Nightcap Hour 1: Alabama ROLLS OVER Tennessee + Georgia PROVES They Are BACK + Johnny Manziel says the AGGIES are WINNING the NATTY

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Speaker 9 Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us again for another episode of Nightcap as you watch the Alabama Crimson Tide, the number eight Alabama Crimson Tide, take down the number 11 Tennessee volunteers by the score of 37 to 20.

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Speaker 9 Probably still celebrating that victory on Thursday night. He's Chad Ochosenko Johnson.

Speaker 9 And back with us down in the MIA, he's very excited that his team got a shoot-out victory on the road in Fayetteville, Arkansas by the score of 45 to 42. He's won Heisman Trophy winner.

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Speaker 9 johnny manzale johnny how you doing bro i'm doing great honk how are you i'm doing amazing man thank you for being here with us please make sure you hit that subscribe button please make sure you hit the like button and do us a favor go subscribe to the nightcap podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from we would like to thank each and every one of you that's given us your eyes your ears and your word of mouth for joining us every time ojo and i come on and when we have a guest like johnny that fills in for college football season we really really appreciate your uh support and your continued support because none of this is possible without you.

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Speaker 9 As we mentioned before, the number six Alabama Crimson Tide took down.

Speaker 9 The number 11 Tennessee Volunteers, 37 to 20.

Speaker 9 Ty Simpson was sensational again tonight, Johnny, 19 of 29, 253, two touchdowns.

Speaker 9 But the game was broken open right before the half.

Speaker 9 Looked like Tennessee was going in to get a score, and he's late and inside on a flat route. What we call flow pass is to the flat, and then you have a seven route.

Speaker 9 And you know, if you late and inside on that.

Speaker 9 I hope you got somebody fast that can run somebody down because it's going to be a house. It's going to be a curtain call.
And that's what happened. And Alabama really never looked back.

Speaker 9 Tennessee ran the ball really well. Bishop was sensational.
14 carries, a buck 23, two touchdowns. But they got stopped on fourth down.
And for all intents and purposes, the game was over.

Speaker 9 Johnny, watching this game, Alabama came out on five. They got the touchdown, went right down the field.
And then all of a sudden, they struggle for a few drives. Tennessee comes back and ties it up.

Speaker 9 They get a field goal and then right, you know, get another touchdown.

Speaker 9 And then that pick right before the half, I really think that that took a lot of momentum and win out of the sale of the volunteers.

Speaker 24 100%. Anytime you have Alabama as an opposing quarterback that they make throw it 44 times in a game, that's not going to be a recipe for success.
I think you look at the game,

Speaker 24 everything was okay. Tennessee's going into score.
The whole game's going to change.

Speaker 24 Then you throw it late and inside, like we said, and it's deuces. So, I mean, that's a play you can't come back from.

Speaker 24 You can have a great second half and try and go get some cleanup points late or whatever you're trying to do. But for the most part, Bama has a really good football team.

Speaker 24 So at the end of the day, if you're not going to come out and play flawless football, no turnovers, win the turnover battle, run it down their throat, be aggressive.

Speaker 24 Look, right now, in my opinion, I wrote this down when I walked in. I got three guys right now who are playing really good ball at the quarterback position.

Speaker 24 As far as taking over a Heisman race, looking really good, having their moments. Ty Simpson, for sure.
You have to throw him in there. I think he's playing as good as anybody in the country.

Speaker 24 I think Diego Pavia and what he's doing and what Bandy did today,

Speaker 24 they just kept coming at LSU all day today. And then AM is undefeated for the first time since 1994.
Marcel Reed, more touchdowns tonight, leading that team. You go on the road, you win a shootout.

Speaker 24 Those guys have big moments coming up throughout the rest of the season to really solidify what they want to do.

Speaker 9 Yeah, you're absolutely right. I think the thing is when you're playing in the SEC, when you look at it and you look at the schedule that's remaining,

Speaker 9 whoever can, if you can run the table, that definitely helps. But

Speaker 9 whoever wins lose the fewest games. I thought Gunner Stockton played really well.
I like the kid up at Ohio State. He's playing really well.
But it's going to come down.

Speaker 9 And when you look at it, nobody.

Speaker 9 We're not even really, Johnny, if you really think about it, Ocho, we're not even really talking about the Heisman race.

Speaker 9 Normally at this point in time, somebody would have stepped out there and be like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 But we just got a bunch of guys just plumped together and we're waiting for someone to take to take the lead and move to the front. Oh, you're watching this game, Alabama 37, Tennessee 20.

Speaker 9 This doesn't look like the Alabama that I'm used to seeing because the Alabama I'm used to seeing cannot run. They could put pressure on the quarterback with four.
They can't do either now.

Speaker 25 I was just going to really say the same thing. They don't look like the Alabama.

Speaker 25 Oh, for one, when you look at the Tennessee and the Alabama playing, most of of the time, Alabama used the dominance, not dominance in spurs, but dominance in all four quarters of a game.

Speaker 25 Obviously, Tennessee had a chance to keep the game close, throwing an interception before half.

Speaker 25 Obviously, that sets things apart, and it makes it that much more difficult when you turn the ball over against a good Alabama team.

Speaker 25 Not very, very good, what we're used to seeing, but a good Alabama team, then they run away with the game when you turn the ball over and don't take advantage of the opportunity that you do have to score.

Speaker 25 Outside of that, you expect Alabama to win a game like this when they're playing a team like Tennessee that had success in the running game, but weren't able to dominate in other areas to really give themselves a chance to actually compete, especially in the second half.

Speaker 9 You think Alabama, Alabama normally do three things really well. They run the football, they stop the run,

Speaker 9 and they can get after your quarterback with four.

Speaker 9 If you go back and look at all those defensive guys that they normally have really good on the back end, they got corners and safety that's going in the the first round.

Speaker 9 And they have D-lineman that can flat out get after you. They don't really have that now.
We don't see. Look, they got some sacks early, 42.

Speaker 9 I can't, his name, I can't remember his name off the top of my head. I'm sorry about that.
And he got a safety.

Speaker 9 But other than that, Johnny, when you go back and look at Alabama, the guy was just patting the ball.

Speaker 9 And normally, in order to beat Alabama, if you go back and look at Alabama since Coach Saban got there and to now, it's normally a mobile quarterback. It's the Johnny Manzales.
It's the Cam Newtons.

Speaker 9 It's guys that can move around that normally beat him. Just dropping back and throwing the ball, it's really not to happen that often.

Speaker 9 Cordell Jones had success in the college football playoff that one year. And I think Trevor Knight threw the ball well.
They went to the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 9 They thought they were going to the national championship. Coach Saban said they weren't mentally prepared.
But normally it's mobile quarterbacks that gives them fits.

Speaker 9 I'm looking at this Alabama. Yes, it's a big time win.

Speaker 24 And anytime you could beat a division team or a conference opponent that's ranked very high you feel good but this not this doesn't look like johnny and ocho the alabama that we're used to seeing i don't i don't know if it needs to though i don't know if we're going to see the same saving led we're not we're not going to see the old alabama of what we're used to this is a very new era new coaching style alabama But right now, they have a quarterback that's playing off the charts.

Speaker 24 They have a running game that's able to move the ball. They have a defense that's doing enough.
You know, they're solid all the way through.

