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With a big standout touchscreen, the Equinox looks just as good on the road as it does down the backroads. Hey, everybody. Okay, it is week one. We are here. We have arrived. We can feel it. There's football games kicking off almost as we speak. We've got football games tonight, Colorado-Georgia Tech. We've got Missouri's going to beat the shit out of somebody. Illinois is going to beat the shit out of somebody. So we got some football. I'm here. I'm in my studio. We're going an hour early. And I say an hour early. We really got to figure out what we're going to do as far as I'm almost thinking maybe Wednesday night would be a better night going forward. Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, but I'll have to figure that out. We'll figure that out. This is all a kind of a learning experience as we go forward, how to best pace this thing and how to best do this thing. Sooner's jersey, what the fuck? It's a Sooner's jersey. I don't know what to tell you. It's a Marcus Dupree jersey. He was Mississippi before Oklahoma ruined him. Bought him and ruined him. So that you guys kind of suck. But that's what I'm wearing. That's what I'm wearing. So here we go. Um, Liam Blutman. Hi, Brown Walker. Hello. So happy to talk to you today. So it's week one. We're going to get into our categories, our, uh, our game to watch of the week, our player to watch of the week, our under the radar game, our upset alert, our close your eyes, Liam Blutman special of the week, and Liam Blutman will be unveiling his playoff tonight. And we also, me and Blutman will open our year long competition of, uh, lease wins, wins. We're going to draft five teams. And at the end of the year, the, the, the guy with the least wins wins, and that's how we're doing it. Uh, we'll have, uh, we'll have those two things. We'll have the categories right now. I can tell you that Liam Blutman's YouTube channel, uh, the, the, the sister channel to this one, the, the brother channel, how, how's it work? Sister channel, right? It's sister say sister channel channel. He'll have an interview with, uh, Notre Dame superstar, probably maybe the best player in college football, Leonard Moore. And then he'll also have Tim Polisek, the North Dakota state head coach. So you've got those two interviews going live tonight, correct? Correct. Very excited. Leonard Moore. One is a bit shorter. Paul's like a bit longer. I think both of them are very good. Leonard Moore, one of the great characters in the sport. This show right here will include our, uh, our categories. Uh, we'll have our five, our, our I'll have two interviews myself at the end of the show. At the very end, we'll have a Virginia quarterback, Pope Robula, who looked impressive the other day after transferring from Penn state and Missouri. We'll talk to him for about 10 minutes. And one that I really, really, really, really like. Um, and I don't know if, if our audiences clash or if our audiences overlap, if they do in any way, if, if the, you know, 65 to 70,000 people who will be watching this on YouTube, uh, if the, you know, 50 to 60,000 who listened to this exclusively on podcast, if you guys don't know who Brooks Austin is, he is the film guy. He has his own YouTube empire over there. In fact, I was jealous today. I think he, he just put out an interview with Shane Gillis who was on our list for my guy to go out and get Shane Gillis and didn't happen. So, uh, one, nothing, one, nothing Brooks. But anyway, we have about an hour of ball talk with Brooks Austin. He's a, he's a YouTube. He's a college football personality who leans heavily, heavily, heavily to watch film, break it down and translate it to information for the lay person such as myself. He's, he's a better ball watcher than I, um, I, I am just the number one cultural media personality in the world, but that guy knows what he's doing. Are you a big Brooks Austin guy? Again, I wish I watched more Brooks Austin. If I did, I would be so much smarter than the, the idiot I am. So he did just call you out like five times on the, didn't call you out. I mean, he shouted you out and he shouted you out on the interview. So we'll have that. That's about 49 minutes of that. All right, let's get right to game one, our week one, uh, week zero happened last week. Week one is, uh, kicking off really much as we speak. Uh, somebody says, uh, EXJ says for, uh, Brooks Austin, he's an sec shill. You dumb whiny crybaby bitches say that about every single person in media, every single person in college football media. You're like, he's an sec shill, uh, wipe the fucking, fucking sand out of your vagina and shut the fuck up. Oh, he's an sec shill or he just talks college football. Turns out if you talk college football, you're probably going to be a big 10 shill or an sec shill. Cause they're the best conferences in the country with most of the great teams. It's how it works. It's how it fucking works. Don't be a bitch on my channel. Be a bitch on somebody. Go to, go to pay, go wind a paint. Let, uh, let him, uh, go, go cry on his shoulder. All right. So here we go. We've got, uh, the week one categories, the game of the week, the game to watch this week. I think it's easy. I am anxious to see Blutman. If you change it, or if you have one that isn't actually, I know what yours probably is because your team is playing in it, but mine is easily Ole miss Louisville. I know LSU is playing, uh, LSU is opening the lane Kiffin era with Clemson. That's fine. I don't know if Clemson is going to do their part to make that a great game. I do think Louisville is going to have something special in store for Ole miss Ole miss starting the peak golden era on paper. Ole miss has maybe the best quarterback in the country. Maybe the best running back in the country. Uh, the defense looks pretty good, but what if Louisville were to change it? We're going to shock them to open the season, but what if, and what if Ole miss look great? There's there, there's a bunch here. These are the two best teams showing up and playing each other on Saturday. That is my number one game to watch this week. Blutman what's yours. I mean, right now it's UMass Rutgers. I'm having a blast watching Lonergan, Raymond and Duff Brian Walker at the end. I never said that. Okay. Continue. Okay, dude. Raymond and Duff's going to be a first round pick. Maybe whatever. By the end of the season, I might get an award. That is better and more credible than the Nobel peace prize. And that is being the least biased personality in college football. My game of the week is Ole miss Louisville. Don't overthink it. That is the best game this week. That is the game that we cannot wait to watch at six 30 central on Sunday night, which is unfortunately, and a crime against humanity, not a standalone game, a heinous crime that should be standalone. We'll still watch Notre Dame, Wisconsin at Lambeau, but it won't be a sound on you. You, you gave it all the right reasons. Ole miss Louisville's must see television by far the spectacle of the week. Yeah, it really is. Now let's do another one. Let's, we're going to be quick tonight. We're not going to bog down on these categories. We're not going to bog down on anything. We're just going to go. We're going to go fast. We're going to get to Brooks. Awesome. We're going to get to bro. We're going to get to all the little things that we're doing the player to watch this week. To me, it's pretty easy. Now there's a lot, a lot of players out there, a lot of old faces and new places. A lot of guys, you know, they're going to be bounce back. A lot of this, a lot of that, of course, Chambliss against Louisville. And then you got Lincoln Keenholz making his season debut there for Louisville. But to me, the number one debut, the number one guy I want to see in his new place is Sam Leavitt at LSU. I think we'll know early. I think we'll know quick if he comes out and struggles or doesn't get the Lane Kiffin offense or doesn't really gel with his receivers. They could, they could look vulnerable very, very quickly. I think you're going to know about Lane Kiffin's imprint, are they distracted by what's going on in the courts? I don't know, but I do know Sam Leavitt is the one I'm most anxious to see of all the players in this country. Who is your player to watch this weekend? Well, it's going to be Sam Leavitt. I'm a smart guy. I knew you would go with him. Did you know Brandon Jacobs, former New York Giants running back? His son is the starring left tackle at Clemson. He's a six foot seven, 345 pound behemoth that is getting so much NFL love after the game. He's a six foot seven, 345 pound behemoth that that's going to be my 345 pound behemoth that is getting so much NFL love after the game. He's a six foot seven, 345 pound behemoth player to watch in Death Valley, that environment, everyone focused on Kiffin LSU. I want to see what he does. samuel masego at ucla linebacker the under the radar game of the week blutman you will go first liberty at james madison liberty sneaky terrible last week uh last year jamie chadwell needs to figure it out get together they were four and a jalen henderson versus probably cj evans and quarterback matchup fun early game and mine was of course liberty and jm you i'm changing it on the fly right now i'm changing it on the fly and right now i'm gonna say it's colorado georgia tech under the radar i know they're on a thursday night they're starting a little bit but like this is a game we were kind of excited for last year as georgia tech was on the come up they were on the rise they had haynes king but it's a very well coached team and they're not getting talked about a lot this year you've got uh mendoza you got you got some things going on and colorado i'm just morbidly curious about like everything we saw in the offseason about the you know the the strength and conditioning program where we see the pictures and then nobody's got any arms nobody's got any legs and it's it's just not impressive is the dion experiment or dion tenure not experiment the dion tenure is it in trouble will it last past this year will they surprise people i'm really just kind of anxious to see what we see out georgia tech in colorado it's like i have questions about both teams and we'll see tonight uh my upset alert i got one just almost based solely on vibes i think i'll be the only person in the world that will mention this game for this reason bloodman what is your upset alert now upset alert is not picking a team to beat another team an upset alert is identifying a spot where ranked team or a highly favored team better be fucking careful because everything is there for a for an upset what would you say is upset alert i i've said with you a few times this week it's northwestern hosting south coast state the best team in the fcs i don't understand how northwestern is a two touchdown favorite in this game is aiden chiles good brandon i just a straight up question for you is a and charles good i don't think so so and he's but maybe yeah but maybe yeah there are two touchdown favorite chase mason the south the south dakota quarterback has nfl eyes on him entering his senior season there's a cool little um narrative here with griffin wildey former jack rabbit receiver who's the best player northwestern and then i like landon delaney and jack smith young wideouts for south coast state my upset alert is just based solely on vibes and vibes alone i can't tell you and i'm just going to say it i can't tell you a single player on one of these teams not not a single one of them not not not even i can't even hazard a guess as to what a player's name would be on this team but wouldn't it be vanderbilt like if vanderbilt goes uh 10 and 2 last year and gets to the edge of the playoff conversation and clark lee's a very good coach they