Week 7 Reaction Show: Wildest Saturday Ever + AP Poll Reaction

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I'm going to talk about the day at large, instead of a specific game. The AP poll is on fire. It needs to be set on fire. All that, plus a very, very special and close-to-my-heart announcement about the Week 8 Don't Tread on Saturday tour. I've got to get into the show. We have no time to waste. This could go nine hours tonight. We should raise money for a good cause and open a phone bank and just do a telethon on tonight's show. They're watching us in Morristown, Tennessee, Corvallis, Oregon, Tampa, Florida, Sugar Land, Texas. What is it, Jesse? You look like you have your hand on your button. Oh, I thought you were ready to say something to me. Oh, you want me to tell them to subscribe to the channel? We're very close. Actually, we're four subs away from 586,000, so we should get that knocked out of the way in just a matter of seconds. We are on the road to 600K, though, and I need you to. I don't need you to. I really, really strongly urge you to subscribe to the channel because we are rolling. We've had like several thousand just in the last 24 hours. Appreciate you guys for that, but this is no night to beg. This is a night to. I don't know that I've ever used this word on the show. Level in what we just saw yesterday. I think we're coming off the wildest Saturday in the modern college football era. While everyone was busy complaining about college football playoff expansion, me included, we had a Saturday for the ages just unfold right before us, and the bad faith actors out there wanted to talk about how much it would or wouldn't matter in the future. Hey, don't be miserable. Just enjoy it. Just enjoy it for what it is. As many of you out there are in high school or college or you're fresh out of college and you don't really remember a whole lot about 2007. A lot of you are 50 years old and you don't realize that we've got full-grown adults that don't really fully recall what 2007 in the United States of America was like. Time slips up on you like that. In the world of college football, people speak about 2007 with the kind of reverence that's hard to understand if you didn't live through it. But if you lived through yesterday, and I know anyone who's able to watch this show lived through yesterday, that's a small taste of what 2007 was like. In fact, Jesse, yesterday was a little crazier than 2007. It's just that if you take what happened yesterday and spread it over several weeks, that's what 2007 was like. But buddy, this is a paper popper. Five of the top seven lost yesterday. That's never happened. We've done the AP poll, excuse me, they have done the AP poll since 1936, and it's never happened. And what happens on a day like that is it shakes your entire belief system. I know how you felt last night. Some of you suffered yesterday. Some of your teams fell. And for you, I apologize. I hate that had to happen to you. For others, like we got Auburn fans watching tonight. You got a whole new lease on life. Tennessee fans is like, man, I love this. Give me more of this. UCLA fans have to be in heaven right now. Like they're on an entirely different plane than everyone else. But for those of you who were just watching yesterday, days like yesterday happened to you. And they shake your entire belief system. You don't know what to believe. You don't know what just happened to you. You find yourself sunk into a couch at like one o'clock in the morning. Somehow, inexplicably, Nebraska and Oregon is still on. So you're still watching the game. But you've got like this terrible posture about yourself. You're slouched over, your mouth's hanging open, you're breathing through your mouth, and you don't realize it unless someone points it out. But no one's there to point it out because you have asked to be left alone. Because so much has happened. And you made so many definitive statements at work or at the gym or with your buddies throughout the last few weeks that are now crashing and burning all around you. And I know that sounds terrible, but it's actually beautiful. That's what college football is about at its core. Now, trying to figure out the sport right now is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. There are no through lines. There is no consistency. It's just like taking a deck of cards and just scattering it in the air every week. So, yes, it can be maddening. Hey, imagine having a show where you got to go public with your predictions every week. It's a nightmare. And then they clip you and they make graphics and edits. And if I can bear it, so can you, is what I'm trying to say. So yesterday, I just wanted to walk through this with all of us because this is going to be historical record, Jesse. One day when we're long gone, the archaeologists will dig up evidence of October 17th, 2026. And I hope they stumble upon this video. So yesterday, this thing starts in the noon window Eastern. And you thought slash I thought for a while when we were up at Indiana, press showed me the phone. He said, look at that, Texas out to a 17 to three lead. And I'm like, good for Arch. You know, it's probably not all fixed, but even Arch can carve up that secondary. Nope. Nope. And then you check again. And hey, man, Ohio State, Indiana, that's going down in front of us. And then all of a sudden I get text, saying, ooh, Texas looks horrible. FYI, one of their early touchdowns was a punt return. Arch can't do anything. And then it starts to happen. Then it unravels. And then you see it go down. And Florida, it's not only going to be close, they actually pull that thing out and Texas falls after leading 17 to three. And that's happening right smack dab about the same time as Indiana having Marsh wide open in the secondary. But he steps out of bounds. So you got two banger endings right there. One of them's a huge upset. One of them's just a great game. But you can't tell if the theme has started yet. Because upsets happen all the time. But an upset in isolation is not a volcanic Saturday. But it's like a little steam comes out of the top of the volcano. And then the 330 window hits. And buddy, that's when it starts to turn loose a little bit. Because once again, we have this big favorite in Georgia. Like Auburn, Georgia was not even an on-the-radar game. We didn't do a breakdown of it last week. We put in an upset alert, right, Jesse? But that's only because of the schedule dynamics, we knew. Georgia was coming off the Bama game, playing their seventh straight game. And Auburn was off a bye. So you've at least got to mention it. But that's about all we did, is mention it. And then Georgia's out 14 to nothing early. I guarantee you, the portion of America that was watching that game removed it from their radar screen. Because they were watching Bama, Tennessee. And Bama, Tennessee ends up being just total domination throughout the entire day. And you're saying, oh, Tennessee settling for field goals. Are they going to have to pay for that later? No. No. Bama never got off the bus. Actually, they got stuffed in a closet. But it was bad. And so that's happening. And you're kind of saying, wow, is this really just going to go wire to wire like this? Yes. But then it's like, wait a second. I just saw over here in the bottom right side of my second quad box, is that score right? Has Auburn put up 24 unanswered on Georgia? And then you flip back to that. And it's like, oh. Oh, there's the Auburn turnover. What? What did Georgia just do at midfield? Auburn's lined up for a what game-winning field goal boom down goes Bama down goes Georgia and at that point you can feel it that's a theme that's not just isolated upset that's a theme starting to emerge but that could just be an SEC thing right but then you get into the prime time window one thing you learn about college football is if you're if you're if your team is favored and playing at night what you want to avoid is you want to avoid seeing all this catastrophe and disaster happen in the first two windows because college football is not scripted contrary to what certain people will tell you however it does seem to follow themes from time to time and if you've got a volcanic Saturday underway the last thing you want to be is Notre Dame favored by 10 and a half on the road in Provo Utah and there was Notre Dame favored by 10 and a half on the road in Provo Utah and this was not favorite gets out to a big lead and then underdog reels them back in this was Brigham Young owning the game most of the way and Notre Dame trying to keep up and while that's going on like there was an hour and a half last night that was utterly insane because you got Notre Dame Brigham Young and that's like an upset beat brewing the entire way and then you got Oklahoma State and Houston playing a borderline five childlike classic and then you got Will Stein and Kentucky doing what they do now that's just something Kentucky does with regularity on the road at Oklahoma and all the while in true Auburn Georgia vibes you're figuring at least I can take FSU Miami for granted nope that one's going to overtime too with an extremely controversial ending so by the time the dust settles we got a field storming in Knoxville we got a field storming in Provo we got Miami FSU going to overtime and so we've got five of the top seven going down on one day and FSU had they beaten Miami it would have gone from already historic to like untouchably historically legendarily never going to be topped in the rest of history just put it in an urn somewhere and put it up on your mantle put it above your fireplace and then in one of the most weird schedule quirks ever Nebraska Oregon kicks off at 11 o'clock eastern time and maybe even some of you who had planned on being asleep by then your your sensories are overloaded you can't go to sleep and you just kind of sat there and let one of the most hideous games with less than 500 combined offensive yards take place in front of you Compton texted me no less than 70 times during the game so yes ladies and gentlemen if it felt like you had never seen anything like it it's because you had never seen anything like it so let's actually dive into these games we were in Bloomington Indiana yesterday the don't tread on Saturday tour is at an Indiana football game for the first time ever Ohio State 19 Indiana 