Week 6 Reaction Show: UGA Beats Bama | Texas + LSU + Oregon Fall

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It's Sunday night October 11th, the year of our low 2026, which am packed. High top of lovely downtown Nashville, Tennessee, yet UCLA sort of dispelled the myth of Aughtsen. And then Georgia goes into Bryant, Denny, and turns the volume down there. And then USC mutes the white out. And Indiana against all odds comes from behind in the fourth quarter in Lincoln, Nebraska. What a week six we had. That's college football. That's a Saturday. It's not some random sterile environment in early January. AP polls out got a lot to say about that. Efficient is back. Have a lot to say about that as do many of you. Jesse, I don't know where he went. So I just have a direct line of sight to Mitch. And so we're making a lot of uncomfortable eye contact right now. Good win against Hawaii last night, by the way. The week seven tour announcement is coming up. We are headed somewhere for the first time ever. And they are watching us in Roe, not Virginia. They're watching us in Clayton, Georgia, Sacramento, California, Houston, Texas. I am so excited because we finally got our live subscriber count metric meter, whatever we call that thing up and running. We're at 579,901 subs on this channel, which means we're knocking on the door of 580,000 subs, which means we're kind of sort of flirting with 600,000 subs. Many, many thousand of you are watching right now. If you're not subscribed, just click the button, mainly so we can see the number go, remember when that happened one time we did this, Jesse? Crazy. I appreciate you guys, us sincerely. Who knows what will happen when we hit 600K, but please subscribe if you haven't already done so and like the video. We were in Tuscaloosa last night for a borderline five chalai classic. It got 4.5 chalai on the one to five scale. Georgia 20, Alabama 17, heavyweight prize fight. I don't know what the numbers are. Who knows, maybe a billion people watch this. If not, it had to be like really close. What else could you have possibly been doing with your Saturday night, other than watching just a great regular season college football game? I think the highest respect you can have for a college football program is just freely admitting that you as an outsider take for granted that they'll do the hardest things that there are to do. And I was talking to Scott Sinclair, who's the Georgia strength and conditioning coach before the game last night, and I said, you can't afford to think this. Kirby can't afford to think this. Nobody with your program can afford to think this, but I can. I take for granted that you guys will always be among if not the most physical teams in the country. I take for granted that you'll be among if not the most prepared teams in the country. Just all the tangible and intangibles that it takes to win. The mental toughness piece, the fortitude it takes to go on the road and play in these kinds of places and do what they do regularly, I just take it for granted with Georgia. You've been able to say that about a small handful of programs in your life at any given point and they're one of them. And Kirby talked about sort of the state of their program. He was really introspective in his post-game comments last night, by the way. You just take it for granted with them and that kind of bled into how I viewed this game. You know, there are a lot of questions as you have in any game. It's the beauty of playing the game. You play the game to answer questions and to find out who's better and determine a winner and all that. But I wondered as I'd watched Keel and Russell this whole season so far. And I'd watched him have time to throw. Quite simply, will he have time to throw against Georgia? And we went over last week a lot of the pressure rate numbers and the havoc rate numbers. And Georgia wasn't even top half in the country in some of those statistics. But yet you also knew there's a lot of design behind the way they do things and the why, behind how they do things. And you know like if Georgia, if Glenn Schumann Kirby smart and that kind of talent profile goes into a game, no one, they got to dial a guy up and heat a guy up. They're going to do whatever it takes to heat a guy up. And they put some heat on Keel and Russell and he didn't have clean pockets to throw in all night. Now, I still had an okay night, but they scaled their pressure numbers to the point where their guy was able to settle in. Bamboo didn't get a ton of pressure on Gunnar Stockton. Georgia got pressure on Keel and Russell. So that was question number one answered in the affirmative for Georgia. And then the other thing was we come into this game. Alabama on this stuff right here has the number 10 run defense in the country. And you wondered if Georgia really commits to running the ball, which they always do. How much will that hold up? 29 carries for 260 yards. 5.3 per carry. It didn't. They gashed him. Now, I will say I know the headline sort of coming out of that was, wow, I mean, Georgia's third string running back did this. Technically, that's true. Georgia and Bama are kind of similar in that there are guys down the debt chart a little ways that are actually the most talented members of those running back rooms. Crowell is that for Alabama. And I thought going into the game, Dwight Phillips was that for Georgia. Now, the difference is they've kind of showcased him in a little flashier manner. Then maybe the other guys that you didn't see yesterday. Dwight Phillips can run it between the tackles for you and do just fine. And he did last night. He had 17 carries for 120 yards. So I, yes, yes, Georgia was down two tailbags. I don't think they were very nervous at all putting that guy on the field. Nor would Alabama be nervous or Bama fans be nervous. If you found that, Eadjard Crowell, he's got to carry the ball 20 times tonight. In fact, some of them would prefer that. If I'm a Georgia fan, I wanted to see Phillips get 17 carries. I'd love to see what he can do. And then Bo Walker adds in. Gunner Stockton is obviously a factor with his legs. But the third question, Jesse, there were so many questions. That's the nature of early season college football. Was, well, what's going to happen at wide receiver for Georgia? You know, Alabama's got Ryan Williams. They got Lottie Brooks. They got all these dudes. Who's Georgia have? And we talked about the Vanderbilt game, which was two weeks ago. And how they had what was the eight different guys have two or more receptions. So they had been spreading the love around the wide receiver room. Tailbacks have been pretty effective out of the backfield too. They had four different pass catchers over 40 yards last night. No one guy jumped off the stat sheet. But what was happening on third down when they needed to make a play? You had one guy that was the trigger man. He's going to be on the field every play and you had him just distributing. Which is the beautiful thing. There's a lot of times when you have quarterbacks who are top five in the country. You know, when you have Julian say, and during my smiths out there, when you got Keel and Russell, Ryan Williams is out there. Gunner Stockton, it's whoever happens to be out there. And he's going to take advantage because he's a surgeon and he was surgical last night. Like, I don't really know what else to say. I'm so conflicted when we were coming home. I was so conflicted because you're walking out of the stadium. You run into Georgia fans and Bama fans. You run into Georgia media, Alabama media. You run into all different sorts of people who are just kind of vomiting out. everything they think about what they just saw and a lot of it was about the officiating and I'll talk about that in a second and later in the show too but I was so conflicted in how I came away thinking about the game because it's on one hand it's very rare to watch a team do what Georgia did and that is fumbled about four times and recover all four of them it's really rare to see a game where the officiating seems that tilted towards one side I don't I say that's rare I don't focus on that stuff all that much but even I walked away last night saying man I feel like Bama got railed from an officiating standpoint in this game the reason I say I feel conflicted is because I saw all that stuff happen and like history says if this game were played again Georgia probably doesn't recover four fumbles or the officiating is probably not that heavily tilted and yet I still felt like I watched the definitively better team when the game so that's the conflict because I watched Georgia just own a line of scrimmage I watched their offensive line and their quarterback especially on third down be the difference Gunner Stockton was nine of ten on third down I just watched a more competitively mature team win the game and I don't know man maybe if they played it again maybe they will play again down the road and maybe Bama you know they're a young team maybe they mature and maybe they even out those criticals and maybe they win the game who knows it happened last year with these two teams maybe it'll happen again I walked away from last night thinking Georgia's where they need to be and Bama's got a little ways to go before they're where they need to be and the officiating piece baked into that and the bounce of ball fortune baked into that I like I was shocked Georgia only had 20 on the board is what I'm saying I felt like the performance that they put on the field last night was like a 31 to 34 point type performance so like I feel like Georgia may have left a little bit out there as well certainly Alabama did I don't ever quite question play calling on the show people get so mad because it's like you never question coaches I know they're smarter than me they know more about what they're doing than me so I tend to shy away from it also if I was a coach myself I still would have only limited knowledge to go on because I don't know what you called I don't know what you saw I don't know what your keys in your prep were but I will say watch Alabama last night even in real time I kept on leaning over to will Savannah State was over here to my right and then whoever happened to be to my left pres is over there trying to edit social videos and I'm like hey press what you think about what Ryan grubs doing and press is like who and I said never my press keep at it I had no clue what Alabama was doing from a play calling perspective Jesse how many times have you ever heard me question play calling let me let me say this let me question the philosophy behind the play calling not play calls themselves right how about that so George a Bama had six drives and in Georgia territory with zero points last night they had another three that they scored on so but there were six different drives that ended in Georgia territory with no points last night and Bama's long as passed through the air was 23 yards so that was the kind of game that unfolded so it was very very clear part of that's by design part of the reason you started to have standard run success on Georgia was because they played to avoid getting completely and utterly eviscerated through the air because you've got a supremely talented quarterback who can do that and I would imagine I mean if you ask Kirby smart Keeling Russell 41 yards rushing on you he's gonna break some plays he's gonna break some contain but what he's not gonna have is he's not gonna have the game breaking catbuster type passes will you take that I'm sure that take it Georgia felt like they did pretty much what they wanted to defensively or got what they wanted to defensively last night my point is I thought Bama played into it a whole lot and the thing about your enemy is when he's playing into your hands shut up and let him keep playing into your hands I really felt like Alabama did that a lot last night so think about the dynamics here you're not gonna beat them over the top they sort of dictated that defensively the case last year was Alabama couldn't run the ball constantly tackle behind