Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: This is source from the sofa. This is Rome. We got Aaron and Jason. We're recording Wednesday night, November 5th.
Remember, remember the 5th of November. Kind of a cool day. I don't know.
What do you think, Jason?
[00:00:18] Speaker B: I don't know, Rome. Some people say it's the greatest day of all time. You know, out of 365, I mean, this is, I think it's the biggest one.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: A lot of talent born on the 5th.
[00:00:28] Speaker C: The 5th. Just the. The wrong month, fellas.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: No, I don't think I forgot.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: I forgot about Eric.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: Dude, you are born in the fifth, huh?
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I don't know. I don't know, because, you know, when you think about, you know, that's really weird, Aaron. You know, you have, you have Back to the future, which November 5th is so prominently in that movie. You talk about going back in time to November 5, 1955.
And Ramon, you know, Roman already quoted, you know, V for vendetta. Like, you know, it's the prominent game.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: In that movie, too.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: So, you know, when you think about November 5th and then just all the talent born on November 5th, it's, it's.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: It'S a top tier.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: It's, I think, number one out of all 365, to be fair.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: I totally forgot.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: I think it's in the top five. I think it's in the top five. For sure. I pin the top five.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Top five.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: Thanks.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: We're celebrating our birthdays, in case you guys didn't know. It's me, mine and Jason's birthday. He was born a year earlier.
I didn't do anything today. I just kind of worked on some personal stuff. Got my first workout in, in two months with the knee. Now that I know it's not broken officially, but it hurts so much, dude, I can't do a squat for.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Oh, it's good, Rome. I mean, you're not even at the big four zero, as Aaron said, which I'm, you know, graduated upon this year, too. I did get a, you know, you know, a friend of mine at work, he did give me some compression socks. So as you hit some their age, you know, you want to make sure get the blood flowing in the legs and everything. So.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Really do those work?
[00:01:56] Speaker B: I mean, he claims they work, you know.
You know, you'll get the comments that basically this is what, you know, people more advanced age in retirement age will probably get these, you know, to get the blood flowing.
[00:02:06] Speaker C: How old is this gentleman that gave you these socks?
[00:02:08] Speaker B: He's the exact same age as me, but.
[00:02:11] Speaker C: Okay. All right. But he's trying to add about another 10, 20 years.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: But no, no, he's, you know, he's trying to make an old joke out of this, but, you know, hey, if they're called, he's claiming they're comfortable and they change things forever for sure them. So, you know, hey, when you get.
[00:02:23] Speaker C: Our age, comfortable's half the battle, right?
[00:02:26] Speaker A: So maybe that's why I hurt my knee. Like, none of my shoes are comfortable.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Well, see, that's where I will ride or die. I can wear these socks, but I. I'm gonna rock good shoes forever. At this point, I'm wearing Jordan ones or whatever, Nikes and stuff.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: And I gotta look good. I got 100 I'm not wearing. Hey, you gotta look good.
[00:02:44] Speaker C: Based off what we heard before we went on the pod, you're shooting your shot on Thread, so. Yeah, you better be looking good, dude.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: I can't believe you guys. I can't believe you that Jason, that's embarrassing. I gotta take that down.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: You know, it was. It wasn't for public consumption, but apparently Aaron's making the public consumption at this point too. It's. It's okay, Rob.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: It's too good of a story to keep. Keep private, man. The sources were all over that one, so they want to be heard.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: Also being supportive of a beautiful woman that's not really vibing out in San Francisco. Thinking about moving back down to la. And I would totally be back down for it.
[00:03:20] Speaker C: You know what, Rome, if she's not even, even if she's looking for part time, you could. She could hit your ride review. You're down here every two weeks any. So there you go.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: I mean, maybe she. Maybe I think she was a model. If she's a modeling gigs. You're basically doing an Uber service every other week to begin with. I mean, you could be just, maybe just transporting her up, you know, up and down. You know, I'm here to support Rome, you know, us three, you know, in the show, we're units. Just trying to be a good wingman in it, right? I just want to let you know.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: That I was seen and Rome, you know, you're. You're doing the comedy scene, so you could. You can run some jokes by her, see how the vibe is, see if she likes them, you know, There you go.
If you can make a beautiful woman laugh left, you know, that's, you know, that's half the battle right there.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: That's true. I did a model, like a couple in my 20s and one left me for Personas on the practice squad on, like, the Rams or some. And I was like, really?
[00:04:09] Speaker C: Like, what?
[00:04:09] Speaker A: Him? You know, just on the practice squad. She's like, he's in the NFL. It's like, barely.
I just remember that one right now.
[00:04:17] Speaker C: Well, now. Now you're on sources for this. Now you're, you know, you're the host of Sources from the Sofa podcast. Rome, so.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:04:22] Speaker C: Moving up.
All right.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: What a tangent. To start the pod. It's Wednesday, so we usually do Aaron's college games of the week.
I gotta be quite frank here. The list has not been as busy as. As weeks past. It's been kind of nice. I think today we gotten, what, nine games that you picked out?
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Yeah, nine games, Realm.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Nine games.
[00:04:45] Speaker C: Eight.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
We got some big news in college football. I don't know if it's big news, but Auburn fired their coach.
We got our first playoff rankings from the committee, which was quite interesting.
I was kind of surprised about Texas, which kind of. They're in if. If they can make it toward the end.
Looks like maybe four Big Ten teams, maybe a possibility.
They kind of value that a little bit more than the AP Top 25, which is like, why do we have the AP Top 25 if it's not going to really matter to the committee rankings anymore? Like, that's something that's. That's worth talking about. I think at some point now, the.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: AP wants to still be heard.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: And the AP gives us a preseason poll, so.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah, preseason polls for number ones and twos that don't make it past three weeks.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: That's right. Yeah.
You guys want to talk about those rankings first? You want to talk about Aaron's games of the week? Want to talk about the firing at Auburn? Some Lane Kiffin rumors going around.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: What job is Lane Kiffin not rumored to be going to?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: What I heard today, it's mainly towards LSU in Florida, and a lot of people want him to go to LSU because there's just unlimited resources there. Besides Oregon, they're just full of cash. The thing is, though, like, with that whole firing with the AD and like, the drama with. With. With Kelly, to me, doesn't look as appealing as it did before. Although I never liked LSU only until I didn't like LSU with Saban.
I definitely didn't like LSU with who's the coach out after Saban.
[00:06:22] Speaker C: You didn't like Les Miles?
[00:06:23] Speaker A: No, I didn't. I didn't eat the grass.
I loved Les Miles there because I like Saban. I followed him to Alabama, so I was kind of rooting for that because my UCLA wasn't winning at all and so was Nebrask. Got to root for somebody. So that kind of took up 10 years. But I did like at Oregon. I was a big fan of him.
[00:06:44] Speaker B: Ogeron.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: Ogeron. There you go.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: He wants back. He wants back in the job.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: I think he's still getting paid by lsu, isn't he?
[00:06:53] Speaker A: He's still getting paid a lot of money.