15 the game presented by Jimmy John's buddy I was starving last night by the way I could have used a Jimmy John's barbecue brisket sandwich available on the Jimmy John's app and at jimmyjohns.com I just waited too late but I mean seven o'clock in the evening right now for the you're not live crowd it's actually 7 11 p.m no free shout outs there that's literally what time it is 7 11 it was a perfect day in Bloomington Jesse what did this game look like on tv because it was it was like upper 40s low 50s but there was no wind and it was wall-to-wall sunshine it felt great it was like perfect college football conditions and then we see the first Indiana loss since 2024 it's close throughout I'm giving this game four and a half years ago and I don't know if you guys remember this but we had some folks on the Ohio State staff walking off the field claiming that this deserved five chalice and I I got to tell you I can't push back on it but we've got a we got a five chalice game later in the show and we can't just toss those things out like candy it's not quite Halloween yet but it was a solid win they won the battle did Ohio State at what cost Julian Sayen's out for several weeks now and this is not a situation where Ohio State has this really really navigable soft underbelly of a schedule they're about to play no they got at USC they do have a bye week but they go to USC they got Oregon coming in Northwestern's not an easy out at Nebraska won't be an easy out we're what do we think Jesse like three four five weeks like that's kind of what you're piecing together that's sort of what it feels like back before the end of the season which of course ends with Michigan but man these teams just felt evenly matched yes you've got a winner yes you've got a loser but neither one of them could run it all that effectively neither quarterback really felt like they ever settled in which was sort of sort of weird to watch from the field but then again you got two really good defenses but the margins are just so small in these games this type of game is not going to have some box score where you go yep there it is right there I guess the closest we get to a padlock stat maybe even a paper popper Ohio State just took care of business on fourth down it's a limited sample size they're two of two Indiana was 0 of 2 that was the difference and I mean Julian saying just has the the benefit of being able to throw a ball up to Jeremiah Smith and Jeremiah Smith does what inhuman type wide receivers do he just went full alien mode and hauled one in and then Indiana on their end couldn't keep Martian bounce at the very end that's the difference in the game it's it's not domination on either side but I I was listening to some people last night I don't even know what show I was listening to I was just kind of trying to peruse I was trying to feel out what the public sentiment was on this which I don't normally do and I I heard some guy offer his takeaway on Indiana and it was like well Indiana man they're not the same as they were last year what kind of analysis is that exactly who is Indiana from last year look around the country that's not like some eliminating type statement Indiana's not as good as the version of themselves last year that was one of the greatest teams we've ever seen yeah I know they're not you know what they are good enough to do probably still compete for a national title if everything falls into place their margins are a lot smaller too they don't have Fernando Mendoza they struggled to run the ball yesterday but they played two teams or two games versus teams that are really good the run hasn't been their quarterback play erratic there was a little bit of an injury issue with Hoover yesterday but even after all that the path is clearly there it's clearly there they just got to have a lot more things go right for them but they were a high level execution team last year too if they make a field goal yesterday and or that catch happens at the end of the game people are talking totally different is what I'm saying so it's no different a team their win-loss record is different they've got less margin for error now I'll tell you on on my end I don't know how you felt about watching Ohio State Jesse I don't know how anybody watching the show right now felt about Ohio State I'm not questioning Ryan Day I'm not questioning Arthur Smith maybe I'm questioning them in the most literal of senses I want to know how Chris Henry is not on the field more there's a lot more to this game than physical traits I fully understand that but man for a team that has Jeremiah Smith on it when you stand on the field and watch Ohio State close up Chris Henry Jr. physically jumps out at you just as much as Jeremiah Smith does Jeremiah Smith's a world's player obviously and maybe Henry will be that one day he just hasn't had a chance to prove himself but man he was a problem in the limited number of snaps he had yesterday you could tell he was a little bit of an issue for Indiana and I have a sneaking suspicion Indiana may have expected him to be a lot bigger of an issue he just I think he played 11 snaps or something like that Chris Henry is he is he looks like the kind of guy that can take over a game there's obviously a reason why they do things the way they do and I think it's a good thing that he's not on the field so when I say I'm questioning them I literally mean Ryan man tell me why he doesn't play more and then just sit there and shut up and listen we got to get him off the record obviously he won't come on the show and say that but congrats to Ohio State just a hard-fought game man it was a pleasure to be there that was where we were yesterday where will we be this week well if you'll check your calendars for just a second it says October 18th but it should not say October because that's not what month it is it is Cocktober. And as you well know by now South Carolina has pulled the nose up South Carolina emphatically defended their honor in Gainesville Florida last weekend and Cocktober's back on some people tried to cancel Cocktober no not me actually I did I was just reacting what am I supposed to do but then South Carolina announced to the world no Cocktober's back on so then when Tennessee beat Bama yesterday the group text it got to it got to churn in a little bit we were going to be in Austin but Texas has screwed two trips to Austin up for us not that we're bitter about it I just had some things planned I had some things planned in Austin and and now Arch Manning has cost me a chance to face Teagan Kavon I'm pissed probably shouldn't be because I would have been humiliated but I'm not happy about it so oh I am very happy that we're going to Columbia South Carolina though I didn't think we were going to get an opportunity to Prez has never been a part of it's never been to Williams Bryce Stadium Savannah State has never been to Williams Bryce Stadium in an ironic turn of events she has to go to Austin on Friday but then is going to leave Austin to come to Columbia how about that small world we live in yes The shirts will be available. 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Is there any better scene in college football than Tennessee taking down Alabama, and then just like, basically throwing a party on the natural playing surface of Neyland Stadium? Guys, if you've never experienced that place, I once called it an avalanche of noise. Like, if noise could kill people, no one would ever make it out of Neyland Stadium alive. Especially if you play for Alabama. Did you see the body language yesterday? Did, obviously people watched the game. But anyway, that place looked and sounded like it was completely and utterly like, out of this world electric yesterday. It was just thorough domination, man. It felt like a 42 to 10 game. Like, Tennessee had to settle for, several field goals early in this game. And there's this old saying, which is a lie. And that is, you can't beat people with field goals. Yeah, you can. If you don't let them score, you absolutely can win with field goals. It's just not ideal. And so you, you assume, man, we're just a couple of weeks removed from Bama leading the country in scoring. Oh man, their average 45 points a game. So you just assume slow start here, but like eventually that thing is coming. It never happened. It never happened. It was, it was the most glaring thing about this was physicality. So I want to take you back. The night of the national championship game in Miami. We're there. Indiana takes down Miami. They win it all. Confetti's raining down. Everyone saw that part. What the public didn't see was Derek Owings and his staff. That was the strength staff that Sig had at Indiana. They hopped a plane right out of Miami to Knoxville. Tennessee. They were there the next morning for like a 9 a.m. Team meeting, whatever time the team meeting was. It was before lunch. I know that. And that was a huge point of emphasis for Josh Heupel because he looked at his team and just flat out said, we can't keep going through these league schedules facing Alabama, facing Georgia. We're going to have to play Texas, Florida. We got to, we got to play a bunch of teams that are real physical. We're not good enough in that department. And there's no reason we can't. We can't be. So they invested in just becoming better physically. Did you watch the game yesterday to feel a little bit different? Because Tennessee's normal formula for winning these kinds of games is they got to pop you over the top several times. Buddy, they had one explosive pass play all day. They just ran all over Alabama. That's what they did. Bishop was incredible. 