarterback position has not been able to be for Wisconsin the last couple of years. And they got to just have one of those good clot melting, chain moving, boring kind of games. There's beauty in boring, as Mimal used to say, watching Wisconsin. It's been a while though. A number two thing that probably has had to have happened if Wisconsin is close to pulling an upset is maybe just maybe we're wrong. Maybe losing two first round draft pick running backs is a bigger deal. Maybe they're not as equipped to backfill as people like me think they are. Maybe CJ Cargist hasn't off night. Who knows? Maybe he's mentally rattled by the Heisman hype, Jesse. Again, you have no idea how hard I'm trying right now to present the idea. I just I look at Wisconsin's secondary and I look at CJ Cargist and I still believe in this Notre Dame wide receiver room. And I think it's a very, very bad match up for him, but who knows? Maybe in an effort to try and expose that. Maybe there's some errant balls, some tipped balls and anything could happen. It is the sport of football after all. I really don't think it's enough. So I told you I have a new theory that I'm going to put in play here because I believe it with Wisconsin. I am not selling on Wisconsin. I'm not selling on Luke fickle this year, but we have to insert a new paid state theory here. This is 4,000 class level stuff. I'm going to call it the Glen Jacobs theory. He is the outgoing mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, a friend of the program, by the way. But once upon a time, you knew him as Isaac Yankeum in the mid 90s. It was a very, very bad time for the world wrestling federation. And so, uh, Glen Jacobs was playing the role of an evil dentist and shockingly that didn't work. And then he came back as fake diesel because this is that weird time warp period where even though guys left to go to the other company, Vince McMahon believed that since he still owned the intellectual property of diesel, he just find another real tall guy and make him diesel and the crowd would go for it. And equally as shockingly, that didn't work. Okay. Much like Wisconsin football has not worked the last couple of years. So what happened with Glen Jacobs? Well, he last appeared in the 1997 Royal Rumble. You all remember that. And then he disappears for months and months and months until bad blood 1997 St. Louis, Missouri, I believe. Yep. And here comes Kane, which is Glen Jacobs just underneath a mask because he was set on fire as a child as the legend goes. And he runs off a 20 year career multi-time world champion, one of the most awesome characters in the history of pro wrestling. And the Glen Jacobs theory is sometimes you just need to disappear for a little while before you can reappear in a big way. And I think Wisconsin's schedule very ironically sets up. Let's just call Notre Dame the 1997 Royal Rumble for all intents and purposes. Because I think Wisconsin's going to lose. And I think they're going to disappear for a little while. But I don't think their story's over because I think their bad blood could appear right there in state college Pennsylvania and Jesse's backyard on September 26th. Because while everyone else has been looking at that Penn State schedule and saying, guys, let's kick our feet up. This is a two game season. Jesse has said that exact thing to me many times with his feet propped up. I don't believe that. I think Wisconsin could get run, disappear and reappear as a little bit more of a team to take seriously this year than many of you believe that they are. In the meantime, they're going to get handled Sunday night because I'm taking Notre Dame to win and cover. But we have given birth to the Glen Jacobs theory on the show. They're watching us in sunrise Florida. They're watching us in Pascagula, Mississippi. They're watching us in beautiful and still sunny San Jose, California. Every time I mentioned San Jose, my mind just goes back. And this is with all due respect to the fine people of San Jose, California. But we were there the morning of the national title game in 2018. No one there even knew the title game was in Santa Clara. That just clueless. That view or not was standing. Leave it to the playoff committee, man. Friends of ours, of course, but terrible decision there. Baylor versus Auburn could be the game of the week. This one thousand percent has fourth quarter chaos game of week potential written all over it. And I'm going to tell you why you've seen it a million times before. Someone picks a guy to be the SEC preseason number one quarter back. And he implodes in on himself like a dying star. And then everybody gets fired and everyone transfers. And that quarterback goes to Baylor where the head coach there only still has a job because the AD got himself in hot water. And he got fired before he could