have diego pavia they they get right up to the edge of the playoff and they miss it and you say well at least vanderbilt's here now vanderbilt is here wouldn't it be like vanderbilt to start the next season by uh like being in a in a 1917 game with austin p late in the fourth quarter that just it just it's vibes only vibes only can't tell you a goddamn thing about austin p don't even know i don't know about austin p i don't know about austin poop i don't know about austin anything i don't know anything about austin p i'm just saying upset alert vanderbilt we're assuming you're going to be good but i that's that's my upset alert um the liam blutman close your eyes and just get through it game of the week which is the worst game of the entire week can i go first liam please do i was looking at big time spreads and the thing that most people don't know about is that they don't know about these big time spreads is they have a big time team attached to it they have a huge you know uh it's not surprising that say a texas would be a 30 point favorite over texas state it's not surprising that ohio state would be a huge favorite it's not surprising that any of these big time teams are big favorites over the tomato can they're playing what if i told you what if i told you that the louisiana tech bulldogs were 46 and a half point favorites this weekend who would you say they're playing you're asking me who yes i'm asking you are they playing northwestern state perhaps that's exactly who they're playing they're playing the team that lost to louisiana christian last week louisiana tech is coming into the season i don't think anybody has these crazy wild high expectations of louisiana tech they're 46 and a half point favorites because their opponent lost a fucking louisiana christian last week their opponent lost to a team whose coach was getting uh a cell phone call and they lost to a team whose coach was on the sidelines from the pizza delivery guy that is who northwestern state lost to last week and now they're 46 and a half point dogs to la tech is there anybody outside of family and loved ones in ruston louisiana that want to watch this game they want to watch anything involved with these two teams i beg you so now liam blotman what is your liam blotman memorial close your eyes game of the week what do you think it was i knew who louisiana tech was playing off rip okay all right yeah We need to make sure we have the different ones That is the most do not ever put your eyes on this game of all time get rid of that guy will not beat this for years Yeah that's a bad one that's a uh that's a that's a bad one um let me do an ad and then we'll uh we got brooks austin coming up we got a bow perbula coming up we got uh all that great stuff uh coming up why doesn't uh let's see why doesn't mississippi state get sued for that uh why doesn't mississippi for recruiting NFL players? Probably because they haven't, I guess. I don't know that we have. So Rocket Money can track subscriptions, has the ability to cancel unwanted ones within the app with just a few taps, giving users an easy way to stop paying for things they don't use. There's automatic transaction categorization across accounts plus customizable categories. Brandon, I think you pulled up last episode's ads. You think I pulled up last episode's ads? I believe so. So you're saying I should have unfolded this one that says BFW ads 9-3? Yeah. Is that what you're saying to me? I believe so. Well, why didn't you give me the damn ads and put a paperclip on it and then put a note on there that says Brandon Walker ads 9-3? Why didn't you do that? I should have thought of that. You should have. Apologize. I'm sorry to you in the chat. That one's on me. It is. Because if you had put a paperclip and a note on it that said BFW ads 9-3, I would have known these were the ads for 9-3. Unbelievable. Shame. Put me in the penalty box. Liam, are you ashamed of your brother? At some point, you just lose the capability of feeling shame. Yeah, you really do. For the podcast listeners, that's exactly what happened. And Lukey had given me, a stack of papers with a note that said ads 9-3. And I just looked right over them and picked up last show's ads. The wait is over. Football is here and so is DraftKings. DraftKings sports app is now live in all 50 states. That means from Texas to California to Florida. Every fan is in on the excitement. And this September, DraftKings is giving customers the opportunity to get boosted every football game day. That's right. Every game day, all month long, DraftKings customers can get a football profit boost. One app, every sport. All 50 states. New DraftKings customers sign up with CodeWalker, spend just $5, get $200 in total rewards within 21 days. Includes all markets. That's CodeWalker. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. 1-800-MY-RESET. 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Five teams I'm going to pick, you're going to pick before week one. And at the end of the season, the team that has the least wins, wins this competition. Would you like to go pick first or second and third? I'll take second and third. All right. I will pick first and I will go. New rule. Five teams. Three have to be power conference teams. Easy. I'm going to go with the UMass. UMass Minutemen as pick number one of teams that will win the least games of this year. Lukey put UMass on my side. That's pick one. Liam, what's the test? They just hit a 40-yard pass. That's great timing. Liam, what you got? Yeah. Give me Kent State. Lowly Kent State and Southern Miss who lost everything in the divorce with Charles Huff. You took Kent State and Southern Miss. Give me. Give me. I'm going to do it. I said it earlier. Give me the Colorado Buffaloes. And give me. Give me. ruckers now i might win tonight uh but i got give me colorado and ruckers to go along with my first pick of umass so i need one more power five team you still need three power five teams go how sad is it how bad ruckers is while having one of the best receivers and one of the best running backs in football it's almost the saddest nice i'll take stanford and arkansas okay i need one more power five give me this is to wrap it up for me give me purdue and purdue oh umass touchdown give me give me give me purdue and ul monroe good picks i'll close it with uh well if kansas was just really bad again just kansas lukey get rid of this guy spamming the chat i want to read the chat and i want you guys to be part of this but i don't just don't we're not spamming we're not spamming we're not doing this we're not we're not typing the same thing over and over and over and over again it ruins everybody else's experience i would like for you guys to be able to talk to me i can talk to you i would like for that to happen but if you just show up and you you your life is to spam the same thing over and over and over and over or just get rid of them i i don't i'm not doing that you can go go wherever you want to go we're not doing that um so did we finish did we finish that draft yep we did i ended up with ruckers colorado umass ul monroe and purdue and you ended up with who uh i just realized that you took two teams that are one of them is guaranteed a win yeah i know i know i mean it is what it is yeah yeah it is what uh kent state southern miss arkansas kansas stanford uh let me do a couple more ads and then we got uh we got brooks also oh you got your playoff right got my playoff you got yours i got my playoff too if we have time i'm gonna do it uh so we've got uh blue chew this episode is sponsored by blue chew guys what do women want and need i don't know but when the vibe is right a good consensual tick appointment never heard they're sponsoring this podcast and 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tonight right luki can you pick a pick a chat or pick a pick a question out of the chat and put it on the screen is that something you can possibly do yeah i would need a second to pull it up okay even if you don't i'll just read it how about this chat i'm with you for the next five minutes let's give it a shot you guys ask me and blutman questions we will uh we will go for you we will answer the question we'll see how well we do chat you got five minutes blubman you got your playoff ready i got my playoff locked and loaded locked and loaded uh give me playoff team number one the georgia bulldogs one seed i you know i got them winning win at all give me a playoff team number one the georgia bulldogs one seed i you know i got them winning the 12 seed north to coast stay i flipped from memphis to ntsu uh early saturday morning could lsu says lena or w64 could lsu win by three touchdowns 100 yes they could uh ryan garvey says first coach fired so let's let's let's explore that for a second if mike norvell loses to smu in embarrassing fashion he he's not the coach on tuesday right that's so sad that they went into and then that was always going to be a reality it is but i don't want to spoil a later segment i think they're beating smu this week i i think it's a dangerous spot for smu uh i i didn't use them as upset alert because again i'm going to use them for something else but i think norvell norvell does even if they beat smu he can still be the first coach fired he can still not make it out of course i i think i had him getting fired halloween november 1st after clemson now i like this team to bounce back but there's a world beamer doesn't get out of uh there's a world beamer doesn't get out of uh october so you know or coctober excuse me um let's see you know maryland locksley was that comment sponsored by blue chew yeah that's right yeah yeah um let's see uh is dabbo on the hot seat this year i truly believe dabbo lives his life above a hot seat uh i believe he lives a life especially now i feel like people are coming around on dabbo is the anti everything wrong in college football which i never thought i'd live to see i really do think with with fans frustrations about this nfl thing about the nil thing about the transfer bowl thing like dabbo standing and kind of stout defiance it doesn't do much for their win loss record and it doesn't do much for short-term clemson but he does kind of seem like a guy who's getting more favor publicly because of his stances on that stuff um most underrated helmet in each conference wow kwe 12 30 most underrated helmet in each i would say auburn for the sec i think auburn's a very strong helmet but you wouldn't mention it with florida or texas or some of those i think that one's a good one um i don't know how you how you quantify that because in the acc the best helmets are florida state and miami but i think louisville's got a strong helmet uh nc state's got a strong helmet thoughts i'm thinking i tennessee maybe in the sec yeah mississippi state using the interlock logo is a big deal i like that a lot that's back jesus christ that's back i'm just can michigan state ever get back to being a winning program says marcus moss 87 75 yes 100 again we live in a world where indiana won the national title so yes michigan can michigan state can get back to being a winning program all right um let me uh you want to use helmet underrated there's a problem properly rated i think it's properly rated i don't think it's the sexiest thing now they're overall as a uniform their their uniform is probably underrated but i don't think the helmet really does a whole lot for me uh west virginia has an underrated helmet i don't mind oh 100 somebody says old miss powder blue doesn't get talked about enough i think it gets over talked about i think it gets talked about way too much we there was a powder blueification in sports obviously old miss was ahead of that curve but we've been powder blued to extreme levels recently new sponsor alert we got a new sponsor alert can you uh sound the