Speaker 24 They're bending, but not breaking. They're doing what they need to do.
So you look at their schedule.

Speaker 24 They have one slip up so far and a really hard schedule left, but they're handling what they need to do and handling business. And the SEC is what it is.

Speaker 24 We know that at the end of the day, it's going to be two losses in the SEC gets you in. You know, Ole Miss takes an L today to kind of knock them off a little bit.

Speaker 24 But at the end of the day, I think their quarterback played really well for three and a half, almost four full quarters. They have a really good squad.
Georgia has a really good squad.

Speaker 24 Amma has a really good squad. A ⁇ M is a good team.
I don't think Tennessee is a bad team. So I think you look at the SEC and you look at top to bottom, I would say really impressive lineup.

Speaker 24 I think we're going to get six, seven teams in this college football playoff again.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 25 You know what else I think?

Speaker 25 I just want to add when we look at the landscape of college football now, most of the times there was always a definite quarterback.

Speaker 25 We also talked about earlier in the show, the Heisman race you know obviously they had they had arch manning who they claim to have already appointed as the heisman winner and we've seen how that's going going to date and the race is so is so is so close because no one else has stepped up to the forefront no one else has stepped yeah you have you have you have players that are playing good johnny you know i'm talking about playing great you know like when you were playing you got to tune in to watch every time when cam was playing your tim tebos we haven't had anyone like that that's exciting when you look at an alabama team huh look at alabama team that had all these different strengths so when you're missing those strengths most of the time what's going to make up for the lack of what you have at other areas you make up for at your quarterback position now he's he's playing okay he's playing okay but he's not you know that elite talent that you look for

Speaker 25 that makes alabama who they once were when they lack in other areas well we're gonna have to in order for

Speaker 24 any window i think he can make any throw i I think right now.

Speaker 9 Oh, he got a nice arm.

Speaker 24 I think, to be honest, I was thinking this in the car on the way here when I was watching the game that

Speaker 24 he's the best quarterback we've seen in Alabama since Tua and Jalen.

Speaker 24 I like the way he's playing better than Mac Jones did. Yes, Mac Jones.

Speaker 9 You like him better than Bryce?

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 24 No, you're right. You're right.
But right now, for what they need and what he's doing, I mean, I watched it in person versus Vandi.

Speaker 24 Every time they needed a a play, this guy's putting the ball in the money and where they need to be.

Speaker 9 He definitely might have a stronger arm than Bryce. I think the thing is that when we go back to think of Heisman Trophy winners, we always think of that signature moment.

Speaker 9 Johnny, we remember that moment with you against Alabama. Joe Burrow, you go back and look at it, what was it? It was Tennessee.
It was Texas. He went crazy.

Speaker 9 And it's, oh, man, that's just, that's just. And then he goes down to Tuscaloosa.
And he does that. And it says, okay, he the real deal.
You look at Cam.

Speaker 9 It was a Saturday night against South Carolina. He goes berserk.
And then it was a no-brainer. They're down, what, 24-0, 21-0 against Alabama in Alabama.

Speaker 9 And Iron Bowl, and he brings them all the way back. It was a no-brainer.
It was a no-doubter from that point on. So we're just looking for one of these guys

Speaker 9 at a big spot nationally televised game. to go haywire.
Now, Gunnar Stockton played really well today.

Speaker 9 You know, it seemed like, especially the first half, every time Omis touched the ball, they scored a touchdown.

Speaker 9 And then in the fourth quarter, Georgia's like Gunner Stockton was matching them, and then all of a sudden, Georgia defense came up with a couple stops.

Speaker 9 As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and talk, let's get to that game. Instead of just, you know, talking around it, let's get to

Speaker 9 what are we going to go to?

Speaker 9 What game are we going to next?

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 17 Let me.

Speaker 9 That seems to be the game, everybody.

Speaker 9 I'm scared.

Speaker 24 Ocho, what was your favorite game of the day today?

Speaker 25 When I was able to attend and actually sit in the student section all game.

Speaker 9 Oh, you're the Kentucky or Texas?

Speaker 25 Man, man,

Speaker 25 hey, Johnny, man,

Speaker 25 they tried to put me in the suite, and I'm sitting in the suite, and I'm like, I can't do this. I can't do it.
It's just too quiet.

Speaker 25 So I asked the AD, you know, do you mind if I sit down in the student section?

Speaker 25 I sat down in the student section all the way to the fourth quarter. Well, I had a good time.

Speaker 9 Georgia Bulldogs, the number nine Georgia Bulldogs at home, scored 43 points in a shootout and beat the number five Ole Miss Rebels 43-35.

Speaker 9 Gunner Stockton was 26 of 31, 289, four touchdowns, and another touchdown on the ground. Georgia ran the ball 49 times, 221 yards.

Speaker 9 Trinidad Chambers wasn't bad in the first half when they needed him to step up big. He didn't come up big.
19 of 36, 263, one touchdown, 24 rush attempts, 88 yards.

Speaker 9 They had another four touchdowns on the ground, but with Georgia, big fourth quarter. Scored 17 points.
Ole Miss didn't score anything because they had a nine-point lead going into the fourth.

Speaker 9 And then the next thing you know, the teams, Georgia scores 43, scores 17 in the fourth to take the ball game over. Watch it.

Speaker 9 I don't know how much of this game you were able to see, Johnny, but it seemed like, okay, whomever whomever gets the ball last, that's who's going to win this ball game.

Speaker 9 And then all of a sudden, O Miss couldn't do anything.

Speaker 9 They couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 9 Mmm, yeah.

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Speaker 24 Look,

Speaker 24 you look at their rushing. They rushed it 24 times for 88 yards.
You got to have some kind of ground game. And Georgia is very good up front.
They're very stout. They're very solid.

Speaker 24 I think you look at the first half of the game. Their quarterback led them through that whole first half for them to be able to have a first half lead.

Speaker 24 Every third down, under route was perfect in front. He's putting a lot of zip on the ball.
He's a really good player.

Speaker 24 And I think Lane Kiffen has a really good squad. Look, when you look back at this game, yeah, Georgia wins by eight, but I feel like the game was a lot closer than what the score kind of says.

Speaker 24 I think this is an Ole Miss team that can be competitive versus anybody. I think this is a Georgia team.

Speaker 24 If Gunnar Stockton's going to throw four touchdowns for 275 plus yards, they're going to be able to play with anybody as well. So once again,

Speaker 24 another great SEC game. Ole Miss falls a little short, but...
This is one of those games you look at their schedule and you're like, you know what? We can drop one.

Speaker 24 We have that luxury because the way we played for the six weeks prior.

Speaker 9 Georgia dominated time of possession

Speaker 9 almost 38 minutes to 22 minutes.

Speaker 9 Both teams were really good on third down. One was five of nine.
The other was six of 11. Georgia had 510 total yards.
Ole Miss had 350.

Speaker 24 No turnovers and only one sack in the whole game. Yeah.

Speaker 9 The whole,

Speaker 9 really, four penalties for Ole Miss for 40 yards. Three penalties of 37 yards for Georgia.
So it was really a clean game. It wasn't a, you know, laundry on the field all over the place.

Speaker 9 There weren't a whole lot of turnovers, but for the most part for the first three quarters, neither defense could dig their heels in and get a stop.

Speaker 9 And then when Georgia really needed to bowl their backs, Ocho, they did that, and

Speaker 9 Ole Miss really didn't have an answer.