fire the head coach the year before. And then they go to Atlanta, even though the game was supposed to be on home campus at Jernher Stadium. But they moved it so they can make more money. And that quarterback a year later fulfills on his potential. We've all seen it happen. We have happened a million times. This would just be a million and one. Now, for those of you who don't understand the therapy session you just walked in on, I believed past tense in DJ lagway. I had him rank the number one SEC quarter back last year. He imploded in on himself like a dying star. He would say it's a lot more because of his surroundings than his own personal performance. My words, not his, I still haven't forgotten the LSU game. So the range of outcomes for DJ lagway now starting quarter back at Baylor are as wide as your eyes can see on the horizon. There is homeless over here. There's heisman over here. Anything and everything is in play. So what are we going to get Saturday afternoon in Mercedes Ben Stadium? Oh, by the way, insert Alex Gholish. First head, first game as head coach at Auburn, a lot of times in the old school, when you had your debut as a head coach, it normally meant that you were debuting, you know, a really unproven roster. And that's not the case anymore, depending on which major media outlet you choose to trust. Auburn either has the 10th or the 21st most experienced roster in the country. Either way, it's not bad. So I was listening to Urban Myer talk earlier today about how his philosophy when he took new jobs came to be go take the new job, keep the defensive coordinator there because you're the offensive guy, keep consistency on the defensive side. Alex Gholish has done that with DJ Dirk and so let's talk about this game a little bit. I think a non-negotiable for Baylor is, and this is pretty groundbreaking stuff here, okay, you won't find this just anywhere. I don't think Baylor should turn over the ball, but they did it a lot last year. They were 130th and turnovers last year and lagway was 14 interceptions last year, right, Jesse? So, you know, history and logic were, if they were on the table right now, they would tell you this is going to go horribly. I don't know what say to you. This is just not the way college football works. So it could be in lagways DNA to throw for 310, 3 touchdowns, no picks, Saturday because this sport never makes any sense. So what's the status of this Baylor offensive line? They got four new starters that doesn't always mean weakness. It just means gigantic question. A lot of this game I think will be put on lagway shoulders though because until I can trust the offensive line, I'm going to consider him a question slash a little bit of a weakness. The wide receiver room is completely turned over, so I don't really know what to expect from Baylor. I hope Auburn does. I don't, but I will say the Auburn offensive line versus Baylor's defensive line to me is kind of where the game has decided. So Baylor last year was 102nd and Rush Yards per game allowed. Now, this is kind of like Clemson. Like Clemson got torched through the air last year, but they think they addressed it via the portal. Well Baylor thinks they've addressed this via the portal to the point where, you know, you bring in Hosea Wheeler, Y-6. is their Cameron Washington's there, I heard a random talk in the other day saying it's been one of the strengths of the team throughout camp. So what does that mean? Because what you do have offensively for Auburn is you do have a lot of guys who have played a lot of snaps together. This offensive line's kind of new, but overall like a lot of the guys that goal is brought with them aren't busy learning the system. They know it. Quarterback included. He knows it. So Tempo is one of the staples of that Auburn offense now, that Alex Golisch offense. And if that Tempo bites early in that run game, can bite Baylor early, I don't like their prospects very much. Now I will say in fairness, if I said it about Baylor, I'll say it about Auburn, you got to consider that offensive line of question mark until further notice. The Baylor secondary is pretty good. So if Auburn can't move it on the ground early, you know, if they look a little discombibulated early. So a bunch of obvious passing downs for Byron Brown. Now Baylor secondary can hold its own, I think. I think explosive plays are what we would call a pre padlock stat for this game. Because I am pretty sure when we're talking on Sunday, earlier show, by the way, on Sunday, when we're talking on Sunday, I would say explosive plays probably decided this thing. Auburn last year was terrible in that department. There were 119th in explosive plays, USF was 7th. And a lot of the guys responsible for that came with Alex Golisch to Auburn. So that's the pre padlock stat to me. The lag way could make that