the line of scrimmage on standard runs last night we went looked I don't remember more than once or twice if that were a tailback was tackled behind a line of scrimmage they consistently got pushed credit to the offensive line credit to the tailbacks consistently got pushed the drives the runs rather that would have been negative two negative one zero last year were six five seven four you can live with that stuff you should lean on it is the point lean on it to the point where the other guys got to adjust something they counted on the idea that based on your tendencies you're not gonna commit to this and guess what they didn't commit to it and as a result Alabama got put in a lot of very very unfavorable positions and Georgia didn't nearly as much so that kind of puzzled me a little bit what didn't puzzle me was do overall way the game felt so this is the kind of game that goes either way credit to Georgia for winning the game but the way it felt is kind of what I want to talk about for a second how did it feel at home I'll stand in there on the field you guys are either in the stadium or you're watching at home some of your Georgia fans some of your Bama fans many many more of your just college football fans who wanted to tune in it certainly didn't feel like it would have felt in the 14 era or the BCS era but did you feel urgency watching this game because I did not as much as you would have back in the day but I still felt it number one because it just means something when those two teams play each other period independent of any postseason implication at all that's just pride and performance that's tradition and whatnot the other part is I felt like it was a showcase for the 12 team playoff format because it was the perfect balance of urgency but also knowing the losers not out of anything so they still have access no matter who wins or loses this game both of them are still going to have access one of them's one of them's past going to narrow a little bit that's Alabama now so they're going to go on the road in six days to kneeling stadium and they're a banged up team everyone's banged up now so I'm going to kind of stop saying that but but Alabama still got a path George is in driver's seat now but I kept thinking to myself what does a 2014 playoff do to this game I know proponents of a 2014 playoff say oh it's not that game like both of those teams are going to make it it's what it would do to other games these right here these environments these spectacle type environments featuring these kind of teams that are actually capable of winning a title down the road I want to maintain urgency on those games I want to maintain that balance on those games so I'm not going down that road any further because talking about a game right now but I just thought it was such a perfect showcase game for the 12 team playoff because you had the perfect balance of both factors that you want baked them got a lot of people watching by the way thank you please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already it feels like both sides would kind of welcome a rematch talk to coaches from both sides after the game like night like they were I mean George is very very thrilled to get out of there with a win and to do what they wanted to do in many cases and sort of I don't think they needed validation I think they always knew what they were I think maybe they wanted to prove some things to other people so certainly did that with me and and so I think they'd have no problem because I think they look at it and they say the things that won tonight would be there again if we met you two months down the road in Atlanta and then on the other side I think the Bama folks look at it and think we left so much out there were so many things that went against us there were so many things that are out of our control that went against us mechanisms of the game and whatnot that we think would even out the next time not to mention we're a young team so we'll continue to mature in the team theoretically that you would meet in December is different now I think both sides feel that way these are still the number one and number two teams to win the SEC championship the outcome in Dallas yesterday is such that Texas is now falling down the board a little bit and then you got Ole Miss in there what an environment man I know that there are a lot of people out there who were victimized by Alabama for a long time there are a lot of people out there who have now gotten tired of Georgia perennially being on top but yet you still tune in some of you begrudgingly but just out of respect for the showcase that this kind of game is really amazing to watch really really high level competitive environment also do you see debor last night a lot of people had some stupid takeaways actually from how fiery he was on the sideline I saw some people I don't think you have ever even gotten fitted for a jock strap in their life have a problem with Dijon Lee committing physical error after physical error culminating with a mental error to cap the game I won't say that lost them the game it cost them a chance to maybe win the game and debor jumps down his throat I don't know how else to put this guys number one players are paid a lot of money right now they're gonna get treated like it whether you like it or not number two and anyone who's sort of been around the team environment understands this if you've got a mentally fragile team if you've got an immature team if you've got a team you don't trust and there's not a lot of mutual respect with you you can't do that as a coach when you've got the dynamic you want you can Saban did it all the time Kirby does it all the time debor's got a team he actually trusts it's actually a really really mature group so you can do that that's probably what it's like they're at practice all the time. That's what it's like at a Georgia practice all the time. There is a really, really high level of accountability that's demanded, and if you get it in the practice field, no one sees it. That just so happened to play out in front of a worldwide audience last night. I saw a lot of former players look at it and say, good, that's exactly the way it should play out. I saw a lot of bean countertypes say, oh, you can't let this happen. That's a terrible look, buddy, change the channel. Go to bed, change the channel. I feel like if I were to have shown Kaelin DeBore in 2023 at Washington, a flash forward to what he would look like in a football game three years down the road, he'd be shocked just because of what the pressure of jobs like these and moments like these end up doing to you. If there was any question as to whether that dude was gonna fit in like a just and settle into the role as the head coach at Alabama, I think that question is now complete. I also think the answer to the question of whether or not there's a definitive number one in the SEC has now been quiet to two. That's the University of Georgia. I'd also say that's the best team in the country. And it's crazy how out of all those teams, remember the preseason Jesse had all the teams in the AP that got first place votes. Georgia opens number three in the country. Zero first place votes. Number one had him, number two had him, number four, number six, number seven, like all those teams got first place votes. Little Georgia, is that the new little old? Have they adopted the Clemson mantra? I don't actually think Kirby would ever traffic in that. But they were the only team in that top group that didn't have first place votes. They got a few this week. So we were there yesterday. We were in Lincoln the morning of yesterday. And that was a great day. Where will we go in week seven? Bloomington Indiana is where we're going this weekend. Never been there for a game. We went there in the spring and visited with Kurt Signetti, set down with him, saw them yesterday and we'll see them in person. This weekend we will be there Friday and Saturday. Actually Ohio stated Indiana. They're calling it the biggest game in the history of that campus. I agree. And so we are we are fueled. We are fed by Jimmy John's and we are headed to Ohio State Indiana. Is that our second consecutive week with big noon kickoff? Gave clad a bear hug from behind yesterday. It was comfortable. We're like that. It was fine. No one even batted an eye at it. The shirts are available ladies and gentlemen. These are sure to be collector's items. The Indiana week seven don't tread on Saturday themed shirt is available at paidstatematerial.com. The entire spooky Saturday line. Those are also flying off the shelves last night. Yesterday and last night was the first time I have seen our spooky Saturday merch out in the wild. And it's great. 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Listen to whatever it takes with Carly Lloyd and Jenny Taft on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. We move on. Two whale breaches in that segment, only two. Oklahoma beat Texas yesterday. How judging by the halftime score? I don't know. But they pulled it off 27 to 24. This has got to be a four-challie game. A four-challie red river shootout known by no other name on this show. The reason it's not a five-challie game, despite the fact that there were some theatrics laid in this contest, is that nine of the first 10 drives were three and outs. So it looked like it was going to be just, "That kind of gave it for a little while." And then boom, you chugged several hundred milligrams of caffeine and quarterback, as everyone predicted, ended up costing someone this game. But it wasn't the quarterback that you predicted that would cost the team that you predicted the game. It was arch-manning. John Matier, no turnovers. I don't know that we've ever had that as a padlock stat. Just a quarterback didn't turn them all over. But man, when you consider the track record so far this year, unbelievable. So I will admit, I thought Texas would win this game by double digits. They looked like they were on their way to for a little while. I had to see, "Oh, you do it to believe it." It's not that I didn't understand the dynamic. It's not that I didn't understand the potential of this defense to record a game. I get all that. I just watched them not able to get out of their own way enough offensively this year to where I thought, "Well, that's no longer an isolated incident. Those are trends." And I don't care if you've had a bi-week, so has Texas. And I thought, "Hey, man, maybe even if Oklahoma patches together something offensively, judging by that logic, Texas gets to as well. They're both coming out of a bi-week." So there was a very specific environment that had to exist here. And Oklahoma created it. And if you want to say Texas helped them, Colin Simmons, be my guest. But Oklahoma created it. They took advantage of it. But I got a monitor in here that shows all the critical stat categories. Y'all might as well zoom in on the turnover, Colin. That's it. That's what I cared about. If you told me, "Oh, you was not turning the ball over," then I'd know. This could be a dog fight in the fourth quarter. Avant ran it well enough. It was an explosive run there, like otherwise it wasn't a banner day. But defense showed up. Special teams showed up. I don't know what Texas is going to do there, by the way. Just to pause. And a moment not of silence, but of golf clap respect for Oklahoma. I don't know what the rest of this season is going to hold. Now, I know so far it hasn't been the most thrilling and fun thing to watch. But they can't take away that red river shootout win. You can go. We go seven and five, six and six, eight and four, whatever. Every player on that team gets to say until the end of time, even at our worst, we took down the number one team in the country, and that happened to be Texas because a win at the cotton bowl in the red river shootout, it's an unbelievable thing. You got to play six days later, but still time stands still for a little while. And that's an unbelievable feel. Our buddy Freddie and the Germans, they were in Dallas. That had to be an unbelievable