[00:06:54] Speaker C: So they get a discount. They bring him back.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know if the, I don't know, maybe the admins aren't there because, you know, the rumors was he got fired because he was hitting on the wives of like, boosters.
[00:07:06] Speaker C: I told Rome, yeah, Ed was doing a lot of.
[00:07:09] Speaker A: So there's a lot of video.
There's a lot of video that he was really friendly with the, with college age interns. Yeah. Sorority girls.
[00:07:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: He was a partier. And he was not shy. Like, he was not shy.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: He was sharing more than just gumbo when he got a chance.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: I never shared my gumbo.
Not a good gumbo. Yeah.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: I, I kind of have a feeling that playing Kiffin should stay at Ole Miss. It's not bad, like, expectations, like, he's in a solid spot. He can lose two or three games every year. No one's going to try to kick him out. He's brought Ole Miss irrelevance. They have a chance to go to, to the playoff. They definitely had a good chance of going on a run this year. The team looks really nice. They got good recruits. Not like too much money, but enough money to, to, to continue this good run. I, I think it's pretty nice. Florida, though. I'm not, I'm, I'm not a big Florida person, so I really don't care for that. I know you had Tebow and, and Meyer and I didn't like him either as a coach there. So I, I just, you know, historically I hate both these schools. It was only like recently that I liked lsu, but I don't know.
Is the grass greener if you go to lsu? I think it's kind of nice in Ole Miss.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: I think the other thing to consider, I don't know how much traction it's gotten, but people have been talking about the pros for Lane Kiffin too.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: So is there one of the pro teams that go out there and, and when you think of timing, you know, if he's staying at Ole Miss, at least through this year, you know, if he's making a playoff run, LSU and Florida and all these programs, like, they want to get in and get their guy sooner rather than later. So them sitting around waiting for Elaine Kiffin, and if he's in the midst of a playoff run with Ole Miss, I don't. I don't know the timing of that, whether that becomes appetizing. Because if he goes on a run, we're talking about, you know, early January, mid January, you're getting past certain recruiting deadlines and getting staff in place and all that stuff. Like, that's where this, these kind of head coaching searches, you know, become, you know, I need the guy now type thing.
So, you know, the pros, hey, they can wait till mid to late January because it really doesn't matter because the super bowl is going on and none of that stuff has gone into the next season. So I think there's a lot of questions, like Rome, you said about resources. Like, okay, you can say LSU's got all these resources, man, but they're churning through coaches left and right, and all these resources aren't paying off. Is it that much more you're getting out of LSU versus what he's getting in Ole Miss right now, too? Because, hey, you're playing something with similar schedule. You know, there's pressure at Ole Miss, but it's not as bad in Florida. You mentioned them, like, okay, more research they have, but what's been their relevance since the Urban Meyer era? Like, they've had some solid teams, but mostly average to below average teams in the sec.
I don't, I can't remember a memorable Florida offense, Aaron, that. You can school me on that. But, like, I can't think of any memorable Florida offense, like, since the Tebow era, you know, they had what Richard Richardson put up some plays and got, you know, got drafted, you know, in the top five on athletic ability. But, like, what was. What were these offensive players? Like, it seems like every year they got a really great defense but can't score it all.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, Lane Kiffin, Rome, I think we touched on it like, two weeks ago. LSU in Florida were probably the top two choices. If he was going to leave. I. I don't see Lane Kiffin going to the NFL. I just don't. I don't see his personality fitting in there.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: I like.
[00:10:27] Speaker C: But I think Florida makes the most sense because lsu, they do have a lot of resources. Florida does, too. You know, you're talking 1A, 1B LSU, you know, bigger bank, whatnot. I mean, they got. They got basically the governor kind of funding that program as it goes.
So the state of Louisiana as a whole, they fund the program. I mean, LSU football is bigger than anything in the state. It's bigger than the Saints, it's bigger than anybody. Like, literally when the governor's like, I don't care if we don't have the money. We'll find the money, we'll, we'll budget it out somewhere else. They'll make it work if they want to.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: The fact that involved, I'm like, this is, this is too politically driven. I'm dumb.
[00:11:03] Speaker C: Died following this. Yeah. So. And I think lsu, I thought, I thought I saw yesterday that the, they lifted the interm tag on the new ad. So I believe he's now the full time ad.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: So that's in place now.
You know whether he'll be in charge of who they hire, but you know, their board of trustees guys will be in. I mean, Lane Kiffin's on that short list. Marcus Freeman's on that short list. A lot of big name coaches are going to be on that list.
Lane Kiffin, if he does. Lee, I think Florida is probably the destination he goes to. But like you said, I mean, Ole Miss, not a ton of pressure. I mean, if you, you know, win nine, 10 games, they're happy there. He gets everything he wants there. I mean, he's, he's the king of the hill.
He doesn't need to worry about if he goes to Florida year two or three, or LSU worried about getting fired in Florida since Urban Meyer. They've ran through coaches. I mean, Dan Mullen did a pretty good job there. I mean, he had him in the top five, top ten. He gave, you know, Nick Saban, some battles got ran out of town, went to espn, now he's at unlv.
But you know, these programs now are desperate for, you know, desperate for winners. Hugh Freeze, you just mentioned he's out. The guy at Tulane likely to take his spot. I mean, I've talked to guys over there that's, that's their front runner. They think they're going to get him.
So.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: We'll see, we'll see. But LSU is an interesting gig. I mean, anybody would want it. Everybody's going to throw their name in the hat. I mean, I've heard names, you know, Edron wants back in.
I've heard that they may be even interested in Joe Brady coming back there as he was the OC for the 2019 national championship team.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Oh, that's interesting, actually.
Yeah, you know, that's interesting.
[00:12:40] Speaker C: So we'll see. But again, like Jason mentioned, the time frame now with only one transfer portal being basically early December to early January and Buffalo's likely the season doesn't until January. They're gonna make a deep playoff run, you suspect. So getting a coach, getting a staff, transfers, that's big now in college football. Plus keeping your current recruits, it's a tough. It's tough. So we'll see. We'll see what happens here.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's all I got on that.
I think Freeman's staying put. Right. He's already said no or like the, like, like the back channel stuff. He's already taking himself out. Right.