32 carries, 159, two touchdowns. They moved the line of scrimmage all day on offense. Defense did the same thing. They harassed Keelan Russell all day. They had five sacks. They had 10 tackles for loss. They own the game physically. That's the difference with Tennessee right now. They've still got a ways to go. They're still a vulnerable team. They're going to go play South Carolina this weekend. They're a one and a half point favorite. For all I know, they get bitten and lose by three touchdowns this weekend. What I saw yesterday was a glimpse of things to come because they'll, they'll end up getting better as their quarterbacks gain experience. They'll gain experience. But the physicality piece far above and beyond anything else in this game. That's what stood out. So you're supposed to regret having to settle for four field goals early. They had such a physical edge. It didn't even matter. The only thing you found yourself saying at the end is, wow, I can't believe it's only a 16 point game. That's basically what the field goals did to this game. As for Alabama, what a two week stretch. It is crazy. The difference that eight days can make in this league. But I don't want to start there. I don't want to start there. There's their schedule. You see on the slider. We knew they had the meat of their schedule was in the middle and they went to Mississippi State. And then after that, they had Georgia at Tennessee. And then they're going to play A&M at LSU. It was that four game stretch everyone was paying attention to. They are currently 0-2 in the midst of the four game stretch. I know this was a sad experience for Alabama fans. And I want to tell you eventually it'll get better, but not over the next two minutes. Because it's going to get better. It's going to get better. The piano has been wheeled in. Our special guest that visits us every Sunday night is here. The Alabama Crimson Tide. This week's Sarah McLachlan special presented by Courtyard. Follow me here. Alabama, 54 yards rushing. Season low. Alabama, 147 yards passing. Season low. Alabama, 10 points total. Season low. Alabama, two third down conversions. Season low. Alabama, 12 first downs. Season low. Now you may be thinking, well, that's awful news. negative. Weren't there some highs? Yes, there were. They had season highs and turnovers and penalty yardage. So it wasn't all lows. Nine drives for Alabama, less than 15 yards. They ran 55 plays in the game. Tennessee had 44 in the first half. I have the unfortunate duty to read you Alabama's drive chart. Fumble, three and out, interception, punt, three and out, touchdown, set up in plus territory already by a defensive turnover, three and out, fumble, field goal, turnover on downs, three and out, three and out, interception, end of game. Over the span of eight days, Alabama goes from averaging 45 points. per game to lacking an offensive identity entirely. It brings me no joy. It never does. The Alabama Crimson Tide back against the wall the rest of the way with two losses this week's Sarah McLachlan special. Our buddy Colm Cook, though, Alabama fan, not a great day yesterday, but he did look at the show description and entered his courtyard information. Hey, he's getting a free card. We ripped it before the show. He's getting a free card. So it's a good day for Colm Cook, at least. Congrats, buddy. Tennessee heads directly into the storm this week. They are headed to South Carolina. So like all these SEC teams in the SEC, what is it, Jesse, just the circle of death right now? Death and despair. Everyone keeps winning, then losing. The letdown wheel of death. Tennessee's in it now. And they go to Columbia, South Carolina. Hey, what did South Carolina do yesterday, Jesse? Oh, they were off a bye. Okay, cool. So Tennessee's a one and a half point favorite in Columbia. We'll deal with that. We'll deal with that later. Bama's a really banged up team. I don't want to gloss over this injury situation because I think it mattered. Frankly, I think it mattered a lot more yesterday than I thought it would. Ryan Williams being out was a big deal. They were missing their center. Rayson Delgatti was out. Terrence Green was out. EJ Crowell left the game. Zabian Brown left the game. So they're not off this week. They've got A&M. A&M's been a bad team. I'm telling you, week to week, that stuff doesn't matter. Auburn's been a bad team. Did it matter? Yesterday. Not really. Bama opened as a two-touchdown favorite. I know that shocked some people. I don't assume anything about that game this weekend. They're watching us in Aspen, Colorado. That sounds so peaceful. It's watching a college football show in Aspen, Colorado tonight. Topeka, Kansas. The Aspen of Kansas. They're tuned in. And Greensboro, North Carolina. Thank you guys so much. I need to hit refresh over here right quick. And there we go. Appreciate you guys being tuned in. If you're watching live, or if you're watching the replay, please subscribe to the channel. Game of the night, game of the day, five-challi classic. Brigham Young 28, Notre Dame 24. It brings me tons of joy when we have a five-challi classic. It gets no better than what we saw last night. You guys and girls who got to be at this game, I know they don't give away physical ticket stubs anymore. It's all digital stuff. You need to get a commemorative ticket stub made. This is like, tell kids about it. 50 years from now type stuff. You were there. They can't take it from you. I don't care if you end up in prison one day. You'll tell the story in prison about how you were at the Notre Dame game in 2026. You may even refer to it as a five-challi classic. A lot of you, I think everyone watching the show watched this game last night. I tweeted this out. This felt like a 1990s football game. There was something about how raw, how gritty the game felt. There's something about that game being played in Provo too, but also natural grass always helps. I think really tight sidelines that are a little bit too crowded, maybe like 15 or 20 too many people have been credentialed for sidelines. That is great. That is like a quintessential old school college football scene. Every play is like players being willing to go over a cliff effort-wise. Brigham Young's trying to prove themselves and validate themselves. Notre Dame knows they got to go prove themselves. Weather's perfect. ESPN did a heck of a job broadcasting it. I think they should have offered an SD option because that's all that kept it from looking like 1996 last night. Just unbelievable. I cannot imagine being there. Fundamentally, we got a completely different game than I expected. Even if you told me Brigham Young was going to win the game, I would not have envisioned it like that. They're just flat out better than I thought they were. Brigham Young's just better than I thought they were. They were able to do things offensively that I didn't think they would. I don't think they would. I don't think they'd be able to do. They dialed up an excellent offensive game plan. They were 8 of 12 on third down, but they were perfect on third and short, which I thought was one of the huge differences. It's how they took control of the game. You could look at final scores and they don't always tell the whole story. Sometimes 28-24 means Notre Dame got out to a big league and then Brigham Young kind of came from behind like Auburn did against Georgia. Brigham Young was controlling most of the game. I mean, it's 21-10, I think, at half or something like that. Notre Dame has to fight to get back in it. Credit them. They did. More on Notre Dame in a second. But this Bear Bachmeier stat line, he was 23-36 for 224. It's not that he's never thrown for 224 before. I think a lot of other people just questioned whether they could scale their offensive production against what we think is one of the best defenses in the country, and especially without LJ Martin at running back. They're missing the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year last year. And they still did it. And that, dude, this is an all-timer for Bear Bachmeier. Like, you freeze this. You carve this in stone. You do that through the arrogance Notre Dame. Then you add 45 more on the ground with two touchdowns. Then you have a touchdown catch. He could have drawn up on a piece of paper his perfect game yesterday morning. I don't think it would have gone that well. Just a war, man. Unbelievable game. So the padlock stat, if you want to identify one, is red. They got down there four times, and they were 4-4 for 28 points, and Notre Dame was 3-5, but only for 18. I mean, it was a hard-fought game back and forth. So I cannot give enough credit to the fan base for creating just an incredible atmosphere. Sometimes people will go to big games, and anyone who goes to a big game, especially for places that don't get it regularly, they'll always tell you, oh, this is a crazy environment. But sometimes those of us watching it on TV will say, oh, this is a crazy environment. And they'll say, oh, this is a crazy Yeah, I mean, it felt okay. But I don't know. I've seen 10 better this year. I haven't seen one better than that this year. Like that place and then Neyland Stadium yesterday. Those two places, and one always gets credit in Neyland, and the other deserves a ton of credit. Those were above and beyond anything else that I think we've seen this year so far in college football. So what about the Notre Dame side of this? Look at what they got forced into. I mean, the spot, I don't think it swallowed them up. It was tough on them. But they responded. So if it swallowed them up, they would have done what Bama did and folded. They didn't. They responded. They ended up taking the lead in this game. So like big credit, there's no huge loser. It's like Ohio State, Indiana. There's no huge loser. But CJ Carr had a season high in pass attempts. And that dude threw the ball 49 times yesterday. And that's just something I did not expect. 