horn blubber sound the horn what that was a good door uh give me give me playoff team in your playoff seed number 11 oklahoma give me seed number two notre dame this episode is brought to you by iq bar snack sponsor iq bars are better for you clean plant-free protein bars packed with fiber and brain boosting nutrients with zero added sugar you no longer have to choose between healthy or delicious snacks iq bars plant protein bars are packed with highly high quality ingredients to help keep you physically and mentally fit you won't find any unrecognizable ingredients on their label the number one ingredient in their bars is almonds iq bars are great for any diet whether by choice or due to allergies iq bars are free from gluten dairy soy gmos and artificial sweeteners try any of their nine delicious flavors including mint chocolate chip chocolate sea salt banana nut toasted coconut chip lemon 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heard one that i'm like oh wow what a surprise yet i don't know if that comes yeah number eight seed lsu nine washington that's quite a surprise and the number 10 kansas state and oh the three surprises will be washington k state north dakota state i i almost think i about g5 representative just feels like a surprise no matter who you mention like if you say memphis or it just feels yeah so um You almost get a free one with your G5 representative, although you are picking a team that is just now starting at this level, so that would be quite the accomplishment for those guys. Why Kansas State? Why Kansas State? I really think, again, it happens with any Big 12 team. The schedule is super gettable. I know that there's some injuries on the offensive line, but I'm really putting a lot of trust and faith into Colin Kline to extract all the talent possible out of Avery Johnson and see this team as a real bounce-back candidate this year, get the ball rolling early and never look back. Still like the defense. I don't see why they can't win 10 games, have a close loss in the conference championship, and make the playoff on the back end. I just think a lot of the SEC is going to beat each other up, like Texas A&M, Ole Miss. I don't see any of them getting in. Yeah, no, I think it's a very, very, very crowded field. Somebody in the chat said, why does everybody believe in LSU when has Lane Kiffin not fucked it up? Last year. Last year when the team he put together was in the Final Four. It's pretty easy. Brandon, what do you think about when Tennessee goes 7-5 is hypo-fired? Sean McDonald, 41-40, and I believe, if I'm not mistaken, is that Travi for the boys? Is Travi for the boys hanging out in here asking Tennessee, leading Tennessee questions because he's an Alabama slobbering homer? I got to find this. He's asking or saying Brandon needs to talk about the chance of hypo being fired. So I'm going to say that's him. So here's the thing. We work in a company with media professionals, and I often make fun of some college football fans that just cannot separate their fandom from their emotions, from their intelligence. They're all one and the same. Your intelligence should be above your emotions, which should be above your fandom. But we have an Alabama fan who works on our TikTok who only. who lives, drinks, eats, breathes Auburn and Tennessee failing. It's not even about Alabama succeeding. He only wants Tennessee to fail. College football is truly where your passions outweigh your intelligence, and Travi for the boys is a great example of that. Tate is a great example of that. I'm trying to think of somebody else. Those two for sure. Geno might be an example of that. But not on their level. Not on their level. Geno seems like he's a level-headed guy. So your playoff. Geno says he's watched more Drew Mess the Maker tape than some of the coaches on Oklahoma State this offseason. All right, so your playoff. You just gave me the 12 teams. Did you go all the way with it, or did you just give me the 12 teams? I didn't go all the way with it. I just have Georgia winning a national championship. I'm not even sure against who yet. I tweeted that. I forget. All right, here's my play. Well, all right. Yeah, Lukey. Okay. All right, so we actually don't have time to release my playoff today. We will release my playoff on Monday's show. I'm being told that on Labor Day, we'll release my playoff. Don't have time. 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Brian Rowe, UCLA against Cal Saturday night. Let's be a little selfish. How nervous are you going into UCLA, Cal? I'm not. I'm not nervous. I don't get nervous. I get very, very excited. It's the first time I've been excited. I really think we're going to pick him off at the end of the second quarter. I really think we're going to win this game. I think we're as a better football team, Brad. I really do. My pick for this DraftKings profit boost, my pick for this weekend, my favorite pick is on Monday night. Everybody watched Florida State be mediocre the other day. Everybody has high expectations for SMU. But guess what? Your biggest improvement, game one to game two, SMU hasn't seen themselves at all. I got Florida State beating SMU Friday. I got Florida State in the upset, winning. As bad as they looked, three points? That's what Vegas is telling me? Three points? Nah. Nah, son. Uh-uh. I ain't falling for it. Florida State's winning this game. Florida State will win this game. 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I would like to announce this based on podcast listens and YouTube views right now over last year when it was still unnecessary roughness. Shout out to all my friends that did that with me. I was with Casey Smith for seven years. But, Brandon Walker football show up 80% year over year. As far as every metric, as far as YouTube views and podcast listens, the numbers are very good. We're averaging, I believe, 70,000 people every single time we put out a YouTube video. That's fantastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. But now the season starts. So, I want to get bigger. I want to get better. I want to do all these things. All the interviews, if you ever see an interview you want me to do, please text me or not text me, tweet me. Do all that. Let me know. I want it to be a show that I listen to you guys. That's why I do the chat. The chat has a lot of people that just want to be assholes. But it has 80% of people who just want to talk ball and just come up and do that stuff. So, that's why I like to read the chat. I like to read the chat every time we're doing streams because I just like to interact. I think it's the best way to do this job. And if you're willing to interact with me and not be a fucking dickbag, it can be fun. So, here we go. Every Saturday night, we're going to be live. But right now, Liam, anything to say before we bring in this interview? I don't got anything to say except Brook Sauce, the one, the best in the biz. He really is. If you've never seen Brook Sauce, he is a ball knower to the extreme. He's fantastic. Check him out. He's not me. I'm always going to be the number one college football media personality in the world despite people having more views and more successful and more money. I'm still number one. Anyway, I got Brook Sauce coming on the show. After that, I got Bo Pribula. I got him from Virginia. So, I got an interview with that. But I'm going to go right now to my interview. With the film guy, Brooks Austin. right film time film guy time let me tell you something i don't respect a lot of people in this business because most of them suck they really really do there's a lot of people in college football media that you can tell don't even really want to be here they're just kind of here and that's been a plague in college football for a long time and uh but i do think there's this new generation pate certainly is somebody uh that loves it i love it you know and and this guy i respect this guy's a ball knower this is a ball knower supreme that i'm bringing on right here in fact he's got it right there on his damn screen says ball knower uh it's brooks austin the film guy um got the film guy network going on over there every night from eight to ten um just always out there always doing some intriguing stuff and now he's on the show to talk a little ball with us what's up brooks you're right man i i do feel very blessed and lucky to do this hell i'm like most people that are in media they used to do something else outside of this and dream to have a microphone dude i worked in construction the first five years i got out of college football and uh i was like uh no i'm not doing this the rest of my life and then maintained working in construction for the first three years of doing this little media journey uh because i was making you know pennies and dimes so yeah like i love my job and i know you do too uh you're so passionate about what you do and how could you not be if you're not go find something else to do go pack boxes man like this is this is a dream for sure yeah go play intramurals brother uh so um It's Brooks Austin. He's the film guy. Now, when we were texting last night and we were going to set up, and we're in a very exciting point of the year because Saturday opens the entire floodgates. And Saturday might not look that great on paper as far as matchups, but it's still a full day of college football, so we're going to be excited. You said, I can talk about how drunk I am on Camario Taylor hype. Now, I'm a Mississippi State fan, so I'm not going to subject people to that right now. But let's take that idea and expand it to the rest of the country. Who are some other players that you're just drunk on? You're just, I can't get enough of this player. I can't get enough of getting to watch this player this year. Who is a Camario Taylor-like guy that you can't wait to see? Yeah, I mean, the world got introduced to JKS out there at Cal last year. We're going to get to see them against UCLA Saturday night in the Sickos matchup there at 1030 Eastern. That kid can flat-out rip the football. It's more than like, I've never seen lefties that don't have funky spin. You know, like everybody that's ever listened to a football. Coach says that lefty ball spins a little bit different, and it does. It tilts on an opposite axle than most right-handed quarterbacks. But having seen him throw the ball in person, somehow it doesn't tilt funny. It has a natural, true spin to it, and he makes NFL throws left and right. I mean, Brian Harsin got absolutely crapped on during his time at Auburn. I thought he did a relatively decent job last year as an offensive coordinator, but I'm slap-hammered on that one. Now, I had to go through, like, rehab processes with Lenora Sellers. Sure. I'm not going to lie to you. Mike Shula did that to me. I'm off the wagon on Sellers, by the way. I'm completely. I'm completely. I've picked the bottle back up myself, too. I'm like, damn it. I, oh, yeah. Last year, so many of us looked foolish coming the year with our top 10 quarterback list, and then, you know, Nussmeyer doesn't do well, and Klubnick doesn't do well, and Aller doesn't do well, and Lagway doesn't do well, and we all had him up there. But there's something about Sellers, man, where I just look at him like, he's too talented. be mediocre two years in a row so I'm I got the seller's bottle in my hand I'm sitting on the front porch I'm watching traffic go by and I'm just like let me drink this thing because I know it's going to taste good I don't think at all it took for me was Kendall Bryles and look I think what we should have realized last year is if you would have set me down and be like hey Brooks are you sure about this like dude the the new offensive coordinator hasn't called offensive play since 2016 and by the way he's never called them in college I would have probably been