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out to Mississippi State I of course I'm a UTS a fan so I have no stake in the in the matter at all I just I think he's a great he's a great player so I wanted to talk to him did I gush over him and did I did I fall over him and I fall all over my words yeah maybe a little bit Liam hey hey Brandon good to see you first time long time I can't help but know this the Minnesota helmet is flipped down it's now a w and you added two Mississippi State helmets to the set huh what uh what what uh saying out you're telling me I took the old Minnesota helmet and flipped it upside down to where it's now a w and the Mississippi State helmets on top of it that's what you're saying that's just how it appears to me an observer well dude that's your opinion uh I don't know what to tell you uh that that that's that's that's all well and good and that's that's your opinion um somebody says uh replace the banner and listen I'm not gonna do this Mississippi State stuff with you guys because we have a section of our fan base that that is very female about this logo right here don't don't use it it's been one of our logos too and so is this like I I got all of our logos I do need an interlocking helmet by the way Mississippi State send me an interlocking I don't have one so uh everybody uh Brandon and you beat Minnesota relax I would not relax I've been waiting years I've been waiting years I'm sorry and nobody out there should relax if their team is 2 and 0 or if their team has beaten this team or that team like shot till Oklahoma State fans to relax because they lost to Tulsa no no you shouldn't relax at all don't relax it's not relaxing time we relaxed in the summer so we could do this in the fall so I will not relax just won't do it um anyway so uh before I get to my takes I do want to say one thing I'd like to discuss if if friendship was breached this weekend I would like to discuss if if loyalty was breached I would like to I would like to uh just run this by you guys and see what you think you guys know Josh Pate of the Josh Pate college football show so named because he was trying to copy me a decent guy has takes on football is achieving middling success in this line of work so Josh Pate goes on his show last night and he texted me last week and I thought all text messages means we were we were all in the stress tree I thought uh you know a text message between friends was a text message between friends so he texted me and he's we're talking about the Mississippi State game and I've been in the Mississippi State game for for Mississippi State fan for 47 years I've seen the highs and the lows and there've been more lows and highs and recently the last eight or nine years it's it's not been great two and ten a couple years ago you know what five and five and eight last year just trying to get there trying to get there trying to get there and every every game we play I'm just stricken with a sense of fear and wonder so we were talking about the Minnesota game and I said frankly a road game gets a big 10 team scares the crap out of me I'm scared we're gonna lose and then I said you know later we're gonna beat Alabama or Oklahoma but right now I'm scared of scare we're gonna lose I'm gonna be scared every single game we play this year because that's what I am and then he goes on his show any screenshots the text message and he puts it out there for the whole world to see I don't think that's right look at that there's there's the text message right there at least he pressed out your name where I was I was I was in the trust tree and I was like frankly you know what I'm scared I'm scared we're gonna lose I'm gonna stay fair for a long time I'm scared fair or foul guys fair or foul using that screenshot that's what I'm asking Liam fair or foul he should have crossed your name out and let it up to everyone to figure out hey is that brand Walker or not I think I think it's foul he didn't go to you for permission I think it's foul you thought that game was ever gonna be close yeah probably in retrospect yes but I've lived 47 no Liam I've lived 47 years as a Mississippi State fan you can't tell me nothing I could tell you so many things you can't know you can't tell me nothing that most so that Minnesota team is dog didn't tell me nothing not even a good win if we're being honest you'd be Minnesota what do you could be South Carolina then we could talk look at Mr. we beat cow two weeks ago and I'm gonna throw a fucking party oh we beat cow yeah oh oh we'll be in the playoffs oh oh oh oh oh oh your quarterback's gonna be the highest okay oh San Diego State they're good that's what that's what you sound like no that's what you sound like you didn't know oh we beat cow oh we went to miss out what it's kind of cold it's kind of cold up that I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know my star franchise quarterback and handle 56 degrees what are you doing on week anyway I've got a bunch of takes and I would like to get off my takes now and then we'll get into the other stuff we have we have uh can I can I do something off the top and I got it later in the takes lookie did you do you have the James Franklin video I I just want to see uh the James Franklin video James Franklin is somebody that that has the people skills of like of this cowbell right here that that's how good he is with people uh he he just isn't the best this press conference was I don't know was it today or was it yesterday I don't know when it was uh let's see what we got give me a little bit of James Franklin hey coach Michael house with the Baltimore son hey Michael um hey Michael what what do you remember Michael what do you remember Michael what do you remember Michael Michael how you doing can you hear me yeah I'm saying how you doing good how are you good good um what do you remember about working alongside coach Loxley in those early years at Maryland and how is your relationship a ball since then hey coach Michael house with the Baltimore son hey Michael um can I just say uh he started off by saying hey coach I was literally the first two words that he said uh I don't really understand I don't really understand what James Franklin was trying to prove if he or if he just got too deep too fast he's like oh I'm gonna say hey back and see what happens um that was weird huh you mean like hey Liam but no hey Liam like to The guy said he had zoom issues. Hey, Liam. Yeah. The guy said he was having zoom issues. Oh, who cares if the guy was having zoom issues? The guy said the guy said, hey coach, James goes, hey, Michael. And then he's going to ask this question. The guy couldn't have been more professional or polite or whatever. And then James Franklin just wants to put him on blast and make a whole statement about, you got to be nice to people. That was just, that was fucking weird. Yeah. He's weird. I, I'm, I'm an internet sleuth. I clocked this immediately. Luki pulled the tape. You have a tape not the first time James Franklin has done this in his Virginia Tech tenure. You have a tape. Yeah. I knew, I knew I'd seen it before. I knew I wasn't tripping. Well, let's see what the sleuth has. Was way for Luki. And the, and the sleuth has this right here. Pull that up. Good morning. What is this a compilation? It's a compilation. We're looking for like 22 second. So, first of all, I appreciate you guys all coming out to cover Virginia Tech football. We don't take it for granted and appreciate it. We're almost there. We're almost there. Hey, David. How are you? Good to see you again. And I apologize. I couldn't talk to you on the sideline of Old Dominion the other night. Give me water. Hey, Colby. How are you, buddy? I'm doing well. Hey, Mark. How are you, buddy? Hey, David. How are you? Good. How are you? It's a humbling sport. And you better come to work every single day. Hey, Andy. How are you? I'm curious in your conversation. Hey, Andy. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Good to see you. Hey, David. Hi, David. Hi, David. Hi, David. Hello. How are you? I'm well. How are you? Good. Good. Good. How are you doing? Good. How are you? I'm good. I need you to come with me tomorrow. To Virginia Tech. Welcome to Blacksburg. Thank you, sir. I don't know what you're going to get paid. And I don't know what your job title is. Is that it? I don't want you to come with me. Okay. Ryan Cassius of the Saturday. Hey, Brian. Hey, Liam. I think now it might be awesome. Now it might be awesome. Like the one clip that I saw earlier, the first one I'm like, dude, that's weird. That might be awesome. That might be awesome that he's sitting up there because if you think about it, football coach press conferences might be the dumbest thing we do as a society. Who gives a fuck? Who gives a fuck? But the fact that he's going to sit there and not going to start any sentence without properly greeting a man, like who cares? They're here to do a job. You're here to do a job. Hey, Mark. Hey, Mark. Hey, Mark starts to throw a chair. I didn't like. Now I think it. I think I might be on James Franklin's side. That's that was it. Mike. The original one might might be ready. Mike. I'm on Franklin's side too. That's why smooth for him. Have you noticed? Have you noticed a little bit of press conference wars happening in Auburn, Florida? We'll get to the game tonight. But Auburn, Florida, and I got to take about this game in a minute. But you can tell that some role in goalish, both first year coaches, both with an opportunity for a huge, huge, huge win. They're kind of simmering under the surface. Like, fuck that guy. It was a goalish. It was asked about his friendship with some role. He said friends. He said we're friends, not this week, brother. And then some role said, there you go. He said we were friends. Not this week or not. I got a ton of respect for John. John. All right. And then some were all was asked about his family because each one was responsible. Alabama. He was asked about his family. They're Auburn fans. He said, well, University of Florida pays my checks. If they're rooting against me this week, then they ain't family of mine. I don't like it. I get a little nasty down there on the planes. Get a little fucking fucking at each other's throats. I don't need to play that one. I just told you what he said. Now let me do some takes and then we'll get to everything. The organ ducks. Now I have I've dealt with a bunch of DMs. I don't care. But a bunch of DMs call me stupid, crazy, whatever. I can't believe you pick a organ with the national title. Didn't get any of those DMs before they lost, by the way. But anyway, how do we make sense of organ? Because let's logically look at this over the last 15 years. I'm just thinking of examples in my head like Ohio state lost their first game in 2014 to Virginia Tech ended up winning the national championship. Two years ago, Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois at home, played for a national title. Last year, Miami lost SMU and Louisville, played for a national title. What can happen to organ for that to become true for them? Can they salvage it? It is we have seen time and time again. It is an early season loss is very, very salvageable in this age of college football. They are not dead. They are not finished. But what is wrong with them in the first place? And the problem with them in the first place is the coordinators aren't ready to be big time coaches in college football. And Dan Lending doesn't appear to have the ability to make them ready. For whatever reason, the defensive line and the quarterback are coming into games unprepared and not as good as they were last week or last year. Excuse me. So they have a get right game this week. And then they're at USC next week. And that is the biggest game in Dan Lending's professional football career to this point. That is the biggest game for organ in a long time. Do they have the talent to put this back together and get to the playoff? Yes. Can they do it? It feels like no. Liam, scale of one to one hundred. What are the chances? Oregon puts this thing back on the track and sales to the college football playoff. 78.3. You think 78. Now somebody in the chat says, Brendan, you were one of the few that got Dante right. Dante more was. Yeah. I have always had a feeling about Dante more than he I never thought he was as good as everybody else. But I did project a jump forward for him this year. And instead, he's taking a jump backward. And that is not good. You've got 78.3. Now they play at USC. They play at Ohio State. I believe they play Michigan. And I think and I can't really remember the others. But if they were to beat USC and lose Ohio State ten and two, that is a playoff team. But so many parts of that team have to it seems like they've misplaced their toughness. They've misplaced their will. They've misplaced the quarterback's ability to make a difference. The quarterback's not making a difference right now. The quarterback's just going through the motions. The entire team is going through the motions. I think they can do it. And I hope, I hope that Brendan Walker's calls for a championship reputation is able to be restored by Oregon. But at the same time, has Dan landing ever proven, he can take a team going through trouble and pull them out of trouble. I don't know that I have. I don't know that I've seen it. But you think 78% why? That's just the number that I feel like is right throwing it out there. Like I'm banking on landing to be the guy to motivate them. And he's a master mode of air. Look at the Oregon schedule. The most concerning thing. And I'm not smart enough to realize off that. But it's why I brought up on the web today is that Indiana players were pretty much making fun of Oregon. Be like we have every tell we know every single play that is going to happen. They are smirking smiling before the play. That was in both games that they played Oregon. And then today you have people drop in the Dante more mixtape against Oklahoma state where his feet are more even they're running the ball. His feet are staggered the throwing the ball. That's an incredible tell. And people who are more intelligent than you and I are going to figure that out. And here's what the thing is they're on the football field playing defense. That is an incredible tale. And it's it's shocking that a coach of Oregon didn't pick up on it. But it's also something that can be fixed on about 30 seconds. It should be something that's able to be fixed in 30 seconds. They should be able to fix that no problem. But it is stunning that they went two games without, you know, into this season knowing they might be giving away their place. Let me say at schedule again. So they're one and one right now in the lost Oklahoma state. They'll get right against Portland state this Friday night. Then you have the massive game against USC. They win that one. They're right back into comfort level of okay, we can be a playoff team. They got UCLA. They got Nebraska both at home. They got Illinois. They got Northwestern. I see no issues here. And we get to November seventh at Ohio State. That's obviously going to be tough. They got Michigan at home, Michigan state in Washington. It all comes down to the game against USC. They have two weeks to get themselves right. They have two weeks to get that quarterback right. They have two weeks to overcome whatever is bothering them right now. But USC is also in a big spot. They need a big win. They could benefit from a huge win. They could put themselves in the playoff. That's such a gigantic game in a couple of weeks. Anyway, we're going to find out not so much about Oregon, not so much about Donatemore. Over the next two weeks, we find out about Dan Lening. Is he a talent merchant? Is he a Mario Cristobal left me a great program merchant? Or is he a fucking coach? We figure that out in the next two weeks. Liam go. What do you think the odds are that the nine and three Oregon with a win over Ohio State would get in? That's a scenario that might not happen, but might as well start preparing for it just in case. That's a pretty shocking nine and three with a win over Ohio State would mean they're going to lose to somebody very interesting. And I know it's a good question. I like the question. We kind of did this mostly a little bit today where we're already like Ibo was already like there's going to be a nine and three SEC team in. Mm-hmm. Can we wait until about November before we do the scenarios? Yeah, there's some fun though. I guess, but we're two weeks in. Of course. Of course. My next take. Regardless of how embarrassing it might be for me, Michigan is fascinating. The last two weeks, you can't say they're not box office