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 Now, get ready to roll Shoals, Decatur, Athens and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee. It's time for the Valley's Exclusive FM Sports Voice.

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 The Boomo Bugg Show. New Exclusive Inside Track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC. Now your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome in to the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in where James Franklin gets a new job, Lane Kiffin gets an ultimatum according to the report, and Alabama's going to find out where they get their new spot in the big pole coming up tonight.

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 Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Tuesday to you and the listeners. Yes, will the Tide be 10, 9, or 8 tonight? That's going to be a big help if there are 8 or 9 in the polls.

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 James Franklin, according to multiple media reports, is the new coach at Virginia Tech.

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 Lane Kiffin supposedly received an ultimatum from Ole Miss, but he's denied it on the Pat McAfee show.

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 We'll talk about that.

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 Las Vegas insider Bruce Marshall previews the top college football games this week.

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 And Roger is here right now to recap a tough homecoming day and talk about some men's and women's basketball.

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 Roger Hoover, Alabama fans, just want to hear some good news after a rough weekend.

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 Roger on the call time, but let me go ahead and say this, BB.

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 Roger had nothing to do with it.

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 There we go.

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 On the Crimson Tide Network.

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 Roger, welcome in.

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 We've done our best to bail you out, buddy.

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 How are you?

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 Boom, boom, bug.

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 I mean, I'm doing all right.

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 You know, this past Friday night in our only postseason event we've had so far with Alabama

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 athletics, Alabama soccer, got a big win against Northwestern.

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 I'm going to be on the call for that.

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 They're going to take on number one seed Stanford coming up this week.

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 But, hey, that was a good story from this past week.

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 Kind of mixed in with the men's basketball and the football losses that, unfortunately, we have.

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 Roger, where do we begin?

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 It's easy to say, well, it's hard to beat a top 11 team and give them three turnovers.

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 And you miss a makeable kick there at the end of the first half.

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 But, Roger, obviously, a lot of folks asking questions.

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 It's always, in hindsight, easy to look back and say you should have done this, you should

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 But, Roger, you had the best seat in the house.

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 What is your breakdown on Alabama's weekend with Oklahoma?

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 I did a lot of things well in that football game, especially the defense, given the short field

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 they had to deal with so much in that ball game, made some key stops, only allowing one

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 touchdown to John Matera.

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 And that offense is usually pretty good.

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 Holding them to field goals is, again, usually pretty good.

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 But, unfortunately, just the mistakes were costly, and there were costly times, whether it

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 It was just kind of an out-of-character game at times for Alabama.

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 And yet, you're still in two points of tying it or three points if that field goal goes

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 in the end of the first half, you win the ball game.

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 So, again, I don't think it's reason for panic for any reason at all.

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 And those teams find their way to the Super Bowl, it seems like, every year.

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 So, again, I didn't think it was a cataclysmic loss, nothing to the levels of what we had

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 It was just a hard-fought football game.

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 And, unfortunately, this great eight-game winning streak is over.

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 But it almost makes you look back and say, you know what, if you had told us going into

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 But that's just how the season's gone.

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 And there's still so much to play for that's in Alabama's control.

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 Oklahoma's drives, by the way, 23-yard drive after starting on Alabama's 30-yard line, a pick

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 and a 22-yard drive.

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 They've got a supersonic kicker to their credit.

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 But, Roger, every time you look at the drives, you just scratch your head.

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 And John Mater was a quarterback who had thrown a lot of interceptions this season.

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 If you listen to Crimson Tide, just about any sport, you recognize the voice.

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 Roger, was this the game where we started seeing maybe the changing of the guard

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 as far as who's going to get the most totes at running back?

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 It looked like, from all gathering, that, yes, everything looks good.

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 The one thing he's got to continue to do is block, because Jan Miller is so good at pass protection.

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 And we're hoping this is a very long season, still so much football to be played.

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 One guy that is really coming into his own is Red Morgan.

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 Four tackles, one went for a loss, forced to fumble, only gave up three catches, three receptions, four, eight yards.

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 He's also a playmaker.

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 Six catches, 80 yards.

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 Career game.

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 But he's somebody that continues to be, you know, he was so undervalued, you know, playing small college football to begin his career,

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 and talented older players around him, he's forcing Alabama's hand to make him play in this game.

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 So I think he's been out there and really been fast and physical, and that's what Alabama needs in that position.

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 Roger, obviously tonight's a pivotal night going forward.

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 The AP and the coaches' poll have already indicated they're not for Alabama, but let's face it at the end of the day,

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 Tonight is the one that is the measurement stick.

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 You've got to get inside the 12 and stay there to make the playoffs.

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 Alabama right now dropped from 4th to 10th in the conventional polls.

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 The question is, where will they land tonight?

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 The reason I bring that up, correct me if I'm wrong, Notre Dame has two losses.

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 They faced one top 25 team.

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 Oregon is ahead of Alabama.

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 They haven't faced any top 25 teams, and maybe one out there.

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 Is the committee going to live up to what they've been preaching?

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 We are going to take strength of schedule into consideration.

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 You surely hope so, especially the way they've continued to have SEC teams toward the top of the rankings.

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 You know what, the last week, five teams would have made the playoff out of the SEC,

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 if you want to still use similar metrics.

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 the South Carolina, the LSU, as they know, unfortunately, that doesn't look as strong.

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 I'll sing Dynamite, their fight song if they do that coming up on Saturday

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 to help us toward the SEC championship game.

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 But, no, we're continuing to kind of monitor all of that, and still so much can change.

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 are you going to be a high enough seed to be able to withstand a loss

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 I still don't think that's going to happen.

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 The women are playing well.

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 4-0 beat Alabama.

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 Jessica Timmons, 13.

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 Boy, I tell you one thing, Nate Oates, Sam's, we're playing a tough preseason schedule.

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 He's not kidding.

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 No, he's not kidding at all.

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 And I think you learned a lot about this group this past week against Purdue.

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 Just, unfortunately, Alabama couldn't close out a game where they really didn't play great at times,

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 getting out-rebounded as much as they were, allowing a talented player like Braden Smith to get off as many shots as he was able to,

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 as many three-pointers.

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 It's another top-ten team, number eight in the country.

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 So great challenge coming up.

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 And I'm just looking forward to making the trip.

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 I'll be on the call filling in for Chris Stewart, who has a coach here in Tuscaloosa.

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 Brian Fasting and I are heading to Chicago here in just a little bit with the men's team getting ready for Chicago

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 and the United Center and getting to see the Crimson Tide again on a huge stage nationally

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 before we have all the festivities next week in Las Vegas.

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 Listen, thank you for coming on again.

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 We kid you about it sometimes, but you've got a lot more things to do than to talk to us.

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 Number one, about catching a plane.

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 Now, I know Brian Pansy will entertain you throughout the flight.

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 Bring back A.W. with you, and I know you will be ready Saturday for Senior Day.

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 Where can we get online to get your great stuff and everything else?

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 Obviously, tonight is going to be a very interesting poll from the only folks that count.

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 Jim, your reflections to what happened over the weekend relative to our zip code with Bama and Oklahoma

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 and what's going to be the consequence tonight when the poll comes out.

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 Yeah, that one, you know, it's so funny because I've actually been on a couple shows prior to this one.

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 And I contend the better team doesn't win every game, okay?

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 Things happen.

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 We all know what happened in that Alabama-Oklahoma game.

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 Alabama is a better team than Oklahoma, but they didn't win on the scoreboard.

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 And that's, you know, that's just an unfortunate thing that happened there.

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 Oklahoma's got a really good defense, and I think we all acknowledge that.

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 But offensively, they're challenged.

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 And Alabama helped them out quite a bit.

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 But I think we're going to see, you know, I think we're going to see Oklahoma rise up.

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 But I'm curious as to where they're going to put Alabama.

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 How far down will they drop Alabama?

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 Will Alabama be behind Notre Dame?

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 Will they be ahead of Notre Dame?

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 You know, so I'm curious about where Oklahoma, BYU, and Alabama are going to land.

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 Tim, your thoughts about, to me, it comes down to this.

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 Are they going to preach and practice what they've been doing?

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 That is, we're going to take strength of schedule into consideration.

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 Because you look at Oregon, they played absolutely nobody relative to the field.

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 Notre Dame has played one ranked team.

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 Alabama's played four.

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 How serious are they going to practice what they've been preaching?

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 And where would you put Bama relative to, particularly Notre Dame and Oregon?

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 Listen, do I think Oregon's a really good team?

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 Yes, I do.

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 I know their schedule isn't the greatest.

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 They've got USC coming up this week, and then they've got Washington the week after that.

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 So we'll find out just about how good Oregon's going to be.

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 As far as Alabama and their schedule, yeah, there's no question that Alabama's played a very, very difficult schedule.

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 But you're right.

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 They haven't practiced what they've preached.

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 They're doing what they've always done.

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 They're going strictly off of one.

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 They're looking strictly at one loss record.

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 But one of their losses was to Ohio State.

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 Thank you.

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 And they'd be looking at a lot better.

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 So we're not getting what everyone said.

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 And it makes you wonder, why in the world would you schedule a good non-conference opponent?

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 Thank you.

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 If you lose it, it's only going to hurt you.

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 But it really doesn't help you if you win it.

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 No.

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 Jim, who's going to Atlanta?

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 It appears that if Alabama wins the Iron Bowl and beats Auburn, Texas A&M beats Texas, it's pretty cut and dry.

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 It's going to be Alabama and Texas A&M.

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 But in this year, nothing is cut and dry.

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 If Texas upsets Texas A&M Black Friday that night and Alabama beats Auburn, then it would be Alabama and Georgia.

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 And we haven't even gotten into Auburn up since Alabama.

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 Who goes to Atlanta, Jim?

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 You know, I have a sneaky suspicion that Texas is going to bite Texas A&M on that Friday night.

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 I don't know why.

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 I guess it's because we all know that Texas A&M made a heck of a comeback.

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 But, man, they were getting slaughtered by South Carolina.

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 South Carolina is not that good of a deal.

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 I think Texas is better than South Carolina.

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 And Texas has them in Austin.

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 I have a feeling that Texas A&M is going to suffer a loss there in Austin.

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 I just have that sneaky suspicion.

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 And I just have that.

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 The more things change, the more they remain the same, right?

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 I know.

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 And, you know, I think Kirby Smart, honestly, I think Kirby Smart would prefer not to be in Atlanta.

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 I think he would rather not play that game.

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 But I think they're going to end up being in it.

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 And if they get in there, they're going to play to win.

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 You're not going to see, you know, Georgia or Alabama sitting anybody.

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 They're going to play to win.

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 But I think Kirby Smart would prefer not to be in that game, to be honest with you.

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 And, you know, it's kind of sad that we've reached that point.

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 You know, it's kind of sad we've reached the point where some guys, some teams would be better

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 or they'd prefer not to play in the conference championship game.

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 To me, if that's where we're at, then there's something wrong, you know.

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 Because maybe it's just old school in me.

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 Well, we say with the ACC baseball teams, the tournament, you don't always want to win it.

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 You want to keep your staff together.

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 And I agree with you, G.L.

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 I hear fans right on the cage.

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 They want to play a tough schedule, except when they lose that game, then they start complaining,

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 why are we not going to the playoffs?

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 Well, that's because you didn't play a cake, Walt, like Oregon.

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 Some of these other teams, it's a cake and eat it, too.

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 Let me ask you this, Jim.

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 By the way, the BlitzSports.com is the place to get the latest with Jim, Jim Gomm.

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 What's your take on what's coming out of Oxford?

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 We've seen the narrative all week long about Lane getting the ultimatum.

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 He now denies that.

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 There's Florida.

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 There's LSU.

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 We've got some pretty good sources, and they're not saying this in stone, but they're dropping hints that Lane ain't going anywhere.

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 He's just going to Memphis, talking to his buddy Jimmy Sexton, saying, how much more money can we get out of Oxford to stay in Oxford?

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 What is your take on the situation there in Oxford?

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 Yeah, and listen, I think Lane's got it made in Oxford because he can have an eight and four season there, and they're not going to try to run him out of time.

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 That's right.

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 You know, recent history at Ole Miss, it is what it is, but they're throwing to death what he's doing right now.

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 Don't get me wrong.

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 They're throwing to death.

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 At LSU or Florida, you know, they're going to welcome you with open arms, but the first time you have a nine and three and eight and four seasons back-to-back, it's going to be like, we need to get rid of this guy.