Speaker 25 Yeah, that's that's what I was going to say. When it matters most, who's going to make the play when it actually matters most?

Speaker 25 If the turnovers aren't going to make the difference in the game, it can be the team that makes the fewest mistakes when it comes to executing the offense or the defense when you got to have it.

Speaker 25 And Georgia was able to do that and pull it out. I mean, Old Miss played extremely well today.
They played extremely well. Hell, Georgia played well.
It was a back-and-forth game.

Speaker 25 And I'm thinking to myself, well,

Speaker 25 in order for either of these teams to win, it's going to come down to two things. Somebody who had to execute in the time where it matters most, or turnovers are going to be the decider of the game.

Speaker 25 And that's exactly how it went.

Speaker 9 Yeah, you look at,

Speaker 9 I think the thing is that when I look at an offensive defense, it doesn't matter how good or whatever your stats say you are. We average 500 yards of offense.

Speaker 9 So we have the number one scoring defense. We're number one on third downs.
Okay. I measure offense and defense.
Can you be good when you have to be good?

Speaker 9 What good is you, what good is that you're number one on third down if you can't get off the field when you absolutely have to in a meaningful in a game like this? No doubt.

Speaker 9 What good is scoring 35, 40 points a game and all of a sudden you need to score, your offense needs to score, and you can't get it to make it 24. So don't give me all this number.

Speaker 9 I throw all that stuff out the window. Can you get done what you need to get done when you absolutely have to have it?

Speaker 9 Prime example, Ocho, the other night, when you guys needed to make a play, all that, yeah, Joe Flacco throwing for this many yards and Chase got this many yards.

Speaker 9 Okay, now you need to go down and get in field goal rage. Can you do it now? Now it matters.

Speaker 9 All the other stuff was great. Now it matters.
In Georgia, this is the second time they've done this.

Speaker 9 Remember Auburn, we talked about him against Auburn, Johnny Ocho, is that Auburn was dominating the ball game.

Speaker 9 The difference is Auburn's going in to score. Georgia punches it out, goes 99 yards, gets a field goal

Speaker 9 right before intermission, and then they come out and take the game over and they don't look back. Georgia,

Speaker 9 down nine.

Speaker 9 Start the fourth quarter, and now they score 17 straight and they don't look back.

Speaker 9 Am I surprised at how the teams are moving the ball against Georgia? Because the one thing we know about Georgia, Kirby keeps defensive guys. Normally, linebackers in court and linebackers in D-line.

Speaker 9 I was surprised at the ease in which Ole Miss was moving the ball, at least through the first three quarters.

Speaker 24 I think they have a good offense. I think Lane is really prepared for the defenses in the scheme.
Look, these guys have gone against each other for years.

Speaker 24 Kirby's going to run his defense. He's going to coach his way.
Lane's going to coach his way. And that's the way it's going to be.
These are guys who are very familiar with each other.

Speaker 24 They're definitely trolling each other throughout the game, throughout the week. They have a good relationship, but it's competitive at the end of the day.
So, look,

Speaker 24 you see it so much. They've gone up against each other so much that you're going to have so much familiarity with everything that

Speaker 24 this is real high-level college football on the scheme side, both offensively and defensively for both squads.

Speaker 24 So I'm surprised that it was as high scoring as it was, but you know, both of these teams can go.

Speaker 9 Anything else you want to add to that, Ocho?

Speaker 24 Nah, nah, nah. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 9 All right. We're going to take, Johnny, we're going to get to your squad now.
Let's go. Texas AM goes on the road.

Speaker 9 Scores 45, and they need it all 45 because every bit of it. Those Razorbacks gave them everything they wanted down in Fayetteville, and

Speaker 9 they went a squeaker 45-42.

Speaker 9 Johnny's guy, Marcel Reed, was 23 of 32, 280, three touchdowns. He also had another touchdown on the ground, so he had four total touchdowns.

Speaker 9 Arkansas passing Green was 19 of 32, 256, three touchdowns. They ran the ball 32 times for 268.

Speaker 9 500 you guys had had it right about 500 yards Arkansas actually outgained you guys

Speaker 9 But you guys found a way to get a victory.

Speaker 9 What do you like about what you're seeing from your team, Johnny? I mean,

Speaker 9 look, sometimes you might need the defense to make a stand, and then sometimes

Speaker 9 offense, you need to score 40-plus points. And it was clearly one of those games your offense really needed to be flawless tonight and

Speaker 9 get 45. Clean game.
No turnovers, no INTs, no fumbles, a clean game, and you guys needed it to get a win against the underranked Arkansas on the road.

Speaker 24 I thought this game was going to be a game when I looked at the forecasts earlier in the week. It was wet.
It was going to rain. I thought it was going to be low scoring.

Speaker 24 We were going to rely on our defense. No, no, no, no, no.
They score 87 points in this game, and they need every single one of them.

Speaker 24 The thing that you have to like the most is, look, week after week, we're relying on different areas of the football team to win the game.

Speaker 24 A couple weeks ago, we needed every bit of the defense to come in and hold some ground against Florida, against Auburn.

Speaker 24 Those are good, good wins for us. And then you go into an Arkansas game.
Look, for the last 13, 14 years, this game between Arkansas normally happens in Dallas, and it's been wacky every single year.

Speaker 24 We found a way to pull it out. I saw a clip of Kenny Hill throwing a cover two hole shot to...
to Reynolds, and they score late in the game to tie it up, and we go on to win that. I'm on the sideline.

Speaker 24 This is 10 years ago now. And the whole series with Arkansas has been this way.
They played us us tough. I think from 2013 on, even my second year there, they played us really, really tough.

Speaker 24 This is just one of those matchups where you're going to get a grinded out style of game. The thing I like the most, no turnovers, no sacks.
Marcel Reed's not on the ground.

Speaker 24 He's running just enough at 35 or 40 yards or whatever he had in a touchdown to be super, super effective with his legs, picking up a first down here when he needs to go and get it.

Speaker 24 And he's throwing the ball really well. Look, 280 yards and three touchdowns.
Put some respect on his name for real.

Speaker 24 I mean, this guy's leading a very good ball club with a defense that looked a little banged up at times tonight and had some guys down and coming in and coming out.

Speaker 24 But at the end of the day, look, Elko has these guys rolling. He's got them juiced.
We still have a hard schedule. We still got a game against Missouri.
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Speaker 24 But for now, if they continue this week-by-week approach, how can you not love the Yaggies? I mean, we're ranking four in the country.

Speaker 9 We're going to get to uh lsu in just a second i'll be sure that's gonna be tough but you look at a m johnny you guys had 29 first down you were five for 11 on third down but you were a perfect three for three on third downs 497 total yards possessed the football a little less than 34 minutes as you said no turnovers the ball wasn't on the ground neither was your quarterback

Speaker 9 too we're missing

Speaker 24 we're missing l'éveon moss that's a huge piece for us so to have guys to have owens come in at in 69 Reed has 55. EJ Smith has 52.

Speaker 24 Like for us, those guys are averaging five yards of carry, 9.2 yards of carry, and 7.4 yards of carry. And Concepcion gets one carry for 16 yards, averaging 16 a carry.

Speaker 24 Colin Klein has some stuff up his sleeve right now, and I think he's dialing up really good game plans every week.

