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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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As we mentioned before, the number six Alabama Crimson Tide took down the number 11 Tennessee Volunteers 37 to 20.

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

But the game was broken open right before the half.

It 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.

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

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.

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.

Johnny, watching this game, Alabama came out on Friday, 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.

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

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.

100%.

Anytime you have Alabama has 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,

everything was okay.

Tennessee's going in to score.

The whole game's going to change.

Then you throw it late and inside, like we said, it's deuces.

So, I mean, that's a play you can't come back from.

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.

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.

Look, right now, in my opinion, I wrote this down when I walked in.

I got three guys right now who were playing really good ball at the quarterback position.

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.

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

they just kept coming at LSU all day today.

And then A ⁇ M 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.

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

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,

if you can run the table, that definitely helps.

But

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.

And when you look at it, nobody.

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

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

But we just got a bunch of guys just clumped together, and we're waiting for someone to take to take the lead and move to the front.

Ocho watching this game, Alabama 37, Tennessee 20.

This doesn't look like the Alabama that I'm used to seeing because the Alabama I'm used to seeing cannot be run.

They can put pressure on the quarterback with four.

They can't do either now.

I was just going to really say the same thing.

They don't look like the Alabama.

Oh, for one.

When you look at the Tennessee and the Alabama playing, most of the time, Alabama used to dominance.

Not dominance in spurs but dominance in all four quarters of a game obviously Tennessee had a chance to keep the game close throwing an interception before half obviously that that set sets things apart and it makes it that much more difficult when you turn the ball over against a good Alabama team not very very good what we're used to seeing but a good Alabama team then they they run away with the game when you turn the ball over and don't take advantage of the opportunities that you do have to score.

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 another areas to really give themselves a chance to actually compete, especially in the second half.

You think Alabama, Alabama normally do three things really well.

They run the football, they stop the run,

and they can get after your quarterback with four.

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 first round, and they have D-linemen 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,

I can't remember his name off the top of my head.

I'm sorry about that.

And he got a safety.

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

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.

It's guys that can move around that normally beat him.

Just dropping back and throwing the ball, it really did not happen that often.

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 Bowls.

They thought they was going to the national championship.

Coach Saban said they weren't mentally prepared.

But normally it's mobile quarterbacks that gives them fits.

I'm looking at this Alabama.

Yes, it's a big-time win.

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 Ocho, the Alabama that we're used to seeing.

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 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.

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.

They're bending, but not breaking.

They're doing what they need to do.

So you look at their schedule.

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.

We know that at the end of the day, it's going to be two losses in the SEC gets you in.

You know, old Miss takes an L today to kind of knock them off a little bit.

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.

BAMA has a really good squad.

AM 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.

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

Yeah.

You know what else I think?

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.

We

talked about earlier in the show the Heisman race.

You know, obviously 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 the 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 playing okay.

He's playing okay, but he's not, you know, that elite talent that you look for

that makes Alabama who they once were when they lack in other areas.

Well, we're going to have to, in order for him to hide into any window, I think he can make any throw.

I think right now, he's got a nice arm.

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

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

I like the way he's playing better than Mac Jones did.

Yes, Mac Jones.

You like him better than Bryce?

No.

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.

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

He definitely might have a more

arm than Bryce.

I think the thing is, is that when we go back to think of Heisman Trophy winners, we always think of that signature moment.

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.

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's the real deal.

You look at Cam.

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.

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

in a big spot nationally televised game to go haywire.

Now, Gunnar Stockton played really well today.

You know, it seemed like, especially the first half, every time Ole Miss touched the ball, they scored a touchdown.

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

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

what we're gonna go to.

What game are we going to next?

Okay,

let me

that seems to be the game, everybody.

I'm scared,

Ochro, what was your favorite game of the day today?

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

Oh, you're the Kentucky, Texas?

Man, can man, listen.

Hey, hey, Johnny, man,

they had, 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 too quiet.

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

I sat down in the student section all the way to the fourth quarter.

Where I had a good time.

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.

Gunner Stockton was 26 of 31, 289, four touchdowns, and another touchdown on the ground.

Georgia ran the ball 49 times, 221 yards.

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.

They had another four touchdowns on the ground, but with Georgia, big fourth quarter, scored 17 points.