and they're not just absolutely fascinating for the sport. You had the circus in the fiasco of the week one theft against Western Michigan. And then you had the circus in the fiasco of them kind of emasculating Oklahoma on a national stage. They just pulled Oklahoma's pants down. There was nothing there. And they did that. They did that in front of everybody. And that's just two weeks, two weeks. And it's not like, it's not like they, when they lost the Western Michigan, they came back and Bryce Underwood improved a great deal. And before they were able to get back on the win track, he was about the same bad quarterback he was in week two that he wasn't week one. He was nine for 17, 111 yards. He ran for 87 yards on 18 carries, but he wasn't, he wasn't good. He just didn't kill him. And that's what he had one 91 yard touchdown drive. But what killed Oklahoma was John Matier handing Michigan the ball on the seven yard line with five minutes to go. But it's fascinating because the big 10, I believe in recent years, the big 10 has had a big problem where it's major teams didn't play each other in the regular season. Like Indiana a couple of years ago didn't play anybody in the regular season. Last year, Ohio State and Oregon didn't play in the regular season. This year, it feels like everybody plays. You know, Michigan plays Indiana, they play Ohio State, they play Oregon, Oregon plays all, like they all mix, they all play, but will Michigan be able to go 10 into 111, 12 and 0 by scoring 15 to 17 points a week because that's all they're going to score. Their offense is still bad. It's fascinating. They are a fascinating team. They are a completely deeply unlikable fan base and a completely, deeply likable coach. It's unbelievable. And I don't know if winning Am will turn me into a Michigan fan by the end, but he is so goddamn likable and classy and awesome and Michigan just isn't. And then you got to talk about scenarios. What if Michigan goes 10 and 2 and they're in the playoff conversation? And one of those wins is the Western Michigan win. It's a lot. They're a fascinating fucking team and I hate it. You got me thinking their brand though. You got me really thinking with everything you were saying and describing, if you subbed out the words Michigan for Iowa and winning him for parents, it's not so different from what you were saying. I mean, they play next weekend and Ann Arbor, go ahead and bet that under right now because that thing's going to be 34 and a half. If you could double bet the under, if you could bet like 17 and a half, I think I might. There's Ohio State. This is a question I'll take. There's a Ohio State have a Julian saying problem. Now let me explain it. Is he a good quarterback? Yes. Does he put up numbers? Yes. Do we see the worst version of him in the biggest moments? A little bit. He against Indiana last year, they shut him down. He's had moments where against good defense, as he's been shut down and against Texas the other night when they needed somebody to step up and make a play. Wasn't him. He wasn't able to do it. They blew a 20 point lead. He is a great, great, great college quarterback when things are good. He's a great, great, great college quarterback against Northwestern against Wisconsin against Minnesota. If you're at Ohio State, you don't come to school to beat Northwestern Wisconsin and Minnesota. You come to beat Texas, you come to beat Georgia, you come to beat all those teams. And every single time they play somebody of that caliber, you see the very worst version of him. Now that's okay because you see the worst version of a lot of quarterbacks against those teams. But they're not winning when you see the worst version of him. What do you think is, let me see, Ohio State has lost three of its last four games second back to 2025, quarterback Julian saying in those games, this is by CJ Vogel, 274 yards per game, 62.5 completion percentage, three touchdowns, four interceptions, 78 rushing yards, Ohio State offense has only average 15.6 points per game. And that's the big number there. I don't really, because 274 yards per game, no shame in that, 62% of completion percentage is fine. But they're not winning them. They're not winning them. And they're used to having a quarterback who can make the difference in wins and losses. If you operate at the tier, they operate at of acquiring players, then you need to be buying a quarterback who can make the difference in wins and losses. As they go forward with this tough schedule at Indiana, Michigan at home, Oregon at home, at USC. At some point, the quarterback's got to make the difference in wins and losses. And I'm not sure Julian Sian has got that in his bag yet, thoughts, Bloodman. It's interesting that he lacks that confident killer mamba mentality. I'm not going to pin this game, this loss fully on him. I think his head coach and offense Borne, or did him a disservice instead. We put these guys up on the pedestal and accept and expect the very highest of performances every single week. Does Julian Sian have a problem throwing over the mail? Yes. They missed them. The chance to pump up 27 to three pressure got there early, early, yes, the Jeremiah Smith not help them out fully in the fourth quarter with a few drops here and there. Very uncharacteristic. Yes. But Brown Walker, it was second and 10 with seven minutes left. There's nothing in the pocket saying flushes out rolls all the way to the right to the sideline. Finds a guy all the way back over on the left side of the field. It's a complete cross field throw picks up the big first down. That was a 2317 game, a pivotal down, a pivotal throw, a pivotal play in the Ohio state going to capitalize on it. Did he do enough? I don't know. Well, I mean, you've already said it. If you want to pin it as Julian Sian problem, which I posed as a question, is it a him problem? Or is it a Ryan Day conservative offense when we have a lead in a big game problem? Is it a pedal to the metal problem? Is it a let's pull back a little bit to do whatever problem? Because I do think a team in a quarterback can take on the mentality of their coach. And last year when Miami was absolutely destroying that offensive line, putting say on the ground, you looked over to the sideline, Ryan Day had no answers. When Indiana was winning 13 to 10 and Ohio State was struggling to score, you looked at the sideline, Ryan Day had no answers. And in the fourth quarter of the other night, Ryan Day had no answers for Texas coming back on them from 23 to 3. This is a coach who's won a national championship. I'd like to see him have some answers. Takes are good tonight. Enjoy the Monday show. Like strong. I have, let's say, one, two, three, three more texts. We came into the season thinking that the big 12 was up for grabs up in the air with a nod towards Texas Tech being the best team. We thought it was going to be an exciting conference with a lot of teams playing and threatening to be that number two spot behind Texas Tech through two games. I believe it would be argued, it could be argued, Texas Tech, the gap between Texas Tech and the rest of the big 12 either is way smaller than it was or it doesn't exist at all. They haven't looked great in the two games they played so far, including a win over Oregon State the other night. They played two quarterbacks, Hammond and Castellanos. They've looked just okay in their defense, hasn't exactly looked like the lights out unit it was last year. So coming into the season, we thought the big 12 was a certain amount of up in the air. Through two weeks, I would argue it's way more up in the air than anybody could have considered. Because Texas Tech, I believe, came back to the pack, BYU were the big time win over Arizona the other day. I think we've lost, you know, we've lost a couple of contenders, but these are legit contenders in the big 12. If you want to add somebody, add them. Texas Tech is a legit contender, BYU's a legit contender. Kansas State through a couple of weeks looks like they could be a legit contender. Kansas on a state did lose the other day at Texas A&M, but Cudder Bully can throw it. They look like a contender. Houston, who gets their shot at Texas Tech this week, Houston didn't look great in week one, looked a lot better in week two. You almost have to say Oklahoma State's conference championships are alive and