It's Just A Sweet Sweet Fantasy, CFB Week 1 Reactions, Aaron's Upset Alerts for Week 2

[00:00:01] Speaker A: What's up, y'? [00:00:01] Speaker B: All? [00:00:01] Speaker A: This is Rome. Welcome back to Sources from the Sofa. In this episode, we recap week one in college football. We also go over Aaron's college games to watch for. Week two is quite the list that starts on Friday. We also talk a little bit about fantasy football and baseball. In case you haven't known, Aaron is part of this old man's league, a keeper league that's got off the expensive. We're talking about three to $5,000 to compete. Stay in it. Jason was in the running, was having a good year, and it sounds like that's not the case anymore. So he gives us an update of what happened in the baseball league that's starting to wind down. Some good stuff in here. And in any case, be on the lookout for NFL lines on the next pod. In the meantime, college football. Don't go anywhere. We got a full pod for you tonight. Well into season two for source on the sofa. As Aaron just mentioned before we start recording, I guess when our first podcast came out, we're going to be hitting the one year anniversary. I can't remember if we actually recorded that like a few days beforehand, but either way, we're hitting that one year anniversary. [00:01:21] Speaker B: The email, the email says September 4th, Rome. Yeah, yeah, that's what caught my, that's what caught my attention. Cool. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Deal. You're doing it. I think we have 85 podcasts wrapped up for year one. [00:01:39] Speaker C: So. 85 podcasts. [00:01:41] Speaker B: It's about 1.5 a week. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Well, I was gonna say that's three hours per podcast. Right. Beginning how much we talk at a given night. So I'm gonna have to average that out. Yeah. [00:01:52] Speaker A: And, and plus we didn't do any for the month of May and so kind of took it easy in the latter half, but yeah, pretty cool. [00:02:01] Speaker C: It was a, it was amazing how little podcast he wanted to record once the Dodgers just seemingly just weren't going to be as good as we thought they were. Aaron, you know, we just didn't want to talk about baseball at all. [00:02:16] Speaker B: For a minute. We could talk about about right now too. But yeah, I mean, baseball's coming. We get, I mean, I, I, I didn't get the chance to talk to Jason about his baseball team. I mean, his expansion. I don't know what he was doing there. He only expanded with three guys. [00:02:32] Speaker C: I only expanded three guys. Yeah. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Give us an update on your fantasy team. Go ahead. [00:02:37] Speaker B: It's not looking great. It's not looking great. I, I haven't really paid much attention since I'm not spending any more money on my team. [00:02:43] Speaker C: It's not looking great, Rome. I'll be honest with you, man. You see playing a league with guys that, with little expendable cash and they're just willing to throw like $700 down to add a bunch of bench players and some NL teams and I'm sitting there and okay, in all transparency, I'm doing two things at once. Aaron. I had a high stakes fantasy football draft that I was in the middle of and then I had to hop on this call for the fantasy baseball team and I'm looking at like, you know, bum relief pitcher that's gonna pitch like two innings a week for $50 a pop and everything like that. And then, you know, we got our guy Danny over there just adding every starter that's got a 6.5 ERA, that's gonna maybe get some innings, but just throw up some turds and I can't add those guys. I'm like top three in era, so that doesn't make any sense. And you know, the relievers, okay, I'm gonna get a couple innings, but are they going to do many things to innings versus these guys add in. So I don't know, Aaron. I felt like I was in a no win situation, so I added three guys. I'm trying to get some offensive pops here and there, but. And then immediately following that drive, Aaron, I lose. I lose. Lourdes Goreal, torn acl. So another one of my starters gone. I lost my, the catcher I had from the, the Cardinals. What I don't forgot his name. Pahes. Yeah. So lost him. And I don't know, I had someone else. I had three guys go in the IL immediately following that room. So I've added three more guys the next freaking night. So it's not looking good. Rome. I'm in contention to be up to fourth. But I said Aaron wasn't on the, on the free agency call last night. I basically told the other guys in the league, I said, hey, you know, I'm gonna finish in seventh again. That's what I finished last year. I think it's just worth that because I'll be honest with you, three guys ahead of me. They will, they want more room. They're willing to put like two grand to finish fifth place and I'm just not willing to do that. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I, I wasn't there at the expansion. I mean, I did an internal moves expansion, but I get, I get the emails, right? Every time the moves made, you get an email. So I'm checking My email at night, and Everybody added like 10, 12 guys. And then I see Jason's team pop up and it's three dudes. And I'm thinking to myself, I mean, is Jason all in or see. Like, he sees something I don't see because I wasn't really paying too much attention to his team. And then I look right now, he's in seventh place, five points, four and a half points behind the guy in six, Danny. He's already spend over three grand. Danny's way, he's like, let's spend $1,000 more than everybody else. And yeah, I mean, agree. Like, you gotta, you gotta assess whether or not you really can get that fifth spot. Is it worth spending that, you know, six to 800 bucks to go for it? [00:05:22] Speaker C: I just really wasn't as. As I wasn't sure because I remember last year, guys not adding as much last year. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna add a couple here. But then, yeah, they were just all in. So not looking good. I probably waste $150 even adding those three scrubs, but it's what it is, man. We'll, we'll, we'll. We'll call it a year in the fantasy baseball realm. Wasn't where I thought I'd finish, I'll be honest. In my other league, you know, I was third in the regular season. Different format. I'm going to get bounced in the first round because the Jag offer that I'm playing just at drop, you know, is all his pitchers were hurt. So he added every guy that's starting two starts this week just to get two starts on the fantasy points thing. And every one of his starters in the first day went off. I've lost, you know, Wheeler and all these other things. I had, I had Framber Valdez and this guy just, you know, give up a grand slam and started chucking a. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Ball and basically, basically crossing his catcher up and then turning his back on his catcher and then later apologizing. I think he should apologize for a couple of things. Based off what I saw in that video. [00:06:27] Speaker C: He should, he should apologize to me for blowing my fantasy performance. So you know what fantasy baseball is. [00:06:32] Speaker B: Done and over catcher's fault, I guess. You know, the catcher was kind of throwing him off. He was trying to wave off pitches. I don't know. The pitcher blame it on the catcher. The catcher blamed it on the pitcher. At the end of the day, the pitcher won because he threw a fastball right off his chest. [00:06:46] Speaker C: Yep. It just, just, you know, that wasn't. But I felt. I have felt like the catcher, honestly in fantasy baseball. I just got drilled right in the chest by a fastball at this point, just. It's game over. Game over. First round of the playoffs, roster expansion, you know, whatever it might be. So the update's not great. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Rome next year. Next year, late March draft. That's what you got to look forward to. [00:07:10] Speaker A: So sorry. [00:07:11] Speaker C: I don't know, man. Aaron's. This is a lot of money for a league that I'm gonna finish in seventh place every year. I don't know if I'm donated to the, to the, to the, to. To the, to the AARP League. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Are you. [00:07:23] Speaker C: I don't know, man. I'll be honest. I'll be. I'll be honest now. I'm shaky. [00:07:27] Speaker A: Is this a soul crushing loss? [00:07:29] Speaker C: I. It's. It feels like I'm shaky. I don't know if I got what it takes to be in this league. I don't watch enough. But baseball, to be honest, like these guys are like, oh, this guy got a run last night. I'm like, what game were you watching that? You know, Jabroni, bench player from the freaking Pirates, you know, all of a sudden got a run last night. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Hey, the nl. I mean the nl, it takes, it takes. I'll say this. Jason, I think made a lot of leaps between year one and two. So I think year three would be a good step for him to get maybe 4 5th. [00:07:58] Speaker A: I think he's starting last year. [00:08:00] Speaker B: Last year he had no chance at even finishing really in the money this year. Like you said, he was kind. He got to what, second place maybe about six weeks ago. So he's. He's kind of, he's kind of flirted with it. He's just, you know, he's gotta, he's gotta commit to it. He's gotta commit to National League. And that's just the key. [00:08:18] Speaker A: What do you got? [00:08:19] Speaker C: I got to lose. I got to lose a lot of money. That's what I. [00:08:21] Speaker A: What's other three grand? [00:08:24] Speaker B: He's not that bad. I mean, Jason's probably the top guy when it comes to bonuses. [00:08:28] Speaker C: I am. I do get the bonuses. That's what pays for most of this stuff. I get dudes that get bonuses. [00:08:32] Speaker A: So. [00:08:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not, I'm not Danny in the league, man. This guy. I. What the heck did I say? I said something about him adding another or. I asked if they kept records of the league. I'm in another fantasy league and I got a guy that Leave. That keeps all the records. And Aaron's baseball league's been around for how many years, Aaron? Like 30 years or something like that? [00:08:54] Speaker B: I think 90, maybe longer since 90. 1990. 1991. I go look at, I'll go look at the trophy championship, take a photo of it. [00:09:02] Speaker C: So we're talking about like 35 years or something. So I asked, I asked on the call. I'm like, hey, do you guys keep records for the league, like, something? Because I said, Danny's got to be approaching, like, highest era ever in, like, fantasy history for a team. Danny pops off and just said, hey, I'll bet you ten grand I'm not. I'm like ten. [00:09:22] Speaker B: He's hanging out with Chris Berman. So, you know, he's got the, he's got the chat. [00:09:28] Speaker A: That's hilarious. [00:09:29] Speaker B: He's on his. He's on his little boat yacht there in Lake Havasu. While he's making calls. [00:09:35] Speaker C: There it is, making deals, man. He's wheeling, dealing. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Guys, I have to make a quick adjustments. We'll be back right after a quick break. All right, time for a little college football. First. This video, hopefully will be going out on video. You guys dig in the background or make little tweaks here and there. [00:09:59] Speaker C: You know, a little, little spice to it. I thought for a second just where I'm lined up. I was like, do I get a different shirt on or something? I got this little thing going on below. But, you know, it looks good. Little. A little extra for year two. You know, the budget apparently is expanding here at. Sources from the Sosa. Sources from the Soda. Soda, yeah. Sources from the sofa. Man, I can't talk already. [00:10:23] Speaker B: All that, all that NL garbage got him a little worked up. [00:10:27] Speaker C: I'm just flustered, man, which is, you know, you know, we're supposed to be talking college football, but we're just talking about my miserable fantasy baseball season. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Well, let me ask you this, Jason. How's your high stakes fantasy football draft go? Do you feel good about your team? [00:10:40] Speaker C: Oh, I don't. I feel okay about it. I feel like I, I nailed depth at running back. I feel. So that's where like, like late season, I feel that's where I'm at now. I will say my weakness in all fantasy football, I draft a lot of Bears when they become on the rap round. So my strategy for fantasy football generally in leagues is I don't draft quarterback early. I take quarterback late. I'm not taking Allen or Jackson or something like that. The skill players and running backs, wide receivers. I Load up on them kind of early and I'll take the third tier quarterback. So I was looking at. [00:11:22] Speaker B: So you got Caleb Williams. [00:11:24] Speaker C: I got Caleb. [00:11:25] Speaker B: All right. That's what, that's, that's what I thought. [00:11:27] Speaker C: You know, got Caleb Williams now week one starter. Behind that I added. I got Trevor Lawrence who's got a favorable matchup against Carolina. [00:11:38] Speaker B: I like that. [00:11:38] Speaker C: So. So the week to week matchup right here is like who I might be starting even though Caleb might be the long term start. So I'm feeling okay. Pretty competitive league. A lot of good guys in that league. So we'll see. I do like my other draft from my legacy team. I like that team. I like the team a little bit better. But I think overall. But I, I should like that team better. I had the second overall pick in the. On the high stakes when I had the 10th pick. So it was a little, a little shaky on the wrapper but CD lamp fell to me at 10 which I thought was a little bit of a steal early but just didn't like the wraparound of running backs at that point. [00:12:15] Speaker A: Well, I didn't even know about my draft in my league so I have. [00:12:20] Speaker B: To figure out what's next. I think I saw, I saw your message room or something. Computer generated draft team, right? Yeah. [00:12:28] Speaker A: Feel like I got it. Kind of got screwed. Not too crazy about my team yet. [00:12:33] Speaker B: Now is this a league, you know, the people or just when you signed up online? [00:12:37] Speaker A: No, I know the people. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Not the same people that screwed us 20 years ago and still owes money, right? [00:12:44] Speaker A: No. [00:12:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:45] Speaker A: I have not been invited since. [00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, you won a league and then they didn't pay. [00:12:50] Speaker A: I have, I have not but been invited back to any league I've won, Jason. I've won four leagues and they got kicked out of all them. [00:12:57] Speaker C: Wow. Too much winning or what's going on, man? [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean me and Rome. Me and Rome jumped in. I jumped in and helped them. The team, I don't know, it was about probably about like 20 years ago and there was guys like Percy Harvin. All these guys are like free agents. So we loaded up on them and then just like took off and just dominated. [00:13:16] Speaker A: It was a keeper. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Marvin was like really, really good. [00:13:19] Speaker A: So very similar to Aaron's baseball league. It was a whole bunch of old white guys. They've been doing this league for about 20 years. They've been drafting on paper before computers or before they even knew how to use them. So it was a keeper league. They kicked somebody out of the league and it Was a friend of my mom's husband. So that type of element of the football league, it was a keeper league. So I inherited a really shitty team. And yeah, with Aaron's help, he was basically code gm. We revamped the whole fucking thing. Brought that team from last place. And I think like, we got like just outside, like third or fourth on the first year. Second year we took the whole thing and they were not happy about it. [00:14:01] Speaker B: So, yeah, second, second year, we like dominated. I think we. We won by like almost 1300 points total. Like better than everybody else. We destroyed us. [00:14:11] Speaker A: It was really cool flipping that whole team around. Like, I actually felt like a real gm. It was amazing. But this team, though, I'll just talk about it really quickly. Maybe you guys can give me some feedback. What you guys think they got me Bo Nix as my starting quarterback. [00:14:27] Speaker B: All right. [00:14:28] Speaker C: I do like Bonix. I have him in my legacy fantasy league. I. I feel he's one to pop. I mean, I'm probably buying Aaron's Kool Aid a little bit with the Sean Payton element, but I feel, I feel there's gonna be some breakout here with Bonex. [00:14:41] Speaker A: I already started scouting out other ones, but the backups, Justin Herbert, as of now. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Okay. That's pretty good. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Wide receivers, Nico Collins, Mike Evans and And for backup wide receivers is Jerry Judy. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Josh Downs. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Downs of the Colts. Right. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:02] Speaker B: It's not bad. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Not bad. Collins, I'm guessing was either your first or second pick because he's been end of first round, early second round in most leagues that I've been in. So not bad. So I'm guessing you probably had a late first round pick. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Unless you getting older. But decent running backs still guaranteed a thousand yards. [00:15:23] Speaker B: Okay. Genti. I like it. [00:15:25] Speaker A: I like that one. [00:15:27] Speaker C: So Genti was probably your first pick then because he's going. He's going in first rounds, end of first rounds, basically. [00:15:34] Speaker B: It should. It should probably tell you your draft order if you log in on who you took or how it took it. [00:15:40] Speaker C: But you probably got Genti then Collins. This would be my guess. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:46] Speaker C: Who got after Genti? [00:15:48] Speaker A: I'm not really sure. I'm just going down the roster. But Devon Hin. [00:15:54] Speaker C: Okay. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Backup running back is Jordan Mason and DeAndre Swift. [00:16:03] Speaker B: Okay. [00:16:04] Speaker C: Also not bad. You got. I mean, so Swift's a starter for the bears. I mean, HN and Genti, you got two basically top 10 running backs out of that. So, I mean, yeah, get that pretty. [00:16:15] Speaker B: Deep each hand, you get the ppr. He's gonna get a Lot of catches for sure. [00:16:20] Speaker C: Yep. Mason's backup running back, so unless Jones doesn't get hurt. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:28] Speaker C: So he's gonna get carries, but I, I think he could take carries away from, from Jones. [00:16:32] Speaker A: I thought Swift was losing carries in Chicago. [00:16:36] Speaker C: Swift isn't losing carries, but they haven't really talked about like who you lose carries too. There's just talks about who because Roshan Johnson hasn't really established the setup. They drafted a good running back out of Rutgers that's more of a power back. But Swift's still going to carry the load. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Swift's probably going to get what, 15, 18 touches a game if all goes well. Likely. Yeah. So. Yep. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Tight ends got Sam Laporta. [00:17:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:06] Speaker A: Detroit for the Lions. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Yep. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Dalton Kincaid from Buffalo. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:11] Speaker C: Okay. [00:17:12] Speaker A: And then what else? James Connors, a flex Arizona. [00:17:22] Speaker C: Is this a 10 team league? [00:17:26] Speaker A: 12, I believe. [00:17:30] Speaker C: I'm. I'm super curious how your people draft because like, because between HN and Genty, those are like top 12, 13 picks and Collins is too. So I don't know if they're reaching for quarterbacks early in your league, which probably tells me they are and not knowing the scoring system because I'm in some, I'm in some leagues where quarterbacks just are just on the back burner. Like you take skill players and that's where it's at. But, but I go in other leagues and they fall in love with quarterbacks in like the second round. So it sounds like your, your group may fall in love with quarterbacks which in a lot of fantasies they can help deliver a title. But if you have one running back that goes down your sol. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean Connor's probably, I mean he's a starter too. So you got three guys are, you know, the number one backs for their team. [00:18:16] Speaker C: Four. He's got four. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:20] Speaker C: Connor Swift, HN and Genti. He's got four starters which is, I mean that's depth. So hey, the computer GM, you know, top tier. That's good reviews. [00:18:31] Speaker B: AI AI is doing his job. [00:18:33] Speaker A: Kicker is Evan McPherson, which Cincinnati kind of struggled last year. And then defense is Kansas City. I'm not a big fan of that one. [00:18:44] Speaker C: That's a tough defense, defense. Yeah. You add and subtract every week you play the matchups with defense, you know who are, who are the New Orleans Saints playing this week? [00:18:55] Speaker B: Arizona Cardinals. [00:18:56] Speaker C: There you go. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah, the Cardinals D. It's not a bad team. [00:19:00] Speaker A: No, no, I, I mean you got. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Good, you got good players everywhere. So. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I started scouting. There's like a lot of maybe it is. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:08] Speaker A: I started scouting the free agents already, but I guess I'll look at the draft. That's kind of interesting. I didn't get a chance to look. [00:19:14] Speaker C: I would. I would say there's probably not much in free agency if those are the starters that you got out of that league. [00:19:20] Speaker B: So you got. Was it 12? 12 starters. I wasn't keeping track, but quarterback, two. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Wide receivers, two running backs, a tight end, one flex. [00:19:30] Speaker C: So nine starters and a kicker. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Right. And a defense. 11 and 12 teams in the league. [00:19:39] Speaker A: So it's allegedly. [00:19:41] Speaker B: All right. That's not a bad team. I. I would start Bo Nicks this week. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Against Tennessee. Yeah. [00:19:51] Speaker A: All right. Let's get the show on the road, as they say. [00:19:57] Speaker C: I'm sure it's been. I'm sure it's been a riveting conversation. The first 15 minutes, hearing people talk about my fantasy baseball teams that are going into the crapper and your auto drafted. Fantasy football league. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Auto drafted. I've never done autograph before. And I was like, what the hell? And it was Eli Aaron. You know Eli. Eli. [00:20:17] Speaker C: I heard Eli Manning. Eli Manning. [00:20:21] Speaker A: He actually works for CBS Sports doing baseball analytics. Go figure. [00:20:26] Speaker B: Eli lies. You know, like the New Jersey mice commercial says, this guy is a piece of work. [00:20:35] Speaker A: I told him he looks like Steve Martin. Steve Martin from the Jerk. He didn't like that. While giving that same look. [00:20:47] Speaker B: It's good stuff. I. I was. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what he does Rome, but he gives a lot of. Like, he was giving you a lot of. A lot of gambling picks. He was a good guy to fade. If you're betting the opposite, you're making some good money there for a good stretch. When he was giving him the Rome. [00:21:00] Speaker A: Jason, we were having food at his wife's Thai restaurant. He did the whatever. I'm not gonna go into on the spot. I could go to a controversy segment, but his wife, Ty, works at a Thai restaurant, and the baseball games were on, and he. He was bragging about how good he gambles because I was showing him, you know, our record from. From the football baseball season just started. This guy puts in a couple hundred bucks on his, like, little fanduel account and starts betting like, the angel game. Loses it within 30 minutes. It was pretty impressive. So you put in more money and loses that by the end of the game. And I told him, like, don't do that, dude. Don't do that. You know, they're gonna bounce back and whatever. I can't remember what happened. But he lost 300 bucks in a matter of an hour and a half. It was pretty impressive, but I was like, I would like to bring him onto the pod. [00:21:51] Speaker C: Would you? Is he. We're just gonna fade him. Just. I had to give it up. And then we just take. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Go the other end 100%. [00:21:57] Speaker C: Well, I'd say tying it back in this week. So I had a friend this weekend. He's. He's a. He's a big college football fan and he just. He'll text us, you know, just. College football. Yeah. But like, every year, he gives us his. His top teams of college football. It's generally like four of the top five team teams are his teams for the year. It's like, oh, yeah, Bama's gonna be really good this year. Texas is gonna be really good. Like. Like, yeah, no, they're gonna be good. So this weekend. This weekend he just says like, oh, yeah, he's the biggest. Arch. Arch Manning homer and our group text and everything like that. And so Texas goes down. Arch looks like crap. Bama goes down. I'm like, yeah, don't be a top 10 team and be this guy's favorite team because he's just a hex on them all. I was like, knows nothing about college football. I was. I was. I was a little hopeful because I went and saw him that light for one of the drafts we did, and he. He just hates on my team. So he's just like, notre Dame's gonna get crushed. I'm like, oh, Notre Dame's gonna win. I was like, he's just gotta fade him. He's gonna think that almost came true. Almost what? Didn't come there, but they came back. [00:23:04] Speaker A: I was impressed. [00:23:05] Speaker C: They did come back, but. Yeah, I got a friend like that too. He fade on everything because he's a big college football expert that just gets everything wrong. [00:23:12] Speaker A: I had a friend. Well, Ricky, he was on the show on. On the radio station. Any NFL picks, I'll just do the opposite of his. All right, let's recap. First 20 minutes of the pod talking about fantasy football and bad bets. It's good stuff. We're gonna recap Week one in college football. It was pretty exciting. Lots of big names went down, some tough games and some reordering of the top 25. I wasn't as hard on some of the teams as some of the pundits were. We'll get to it. Like Arch Manning in Texas, you know, tough loss. Tough. Tough place to play to be for your first game. I guess as a Starter. But you had your notable blowouts like Illinois 52, 3, Georgia, big one against Marshall. Penn State destroyed Nevada. Iowa State came out swinging. They're looking pretty exciting in the, in the, in in the first two weeks already. I kind of hope it kind of stays like that. Oklahoma had a big win. Oregon destroyed Montana State. And I think those are like some of the blowouts. Florida against who knows who and Texas Tech, lots of people are picking them to make some waves this year. But is there any games that kind of stuck out between you guys before we start going over the top ones? [00:24:39] Speaker B: Rome, you know, you're talking a lot of blowouts. You missed a real obvious one. It was a late night one, but yeah, I mean, I know Jason was all over it, but Utah just whipped the out of ucla. There's no two wins about that. [00:24:54] Speaker A: I, I did not see that coming. I was a lot more hopeful. People were up on Utah, but I did not see that coming. That's Utah did not or UCLA did not look good. [00:25:05] Speaker C: Well, you know, you know, I question you guys about in our, in our superbook league. You guys betting ucla. I don't know what you were seeing from Sean Foster on this right now. Some on this, but yeah, I mean, no bueno. I mean, UCLA's former quarterback was doing a lot more than their current quarterback did good. [00:25:26] Speaker A: He did good. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean it looked good for Tennessee against Syracuse, their guys. So, I mean, look, ucla, I was on them. I mean, I thought they would at least cover the six. I thought they would look a lot better. But Utah just, I knew Utah was going to be improved. But Utah, we talked about it. Big 12, I mean, the Big 12 better watch out because Utah's for real. And I think Jason and I had them second or third in that conference. Utah's gonna be a real threat and a real player in the Big 12. No doubt about that. [00:26:00] Speaker C: They really were. And I, I know I was high on them all last year thinking they were just gonna snatch the Big 12 and ended up not with all the injuries and everything that was going on with them last year. But I'll tell you, the dominant fashion really made me consider as I picked Arizona State for the Big 12. I'm like, man, I shouldn't, I shouldn't abandoned Utah so early. It's a long season. I think there's still all that parody in the Big 12. And once they start to get a conference play, it's still anyone's game. But I think it's an impressive way to start the season on ucla. Side, man, I don't know if the Big Ten is the right fit for them. I mean, they're losing the old PAC 12 schools at this time too. But man, I was like, I don't know what they're going to look like when they start playing these Big Ten schools here two years in a row or just. We're just. They're going to be the bottom of the bottom in the Big Ten. [00:26:43] Speaker A: They were very competitive last year. Lots of close games, but it could have just been like first year luck underneath Deshaan Foster, who knows? [00:26:53] Speaker B: I. I don't know. I mean, like you said, Rome, they were competitive in a lot of games last year. I expected UCLA to take the next step. They've got a tough matchup of UNLV this week. We'll get into that game. But 02 on the horizon for UCLA is a real possibility. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Most likely 100%. Yeah, I thought Ole Miss looked really good. Arizona State had a pretty good win. Smu, South Carolina, good win against Virginia Tech. Big win for me. I was getting nervous though. I was about to text you guys, like, my bad guys, because the first half is pretty tight. They were down and I'm like, tough first week in college football. But I guess we could talk about the big games here because a lot of noise happened. Some big dogs went down. Let's start with Alabama and Florida State because that game just kind of sticks out of my head. And we were talking about it and Florida State was a loaded it a loaded team. Just two years removed from almost making it or getting screwed over from not playing in a national championship. Yeah, bad year last year. [00:28:02] Speaker B: They got screwed over by Alabama. They. They taught them a lesson on Saturday. [00:28:06] Speaker A: They got. They had a bad year last year. Just like a couple tough losses and you know me mentally, they. Everything went off the rails. So you kind of figure this would be a good bounce back here. I don't want to jinx it. And Alabama, you figured Kevin Kellen De Poor has to take a next big step in year two, but God damn, dude. Did you see the post conference? We posted some of the videos on IG and this guy just looked lost. A reporter asked him like, oh, you're talking about like, you guys had a great week of a preparation leading up to the game. He's like, what are you talking about? [00:28:40] Speaker C: Who. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Who said we had a great week? He's like, you did. He's like, what I did, huh? [00:28:44] Speaker B: What? [00:28:44] Speaker A: This guy looks loss and I don't know if he makes it till the end of the Year maybe it's an overreaction but Alabama's in trouble and Florida State they look legit. I think they're gonna make some noise this year. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Rome I told, I told you that they have an outside shot at making the College Football Playoff. I think Jason even was kind of on the bandwagon a little bit too as a team in the ACC to keep an eye on. But look Florida State you talked about a Rome they have top 25 talent there. They always have. They've recruited well the transfer portal comes in good. They just didn't have a quarterback last year and their offensive line was God awful. You add those two combinations together and you're going to get a God awful offense. And their defense wasn't as bad as the number show just they were on the field 80 time you're going to get worn out and beat coming in. I said back in January that they made two A plus hires at coordinators Gus Malzan OC Tony White DC Coordinator brought in a new coaching staff. He did talk about that the team bought in. Tommy Castellano's coming in over as a quarterback. He basically called Alabama out in June and said we're gonna whip your ass. Nick Saban ain't here to save you. And he's right. He was in Columbus, Ohio watching that ugly festival game we'll get into but Florida State and there was a biggest winner on Saturday. It was them I think Utah we talked about was a big winner and we'll get into the game too but I thought Florida State, Utah, LSU are my three biggest winners out of college football's basically week one Saturday kickoff. [00:30:22] Speaker C: Yeah I give, I give Aaron this I mean he's been he, he's. He knows his team well enough a year ago on where they were at and at that time going to get blown out by Notre Dame and what that debacle of a season for them it turned into but in the off season knew what they had to course correct and in a very the ACC probably not respected as much as a conference compared to the you know money powerhouses that have the SEC and now Big Ten have become as these main two but the ACC's got some schools you know Miami's invested a ton with Cristobal. Clemson's obviously had this legacy history with Debo and then you know Florida State you know they Eric Aaron said were what 18 months ago or whatever it was. You know they were 130 get snubbed from the playoff and everything which happened like so they definitely if a different season last Year this is probably like a ranked versus ranked opponent. You know, obviously the rankings are kind of BS to start the year as, as it is on the flip side from Alabama. Like, I don't think you can start any worse from an Alabama perspective. I mean, you can't lose games in Alabama, let alone lose three or four last year in Caleb DeBoer's first season and now you lose game one here and they're already talking about fire this guy. And so I don't, I don't know, I don't know how many. Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know how many car dealerships need to be donated to. I think it's like $70 million buyout this guy's got or something on a contract. So I mean they're gonna need some real under the table money going to the Alabama boosters if they think firing this guy. I think, I don't think they will. But man, it's not exactly easy here on out for Alabama either when you talk about their schedule generally in the sec, so. But all in all for Florida State it's, there's winnable games within the acc and they definitely could be a contender, you know, obviously with the Clemson, LSU game to a degree. But you know, Clemson was shakiest last year, still found a way, you know, to win and get in the playoffs. I kind of feel that's kind of where they're at this year. And you know, obviously Miami was impressive, but Florida State, you know, depending who's on the schedule, man, they make a run at it and I wouldn't be surprised if they're, they're knocking on the door to a playoff spot too. [00:32:36] Speaker A: I know this is after just week one, so it's overreaction, but maybe this conference is on the up. Maybe they get two teams in the playoff this year. Yeah, I was thinking, I was going. [00:32:44] Speaker B: To say that room, I think two teams is a real possibility. [00:32:46] Speaker A: They were kind of close to it last year. [00:32:50] Speaker C: They got two last year. [00:32:51] Speaker B: That's right. [00:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:52] Speaker C: Yep. [00:32:53] Speaker A: May maybe just happens the quarterback though. Aaron, your guy's new guy, he didn't get a lot done in the air, but he just tore it up like they just let him run. He got a lot of carries. Touchdown. Running it. [00:33:04] Speaker B: They rushed. Florida State rushed for, what was it, 234 yards against an Alabama defense. Which is crazy. I mean Alabama, it's almost impossible to get 100 yards against these guys. And they just came out and it's not, you know, you watch games and you go like, hey, you know, that was a kind of a fluke win or, you know, they kind of got lucky. I mean, Florida State, if you actually watch that game, just whipped Alabama in every aspect. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Physically, Physically. [00:33:31] Speaker B: They beat him both on the offensive, defensive line of scrimmage. They were just better coached. You talk about Kellen DeBoer, he's lost four games against unranked opponents here in the year. Plus, it's, it's interesting because you talk about the buyout he's got and, you know, be interesting to see what Alabama does because really the three finalists for that job to replace Nick Saban was Steve Sarkeesian at Texas, DeBoer who got the job, and then Mike Norvell at Florida State. Those were basically the three guys Alabama wanted. And it came down to Norville and DeBoer. Norvell decided to stay at Florida State, killing. DeBoer went to Alabama. He doesn't fit there. He's not a guy that, I mean, I'm with you, Rome. I don't think he wants to be there. Like, Washington was like the perfect school. Pacific Northwest, quiet. You recruit well. Not a lot of pressure to win. You can, you can win nine, 10 games. Even when they transferring over to the Big Ten, Alabama is just a whole. Another animal. And with nil now, it's going to be tough because you're not going to get the best players anymore. And Alabama is going to be. We'll see what they end up. But they might be a 6 and 6, 7 and 5 team based off that schedule as the year goes on. They don't have a quarterback from what I saw either. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Here's one. I'll go ahead. [00:34:45] Speaker C: No, I was gonna say, as we got into why like Caitlin DeBoer is there, obviously coming off that national title game appearance with Washington, he just became a lucrative, like, hot coach from a free agent perspective. But the one thing about that throughout the entire process was literally like the agent side of that entire thing because I think Jimmy Sexton, I think is his agent who also represents Saban and Kirby Smart in Sarkeesian and Norvell and Lane Kiffin, Jimbo Fisher. [00:35:14] Speaker B: All those Big Gu guys. [00:35:15] Speaker C: Yeah, all these guys. So like this guy's getting in it because Norvell got a raise from Florida State. Sarkeesian gets a raise out of it too. And so, you know, hey, Alabama, these are your three guys. You want it? Great. I'll play. These other schools against each other. They all get raises. Deborah gets the big contract. So I think that's a bunch of the games behind the scenes, when you talk from an agent, thing is like is it the best fit like Aaron said? Yeah, probably not. But we're playing like hey, where does an agent get in there to get you the best deal possible? And then also get all of his other clients raised around college football because hey, they're a candidate for this job. And we want to keep Norvella, Florida State, we want to keep Sarka in Texas, we want to keep, you know, Kirby Smart in Georgia. Like those are all the things to kind of like look out of. Like why moves are made to a certain point. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Here's one thing. You never want to follow legend like Nick Saban. [00:36:04] Speaker B: No. Especially when he's still on top. When he's on top and winning, it's tough. [00:36:09] Speaker A: Look at the Lakers after Phil Jackson left or the Bulls after Phil Jackson left. Even even though Belichick didn't do well towards the end of that. It just took it even a, a bigger dip after he left the Patriots. You know, it's just a tough act to follow and you just gotta let stuff reset. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Man. [00:36:27] Speaker A: That was a bad job to take. [00:36:28] Speaker C: Absolutely. And just think of like where like Alabama was pre, like Nick Saban like other trash. Yeah. In our, in our entire childhood, were they like irrelevant? I mean their past glory was they're. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Like the Cowboys Bear boys talking about Bear Bryant. [00:36:46] Speaker C: I mean. Yeah, it's Bear Bryant. I mean it's beyond the Cowboys because it's like, you know, we're talking about this, what the 60s and 70s at that point and stuff like that. So because you know the 90s we're thinking about you know, University of Miami and like Nebraska even, even like Oklahoma to, to a degree, USC in the early 2000s. So you to follow the legend. But also in like a state like Alabama that's so into their football where they're at didn't have this winning forever and then they're the most dominant thing ever. And Nick Saban cements himself is the greatest college football ever. You definitely don't want to follow that. And now to just to, to not even just have some losses but like Aaron. So you said four against unranked teams and like was it four last year? [00:37:29] Speaker B: Well, I think three last year. And then you had. Florida State was unranked this year. So four in the year plus and. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Even get to the gambling stuff on it. They're like unranked and these are like double digit dogs they're losing to in a lot of these instances too. I don't know where with the Florida State line in it, but yeah, they were down. [00:37:45] Speaker B: They were 14 point underdog or 14 point favorite against Florida State. They lost to Vanderbilt. They were 21 plus points against them. I mean, I mean Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt's really what started this slide. Let's be honest. Alabama was number one. Kellen Deborah looked good. They beat Georgia, they beat Carson back. They remember they jumped out to. Was it like a 35 nothing lead? Georgia came back, rallied, but they won that game. Vanderbilt's what really started it. I mean that since that game they lost to what, Michigan in the bowl game too, right? [00:38:13] Speaker A: I think they did. [00:38:14] Speaker B: They did. And I mean, I mean Michigan basically tells you we're running off guard, off tackle, wide sweep punt. That was Michigan's offense last year. [00:38:26] Speaker A: We should talk about Michigan later on. [00:38:28] Speaker B: We're going to get into them. [00:38:30] Speaker A: Since you did mention Carson Beck, I guess we'll just transition to the other game that we got to talk about. Notre Dame, Miami. It was, it was so epic and kind of shitty. Oh no, Jason, go ahead and talk about it because I don't want to like laugh the whole time and you. [00:38:51] Speaker C: Just want to laugh the whole time. You just want to like drink in my tears here right now. [00:38:55] Speaker A: I don't, I don't. Because Nora, Dave was one of my picks to win the Natty. And you know, it's only week one, right? [00:39:00] Speaker B: Notre Dame's fine. Notre Dame's fine back. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Actually looks like a decent quarterback again. [00:39:05] Speaker C: Yeah, there is definitely some throws out there that, hey, this is a guy that can pick up, you know, where Cam Ward left off. It's a different style quarterback. But when we talk through like what University of Miami is under the Mario Crystal Ball era, like Cristobal is a recruiter. Like plain and simple. The guy gets dudes and he brings a level of athlete to the programs he's at. Like just, he's gonna, like the team's gonna feel like a pro team because he's getting top tier talent in there. So this Miami team already looks different than the Manny Diaz era, you know, of type of guys that they got in there. So I, you look at the trenches for Miami like, hey, this is a, this is, this is somebody up front in the front four in the defense that can stack up against an SEC school potentially. And like was always Notre Dame's thing too, so. But, but Miami's the same way. They got the talent. So Beck looks good to slot with all these other guys and it's out. That's why, you know, I said Miami's going to make some noise in the acc because they're going to. They're going to. They have the out talent in most of the games. It'll be questionable on the coaching aspect, which maybe you saw a little bit at the end of this game with Notre Dame and mounting the comeback. Because, you know, as a Notre Dame fan, I'm always wondering, like, how are we generating offense? Because it's like we never have the quarterback that's really tearing you apart through the air. It's some scramble around for the athletic quarterback to get some runs. It's Jeremiah Love in the running game and making plays there. The defense stepping up in certain places. You know, Rome, you sent the text after I kind of conceded the game. It's not looking good. You come back, you're like, what the hell? The game's tied and the momentum seemed to be going all in Notre Dame's way. And you know, Aaron even said for him out the air, if it does go to overtime, I think Notre Dame was kind of in the driver's seat, but I think Notre Dame's okay. They have a Tough Game Week 2 against Texas A and M. This was always a thing like, hey, we got a front loaded schedule, you know, Texas A and M at home, but still a tough game. But then after that, USC is probably the only big opponent down the stretch and they still look at. Okay, so if you have, worst case scenario, they lose to Texas A and M and you lose close. Okay. Your two worst losses or two losses of the year are to rank teams that, you know, have strong strengths scheduled. Notre Dame will be okay, but still a disappointing loss coming off of the national championship game, you know, losing that. But even as beat up as Notre Dame was going into it, you figure, hey, we're gonna have a bounce back here. But you start a was he 19 year old freshman quarterback they have in car, you know, just didn't look good. Everything was a check down. I don't know where to get into the Arch Manning game yet, but, you know, they were doing things to give car some completions, Carla. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Better than Arch Manning. I'll just leave it at that. [00:41:54] Speaker C: He did, he did. [00:41:55] Speaker B: I didn't, I didn't like the Notre Dame game plan. We'll get into Texas too. But I didn't like this. They wrote three like six straight check downs to check the game. There was no vertical passing game. They kind of opened it up and let him run a little bit. But yeah, I didn't like Notre Dame's offensive game plan. Really. The first half of that Game. [00:42:11] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's really kind of where they, you know, fell behind and, and where it was going. And then there's other things as they look at from the rushing attack too, like Jadarian Price, you know, had the biggest run of the, of the game for them, only got six carries. And then Jeremiah Love like they did this last year, and you know, he's the most dynamic place. No player Notre Dame has on offense only gets 10 carries himself seemingly taken out in certain drives. And what they're going to do to get. Because he's just such a dynamic player, what they can get to do and only getting him 10 carries, even if you're trying to split the running back load, we're not getting enough done on the ground. [00:42:49] Speaker B: So are they saving him not to get hurt? I mean, I mean, he got hurt up last year, but are they just kind of like bringing him along slowly? I mean, I didn't really get that. [00:42:59] Speaker C: That was kind of my question. You have two strong pass because Jadarian Price is, is really good too. He has, he has some strong breakaway speed, can get through the hole. And so I think I'm looking at. [00:43:08] Speaker B: The stats right now. You want to who had the most carries in that game? Jason, C.J. [00:43:12] Speaker C: Carr. [00:43:12] Speaker B: The car. The quarterback. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:15] Speaker B: And you got two legit running NFL running backs. [00:43:18] Speaker C: Yep. [00:43:19] Speaker B: So, I mean, look, I, I thought what they did with car running there in the fourth quarter was pretty nice because, I mean, Miami looked a little fatigued and tired. But I'm with Jason. I mean, they came out the first three drives and probably ran the ball once out of their first 10 plays and was punt, punt, punt. I was just like, what, what are they doing? I mean, get the run game going, get some play action, take some shots downfield, hit the tight end. But it was like screen pass, check down, check down, screen pass. You know, quick hitch. That's all they were doing. In fact, the hitch led to, I believe, an interception there in the third quarter or something for him too. [00:43:55] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And the tight end, you know, most targeted person on the field too. So what could it have been? If we got more play action out of the running game to really open that up too. So I think there's something there, but I don't know. I don't think Jeremiah loves her. But late in the season you remember too, like he was getting spelled out of the game during some important moments would come and play flashes. So I'm not sure how they manage his load, but that, that's got it with a rookie Quarterback, you know, is he, he's a true freshman or whatever. He's like 19 years old for C.J. carr. Like, you're gonna need these pieces around him as they go. And now another tough game, too. It's not like Notre Dame, you know, you didn't start with, you know, South Dakota State, A and M University. Like half these teams did, you know, this week, hey, they, they're playing big boys week one and week two to get into the season. So, you know, the Notre Dame schedule isn't easy, but they're going to have to really pick it up. And you know, especially some of those questionable games down the stretch where you, you know, I'm thinking always like game versus like Louisville or Duke or Boston College or something that gets closer than it could appear is like, they can't lose those games this year if they're going to be a competitive team. But a bounce back win versus Texas A and M, I know, you know, they didn't, they were having that surge late last year and finding themselves. I think A and M still a tough opponent, but it'll be tough if they lose. But I, I think it'll be, it'll be a good win for them if they win. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:19] Speaker C: Perspective. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Looking over their schedule, they got A and M after this bye week. Tough game. Few weeks out at Arkansas, that won't be easy. And then usc. Outside of that, the schedules lines up great for Notre Dame, I mean. [00:45:33] Speaker C: Yep. [00:45:33] Speaker B: They beat Texas A and M last year. That was a close game at Kyle Field. They're in College Station. We'll see what A and M got. They didn't look great last week. I do like A M this week against Utah State. But that's gonna be a close game. It's gonna be a battle, no doubt about it. You're gonna go against a good defense. They're going to throw some stuff at the quarterback. I think you're going to get a heavy dose of the run game. And Texas A M did not look good against a run game last week against University of Texas San Antonio. So we'll, we'll see what Notre Dame does. But I, I feel pretty good about Notre Dame still making the playoff. I saw something that made me real happy. They're projected to play Florida State in the playoff. As a no fan, I'm dying to get back at Jason and Notre Dame for what they did to us last year. I would love to go back to South Bend and in their playoff hopes, so I'm all for that. That's what it ends up Becoming. [00:46:21] Speaker A: That's funny. Well, a lot of people like CJ Card, CJ Carr looked really good, at least at the end of the game. Had a lot of poise. So for only B19 for first game, I think it's a lot to look forward to. Price looks like they're stretched him out a little much with like equal pass run plays. I'm not sure if that was a game plan last year. I can't remember all too much but he was like on a lot of routes there. [00:46:43] Speaker C: You're talking about love, not Price, right? [00:46:46] Speaker A: I'm sorry. Yeah, love. [00:46:47] Speaker C: Okay. [00:46:50] Speaker A: I was watching the tennis match as well. I think Townsend was playing at that point and it was also a Real Madrid game at that point. [00:46:57] Speaker C: Yeah, but anyways you need, you need the three TV setup if you're going to do all that at the same time. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Rome, I was at the Oakland Athletic Club. It seems like that's gonna be my new spot there. They have a bunch of TVs, they have pool tables and they have a free all you can play NBA Jam and NFL Blitz Arcade. And I think if anything that's gonna be my new spot to hang out. [00:47:23] Speaker C: There's a jam man. The NFL Blitz man, Arcade style. I will say this, going into, we didn't get much into Notre Dame in the, in the preview show that we did in college football. But if you look at college football across the landscape, once these teams get into contention, a lot of them are like, hey, we have all the surrounding talent and then we're going out into the nil market and buying a quarterback. Look at Miami with, they did with Cam Ward and back even Riley Leonard with Notre Dame last year. And you're bringing the fifth year senior, the sixth year graduate student or whatever. Just a quarterback. All the talent around there for Notre Dame, probably not national championship material this year, but you look at investing in a freshman quarterback like C.J. carr, hey, this is an investment into the future of a guy that's going to lead the offense over the next couple years. And so I think, I don't want to say they're taking a pass at this year by any means because I still think they have a ton of athletes around him. He's going to get better. And as Aaron said, there's a favorable schedule matchup, but it is developing a quarterback which a lot of these college teams aren't doing. We're just going out and buying other people's, you know, development projects and bringing them in as a graduate student. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Not fair. Take. Speaking of shitty play calling Aaron, I agree with you on that for Notre Dame but I did not like Texas play calling either. On their loss to Ohio State they only lost 7 to 14. Pretty close game. Archman did had a really nice throw to get that a little bit closer but they had really had no time to do anything else after that. Julian say in freshman quarterback as well. I think what he's only 18, 19 as well. Pretty decent game defenses. Everybody looked kind of stiff. I think it was just like a lot of pressure. Jason, you were talking on Arch Manning on the text. A lot of people on socials are saying he, he was just missing a lot of easy throws and I don't know like he also had like that weird Mahomes side wine throw as well and not what I expected from highly touted next prodigy quarterback of the Manning family. [00:49:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I was, I was joking. I'll say this put this out there for Rome. He's giving some crap on it. I don't think this is anything Arch Manning's fault when it comes to like the hype that's bestowed upon him. Like the last name is fueling people now the last name's also getting him like a million freaking commercials. While I'm watching the broadcast. [00:49:58] Speaker A: I did not like that. [00:50:00] Speaker C: I was like this guy's sponsored better than a Formula one driver for high end brands that he's, that he's sponsoring during the game. But I don't think he's, he hasn't gone out there and ever said anything about like you know, what media and everyone's hyping him up to be because of his last name. You know I, I think there was something to be said him coming out with such a, being such a highly tatted prospect and as bad as Quinn Ewers was playing last year, how he never really snatched the job away from him when he did get the couple of opportunities. So really what was going to be his step as he went into this first year as being the full time starter and against hey the former national champions in their house kicking off the season. I don't know if the expectations were necessarily real from anyone talking of what he could do now with that said, it still was pretty poor performance because he never looked comfortable the entire game dropped back to pass. Like nothing about it felt smooth that you would feel from a guy of you know, his pedigree, the talent that he has, the reps that he's gotten and just him as overall as a quarterback. Nothing about those fellas too. So you blame the play calling. Could have been Valid for me. He just wasn't even executing the plays they were calling when it came to throwing, like, hey, we're throwing balls into the dirt. The accuracy just wasn't seen there. He only really felt comfortable running, you know, whether it was him setting his feet right or anything, just because of the nerves going into that game, you know, whatever it was, it probably was a lofty expectation for him on the road to go in there, you know, Texas, again, again, a school with tons of talent, but you're playing against another school's got tons of talent on the other side too. And frankly, they weren't a world beater on offense either against the Texas team. You know, as much as we were talking to the game, how bad Arch was playing. Yeah, you're right. They lost 14 to 7. It wasn't like a blowout. They're within a score there. I think as you look at Texas's schedule and they're going to play like, you know, Bum State University for the next three weeks and, you know, they. [00:51:52] Speaker A: Tell a pretty schedule for a while. [00:51:53] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they got San Jose. Yeah, okay. San