experience. Can you imagine plucking three tourists from Germany and dropping them into the Texas state fair? What kind of vlog would that be? I mean, hopefully they got a lot of footage yesterday. Texas fell into the trap and shame on them for falling into the trap. When you lead Oklahoma, when you lead an offensive team that's this bad, 17 to seven and half time, it should be over. And this should have been over. I don't care if you have to put people to sleep. I don't care if you have to play a second half that is the television equivalent of Nyquil. Do it. Put them away. I don't care how many ornaments you think you have in that playbook. It's not working. It really hasn't worked much of the year. People can't help themselves, man. They can't help themselves. Don't bother looking at the box score in this game, it'll just confuse you. Nine Oklahoma points off two fourth quarter interceptions. And exclusively bad, McDonnell's voice cracked partly out of excitement, partly out of just stunned disbelief. And I watched, where were we? I think we were standing in the press box at Bryant Denny Stadium and everyone's around these muted TV. So you can't hear Sean McDonnell's voice cracked, but yet everyone else's voice was cracking too. Said, how can this be real life? How can this be happening? A punt is the equivalent of a touchdown in this moment. Don't do it. He did it again. He did it. I got no idea what Texas' identity is. That's what someone said to me. And I was confused like we're six weeks in now. What do you mean you don't know what Texas' identity is? It's a defensive oriented team. That's what their identity is. They're in Oklahoma with a lot better offensive parts. Now, if you're saying you don't know what their offensive identity is, I'm right there with you. I know what Steve Sarkeesian seems to want it to be, but it's not that. So I don't really know what the offensive identity here is. But the team identity, special teams let him down yesterday, offense let him down, quarterback position let him down, defense, that's their identity. It's just that when you pay so much money for this roster and specifically this offensive talent roster, no one wants to admit the obvious. Guys, it could be a whole lot worse than this. Don't give up right now when you're still just a one loss team that has everything in front of you. There are other teams out there. Your neighbors down the road in college station, their season shot and they paid a lot of money. Oregon, their season's probably shot and they paid a lot of money. Your season's not shot, but you're really going to have to recalibrate, not your expectations, but your worldview on what you are and what you could be and forget about what you want to be. It's what you can be. That's what you got to admit to this time of year. My view of Oklahoma is totally irrelevant at the moment. We can get to that Tuesday. We can get to that two weeks down the road. Like as you sort of look down the road at the rest of the Oklahoma season, just enjoy this right now. You're not a player or a coach on the team, so if you live in Chickasha, you live in broken arrow, you live in Enid, our friends in Oklahoma deserve this. Just enjoy it. Just enjoy it. It doesn't matter what the rest of the season is going to bring right now. That'll come. Just enjoy this man. They can't take it from you. And as for Texas, I'll tell you what I think. I don't think they're done losing. But you feel free to prove that wrong. They got Florida this week. Florida looks terrible right now, okay? So that solves all the makings of a four quarter game. They got Ole Miss coming in there the next week. They got Mississippi State coming in there. They still got to go to Missouri. They still got to go to LSU. LSU's a much different team at home than the road. They cap off the season at A&M. Jesse I don't think they're done losing. That's my current stance on Texas. But man, what a thrilling finish, an unexpected finish. Not just pregame, but as of halftime of this game, what an unexpected finish. Speaking of, it happened all over the place yesterday. UCLA beat Oregon 17 to 15 and somehow an upset one possession game gets one and a half chalai on the one to five scale. Let's see if I told you UCLA was going to win a game by two points in Austin Stadium, but it was going to get one and a half chalai. What would you think happened, a strike, a protest at midfield during the game? I don't know what the feed gets cut and we didn't get to watch it. What would have had to have happened? Well, I'll tell you, the sloppiest game in modern football history proceeded to unfold. And it was a match up of former five star quarterbacks. That statement technically is true. Yet Brock Thomas ends up with the best numbers out of any QB in this game. There were 10, just pop the paper, 10 total turnovers in this game. We do not apologize for winning and we acknowledge winners first on this show. Every night the JMU transfer for UCLA 22 carries 103 yards, two total touchdowns, good on him. That largely concludes the offense of highlights in this game, but you've got a credit UCLA. They've got every reason to suck this year. They got every reason to look exactly like some of these other places look with first year coaches. Goal is just dealing with it, some roles dealing with it, Campbell's dealing with it, Bob Chesney's just winning. So big credit to them and what they did do at least because they created a chaotic enough defensive environment and capitalized on it. It's not a bunch of world beaters, it's not a dominant defense, but a style of game started to unfold and they put themselves in position to benefit from it. It meant credit there because there's another world where Orange just wins this game running away. And instead, you could sit here and say, man, maybe UCLA should have won by more than they did. I'm looking at UCLA schedule right now. And if you're watching on YouTube, you are as well. If you're listening on podcast, I need to talk to you about something. Two things actually. Number one, not getting ahead of ourselves. UCLA to sort of give you an idea of where the odds makers think they are right now. They play Wisconsin Saturday at home, and they're a three and a half point favorite. So clearly Vegas is still not all in on UCLA being the caliber of team that you would classically refer to as playoff caliber. But don't worry about that because we live in a post-Indiana post-court-signity world where Vegas could be very, very far behind. They could be well, well behind the curve of something special happening. Their schedule at UCLA is Wisconsin, Michigan, state, Nevada, at Minnesota, Illinois, at Michigan, USC. Keep in mind that's a big 10 team. So there's some wiggle room. There's some room for a loss in there. They currently have the third best odds to win the big 10 championship. Which people are shrugging, the Bob Chesney effect, unbelievable. Ask for Oregon. Nothing's wrong with your feed, your internet's not pausing, I'm just searching for the words. Sometimes you have the words, Jesse, and sometimes someone else has the words. Sometimes those words are called lyrics. In this case, this brings me no joy whatsoever, Oregon has become the Sarah McLaughlin special of week six. Truly one of the worst games that you'll ever see in your entire life. Double digit home favorite, only 12 first downs. They went one of 12 on third down. They went 0 of 2 on fourth down. Dylan Riyola was awful in this game, six of 19 for 43 yards, zero touchdowns, two interceptions. Through three quarters of this game, Oregon had been outgained at home, 296 to 83. And their only hope ends up being turning to their third string quarterback. They had seven total turnovers in this game. I want you to earmuff the women and children. This is a TVMA drive chart reading from Oregon yesterday. Punt, one yard touchdown set up by the defense. Punt, punt, fumble, fumble, punt, punt, interception, it is now halftime. Punt, fumble, interception, insert third string quarterback, fumble, feel goal, touchdown, fumble. Oregon loses 17 to 15 in a performance that set offensive football and perhaps just football in general back decades in Eugene. And now they, with a second loss, find themselves very much behind the eight ball for any kind of pre-season hope and any kind of pre-season goal. It brings me no joy. Oregon is the week six Cermaglothal special. Jesse, I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the day this is brutal right now. It may just be a lost season for Oregon. Obviously, the quarterback injury situation is paramount here. And you hope that they'll get Dante more back. But remember, Dante more played when they were close with Boise and they lost Oklahoma State. They went to you. Look, that USC win. I'm not taking anything away from them, but I don't know. I've had varying thoughts on this. It almost feels like Dylan Riala coming off the bench out of nowhere and not knowing it was about to happen was the best thing for him in the USC game because this dude had two weeks to know he was about to start against UCLA and they could not have been worse if they tried. O line and coordinators, those were the two biggest questions with Oregon coming into the year. And they are gigantic red X's in every column right now that this is a team that was built to win a title. That is, what the roster was built to do this year. And ma'am, they are not remotely in the galaxy of sniffing that right now. I announced the other night we partnered with Courtyard. I am very excited about this. I dove into the Courtyard at the other night. I opened up several packs, which reminds me, Jesse, I need to show you some of the cards I kept. The Sarah McLaughlin special is presented by Courtyard. It's a pretty sadistic move on their part. They want to swoop in at someone's very, very worst and say, "Hey, you feel terrible. We can't change the past, but we can offer you a pack to rip." You like football? You like Pokemon? You like sneakers? You like watches? Well, we do. So, we're partnered with Courtyard. Also, as usually the case when I partner with someone, I want giveaways. And in this case, like a lot of you are very, very active in this world. I have great news for you. Copious, Jesse. Copious amounts of giveaways coming down the road. So, we've got all kind of good ideas and fun ideas for this. We're just now diving into this partnership. We strongly encourage you guys. Go grab your account over on the Courtyard app and stay tuned for future information. You can also use the promo code "PateState" over there. Thank you, Jesse. I did not write that down. Each week I bring on incredible guests like Conan O'Brien, Iowa Debris, La Mourn Morris, and Nicole Byer. Ooh, I scammed 'em. What? I'm talking about scams from the 1800s all the way up to today. Call your grandparents, tell your parents to stop clicking on links, please. So if you like fun, if you like comedy, and you like learning, and protecting yourself from criminals, start listening to Scam Goddess on the iHeartRadio app. For podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Each day I break down the biggest headlines, provide important context, and explain how these stories could impact your life, your family, and your community. My goal is to deliver clear, trustworthy information in a format that fits your schedule. I spoke with Gary Mayer, Eddie Melton, about what's happening on the ground, whether race is playing a role, and what help is available for families who simply can't afford the added cost. Joining us now is Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. For Front Page, from the Black Effect Podcast Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm not just a boxer. I'm educating. I can talk all week on millions of subjects. And when I go on stage, I like to dress as slutty as possible because it makes me dance better for some reason. I'm Emmanuel Jocci. Listen to Big Lives on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get podcasts. Welcome aboard season six of The Girlfriends. Flight or fight, which takes place 