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Speaker 9 You guys will probably climb the number two team, Miami, the Canes. They lost.

Speaker 9 Beck had a horrible game through four interceptions last night.

Speaker 9 The question I have for you, Johnny,

Speaker 9 is this the Aggies year?

Speaker 24 We're in the best position we've been in in decades. We're in the best position we could possibly be in.
Our schedule is favorable. Our team is playing well.
Our coach is

Speaker 24 embodying everything that Texas AM is about. Once again, and every Aggie will tell you, read any comment on any of our posts or anything Texas AM, everybody is like,

Speaker 24 Just keep playing ball.

Speaker 24 We don't need to be crowned national champions right now in October. We need need to get into the college football playoff, playing good football, and hopefully get a favorable matchup.

Speaker 24 That's all the Aggies can hope for. So is this our year? Yes, this is our year in the sense that we need to get into the playoff.

Speaker 24 We have a schedule that the outlook of it looks like worst case scenario, we drop a couple. But at the end of the day, the way they're playing.

Speaker 24 I would put us on the field against anybody right now and say we have a good shot to be victorious at the end of the day.

Speaker 25 And you want to get hot too, you want that timing. You want that timing.
And when you get into a group offensively and defensively, you want to hit it at the right time.

Speaker 25 You don't want to peak too soon.

Speaker 25 You don't want to peak too soon. Peak right before, maybe a week or two before the college playoffs.
And then you get going.

Speaker 25 That's when it's going to be.

Speaker 24 It's all about who's playing the best ball at the end of December, middle of December.

Speaker 9 Yep. You don't want to peak too soon.

Speaker 9 Look, I try to watch a different team. Obviously, the games that we're going to talk about.
But right now,

Speaker 9 if you force me, I think Ohio State is the best team in football. Now,

Speaker 9 I don't know if they play top-notch competition, but the way their defense can dominate and those playmakers they got on the outside and they can run the football.

Speaker 9 And that quarterback, I don't know where they got him from, but he's playing his ass off.

Speaker 9 So on a neutral, because is it still the same? Well, you know, the first game is at the home is a home state, is a home game.

Speaker 9 and the college football playoff guy, Johnny. You know, is it the same?

Speaker 24 I'm pretty sure that you still get a home game

Speaker 24 for the top CDPs, you get a home game.

Speaker 9 So

Speaker 9 it's going to be tough. Good luck

Speaker 9 going into the horseshoe

Speaker 9 and beating Ohio. Yeah, yeah, because they got to play for the money.

Speaker 24 This ain't going to be no pickwalk for them. They ain't going to walk through this playoff.

Speaker 24 They're not just going to walk down everybody and honk them down and walk through this and be like, what's up? We're champions again. That ain't going to happen.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Well, we're going to look.
The game that that they want, they look, obviously, they want to be national champions, but they want some revenge on Michigan.

Speaker 9 Michigan has been kicking their ass for the last two or three years.

Speaker 9 And it didn't make a difference. Coach

Speaker 9 Jim Harbaugh, he leaves. And now the other guy comes in.
He's still kicking ass. And he beat him last year in Ohio State.
So you know

Speaker 9 that's how he got the contract. He got that contract.
Hey, man, you beat Ohio State? Yeah, let me go and get that.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 9 the game,

Speaker 9 the guy that you're mentoring, the Vanderbilt Commodores, the number 17 Vanderbilt Commodores,

Speaker 9 31. The number 10 LSU Tigers, 24.

Speaker 9 Pavia, 14-22, 161 touchdowns, no interceptions. Quarterback, the ball, nor the quarterback was on the ground.
He had another 17 carries for 86 yards and another two touchdowns.

Speaker 9 So he had three total touchdowns. They ran the ball 45 times for 239 yards.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 You man, you know, Brian Kelly now, you know, he known to jump ship. You know, Penn State job opening because he looked Cincinnati to not a dame, not a dame to LSU.

Speaker 24 It's a lot easier route up there in that conference, that's for sure. And he's going to have a lot less of a hot seat up there.
It'll be nice and comfy, cushy, new contract.

Speaker 24 Look,

Speaker 24 Bandy can play.

Speaker 24 They went in there at home.

Speaker 24 Nussmeyer played well. He scrambled out of a lot of plays.
They had a lot of explosive plays in this game. LSU did.

Speaker 24 And Vandi answered back every single time. Pavia needed to scramble for a touchdown late in the fourth or whatever it was.
Really good drive by them. I think Vandi just answered the call.

Speaker 24 This is not the Vandi of old. They are playing with a lot of swagger.
They played.

Speaker 24 Two and a half really good quarters versus Bama and then kind of let it down and didn't play the way they needed to. But at the end of the day, Vandy's a good football team.

Speaker 24 Diego Pavia is an experienced veteran of a quarterback, a guy who spent a lot of time there. He plays with a lot of swagger, a lot of heart, and the guys on the team love him.

Speaker 24 You look at the sideline when he comes off, when they score a touchdown, that's great team camaraderie. He's a great kid.
He's a great friend of mine, and I'm happy for him.

Speaker 24 If you look at the LSU side of things,

Speaker 24 We're back to banging our head against the wall because

Speaker 24 this is a tough one to swallow. You can see it on the sideline.
Ness Meyer was hurt after this one. And, you know, for me, I've had a lot of people reach out to me about,

Speaker 24 you know,

Speaker 24 why are you supporting Diego Pavia so hard when you got a guy and Marcel Reed that at AM is doing amazing things? You want me to tell you why?

Speaker 24 Because I fuck with every quarterback that's going out and living their dream and playing on Saturdays. Every single one of them.

Speaker 24 Carson Beck, you're on my shit list a little bit right now after what you did this week, but I still love you. I'm still going to see you in the club live on Sunday, I'm sure.

Speaker 24 Nevertheless, I want to be a guy who comes in and helps hype up these dudes, give them good advice, learn from my downfalls, from my pitfalls.

Speaker 24 So, whether it's Marcel, whether it's Diego, whether it's Ty Simpson, whoever it is, I'm reaching out to all these guys.

Speaker 24 I'm sending a lot of love and a lot of advice in whatever capacity they want it from for me.

Speaker 24 And any quarterback that's out there in college football, living their dream, walking into a Saturday and putting the university on their back to go try and win a game, it's nothing but love for me.

Speaker 9 Vanderbilt is 6-1 for the first time in 75 years. And so, in seven decades, seven and a half decades, they're six and one.

Speaker 9 Pavia has a passing and a rustling touchdown in 25 straight games. That is the second longest streak since behind FSU Tommy Castellanos, 27 games.

Speaker 9 Look,

Speaker 9 this is not the Vanderbilt that I grew up on, Ocho, you grew up on, where there was everybody's homecoming.

Speaker 9 They had their coming out party last year when they did what they did to Bama, and everybody thought that was a hoop. That was a one-time thing.

Speaker 9 They backed it up this year. They played Alabama tough, as Johnny mentioned.
Now they get a win over a number 10 team in the country. So now they start to believe because they got this quarterback.

Speaker 9 When you got the quarterback, you got a chance. I don't give a damn what conference you play in, and I don't care who you play.

Speaker 9 If you got a guy that's going to touch the ball in college somewhere between 65 and 80 times a game, if he's legit,

Speaker 9 you got a chance.