happen too. I guess when there's so many questions, my instinct is just go find what you think you can trust. What I think I can trust in a game like this is I think I can trust Auburn's defense. But I do think there's something sneaky about Baylor that makes this really tight and a fourth quarter game. At Fandool, this number right now is Auburn minus 7 1/2. The model loves Baylor. We've got Auburn minus 3 1/2 in the model. And so I don't have a strong lean here. I'm going to go Auburn to win the game, but I do go Baylor to cover. I can't ignore that blinking red light there. Model feels pretty good about Baylor. So close Auburn win, which if it happens, I don't know how that makes you feel if you're a Baylor fan in some ways, you kind of absolve some of the worst fears. And if you're Auburn, hey man, almost everything's new. First time out of the garage. Just go get me a win. Back home and get ready for Florida in two weeks. We move on. More games to get to. Big game in Nashville. Titans? No. Preds? No. Louisville all miss. Of course. Again, why would we worry about playing in Louisville or in Oxford when you could just play in that Lego stadium that's going to be a pile of rubble in a couple of years? In the meantime, I ask you some college football games in Nissan Stadium. These games presented by Quicktrip, not the location. Quicktrip had nothing to say about the location, although they do have several convenient locations for you nationwide. There are a lot of knowns here. And there are some unknowns here, Trinidad Jamblis. I know him, not personally, but as an athlete, I think we know eight games of 300 plus yards passing last year, SCC newcomer of the year, I don't need to tell you what the back of his card says. They got a strong wide receiver room at Ole Miss, strong running back room. Meanwhile on the other side, Lincoln Keenholz, slash Kindholz, we're really going to see how the pronunciation goes this year. What we know about him is he allegedly once upon a time pushed Julie and say into the limit in the Ohio State quarterback battle. That is basically his resume. He was once upon a time the number 156 overall player in the on three portal rankings. That is what we know about him. He's bigger kid than I think most people realize, he's 6, 3, 2, 15. Here's what we do know about an unknown at the quarterback position. We do know who Jeff Brom is. And we do know that if quarterbacks are sponges, he has squeezed every last drop out of multiple quarterbacks in terms of potential, but what he hasn't had in a little while, which I think could be a key in this game, is he has not had QB run available for a long time. In fact, paper popper of a stat here, the last three years, the quarterback position for Jeff Brom, 174 attempts, minus 12 yards, well, Josh, that includes sack yardage. Yeah, I know, but you get my point here. It just hasn't really been all that effective. If nothing else, he does have that element available to him. And that plus Isaac Brown, one of the best tailbacks in the country, win healthy. And we think he is now, means they could do some business on the ground. Nothing but questions at wide receiver. Nothing but questions at offensive line, because Louisville is like a pancake. That roster just got totally turned over, but they've done a really good job of portaling difference-making players in. So this is the quintessential question marks don't equal weaknesses kind of team. I don't know if Mimaw even said that, because Mimaw did not experience the portal era, probably for the best, honestly. Is Ole Miss defensively as good as they appear, because they appear really good still. Will Echols is still there, Cam Franklin, Sunter and Perkins, Keaton Thomas, like they look good. It is a defensive head coach, like I think this will still be a really strong unit, Louisville, you got the extreme portal overhaul, so I don't even know like all of these look like match-up advantages for Ole Miss, but who knows. This is how a week one preview sounds in college football now. Who knows? Don't speak in definitive, don't box yourself into believing in units that you have really no knowledge of. I am still waiting, by the way, to feel out how lethal that Ole Miss pass rush can be. That's the thing I wonder about them. With some of the transfers out, I know they think they have the potential, cause they do, have the potential. Where does it come from? Who ends up being the big contributor or two there? Here's what I love, though. Ole Miss returns interior offensive Lyme and a Kiwan Lacey, and Louisville, if you listen to practice reports, if you listen to Intel out of fall camp, they got, it sounds like one defensive tackle they really believe in. Outside of that, I still feel like there's a little remains to be seen about that group, and so when you have that and you