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 And so, in a way, I think that his future is more secure in Oxford, but I think the potential to win national championships is greater in Gainesville and Baton Rouge.

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 So, what do you feel strong?

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 Do you feel like, I want to be in competition for the national championship year after year after year?

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 If that's what you want, then Baton Rouge and Gainesville is a better landing spot for you.

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 So, if you want a more leisurely lifestyle and not as much pressure, I think staying at Ole Miss would be the best option.

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 I think he's going to stay at Ole Miss.

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 I think he's going to get a hefty raise out of it.

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 But if he does get a hefty raise, I think the expectations will be higher for him on an annual basis because now they're going to be going, hey, we're paying you $11.5 million.

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 We want to see 10-2, 11-1, and 12-0 season coming up shortly.

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 Jim, let me ask you about one of the more intriguing games this weekend.

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 It may not be the greatest slate of SEC games, but there are some important games.

453
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 Kentucky in number 12, Vanderbilt.

454
00:26:29,740 --> 00:26:31,300
 Vandy still has aspirations.

455
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:38,480
 If they can beat Kentucky and Tennessee, they may actually sneak in the back door and get a playoff berth.

456
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,920
 We'll see how that goes.

457
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,400
 Mark Stoops, three weeks ago, was 2-5.

458
00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:45,460
 Now he's won three games.

459
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:51,100
 He's got the cats rolling with Cutter Bowley, their quarterback.

460
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 This is a big game for both teams.

461
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 Vandy's a 10-point favorite.

462
00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:56,660
 Jim, your thoughts?

463
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:05,540
 Well, you know what, when I saw a couple weeks ago when Kentucky beat Florida 38-7, that one opened my eyes.

464
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 I didn't think they had it in them.

465
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 I did not think Kentucky had that in them.

466
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 Because I think, there's no question, Florida's got talent.

467
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 They just weren't coached very well.

468
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 So, if I'm Vanderbilt, I'm a little bit nervous.

469
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 But it is in Nashville, okay?

470
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 So, that's a big plus.

471
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 But if Vanderbilt doesn't play their A game and they come with just a lackadaisical attitude,

472
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,580
 Kentucky could sneak up and beat those guys.

473
00:27:34,740 --> 00:27:37,320
 So, I think this is the makings of an upset.

474
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,720
 I think that's a good one that you brought out to everyone's attention.

475
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 Because everyone just looks at Kentucky.

476
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,160
 Oh, it's the same old Kentucky.

477
00:27:44,420 --> 00:27:45,380
 They're getting killed.

478
00:27:46,180 --> 00:27:49,320
 Vanderbilt, they better be ready.

479
00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:54,820
 Because I think Kentucky's going to be, and like you said, they're playing with a lot of confidence right now.

480
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,360
 Listen, they're just one win away from bowl eligibility.

481
00:27:57,740 --> 00:27:58,280
 That's what I mean.

482
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 You know, Vanderbilt, Louisville, back-to-back.

483
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 So, yeah, they'd love to get to that sixth win.

484
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 And I think they're going to play really good at Vanderbilt.

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 Tell us about the blitz.

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499
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 Jim, listen, man, keep up the good work.

500
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 Thanks so much, and let's do it again soon, okay?

501
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 All right.

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 You guys have a great day.

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 Welcome back in, just calling the most balanced man on the planet Earth.

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593
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 Welcome back, and how are you?

594
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 I am pretty good, Harold.

595
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 A couple of topics that I'll be throwing to the table, and we'll just pick them up as we go.

596
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:11,480
 One, you and Brett were spot on last week talking about Bama and this imbalanced offense.

597
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,680
 Came back to roost last week, although I'll tell you that Oklahoma defense, those turnovers are a big deal.

598
00:35:17,820 --> 00:35:23,640
 Oklahoma's defense, this is the college version of the Denver Broncos defense that can make plays and turn games around.

599
00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:25,140
 So, keep that in mind.

600
00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:28,620
 Two, I knew there was a reason why I didn't like Ryan Day.

601
00:35:29,580 --> 00:35:34,700
 Last week, confirmed it against UCLA, jamming in that last touchdown, under two minutes to play.

602
00:35:34,780 --> 00:35:37,040
 Even Lane Kiffin took a knee last week.

603
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,860
 Ryan Day, no such thing against UCLA, jamming in that last score, and why not?

604
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,820
 Three, Haynes King for the Heisman.

605
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,300
 This is my new Heisman guy now.

606
00:35:47,460 --> 00:35:48,660
 I'm kind of on Pavia, though.

607
00:35:48,740 --> 00:35:50,860
 He'd be my second vote, Haynes King for the Heisman.

608
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,860
 And four, last note, we got the schedule this week, and I know we got Eastern Illinois playing Bama,

609
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 and we got Mercer playing Auburn.

610
00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:05,420
 Oh, by the way, Ashton Janiels will sit out this game and play the Bama game to save his redshirt.

611
00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:13,780
 But, the schedule, remember a little while ago, this is, you know, the reason the SEC, one of the reasons up to nine games scheduled,

612
00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:17,020
 is because of these games like this week.

613
00:36:17,420 --> 00:36:22,000
 Eastern Illinois, Bama, Mercer, Auburn last week, Tennessee Tech, which isn't bad to play Kentucky.

614
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,460
 There's no reason to play these sorts of games anymore, and that's one of the reasons why these teams that kept doing it,

615
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 that's one of the reasons why they changed that schedule.

616
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,300
 A quick note, I go back in the 70s, and I know Alabama, look at some of the teams.

617
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 They didn't play lower division teams back then.

618
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 1973, California, Steve Barkowski, a quarterback, Virginia Tech, a game they won 77-6.

619
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,640
 Miami, before Miami was great, look who they're playing.

620
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 Next year, 74, Maryland, that was a bowl team.

621
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 Jerry Claiborne playing them.

622
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 TCU, Miami, they go on and on.

623
00:36:57,460 --> 00:37:01,640
 You didn't see these sorts of games in the old days, and that's one of the reasons, I think,

624
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 and ESPN pushing it too, why, you know, they went to a nine-game schedule.

625
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 We don't need to see these sorts of games like this week coming up for Alabama and Auburn.

626
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 You know, and the thing is, Bruce, if they were going to continue what they should have already done,

627
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 if you're going to play a game like that, why not put the money right down the street at North Alabama,

628
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 UNA or a place like that, let them take the thumping and cash a check, you know,

629
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 at least keep the money in the state.

630
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 That's just Alabama, that's any state.

631
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,180
 But, Bruce, let's fast forward to tonight.

632
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 We've seen what the committee from their pulpit have been saying.

633
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 We're going to go by strength of schedule.

634
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 Your thoughts, we don't have the national seat at the table.

635
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 Your thoughts about if they use that to measure things, where do you put Alabama relative to us,

636
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 particularly Notre Dame, which is a brand.

637
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 We know we don't have to go there.

638
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 We know that's sales.

639
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 Oregon sales, they've got big bucks, big boosters in their name, brand, all that stuff.

640
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,080
 But will the committee preach what they practice?

641
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,960
 And in your opinion, we saw what the traditional polls did over the weekend.

642
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 Where do you put Alabama tonight?

643
00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:12,700
 Right about where they sit in the coaches' poll, in the AP poll, which is 10th coming into this week.

644
00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:14,160
 That puts them right at the edge.

645
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 So they are in some jeopardy here.

646
00:38:19,020 --> 00:38:26,320
 The committee, you know, guys, you, me, Brad Norsworthy, Jimmy out down in Baton Rouge,

647
00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:31,820
 Ryan Fowler, Tuscaloosa, I think we could do as good a job as the committee or better.

648
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:32,620
 Couldn't do any worse.

649
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,560
 You're right.

650
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 Couldn't do any worse.

651
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,020
 And when I hear them talking about, okay, the committee's impressed, the committee's impressed.

652
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 Who are these guys?

653
00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:41,060
 Listen, we don't know.

654
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,420
 This is still very subjective, and they still go by straight-up record more than anything.

655
00:38:45,620 --> 00:38:50,200
 I think this is going to get really interesting when we get to the group of five rep.

656
00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:54,540
 There's a chance that James Madison could be in the playoff.

657
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,760
 I think he's winning because these teams from the American keep knocking each other off.

658
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,940
 But is going through a Sunbelt schedule the same?

659
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,200
 I mean, the American isn't the SEC, but it's better than a Sunbelt.

660
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 And, you know, North Texas and Tulane and all the Navy, who have lost some games in the league,

661
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,520
 that's a tougher schedule they've played than James Madison.

662
00:39:13,020 --> 00:39:15,020
 But this is still subjective.

663
00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:19,300
 They can say all they want about, you know, okay, we've figured out this formula and all.

664
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:24,680
 No, they go back to record, and that's why SMU got in there last year, and they really shouldn't have.

665
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 So I don't trust the committee any more than I do in the basketball committee

666
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 because I don't think they're any smarter than anybody else either.

667
00:39:32,540 --> 00:39:32,840
 We'll see.

668
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,600
 Bruce, is that not like going to church and hearing a sermon about stealing

669
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670
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,160
 I mean, is that not an analogy to that?

671
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 It is.

672
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 That's a good analogy, yeah.

673
00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:44,480
 Yeah, it definitely is.

674
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 Let me ask you about the SEC championship game.

675
00:39:48,780 --> 00:39:53,640
 We've still got a lot of games to play, but we want to talk with you about some of these.

676
00:39:54,020 --> 00:39:58,460
 But right now, it appears there's still a lot of football to be played

677
00:39:58,460 --> 00:40:06,920
 that if Texas A&M beats Texas, like Friday night, and Alabama beats Auburn Saturday,

678
00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:11,080
 that Texas A&M is going to be playing Alabama in Atlanta.

679
00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:16,660
 But if Texas plays the game of the year and Auburn upsets Alabama,

680
00:40:16,660 --> 00:40:18,300
 it may be a free-for-all.

681
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:24,460
 Also, if Texas upsets Texas A&M, it may be Alabama and Georgia again.

682
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,520
 Who's playing in Atlanta?

683
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:35,800
 I would still say there's a better chance that Texas A&M will be one of the teams there.

684
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:42,500
 Even though, you know, they've got to go to, by the way, throw A&M in that boat, too,

685
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,220
 playing Sam Ford this week from Birmingham.

686
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:45,660
 Yeah.

687
00:40:45,980 --> 00:40:47,480
 They're playing FTS, too.

688
00:40:47,860 --> 00:40:51,820
 But the way Texas, even though they've got to go to Austin, I wouldn't bank on Texas beating

689
00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:54,800
 that Texas A&M, although it's possible they've cut it close.

690
00:40:55,780 --> 00:41:01,960
 Sitting there in case, you know, Bama loses to Auburn, which I think is possible if Daniel's

691
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:02,960
 plays in that game.

692
00:41:03,220 --> 00:41:05,060
 I don't think Bama can rest.

693
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:06,960
 He's going to, according to reports.

694
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:07,920
 Yes.

695
00:41:08,060 --> 00:41:09,080
 And it looks like he will play.

696
00:41:09,980 --> 00:41:11,300
 Ole Miss is sitting there.

697
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:17,280
 And all Ole Miss has got is the, well, they've got the, you know, the egg bowl.

698
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,540
 They've got to buy in the egg bowl.

699
00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:19,500
 Yeah.

700
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,120
 So, I mean, they're sitting there, too.

701
00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:22,820
 So, you could see Ole Miss in Atlanta.

702
00:41:22,820 --> 00:41:27,220
 What I wonder is, and we'll talk about this morning, three weeks before the SEC title game.

703
00:41:28,620 --> 00:41:32,220
 You know, these conference title games are getting sort of taboo now.

704
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:37,080
 I mean, what do you do when you have two teams probably in there?

705
00:41:37,460 --> 00:41:42,700
 And so, one of the teams is going to have maybe three losses after you get into the SEC title game.

706
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:43,580
 Does that knock them?

707
00:41:44,260 --> 00:41:53,300
 If Alabama's there and loses to, you know, to A&M, does that knock, would that knock Bama out of the whole playoff thing?

708
00:41:53,420 --> 00:41:54,140
 I don't know.

709
00:41:54,240 --> 00:42:00,260
 I think they've got to, we've got to really look at, we'll talk about this more in a couple weeks, but the use of conference time.

710
00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:06,520
 Now that you've got a playoff and you're expanding the playoff, these conference title games are kind of redundant, especially in the big leagues there.