like all right maybe I do need to put down the sauce a little bit but no that all it took for me was Kendall Bryles and I'm like all right I'm I'm back off the wagon let's go I'm here for the Lenore's train because he's just so uber talented man he's all like he's a lot of the same reasons I love Camario not as a a pure and beautiful of a passer and throw over the football as Camario but because it is kind of it is from the ear man he looks like a catcher back there but he's built like a damn catcher too he's 6'3 246 and built like a brick shithouse so I'm back on the Lenore's train and uh my loved ones are concerned don't get me wrong they're like hey we kind of liked you when you were sober but uh yeah I'm back on the Lenore's train there's other guys uh that are coming into power for football like like Byron Brown at Auburn um I go back and forth on him I go back and forth on him because I'm just not sure I I the main thing I think about with him is did they bring in enough big time power for offensive talent to help him and to make this offense has been such a mess they lost Cam Coleman um I know the defense is bringing back a pretty good chunk there at Auburn but I don't know if I can get all the way where a lot of other people are like Byron Brown's going to tear it up at Auburn the SEC 16 teams this year how many teams think they have a really good quarterback 14 of them like like there's a there's there's going to be some disappointed fan bases as far as quarterbacks go in this league and I I don't know what do you think about Auburn and what do you think about Byron Brown? Byron Brown transitioning to this level yeah so I think the physicals will translate right like they're going to translate when he inevitably becomes a tight end or gets asked to be a tight end in Sunday football right six foot four and a half 235 pounds and it's it's one thing to be like hey he's a 4-4 runner in shorts and a t-shirt nowadays like we have GPS metrics we know exactly how fast you are in pads on a Saturday and that kid I think popped 23 miles an hour on the catapult that athletic that's gonna be a an SOB to tackle no matter what um so from a running game standpoint he'll be fine that will translate but yeah I mean everybody knows everybody can see it it doesn't take some ball knower to look at video that guy throwing the football and go oh yeah that looks like it that looks like it hurts man um but I will say this going back and watching their USF stuff particularly against SEC opponents you know they are a wide choice system but I think they use the screen game way better than all these other teams they're not going to be able to do that they they they have traditional halfback screens they have tunnel screens bubble screens and that's like really hard to do when we're lined up outside the numbers but I think that's goalish is kind of trick and maybe he's figured that out because of you know the limitations that Byram has as a thrower but they will be able to run the football as all these wide choice systems do Tennessee's been top three in the SEC since Heupel's been there uh your folks down there Mississippi State run the football despite the fact that they're down in a lot of football games over the last couple of years and they're not going to be able to run the football games they can still run the damn ball um and Auburn will be able to run the football this year it's just about like hey are are we going to be too limited of a thrower to be able to to score enough points in this conference when they got into those SEC you know battles last year at USF in the last several years they really shrink the game yeah which is like opposite of what these normal wide choice systems do to try and take 80 snaps a football game I think they took 65 offensive snaps against Florida last year I don't know if you're going to be able to do that week in and week out even with DJ Durkin as a defensive coordinator I think you're going to go into some games where it's like all right boys like we got to score 35 points today and we can't do it milking the clock and slowing things down we got to play a little bit more pace which ultimately might lead to a little bit more mistakes uh but no physically he'll be fine I don't know what we're going to see from a throwing standpoint you're right about this the the skill position players I think they brought over four of their top five receivers from USF and they're going to be able to do that week in and week out and it's like I know the quarterback's big and fast but are USF wide receivers going to be able to get separation in this conference that that'll be a major question can Bryce Underwood oh let me ask you a different way can uh Whittingham and staff reclaim Bryce Underwood and put him back on the path to unlocking that five-star potential that made him this huge gigantic recruit um and can they undo a year of basically some of the worst coaching you'll ever see for a freshman uh quarterback have can Bryce Underwood be restored and and be put back on a path to where he was where he should be going you know I released a film study on him and and basically titled it like they got to start from ground zero yeah that's gotta start all the way over and I immediately started getting you know text messages and phone calls from people at the Michigan era or Michigan realm and they're like hey that's kind of exactly what they're gonna do they're gonna you know build him from the blocks up and I'm like that's that's great to hear um he was coached horribly last year but was he coached at all you know what I mean like some of those bat he wasn't right that that I was leading the witness there he wasn't coached at all he had no quarterbacks coach according to Whittingham and just developed bad habits that I think he entered college with a lot of these five-star quarterbacks that's why I'm so high on Keelan because he's the antithesis of this a lot of these five-star quarterbacks in high school are just getting buy-off traits they're just out there running around doing whatever the hell they want because their arm can fix it and it's like hey I'm I'm gonna have my feet parallel to the floor I'm gonna have my feet parallel to the line of scrimmage and watch me rip this dart and it's like that's cool that's awesome you're not gonna be able to do that on a consistent level in college and it sucked for him last year because he was still doing a lot of these bad things and getting away with a lot of it sure there's a play that there's a play in the cheesy bowl Brandon where his his hips are completely pointed to the sideline and he throws a damn 45 yard laser beam to the back pylon and he you know he does one of his after the plate it's like cool yeah I'm glad you got away with that one but every fifth ball might be an interception and three of the five might just go God knows where. It's awesome you did it once. Can you continue to repeat it? Those are things I would imagine Beck and this offensive system are probably going to be grinding hard on. I'm just bouncing all over the country. Just kind of following you because you mentioned Keelan Russell. There's a thought process that, oh, now Kalen DeBoer's got his guy. Watch this. Five-star Keelan Russell. He's just going to go right in there. Now he's got his guy. My issue with that, and I'm sure you got the film. I'm sure you love the guy. Quarterback wasn't the issue. Quarterback wasn't the issue at Alabama. Toughness was the issue. The lack of classic Alabama football when they laid down against Florida State and they laid down in the playoff game against Indiana. So convince me that this quarterback can overcome that or maybe am I making too much of the toughness issue and I should shut the fuck up. You don't have to cuss like me, but that's fine. No, I was wondering. Honestly, I didn't watch it, but I'm sure Peyton made you not swear. I was impressed you went an hour there apparently without dropping a fuck. Did you do that? Were you able to? I did, and I hated it the whole time. I hated myself. Did the chair have a shock feature on you? Like, how did that work? No. You're just disciplined? No, no. I actually had a butt plug in the whole time, and it would shock me if I said it. No, I just, you know what? I'm trying to do a face turn as well. I'm trying to do this thing where I don't cuss as much. I do have some dads being like, I'd like to listen to you in my car so my kid can listen. Now, they're probably lying and don't even have a car and don't even have a kid, but whatever. Trying to do a face turn, trying to be a little bit better, but sometimes, you know, especially on these Saturday night shows, I'm going to be doing the recaps. I'm going to let it fly, and I got to be me. You got to be you. Keelan Russell, Alabama. Yeah, back to the Alabama thing. Does toughness just look like for you? When I think of, like, oh, tough bully football, like, are they going to be an inside zone, run-at-your-face football team? I don't think that's what they ever want to be. I don't think that's what Kalen DeBoer is. I don't think that's what Ryan Grubb was or is. If you watch them at Washington, they were a wide zone, counter-based football team. Like, they're trying to stretch the ball and then get north and south, and I think that's why it took so long for them to be able to run the football, and there's still questions about it, right? Like, we go into 2026 with tremendous amounts of questions about the offensive line, but they did throw new bodies at that, Brandon. Like, they had a player personnel pool that did not match what they were trying to do schematically or what they want to be. I can tell you this right now. I don't think Ryan Grubb and Kalen DeBoer ever ran duo, which is a downhill run scheme during their times at Washington. They get to Alabama, and their left tackle is 395 pounds when he gets to camp, and then it's like, hey, we got to start losing some weight here, and the only guy they brought over with them from an offensive line standpoint that matched what they want to do is Parker Brailsford, the center. Tremendous athlete. You look at that roster this offseason. They turned it over, not just from a player personnel standpoint, but they changed the coach, too. Brought in seven new offensive linemen that are all athletic-based acquisitions. They're all guys that are really good athletes. Their profile said that they can move. We'll see if that ultimately works out, but I think it took a couple of years to kind of turn that roster over and get players that they actually want to have run their types of schemes. So, I'm a little bit more bullish that they're going to be able to run the football slightly better, and based off the fact that it seems like they're going to be able to run the simply cannot be much worse. It simply cannot be much worse. When I turned them on on Sunday nights last year, half the time I would just throw my notebook down and go, what the fuck are we doing? How do we not put hats on hats? Right? Like, I don't have to be super football guru guy to explain this to the audience. The five offensive linemen should block five people. That's it. At least they should get five hats on five hats, especially in pass protection, and they couldn't do that. They couldn't do the basic minimums last year, and I at least appreciate about Kalen, he did something that Steve Sarkeesian did not do. He fired the offensive line coach. He watched that crap for 14 games and was like, you're out of here, bud. I'm bringing in a new guy and brought in Andrew Clem, the NFL offensive line coach, and at least changed that up. Texas did not. Texas is rolling with Kyle Flood for $1.8 million for the third straight year or however many years he's been there. So, we'll see. Add Kyle Flood to the coaches that don't make as much money. So, this is