O Miss didn't score anything because they had a nine-point lead going into the fourth.

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

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They couldn't do anything.

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Look,

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.

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.

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.

And I think Wayne 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.

I think this is an Ole Miss team that can be competitive versus anybody.

I think this is a Georgia team.

If Gunnar Stockton is going to throw four touchdowns for 275-plus yards, they're going to be able to play with anybody as well.

So, once again,

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.

We have that luxury because of the way way we played for the six weeks prior

you uh georgia dominated time of possession 30 over uh almost 38 minutes to 22 minutes uh

both teams was really good on third down one was five of nine the other was six of 11.

um georgia had 510 total yards uh old miss had 350 no turnovers and only one sack in the whole game yeah the whole yeah no really Four penalties for old miss for 40 yards.

Three penalties of 37 yards for Georgia.

So it was was really a clean game.

It wasn't a, you know, laundry on the field all over the place.

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

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

Ole Miss really didn't have an answer.

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?

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.

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.

And I'm thinking to myself, well,

in order for either of these teams to win, it's going to come down to two things.

Somebody had to execute in the time where it matters most, or turnovers are going to be the decider of the game.

And that's exactly how it went.

Yeah, you look at,

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.

Or we have the number one score in defense.

We're number one on third downs.

Okay, I measure offense and defense.

Can you be good when you have to be good?

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 game like this?

No doubt.

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 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

prime example uh 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 okay now you need to go down and get in field goal range can you do it now Now it matters.

All the other stuff was great.

Now it matters.

In Georgia, this is the second time they've done this.

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

The difference is Auburn's going in to score.

Georgia punches it out, goes 99 yards, gets a field goal

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

Georgia,

they're down nine.

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

Am I surprised at how the teams are moving the ball against Georgia?

Because the one thing we know about Georgia, Kirby keep defensive guys.

Normally linebackers and court and linebackers and D-line.

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

Anything else you want to add to that, Ocho?

Nine nine.

That's pretty good.

That's pretty good.

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.

Scores 45, and they need it all 45 because every bit of it.

Those Razorbacks gave them everything they wanted down in Fayetteville, and

they won a squeaker, 45-42.

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.

Arkansas passing.

Green was 19 of 32, 256, three touchdowns.

They ran the ball 32 times for 268.

500 you guys had ran it right about 500 yards Arkansas actually outgained you guys

but you guys found a way to get a victory.

What do you like about what you're seeing from your team, Johnny?

I mean,

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

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

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.

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.

We were going to rely on our defense.

No, no, no, no, no.

They score 87 points in this game.

They need every single one of them.

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.

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

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.

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.

This is 10 years ago now.

And the whole series with Arkansas has been this way.

They played us tough.

I think from 2013 on, even my second year there, they played us really, really tough.

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.

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.

And he's throwing the ball really well.

Look, 280 yards and three touchdowns.

Put some respect on his name for real.

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.

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.

We still got LSU.

We still got Texas.

But for now, if they continue this week-by-week approach, how can you not love the Yaggies?

I mean, we're ramping four in the country.

We're going to get to LSU in just a second.

I'm sure that's going to be tough.

But you look at A ⁇ M, Johnny.

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You were 5 for 11 on third down, but you were a perfect 3 for 3 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.

No, we're missing our running back, too.

We're missing Levion Moss.

We're missing L'Aveon Moss.

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So to have guys, to have Owens come in, add in 69.

Reed has 55.

EJ Smith has 52.

Like for us, those guys are averaging five yards of carry, 9.2 yards of carry, and 7.4 yards of carry.

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um you guys are probably climbed the number two team uh miami the canes they lost uh

Beck had a horrible game through four interceptions last night.

The question I have for you, Johnny,

is this the Aggies

year?

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 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,

just keep playing ball.

We don't need to be crowned national champions right now in October.

We need to get into the college football playoff, playing good football, and hopefully get a favorable matchup.

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.

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, 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.

And you want to get hot too, Uncle.

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.

You don't want to peak too soon.

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.

That's that's when it's that's when it's all about who's playing the best ball at the end of December middle of December

Yeah, you don't want to peak too soon

Look, I try to watch a different team.

Obviously, the games that we're going to talk about.

But right now,

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

Now,

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.