Speaker 25 That's exactly what they got. That's why Vanderbilt looks the way they look now.

Speaker 25 This is why they've been, that's why they're six and one after being, after never having a record like this at 75 years. You know how goddamn it is.

Speaker 25 Not being able to be good. And

Speaker 25 obviously coaching, but also having the players, having the players on both sides of the ball, including special teams as well that gets left out.

Speaker 25 But when you have a quarterback in place, like you said, that can handle what he needs to do as much as he touches the ball,

Speaker 25 this is how you look.

Speaker 9 Bandit dominated time of possession, almost

Speaker 9 12 and a half minutes. longer than uh uh um

Speaker 9 actually 13 minutes longer than lsu had the ball. There was six of 13 on

Speaker 9 third down. There was two of three on fourth down.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 24 if you were Brian Kelly, right? We know how he is. We've seen his press conferences.
We've seen how he is. He's got a track record throughout the years.

Speaker 24 But if you were sitting there and you were in his shoes, what do you do?

Speaker 9 I would have never left.

Speaker 9 I don't know.

Speaker 9 I would never left Notadame.

Speaker 9 No, sir.

Speaker 9 But now you do.

Speaker 24 And you're in the boots. And now you got a bunch of fired-up Cajuns on your ass every week.

Speaker 9 And you ain't got no.

Speaker 9 If you can't win in LSU, you're not winning in Penn State. I agree.
You get superior athletes in LSU. Now, I understand it's a superior.

Speaker 9 I think the SEC is the toughest conference in football. Now, you can debate that and go back and forth.

Speaker 9 I mean, team for team, but I think when you go back and look at it, more players come out of the SEC, go to the NFL than any other conference.

Speaker 9 That's happened.

Speaker 9 I don't think he can recruit any better at Penn State than what he's recruiting at LSU. Agreed.

Speaker 25 But can I say something real quick, Uncle?

Speaker 25 You know, one thing, it doesn't even come down to recruiting anymore. It doesn't come down to recruiting anymore.

Speaker 25 I don't care how many houses and how many couches you sit on and talk to people's family. It all comes down to the check that you're writing.

Speaker 25 The check that you're writing for these individual players that you want to come in and chain to the trajectory of your team and want a chance to compete. ACC, SEC, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 25 How much are you willing to pay? Because in order to win now, which is why we see

Speaker 25 the playing field has even from team to team and there's no domination by one team. And week to week, we watch these games on Saturday.
There's a good chance that either team can win.

Speaker 25 There's a good chance. And we've seen that time and time again this year.
It always happened.

Speaker 25 Team that normally dominated back in the days aren't dominating like they once did. Why? Because the money, money talks, it's different.
Players are going all over the world.

Speaker 24 But where is there more money at? Penn State or LSU?

Speaker 9 Whoo, that's interesting.

Speaker 25 That's a good one.

Speaker 24 Because I think it's about the same.

Speaker 9 I do. Yeah,

Speaker 24 I say it's probably pretty close. I say you're going to have a $20 million roster at both places, probably.

Speaker 24 And that's just a number. You got some schools that are going to spend 25, 26, 27.
That's a $7 million difference.

Speaker 24 You're definitely going to have some backups in a better spot and some starting players in different positions that are making a little bit more.

Speaker 24 But for the top, you know, 10, 15 programs, you're at a 20-plus million dollar roster. I think it's probably pretty close.

Speaker 24 I think the SEC and LSU and what they've done has been

Speaker 24 historically better. So you're going to have a little pedigree there and just where you're recruiting the athletes from in the south is going to be better at LSU.

Speaker 24 So he's going to have to grind it out, try to find another quarterback after Nussmeyer that can get the program rolling and you just stick it out.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 he's known to jump ship. I don't know,

Speaker 9 Ocho, if the same amount of money,

Speaker 9 you know, you had Jaden Daniels and you didn't win a national championship or you didn't even come close.

Speaker 9 It's always, he's always losing a game, Johnny, that you're like, okay, they're going to win this one. And somebody nips him.

Speaker 9 Somebody gets him. And then, you know, he would be a hard coach to play for because, you know,

Speaker 9 he blamed the player than this and that. I'm like, bro, what about you?

Speaker 9 What about you?

Speaker 9 He would talk about us, and this is not what we coach. It is.
It is.

Speaker 9 The direct deposit

Speaker 9 hits LSU and the direct deposit hits Brian Kelly's bank account every every week, he's happy no matter what.

Speaker 24 He's sending the blame everywhere else.

Speaker 9 2025 NIL rankings. LSU, 20 million.
Penn State, 13 million.

Speaker 24 Okay, there you go. 7 million more.
That's huge.

Speaker 25 Hey, matter of fact, on that ranking list, who's number one, huh?

Speaker 9 I'm kidding. I think Ohio State is.

Speaker 9 Or Texas A ⁇ M. Okay.

Speaker 24 It's going to be close. We're at about 26, 27,

Speaker 24 probably.

Speaker 9 Texas is number one with 22.

Speaker 24 They had a good game today against Kentucky.

Speaker 9 Ohio State is two at 20, 21

Speaker 9 or 20.5.

Speaker 9 20.2. LSU is 2 with 20.1.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 9 So think about it. The top three are in the SEC.

Speaker 9 No, Ohio State. Excuse me.

Speaker 9 LSU is three.

Speaker 9 Texas is one. You got Ohio State SmackDab in the middle.
Alabama up there somewhere.

Speaker 25 What's the top five? Does it say?

Speaker 25 Yeah, so three,

Speaker 24 Georgia? Did you say Alabama is three?

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 24 Oh,

Speaker 9 LSU is three. Texas, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, AM.
Right.

Speaker 24 Four out of five, SEC.

Speaker 9 Alabama is seven. Who's six?

Speaker 24 Oregon.

Speaker 24 But

Speaker 9 could it could we see a

Speaker 9 switch?

Speaker 9 Michigan is six. Could we see a flip? James Franklin goes to LSU.
Brian Kelly goes to Penn State.

Speaker 24 I think Penn State needs to go after Matt Rule with everything that they have because Nebraska ain't going nowhere. They can't beat Minnesota.
We're just...

Speaker 24 We're out in the woods, in the mud, with our tires spinning and just burning the engine. We ain't going nowhere with that program.

Speaker 9 I think the thing is, but Harry, let me ask you this, Johnny, because I think the thing a lot of times is that I remember what Nebraska used to be.

Speaker 24 Of course. This is like talking about Colorado and what they used to be.

Speaker 9 I remember what Penn State used to be.

Speaker 9 The question is, and maybe we need to reshape our vision or what we think they can be. Can Penn State ever be what they once were?

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 24 In my opinion, yes.

Speaker 24 Their conference is too easy. You get two big games a year.
Go win those big games. If you lose one, you're in the playoff every year.
Your program's hyped up enough.

Speaker 24 You're going to be ranked in the top 25. You go 11, 12, and 1.

Speaker 24 You're in the playoff. All you got to do is play ball at the right time.
So, yes, because your conference is so easy.

Speaker 9 Well, Penn State might have been looking at Signetti, but he's like, nah, Indiana said, nah, y'all ain't going to get him. Hey, we're going to drop the bag on him.
11.6.

Speaker 9 We make you the third highest paid.

Speaker 24 He deserves it.