711
00:42:06,580 --> 00:42:07,820
 And they've lost a lot of their appeal.

712
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,040
 They certainly did last year.

713
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:14,540
 I mean, they're playing, you know, this ACC and then the Big Ten, they're just playing for a bye in the first round.

714
00:42:14,740 --> 00:42:17,540
 It's not enough to keep the interest in this thing.

715
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,480
 They're better off just expanding the playoff, which they're talking about doing.

716
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,580
 Bruce, Marshall, Vegas, and Saturday, amongst other places, I totally agree with you.

717
00:42:25,940 --> 00:42:30,260
 Bruce, you're connected to Ole Miss.

718
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,980
 We're connected to Ole Miss, too.

719
00:42:32,780 --> 00:42:36,060
 We've seen what all has been going on back and forth.

720
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,220
 I call it verbal tennis.

721
00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:38,840
 Lane's a smart guy.

722
00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,160
 Jimmy Sexton's even smarter when it comes to money.

723
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:49,100
 You know the LSU, the Florida narrative, but at the end of the day, would anybody be surprised to see Lane stay right where he is

724
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:53,140
 and get a boost to stay there, a rebel in Oxford?

725
00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:57,040
 No, I don't think a lot of people would be surprised.

726
00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:02,820
 For what it's worth, the sage of Memphis, Brett Norsworth, who's pretty plugged in there.

727
00:43:03,020 --> 00:43:04,260
 He's on the radio crew.

728
00:43:04,580 --> 00:43:09,480
 He kind of thinks Lane's going to stay, though he's qualifying that.

729
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,580
 He's got a great gig there.

730
00:43:13,580 --> 00:43:22,860
 They're going to pay him as much as he can win big there, and he doesn't have to win a national title there, at least yet, for them, not like LSU or Florida.

731
00:43:24,100 --> 00:43:26,340
 I think he's going to stay, although I don't know.

732
00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:29,700
 Now, this creates some very interesting things.

733
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,660
 Ole Miss apparently doesn't want to play this game with Jimmy Sexton, you know, into December, and they kind of show this.

734
00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:40,500
 Although they could move that line in the sand, they could move that from November 30th, always.

735
00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:48,280
 But I think this is a – let's just say Lane doesn't sign that extension by the 30th.

736
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,520
 Is Ole Miss going to – would they pull the plug up?

737
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,180
 No, they can't.

738
00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:53,780
 Or would they?

739
00:43:54,320 --> 00:44:01,480
 Would Lane, if he takes the Florida job or LSU, would they let him stay at Ole Miss coaching through December?

740
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,320
 See, this is something that is –

741
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,280
 Well, Lane has the leverage, in my opinion, there.

742
00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:10,060
 I mean, Ole Miss, I see what they're doing there at the poker table, but I think Lane holds the cards right now.

743
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,640
 He does hold the cards because Ole Miss can't really do that, and I think Lane may just call their bluff and say,

744
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,680
 I'm not signing until I want to sign him.

745
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,720
 Go ahead and fire me if you want, and I don't think Ole Miss will do that.

746
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,740
 But this is another issue in college football.

747
00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:27,680
 I mean, you can't have – and this might be – I brought up James Madison a minute ago.

748
00:44:28,580 --> 00:44:31,100
 I mean, Bob Chesney is going to probably get hired somewhere.

749
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:39,180
 What if Madison, James Madison, is the 12th team in the playoff, and their coach takes another job before then?

750
00:44:39,260 --> 00:44:39,840
 Are they going to do it?

751
00:44:39,860 --> 00:44:43,280
 Central Florida did with Scott Frost eight years ago and let him coach for the playoffs.

752
00:44:43,580 --> 00:44:47,880
 I mean, this is one of these things college football has got to somehow address.

753
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:52,220
 You don't see NFL coaches in the playoffs, you know, saying, I'm going to leave –

754
00:44:52,220 --> 00:44:57,420
 you don't see Sean Payton saying, I'm going to leave the Broncos and go coach the Titans, you know,

755
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,520
 in the middle of the playoffs.

756
00:44:58,620 --> 00:44:59,680
 That doesn't happen in the NFL.

757
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,460
 And this, you know, college football, they don't have any rules to prevent that,

758
00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,320
 but that is one stain on the sport, I think.

759
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:07,840
 Absolutely.

760
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,240
 Let's talk about some games.

761
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:17,360
 One that's important in the SEC for several reasons, Kentucky at Vandy, you went –

762
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,400
 you've seen Ole Miss and Kentucky.

763
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,840
 Connor Boldy's come in and breathed some life into this offense.

764
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:30,780
 Kentucky's won three consecutive games, beating an undefeated Tennessee Tech team last week.

765
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,700
 Vandy's a 10-point favorite.

766
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:36,580
 They haven't beaten Kentucky in 10 years, which is amazing.

767
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,380
 Vandy's still holding out, you know, can they sneak in the back door of the playoffs.

768
00:45:42,540 --> 00:45:45,340
 They're number 12 in the Associated Press.

769
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,240
 Boldy's – Kentucky's got some momentum.

770
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:49,940
 Vandy's had a bye week.

771
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,660
 Vandy's a 10-point favorite.

772
00:45:52,860 --> 00:45:54,000
 Do they win in cover?

773
00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:59,120
 I'm not sure, Brett, for a couple reasons.

774
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:01,480
 One, Vandy did have a bye last week, and you're right.

775
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:02,980
 They're sort of right on the cusp here.

776
00:46:02,980 --> 00:46:07,980
 But we saw last year in November Vandy start to lose some altitude.

777
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,840
 They've had a lot of big games, and frankly, they were fortunate to escape versus Auburn.

778
00:46:11,980 --> 00:46:13,540
 They could have lost that game really easy.

779
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,580
 And probably has taken a season's worth of hits.

780
00:46:19,060 --> 00:46:21,720
 You know, can they sustain us through November?

781
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:23,080
 They really couldn't last year.

782
00:46:23,900 --> 00:46:25,300
 Kentucky is playing better.

783
00:46:25,620 --> 00:46:30,240
 And I give Mark Stoops credit, because there was talk about a month ago that this thing might end for Stoops there.

784
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,040
 Well, he shut that up with these wins.

785
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,740
 And Bully is starting to look like, like you said, he's starting to look like a real SEC quarterback now.

786
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,760
 And that was a Tennessee tackle.

787
00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:46,820
 Like you said, one of the better FCS teams are 10-0, and Kentucky took them apart after destroying Florida the week before and shutting Auburn down.

788
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,700
 This defense, we've always known Stoops' defense is good.

789
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:55,000
 And even when Vandy has beaten Kentucky a couple times in recent years, they've been close games.

790
00:46:55,140 --> 00:46:57,020
 Kentucky has generally held the advantage in this series.

791
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,000
 This is one of my bets this week of taking Kentucky plus.

792
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,280
 I think they've got a shot to win this thing.

793
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:09,500
 And the way Bully's playing and the way this defense is going, this is not going to be easy for Vanderbilt on Saturday.

794
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:16,300
 Yeah, knowing that and what's going on in Clark Lee's world there, too, you know, as far as other opportunities out there.

795
00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:21,300
 Bruce, your thoughts about talking about a stone in the shoe of Tennessee.

796
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,040
 That's when they use those shoes and walk to Florida.

797
00:47:25,340 --> 00:47:27,800
 The swamp has not been kind to the Big Orange.

798
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:39,040
 Florida has the image of being down, but we saw over the weekend, not so fast, my friend, what happens this time around when Florida entertains, and that's the key word, they're friends from Tennessee.

799
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:44,220
 Yeah, God, I remember when this game was like the highlight of the calendar in the SEC.

800
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,880
 They used to play in September and CBS.

801
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:48,480
 Yes.

802
00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:55,800
 I mean, it was so many years it was big, and I guess this will be an ABC game, night game on Saturday.

803
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:04,740
 Tennessee is one of these teams, they are almost assuredly out of the playoff, but I guess there's a wild set of circumstances they can get back in it.

804
00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:10,000
 And Josh Heupel, they're kicking themselves.

805
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:17,080
 A couple of those losses, the Oklahoma loss and the Georgia loss, those are games they probably should have won, and they got those teams at home and couldn't do it.

806
00:48:18,620 --> 00:48:21,700
 So this is, you know, Tennessee's a very frustrated team.

807
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:32,360
 Generally, I'm not sure I trust Tennessee to go out on the road and handle a spread over three against what should be a decent Florida team.

808
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:34,080
 I mean, I can always continue to put up good numbers.

809
00:48:34,220 --> 00:48:36,200
 This defense is not great for Tennessee, though.

810
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:41,580
 My question here is, can Florida come up with another big effort like that?

811
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:49,340
 Remember, for Gonzalez, he's had three games in charge now, he's owned three, but two of those, the Georgia and the Ole Miss game, they put up great fights.

812
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,620
 The one they didn't was the one, the Kentucky game, after Georgia, they just didn't show up at all.

813
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,420
 And so I'm a little leery about trusting Florida in this spot.

814
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,400
 So that's why I'm going to make a light vote on Tennessee.

815
00:49:01,620 --> 00:49:03,060
 They still got something to play for here.

816
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,860
 Florida, I mean, most of this roster's got to be looking at the portal now.

817
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,220
 There's all this talk about is Lane coming, is Eli coming, what's going to happen.

818
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,220
 Everybody's a free agent at Florida there now.

819
00:49:13,260 --> 00:49:16,660
 So I'm going to lean a little bit to Tennessee, but it's not my favorite on the card.

820
00:49:17,500 --> 00:49:20,320
 Let me ask you about a big game for a lot of teams.

821
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,460
 Number 17, USC at number 6, Oregon.

822
00:49:24,140 --> 00:49:30,660
 I know a lot of Alabama fans saying, yeah, if number 6, Oregon loses, hmm, Alabama may move up.

823
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,740
 You've seen USC in person.

824
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,300
 Mabias had a good year.

825
00:49:34,820 --> 00:49:39,640
 He's got two Cracker Jack receivers in Jacoby Lane and Lemon.

826
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:43,180
 In fact, Lemon may win the Belindicoff Award.

827
00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:45,100
 Dante Moore, still good.

828
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:51,680
 USC, 503 yards per game and they're on life support to get in the playoffs.

829
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:53,900
 Oregon, nine and a half.

830
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:58,540
 Do they win and cover or could USC spring it up, Sam?

831
00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:04,180
 I don't put it beyond USC to make this really close.

832
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:10,620
 Lane's, I mean, Lincoln Riley's offense, I'm getting my SC coaches confused.

833
00:50:12,180 --> 00:50:21,200
 Listen, and they've, the impressive thing to me about what Riley has done this year, I mean, they've had some of, I mean, several injuries, especially their running back core.

834
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,100
 And the kid who's running big now, King Miller, is like a, like a walk-on, I think, a freshman.

835
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,260
 I mean, he's running big and so the offense is so well designed.

836
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,780
 And Maverick is having a really good year.

837
00:50:33,340 --> 00:50:38,320
 And the receivers are Cracker Jack there and the defense seems to come up with big plays.

838
00:50:39,300 --> 00:50:42,780
 I do think they've been fortunate in recent weeks, though.

839
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:45,780
 I don't think they win the Nebraska game if Rayola doesn't get hurt.

840
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:55,300
 And last week, by goodness, Kirk Ferentz, you know, the play call in there, Iowa should have won that game at the Coliseum last week, I think for sure.

841
00:50:55,580 --> 00:50:57,700
 So I think SC probably falls a bit short here.

842
00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,580
 But I think Oregon's at some risk.

843
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,340
 I'm still not sure how dominant they really are.

844
00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:05,220
 We saw Indiana come up there and beat them.

845
00:51:05,380 --> 00:51:07,920
 I know Dante Moore, people like him a lot.

846
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,440
 But they've had a couple struggles.

847
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:10,700
 The Wisconsin game was a struggle.

848
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,240
 They certainly could have lost the Iowa game.

849
00:51:13,020 --> 00:51:20,740
 And two years ago when Bo Nix was still at Oregon and Caleb was at SC, Oregon won the game, but it wasn't quite as easy as people thought.

850
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:21,860
 SC covered that spread.

851
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,180
 So I'm thinking this thing is within a touchdown, and SC makes it interesting.

852
00:51:25,940 --> 00:51:26,940
 But you're right.

853
00:51:26,980 --> 00:51:29,280
 If Oregon loses, that's two losses for them.