[00:13:15] Speaker C: Well, I mean, Jason would know more. I mean, he's, I'm sure he's negotiating a new contract and new everything there because that's what these coaches do. I mean, Matt rules got a new deal in Nebraska, you know. You know, once again he's got a new deal at Indiana.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: So unless was like destroying top 25 teams. Yeah, go ahead and pay him some more money. But other than that, his contract's already long. Just work it out. Like, I, I don't know, man.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: I don't know if we talked about that Sunday night Rome, but like, yeah, the matt, The Matt Rule versus top 25 teams is like, just like.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Franklin doesn't want anybody since his first job.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: Well, he's not had high jobs. I mean, he was at Temple and Baylor before now that was the last.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Time he beat anybody was at Temple.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: But I don't even know if it.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Was that Baylor job. Yeah.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: I don't think Freeman goes anywhere. To me, it's always going to be Ohio State. I think that's, that's the temp. That'd be the tempting one for him. I, I don't, I don't know if Freeman's a guy that you can put in the SEC right now, if that, if that between the recruiting base and everything you need up there. And then Notre Dame's got money too. I, you know, I think it's a different, you know, it's only a few years, but I think this is a different era than when Brian Kelly's there saying he's not getting resources. Because right now, like every university has, you know, some level of resources and now it's. I know I don't want to say it's above board right now, but you could tell the parody in college football because of the nil money is there. You don't have these schools in the south getting players. How are they getting players? Whether you want to say it was, you know, under the table or whatever was going on, but you can tell right now in the college football rankings and the amount of parity there is across the board, that guys aren't staying around waiting forever, that everyone's got some money to be able to pay people. So I think the resources are there. If you do want to stay in the job, like, you know, look at somebody. You know what? Signetti got it at Indiana and some of these other programs, like, yeah, you can win and you just need a couple, a couple big boosters to come on and make sure that things are getting you what you need for a few players and you go from there. And yeah, so I, to me, if you're going to say Freeman, I'll long say that Ohio State will be the job if Ryan Day leaves at one point, that'd be the one that would probably try to tempt Marcus Freeman, but I can't see him leaving for an SEC job.
[00:15:25] Speaker C: I, I don't see Freeman leaving. I personally, if Freeman leaves, it's to the NFL. I think he's, I think he's probably five, six years left in college. We'll see how it goes with the nil by 2030. We'll see because I think you're going to get, you know, the Power 4 conferences, the ACC is going to break up. Clemson, Florida State, Miami. They're. They're going to get out of that deal that they got there. And whether or not we get, I, I don't know if the Big Ten is signed on with that equity thing that they had going on.
So you're going to get kind of power conferences or some kind of brokerage stuff going that way.
I think Freeman, what three means what our age, 39.40.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Michigan, USC want to stop that. I think Freeman, by the age of 45, probably entertains the NFL before he entertains another college job, to be honest. Unless, like a Penn State, LSU just comes and says, Here's $15 million. That's tough to turn down the resources and money those schools have. But I, I don't see them going that route given, you know, the uncertainty where college football is going, all these huge buyouts and payouts. I don't even know what Freeman's buyout is. If somebody wanted to, I'm sure the school would have to pay it. I don't know if it's probably 15, 20, 25 million, whatever it is at Notre Dame, but yeah, I mean, these contracts are getting ridiculous. You, you put up one or two winning years. Schools get scared of losing you and then you just cash in big. I mean, maybe schools start, you know, just paying cheap coaches. You know, hey, give me a good coach. Let me find a good GM that knows talent, that can recruit the transfer portal and get high school, pay him three to five million dollars a year. And I got a head coach that makes 6 to 8 million and keep that infrastructure. So we'll see, we'll see what it goes with college football. But this nil money thing is going to be a big deal going forward.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Yeah, let's transition before we go to your games.
The playoff rankings that just were released yesterday night, pretty interesting stuff. Top 12 teams, Oklahoma, Texas, Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas Tech at 8, BYU, Ole Miss, Georgia and then Alabama, Texas A M, Indiana and Ohio State. I'm trying to find the bracket because I, I believe they have Memphis in there for now as big five team.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah, Memphis is the 12 seed against number five Georgia. Oregon is number nine against number eight Texas Tech. You have number 11 Virginia versus number six Ole Miss.
Notre Dame at number 10 versus number seven BYU with Bama, Ohio State, Texas A M and Indiana with the first round buys.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: What do you guys think of it?
[00:17:58] Speaker B: I don't have any bigger problems. I was talking to Aaron before we got in the pod. Rome. I think maybe it's my, my biased Notre Dame feed on my, on my Twitter, but I would say there's a lot of, there's a lot of upset how high Notre Dame's ranked within here that Miami, Texas and some other schools are not in there. You know, a lot of people calling that Notre Dame is the most over ranked, you know, team in college football history. I disagree. Obviously Aaron also disagrees in this too because when you look at their two losses, they were competitive, you know, losses against basically what's the number one team in the nation or if in this college football rank you're saying number three versus a Miami team that no longer as good. But I mean it was early in the season and you know, they were highly ranked too and these were, these were tight spread games that wasn't like, oh hey, Notre Dame has blown, you know, blown a win against a huge like double digit opponent. Like these were, these were not overly favored type games. And so but I think, you know, the overall consensus online too is like, hey, Notre Dame was a two loss team and they beat, you know, a bunch of crap teams since you know, they obviously don't play great teams but they beat USC and you know, some other, you know, whatever teams on their schedule. So it's not, not great. But I think Aaron and I were saying Owen too. They still, if they went out, they're in the playoff like no matter what. Even if you call it everyone else cupcakes. They were gonna get enough out of all their victories from now to the end of the season to be at 10 and 2 in the playoffs.
[00:19:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I agree. I got no problem where Notre Dame's at. I mean Texas, let's be honest. They should have lost at Mississippi State two weeks ago. They did not look good against Kentucky. Everybody jumps on the Texas bandwagon when they beat a Vanderbilt team and they were, they were real fortunate to win that game against Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt recovers that hunt side kick. Things get real interesting. We meant to go in that game, Miami. Let's be honest, the first five weeks of the season, they were the best team, the hottest team in the country. They were basically where Indiana was at. Notre Dame lost a game against Texas A and M because their kicker can't make an extra point. I mean, they make an extra point, they likely win that game. They go up seven. They gave. They left the door open. Texas aim, take. Texas A is really good.
They're really good football team. We talked about it coming into the season as a kind of a sleeper dark horse. I looked at, you know, I liked them last year. I like them even more this year. They're legit. They're really good.
BYU is a surprise team. I think Texas Tech, byu, the leisure of that game is going to eliminate themselves from this thing. Texas, Rome, you mentioned, if they win out, they're in. They still got games at Georgia. They still get Texas A at home. They win those games. I'm pinning him in the playoff because that shows me they're really back. But they still got to show me they can win at Georgia and win a big game. And Texas A and M, it's going to want revenge after last year's game that they lost at Kyle Field. So they've got some matchups to prove that they belong in this 12 team playoff field.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I got nothing else.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: No, I mean you got a lot of, you got. This is going to change a ton probably in the next couple weeks. You got a lot of, a lot of head to head matchups. You're going to come in like if you look at, you know, one of, you know, out of the sec, you know, Ole Miss probably gonna, you know, I don't know, win out depending on what Texas does. Because Texas is that first team out that could Be you know, hopping one of these SEC teams. It'll come down this because it's Texas, Texas A and M to end the season I believe. Right Aaron? That's the rivalry matching or whatever.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: So you, you know, you should be looking at what are these kind of what do these games shake out to and then the SEC title game with Vanderbilt losing, you know and then we're Missouri, Oklahoma sits. You know they got kind of in the mix there but they're going to need to run the table.