Jose State, utep, Sam Houston, like, okay. Schools that Texas is scheduling because they know, hey, we're supposed to beat these guys and blow them out. So I'm not going to be shocked if, if arch throws for 300 plus yards with like four touchdowns, you know, next week, and we just kind of get things rolling again because that's what he's gonna do. Hey, what confidence can we get in the offense and get him preparation before he plays Florida in like week five or six, whatever it is, because then you got these tough games against Florida, Oklahoma, back to back. That'll be kind of, you know, the pressure test. But again, first start, knew it was going to be, you know, it felt like a blowout because they weren't doing anything offensively, but then only losing 14, 7. So I mean, I, I respect these teams that play the actual real games against real powerhouses in week one. So, you know, always props to them for scheduling this up. I'm not freaking out if I'm Arch or the Texas fans or anything because I think there's more, you know, more to come and more growth and development for him. I just think the hype trains just got to die down a little bit, man. Like, you know, he hasn't said nothing, but everyone else wants to blow him up because, oh, man, we watched your uncles play and they were so great. So you're supposed to be great too. [00:53:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll say this, anybody who has Arch Manning to win the Heisman. They threw that ticket away. Like that's done. That's not going to happen. He's not going to win the Heisman. They're feeling bummed out after that game. Agree. Like he just never looked right. I mean, I'll say this, we can say we want. Arch Manning really hasn't played football in three years. I mean, he hasn't. He, he came out of high school as a, you know, a stud, a prodigy. The next big thing only played four non meaningful games really last year against weak opponents that they got coming up. They threw him to the wolves last year against Georgia, he looked bad. And then the other games he just came in around quarterback power against Texas A and M and some other stuff. So he's not really played against any real elite college football in two plus seasons. They throw them out there. The game plan. Steve Sarkeesian, this guy gets credited for being an offensive genius. I'm going to tell you right now, he sucks in the big games. This dude's offense sucks in the big games. Texas should have been running the ball way more. A lot more play action. We, we talk about James Franklin at Penn State getting all the that he gets. Steve Sarcasians won one big game, he beat Nick Saban at Alabama and now everybody praises him as an offensive genius. He got ran out of town at usc. Washington couldn't wait to get rid of his ass. Steve Sarkian is way overrated. And so I'm gonna grieve you, Rome. I thought his game plan sucked. He didn't do Arch Manning any favors. But Arch Manning, look at his footwork. I don't know who his quarterback's coach is too, but I might want to get rid of that guy because it was terrible. I mean, it looked like me out there being scared playing quarterback. That was terrible performance, dude. Terrible. It's gonna get better the next three games, but they got a big matchup of Florida. I'm interested to see where Texas looks because we talked about Texas, Alabama maybe being some players in the sec. Maybe they're on their way out. Maybe they're on their way out because LSU looks good. Mississippi, we'll see how they look. They, they could be looking good. Georgia, I'm not a big fan of their quarterback either. But that defense and the players that got there is still pretty stout. I, I was not impressed at all with Texas. And I mean, Steve Sarcasian, I mean everybody calls this guy, like I said, an offensive genius. I mean this guy, he just holds a clipboard and goes. Plays one through 15 and repeats that dude. That dude sucked on Saturday. [00:55:23] Speaker A: They were blowing him pretty hard on the telecast too. So a few things. Ohio State, defending national champions. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Can. Can we. Can we give praise too? I know Ohio fans might hate Ryan Day, but this dude wins a shitload of big games. Can we give the guy some love? And he plays big boy football too, in September, like Jason said. I mean, Ryan Day, I. I just saw Lou Holtz come out and take another shot at him and start that going again. But Ryan Day, man, give the guy credit. I know he hasn't beaten Michigan in like five years, but this dude plays big games. He has his team ready. He wins big games. Maybe the best big game coach in college football's Ryan Day. Nobody gives him any credit. [00:56:06] Speaker C: It is. It is hilarious. His overall win loss record stacking up against anyone and why this guy's even considered like question. I think we were comparing him to Sirianni last year where these guys have come in and done nothing but winning. But there's just something about him that just like the fan base this weekend, it was. Was there a questionable whether Ryan Day's nipples were pierced or something through the shirt? That was the other thing. Run running wild on Twitter. [00:56:30] Speaker B: Hey, you know, you win a national title, you got to get a tattoo. Some coaches do. Maybe some get their nipples pierced. You never know. [00:56:37] Speaker C: I don't know. There was a bunch of photos floating around Twitter just about like the tight T shirt and showing stuff over there. But yeah, I mean, Aaron's right. Got to give him props for what he's at in a big game. You know, they pronounced them dead after they lost to Michigan last year. They went through and just rolled everybody single person in the playoff. [00:56:53] Speaker A: I did, yeah. [00:56:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:56] Speaker C: I mean, I think everyone did because they look like they look like crap in that game. And you know, it's really going to take. They beat Michigan. I'm hoping that's the moment everyone kind of shuts up, but there's no reason they're not going to be rolling everyone else in the Big Ten this year. [00:57:08] Speaker A: I truly believe that Michigan beating them was the worst thing for the rest of college football. I think I was Texas national championship to win because that was really the only team really better than them. And it just, it really turned them around. [00:57:22] Speaker B: Rome, I don't know it's necessarily beating them, but I think it's the whole. That whole week led to that whole flag planning. Right. We saw that every school rivalries. That's what got him worked up the flag. [00:57:32] Speaker A: But then everyone's saying, like, you gotta go after that gamer won the fire. Remember that? [00:57:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you had that, but you had the players. The, the embarrassment the players saw from when Michigan did that. We could say about the layoff, you know, having three weeks a month, Ohio State actually benefited. Benefited from it because I think they got to sit back, reflect on it, and kind of look at each other right to left and say, we're better than that and let's go do it. And they just went out and did it because they dominated that playoff. [00:58:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Not 100, for sure. Let's talk real quick about LSU, Clemson, before we go into Aaron's college game of the week, because I think that's like the last one we got to talk about. [00:58:18] Speaker B: I'm good with that. [00:58:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yep. [00:58:23] Speaker A: I'm really happy LSU won. [00:58:24] Speaker C: Okay. [00:58:25] Speaker A: Destroying a blank right now. Just Rome. [00:58:28] Speaker B: I couldn't agree more of you. I don't like Clemson. I don't like Dabo either. So I enjoy seeing those suckers lose on Saturday. I'm gonna be honest. [00:58:35] Speaker C: I. I don't like either of the coaches, so I really wasn't rooting for one way or the other. But other than the fact that I had LSU in the pool and I think. I just think they're generally think they're going to be good this year. And as much as I want to dismiss Brian Kelly and everything he's all about during his tenure at Notre Dame and the way he left and stuff, like, he does bring in talent. There's talent in Louisiana always. You know, sty from an LSU perspective, they should be a player. I think they got what it takes this year. But I would say either one of these coaches losing is a smile in my day, unfortunately, there must be a winner. And it made us at least one win in this. In the, in the pickup pool we're in. [00:59:11] Speaker A: You know, I used to like Kelly a lot, but. Yeah, like, since he went to LSU and like he changed his accent, I. [00:59:16] Speaker B: Guess I'll say I. I still like Brian Kelly. [00:59:19] Speaker A: Why? [00:59:21] Speaker B: I've always liked Brian Kelly. I mean, I know Jason don't like him, but I. I think he helped resurrect Notre Dame. Got him where they at. And you know, Marcus Freeman's done a good job of continuing that and taking them to the next level. But, you know, with lsu, had lost what, five straight openers, tough games. I mean, they lost basically to USC last year in two games at Florida State when Florida State was really relevant and good. I thought unfair those losses Big win here at Clemson. But yeah, I agree with Jason. I mean it's what, it's a good one for us because we had him in the super contest college pick them. I had him on my own personal one and like I said, I, I don't believe in Clemson and dabble. All those guys saying they were going to go 16 0, that was an easy fade. That's not going to happen. Clemson's probably going to lose again before the season's done. [01:00:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean if you're looking at it, it's probably going to be, you know, they got Florida State, they got South Carolina, who's good and I guess SMU being their other tough game. The rest of their schedule is pretty mediocre. But yeah, I just think they get in, I think they could lose two games Aaron and just Clemson's got this like name value with Dabo and stuff that just makes them an attractive candidate to get in. Yeah, the Brian Kelly thing, I'll say I agree with the Aaron like he did resurrect Notre Dame and bring them where they're at. But I think there was a time at Notre Dame he was about to get fired because there was early success at Notre Dame and they're talking about, oh he's going to go to the NFL and you know, the Giants or some of these like organization, instrument then you know, fell on hard times, really had to change his style a little bit altered. You know, brought in some different coordinators and different recruiting stuff as they got going and did get them to the place where Marcus Friedman I think just has the better personality and fit for what Notre Dame needs. And, and Brian Kelly, you know, goes to a school that would say probably has more resources and talent and historically. [01:01:11] Speaker B: He wanted, he wanted more resources. He's never shy about that which, which. [01:01:16] Speaker C: Is fair I guess for me. And it's super petty, man. You just the, the opening press conference when all of a sudden you're going to try to do your fake Louisiana accent and whatever. I was like, you're from the Northeast, man. Like, okay, like I know this is not an original take it but spare me like super fraud stuff like just it feels like snake oil salesman crap. That's all in college football and like, and I know that recruiting and everything's a shady game and is this not like play around? This is all like, you know, dirty money switching hands and different stuff. But yeah, I think that's just like a non likable thing from the outside when you're looking for it. But I think he's assembled a heck of a team this year. I think they're going to