Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Welcome back to Sources from the Sofa After Dark. I got the lights off here in the Bay Area. You got Aaron and Jason in the ie.
Per usual. We got college football championship, conference championships, and also week 14 in the NFL and the final race in F1, which if you've seen like all like the posts, kind of breaks it down, all the different scenarios. Norris has a lot of different scenarios that go his way. Pastry, not so much Ember Stadman, just a few more. But action pack weekend coming up.
And then it's kind of chill after this. No more college football. Just like kind of bowl games and slowly seeing who gets in. Into the playoff.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: I don't know about chill. I mean, you're gonna have to. You're gonna have the drama of who gets into the playoff. You're gonna get straight into the bowl games. You'll have the weekly, you know, weekly games in the. In the playoff. Yeah, I think drama, drama. With the Formula One. Rome.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: Rome.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Did you see my Instagram story with the. The F1 preview on these, like out of country streaming service that did the Star wars thing?
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Oh, that. That was out of Australia. Yeah, it was long. I didn't finish it.
No, no, it was out of France, right?
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it was out of France. Australia. No, I was like, is it? Yeah, tremendous work. I. I was like, I don't streaming services, but I'm willing to pay them the monthly fee just for the producers of that. Of that hype.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: It was really good, man. It's really good.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: It was great. The timing of like shots of Verstappen with a Darth Vader breathing, you know, the cars going with like start the X Wings and stuff. Like it's Star Wars. The music in the background. Impeccable production work.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: It was super hyped, man. Yeah, there's been a lot of stuff coming out, you know, talking, all that good stuff.
Tensions are high.
Red Bull has their new driver.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Yeah, Red Bull.
They're calling up their.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah, no, Isaac's going to Red Bull, but Arvid. Arthur Lindblad, who's basically Red Bulls. Kimi Antonelli.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Is getting the call to V Carb and so that's a pretty big deal too.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: So what Yuki is down to the practice squad. Like, is that basically what it is?
[00:02:29] Speaker C: He's in the bullpen.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: He's gonna be like Valtteri Botas and Mercedes this year putting out, you know, quality IG material. Headed into the weekend promoting Red Bull. All that good stuff.
[00:02:42] Speaker C: Nice to work on those frying pan commercials he was doing with Ramsey there.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: I never saw that.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: You didn't see it? No. Check it out.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: A frying pan commercial.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: He's like, cooking and it's like. For a frying pan commercial, huh? For Gordon Ramsay. I seen it a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago, but yeah, send us the link.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: I don't think.
I don't think Yuki's giving up on the F1 dream right now. I think he'll be looking at 20, 27. On what. What seats can go open similar to botas. And so what's going to be coming up? So.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: How early is that race?
[00:03:18] Speaker C: 5:00Am Rome.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Well, I have to wake up for it. This is it.
No choice.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: 5Am for you. Rome. Is that. Is that. That could be a. A late night.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: I think Rome's still up.
Bedtime hour.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: I haven't done that in a while, guys. That's so last year.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Wasn't it like two weeks ago? You're out to like four or five, bro. I could have sworn.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Was that on accident? Yeah, that was an accident.
[00:03:42] Speaker C: Well, just.
It happened.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: That's why I don't like going out.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: To make that decision.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: I always find the party, it's like this ridiculous.
[00:03:49] Speaker C: Being up that late's an accident. Realm, as Herman would say. What? Nothing good happens after midnight.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Nothing, really? Well, I would say after one o'. Clock.
After one o' clock, for sure. Nothing good happens.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: All right, so college football.
Lane Kiffin's now lsu. I don't know if we talked about it last time. No, we didn't. Right. Because it just happened this past week.
I don't remember anymore.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: Because it happened.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Okay, never mind. I'm so sorry.
[00:04:15] Speaker C: We had the recap on Sunday, right?
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Everything's such a blur right now. Yeah. So much drama has come out of that weather.
The team wanted him to coach. He wanted to coach that interview in the. In the. In the. In the outfield, like, with like the grass and everything's wild before he boards a plane. Just so like. Like that punchable face that he has sometimes he had that face again. It's like that old Lane Kiffin face where you just want to punch it and you're like, this guy's full of.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: And getting. Flipped the bird onto the plane and then throwing a little Ed Argeron accent right when he lands in the bayou. That must be a thing, man. As soon. As soon as you land on in. In the Baton Rouge, a little.