well, but after what they did to Oregon, certainly you would have buried them a couple of weeks ago, but they've got to be in the mix. I'm not sure Baylor and Arizona can be ruled out, Arizona. I know a loss that BYU and maybe there's a couple more. But as open as I thought it was to begin the season with Texas Tech coming back a little bit, I think this might be the most wide open conference in the country. And the big 10, one of two or three teams are going to win it. The SEC, one of two or three teams are going to win it in the ACC Miami is going to win it. And in the big 12, one of eight teams could win it, thoughts Liam. Yeah, the gap is not near as large as we thought. I think it is a bit of both things going on here. I don't think Texas Tech is as good as we thought. I don't think Will Hammond is as good as we thought Tommy Cassie on us in there is either best shot to win when he's a coreback maybe the BYU is probably better than we gave him crab for. I think Utah's a lot better than I expected. I mean, it's been two weeks and I played Idaho and Arkansas, but they look super fluid in. I was expecting a bit of a, I don't know like a, I don't know how we're this correctly. But like losing, winning him like a little, what word am I looking like lit a fire under him? No, like a slower start without him, I don't know, like kind of a stun thing. They look so fluid. They're doing the whole two quarterback thing, which I've always believed is very innovative and will work in this sport. or it's working against inferior competition. But if you bring now in the biggest state, like that is an advantage against the Texas Tech, where they're mulling you on the inside, and they're able to use two quarterback stuff where you'll know which of the two is throwing the ball. And there's all these options and reads off it. It's a fascinating concept. - Well, you also mentioned, we thought Will Hammond would be better. I don't think we should have. After watching Texas Tech threaten the very pillars and foundations of college football to try to get sores being there this summer and then kind of dipping their toe in the pond and deciding the water was too hot, we should have known they were trying to do anything they could to get out of Will Hammond as they're starting quarterback including going and picking up Florida states loose change and throwing him into the mix like three weeks before the season started. So we should have known Will Hammond wasn't exactly what Texas Tech was planning its entire future around. They were trying like hell to change whatever they got going on with quarterback position. All right, next take. LSU Ole Miss is this weekend. And it is gigantic, it is huge. We will break it down on Thursday. The ask is out to Lane Kiffin to join the show on Thursday. We'll see. But anyway, we got all of that. Two SEC games might actually be more important than this gigantic game. 'Cause there's a world where LSU and Ole Miss, one of them wins, one of them loses, they're both okay in the end. They're both fine. They both go 10 and 2, 11, 11, whatever. There's two SEC games that in the context of the conference might be more important this season because you have two desperate times and desperate teams, two separate matchups of those types of teams. Florida is at Auburn in a huge early season matchup for two first year coaches trying to get their schools back to glory. Auburn's got a great defense, so-so offense. Florida has a pretty good defense and one looks to be a really good offense. And then Mississippi State South Carolina, I don't know how you hate for that for including my team, but Mississippi State starts three and 0 with two road wins. We've actually got a shot to do something in the SEC in South Carolina. I've had them in the top 25 of the entire season. I think they're a very underrated team. Whoever wins both of these games is set up for great things this year and the loser is not. That's why I think both of those games are gigantic. And lastly, while LSU Ole Miss is the game of the week, SMU Louisville might be right there with him. SMU Louisville might be right there with him. It is Miami's conference, but whoever wins that game on Saturday night probably will be going to the conference championship game giving them an outside chance to go to play off. Faults, Liam. I cannot wait for SMU Louisville. Obviously LSU Ole Miss is getting the nod because of all the theatrics from start to finish. I would love for Link if you're enjoying the show. Tell us who he's walking out with. Give us a little sneak peek of the BFW fans something to get excited for. I'm starting to see what you're doing though with South Carolina. I'm starting to clock that. Let's talk 'em all up. It's just a week to get a better win than anyone's giving us crap for. 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Nationwide based on sports book predictions and free-to-play sports contest availability. Ferry's by state. Limited time offer. Yours. I'm working on a monologue about Arkansas. I saw Miss Lisa today. If that clip wasn't eight minutes long, I would play it on the show. But I'm to the point where I really feel bad for Arkansas. It's not like my team's been much better. We're finally getting out of the mud. So hopefully they get out of the mud soon. Arkansas fans are too good of fans to have to deal with what they've been dealing with. But they are right in silver field. Anyway. Lukey. 312-685-1889. That is the voicemail number. We're doing the voicemails on Monday. So we get the reactions from Saturday when everybody's upset. Lukey, I'm thinking about five tonight. I don't know how many you got. But I will have voicemail number one right now. Brandon Walker, you dumb, sovereign, heck. I don't know how long I've known you. How long you've been picking against Michigan. It feels like your entire life. But you and your little Tommy Sun, you keep picking against Michigan. You're going to keep getting your face most in the mud. You sat there and you told everybody, oh, go home with this. Oh, go home with that. Mateer, he's been this, that's the other thing. What happened? They came into the big house and they got a race. They got dominated. The humiliated and maculated. Just like every single time you pick against Michigan, I end up picking your face, sticking it under water, and you beg for mercy. You will never learn your lesson. I hope you never learn the lesson. You make a fool out of yourself every single week and nothing's better than watching you squirm and try to shake out of it. Michigan dominated your sorry ass again. Thanks for the time. Well, that was Dave from Massachusetts. Thank you today for calling in. I appreciate you're being a fan of the show. And look, you voicemail number two, please. Can I just say something? This world, Dave has created where Brandon Walker is the guy that's going out there. And for some reason, picking against Michigan, I can't believe Brandon Walker's going out there and picking against Michigan. I can't believe he's doing it. And we feel that we use that as fuel to beat the teams like Oklahoma. The entire world was picking against you because the entire world saw Western Michigan beat your fucking ass on your own campus last week. The entire world watched Michigan have to cheat and bend the rules. Again, the entire world knows how Michigan is risen to prominence over the last five or six years. Again, people know what you have to stoop to to be relevant and good at Michigan. And they're kind of sick of it. And when I call it out and when I say this and when I say that, screw you Brent Vendible's for going out there with that pussy ass offensive effort and making Michigan feel good about themselves again. 'Cause Western Michigan went in there and put their fucking nuts on the table and started chopping them off until the rafts came in and says, "Give me that axe." So screw you Brent Vendible's for screwing this up. Oh boy. Thank you, Dave, for the voicemail. Hey, voicemail number two, please. If this is Dave, I might quit. - All right, Frank and Tank and unbelievable comeback. Unbelievable comeback by the Texas Long Worns. I mean, I kind of feel bad for Ohio, I kind of feel bad to take, you know, he deserves a break today. He deserves a break today. So give him a break. Let him get away. - I love Frank. I won't Frank to call in every single week. I think that's amazing. And by the way, Tate is having a break. He's been out to lunch all day. Like Tate's, y'all ain't like Tate's as hard worker and then Tate does all, like he's hungry and he does all these things. Tate's been at lunch all fucking day. I didn't see him in the office one time. So his team loses one time and Tate can't show up to work. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Is that a Frank impersonator or is that Frank? - It's Frank. - Okay, all right, why did you say it like that? - I don't know, every time I see the transcript that says it's Frank the Tank, I just get so happy and download it without listening. - Voice mail number three, please. - Yom is here, can take his currently headed to California, here, all the way back to Washington State. He doesn't know how to throw the ball below 8 feet, and if you can't jump like Michael Jordan, you're never gonna cut the goddamn pass from them anyway. Was somebody giggling in the background? I felt like a performance there. I'm not gonna lie. I love some passion. That was, uh, watch me call the Brandon Walker voicemail and do this. Let's get Google giggles in the back voicemail number number four, please. Fucking fire both coordinators catapult them into the fucking mood. This is why you don't hire internally. You have a coveted position at both OC and DC 50 organ Dutch fucking bloated team up. What are we talking about? Why can't we just ever score points in the first half? How do we have this top rank defense? Where the literally just fucking just run through us whenever you feel like it. Blow the whole thing up. Fire everyone if you have to. I don't freaking care. I think I felt actual tears from that organ fan. I think I felt actual real tears, which, you know, find the sport evokes passion. Let's say to these organ fans who just absolutely can't handle what has happened the last six days. Live a walk a mile in my shoes, buddy. But yeah, give me all your organ crash outs. Give it to me. And voicemail number five. Brandon, this is James from Ohio again. How can we not afford a fucking kicker for one fucking year of our lives? How? Why a fucking state we can't afford a fucking kicker. What the fuck is going on? I think I'm addicted to these fans of Ohio State and Oregon. These teams that are in the playoff every single year that buy every player that live in the richest neighborhood in the world just calling in and absolutely crying their guts out. I enjoy that. I like your pain. Your pain fuels me. And don't say, oh, don't be like that because my pain fuels you guys too. When I'm crying on the sidelines of Texas, you guys are still sending me pictures to this day. So when an Ohio State guy is like, why can't we get a kicker? I would like to drink those tears. I would like to, I would like to like put them in a glass with three ice cubes. And I would like to switch them around and listen to the ice cubes clink against the glass and say, and Lee and be like, what are you drinking? I said, just a Ohio State tears and drink it. That's what I want to do with those calls. And I'd like to mix those tears with the, with Oregon tears, little 50, 50 shot. Speaking of delicious drinks, body armor flash IV this, what was that noise? What did you say? Yeah, you're right. This episode is brought to you by Body Armor Flash IV. Flash IV is packed with electrolytes delivering faster, longer lasting hydration without any artificial dyes, flavors or sweeteners. Liam, I know that you're a big, you love artificial dyes and sweeteners and flavors, but no, not here. You're not going to get it with Body Armor Flash IV. Whether you're training, traveling, just feeling the heat or cheering on your team. As far as that one goes, I don't train much. I travel a little, but I just feel the heat a lot. And whenever I have a Body Armor Flash IV, I'm able to go out in the sun and play a little golf. So that's fun. Work hard, hydrate hard with Body Armor Flash IV. Grab it at 7/11 today, please. It is now time for the Brandon Walker college football top 25 of the week. There's 25 teams. We have a new number one last week's number one was Oregon spoiler alert. They have lost that spot. As well as spot two, spot three, spot four, spot five, spot six, spot seven, spot eight, spot nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24. Lukey, let's give them the top 25. Your new number one team to Texas alone horns. Number two, Georgia, number three, Miami, number four, Indiana, number five, Notre Dame, number six, Ohio State, seven LSU. Take out a pin, draw a line under LSU. That is where I think the elite national title tier stops. Oregon was in it last week, so was Oklahoma. They're both gone. Oklahoma nowhere near the top 25, and neither is Michigan who lost to Western Michigan start the season. I've docked Oregon all the way down to 25 with an eye to put them out if this shit keeps going. But I've got Texas one, Georgia two, Miami three, Indiana four, Notre Dame five, Ohio State six, LSU seven. There's the tier of national title contenders. Number eight is USC, who could join that if they were to be Oregon in a couple of weeks, perhaps. Number nine is Ole Miss. Number 10 Alabama making their top 10 debut in my top 10 this fall. Number 11 is BYU 12, Texas Tech. I think BYU has been more impressive than Texas, Texas four, so I'll put them over them. Texas A&M is number 13. Don't really know what to do with them. They finish that game strong the other day, but it was closer than the score indicates. Number 14, Penn State number 15, Tennessee. Tennessee gets Texas a week and a half from now. Sixteen Virginia, who I like a lot, 17 Iowa 18 South Carolina 19, the Bulldogs of Mississippi State University. Number 20 is SMU 21, Utah 22 Florida 23, Boise State 24, Missouri and 25, the Oregon ducks. That is my top 25. Liam, who is too high and who is too low? The first thing I notice in this is having Boise state ahead of Oregon despite the head to head. Well, Oregon had to be punished. Oregon had to be punished. I agree, it's often wonky, but still Oregon had to be punished and I decided from second one they're going to be at number 25 and that was the first team I ranked and then I went from there and so logically does it work out? No, but it's also week three and I'm not a logical guy. Okay, Louisville. So Louisville lost 4138 to Ole Miss. I have no problem ranking that team at all. That's it. Very well could have won that game, didn't win that game, but they were right there. There were other teams I thought about. No, is it fair to drop Oklahoma all the way out? Yeah. Is it fair to keep Michigan out after they lost to western Michigan? Yeah. That's my top 25 right there. Oklahoma not making the playoff. That's your, you're there now. I don't think Oklahoma's going to have a winning record. You know, looking back last year, they went 10 and 2, but they had that one win over Auburn that was not a win, that the officials gave to him by allowing a bogus touchdown. They ended up getting a big win on the road against Alabama to get them into playoff, but that was more about Katelyn DeBoer's soft ass football than it was Oklahoma being better in Alabama. But then this year they had to fix, they had to make the offense come a long way. Matier had to prove he could do it over a long stretch of time. He has not so far. They had to get receivers who could achieve separation. They don't have that. They had to get running backs who could move the chains. They had to have an offensive line that will make you cry. They have nothing offensively that scares you. They are not a competent offensive football team. And you just, I don't think you can make a playoff in 2026 without one of two things. An easy schedule or a competent offense. And they have neither of those things. Bowling branch. Have you noticed your sheet slipping off the corners lately? Or maybe your pillows just don't feel supportive anymore. 