854
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,620
 On the other side, if USC wins, then you've got to start thinking about them at the edge of the 12-team field.

855
00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:39,740
 So this is sort of the playoff start for USC right now, maybe for Oregon too.

856
00:51:39,740 --> 00:51:44,000
 So Oregon to win it, I'm going to say a 34-31 to win, not cover.

857
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,040
 SC keeps us close.

858
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:46,420
 Exciting, though, on Saturday.

859
00:51:47,380 --> 00:51:51,120
 Bruce Marshall fans want to know Bruce Marshall's under-the-radar game of the week.

860
00:51:52,140 --> 00:51:53,300
 How about this one?

861
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,140
 The battle of I-10, all right?

862
00:52:00,020 --> 00:52:00,980
 How about this?

863
00:52:01,340 --> 00:52:08,580
 People don't realize how New Mexico State and UTEP, there's only like 45 minutes between those two schools, Los Cruces and El Paso.

864
00:52:08,820 --> 00:52:12,400
 And that part of the country, that's like right around the corner.

865
00:52:13,660 --> 00:52:18,520
 I don't know if you guys have ever been to El Paso, but there's a strange feeling when you drive in there,

866
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,480
 and you see that Juarez on the other side.

867
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:25,960
 All of a sudden, there's like this metropolis comes out of nowhere, and there's over a million people on the other side.

868
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:31,240
 Anyway, UTEP has really fallen apart this year.

869
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,320
 This has been a, against the Mexico State, road-oriented series.

870
00:52:35,540 --> 00:52:39,060
 Tony Sanchez actually hasn't done that bad of a job with New Mexico State.

871
00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:41,560
 They covered that game easily against Tennessee last week.

872
00:52:41,620 --> 00:52:42,660
 They throw the ball a lot.

873
00:52:43,020 --> 00:52:48,500
 Speaking of throwing the ball, UTEP had that transfer quarterback from USC, Malachi Nelson, who got benched.

874
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:55,020
 Boy, I don't know where he's going to end up next year, but it's been a worse year at UTEP than at New Mexico State.

875
00:52:55,020 --> 00:52:59,900
 So, in the rivalry game at the Sun Bowl, I'm going to take New Mexico State, plus three and a half.

876
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,160
 How about that off-the-radar pick this week?

877
00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:03,040
 There you go.

878
00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:10,200
 Tell us in about one minute, number 11, BYU, Alabama's number 10 at Cincinnati.

879
00:53:10,580 --> 00:53:15,360
 L.J. Martin, their running back's really good for BYU, Bear Backemeyer.

880
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,180
 Where's number 47 as a quarterback?

881
00:53:19,020 --> 00:53:23,580
 Can Cincinnati upset BYU, who's a two-and-a-point favorite?

882
00:53:24,420 --> 00:53:25,200
 They could.

883
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:26,760
 I'm just not sure.

884
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:28,940
 Cincinnati's up to it right now.

885
00:53:28,980 --> 00:53:30,960
 It looks like they've lost a little altitude here.

886
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:37,640
 They were thinking big at Cincinnati not too long ago, but they've lost a couple games, including that, to Arizona at home.

887
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,120
 Satterfield's done a pretty decent job, but Soresby's numbers have been diminishing some.

888
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:49,980
 I'm not that comfortable with BYU going in somewhere and handling and winning, extending a margin.

889
00:53:50,140 --> 00:53:54,560
 But this is a low price, and their defense is better than Cincinnati's and Backemeyer.

890
00:53:54,740 --> 00:53:59,980
 The only time he's really been stonewall was the Texas Tech game, and it looks like Texas Tech's really the class of that league.

891
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,540
 So I'm probably thinking BYU gets there.

892
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,660
 Cincinnati looks like it's lost a little altitude to me, but again, not my favorite pick of the week,

893
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:10,420
 but I'd lean to BYU if I have to pick one there.

894
00:54:11,140 --> 00:54:17,700
 Well, you are our favorite, the gold standard still there, incredible stuff.

895
00:54:17,820 --> 00:54:18,960
 Love to talk to you.

896
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 Where can we get online, the multiple platforms, to get all your great stuff?

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 Yeah, we've got the college hoops going, too, and NBA.

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 Absolutely.

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 It's all happening.

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 NFL, good week in the NFL, so that's all there.

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 Fix, normal spot, the old standby.

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 That's VegasInsider.com for picks up there.

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 Also, CBS Sportsline, sportsline.com.

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 I've got some stories up there, too, some college football stuff.

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 And picks with a different twist up there at picksandparleys.com and winnersandwiners.com.

906
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 As always, Bruce, great job.

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 Let's talk again next week, football and turkey, if you don't mind, okay?

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 Okay.

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 Have a good week, boys.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you, buddy.

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 You did the same.

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 Bruce Marshall, he's a gold standard in a place called Las Vegas, amongst other places, Vegas Insider.

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 Coming up the next hour, we're going to be taking you all over the place.

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 Talk about that more with Joe Cox, Mark McLeod talking to Gators in a Tennessee game, and Randy Kennedy talking about everything in her own neck of the woods from one end of the state of Alabama to the next.

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 A federal judge has ordered the state of Alabama to use a newly redrawn state senate district

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 map for the upcoming 2026 elections.

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 U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco ruled against the 2021 state senate map and in favor of plaintiffs

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 who were challenging two districts, 25 and 26, arguing that the 2021 district lines violated

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 Manasco then went on to order a special master to redraw those two districts and now wants the

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 new districts to be used for the 2026 races.

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 State Senate President Pro Tem Garland Gudger responded to the judge's recent order saying

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 that the map simply swaps out the demographics, making one Republican district more likely to

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 Gudger says this swap out should not take place, especially in light of the landmark redistricting

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 case coming out of Louisiana that is pending within the U.S. Supreme Court.

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 I'll be back with more Alabama stories after this.

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 Brian Dawson here, CEO of 1819 News.

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 A mobile man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the abuse of a child.

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 33-year-old Christopher Beard entered a guilty plea for striking a child that's under the age

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 The actions of Beard were caught on a home surveillance camera that was installed by the

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 child's mother.

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 Valley Broadcasting Corporation, WITK-FM, Rogersville, Athens, Decatur, The Shores, Sports

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 Radio 93.9, The Score.

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 Last 7A Region 4, we were anticipating at least one might come away with wind.

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 The last time a Region 4 team won was 2019.

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 Jimmy, when is this going to end?

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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of northwest Alabama and southern Tennessee.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley here in North Alabama.

1068
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 What do you say we head to South Alabama and talk with a king that's out of the state?

1069
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 Randy Kennedy is busy there at AL.com.

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 Afternoons 4 to 6 on 995 Sports Talk in Mobile.

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 And the winner, the Mel Allen Award for the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

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 And named one of the 50 legends of sports writers in Alabama, Randy Kennedy.

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 Sounds like you need some more space for your trophy case.

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 Congratulations.

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 How are you?

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 I am great.

1079
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 Let me straighten my crown here.

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 I'm the king of this part of this state.

1081
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 It's good to be the king, isn't it, Randy?

1082
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 It's good to be the king.

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 I appreciate it.

1084
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 We appreciate you taking time out of that busy schedule.

1085
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 Good job by you and the team coming up with the premier guys across the state when it comes to high school football.

1086
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 I want to run down some of the highlights with you, if you don't mind, Randy.

1087
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,640
 But there's a pair in our neck of the woods that ain't too bad.

1088
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 That's Misters Johnson and Foster, a pretty good tandem of Trojans out at Muscle Shoals High.

1089
01:05:33,940 --> 01:05:39,540
 You know, it's interesting because when we put together that best in Bama list, you're just looking for individual players, right?

1090
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 It's not about teams when we're doing that.

1091
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 But, obviously, when you have great players, you're going to put together great teams.

1092
01:05:46,260 --> 01:05:48,560
 And you just look at the year that Muscle Shoals has put together.

1093
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,640
 That defense has just been dominant every single week.

1094
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:57,020
 And you go and you watch the film you can get on them, the tape you can get.

1095
01:05:57,300 --> 01:05:59,360
 And those guys are just dominant.

1096
01:05:59,700 --> 01:06:05,060
 And so, when you talk about the best players in the state, obviously, those two guys have to be among that top 50.

1097
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:10,960
 You know, we do that list without regard to what classification you are or what graduating class you are.

1098
01:06:11,020 --> 01:06:14,400
 So, we've got guys all the way from seniors all the way down to eighth graders.

1099
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,060
 And, yeah, if it didn't include those guys from Muscle Shoals, it wouldn't be a legitimate list.

1100
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 Randy, let's talk about a guy that seems to be almost in a class by himself.

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 We've been around this rodeo a long time.

1102
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 We've seen a lot of good talent come out of high school.

1103
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 Sometimes it works out the next level.

1104
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 Sometimes it doesn't, obviously.

1105
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:32,140
 It's all relative.

1106
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,400
 Where do you put Mr. Crowell down at Jackson?

1107
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:38,660
 He's just, his numbers are like almost video games.

1108
01:06:38,660 --> 01:06:45,360
 The latest 350 yards, four TDs in a playoff game, beating Hanley 42-28.

1109
01:06:45,940 --> 01:06:47,840
 How good is Mr. Crowell?

1110
01:06:48,020 --> 01:06:52,520
 And where is he relative to some of the great backs that have come out of this state over the years?

1111
01:06:53,060 --> 01:06:55,060
 He's the best running back I've ever seen.

1112
01:06:55,460 --> 01:07:00,780
 And I've been covering high school football in Alabama for now almost 40 years.

1113
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,040
 The best running back I've ever seen.

1114
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:04,180
 He's incredible.

1115
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:10,780
 And he just, every week I'd look to see, did he score more touchdowns or did he get tackled more times?

1116
01:07:11,580 --> 01:07:16,540
 Because a lot of times he'll have like four touchdowns on six carries or whatever before they take him out.

1117
01:07:16,540 --> 01:07:19,420
 He is just absolutely incredible.

1118
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 And so, he's the best I've ever seen in the state.

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 I'm just telling you.

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 What makes him so good?

1121
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:28,220
 I mean, to me, all these guys got talent.

1122
01:07:28,300 --> 01:07:29,260
 They got physical talent.

1123
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:30,880
 But you've got to have that instinct.

1124
01:07:31,060 --> 01:07:34,100
 You've got to have, I guess, the best way to put it, you've got to have the it factor.

1125
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:36,460
 See the hole even before the hole opens up.

1126
01:07:36,500 --> 01:07:37,200
 Just have an instinct.

1127
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:38,960
 What makes him so good in your opinion, Randy?

1128
01:07:39,700 --> 01:07:41,860
 You know, for one thing, he's a track star.

1129
01:07:42,180 --> 01:07:46,860
 So, he's part of the last two years winning the relay state championship.

1130
01:07:46,860 --> 01:07:47,720
 So, you start with that.

1131
01:07:47,780 --> 01:07:49,920
 It's a bunch of football players, including him.

1132
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:51,040
 So, he's that.

1133
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:55,100
 And then the second part of it is, you know, you just watch him jog out for warm-ups.

1134
01:07:55,220 --> 01:07:56,260
 You need to be like, oh, no.

1135
01:07:56,340 --> 01:07:57,340
 I don't want to tackle that guy.

1136
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,440
 So, he doesn't play like he's just a sprinter.

1137
01:08:00,540 --> 01:08:01,960
 He plays like he's a power back.

1138
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,600
 And yet, when he gets an opening, I've never seen anybody catch him.

1139
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:09,320
 So, he's got the whole package in terms of that as a high school player.

1140
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:10,900
 Now, look, he's committed to Alabama.

1141
01:08:11,100 --> 01:08:12,220
 He's going to go play for the Tide.

1142
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:13,320
 He'll play right away.

1143
01:08:13,860 --> 01:08:16,080
 But, they don't ask him to block much.

1144
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,820
 You know, he's not much of a pass protection sort of thing.

1145
01:08:19,020 --> 01:08:20,220
 So, that's still got to come.

1146
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:23,220
 But, you know, he just doesn't have to do that much at the high school level.

1147
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:25,660
 Like I said, he's the best I've ever seen in Alabama.

1148
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,580
 That is quite a compliment coming from you.

1149
01:08:30,780 --> 01:08:34,140
 You mentioned, come on, Maury Johnson at Muscle Shoals.

1150
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,100
 He's number 22 on your list.