So there's a lot going on there. You know USC and the Big Ten. I know they got losses against on the road that were both Illinois and Notre Dame. But you know they can kind of be in the mix there too depending what like Oregon and some others do. You got two big, you know, two Big 12 teams in right now with BYU, Texas Tech with a Utah team. That always kind of tricky our things at. So there's, there's you know, some chances there but Texas Tech is a really good team and the ACC just Miami blew it. I don't know if we've talked enough about that, but I think it's more the group text between us as far as like, you know, this is what we expect. You know, we're waiting for the Hurricanes to do the entire year. They basically did it twice and you know, they're looking on the outside looking and they have to run the table somehow getting the ACC title game and win that probably to be in the mix at this point because you know Virginia has been pretty good, Louisville's been solid and could be in the mix there for the acc.
So yeah, I think there's still stuff to shake out. The group of five could be interesting. Memphis is in, but you got teams like usf, North Texas, San Diego State, James Madison, Georgia Tech.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: Not yet.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: The acc. Now Georgia Tech's not it either. There's still plenty to play for. So I mean you look at last year, what came down. You know Clemson only gets in because they win the ACC and then that really kicked somebody else out because SMU was at you know, what, 11, one season or whatever.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: Yeah, team out.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: So yeah, so I mean that's where those, those title game, the conference title games will come into play as we get on the stretch. So I still think there's plenty to go on here, plenty of teams be able to win there because there's going to be some head to head mashups. It'll shake things up.
But that final bracket, I think that's what we come to because if you look at this bracket, you know, right now, like, let me take the, the homer. The homer advantage of a Notre Dame team, okay? They get to play byu. Not a terrible, you know, not, not. I wouldn't say one of the better teams. Notre Dame's played some harder opponents this year at Texas A and M and potentially Miami. So that's pretty a good seed for them. Then they go to Indiana right after that, who they beat last year in the College Football Playoff could turn into like a really good matchup in the second round. So there could be some matchup stuff here, depending on how they do these seeds, where, you know, you get some real interesting matchups or better pass to the national title. And like, unlike last year where you had like certain buys kind of built in by the conference, now it's probably like you get two SEC teams, two Big 12 teams.
Seriously, two Big 10 teams that are. Get the buys based on the political, like political heft that both the SEC and Big Ten have on this now. They are the power conferences.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: I like that phrase, political half.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: I mean, you could tell how these, these, These are the two conferences that own college football. Like they're allowing the ACC and Big 12 to participate in their tournament. But the SEC and the Big Ten own college football. And there's a reason they got rid of that automatic buy crap is because, hey, we're putting all this money into it. We want four Big Ten teams, we want four SEC teams. And then everyone else can fight over maybe the scraps on that. Not even ruling out potentially five teams go in and they want the first round buys too.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: How many three loss teams make it into the playoff this year?
[00:24:46] Speaker C: I'd say probably none really.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: I'd say.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: I think at least one.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: I would say the only way you're probably getting it in Rome, if we're looking at like the accurate or something like that, like if we get into, you know, a situation like last year with Clemson, that'd be the. I think the only way they'd have to. It'd be a team in the, in a conference title game that wins the conference title game is probably the only way that that happens.
[00:25:13] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, you got. Virginia's got one loss, Louisville's got one loss, Georgia Tech's got one last. I do believe they don't play each other.
I mean, you might want to look that up, but I don't think Miami plays any of them either. And they already, Louisville already has a tiebreaker because they beat them in Virginia. Ironically, they lost to North Carolina State, he was in the acc but it was not, it was a non ACC conference game.
So they don't even have a conference loss. Yeah.
[00:25:40] Speaker B: Because they just couldn't find an opponent or what.
[00:25:43] Speaker C: I don't know the story. I believe that's the case or somebody canceled at the last minute, I forget. But it did not count as a conference game. So Virginia is undefeated in the conference. Louisville lost to Virginia, so Virginia has that over them. And the Georgia Tech loss at NC State and Miami obviously has the two losses already. So Miami like we said, I think is done looking at it. B B Yu, Texas Tech. I think whoever wins that game this week, it's going to represent the Big 12. I don't see a two loss team coming from the Big 12 unless you know they rematch again in the Big 12 championship game. But yeah, I, I don't, I don't see a three loss team really getting in there based off how everything's going. I just think there's too many teams of one or two losses that are likely going to, I mean I don't remember if we got a three loss team in the playoff last year or not. Was Georgia maybe a three loss team?
[00:26:36] Speaker A: But not just. Some of these teams have like some pretty big matches in, in the final month and I think I was reading up on something where it's lining up pretty good. We might get one or two possibly.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: I just don't know.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: Surprised to see Utah so high though. Utah's had, I mean Utah's had some nice wins but they've had some bad losses as well to BYU and Texas Tech. So to be over, to be over a one loss Virginia and Louisville and even a Vanderbilt, that's a little shocking to have Utah that high.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean you, you could be potentially looking at maybe, I think unlikely, but maybe somebody like if a bunch of upsets happen in somebody like Oklahoma who loses to Alabama this week but then beats Missouri and lsu.
Now you're saying they're going to be sitting at a 9 and 3 and somehow Georgia, Ole Miss and you know, Bama fall in their face or something like that. Like, I mean I think it would take something like that Rome. But if you look at, you know, the SEC has got undefeated Texas A&M, three teams with one loss and then a couple teams with two losses. Like I think it's just too stacked where you're getting a undefeated one or two loss team that's going to be able to go to the SEC championship game and that'll put them in a Position like a two loss team going to the SEC championship game could potentially be detrimental to their those teams playoff chances if you have a team behind him that's only got one loss or two loss too.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: But I believe, I know we kind of talked about it last year. I believe. I don't know if the committee touched on it, but are we going to not reward teams for making it to a power four conference championship and losing? I mean that was kind of the whole talk of smu, right? They got in because they lost but they got to the conference game, Alabama didn't. So the committee rewarded them and was like, ah, we're just going to throw you guys in there because you guys still got to a conference champion. Because I mean I think SMU had even made the case we're better off not forfeiting the game and not even playing and, or forfeiting the spot and giving it to somebody else because we'd automatically be in the playoffs.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I think they did. I think so. I mean you'll have that, you'll have that left in them. But I think at that point like because. Because SMU was, that was their. Was that their only loss? Were they undefeated up until that point?
[00:28:46] Speaker C: Trying to remember they had one loss I believe at a conference early in the year to maybe like BYU or somebody like that. But they were undefeated in the conference.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: Awesome.
You guys ready to transition over to the games?
[00:29:01] Speaker C: Sure.
Cool.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Let's take a quick break. We'll be back after this.
All right, we're back to go over games of the week.
We got one Friday game kind of nice, kind of a big showdown and the rest are on Saturday.
Some unique games that you picked out here and then some games that you left out. I'm really kind of curious, what was the strategy behind this week?