That little Southern draw comes out.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Was that. Did that really happen?
[00:05:01] Speaker A: It did, yeah.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: He's like.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: I'm like, I Don't know why, but like I'm feeling a little like being channeled, you know, through me. It's like, go Tigers.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: I don't know if Ogeron's exactly like.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Does anybody know?
[00:05:16] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: No, I don't think so.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: No, I don't think, man.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: I, I don't think he's got an exact accent. That's. That's a unique one of one actually talks Ed Archer.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: It's like a frog and like a duck and like a, like a motorcycle on one.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I was, I saw some interview with him recently because when he was on the USC staff with Pete Carroll out there and yeah, I, I'd like to credit whoever was doing the interviews, but I don't remember what it was, but he was, he. He was talking about like the recruit he missed out the most and for usc and it was Adrien Peterson.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: And. And he basically said like he had him like basically signed to go and he wanted to and everything was there. But Adrian Peterson's dad was. Was in jail and you could only see where he was at in jail in Oklahoma. The. That's the only game they could see. They couldn't see USC out there. So.
And so Ogeron tells this story like he basically was trying to talking to like politicians and people in California to try to get his dad transferred jails out to California in order to walk to watch the chaos. Like I was like, the fact that like how weird college football is. It's like, yeah, get this recruit. I'm gonna pull strings to try to get someone like moving to different prisons across like the country was just crazy.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: I can see editor on doing that.
I could see him having connections with like the wardens or whatever. Like, hey, I got this guy. I gotta get over here. Come on.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good accident. I like it. That's a really good one. Can we hear it again?
[00:06:54] Speaker C: I think it's a one off, man.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: I think it's a 101. 101 right there.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Oh my God. I might clip that one for sure.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Limited fake Ed Ogeron for Aaron.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that was good. That was good.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: All right, so conference championships this week.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: The.
[00:07:09] Speaker A: These aren't all the games. These are just the ones that you're going to be watching, Aaron.
[00:07:13] Speaker C: Yeah, these are the games I think of relevancy there was like the Sun Belt no one really cares about.
I mean the Mountain west really has no big impact, but it should be an entertaining game. The other ones all do have playoff implications.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Lots of playoff implications this weekend.
[00:07:28] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Lots of talking. Who should be in, who should be out, you know what. And I've heard some pretty good arguments for taxes. And I'm like, I'm, I'm buying in on, on that conversation. I'm, I'm sold on that. They did have a pretty tough schedule.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know what message boards you're on for that, but that's some Texas, some Texas algorithm in, in your feeds over there.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: I know, man. I, I'm buying in. I'm buying in.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: I don't know that that Longhorn's a lonely horn and they ain't getting in, man.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: I think, I think it's a very. I think, I think it's easy to project. I think where things are at right now, it's like you're your bubble teams. Notre Dame, they've already forecasted that. And so you're really just awaiting the results of the ACC championship game and the Big 12 championship game because Big 12 championship game, Texas Tech wins, you get BYU's and out. Notre Dame stays in. But if BYU wins, they probably supplant Notre Dame because both BYU and Texas Tech get in. And then if ACC championship game gets a winner of Duke and Rome. I think you really educated the listeners on the last potter on that because, yeah, the Duke win of Virginia, to Aaron's point in these rankings, I mean, that gives the Tulane, Texas, but also not on Aaron's games to watch, but it would give the James Madison in the Sun Belt. I know Aaron says he's not watching that game, but James Madison just taking care of business there, could get into the playoff if they're going to be ranked higher than Duke. ACC championship toward the end of the ACC gets shut out.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Quick question is, is the coach for James Madison coaching in the conference championship?
[00:09:11] Speaker C: Okay, good.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: All the coaches, all the coaches are. Because obviously North Texas coach is going to Oklahoma State.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: And you've got two lanes coach going to Florida.
So they are all are coaching this. And if they do get in the playoff, we'll be coaching in the playoff as well.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: It's just Ole Miss didn't want their guy coaching.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Cold blooded. Man. They are really pissed that he left.