27 to 49. He had 261. He did not have his best day accuracy-wise. I know some Notre Dame folks were a little bit tough on him. I trust CJ Carr, man. Like a lot of what I watched Notre Dame do last night, ironically in a loss, kind of made me feel really good about him moving forward. Because I think CJ Carr can be a lot better from a precision and accuracy standpoint. But just, dude, him taking that offense by the throat, even in a loss, I felt really good about it. So you want to win the game, they got other shots. They got Miami coming to town in a few minutes. They got Miami coming to town in a few weeks. I think they'll be okay. But 30 rushes for 115, most of that coming early, it kind of plays out on paper like Notre Dame knew, dude, we're going to have tough sledding. We're going to have to throw the ball to win. And they kind of did, but they didn't enough. I still think if they get into the spot again down the road, which they will against Miami, and they will if they make the playoff, I still think I trust them. But he wasn't on, but he battled. But the game changer is for the Big 12. It's a game changer for Brigham Young. And I don't know how much Brigham Young fans really care about how their win impacts the Big 12, but it's big. Like as I sit here right now, Jesse, do you think that's a two bid league right now? I do. If I had to guess right now, this chaos is not done. Three bid. Wow. It's aggressive. You don't have to shrug. Don't apologize. Apologize for losing to Michigan. Don't apologize for thinking the Big 12 is a three bid league. Wow. What does the live chat think about that? Poll question? I know you just put another one up there one minute ago. It's not a bad poll question, Jesse. Huh? Oh, I guess over under two and a half bids for the Big 12 right now. Yeah. So Notre Dame. Okay. The thing about Notre Dame, I think I've undersold this. I know a lot of America is very mad. We're going to talk about the AP poll later. A lot of America is very mad because you think, Notre Dame never challenges themselves, which is a lie. Although this year's schedule is a little soft, but in general, they do. challenge themselves more than their reputation suggests they do. It's just a lot of people hate Notre Dame. However, this year, I think everyone kind of understands the score. They've got two really, really big games that were circled in the preseason. This was one of them. Miami's the other one. And you're thinking to yourself, if Notre Dame's going to get benefit of doubt, if they're going to get ranked really highly, we are going to place like disproportionate emphasis on those two big games and they better go win them or else we are not respecting and we're not taking them seriously. Okay. Well, they lost. So don't respect them. All I'm telling you is if they beat Miami, they're in the playoff, but this is where it's going to really make you angry. I know a lot of you, including me in the preseason, looked at Notre Dame and said, a 10 and two Notre Dame is not in the playoff, especially if the two losses are Brigham Young and Miami. You can continue to believe that. I still think that too, but I am much, much softer on that stance after seeing how much chaos is going on in the game. I don't think that's going to happen. I think that's going to happen. I don't think there is elsewhere. You've got to know what the rest of the field would look like. Independent of what your opinion of Notre Dame would be like. You got to tell me what the rest of the field will look like. If it's a bunch of other two loss teams. Okay. Notre Dame is going to be out. Is it going to be that? I don't know yet. I'm just glad I got to watch this game. It was unbelievable. Okay. We got to talk about some of these upsets. Auburn beat Georgia 27 to 24, just an out of nowhere result. I most people I'd give this game for Chalai. This was a 14 to nothing Georgia lead. And then Auburn just storms back. Number one team in the country falls in back-to-back weeks. This snaps a 53 game Georgia win streak against unranked opponents. The schedule dynamics were, I think, huge here. We touched on it last week. Maybe we should have emphasized it more, but the Penn State Michigan game and the Auburn Georgia game, those were two games that featured one team playing their seventh versus a rested team. It's just that in this game, you still figured even with all that baked in, man, Auburn's not going to beat Georgia. Auburn never wins in Athens. You're right. They don't. And now they have Alex Golish undefeated against Kirby. Does Kirby have an Alex Golish problem? That's what some people are asking. So the single biggest thing for me here was that America probably just tuned out totally at 14 to nothing. There was so much going on. Like you were not going to dedicate a lot of your attention. To a nearly three touchdown favorite already up 14 to nothing at home. And so you probably had no idea how Auburn got back in the game, but it was 24 unanswered. So like some of you turn the game back on and it's 24 to 14 and you're saying it's gotta be a typo. There is no way that just happened. Yes, it did. And I have the reason why. You remember last week, Georgia was at Bama. They fumbled the ball four times. They recover all four. Turns out that that goes like a little circus ride. It goes both ways. Georgia was minus three turnovers and we call that a padlock stat. The second biggest thing in this game though, because we talk about winners around here first was Auburn found a really effective way to use Byron Brown. 15 of 26 through the air, one 50, one touchdown, but on the ground, 26 carries one 15, one touchdown. Jesse, if, if DJ Durkin plays halfway decent defense, I think I can win with that turn. When the turnover battle, give me, give me some good, like dual threat quarterback numbers. Uh, Chaz Nimrod just goes full circus mode in the end zone. That's just athlete making play. You can draw it up all you want to. That was one of the best catches I've seen all year that Nimrod made. And if you're going to pull this kind of upset off, you're probably going to need to be plus turnovers. Uh, you're going to need an all in effort, which they got, but also you're going to have to have a couple of wow plays that just have to happen. You got to have fleets on the team and they got to go make a play. I know people want to freak out about Georgia. Some people do. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe no one wants to freak out about Georgia. I'm not, they're fine. Georgia's fine. However, the days of C plusing your way through one of these games is over. And, uh, Kirby knew that Kirby had a really, really weird demeanor all week last week. I think it's cause he knew his team was beat up and tired. Now are those excuses? Yes. Yes, they are. They could also just beat up and tired. Now, are those excuses? Yes, they are. They could also just be true too though. So, uh, a lot of Georgia buddies of mine, like I have an ongoing group text in Georgia games, many of which are happening when I can't watch them live yesterday. I was driving back from Indiana while this game was going on. I had it on, but I was like, I can't watch it. Obviously I'm driving. So I'm just listening to it. But I stopped for gas. I looked at the Georgia group text and Jesse, do you want to know what the number one takeaway was? It was different. He seems different. Well, I don't know. Maybe he's just disinterested in football. I find that hard to believe given the audio we got six, seven days ago in Tuscaloosa. However, I think he knew he had a really, really, um, not, not unfocused team. I just think they were really drained and they played like it, like go watch them yesterday. They just, they look slow. They at times look very, very mistake prone. It's just very un-Georgia like. So you got to do two things. You got to give Auburn a lot of credit for taking advantage of it and maybe even imposing some of that. And then number two, you got to ask yourself, okay, well, how much do I think external factors played into yesterday? In my opinion, a healthy amount. So now they go into the bi-week and we'll get to prove the theory because then they'll come out of the bi-week and they'll play Florida in Atlanta because that's a thing this year. And I have a sneaking suspicion. They'll be okay. Like someone in the, someone in the live chat. Oh man, he's selling it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think that's the most radical concept in the world. Anyway, you lost the game. So now you have a much less margin for error. And let's remember now, this is not an easy stretch. They're about to go through. They got Florida, throw that, uh, throw that schedule back up for a second, Bradley. They got Florida. They got to go to Ole Miss. They got Missouri and at South Carolina, back to back to back. Jesse, we have no idea what that game at South Carolina is going to be like. We're going to late November. We have no idea. It's November, but we don't know what South Carolina is going to be by then. Is Missouri going to pack it in? Is Ole Miss all of a sudden the best team in the league? No one knows. That's why we play the games. But this was a huge, huge, huge deal for Alex Golish. And I'm going to tell you why. Alex Golish is the same coach today that he was when he woke up yesterday. But there are a lot of people who are unconvinced about him that after this kind of thing, I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you why. Because a lot of that fan base will view him. That's the beauty of winning a rivalry game. Now, for Auburn's part in all this, they still got a shot to do some things here. They're four and two. The two losses are both in conference, but they've still got everything in front of them. And it starts this Saturday. I guess it continues this Saturday. Lane and Ole Miss come to town. What are you talking about? What did I say? Oh, I said Lane and Ole Miss? Habits. Lane and LSU come to town. 11 a.m. kickoff. Okay, LSU on the road. Blake Baker is not an American hero on the road. I'm told he's just a normal citizen on the road. That's what LSU folks are telling me. So we're going to see. This could just be a blip on the radar screen and Auburn drops the next two because it's LSU and Ole Miss. Or maybe they found some things. And maybe they can ugly their way, you know, just trip their way into a few more wins. Got a story like that every year. It's got to be someone. Why not Auburn? All right. I meant to pull that up. Thank you so much. Appreciate you guys watching the show. I know there are a lot of options out there. I appreciate you being tuned in. Jesse, check the live sub count for me right quick. That was a legit cough. Did you think that was fake? That was legit. It's that time of season. Some drainage. Look at that. We went over 586. Appreciate you guys. I know a lot of you are watching. 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Texas scored early. Opening script, great. They added a special touchdown, double great. It's 17-3. This game's over. No, it's not. I saw 17-3, and I thought it was over. As I said, we were in Indiana. We were on the field. Prez shows me the phone. 