[00:29:30] Speaker C: Games and watch Realm. I mean if you got a game you want to throw in there, I mean I left a couple games out that maybe could have made the list but you know, due to time restraints and scheduling, you know, we are trying to keep the list to eight to ten teams.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:29:45] Speaker C: Per week. Yeah. That's. Yeah, that's a memo I got. That's the memo I got.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: That was last year. You got the memo. It's Billy that's fairly being processed. Was a government show, I believe.
[00:29:57] Speaker C: Well, hey, with a shutdown things don't get processed as quickly as they used to be, Rome. So yeah, you know, maybe you got it on auto refresh send every year. But I got a memo and I'm trying To keep it short and sweet.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: So crazy, man.
I'm like looking at the past week's like 13, 15 games.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: You know, there was a lot of great matchups, but now we've weeded it. We've weeded out a bunch of teams out and didn't find out some were as good. We got coaches fired. So they're.
[00:30:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I had two games, coaches were fired. I just. I didn't. I didn't. They didn't make the list. Auburn didn't make the list. Florida, Kentucky didn't make the list.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they were.
[00:30:34] Speaker C: Somehow.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: I'll say somehow. Florida State's still on this list, I guess because they haven't fired their coach yet. But maybe this is the fireable game.
[00:30:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: Why is Florida State on this list?
[00:30:42] Speaker C: Well, I mean, when we get to it, we'll get to it. You guys have kind of hinted on a few things there, so you guys are on the right path.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: All right, let's kick it off then. I don't think Jason's been on for the college show in a while, so at least a couple weeks. Right.
[00:30:55] Speaker C: He's been. He's been busy working behind the scenes, so obviously working those. Working those sources that have been giving us some good information here.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Yeah. So we got Friday nights. The only Friday that we have on the list. It is Tulane versus number 22 ranked Memphis.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: I like how you got the rankings, Rome, so I'm glad you're doing some leg work on this show. Memphis is your team, Rome. That was your group of five playoff team. You're looking like a genius on that part of the show.
Memphis has looked pretty good. I mean, this lane, two lanes, getting three and a half. I liked it early Monday when they were getting six and a half. So the wise guys must have talked to my sources when we jumped on it. I like Tulane to win outright here. They're going to beat Memphis. I think Memphis playoff hopes go up and smoke. They saw their name. They're partying up there, drinking the bourbon, the barbecue. The show will be over. I like to lane to upset Memphis on Friday. Give me two Lane plus three and a half if you got it at six and a half. Monday when they line originally was out. Better for you. But I'm going too lane here. Even though I believe their coach will be leaving for Auburn. As I mentioned talking to some boosters in Auburn, that's the guy they want. So we'll see what happens. He needs a big win after last week, kind of laying an egg. I think he knew the Hugh Freeze firing was coming. He'll be refocused this week. Until then, gets a win.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean they were Tulane was my group of five pick, you know, Bay back to be in the season and you looked at the resume up until last week, you know they're only was to number 13 Ole Miss. They did get blown out in that game. So it wasn't look as great as maybe the Boise resume last year where their only loss was to an Oregon team that they kept it close. But this loss last week versus UT San Antonio was not great, was not a close loss. And I think Tulane's probably looking for a comeback because yeah, they are. They are a good team that could definitely, you know, win out for the rest of this season. So I agree with Aaron. I think this is a, a good spot for Tulane and obviously the wise guys already pushed that line down nice.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Onto the Saturday games. Florida State very unranked versus Clemson very unranked.
[00:33:02] Speaker C: Very, very unranked.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Rome's got to do his own ranking. So yeah, like with very where is very unranked go? Is that like the 100 to 125.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: Range or that's the trash teams.
[00:33:15] Speaker C: I, I Rome's got to do like the bottom 25 like CBS does. So I mean UCLA should probably be back in there after the whipping they took two weeks ago. But yeah, I mean, I mean we're talking Florida State, Clemson. I mean this has been the battle of the ACC, the best teams for like the last 10 years, the last decade, who's basically own the conference. You guys touched on it. This is maybe the loser coach, really, really on the hot seat, fired. I mean Norvell has to essentially win out to save his job there. Obviously Florida State doesn't want to pay him 52 million.
Dabo goes in the media and cries every week that he's not the problem. You know, he says now he may get fired. I would have fired Dabble three years ago.
So the seats getting warm there. Losing to Florida State. We got a game here over under 56. I'm going Florida State, my Knowles to get the job done here. They showed me something last week against Wake Forest, who surprisingly the week before beat SMU and SMU beat Miami. So as Jason and I have touched on throughout college football, the parody here is crazy. It's more like the NFL. You just can't figure this stuff out.
With that said, I'm going Florida State plus two. I think they beat Clemson outright. I saw Clemson play against Duke. Their defense was horrendous. Florida State got something back. I think they got some mojo behind them. I like them to upset Clemson at Clemson.
Wow.
[00:34:33] Speaker A: Back to back upsets. I'm loving it.
Number five, Georgia versus Mississippi State.
[00:34:41] Speaker C: Mississippi State, Man, I don't think a program's been on hard times like them. They finally got a win. An SEC conference play against Arkansas last week. Should have beaten your guy, your Rome's team, Texas, who now he claims it's like top 10, top five again. He's jumping.
He's jumped back on the bandwagon for all you people at home. He's, he's out here, got Arch Manning, Heisman Trophy going again. He's, he's jumping on. He's put some odds back on that. I'm gonna take Mississippi State plus eight and a half. I like Georgia's to win this game, but Mississippi State showed me a lot. They could score points, they can keep it competitive and they just. Georgia's not blowing anybody out. Every game is really tough.
They don't play good in the first half. Second half, they kind of turn it up. I think Mississippi State keeps it close. I'm going to take Mississippi State. Getting eight and a half here against Georgia.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Mississippi or Georgia has been so lucky this year. The fact that number five.
But almost all their wins could be losses. I don't know. I like it.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: What analysis. Almost all the, almost all their wins could be losses. You know, when, when you have, when you have two options, win or loss, you know, one on one. Yeah, it'.
[00:35:47] Speaker C: True. You know what? You know what? You know what this sounds like? It sounds a little bit like a magic urban Johnson over here.
Hey, you know, all their wins could be losses or all their losses could be wins.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: You guys know what I mean?
Look at their wins.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: You know, they're not good.
You know, hey, Rome, I don't know. I mean, I thought you got smarter of age. Maybe. Maybe that trend's breaking with you. I don't know. Happy 39th birthday, buddy.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: Magic Johnson's tweet, by the way, is ridiculous. All right. That was not even close.
[00:36:16] Speaker C: All right?
[00:36:16] Speaker B: I mean he's been doing this for like a decade now. It's like nothing new.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: Hey, went to Laker game. They got beat by Golden State. Nice.
[00:36:23] Speaker C: Nice, Magic.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: I'm nice.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: I'm gonna be honest. I don't, I don't understand why coaches and stuff aren't just more, you know, a holes about it like in conferences. Like, what could you have done better? Like to beat the game or to beat this team? I said we should have scored more points than the other team.
You know, I don't understand why.
I know. I mean, just like, I don't understand what they're more condescending on. Like, you know, they want us to.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: How'd you guys lose the game?