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

So on a neutral, because is it still the same?

Well, you know, the first first game is at the home, is a homestead, it's a home game

and the college football playoff guy, Johnny.

You know, is it the same?

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

for the top CDPs.

You get a home game.

So,

it's going to be tough.

Good luck going in going into the horseshoe

and beating a hot game.

There's going to be no cakewalk for them.

They ain't going to walk through this playoff.

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 gonna happen.

Yeah.

Well, we're gonna look, the game that they want, they look, obviously they want to be national champions, but they want some revenge on Michigan.

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

And it didn't make a difference.

Coach

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

that's how he got the contract.

He got that contract.

Hey, man, you beat Ohio State?

Yeah.

Let me go and get that.

But

the game,

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

31.

The number 10 LSU Tigers, 24.

Pavia, 14 to 22, 161 touchdowns, no interception.

Quarterback, the ball, nor the quarterback was on the ground.

He had another 17 carries for 86 yards and another two touchdowns.

So he had three total touchdowns.

They ran the ball 45 times for 239 yards.

Yeah.

You man, you know, Brian Kelly now, you know, he known the jump ship.

You know, Penn State job opening because he looked Cincinnati to know the name, know the name of the LSU.

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 contracts.

Look,

Bandy can play.

They went in there at home.

Nussmeyer played well.

He scrambled out of a lot of plays.

They had a lot of explosive plays in this game.

LSU did.

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 Vandy just answered the call.

This is not the Vandi of old.

They are playing with a lot of swagger.

They played 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, Vandi's a good football team.

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.

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.

If you look at the LSU side of things, we're back to banging our head against the wall because

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,

you know,

why are you supporting Diego Pavia so hard when you got a guy and Marcel Reed that at A ⁇ M is doing amazing things.

You want me to tell you why?

Because I fuck with every quarterback that's going out and living their dream and playing on Saturdays.

Every single one of them.

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 to live on Sunday, I'm sure.

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.

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.

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

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, is nothing but love for me.

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.

Pavia has a passing and a rushing touchdown in 25 straight games.

That is the second longest streak since behind FSU, Tommy Castellanos, 27 games.

Look,

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

They had their coming out party last year when they did what they did to Bama, and everybody thought

that was a one-time thing.

They backed it up this year.

They played Alabama tough, as Johnny mentioned.

Now they get a win over number 10 team in the country.

So now they start to believe because they got this quarterback.

When you got a quarterback, you got a chance.

I don't give a damn what conference you play in, and I don't care who you play.

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, you got a chance.

That's exactly what they got.

That's why Vanderbilt looks the way they look now.

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.

I don't, you you know, how goddamn it is.

Not being able to be good, and obviously, it's obviously coaching, but also also

having the players, having the players on both sides of the ball, including special teams as well that gets left out.

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.

This is how you look.

Vanda dominated time of possession, almost

12 and a half minutes longer than

actually 13 minutes longer than LSU had the ball.

There was six of 13 on third down.

There was two of three on fourth down.

Yeah,

if you were Brian Kelly,

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.

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

I would have never left.

I don't know.

I would have never left Notre Dame.

No, sir.

But now you do, and you're in the boots.

And now you got a bunch of fired-up Cajuns on your ass every week.

And you ain't got no.

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, it's a superior.

I think the SEC is the toughest conference in football.

now we can debate that and go back and forth 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 that that's that's happened

i don't i don't think i don't think he can recruit any better at penn state than what he's recruiting at lsu agreed

but can i say something real quick

you know you know one thing it doesn't even come down to recruiting anymore it doesn't come down to recruiting anymore i don't care how, 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.

The check that you're writing for these individual players that you want to come in and change the trajectory of your team and want a chance to compete.

ACC, SCC, it doesn't matter.

How much are you willing to pay?

Because in order to win now,

which is why we see that 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 there's a good chance and we've and we've seen that time and time again this year it always happened teams are team that normally dominated back in the days aren't dominating like they want like they once did why because the money money talks is different players are going all over where's there more money at penn state or lsu

whoo that's interesting

That's a good that's a good one because I think it's about the same.

I do.

Yeah, I can see that.

I say it's probably pretty close.

I say you're going to have a $20 million roster at both places, probably.

And that's just a number.