where I'm at on Alabama. I'm just going to make a statement on Alabama that I'll move on. It's when you're in your third year as coach in the first two, you already lost the toughness on the offensive and defensive lines. That really bothers me as a trend. I don't need you to talk about more Alabama. That's kind of me and my thing. I got to get through with them because, you know, the skill talent's there and there's stuff there to like, but I just, I don't like him at all. Now, two quarterbacks. Julian's saying Dante Moore. To me. To me, they both had the same problem. And it's a problem most quarterbacks are going to have because of the very nature of what I'm about to say. Dante Moore was at his worst against the elite defenses. When they played Indiana both times, he wasn't all that good. When they played Iowa last year on the road, when they played Penn State on the road, he just wasn't that good. Now, he had moments in both those games where he led drives that were very important. Julian's saying the same way. He had his worst game against Indiana, his worst game against the best defenses. So, my criticism of both those guys as they try to lead their team to a national title is they really weren't good against elite competition. Do you think that's a fair criticism of Dante Moore and of Julian saying, or is that just, is that just, duh, everybody's worse against elite competition? A little bit of dub, but I'll start with Julian saying, like, when I watched the Indiana Big Ten Championship game and then watched the Miami game, I'm like, well, we talk a lot about scar tissue at the quarterback position on our channel, Brandon, like issues that get created over the year. And then we watched the final game and it's like, why? Why are you bailing out of clean pockets? And they're like, well, coach, I haven't had a clean pocket all year, right? Like, I got a huge scar in my playing style that has been created because we have issues. Well, with him, with Julian saying at Ohio State, those were fresh wounds. Those weren't scar tissue things. They had the same amount of combined sacks in that Miami and Indiana game, 10, that they had all year entering those two football games. Yeah. They allowed 10 sacks. So, it was like brand new to him, being on his back, having to create with his legs, having to make interceptions. NFL pass rushers miss and then get flat, keep my eyes downfield and continue to hunt the defense. Like, that was brand new to that football player in his first year as a starting quarterback. So, I look at that and I, yes, I want more. And I think Ryan Davin talked about that this offseason. It's like, hey, what do you want to see from your quarterback? Well, I want to see us be able to play outside of structure a little bit more. I want to see him make us right when everyone's wrong type stuff, right? Like, I 100% agree with coach and the film said that, but when you look at those games, you're like, this is brand new to this kid. He'd been sitting pretty in pockets all year and now it's like, everything's blown up. Everything's chaos. They also sustained, I believe, Ohio State fans will definitely correct us. I believe they sustained an injury at right guard during the Michigan game and then had to, had a brand new starter in the Big Ten Championship game and a brand new starter right there against Miami. So, I would agree there. It's, it definitely has to get better. I do like that Julian's gotten bigger. He at least controlled what he could control from a horsepower standpoint. Look, that kid's never going to be 6'4". He's never going to be 230 pounds. He's never going to run a 4'5", but at least he did put on 10 to 15 pounds. A lot of these college kids nowadays that make all this money, Brandon, they don't get any better. They don't, they physically, they do not get better. All the, all the improvements come from playing time and I need you to handle some of this stuff in the weight room. So, I at least appreciate that. The only thing I will say about Dante is like, you mentioned the, the, the big time throws. He has more NFL throws on tape than anybody else. Like tight window, anticipatory throws against zone structures. Like that dude has big time throws, but the things that concern me about him is locked onto pre-snap reads way too much in a world of college football where we change a lot of the looks pre-snap and post-snap on defense. So, like prime example, that, that, that first interception against Indiana. I mean, from the moment he takes the ball, D'Angelo Pons knows he's throwing that speed out. He's staring it right down and we end up picking that football off. He had a very similar interception against JMU. Nobody remembers it because they were beating the hell up out of them, but we're staring down a square in on our, on our short side to our left side. And we, we completely missed the fact that a linebacker drops into the, the hook curl zone there and we hit him right in the face from JMU and they end up taking it back. And I think inside the red zone. So those things, and, and we can get really, really lackadaisical with our mechanics up there at Oregon with Dante, where we've been God's gift to throwing the football for a long time. But even that. Like we can, not very similar to the Bryce Underwood things, but he's so gifted that he knows he can get away with things and five to six times a game. He doesn't. And the ball just doesn't zip out of his hands. Like it does every other rep for this kid. So those would be moments of growth and areas of growth. I would expect from Dante feel like there's a universally accepted tier of seven elite teams this year. You can have some varying mileage on teams after that, like A&M Oklahoma and stuff like that. But those seven teams. I believe are Georgia and Texas out of the sec, Indiana, Ohio state, Oregon out of the big 10, Notre Dame and the Miami. I feel like that is a universally accepted elite tier of seven teams. I'll get to some more later, but using those seven as, as the elite tier right now, if I told you, I'm guaranteeing you one of these teams falls short of expectations and does not make the playoff. Who do you think I would be talking about? Who do you think that'll be the team we talk about in January is the team that did not live up to expectations. and did not make the playoff. man i've been hard on sark all offseason but it has to be them right like it has to be like there's but at this point brandon and i'm okay with being hated maybe not as much as you but at this point texas fans are ready to punch me in the mouth when they see me but yeah i i also don't like all the lip service from him this offseason like the guy like prime example two days ago he was like crossing his arms talking about how immoral this nfl stuff is and it's like buddy you got cole hudson on your roster yeah you at you at and i know cole hudson texas fans i know he did not sign an nfl contract i'm well aware he did not enter his name into the nfl draft but he still had an nfl jersey on him he still went to multiple otas he still tried to be an nfl football player and just wasn't good enough to be one and i also know he maintained his studentship status and was still in class but i mean newsflash all these guys stay as students even when they go to the league when they leave early it's why they're not in the nfl we got these guys coming back two years into their nfl career walking across the stage getting their diploma that that is not the line of demarcation a lot of demarcation for me is you tried the thing with the nfl that should be done that that's that's at least my opinion on this whole nonsense but no the steve sarkisian lip service this offseason has confused me quite a bit um he's constantly sticking his foot in his mouth um and you know we we haven't we haven't gotten over that hump enough to to be out here wiling at the microphone in my opinion so there's also the reality of uh ohio state and texas like one of them teams is going to lose that game that means in week two you're going to be one and one and both of those teams are looking uphill at a schedule that is nasty as hell ohio state still has to go to indiana after that they still have to go to usc after that they still got oregon coming in and texas still has a mile of uh highway in front of them so one of we i don't know that we talk about it enough like one of those teams is going to be behind the eight ball we saw texas last year they lost it now they weren't as good last year as they're going to be this year and that that's fair and they also lost to florida i don't think they have a roster that would lose to a florida this year but like the cheese can slide off the cracker pretty easily for for one of those teams now i'm just i'm just going i'm all around the country right now uh i watched kurt cignetti indiana they're certainly one of the seven national title contenders that i mentioned um but they're adding josh hoover and josh hoover is a turnover prone quarterback who at least in his career so far has has been responsible for a lot of turnovers cignetti seems like a coach that don't play that shit like if you're gonna make a lot of mistakes you're not gonna fucking play for me that's what he seems like is this marriage does it have a chance to be volatile or do you think cignetti fixes this problem and it doesn't become an issue i think the offensive scheme fixes the problem look kindle's great when he had kindle is great when he has a quarterback that can actually run the football right you go back to those uh kj jefferson years that arkansas go all the way back 10 12 15 years ago to the rg3 days at baylor like when they have an athlete back there that can run around a little bit their offense is far more explosive and far more turnover prone um when they have almost like a statuesque non-athletic pocket passer yeah that system turns into air raid and error air raid can go real real south from a turnover standpoint really quickly especially a lot yeah yeah especially if we feel like we might have to play a little bit more defensively but if we feel like we might have to play a little bit more defensively and we're gonna be driving the football down the field then we're gonna have to take risk with the ball and ultimately you know in order to win um whereas you look at that indiana offense and there's no there's no secrets about it dan orlowski uh was the national voice to kind of pull the mask off that offense during the nfl draft talking about ty simpson over fernando and his whole reasoning behind that was fernando doesn't play in an nfl system fernando's out here at indiana doing rpos 20 of his 30 dropbacks a game and he's not playing in an nfl system he's not playing in the nfl system he's not playing in an nfl system he's not playing in an nfl system he's not playing in a game and the rest of its mesh or stick and it's like very basic progression reads where the nfl is far from that the nfl is like we're gonna be progressive passer on almost every dropback we have apart from screen work at the line of scrimmage so i think the offensive system alone probably alleviates a lot of this also you're big on the indiana train i've heard lately um indiana is not one of these offense that offenses are you know football teams that tries to stretch the math they're actually trying to shrink it they play they they're ideal football game is 60 offensive snaps like they they don't want to take 75 80 snaps a football game so we're gonna limit the amount of times that we actually put this kid in a position to you know put the ball at risk with that rpo offense limiting time or you know or mastering time of possession shrinking the game all that good stuff and just out executing your butt left and right so i think it has far more to do with what we're gonna ask the quarterback to do