1151
01:08:36,940 --> 01:08:38,100
 Foster's number 31.

1152
01:08:38,340 --> 01:08:40,040
 Both of those guys have gone up.

1153
01:08:40,060 --> 01:08:43,560
 By the way, Foster had interception against Parker.

1154
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,060
 Let me ask you about two guys on your list that I've seen.

1155
01:08:47,060 --> 01:08:48,500
 I saw Friday night.

1156
01:08:48,820 --> 01:08:51,060
 I saw the Parker-Muscle Shoals game.

1157
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:54,520
 Vonnie Cleveland is Parker's big nose guard.

1158
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:55,520
 He's number eight.

1159
01:08:55,740 --> 01:09:01,180
 I mean, he just looks like a SEC defensive lineman committed to Texas.

1160
01:09:02,260 --> 01:09:08,580
 I didn't know how much Alabama and Auburn got after him because Texas got on him early.

1161
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:10,960
 Your thoughts on Vonnie Cleveland?

1162
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:16,760
 And another guy I've seen is number 26, Ezekiel Harris from May Jemison.

1163
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:23,380
 He was at Auburn, Tennessee, linebacker, plays both sides of the ball.

1164
01:09:23,480 --> 01:09:25,360
 Very tall kid, very athletic.

1165
01:09:25,740 --> 01:09:29,160
 Randy, tell me a little bit more about Cleveland and Harris.

1166
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:33,180
 Yeah, with Cleveland, this time last year, he was committed to Alabama.

1167
01:09:33,480 --> 01:09:39,100
 So during his junior year at Parker with that loaded team that they had, he was committed to Alabama.

1168
01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:40,780
 He decommitted from Alabama.

1169
01:09:40,980 --> 01:09:44,920
 People thought he was going to go to Auburn, then he took a visit to Texas, and then that was it.

1170
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,720
 He's been solidly committed to Texas for quite a while.

1171
01:09:47,820 --> 01:09:54,740
 But, you know, he was on that Parker team last year where it was hard to get headlines when they had so many great players.

1172
01:09:55,300 --> 01:10:00,000
 You know, Jordan Crawford, who's now on the defensive line at Auburn, and the DB was the number one recruit in the state.

1173
01:10:00,060 --> 01:10:00,720
 It went to Oregon.

1174
01:10:00,940 --> 01:10:01,980
 It's hard to get headlines.

1175
01:10:01,980 --> 01:10:05,360
 But Cleveland was that one guy that was left over in the junior class.

1176
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:09,240
 And he was committed to Alabama as of signing day last year.

1177
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,600
 But flipped, and now he's going to go to Texas.

1178
01:10:12,100 --> 01:10:12,920
 He's big time.

1179
01:10:13,020 --> 01:10:14,000
 There's no question about it.

1180
01:10:14,140 --> 01:10:18,280
 And with Harris, it's interesting as well with, you know, his career commitment.

1181
01:10:18,460 --> 01:10:23,500
 He's another guy who has flipped commitments, you know, so he's been with more than one school.

1182
01:10:23,660 --> 01:10:25,460
 So we'll see about with him.

1183
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:31,880
 But that's, again, anybody that makes the top 50 on that list for all classes, you know they are a special player.

1184
01:10:33,060 --> 01:10:38,580
 Randy Kennedy got it going on there with the Randy Kennedy Show, 4-6, 9-9-5, Sports Talk Immobile.

1185
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:45,080
 Speaking of regardless of everything, to me, one of the more interesting names on the list, Randy, is Hayden Chambers.

1186
01:10:45,140 --> 01:10:46,860
 We don't talk about kickers very much.

1187
01:10:47,420 --> 01:10:49,800
 He's at Fort Payne, committed to Mississippi State.

1188
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:54,480
 His former Wildcat from Fort Payne, Alex McPherson, is, of course, now at Auburn.

1189
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,500
 Word out of Tuscaloosa, they need a kicker.

1190
01:10:58,500 --> 01:11:00,780
 Your thoughts about Hayden Chambers' future.

1191
01:11:01,860 --> 01:11:06,740
 You know, it's so interesting that you have certain schools in different sports, really, but we're talking about football.

1192
01:11:06,740 --> 01:11:12,140
 But you have different sports that just produce a whole bunch of guys who can do a certain thing.

1193
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:17,100
 And certainly at Fort Payne, they've had that great run of kickers, I mean, that I chronicled in the story,

1194
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:21,880
 where you just go back every year, you're like, okay, who's the star kicker going to be at Fort Payne this year?

1195
01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:24,520
 And so they've got another great one.

1196
01:11:24,580 --> 01:11:25,440
 There's no doubt about it.

1197
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:26,960
 He's committed to Mississippi State.

1198
01:11:27,340 --> 01:11:29,100
 I think that's where he's going to end up.

1199
01:11:29,300 --> 01:11:33,640
 But it just seems like every year with Fort Payne, you're like, they're going to have another great one,

1200
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:39,520
 which is the credit to that program and the fact that, you know, if you can kick, you can get a scholarship

1201
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:40,660
 playing at Fort Payne High School.

1202
01:11:41,780 --> 01:11:45,740
 Yeah, one of our listeners, Randy, Tim Estes from Athens.

1203
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:47,420
 Athens played Fort Payne.

1204
01:11:47,580 --> 01:11:49,300
 Fort Payne won in the first round.

1205
01:11:49,900 --> 01:11:51,900
 He said, I've seen a lot of high school kickers.

1206
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:55,480
 He may be the best kicker that he had ever seen.

1207
01:11:55,480 --> 01:11:59,900
 And you're right, it's quite a lineage coming out of Fort Payne.

1208
01:12:00,380 --> 01:12:08,200
 Let me ask you about another guy, Emmanuel Ruffin out of Bessemer City, committed to Ohio State.

1209
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,200
 How far is Bessemer from Tuscaloosa?

1210
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,360
 What is it, Randy, about 40 miles?

1211
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:20,320
 Randy, your thoughts on how good and your thoughts on Emmanuel Ruffin,

1212
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,380
 who is a commitment to Ohio State.

1213
01:12:24,100 --> 01:12:27,240
 Yeah, I think the Fort Payne kicker could kick a ball from Bessemer to Tuscaloosa.

1214
01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:27,620
 Yeah.

1215
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,020
 With a wind in his face, right?

1216
01:12:33,220 --> 01:12:38,020
 It's interesting because with Ruffin, he was committed to Colorado for a long time.

1217
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:40,340
 And now he has flipped to Ohio State.

1218
01:12:41,220 --> 01:12:47,800
 His recruitment is interesting because I've never heard much at all with Auburn or Alabama with him.

1219
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,020
 And yet, obviously, he's a big recruit.

1220
01:12:50,180 --> 01:12:52,660
 He's committed to Colorado and now Ohio State.

1221
01:12:52,740 --> 01:12:54,800
 So they certainly see something in him.

1222
01:12:54,860 --> 01:12:58,580
 They just, I think last week, Bessemer just got eliminated from the playoff.

1223
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,080
 So his high school career is over.

1224
01:13:00,220 --> 01:13:02,620
 But if he's going to play for the Buckeyes, you know he's good.

1225
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,900
 Randy, let me ask you about a name that was all the rage in one window there.

1226
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,520
 And it is Tank Jones, a big D.E.

1227
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:11,900
 Everybody wants offensive ends.

1228
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:15,580
 Out of your neck of the woods, down at St. Paul's Air Mobile, committed to Oregon.

1229
01:13:15,580 --> 01:13:19,860
 Is he going to remain a duck or will he change his mind at the end of the day?

1230
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:22,260
 I don't think he's going to change his mind.

1231
01:13:22,460 --> 01:13:26,240
 I think they made a, as I say, an offer he could not refuse.

1232
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:32,920
 And he was the only guy in our best in Bama among the top ten who did not make the playoff.

1233
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,100
 St. Paul's had a disappointing year this year, but he did not.

1234
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:38,580
 He was great at every position he played.

1235
01:13:39,020 --> 01:13:42,360
 They're recruiting him as an edge rusher, but I've talked to a lot of people who think,

1236
01:13:42,820 --> 01:13:46,100
 and if they put him at tight end, he would be an All-American and be in the NFL.

1237
01:13:46,580 --> 01:13:48,220
 So he had a lot of flexibility.

1238
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:52,560
 They played him a lot at Wildcat quarterback where he threw some touchdown passes.

1239
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:54,420
 He definitely ran for a bunch of touchdowns.

1240
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,680
 He was just dominant all over the place.

1241
01:13:56,680 --> 01:14:00,840
 But when you watch him play defense, he could line up at safety and you think,

1242
01:14:00,940 --> 01:14:03,580
 yeah, okay, he's a big safety, but yeah, he looks natural there.

1243
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,620
 Or all the way down to playing defensive tackle.

1244
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:08,800
 He could play anything in between.

1245
01:14:09,060 --> 01:14:11,440
 He's just one of those guys that's just a football player.

1246
01:14:12,620 --> 01:14:20,600
 Randy, Trent Seaborn, 12 of 13, 220, didn't play the entire game.

1247
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:25,820
 Four touchdowns as Thompson rolled over Mary Montgomery, 54 to nothing.

1248
01:14:27,020 --> 01:14:28,180
 Alabama commitment.

1249
01:14:28,540 --> 01:14:33,300
 I feel like I've watched him for 10 years because he's been starting at Thompson,

1250
01:14:33,440 --> 01:14:35,200
 I think, since the eighth grade.

1251
01:14:35,620 --> 01:14:37,320
 Still only a junior.

1252
01:14:37,900 --> 01:14:40,020
 I watched a video clip of him.

1253
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:46,240
 He flipped his wrist and it went about 40 yards and was an absolute dime to the receiver.

1254
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,640
 Tell us a little bit more about Trent Seaborn.

1255
01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:55,720
 You know, it's two discussions when you talk about top recruits and you talk about best players.

1256
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:57,700
 A lot of times it's the same thing, but not always.

1257
01:14:58,140 --> 01:14:58,700
 Not always.

1258
01:14:58,820 --> 01:15:03,320
 And the thing I like to talk about with Trent Seaborn is just how good of a high school football player he is,

1259
01:15:03,420 --> 01:15:06,140
 regardless of, you know, Alabama's a good recruit too.

1260
01:15:06,260 --> 01:15:11,500
 But as a high school football player, you mentioned it, you know, starting as an eighth grader at Thompson,

1261
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:16,680
 he's going to go down as the most accomplished high school football player in the history of Alabama.

1262
01:15:17,380 --> 01:15:19,400
 I mean, that's not a judgment.

1263
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:20,440
 That's just factual.

1264
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:24,960
 When you look at the case that he's been in the state championship game every single year,

1265
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,960
 eighth grade, freshman, sophomore, and now he's a junior in the semifinals this week.

1266
01:15:29,500 --> 01:15:32,300
 So, and then you just look at the numbers that he's put up.

1267
01:15:32,580 --> 01:15:37,200
 MVP of the state championship game as an eighth grader, got a chance to be Mr. Football this year,

1268
01:15:37,260 --> 01:15:39,480
 which would mean he would have a chance to win it again next year.

1269
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,560
 Not for sure he's going to win, but has a chance to be.

1270
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:50,820
 So, his career at Thompson, when it's over with, is probably going to look better than anybody has ever put up in terms of an entire high school football career.

1271
01:15:52,540 --> 01:15:53,740
 Absolutely amazing.

1272
01:15:53,940 --> 01:15:55,980
 Randy, I always enjoy the conversation.

1273
01:15:56,940 --> 01:16:00,180
 Will you have another update on the best of Bama?

1274
01:16:00,300 --> 01:16:05,140
 I know that was the regular season last week, but great stuff.

1275
01:16:05,540 --> 01:16:13,240
 And I'm delighted to see talent in the state of Alabama has come a long way in the last 10 to 20 years.

1276
01:16:13,380 --> 01:16:16,380
 And you do a very good job of documenting it.

1277
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,980
 Randy, where can we get online to get your articles and listen to the show?

1278
01:16:21,060 --> 01:16:23,480
 Yeah, we've got AL.com is where you find the best in Bama.

1279
01:16:23,580 --> 01:16:25,700
 We've got the newest update coming up on Thursday.

1280
01:16:26,100 --> 01:16:30,500
 So, check it out on Thursday, and you can find me on the iHeartRadio app.

1281
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,440
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1282
01:16:32,500 --> 01:16:33,220
 I appreciate you guys.