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I will do it. Okay, dude. What? All right, man. I want subscribers, man. All right, man. Are you ready for our draft? I am. I really am. We have two ads left. So I got to do one here. One in front of the draft and one of the back of the draft. Better help show sponsored by better help. If you could wake up tomorrow and be better at one thing, what would that be and why Liam Blutman? I want to be better at everything in life strive to be better 1% every day. 1% better every day. That was really deep. Thanks. Better is a feeling defined by you and for better help. It's a better help therapist who really gets you. It's a focus on global emotional well being with thousands of therapists and millions of members in over 100 countries. It's progress. Sign up and get 10% off at betterhelp.com/walker W-A-L-K-E-R. That's my name. Better H-E-L-P.com/walker. Start therapy with better help. Sign up and get 10% off at betterhelp.com/walker. All right. It's time for our week three draft. Here we go. Who's going first? Who went first last week? I went first. So you're first. I'm first. And then lastly, I took a high of state. Texas first pick. Yeah. Pretty good value. Honestly, a good pick. And I'm going to do the exact same thing by taking the most obvious answer on the board. It's LSU. It's Ole Miss. It's Lane Kiffen going back to the place he made relevant. And I just think it's what's right about college football that we're so wrapped up in our passions and our stupidity that we will just absolutely hate a man that built everything we cheer for. Like Lane, without Lane Kiffen, Ole Miss is still in the Matt Luke days. Ole Miss is still struggling. And Lane Kiffen changed everything. And they fucking hate him. I mean, they hate him. They, they just fucking hate him. Now he's coming back with LSU from a football perspective. Boy, that Lane Kiffen offense in the week one. Now I throw a week two out for both these teams. They were just kind of went through the motions against Charlotte and a lot of tech. But that week one offense and that week one defensive Ole Miss Lane Kiffen's got to be salivating and getting that team and getting that getting that defense on the field. Anyway, that's my number one pick. That's the easy game of the week. Number one. Did you see LSU has the Ole Miss Charlotte game running on in the facility on the loop? Yeah, it feels a little performative. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, Lane Kiffen. Lane Kiffen is an elite coach, but he does some of the most goofy, performative shit you'll ever see in your entire life. Last year for the egg ball, when they were going to win by 20 regardless, he staged a kidnapping of his quarterback's jersey. Like for what? Why would you do that? Anyway, you have picks two and three. Go. I'll be taking Houston, Texas Tech prime time Friday night. I had that number five on my big board. Really? I just. This is going to be a really big test for both teams. It could be the statement win that Willie Fritz and Houston need to say, "Hey, we're at the top of this conference. Our Texas Tech could deny what we have both said about 30 minutes ago, which is the gap is closed in the big 12. It's a statement game either way, and then I've got Louisville SMU for the third pick, taking Louisville to win this game. Honestly, I was taking win by double digits. I'm still not impressed by SMU. I'm not impressed by Kevin James. I'll take Louisville for the big time statement win and their track to the ACC championship and potential playoff if they go 11. They're almost I wouldn't say home free, but there is close to home free as you could be in week three if they were to win this game. You chose my number five game on my big board and my number two game on my big board. So you got a little value there at number three pick, but you created a value by not picking it. Anyway, I reached. So I'm going to get picks three and four on my big board. Number three, I already mentioned it Florida at Auburn. Florida at Auburn, two undefeated teams, two new coaches, two guys that desperately need to win. And if Florida wins this game, 6-0 is very in their crosshairs. Because they would return home to get Ole Miss next week who would be coming off either a huge win or a huge loss. So either way, Ole Miss is deflated, walking into the game until next week. If Florida wins this one, 6-0 is very, very attainable. And for Auburn, that schedule doesn't get any easier. They got to have it. They're the home team. I think this is a huge game and my number three pick. Mississippi State of South Carolina. For no other reason that you'll be able to see Camarillo Taylor and Lenore Sellers on the same field together at the same time. Two of the top 10, 15 quarterbacks in the country. You know, Lenore Sellers has to reclaim his spot that we gave him before last year, but he, I think he can and I think he will. And Camarillo Taylor is just, he's the new hotness man. He's just, he is as good as people said he was going to be. That is my, that is my game right there. Your last two picks, please. I was really hoping I was really hoping you weren't going to pick. You thought the SEC games were going to get past me? Well, no, I, I need to take Florida Auburn. I thought maybe I'm a brand walker. I could get 19 first 20 ranked teams on my poll with the last pick because Liam hates the SEC. That's why I thought was going on in your brain. Give me Kentucky text to say in them. I want to see how Kentucky, by the way, not on my board. That's okay. You guess what brand? It was on my board. I got my guy. Sure, sure, not on my board. I want to see how Kentucky Willstein Kentucky came into responding and punched in the throat in the second half at home, walked off the field and bear is relaxed after a really competitive first half against Alabama. I'm surprised at how in that team was in the second half where the creativity offensively went and then Texas saying I'm like you said dogfight of a game against ASU, but their defense, their past rush really ballooned that final score. Let's see what they could do in more of a coming down game against like I don't know. We'll see shoot this one's tough. This, this last pick is tough, Brad. I'm looking at my big board and guess what? What? I don't like anything. Wow. Cause I got five. I got five guys on my board. I know, but like, I'm going to sign somebody in free agency better than anybody you got. You might because like, I'm an Oscar. I got North Dakota Nebraska on my board. I'm not picking it, but it's on my board. All right. I might. This is a throw West Virginia UVA. That might be on your board. It's it's the dukes male bowl kickoff shenanigans that we do in week three. I don't know how it's a kickoff. I'll take that game. I mean West Virginia could be fun. Number seven on my board. I have one last pick. I will take Virginia Tech at Maryland. I think I think a little sneaky game here early in the season. Maryland, I'm Lee Washington is a ball player. James Franklin will say hi to me at some point in my career. That's all I care about. I just want to come on the show and say hi. He can even leave after that. I just want to say, Hey, Brandon. And I want to say, Hey, James. And then he's like, call me coach. And I'm like, call me B walk. And then we just stare at each other. That's what I want. That's that's my interview plans for Jane Franklin. Sneaky good game there, though. Obviously a classic ACC matchup between an ACC team and a big 10 team. Virginia Tech and Maryland. Do you have one more pick? Or I don't know how these things know we're done. We're done. That was it. Right. How many you pick? I pick five. You got more. Oh, in my brain dead. Yeah, your brain dead. I go first. One, then you go two and three. Then I go four and five. Then you go six and seven. Oh, man. Yeah. So I got the discount. Yeah, I can't do numbers. Then I go eight and nine. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Why did I get one more to? Yeah, you go one more. Okay, good. We're not good at this. Yeah, we're very stupid. Um, like the stream. Uh, um, give me North Texas at Texas State. Why? Okay, too. What? What's my board? Of course it was on your board. I know the G5 better than you do. The G6. Excuse me. North Texas just beat the fucking shit out of you and I'll be who I thought could have been a playoff team. And now Texas State. Give me a more fun offence in the country in Texas State. Give me more Texas and Texas state big, big deal there. Texas state could be staring Owen three in the face. And they're really, really good team with the great offense. Crazy. What's your last pick start their season? Oh, what was that noise? Ah, I'm in between two. Give me James Madison, Billy Napier, Sunbelt, Billy going out to sunny California to play San Diego state. He's getting intel from Bob Chesney. It's been said. Uh, Bob Chesney's helping out Billy Napier helping out JMU in this game is UCLA play. That's the last week. SDSU playing Jamie this week. Sean Lewis made some comments who salty about not getting UCLA job. They don't have a core. I mean, you want to talk about a team that doesn't have a core back doesn't have a guy to throw a football Jay and then go. He couldn't do a last year. Can't do it this year. It got a stud running back. Jim, you just put a some points last week for those that don't know. JMU has a wider receiver named Michael Scott. They also have a wide a pass catcher. I don't I can't think he's wiser than named Halbert. They're the office. Okay. The office. It's close to it. It's could be by the way Northwestern State is playing at Weaver State this this weekend. So is Devon Brown playing for Weaver State? Oh, fucking no. Well, he he could be hurt. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Um, my last one that we didn't pick but was on my board. Colorado Northwestern is interesting. If Colorado starts three and oh, that's an interesting turn of events. And I had a segment that I actually scrapped tonight. Did you see Deon's press conference after the game the other night? I didn't speak the language. If you haven't seen it, go watch Deon Sanders press conference from from after the game the other night. It was a. You it was interesting. It was interesting. Um, no, no, no, no, I don't want to do it. I don't want to just say in those that need to watch it, watch it. I just what? Okay. All right. All right. You know what? That's where we're all free to do whatever we want to do. You could see it in person. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ myself. So whatever Deon wants to do, let him, you know, not a big deal. Go to the game. What game? You could go. It's only in Evanston. Where is it? When is it? The Saturday Jack G's giving you an invite. He said you could, he works for us. He said you could tailgate with him and his family. I can tailgate with Jack G from Barstall's sports. Mm-hmm. Could I ram this cowbell at my ass instead? Nope. Oh, I don't have that option. Okay. No. Object. Gee, man. Just saying the guy can fight us the game and I feel bad. So we have two options. Tailgate with Jack G in his family or it's a big one too. Oh, oh, oh, that's on the Brown Walker College football show premium account. Yeah, that's some of Brandon Walker gold. Nutri- hmm. NutriFull is the number one dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement brand used by over 1.5 million people. And I got to say, when it comes to college football podcast and hair, a lot of them out there suck. I mean, they suck. They're hard to watch hair wise. 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That's NutriFull.com promo code walker. All right. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe. It really helps. We were at 78 to start the show. I'd like to be 80 by the weekend. And if we're at 100 by October 31st, you either get a fully paid for steak and dinner out a dinner out date with Liam Blutman. If you're a lady or if you're dude, frankly, and or you can have dinner on me and a ball watching day with Liam at the bar store headquarters. That is what I say. 100,000 subscribers by October 31st. That being said, Liam, anything else to add before we get out of here? Can't wait to watch ball Saturday. In 11 weeks, I believe, we will crown a high-spin trophy winner. I have already voted. My vote is already in. Hopefully, they counted, but my vote is in. And it's for this guy right here. I've been around Mississippi State for a long time. I was there when Dak Prescott came through and took us number one. And I haven't felt this about a player since Dak Prescott. And his name is Knoxby County's home. Shout out to Knoxby County Tigers, making Mississippi. Camario Taylor is here to talk to me right now. Take your way, Lukey. All right. Interview time. One of the best young quarterbacks in college football. I'm unbiased. I don't. I'm an unbiased media guy. I tell the truth. Okay. When I tell the truth, I tell people the truth. And this one's so new. I haven't even taken to them. I tell the truth. And it's Camario Taylor, a Mississippi State fresh off a win at Minnesota 38-13. Camario Taylor, welcome to the Brandon Walker college football show and Hail State. Hail State. I'm just a place to be here. How are you doing, Mr. Brandon? I'm always. Well, first of all, don't please don't call me Mr. Brandon. I'm always blessed to be here. Do you want to talk a little bit of crap off the top about Knoxby County beating West Point Friday night? I do. So that's it on boys. Back in Knox, man. I can't do it. They got it done for me, though. Hey, it's one of the one of the great rivalries in Mississippi high school football. Who got you? Who was your main rival in high school? Who was the team that you really are at Friday night? I got to beat these guys was Lewis. Well, there was us. It was it was three teams, three teams specifically. Starkville, West Point and Louis. Yeah. Well, I can't even say I can't even say, you know, the last name like the last. I'm not allowed to say that one from like I got to say the team from now 14. Okay. Yeah. No, I respect that. I respect that. But now you're in college. I'm 47 years old living in Chicago. So I'm not a high school football player anymore. So what's life like right now for you? 2 and 0 start. You're in your sophomore season. Things are I'm sure popping off. What's it? What's it like to be Camario Taylor right now? Just trying to stay balanced, you know, trying to keep the team going, trying to make sure we don't get too big here to get too low of anything because we live. Well, we are leaving a lot of plays on the field. So we shouldn't be satisfied at all with nothing that we're doing. And like we haven't even got to play in our best ball yet. So I'm just trying to make sure that we all stay in the greenhouse. So last year you started one regular season game. Then you started the bowl. But after starting those two games, you had to wait eight months before you played again. What was that weight like? And did you know you were going to be off to a special start this year? Just with the work. Well, that weight was a long, you know, like we from if you from wrong from like you love football. So that's all you want to do. Play football, play football. And like the team just watching the team go through what they were going through in the winter. I'll try my best to just get back out there, get back healthy. And like we kind of knew like what we're going to be able to do this year. We had we had a belief in ourselves and within the walls in the building. And like our coaches believe in us and we like we showcase the work during the whole winter workout, some workout, spring workout, spa account. So we know like what we were capable of. So most people that interview you won't be able to say yes, I can't say yes, I am from where you're from. And yes, football is it's pretty much all that matters down there. Let me ask you this. So why the first game you guys scored on your first five possessions at Minnesota, you scored on your first four possessions. Why are y'all getting up to such fast starts? It feels like you're getting off of the bus scoring point. You scored in two minutes against Minnesota. This isn't something I'm used to seeing. This was awesome. Just the way our coach called plays, you know, and like he just, he's very trustworthy and he trusts that his make his playmaker make plays. He just trust like he coached the same way. Get the balls and get the ball out of our hands and try to play make his hand make it out, make our job as easy as he could possibly be. And once we do that, like the whole world is going to be able to see like what we're going to be able to do. I know you're getting a lot of credit and I know the world is going crazy about Camarillo Taylor right now. I was watching the tape back and so many of us take us like fluff off well ran for 113 yards and was picking up guys and blitzes. He rocked a linebackers world. The offensive line was very good. The receivers are getting open. Like talk about your teammates and how good the start there off to as well. They just make my job way more easier. Like