[00:09:35] Speaker C: Well, I also think a lot of these other coaches were kind of honest about leaving. They weren't kind of holding hostage for a while.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Well, whenever a coach says, like, oh, you know, I'm not going to address that right now, it's like, all right, the other writing's on the wall. If Lang would have just said, hey, LSU is my dream job and I gotta take this, but I love being at Ole Miss. This is like finally a home that I enjoyed and I'm willing to risk that for green your pastures with that crazy governor and whatever ad they got in place for that purple and yellow gold. Then.
Okay, cool. And then if his mentor Saban talked him into it. Okay, cool. But the fact that he wasn't really upfront, I think that's what kind of him in the end just, I don't think so.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: I mean, I, I, there's a point room, but I, you're going to a rival in, you know, SEC within the conference things like, it's more about the rival thing.
[00:10:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: I mean, because you're going, if you're looking at Tulane or North Texas and James Madison, you're going from a group of five team that is not anywhere close to having the rivalry of what, like two SEC schools on bordering states that have a history like you're, you're going to, to an enemy right now versus these other, these other programs. Like, you know, they're, they're, they're leveling up. Yeah, they're leveling up to another school. And so I think there's a little more acceptance where this one's like, hey, you're, you know, you're going to, you're another big time program and this one's a direct rival in conference. I think like, no, I don't want any business with you on there because, you know, you're, you're absolutely gutting a program right now with every, with everything that's, you know, potentially setting them back and they need to move on at this point because they're going to have to rebuild.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
Valid points.
Should we just get into it?
[00:11:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Room.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: All right. Aaron's Conference Championship Games of the week, Final edition. Unless you're going to be doing bowl games. I don't know. Did we do that last year?
[00:11:33] Speaker C: We did not play off. We did playoff games, but we did not do bowl games.
[00:11:38] Speaker A: No, I don't remember. I, I don't remember at all.
[00:11:41] Speaker C: Now remember, we did do every playoff, but not you.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Actually you, you did pick like bowl games to watch every single week.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: You did. I throw in one or two in there. Yeah, but I don't think we did everyone, I know we did do every playoff game, but.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Well, I'll give, I'll give you a pick for the Holiday bowl because as you know, I go to the Holiday bowl annually, so I'll give you my pick.
[00:12:05] Speaker C: You got A bad beat last year there, Jason. You had a bad. I remember, I remember he had a.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Bad, real, real bad beat the Holiday bowl last year. It was, it was things. So we'll see. You know, thankfully the game's not in Saudi Arabia like it allegedly was being pitched to be. But still in San Diego at Snapdragon Stadium. But after the new year this year, January 2nd, so nice.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: All right, so we'll start off with the American Conference championship. North Texas against Tulane. North Texas rated by two and a half.
I guess real quick though or maybe, maybe we'll, we'll actually come back to that. I do want to recap how he did overall for the season for picks and also in the, in the Westgate super contest. But Aaron, why this game?
[00:12:49] Speaker C: Well, right now Tulane is right now what the final team in right now from the group of five playoffs. So obviously they win this game, they're going to get an automatic playoff berth. North Texas could, you know, obviously steal that spot. You know, James Madison is still in the mix as well. North Texas only lost this year came against, I believe it was Memphis on a game we called earlier in the year.
But home game here for Tulane, they're hosting this game. Surprised to see that their underdog heard there's going to be some sloppy rain weather out there in New Orleans.
So you know, North Texas one of the best freshman quarterback in the nation. We already mentioned earlier that both coaches are leaving to greener pastures here as North Texas coaches going to Oklahoma State into lanes. Coach obviously going to Florida.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Florida, yeah.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: So I'm going to take the home team here. Tulane getting points at home two and a half. It's going to be tough to beat them there. They can run the ball well. I think like we mentioned, it's going to be raining. Field could be, you know, a little slippery. I think that favors the run game and a better defense. Tulane has that. So I'm going to go with two lane green wave here getting points at home to secure their first ever playoff spot.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: I like North Texas, they're really good.
All right, Jason, any feedback on that one?
[00:14:05] Speaker B: No feedback.