17-3, and I said, oh, good. Because, see, I thought Texas would rip them yesterday. I thought that was a get-right spot for them. With the secondary, the pass D ranked in the 130s, I thought that was one of the last shots for Sark and Arch to get right. Even if it's not really gotten right, at least you kind of paint the picture that it is against Florida's secondary. No. Florida achieved enough balance. On offense, and they avoided mistakes, and they just kept making Texas play. I think at one point there were like six empty possessions in a row or something like that for Texas, but Tramell Jones gets the start here. Aaron Filo's out, and he goes 22 of 35. They put him in a great position to novel concept. 155, added 41 on the ground. Florida ran 81 plays in this game. You know how difficult that is in today's game to run 81 plays. They were 0 of 7 on third down in the first half, and still ended up running 81 plays because they were 8 of 12 in the second half. Just incredible stuff. Full team win. They get to go into a bye week now. Summerall wore the cowboy hat out of the stadium. Just doesn't care. Just does not care at all. And then they got Georgia. The next game they play will be against Georgia in Atlanta. And I just want to remind everyone, Florida's a 5-2 team. Here's what's going to happen. Everyone is going to see bye week in Georgia. Georgia will be solidly favored in that game. They should. Georgia's a better team. What's going to happen is you've got two weeks to get ready for that. So early on, your mind will say Georgia will win that game. And then you'll start saying, okay, but if Florida were to pull that off, let's see the rest of the way. Oklahoma, and then they go to Kentucky. Now in the preseason, you looked at those last three games, and you said, man, if they can get through Oklahoma, they got a little bit of a cakewalk at the end of the year. No, no, actually, the next place your eyes go is at Kentucky. Jesse, has Oklahoma been reduced to a sandwich game? I think it kind of has. Anyway, I don't even know what to say about Texas. I really have no idea what to say about Texas. You were facing a pass defense well into the 100s, and Texas completed five passes past the line of scrimmage. First quarter, Jesse? In the first half? No, in the whole game. Completed five passes past the line of scrimmage. Look at the slider on your screen. If you're listening on podcast, this is Sark's worst offense. I don't even know how that sentence comes out of one's mouth and is accurate. This is the worst offense he's had there. You've got so much money invested here. You've got a multi-year starter in Arch. You went and got both those tailbacks out of the portal. They are 102nd in the country. Rushing right now. They're 126 in 20-plus yard plays. They've given up a ton of sacks. They're in the 100s in sacks allowed, and not all that's on the offensive line, although some of it's on the offensive line. How do you not make the move at quarterback right now? They interviewed Sark after the game. They asked him, are adjustments, are changes on the table? He said, everything's on the table. Here's what I don't get to see. I don't know what KJ Lacey looks like at practice. I have no idea. Arch looks like in games. And I always hesitate to say it can't get worse. Of course it can get worse. It's got to get way better. It's what I'm saying. Way better for Texas. You're not pushing for a bowl game here. This is a championship or bust type season. This is a roster built to win a championship. And instead, you've got a bunch of offensive statistics in the 90s or worse. They are not good. Not good. Body language, not good. Production, not good. And yet, they're still a 4-2 team. So technically, they can still accomplish everything they wanted to accomplish. But also, they've still got Ole Miss and trips to Missouri and LSU back-to-back. And nothing can be taken for granted at this point. Nothing. By the way, need I remind everyone, look at Week 2 there. Can you imagine if they didn't have that big comeback against Ohio State? They were ugly against UTSA. That was a really clunky game on the road against Tennessee. Nothing's looked good all year. At no point, what stretch of football do you hang your hat on for Texas this year and say, we just need to get back to that? There is no that. It hasn't been there all year. I think that game yesterday is going to change things at Texas. I think the radical example of that is Penn State last year losing to Oregon. That's a radical example of that. I'm not saying yesterday has that kind of impact. I'm just saying, I have not been hitting Texas people up. Yesterday was the kind of outcome that has Texas folks hitting you up voluntarily. Pretty important ones. People who are responsible for a lot of that roster and the way it's put together from a financial standpoint. I think that there's a really unique situation at Texas. We talked about this in the preseason. At the time, I didn't think it was going to be relevant because I thought Texas would be really good this year, but they're not. What I said is, if it doesn't go the way I expect it to, this is a really unique situation. Sark and Texas are on top of the world preseason. They're highly ranked. Championship aspirations, all well and good if it goes that way. If it doesn't, this is not a classical old school college football situation where you just tee it up and try again. This is not one of those, well, let's just recruit and develop. Let's have patience. This is not that. There's some other places like that, but Texas was the most glaring example of that. We're at that point now. We're at that little inflection point coming off back-to-back losses to teams that have not been good this year. I always hesitate to speculate because this is such a hard season to figure out right now. For all I know, Texas is done losing. I just have a hard time seeing that right now. I think a lot of people who support that program do as well. Being likable is not enough. is what I'm saying. I think there are a lot of people around there who really like Steve Sarkeesian, but who look at the output on the field and say, we're not paying you because we like you. We're paying you because we think you can win us a championship. And if you can't, we think we're doing our part. We don't think you're doing your part. That's the trade-off for being put in that spot. Next up, Miami almost lost to Florida State last night. Translation, Miami beat Florida State last night. This game kind of came out of nowhere. Four and a half chalai. Like an awesome game, but I did not expect to be putting four and a half chalai on this game. I didn't even expect to be breaking the game down on this Sunday show. So it kind of came out of nowhere and there was a lot of weird officiating in the end of this thing. I'm going to talk about officiating later in the show. So like if you're looking for me to rail against officials, I will later in the show because otherwise every game recap could get bogged down with that. Was this Darian Mintz's worst game? I think I can make the argument it was, but it's so weird because he still threw for 326 yards. He's just been really good this year. So like his worst game is better than some of these quarterbacks' best games, but he was pressured on 39.5% of his dropbacks. He was under duress, a fair amount of duress all night. And so it feels so weird. This is where I'm at on this game. I feel so weird after the game because on one hand in real time, I felt like I was watching it and seeing so much QB inconsistency, but yet he goes 23 of 34, 326, three touchdowns, one pick. It's a really good stat line. I felt like the offensive line looked really rough at times, but they had 583 total yards and 43 points if you count overtime. So like, I don't know, did I not see what I thought I saw or was Miami just playing in a defense that even when flawed, they could run the score up? I don't know. Maybe both. I lean towards the latter, but you never apologize for this stuff. Like we could look at point spreads and all that, but once a game starts, actually even before a game starts, but especially once it starts, point spreads don't matter. Man, it's just a game happening. You could tell like at halftime and then getting into third quarter, buddy, forget about 21 and a half points or anything like that. Miami's just got to find a way to win. And so I think it's a good stat line. Miami's just got to find a way to win this. And they did. You never apologized for it. I can wonder how they match up with other teams down the road, but this was last night. This is not down the road. Miami's lost these kinds of games in the past. Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, like they found ways to lose this. So you credit them for winning it. But I don't know how you came away thinking about Florida State here, but I looked in our inbox and I was kind of surprised. Now it wasn't Florida State. I was kind of surprised. I was a Florida State fan saying this, but a lot of people were saying about Florida State, oh, good for them, man. Like they, they covered, they took it to overtime. They almost won like good for Mike Norvell. I don't know where that comes from. Cause you're talking about them. Like they're a G6 team. You're talking about them. Like they're this David coming in and really challenging Goliath. It's Florida State. They're supposed to be that like, that's what it's supposed to look like. The very fact that anyone is shocked that they almost won a game is evidence. It's not working. You, I know if you just view this game in a vacuum, yeah, it's admirable. And yeah, look, even take it out of the vacuum. Yeah. They fought. That's supposed to be the default setting. It's a rivalry game. Like, of course you fight. Of course you do, but you're getting patted on the head for keeping it close. Like, isn't that all the evidence in the world? So I don't know. Maybe I just saw the wrong DMS, but I view this game totally different than a lot of the people who were in our inbox that I think thought we were going to, you know, stroke FSU on the cheek a little bit and say, at a boy. No, no, no, I don't, I don't know that anything really changes there. There are three and 14. It's just another bad year. Uh, they led Alabama, Josh. Well, they also lost. Well, they, they pushed Miami, but they lost and they also, lost to SMU and got pushed by New Mexico state in week one. Like, okay. You, if what we want to do at Florida state is brag about beating Virginia handedly, then brag about beating Virginia handedly. I know that fan base is not there. So I'm actually not talking to the fan base, but Mike Norvell's