Speaker 9 Behind Kirby and Ryan Day. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 9 To win, look,

Speaker 9 I mean,

Speaker 9 he took a team. That's a basketball school.
Indiana is a basketball school. Everybody, when you think of Indiana, you think of Coach Knight, and you think of the Hoosiers and being undefeated in 76,

Speaker 9 the last college basketball team to go undefeated and win the national championship. That's what you think about this.

Speaker 9 He's making you re-evaluate how we look at the Hoosiers.

Speaker 9 So now they're just not known for that bicycle race that they have every year where the co-eds ride their bikes for, I don't know, what is it, 50 miles, 75 miles, or the basketball team.

Speaker 9 He's a hell of a coach. He was on coach Sabins staff.
He was a wide receiver coach, Ocho, but he wanted to be a head coach.

Speaker 9 He left, go to a Division II school, take a $125,000 pay cut, got a daughter about to go to college. He says, but I want to be a head coach.

Speaker 9 Look,

Speaker 9 you already know if you coach on, if you were on Nick Saber's staff, who didn't get a head job? Lane Keffie, Kirby Smart, Billy Napier, Crystal Bull, a Mel Tucker. Who didn't get a job?

Speaker 9 Dan Landy was a grad assistant, head coach. Signetti, head coach.

Speaker 9 Who didn't get a head job if you're on his staff? Right.

Speaker 25 And I got a question. Speaking of head coaches' jobs and vacancies that are open, Penn State,

Speaker 25 what are the chances that Nick Sabin comes back and takes that and takes that opportunity?

Speaker 9 Well, they were talking about it this morning. Zero.
Miss Terry says he's having too much fun, and she don't want to take no championship from their babies, which is Lane,

Speaker 9 Kirby. I don't know how much longer Billy Napier is going to have that job in Florida if he don't win out from here.
And that's not a very good chance because I think they still got Georgia

Speaker 9 on their schedule. But

Speaker 9 I don't think Coach Sabin is coming back because the issue that forced him out still exists.

Speaker 24 I think you're going to have to get some of these younger coaches that are coming up in the ranks, the coach at USF, the coach at Tulane.

Speaker 24 Texas State has a really good coach that's up and coming on offense. I think you're going to have to find these young guys who are offensive-minded, who put a good program together on a

Speaker 24 smaller scale, and you're going to have to give them the opportunity and roll with some youth, and that's it.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 when you look, look, what is

Speaker 9 does if he comes out of retirement, Ocho, and wins a championship, that doesn't change. Everybody believes he's the greatest college coach to ever live.
He got one of the LSUs.

Speaker 9 He got six at Alabama.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 he lost a Clemson. He lost to Georgia.
So

Speaker 9 he's the greatest. It's either him or Coach Bryant is the greatest college coach that ever lived.
They're both at Alabama. So that's what we do know.

Speaker 9 The two greatest college coaches to ever coach is Coach Bryant or Coach Saban. Many believe Coach Bryant, considering, you know, a lot of those championships that he won was before integration.

Speaker 9 Coach Bryant did. So we get that.

Speaker 9 But I don't think Coach Sabin, I don't think anything, he comes out and he wins number eight. Do you think more of him because he won eight instead of seven? No.

Speaker 9 And it's just more headache. He's like, you know what? He got a great job.
He does an unbelievable job on college game day. He's great at it.

Speaker 9 He knows it. He knows how to talk.
And on both sides, he can talk to the players and like how he was with the players. It's like

Speaker 9 when they were good, I was harder on my coaches and the team when they were good. I was easier on them when we lost.

Speaker 9 So

Speaker 9 I don't see Coach Sabin coming out, but hey, never say never because that encompasses never and always. And I don't believe in saying that, especially how much money Penn State got

Speaker 24 a lot

Speaker 9 you got 15 million a year

Speaker 24 I mean probably not listen it ain't gonna happen it really isn't they need to go find somebody that has wanted that Penn State job who's it's a dream job for them that really cares and can buy into what it is because it is a good job at the end of the day Like we said and spoke about a couple weeks ago, do we think James Franklin should have been let go?

Speaker 24 Probably not. But at the end of the day, it's a good opening, a good job.
You're going to see some good openings of good jobs around the country, and we're going to see who they fill them with.

Speaker 9 As was saying that on College Game Day that Miss Terry said, we haven't heard a number yet.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 9 it is.

Speaker 9 And I think Jimmy Sexton is Coach Sabers agent also. Look,

Speaker 9 I think he's very content with where he is right now and what he's doing right now. He makes good money doing what he does.
He still has an office at Alabama. They still pay him.

Speaker 9 I don't think he wants to deal with the headache at this age in time.

Speaker 24 Agreed.

Speaker 26 Right.

Speaker 25 So what you think about you, huh? No.

Speaker 9 I don't want it. They ain't got a number.
They ain't got a number big enough.

Speaker 9 Because

Speaker 9 you already know how I am. I ain't got no patience.
And so it's understood. That's why I've never, I ain't no coach.
I've never wanted to be a coach because I know my patience.

Speaker 9 I already know how I am. I would get mad at the guys.
Bro, we done practiced this all week. We talked about the first 15 Saturday morning.
We went over the next 15 to that Saturday night.

Speaker 9 And then you come and F it up Sunday to opt the gate.

Speaker 9 Nah, I couldn't do that, man.

Speaker 9 I couldn't.

Speaker 24 I mean,

Speaker 25 I could just see the program turning around under you.

Speaker 24 What about this? What about Deion?

Speaker 9 At Penn State?

Speaker 9 Why not?

Speaker 9 I don't,

Speaker 9 me personally, I don't know how much time is going to be how much longer time got to coach. I don't know if his health is going to allow him to have one of those long careers.

Speaker 24 10 years.

Speaker 9 Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Speaker 9 You know, he got in at, you know, most coaches

Speaker 9 start coaching college in their 30s. He got in really late.
Right. I mean, you got to think about it.
He was in his 50s when he got in. I mean, think about Bobby Bowen was,

Speaker 9 Coach Bowen, when he retired with 40 years of coaching, he was only in his 70s.

Speaker 9 So I just don't know if his health, you know, dealing with what he's had to deal with with the blood clots, you know, standing doesn't help.

Speaker 9 The burning of the midnight oil doesn't help.

Speaker 9 You know, he had the bladder surgery.

Speaker 9 That can't help. I just don't know if his health is going to allow him to have a long, fruitful, fruitful, prosperous career.

Speaker 24 I know

Speaker 24 I would definitely call Jimbo fishing.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 9 hey, Jimbo said he already pocketed y'all money, so yeah, I go, I double dip. He said, y'all gave me 80.
Y'all gave me, y'all gave me 84.

Speaker 9 Hey, what y'all gave me 84?

Speaker 24 And Jim's still having buyout money, too. You know what? To be honest, Penn State may be able to get, I mean, Jimbo got it.

Speaker 9 Get it for a $5 million deal.

Speaker 24 Sign him up for 10 of them. Yep.

Speaker 9 You're right. You're right.

Speaker 24 Another great day in college football all the way around, though. A lot of of upsets this week.
A lot of people went down.

Speaker 24 Arizona State played a really good game against the number seven Texas Tech today. You see the Miami Canes, they lose, go down all the way through.

Speaker 24 There was a lot of upsets,

Speaker 24 a lot of good ball from underdogs this week. So it's a hell of a week for college football.
I think everybody who is watching should have enjoyed thoroughly this week.