I'm, I will be picking Tulane as well. Rooting for them. They were my group of five pick to enter the playoff at the start of the year. So if they come through and get in, I don't know much rum but that'd be two years in a row I've nailed the group and group of five winner.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Did you say Tulane? Who, who would I pick?
[00:14:26] Speaker C: We picked Memphis, Rome.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Ah, yeah. They're done yeah.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Last year was Boise State and this year I picked two.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Lane, so nice it could have two group of five.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: So James Madison. I don't know who had them. I. Maybe Romeo might have had James Madison.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: I thought I mentioned George.
[00:14:44] Speaker C: I thought you mentioned Memphis. But we have to go back and look at the four month old archive.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah, what, what, what I say on the pod and what, what's written on my notepad might be different though.
[00:14:55] Speaker C: Yeah, well, you got like 20 notepads.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: The notepads, the official record.
[00:14:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I got an official record for you too somewhere.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Mountain West Conference Championship. UNLV against Boise State, favored by five points.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: Yeah, an interesting line. I mean, remember this game UNLV played at Boise State in the regular season was getting one eleven and a half points. That was one of our big plays in the Westgate and you know, we just got blown out in that game.
Their defense has gotten better over here the last month. Boise State's getting their starting quarterback back.
I imagine it's gonna be pretty cold up there in Boise.
These teams played last year. Boise obviously won that game. To get to the playoff. I'm going to take under 57 and a half Rome here. I'm going to go with the under cold weather. Boise State's got a pretty decent defense. Like I said, you know, these defense have been pretty good lately. So under 57 and a half in Boise State UNLV.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: I just realized on my notepad on me. So let me just write this down real quick on the, on the old source of the sofa notepad on the computer here.
So you got two lane.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: Plus two and a half and then you got the under 57.5 for this game, right?
[00:16:09] Speaker C: That's correct, Rome. That's what we're going to go with.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: I was like, what's missing here?
Nice. All right, the Big 12 championship. BYU against Texas Tech. Big favorites here. Minus 13.
That's kind of, that's kind of big.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: It's a big number, Rome. I mean they met earlier. What about probably about a month out, five weeks ago, it was 11:12 at Texas Tech home field. Obviously Texas Tech was up 260 in that game, ended up winning 26 7.
There's no bigger Texas Tech fan this weekend than our own Jason Zinke as he will be rooting for the Red Raiders to get the job done. I like the Red Raiders to win, but I'm gonna go, I'm gonna ride BYU Plus 13.
I think they still lose by at least a touchdown or more, but I think they'll be better prepared for this game, quote unquote neutral side. Even though it is in Arlington, Texas be some more BYU fans there. I think they keep it competitive but Texas Tech defensively run game I think is too much for them. I'll take BYU +13 but Texas Tech to win outright.
Wow.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Jason, what do you think?
[00:17:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with Aaron in this one. It's, it's a tough line because it's not like a pro thing where you're saying plus 13, but BYU is a really good team. And even though like as Aaron pointed out, they text that big lead their last meeting a month or so ago, every other game like BYU's offense, like you know, they really put in work, you know last week against you know, Central Florida putting in 41 points. Couple weeks for reverse TCU. Like this team can score too. And that's what all these big Big 12 matchups turn into a shootout type thing. So I think you ride where it's going to be within, you know, within the two touchdown, you know, range. So I, I'd be confident from the betting side too but I still think Texas Tech win the game. Okay, but Aaron's right, a little biased that I'm rooting for Texas Tech. So now I don't know. I, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I won't, I won't say any more than that.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: SEC championship game. This is gonna be good. Georgia 2 1/2 point favorites over Alabama.
[00:18:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean obviously getting to this game. Bama is a two loss team regardless win or lose they're probably in the playoff. They've had great success going back. Kirby Smart, I mean the one team he struggled against in the SEC since he's been head coach with Saban and DeBoer has been Alabama.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Right.
[00:18:30] Speaker C: Alabama went into Georgia, beat them on their home field ending what like a 35 game win streak there.
George does not look good last week against Georgia Tech. I think they only mustered what, 200 and something yards of offense against Georgia Tech. Defensively who had been just bad giving up almost 500 yards a game. They had been.