um as opposed to oh he had 52 total turnovers at during his time of team or whatever the hell the stat is so they don't ask these guys to do all that much other than be accurate with the football and put the shoulders put the ball on the back shoulder in an rpo format and newsflash he gonna be able to do that well also he can probably honestly struggle a little bit the defense is going to be holding the other team to 11 12 points a game and like probably get him through some early struggles but anyway uh week one let's do a little week one let's do a little week one activity um let's take two random games both uh ranked matchups or not fully ranked but uh you got clemson at ls you you got louisville omiss on a neutral site if i guarantee you right now one of those uh one of those highly ranked sec teams is not surviving this weekend one of them is going down to their acc opponent which one would you say is more likely to do that i mean i know jack diddle about lincoln conholes but i probably take louisville to be omiss over clemson over lsu and one's a neutral site game one's in death valley the true death valley so like it's it's really not a a fair you know comparison in my opinion um but no i i'm a jeff braum believer i wouldn't say i'm like pounding the table for jeff braum it's like a top five football coach in college football but he does a whole lot more with a whole lot less as opposed to some of these football coaches some of these football coaches have 45 million dollar rosters and turn out nine and threes yeah this guy ain't gonna do that um and i think it's gonna be really hard to get him out of there everybody knows that's his alma mater um but that that guy does a lot offensively that is very intriguing um and they're consistently good um i i was i was like double taking the television screen last year in the month of november when i'm watching a louisville game and they have a trivia question about what football coaches won the most games in the acc over the last three years and everybody's thinking dabbo sweeney or mario crystal ball the answer was jeff braum um so this guy wins football games i would not be surprised if louisville finds a way to win that one my only thing about louisville is like can we figure out a way to get our best player a true workload without him getting hurt and that's the form of isaac brown uh last year isaac brown did not have a single football game with more than 16 attempts you ain't i don't know if you're gonna beat old miss on saturday with that he might need to be able to get a full workload here um almost that jeremiah love treatment without the secondary great bracken today or jadarian price like we we need you to take 20 totes today bud um if we're taking 20 totes today bud um if we're taking 20 totes today bud um if we're taking 20 totes today do you have any other uh week one game you know it's not a great week one uh it's not a week one that's got a texas ohio state or that has anything um anything like that like oklahoma and michigan they're all in week two you have any other game in week one that nobody's got circled that you're like you know we better get some eyeballs on this something might happen here we already mentioned the ucla cal game i think that one's going to be very intriguing um especially again for the sickos that are up till two o'clock in the morning on the first weekend of college football watching that one i think that one's going to be very intriguing um especially again for the sickos um georgia tech colorado maybe like that one's tomorrow that one's i think during the you're releasing this on thursday that one's on thursday night yeah um but i i expect those are two really down bad rosters this year i mean i i know georgia tech's been up and i know brent key is is the guy and and that's his school and he's a culture of toughness and all that good stuff but go look at that roster and tell me if you know a name brandon hell i'll do it better liam is the ultimate knower of ball players go ask a liam blutman if he knows anybody on that georgia tech roster apart from mendoza's little brother and the answer will probably be oh i remember justice haynes yeah and then that that's about it the only problem is liam just majors in random guys that are from nowheresville virginia and he he will be able to pop he will know the backup left guard for georgia tech but he'll only know it for the sake of knowing it so i so you're fair you're fair enough on that um i guess i'm gonna do it i wasn't gonna rip the band-aid off give me a little camario taylor man give me give me a little come on let's do it preach to me sing to me let me let me but imagine i'm gonna i'm in a concert and the the lights are off and you're about to play freebird and i just take my lighter out right now give me a little come on yeah let's let's cut a clip right quick let's aura farm for brandon walker um camario taylor is the freakiest and traitsiest athlete to ever play quarterback in the wide choice offense you look this you you go back into it you go back to ucf when they got dylan gabriel back there that dude's five foot ten he can sling a little bit but he ain't this you look at byron brown you're like man that guy's a great athlete guess what camario is and he can throw the football look at this um six foot four 235 pounds runs like a deer can stop on a dime can make every single throw in the world and here's what i love most brandon walker not just his loyalty but that young man's work ethic. You watched him in high school football. He didn't throw the football like this. He did not look like this as a true thrower of the football when he was 18 years old. It was ugly, man. It didn't look pretty. Now it looks pretty. How did we get there? Through a copious amounts of work. Through copious amounts of work. This kid, here's where I break your heart. This kid will be absolutely legendary this year. And if he's not, it's because everybody else around him was piss poor. And he'll be in the transfer portal making $8 million in January. Why? Why did you do that? I was just telling you to preach. And I was, you know what you just did? You know what you just did? You were preaching. And I was in the choir and I was swaying and I was saying, yeah, preach. And then at the end, you said, and it doesn't really matter because you're going to hell anyway. Well, why would you tell me that? Why would you tease me with heaven just to say my heathen ass is going to hell? Hey, look, eight and four could be some holy water. And you'll take it. Buddy, eight and four. You'll take that. Angels are singing at eight and four, buddy. Angels are singing. That's what I'm saying. I do think this kid could be that good, though. We'll find out week two if it gets Minnesota. But I do think this kid could be that good that he drags that Mississippi State roster to a seven or eight win season. I'm cashing the over no matter what. But if it doesn't happen, if it doesn't happen, Miami's going to give that kid $9 million. Stop saying Miami. Stop doing this. Okay. Is that my nightmare? Yes. Fine. Stop saying it. Stop saying it. Also, that roster's a little bit better than you'll get. Kelly Jones is a first-round pick. Isaac Smith is an all-SEC-type safety. Fluff Bothwell can run the football. There's more there than you're acting like there's there. You heard it here first, folks. The diehard Mississippi State fan just gave me three players, two of which were defenders, to talk about how much help Kamario Taylor has. You didn't even give me Anthony Evans. No, I was slow playing. You gave a speech here at me. Maybe I tricked you into saying Anthony Evans. Did you ever think about that? Well played. Okay. Fair enough. All right. I felt like I was talking to Pate there a little bit. You wanted to get a gotcha so bad that you forgot that you were making. Okay. Anyway. By the way, that ball no-er sign, do you sell those? Or is that just made specially for you? Yeah, there's a lot of stuff around here that was made by listeners that get sent in. So, you have coaches that send you helmets. I have listeners that send me love. That's what we got going on. This buffalo was actually, it's a live photograph shot in the wild by a listener. He sent me that sucker. This is a 3D printed ball no-er that was sent to me by a listener. This is a graphic on a poster that was sent to me by a listener. So, yeah. We got, oh, the whole wall was done by a listener as well. So, we got a lot of cool stuff around here. I get plenty of stuff sent by listeners. I had a listener the other day send me, I think it was written in blood. It was, I guess, at Fordham University. It said FU. And I was like, dude, this is awesome. Awesome. So, I have a Fordham University in blood with my picture on it. So, pretty good. Pretty damn good. Let me tell you something before I go any further. Liam Blutman is the ultimate ball watcher in America. I am the number one college football media personality. This motherfucker right here knows ball. Dude, I could sit here and listen to you talk ball all fucking day. So, shout out to you. Congratulations on all your success. I'm not done, but I just want to make sure I said all that before I keep going. Keep going. A couple more questions and then I'll let you get out of here. I know your time is half as valuable as mine. So, who have we not talked about yet? Who have we not gotten to around this country that is going to be. Okay, I gave you the seven teams. I gave you the Miami, the Notre Dame. I gave you Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State. I gave you Georgia, Texas as the seven teams I think are on the elite national title. Who did I not mention that should be on that list? Well, it's. I don't think it's Texas Tech. I don't think it's anybody out of the Big 12. I agree. Shout out to the Houston Cougars. Yeah. Sneaky. You like them, huh? Oh, dude. Willie Fritz is a damn ball coach, bro. I agree. A damn ball coach. And they got some money somewhere. They got Shadre Hurst. That's a name you need to know. An absolute dog of an interior offensive lineman. You talking about a clip farmer? That dude puts folks on their backs for four quarters. Go watch that Ole Miss football. And just look at number 52, the fire hydrant of a left guard. They're going to be good this year. They're going to be tough to beat. Always really good defensively. I thought Austin Armstrong got a bad rap out there at Florida during his time as a DC. But no, I don't think it's going to be the fourth best team in the Big Ten. I do think there is a gap right there. So I would look at a football team like Oklahoma. Just because you mentioned Indiana last year, right? Indiana defensively was absolutely insane. They were a slobber knocker. They could have scored 26 points per game offensively last year and still went 16-0. I think Oklahoma is that defensively. The problem is last year, they couldn't consistently score 26 offensive points per game. This year, I do think there is going to be a little bit more of consistency on the offensive end. I don't think they're going to be so one-dimensional and explosive dependent, which is what they turned into last year. They couldn't run the football. They couldn't protect their quarterback at a high enough rate. And John Mateer was sitting back there going, all right, well, I got to be a superhero today. And that's probably the worst-case scenario for him because it's ultimately going to lead to a lot of turnover-worthy play. So brought in two brand-new tight ends that actually played tight end. Had three freshmen play on the offensive line last year that are going to be NFL football players, Fasusi, Eddie Pierre-Louis. And I always forget the right guard's name. It's something crazy and funky, despite the fact that my brain can remember Fasusi. But I guess it just sounds cool. My