have what Shameless adds, as much as I believe in Louisville's ability to run the ball, I believe in Ole Miss's ability to run the ball as much if not more. In theory, if we're going intangibles here, in theory, Jeff Brahms should have a coaching edge. Jeff Brahms has a coaching edge against most coaches. I actually think he's a top 10 coach in the country. All things considered, so I wouldn't put Pete top 10 just yet, but how much does it factor in here? Louisville, even in Brahms' time at Louisville, he's three and two versus top 12 teams. He knocked off some big time names at Purdue, so he's been good in these moments. I just tell you, there have been portions of the spring and summer knowing this game was coming, where I looked and I said like everyone else said, "Oh, be careful there." Yeah, you should be careful, it's a loosable game for Ole Miss, it's not like they don't know that, they're very aware of that. Maybe the public wasn't, but they are, but the more I've gotten close to it, the more I think, man, it feels like Ole Miss has got a lot of edges in this game. It almost feels like this is one of the rare instances where there may be some slight value on the favorite. Even though the favorite's coming off a year which should have them overhyped, because everyone is so, so careful to try and find the weak one upset that they zero in on games. When you have a week to do that, there's not enough time to zero in on one collectively. When you have months and months and months leading up to a game, people disproportionately get fixated on a game, usually the wrong one. They're fixated on this one right now, so they're going to be a lot of folks whispering the word Louisville Saturday morning, and this game's a Sunday game, by the way, to the point where I don't know, Jesse, I don't feel strongly about it. The model, by the way, thinks the line is dead on the money. Ole Miss is minus six and a half at FanDuel, the model has Ole Miss minus six. I'm going to take Ole Miss to win, and I think Ole Miss will cover, because I don't want to deal with Trinidad Chambles and Kiwan Lacey for four quarters. If you want to go to the game, that's your God-given right, and if you're looking to, probably good seats still available, you can go to Seat Geek right now. You guys, this is opening weekend for most of the country, and so it's time. If you've been considering ticket purchases or perch-eye, the plural of purchase, now's the time. 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I know so I was thinking earlier today We probably can't get away with that but what we can get away with is we can get away with the play on words And that's looking across the board and finding the most dangerous games That we probably otherwise wouldn't talk about in the sport this weekend because we live in a world where there's less certainty than ever There's more roster turn than ever which theoretically means More is possible more chaos is possible especially in week one then has ever been possible before So our new protocol on the campus of paid state it They're asking if I'm really reading the chat blink twice. Yes, I'm really reading the chat Anyway, my protocol now is take nothing for granted So I've got some games that I think are fairly dangerous that no one's gonna break down East Carolina at Alabama is one of them Alabama is a 27 and a half point favorite nearly a foretouch now in favorite But there's still a lot of unknown with this Alabama team a lot of ECU's roster turned over so don't even worry about what they were last year Good team last year a lot of the roster turned over I mean Josh Johnson said Alabama is gonna be out for blood, but I think they will be too I think they were out for blood against Florida state last year now am I sitting here equating East Carolina to Florida state Kind of but not really no not really in fact if anything Alabama's probably more on guard because that happened to them last year My point is there's a lot of first and it's a young team Okay, so Keelan Russell. I think he's gonna be a star I think Alabama set out to prove they can run the ball for the first time since 2024. I think all of these things But I don't take any of it for granted Okay, I also you know, I think about how good I feel about some of their position groups But how one thing going wrong one guy going down and having to be taken to the medical tent could just change the vibe in the tone of a game Also, it's gonna be roughly 147 degrees at kickoff. So It'd be nice to see a BAM up 35 to 6 at the half. I don't assume these things I don't assume that Oregon's just gonna take care of business. They're playing Boise Boise is better than most power four teams out there. We've got Boise power rated 46th and while you may not think that sounds impressive It's extremely impressive for a g-16 