I heard a lot of people are on Alabama. I'm gonna go Georgia. Here it is in their backyard. I think Kirby's smart. These guys need to get this game. It gives whoever wins this game is likely a top four scene and gets a first round buy as well.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: Georgia traditionally in the SEC game against non Bama opponents are really well. But I'm going to ride Georgia. I'm going to take the Bulldogs here minus Two and a half.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Yeah. That's tough.
That's tough, Jason.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a tough line. And considering what, what that game was, you know, back early in the season, how close that was.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Three point game there, I just think Georgia is just a little bit better. I'm not like Bama. They ran that gauntlet where we didn't think they're good, but they went to that gauntlet in the middle of the season.
But you know, Georgia was convincing over Texas. If you look back at that a couple weeks ago, Georgia Tech was no slouch to end the season. You know, in, in a game that was maybe closer than it should have been, but two and a half is I, is, is. I think a better line work becomes a field goal game like Aaron said. So I'll take Georgia as well.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: All right.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Acc Duke against Virginia. Virginia is favored by four points.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: Yeah, this is a interesting game. I mean Virginia, these teams just played what three weeks ago? I believe it was. Virginia won pretty big at Duke.
That was after Virginia was coming off a loss. I mean their quarterback was questionable to play. Duke was actually favored in that game by four.
Obviously if Duke wins, I don't think they're going to get in the playoff unless it's like a really blowout win. Virginia obviously if they do win, will be in the playoffs. So that's going to be an interesting game. I mean Jason mentioned James Madison. The reason why they're not on this one. Even though they are in a conference championship game, they are basically 23 and a half point favorite against Troy this weekend. So should take care of them.
But I'm going to go under 58 again. We're going to have both these teams can score but Virginia's better defensively. Cold weather.
I think teams right now can be conservative going to play not really to make the big mistake. I know Duke likes to throw the ball around a lot, but I think they're going to try to keep Virginia's offense off the field. And Virginia is more of a ball control than not really explosive. So I'm going to go under 58 in this game. Rome, Virginia, Duke under 58.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Nice. And then the last game that you got for this week, the Big Ten championship, Indiana again against the Ohio State they by just four points.
[00:21:22] Speaker C: Yeah, in.
In Indiana's backyard there Was this the 1 and 2 ranked teams in the country.
I'm going to go with the Buckeyes here. I think the Buckeyes get it done. I mean Indiana really the only team that they played of really competitive wise was really Oregon took it to them, but Ohio State's just been at another level, giving me four. I think the line should be seven. I'll take the Buckeyes here, minus four. Even though this game, it'll be still probably 50, 50 crowd. I mean, Ohio State travels really well.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah, this is basically. This would have been the championship like years ago, the way it used to work.
All right, Jason, what do you think about that one?
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with Aaron on that. I mean, you look where Ohio State has just gone through the big, the Big Ten, you know, blowing people out.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: Throughout the season. I think athlete for athlete, I. I think they're just going to have the slight edge. And I agree with Aaron surprise. The line's not a little bit bigger. The Indiana team, the Oregon win, I think was the best. You know, obviously the big one on their resume where they didn't have that last year. And then, you know, they. I'm going into Notre Dame and we're, you know, kind of, you know, exposed to a little bit in the playoff. But I still, I still think they're just a notch below that. This doesn't have like the talent. When you look at Ohio State and you know, Ryan Day, he got his big win over Michigan, you know, now he's got the number one team in the nation. I mean, I don't. The curious thing is like, does the loser lose the first round buy out of this? And that'll be like what I'm, you know, one and two in the nation. The loser has the first round loss. I mean, is that what they're kind of playing for at this moment? I don't know because, I mean, at this point, being both undefeated right now and then the loser having one loss, they still make it the first round by. Yeah, I think the biggest, the biggest question going in is like, is there like a motivational thing on this where you think, does Ohio State like, let down in a moment because.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: There just isn't. Isn't much to play for, you know, besides like first overall and what the ranking will be. But I still think Ohio State's just got the athletes and this is going to be, you know, going to be a big game for them not having to play in the first round, unlike last year where they had to run the gauntlet. But I will talk more in the previews. Is it, you know, last year the, remember, the buy teams didn't work out so well. The team's being on the buy was almost better to play in that first round. So It'll be curious what the second, the second year of this looks like for these teams that potentially go first round by.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: I can't remember what the bracket looks like, but who's, where, where's everyone seated at right now, at least? Okay, so Indiana's number two.
