All right. Welcome to the 2026 College Football Preview with our special guest, Mr. Rupert. Hello, everybody. How are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me. Oh, yeah. We finally moved up to the– I'm just kidding. I hope Aaron's not listening. Aaron had a previous engagement, but. You want to describe what's in front of him? how I got invited. Have you seen what's in front of him? Oh yeah. He's got a back to back, back to back fantasy football. Rings, right? Yeah. Get it closer to you a little bit. Can you see him? No. Just put them on your nipples. Yes. That's it. I mean, listen, Aaron has been our expert the last three years. Yeah. He hasn't won any of our fantasy league. Now, I haven't either, so I don't have a whole lot of room. And you'll notice that as soon as we start this. I have no input at all for this preview. However, Jeff has won back-to-back. Aaron hasn't won jack. Aaron doesn't belong on here until he can win. Yeah, if we want to know who Texas' second running back is from the 1970s. We'll bring Aaron back on. Yeah. For right now, we want to know this year's college football preview. Yeah. I don't have that much history because I'm sort of a degenerate gambler, so I can tell you from the gambling point of view who's been good for the last two, three years. This guy will actually bet you when you're sitting there whether the girl will hit it into the net watching a volleyball game. Like it doesn't matter. Got to make money. This is the best. Oh, man. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Well, let's dive into it. Yeah. We'll start off with the ACC. Yeah. Trent, do you want to start with who? Hey, last year it was two people that nobody expected to have won, right? Correct. Duke and UVA. Give me a second. Let me pull up ESPN because I'm terrible at this. But go ahead. I know. I'm just saying. I just was surprised by it, and nobody would have thought about it. And Virginia, you know, obviously my daughter's up there now, so I have an interest in it. I told her, you can't. You can't have gone to a school and had a better college football experience your first year going as a surprise. That was a hell of a run. She also had a bad experience. Oh, yeah. I mean, it actually nearly almost killed her. Remember? That's right. She got stampeded. We beat Florida State. Oh, man, that was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. But that was a bad phone call. That's not a phone call you want to get later that night. So do you have Virginia doing this again? No, it seems like everybody's thinking it's Tech. Really? Yeah. Most everything I've read is. So we've definitely gone away with the divisions, right? We've just got the best team. Pretty sure. All right. And last year we had a little bit of a debacle with. Yeah, because Miami should have been in the finals. And then because of some tiebreaker, they put Duke in the finals and then. Virginia, I mean, obviously you want to play Miami. You don't want to play Duke again. Right. And then, so of course it was a letdown that that's who you got to play in your championship game. So Duke won that. Virginia blew it. And then Duke wins the ACC and college football tells them, go F yourself. We're going to put Miami in instead, which was a better pick, obviously. Yeah. And they made the championship game, right? Yeah. Indiana beat? Yep. Yeah. I love Iran. Yeah. So right now Miami's the heavy favorite. Are they? Yeah, right. They're safe to three-team race between Miami, Louisville, and SMU. Oh, wow. So Miami's not only because of their– I'm sure their offensive and defensive line will be brutal with the way he recruits. But, I mean, their big pickup is quarterback, right? They got the guy from Duke. Yes. Oh, yeah. Committed to stay at Duke. Then he had to buy himself out. Buy himself out. I mean, this is– It would be fun if they played Duke this year. Yeah. That would be a good matchup in the championship game, right? Yeah. So actually, that's also another thing that's going on in the ACC. So the guy that's at Virginia apparently was at Tech's campus thinking they were going to name him the number one starter. He was at Penn State, went to Missouri. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. He was on Tech's campus where Franklin was supposed to make him the number one starter. And Franklin said, no, the guy that was behind you at Penn State Is who we've made the number one starter. Yeah. So that guy then had to find a school to go to, and he's at Virginia. Is it Pribula? Yes, that guy, Pribula. He was at Missouri, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And he had a pretty good year, I think. Yes. Yeah. So that'll be interesting, because they've lost their offensive coordinator, right? He went back to Clemson. Oh, from Miami? Was it Chad Morse? The quarterback's dad. Oh, okay. That was at Virginia. Yeah. Now I think he's back at Clemson. But, I mean, Tony Elliott's the one calling the plays anyway, right? Oh, yeah. So you had said it was Miami, Stanford. Miami, Louisville. Oh, Louisville. SMU, then UVA, then Tech. All right. So let's Miami schedule real quick. I will pull it up. Don't pull it out. And you know why the reason I said Tech? Because I have this thing where I still tend to believe, even though this is a heavy, heavy NIL-influenced program now, that if you can keep the players that you had before, you're a D1 program, that you're probably better off being able to keep the most people to come back. And Virginia Tech leads the ACC by the most returning players. So an interesting fact on UVA, they have the most, minutes played by their team in college football. Cause they're bringing their, all their transfers are seniors. Oh, so they have the most playing experience. Oh, wow. So as I was looking at the NC state game, that's what we're worried about with that. Yeah. That'd be interesting. Now that that starts up this weekend. That's a, that's a pretty big game to start, even though it's not an ACC game. That's all. That's also kind of weird. So you've got, uh, Miami at Clemson in October before that, it looks like a pretty easy run. But then you go to Clemson. And are we all in agreement that Florida State's probably going to be without a coach by then? Oh, yeah. Or do we think Norvell stays around again? I was a big Florida State fan. I actually had them in my Mount Rushmore teams. I grew up with big Bobby Collins fans. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it just, when we talked about it, they just let me down so many years now. They just nosedived. I'm surprised they kept them. I think too many coaches left last year. They couldn't get anybody they wanted, so they kept them another year. Yeah. Okay. So he makes it the whole year? That's tough. We'll find out early. Well, we'll see if he can upset a team or two. It looks like the game of the year for the ACC is Louisville SMU like midseason because the winner of that really becomes the number two behind Miami. That's true, yeah. And I'm taking Louisville to win the ACC tournament. Oh, wow. Okay. That coach is a hell of a coach. So do you have Louisville knocking off Ole Miss? No. That's where it gets me. It doesn't really count. It doesn't count for them. But I think. Well, you've got two. I mean, you've got Clemson going to Baton Rouge to start the season. And then you've got Louisville going to Ole Miss, I believe. I'm not an Ole Miss believer. I'm right there with you. They're going to peak early. I mean, after the LSU game, it's going to go downhill for them. Okay. Well, both of those teams better start off with a win against an ACC team or it's going to be a long year. Yeah. You see their starting running back at Clemson is now, right? Oh, it's the guy from LCA, right? Gideon? Yeah. Gideon Davidson. That's really awesome. Now, can Dabo win this year? You know what? Is he on a hot seat? No. At least not in my book, he shouldn't be. He'll take a lot of bad press, but he's not on a hot seat yet. I don't think so. Who's on a hotter seat, the Florida State guy or North Carolina guy? Oh, I'm trying to figure out which one's getting fired first. Yeah, Belichick or the Florida State guy? I'd say Florida State guy. They're going to ride Belichick out. You think? It's a big contract probably. Yeah. And it seems like North Carolina is a school– Seems to be doing this thing where they're getting professional guys that know about professional sports, like the NBA. He's got that NBA coach coming in and coaching the basketball team. Yeah, maybe they're in for a long haul. So they're seeing something we're not seeing. Yeah, like Mike Brown at Texas. And that didn't make sense to me, but, I mean, he won a national championship. But he was at North Carolina before Texas. So I guess they were just trying to bring back old fans. Yeah, I'm just saying, like, getting old guys. They go through that run, some schools, to find those old guys. It still doesn't make sense why Belichick went. What's he gained? I don't get that either. He gets $ 10 million a year. He gets his son a job for a million or two, and then maybe his girlfriend can hang out with people her age. Yeah. Rather than that. I think you just answered your question. I mean, they opened at TCU, and last year they got crushed. The season went downhill, and they opened again this year. So it could be ugly right away. Yeah. Yeah. But watch Belichick come out and surprise us all and win the whole damn ACC, and we all look down. That would be amazing. All right. So speaking of that, who is the sleeper pick out of the ACC? If you're saying Louisville, that sounds like a sleeper pick to me. They're top 20. With him, with Brom, that's the coach, right? Yeah. I mean, he's pretty– they were good last year. I mean, you talked about North Carolina. They're plus 12,000. Oh, wow. Yeah, they're third to last. I would say NC State, but