30,000 feet in the sky. There's great food, comfortable chairs, and attentive stewardesses. The stewardesses were so beautiful. But in reality, the stewardess job is far less glamorous than it appears. It was the most sexist job I think you could have. In this era, the airlines told these stewardesses they have to be single. They had no good excuse for why they wouldn't let women be married. They have to be skinny. We were starving ourselves. And they have to be young. You would retire at age 32. But one day, a group of stewardesses said, "This has got to stop." They risked it all, turning a fight for fairness into a revolution. Listen to The Girlfriends, Flight or Fight, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We continue. We roll on. Got a lot of people watching right now. Oh, did we, we saw spiking subs, by the way. Yeah. Sorry, Braila. I know you had it pulled up here. And now we pulled up an Indiana Box score subscriptions. I am happy to report. Have now passed 580,000 580,0007 to be exact. I just have fun pulling that thing up every now and then, immunity. Okay. Indiana beat Nebraska 20 to 17. Both of the games I was at yesterday saw the road team win 20 to 17. This was a four-challied game. This is a really fun game to be at. Beautiful weather conditions in Lincoln. This is a different feel for someone like me. Because remember, I was almost permanently the wrong side of Indiana games last year. Very, very famously. I don't want to get into this too much, and I'm not even having the staff pull the video. I had to own up to the fact that I was powerless to pick against Kurt Signetian Indiana. So I entered the season, new year, new me sort of vibes, and I knew this day was coming. I knew that this Nebraska game, they would be undefeated, and we would probably be there. And Indiana was going to roll into town, and they'd also probably be undefeated, and all of those things happened, all of the tumblers fell into place. And I knew that eventually I was going to be in front of a big crowd. Now I was going to have every reason to pick Nebraska. The model loved Nebraska plus seven and a half. It was one of its favorite bets of the week. I ended up putting Nebraska plus seven and a half on the Ramanoodle Express, and it hit, but games aren't decided by point spreads. Games are decided by wins and losses. And ultimately, it comes down to having to go on the record and pick a winner. And Jesse, unlike last year, I found it in myself to be on the right side of history. This was our show on ESPN Friday. Bryant Haynes in the top five ranked Indiana Hoosier's run defense. So here's what I want to do. I want to be able to watch quarter number one, tick down to zeros, and look at you. Unlike the Michigan game last year when we were here and say, they're for real. I couldn't quite get myself there. I couldn't quite get myself there because I am terrified of Kurt Signetti. I went on five picking against this man last year. And if I'm going to be wrong this year, I'm going to make Kurt Signetti lose a game to prove me wrong. So I'm going to whisper it, I'll take Indiana to win the game. It brings me no joy, it brings me no joy. Untold bravery that it took to do that. And wouldn't you know it Nebraska covers Indiana wins. This is what we call a badlock bowl. For those of you who are new around here, we have padlock stats and we have bad lock stats. Padlock stats are the kind of stats where if you knew them before the game, you wouldn't even need to watch the game. You would just know who won. Stats are the kind of stats that if you saw them before the game would completely throw you for a loop when you actually see them. who won the game. Here's how a badlock bowl works. We've got a whole group of badlock stats. For example, I walk up to you Friday and I tell you Nebraska is going to have a 128 to 65 rushing edge in this game. And then I say, hold on, don't even say anything yet. Nebraska is going to go 10 of 19 on third down. And Indiana is going to be held to one of 10. Hold on. I'm not done. And also Nebraska's going to run 83 plays to Indiana's 44. Okay, I'm done. What do you think's going to happen? Indiana wins. The same thing that always happens Oklahoma last year. When they went on that run to the playoff, they kept on wearing t-shirts that said hard to kill. They ought to print those in Bloomington if they haven't already. Indiana just really hard to kill. They went down 17 to six in this game. We were there and I can tell you confidently, I don't know that you could have paused for a moment in time and had it any better than Nebraska had it at that very moment. And then this happens. Such explosive passes win him the game. Josh Hoover was 12 of 22 and had 263 through the air and a couple of touchdowns. But four explosive passes accounted for 199 of those 263. Those touchdowns were 44 and 75. And all of the second one, the dagger touchdown. That one leaves a mark. You don't get over that. Nebraska's got two because they got another game this weekend. Play Oregon, by the way. But that one haunts you for a long, long time. I've got a quote written down on this piece of paper. Now, this is not me saying this. I kind of get to be with Indiana and I kind of get to do the, Hey, guys, do you hear what, what the world, what society is saying about you? And the quote Jesse is, this isn't last year's Indiana team. You've probably heard some people saying that, right? You may even think that yourself. Nobody is last year's Indiana team, including Indiana. So I wouldn't so much worry about that. What I'd worry about is keep improving. You got out of a hornet's nest yesterday. You're still undefeated. You did the same thing a couple of weeks going its northwestern. You just keep improving. Do you hear that, Jesse? It's Ryan Day. He's coming to town in six days with Ohio State, three and a half point favorites. Indiana, the reigning champs. Do you notice Gus Johnson didn't call him the defending champs, but the reigning champs. Thank you. It may be semantics, but it's proper because no one's defending a title. They are reigning. They got Ohio State this weekend. I don't know what else you could have wanted if you were Nebraska. I really truly 145 p.m. Central Standard Time, Saturday, October 10th. Freeze that moment in time. Anthony, Calandria, rips off a 39-yard touchdown run. Please watch close. He breaks in the open field. He points to Will Compton on the sideline. And the place goes insane. What more could you want? Home team goes up 17 to six. You're owning time of possession. You've run twice as many plays as them. You're lethal on third down. Crowd is it full throat. Mimaw told me, Joshua, you never start believing, and you'll never get hurt. No, she didn't. She didn't tell me that. She said hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. Now, some people say that came from Shawshank Redemption, but they got it from Mimaw. The fourth and one touchdown pass from Indiana. All you can do is throw up. That's all you can do. You just throw up at that point. I felt so bad for William. I felt so bad for him. I stood next to him most of this game. He was at a different level. They put him on the big screen for the pregame. They played the Will Compton hype video. They showed him on the big screen live. The crowd didn't need his help. They brought it yesterday, but he expended so much. I don't know how many years were shaved off the end of his life. I think he'll lend to like 115 or 120, but so much was left on the field. And it was like watching a balloon, one of those big red balloons, just inflate and inflate and inflate and inflate and inflate. And you're like, all right, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. Oh no. There's will everywhere. This is terrible. This is terrible. I wanted it so bad for him. Now I picked Indiana because I thought they'd win the game. I wanted it so bad. I wouldn't have I wouldn't have minded at all losing this being wrong on this game. The script was followed, Jesse. You got to shrink the game. They did. You've got to bottle up their ground game. You did. Here's an added bonus. You outrushed them. You did all those things. You owned third down and still it's like trying to nail jello to the wall. You still can't find a way. There's such skill in knowing how to win games. And Indiana knows how to and I think Nebraska's closer to knowing how to but they still didn't know how to. It was a really good look for him. You feel good. Certainly this is not like a zero sum world where you're either bad or you're terrible. That that that program's trending the right way. Man, when I was there last year, Michigan had a decided edge on the line of scrimmage. That was not this game yesterday. Nebraska really held their own in that department. It's just a little ways to go. They got to go to Oregon this week. So they got to lick their wounds and regroup really quickly. Probably best thing for them to play another game really, really soon. Ohio State is a three and a half point favorite at Indiana this Saturday. We will be there. The don't tread on Saturday tour will be there. But man, what a weekend we had in Lincoln. We were there Friday and Saturday. I said sitting in my hotel room Friday night as tweeted out, I really hope every college football fan gets to go to at least one big game, one big Saturday, one big weekend in that place. Perfect college football. They care. They're so invested. The facilities are immaculate. They let us work out there. There's the reverse bear hug on clap by the way. Never saw it coming. You just it's one of those places. In fact, I don't know if there's another fan base that I want success for more than Nebraska that hasn't had success lately. You know what I mean? Like some places they're very apathetic about college football. So you don't really you don't really long for them to win. I long for Nebraska people to be able to feel what Indiana felt last year and this year. What places like Georgia like they always feel it. Ohio State always feels it. I want Nebraska to feel that and I hope that's what I have. I hope for Nebraska. Let's move on. Oh Florida. Oh Shane Beamer. Oh, Cocktober. We canceled Cocktober too early. South Carolina just beat Florida 38 to 19. Do we give it 1.5 Chalai? Yes. Because South Carolina pulled away. The mental resolve it takes to do this stuff. You have to appreciate when you watch South Carolina right now because they have every reason to totally implode on themselves. And instead they go into a place. It's very hostile hostile. And they do this. Well, Nora Sellers plays the best game of his year. Nick Harbor shows up. More on Dylan Stewart in a second. That's its own thing to talk about. But it just normal people can't do this stuff is all I'm saying. Now you might say or anybody can suck so bad that one win makes you praise them. If that's the way you want to view the world view the world that way. I'm just saying 99 times out of 100. If anyone's feeling a fraction of the heat beamer has felt or those players have felt they crumble. And instead they they made someone else fold in their own building yesterday. South Carolina has got to be so confusing for a casual fan to get a glimpse of. Because you watch South Carolina. And at their best, Lenora Sellers looks insane. Like Harbor looks like an alien. Dylan Stewart is a monster and a casual fan has to look at that and say. How do they lose games? This team looks insane athletically. That's a top 15 payroll in the sport. I don't know. They didn't lose one yesterday though. They took a lead. And let's just pause there because they've done that before. They've taken several leads. But this time it was different because they never looked back. Finally, South Carolina grabs a lead and they never looked back. But it was 10 to 10 with four minutes to go to half. And it was 38 to 13 with eight minutes to go into game. So I knew what happened before I we watched this game. This was one where you're checking a score because I was on the road. So I know how the game went final wise before I get to watch the game. So that's kind