You got some schools that are going to spend 25, 26, 27.

That's a $7 million difference.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yeah,

he's known to jump ship.

I don't know.

uh uh ocho if the same amount of money uh you know you had jaden daniels and and you didn't win a national championship or you didn't even come close it's it's always he's always losing a game johnny that you're like okay they're gonna win this one and somebody nips him

somebody get somebody gets him and then you know he he would be a hard coach to play for because you know he blame he blamed the player then this and that i'm like bro what about you

what about you you you you you you you talk about us and this is not what we coach it is it is um the direct deposit could we see

on the direct deposit hits Brian Kelly's bank account every week.

He's happy no matter what.

He's sending the blame everywhere else.

2025 NIL rankings.

LSU, 20 million.

Penn State, 13 million.

Okay, there you go.

7 million more.

That's huge.

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

I'm kidding.

I think Ohio State is.

Or Texas AM.

Okay.

It's going to be close.

Worried about 26, 22.

Texas is number 10, probably.

20.

Texas is number one with 22.

They had a good game today against Kentucky.

Ohio State is two at 20, 21

or 20.5.

20.2.

LSU is 2 with 20.1.

Wow.

So think about it.

The top three are in the SEC.

No, Ohio State.

Excuse me.

LSU is three.

Texas is one.

You got Ohio State SmackDab in the middle.

Alabama up there somewhere.

What's the top five?

Does it say?

What's

Georgia?

Did you say Alabama?

No.

Oh.

LSU is three.

Texas, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, AM.

Right.

Four out of five, SEC.

Alabama is seven.

Who's six?

Oregon.

But

could we see

a switch?

Michigan is six.

Could we see a flip?

James Franklin goes to LSU.

Brian Kelly goes to Penn State.

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

out in the woods, in the mud, with our tires spinning and just burning the engine.

We ain't going nowhere with that program.

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.

Of course, this is like talking about Colorado and what they used to be.

I remember what Penn State used to be.

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?

Yes.

In my opinion, yes.

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.

You're going to be ranked in the top 25.

You go 11, 12, and 1.

You're in the playoff.

All you got to do is play ball at the right time.

So, yes, because your your conference is so easy.

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.

We make you the third highest paid.

He deserves it.

Behind Kirby and Orion Day.

Yeah, absolutely.

To win, look.

I mean,

he took a team.

That's a basketball school.

Indiana's a basketball school.

Everybody, when you think of Indiana, you think of Coach Knight, and you think of the Hoosiers and being being undefeated in 76, the last college basketball team to go undefeated and win the national championship.

That's what you think about this.

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

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

He's a hell of a coach.

He was on Coach Sabin's staff.

He was a wide receiver coach, Ocho.

but he wanted to be a head coach.

He left, go to a division two school, take $125,000 pay cut, got a daughter about to go to college.

He said, but I want to be a head coach.

Look,

you already know if you coach on, if you were on Nick Saban's staff, who didn't get a head job?

Lane Keffie, Kirby Smart, Billy Napier, Crystal Bull, Mel Tucker.

Who didn't get a job?

Dan Landy was a grad assistant, head coach.

Signetti, head coach.

Who didn't get a head job if you're on the staff?

Right.

And I got a question.

Speaking of head coaching jobs and vacancies that are open, Penn State.

Yes.

What are the chances that Nick Sabin comes back and takes that off?

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,

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

on their schedule.

But

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

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.

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

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

Yeah,

when you look, look, what is

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.

He got six at Alabama.

And

he lost to a Clemson.

He lost to Georgia.

So

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.

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, Coach Bryant did.

So we get that.

But I don't think Coach Saban, 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.

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.

He knows it.

He knows how to talk

on both sides.

He can talk to the players and like how he was with the players.

It's like 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.

So

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.

A lot.

You got 15 mail a year?

I mean, probably not.

Listen, it ain't going to 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?

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.

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

It is.

And I think Jimmy Sexton is Coach Sabers' agent also.

Look,

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.

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

Agreed.

Right.

So what you think about you, huh?

Nope.

I don't want it.

They ain't got a number.

They ain't got a number big enough.

Because

you already know who 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.

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.

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

Nah, I couldn't do that, man.

I couldn't.

I mean,

I could just see the program turning around under you.