Speaker 9 Yeah. But I don't know if Penn State is going to let Prime have all them jerseys and all them combinations.

Speaker 9 You know, PSA, they got two colors. They got black tops with white pants and they got white tops with white pants.
That's it.

Speaker 9 That's it. That's all you get.

Speaker 9 The number 21, Texas Longhorn, go down to Lexington and hold on

Speaker 9 and win 16-13

Speaker 9 over UK, University of Kentucky. Kentucky got stopped second in gold, third in gold, fourth in gold.
Texas goes down, kicks a field goal, and they win at 16-13.

Speaker 9 Arch Manning did not have the best day, but they won the ball game. He was 12 of 27, 132 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions.

Speaker 9 Quintrabion

Speaker 9 Weisner

Speaker 9 ran a long touchdown. How they won this game, I don't know, Ocho.
They had 132 yards passing and 47 yards rushing.

Speaker 9 So they had less than 180 yards. The opposing team had over 400 yards.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 they get a victory. Johnny, I need you to help me understand how Texas won this ball game.
Eight first downs, five of 16 on third down, 179 total yards, 12 of 27.

Speaker 9 They possessed the ball half the time. that UK had it.
UK had 26 first downs.

Speaker 9 They had 395 total yards, so they outgained him by over 200, possessed the ball 19 minutes longer,

Speaker 9 and somehow lost.

Speaker 24 The quarterback at Texas throws for 44% completion on the day for 132 yards,

Speaker 24 4.9 yards an attempt. Texas's rushing attack this year is what we like to call abysmal.

Speaker 24 Terrible.

Speaker 24 They can't run out of a wet paper bag.

Speaker 24 47 yards rushing, 1.7 yards of carry, and this is in four quarters of football. Right.

Speaker 24 I don't know how they sneak out of here with this one, but at the end of the day, you got to give them their props.

Speaker 24 Everybody in Austin's throwing their horns up tonight and saying we snuck out of there with one.

Speaker 24 I mean,

Speaker 24 let's turn it over to the man that sat in the student section and watch this.

Speaker 9 That's what I was about to say. Ocho, you had a bird's eye view of this ballgame.
And you probably thought, man, the Wildcats are going to get a victory over the number 21 Raising Longhorns.

Speaker 9 So you were there.

Speaker 9 Do we got video? You were there?

Speaker 24 We do.

Speaker 9 Oh, Lord, have mercy.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Hey, hey, hey,

Speaker 25 you see the rhythm?

Speaker 25 The whole thing, we was at that going crazy.

Speaker 9 I'm like, you know what?

Speaker 9 I'm like Professor. I'm like Cletus Day.
Cletus. Look, I don't know that fool.

Speaker 24 Hey, listen, listen,

Speaker 25 if I'm going to go to a college game, obviously it's my daughter's homecoming. I need the fucking experience.

Speaker 25 I told the AD, I told Ray, Ray Oliver, who was my strength and conditioning coach when he was in Cincinnati.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 9 You know that? I know that. I know.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Ray is in Kentucky. I said,

Speaker 25 do not put me in a suite.

Speaker 25 I want to know what it's like to be at a school of this magnitude and sit with the students in that section because I know they get turned.

Speaker 25 So they put me down there and watching and watching the game. For me, Kentucky, as many yards as they did have had Johnny, you know,

Speaker 25 they couldn't score. They couldn't put themselves in position to get field goals.
If you don't, if you're not going to score and defense was playing well enough to where you should have won this game,

Speaker 25 this is the game that you should have won. This is a game that you should have won because you should have had more opportunities to do some of the things

Speaker 25 that texas couldn't

Speaker 25 it just i it to me uh offensively in a sense i'm trying not to say anything like too bad about mr stoop because the they had the whole crowd hunk i'm not sure what's going on this is my first time being at the game but everybody they they chanting fire stoops fire stoops i'm like well god damn what he do wrong but then i i watch how they play offensively and what they were doing where at times john they couldn't even get past midfield well hell don't look like texas got past midfield except that long touchdown.

Speaker 9 Do they remember

Speaker 9 what Kentucky was before Stoops got there?

Speaker 9 I don't think they remember that, Johnny.

Speaker 9 They do realize that's a basketball school.

Speaker 24 It's been a long time since the hefty lefty Jared Lorenzen wrestling.

Speaker 24 And also

Speaker 24 my guy, Randall Cobb.

Speaker 9 It's been a long,

Speaker 24 long time. Since those Kentucky Wildcats have been in New Jersey.
So listen, it's SEC. Everybody wants to be good, but they need to get ready for hoop season.
They'll be all right.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, look, you only gonna, first of all,

Speaker 9 you only gonna get, you only gonna get

Speaker 9 such sub-players. First of all, it's not like Kentucky is

Speaker 9 like, when you think of great football players, I mean, I think Sean Alexander is from Kentucky. But where did he go, Ocho? Alabama.
Alabama.

Speaker 9 So if your best players

Speaker 9 are leaving the state, you don't have much of a chance, especially if you're Kentucky. Now, you know, obviously, Florida, they're going to be spread out.

Speaker 9 You got UM, you got UF, and you got FSU, and then some are going to go to Alabama, some are going to go to

Speaker 9 Ohio State. So they're going to be spread out.
But Kentucky, you've got to keep your best.

Speaker 9 You can't afford to have your best go and make somebody else's program better.

Speaker 9 And that's what Kentucky, like I said, I think Stoops has done a great job giving what he's got. I mean, I don't know.
Y'all aren't getting Nick Sabin.

Speaker 24 Listen,

Speaker 24 we, at one point in time, through our coaching search, after Jimbo tried to hire Mark Stoops, and

Speaker 24 college station almost burnt to the ground. So I don't know what it is about him or what people think about him.
I respect him. I played against him.

Speaker 24 He was at OU whenever I was there, whenever I was playing against him.

Speaker 24 I think he's a good coach. I think he's doing the most with what he has at Constitution.
Yes.

Speaker 24 And that's that's what you got to give him credit for it. But today, in this setting, in this game, this is one you got to go reach out and grab and find out what you're doing.

Speaker 9 You're right. I agree.

Speaker 9 I think also people like, well, Indiana is a college, is a basketball school. But look at what Signetti did.
So why can't that be us?

Speaker 24 Signetti came in and said, listen, you know what I do? I win

Speaker 24 everywhere I go. Google me, bitch.

Speaker 9 That's what he said.

Speaker 9 He did.

Speaker 24 And he he came in with that afternoon. He said, you know what? I don't care that we're at Indiana.
I don't care that I'm out here doing this. I'm going to go find a way to make it happen.

Speaker 24 The running game looks good. Their receivers can play.
Their quarterback has a game.

Speaker 9 Mendoza is playing Willie Real.

Speaker 24 Mendoza's a G.

Speaker 9 Now,

Speaker 9 I don't know if he had to run that gauntlet. That's the SEC.

Speaker 9 That's a whole different animal. Look,

Speaker 9 Kentucky has gone to a couple of bowl games, but I think, you know, when you look at it,

Speaker 9 what is their realistic expectations? Are they expecting to be in the college football playoff? Are they expecting to contend for national?

Speaker 9 When you got Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, A ⁇ M, when you got all those on your schedule, damn. Boy, that's murderous row.