I think, if anything. Yeah, like, whoever loses this, I, they're still better than the other two teams. I, I think they just drop.
[00:24:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, if you're Indiana, even if you lose, I mean, to host a home playoff game, if that's what ends up, would be big for them. Yeah. I mean, last year, obviously they traveled to Notre Dame to start off that playoff run and was a blowout in the first quarter to Jason's point. But obviously now seating's different because Boise State got a buy last year. You don't have to worry about a power five team getting our group of five team getting a buy.
So we'll see how the teams do. But I mean, obviously hosting a home game is something that, you know, these teams dream about.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
Any final comments on the most recent rankings? Maybe.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: I mean, I, I, I don't know about the, the playoffs. You can be interesting. You know, once we figure out the ACC's role in all of this too, I think there's going to be a lot of politicking.
[00:24:56] Speaker B: Notre Dame, I think the most interesting one, I mean, Aaron, Aaron talked about that. For me, I, I'm under personable, like, you know, I don't know if Notre Dame should be in. And the case of them versus Miami increasingly becomes interesting. And I know Miami is going to continue to talk, but like right now, like, neither of these teams improve their resume during the bye week. So Miami's basically eliminated at this point because, well, what would the committee do to say Miami would be in over Notre Dame after they already slotted Notre Dame where they're at, so, but part of me thinks that they're praying for the BYU upset because this will make it.
You know, both Miami and Notre Dame are out. And then the old miss factor, when you look at the bracket too, like, are they still going to be ranked sixth? Do they still get, you know, where things are at? You're, you're, they're still, you know, they find they could be in, but you're gonna do a whole new coaching staff and things like that.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: I mean, I'll stop them.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: I, I mean, I don't know. I mean, things have changed.
[00:25:49] Speaker C: I mean, if Bama wins, I mean, Georgia beat them, so Georgia's gonna stay ahead of them regardless.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:25:56] Speaker C: So that's. That's really the only scenario I see.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Yeah. They only got half their coaching staff left. Although Charlie Weiss is back or whatever his name is.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: That's Charlie Ways Jr. Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: So it looks like all. It looks like 80 or so of their offensive staff is gonna be back for at least a playoff run. It sounds like.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Curious to me is having Texas A M below them when they put that ranking out because Texas A M have been riding high up the entire season.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: And they played a way tougher schedule than Texas Tech.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Texas A M. Yeah.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: No.
[00:26:41] Speaker C: Ish. I'd say you had a tougher schedule. Yeah. I mean, you just want to be. You want to be five through eight because you host a home game, right?
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:49] Speaker C: So as it is right now.
I mean, as it is right now, Texas A M would be hosting Notre Dame. How they have the ranking set up.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Should be a good rematch, which would be.
[00:27:01] Speaker C: Which Everybody would love to see that rematch.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Dude, that'd be really good, actually. That'd be really good.
[00:27:07] Speaker C: But like I said, I mean, Georgia. I mean, I think whoever wins between Georgia and Bama.
[00:27:12] Speaker C: Probably gets into that top four.
Texas Tech, if they win, they'll stay.
I'd be surprised if Ohio State or Indiana drops out. Unless, like, one of them just gets beat down pretty bad. Then you could see it.
But I think if.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: If Oregon's. If it were to stay where Texas Tech still at number four. I think it could work out really nice for Oregon when you're looking at it, too, if they get to play the 12 seed, basically five. Yeah, the Group of Five conference champions. So it's probably.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: It would be.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: It would be too Lane or if it.
[00:27:48] Speaker C: Or.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Or if it had. It happens to be like James Madison. So it's a pretty favorable matchup there. And then they get to play Texas Tech, which, you know, Texas Tech's a good team, but you're talking about a, you know, weaker level of opponent compared to the sec, Big Ten stuff. So, I mean, Oregon could find themselves in a pretty favorable bracket region when you're looking at it. If they. If they stay in the 5C, Texas Tech wins. I don't know if Texas Tech jumps anyone to get into the three or, you know, three or two. It probably depends on what the SEC is like. So I mean, that. That could be, you know, one of those things where we looked at, like, I forgot who it was last year where like, they get. They got to, you know, played Boise State and everything like that throughout the thing. They got you know.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Penn State got what, SMU and Boise State.