of a weird way to experience this game because you start watching the game and you see, oh man, this is ugly early. Sellers is under pressure. He missed a wide open touchdown on a flea flicker and phylo hits an explosive. have touched down through the air. There's tackles for loss. There's a bad sack. There's nothing open deep on it. They miss a field goal. It's seven to nothing. Florida is late first quarter. Here we go again. But you already know the final. So you're watching it, Sam. This looks terrible. How are they going to score 38 points in this game? And then sellers ends up with this best game of the season. It was 2335. I think you had 279. Four touchdowns had one on the ground. They were 10 of 16 on third down. They were five of seven on third and nine plus. Now I don't think the Florida coaching staff has had any illusions of their secondary being anything other than a liability. But that is a glaring liability right there. So let's talk Dylan Stewart for a second. Dylan Stewart played yesterday. He had been suspended after his actions at the Alabama game and he came back yesterday. And so it was announced Dylan Stewart was going to play. And then Saturday morning, I think it may have been Pete Neckos who reported Dylan Stewart will not be on a pitch count today. Because remember he had been coming back from injury before the season. So they had played him sparingly. Now I can't prove this is how it went. But it's pretty clear this is how it went. Stewart gets himself in the doghouse. And then Shane Beamer when asked what will determine when he comes back says me. And Dylan Stewart atones and does whatever it takes to get back in the good graces of Shane Beamer. But I picture Shane Beamer telling him, all right, bud. You want to be reinstated to this team? You've shown me that you're willing to humble yourself. I'll reinstate you. You're going to play every down of this game. Dylan Stewart goes from being on a pitch count to playing 77 snaps in this game. And he showed up. And Nick Harbor has four catches for 83 yards in a touchdown. And Lenora Sellers has five total touchdowns. Here's what happened. If you're wondering how this final could be what it was. South Carolina stars play like stars. That's what happened. And when their stars play like stars, they can be a top 10 caliber team. It's just that their stars don't consistently play like stars. So they haven't been. But that does change the fact that if you catch them on a Saturday when those dudes are going off, they are a terror to play against. On the other side, I'm not sure I remember extremes like this in a six week period for like any team. Florida goes to Auburn and they play Ole Miss and they win by a combined 96 to 67. And then they play at Missouri and home against South Carolina and get out scored 88 to 36. The run game gets taken away and it's tough on them. Jane ball had 15 carries for 59 yards. And that's after the Missouri game where he had 12 carries for 13 yards and set the text like I'll I won't let this happen again. Well, it wasn't as bad as the Missouri game. But man, what a high and a low, which rhymes with Filo. So far this year for Florida. I think they'll be fine. It's just kind of the illusion of what potentially could have been this year for Florida. Like that's kind of by the wayside. Although technically everything's still in front of them. Realistically, like the Fandall over underwind total for them seven and a half right now. They are a plus 6,500 team to win the SEC plus 700 odds to make the playoff. So push that off to the side for a little while. They still got to go to Texas this week. They played Georgia after the by week in Atlanta inexplicably. Now here's what we did know about Florida coming in the year. If they could somehow get through this middle part, the back four games were manageable for them. But I don't know. I don't know, Jesse. The other million dollar question, multi-million dollar question around South Carolina is what's the deal with Shane Beamer? You know, Shane Beamer's been on the hot seat. Validly, I think he's been on the hot seat. And then they come into this game. And the one thing you could say the whole year about that team is they haven't quit on him. At no point did anyone with a brain who's watched them say, oh, I think it's quit on Shane Beamer. At no point had they done that. They just weren't playing good enough. And the heat got turned up on him. And the pressure got turned up on him. And then they go do this. And then I saw a lot of people coming out of the game saying, oh, Shane Beamer, safe. I don't know because I don't make those decisions. I hope he is because I think the theme here and a lot of other places around college football sort of moving forward is going to be maybe it's smarter to not be in a rush to pay tens of millions of dollars for a guy not to coach us anymore. When instead we could take that money and we could invest it in upgrading whatever we think needs upgraded. Now certainly there will be instances where you just have to fire a coach. Is South Carolina at that point? I don't I'll tell you my personal feel is no, I wouldn't do it. But I don't run South Carolina. My feel on this also though is I don't think they want to fire him. Like it's not like there's a ton of animosity. It doesn't feel that way at all. Administratively between them and Shane Beamer. They're looking for every reason to keep him. If that's the climate, this stuff goes a long way in doing that. So I love Shane Beamer. So like selfishly I hope that this gets him off of a hot seat. But yet I also came into the year disagreeing with South Carolina fans because South Carolina fans were like no, no, no, no, you don't ever go four and eight and enter a season not on the hot seat. My take on it was that kind of stuff is just going to happen sometimes. But like that's the disconnect because I'm not emotionally invested in the program to the degree that they are. So I'll yield to them. I still will. I'll still yield to you. If you look at this and you're heavily invested in South Carolina and you still say okay, you beat Florida big deal. I still want you fired. You're free to feel that way. I wouldn't feel that way if I were a South Carolina fan. That's what I'm saying. I don't think I would. A lot of big games coming up this week. A lot of big games. A lot of you went to big games yesterday and I have it on good authority because I opened most of my DMs that a lot of you used SeatGeek and the promo code to go to games yesterday. Still good this week and every week. 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And on our new podcast, whatever it takes, we're talking motherhood, marriages, careers, and fitness. figuring out how to balance it all. - Do you remember your initial reaction when Fox called you to be a part of the World Cup? - I was like, no, I don't want to do it. You said no. - I played with players that didn't. I don't think that they really truly loved the game. I found the love with the ball at my foot. I'm gonna go get some reps. And I'm gonna learn it and love it and embrace it. - He said, this group of people will never be in the same room as part of the same team ever again in your life. - Listen to whatever it takes with Carly Lloyd and Jenny Taft on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. - We move on. - Will Stein. Will Stein is a problem, Jesse, not for Kentucky, but for the rest of the free college football world. Will Stein is a problem. He beat LSU, he and his team. Kentucky beat LSU 35 to 34 last night. In a five-challied classic. Very rare. Rareify, Will Stein is six weeks into his career as a head coach and he's already one of five-challied classic. And I could not help, but think about the life of a Kentucky football season ticket holder as I watch them win this game. These people sat through 13 seasons of Bob Stoops. Bob Stoops is a good coach, but there was a certain brand of ball that you knew that you were getting under Bob Stoops. And then God, what, Mark Stoops? How would it have gone with Bob Stoops? Do we want to play that through? Anyway, so Mark Stoops is there for 13 years. It goes the way it goes. And then God takes the shock panels, puts them on the chest of Kentucky football, and goes, and you get Will Stein. And he's five and one already with a top 10 win. Stoops had three of those in the regular season his entire 10 year there. And he's had back-to-back walk-off two-point conversions. It is a new day for Kentucky season ticket holders. This is what I'm trying to say. I really expected them to struggle in this game. I just got this one dead wrong. My feel on this one was way off. I thought LSU would win this game comfortably. Did not like to match up at all for Kentucky, but there's nothing hollow about this outcome. It's a brand new offensive line. It's a brand new quarterback. And yet they outrushed LSU. Kenny mentioned you played a clean game. He was 23 of 36 for 246 yards. They threw no interceptions. They took one sack against Blake Baker's defense, and I know LSU folks have had plenty to say about Blake Baker on the road. Still, this is a huge deal for Kentucky. And it really felt like it could have been worse. It really felt like Kentucky could have won more convincingly than that. They were four of seven in the red zone. They were only two of four on field goals. So you could reasonably make the argument, yeah, we won, but we left a lot on the field. Just think about where this could be headed for Kentucky in Will Stein. And this is a guy who wants to be at Kentucky mind you. So that's a beautiful thing when we get that sort of deal in college football instead of this mercenary type vibe where you know a guy is just putting in his time before he moves on to greener pastures. Hey, this is 2026. Indiana can be a green pasture in college football. Kentucky can be a green pasture in college football. You don't have to move if you don't want to, you're there. Right now, this place you're at right now, that can be it. It is so frustrating to watch LSU in the wide receiver room, not become what some of us hoped it would become. Jay Dixon, I was reading some of his work over on the LSU on three site. He was talking about Eugene Wilson. That's a name that we had talked about a lot from the portal. 