I'm taking Virginia. to beat NC State this week. Oh, wow. That's my lock, Virginia minus five and a half. Is Virginia favored? Yep. Wow. Does Virginia Tech have a good season? They have a very easy schedule to begin with. They could be 5-0. I was talking to somebody the other day who's season ticket holder. We're either 9-3 or 7-5. I kind. Of look at Virginia Tech, though, kind of the way I'm looking at LSU this year. I'm not necessarily thinking either one can win their conference. I just wanted to see it get back to what it was excitement-wise. Just start getting me in the right direction. Both of them. And I'm telling you, if he's got– I mean, obviously Franklin's moving in there and he's got a heck of a new, I guess, lineup, right? He's brought all these transfers in. He's got good coaching, too. He's a good coach. He's brought– I mean, how weird is it that these coaches go back to the schools that fired them to go still coach? Unbelievable. Yeah. I guess– what's the guy's name? Prye? Yeah. I guess he just loves the school that much that he's going to be the defensive coordinator. And Owen back to LSU. Yeah. Yeah. But they're getting paid on top of it. Oh, yeah. If they got $ 5 million, he gets hired now for a million. They still got to pay him the four. He gets paid the difference. Wow. I mean. Yeah, that's why. What a country we live in. It's freaking awesome. So I would say, when Georgia Tech moving up, aren't they a better program? Yeah. They were much, much improved last year. So I don't know. I don't know. What's your sleeper? Me? Mm-hmm. I don't know. I always think Pitt somehow finds a way to just be good. They do. They seem to just keep winning. I can't pick Pitt. My wife would kill me. Eat shit, Pitt. Yes. We got kicked out of music bingo at Apocalypse. Chit-chat, eat shit, Pitt. Oh, that's the best. Who do we think will finish last? Let's go there. I mean, dude, I don't want to put it past Virginia to have a horrible year. That coach just kept winning games by literally an inch. Oh, yeah. And he kept getting on a run. But before that, he was on the hot seat, so he could literally head south. But he could also– maybe he's better. Than I thought. I don't know. I just see Syracuse. That's why I love college football. Well, Syracuse, I think they flipped over their coach. So I'm going to go Stanford probably dead last. Okay. Okay. Does Stanford even have a coach? Against your theme, Stanford has the second most returning players, which bodes well because no one wanted to go play there, right? So your same kids are still having to stick it out there. They're not good enough to leave. Yeah. Who's coaching there? Because they've got this, what's his name, is like a consultant, and then I think Frank Wright. Oh. The quarterback. Andrew Luck. Luck, yeah. And Frank Wright was there, right? Yeah. So I don't even know who's coaching. Yeah. No. I don't know. Oh, well. All right. So does that wrap up the ACC? We got Miami on top. I don't see anybody else. You've got Louisville, right? Anybody of interest. Louisville or I said my other sleeper would be Clemson. Is this the year? Yeah. Isn't it funny that they'd be a sleeper now? That's how much they've fallen. It's just better if Clemson's good. It is. It's better for college football. Better for the ACC for sure. You know, there was a time there where it felt like, and I'm not trying to be blasphemous, that the ACC felt like it was competing with the SEC. When you had Clemson and Florida State just that good, it was like, well, those teams, please don't leave the ACC for the SEC. And now you don't even really hear that talk anymore. Uh-uh. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yep. All right. Who you got next? We'll move on to the Big 12. The Big 16. Yeah. That is true. Yeah. All right. Let me get to my teams here. Big 12. I'm going to be honest with you. That conference confuses me sometimes because I don't even know half the teams that I thought was in there. I still want to say before we really get into it, it just still pisses me off that West Virginia is not in the ACC and they're in the Big 12. I agree. Maryland should have stayed in the ACC. West Virginia should have joined the ACC. BC and Syracuse, okay. I'll take it. Stanford should not be in the ACC. Stanford, Cal, they should not be in the ACC. Come on. We didn't even talk Cal in football. Yeah. Rogers. How did they get past us for maybe finishing last? Yeah, true. Didn't even think about them. I feel so bad for those students, just for all the sports. If you're in the Big 12 and you've got to travel that much, it's got to suck. Yeah, absolutely. All right, well, let's talk top half. Yeah. Spit out who we think is going to be in the top half, which would be top four. Well, it's basically almost a two-team race with Texas Tech and BYU. Texas Tech lost their quarterback because he gambled in Cincinnati. Oh, that's right. And the backup quarterback is coming off ACL. I think he's back week one. And then they just signed the quarterback from Carter State last year. They got him this week. Yeah. So. And BYU last year, they went on a run with a quarterback, a little guy named Bear. Yeah. So those are the two heavy favorites. Rich Rod's back at WVU. Oh, man, that's right. Which I'm excited about. Oh, wouldn't that be great? He's got a year or two to get ready for that, right? Or is he good this year? I don't know. Well, McAfee came out. McAfee says, I'm going to stop donating money if these guys leave after a year. McAfee was donating the money. They were coming in, and then they were bolting. Gotcha. So you're seeing that now. Who's the other one? Luke Combs does that at Appalachian State. I'll give you NIL money, but they're signing for two years if they're staying. I saw Troy Aikman said that he dabbled in the NIL deal one time at UCLA, and the kid that he gave money to left. He's like, I'm not doing that again. Unbelievable. Yeah, it says in my little stat here, and that's the only thing I'm really bringing to the show today. Is that in the Big 12, BYU dominates the conference in retention rate. 60% and they call it 60% of snaps. Okay. Is they have the most coming back. All right. So we, we don't see Houston being. Houston's supposed to be a little high, high offense again. So, I mean, back in the year of Case Keenum, like 15, 20 years ago, front of the program. But right now they got some recruits. It's really a test tech BYU and they don't play each other all year. Wow. So the rest of the team is just going to beat up on each other, and Texas Tech and BYU are just going. To kind of— So Arizona State, I mean, their coach is still there. So— Quarterback's gone. Okay. He's not your quarterback. That's true. Now, I'll say Texas Tech and Virginia, those two of the schools that we've talked about, was the biggest movers in NIL money. Right. So they brought more— and this was last year— they brought more to— NIL than they've ever had before. They ended up, Virginia, being in the top 15. I think Texas Tech was in the top two. I mean, they spend the money. So maybe they're ready. If Texas Tech get the quarterback figured out, they're looking top five. All right. So I know this topic is not going to make Trent happy. So if Belichick is on the hot seat. Oh, you're a jerk. Is Prime on the hot seat? Don't do that. Well, I mean, these are uncomfortable conversations that have to be had. I just– I feel so bad for the guy, but it sounds like he's just doing it to himself. Colorado just cannot– he cannot get out of his own way. Yeah, you can't do the strength and conditioning deal that you did. Yeah. So Brian, of course, always likes to rub it in because he knows I'm a Prime fan. And Prime has– their strength and conditioning coach is a woman. So she's there trying to motivate the troops– And Brian sends me this TikTok of her, and it's the worst thing I've ever heard in my life. But she's, like, screaming, like, really hard. Like, she's saying all the words that a football coach would say. Yeah. But it's her. And she's from Canada. So. I mean, you're not helping yourself. So then Brian sends it to me, and I was like, dude, read the comments. And, like, the very first comment was, this girl couldn't motivate me to make a PB & J. Yeah. I just can't see it. I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm different. I think he's, he's used up as welcome. We go on vacation with a kid who goes to Colorado and they said that he's lost a student body. Yeah. All right. But if you're Colorado, you were off the map to begin with. True. He brought you at least back to where kids, if you've got some money would know that that brand is there. He brought them an upper deck. They're literally going to build an upper deck because of the monies that came running in there. Correct. But then he stepped all over his, I say his feet, but his feet got cut off. But, you know, putting your son in the ring of fame. Yeah. You know, for what? 500 season? Right. Come on. You just keep doing dumb stuff. And then he, I think, honestly, the rumors are that he ran off or Warren Sapp wouldn't talk to him anymore when they left. And he's your defensive guy. So it was just a, It's a weird situation there. Well, I did see this week. He's just signed little Wayne's kid. Oh, everything's good. That's going to turn around. Right now, they're second to last. That's where they're rated? Yeah. First of all, they go to Georgia Tech to start the season. Yeah. That's an L. That's an L. Yeah. Now, he's got some easy, winnable games, but I don't know if you can beat Northwestern at Northwestern. Yeah. That's a stadium, by the way. I can't wait to see. I know. They opened it up this year, I think. And it looks like a high school stadium, but it looks really cool on the lake. Now, this is the first time in many years, many, many years, probably since I have followed college