[00:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:32] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, matchups make everything, so. Yeah. I mean, Oregon. Oregon would love to host Tulane.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: 100%.
[00:28:39] Speaker C: I mean, even Virginia. Virginia traveling all the way to Oregon.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: Oh, they would love me.
[00:28:43] Speaker C: That's an ass whipping waiting to happen.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: It's really nice for Oregon, actually. And then they wouldn't have to. Yeah, they'd be at least in the quarterfinals. I don't know about you, but if I was like an 11 seed playing ole Miss with all that drama all around them, I would love to play them.
[00:28:59] Speaker C: I think Ole Miss matches up well with byu if that's, you know, that's what it is right now. Obviously, stuff could change, but.
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, maybe.
I mean, if Bama loses, they drop down and they send Bama to Ole Miss for an SEC game. I. I don't know. We'll see.
We'll see what the college playoff committee decides to do.
But, I mean, Bama. I think Bama's got to be careful because I don't think. I think they're in, but obviously we've seen. If you get blown out and if you lose your quarterback to an injury, they. They'll just. They'll get rid of you. They'll just swipe you out.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: I've heard that that would. I mean, that'd be your argument, Rome, for your Texas team or something like that. But I. I still don't know how Texas jumps Miami. I think just that. That just turns into something different there. Especially if the ACC doesn't get any representation. Somehow.
[00:29:51] Speaker C: The problem of Texas, they have the worst loss on the resume. Getting blown out by Florida, that's just a terrible loss.
Their schedules, tough as hell towards the end, they've got big wins.
But when you look at the other team's resume and how they got beat, manhandled by a Florida team who went four and eight, it's tough to justify when you got more losses and that loss on your schedule getting in.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: To be fair, Florida was just all the brink of being ranked at that time, too, so. All right, I'm excited then for this Saturday, we'll get some answers. This says December 2nd. Oh, that's just when it came out. Got it, I think.
[00:30:29] Speaker C: What, December 7th. The final poll release.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah, next Tuesday.
All right, really quick. Let's recap, like, in less than, like, three minutes or so. How do we finish the season all together? Aaron, for games of the week. What's the record, Rome?
[00:30:42] Speaker C: The record was really good. Then it Got a little shaky, but we did finish above.500.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Nice, man. Okay, what's the record?
[00:30:50] Speaker C: So we finished just 81 wins, 80 losses, three pushes.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: Oh, dude, we did tank at the end.
[00:30:57] Speaker C: We did.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Were we like 15, 20 games up?
[00:31:02] Speaker C: We brought like a dozen.
[00:31:04] Speaker A: Oh, man.
Caught me by surprise.
All right. 81 and 80 and three.
[00:31:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Okay, that's not bad.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: I'll just say just the, the balance between college and pro. You know, we, we started college hot with Aaron and even us in, in our circa picks and as we got better on the pro side, we got way worse than the college side.
[00:31:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I think, you know, we started to be like, try to focus. Like, damn, we're just getting our ass kicked in the NFL. We better start focusing in over there.
Really? Rome. It was this last week. We went 3 and 9 this last week, but we were basically at that point almost nine games over. 500 going in.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: Well, yeah, yeah, I didn't like some of those from last week.
Three, nine. Yeah. And then Cirque or Westgate, what was our final record there?
[00:31:57] Speaker C: Basically the same. About one game we finished, I want to say.
Well, they rank it off points.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah. How many points do we finish?
[00:32:07] Speaker C: 48. What was it? 49 points.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: What place do we get?
[00:32:12] Speaker C: Like 400.
[00:32:15] Speaker C: Finishing the top half? Almost, almost 1100.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:32:19] Speaker C: I mean we were at one point, I think I text you guys, where were we? Like in the percent. Yeah, we were, we were up there. And then like Jason said those, those started to tank and then the NFL started to get better.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I've, I've had those two bad weeks. The NFL, you take that away. My record's really good right now.