What about this?

What about Deion?

At Penn State?

Why not?

I don't,

me personally, I don't know how much time is going to, 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.

10 years.

Right.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

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

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,

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

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.

The burning of the midnight oil doesn't help.

You know, he had the batter surgery.

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.

I know

I would definitely call Jimbo fishing.

Oh,

hey, Jimbo said he already packaged y'all money, so yeah, I go, I double-dip.

He said, y'all gave me 80.

Y'all gave me 84.

Hey,

I'm still having buyout money, too.

You know what?

To be honest, Penn State may be able to get, I mean, Jimbo goes.

Get him for a $5 million deal.

Sign him up for 10 of them.

Yep.

You're right.

You're right.

Another great day in college football all the way around, though.

A lot of upsets this week.

A lot of people went down.

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.

There was a lot of upsets,

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.

Yeah, but I don't know if Pennsylvania is going to let Prime have all them jerseys and all them combinations.

You know, Penn State, they got two colors.

They got black tops with white pants and they got white tops with white pants.

That's it.

That's all you get.

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

and win 1613.

over UK, University of Kentucky.

Kentucky got stopped, second in goal, third in goal, fourth in gold.

Texas goes down, kicks a field goal, and they win at 16-13.

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.

Quintrabion

Weisner

ran the long touchdown.

How they won this game, I don't know, Ocho.

They had 132 yards passing and 47 yards rushing.

So they had less than 180 yards.

The opposing team had over 400 yards.

And

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.

They possessed the ball half the time that UK had it.

UK had 26 first downs.

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

and somehow lost.

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

4.9 yards an attempt.

Texas's rushing attack this year is what we like to call abysmal.

Terrible.

they can't run out of a wet paper bag uh

47 yards rushing 1.7 yards of carry and this is in four quarters of football right 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 everybody in austin's throwing their horns up tonight and and saying we snuck out of there with one

i mean Let's turn it over to the man that sat in the student section and watch this.

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 gonna get a victory over the number 21 race

longhorns.

So you were there.

Do we got video?

You were there?

We do.

Oh, Lord, have mercy.

Yeah.

Hey, hey, hey,

you see the rhythm?

The whole, we was at that going crazy.

I'm like, you know what?

I'm like Professor.

I'm like Cletus Day.

I don't know that fool.

Hey, listen.

Listen,

if I'm going to go to a college game, obviously it's my daughter's homecoming.

I need the fucking experience.

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

And I'm coming.

Yeah.

You know that?

I know that.

I know.

Yeah.

Ray is in Kentucky.

I said,

do not put me in a suite.

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.

So they put me down there and

watching the game.

For me, Kentucky, as many yards as they did have had Johnny and Uncle, they couldn't score.

They couldn't put themselves in position to get field goals.

If you're not going to score and defense was playing well enough, to where you should have won this game, 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 to do some of the things

that texas couldn't

it just i it to me uh offensively in a sense i'm trying not to say anything like too bad about mr stooth 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 did he do wrong?

But then I watched how they play offensively and what they were were doing where at times, Johnny, they couldn't even get past midfield.

Well, hell, don't look like Texas got past midfield except that long touchdown.

Do they remember what you, do what Kentucky was before Stoops got there?

I don't think they remember that, Johnny.

They do realize that's a basketball school.

It's been a long time since the hefty lefty Jared Lorenzen rest in

my guy.

And also my guy, my guy, Randall Cobb.

It's been a long, long, long time since those Kentucky wildcats have been in the 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 yeah i mean look you only gonna first of all

you only gonna get you only gonna get

such some players first of all it's not like kentucky is is is like when you think of great football players i mean i think sean alexander is from kentucky but where did he go ojo alabama alabama

so if your best players players are leaving, are leaving the state, you don't have much of a chance, especially if you're Kentucky.

Now, you know, you are obviously Florida, they're going to be spread out.

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

Ohio State.

So they're going to be spread out.

But Kentucky, you've got to keep your best.

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

And that's what Kentucky, like I said, i think stoops is has done a great job giving what he's got i mean i don't know y'all are not getting nicks saving listen we uh we we at one point in time through our coaching search after jimbo tried to hire mark stoops and uh

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 he was at ou whenever i was there whenever i was playing against him um i think he's a good coach i think he's doing the most with what he has against.