Speaker 9 That's why it's so hard for a team, even the Alabamas, the LSUs, even the top teams, to go undefeated in that conference. Yeah, you'll get a situation like Alabama has gone undefeated.

Speaker 9 You get the 2019 LSU when you talk about one of the historically great teams in college football history. But for the most part, you're not going unscathed in the SEC.
It's just not going to happen.

Speaker 9 So I just need to know Kentucky, if I could talk to their fan base or their alumni, what is your realistic expectation for UK?

Speaker 24 Is it not 8-4?

Speaker 25 8-4 is good with a bowl game?

Speaker 9 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 9 I don't think they're going to get to 8-4 this year.

Speaker 9 But, I mean, can they get bowl eligible?

Speaker 9 What's the UK's remaining schedule?

Speaker 25 They're 2-3 going through.

Speaker 9 They're 2-4 right now.

Speaker 9 And so they play, what, 12 games? So they got six games to go. So theoretically, they could go 8-4.

Speaker 24 All right, here we go. The last 15 years of Kentucky football.
6-7, lost in the Gator Bowl. 7-6, lost in the Gator Bowl.
7-6, lost

Speaker 24 Music City Bowl. 10-3, 2021, Citrus Bowl beat Iowa.
5-6, 8-5.

Speaker 24 10-3 in 2018, beat Penn State. And then you go back.
7-6, 7-6, 5-7, 5-7, 2-10, 2-10, 5-7, 6-7.

Speaker 24 So you got a couple 10-3 sprinkled in, but really, your median point for success is

Speaker 9 24.

Speaker 24 Aiden Blue would be out of this ball for them in a bowl win.

Speaker 9 They just lost to Texas. They're at home versus Tennessee, at Auburn, home versus Florida.
They got Tennessee Tech at home, at Vanderbilt, at Louisville.

Speaker 9 Today didn't work out well. Tomorrow ain't looking much better.

Speaker 25 Listen, today looked much better than what people thought it would have been because there was a chance. UK had a chance to win this game.
They just couldn't put the ball in position to score.

Speaker 25 Maybe if you can't get a touchdown, get three.

Speaker 25 They could barely get 50, huh?

Speaker 9 I mean,

Speaker 25 and to me, it just kept seeing like they kept running the same play.

Speaker 24 Draw, draw, draw.

Speaker 25 I'm like, what? What are we?

Speaker 24 What's it's the same thing over and over.

Speaker 9 I'm looking at this hold on. No play down play.

Speaker 25 I saw a few dig routes and a few flat routes, but there was really no creativity to the offense. And obviously, you are playing against a very good Texas team.
So I kind of understand.

Speaker 25 You don't want to put your young quarterback in harm's way. That makes your decision-making is good.

Speaker 25 You know, you don't want to put too much on the plate, but a game like this, man, you throw everything that you got.

Speaker 24 Plus, the kids are going to be able to do that.

Speaker 9 Kitchen sing, Ocho.

Speaker 9 They got Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Vanda, Tennessee, Tech, and on the road against Vanda and Louisville.

Speaker 9 Like I say, today they look good. They got

Speaker 9 much better.

Speaker 25 That's tough. Yeah.

Speaker 24 On to the hardwood.

Speaker 24 On to the hardwood.

Speaker 9 Jeremiah Love and the number 13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the number 20 USC Trojan 34-24 in the 96th meeting between the two rivals.

Speaker 9 Love finished with a career high, 228 rushing yards, and a touchdown to lead Notre Dame attack that racked up 306 rush yards. Notre Dame finished with 442 total yards.

Speaker 9 Jadarion Price also added 87 yards rushing and a touchdown and returned the kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. Damn, USC.

Speaker 9 They just did whatever they wanted to do to y'all.

Speaker 24 Here it is.

Speaker 25 This is one of the few games I wasn't able to see.

Speaker 25 I didn't get the chance to see this one. Hey, how did the receiver do? The receiver from USC?

Speaker 24 He's really good.

Speaker 9 Lane, he had six for a buck 11

Speaker 9 and a ton. Okay.

Speaker 24 18.5, 18.5 to catch.

Speaker 9 The quarterback.

Speaker 9 Two turnovers, though. That was the difference in the ballgame, don't you?

Speaker 9 Well, actually, they turned over the ball over three times.

Speaker 9 Might have been a different ballgame if they could have held on to it. Quarterback.
Listen,

Speaker 24 Notre Dame's doing what they need to do. If they need to go through and run the table and they're going and playing, this is a huge rivalry game forever.
Notre Dame comes through.

Speaker 9 They can't lose another game, though, Johnny. They They got to run the table.
They're 5-2.

Speaker 9 Don't run it.

Speaker 24 Look at their schedule. Let's take a peek at their schedule for the rest of the way.
All right. They got

Speaker 24 Boston College, dub.

Speaker 24 Navy, dub.

Speaker 24 Pitt,

Speaker 24 dub.

Speaker 24 Syracuse.

Speaker 24 Okay, they'll play them tough. And then Stanford.
That's tough.

Speaker 24 So get through Syracuse.

Speaker 24 And they do it.

Speaker 25 Hey, listen,

Speaker 25 football on Saturdays has been so funny.

Speaker 25 The teams that you're supposed to beat,

Speaker 25 there have been a lot of surprises this season. There have been a lot of surprises.

Speaker 9 Notre Dame is known to give it up to a team, the Northern Illinois, and

Speaker 9 Northern Illinois.

Speaker 9 And teams, like, always trip them up.

Speaker 24 Ooh.

Speaker 24 I like Notre Dame. Look, they maybe have one of the best running backs in the country, I think.
They do. They have a quarterback who, you go back and look at the A ⁇ M game,

Speaker 24 really solid. You look through the board.
Their defense is solid. They're a team that can get in the playoff and cause some havoc.

Speaker 24 Their coach is really good.

Speaker 9 I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to force that quarterback to beat me.

Speaker 24 I am as well.

Speaker 9 I'm not going to let them run the ball. I'm not going to let them run the ball

Speaker 9 44 times. And definitely, you're not getting no 300 yards rushing.
Because, I mean, you run the ball for 300 yards. That means you got the ball.

Speaker 9 You got to have the ball for an extended period of time.

Speaker 9 Well, damn, they didn't have it that long. Only 32 minutes or 33 minutes, which is not a long amount of time when you're considering.
But see, they were three of 11 on third down.

Speaker 9 So

Speaker 24 3 of 11 on third down. 3 of 11 on third down is tough.

Speaker 9 Because if you, you know, let's just say for the sake of argument, you six or seven for 11, that means you're going to be on the field for an extra two minutes.

Speaker 9 Yep.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 9 I don't know, Link. You make it.

Speaker 24 They win the turnover battle. They have 91 more yards and penalties, though.
But same amount of first downs,

Speaker 24 442 yards. Look,

Speaker 24 it's another good win for Notre Dame. They're just trucking along, doing what they need to do.
Let's try and get in the playoff and see if we can't make something shake.

Speaker 9 Johnny, thank you for joining us tonight. Taking time out of your busy schedule, guys, make sure you go subscribe to Johnny Podcast YouTube channel.
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Speaker 9 Johnny, enjoy the rest of your evening.

Speaker 24 We'll see you next week, bro. Appreciate you, boys.
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