questions there would be like, are you explosive enough? And good enough at the wide receiver position outside of Isaiah Satanga? But I would look at them because defensively, and Brandon, I'm interested in your take on this. I do think we're in a defensive era of football that nobody really talks about. You look at those 21 and 22 Georgia teams, they were defensive-led football teams. We know what Michigan was in 23. That 24 Ohio State defense was elite. And last year, you know, Indiana was borderline historic, despite the fact that they finished second in college football. In total defense behind that Ohio State team. But we're in a defensive era of football, and I think Oklahoma is that on the defensive side of football. You likened them to Indiana, and that's a good comparison. I liken them to last year's Miami team, in the sense that this schedule for Oklahoma, I don't think it allows them to go 12-0 or 11-1. But if they can get to that 10-2 level, if they can get to 10-2 and get like the 9th through 12th seed. Remember last year when Miami went 10-2, they snuck into the playoff, and then once they got to the playoff, they just started absolutely wrecking people at the line of scrimmage. Just wrecked Texas A&M, wrecked Ohio State. Absolutely were destroying people. That, I believe, is the recipe for Oklahoma. Survive the regular season with 10 wins, get to the playoff, and just start throwing that defense around, knocking dicks in the dirt, and all of a sudden you're playing for a national championship. That's who I compare them to, because I think the path is very similar. I like that. I don't think they have the elite edge rushers, but David Stone's going to wreck football games this year. No doubt, for sure. Yeah, they're just going to be like going up against a brick wall. They're not going to be a defense that absolutely attacks you with the missiles coming off the edge, but you're going to get tired of just banging up against that thing, banging up against that thing. All of a sudden, you're in the third quarter, you're down seven, and you just have no hope. That's what I feel like Oklahoma feels like. Now, that is contingent on everything you said. The receivers have to come along, because the schedule is brutal. Scheduling is the one. I know you break down everything in college football. Scheduling, I believe, is the last ignored frontier where we just don't give it as much credit as we need to, because since the 12-team playoff started, six teams have gotten there based solely on their schedule. I think A&M last year was a schedule team. They played in the playoff because their schedule was easy. Indiana the first year played in the playoff because their schedule was easy. SMU that year. Tennessee that year. I look at that, and I think we have a lot more schedule balance across this. You look at the Big Ten. Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State, USC. There's just a magical mix of those teams playing this year. I don't know if we're going to have any schedule pretenders outside of if Penn State makes a run. There you go. Yeah. Penn State's definitely got the schedule. But I don't know if I can fully get there with them. Maybe talk me into it, because I know they only have three really tough-looking games on their schedule, but their eyes. Iowa State with some Penn State mixed in. There you go. I don't see that as a recipe for just dominating the other nine teams on their schedule. Somebody can get them, right? For sure. I am a Rocco Beck believer. I think he's a far better thrower of the football than people realize, but he turns it over too many times in big football games, so everybody just backs away on that immediately. But when I turned his tape on, I was like, whoa, that ball jumps. Much better thrower of the football than people give him credit, but I'm with you. It's hard for me to look at a team that. If you look at their two-deep, their starting lineup is filled. Their 22 starters is like 19 of them were on Iowa State last year. Right, and they were fine. They were 7-5 fine in the Big 12. Right, yeah. Come on. I'm with you from that standpoint. I don't necessarily believe in them, but they have an absolute crap show of a schedule. And that's what happens when we have Three-and-a-half, four-and-a-half, depending on the year, good Big Ten teams, great Big Ten teams. I shouldn't say good. Great Big Ten teams in a conference that has 18 teams, and they randomize the schedule. Like, you're going to get the luck of the draw in some of these times, and that's the situation. That's where we're at. Well, you know, Texas Tech's got the 77th-ranked schedule in the sport and roster disparity in that conference that is unmatched by anybody in football. I mean, they have so much more resources than everybody else in our conference. You know this. Your listeners know this. Agreed. I got a couple questions. Number one, did you wear that shirt to suck up to Blutman today? No, I wore it to suck up to Bob Chesney because, good Lord, that man is handsome. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah, but shout-out to Blutman. You know, I figured I had a couple options to rock today. I have a rule. You send it, I wear it, except for your merch. I don't know if I'm rocking Brandon Walker football show stuff. Well, it's because you haven't seen it. You haven't seen the shirt I'm working on, bud. I'll text it to you. You know what? Fuck you. I'll text it to you right now. I want you to see this. I haven't shown it to anybody else. I haven't shown this to anybody else. It's going to take me just a second to pull it up here. Can't wait to leak it onto the timeline. No, don't leak it. Don't leak it because when you see this, I don't want to overreact. You're going to shit your pants on camera. Where the fuck is our group chat, Lukey? Is it a cartoon train? Why don't you just settle down for a second? Why don't you settle down? And let me send you the damn thing. There's the BWC of his show. I figured you copy everything that God does, so you might as well copy his merch. When have I ever fucking copied Josh Pate? You tell me that. When have I copied Josh Pate? I had the Brandon Walker college football show when he was still doing his goddamn late kick that nobody liked. And then he changed his to Josh Pate's show. When have I ever copied him? Look, tremendous amount of respect for you. But in your announcement that you were going to do this, you basically said, I see Josh Pate. I see Josh Pate's success, and I want to copy him. I didn't say copy. I said I wanted to. I said basically. I'm paraphrasing you. Basically. You have to understand, in the viewer's viewpoint, it's kind of what we heard, bud. It's okay. I'm copying him, too. I see what he wants, and I want the mountaintop. I mean, we're all copying him. I'm fixing to dox your fucking phone number. That's what I'm about to do. I'm going to dox your fucking phone number. All right. Here we go. You ready? I'm ready. Yeah. You tell me if I. God damn it. God damn it. Old man. Old man and his phone. Where is our group chat? Did you lose it? Shut up! Shut up! I'm not copying anybody. I'm not. Time out. Time out. Give me a 20. Old struggles with phone and shouts at clouds. We're clipping it. Give me a 20. You can't clip my show. Who told you you could clip my show? You're right. You're right. That's on me. That's on me. I don't care if you clip my show. You can have my show. I'm sorry, boss. I'm tired, boss. That's what I feel like with this phone. I'm tired, boss. All right. Here we go. What's your name? Brooks. Austin. More commonly known as the Film Guy. You can subscribe on the Film Guy Network at any moment. Yeah. You're welcome for that. We're live Monday through Thursdays, 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock. I want you to look at this. I've got it. It's loaded there. Now, you tell me if I have just designed the best film I've ever made. The best piece of merch in college football. It's not bad. You're goddamn right it's not bad. It's not bad. We'll have to show that to the audience, too, sometime here in the future. I'll send you one of those. How about that? You told me you started this whole digression by saying I would never wear your merch. Now, I'm going to ask you, would you ever wear my merch? I mean, the front of it is a little milquetoast, but that's okay. Everyone shows up for the back, right? I certainly do. Right? I'll just do my show like this while I'm wearing it. I'm a 47-year-old white guy from West Point, Mississippi. Milquetoast is what I'm aiming for. All right. Let me ask you a quick question. You're the film guy. What's your process like? Let's get in your head. There will be 80, 75 Division I football games this Saturday. You can't watch them all. You can't break them all down on film. So what's your process? You show up. It's a Sunday after a day of football. How do you do it? How do you break it all down? Yeah. I obviously take the biggest games of the week, things that I know people are going to watch, things that I know people are interested in, and then I combine that with things that I'm interested in. But from an actual film process standpoint, I don't have PFF. I don't have the fancy cut-ups. I have base, old-school stock all 22. I have, if they take 75 plays on offense and 67 plays on defense, I got play number one through 75, and I sit there with my little. I'm on my iPad, and I go play-by-play, and I chart, and I take notes, and I grind that shit out. My app that I have for film, Brandon, and I'm not patting myself on the back, but I am, my app tracks as much, like how much film I'm watching throughout the week. Last year during college football season, I was watching 36 hours of film from Sunday morning until Wednesday afternoon, and then starting it all over again come the next week. So, yeah, we grind a lot of tape. People's saying is shut up and grind the tape, but that's the way I do it. I don't know how to do it any other way. It's my little niche, and it's what I feel like I do best personally from an education standpoint. So, that's my process. What do people I know, what are people interested in? What am I interested in? Sit down, put it on the projector, and go to work. That's the only way I know how to do it. And what I said was, I have been doing a podcast with multiple other people about college football for seven years with Casey Smith, God bless her. A great friend of mine. T-Bob was on it last year, Blutman, Big F. And what I said was, I see Josh Pate out there with one camera, one mic, and it's just him talking about it, and he gets to say whatever he wants. He doesn't have to hear anybody else talk. That's what I wanted, and that's what I'm doing. So, you know what? The gravy train for you guys out there is all over, because Brandon Walker's on the scene by himself. So, fuck these hoes around here, okay? So, that's what I got to say about that. I didn't copy nobody. I'm Brandon fucking Walker. Whew. Atta boy. I'm so happy. I'm so glad football season's back. I can also hear a lot of 90s wrestling in you, too. You just cut a little heel tape. That's nice. That's nice. My entire career is a little heel tape. All right. How do we want to wrap this up? So, week one is here. I'll just let you take it anywhere. This is going to be as generic as it can be. So, you got to bring a little talent here to the fore and show me what you got. The 2026 college football season will be known as the season of the year. Of what? A 9-3 team from the SEC making it over a 10-2 Penn State. That is what we will be irate about in December. 9-3 Texas. 