The other team scored more points.
Yeah, okay.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: That's true. That's what I said. They always want this breakdown of, like, film, like some beat reporter and stuff. Like, understanding. So, like, different X's and O's and expecting this answer and you. And no matter what the. The guy's gonna say about it or whatever, they're gonna. You know, they're gonna rip them for some BS reason.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: Anyways, real quick, did you guys see Big Cat just, like, rip on Magic Johnson the whole, like, the last few days?
[00:37:10] Speaker B: I did not.
[00:37:10] Speaker A: No Magic. After them losing, and. And they were down three two.
He said, Dodgers lost game five. Game six is a must win. And it was like, yeah, no, no, this is over.
[00:37:25] Speaker C: They don't win.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah, but that. That's an actual must win where people have said, like, hey, you know, you're down two zero in the series. Game three is a must win. But hey, if you're down three two, it. It is a must win.
[00:37:37] Speaker C: It's the.
[00:37:38] Speaker B: It's a literal definition of a must win.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: So Cat was going crazy.
[00:37:42] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Daughter won game six. I guess game seven is a must win, too. And then even.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: I'll tell you, game. Game seven is a must win for both teams. Drum.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
The quality wins. Man, Georgia has not been impressive. I was green with Aaron, but. All right.
Thanks for the laughs, guys. Texas A And M, number three. Texas A and M versus number 19, Missouri.
[00:38:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Rome. We touched on this. Jason wasn't on the last one, but Missouri without their top two quarterbacks, right? I mean, they lost one of their quarterbacks the opening game of the year. Then they lost the other quarterback to a broken leg, ankle dislocation, whatever he's got against Vanderbilt. So now they're going with a true freshman against Texas A and M. Coming off a buy.
Number three. You mentioned Texas A and M. I know. Missouri's coming off a buy, too, but Texas A and M, I like them to roll here. Coming off a buy, they're hungry. They smell blood. True freshman quarterback Mike Elko. That defense, he's going to be throwing the steel chair around like he was at Notre Dame. I like A and M. I like them big here against Missouri. Third season's over. You're talking about a coach, too.
You know, Missouri's Coach, Florida, lsu. He's. He's up in the mix for both of those gigs, too. So if you're talking about a coach that might be willing. Talk about a coach that might be willing to leave early, given what he's got in that quarterback room, Eli there at Missouri, he fits the bill. I think he's. I think. I think he's already looking for an exit. He's got one door. Once. One foot out the door.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Okay, interesting.
BYU number eight versus number nine, Texas Tech. Couple Texas teams on your list.
[00:39:25] Speaker C: Yeah, Rome. I mean, Texas Tech. I mean, apparently, that's my people. They look a lot like me, according to you and other people out there in the Bay Area, and I like them this weekend. Byu, coming off a buy.
They got to this point last year, I believe BYU finished. Started the year nine and. Oh, and then kind of struggled from there. Texas Tech needs to win this game. They lose, they're not going to the playoffs.
Must win for Texas Tech. They got their quarterback back last week. He looked rusty. Kind of got things going late against Kansas State. But this defense will be too much for the true freshman quarterback from BYU. I like Tech to win here by 14 or more points. Give me Texas Tech minus 10. Wow.
[00:40:04] Speaker A: LSU versus number four, Alabama.
[00:40:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I was talking a little bit, Jason, before you came on Rome about this game. He's. He's. He's kind of leaning towards the Crimson Tide. I'm going the opposite direction. Everything I've heard from LSU is that they feel relieved that Brian Kelly's gone. Happiness is back on the field. These guys are cheerful. They're happy. Joe Sloan's gone as offensive coordinator. Alabama's got a couple players that are suspended and injured for this game.
I think LSU comes up and surprises people and keeps this game close. Let's be honest. They hadn't gotten blown out by Texas A and M and Brian Kelly's there. This line's probably four or five points. It's a little too high for my liking. I like Bama to win by. By a touchdown or less. I'm going to take LSU +10 at Alabama.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a big spread. It's a big spread. I. I don't think there's anything wrong with. With what Aaron's saying there. I think for me, it's like, is this team in it at all for the rest of the season? Given, like, how much is. How much turnover has gone, you could get the first game back. We're trying to prove something. 10 is a lot of points. I think it's even up to ten and a half. I think at a certain point in some lines I've seen Aaron too, so it's getting bed up a little bit. So too many people may be on Bama with this take. I think it's a tough because you don't know what LSU team's going to come out. Definitely would be probably a stay away. But those. Those games are these coaches like leave man. Like either they're going to get up or this is just going to be an absolute thrashing from Bama.
You know, Bama's had some close games too throughout the year too, but they've made statement wins as well when they've needed to prove. So there's a lot of people when you think about Bama like, oh, this is so questions about them. But man, their. Their loss was the opening week and they've won every game since and they. They're playing a gauntlet of a schedule. So you got to respect Bama where. Where they've been at at this point of the year.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: To me, this kind of feels like that Vanderbilt Alabama game where you know, even I was thinking Vanity was going to keep it a little close, but just Alabama is just like really fucking good. They're just playing lights out.
I think it might stay close in the first half, but I think they come come way in the second half. Be pretty interesting.
Number six, Oregon against Iowa.
[00:42:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean Oregon's coming off a buy. Did not look good. I think the week before the buy they won what, 21 to 7 against.
Was it Wisconsin? I want to say a team they should have blown out. I think. I think Oregon needed that buy. I was looked pretty good here lately. They just blew out Minnesota. Listen to a lot of people.
You know, they kind of like Iowa this week. I don't. I think Dan Lanning is going to get these guys up for this game. You know, he's kind of hearing like every Danny landing he hears everything. So he's hearing I was a favorite here that people like as an upset.
I think Oregon shows up. I think they ball out. I like Oregon here minus six to go into Iowa and get a big win here on the road in the.
[00:42:55] Speaker A: Big ten or again minus six.
[00:42:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Okay.
Ooh.
[00:43:02] Speaker C: This is the Rome bowl right here. You know, we had. We had. We had the at bowl in the NFL. Now we got the Rome bowl here in college football.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of it. Nebraska with their quarterback out for the rest of the year. Ucla, do they play last week?
[00:43:20] Speaker C: Thankfully they Didn't.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice.
They got worked by Indiana the week before.
[00:43:28] Speaker C: I mean, what Indiana did to him, I'm sure. Jason, two agreements.
That was an ass. We've been good enough for two weeks. They had to take a week off.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: Bad.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: We should, we should have nominated that for ass whooping of the week for like NFL and college football easily top the list. Yeah, no, that was pretty bad. But all right, well, anyways, games in ucla, which by the way, there's a lawsuit now coming out.
[00:43:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I saw that. Because UCLA is trying to move to Sofi for a couple games or something.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: I think every, I think everything. And they're trying to move their whole.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: Slate to Sofi every game except for like the big ones. Like, whatever that means.