Yes.

And 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.

You're right.

I agree.

I think also, people like, well, Indiana

is a basketball school.

But look at what Signetti did.

So why can't that be us?

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

I win

everywhere I go.

Google me bitch that's what he said

he did and he came in with that attitude 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 gonna go find a way to make it happen their running game looks good their receivers can play their quarterback has game Mendoza's playing Willie Real Mendoza Mendoza's a G

now

I don't know if he had to run that gauntlet.

That's the SEC.

That's a whole different animal.

Look,

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

what is their realistic expectations?

Are they expecting to be in the college football playoff?

Are they expecting to contend for national?

I mean, when you got Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, A ⁇ M, when you got all those on your schedule, damn.

Boy, that's murderous row.

That's why it's so hard for a team, even the Alabamas, the LSU, even the top teams, to go undefeated in that conference.

Yeah, you'll get a situation like Alabama has gone undefeated.

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.

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?

Is it not 8-4?

8-4 is good with a bowl game?

Yeah, for sure.

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

But, I mean, can they get bowl eligible?

What's the UK's remaining schedule?

They're 2-3 going to 2.

They're 2-4 right now.

And so they play, what, 12 games?

So they got six games to go.

So theoretically, they could go 8-4.

All right, here we go.

The last 15 years of Kentucky football.

Six and seven, lost in the Gator Bowl.

Seven and six, lost in the Gator Bowl.

Seven and six, lost

Music City Bowl.

10 and 3, 2021, Citrus Bowl, beat Iowa.

5-6, 8-5, 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.

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

out of this ball for them in a bowl win.

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.

Today didn't work out well.

Tomorrow ain't looking much better.

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.

If you can't get a touchdown, get three.

They could barely get past the 50, huh?

Barely.

And to me, it just kept seeing like they kept running the same play.

Draw, draw, draw.

I'm like, what are we, it's the same thing over and over.

I'm looking at this hold on.

No play down play.

I saw a few dig routes, a few flat routes, but there was was really no creativity to the offense.

And obviously, you are playing against a very good Texas team.

So I kind of understand

you don't want to put your young quarterback in harm's way to make sure decision-making is good.

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 plus the kitchen.

Kitchen sing, Ocho.

They got Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Vandi.

Tennessee Tech, and they're on the road against Vanda and Louisville.

Like I say, today didn't look good.

They got good.

Torrent looked much better.

That's tough.

Yeah.

On to the hardwood.

On to the hardwood.

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.

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.

Jadarion Price also added 87 yards rushing and a touchdown and returned to kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown.

Damn, USC.

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

Here it is.

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

I didn't get the chance to see this one.

Hey, how did the receiver do?

The receiver from USC?

He's really good.

Lane, he had six for a buck 11

and a ton.

Okay.

18.5, 18.5 to catch.

The quarterback.

Two turnovers, though.

That was the difference in the ball game, Monjo.

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

Might have been a different ball game if they could have held on to it.

Quarterback.

Listen,

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.

They can't lose another game, though, Johnny.

They got to run the table.

They're five and two.

Go run it.

Look at their schedule.

Let's take a peek at their schedule for the rest of the way.

All right.

They got

Boston College, dub.

Navy, dub.

Pitt,

dub.

Syracuse.

Okay, they'll play them tough.

And then Stanford.

That's tough.

So get through Syracuse.

And they do it.

Hey, listen,

football on Saturdays has been so funny.

The teams that you're supposed to beat,

there have been a lot of surprises this season.

There have been a lot of surprises.

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

Northern Illinois.

And teams

always trip them up.

Ooh.

i like i like notre dame look they maybe have one of the best running backs in the country i think they do they uh have a quarterback who you go back and look at the a m game 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

their coach is really good i tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna force that quarterback to beat me i am as well

I'm not gonna let them I'm not gonna let them run the ball.

I'm not gonna let them run the ball

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.

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

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.

So

three of 11 on third down.

Three of 11 on third third down is tough.

Because if you, you, 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.

Yep.

Yeah.

But

I don't know, Link.

You make a ton of time.

They win the turnover battle.

They have 91 more yards and penalties, though, but.

Same amount of first downs,

442 yards.

Look,

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.

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