62 snaps he played yesterday. One reception for five yards on four targets. It's just not good enough. You can't have guys on the field that much contribute that little to the passing game. Trade has greens out right now. Guys have to step up. You've got to get more out of that position group. But the defense got worked here. It pains me to say it, but the defense got worked here. Joe Sloan had to go to bed with a giant smile on his face last night. It had to be a mile wide, ma'am. This is this being Blake Baker. Is the highest paid defensive coordinator in college football. And I love him, but you got to hold folks to account. That's three million a year that you're paying to have this kind of lack of production on the road. The glaring difference between home splits and road splits for LSU as a team and LSU defensively is pretty wild. That program has to learn to win on the road. They make you play at least four of them on the road every year in conference play, some years five. You got to do better. This has been pre-existing or pre-dating lane kiffing. You got to be better on the road. You just reassessed the season now. They're four and two and they still got Mississippi State, Bama, Texas, those three are at home. They still got to go to Knoxville and Arkansas at the end of the year if we want to point that out. Their current over-under win total is seven and a half. So I had LSU at nine and three in the pre-season got yelled at because that's too low. I'd put him in eight and four right now. I'd lean eight and four. They'll get guys back. Like, wet weeks will be back. Trade has green. We think those guys will be back. Year one, they were a very, very high variance team. Very big boom or bus type team. You take your shot. It's probably not going to work out the way you thought it was. Year two and beyond. Like that's your launch. You got to be in the mix every year. I thought it was really weird in the pre-season. Everyone started equating payroll to odds to win. It's a very lazy way to look at the sport because I don't care if you-- I don't care if LSU paid $100 million. Your players are your players. They're either good enough or they aren't. And especially if you're prone to injury, if you've got depth concerns like they and a lot of teams do, it doesn't matter how much you're paying. Does it matter how much A&M's paying their guys right now? Did it matter yesterday? How much money Texas had sunk into their offensive personnel? If you can't do it with them, you can't do it with them. Conversely, there's some teams out there who are winning at a bargain. You still got to do the same stuff you've always had to do. So I never looked at it as, well, if LSU would only pay $25 million for these players, I'd pick him to go $8.4. But since they paid $40 million, 10 and 2, the money's the money. It doesn't matter. I could pay 50 grand or 150 grand for a truck. It's still the same truck. So congrats to Kentucky, though. Bradley, do me a favor. Show me Kentucky's schedule right quick. I know you put it up once I didn't get a glance at it. They go to Oklahoma this week. Now, history says this is a double-do-down spot. When you've played back-to-back games where you walked off on a two-point conversion, you're supposed to crash and burn the next week. But then again, is this not also a do-down spot for Oklahoma coming off the Red River shootout? So who knows? Anything's possible. But Kentucky is 5-1 right now. I would argue already exceeding expectations. Let us continue. Got a lot more to get to. It was always going to be a long show tonight. We don't apologize for it. We merely ask that you subscribe to the channel and like the video. Boom. Double thumbs up. Actually, you can only click it once. So please click the thumbs up button once. Oh, Jesse. Oh, Jesse, USC 31, Penn State 23. Three-and-a-half-child-eye game. It's spectacle 114,419 people in attendance in state college last night. First off, there was a lot of challenge for people to show up, including on this show. Massive hat tip to the Penn State people. For creating this environment, unbelievable, you guys can't go on the field and play. I know you wish you could. You did everything that you were asked to do. Hat tip. Awesome environment. I can't imagine USC folks that traveled up there and got to experience this. That's all Lincoln Riley didn't want to leave, which is not exactly what you want the road coach to be feeling, but still that is special. No where else, but college football does that kind of environment exist. USC staff earned their paychecks in this game. I gave up on Lincoln Riley a couple of weeks ago, and yet I got to give them a major hat tip here. I'm sure there will be plenty of doubters still about USC, but who cares? You play the games. They don't. So Jaden Mayov played a clean game last night, and Trent Mosley plugged back in, nine catches for 111 and one touchdown. They worked this secondary, the 301 pass yards, and I mean, there's a padlock stat here. USC five for five in the red zone for 31 points, Penn State was four of four for 20 points. That's the difference, ladies and gentlemen, in this great sport of ours between kicking it for three and scoring it for seven. USC did the latter, Penn State had to settle for the former. And that was the difference in the game. It's not a blowout, 31 to 23 final. USC, just think about where they are right now versus where they were. So they're coming off the Oregon laws. At that point, I sold my stock. After five years of holding Lincoln Riley stock, I finally sold it. And then there were down 21 to 10 to a bad Washington team. And they stormed from behind and they won. And at that point, a lot of people said, yeah, but Washington sucks. In fact, it's an indictment on USC that it was a close game. But that doesn't matter cause they won. And then they went to Penn State. I thought they'd lose this game. And they were down 20 to 17 in the third quarter. And they come from behind and win. And yet again, if you want to choose to doubt USC, you could look at that and say, Washington and Penn State are terrible. Oregon is off the pace and you still lost to them by double digits. What have you really proven? No, no, no, you'll have to play Ohio State eventually and that's where you'll lose. You'll go to Indiana, that's where you'll lose. Maybe you're right. I'd pick both those teams to beat USC right now. But here's the thing, I pick Penn State to beat USC and it didn't matter cause USC won. So they're right back in the Big 10 title race. And I did not think I'd be saying that a couple of weeks ago. Not Fandall, I do want to caution you. They have the one, two, three, four, for sixth best odds to win the Big 10. Jesse, you're shaking your head? What problem? Oh, oh, you don't believe in Luke fickle. You don't believe in the Wisconsin Badgers who are three and a half point underdogs at UCLA this week and even though they should be favored. You don't believe in them, okay? Well, call Fandall Mike, take it up with them. Don't take it up with me. Quarterback is fulfilling expectation for USC right now. The freshmen are making an impact. They got a big road win here, which is a big deal. If you've looked at Lincoln Riley's two plus time zone travel splits over the years, 'cause yes, that's something that existing conference play in the Big 10. Now, defense, I will grant you, is nothing to write home about. If you can just hold teams to three. If you can just be situational in the red zone like they were yesterday, that's all I can ask of USC defensively. At Wisconsin, Ohio State, by, and then of course, you got to add Indiana. Maryland, Maryland and at UCLA. What is that game going to look like at the end of the year? People are drilling. Some people are already looking ahead saying might that have playoff implications. Jesse, I got to think for at least one team that's going to have playoff implications. Hmm, I'm not really sure where you go the rest of the year if you're Penn State. I felt like they kind of emptied the tank. This was kind of a last stand moment and they can't run it. 31 carries for 60 yards. And remember Rutgers ran it for 168 against USC. Jesse said, no, he picked Rutgers to win that game. The past game cannot push it down the field. It's, here's the thing. Sometimes this sports really, really difficult to understand. Other times it's not. This is one of those times. Penn State's players aren't good enough. That concludes the breakdown of Penn State right now. There was hope that the continuity of bringing over a lot of guys from Iowa State combined with a workable schedule would be enough where they could sort of smoke and mirror their way to 10 wins. That's not going to happen. And you remember you skipped a recruiting class, basically. You sort of had to punt on the portal because of the eight ball that you were behind, because you took about a month and a half to hire a coach. But it's going to be a process. I don't doubt Matt Campbell and OUTS more than I did when he took the job. This is not a Matt Campbell thing to me. It's a talent deficiency thing. And they're not going to fix it overnight. But I do think a decision has to be made up there and it's your decision to make. You've got to decide how much you're going to invest in football. Because you've got to be a big spender at Penn State. You just have to. And I will tell you, the expectation around the rest of the big 10 to let you in on a little secret is that Penn State's not going to be serious enough to financially back Matt Campbell and that coaching staff, but also that talent acquisition mechanism there. You do it at what you will. I'm just telling you, talking to the spokes around the big 10, they flat out don't think you'll lean in and invest enough. Maybe they're right. Maybe they're wrong. Time will tell on that. Other winners and losers. Tons of winners and losers. Sorry Bradley. Tons of winners and losers from this past weekend. Texas A&M being a loser. Not the people of Texas A&M. Notice, not the cesspool over there, but rather just the football team. 27 to 6, a loser on the road at Missouri. This game was not a whole lot to watch. Marcel read through two more picks. You know the drill. They had, has that real Jesse 29 yards rushing? Huh, yeah, it's real. So it's a very workman life like effort from Missouri. They won it, but that wasn't the big take away from the game. If this game would have just happened in isolation on a big Saturday and the post game press conference not occurred, no one would think much about this. But the post game press conference did occur and Mike Elko, who I got a tremendous amount of respect for, put his foot in his mouth yesterday and created or rather committed a massive unforced error at his post game news conference. I'm going to play the sound for you and then I'll talk about it on the other side. Don't go after textags if you're the Texas A&M head coach. Billy Lucci runs textags. I understand for casual fans you don't know what textags is. Let me explain what textags is. I want you to think about a town in middle America in 1985 and then I want you to think about the shopping mall in that town. That is the center of the socioeconomic scene. That is the center of the cultural scene in that town. That for the Texas A&M fan base is textags. It is a massive, massive entity within the Texas A&M community. It's not some folks are on textags. You'd have a whole lot easier time finding the Texas A&M supporters who aren't members at textags. I am part of Billy Lucci's cesspool. Billy Lucci is a close personal friend of this program. I have spent countless hours in Billy's cesspool. There I am in Billy's cesspool right there. How those folks have these pictures? I'll never know. I hit up K over at textags today. I said, "Hey, do you have a picture of me and Billy?" She sent me like 20 of them. I know what Mike Elko meant. I know what he meant. What he meant was you cannot waste time worrying about what toxic people say about you online. You could just say that. The choice of words was very poor and a lot of people focused on it. Here's what I suspect. I suspect that once Mike Elko realized what it sounded like when he said what he said, he probably immediately regretted it. I'd even go as far as to think he'll probably publicly admit that he regrets the poorly used phrasing and whatnot. I would expect that to happen. Here's the bottom line. Mike Elko is a really good coach. Nothing in my mind has changed about that. Mike Elko is a fiery competitor. They're not getting what they thought they'd get out of this team. They spend a lot of money on this team and they are deficient in so many places. I think they'll get it fixed, okay? But you need to know, in this world, Mike Elko is paid, he's a ten plus million dollar a year guy, right? You don't get paid that because you can coach a sport really well. You can pay that because you're in the entertainment business. That's why college football coaches make what they make and then lacrosse coaches make what they make. I'll do respect to lacrosse coaches. Lacrosse is not a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry in this country. Football is. When you're a head coach, you're not paid what you're paid because you can diagram. You can ex-enough. You're paid what you're paid because you do something and you're the face of a brand that a ton of people emotionally invest in. The same people that you may rightfully look at as toxic and as non-additive to your success are ironically the reason you even get to exist. It's just part of what comes with the paycheck. I think Mike Elko gets that, but it doesn't make you any less pissed off when you have to deal with it. That's all that came through there, but just to give you an idea of what tech sags is like, there was a threat on tech sags today about whether it was possible for Texas A&M to fire Mike Elko with cause because