Kicking Off The 2025 College Football Season, Plus "Aaron's CFB Games to Watch" Week 1

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's up, everybody? This is Rome. And welcome to season two of Sources from the SOFA Podcast. We kicked off a year ago right before the college football in the NFL season started and we've been doing it weekend and week out, at least one episode a week, and we have not stopped since. I'm excited for year two. We're making some changes, we're upgrading some things, hopefully doing some more stuff with video, being a little more proactive on the socials. So we hope you join us along the ride. And one thing I want you to do before we kick off here, too, we have a lot of things coming around. We're previewing the NFL who's making the playoffs. We got F1, the second half coming out in a matter of hours. But first, we'll be bringing you the Preview to the 2025 season and bringing back probably the hottest takes that we had is Aaron's college football games to watch every single week. Unfortunately, he did have some Thursday night games and we're gonna try to get this to you before the Friday night games, but there's still going to be a lot of winners on there on Saturday. So do me a favor, because not only can you catch our podcast and our winning picks every single week on the pod, we'll be posting it on the socials like YouTube x IG. But be sure to check out our links to Dub Club. You can subscribe to that and make more money than ever before. But you can also join a contest that we're putting on Splash Sports. It's a NFL pick them contest. I haven't done one in a while, but I had so much fun doing it. When Jason had a league about like 10 years ago. I think I won like second or third place. A lot of fun, though. So we're going to have our own contest as well. We're going to have some opportunities to gamble against the guys on the sofa throughout the year, so be on the lookout for that. But in the meantime, grab a notepad. Highly recommend grabbing one of Aaron's infamous yellow notepads. Grab a pen and get out your wallet because we're going to give you winning picks year in and year out right here at Source from the Sofa Guarantee. That's a guarantee, baby. So without further ado, Sources from the Sofa Season 2 College Football 2025 preview. Do not go anywhere. [00:02:23] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, we're back. [00:02:26] Speaker A: Sources from the SOFA College Football edition. It's here, it's now. It actually kicked off the season just this past weekend. I believe some of the Games were going on as me and Aaron were in Vegas. Right? Is that right? [00:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Week zero kicked off. Yeah. Before Kansas State. [00:02:47] Speaker A: That game overseas, that was a pretty good game. It was ugly. It was disgusting. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Typical camera played it, though. I just said Kansas State and Iowa. There you go. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Who won that game? [00:03:00] Speaker C: Iowa State. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Iowa. God damn it. Nice. I don't think we did this last year. I think we kind of sprinkled in some aspect of like previewing the college football season. No, we pre. [00:03:14] Speaker C: We previewed it. It was one of the first. One of the first things we sent you. We sent you over the lists of who was going to make the playoff because I remember Boise State was going to be in the playoff. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. [00:03:26] Speaker B: I think it's safe to say Boise State's not going to be in the playoffs this year. [00:03:29] Speaker C: Not in the playoffs. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Rome. [00:03:30] Speaker C: If we would have done this pod last week, I may have doubled down, but you saved me that. We're a week late. Down goes Boise State. They're done. Season's over. [00:03:40] Speaker B: I was going to send out the text early in the morning, like, hey, Jason, you know, don't. Don't be high on Boise State because they're on upset alert today. And of course they got whipped. [00:03:49] Speaker A: So really Torch by South Florida. [00:03:52] Speaker B: That was my upset special of the week. So. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Wow. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Already done it in. [00:03:57] Speaker A: Yeah. For some reason I didn't label it like that as like a collegeable preview. So I have to go back to see what happened because I do remember asking you guys for all that stuff. You're absolutely right. [00:04:07] Speaker B: We gave you. Yeah, we gave you who was going to win each conference kind of who was like a sleeper team to keep an eye on. And then I know Jason had as the, you know, group of five, Boise State was up there and he had them. I had Boise State, I think second behind. Maybe it was Memphis. I had going to the playoff last year, but Boise States did not look good today. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Oh, they play today. Yeah, I. I missed everything already. [00:04:38] Speaker B: That was a 2230 kickoff our time. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Well, that's why I was busy. I did catch Nebraska. [00:04:44] Speaker B: That was a good game. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Some things to note. The pod. We are doing a college football. What? What is it, Aaron? A. [00:04:53] Speaker B: A Las Vegas super contest College. [00:04:56] Speaker A: The first. [00:04:57] Speaker B: The first one they've ever had of the College Edition. So yeah, we are in that. Our team name will be. Was it Sources ft Sofa Pod. And we'll be entry. Entry number two will be our group. So there'll be three entries under that name. But entry two Will be us three. [00:05:18] Speaker A: All right, so you can check out the who's. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Who's. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Who's. Entry one and three. [00:05:23] Speaker B: I'm entry one. And then entry three is a buddy of ours. Of mine, in kins. [00:05:32] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:33] Speaker A: All right. [00:05:35] Speaker B: Old timer. Jimmy. Jimmy Horseshoe. So he's already owing to. For the record, he went. He's already over two. He had Rutgers minus 15 and a half. They won by three, so that was an L. And he also had. He had Central Florida favored by 20 and a half. They only won by seven against Jackson, Jacksonville State. [00:05:58] Speaker C: All right, so we're. So we're playing not only everyone in this circus super concert. We're also playing Aaron as a solo and then Jimmy the Horseshoe. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Jimmy the Horseshoe. Yeah. But here's the thing about Jimmy the Horseshoe. He's. He's like one of those guys that plays the Mac League, the aac. He plays a lot of. Like, Buffalo, Ohio, like, a lot of weird games. [00:06:20] Speaker C: Jimmy the Horseshoe's at. He's at horn, you know, just. He's looking for matching on a Wednesday night. Right. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Dude, he's. He's. He's got all the parlay cards. Whatever card you need, he's got it. You know, he's like that dealership where you're like, hey, I don't think this is around. Boom, there it is. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Wonderful. Wonderful. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker A: So we're doing the west case super contest. [00:06:42] Speaker B: So just. Just so you know. You know, he went owing to. I'll give you his other five games or a couple of the other games he's got. He's got Toledo, he's got Rice are the type of games he's, you know, he. The unconventional picks. He's got Arizona. He does have South Carolina. Rome. He does have South Carolina. [00:07:01] Speaker A: I do like that one. [00:07:04] Speaker B: And yeah, I believe. I believe that's it. He may have one more. I got to remember what it is. But, yeah, that's. That's what he's got. Always got. Sam. Was it Sam Houston State. [00:07:21] Speaker C: Oh. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Against unlv. So. But like I said, he already lost with Central Florida and Rutgers to start the season. [00:07:28] Speaker A: That's a tough one. I don't like any of those picks. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Again, he's. [00:07:32] Speaker A: Wow. [00:07:33] Speaker B: He's out there scouting, scouting leagues and games that you. You may not have even TV service for. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Probably not. All right. We did pretty well last year on college football. We're gonna do the same thing in season two, sort of stone sofa. Aaron has games to watch. We're gonna go over that. That's pretty fun. I don't know if you guys remember, but last year he introduced us to games of the watch on his famous notepad with spelling errors throughout the year. [00:08:05] Speaker B: I think my spelling errors were zero to start week one. Unless somebody saw something. I don't know. [00:08:11] Speaker C: You gotta, you gotta tweet this out every week. All right? Let the people know. [00:08:15] Speaker A: All right, I will tweet out. So official and quality picture on the. [00:08:20] Speaker C: On the, on the old legal pad. Aaron's got a fresh legal pad for this year. Making sure fresh, we're good to go for the new football season. [00:08:27] Speaker A: Is it fresh? [00:08:28] Speaker B: It's fresh, bro. You just, you just took like, two of my fresh pack last week. [00:08:34] Speaker A: Oh, well, how come there's, like, writing on the first page? I see you ripped the first page off. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that was for probably fantasy baseball notes. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Oh, nice fresh pack. I'm, I'm enjoying a fresh beer, so it'll be a lot of fun. Aaron last year debuted us with what, 24 games to watch. So this is like a nice, feasible little start to the season. [00:09:01] Speaker B: Like college football starts. You got Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. So this is. I don't like to get that. [00:09:11] Speaker A: I think I went on a big old rant about this last year, right? [00:09:14] Speaker C: You'll be a big old rant about everything but Rome, we've had, we've been football starved, right? Football starved since, what, mid February. We've had crappy NFL preseason that only, like, degenerates like me are watching because I'm looking at the Bears offensive line on the first, on the first drive. But now this is real football. That counts. Football. It's the only one of the few. Is the only weekend that college gets to themselves or the NFL comes and stirs up. It takes up the other, like, five days of the week. And so, hey, you let them have five straight days of college. Right now we end it, you know, on a. Some great Sunday night, Monday night games that you don't see from the college ranks. So Rome, get, get off the hot take on this, all right? College coming back with a bang. Big matchups. Aaron's got a few of these on the game, so I'm excited. [00:10:00] Speaker A: I love it. [00:10:01] Speaker B: I love it. If you look at the games to watch Thursday night, Nebraska, Cincinnati, and obviously it didn't disappoint. Coming down to the wire for Nebraska, intercepting at the end of the game in the end zone. [00:10:12] Speaker A: So it was a little too close for comfort. [00:10:14] Speaker C: Well, it's tough debuting games to watch since we're telling him to watch it in a game. That happened in the past, but I guess if they're. The replay is on maybe ESPN Deportes or something like that. [00:10:25] Speaker B: All inclusive, ESPN 29.99 app. You can go back and watch it. [00:10:29] Speaker C: Okay. All right. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Well this pause probably not gonna make it until Saturday, so. Yeah, thanks for the heads up, Aaron. [00:10:38] Speaker C: The Friday games to watch are gonna be a little rough there too, so Auburn, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Colorado. I don't know if they're getting on before we release here. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it might be a little bit fail on this one, but we'll at least get the Saturday once. Aaron, we're gonna pick five. Remember we did a graphic on the socials, all pretty and everything like that. I don't know if you want to change anything on that, but we will do that every week consistently this year. We'll start fresh. Jason already took another Ben on drill. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Dude, I'm dumb man. [00:11:11] Speaker A: You know, I've been up since 7 this morning. [00:11:13] Speaker C: Okay. [00:11:14] Speaker A: So I'm pretty. [00:11:14] Speaker B: I've been up since 6:30. So we're all been a pretty, pretty early. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Well, mine was an accident. I had this weird dream and just totally freaked me out. Then I end up getting called into work. But all right, that was. [00:11:27] Speaker C: That was the nightmare. Getting called into work. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:30] Speaker C: Crap. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Well, do you guys want to start off with like Critiquing like top 25? You guys want to go by conferences? We'll do Aaron's games a week at the end. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Sounds like a plan. [00:11:40] Speaker A: All right, I'll look at the top 25 right now. So let me go back to conferences here. [00:11:48] Speaker B: So. [00:11:50] Speaker A: As my computer just crashed, let's do major conferences. Let's go west to east. How about that? We've been going east to west for everything else. Let's. I forgot the Pac 12 doesn't exist anymore. Jesus. [00:12:06] Speaker C: Gonna be a little difficult since the Everybody Big Ten spans the country so they're everywhere. [00:12:12] Speaker B: I. We've got. We've got what the. We got the Big Ten, the Big 12, the SEC and the ACC. Let's just do those four conferences. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Let's start with the Big Ten then let's start there. How about that? [00:12:25] Speaker C: Yeah, sounds good to me. [00:12:28] Speaker A: All right. Big Ten a lot of fun. Last year was the first year with a lot of new additions, including UCLA and usc, the two teams that pretty much led to the demise of the PAC 12 or at least the previous version of the PAC 12 because they're going to revive next year. They also got Washington, Oregon's in there, classics, Ohio State, you got the Ivy League School of the. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Of. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Of the Midwest and Northwestern or wherever the hell that is. Oh, that's in Chicago. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Chicago. [00:13:03] Speaker A: I forgot I supposed to go there. Got accepted there. Nebraska, one of my teams, a real team that I've actually been rooting for. [00:13:12] Speaker B: That. [00:13:12] Speaker A: And ucla. I am wearing my UCLA baby blue jersey. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Was gonna put on the Nebraska jersey and then he throws on this ucla. Man, that powder blue. Yeah. [00:13:23] Speaker A: I don't know where my sweater's at. It's looking pretty tattered. [00:13:26] Speaker C: Is, is Nebraska the Harvard of corn country or what? What is that? [00:13:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:13:32] Speaker A: It's a good school. It's a good school. [00:13:34] Speaker B: 400, 400 plus straight home sellouts even though they finally became bull eligible for the first time in like a decade. [00:13:40] Speaker A: You know what, those country girls, pretty cute, like throw. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Anyways. Yeah. Who do you guys like to dominate the conference? [00:13:54] Speaker B: By the way? [00:13:55] Speaker A: We're recording to Thursday, Thursday night, August 28th, obviously after the Nebraska game, the first game of the year. So by the time you guys hear it, probably be Saturday morning. [00:14:08] Speaker C: Well, if you're talking about dominating the conference, I don't know if you have clear domination. But to me, Rome, when you look at this conference, I think you have three teams that are probably the three playoff teams that are coming from the Big Ten, at least the three playoff teams that I got. You have Ohio State, who has the big matchup this week at Texas. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Huge. [00:14:25] Speaker C: You have Penn State, which many consider potentially will be the year that they win the Big Ten. And then you have last year's Big Ten champion that came up short in the playoffs. Oregon, who still a good team but having to replace a ton of people. To me, these are the three big teams of the, of the Big Ten on the fringes. I think you got Indiana playoff team last year, but didn't play anybody. Indiana kind of did that schedule again this year. So they didn't play anybody or me. I'm keeping them out of the playoff. Even if they go like 11 and 1 or 10 and 2 or whatever. Because I'm pretty sure you're going to have like some pushback to this team that didn't play anybody again going in. So if you look at the top of the conference, I mean that's where I go. I think there'd be a lot more politic in this year, especially from the SEC's perspective on making sure they get four teams in. When you look at, I mean, I'm looking at records, there's a lot of big matchups in the sec and we're jumping to that. But I think you're getting a lot of 10 and 2, 9, 3 teams in the SEC, SEC that they're going to be talking about, you know, strength of schedule and all this stuff where you got some of these Big Ten teams or the conference is so big they only got one or two big games out of the year. So Ohio State's playing Texas, they play Michigan and then do they play Oregon? I don't know. I was trying to remember the Ohio State schedule, but they only got like 3, 4, like massive games and then play a bunch of other jobs. So, I mean, it's to the top of the conference. I think you have Iowa State, Penn State and Oregon in the playoff. And those would be the three Big Ten teams for me. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Aaron? [00:15:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, to me, the top two teams in the Big Ten are Ohio State and Penn State. I mean, obviously we got the big showdown, Ohio State, Texas, rematch of the semifinal and the College Football Playoff. I think the third team's interesting. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Penn State won that game, by the way. [00:16:15] Speaker B: I guess. What, Notre Dame or what now? [00:16:18] Speaker A: Never mind. [00:16:22] Speaker B: But yeah, I mean, Jason's got Oregon. Oregon's an interesting team. They got a lot of talent, but unproven at quarterback. That's something they haven't had. They had Bo Nicks for two years and Dylan Gabriel. I really question what they're going to have at quarterback going with the youngster. That's a transfer coming in from what ucla, I think he said last year, out behind Dylan Gabriel. But that's that more kid that had a lot of hype coming from Michigan. Went to UCLA one year. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:47] Speaker B: So you got that. I honestly, if you want a wild card, I don't think Oregon's gonna make the College Football Playoff this year. That's a bold take by me. If there's going to be a third team coming in from the Big Ten, Indiana's kind of a fringe team. Illinois is kind of a surprise. They're in the top 15, I believe number 12. But I want to see what this new kid, the new quarterback Michigan has, right? I mean, Michigan, we know they got a stout defense. What kind of playmakers do they have? Is this quarterback and be able to develop? So that's what I'm looking at. And then USC, Lincoln Riley, can they finally start to put together 10 wins to get into the playoff? He's got a quarterback he likes. Second year of their defensive coordinator. They've recruited well transported. Well, pressure's on them to do some things. But yeah, I don't have Oregon making the Playoff Penn State, Ohio State or Locks for me the third team out of the Big Ten. If they get three teams that's going to be a question but I, I don't have Oregon making the playoff. [00:17:44] Speaker C: Illinois is the interesting team that Aaron brings up. As you look at their schedule, they got Ohio State and they got Indiana as the two ranked teams currently on their schedule right now. So Illinois, if they got everything at they could sneak in and do it. Indiana did a year ago. If they have a good showing against Ohio State, beat Indiana, you know they could be 11 and one looking at the third team in the Big Ten two as well. So I think there's some interesting things that can go through. I don't completely disagree. I lose. I'm scared about Oregon but I feel like they always have the talent and the schedule just isn't as strong. I think they could be a two loss team out of the Big Ten and go in knowing what the talent they do have. But Illinois, I'll agree with Aaron and that ranked number. I think Aaron's right. I think they're number 12 right now. But sneaky schedule where hey they're playing Purdue. They do play USC which is a challenging game. They play at Washington so a little travel. But then they got Rutgers, Maryland, Wisconsin, Northwestern. Like there's a lot of winnable games for Illinois in that. So that could be a sneaky one that gets in there. But I think to Aaron's point there's two locked teams. There's maybe some fringes on who could be the third team. Oregon, Indiana, Illinois and then a bunch of who the rest usc. I think some people are getting a little more bullish on USC and we'll see but last season had a lot to be desired. Can they get the defense kind of straightened out? [00:19:03] Speaker A: I agree with a lot of, a lot of what you guys said. Penn State's one of my favorites to win the whole title this year, the championship. So I got them favorite to win the conference. They have a lot of people returning. They were so close to winning it last year and there's ever a time that Penn State's got got to win it. They got James Franklin hasn't won the big chip yet. This is going to be the year Ohio State, a lot of guys returning. They did lose what their D coordinator over to one of the rivals that. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Is gonna be the Penn State. [00:19:35] Speaker A: Penn State but that's gonna be. [00:19:37] Speaker B: And they lost Chip Kelly their OC as well. They did the NFL. [00:19:41] Speaker A: So the NFL. So I believe they'll see a Little drop off. But for. I do agree, Illinois is like one of my teams to watch for. I really like them. Indiana. I think we'll see a drop off from last year. They didn't play, you know, too crazy with competition. But I do like the way and the direction Illinois is going. My fourth team to watch though, is Michigan. Still, they're loaded. A lot of returning talent coming back in. The quarterback. From what I've seen so far, the freshman, the guy that they paid so much money for to come in. [00:20:17] Speaker B: 2 million. [00:20:18] Speaker A: Really, really, really good. I forgot maybe I have too many college teams because I'm a big Michigan guy. [00:20:28] Speaker C: We gotta start writing these down. We got Michigan, I think we got Pitt in there. Maybe ucla, Nebraska. [00:20:37] Speaker B: I mean, you can have. [00:20:38] Speaker A: I mean, look, we might be like monster. [00:20:40] Speaker B: Actually, I don't, I don't think it's a lot more than three teams. Rome? [00:20:43] Speaker A: No, no. Oh, yeah. I rooted for Alabama because Nick Saban was there, but I didn't, I really don't care after that. [00:20:50] Speaker C: The crazy thing about A Michigan, Nebraska, UCLA thing is like, you know, 20 years ago it was okay, they're in three different conferences, but now these favorite teams you got are all in the same conference. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it sucked last year watching, watching them play. So that's my order. Penn State, Ohio, Illinois is going to be my potential there to make some noise in the College Playoff and then don't count out Michigan. I can see them definitely getting the 10 wins this year. USC, I think they're gonna be a good team. I just don't think they're gonna come through. Indiana's gonna see a drop off. Oregon, I know they're loaded, but I just don't. I, I thought they were like, what? They went really far. I just wasn't buying the hype train. Maybe like they're, they're my KC Chiefs. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Oregon, if I'm not mistaken, they were the only Power 4 team to go undefeated last year in the regular season. Right. They got, they got a terrible draw in the College Football Playoff, which I believe that. I believe they changed that this year. Right. That. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Oh, they changed the whole thing. Yeah. [00:21:57] Speaker B: That they're not going to give automatic qualifying bids or buys to the teams that win the conferences. Right. I believe that's, that's in this year. [00:22:04] Speaker C: It's. It's ranked 1 through 12. Like you get, you get the automatic. If you win the conference, you're in the top 12, but you don't. You go in the rankings. So. [00:22:13] Speaker A: Thank God. [00:22:14] Speaker C: I think the thing with Oregon, I Won't. Again, don't disagree with Aaron on the risk of having Oregon where they're at. But again, schedule. When you look at this stuff, they only got Penn State which will be the showdown in late September. They follow that with the game against Indiana and then they're back after the schedulers. Rutgers, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota. We'll see where USC's at in Washington. Like Oregon just doesn't have the challenging schedule that people put out there. So that's why I think like the. They can run 10 and 2 and kind of be in it. So that I think that'll be the. It'll be really be the rub. As you look for Big 10 sec. How many schools do these two conferences get? Because at. At whether. Whether we talk about it or not, the, the. The spoken out loud secret is college football is ran through these two conferences right now. So everything is about Big Ten and SEC getting their schools and they each are going to want four in it. Which means there's table scraps left for these other conferences. [00:23:12] Speaker B: So yeah, automatics. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Which is why we'll eventually go to a 16 team playoff. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I mean there was even talks when we were in 20, 20, 24, 28. [00:23:24] Speaker A: That's all they did that to get a bad reaction so that it seems more palatable to do 16 teams guaranteed it's negotiation. [00:23:33] Speaker C: I just don't know if you have 16 because then you're talking about like everyone has to play the first round and they're going to be talking about who gets buys and things like that. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Disgusting. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean it's revenue but I think it's actually good because you'll now see the number one seed get a home playoff game. Right. I mean everybody talked about that home playoff game and every team that had a home playoff game dominated in the playoff. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:54] Speaker B: So that's the other. [00:23:56] Speaker C: The other thing I'll say about that too is like the. Whatever they can do to get rid of the conference championship games I'm all for too because those have continually to be the worst thing ever is these conference championship games. Because last year, you know, took teams out of the playoff. There was weird things going on. Some of the ones, you know, win, loss, kind of didn't matter. And so like they're playing an extra game that you know, it was the Ohio. The Ohio. Was it Ohio State? I'm trying to throw the Big Ten championship game where it was just like Penn State, Oregon. Yeah. So Penn State got like gets to take the loss versus Oregon and then you know Ohio State didn't have to play anyone. So you play this extra game and it only hurts. [00:24:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it works. And it doesn't work, right. I mean, Clems, the ACC needed it, right, because they didn't really have a clear cut team. Clemson gets in, SMU kind of cries, hey, you know what? We deserve to get in. They do get in. They go to Penn State, it's what, like 10 degrees? They get, they get whipped, they get shellacked. And we talked. I mean, I'm not for. I think Dan Lenning from Oregon brought up. I'm not for like three weeks off between when the playoffs in maybe one week and then boom, you start. Because Oregon had four weeks off. They didn't look great. The two teams that made it to the championship, both Ohio State and Oregon, they played in round one. They only had what, 19, 20 days off between games versus the 25 to 27 that some of these other teams did. I agree. As soon as the season's over, like December 2nd, boom, like you're kicking off. And then the championship should be like a week right after like New Year's, not towards the end of January. Like I agree. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Get rid of also like that open window where people can transfer. Get rid of that so people stay with their teams all the way through the end and we get clear cut winners. They gotta make those changes real quick because I'm writing this down on the official source of the sofa legal pad taken from Aaron's house. My order was Penn State, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. Aaron, just want to double check yours. You have Ohio winning the conference. [00:25:55] Speaker B: Penn State I think is gonna win the conference. Ah, okay. [00:25:57] Speaker A: And then who are your next three? [00:25:59] Speaker B: I would say Ohio State. I will go, I'll go. Michigan, Oregon. Whoa. I agree with Jason and Oregon. Schedule's kind of soft, but it is really easy to. Yeah, they've got, yeah, they got, what was it, Indiana and Penn State back to back. But a tricky couple sneaky games. Rutgers and then at Washington. I think Oregon's gonna lose three games in the regular season. They'll finish nine and three. [00:26:34] Speaker C: Okay, me, I was thinking they're 10 and two. I think they lose the Penn State game, beat Indiana, But I think you get, you get one of those tricky games they lose down the stretch. [00:26:43] Speaker A: Jason, what are your top teams? [00:26:46] Speaker C: I had Penn State. I'm with you guys. And then winning the Big Ten this year. Ohio State just lost a little too much. Even though they got the best wide receiver in the game, maybe best college wide receiver prospect of all time. [00:26:57] Speaker A: That's right. [00:26:58] Speaker C: But I think there's some other things that Ohio State lost. It'll be a little bit ticker where Penn State's a little more stacked. So Ohio, Penn State, Ohio State. I got Oregon number three, I think Illinois number four. And then, I mean that's all kind of ranked. I think you got to take them or leave them like a Michigan and Indiana right after that. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Oh, I'll write it down. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, yeah, for me, I think for all of us, the clear cut 1, 2 is Penn State, Ohio State. I think 3, 3 to 6 is open. It could be Oregon, it could be Illinois, maybe Indiana, Michigan sneak in there. So let's, let's see. I think it's going to be interesting college football season, especially in the Big Ten. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Nice. [00:27:41] Speaker C: Yeah. I think when you talk to. You brought up the USC aspect. Whereas I want to say, hey, USC is going to bring back. You look at some of these schedules we just talked through. Then usc, they play at Illinois, they play Michigan, they play at Notre Dame, then they play at Oregon. Like if USC gets better, out of all these teams we've talked about, they play a bunch of ranked teams that everyone else has only got two on their, on their schedule. So the, the imbalance of these large schedules. To continue talking about it, there's a little bit of luck of the draw here. [00:28:09] Speaker A: I'm really curious how UCLA is going to do well. [00:28:13] Speaker B: We'll see how they look against Utah. That's a big game. Utah, like you mentioned, Rome is favored to or one of the favorites to win the Big 12. They come in off a down year last year. [00:28:25] Speaker A: So people are all in on Utah. It is crazy. [00:28:29] Speaker C: All right, I gotta ask, do we take. Did you take UCLA in our pool? [00:28:35] Speaker B: I did. Okay. [00:28:37] Speaker C: You took him, not Rome. [00:28:38] Speaker A: I did okay. [00:28:39] Speaker C: I just want to make sure. I trust that a little more. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Okay. Get out of here. Big 12, some big balls. We all, we saw Kansas State, they, they were one of the favorites. They lost over in Ireland. You got Colorado. They lost to it. Well, the Heisman winner and like another Heisman finalist. And Deion Sanders, cancer free, leading back, recharged, ready to go. Texas Tech, a lot of people are up on them. Same thing with Utah. Arizona State comes back, a lot of guys coming back, but they don't have Scaboo. Scatter was like big time in all those tough game situations when things got tight. Guys, who do you guys got in this conference? [00:29:29] Speaker C: This conference? To me, whatever we say right now is going to be wrong. It's the Most, it's the most wide open. The winner could maybe have eight wins potentially as they go through maybe nine, I don't know. But this will be the hardest one to predict because all the teams you mentioned, you know, Arizona State, they went worse to first in the Big 12 last year, I'm pretty sure. Did they? Right Aaron? Yeah, yeah, something like that. They did. You know, Utah, we brought in the previous conversation bell of the ball. I think a lot of people are picking them. They were tough when they were in the old Pac12 and making it to Pac12 title games felt like they were going to get it turning around at a certain point last year and didn't Kansas State early favor but they just lost to an Iowa State team. Texas Tech has got some things going on there where they could potentially be a threat. And so I, I feel whatever we take in this, it's going to be wrong. But I think they're going to beat each other up and they'll beat each other up to the point where they're probably only get one team in the college football playoff and it's going to be whoever the conference championship is going to be out of that. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Man, sounds like a new Pac 12. [00:30:38] Speaker C: It could be. And like basically half the packs off. [00:30:42] Speaker A: And like the pack problem, they just beat each other up the whole time. [00:30:46] Speaker C: And like the Pac 12, they got a lot of good quarterback play with a lot of different teams inside here. All else I'll say I'm gonna go with Arizona State to go back to back. I still, still think they got a good quarterback, wide receiver tandem. You know, I'll. I guess I'll just continue when I pick the favorites and I'll go Arizona State. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Oh, you did do that last year after that. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Well, you didn't pick Arizona State last year to win the favorites, just the favorites. Chalk favorites have always done well in college football. I mean it's just, it's just a gimme. Because typically their schedules were soft. Right? I mean you didn't, you had to. There was only what, two, four, two playoff championship spots back with old BCS and you had four. So you always had to be 11 and 1 or 12 and 0 to even get considered for the playoff. Now you can go 10 and 2, 9 and 3 if you got a tough schedule and you're still looked at for a playoff team. Big 12, honestly, there's half a dozen teams that could win this conference. Like Jason just said, I don't see, I don't see Arizona State repeating though. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Why not? They have a Lot of players coming back. They just. Besides their star running back, I mean. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, they've got. They've got playmakers on the outside, the quarterback. It's. It's going to be difficult. I think last year they were even. Even like midway through. I think I put on teams, I put them on my team to watch list. And everyone like BYU, remember, was like 8, 0, 9 and 0 to start the year. And they went there in the desert, got beat. That was part of her upsets to watch. And then Arizona State just took off from there. [00:32:25] Speaker A: I think Colorado faltered. [00:32:26] Speaker B: So, yeah, Colorado's definitely not going to win the conference. [00:32:30] Speaker C: And, and to sit Romeo, I do want to say, like just this. Overall favorites to. To do this right now. I, you know, I think I. Kansas State might have been the favorite overall to win the conference, I think. Yeah, they lost the first game. Now putting Iowa State into some play right now, I always say. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Looked really good, though. I, I like the way they looked in game one. It was a tough game. It was rainy. No one could catch anything. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Yeah, the Big 12 is just going to continuously beat up on each other. I mean, Arizona State beat Iowa State last year in the Big 12 championship game. I mean, if you ask me right now, who I think is going to take the Big 12? [00:33:08] Speaker A: Yeah, Oklahoma State as well. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Oklahoma State. Starting two true freshman quarterbacks. I was. They didn't look very good today. That was a little ESPN+ game action. Texas Tech's the hot team. If Texas Tech really. I mean, you know, a lot of people are high on them. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Too hot. [00:33:29] Speaker B: I'll ride with Texas Tech. I think it's either Texas Tech, Utah, Arizona State. Those are the teams. Those are. And then I think of a sneaky team. We're going to see him play against Auburn, maybe Baylor. Baylor. If you're looking for just a sneaky team from the Big 12, Baylor's A team to keep an eye on. [00:33:48] Speaker A: All right, who you got winning the conference? I'll say Texas Tech and then list the rest. [00:33:56] Speaker B: You can go ahead and list them for me because it's just like a little jumble. Shake it up on whatever team you pull out. I'll go Arizona State second, Utah third. That's how I rank it. Not. Not any confidence at all on that, though. [00:34:09] Speaker A: All good. Jason, you want to add anything else besides asu? [00:34:13] Speaker C: I think Utah would probably be right there for number two. I agree with Aaron on Texas Tech. I think they're potentially right there as well, too, so. But I think Utah, if I'm not Going to go Arizona State. I think Utah's got something to prove this year. And again, Rome, you said they're a little bit of the darlings on this, but I think they could potentially win it. It's a team that was super competitive and a good PAC 12 conference against a lot of good teams. And I felt we could. They could own this last year, but had tons of injuries, just tons of injuries. And so they come back and they got some, you know, different playmakers there. [00:34:46] Speaker B: Yeah, Utah's an interesting team. They got UCLA tomorrow or Saturday. New quarterback, new oc, returning a lot of offensive linemen. Supposedly they're going to go like no huddle, play, play real quick. Something we haven't seen from Utah. They've always been kind of like the two tight ends, fullback, run this, run the game, clock down kind of power football. They've got a quarterback that's got a little bit of a Cam Ward kind of mystique to him. Keep an eye on this guy. Utah's an interesting team. I liked UCLA this week. I think UCLA is going to upset them, but we'll see. Maybe Utah. Maybe Utah is that team. We'll see how they look. [00:35:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I have no clue what's going to happen this conference. You guys kind of nailed that on the part. I do like. I. I did like Iowa State from last year. I do like to kind of continue that. When you look at the rest of your schedule, it's pretty palatable. Pretty palatable. Two losses. I ideally. But I actually like them to be in the mix. Why is everyone up on Texas Tech? [00:35:54] Speaker B: Because they spent like, what, 25 million, 30 million in IL? [00:36:00] Speaker A: What else. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Gets you the better players right now? [00:36:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I think ASU will be in the mix to get it done. I actually do like that BYU pick Aaron. [00:36:18] Speaker B: And. [00:36:21] Speaker A: God forbid, Kansas State. [00:36:24] Speaker B: I mean, look it, we're kind of giving up on Kansas State, but I wouldn't. They. They lost a game, what, three points there to Iowa State? Kansas State. They can still get back in this. They were. They were. They were the preseason favorite for a reason, so don't count them out yet. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I got asu, ksu, Iowa State as well. Okay, but. [00:36:53] Speaker C: How many of those are making the playoff room? [00:36:56] Speaker A: Just one. [00:36:57] Speaker B: Just getting one. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, next conference, what do you guys want to do? Acc. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Acc. It's a fun conference. Stanford does not belong in that conference. It's so. [00:37:12] Speaker B: Stanford's terrible right now. [00:37:14] Speaker A: You like what Andrew Luck's doing, hiring his. One of his good friends his new coach. [00:37:20] Speaker B: What's a one year? It's a one year rental fill in. [00:37:24] Speaker A: Yeah. But a lot of people think Andrew looks gonna end up coaching. [00:37:32] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:37:32] Speaker A: I don't know. I think, I think, I think he. [00:37:35] Speaker B: Likes being the gm. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So you got Aaron's team, Florida State. What a big disappointment that was last year. Brought lots of smiles to me and Jason's face. It was pretty good to see. It was so good. Just remembering everything. Clemson GT Miami. You got Bill Belichick with unc. That should be fun. SMU had a pretty good year last year. Can they repeat that success? And then you have kind of like a battle with everybody else. Jason, you want to go first? Yeah. [00:38:14] Speaker C: I think there is a team that this is a conference that got two teams last year. I would say maybe barely and wasn't the right teams. You had a Miami team that was. Had some talent, they had the quarterback and they were just lucking out in some games here and there. Was it the cow game? That was just insane on whatever night we were watching. [00:38:37] Speaker A: I think that was the best college game day too. [00:38:40] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely was. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Well, not only that, remember the game against. Was it Virginia Tech? Was it a touchdown or not? Remember there was like a five hour replay. Rome was like, oh, it's a touchdown. I'm like, no touchdown, no incomplete. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Touchdown, incomplete. [00:38:57] Speaker B: I was half drunk and I called incomplete on that one. [00:39:00] Speaker C: Well, Miami brought Mario Crystal Ball there for a reason. It was to bring the University of Miami back to its former glory days. And what Crystal Ball had done in his history at Oregon and then, you know, learned under Saban a little bit was really the recruiting game. And he knows how to sell it. Questionable in game decisions that he has made in his tenure. It probably just plagues him with. Played with, plagued, has plagued him and has some losses. I can't speak here at night. Rome. It's just not. Just not good for a podcast, but it's all good. Miami overall, I think is a team that is built to win the acc, but still has never won the acc. When you think about how great this program was when, you know, you and. [00:39:41] Speaker B: I, I don't even believe they played in a conference championship game in the acc. [00:39:46] Speaker C: I want to say they did one time, but you could be right. I mean, whatever. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Like you said, they haven't won the conference for whatever it is. [00:39:52] Speaker C: They haven't Miami, they haven't won the conference. So I don't even know if they win the conference this year, but they still have a. You know, fairly favorable schedule, but they do got some tough games because they're going to play. They're going to play at Notre Dame to start the year. I, I think it's a loss. [00:40:10] Speaker A: It's a tough. [00:40:11] Speaker C: I'm sorry, not, it's not at Notre Dame, it's in Miami. But still they're playing Notre Dame. They are going to play Florida at home. They're going to go two of Florida State and then sneaky team like Louisville. Louisville is kind of under the radar, but Louisville's got a good squad and then at SMU later in the year too. So I'm not saying Miami's got the easiest path, but if they're able to put a 10 and 2 record together, which is what I kind of think they're going to finish at, it's a team that makes the playoffs. The team they don't play is going to be Clemson. Who places LSU. Game 1 of the season has been pretty much the dominant force within this conference over the past decade or so. I think for me they're the ones winning the conference and kind of taking back kind of what's theirs in Clemson. But there's some sneaky teams without the Big Ten. Aaron's Florida State Seminoles gonna be on the comeback. I think a team like Duke, Duke won like I think nine games last year, right? Aaron? [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yes, he did. Yeah. Duke, Duke won nine games, beat my Florida State team first time ever. They did that in school history. They were like, oh, and 22 lifetime against the Seminoles. But yeah, Duke is, Duke's got some nice pieces there. [00:41:21] Speaker C: So there, there's just, I think there's some, just sneaky things around the ACC that. The potential landmines for top teams. Miami, Clemson, maybe Aaron's Florida State team that you kind of trip up throughout the thing because there's some really good, you know, eight, nine win teams that are within this conference. I'm putting it up. I think Miami and Clemson are the two. They're going to make it to the playoff and be, you know, towards the bottom of that, you know, six through 12 packing order with probably one or two losses throughout their resume. [00:41:52] Speaker A: What about like Syracuse, they made some. [00:41:54] Speaker C: Noise last year again, another one of these, you know, teams that, you know, go play Syracuse unranked, you know, could be a problem. I don't have them putting them there, but it's tough. And this, and this is why I'm not shocked at the ACC only gets one team just like the Big 12 because, you know you're going to have These teams beating up each other and Big 10 SEC, you're going to have three loss teams and some of those that are going to probably be consideration versus a one or two loss ACC team. [00:42:25] Speaker B: There's another interesting conference. We just got done with the Big 12. To me, the ACC is pretty open up. Who can win it besides Clemson? Clemson is a clear cut favorite. I mean everybody's talking about them maybe going 16 0. I don't see that happening. Jason's got LSU beating him this weekend. I think LSU is going to beat him this weekend. But Clemson is the clear cut favorite to win. Where it gets tricky is number two. Jason likes Miami. I don't. I think Miami's getting at least four or five games this year. It's going to start with Notre Dame. They're going to end up getting beat by my Florida State and they're gonna end up getting beat by a couple other teams. Louisville, smu, those teams, I think all can beat them. It depends on how healthy Carson Beck is. We know he's coming off a major elbow injury. Mario Crystal Ball, not very good later in the season, the games going on. He's not good in tight games. You give him the talent edge. His teams look great to me. That ACC is pretty balanced overall. Once you get past Clemson, you've got Louisville, smu, Florida State, Miami. To me they're all kind of all in that same bubble. They'll kind of knock each other off with Jason. ACC gets one team in. It's whoever wins the conference likely Clemson is going to win that championship game over Louisville. Likely would be my pick or smu. But don't be surprised if Florida State. We'll see how they look. I think they're going to get better as the year goes on. Florida State's a tricky team to get into the ACC Conference championship game. [00:43:44] Speaker A: I totally forgot about Florida State. Wow. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Yeah, good. [00:43:54] Speaker A: What about Virginia Tech? [00:43:58] Speaker B: Another team that can win seven, eight games could win five, six, but we'll see. I mean they're. They're like a Syracuse, right? You don't know if they're going to get eight wins or six wins. We'll see how they look against South Carolina. You don't want them to look too good. Rome, since that's one of your picks. [00:44:13] Speaker A: This week, I might have to change it. So you got Clemson winning and then who, who else you got to run it out. [00:44:22] Speaker B: I'll say it goes Clemson, Louisville, smu, Florida State. That'd be my top four in the conference. I don't like. I don't like Miami, but maybe if Miami beats Notre Dame, I'd have to change my tune. But we'll see. I'm not. I'm not as high on Miami as other people are. [00:44:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker B: I think the will. I think Miami's. The wills are going to fall off and it's going to start against Notre Dame. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Nordame is one of my favorites to possibly win the championship this year, so I don't want to go against that bet. It's a tough conference. Thought Virginia Tech was pretty dangerous last year. They're building up on that. Florida State, they're always loaded. But we all saw what happened last year. [00:45:13] Speaker B: It was kind of like they're going to be a lot better than they were last year. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. [00:45:17] Speaker B: May not look that way week one here against Alabama, but this is a team that's going to get better as the year goes on. [00:45:22] Speaker A: Alabama, everyone's expecting them to bounce back. I don't. I don't like Clemson. All right. I don't like their coach. I'm a hater and so it's kind of hard. [00:45:34] Speaker B: I'm not a big dabble guy too. I love to see Clemson fall flat on their face. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's kind of hard for me to pick them. I'm not a big crispball guy, so I don't want to pick them either. I kind of liked when they lost. SMU is just. They're not going to catch anyone by surprise. So it's gonna be tougher this go around. How's the rest of the schedule look though? [00:45:56] Speaker C: For smu, it's not that tough if you're looking for it. They play Clem at Clemson. They play versus Miami. They got Miami at home. Currently those are the only two ranked teams they do play. So for SMU, like again, like last year, hey, they could be 11 and 1 when you're looking at their schedule if they take care of business against the Syracuse, the Louisvilles, Boston Colleges of the world. But it's not a terribly hard schedule for SMU to. And like Aaron. I think Aaron said put them at 3. I like Miami a little more than Aaron does or probably a lot more than Aaron does because. But if Miami wins those games, it gives them the strength to schedule and who they beat. SMU going 111 and they only lose to Clemson. That's probably a playoff resume. [00:46:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at smu. They got a sneaky game at TCU here in late September at Clemson. Miami at home. They get Louisville at home. So they get A lot of big games at home, even Baylor at home. So really at Clemson, at tcu, those are the two games for me. If I'm smu, I'm keep an eye on. If they can win one of those two road games and then take care of business at home against Miami and Louisville, then they'll be, they'll be in the conference championship game, likely. [00:47:07] Speaker A: You got a big dog in North Carolina, Belichick. You gotta expect there's gonna be some turnaround there. North Carolina usually has some talent on the, on on that team. They got a lot of, hell of a lot of transfer I think they brought in. What like what like was it 50 to 60 transfers this year? Which is crazy. Very Colorado, Deion Sanders, like they got to make some noise. You gotta, you gotta imagine. [00:47:33] Speaker C: I don't know about making noise, but. And it's probably a little bit of, a little bit of a circus over there what's going on with Belichick. But at the end of the day, what Bella Check did so well in the NFL was maximizing a bunch of fringe roster guys. You know, you think of like Edelman and Welker out of the receiver cores and like what he's done on the defensive side and like not high draft picks that turned into like, like, you know, above average or great players that you wouldn't expect if. So in college football where you're playing a little more in the margins, the schedules are way unbalanced. Like, you know, there's a way where, hey, this is not a national championship team. But I don't think it's a team you want to play either. Because I think there's enough that hey, Belichick just didn't forget everything he knew to be one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time doesn't have an overly hard schedule. When you're looking who he's playing, like, you know, he's got. Clemson is only current ranked team on the schedule. So you know, tricky games. Like Aaron said at Syracuse, I think Duke's really good. They got to go all the way to Cal. But you know, I'm not going to be shocked if they win eight games, seven games and be kind of competitive there. Like if you're going to see like a difference in I think from a NFL head coach in preparation and finding guys to play versus maybe like some of the traditional ways like these mid college football programs operate. [00:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I'm curious to see how North Carolina looks Monday night against tcu. They are a three and a half point dog. I Like TCU to win. I like TCU to cover, but we'll see. I mean, Jason said, I'm looking at the schedule right now. They didn't get Charlotte. Richmond should be wins at Central Florida. That could be tough. Then Clemson, Cow end of the season, Duke, North Carolina, State. That could be pretty difficult. I mean, Duke's a team we didn't. You know, Jason mentioned nine wins last year. They're kind of going under the radar. They had a big time transfer quarterback come in from Toledo. They sent their quarterback who transferred in from Texas. That was the second string guy ahead of Archmanning his freshman year. He went to Oregon State. A lot of transfers going around everywhere. But the, the ACC feels like a team conference that you could either go like Florida State did Last year, go 2 and 10, or you could be good one of those teams that wins eight, nine games. But it's going to be a lot of teams that are just middle of the road. Six wins, seven wins, five win teams. North Carolina is probably in that seven win category. Maybe to get eight or nine, maybe they just win six. But I think we'll have a good idea of whether they're at against tcu. And I like Jason said the talent that Belichick can maximize, they'll get better as the year goes on. So they could struggle out the gate early. We'll see. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I just read somewhere that Clemson has 80% of their roster coming back from last year. It's the highest in the nation. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Clemson does not really take transfers and a lot of guys don't transfer out of there. [00:50:31] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:50:32] Speaker B: They're very, they're very old school and that's kind of their philosophy. But they are deep and they are talented. [00:50:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So just in a particular order. Clemson, Miami, smu. I'm gonna just put the lean on SMU taking the conference. Gt though, that would be another team. My dark horse pick. I can't talk either. Jesus Christ. It's a dark horse pick to win the conference. I don't know. Gt was pretty fun last year too. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they were. They were good. [00:51:04] Speaker A: All right, what conference is next? [00:51:07] Speaker C: We only got the sec. [00:51:11] Speaker A: You don't want to talk about the Mac or the aac? [00:51:14] Speaker B: No. [00:51:15] Speaker A: Conference usa? No, no. The, the, the Midwest Conference. You know what time of the Midwestern conference? All the state schools. [00:51:26] Speaker C: Nope. You get, you get that last one where you got to pick one team room from all of those five conferences of which one is going to make the college football playoffs. There's only one's going to make it. So you got to think about that. But we'll go through the ACC or the SEC first. [00:51:41] Speaker A: All right, let's. Let's do the SEC then. The power of the power conferences, I guess. A lot to choose from. A lot of people expect Kellen Deborah to rebound in year two with Alabama. Got Georgia, Kentucky, lsu. Are they going to have like some bad losses again this year? Ole Miss, Kiffin's always guaranteed a 10 win team. Now South Carolina is coming back strong. Texas again favorites with the Archie Manning, the third iteration of the Manning family there. Vanderbilt, can they make more upsets this year? You know how they derailed Alabama season last year. But Aaron, you go first. [00:52:26] Speaker B: A loaded conference. I mean it sits a loaded conference like you just mentioned Rome. I mean you've got Texas, you've got Texas A M, Tennessee, South. I forgot about A M. Florida's kind of been on the up and up. Bama expected to make a comeback. Missouri's not bad. They're always on the top 20. LSU, Brian Kelly, this is the best team he's probably had there at lsu. So there's a. There's a lot to like about this conference. They're going to get four teams in the College Football Playoff. Yeah, I think that's a gimme. Whether or not they can sneak a fifth team in will be interesting to see. But man, yeah, this conference, I mean it's. It's been the premier conference with the Big Ten here in college football for a while. [00:53:17] Speaker A: How about you give me four to number one or start with your wild card? Like, who do you think could potentially be the fifth one? [00:53:28] Speaker B: You know, it seems like I'm on this team every year and I'm gonna jump back on, but it's Texas A and M for me. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Oh, you love them, dude. [00:53:36] Speaker B: I do love me some Texas A and M. The 12th, man, I do. They got. I like. I mean they. Defensively, they're going to be better read the quarterback. Second full year. They've added more playmakers around them. They didn't have any speed at wideout. Texas A M is a team to me. They were in the driver's seat. Me and Jason were talking about it last year. They were 5060 in the SEC and then just kind of fell apart. Texas A and M would be a wild card team for me that can make the playoffs. [00:54:05] Speaker A: All right, the rest of it, four through one. [00:54:13] Speaker B: Texas is going to get in the playoff. LSU is going to get into the playoff. [00:54:25] Speaker A: Should I write that Texas down for number four? [00:54:29] Speaker B: Oh, this is from four to one, I think. Well, I was giving you kind of my top. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Okay. [00:54:35] Speaker B: So I was getting. I think LSU is going to win the sec. I'll put it that way. I'll take LSU one. I'll take Texas too. I'm gonna go. I think Ole Miss. Ole Miss is gonna be pretty good. They're gonna get into the playoff. I think Georgia. I think George is maybe on the outside looking in. But I'll give you three teams for that fourth spot. It could be Alabama, Georgia or Texas A M. One of those four. One of those three is going to get that last four spot and get in. I feel confident in Texas, LSU and Ole Miss. Mississippi getting in. [00:55:12] Speaker A: Okay. I do like Ole Miss. They have. They have a lot of talent coming back. Lane Kiff has been solid. They up last year, but I do they. I do think they break through. Jason pounded his beer. [00:55:36] Speaker C: Killer conference. As Aaron said, just fully loaded top to bottom. I agree. Two of the teams with Aaron. I do think LSU vastly improved. I think Brian Kelly is really coaching for something this year. Most talent he's had since he's been at lsu. I think they put it all together. I don't think they win the conference though. I do. I do think Texas wins the conference because I think Texas is a luck box again with some of their schedule. But I think Texas and LSU are the two in. I'll disagree, I guess Aaron in this part. I think Kellen DeBoer gets Alabama right this year and I think they are in the playoff and I think they're much improved. Georgia. I agree with Aaron. Little bit of a wild card. This team was so dominant for, you know, three, four years, whatever it was. But now I think they're probably teetering on a little bit outside this second tier. Maybe a bit. I can go either way. Probably between Ole Miss and Georgia. I'm going to stick with Georgia, though. Just going on track record of where Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss kind of generally do. What game are they going to lose if they shouldn't lose? Where Georgia. Georgia's got. I don't know. Georgia's probably got a. They got a fairly tough schedule. Like I might say. Like I think that's the one thing. Logan Hart at Georgia, they play at Tennessee, they play Bama, they play Ole Miss, they play Florida, currently ranked. They play Texas. The Georgia Tech game to end of the season. So Georgia's schedule not easy now the out of conference as usual as they play Marshall, Austin, PA And Charlotte. You know, they got three wins Right there. [00:57:20] Speaker B: So you can't. When you got a conference schedule like that. I, I don't care about who they play in the non conference. [00:57:26] Speaker C: Yeah. So I think Georgia though is one of those looking. Do they go nine and three, The Ole Miss go nine and three and we're debating some of the semantics on like how well did Georgia loses to Texas third to last game of the season? How bad do they lose to number one Texas, you know, or it's the showdown between Georgia and Ole Miss that really decides this whole thing. If they're both 9 and 3 and like who's the head to head winner out of that or even Bama if I'm throwing that into the wild card too. So I think there's a lot of important regular season games that decide the playoffs in the sec. I think this is where the, the purists that say oh, the playoffs make the regular season not matter. It matters a lot in a lot of these head to head games that are going on here because they could be the fringes of whether you're the third or fourth team in your conferences. You get in the playoffs. So Texas, lsu, Bama, Georgia, I'll take as my top four playoff teams. But I, I do say four is probably going to be the minute. The limits to which I think the nation can stomach getting from the sec. 5 sec teams. If you had a bunch of nine and three teams getting in, it's going to be a bad look. If you got a 9 and 3 team and then you know, the ACC's got two 11 and 1 teams. I'm sorry, Southeastern Conference, you, you don't get it. I don't care how hard your schedule is. [00:58:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean the sec, I mean we're looking at it, Georgia and Alabama, the talents there. But I'm worried about the quarterback play. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Right. [00:58:54] Speaker B: Alabama's throwing a quarterback that's never basically played one game in the last two years. Georgia, we kind of got it. [00:59:01] Speaker A: I kind of like that actually. [00:59:03] Speaker B: We kind of got a glimpse of what we saw from him. The most experienced quarterback right now is lsu. Their guy, Archie Manning. Say what you want, he's only made four career college starts and the hype behind him's big. It's a lot. But like Jason said, the schedule a little bit easier compared to some of these other SEC teams and it's been that way for a while in that conference. I think that's just how they got, you know, they gave Oklahoma really the burnt of that schedule and then Texas, you know, slip somebody a little bit More money in the conference schedule maker and got it. Got off easy. [00:59:34] Speaker A: And the hate continues. Year two, guys. Oh yeah. [00:59:37] Speaker C: Texas is one of Rome's favorite teams too. Forgot about that one. [00:59:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I just realized that as well. [00:59:41] Speaker B: Yeah. So he's got every conference covered in Ole Miss like they lose in darts. So there's a lot of young quarterbacks that are going to have to step up in big games. And that's when I come back with, you know, read from Texas A M. This is his second year. Really kind of as a full time starter. Made eight nights starts a M. I like them better than Georgia and Alabama just because of the quarterback play. I got more faith and confidence in that, that that will play out. And I think they got the athletes and the defense to compete in the conference again. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Nice. I'm going to double down on Texas winning again. Sec. I think Alabama rebounds really nicely. I think they probably take like the third or fourth spot. It's gonna be a battle of second. I think Ole Miss takes a step up and almost gonna really make a move to compete for a title this year and throw LSU in the mix. They had some games last year that were just like heartbreaking and dumb. Dumbfounding. Is that. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Is it. [01:00:49] Speaker A: Is that a word? [01:00:51] Speaker B: Dumbfounded founded. Yeah, something like that. I don't know. [01:00:54] Speaker A: One of those. Yeah. I just don't think Kelly was gonna make the same mistakes as he did last year. And plus, you know, his former team in Nora Dame did really well without him. So I think this could be a little fire neath his ass to do well at LSU since he did go there to win championships, you know. So that's why he left Notre Dame. So that's my top four. Texas. I'll say Ole Miss, LSU and Alabama. Texas A and M is a headache though they do scare me. [01:01:31] Speaker C: It's a great call by Aaron and I really think that's gonna be the one we'll be looking back where Aaron put his predictor hat on. That was probably gonna be the right call. [01:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah, possibly. [01:01:41] Speaker B: I've been running Texas A and M for a while. [01:01:43] Speaker A: So he's down here one of these days. [01:01:45] Speaker B: Hopefully that oil money lands one of these times. [01:01:50] Speaker A: The. God damn it. All right, what's next? [01:02:08] Speaker C: Rome? All we got. You gotta choose one team from the group of five. What team is going to be this year's Boise State? Because it's not Boise State. They're done. Game over. Week one. Done. Who you got? [01:02:30] Speaker A: Let me pull up this stuff again. [01:02:33] Speaker C: While you do that. I'll Give you my pick. It'll be Tulane University. [01:02:40] Speaker B: Tulane. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Aaron. [01:02:57] Speaker B: I mean, two lanes, two lane's actually a nice little pick there. I'm not gonna lie. I was looking. You know, Boise State wasn't a team I was looking at. UNLV did not look very good. UNLV did not look very good in the opener. That defense really scares me. I do like Dan Mullen. You know what? I was there. I got a lot of love. Give me unlv. Give me some of that circa money. I'm feeling the vibe. They're gonna bounce back. I'm gonna say unlv. Why not. [01:03:30] Speaker A: Unlv? Tulane's a nice campus. I remember having a concert there. Jesus Christ, man. I have no clue. [01:03:46] Speaker C: Rome had Boise. Season's over. All right, we can move on. [01:03:52] Speaker A: Let's see. [01:03:54] Speaker B: What do you think? What do you think of James Madison? [01:03:57] Speaker A: I was actually looking at them right now. Them or Liberty? [01:04:06] Speaker B: Liberty. Liberty. [01:04:12] Speaker A: I'm gonna. How does James Madison's schedule look? [01:04:16] Speaker B: Probably pretty soft. Memphis, remember James Madison? Did they. They dropped, like, they got famous for dropping, what, 75 points on North Carolina last year. That's what got Mac Brown fired. Remember? [01:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I do remember now. [01:04:32] Speaker B: It was like 55 to 10 at halftime. [01:04:35] Speaker A: It was bad, dude. It was really bad. It was a good game. Why'd you pick Toledo? [01:04:44] Speaker C: I didn't. I picked two. Lane. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Oh, why'd you pick to lane? [01:04:49] Speaker C: I think. I think there was a couple. I think there was probably three teams that have gotten the buzz early on out of these, like, group of five schools. Tulane was one. Unlv, as Aaron mentioned, and Boise State, I think, were the three. James Madison, I think I've seen some other people's boards, too. So I think it's there. I think early on, I think Tulane, they got. They got Northwestern at home. Not a great school by any means, on the football side. But, hey, they could beat Northwestern. They're gonna get. You know, they beat up one of the Power 4 schools in the big conference. Difference. [01:05:24] Speaker B: They played. [01:05:24] Speaker C: They played Duke, which is, like you said, Duke sneaky, good team. They could beat Duke. That's a pretty impressive win. And so they. They didn't really go out, you know, they didn't schedule a bunch of cupcakes. And then they play at Ole Miss, and. Which I think is going to be their loss on the schedule. But if they can stay competitive. Versus Ole Miss, beat Northwestern and Duke, that's an eleven. One team that has the impressive resume. It'd be similar to if you looked at last Year where we gave Boise State, they kept it close against undefeated Oregon. They snuck by in all the conference games, but got into the playoff. I think that's the type of schedule that I look at for a two lane team that, you know, got a lot of people coming back, you know, and I think, I think that's where we're at. But they got some tough games. They got at Memphis and at Tulsa and a couple other games. [01:06:17] Speaker B: Schedule, I'm gonna throw another team out there. I'm high on them. Why not South Florida? I'm looking at their schedule. They just beat Boise State. Their next bad one games, their next two games are Florida, Miami, both at. If they can manage to win one of those and then run the table, they, they're gonna, like Jason said, with, you know, Tulane in their schedule, Ole Miss, that's, that's a little back and forth action right there. But One of those two teams could get in at Florida, who's ranked currently 15, Miami 10. Those win one of those two and then went out. South Florida, I believe could get in depending on how, you know, Miami shakes out throughout the year in the same Florida in the sec. But yeah, I would say Tulane, South Florida, unlv, those are, you know, kind of the sexy picks. But like I said, I, I didn't like what I saw from UNLV's defense last week. They gave up over 500 yards, but they got some offensive guys. We'll see if they can get it figured out. But they got a favorable schedule. UNLV does. [01:07:20] Speaker C: Yeah, it's, it's not a, it's not a bad pick for South Florida because I said like they win one of those two games against Florida and Miami, I think their next biggest game is going to be the Navy to see what Navy comes back. But they were one of the darlings last year out of the American Conference, so. I mean, the American Conference has got some really good teams, man. They got army, they got Navy, Tulane, Memphis, South Florida. And so like it's, it's by no slouch. The team goes undefeated in this contract like, like army did last year. I mean, army went 12 and 2. I think if army, you know, only has one loss, they probably are in the College Football Playoff. Maybe if they're edging out Boise State. There was, there was conversations of Army, Navy making into the playoffs when they were undefeated at a certain point of the year. [01:08:05] Speaker B: But, but then they got both got trashed by Notre Dame. [01:08:08] Speaker C: They did. [01:08:09] Speaker B: They didn't in Boise State, Notre Dame, close competitive game at Oregon early in the year. So that was kind of the, you. [01:08:17] Speaker C: Know, Notre Dame was not thanking me service schools for their service. All right. They were just, you know, taking them to school. [01:08:22] Speaker A: But. [01:08:23] Speaker C: But yeah, I like the South Florida pick too because I think this Boise State win and then yeah, they win one of those games and keep it close since the other and then went out. That's as a great resume for South Florida to have. [01:08:43] Speaker B: Is Notre Dame getting back into the playoff? [01:08:45] Speaker C: Jason, Notre Dame is in the playoff. [01:08:49] Speaker B: I agree. I like not getting back to the playoff. [01:08:52] Speaker C: Yeah. So I Roam's doing his. I mean Rome, do you want to. Do you want to make a pick on this or you going to just. You want to opt out? You want to do last year? You're going to. What was Rome's famous line when he didn't want to make the pick last year when we were doing spread? What was that? [01:09:03] Speaker B: It's. It's a stair. [01:09:05] Speaker A: It's. [01:09:05] Speaker C: Stay away, stay away. So. [01:09:10] Speaker A: I'm. I'm gonna go with Memphis and who did I mention earlier? [01:09:17] Speaker C: Well, you only get one, so. [01:09:19] Speaker A: Well. [01:09:22] Speaker C: You'Re gonna say two just so you can say it back. If one of these teams wins. [01:09:25] Speaker A: I said it exactly, man. Exactly. [01:09:27] Speaker B: It's gonna have. He's gonna take. Was it too late in Memphis? Because they're gonna cancel each other out. Like, oh, yeah, I had one of those guys. [01:09:34] Speaker A: No, I was looking at everyone's schedule right now and I don't know, it's kind of tough. [01:09:40] Speaker C: Too late. Last year had the offense out of what they played like Tulane, the American Conference. Like, they. Tulane put up points. [01:09:47] Speaker A: I'm looking at James Madison's schedule and it's doable, but they have like Washington State. Washington State's always good for. And now swipping in one of these. [01:09:56] Speaker B: And I don't think Washington State's going to be any good this year, but they lost their quarterback and their OC to Oklahoma, so. Yeah, we'll see what they are. [01:10:06] Speaker A: Well, Liberty's been kind of tough. [01:10:08] Speaker B: Liberty's had an undefeated season a few years back. [01:10:11] Speaker A: Louisville, Weber State. I don't know. I'm just having like this weird flashback. [01:10:17] Speaker B: Weber State sounds like second round NCAA tournament team. [01:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm just like. Well, like App State. Like App State just shows up out of nowhere as well. Good South Florida pick though. I really like that one. [01:10:28] Speaker C: So you don't even remember? It wasn't even his original pick. You're giving him credit. [01:10:31] Speaker A: I don't. Dude. [01:10:32] Speaker C: I don't. [01:10:33] Speaker B: He didn't Even know that they beat up on Boise stage. Like, oh, man. Dude, they beat him on Boise. Shoot. He's like, I want Boise. Oh, wait, wait. Those guys. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Okay, no, I was never a Boise guy. I can't stand that field. [01:10:44] Speaker B: Dang. How have we already been talking for an hour? 10 minutes? I don't even feel that long for this damn college pot. [01:10:49] Speaker A: I feel like I'm stoned right now. You know, I'm just gonna go with Memphis and that's all I got, dude. That's all I got. [01:10:59] Speaker C: Well, I think we kind of put our. Our college football playoffs in Rome. I will. I will tell you my 12 if you want. Right now, we've already basically said everything but Penn State, Texas, Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Notre Dame, LSU, Oregon, Arizona State, Miami, and Tulane. Or my 12. [01:11:21] Speaker A: Nice. [01:11:26] Speaker B: It's good. 12. I don't like Miami, though. [01:11:29] Speaker C: Miami's a question mark. I'm. I'm giving them a lot of credit. [01:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you had them winning the acc, huh? [01:11:38] Speaker C: No, Clemson wins the acc. But I think. I think. I think Miami keeps it close. But the one thing I'll say, they got rid of the ranking. I said that in a particular order, the top four is going to be two Big Ten teams and two SEC teams. [01:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:52] Speaker C: You're gonna see. [01:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Unless. Unless Clemson goes undefeated. Then they'll get a top four. Yeah. Yeah. [01:12:01] Speaker A: Okay. [01:12:01] Speaker C: Clemson, Clemson loses week one. [01:12:03] Speaker B: So I. I'm all for that. Let's get it. Let's get it. Brian Kelly, you gotta win sometime in week one. [01:12:09] Speaker A: That'd be kind of cool. That would be great. All right, I'm tapped out. I don't know if there's anything else we got to cover. We can cover the next week's pod. [01:12:22] Speaker C: Well, we didn't talk about Aaron's games to watch. I don't know if he wants to highlight that. [01:12:26] Speaker A: Son of a. I'll run through it real quick. [01:12:28] Speaker B: Rome, you ready? [01:12:31] Speaker A: Let's pull it up. Aaron's games to watch. Aaron take it away. Week one, by the way. [01:12:40] Speaker B: Week one. Week one. Well, we had a couple games Thursday already that passed. Boise State, South Florida. Yeah. And Nebraska, Cincinnati. So Nebraska didn't disappoint. But for Friday, we got Auburn, Baylor, Sec. Big 12 matchup there should be a good one. And then GT Rome, you said you like GT. Well, they're going to get your boy Dion in Colorado. That's a good late night game Friday. So when you get off work or your comedy show, whatever the hell you're doing on Friday nights now, you come and watch a little Georgia Tech, Colorado on the ESPN the Ocho for Saturday. Syracuse, Tennessee, Tennessee. Obviously the quarterback transferred over to your UCLA Bruins. We'll see what they got there. And Syracuse is a 14 point dog, obviously. The game of the day. The morning kickoff, 9am Texas at Ohio State. The horseshoe Rome. I know you got Texas, Jason, who you got in this game? I'm curious to you know who you got? [01:13:40] Speaker C: I got Texas. [01:13:42] Speaker B: I tend to lean Texas too. So you know what that means. Ohio State's gonna win. So I like it even better. Give me Texas as well. Utah gets ucla. Rome. I'm going UCLA plus six. I'm going ucla. In an upset here. I think they're going to beat Utah. What do you think? You think they're going to get it done? Cover, win outright? What do you got? [01:14:04] Speaker A: They were pretty tough last year, man. I, I like what Deshaun Foster's doing over there. [01:14:09] Speaker B: Typically there's an old Pac 12 game. Utah would always go to the Rose bowl and win like, like 30 to 27, 100. It feels like another game like that. [01:14:18] Speaker A: I hate Utah. [01:14:20] Speaker B: So, Jason, you got Utah. You got Utah winning. No, you got Arizona state and Utah second in the Big 12, right? [01:14:28] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't see what you're seeing in this game. I. Not the coverage of the plus six. Maybe there. I think Utah wins this. I, I think Garrett, UC could keep it close. [01:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm more confident in the plus six than the upset. But hey, I'll, you know, I'll put Utah upset alert. Alabama, Florida State. Now this is, this is an interesting game. Alabama's a two touchdown favorite. I think it's a closer game than people think. I talked about Alabama breaking in a quarterback. It's never played before against Florida State who's definitely going to be better regrouping. Florida State may struggle early on defense. I like the over 15 and a half. I like Florida State to cover 14 points. I'm gonna say Alabama wins 34, 27 in the tight game. [01:15:10] Speaker A: Why are they favored by 14 points? [01:15:13] Speaker B: That's because Florida State, like you said Rome, I mean the perception is. The perception is not very good. [01:15:19] Speaker A: I think your team's gonna be by like three touchdowns. [01:15:23] Speaker B: They could and they could upset them outright. But I am saying this. I am pinning on Alabama on upset alert. [01:15:29] Speaker A: Wow. So two upsets alert. [01:15:33] Speaker B: That's correct. I had Boise State on upset alert, but we weren't on the air and they already went down. So another upset alert. Clemson, three and a half point favorite against lsu. Jason and I Both already said we like lsu. I think you said you like Clemson. Rome. [01:15:52] Speaker A: No. [01:15:52] Speaker B: All right, so we're going all Tigers. [01:15:55] Speaker A: By the way, Jason, you did tell me Miami wins the ACC conference, so you switching it? [01:16:00] Speaker C: No, I said Clemson. [01:16:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got Clemson. [01:16:03] Speaker C: I said Miami would make a playoff. [01:16:06] Speaker A: Okay. [01:16:09] Speaker B: Late night. Oregon State, California. Rome's kind of been flipping this game, but I like Cal to beat Oregon State. Breaking in a freshman quarterback? [01:16:21] Speaker A: No chance. [01:16:22] Speaker B: That's the look. The wise guys have bet this game down from three to one and a half. So the sharp money's been on Cal. I consider myself a sharp guy too. So I'm riding with Cal on this one. Two games Sunday. Sunday afternoon. South Carolina, Virginia Tech. South Carolina is a team we didn't talk about in the sec. You high on them in the sec, Jason, or kind of middle of the. [01:16:48] Speaker C: Road team and any other conference. I think you're talking about them being at the top of potentially winning sec. They probably like an eight win team. [01:16:58] Speaker B: I tend to agree. They're probably between seven and nine. So eight wins is about right. I, I have them beating Virginia Tech. Rome, you've got them covering as part of our Westgate College contest pick. I like that actually. I like, I like South Carolina to cover that. The big game. We all know Notre Dame, Miami, two and a half point favorite. There it is. You know Jason with the all Irish gear, the last time we saw the Irish play they were going losing in the national championship game. Now they're back. But they did, they beat Penn State at Hard Rock Stadium. If I don't, if I remember correct right. So good fond memories there. I'm not high on Miami. It's already been established in this hour and a half of this program. So I'm taking Notre Dame in Rome the last game, TCU versus your Bill Belichick, North Carolina Tar Heels. TCU is a team I like this year. I think they're going to be too much for North Carolina. Give me them on the Labor Day Monday nighter. TCU minus three and a half. [01:18:10] Speaker A: Impressive. I will text you later so I can do like a graphic for the top five games to feature. [01:18:20] Speaker B: Okay, you want to do top five games to main. [01:18:23] Speaker C: Okay, well I think you want his gambling picks in his top five games. [01:18:27] Speaker A: Just for the socials. Yeah, that's just for the socials. This is great. Those good stuff. [01:18:32] Speaker C: These are the games to watch from. You got a whole five days to watch. Five days of football. We already missed one day. We're already on the second day. Technically in the next, like, eight hours, so. But, yeah, a lot of football to be watched. [01:18:46] Speaker A: A lot of football. [01:18:48] Speaker B: Who's your. Who's your national champion winner, Jason? [01:18:52] Speaker A: Oh, that's a little tough right now. [01:18:56] Speaker C: Got me on the spot. I'm gonna say Penn State. [01:19:05] Speaker B: You know, we're supposed to have a controversy on the show, but I'm gonna agree. I'm gonna go Penn State. I don't love it, but this is their year to do it. If they're gonna do it, I'm going. [01:19:17] Speaker A: I told you in Vegas, dude. Just the mall. [01:19:20] Speaker B: My lines. You said a lot of things in Vegas. Rome. But I thought. [01:19:28] Speaker C: I thought. I thought Rome for sure was gonna go Texas. He's gonna be talking about Arch Manning. [01:19:33] Speaker A: No, I like Archie, but they'll probably go far, but he has, like, a couple years in Texas to develop. Yeah, Penn State, when we're talking in Vegas, Penn State just. Everything's lining up for them. A lot of returning players. Their coding staff's intact. They were so close. They should have won a little bit further in the playoff last year. And everyone else is gearing up in their conference, like, just like the way you say, Lando Norris has to win this year. Pensley has to win this here. Otherwise, Michigan's gearing up already. Hopefully all the suspensions are done next year, you know, for all the cheating that they did not do. And then. [01:20:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just. [01:20:24] Speaker A: It's just everybody's on the up and up. We're going to. We're seeing a little change of power right now, so they have to win. But I will be. I. I will be rooting for Texas. [01:20:38] Speaker B: So we all got Penn State, it sounds like. Who you got? Penn State vs. Jason, who is the national title game. [01:20:45] Speaker A: That's all I'm saying. [01:20:47] Speaker C: I think it's. I think it's Penn State. Texas. [01:20:50] Speaker A: Idiot. God damn it, guys. [01:20:54] Speaker C: Well, we're just gonna agree in all of it. [01:20:57] Speaker B: I'm gonna disagree. All right. I know Rome's got Texas in there. I'm gonna say. [01:21:04] Speaker A: I just said Texas doesn't go. [01:21:05] Speaker B: All right, well, who you got Penn State playing in the championship game, then? I don't know. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't really think about it. [01:21:12] Speaker B: Okay. [01:21:13] Speaker A: I just figured Texas would probably lose like this, you know, back in the. [01:21:17] Speaker B: Semifinal, like they do all the time. [01:21:19] Speaker A: Well, where's your team, bro? [01:21:23] Speaker B: Well, you got, like, 20 teams. I mean, my west coast team was Oregon. [01:21:28] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. You would be an organ fan. [01:21:31] Speaker C: You were, like, an lsu, right? [01:21:34] Speaker B: I'm gonna go. I'm Gonna. I'm gonna go lsu. Penn State versus lsu. [01:21:40] Speaker A: Nice. [01:21:41] Speaker B: A sneaky team. If it wasn't lsu, a third team, or on the outside looking in, obviously I probably shouldn't be as high on him as I am because of the quarterback, but I'm gonna say Jason's Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame's a sneaky team that could get back to the championship game. If car. If car really plays out and plays good, can add elements to that past game that they really didn't have. Notre Dame could be sneaky, but I'm gonna say lsu, Penn State in the title game. [01:22:11] Speaker C: I'm not going to be mad if you're right. [01:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah, my top three was Notre Dame, Penn State and Texas. But outside pick to face Penn State would probably be Ole Miss. [01:22:36] Speaker C: Bold take to end the show on room. [01:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [01:22:39] Speaker A: Well, you know I don't like jerking multiple guys off at once just. Just for the cause of agreement. We gotta stir it up. So I'll be the one with the big balls and do a bold take. All right. [01:22:57] Speaker B: Another two and a half hours of a pod. Yeah, it's already one o'. Clock. [01:23:05] Speaker A: I got eyes. [01:23:06] Speaker B: My eyes are hurting looking at this screen. [01:23:08] Speaker A: Wesley's just looking at me like, come on, bro, take me for a walk. I gotta take a. Yeah, the beer did not help. I'm not gonna be drinking beer next time. [01:23:19] Speaker C: You can't hang like Andrew, man. You know, you gotta get a fan. You gotta get a fancy cup. [01:23:27] Speaker A: All right, that will do it. College Football Preview 2025. We are out.