[00:44:04] Speaker C: I think the Rose bowl should be grateful that they don't have to put the product that UCLA's put on the field and show up at that stadium. I mean, Keith, Jack, Keith Jackson's rolling around in his grave. He used to call the greatest games at the Rose Bowl. If he was calling UCLA now, you know, he's glad he's not calling those games anymore.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: All right, who you got in this game?
[00:44:23] Speaker C: Oh, God. Sorry, Roman. Got off track.
You know, I'm going to take UCLA here.
I'm just going to keep it simple. I'm going to take ucla. Nebraska's about the quarterback. Broken fibula out for the year and I just, I just don't trust the other guy. He didn't do anything against usc.
If Raola hadn't gotten hurt, they would have won that game. I mean, Matt Rule wouldn't be Owen. 18 or 0 and 20, whatever the statue sitting against top 25 that that streak would have.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:44:49] Speaker C: Yeah. But given how cursed both Matt Rule and Nebraska obviously are, they seemed perfect to be hitched and tied together for the next 10 years, whatever that contract is. So enjoy it. Nebraska. I know Rome will. I'm going UCLA here upset to win at home. I think the bye week does them well and they get, they find a way to get the win.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: I'm surprised that they're actually favored even if it is a pick them at one and a half. That's interesting.
[00:45:13] Speaker C: You know, I, I, I heard that, you know, since you mentioned the Rose. I heard the Rose bowl is backing Nebraska. So the Rose bowl, the money that they're going to use to sue, they backed on Nebraska. So that's why that line is going the way it's going over under 44.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: I'm going to say. To tell you though, UC Shelley needs this Game and you got, you got Ohio State next week, Washington and then usc.
Could be, it could be your last opportunity to win a game for the rest of the season.
[00:45:40] Speaker A: They're beating USC this year.
Guarantee.
[00:45:45] Speaker C: I could feel there's that game at the Rose. Is a game at the Rose bowl or what?
[00:45:49] Speaker B: At the Coliseum.
[00:45:50] Speaker C: Coliseum.
[00:45:51] Speaker A: Oh, let me think about it.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: At Ohio State. At the Coliseum.
[00:45:57] Speaker C: It's a tough stretch. It's.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: It's a tough stretch, but they've done well against usc. USC is not crazy. Crazy.
[00:46:04] Speaker C: They play them tough. They play. I think this Nebraska game will be competitive. I think it'll be a good game. Yeah.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: All right. Last game of the slate. San Diego State versus Hawaii.
[00:46:17] Speaker C: Rome. We need a late night game in Hawaii before we get ready for the Sao Polo F1. So this is for all those guys out there on the west coast that don't even want to go to bed and just be ready for this game. Yeah.
San Diego State, we mentioned in the group of five. I think you mentioned it was like a five, six teams. That's still in the group of five playoff.
Right? I, I believe they're still in the mix. Only got one loss this year. Got some nice wins. Hawaii. Rome. We, we should have taken San Jose State last week. Rome, we both talked about liking them over Hawaii. They, they go on to win.
Guess what? I like Hawaii to upset San Diego State here.
[00:46:55] Speaker A: I think Hawaii is going to go.
[00:46:56] Speaker C: Home and win this game outright.
So I'm going with the, what are they, are they called the Rainbow warriors or just the Warriors? Now, I don't even know what they go by now, but I like Hawaii +7. I like them to win outright and beat the Aztecs of San Diego State.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: They're gonna beat that ass Tech out of San Diego State.
[00:47:14] Speaker C: There you go. I like that. Put that on a T shirt.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: The good, the good, the good, the good Hawaii game on the slave man. This is the chaser man. So if you, if we, if we're losing any money here in the morning, this is where you go big on, on the.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: See, that's why I got nine games. See, Jason's smart over four and four and you need that game to edge over the top. There it is. Get you a 5 and 4. Get you winning going into NFL Sunday. So there it is. I think that's the game right there. Hawaii plus seven.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: All right, Aaron, locks of the week. Do you got any this week?
[00:47:45] Speaker C: Where'd I go last week? I think locks. What, two and one. What I go where my locks last Week. I know Cincinnati was a loss, but I had the over in Vanderbilt and I believe I had what I have last week. What'd I do?
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Cincinnati was not your lock. But I, I, okay, I kind of figured Cincinnati was not happening. You had Vanderbilt, Texas over 45. That was your loss.
[00:48:01] Speaker C: That was a win. That was a win.
[00:48:03] Speaker A: Had USC and Nebraska, Nebraska was plus six.
[00:48:06] Speaker C: Oh, that was a win.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: And then you had Georgia -7 against Florida.
[00:48:10] Speaker C: Oh man, he took a knee on me. Man, he took a knee on me. What can I say? He should have been.
Yeah, he been in silver. No lube on that one.
Okay, so two and one. I made a two and one.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Dude. It's been all year. Two and one.
[00:48:24] Speaker C: I like it. Yeah, it has been. Okay, so here, you need three locks. Rome, here's three winners for you. I'm going Texas A and M minus seven, lock and loaded.
I'm going Dan landing in Oregon minus six, lock and loaded. And why not? I jumped on Hawaii. I'm gonna take Hawaii plus seven.
Give it to me late night. Let's go three zero. I guarantee we're two zero going to that one. That might be a good fade because we usually go two and one. But give me Hawaii plus seven.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: This one. Okay, got it.
[00:48:51] Speaker C: You like the other two just not Hawaii or what?
[00:48:53] Speaker A: I don't know. All right, we got Texas a M minus 7, Oregon minus 6 and Hawaii plus 7. Is that right?
[00:49:00] Speaker C: That's correct.
[00:49:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: I like the first two. Aaron, I would say if for our circa play, those are, those are the two of the ones I'm eyeballing a little bit.
[00:49:07] Speaker C: I, I like them too though. They will be in what would be your third game. You like Jason, of all those slates?
Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: I don't know. I, I, I only feel good about this.
[00:49:17] Speaker C: I, I really, I really, really like Tulane. When they were a half on Monday, I still think they win that game. But three and a half. I, I still like them to cover but I really liked it at six and a half on Monday.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I don't know of any of those. Aaron. I'm really feeling right.
[00:49:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not really high on any other games. That's why I'm going to Hawaii. Give me the home team. Give me the home dog. Seven points.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:49:39] Speaker C: You know that the time change, the travel. Even though it's San Diego, it's still a six hour flight to get there from San Diego State. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not buying them.
[00:49:48] Speaker A: Why is it a six hour Flight to.
[00:49:50] Speaker C: It's a six hour flight from lax, ain't it? To Hawaii? Five and a half hours.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: No way. Jason Stats guy.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: I think it's like four hours.
[00:49:58] Speaker A: Four hours still to Hawaii?
[00:50:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:01] Speaker A: Oh shit.
[00:50:02] Speaker C: It's still like 2,000 miles.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: I've never been to Hawaii. That's like one of the few places.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: I haven't been to. Yeah, look, look it up. Rome. Google flights it right now.
San Diego.
[00:50:10] Speaker A: Ray lives there though. He said I can crash out at their, their paddle.