to be power rated that high Oregon's favor by 24 and a half Oregon's had some slow starts under Dan Lanny and you know good and well most people have looked at this Oregon schedule and they've been zero in and on USC week four They've assumed a win against Boise. They've assumed a win a weird travel spot in week two against Oklahoma state but I Don't take this for granted. I don't only because Boise is a season program With a really good head coach and they know how to hang in games like they don't play in an inferior style in these games So all the best case scenarios that you run through your head, you know, like the highlight culture has taught people to think in In terms of best case scenarios the things you can envision happening Buddy, there's a 45 to 14 Oregon win in the cards. Obviously But there's also a third quarter where it's a one-possession game and you're saying oh man Do how in the world's Oregon gonna win a national title if they can't even you know fill in the blank it happens every year So I think this is a kind of dangerous game I think Western Michigan at Michigan needs to be talked about Michigan to 27 and a half point favorite. I was just on rich eyes and show earlier today and I mean I saw rich as face he got a little flush in the cheeks when I talked about what I think Michigan could be capable of But that doesn't mean that you can just look past Lance Taylor and the boys in Kalamazoo, I believe Western Michigan. Yep, uh-huh You know who they have coming into town next week everybody knows the Oklahoma game is on deck Everybody knows you don't want to show anything For that matter. I should have talked to you tap versus Oklahoma Maria Martin on sideline duty for that game by the way Golf clap for Maria But I'm getting sidetracked because I'm not circling you tap Oklahoma But I am circling Western Michigan Michigan We've got a new well and not a new everything, but a new a lot of things at Michigan We've got a new offense being installed there. I believe in Bryce underwood But it could be a little wobbly coming out of the gate Not to mention you're not really opening things up against Western Michigan Also these games these days For these lower level teams planning it's Michigan. It's everybody's Super Bowl That's always the way it's been but a lot of guys want to end up transferring up to this level by the way everything I'm saying is a stupid microcosm of what college football is now, but be that as it may, this is the opportunity to get some of the highest quality film you can possibly get where you could shop yourself around after the season. Again, I hate it, but that kind of is what it is. So I'm not looking past that one. I'm definitely not looking past Fresno USC. This is a Friday, five o'clock local time kick. So we've already got USC attendance figures under the microscope. And now I'm asking our fine citizens of Southern California to brave Friday afternoon drive traffic to go see the Trojans tee it up against Fresno State as a 21 and a half point favorite. Fresno's got a good enough athletic profile to where this could be a game. And it's, you know how this game's been talked about. Bradley, show me, um, show me USC schedule for a second because the way USC schedule has been talked about is, well, you know, USC's got three tune up games before they go to Rutgers and even that'll kind of be a tune up game for Oregon. No, no, Matt Ents won multiple national championships at North Dakota State before he made a brief stop at USC. He was just there two years ago and he was good enough that he's got himself his own head coaching job at Fresno. You got to be very careful. In fact, there are multiple members of those former North Dakota state staffs that are potentially wreaking havoc, uh, punching up this year before they go on to have major jobs themselves. So yeah, I'm keeping an eye on that one. And hey, look, this one's way off the radar and everyone's going to laugh at me. But if I told you butch Jones and the beleaguered Arkansas state Red Wolves were about to head east a little bit and take on Memphis, what would you think the line on the game is? If you haven't already checked, Memphis just just beat you in LV, Charles Huff is the toast of college football rightfully so. And Arkansas state is who they've been. What would you think the number on that game is? What if I told you it's a Memphis minus 11 and a half? Would you just start going, that smells weird. That smells, that smells a little funny, a little suspicious. Yeah, I don't have much of a breakdown for you on the Arkansas state side of things. I just know how this sport works. So that is a dangerous game as well. Do me a favor by the way, a lot of your tuned in live. Thank you so much. Like the video. I'm pausing for five seconds to give you time. Just like the video. Just click