9-3 Texas will get into the college football playoff over a 10-2 Penn State, and people's heads will explode, and they will blame ESPN all about Arch Manning, and this is only because of the Manning family. That's why. Right there. I'm telling y'all, this guy's a fucking dude. That's such a pointed and perfect prediction because that 10-2, Penn State team will be so fraudulent, and that 9-3 team's going to have been through so many wars. But I'll say this before I go. The SEC doesn't have enough oxygen in the room to support all these teams that think they're going 9-3 or better. Georgia thinks they're going to the playoff. Texas thinks they're going to the playoff. A&M thinks they're going to the playoff. Ole Miss thinks they're going to the playoff. Alabama thinks they're going to the playoff. Oklahoma thinks they're going to the playoff, and I'm missing a very obvious one. There's at least seven that LSU. The LSU Tigers. Thank you. LSU, all seven of those teams believe right now there's nothing standing between them and the playoff. Guess what? There's seven of them teams, and then there's another five or six that have the capability of beating any of those seven. So somebody's getting fired that we don't know. The bottom's falling out for somebody, Brooks. This is about to be a crazy three months. Most likely. Yep. No doubt. We're in an era of SEC football where everybody can pay, and it's all about crowdsourcing, passing the hat, getting our roster up to a talent level and a spending level that we believe is competitive, which creates a lot of false hope because we spend a lot of money, which means we've got a good football team, and we demand that we make a playoff, and not everybody can go. Only about four of you can, and you're right. There's about seven of them that think this is our year. So we'll see. So you've made the mistake of telling me your set is crowdsourced. I will be sending you a nude picture of myself, maybe just topless, but if that is not on your set, in the next three months, we have an official issue. I mean, I'm ready to have an issue if you want one. Okay. I didn't exactly scare him. Listen, this guy knows what the fuck he's doing. This guy is awesome. The film guy is Brooks Austin. You guys, if you watch my show, I'm sure you know who he is, but I want to give him even more of an endorsement than that. This guy is the fucking truth. So thank you for doing it, and hopefully a couple more times during the season, and we'll do it again. No doubt, B-Walk. Shout out to Bluff. We'll see you. All right. Thanks. All right. So we interview the most important people in college football because I am the number one media personality in college football, and I was as impressed as anybody with Virginia the other day. The transfer quarterback from Missouri and Penn State. He's with us now. It's Bo Prabula. Guy was everywhere Saturday. Only threw it 11 times because he told me before, I'm only going to throw it 11 times. So, dude, just watch this. Anyway, Bo, what's up, man? How was Saturday? What's up? Thanks for having me. It was great. The atmosphere in Charlottesville was awesome. That's awesome. Team came to play and just, you know, happy that we're 1-0 after week one. I think this is a perpetually underrated team. I think they were underrated last year. They won 11 games. Then they add you. You know, what's going on in Charlottesville right now? Why is everything so hot over there? You know, I think it all starts with Coach E and his culture and kind of what he's built here and his vision for UVA. Kind of, you know, when he took over a couple years ago, it definitely wasn't what it is right now. And it's just kind of been on an upward trajectory, you know, since he's gotten here, and that all starts with kind of what he believes in and his core values, and that's building champion men. You know, you want to win football games, but it's about doing it the right way and building, you know, a program from the ground up. You know, you've done the transfer thing a couple times now. When you were going out there looking at your options and knowing that you had one more year to do this thing, what were you considering and why was it Coach Elliott that was the one that sold you on his vision? I think what I just told you as far as this, and what he does, but also sitting down, you know, with the offensive coordinator, Coach Kitsch here, and my quarterback coach, Coach Lamb, and kind of, you know, watching film and seeing what their offense is like and how that, you know, how we would fit into each other's schemes and kind of, you know, what I do best and what fits me. And I think one of the best things about working with Coach Kitsch is that he kind of, you know, builds off of what I've ran in the past and things I've been comfortable with. And what kind of fits my skill set. And I think that that's been huge so far. I know you can run the football. And the other day it was incredible. You were just running all over NC State. But the idiot's online and will say, oh, yeah, he can run it, but he can't throw it. And to that I say, yeah, he can definitely throw it. What do you say to those idiots? Yeah, I mean, nothing externally really kind of affects me at all. I don't read any of that stuff. I don't, you know, I don't look into any of that stuff. So it doesn't really. Kind of impact impact me internally. I read everything externally. If somebody says something about me online, I see it in seconds. You're a you're you're you're you're you're a better man than I am. That's your job, though. That's your job to read that stuff. Yeah, you probably knew you were a better man before you even came here. Have you considered? I'm sure you have. But let me ask you this. You started your career. Penn State coached by James Franklin. Now you're in Virginia. He's a Virginia Tech. You guys are going to end the season as arch rivals looking across the field from each other. Have you considered what that's going to feel like? Yeah, I mean, that's definitely, you know, one of the games on our schedule last game of the year. It's a big one for us. But for right now, I mean, it's on to on the week two for us. You know, it's I know that last year, Virginia won 11 games played for a conference championships. But it feel still feels like outside of the building. There's not a whole lot of belief in Virginia. And I don't know why that is. Do you guys talk about that inside the building and about building? Do you talk about the fact that nobody believes in you or are you just totally? 100% internally focused? No, no, it's not something we talk about. You know, it's completely internally focused. What about so I know you, you know, you were in Missouri last year. I thought, you know, I know you had a little bit of injury problem there in the middle of the season. What led when you decided to leave Missouri and you decided to go on? Do you do you look back at your time in Missouri as a as a mistake or a building block? How do you look back at it? Definitely a building block. You know, I'm definitely grateful for my time there. I had a lot of fond memories there, you know. It was my first year as a starting quarterback. You know, I got the opportunity to be, you know, a starting quarterback there for the first time in the SEC. And it was a great experience. So I'm glad that, you know, I was able to go there. And that's, you know, helped shape me into the person I am today. Now, let's talk about the way you lied to me, Bo, because you told me you told me when we sat down, you said, oh, I'm sorry. I got to go to class. You're a senior. You don't you don't go to class. It's online class. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. You said you said I got to go and there's just no way you got to go. You definitely have lunch or a nap. You got to get to. It's definitely lunch for sure. Okay. Yeah. There we go. Let's just all tell the truth. What do you think of Charlottesville so far? You've had a couple stops. It's a it's a pretty cool college town, huh? It is. Yeah, I do like Charlottesville. There's a lot going on outside the university here just within the town itself. So I've enjoyed being here back on the East Coast, kind of more what I'm familiar with, and I've enjoyed it. So going forward, you know, you say you. You're giving me the right answers. You know, week two is all we're focused on week three and then week four. You'll go on. But what is the what is success the rest of the season look like to Bo Pribula? I think, you know, for me and for our team, just, you know, being the best that we can be. And that's just working every day to to to be the best we can be. Because, you know, we put, you know, lofty goals up in the air. You know, we lose focus. So just trying to remain focused on what's the most important thing. And that's practice tomorrow on our bye week. When you go to when you go into a game. Like if I told you going into the NC State game, all right, you're going to run this many times and you're going to you're only going to throw it 11 times. Do you do you like that? Would you like to throw it more or is it just whatever? Whatever it takes to win a football game, you know, and that's that's kind of the mindset I had going into this game. And that's really the mindset I have going in every game. You know, if I have to run the ball a hundred times, if I have to throw the ball a hundred times, whatever works, you know, I just want to put points on the board. I just listen. You can you can talk to me. It's Brandon. OK, you don't want to run the ball. I mean, we don't run a hundred plays in a game. So, I mean, it was a bit exaggerated, but but seriously, like if I have to if I have to put my head down and run the ball. Yeah. Whatever it takes to the to the ladies that are watching. What is Bo Pervillo like to do off the field? Big golfer. Love to golf. Get on the links. You think you can beat me? What do you shoot? I'm between 85 and 90 pretty much right now. OK, that's that's kind of the range I sit in. I think I could beat you. Yeah, I figured you did. I figured you did. And I know that you can beat me. So I don't even know why I brought up because I also lied. I don't know why I said 85. I've seen 85 all summer. I thought I would. But my drivers just it just it's just not turning over the way it should late in the summer. It's just it continues to slice and I can't putt anyway. I did want to talk to you about these things today, about me putting and everything like that. So going forward for Virginia, for everything. I know that, you know, NFL futures or whatever. Do you do you focus on developing things they might like to see? Or do you focus on only doing things Virginia needs? For me right now, it's only doing things Virginia needs. And that's, you know, doing anything I can to win. Do you do you make anything of because I know you're never going to face this situation, probably. But like the guys who have gone to NFL camps and are now coming back and there's this big fight in college football about eligibility. What do you make of all that? And is that something that crosses your desk? I have no idea. I mean, I guess it kind of crosses my desk, but is it affects me in some way? Maybe. Yeah, I honestly don't really know what's going on with all that stuff. And I'm not sure if anybody else does either. So right now I just kind of go with the flow. I got to be honest, though. That's the correct answer. I am paid to do this. Not as handsomely as you are, but I am paid to do this. And I have no idea what's going on with that crap. It's just absolutely. Absolutely crazy. And I don't even try to pay attention. Anyway, Bo, I know you got to get to class or lunch or whatever you got to do. I know you got to get a quick nap before practice because you don't want to talk to me. But I appreciate you talking to me. And I thank you for your time. I appreciate you. All right. That's Bo Pribula, current Heisman leading quarterback. But that's because nobody else has played. So let's see if he holds on to that lead. Thanks, Bo. Thank you. ♪ ♪