1283
01:16:33,740 --> 01:16:34,060
 Always fun to see you.

1284
01:16:34,060 --> 01:16:34,840
 We appreciate it.

1285
01:16:35,460 --> 01:16:36,640
 Thank you so much, Randy.

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01:19:53,300 --> 01:19:55,280
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1345
01:19:55,420 --> 01:19:59,660
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1346
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1349
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:10,340
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1350
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:11,340
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1351
01:20:11,440 --> 01:20:17,080
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1352
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:22,060
 Yeah, drove the ball well, turned it over, picked six, 87 yards.

1353
01:20:22,700 --> 01:20:30,300
 You know, something else we hadn't allowed is a long punt return, which put them in field goal range for their initial field goal.

1354
01:20:31,300 --> 01:20:34,040
 Fumble on a punt return, hurt you.

1355
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:37,980
 A missed field goal, short one.

1356
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:40,620
 They make three, including one from 52.

1357
01:20:41,580 --> 01:20:43,420
 They forced three turnovers.

1358
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:48,280
 We have two interceptions in our hands and can't get them picked off.

1359
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:50,480
 And look, defense was exceptional.

1360
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:53,160
 So I'm not picking on anybody in any way.

1361
01:20:53,300 --> 01:21:00,160
 Just stating fact of things that any of those, any one of those, go your way.

1362
01:21:00,820 --> 01:21:02,980
 And the result is different.

1363
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:06,540
 But the reality is Oklahoma made enough plays to win.

1364
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:07,420
 Alabama didn't.

1365
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:08,640
 I'll have more in a moment.

1366
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1373
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1375
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1378
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1379
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1380
01:21:59,420 --> 01:22:04,200
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1381
01:22:04,700 --> 01:22:05,040
 The Score.

1382
01:22:05,140 --> 01:22:07,680
 Lookal I can really appreciate it for you right around the valley.

1383
01:22:07,860 --> 01:22:10,520
 And for Joe Cox, stay time in his busy schedule there.

1384
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:14,860
 It's fine columnist with Saturday Down South, the fine author of A Fine Teen Man.

1385
01:22:14,980 --> 01:22:15,720
 Joe, welcome in.

1386
01:22:15,780 --> 01:22:16,780
 Happy Tuesday to you.

1387
01:22:16,820 --> 01:22:17,340
 How are you?

1388
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:21,720
 Well, trying to dodge thunderstorms here in Kentucky.

1389
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:25,820
 It's not so much raining as it is being noisy out there.

1390
01:22:25,980 --> 01:22:30,500
 But, you know, as long as we're hanging in there, I guess we're making it.

1391
01:22:31,060 --> 01:22:32,060
 Joe, this is a piece of cake.

1392
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,120
 In one visit, you survive the dentist.

1393
01:22:34,540 --> 01:22:39,620
 Then you survive going out on a job shadow with your 16-year-old daughter.

1394
01:22:39,700 --> 01:22:40,980
 This will be a piece of cake, Joe.

1395
01:22:41,620 --> 01:22:42,220
 That's true.

1396
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:42,680
 That's true.

1397
01:22:42,740 --> 01:22:44,320
 This one's out of my hands entirely.

1398
01:22:44,700 --> 01:22:46,740
 So, I just want to sit back and enjoy it.

1399
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,020
 Joe, obviously, they've still got some work to do this weekend.

1400
01:22:51,340 --> 01:22:55,380
 But, in this zip code, it's never too early to talk about the line or the Iron Bowl.

1401
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,120
 It was released earlier today, just about, I guess, a couple hours or so ago.

1402
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,020
 Your take, we know where it was a month ago.

1403
01:23:03,580 --> 01:23:06,620
 A week and a half away now, Alabama is favored.

1404
01:23:07,420 --> 01:23:12,300
 But, by only five and a half, which they only, that number was much bigger at one time.

1405
01:23:12,380 --> 01:23:15,480
 Your thoughts about the five and a half point line coming into the Iron Bowl?

1406
01:23:16,300 --> 01:23:20,340
 I think it largely is just a reflection on the SEC as a whole.

1407
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:25,120
 I was looking through some of the lines earlier this week, and they've probably all changed.

1408
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,540
 But the one that had caught my eye was Arkansas and Texas.

1409
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:31,720
 And that one was at ten and a half.

1410
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:35,800
 You know, I thought about other leagues, and I thought, how many conferences are there

1411
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:42,360
 where the worst team plays at one of the, you know, top half, maybe top third teams,

1412
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:45,520
 and they're only a ten and a half point dog?

1413
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:47,700
 I don't think there's another league like it in football.

1414
01:23:47,900 --> 01:23:50,020
 And I think that's what you're getting there.

1415
01:23:50,420 --> 01:23:51,740
 That does seem low to me.

1416
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:56,180
 I mean, I would have thought you'd be hanging around at least that eight-point number somewhere.

1417
01:23:56,180 --> 01:24:00,460
 But, you know, Auburn's been a hard team to get a hold on,

1418
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:03,440
 and sometimes they've played some really nice games.

1419
01:24:03,620 --> 01:24:08,120
 So it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that they could make this very, very interesting.

1420
01:24:09,380 --> 01:24:10,740
 Another interesting game.

1421
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,100
 We've talked about this a little bit today.

1422
01:24:14,660 --> 01:24:17,840
 Kentucky, a hot Kentucky team.

1423
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:25,060
 People were wanting to ship Mark Stoops off anywhere about three weeks ago.

1424
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:32,620
 Three wins later, Cutter Boldy has really infused some enthusiasm into that offense.

1425
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:34,160
 Banu with hopes.

1426
01:24:34,300 --> 01:24:35,060
 They're number 12.

1427
01:24:35,860 --> 01:24:38,140
 We'll see where they are tonight.

1428
01:24:38,140 --> 01:24:44,560
 On the cusp of the playoffs, if they can beat Kentucky and Tennessee,

1429
01:24:45,340 --> 01:24:51,480
 Joe, has Stoops gotten off the proverbial hot seat with three consecutive wins?

1430
01:24:52,440 --> 01:24:54,880
 And Vandy needs this win badly.

1431
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:58,680
 Your thoughts on both teams and Kentucky at Vandy?

1432
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:01,660
 You know, it's going to be really interesting.

1433
01:25:01,940 --> 01:25:06,160
 I would say Stoops is kind of working his way off the hot seat.

1434
01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:10,500
 I don't know that they necessarily have to win one of these last two.

1435
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:15,880
 But you put yourself in a situation with two, you know, potentially competitive games,

1436
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,500
 this win and then next week, probably even more so with Louisville,

1437
01:25:19,940 --> 01:25:23,060
 where if you manage to sneak one of those out,

1438
01:25:23,440 --> 01:25:28,060
 how on earth can Kentucky fire a coach who's taken them to nine bowl games in ten years?

1439
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:32,320
 The public relations, the black eye there would be massive.

1440
01:25:32,740 --> 01:25:35,140
 So I think, like it or don't like it, yeah,

1441
01:25:35,180 --> 01:25:39,580
 he's probably done a pretty good job of getting right up to the precipice of saying,

1442
01:25:39,660 --> 01:25:41,240
 I bought myself some more time.

1443
01:25:41,580 --> 01:25:42,900
 So that's where that is.

1444
01:25:43,140 --> 01:25:44,900
 Vanderbilt, it still blows my mind.

1445
01:25:44,940 --> 01:25:49,300
 Gentlemen, I went to a Vanderbilt football game when I was 18 years old,

1446
01:25:49,300 --> 01:25:51,780
 and they were literally giving tickets away.

1447
01:25:52,260 --> 01:25:53,580
 They beat Duke,

1448
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:57,400
 and a young man in a Skeletor mask hung from the goalpost

1449
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,820
 as they ripped it out of the ground that day.

1450
01:25:59,820 --> 01:26:04,040
 So it's different times these days in Nashville.

1451
01:26:04,620 --> 01:26:07,120
 And, you know, I like that team.

1452
01:26:07,300 --> 01:26:08,180
 I like that quarterback.

1453
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,300
 I think Vandy's the better team.

1454
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,260
 That said, Kentucky's on a nice little roll,

1455
01:26:13,440 --> 01:26:15,360
 and much like Auburn and Alabama,

1456
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:17,660
 I think we know what is expected to happen.

1457
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:20,860
 But, you know, it's not outside the realm of what could come to pass.

1458
01:26:21,540 --> 01:26:22,740
 Yeah, move what we can do.

1459
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:25,520
 I think Diego may be the star in the music city these days.

1460
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,580
 Joe Cox, visit there at Saturday down south.

1461
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:29,280
 Joe, what's going to happen?

1462
01:26:29,380 --> 01:26:32,720
 Is Tennessee going to get on the right side of the school board this weekend

1463
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:35,180
 in the swamp called Florida?

1464
01:26:36,580 --> 01:26:39,140
 Yeah, that feels like a pretty good assignment,

1465
01:26:39,340 --> 01:26:42,760
 although Florida certainly made life more interesting for Ole Miss

1466
01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:44,960
 than I think the Rebels expected.

1467
01:26:45,980 --> 01:26:48,640
 Florida's still got a lot of talent, but at the end of the day,

1468
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:52,760
 this does feel more like a team that's just kind of biting its time

1469
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:54,180
 and playing out the string.

1470
01:26:54,180 --> 01:26:58,320
 If we have another 100 years to ponder it, I'm not sure I'll get to the bottom

1471
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:03,360
 of how an offense with DJ Lagway has looked as bad for most of the year

1472
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:04,900
 as this Florida one has.

1473
01:27:05,180 --> 01:27:07,440
 But it's certainly a head-scratcher.

1474
01:27:08,900 --> 01:27:13,720
 Still amazes me, Tennessee has beaten Florida and Gainesville in 22 years.

1475
01:27:15,500 --> 01:27:19,740
 Man, number 23, Missouri at number eight, Oklahoma.

1476
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:25,600
 Obviously, Oklahoma coming off a big, huge, emotional win.

1477
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,760
 Missouri figured out once again that they could just turn around

1478
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:35,080
 and hand off the ball to Ahmaud Hardy and let him do his thing running for 300 yards.

1479
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:38,720
 Oklahoma's defense is really, really good.

1480
01:27:38,900 --> 01:27:43,300
 Brent Venables may not be the greatest CEO, but he's a very good defensive coordinator.

1481
01:27:44,020 --> 01:27:45,960
 Missouri with some life again.

1482
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:47,940
 Interesting game, Joe.

1483
01:27:47,940 --> 01:27:53,840
 Number 23, Missouri at number eight, Oklahoma, coming off a big upset over Alabama.

1484
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:56,120
 Yeah, it is really interesting.

1485
01:27:56,400 --> 01:28:00,260
 And a big part of that Oklahoma upset, I've got to tip my hat,

1486
01:28:00,420 --> 01:28:03,220
 that probably should just perpetually be tipped to Nick Saban

1487
01:28:03,220 --> 01:28:07,960
 because he saw it coming in terms of saying what concerned him with his Alabama team

1488
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:09,400
 with the struggles in the run game.

1489
01:28:10,100 --> 01:28:13,400
 And Oklahoma did a really nice job of working that

1490
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:15,500
 and making the tide be one-dimensional.

1491
01:28:15,780 --> 01:28:19,420
 Now, the question is, you need to get the best running back in the SEC.

1492
01:28:20,260 --> 01:28:22,380
 So can you do the same thing there?

1493
01:28:22,540 --> 01:28:25,380
 It's definitely a step up in competition there.

1494
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:29,360
 But, of course, Missouri, with their starting quarterback gone for injury,

1495
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:34,600
 you know, they don't have a Ty Simpson to lean on to keep them in the ball game.

1496
01:28:34,700 --> 01:28:38,560
 But it'll very much be, I think, a game of who can get out to a good start

1497
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:43,940
 because if Missouri can turn around and hand it to Hardy 30 or 35 times,

1498
01:28:43,940 --> 01:28:46,000
 I think they're going to have a very good chance at this.

1499
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:50,900
 If Oklahoma can get out on a good start and make them throw the ball more

1500
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:53,760
 and make them uncomfortable, then I think it'll be a good day for the Sooners.

1501
01:28:54,340 --> 01:28:55,880
 Joe, your thoughts about Dobbin?

1502
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,540
 I don't think anybody's surprised with the news out of Auburn today.

1503
01:28:59,300 --> 01:29:02,820
 He's basically saying, Austin Daniels, you're not going to play this weekend

1504
01:29:02,820 --> 01:29:03,660
 against Mercer.