thumbs up. Did you do it? Just thumbs up. Boom, thumbs up. Thank you. Also my nose ditched. Subscribe to the channel too while you're here. I've got great news. No news actually from college station, Texas. Hatred is back. Should have never left, but hatred is back. Alan from Austin, Texas said, did you see what Marcel Reed said about Texas? Can't wait for November, brother. Well, I can't wait for November either, Alan, although let's not get into bigger hurry because that means we just speed through the college football season. And this is the best time of year for us. But what is Alan talking about? Jesse? What about Marcel Reed earlier today who said what everybody who is a competitor worth their salt should say, if being honest, about their rival? Show me the quote, Bradley earlier today, Marcel Reed, I think was asked about Texas. Do we not have the quote? I can paraphrase it for you. He said, I hate Texas. Can't stand them. They've beaten us twice, but they got to come here this year. And I'm looking forward to it. Now, I can't say that on air. Hold on. Let me think. I'm flipping through my rolodex of analogies in my head. But the first two I could never say on air. So I'm just going to keep it a little sanitized and I'm going to say good for you, Marcel Reed. Let the hatred flow through your veins. Not on the street, but in the arena. In the competitive arena, this is in short supply. There's the tweet right there, because I'm going to read it for you. We don't like Texas. I don't like Texas. It sucks that we've lost to them twice, but hey, they're coming here this year, so they're going to have to pay. I've got something for them for sure. Hey, general policy around here has always been run your mouth as much as you want to as long as you're running your mouth about someone that you're eventually going to play. No one wants to hear you talk about people you're not going to play. If you're going to play them, be my guest. Run your mouth. Now if I'm a PR coach, do I advise it? Probably not, but I don't care. Johnny Mansell used to talk, but then he backed it up. So Marcel Reed, maybe he'll back it up this year. They got it to do. They got it to do because that is the day after Thanksgiving, last game of the regular season, but beyond that, dude, I'm a very sore loser and I don't think that's a terrible thing. I think there is a way to be classy in the way you lose a game or lose a contest or lose any competition, but I've never really liked the direction that high level competitive sports have taken recently where everyone just kind of makes sure you know, hey, we're friends in real life. He plays for Texas. I play for A&M, but we fish together in the off season. I'm the coach at Ohio State Michigan actually don't do this. That's why I have supreme respect for that rivalry. But there's so many times these days where I'm watching a rivalry game, voila, Jersey swap right after it's over. I don't need that. Go up the tunnel and do that. Hatred in the real world, much like assaulting someone physically in the real world is not a good thing. That's why we don't do it in the real world. And in football, you could put your hands on people and do things that would put you in jail on the street. That's the beauty of the sport. And if football, you should hate your rival in the spirit of competition. And so Marcel Reed is vocalizing how all of you should be thinking. I don't want to know your friends. I don't want you hanging out with the other guy. I really do want you to feel some type of way. When you're at media days and you see each other in the hallway or when you're on the speaking circuit or you're speaking to one of these coaching clinics, it ought to be a little frosty. You can be friends down the road after you're retired and done with it. But when you're putting on that, that maroon, Jersey, or you got that burnt orange jersey on, you should feel complete and utter disdain. There should be an anger that kind of rises up inside of you a little bit because of what them wearing that Jersey means. I give all the credit in the world to Ohio State and Michigan because they have maintained this. That's why I think it's the best rivalry in college football because you could cut that stuff with a knife up there. That's what Marcel Reed's talking about. Just good old-fashioned competitive hatred. That's how it should be. That's how it used to be. That's how it could be again. You can question whether Marcel Reed's going to come through this year. He believes in himself. That's obvious. You may not believe in him. So, good for Marcel Reed. Yeah, I saw it and I nodded my head. What I don't want is I don't want a rivalry game and then everyone just hugging it. Everyone afterwards, let's take a picture on the field. Let's do a Jersey swap. Let's comment on each other's photos and stories on Instagram and whatnot. No, no, no, no, not my college football, absolutely not. That game will happen. The day after thing's giving right, I'm going to Fandall right now and you can see that number. 