future. I don't think it changed at all. Like I, I think they're extenuating financial circumstances that are the only reason this is still hanging on by a thread as it is. For Miami, they got pit coming up and then they go to North Carolina on Halloween and they're playing bill Belichick on the road right before they play Marcus Freeman in South Bend. I don't even know. There are whispers of a letdown spot sandwich spot. I'm not whispering that yet. Maybe this was an attention grabber. I don't know. Uh, some more games to talk about here. I'm going to hit officiating and AP poll stuff. Like it's a jam packed show guys. I, you saw yesterday, I was never going to be able to keep this show under an hour and a half. Will Stein is a terrorist and Kentucky beat Oklahoma. Those are your two heads. He is Jesse. He can't keep getting away with this stuff. Does he not know his place? Does Will Stein not know Kentucky's place? They're not supposed to win these games. And yet he just keeps doing it. There's a bad lock stat here. They had a 230 total yards. But in classic fashion, OU is right there with the four turnovers. The only time it doesn't happen is when they face Arch in Texas. Otherwise they are going to hand you that ball. If you'll just wait long enough and good on Kenny Menchie and Kentucky for continuing on their part to take care of the ball. That's what it takes. That that's playing the game that's in front of you. And it was nothing more, nothing less. I watched this game from start to finish last night. I watched this game from And it's just all, every time the ball gets turned over, all you can do is like smile and shake your head. It's every other game except the Texas game. That's basically how the season's played out. So Kentucky is now Jesse, what number were they in the AP? Do you remember? They're way up there. They should be way up there. They're a six. Are you saying six or 16, 15, 15? Well, that's six fingers, but I knew they weren't that high wrong logo and whatnot, but good on them, who do they have next? Let's see. Vandy's coming in and then they go to Tennessee. So we've got Florida coming in. Kentucky could go to the playoff. It's just Kentucky could go to the playoff. And I got a tweet bookmarked right now and saved for a rainy day and the storm storms are brewing next up Houston and Oklahoma state delivered. There were two games that I thought would deliver big time this weekend. One of them did. And the other one did not in the most emphatic this one was the one that did Connor Wegman outplayed drew mess to maker. That's the headline. I thought if Houston won the game, they were favored. I thought if they won the game, it would be like 250 rush yards. They had 162 on the ground. Good day, but not what they did against West Virginia. Good. But man, Connor Wegman, look at that stat line. 24, 33, 343, five touchdowns. He had a 52 more on the ground. It was just incredible. There were over a thousand combined yards, I think in this game. So it was everything that we thought it would be. And because Houston wanted, it was very important for Houston to win this game because they already had a conference loss. So now, I mean, we got Houston in the thick of this thing. Oklahoma state is still in the thick of this thing. Texas tech, Utah, Brigham young, uh, Jesse has just gone on record as saying the big 12 is going to have three playoff teams. That's a quarter of the playoff, Jesse, a quarter. Jesse's words, not mine. Oregon beat Nebraska at, at roughly 3 a.m. Eastern time. Oregon got a win against Nebraska. This game was very nearly zero to zero at the half. And trust me, I had the Frank Beamer gift ready to go. I had him standing there. I had played, I had replaced the logos. And then what happened? Someone scored a touch. Nebraska scored a touchdown, Anthony Calandria. But anyway, I thought it was Nebraska's. I really did. Will Compton, uh, has, has phone battery on life support. He is blowing my phone up. He's living and dying with every play. And then Dylan Ryola comes off the bench and he just texted me two words. He's in, I guess three, if you count the contraction, he's in like Nebraska folks were frothing at the mouth. They wanted Oregon to get put in such a difficult position. And trust me, Oregon was in the definition of a difficult position last night, offensively. They wanted Ryola in and they got him. And Dylan Ryola ends up coming from behind and beating Nebraska. That is a dagger to the neck just emotionally. Cause you can't do anything about it. You're a fan. You just have to sit there and let it happen to you. And then you stayed up late to watch it. So you're just miserable the next morning. God be with these people. Will just went out to the woods. Have you seen his Twitter today? He's just in the woods somewhere like several miles outside. I think he just needs to be alone for a little while. Please leave him alone. I'm mainly talking to wild animals at this point. point, because those are the only creatures that will run into him based on the pictures I saw. This game had under 500 total yards. It was really gross to watch. Is Dante Moore coming back? Like Oregon, let's get real for a second. They are still technically in everything. They've looked very, very hideous offensively. Dante Moore, we got to figure out his status. There's still a season that's very salvageable here. There's an outside chance of playoff contention. It's still mathematically there, but they got to get him back. But there is still hope. That's a heartbeat. That duck, that heart's still beating. Missouri's is not. Ole Miss splattered Missouri yesterday, 31-3. Somehow, Austin Simmons had how many? 339 passing yards, and Ole Miss held them to three points. Just not at all. I thought Houston-Oklahoma State and Missouri-Ole Miss, I thought those two games were both four-plus chalice classics. One of them was, and this was like a no-chalice classic. Ole Miss just totally missed the memo on what kind of game this was supposed to be. Chambliss is incredible. Four more total touchdowns. The rushing edge, this is a paper popper, 257-39. Insane, man. I thought there would be several touchdowns. I thought there would be several drives, where Missouri had more than 39 rush yards. So, I don't know what in the world Pete Golding did to that run defense, but at least for one week, it is fixed in a big way. Baylor had everything lined up against TCU. It was all there. The nose has been pulled up. The season has been resurrected. DJ Lagway's on fire. We got a sellout crowd at Baylor, and they just completely collapsed against TCU. So, that's probably going to be it for Dave Aranda. The meal is spoiled now. It has been left out on the counter overnight. No one wants it. It is done. I don't really have much else to say about this, other than I am supremely disappointed. I really expected more from Baylor in this spot. They're coming off a bye, too, I think. Just horrible. But even worse was UCLA beats Wisconsin 17-7. Big credit for Bob Chesney and UCLA. So, full stop. They're playing backup quarterback there. They get a big win. They step up defensively. But it was like among the most disappointing outputs that I saw anywhere yesterday. Wisconsin with a ton to play for, coming off a bye. UCLA, supposedly, in a big letdown spot after they beat Oregon. And they just get stuffed, man. They got held to 214 total yards. I just expected more. Maybe I shouldn't. But UCLA is 6-0 now, and their schedule, when people start to glance at it, more and more people, I think, by the day, I think the Google search term of UCLA schedule is really starting to spike. Guys, it's there. You know what I mean by it. It is there for UCLA. Michigan and Penn State, great helmet game. Great logo game. Great tradition game yesterday. It finally happened. Michigan got the win, but it finally happened. Bryce Underwood got benched. And Tommy Carr came in, outplayed Rocco Beckton in the second half, which is not a difficult thing at all to do these days. Did all of Michigan's points come off turnovers, Jesse? All 21 of them? Yeah, not a great recipe there. How do you go back? How do you go back to Bryce Underwood now? Kyle Whittingham's been just in a weird spot this whole year. That staff has. They came off a bye. It was far from perfect. It was far from aesthetically pleasing. But they got the win, and now they've got Kurt Signetti in Indiana coming in Saturday. And Jesse, you guys want Rocco Beck to bench, right? Like you're done with him? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't shrug. No. Yes. Yeah. Big 12's getting three teams in. And you want quarterback movement at Penn State. I can't blame you. I was just trying to get you to take a stand there. I'm with you. It's a tough time. You know what else was tough? Believing in Arizona State yesterday. Yeah, I did. And I paid for it dearly. 53 to 25, Texas Tech beat Arizona State. I took a shot on Arizona State plus 15 and a half, and that money is no longer in my pocket. It is gone. It is never to be seen again. Texas Tech actually fumbled on the Arizona State two-yard line to start this game. Terrible, inauspicious start for the Red Raiders. And they still hung half a hundred because they scored on nine of their next 10 drives. Does this even count? It's not supposed to be that easy. Arizona State had two interceptions, three more turnovers on downs. They are allergic to the football. And Texas Tech's still undefeated. Did you say Texas Tech's quietly undefeated, Jesse? Somehow, I think they're quietly undefeated. And now they go to Cincinnati this week. And Cincinnati just got beat at the gun by West Virginia. So that's wounded animal spot. I wouldn't say this is a letdown spot for Texas Tech. But yeah, a ton happened yesterday. There were so many good games that got glossed over. Just an unbelievable Saturday. A Saturday for the ages. Which begs the question, were you there? And if you weren't, why not? And do you want to be there? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to be this week. So SeatGeek, actually, I used SeatGeek myself this weekend because I needed another parking pass. 