football religiously, that Oklahoma State has a new coach. And I don't even know who it is. Yeah. So that was one of my sleepers. It's the coach from, I think, Texas State, who has a very high run offense. And he brought, I think, 30 people from that. One of the things I was listening to is that's the sleeper in there where they can go from like 1 and 11 to 6 and 4, 6 and 5. Oh, wow. So that's one of those I want to watch because you want to talk about people who got money. Yeah. They got Texas Tech money. That's right. Yeah. So he brought all the guys from Texas State where he was at. Yeah. And I think they had the top running back in the country. That's sort of the program that Indiana did, right? You go from JMU and you bring all those players and. Try to win. We start talking about UCLA next. Yeah. They did the same. Now, did Mike find a new job? Or is he just a Gundy guy? No, he's done. I loved Gundy, though. Yeah. He was just crazy. He overstepped his time. He should have stepped away. Sure. Oh, yeah. I agree with you. Yeah. But he's done, huh? He's done with college football. I mean, damn. Yeah. And Baylor, I haven't heard anything about them in a while. Baylor's got the quarterback from Florida, a DJ Lang. Oh, wow. That's right. He went to Baylor. I had no idea he left Florida. Yeah. That's what it takes. It's almost like the new season of NASCAR. It takes you about two or three races or two or three games before you realize who has gone where now. Oh, my gosh. I can't answer that. It's equivalent. I promise you it's equivalent. It's equivalent. That's for our NASCAR fans that are hanging around. That's interesting. I did not know that. Every year we kind of talk about Kansas. Being– When did Cincinnati– How have I lost to Cincinnati in the Big 12? That coach is really good, right? He just hasn't won big yet. We keep thinking. Yeah. Mostly because Aaron keeps telling us. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That he was going to be good. They're one of your teams that win the first three games. They're ranked number 20. Yeah. And then you just start betting them, and they lose, and they lose, and they lose. Then I yell, thanks, Aaron. So I'm going to text. Yeah. Iowa State's like that for me, man. That's the team I cannot get right any week. They blow my parlays, whether I'm. Well, Campbell's gone now, so he's at Penn State. He's at Penn State, yeah. He took the quarterback with him. Yep. So they have them right behind Colorado. Oh, wow. So Iowa State's supposed to be last. Yeah. So is Kansas going to be anything? They have them behind West Virginia. I mean, they have them, looks like, how many teams are in this thing, 16? Yeah. So they have them like 10th or 11th. TCU? TCU's are ranked at their 25 range. They're right there with Houston. Okay. So there's basically six teams, Kansas State, TCU, Houston, Utah, BYU, and Texas Tech. So who's your sleeper that could just– I. Can't do it, Julie. I can't say West Virginia. Oh, you got to do it. I can't. I can't do it. There's no way Rich Rod does it. No. I was going to say Oklahoma State. I'm intrigued to see what the new coach does with that offense. I mean, you're coming off 1-11, so. Well, I mean, so, wait a minute. I've got to analyze this. Why would you pick Oklahoma State with a new coach but not West Virginia with a new coach when West Virginia's new coach has been around and has this dynamic offense? Rich Rod could have had a statue. Yeah. True. He's right. 20 years ago. Yeah. If he never left, he'd have a statue. He'd be the king of the world. He went to what? Michigan. Michigan. Then Arizona. Then Jacksonville State, which is actually not in Florida. It's in Alabama. Yeah. So it's. I never knew that Jacksonville State was not in Florida. I did not either, but there's a guy from JF who's going to Jacksonville State. And I saw him at a parent's graduation party, and I just assumed it was in Florida. I thought so this whole time. Wow. That's crazy. Must be one of those schools that get the feeders from Alabama and Auburn. Because they've been pretty good sometimes. Troy, too. I don't know. I'm a big Rich Rod fan, so I'm hoping he gets it done. I do, too. And talk about somebody that could. pick up a state again, if he was just to go 4-0. Now, it's going to take him more than 2-0, but if he was to go 4-0, that state would make him a hero before. Oh, yeah. I mean, he'd be big time. When my wife went there, they had the habit of they'd be 7-0, but they wouldn't play anybody until 8, 9, 10, 8, 9, 10, 11. So they've got a chance to be 2-0, and then they've got a showdown with UVA. True. Oh, that's right. It's in Charlotte. Yeah. How do you keep getting these neutral games? They have a pretty easy schedule. I don't understand that either. And, by the way, so if you were going to go to any game at Virginia because they are hosting, if you knew anything about Virginia last year, you want to go to the Duke game, right? Right. So I told Riley that would be the first game I look up, and so I'm trying to put my schedule together this year of where I'm going to what tailgate. Sure. So– because of the calendar and other commitments, people getting married and all that stuff. I can't go to the games I really want to go to, but I wanted to go see the Duke game, and it's on a Friday night. Why would you do that game? That's the team that beat you last year, and you get to stick it back to them. Why would you do it on a Friday night? Man, I just get so upset about that. And what's also upsetting is we're in the middle of a college football program, and Marty sends me pictures of my cucumbers and tomatoes. What in the hell? Trying to break my train of thought. But.... I mean, if the West Virginia-Virginia game was at West Virginia or at Virginia, we'd be going. Yes, 100%. But I'm not going to go to Charlotte. Yeah. No, I agree. I want to go experience the tailgate. Do you know what all that's about? It's got to be corporate, right? No, there's a history there. And it's still bad blood between these old people at West Virginia and these old people at Virginia because... The Virginia band went out there one time and made fun of West Virginia sheep and incest and all that during the halftime show. And Virginia didn't even have a band. They had this like mock band. And so they did that, like making fun of the other teams. And West Virginia got and they said, we'll never play you again. So this is actually like getting back to playing each other. But I guess they decided they have to do it in a neutral site. That's crazy. Stupid. Anyway, maybe they can get past that now, once they get past this neutral site, and we can start doing a home-and-home series. Let me Google this band thing. Yeah, look it up. Yeah. I think there was sheep involved. That's when buttonfly jeans became popular. All right. Might be the only college football preview show. You can hear Zipper a mile away. Oh. Oh, my God. The sheep will run. All right. Yep. Moving on. Are we done with the Big 12? I'm done. All right. Because we still got to do our playoffs after all of this. And we're still at 12, I think, in the playoffs, right? We haven't moved anything. Now, we didn't talk about Notre Dame. We can talk about, well, they're in our at-lodge. We'll get to them in a minute. Okay. All right. So now the conference that matters. Yes. I thought you would have done the Big Ten first. You skipped the Big Ten. No, I didn't. Did I? Yeah. How did I do that? I know. You went over the Big Ten. You want to go back to that, right? Yeah. Let's do Big Ten. You want to do the SEC? Oh, I did. It's on my sheet. I just skipped it. I see what you're saying. That's why I'm here. All right. Big Ten. Yeah. Let's do that. I will get my Big Ten pulled up. Is there just more than three teams? Oh, I guess there is. All right. So when you talk best conference. Yeah. Yeah. I know that Big Ten has won, but I don't look at the Big Ten as the best conference because I look at top to bottom, and I just can't see year in and year out. So I know what you're saying, and I know every year the SEC has got to be the best conference because most people, whatever, but they get their asses handed to them in the bowl games, and I know it's because NIL people don't play or whatever. That's the case. But you've got to go win those bowl games if you're actually going to be called the dominant conference. Well, I guess, I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you there. And sometimes the head-to-heads, they don't win them. Okay. You know, that's what I'm just saying. It's like, and the Big Ten has been winning national championships. Yeah, but the Big Ten is top-heavy. You take the bottom five of the Big Ten of Maryland, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers, and Michigan State against the SEC bottom five. Right. The SEC will go four and one. Easy. Potentially. You think. But I'm just saying they ain't winning national championships. The days of Alabama and Georgia dominating seems to have waned. Might be back again, but I'm just saying it just seems. Well, I mean, Miami was in the finals, but there's no way we're looking at the ACC as a top-tier conference. The ACC did pretty good in the bowl games last year. That's what I'm saying. It's so much perception that's out there before the season ever starts. Sometimes you get halfway into a season or at the end of the season and you realize it's not exactly the way it's all put up the ACC dominated in the, bowl games. I'm pretty sure. Alright, so let's settle into the Big Ten. Alright, I'll just start off with throwing a few questions out. Does Brett Bielema actually have a good football team or does he hype it up and they're okay this year? I don't know. He seems to be like he's getting better and stronger. I can't see it. I can't either. I can't see it. Last year, I think they started in the top 