from the minor work that we put in the chemistry that we built with each other. Like we knew like that. Well, I knew I had confidence and know the guys are going to make the play that they're making. Like Like I said, all you have to do, like it's fun. flow and the ball off and I knew what my alarm was going to be up to because the way they were consistent. They were so consistent throughout the whole entire year just being a brotherhood of building beings together as a unit and just sticking together through thinking things and bad days and good days. So like I knew that I was going to be confident in those guys and like the receivers lived as a good job when he picks his specific set of guys and like he knows what he wants and like he's right from Jordan at the time. By the way, I don't tell everybody a story real quick. I was back in Starfleet in the spring, you know, I came home. I tried to come home one or two twice a year and I was there doing my thing and then you walked up and you said, you said, Mr. Walker, I want to introduce myself. You don't know who I am. I said, well, stop. So hold on. I know exactly who you are. And then the whole, the whole world knows exactly who you are right now. So that was a fun way to meet you back in the spring. But you talked about Jeff Levy. You talked about him and the score from far stuff and the fast offense. Is he the perfect coach to coach you? I think he is. I think he is. His play design, his mindset is something that I was looking for for in the coach. It's something I was looking for when I when I met him that they I made him I knew that he was a guy for me. Now, you grew up a state fan, right? Right. So Knoxby County. A lot of people don't know this Jeffrey Simmons who's, you know, NFL all pro from Knoxby County. There's been a long, long list of Knoxby County to Mississippi state guys. Was it important to join that group or did you just kind of want to do your own thing? Well, it was kind of important for me to just create my own legs, try to be the best meter I could be and just praying to God and let him leave me down the road that I'm going on. And like, let me hear. This weekend, it'll be Camario Taylor and Mississippi state against LaNoor sellers and South Carolina. You know, last year he, he was kind of the highest man, hopeful and everybody, everybody had a lot of love for him. He's a great quarterback. Have you had a chance to watch him play a lot and do you see any similarities in your game? I watched him when I was in high school. So yeah, I definitely try to compare myself to guys like, like him when I was in high school. Like he's a great quarterback, very accurate, can slice and dice on the field, can make people miss. He can run through tackles. He's just a bruiser. So like his play style is good. It's very unique to me and like, I kind of see myself, see my game and his game like some similarities. And for sure. When you scored your first rushing touchdown on the season, you did the Highestman pose and people asked you about it after you said that's one of your goals individually this year is to win the Highestman trophy. You think that's really bold or do you just think that fits exactly like what your personality is? I think you just feel my personality. I don't think it's a bold take anything. Like I definitely know like the work I put in, like I'm going to be able and like I know this team, we have to win, you know what I'm saying? So when we win, like that's all we have to do. We got to be all set. We be all set. Everything that God has for us is going to be for us and is going to happen regardless of like what anyone else has to think, even no matter what I had to think, no matter what anyone may have to think about us as a unit and as me as individually. I work with a lot of people that aren't Mississippi State fans and they're always like, you know, I like watching your games with those cowbells give me a headache. You know, 62,000 cowbells, I can't handle the sound. Kamario Taylor, you're the quarterback of the Mississippi State Bulldogs. What do you have to say to the people that can't handle the sound of 62,000 cowbells? Embrace your ears. As I like to say, no matter how much you try to be ready for them, like you will never be ready for them, like never, like it's a unique feeling, it's a sensation of feeling. Like every time you step out of the fair, every time you just step and start being, you just hit those cowbells regardless of like where you could be. Like once you're in a Mississippi, like that's what you hear, you hear cowbells. You know, we were two games into this season, got 10 games left and then who knows what the future holds. But what does success look like for the Mississippi State Bulldogs under Jeff Lebi and Kamario Taylor this year? Success for us this year under Jeff Lebi would be just us playing to the best of our ability every single game. And once we do it, the world is going to see. As you have it, and I'm going to let you get out here because I know you didn't have much time. But do you have a favorite quarterback in the world that you like to emulate or that you like to go out and say, I'm going to play like this guy or do you just take mixtures of different guys? How do you, who's your like quarterback idol? My quarterback idol, I have three guys that I look to and like watch their game, has been watching their game for a long time. I used to watch deck pressure, I was in Mississippi State. I watched them currently in NFL, the way he just operates under pressure. I watched patching my horns a lot, Lamar Jackson, and I also watched Bryce Young, the way he just keeps his, keeps his composure throughout the whole entire game regardless of it, adversity going through or if he's there up 50, like he just always stayed the same. So I watched those, watch those four guys a lot. Now how old were you when Doc was in Mississippi State? I'm just doing some quick math. I'm guessing seven or eight years old. Somewhere in there. Yeah, so you were learning football while that was leading Mississippi State to number one? I was playing, I was playing a running back at that time. So I wasn't playing quarterback. Once I got older, I like, I remember like that pressure, I had Mississippi State bringing them one in the country. So go back and watch that. Did you change the quarterback because you grew up really tall or somebody watched you throw a football and was like, oh my god, he threw up 65 yards. No, no, sir, that's actually a crazy, it's a crazy story about that. My best friend, my quarterback growing up until I turned nine years old, nine, ten years old one to I can't remember. But he stopped playing football and my coach babies started playing quarterback at that moment. That's actually not that crazy of a story. I would have made you play quarterback too. Did you, last question, I know you got to go, Hell State, last question. So everybody, every guest I had this year, like Todd McShay, you know, all these guys, all these big time calls for ball guys. They went to the Manning Passing Academy this year and they were like, let me tell you something, the buzz to the Manning Passing Academy was Camario Taylor, Camario Taylor this, Camario Taylor that. What was that experience like for you? Because it seemed like a lot of people were turned on to your game by watching you there. I already knew you were coming, but like a lot of people didn't. What was that Manning Passing Academy like for you? It was a blessing just to get around. I was great quarterbacks in ACC and like other, other conferences around the country. They're going out there, being able to compete against those guys, learning from the Manning's just becoming the base of me that I could be out there. Just trying to be a sponge, trying to circle about the information that I could. But like when I went there, my goal was just to be the best Camario Taylor that I could possibly be. No comparison, no excuses, no complaints, just trying to be myself out there. All right. Well, once again, I'm going to say Camario Taylor, 2-0, playing South Carolina in the North Sellers this weekend, huge gigantic game, big game against Minnesota last week. Again, I'm on bias. I just got to do this one more time. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Camario, thank you very much for your time. Yes, I appreciate you for having me.