1505
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:07,220
 Green Lodge against Alabama, the Iron Bowl the following week,

1506
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:10,260
 so that the door will be open to come back next year.

1507
01:29:11,140 --> 01:29:14,780
 Your thoughts about the situation, to me, it's the right call.

1508
01:29:14,940 --> 01:29:17,680
 But what are your thoughts about Austin Daniels?

1509
01:29:17,900 --> 01:29:19,880
 At least right now, it's going to be interesting.

1510
01:29:20,220 --> 01:29:23,380
 If for some crazy reason, the game's on the line in the fourth quarter,

1511
01:29:23,460 --> 01:29:24,660
 then what do you do?

1512
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:27,680
 Joe, your thoughts about what's going on down in the plains?

1513
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:34,520
 No, you break up a good point, and I recall it wasn't exactly the same situation,

1514
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:39,340
 but I know Kentucky a few years ago had an FCS game where they were trying to risk

1515
01:29:39,340 --> 01:29:43,300
 their starting quarterback at the time, it was Steven Johnson, and he wasn't going to play.

1516
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:49,060
 And then they were down 14-0, and lo and behold, put that helmet on, and in you go,

1517
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:55,000
 you know, I think Johnson had a separated shoulder or something, but he could, you know,

1518
01:29:55,480 --> 01:29:58,520
 huck it around a little bit and get the win over an FCS team.

1519
01:29:58,780 --> 01:30:03,700
 So, yeah, I mean, you set yourself up for some trouble there, but I think it's the right call.

1520
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:10,040
 I'm glad that they're a little more proactive with this redshirt rule to be able to let guys

1521
01:30:10,040 --> 01:30:13,840
 play a couple games and still keep the year of eligibility.

1522
01:30:14,300 --> 01:30:19,640
 Everybody can remember a horror story of two of the old days when a guy would play one game

1523
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:25,460
 and would play maybe a series in one game and would lose an entire year because it didn't work that way.

1524
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:27,260
 It had to be an injury-based decision.

1525
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:32,880
 I like the flexibility there, so I probably would do the same thing.

1526
01:30:33,020 --> 01:30:38,060
 But, yeah, it does have a chance to make things a little exciting this week.

1527
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:44,780
 Joe, Texas A&M had one of the most amazing comebacks I've seen in a couple of years.

1528
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,540
 I don't know what that's going to do with the future of Shane Beamer.

1529
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:54,440
 I think he does get one more year, but he'll make a lot of changes on the staff.

1530
01:30:54,440 --> 01:30:59,520
 But the most complete team in the SEC right now may be the Georgia Bulldogs.

1531
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,360
 Texas comes back to 14-10.

1532
01:31:02,580 --> 01:31:05,620
 I was watching some highlights of that game last night.

1533
01:31:05,740 --> 01:31:14,920
 And then Georgia, Kirby turns into Lane Kiffin, and they try an onside kick, get it, go for fourth down twice.

1534
01:31:15,500 --> 01:31:19,220
 Right now, Georgia, you've got them going 11-1, 9-1.

1535
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,760
 They've got Charlotte and finished with Georgia Tech.

1536
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,740
 Georgia playing awfully well right now.

1537
01:31:25,580 --> 01:31:28,720
 Yeah, it's hard to argue with what you've seen from them.

1538
01:31:29,300 --> 01:31:30,660
 You know, and here's a curveball.

1539
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:33,320
 Everybody's talking about who's going to make the SEC title game.

1540
01:31:33,420 --> 01:31:35,800
 I'm going to throw out a controversial opinion here.

1541
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:41,640
 If I'm, you know, Lane Kiffin or Kirby Smart or whomever the relevant party is,

1542
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:45,100
 I would rather not make the SEC championship game.

1543
01:31:45,100 --> 01:31:45,620
 Thank you.

1544
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:51,600
 I'd rather take my good record unsullied, have another week of rest for my guys,

1545
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:59,700
 not risk a slide in the CFP rankings with an ugly loss to, you know, whoever the other team is, Texas A&M or whoever it may be.

1546
01:32:00,260 --> 01:32:02,700
 So, yeah, it's kind of one of those things.

1547
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:08,060
 I think everybody's done that same calculus, and nobody wants to be the guy to say, thank goodness, we don't have to play in it.

1548
01:32:08,060 --> 01:32:12,780
 But I think there are a lot of coaches who, in their heart of hearts, would say, yeah, that's fine.

1549
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:14,280
 Take me right out of that title game.

1550
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:18,180
 And, Joe, with the playoffs, I think that's where we're going.

1551
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:21,600
 And I think it's special to win an SEC championship.

1552
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:25,840
 But, unfortunately, I think that's the road that we're going down.

1553
01:32:26,340 --> 01:32:35,880
 Where can we get online and get watchability and predicting the team's records for the season and also your great book?

1554
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:37,000
 Yep.

1555
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:38,560
 Saturday down south for all that.

1556
01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:45,100
 And, unfortunately, only one more time to predict because, you know, after this week, the regular season will be done for the following week.

1557
01:32:45,100 --> 01:32:51,360
 But I always appreciate it, all the books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, books a million, any of those spots.

1558
01:32:52,340 --> 01:32:56,740
 You know, I occasionally run into one at Ollie's if you guys have that discount chain.

1559
01:32:56,820 --> 01:32:59,880
 I saw some of mine for $1.95, and I thought, hey, all the better.

1560
01:32:59,980 --> 01:33:00,780
 Buy them cheap, boys.

1561
01:33:03,020 --> 01:33:05,840
 Move them like what was wrong back in the day.

1562
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:07,080
 Move them, move them, move them.

1563
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,100
 Joe, thanks so much for your time today.

1564
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:10,480
 Hope the weather cooperates.

1565
01:33:10,700 --> 01:33:11,960
 And let's do it again soon, okay?

1566
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:13,200
 Let's do that.

1567
01:33:13,260 --> 01:33:13,860
 Take care, guys.

1568
01:33:14,300 --> 01:33:14,860
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 Coming up, Tennessee fans, what's going on down in the swamp?

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 Welcome back in.

1661
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 If you want to keep up with the Gators, we highly recommend checking out the host of The Blitz with Mark McLeod, and the podcast is called The Gator Blitz.

1662
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:25,400
 Mark McLeod, welcome in.

1663
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 How are you?

1664
01:38:26,580 --> 01:38:27,740
 Hey, doing well, Harold.

1665
01:38:27,860 --> 01:38:28,900
 Good to be on with you and Brett.

1666
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 Hey, man.

1667
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 You too.

1668
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:34,000
 Mark, are Florida fans saying if this is a horse, they'd shoot it?

1669
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:41,920
 Or are they saying, Tennessee fans, we got you right where we want you, we're going to lull you into a sleep, and then, boom, come up with a haymaker?

1670
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:49,000
 Your thoughts about a very interesting matchup over the past few years, and here's the operative word and way of putting it, Mark.

1671
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:50,940
 Tennessee at Florida.

1672
01:38:52,020 --> 01:39:02,000
 Yes, and I think this is a year when, right now, Florida fans are saying, I think this could be a very interesting game for us.

1673
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:06,480
 You know, look, it's going to be a celebration, you guys.

1674
01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:10,480
 I mean, let's face it, Florida could use a celebration of sorts.

1675
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:17,440
 Right now, you've got Urban Meyer going to be honored, so he and his family will be there.

1676
01:39:18,140 --> 01:39:27,580
 There'll be a lot of the players from the two national championships teams that Urban Meyer coached down at Florida will be on the sidelines in the stands.

1677
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,060
 So they're going to be there for that recognition.

1678
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:35,120
 It's going to be a bit of a celebration there, certainly a night game in the swamp.

1679
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:36,380
 You'll like that.

1680
01:39:37,260 --> 01:39:40,100
 And I'll tell you, guys, it's interesting.

1681
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:50,260
 Florida, when you go back to the last four coaches in the final year when they were dismissed, Florida's won every one of those games against Tennessee.

1682
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:53,260
 What is it, Mark?

1683
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:55,640
 I mean, for Georgia, it's Alabama.

1684
01:39:56,140 --> 01:39:58,480
 For Alabama, it's Oklahoma.

1685
01:39:59,140 --> 01:40:00,600
 Obviously, for Tennessee, it's Florida.

1686
01:40:00,660 --> 01:40:02,200
 What is it about some of these matchups?

1687
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:04,640
 Yeah, that's a great question.

1688
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 I wish I had to answer.

1689
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 You know, I go back to the 80s, and Florida only played Tennessee three or four times, but they shut them out.

1690
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 And then, of course, you know, they started playing a couple years before, right there when Steve Sprayer came into the University of Florida in 1990.

1691
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 And, of course, those Sprayer matchups were just legendary with Tennessee.

1692
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 And, you know, even after Fulmer left, you still saw some amazing games.

1693
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 The Jim McElwain game, his final year at Florida, you know, things were not going well for the Gators.

1694
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 They'd been blown out by Michigan in Dallas, Texas, in one of those preseason openers.

1695
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 And they come back, and it looks like all hope is lost.

1696
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 And on the final play of the game, Felipe Franks throws a Hail Mary 63 yards right in the arms of Tyree Cleveland, and Florida wins the game.

1697
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 And, you know, you just can't explain some of these wins.

1698
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 Florida won 11 in a row over Tennessee, you know, in the last two decades.

1699
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 And then they have another five-year run.

1700
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:15,340
 So it has been, as you said, Harold, a very strange matchup.

1701
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 But, Mark, this game was the kickoff of the CBS coverage for years.

1702
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 They would cover the U.S. Open tennis in New York for two or three weeks.

1703
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 And this was mid-September, 6.30 or 7 o'clock.

1704
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 I mean, it was the game to begin CBS's coverage.

1705
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 And Spurrier and Fulmer, and there were some classic games there.

1706
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 It's still hard for me to see this game in November.

1707
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 You're right.

1708
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 You're right.

1709
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 And you know what?

1710
01:41:55,460 --> 01:42:01,080
 That's a great point, Brett, because Florida fans, I remember some poll back in the spring.

1711
01:42:02,060 --> 01:42:06,980
 And, you know, there was a lot going around about would the SEC go to a nine-game schedule, would they not?

1712
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 If they were, who do you want on the schedule?

1713
01:42:09,740 --> 01:42:10,520
 You know, all that stuff.

1714
01:42:10,620 --> 01:42:17,180
 And, of course, we saw it reemerge here just weeks ago, really, a couple months ago.

1715
01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:25,400
 And you look at this, and all those polls, to your very point, Florida fans are saying,

1716
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 I can't stand the fact that we're going to play this team in November.

1717
01:42:29,100 --> 01:42:33,840
 We need to play that game the third week of September, just like we had for years.

1718
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:40,800
 Because, of the very point that you made, it is such a, you know, for so many years,

1719
01:42:40,860 --> 01:42:44,760
 it was such a big game in the SEC East, and not nationally.

1720
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:49,660
 Many of those years, it was nationally because of the battle of Fulmer and Spurrier.

1721
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:57,840
 And I just think that that's kind of ingrained in the minds of those of us who are, you know,

1722
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 in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.

1723
01:43:01,500 --> 01:43:02,140
 Keep going.

1724
01:43:02,140 --> 01:43:06,140
 Mark McLeod.

1725
01:43:08,440 --> 01:43:13,360
 Mark, obviously, like all towns, Gainesville, I'm sure, has their Grey Poupon neighborhoods,

1726
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 and they have their mustard neighborhoods.

1727
01:43:15,520 --> 01:43:19,740
 Is Lane Kiffin going to be living in the Grey Poupon neighborhood of Gainesville next year?

1728
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 In other words, where is he going to be picking up his maze?

1729
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 Is it going to be there in Gainesville, Baton Rouge, or is he just going to stay in Oxford

1730
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 and keep on cashing checks there?

1731
01:43:28,220 --> 01:43:34,560
 Well, you know, if it's Oxford, Harold, he has done an amazing troll job on everybody.

1732
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 He really has.

1733
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:38,540
 Or Jimmy Sexton with an assist there.

1734
01:43:39,500 --> 01:43:40,440
 Yeah, exactly.

1735
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:47,160
 Look, look, Jimmy Sexton right now with everything going on, all these coaches being fired and hired,

1736
01:43:47,480 --> 01:43:50,180
 he is making it rain inside his house right now.