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People who have watched the show for a long time know I don't really like. overly harp on this. I'll call it out every now and then, but I don't call out the bad calls themselves. Like the judgment calls. I think you could nitpick each game to death if you really wanted to do that. So I don't even get all that angry about it. Maybe I feel angry in the moment, but like Jesse, I don't really show up to the show 24 hours later and just bang the table for every missed hold or this and that judgment calls. I really don't mess around with the whole lot, even though, yeah, you could say that there are some bad calls. I happen to think it's a really, really hard job. I think officials. I think officials have a really hard job. I think they do their best. So I'm not going conspiracy theory mode. I'm not doing any of that. I just want to lay the runway so that I can say what I'm about to say. The product isn't good enough. Just the overall job, the overall officiating mechanism in college football is not good enough right now, and I'm not even talking about judgment. I'm talking about procedural, mechanical, knowing rules of the game, enforcing them properly. It continues. It continues to get no discernible correction because, again, if I had a head of officiating in the studio right now, they wouldn't go on the record. But if they were forced to go on the record, they would say, that's not true. We have meetings every week. We give out grades every week. Okay, here's what someone like us sees. We see the same dudes calling the games every week. We see the same crews on the games every week. So spare us because it doesn't really pass the smell test. I don't doubt you have meetings. Like, there are a lot of calls. There are a lot of companies out there who have meetings every week and nothing gets done. Nothing really changes. So this wouldn't be the first time nor the last time that's happened. But just in the past few weeks, we had the Texas-Tennessee onside kick situation that shouldn't have been. It didn't end up changing the outcome of the game, but it potentially could have changed the outcome of the game. Boom. Statement the next week. Shouldn't have happened. There you go. I don't know what we're supposed to do with the statement, but there you go. By the way, some of this stuff technically qualifies as a judgment call. Like the Illinois-Michigan State offsides call on that onside kick. That's technically a judgment call. When you freeze frame some of this stuff and you have 10 guys clearly behind the line and then you have the kicker a good half yard ahead of all of them and there is a dude literally standing right there. I don't even know if I call that judgment. I just call that seeing. We're not seeing, we're not seeing the game very well. So boom, another statement comes out. We don't even need to go back and rehash the whole Western Michigan-Michigan thing. At the very, very least, that was handled terribly. It was communicated terribly, but everyone spoke in their piece on that. UCLA-Oregon, the two-point conversion ball spot. It's just wrong. That's not even judgment stuff, man. That's procedurally wrong that could be fundamentally impacting the outcome of a game. And this isn't Giants-Padres second of a four-game set in April. We only play 12 of these. So if you're changing the outcome of a game, you're changing the outcome of guys' careers, coaches' jobs, potentially. Because no one really remembers the bad calls. If you're eight and four as opposed to nine and three at the end of the year and you get fired because of it, you got fired because of it. Then you go to last week, you had the Georgia-Alabama just like blatant missed face mask, the PI. I just, mentioned the Illinois-Michigan State onside kick because like that one threw me for a loop a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even gotten to last night. Like last night, this is Sunday, October 18th, by the way, if you're watching a replay of this because it'll be a pretty evergreen segment. Yesterday was really bad. Saturday, week seven was really bad. Notre Dame-Brigham Young was one of the great spectacles of the college football season. One of the great spectacles I've seen in a long time. The game's not supposed to be over with a second on the clock. And it was. And unlike the situation with Western Michigan-Michigan, the Big 12 conference came out the next day and said, yeah, we ended the game too early. There was one second left on the clock. And you're like, what? I'm not even sitting here as a Notre Dame fan or player or coach, but imagine being in their shoes. No one's going to feel sorry for Notre Dame, obviously, I'm not asking you to, but like, what do you even do with that? They send you an email, I guess, or maybe you just find out on Twitter when everyone else does. Like, hey, guys, we know you went and just farted your guts out last night in Provo, Utah, and you lost by, what, three points, Jesse? It's a three-point game, right? Or a four-point game. And you should have had another shot at the end zone from inside the five-yard line, but you didn't, because we didn't look at a clock. I don't even know what you're supposed to do with that. If you screw up something that important that badly in the real world, no one ever sees you again. But at the very least, you have to account for your decision. We get none of that. We get none of that. This whole process is so cloaked in secrecy, it's insane, and it's treated like it's a high-level military-type operation every week. Like, we are guarding nuclear codes here. We can't let the public get access to these officials. We can't force these people to give an account. Now, a 19-year-old quarterback, if he screws up, he's going to go meet with the media, and this coordinator or this head coach, if they screw up, they're going to get gripped, and they're going to get drilled by the media, and they've got to sit in front of a bunch of reporters 20 minutes later after a cooling-down period, and they have to give an account for their performance. Officials are already halfway to the airport, and most of you don't know their names, and you certainly will never get an explanation. The absolute most you'll get is, oh, look at this. We got a release on Twitter. Oh, we got a statement from the league office. They screwed up. And then the following, which is not listed on the statement, it should read, we screwed up, but nothing's going to change. We're going to change, and the same people will be on the field next week. Awesome. Great. And since there's no centralized authority here, no one can really do anything about it. It's just like every other bit of decision-making in college athletics. Who's going to do something about it? Nobody. Why? Because nobody's in charge. And the worst part is, like, game to game, you get no answers. I would say, good on some of these conferences, credit where it's due, for taking the public behind the scenes, curtain of the review process. But were you watching Miami-Florida State last night? Florida State-Miami? Say the road team first, kids. The last play of the game, this is not even to mention the egregious holding call that was made, which is just stupid and shouldn't have happened. So Florida State should have had a shot to tie that game up. But even after that, the last play of the game, you're watching it, and in real time, it's a bang-bang play, and we can't really tell who comes down with the ball. So they call interception. And then you go back, and you watch the game, and you watch it, and you probably felt the same way I did. If you're not a Miami fan, you probably watched that and felt the same way everyone else did. And that is, wait a second, did Deuce catch that ball? I think he might have caught that ball. At the very least, it's not conclusive. Oh, oh, hold on. They're going to replay. Good. And nowadays, we get to listen to the replay. So everyone says, quiet down, quiet down. And you turn the volume up, and you listen to the replay process. And it was like listening to it was like listening to someone herd sheep. It was like listening to one guy with the staff in his hand say, guys, come over here. Need you to go in this pen right here. And everyone else was like, it was just a decision had been made. They said, all right, there's the interception right there. And you're like, where's the interception? If anything, I think I may see a catch here. But at the very least, this guy's speaking in definitives. And you're like, yes, yes. No, no, no, no. I don't see it. I don't see that. No, what are you talking about? Surely someone's going to step in here. And no one did. So I do love that there's a little more transparency. But sometimes when I see under the hood, it's even uglier than if I'm left to just wonder what's happening. So you'll get no answers. And I just always ask coming out of it. How is nobody embarrassed enough by this to seek change? I don't know that. I don't know what change you could possibly implement other than I think that, yeah, maybe this job is really hard, but I also think there are enough qualified people out there. But if there aren't, you've got to insert mechanisms better than what we have right now. Like you've got to rethink the entire thing from the floor up because you can't have this much money invested. Everyone's talking about money lately and how much money you could make. Hey, good on you guys. Most of you will never see a dime of it, but good on a handful of people for getting rich up there. of this sport, don't you at least think the officials officiating mechanism, the rules enforcement mechanism of this should stand up a little better than it does. The attitude reeks of, hey, we're going to make our money no matter what. Who really cares? If anything, controversy is better. You know what Eric Bischoff would say about all this, bro? Pal, controversy creates cash. Is that the strategy here? Just have the officiating suck so bad people get mad about it? I mean, this segment will probably do a lot of traffic. So I guess maybe they're onto something. I just can't believe it's that bad. Cannot believe it. All right. The AP poll is out. Okay. The week eight AP poll is upon us. And I woke up this morning and I actually said several things to myself because yesterday was historic. But one of the things I said is I know in about four or five hours around lunchtime, the AP poll is going to drop. And I said, you got to promise yourself one thing. You won't get overly angry about this. So our boys at Ram, they deliver it. There