calling out tech sags could be a breach of his contract. No where else but college football does this exist. It's so beautiful. Houston Drug Kansas State, the wrong team was favored in this game. The model said it, I said it and shockingly we were right for once. They had already been row tested. Houston had already gone into Lubbock and almost come out with a win. They weren't going to be phased. by going into Manhattan, Kansas, I'll do respect to those guys. Also, there was a big coaching mismatch in this game, and I think the world of Colin Klein too, look at the, look at the void he's left in college station, Texas. But Willie Fritz has been around the block 10 times, and Colin Klein just moved into the neighborhood, and they got worked yesterday. Total offensive balance for Houston, almost dropped the paper, sorry. Clean game for Connor Wegman. Their first seven drives in this game, Jesse, 75 yards, 64 yards, 75, 81, seven, three and out there, 76 and 67. It was 35 to nine. Game was over. And then there was just some window dressing late. So good on Houston, man. I think they're a big, big, big factor in the big 12 race and the playoff race right now. They've got the fifth best odds to win the league, because they have a conference loss. But a lot of these other teams are going to play each other, eventually. UNLV was another one of those games where the model thought the wrong team was favored. Dan Mullins somehow scored 13 points and beat North Dakota State in the Fargo Dome. That's tough to do. This was, this was tough for week eight implications. I'll just be real with you. I think college game day was going to Albuquerque for North Dakota State, New Mexico. If North Dakota State would have just won this game and they didn't, the script writers did not get the memo, man. So Boise now becomes the favorite amongst GE 16s to make the playoff followed by New Mexico. What does that say for the number three team there? I can't read it. That says James Madison. Oh, wow. Thank you, Pres. And then UTSA and Memphis, ugly game. I mean, Jackson Arnold was the winning quarterback here, even though wins technically are not a QB stat. He was eight of 16 for 77 yards. No touchdowns, one pick and a pick six was the only touchdown that UNLV scored gross, but beautiful. They got the win. Purdue eviscerated Minnesota. Minnesota was coming off back-to-back wins and it just turns out that it set them up to get odomed. Yeah, no one's saying it yet, but they should be. They got odomed, double do down spot, and now we got a padlock stat. This is what getting odomed feels like, Jesse, getting out rush 305 to 27. Just boom, boom, boom, boom. They sunk the boat. They didn't row the boat. I have not been paid to say any of this by the way, but I would be open to it. No, that would be unethical. So that's it. That's the end. I don't think you need to talk to your children about Purdue yet, but you need to prepare to have a conversation about Purdue because there are three and three. One of their losses was by two points to a good wake forest team. Another one of their losses was by 14 to UCLA on the road, respectable. They did get thrown in the woodchipper against Notre Dame, but whom's amongst us hasn't. And now they're going to play a really bad Washington team this week just looking for the season to end, and then they go to Penn State off a buy. You're going to get arrested, Purdue, Jesse. Are you ready for barriotum with time to prepare? Nope. I don't think you are. All I'm saying is I don't think Purdue's done winning these games. And they're over underwent, although it was three and a half to start the year. We're in danger of the overhitting before Halloween. Ole Miss did some bad borderline and speakable things to Vanderbilt yesterday. There was a splattering in Nashville. The arrested Ole Miss turns out that's nothing to mess with 42 to three and a half time. This was one of those things where I looked at the score and thought it was a typo. You know how the scoreboard malfunctions on these websites every now and then. And I thought surely this is not 42 to three and a half. And then I went to look at the drive chart. Do you realize that Ole Miss scored 42 points in the first half and they punted and had a three and out in the first half? That's hard to do. They also had touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, five offensive touchdown drives in the first half. They scored in some other ways, obviously mathematically as well. Just a total body back here. There's not much else to say other than Ole Miss is still very much a factor in Vanderbilt's not so much. And Iowa, I don't want to overlook what happened on Friday night in Seattle, Washington's terrible man. Washington was disinterested in what Iowa brought to the table and that's a bad thing. Because when Iowa comes to town, they are going to throw a bowling ball at you and you can't like flinch and can't like put up a weak wrist or you're just going to get hit in the face with a bowling ball. And the bad part about it is they make you play four quarters and unfortunately Washington signed up for 60 and had no idea what they signed up for. I'm shocked that the score was even this close because there was a lot of garbage time scoring here. Iowa is plus 390 to make the playoff. Again there's nothing wrong with your internet. I'm just pausing so you get comfortable with the idea that a five-in-one Iowa with at least according to this a very workable schedule remaining. I was trying to think of who's ranked and who's not. We'll talk about the AP in a second. Iowa's got a path, Jesse, a little question answer at quarterback too. Iowa's got a path. Is there a loss that happened this week and we all suffered this one? We all lost this weekend because we still have to deal with college football officiating. I don't remember a weekend where officiating was this glaringly horrible in a long time. One of the worst Saturdays I've seen for college football officiating. The big 10 alone was a disaster. I don't even mean necessarily like a missed holding call or questionable PI call. I mean like fundamentally not understanding the mechanisms of the rule book. They've already had to put out a statement about this UCLA Oregon game where they mis-spotted the ball at the end. The Michigan State Off-Sides call, very reminiscent of how the screw job went down on Minnesota a couple of years ago. Go look at the LSU Kentucky game. Horrible. Virginia Tech Cow was terrible. I was at the Georgia Bama game. Just like a dereliction of officiating duty. That's how bad it was. And guess what happened at the end? Not a single person had to answer for anything. Maybe if you're lucky, we'll tweet a graphic out the next day where we admit we got some things wrong, but that's it. Nothing's really going to change. And there'll be no accountability. Oh, they'll tell you that they hold the officials accountable behind the scenes. Yeah, they'll tell you that. But look, here's what you need to understand. We're guarding nuclear codes here in college football. We can't actually let these people be accountable for their decisions. It's just too serious. Oh, wait, never mind. We're playing games. We're playing football games. It's a sport. So really, we could be more accountable. We just don't have to be because no one says so, because there's no central authority in this. And we're going to continue to do this really, really backwards thing where we have these various heads of officiating in all these conferences. And there's no consistency. I go to a big 10 game and the thing's done in two hours, 45 minutes because there are no flags thrown. I go to the SEC and it's a four and a half hour marathon because there's laundry on the field every other play. And I'm like, how is this even the same sport? How are these people even calling this the same sport from a rules enforcement perspective? Officiating, I got to watch myself. I think what they do is very hard. And I think officials buy and large do a good job. It's just that sometimes they suck. And when a player sucks, they get called out and they even have to answer for their play. And when a coach is terrible, they got to step to a podium and answer for their play. When officials are terrible, ghost, they're gone. Here's what happens. Here's what happens. There is this mysterious process that no one gets to be privy to and they'll review it and then they'll be grades and they'll be guidance given out. And I'll tell you, I talk to a lot of these dudes. Weekly, I talk to heads of officiating, I actually don't talk to heads of officiating at all. They don't want to talk to us. I talk to officials themselves. And those guys admit when they'll get it wrong, but also what they'll do is they'll make sure and let you know, look, there's a lot that you don't know. And sometimes it's kind of trying to account for themselves and I get all that. But other times it's just like the whole thing needs to be burnt down and rebuilt from scratch. Like the whole mechanism needs to be. So those were some winners and losers this week. I got to warn you about something, mainly the live chat. I need to warn the live chat about something. You know two weeks ago we started a practice around here where the AP poll comes out around lunchtime on Sunday. And in the interest of getting a video recorded and out before the live show, we record like around four o'clock in the afternoon. We record our AP reaction video and we put it out. It's literally on the YouTube channel right now if you're watching live or you're watching the replay. But what we also do, because I know a lot of you just like watching the entire show or you like listening to the entire podcast instead of just the individual clips, is we'll also take that segment and we'll put it at the end of the live show. Like right now it's 824 Central. We're live right now, we're live, pal. For some reason there is like a group of people who just kind of in a feral manner wander the live chat and they get really really been out of shape when something pre-recorded plays even though there's no discernible difference in the content. For some reason if it's pre-recorded it's evil. I'm about to play something for you that's pre-recorded that we did earlier today. I also want to remind you if you're watching. Thank you for subscribing, man. Got it, got about 100, 200 of them during the show. Please continue to do so, as the drive to 600 K continues. All right, without further ado, and I wanna be clear about this, some pre-recorded content from a whole two hours ago. Roll it, Bradley. AP poll week seven's out, Jesse, the paper's still hot. That's how fresh it is, presented by Rams, show 'em the truck, Bradley. They're, (mimicking) it's like the green screen thing and weather, I always get confused on backwards. LSU's still ranked. Is this correct? Yes, LSU's still number 22. It's not even borderline. It's not even fringe. And a lot of you have taken exception to this because you saw Kentucky take down LSU yesterday. Of course, you saw Ole Miss take down LSU earlier in the season, and I gotta say, I think kind of on board with you guys, because if you look at the resume, yeah, the two losses are two currently presently ranked teams on the road. Kentucky's 15 now, Ole Miss is nine now. So you can even say they're two losses, two ranked teams, top 15 teams on the road. That's true. And I'm not saying LSU hasn't faced some difficult competition there, but if we're gonna apply the criteria equally, you know, we don't do the selective thing. If we're an AP voter, which we are not here, and we're gonna apply the same logic, don't we have to find the wins? 'Cause at the end of the day, you do have to do something of note, so what is that something of note? What is that win? All caps, W-I-N. What is that peg that you're hanging your hat on on the LSU resume? Is it the Clemson win? Not really. It was a splattering. But that's not something that you're, you know, taking special time to write mom and home about. And neither is the A&M win. 