1737
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:52,900
 And it is just amazing for him.

1738
01:43:53,060 --> 01:43:57,300
 But, yeah, you know, for weeks now I've said it's going to be Gainesville.

1739
01:43:57,460 --> 01:44:05,320
 I really believe there's a lot for Kiffin and Layla and the family to love about Gainesville.

1740
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:11,100
 And it would be a coming home of sorts because his dad, Monty, spent so many years in Tampa Bay.

1741
01:44:11,940 --> 01:44:14,780
 Obviously, Layla, her dad is John Reeves.

1742
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,140
 And, you know, the kids, they know the Florida culture.

1743
01:44:18,320 --> 01:44:19,420
 They know the Florida history.

1744
01:44:20,100 --> 01:44:21,240
 They grew up in it.

1745
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:24,780
 And, you know, look, this is a guy that went down to FAU.

1746
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,360
 And he didn't really seem to mind.

1747
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 You know, he seemed to enjoy his time down there with what he did, reinventing himself.

1748
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:36,060
 And then, of course, Nick Saban gave him a wonderful opportunity at Alabama.

1749
01:44:36,380 --> 01:44:39,840
 But I think that, you know, to help him along that way.

1750
01:44:40,060 --> 01:44:45,840
 But I think we're seeing a more mature turning of the page for Lane Kiffin.

1751
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:52,560
 I'm not going to say he's fully matured, but he certainly has matured in a lot of ways, guys.

1752
01:44:52,560 --> 01:45:00,660
 And, you know, I think, I really believe that a lot of that had to do with, I think we started to see it.

1753
01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:04,680
 But I think, and I think Nick Saban went a long way to helping him.

1754
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:10,080
 But I think a lot of that, guys, had to do with the passing of his dad, Monty.

1755
01:45:11,340 --> 01:45:11,780
 Yeah.

1756
01:45:12,260 --> 01:45:13,440
 Mark, two things.

1757
01:45:13,620 --> 01:45:21,600
 Number one, we've heard that the offer on the table from Florida is $13.5 million for six years,

1758
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:24,960
 with $81 million of that guaranteed.

1759
01:45:26,140 --> 01:45:40,140
 And number two, I know his staff, some reports have indicated the staff at Ole Miss have told some people that they feel he will eventually accept the job at Florida.

1760
01:45:41,480 --> 01:45:44,180
 Is the offer on the table, Craig, number one?

1761
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:48,360
 And number two, do you think, again, he eventually goes to Florida?

1762
01:45:49,900 --> 01:45:54,140
 Brett, everything I've heard is precisely what you laid out.

1763
01:45:54,620 --> 01:46:00,240
 That is exactly what I've been hearing from the boosters that I'm talking to and I've talked to for years.

1764
01:46:00,480 --> 01:46:09,880
 So, yeah, yeah, they're, you know, and look, the boosters, I said, you know, he said, I can't believe some of these fans saying Florida can't come up with the money.

1765
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,260
 He goes, guys, we had the money last year.

1766
01:46:12,540 --> 01:46:13,800
 We had the money last year.

1767
01:46:13,860 --> 01:46:14,920
 We could have made this happen.

1768
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:31,340
 He said, that's the frustration and the divide in Gainesville with, you know, with Scott Strickland and, you know, that there are some folks on board with him and very much on board.

1769
01:46:31,440 --> 01:46:37,340
 He got the extension he needed as AD in Florida, but then there are a lot of others who are not unhappy with what's going on, you know.

1770
01:46:37,540 --> 01:46:41,760
 Right now they're hiring a soccer coach, looking for a football coach.

1771
01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:46,940
 Kevin O'Sullivan is MIA right now, involving some issues.

1772
01:46:47,440 --> 01:46:51,860
 We know that, you know, over the past three years he's had to make some other hires.

1773
01:46:51,860 --> 01:47:05,140
 And look, the Napier era, remember all the staff people that Napier was given to help bring this together faster so that Florida could compete at a faster pace.

1774
01:47:05,540 --> 01:47:07,480
 And all those people are still employed.

1775
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:08,780
 They're still employed by Florida.

1776
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:11,080
 And this did not work, guys.

1777
01:47:11,140 --> 01:47:11,940
 This did not work.

1778
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:17,200
 So, really, right now, Drew Darman and I talked about this last night, texting back and forth.

1779
01:47:17,660 --> 01:47:24,920
 You know, Scott Strickland, if he can't get this deal done with Lane Kiffin, Brent, oh my goodness.

1780
01:47:25,480 --> 01:47:33,340
 This is not going to bode well for Scott Strickland, and it's going to be a big, it'll be egg on the face, guys, for the University of Florida.

1781
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:36,040
 Yeah, what they need to do is call the governor of Louisiana.

1782
01:47:36,180 --> 01:47:36,800
 He'll work it out.

1783
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:38,040
 I guarantee you that, Mark.

1784
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,980
 He knows how to fix stuff, does he not?

1785
01:47:41,260 --> 01:47:44,880
 Mark, let's talk about the national championship is already in Gainesville.

1786
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:46,500
 What do they do for an encore?

1787
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:48,800
 We're talking about Florida basketball.

1788
01:47:49,300 --> 01:47:51,440
 What do they do to live up to the expectations?

1789
01:47:52,580 --> 01:47:53,680
 Well, I'll tell you what.

1790
01:47:53,740 --> 01:47:56,440
 The frontcourt is doing what they need to do.

1791
01:47:56,820 --> 01:48:01,700
 We saw Thomas Hopp the other night was just fantastic with his play.

1792
01:48:02,060 --> 01:48:04,280
 We've seen Condon do some really nice things for him.

1793
01:48:04,860 --> 01:48:13,520
 The Boogie Flanning company on the backcourt, that's where they've got a, it's going to take a few weeks, I think, for them, maybe a couple months at the most,

1794
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:18,380
 for those guys to come together and kind of learn to play together and do what they do.

1795
01:48:18,380 --> 01:48:26,700
 You don't lose a backcourt like that at Florida, all three guys, and just kind of put new faces in there and replace it.

1796
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:32,680
 So I thought when the rankings came out, I thought, well, that might be a little rich for Florida.

1797
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:38,340
 And, you know, I think you want to redo those rankings.

1798
01:48:38,860 --> 01:48:44,760
 Let's see what happens around mid-January, late January, and I think we might be seeing a very different product.

1799
01:48:44,980 --> 01:48:51,680
 But right now, look, the pieces are there, the talent is there, Harold, and the coaching is there, as we all know.

1800
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:59,100
 But I'll tell you, I really think there's going to be a bit of development over the next four to six weeks for that backcourt.

1801
01:49:00,700 --> 01:49:05,900
 Okay, yeah, they beat Miami 82-68 Sunday night.

1802
01:49:06,300 --> 01:49:10,720
 Let me ask you this when we let you go, timetable here.

1803
01:49:11,520 --> 01:49:23,180
 Do you expect someone to announce formally that he has accepted the job at Florida maybe the day after the Egg Bowl?

1804
01:49:24,440 --> 01:49:31,380
 Will he stay, if he does do that, will he stay and coach Omius through the playoffs?

1805
01:49:31,980 --> 01:49:34,120
 How would this eventually work out?

1806
01:49:35,460 --> 01:49:39,860
 That's a fabulous question, and one that I don't have the answer to.

1807
01:49:40,180 --> 01:49:45,100
 Look, right now, you know, I don't blame Ole Miss for being frustrated.

1808
01:49:45,260 --> 01:49:46,220
 I don't blame them one bit.

1809
01:49:46,760 --> 01:49:52,420
 But, guys, I don't blame Florida or LSU either because they're trying to resolve their issues.

1810
01:49:53,400 --> 01:49:55,920
 And with Kiffin, you can't blame him.

1811
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,200
 I mean, every coach goes through this.

1812
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:05,360
 Every coach goes through the, you know, I get a better job offer or certainly something that looks like a better job offer.

1813
01:50:05,460 --> 01:50:06,920
 I'm going to have to explore it.

1814
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,020
 And so I don't blame anybody in this.

1815
01:50:10,080 --> 01:50:14,260
 I just think the timing, as you said, you know, what is the timing on this?

1816
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:17,700
 And, you know, you look at December 3rd, National Signing Day.

1817
01:50:18,060 --> 01:50:23,320
 We know a lot of these kids don't want to get it done in December, and you have a lot of early enrollees now.

1818
01:50:23,640 --> 01:50:27,200
 The transfer portal has been kicked back, so that'll help them.

1819
01:50:27,500 --> 01:50:30,780
 But, you know, it doesn't make it easy.

1820
01:50:30,940 --> 01:50:32,340
 And Ole Miss wants an answer.

1821
01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:35,520
 I think it'll be before the Egg Bowl that we're going to know about Lane Kiffin.

1822
01:50:35,580 --> 01:50:38,080
 It could be any day now, in the next several days.

1823
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:43,400
 But I think that I'm not sure what he does.

1824
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:44,980
 I don't think he goes on coaching.

1825
01:50:45,100 --> 01:50:51,700
 I think once the announcement's made, I think they're going to want to turn the page and maybe go to Golden or whatever they're going to do.

1826
01:50:52,980 --> 01:50:54,000
 Wouldn't surprise me.

1827
01:50:54,000 --> 01:51:01,840
 I've heard that if he does accept it, that Pete Golden will at least be the interim coach, will, if not named eventually, the head coach.

1828
01:51:02,040 --> 01:51:03,540
 That's going to be very interesting.

1829
01:51:04,500 --> 01:51:13,360
 To keep up with the absolute latest, my friend, where can we get online and get all of this Gator stuff and Kiffin stuff?

1830
01:51:14,500 --> 01:51:20,860
 I'm writing a piece right now for BlitzSportsRadio.com as they're refreshing the site for the day.

1831
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:25,320
 And you can catch me on X at McLeod Live, M-C-L-E-O-D Live.

1832
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:28,280
 Should be a fun night in your backyard.

1833
01:51:28,540 --> 01:51:30,920
 Enjoy it, Mark, and thanks so much for your time today, bud.

1834
01:51:31,480 --> 01:51:32,980
 Always fun to be on with you guys.

1835
01:51:33,200 --> 01:51:33,520
 Thank you.

1836
01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:34,180
 Thank you, buddy.

1837
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,140
 Mark McLeod, host of the Gator Blitz.

1838
01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:39,580
 Quickly, BB, again, in case you missed it, the Lions on the Iron Bowl.

1839
01:51:39,700 --> 01:51:42,460
 Bama favored by five and a half on that.

1840
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:43,320
 Your thoughts on that?

1841
01:51:43,380 --> 01:51:47,680
 And are you ready for some four and five basketball tonight here on 93.9 to score?

1842
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:55,160
 Yeah, you can hear that game against Buckhorn, pregame 7-15, tip-off at 7-30.

1843
01:51:55,340 --> 01:52:01,620
 I'd actually seen a five and a half to six point spread on the Iron Bowl last week.

1844
01:52:01,800 --> 01:52:05,300
 So that kind of validated it.

1845
01:52:05,300 --> 01:52:17,240
 By the way, UNA basketball loses to Clemson last night, 81-61, but it was great experience for Tony and UNA.

1846
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,620
 Dante Bank is 10 points.

1847
01:52:19,700 --> 01:52:21,660
 Dallas Howell, 8 points.

1848
01:52:22,860 --> 01:52:26,840
 Dark on King played very well.

1849
01:52:27,040 --> 01:52:31,480
 But unfortunately, Clemson, who is a good team in Alabama, plays them a little bit later.

1850
01:52:32,040 --> 01:52:34,120
 Beats UNA 81-61.

1851
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:35,220
 There you go.

1852
01:52:35,300 --> 01:52:38,660
 Coming up again later on tonight, the big poll is out.

1853
01:52:38,940 --> 01:52:40,360
 Alabama has been four.

1854
01:52:41,140 --> 01:52:45,480
 Wherever they wind up at the time we go to bed tonight, very important question to answer.

1855
01:52:45,660 --> 01:52:50,320
 And, of course, recently, guys, we'll have the answer a little bit later on tonight on ESPN.

1856
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:51,660
 That's going to take care of business for now.

1857
01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:54,340
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

1858
01:52:54,780 --> 01:52:56,640
 Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1859
01:52:56,760 --> 01:52:58,920
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two for the Boomwell Buck Show.

1860
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:01,280
 Back here on Sports Radio 93.9, the score.

1861
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:34,660
 We'll see you next time.