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You know that we have something on the show that many, many other people do. Best bets. You know, you look at the board and you see a number that you like and you bet your money on it. Or if you don't bet money, then you pick it in a pool that you're in at work, something like that. Or if you don't even do that, you at least have an opinion on the game that sometimes is based on that number. But around here, we like to put our money where our mouth is on a few games per week. And it's called the Ramanoodle Express. Sounds like a joke. Started as a joke. It's a very serious business now. And the way it works is, very simply, a few times per week towards the end of the show, I will add to the Ramanoodle Express. At the end of the week, normally, we got anywhere between six and 12 best bets on the board. And I don't hand them out all at once. It culminates on Friday night with Friday night lines, which is available on Instagram Live only at Josh Pate CFB if you're not following already. Where will we be? We'll be live from Baton Rouge Friday night. Yeah. Oh, we're back. We're back. I see Paulo in the chat over there. This new big font chat is doing me a lot of favors in here. So the Ramanoodle Express is back, I've got two best bets to add tonight. First two of the season. And they're way off the radar. The first one will happen in Yipslanti. I think that's the right pronunciation. Praise you. Got to check me on that. I don't know my Mac towns. San Jose State is in a tough schedule spot, man. But I think it's given us some value. So San Jose State played at USC. And now they're going on the road across the country, short rest because I think this is a Friday game and they are getting two and a half. We actually think this number should be San Jose State minus. So we think the wrong team's favored. And we bet EMU like 10 times last year. So we're not anti-Eastern Michigan at all. But give me San Jose State plus two and a half. And then we are going to back Eric Morris in his debut with Oklahoma State because he still has one of the most experienced rosters in the country. And they're going to go down the road to take on Tulsa. And we are going to take Oklahoma State minus 13 and a half. The first of probably several Ramanoodle Express best bets of the week will add to it Thursday. We will certainly add to it Friday night. I mean, look, Friday night lines for those of you who are unfamiliar. One of the great traditions of this show. One of the great traditions of Pate State because all it is, as you can see, I got a little kickstand on the eye Josh there. And all I do is we'll be in the hotel. I intentionally make it poorly lit, like I turn the lights off where it's mainly just the brightness of the screen, lighten my face up, very blur which project ish. And I pull up the model and I just look at the live chat. And it's just people throwing games at me and I let you know what the model thinks. I let you know what the cover probability of the game is. That's a great time, it's a wonderful communal time. We get like, I don't know, a few thousand live viewers there. So it's a lot more closed off club, but really it's open to anyone. You just got to be following on Instagram at Josh Pate CFB. So that'll be Friday night. Until then, we still got a Thursday night show to do. Got the locker room tomorrow with Busson with the boys. We got our Friday ESPN show day viewing this week. One hour earlier on Thursday. Thank you, Jesse, by the way. Because there are games Thursday night. So we're going to do the show at six Eastern, is it seven Eastern, six Central Jesse? Yes, seven Eastern, six Central Thursday instead of our usual start time. And then we'll go watch a number of games and we got, we got Deon Sanders heading back to Atlanta for one of the first times since he was a falcon and a brave Jesse. And who knew back then? Who knew when Deon was on the roster for that 1992 NLCS that he would come back to Atlanta all these years later as the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes to face Georgia Tech in Grant Field. I for one did, but I don't think many other people predicted it. So we'll be back Thursday night one hour early. Until then, yeah, I'll get to that Thursday, Jesse. For director Bradley, for producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate. I'll see you Thursday until then, God bless. Must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas, Starkisino or 18 plus and present in DC. First on my real money wager only, $5 first deposit required. 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