[00:32:41] Speaker C: Well, if you take. Well, we had towards the last five weeks in the Westgate college, one, we finished one in six and two of the last five weeks.
So if you take those away and if we had stayed on pace, if we had stayed on pace on what we were typically doing, we probably would. We would have easily finished in the top 100.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: Probably like three or four games out of the money.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:33:05] Speaker C: If we had stayed on pace like we were after like eight weeks, nine weeks.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: But better luck. There's always next year and I'm feeling good about next year.
[00:33:14] Speaker C: I'm already hyped. That's why I take the, that's why I take the off season to regroup and then boom, once that August trip comes on, I'm re dialed in, man.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: As I was telling you, or may I told both of you guys, I'm still like tripping up over, like the points, you know, against the spread, something like picking the team, not thinking about the spread completely. So I'm still wrapping my mind around it, but I'm. I'm excited to do it again next year. I. I think it was pretty fun.
And dude, honestly, like all the other professionals, you know, the experts, they started like 20 games under.500 while we were like, heating it up. So kind of equals out and they're still under.500. So that's pretty good.81 to 80. I think we beat Joel Klatz. I think we beat the Bear on Fox.
We beat some pretty big guys, to be fair.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: Rome. I mean, the eight. These are games that are games to watch when we give aside. These aren't necessarily all games I would bet or pick personally.
[00:34:10] Speaker A: 100.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: So, yeah, basically, like last week we had Iowa versus Nebraska. I wouldn't touch that game as a better. I was on Nebraska. Jason threw in Iowa late there, and I was, you know, one big. I mean, speaking about Nebraska. What is going on in Nebraska?
[00:34:27] Speaker A: I don't know. Bad people are State.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: Penn State to sign recruits.
[00:34:34] Speaker B: Well, Ben said you can't find a coach. They can't even find a coach.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: No one wants to coach there. It looks like. I saw a couple hours ago they're going after Matt Campbell at Iowa State.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: That's one of those things where they. I think the program and fans overestimate what the status of your program.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, I. I just should.
[00:34:56] Speaker C: They've gotten rid of James Franklin.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: No, I mean, he did a great.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: Job closing out a recruiting class at Virginia Tech. In the top 25.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:35:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, this is where the thing like when you're dealing with.
You want to be happier than happy a lot of times. And I know the expectations. Everyone wins a national title, but, you know, do you like pet. This is Penn State's. Was there worse season A while. Okay. It was bad. Where it was at. It was always questionable because he couldn't win big games, but. Okay, great. Now you like. You can't lure any of these coaches to come to you.
[00:35:27] Speaker A: Yeah, no, they up royally not.
[00:35:30] Speaker C: Well, not only that. All the coaches they want then end up getting a great contract extension where they're at.
[00:35:35] Speaker B: Well, that's. That's.
[00:35:36] Speaker C: That's the.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: That's the best part of like college football. I'd say the best part, just hilarious part is like all the. Your. Your agent is just working the phones like. Yeah, he's interested. All right. Well, unless he Gets a raise and then, okay, all these guys are just like, okay, now just get a massive raise every time they're interested in there. And it's probably Jimmy Sexton just playing. These college.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: People have been on Jimmy Sexton this week on. On X and on three, Jimmy Sexton look.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Like, I haven't seen a photo of this guy. I haven't looked him up. Does anybody know what he looks like?
[00:36:05] Speaker B: I. I just.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: I just think of, like, better call Sal. I think that's him. Like, that's Jimmy Saxon. Like, hey, hey. Oh, wait. He's got, like, 12 phones. Like, oh, wait, Penn State's calling. Hold up. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we're interested. Call me back.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: Maybe we'll do, like, a TV show like Entourage based on this guy.
[00:36:25] Speaker C: I mean, we talked about it.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: Yeah, Rome, we talked about it for the Bama thing. We're just like. It was just like, hey, all of his clients were in the running for the Bama job, and then he got him raises at every other school that they. That whoever didn't get the job, your guy, Norvell, and everybody else.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: All right, I'll do it. For the college picks, we're going to cover NFL shortly after this on YouTube. It'll be broken up, a different video. So check it out. I think it's going to be all in one episode on Apple podcasts, which we saw a big bump last week, and then Spotify, so we'll be back.