'Cause both of those teams just kinda look like not so secret garbage. So what are you hanging your hat on? So I agree with you guys, 'cause a lot of you, I think it was by about a three to one ratio were more outraged than LSU being ranked than anything else in this thing. So I agree with that. Also, you got that tweet someone sent us about UCLA, 'cause I think maybe our guy Dylan here is onto something. He said if UCLA had an SCC patch, that'd be top eight. But Dylan, I'd go a step further. I think if UCLA had a big 10 patch, but it was Michigan or Penn State or some other well-established brand name, I think even then, that'd be ranked higher than they are at 12. Now there is pushback, like if you're an AP voter or you're just someone who disagrees with Dylan, you could say yeah, but there's a reason they're not being treated like a premier top 10 team right now, 'cause they don't have a premier top 10 kind of resume. So what shoots holes in that obviously is you've got Notre Dame number two. So you're gonna have to selectively apply logic and criteria here. And if you just admit you're doing that, that's okay. The people who don't admit they're doing it, that's where you dig yourself into a little bit of a hole, because if you look at UCLA being undefeated, you could pick a part in this resume, but no more so than you could do Notre Dame's resume. So so far, they got a win at Cal, San Diego State, they took down Purdue, Jesse, maybe a better win than we thought at the time, at Maryland, I think Jesse and I went and beat Maryland last week and then they go to Oregon yesterday. Now that was supposed to be the crowning achievement and anyone who's mad that UCLA is not ranked higher is gonna say you're only discounting our win against Oregon 'cause we're UCLA, 'cause Indiana went up there last year and they got a ton of run from that. That's true, I think people respected that Oregon team more. I think people respected the manner with which Indiana won that game thoroughly more. I'm talking about them, I'm not saying me, I think I'd probably have UCLA higher, but I'd all vote in this thing. I put out the commissioners poll, it comes out Thursday, we'll see where we have UCLA, but I think the Oregon win just feels hollow to a lot of the voters. Like at the end of the day, I think that's what they'd tell you. They would say something like this, the Senate's would start with a variation of acknowledging UCLA won the Oregon game, but, and then they'd say following the but, Oregon's not really what we thought they were. So, they're just telling you, well, UCLA hasn't really accomplished anything. Well, here's the problem. If you don't already think they've accomplished anything, I don't really know on their schedule, the rest of the way, where they're gonna convince you. 'Cause the rest of the way is Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada, Atlanta, Minnesota, Illinois, Atlanta, Michigan, USC. Maybe we get to the tail end, maybe, and Michigan's got a poll, so USC's, that USC game, by the way. That thing looks pretty interesting. Thanksgiving week, rivalry week. So, UCLA's got a shot to be Indiana, but not Indiana last year, Indiana 2024. You remember Kurt Signity comes on the C, year one, with some transfers from JMU, just like Bob Chesney has. They played a schedule, people did not respect. They ran through that schedule. They made the playoff, and all the while, people were waiting for them to get there, because they thought to themselves, you get to the big 10 title game, or you get to the playoff, finally, you'll face real competition. And they did, and that Indiana team came up short against really good teams. We'll see about UCLA. Like, their play in Wisconsin this weekend, that lines three and a half, more on that in just a second. So, Kentucky's below Tennessee. I have no idea why. Seth said, "The most overrated team here's Tennessee. "They have no good wins, no quarterback. "Most underrated is either Kentucky or Northwestern." I'd actually agree on both accounts there. So, Kentucky, Tennessee, if we did the blind resume thing, almost certainly, if you did not show the logos, Kentucky would be ranked ahead of Tennessee. I don't know by how much, but they certainly wouldn't be behind them. Kentucky's best wins at A&M, South Carolina, LSU. Tennessee's best wins, Auburn at Georgia Tech, at Arkansas. Clearly, the wins are better. If you're comparing losses, Bama beat Kentucky 45 to 17, whereas Tennessee played Texas two within three, I gotta think that's what people are looking at here. But even so, if we're gonna do the comparison thing in the loss category, don't we have to do the comparison thing in the win category? 'Cause I would argue these Kentucky wins are a whole lot better than Tennessee's wins. And if we did nothing more than kept the resumes the same, but we changed the logos, I would bet, I have nothing in my pocket right now. If I had money in my pockets, Jesse, you got any money? Yeah, I would bet Jesse's money right now. The Tennessee would be ranked ahead of Kentucky if Tennessee would be ranked ahead of Kentucky in either event. Tennessee is ranked ahead of them right now because they have their present resume. Tennessee would also be ranked ahead of Kentucky if the resumes were switched. That's just how that works. I don't know what to tell you. It's not Will Stein's fault. It's the fault of Kentucky for not taking football more seriously back in the day, and they didn't get this reputation that matters in the minds of many AP voters. What are we thinking with Nebraska? Nebraska wasn't ranked last week in the AP, which was a crime they should have been. They were ranked in the Willie C. Poll. They were ranked in the commissioners poll. The only poll they weren't ranked in is the AP poll and they're still not ranked in the AP poll. I don't know where I'll have Nebraska Thursday. I will still have them ranked. They should have already been ranked and what they did yesterday was they played the number five team in the country two within three. Did they lead them early fourth quarter? They let them end the third, early fourth. I couldn't remember the exact timing there. Why would you drop? I don't know why you would drop it. If anything, don't you expect Indiana to more thoroughly handle a team that's floating in that 24 to 28 range? If anything, I thought Nebraska validated themselves yesterday. I think they should have ticked up higher. If you had them number 10, all right, maybe they shouldn't rise then, but if you had them 25, 26, 27, like that range, I think they should have jumped and instead, it looks like Nebraska fell a couple of spots. Now, it's tough cause like if you scroll, they're in the others receiving votes category. So 26, 27, 28, they're 29th in the AP right now. What were they, Jesse, like 26, 27, something like that? Like they were on the borderline last week. So people dropped them. Which is so married to wins and losses. It's from a rankings perspective. In the NFL, they don't have rankings, but in the NFL, just it's your record, that's it. Cause everyone plays a pro team every week in college. It does not matter how many statements get put out. It doesn't matter how many advanced analytics and how many other tools there are at your disposal to be able to look past just a raw win loss record to more thoroughly judge teams. They're still riding with wins and losses and it boggles my mind every week. The big 12 feels really unsettled to me as I look at this poll. So right now, you got Brigham Young at eight. Texas, text 10. Utah is 11 and then you go down a little ways and there is Oklahoma State at 18. And I got to tell you, Jesse Houston's at 20. Oklahoma State's 18. I know Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa. That's not a conference game, firstly. Secondly, I really think that's clouding the vision. Not just of AP voters. Dude, I'm talking to Fandall Mike. I'm talking to the folks who are setting the numbers. Like the big 12 odds right now at Fandall still look if you didn't know any better. Like there's a solid one, two, three that's kind of in the order here. It's like the Brigham Young, Texas Tech, Utah Group. And then there's like this secondary group where you have an Oklahoma State or a Houston. I don't know how you watch big 12 games right now and think that Oklahoma State is not right there or that Houston is not right there. Now, the difference is Houston already played at Texas Tech. So they've got a conference loss, but they spanked Kansas State yesterday. But Oklahoma State doesn't have a conference loss. And correct me if I'm wrong, Jesse, Texas Tech's got to go to Stillwater. And that's coming up pretty soon. So I think there is a little bit of a reckoning coming in the big 12. It's good that they have the team's rank, like I'm not arguing that there are ranked teams here that shouldn't be here. I guess I don't even have a problem. Maybe that Oklahoma State is where they are. I'm more projecting with this. And I'm just thinking to myself, it's funny that the odds market kind of reflects this right now. And I don't think it should. Now, I don't run a sportsbook, Fandall does. So I can put my money where my mouth is and I have because I'm with Oklahoma State right now. And if not to win the league, to have much better shots at winning the league, respectively, then are currently reflected there. I mean, it sounds like I'm trash and fandall, I'm not. That's actually how a betting market works. Fandall is the exclusive odds provider of the show, of paid state, of our entire campus and university, fictitious in nature. But right now at Fandall, before I give you the Ramanoodle Express, which went seven and four yesterday, good day, could have been better. I feel like we were robbed, could have been better. Right now, new customers who bet $5 at Fandall get $50 in bonus bets every day for five days. It sounds like I spoke out of turn. I didn't. It's right here. This is like new copy paper. It's really thick. It's like a sheet of plywood, basically. New customers should listen to me closely. You go over there. You're new customer. 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As for this weekend, ask for the ramen to express. This may seem treacherous, this may seem a little risky, but no more risky than thinking UNLV should have been favored over North Dakota State. No more risky than thinking Houston should have been favored over Kansas State. Those were games that we were on last week where we thought the wrong team was favored. The model Jesse thinks the wrong team may be favored in drum roll, please, Wisconsin versus UCLA. After that big win against Oregon, UCLA's coming home. They're the toast of the West Coast, maybe the toast of the country. Toast of the West Coast is a pretty good t-shirt. But Wisconsin is a three and a half point dog here. The model thinks Wisconsin should be a short favorite, believe it or not. So we are going to take Wisconsin plus three and a half. Now this is a do-down spot also, Wisconsin by the way, Jesse, what they do yesterday. How did they do? How did they fare? I don't really think we heard a whole lot about Wisconsin yesterday. There's a reason for that, and do you know why? Yeah, they were arrested, they just slept yesterday. So they're going out to the Rose Bowl. They may travel halfway decently out there too. So I know they do when it's an actual bowl game. So give me Wisconsin plus three and a half will have several more best bets on the Roman who will express throughout the week. What a show, man. What a weekend. I would argue from a viewability standpoint, maybe an overall chalai rating standpoint. The best weekend we've had so far. Don't miss shows this time of year. Don't miss shows. We'll be back Tuesday night. Got another huge week coming. It's full predictions on Tuesday night. Appreciate you guys so much. Make sure you like this video, and make sure you are subscribed to this channel. It's why we don't have to charge anything. It's why we get to do the show the way we want. Thank you. Thank you. Our numbers are through the roof. 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