make some noise in the SEC and I think it was a good, important first step for them against another ranked opponent. [01:02:00] Speaker A: Agree. Real quick, before we go to the games, what do you guys think about the new top 25? The new adjusted 25? Ohio State 1. Penn 2. LSU 3. Georgia 4. Miami 5. Oregon 6. Texas 7, Clemson 8. I think that's too high. Notre Dame 9. I would definitely have Notre Dame over Clemson, South Carolina 10. And then Aaron Ellis or Florida State going up to number 14. Some people had Florida State in their top five and, and their new power rankings, I guess. [01:02:35] Speaker B: I mean as far as how they looked last week. Yeah, you could say they were top five team. Now. I figured Florida State was probably going to be between 12 and 15. So four teams about right. I mean the top 10, I don't have an issue with it. I mean Miami, big win over Notre Dame. I mean lsu, Penn State, Ohio State, Georgia, Oregon. It all seems right. I mean I'm looking at, I don't know why Utah's only ranked number 25. To me they should be in the top 20 beyond 25. I mean I would have leapfrogged them over Indiana, Texas Tech, Alabama. I mean Alabama to have them over Utah, that's injustice for sure. That's SEC bias. And yeah, so that, that would probably be my only big outcry is I would have Utah higher than where they're at. [01:03:21] Speaker C: Yeah, Grimy. Seem kind of surprised with the Miami, but I mean for them jumping up five places because of, you know, three of these teams losing, you know, Miami setting themselves up pretty nice and it's, it's one of the reasons I, I picked them, you know, to get to the College Football Playoff. I, you know they're going to play Bethune South Florida. Winnable games they got. The hardest part of their schedule is a back to back Florida and then Florida State. So you know, biggest stuff right there. Do they split those and go one and one and you're looking at hey, maybe potentially eleven. One Miami team if they're ranked five now that gets in, they're, they're in the playoff. They go 11 and one. The only other big game down the stretch is going to be smu. So if we're not like a year ago Miami, where you know, they need the ref's help like Rome's calling out in a Saturday night on out in Berkeley or whatever. What was the other game that they had like a Hail Mary that they. [01:04:10] Speaker B: Friday night. [01:04:11] Speaker C: Yep. So unless you get some of those that they're gonna have to get passed and that's, I think that's where the, the test will be. Crystal ball, because yeah, that Florida, Florida State back to back on their schedule is going to be tough. But I think you split those one and one and you're talking about an 111 Miami team that's in the playoff right now where they're at the sec SCC teams can beat themselves up. But yeah, no, no issues with the top 25 in those top. But I'd agree with Aaron. Yeah, there's some questionable stuff there. Ole Miss, Aaron has been touting them, you know, as they kind of, you know. [01:04:41] Speaker B: You like, you like them this week, Jason, so you're on them. [01:04:44] Speaker C: I, I do like Ole Miss, man. I, you know, I, that was one, I'll be honest with you. You brought it up in the college football preview. I, I really like Lane Kiffin. If you want to talk about like the old coaching staff. Yeah, there's always something. It feels like it's there but they're always like missing a game that's going to lose them down the stretch and where it's at. I know there was a lot of conversation about, you know, them being potentially in the playoff last year but you know, they can make a run here in the sec. But you know, we'll see. I, I, I keep an eye on them but I do like them this week, I think. Big win versus Kentucky this week for Ole Miss. [01:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean touching on Miami. Their schedule comes down to really that kind of four game stretch with South Florida, Florida State, it was, they got Louisville in there, so they got, they got some games and then at the end of the year, Virginia Tech. So we'll see. I mean we talked about it. Crystal Ball, he recruits great talent. He's got those guys. But can Carson Beck stay healthy? He throws a couple, he throws a lot of passes that can get intercepted. And one of his players, Jason could note it, made a great one handed catch because that was going to be an easy interception. The safety basically had it squared up and the dude just came out, took it one hand. So Carson Beck throws a lot of turnovers and this team, this team is still young, Miami's still young. Their best wide receiver looks to be a true freshman. We'll see. Crystal Ball has always been known to kind of get in his own way. Bad clock management. I'm not, I'm not sold on Miami. Yeah, nice win over Notre Dame, but I, I'm, I'M more higher stock wise on Notre Dame going forward for the rest of the season than I am Miami. [01:06:20] Speaker A: Nice. Take a quick break. When we get back, Aaron's college games of the week. Okay, we got Aaron's college games to watch. Week two, complete with the Lions. He has some Friday and all Saturday games first. Real quick though, how'd you do in week one? [01:06:49] Speaker B: Week one in the super contest, college. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Your picks, your case. [01:06:55] Speaker B: My picks, my picks went 5, 2. Unfortunately, the two games I lost, I had them as our group play too. So that would have been Michigan and ucla. [01:07:07] Speaker C: You're only bringing losers in the stuff where my money's on the line. [01:07:11] Speaker A: We told you not to do the UCLA one. [01:07:14] Speaker B: Unfortunately. Unfortunately, Jason took lsu, which was in my personal one. And Rome, you had Oregon State, which was a big no no because Cal, who I had, just destroyed them. So that's just, you know, how it goes sometimes. [01:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah. No one had cows. [01:07:30] Speaker B: Jason's taken two of my three plays this week as well that I like. [01:07:33] Speaker C: So that just means. I know, it's just we, we just know there's good games out there and you and I are just like this, you know. [01:07:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's how it goes sometimes. [01:07:46] Speaker A: All right, for week two, are you placing bets on any of these games or like, are these showing. Shall we keep a track of all these games that you list on. On the games to watch? [01:07:57] Speaker B: Yeah, games. So yeah, I'll give you a side. I'll give you what I like. [01:08:01] Speaker A: That's what I meant from the week one. [01:08:04] Speaker B: So week, Week one, actually, in the games to watch on the spread, I went nine and four. Okay, so nine and four. The losers there. We all did take Texas. UCLA was a big loss and I had Syracuse plus 14 against Tennessee and Notre Dame. So those are the four games I lost last week. As far as games to watch on. [01:08:27] Speaker A: You know, you say one's unforgivable, but get every. Everything else is. [01:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I want to forget about that one. Definitely. In fact, that's why they're on there this week. And I'm looking to get a little revenge. But we'll get to that as we move down this list. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Okay, Aaron, give us the games to watch this week. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Games to watch week two college football Friday, we've got James Madison plus 13 and a half against Louisville. James Madison, we talked about his possible Group of 5 playoff team. Are they on the borderline? A win against a big time ACC school in Louisville would be nice. The line has come down. It came out at 15 when I saw it Mondays down to 13 and a half. I'm going to lean towards James Madison covering 13 and a half in this one so we'll see how that goes. [01:09:18] Speaker C: ESPN bets got it down to 12 and a half now. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Okay so yeah, the sharp money, the sharps like you know when you're like me and Jay Z, we're sharps. The line starts going down once we start giving the advice out. So it's by, by Friday morning it could be down to 11 and a half. The way if this pod gets out in time. [01:09:37] Speaker C: Tomorrow, I mean it's not on Aaron's games to watch. I'm gonna say I love, I love the good Thursday Friday night college football. The other Friday night game, it's not an Aaron's game so watch. So I don't want to step on Aaron segment but the Northern Illinois Huskies plus 16 and a half to the Terrapins. I, I kind of like Northern Illinois in that one a little bit too. If you're looking for some sneaky plays out there but just throw a little extra out there. [01:09:58] Speaker B: I did see it. I didn't like the way Maryland looked but Northern Illinois did not look great either. This looks like it's a home game for Maryland. I, I would probably take the points too but yeah, did not, did not make the games to watch. I mean Thursday they both start at the same time. Unless you got multiple TVs, you can only choose one game. We're going with James Madison, Louisville. I think it's a lot more better playoff pensions. All right, Saturday, Saturday we got a big game. Virginia, NC State, ACC. We talked about the ACC. Maybe Rome. We talked about being better, maybe getting two teams for sure again. Maybe three, maybe three teams from the ACC. Virginia, NC State. I like Virginia plus two and a half. They're going to go on the road, beat NC State. That sets up a big showdown a few weeks down the road against Florida State, which will be a Friday night game to watch. Just to preview. That's coming up later on Rome, you're all in. Iowa State, three point favorite against Iowa. Rome. This is maybe one of my top three or four games of the week. I couldn't agree more. I think Iowa State's gonna trash Iowa. Big game for them. They're looking really good. Won that opener against Kansas State. Came back with a big win last week. Iowa still can't throw the ball. Only what, 40 yards passing last week. Jason, I think from the quarterback. Iowa just runs the ball, plays defense. That's old school football. I don't see it working in this game. Give me Iowa State minus three. [01:11:24] Speaker C: You said it was 45 yards. I think that's the, like, I mean that's. That's maybe a high for Iowa at this point. You know, there's. They're still figuring out the forward pass. [01:11:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. They're stuck in the old wishbone triple option. You know, this isn't Navy and Army and we, we didn't even touch on. Was it the Navy that got upset or was it army that lost to that. I forget who they got beat to by, but. Yeah, one of those cadet schools got beat on Friday last week. Yeah, that was a good game. That was a good game. That kicker sucks, but he's doing push ups still as we speak right now. Rome. Sorry. [01:12:01] Speaker C: I had to look up because Iowa. Iowa State feels like they got like some weird rivalry trophy or like something or they call this game something. So I was, I was looking at what they play for. For the. The Battle of Iowa's here. [01:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they got to be playing for something. [01:12:17] Speaker C: Yeah, they play for the Cyhawk trophy with. I don't even know what that means with. With some corn in it. I figured it had to be corn related. But yeah, I was, I was expecting. Expecting something a little. A little more like. I don't know of. Of the land of the state. You know, you get these like, you know, goofy names that they're playing for some trophy that you never heard of or something. But everyone just goes crazy with it for the rivalry game. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, so we'll see. I mean, there's always playing for something, you know, state bragging rights. But Iowa State minus three. I like that one a lot. Then we got Baylor, two and a half point underdog, going to smu. SMU made the playoff last year. Baylor did not look good defensively in their opener against Auburn. Let that quarterback run all over them. I like SMU here. Rome minus two and a half. Baylor goes to zero and two. Things aren't looking good for them game. We talked about Illinois minus three against Duke. It sounds like me. Jason's leaning towards Duke pulling the upset against Illinois. He doesn't really trust the Fighting Illini. I'm going to go the opposite direction. I really don't trust him either, but I trust him more than I do Duke. I'll take Illinois minus three. If you're really going to be a player this year in the Big Ten and in the playoff, you got to go on the road and win this game. I see them doing that. Manny Diaz, he's taken over at Duke. Jason already just bashed him for what he did at Miami. I like Illinois minus three. [01:13:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, you're mischaracterizing me a little bit, Aaron. I, I, I just think Duke's a dangerous team throughout the year that can win it. I, I, I'm siding with you on this one. I think the align I win this one. I just think they're just a dangerous game every, every time. [01:14:01] Speaker B: This game's a sneaky 1. Kansas Six and a Half Point Dog at Missouri. Kansas is coming up, they're coming up in the Big 12. Is this a year that they are one of those teams that makes the top four? I think Kansas, if they win this game at Missouri could be what Arizona State was last year. That team that, you know, 6 8th place you think they're gonna get gets to the playoff. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Kansas covers six and a half against Missouri. It's gonna be a tight ball game. Missouri, I think finds a way to win. But give me Kansas six and a half. Mike Gundy say what you want about the guy. He's, he's been a winner his whole career there at Oklahoma State and he's great, he's great for the media. [01:14:42] Speaker C: And so he's a man, he's 40, but I think he's 50. [01:14:45] Speaker B: I think he might be 60 now. That's, I mean, but now he's, now he's calling out teams for having resources and spending money in the nil air and saying that's the only reason they win. [01:14:56] Speaker C: He don't got the T boon Pickens oil money still rolling. [01:15:00] Speaker B: He basically said Oregon's spending 40 and 40, 45 million on their team and he's only got 7 million on his budget. That's what he came out in the media this week and said. [01:15:11] Speaker A: Okay. [01:15:12] Speaker B: And I mean the la, the last coach in the last program that kind of, you know, took shots at Dan Lanning in Oregon was Deion Sanders. Colorado, we saw what happened when they went up there to Eugene. They got blown out. Guess what? Oklahoma State's a 29 point dog. They could have 59 points because they're going to get blown out here too. I like Oregon to cover 29. That's going to be an easy, easy win for them. South Florida beat Boise State last week, one of the bigger upsets in the college football regular season. Kickoff, 17 and a half point underdog against Florida. I'm curious, what side do you like on this, Jason? You buy in South Florida as a possible contender. I mean, they're, they're in the top five of that group of five teams with this outside shot at the playoff. They got a tough schedule here. You think they can go into Florida and get this win or at least keep it competitive? [01:16:04] Speaker C: I think it's a competitive game. 17 and a half is a lot of punch for floor. It's a lot of points for Florida. I mean, just thinking this could be recency bias, but I can't remember the last time Florida has had just this dynamic offense that could just out put up a bunch of people's points. I, I don't know. And I believe in Florida to get to the 17 and a half versus Florida. [01:16:26] Speaker B: I'm leaning that way too. But I like the under 56. I think it's gonna be a defensive battle. South Florida look good defensively against Boise State. Florida's got a pretty good defense too young. You got a veteran quarterback. Young quarterback. Under 56 is the side here. [01:16:38] Speaker A: Wow. [01:16:39] Speaker B: Yeah. So I like under 56. 17 and a half's a lot of points. I'm not sure if Florida is ready to blow somebody out like that in South Florida. How good are they? We're going to find out. This is a sneaky good game, Rome. Vanderbilt plus one goes into Virginia Tech. We saw Virginia Tech on Sunday against South Carolina. They didn't look great. Vanderbilt, you know, they kind of seem like they're on the up and up, right? You got your guy there. There's. Ever since they beat Alabama, they've been kind of, you know, walking on water. I'm going to go Vanderbilt plus one. I don't feel great about it, but I think they go into Blacksburg, Virginia and win a tough game. Never easy to win at Virginia Tech. Average in itself at Virginia Tech. That'd probably be one of the biggest wins for Vanderbilt in the last easy five, ten years. If they can go in there and win, I'll take them plus one. Not confident in it, but I'll. That's the side, Eileen. [01:17:31] Speaker C: I mean, they beat Alabama a year ago. [01:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:33] Speaker B: I mean, it seems like everybody on ranks beating Alabama right now. [01:17:39] Speaker C: Fair. [01:17:40] Speaker B: Arizona State 6 1/2 point favorite against Mississippi State. I'm going to come out right now. Arizona State, you're on upset alert. You're on upset alert. I'm putting you guys on upset alert. Mississippi State's been dying for a big win. They've been dying to rush the field. This can be a tight ball game. I think Mississippi State covers six and a half. Don't Be surprised if they pull the upset. And this we see another team in the top 10 go down. Arizona State. You've been warned. Listen to the pod. Because obviously Alabama didn't listen last week. Michigan, Rome, your team, I don't know why you haven't taken them yet in our contest at plus five. If you don't, I will. Against Oklahoma. I like Michigan plus five against Oklahoma. It's gonna be a tight game, but give me Michigan +5. I wouldn't be surprised if they win this game. Low scoring game, 23, 20 type game. But Michigan covers five points. It was six. So it's been going down. Enroll in UCLA, two and a half point favorite against UNLV. I don't know why they're favored. UNLV is going to win this game. They're at home. They're better football team. Deshaun Foster, he's got the deer in the headlights look. UCLA starts owing to. UNLV wins. Give me. UNLV is a two and a half point underdog at home. [01:18:57] Speaker C: I was gonna say, I know it's not a big upset, but I don't know, you got to be calling upset, quote unquote alert on this. Because UNLV is a better team. [01:19:04] Speaker B: Yeah, UNLV is a better team. So I, I, I would agree. I mean, I would say this. If we're looking for like a major, major upset, I think Arizona State's the team to really keep an eye on. Is going down this weekend. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Wow. [01:19:20] Speaker C: I gotta tell you, this is the first time I looked at this UNLV schedule. [01:19:24] Speaker A: Huh? [01:19:25] Speaker C: I think they, I think they can go undefeated. [01:19:28] Speaker B: There's a reason. There's a reason, Jason. I said they were gonna go to the playoff. [01:19:33] Speaker A: This guy just jumps ship so fast. [01:19:36] Speaker C: I'm just looking at like, it, it'd be the most unimpressive undefeated season in. [01:19:41] Speaker B: A while, but it is a very easy schedule. Well, they still got to go to that Boise State, right? [01:19:47] Speaker C: Yes. That's the hardest. [01:19:48] Speaker B: That's not going to be easy. Yeah, I mean, we figure, I mean, UCLA's. I, I mean, I, I don't know how bad UCLA really is. I don't know. The thing is, UNLV plays similar to Utah. Offensively, they're not as good defensively, but they're very similar offensively. They can score points. [01:20:04] Speaker A: You're not gonna know UCLA is until week four. [01:20:09] Speaker B: So that's what I mean. UCLA is going to probably be like 1 in 5 and then somehow finish 5 and 7. [01:20:15] Speaker A: Or they just turn it on. They just Stay in every game. [01:20:20] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:20:21] Speaker A: Let's see. Unlv, they got ucla, Miami of Ohio, Wyoming, Air Force, Boise State, New Mexico, Colorado State. Do they still got those two white boys that on that they got some different guys there. [01:20:40] Speaker B: Look like when I saw them against Washington. [01:20:42] Speaker A: Those guys are now in the NFL, right? [01:20:44] Speaker B: One of the receivers is in the NFL. [01:20:45] Speaker A: Utah State, Hawaii. I gotta be honest with you. I, I, these all, all these teams sound like they used to be good a long time ago and I have no clue how good they are now. [01:20:56] Speaker B: They're not very good. Rome, I mean UNLV used to be like at the bottom of the barrel in college football but you know, now they're pretty decent. I would say this. I, I don't, I know Jason's high on Mississippi. I'm worried about that game against Kentucky. Just Kentucky's usually pretty good early in the season. That's a home game. See, man, I mean maybe Kentucky pulls another upset against them. I think Mississippi wins the game. But we'll see what happens there. [01:21:27] Speaker A: It's a, it's a classic, It's a classic game that Ole Miss typically drops every year. [01:21:37] Speaker C: Yeah, but that's usually, that's usually in October. It's early. Lane's gonna be ready to light these boys up hopefully. [01:21:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean I watched Kentucky against Toledo. I saw a little bit of that game. They did not impress me offensively at all. So I don't know if they can keep track scoring with Ole Miss. And you know Lane Kiffin, he keeps receipts. When you beat him. He, he, he keeps a grudge. So he's definitely going to look to pitt it on him and run the scoreboard up. If he can beat him by 30, he'll, he'll do it. He'll go for it. [01:22:11] Speaker A: All right, well that's Aaron's college football games to watch. Thanks so much. We'll try to watch all the Marin. [01:22:20] Speaker B: It's about what, 12 games on Saturday there you got, you got the 9am window, the 12 to 3 window and then the 4 to 7 and then I think you see your 7:30 nightcap. [01:22:37] Speaker A: I'll probably watch that game with my daughter. I don't know if I want to root for UCLA with my daughter though. I don't know if I want to put that on her. Who does she like? [01:22:46] Speaker B: Who's her college team? Is it Nebraska? [01:22:53] Speaker A: No. Although like there's a lot of heavy net Nebraska influence because her, her aunt went to Nebraska, I went to Nebraska. [01:23:03] Speaker B: She's hung out in Nebraska so she's. [01:23:05] Speaker A: Hung out in Nebraska. [01:23:08] Speaker B: It's not a bad little team for her to have. It's better than ucla. [01:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe, I guess. All right, I, I did not expect the college of all pod to go this long but it's the beginning of the year right? We have a lot to talk about. [01:23:26] Speaker B: So. [01:23:28] Speaker A: That'Ll do it. Oh real quick we have a new Facebook page so whoever's on Facebook. I'm never on Facebook anymore but it was recommended by our marketing guys to get a Facebook page so we're on there. Hopefully helps out. It's definitely gonna help out for the over 45 demographic. Maybe that's our target market. Who the fuck knows. But we're on Facebook now. Some stuff coming out on ig. We have a cool little story with a little slightly updated logo and some clips are coming out over the next few days as well. Source from the sofa we are out.