[00:50:15] Speaker C: Where's he, where's he in the Big Island? Little island. Where's he at?
[00:50:18] Speaker A: I don't know man. He's there.
[00:50:19] Speaker C: That's, that's right.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: With.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: I was wrong. Average flight, 5 hours and 17 minutes from LAX. Hawaii.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: That is crazy.
[00:50:31] Speaker C: I knew it was, I knew it was over five hours.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: Is it against.
It must be against the. Whatever it is, the winds.
[00:50:38] Speaker C: So. Yeah, we're going Hawaii. That's an eight. What? Eight o' clock kickoff off our time.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: That's too late.
[00:50:43] Speaker C: So that would be 5 o' clock back there.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: You know, you know the game. I'm leaning. Aaron. I think I would say off that. I, you know, I'm leaning that Washington big spread against, against Wisconsin.
I don't know. I, I just like that game. Wisconsin's bad.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: Washington, they are kind of surprising though. Like they've been.
[00:51:02] Speaker C: They are bad. But Wisconsin at home, I don't know if they show up.
I don't know if they show up.
[00:51:08] Speaker A: What's the record?
[00:51:08] Speaker C: Wisconsin, what do they got? Three wins, two wins.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: You got. You like Washington, the cut the COVID 11?
[00:51:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean Wisconsin's 2 and 6. They're on a six game losing streak.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: That's a competitive 2 and 6.
[00:51:22] Speaker C: Is Wisconsin coming off a buy? Did they play last week?
[00:51:26] Speaker A: I don't know. You know, I, I've been that. That Aces Bar is a Wisconsin bar and me not living there anymore. I can't. I don't have a good vibe on Wisconsin football this year.
[00:51:35] Speaker C: Wisconsin football is bad.
[00:51:37] Speaker B: They are, they are coming off a buy at Oregon.
[00:51:44] Speaker C: They lost 217 against Oregon. Right. They played competitive against Oregon. Surprisingly.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: They lost 217 to Oregon. They lost 34 nothing to Ohio State. They lost 37 nothing to Iowa. They lost 2410 to Michigan. They lost 2710 to Maryland. They lost 3814 to Bama. They literally did not cover this 11 point spread in any of these six losses.
[00:52:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
Last week or is Washington coming off a buy as well?
[00:52:07] Speaker A: I take that back.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: Take it.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: I'M just, I'm just saying Washington played they out. They're coming off a by two. They beat Illinois on the 25th.
[00:52:20] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:52:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: No, I mean, yeah, if you like it. If you like. You like it. I don't really have a strong read either way.
I think Wisconsin gets up for this game, though.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: It's a proud franchise.
[00:52:34] Speaker B: You had no idea.
[00:52:35] Speaker C: University, you mean university or.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I was thinking you were saying that franchise came out, so. Yeah, we'll just run with that. It's a proud franchise.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: The most successful Wisconsin quarterback is the guy in Draft Day.
[00:52:49] Speaker C: I've seen the movie once. I can't really remember that.
[00:52:51] Speaker B: Well, I don't know.
It was that guy. Was it a B.O.
[00:52:55] Speaker C: Call? Wait, is it Russell Wilson? I mean, he only spent one year there.
[00:53:00] Speaker B: I don't remember.
[00:53:01] Speaker C: Remember, Remember, remember the movie?
[00:53:02] Speaker B: Drafted first overall, quick, but he's like quarterback. Oh, you didn't see the movie Draft.
[00:53:08] Speaker C: Day run with Kevin Costner?
[00:53:11] Speaker A: First of all, I hate Kevin Costner.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: Wow, strong take on Kevin Costner.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: I like Kevin Constanter and, you know, I don't care too much for his movies.
Water Boy or Waterland, whatever it is.
[00:53:25] Speaker B: And then Water World.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: And then. And then he's. A lot of people love that movie and it's just. It's just not a good movie. And then that other one where he's like dancing with.
With the animals in the desert, you.
[00:53:37] Speaker B: Know, Dances with the Wolves.
[00:53:38] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: Where you won the Academy Award.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: They.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: They give it to anybody sometimes you.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: Don'T, like, feel the dreams. Bull Durham.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: I actually don't. I. I don't like either those.
[00:53:49] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:53:50] Speaker C: Wow.
Yeah.
[00:53:53] Speaker A: I think every time I see it, if I, if I see it on tv, automatic turn off.
I just can't say, Mac, I did watch Yellowstone despite me not like, you know, me not liking him. And I will.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: I will say I do not have this strong take against Kevin Costner. I really like Yellowstone. But I say my, my bias against Kevin Costner is that he just left Yellowstone to go make his own movies out there that just flopped at the box office and he's not even gonna finish. So I think that was. That's where my only beef against Costner is. He didn't come back for the final portion of that fifth season of Yellowstone. But anyways, going back to the Draft Day movie, I recommend it. Rome. It's one of the. It's one of the great, like, unrealistic movies of all time. But it's got all the NFL people in it. But, yeah, The. The quarterback on there, I think it was Bo Callahan or something like that. And the big. The big assessment about him that Costner is the GM of the Cleveland Browns find out is that no one went to his birthday party, which means, like, no one believes in this guy. He doesn't got any friends. And that was the. The big JAF Day revelation is he was the consensus number one overall pick for that year's draft.
[00:55:00] Speaker C: You know what?
[00:55:00] Speaker A: I will watch it because although I don't have Netflix, it isn't like some whatever channel, but I do like Jennifer Gardner. Always had a crush on Jennifer.
[00:55:09] Speaker C: She's good. She's good.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:55:12] Speaker A: They have Puff Daddy in it. So, you know, gotta meet my old idol, Pre Baby Oil. See how he does there. Is this Pre Baby Oil or is.
[00:55:21] Speaker C: This like, like 12 years ago, this movie or something? 2014.
[00:55:25] Speaker A: I think this is when I stopped being a songwriter because I saw too many things.
Yeah, I'll watch it. Dennis. Larry, he's. He's pretty good.
[00:55:32] Speaker B: Dennis Leary's the old. The old ball coach, man. He's the coach in there. Coaches him up.
[00:55:37] Speaker C: Yeah, he's like, give me the players, man. Give me some players.
[00:55:41] Speaker A: I liked him in. In. In the sandlot and that one fire show that he was in.
[00:55:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I was on fx.
[00:55:49] Speaker A: It was good. It was good.
[00:55:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: Started getting serious.
[00:55:52] Speaker B: Rescue.
[00:55:53] Speaker C: Rescue me. Yeah.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: Okay. That one fire movie. I. I should play certain charades.
[00:55:59] Speaker B: There you go. Well, yeah, I recommend go watching draft dates. The one unrealistic. You're gonna see how these guys traded for a bunch of first round picks and some nonsense during draft day.
[00:56:07] Speaker A: So real quick, before we go, or maybe I'll say this for the F1 section, we'll just wrap up College Football Pod. Be sure to catch our F1 preview on Sao Paulo. Also on YouTube, Spotify and Apple podcasts. We're out.