he goes right there. I'll never get it right. They deliver it. So right there in the back of that Ram truck, here's the AP poll. And I got angry, but I've calmed myself enough, I think, to where I can talk about this on air. First off, Wake Forest is too low. I'm not even going to zero in on them. I'm just saying right off the cuff, I think Wake Forest is too low. Now, a lot of you had a lot of things to say about this. Miami's the new number one team in the country. Brigham Young's right there, number two. Northwestern and Arizona are 24, 25, respectively. It seems like we get a metric ton of Notre Dame reaction every week. Well, much to the delight of a lot of the country, Notre Dame finally lost a game last night. Notre Dame is at number four. Brigham Young's two. Notre Dame's number four. And a lot of people had a lot to say about that. Now, this was bound to happen. Obviously, when you have a day as cataclysmic for the top 10 as yesterday was, everybody has to fall so much that someone's not going to fall enough to the public's delight. Well, Derek said Notre Dame's still getting away with it without a ranked win in two years. That kind of sums up what a lot of the public felt about this. So, Notre Dame fell two spots for the record. They would have fallen a lot further if all the other teams around them didn't also lose, but a lot of people are looking at this. I think, rightfully so. There's at least merit to this. There's not a through line or definitive anywhere in college football right now. So, I'll say there are varying degrees of merit behind all these arguments. I think a lot of folks look at Notre Dame and they think they play a two-game season this year. To me, that's, you know what, I'm not even going to get mad if you think that way. I think maybe you need to dive in a little bit further, but for broad strokes purposes, you're kind of right. I think the Wisconsin wins a little bit better than they got credit for. I think the North Carolina wins a little bit better than they got credit for. In the future, SMU's a ranked team and no one's even talking about that game. But, again, broad strokes, yes, I agree. And if you feel that way, what you're probably saying is, I didn't even have a problem with Notre Dame being top five last week. However, there's disproportionate emphasis on Notre Dame's big games. If they played seven of them, you wouldn't care as much. But they got two of them in the public's mind and they just lost the first one. And so, there are folks who don't even think Notre Dame should be in the top 10 right now. And they're there because of their brand. They're there because of their logo. I can't heartedly disagree with that. I probably wouldn't have them outside the top 10, but I've already spoken my piece on Notre Dame. I thought they were a really good team coming into the week. There are certain teams that, even though they haven't played a murderer's row of a schedule, I kind of have my own proclivity to bake in a little bit of street cred with. So, like, I think if I filled out a ballot, I certainly wouldn't have them number four, but I think I'd have them down in that seven, eight range. I think that'd be fair. But if you don't think they belong up there, you've certainly got an argument for that. Next up, Ole Miss. Ole Miss should be higher. Like, Ole Miss, according to the tweet here, always getting disrespected. And I think Ole Miss did get a little overlooked in this week's poll. They're number seven. And Ole Miss just smoked Missouri, 31-3. Again, it should be noted, Missouri is still ranked, even after that. So, the AP, according to their own rankings, Ole Miss just smoked a top 20 yesterday. They've already beaten LSU. That's another top 20 team currently. They beat Louisville when Louisville was, you know, perfect. They were flawless. It was the beginning of the season. Those are three really good wins. The con is they went and lost to Florida in the biggest letdown spot of the year. And I don't know if you've noticed, but that's kind of happening a lot all over the conference and all over the country to an extent right now. I firmly believe if Ole Miss' logo was different, they'd be higher. So, you've got every reason. I think you're fully aware of that. I think you're fully justified. I would have them no lower than fourth. Miami, Brigham Young, if you want to have Ohio State ahead of them, that's fine. But Ole Miss absolutely should be ahead of Indiana. They ought to be ahead of Georgia. They ought to be ahead of Notre Dame. You'll never convince me otherwise. I know we can't do this exercise, but I would just love to see Alabama have Ole Miss' body of work right now. Bama would be a slam dunk top four team because of their logo. Did you see Pete Nekos' tweet, by the way, about Oregon State? Yeah, there it is right there. This was Nekos from earlier today. Text I just got from a P4 head coach. Quote, ridiculous. Oregon State isn't in the top 25. And Pete said he agreed. Opinion maker, Pete Nekos. Look, I want Oregon State to be ranked. I didn't even get the words out of my mouth before Mitch just shot that down. Were you ashamed for Arizona State there? Yeah. Oregon State, I want them to be fair. I think a lot of us have fallen in love with the Oregon State story. And that's fine. I have too. However, you've got to apply the logic equally, right? I think you do. I'm pretty sure you're supposed to. So they lost to Texas Tech in Houston. They've now won five in a row. They've got one of the top offenses in the country. But Jesse, correct me if I'm wrong. Even though I think they surprised people with how close they play Texas Tech in Houston, those were both double-digit losses, right? So people are looking at it now not from the standpoint of a team that was expected to suck. Okay? We've got to recalibrate how we talk about Oregon State now. If you're going to apply the standard of a top 25 team, you've got to look and you've got to ask yourself, okay, well, if Arizona had two double-digit losses to those teams in conference and otherwise had run it up on teams but run it up on seemingly inferior teams, would Arizona be in the top 25? They probably wouldn't be. They'd be close. But look, I personally would love Oregon State to be in the top 25. And it is one of the stories of the year. But if you're going to remove all the emotion from it, you can't let that cloud your judgment here. You've got to apply the criteria equally. Miami number one in the country. Brigham Young number two. Jordan hit us up and said, so BYU beats number two at home while Miami has a ranked team and is rewarded with the number one spot. I can't push back on this. I think I'd put Brigham Young ahead of him. Have some fun with it. Brigham Young earned it. Put him number one. Is that a reflection of how volatile the top 25 is this year? Of course it is. But like I said earlier in the show, I've said like five times since yesterday, there's no consistent theme right now. There's no what you would call a through line. Like in years past in college football, there were just a few teams that you could just universally depend on. We don't have that. It's like nailing Jell-O to the wall every week. It's like you shake the little sand inside the Etch-A-Sketch and it's clean slate every week. We totally have to reinvent the landscape every week. So in that environment, yeah, Brigham Young should be number one. Why? Because their resume is better than Miami as of yesterday. That's what happens when you beat really good top five teams. Here's how good Brigham Young's win was yesterday. They beat a team and that team's still top four. That's how good that team allegedly is. Jesse, what's Miami's best win right now? I picked them to win the national title. I don't doubt Miami, but if we're looking at resume versus resume right now, and I got one of them who just beat Notre Dame, and I got another whose best win is Wake Forest at number 17, to me that's a no-brainer. Knowing Miami and Notre Dame are going to play down the road. So if you're projecting with your vote, which you're not supposed to, then just stop projecting and understand. You're sitting there thinking to yourself, man, I credited Brigham Young for beating Notre Dame, but I think Miami's going to beat Notre Dame. It doesn't matter what you think's going to happen. Let the stuff play out. Because unless one of you out there were perfect picking these games yesterday, which I doubt anyone was, it doesn't matter what you think is going to happen. That's not what you should be doing with your vote. You should be reacting, not predicting with your vote. Jeremy wants to know why Texas is ranked over Florida. He said Texas being ranked after back-to-back losses by unranked opponents, yet still being in front of the team that just beat them in Austin. The AP is complete and total joke. He said JP greater than AP. I appreciate that, but those two polls are not trying to do the same thing. What you meant to say is the commissioner's poll is better than the AP poll. Good point, Jeremy. I agree. So Texas and Florida, what are the cases here? One of them's 19, one of them's 20. They played yesterday. The team that's 20 beat number 19. Well, each of them have two losses. still think the voters can't shake how ugly those Florida losses were to Missouri and South Carolina. Those were blowout losses. Yes, you have the head-to-head result yesterday. And I think if this was earlier in the year, the head-to-head would be paramount. But once you get over halfway through the season, yeah, the head-to-head result matters, certainly. But you can't do your rankings like that anymore because you'll just work yourself into a blender. If you honor every head-to-head result, you will completely cook yourself trying to rank this stuff. Ohio State win, that's the edge for Texas. Ohio State's number three in the country right now. Texas has a win over them. I don't really care how you try and explain it away. That's a win over a top three team. Has Texas looked very, very ineffective since then? Yeah. Are there losses to Oklahoma, unranked Oklahoma, and of course, Florida? Yeah. I just think the ugliness of the Florida losses and how good that loss, or that win, rather, for Texas is in week one, I think that's what's carrying the day for them. Good luck. 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