10. And halfway through the season, they were gone. I just like him because he talked a lot of smack to the Beamer guy down in South Carolina. That was the best. If there's anybody I hate the most in college football, it's the Beamer guy at South Carolina. So when he got him screaming, jumping up and down, it just made me. All warm inside. Of iowa is kurt still there kurt's still there the offensive line coach is still there so you're looking nine six six three those games is brutal to watch but yeah but they're always there they're top 20 yeah yeah the best punters all come from iowa all. Right uh michigan state do they have a better year this year than typical No, man. Aren't they the ones that lost their coach off with some controversy? Or no, that was Michigan. Michigan State is plus 40,000. Yeah. Just to make it to the game. But I thought they had some controversy at Michigan. Maybe it was the year before. Michigan State, they got rid of, yeah, the coach that came from Colorado. Yeah. Hiked him up, signed him up to a big deal, and fired him after year one. Yeah. Well, it's just like the SEC. Not everybody can win. Yeah, yeah. There's going to be teams that lose. Michigan State, if you're not winning in two or three years, you're out. You can ride it out in Rutgers. UCLA has a new coach, and UCLA has not been relevant for the last 20 years as much as we want them to be. God, doesn't it just feel awful to be talking to Big Ten and talking about UCLA? It does. It's not right. But, I mean, you know. You know his quarterback there, right? At UCLA? Yep. The Tennessee guy. Oh, that's right, right. Yeah, yeah. I thought he had transferred back to Tennessee or tried to go somewhere else. The NIL money ended up being less than what he made at Tennessee. For once in his life, he's back to the school. Yeah. And they do have a new coach. They have the JMU coach. Yeah. He brought 15, 20. I was listening to a podcast with him this week, and he seems like he's got it figured out. He's got that. Coach speak. Listen, I want UCLA to be relevant. It would be nice. I want UCLA, USC to be relevant so they can play each other. Correct. And, by the way, in the Big Ten, USC has the most returning starters. Okay. He better win, too. What's he done since. He's been here? Lincoln Riley. Yeah, he's got something to do there. I mean, they have a tough schedule, but I think they're like top 15 right now. But, once again, depending how your Big Ten schedule goes, you could play five, six teams in the top 20. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I missed it by one. USC is in second. Maryland has the most returning players. Again, maybe that's just a comment about no one else going there and trying to root out somebody else. All right, so USC has got Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Ohio State, and Indiana on their schedule. That's a– and you're going– To Wisconsin, which is never easy. Yeah. Especially for a California team. That's just why I just think it's so difficult to think that you're going to succeed in the Big Ten. They start 4-0. They're going San Jose State, Fresno State, Louisiana, and Rutgers. Yeah. And then it goes Oregon, Washington. Penn State. Post-Oregon. Yeah. Save it for later, but I'm a big fan of Oregon. I think a lot of people are. Yeah. Dan, to me, I put Dan in the same category as I did with James Franklin. They were always good, but can he finally win that game? Which, unlike most people, I don't think that should get you fired. You know, just sooner or later, can you win that game? So they have six preseason All-Americans in Oregon. Wow. And the quarterback came back. Yeah. The Nebraska quarterback left to go there because he thought the quarterback was leaving. So now they have like a top-notch backup quarterback, which they're probably paying $ 2 million. Is that Dylan Rayola? Yeah. Patrick Mahomes looking like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they got Nike money. And they got great jerseys. Yeah. They do. Every week. And they do a great job on college game day with the Duck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So they've got a favorable schedule, but they still got to go to Ohio State. And then they get Michigan at home. And then you sprinkle in a few games that could be tough. Illinois, USC. Everybody's big on Ohio State, but they lost, what, like eight, nine people from the defense? Yeah, everybody seems to think Julian Sands is the real deal and that they're just going to walk right through. But I don't. You know, it's crazy you say that, but Ohio State has the third most returning. So they must have lost some big guys, but they still kept a lot of people. Maybe that defense, maybe the offense, they'll just have to outscore everybody if it's the defense they lost people on. Is Michigan good right off the bat with Willingham? Ooh, that's a neat hire that they made. Yeah, it is. And for what they were going through, bringing in that guy just kind of quiets everything because you get back to kind of the old school way of doing things. I think they're better. They're going to be one of the teams that go off pretty quick. They have Oklahoma early, but then they go Penn State, Indiana. Then they also play at Oregon, at Ohio State. So they've got a brutal schedule. But I think the hire is a lot better than what they had. I bet that guy doesn't last two years in Michigan. Willingham? I just can't see it. I don't know. I'm not a fan of the quarterback. They paid all that money. Tom Brady, I think they gave him like $ 8, $ 10 million. Wow. He just didn't look like he had it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Underwood. Yeah. I just don't see it with him, but. Bryce, yeah. I could be wrong. All right, so who's our top four? Are we going Ohio State, Indiana? Does Indiana keep? I'm taking Oregon to win it. That's so crazy to think about. Indiana in the conversation. But like most people want to think, okay, so this would be the year. And then, you know, you find out, no, he's that damn good of a coach. Yeah. So the quarterback is TCU. Yeah. They got TCU. They still got all the linemen back. Yeah. They just load up on the linemen. And, but who knows, you find out early. And you know, Brian, they got a big six week run of nobodies. You're talking about the, uh, the, or the college conferences in the rankings. I mean, you've got Ohio State and Oregon 1-2. It used to be so different now because you would always have Alabama-Georgia, you know what I mean, or LSU in there or something like that. But it really seems to be just a– and then Indiana 6th. So that conference is going to be stacked. But you've got Ohio State-Texas week two, and that's where you kind of see what happens. Yeah, that again. Yeah. That's kind of a cool little start of the year. Sure. Nobody else plays each other anymore. That's right. Well, thanks to Notre Dame being stupid. Who's their sleeper? That's a good question. I'm going UCLA. I sat and listened to that podcast with that guy, and he makes you want to run through a wall. Yeah, I agree. That's so funny. Brian's going to laugh at this, but he's going to. I used to think that UVA was just a matter of time before they got really good because I watched a whole summer of– what was the coach's name from Richmond that won the national championship at Richmond? Mike London. Mike London. And, dude, I was like, dude, I would do anything for this coach. He's going to win everything. And, dude, it was like four years and he was gone. It was awful. That's how I think about– you know what? My sleeper, I keep picking him every year. Minnesota. Minnesota. I love that coach. TJ Fleck. Come on, man. We got to start winning. He's got to win a major game. Yeah, but you know, we keep talking about all these teams and we don't mention Penn State. And Campbell is a heck of a coach. And he brought people with him. He brought the quarterback with him. Yeah. I think a new coach, although I guess the guy from Indiana has kind of changed all that perception, but that's That's such a dominant conference to be a new coach to come in there to try to win. It just seems crazy to me. Well, they've got the luck of the schedule. They do not play Ohio State. They do not play Oregon. They do not play Indiana. Oh, wow. So, yeah. They host USC and at Michigan. This is why he's on this preseason show. That's exactly right. I mean, their schedule is favorable. They could be that sleeper team that ends up. I mean, nobody calls me the state sleeper. I know. Well, I mean, they're not abusing kids anymore. Just doing coke. What was his name? Pablo Plachabar? Uh-uh. I don't remember that. You hear that story about the frat guy busted selling coke two weeks ago? Oh, for real? Like eight guys. Wow. Cops came, and the guy thought it was a prank. So he started talking back to the cops, and they tased him. Oh, wow. Wow. Nice. Holy crap. Football team? No. Oh, okay. Just students. I got you. Putting a whole new phrase to white out in Penn State. Yeah. All right. Let's move on to the SEC. SEC. All right. Let's talk top half of the SEC. Who is our. Did we just dive right into it? What do you guys think the LSU Ole Miss game? I'm A little scared of hopefully those two teams aren't focusing on that matchup and forgetting that they have a week one matchup. Yeah. Because it would really suck to have both of them playing ahead. Well, that's their third game for LSU, right? They open with Clemson and Louisville. Clemson and Louisiana Tech. Or LSU takes Clemson and Louisiana Tech before Ole Miss. Correct. And that's at Ole Miss. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a huge– I mean, obviously it's a huge game. I hope it's not like what Tennessee did to Lane when Ole Miss came to Tennessee. Oh, I'm sure it is. And it got nasty. I'm sure it's going to be. Yeah. And Lane, listen, it's not like Lane doesn't enjoy this. Yeah. Like, I mean, this is his MO, and that's okay. Like I mentioned yesterday, I was looking at his history, right? And obviously, when people discuss him, they talk about, Oh, he switches schools, this, that, and the other, right? You know when he was at Tennessee? What year? Mm-mm. 2000? Oh, really? Like, that's 20-some years ago. Yeah. It's not like he went from Tennessee to USC, all back-to-back. I mean, there were years. And, you know, I joke that if you go back and look at Saban, it's not like he just went to Alabama and won. He was at 15 different schools before that. Mm-hmm. But Lane brings it on himself. I'm excited, obviously, that he's at LSU and not somewhere else, but it's going to be a hell of a matchup. He made Ole Miss relevant, but I think that Ole Miss is going to be going down. I think after this, that game, Ole Miss is just going to fall apart. Yeah, I mean, I do think Charlie Weiss is a big deal to coaching that nobody talks about. And he was allowed to stay with Ole Miss and coach them through the playoffs. Now that he's gone, you know, who is play calling? They got the running back and quarterback back. They do. That would be interesting. But Lane and Weiss aren't calling the plays and aren't running it. And the coach didn't want. To be a coach. He did not want to be the head coach. I know. I like him. I think he's a pretty decent guy. And I really do think he's a good defensive coordinator. And he got arrested? When do you learn all season? No, no. Okay. I think this is the last year Ole Miss is relevant. Okay. What are you reading? The Tennessee boards? I'll check it out. Oh, anyway, uh, yeah. Staff to check. That should be, obviously you want both of those teams undefeated and college game day. It'd be there and it'll be hyped and it's, it's good. So, uh, just to, follow up what I have for each of the conferences so far. Georgia comes back with the most returning snaps and Texas is behind them at second with the most returning snap players. So I do think in my mind, I think Georgia is the team. It's not that nobody's talking about them. It's just, it's Georgia. Yeah. You expect them to be. And I do think they. Will be good. Football's better when Georgia's good. Yeah. I agree. A hundred percent. Is Alabama relevant or is Georgia, The East, just not where he needs to be. Kalen DeBoer. I think this is his last year. I think if I remember the schedule correctly, their middle part of their schedule, like mid-October, they hit like three games in a row. And if he fails in that area, I think it's going to be a long November. Oh, I think you're right. Let's see. Let's get to their schedule here. Man, do we have preseason 13? Yeah, but we still don't know who their quarterback is. They just announced it was the freshman. I can't remember his name off the top of my head. Well, that tells us a lot about Alabama football right now. Keelan Kellen, I think, or something like that. So I don't– we do think Vandy takes a dip, right? I mean– I have to scroll down to find their odds, so I'd say yes. They're still– yeah. I mean, yes, I think they have had a good run. It's hard to believe if they could keep it going today. They had a top recruit quarterback, and he couldn't even break the lineup. So he got transferred in from, I'm thinking, a lower-level school as a senior. What was the last year's little guy, Pavia? Yeah, he's out. Is he at Baltimore? He lasted a week and a half. Did they cut him? Yeah. I think when they measured him at 5'7, it was over. Back to being a trainer. So he'll be in the Arena League somewhere and starring. Yeah. Yeah. So it looks like in the rankings, the top 25, you've got Georgia third, right, and Texas fifth. Yeah. And then Texas A & M. You know, that's a coach that I keep thinking is just going to get better and better and better. Mike Elko. Yeah. He will. I mean, he's at a place where if he can get the– I mean, he's at a place where he can get the best players, just kind of like Lane Kiffin at LSU. Sure. With that kind of coaching and getting that kind of talent, it just seems a matter of time before they win a national championship. Well, they got the money. Yeah. Usually they had the top 10 attendance in the last 20 years. Yeah. But they finish. I mean, they're one of the teams that usually go 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, top five. Yeah. And then they get in the media SEC, and then it's just lose by three, lose by seven. Yeah. I think they end with Tennessee at Oklahoma and then Texas. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's brutal. Yeah, but don't forget. I mean, they got to go to South Carolina. That's not an easy one. That little runt. I'm just saying you're at South Carolina. That does matter. South Carolina's got the quarterback back. Which, by the way, if we can talk about traditions and everything, that thing they do with the keys at the beginning of a game, I think that's what they're shaking it. And that music that they play, that is badass. I would love to go to a game at South Carolina just because of that tradition thing they do. It's really cool. I do have no desire to see a game at Texas A & M, I can tell you that. The Heat? The Heat, the 12th man with a chance. Yeah. You want to know one I would hate to do more than that? The damn Cowbells. Mississippi State. Are you kidding me? That would kill me. I got a friend of mine that went to Mississippi State and only went to one game when he was a student there. He said he got a headache and he just wasn't going to go back. All right. So curious about Missouri. I see they're ranked in the top 25, at least on this that I'm on. I mean, is there something that I'm missing with Missouri? The running back's back. Okay. But he also got shot. So he's coming back from getting shot. Wow. So I'm not sure if he can make week one. So if I remember, am I wrong? That's who Virginia beat in the bowl game last year, Missouri? Correct. Okay, so the guy that was quarterbacking for Virginia this year was at Missouri. Correct. He gets hurt on the last play of the game. So they bring in a true freshman to throw the Hail Mary. Oh, that's right, yeah. And it went in the dude's hands, and he got knocked out of bounds. That's how close Missouri came to beat Virginia in that playoff game. Crazy. Yes, I see Missouri is ranked 25th. We somehow skipped Tennessee. I was going to ask, do we think Tennessee is overrated or underrated? I'll go back to the main question. Who's their quarterback? Well, remember last year they had the one fellow that everybody fell in love with that came from UCLA. No, no, that's right. I'm saying I don't know that he has a transfer. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure where the guy came from. It's not the guy that was there. It is a transfer, but I don't remember where he came from. I have to call and text Aaron. Well, it'll be, I mean, obviously we know he can coach. Yeah. But their schedule is not easy. Yeah. They have a brutal schedule. So they're going with a five-star freshman. Okay. Faison Brandon. Wow. Okay. Well, that's a bad recipe. SEC freshman. Freshman. And you go to Georgia. Not named Manning. You go to Georgia Tech second game of the year. Oh, wow. Man, Georgia Tech must have a hell of a schedule. No joke. And then you've got Texas at home. Yeah. That's going to be. You missed the Kennesaw State game. That's the one I'm going. That's the one I'm going to. Like, why? I mean, that's just the way the weekend's laid out. Are you kidding me? You wouldn't go to the Texas game? So I'm just going to tell you how I am. Yes, I would love to go to the Texas game. I love being. So. Did we go to the Florida game? We went to Florida a few years ago. I don't enjoy close games. It was loud. It was great. It was all that. I'd rather just see a 55-0 blowout. Yeah, but when I– I like to cheer. I like to hear old Rocky Top 25 times in a quarter. I just don't want to– I just can't– I don't like to see a loss. Yeah. eats me up. So when I see that game, the first thing that comes to my mind is I've got a Manning back in Neyland State. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I'm thinking, this has got to be a hell of a night. What's funny is how college sports are. When I told Logan that LSU was playing at Neyland this year, his first question was, is it blackout night? Like that was the first thing he wanted to know. Yeah. If it wasn't, then we have a chance to win. If it is forget about it. I'm like, that's where college sports is now. I really wish I would have thought about this, but the end of show, did I say NFL? I don't think I did the end of show. Um, I was going to play the blackout Rocky top by Dolly Parton. Right. I needed, I need to find that. So it's not the blackout game. Thank God. Okay. Um, But I'll tell you what, Tennessee's listen to this home schedule. If you had season tickets after you get past Kennesaw state and Furman, there's Texas at home, Auburn at home, Alabama at home, Kentucky, which is an LSU. I mean, those are pretty, I mean, even though there's some rough games on the road too, that's still a pretty good, if you're going to play them, at least it's at home. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So who is there to top top tier teams? I'm a Texas fan. I like to ride Arch Manning, but their problem is their offensive line is horrible. Yeah. And I always feel like they're going to, again, he's got to win the game just like Dan Lanning has to. Yeah. I'm going to say Georgia and Texas A & M. Oof. That's who's in my– We don't talk– nobody talks about Oklahoma. I mean, they're one of the top ten. Oh, true. They're top ten. Yeah. Yeah, I love Oklahoma. Quarterback's back. Yeah. This would be a great year for that coach to start winning. So what's his schedule looking like here? Oh, he goes at Michigan second week, but that's probably a good time to hit Michigan. Yes, correct. Good point. They've got to go at Georgia. Yeah, Texas at home. Their schedule is not horrible. They've got one or two losses, but it's balanced out. Yeah. All right. They might make it. So we both, I think I agree. I think Georgia is that team. And I, but I could, God. So I'm torn with my sleeper being South Carolina only because I do think that quarterback is legit. And I, I think it's impossible to play at South Carolina. That's just my feeling. But I'll go. with Texas and Georgia. No, I'll go Oklahoma and Georgia. Do we think Florida does anything or is that guy just, because he hypes me up, but then I'm like, you're still at Florida. I think they're trending the right way. Same thing with Auburn. I think they're both going to trend a little bit up. I mean, I know you guys are high on South Carolina, but I see Florida, Auburn ahead of South Carolina. And Texas A & M, I just don't see it. All right, so you do think he can win at Florida. I think he can. I mean, that's– see, in my eyes– and don't get me wrong. I know that he went from JMU to Indiana. But you're going from Tulane, who let's not forget, Tulane was good before he got there. And in one year, he's going to hop to Florida. That's a– what– I was sold on him until I saw him walk into the stadium and him say, man, this is unbelievable. And to me, it just feels like it's too much for him. But we'll see. That's another team. It's just better for college football. Oh, yeah. They're good. Yeah, absolutely. I watched the documentary the other night and had no clue, zero clue, that Spurrier is the one that named it to the swamp. Oh. I thought it was always. Named the swamp. I watched a documentary last night, the Vince Young documentary came out on Netflix. Oh. So that was pretty interesting. Saved Texas by himself. Yeah. All right, so. He's crazy good. I'm an Arch Manning fan. I'm going to ride Arch Manning all year. Okay. I got Texas going far and Arch winning the Heisman. And your sleeper is? My sleeper is going to be, I'm going to take Auburn and have a better year. I'll get them at 500. Wow. That's pretty cool. But it's one of those, once again, Teams are so good. Yeah. Well, who's going to get fired out of here? Somebody's got to get fired. That's a good point. I mean, Arkansas has got a new coach, right? I can't say. I mean, I don't know. They all do. Kentucky got a new coach. Yeah, but you can't fire them in their first year. No, I'm trying to think who else is at the bottom. Mississippi State. You ain't firing him. South Carolina. I think South Carolina guy's gone. Yeah, definitely. If he doesn't win, yeah. He won't make it four games. Do you see what the quarterback, what his course load is this year? Nah. He's interning at a golf course. He's not taking any classes. He's interning at a golf course. Bet he's going to be good in football. That's amazing. He was a Heisman frontrunner last year after they beat– Oh, that's right. Like week one. It was like, good God, that guy. Amazing. And then he just went to tank. What was the– was it something Netflix did where they did kind of like that quarterbacks thing where they followed and they did the preseason SEC thing? And the guy on South Carolina– I mean, he kind of rose to me. He seemed like a real kind of a good guy, good leader. But they sure didn't come through. Damn, now you've got me worried here. About LSU? Well, no, because, I mean, somebody has to get fired. Lane Kiffin? Oh, it's just, of course, it's Alabama. The Boar. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, we haven't talked about him yet. We have the Baxter sending us texts right now saying, more Alabama, please. Oh, my God. New quarterback's going to create a ruckus. But if he leaves, when you get rid of DeBoer, who are you bringing in? Yeah. By the way, why won't he succeed? Why couldn't he succeed? I'm not saying he can't, but. I mean, I think there's going to be two teams from the SEC with three losses that make it to the bowl. Well, let's dive into that. I'm glad you took us into that. Was there any team that's not in a conference, by the way, before you say anybody else? Oh, yeah, yeah, our at-large team. Yeah. Who is? Keeping you on track. Obviously, we didn't know JMU would be the team making it to the playoffs last year, right? Was it JMU and Tulane? They both? Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Wasn't Liberty. No, that was Aaron's pick. Yeah. That's why he's not here. That's why he doesn't have one of these. Or two of them. Or either one of those. That's awesome. Liberty's not supposed to be. Liberty could be good. Liberty is one of those. They have the most talent in their conference, but you have to win the games by three or seven. So do you win them or do you lose them? Yeah. Last year, they seemed to lose them. So Notre Dame's got the contract now where they're automatically in if they're in the top 10. Well, I mean, their schedule is going to allow them to be in the top 10. Yeah. So they're automatically in there. Well, they got Miami. I really like that coach. And BYU, which is surprising for them. I didn't think they'd have that many half-decent teams to play. That's true. But you win one of those and you're still going. The quarterbacks, I mean, I didn't watch them much last year. The quarterbacks, the highs have been favorite right now. Yeah. Carr. Yeah. They lost all the running. They had the two running backs take them the first round. I think they have a good tight end, too. They always have a good tight end. Hmm. All right, so obviously Notre Dame. Who is that other at-large team that we– there's not– so it's going to be whoever's the highest? Yes. So is it Boise State or one of those? Well, Boise State, so that's the Pac-10 now. So did they get in? Pac-10's still around. So they now created the Pac-10. Oh, that's right. We forgot about the Pac-10. Boise and all those in there. Does Oregon State have a conference now? They are. They got a real one. They were top two last year. All right. I mean, Boise is a major favorite right now in that one. Okay. But I think they get an automatic bid. Oh, wow. Yeah. I could be wrong on that. That's more of an Aaron question. Pac-12 is back. But I have Boise when you went through in R-12. Okay. All right. Well, let's do that real quick, and then we'll talk Heisman. Okay. So who is R-12? I don't know why I had 16 teams, but. Who are R-12s? Well, if we go down the ranking, figure Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia. Let me get this. Ohio State. Oregon. Oregon. I agree with that. Georgia. Notre Dame. I mean, number five is Texas. I have Texas, but they have a– if they get in, they're going to be nine and three. I mean, they have a schedule. By the way, talk about a surprise firing. That could be a firing that happens if he can't win. A surprise firing. Like he's kind of on the edge. Sarkeesian? Yeah. It only takes a few games at certain programs and people want to run you down. Especially when it would be an end of the Manning era. Yeah. You know. Yeah. It would be a good time to just saying it's possible but they could win the whole thing indiana man do you guys see them having another one another good run they. Have them top seven top eight i mean they got people their quarterback is. Good He's also the kind of coach that as soon as they start losing, he just starts throwing everybody under the bus and everybody quits on him. But he's never lost. He's never lost. But doesn't he look like that guy? No. He's never lost. Okay. I don't see it. All right. I think he's figured out the form. All I'm saying is right now you guys have just gone along with chalk. Right now you've done six teams are in the six teams. There's a drop off at 10. Yeah. I mean, because the top six, top eight are loaded. Yeah. I mean, that's the way it's going to be now. We have yet to put an ACC team. Well, the next one is Miami. Okay. I mean, I'm going Louisville, but I think Miami will be the large. You think Miami will? I think Louisville is going to win the ACC championship. Rome could get it done. Louisville is a strong enough power that if they were that good, might still make it in. A lot of people like SMU, but they have the Dallas money, but they really screwed me last year on a parlay, so I can't do it. Wouldn't it be great if SMU was good again? Oh, I love it. Remember how good they were back in the days when they were allowed to pay players? When they were actually doing the paying of players? Pony Express? Yeah. Gosh, that was a good program then. That was a great 30 for 30. That was so good. Yeah. All right. So coming out of the Big 16. You got. The winner is going to be. It's Texas Tech versus BYU. So one of those two. Or both. I think both. Yeah. Yeah. So you got Texas Tech. Like I said, I think Texas Tech may struggle early just with the quarterback coming off ACL, but I can see them moving to the Final Four. So you still need more SEC schools because, really, you've only got Georgia and Texas right now, and you've got three slots left. You've got somebody that's going to be complaining that they barely lost it early in the season and they've been beating everybody, like an Alabama. Tennessee– Tennessee's not getting it, sorry. Come on, do it for Reggie White. Oklahoma. Oh, yeah. Oklahoma, LSU. You've got to get him in there for him. I don't see it. What do you mean you don't see it? So one of the three, Alabama, LSU, or Texas A & M. I'm not Texas A & M. I'd probably go Alabama. Once again, it's more exciting when Alabama's in it, even if they get their ass kicked. It is. But, I mean, that coach is good. I don't know why everybody's riding him so much. He's not saving. No matter what happens, he's not going to be saving, so he'll be gone. Yeah. Well, I like him. He might. That's like when they replace you. Whoever they bring in after you will probably be gone in a year or two. He has no choice. That's why Travis is listening right now. Good luck, Travis. How many spots we got left? I'm down to one. I've got. Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas, Indiana, Miami, Louisville, Texas Tech, BYU. And Oklahoma. And if we're going way off the board and they have to take a non-Power 5, I'll say Army. Oh, man, how cool would that be? It would be cool. By the way, Jeff, if you've never heard it, I played it on this show one time, but if you've never heard the, I think it was post-game chant that that old man did, the coach that coaches them. Yeah. He's chanting to the team, and it sounds like one of those military drills where he talks about getting down and you bleed a little bit, but you get back up and you bleed a little more and you get knocked down and you get back up. And, oh, man, I'm telling you, you will go chills. That's another coach that you would want to go play for. I mean, that's just me going on. You want someone out of the limb. That doesn't have to be the last team you guys pick, but that's my out-of-limb pick. That'd be an awesome one. That's a great question. They're center, second-team All-American. Yeah. They're one of those– they've got to win the games by three or four. If they win those games, they'll be the 10-1. How about– and they've got a JF product playing for them now. Slade. Where? West Point. JF. He's going to Army. Oh, okay. Yeah. Cool. Yep. Baxters are chiming in saying Ole Miss makes it. Yeah. I don't see it. I see– I see Ole Miss beating LSU, and then after that they just start going down. Yeah. Let's wrap up the show. Sorry. I'm not invited back next year. Who would be somebody that's not in the top 25, somebody you're not even thinking about that could make the final 12, Brian? Look, it's– man, that's a good point. I could– let me just skim through here real quick. I'm going to say West Virginia. Yeah. Not because we're meeting my wife after this. We're going to have... No, Rich Rod. I believe in Rich. Dude, why not? I don't know. I haven't looked enough at their schedule to see if it's even possible. Yeah, I should have looked before I said that, too. But. Yeah, I mean. It just takes a little bit of... I mean, just that guy that's got a pizzazz. And then the whole country starts rooting for him. They want him in there. And then they lose by 40 in the first... round game. That's like the Liberty-Oregon when Liberty was up 7-0 and everything you know was 37-7. Oh my god, they have a chance. Yeah, exactly. Coastal Carolina. Is JMU a Division I school now? They are. Yeah, but they lost everybody, right? The coach took everybody. So now the new coach is the old Florida coach. Oh, that's right. So I'm looking to take the other receiving votes in the top 25, like Liberty's got one. You know you're relevant when you're JMU. And you've produced all these good coaches. And now coaches that have been at big programs are dying to get to you. So, all right, quickly moving on to the NFL. That will wrap up. Well, I guess who's our pick to win the college football before we move on to the NFL? Who wins it all? Oregon. Oregon. Oregon's just stacked for me, even though I love Manning. Oregon is just, their interior linemen are huge. The year of the duck. Emma? Who wins it all, Emma? I'm going to have to say Clemson because of my sister. Do I believe it? I don't know. I'll tell you what, that would be an out-of-the-realm pick. Nobody's been talking about. I have to pick it for Sarah. I'm You know what? I'm going to go Oklahoma. Wow. And I'm going to say Oklahoma doesn't make it to the SEC championship game, but goes on a roll in the playoffs and wins it. Well, that game is just an extra game you don't need nowadays. I'm going Notre Dame. Oh, wow. I love that coach. Okay. Oregon, Clemson, Oklahoma, Notre Dame. I'm looking at West Virginia's schedule. Jeff, I think you need to rethink this. Do you want to throw a bet out here? Of course he does. He's going to bet me whose meal comes out first. Which plate does she put down first? We'll think about it. I mean, my house is more fun if West Virginia is good. Yes. My house is more fun if I buy a vase. A blue and white one. You know, you go to it. Texas Tech and you win that game, you are setting yourself up for a hell of a season. So, West Virginia opens at Coastal. Right. They suck. UT Martin. Two wins. At Virginia. That's a win. Wow. Oklahoma State. And it's not at Virginia. It's actually in Charlotte. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Oklahoma State. So, if he goes 4-0. Iowa State, which is picked last. So, that's 6-0. Yeah. I'm telling you. It's going to be a typical– it's the way West Virginia was back in the day. They're going to be 9-0, and then they go Texas Tech, Houston, Utah. Yeah. Yeah, good luck with that. All right, moving on quickly to the NFL. Who do we think is coming out of the AFC? Now this, I'm going to say, is what Jeff is an expert in. I got the Texans. He's got the rings to prove it. How is your fantasy football draft strategy coming? I'm working on it. Did he tell you the strategy last year? Do you know what I did last year? No. All Redskins. I was so into Jaden Daniels, I thought this is going to be it. And the first week, I actually almost won. We went to that game, and they went off in the first half. Dude, I thought I was a genius at halftime. And then it just curtailed. He went 0-14. Yeah. Well. He's too worried about his jersey number. I had some close weeks. Yeah, I don't know. But Jaden certainly, he's almost like Dion. He had all the hype and everything, and then he's just had some bad news. Just get out of your way and go play. Yeah, that's right. Go win again, and people will love you. Right. Do the Bills get it done with their new coach? Not with the new stadium. The new stadium is a debacle. Really? Yeah. I've heard that, too. They've got seats that you can't see the field. That seems to be the new thing. You got all this technology and you can't figure out how to build a field that you can see everything. Yeah. By the way, when people talk about Yankee Stadium being the greatest, you can't look at right field from left field. No, you cannot. It's ridiculous. Nobody ever says that. I mean, this is the year they have to put it together. Buffalo. They picked up DJ Moore. So this, he has the weapons. I don't know. I think they're good offensive-wise defense. I don't see it. Yep. I'm leaning more Houston Texans with the defense. All right. All right. Kansas City is quietly just doing Kansas City things. They've brought in a running back, a guy from Seattle. Yeah. They got their offense coordinator back. Yeah. Mahomes may play week one. They're not sure yet. Carolina Kevin. Pipe him in. We'll get his thoughts. Definitely got to have his. It's going to be Dallas. Hello, Kevin. Cowboys, Dallas, Dallas, Cowboys, Dallas. Maybe he's supposed to be hanging around like a loose tooth. Hanging around like a loose tooth. A slab of dentures in the ice tray. It's Carolina Kevin. Oh, it's that guy again. Hello, Kevin. Maybe you don't have Kevin. New phones. I don't play cards with J.D. Shelnut. What? We don't even have a band, Randy. What the hell are you talking about? What is that? I've heard that. Sling blade. I like them fried taters. All right, Kevin, we're in the middle of NFL. We're picking. I heard somebody back there was chirping in the background. At least don't pick. That's what it's all about. Who do you got in the NFC and who you got in the AFC? I'm just going to tell you who's going to win the Super Bowl is the Rams. Oh, wow. Well, why don't you tell us who they're playing? They're going to be playing the Jaguars. Whoa. Wow. Let me scroll down on that one. Hey. Keep on laughing. Dippity-dappity-don't know what's happening back there. Clouding up and never raining. He's coming in with some high energy. Let's not forget, they do have that kid from Colorado, Hunter and Lawrence. But they're Jacksonville. Yeah. Speaking of cloud. Well, y'all make fun of the biggest analyst. All y'all always wrong. 110%. All right. Quickly, we'll get to NASCAR because we've got to get back to this stuff. But last week, you had a pretty good week. Oh, you jumped back to NASCAR? Yeah. Okay. It's his second out. Not yours. Well, I know, but he's not going to end out the show with us? You're trying to get him back off? Okay. All right. All right. Listen. Okay. Start nothing here. Well. Are we going to ask Jeff to pick three drivers? Oh, I couldn't do that. Number four, number nine, and number 13. Castro Nevis. All right. So, Kevin, just to let you know, I finished third last week. And, Kevin, you finished second. And Brian, that's why I wanted to bring this up, finished first. All three of his guys were in the top ten last week. Yay. This is Daytona. This week is Daytona. Who you got? Who you got in Daytona? Austin Dillon, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson. That's hilarious. I got both two of the same guys. Do you really? Mm-hmm. So who are your picks, Trent? I'm going Austin Sendrick. Kozlowski and Larson. Okay. I'm going to go. Joey Logano. Fat Gano. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. No, he's always good there. And he would have won me like 1600 bucks if he'd have won that damn race and he finished second. Man, I just. Oh, that's one thing I forgot to talk about the football show. I get to put money back in the FanDuel. Oh, good. I went four years, and I finally got down to zero, and I decided not to put any more in until college football started. As much as I hate to do this. We're not if and let Brian finish. I'm going to go. Sorry. I'm going to go Bubba Wallace. Okay. Those are all good picks. I knew it. Kevin, I need to thank you for my Ralph Sampson basketball cards. That is badass. Sacramento Kings fresh minted cards. And thank you for my spaghetti sauce. Well, something happened and I'm pissed. One of his jars didn't make the trip. Did you wrap it in bubble wrap? Of course not. Paper. There was bubble wrap in the bottom of the box. Listen, I paid extra. When they say these lithium batteries and glass and everything else, I said yes. What do you want? Any insurance on it? Yes. You want me to put fragile on there? Yes. Does it say this side up? Yes. But these people nowadays, they don't care, man. They'll chunk that stuff right on there and run over it twice. Then give it to you. Hmm. We might have some neighborhood cats on the front porch licking. I'm going to ask you this question. I do not want you to take this as an insult. This is just a question to ask you. Oh, my God. Why would you do this? Well, I just need to ask you this question. Is there a chance when you filled up Emma's jar for salsa that you might have been drinking and it's still tomato sauce? Because it doesn't look any different than the salsa. I mean, the salsa doesn't look any different than the spaghetti sauce. The salsa is more watery. If you turn it upside down, it's more watery because it's got more vegetables in there with onions and the tomatoes. So, no, it's not a mix-up. Okay. I was going to get a bigger box to actually send you guys some tortilla chips to eat on the set, but I did not want to actually.... Hey, I might put some out for Travis next week, and we'll have. There you go. Oh, wait a minute. I didn't get salsa. I only got spaghetti sauce. I'm not sure. Hell, it's the same. No, there was two small bottles that had sly, sexy salsa. Yep. It looks like restaurant style, the watery kind, liquidy, versus the chunky salsa. Salsa. Chi-Chi's. Remember Chi-Chi's? Why don't you try it instead of critiquing it? I don't have any chips. He didn't send any chips. He didn't send you any salsa either. I know. Was that what broke? Yeah, but that was Emma's. Yeah. So this was brought up last week. But the one that I did say, what does it say, though? Tell Trent what it says. Mine says Kev's Boss Sauce. Yep. But the salsa, the one that didn't break. Oh, that says Kev's Sexy Salsa. And that's for the what crew? I don't know. That was for all of y'all. Oh, I thought it was Emma's. There was one. One jar was. Good Lord. Well, how am I supposed to know? One jar was for me, but it broke. That boom broke. But we can share. I just see Schley's sexy salsa. But the other one that was sent had a tag that said it was for the crew. A Wednesday night. Life, liberty, and happiness crew. I'm excited about it. Don't break them. Cheap glass. Oh, man. I pray for y'all all the time, every morning in a Walmart parking lot. What are we doing in a Walmart parking lot in the mornings? Because I go there and drink my coffee and pray for 30 minutes for Brian and Trent and Emma and everybody. All right. Hey, Jeff's got some words. I do, unfortunately. It was brought up last week about the Carolina Kevin fan club. Yes. My wife wants to be involved. Oh, my gosh. My mother has friends. So has Marty. Really? Kevin's got like this women fan club thing going on. Remember last year we were at the beach and we made you have Kevin say hi to my wife? Yeah. And she lost it. Kevin, can you do this in sequence? Hello, Julie. And then hello, Marty. And then what's your mom's name? Laura. Laura. I can't remember all that. I couldn't either. Hello, Julie. Hello, Marty. And hello, my girlfriend, Laura. Woo-woo! Ain't no shame in this game. I just break it down a bag like James, please. Oh, where are you watching the race this weekend? Home. You're going to watch it at home. Hey, Kevin, I do just to get back to football real quick because you picked the Rams to beat the Jaguars in the NFL. Who is your NCAA championship game and pick? Or who's your pick to win it all? Oh, for college football? Yes, sir. Georgia. Okay. Georgia. Georgia. Okay. Yep. All righty. That was Carolina Kevin. Who did y'all pick for the NASCAR championship? Oh, we don't know yet. We don't have the final 10. We can't do that yet. We've got to wait until the playoffs. I'll wait until Travis gets on here and he can tell us. I'll ask you next week. Are you going to call in next week, even if your brother's not hosting? If Brian's not hosting next week, where is he going? Alaska. I'll be in Alaska. For two weeks. Boys he reminds me of a butter knife not the sharpest tool in the box. Never a dull moment all right all right so we got to get our nfl picks so who's in your super bowl. And all right so jeff's got houston. He had houston on the afc side and. Who's on the nfc side i'm a bears guy okay Caleb Williams gets it done. Dude, that is one guy that has surprised me. I thought for sure when he became around adult men that he was too childish to succeed. I mean, he sure is a hell of a damn good player. Yeah. Well, he got lucky that he got the coach that he got. True. That thing still worked out. Yeah. Ben Johnson. Yeah, that guy has definitely surprised me. He's got talent around him, too. Yeah. Who are you picking to win it? I like Houston. Houston. That'd be the first time. That'd be a first win. Yeah. First time winner. Gosh, you got the Houston team winning before the Cowboys. That's amazing. Texas, they'll fire Texas. I mean, good Lord. That would not be good. So, Brian, since you host, I'll come up and you can wrap it in. Okay. I'm going to go. I'm really struggling because in the NFC, I would love for this guy to win it. But I'm going to choose the Rams to make the Super Bowl instead of Tampa Bay. That's– I would love– So why is– I'm just curious. Why is everybody high on the Rams? I mean, what's– They picked up Miles Garrett. Okay. And Aaron Donald's supposed to be sneaking back in in. A couple weeks. Yeah. That's exactly why. And they were good anyway. But for me, I mean, Stafford, he's like 38, 39 years old. He takes one shot. I mean, that's all relying on him playing through the whole year, and I don't think it's going to happen. But they did pick up a quarterback, right, in the draft? Yeah. Alabama guy. Yeah. Simpson. And then they have the old Georgia guy. Who's the. Oh, yeah. His man. The old. The 25-year-old quarterback. The one to rehab. Oh, yeah, yeah. Gosh. That guy. Stetson Bennett? Yes. Stetson Bennett. Yeah. Bringing it. Man, I don't know. In the AFC, it's just so crazy. I mean, Buffalo seems like the easy one to pick, and no one has yet. So I'm going Buffalo. Okay. And I'm going to pick Buffalo to win it all. Wow. I would love to see that just because obviously I like that coach. All right. Oh, wait. We've got to get Emma. Emma, who's in your Super Bowl? The Bills? I love the Bills. And who else? Dad and I have been rooting the Bills for like six years now. It hasn't happened. Bandwagon fans. Tootie. The Bills playing who? I don't really care. Okay. Thank you. I don't know, man. Nobody's said Kansas City yet. I mean, it's just hard to go against them ever. All right. You don't care who Buffalo's playing? You got to pick a Super Bowl matchup. I always get confused on who's on which side. There's also Google. I'm going to go Denver. Wow. The Broncos. Out of the AFC and out of the NFC. Man, I really do like this guy. And I really do think they're going to be the surprise team. But I just can't see them winning enough in the playoffs to make it to the Super Bowl. But I really do think the Giants are going to be really good. Really? Yeah. They'd have to start winning. You almost have to win some before you become. Yeah, but you brought in a Super Bowl coach. From 15 years ago. Okay, but let's not think that he's been bad in Baltimore. Well, I'm from Baltimore, so I have friends, a lot of Baltimore fans. They were not sad to see him leave. I know that. His time had kind of passed. Okay. Hey, where did Tomlin go? But you've got– NBC or something. Oh, he's on air. Yeah. So you don't believe in the quarterback– You don't think he's the. I just worry he's going to blue tent. I mean, he plays reckless. He already went to blue tent in preseason. Okay. Scataboo. I love Scataboo. I love... I just like those players. Malik Neighbors. I don't know. I think they got some... And that defense was coming on last year. I don't know. I just think they're going to be really good under him. Sometimes a chain of scenery for the coach is a good idea. We'll see. It worked for... Kansas City. They ran him out of... They were tired of him in Philadelphia, weren't they? I think they're getting tired of him in Kansas City. Which is sad. All right. Gosh. I'm going to go out of the NFC. I will go Detroit. Oh, man. Detroit and Denver. That's actually... That would be fun to watch. That would be a great matchup. Okay, wait. I. Against the Lions. Okay. Oh, so you're picking them too? Mm-hmm. Nice. You just waited to see what everybody else picked, and then you just picked a team that's also on that same team? I love Jared Goff. Google works. That's how I did this whole show today. Jared Goff. So who are you picking to win the whole thing, Brian? Detroit? Yeah, I'll go Detroit. I love Denver. That's pretty cool. Who is the MVP this year? We got Detroit winning. It's got to be golf. Yeah. Or Gibbs. I would say golf. Yeah. Golf. I just, I feel like the bears are going to have a down year. I know everybody is high on them, but I just. They play well last year and Williams pissed away two, three games. Yeah. Which I could see that happening again. That's true. Yeah. I got the Buffalo quarterback. Is Green Bay just not relevant anymore? Oh, man. I keep thinking this could be when they show up. They just don't do it. Well, you called it with Dallas traded. Parsons. Parsons. You said this will end up better for Dallas. Yeah. Draft picks for us is one guy. Literally has not played. I think he's hurt again going in. He is. Yeah. He'll come back for one game when they play Dallas, so it becomes a big hype thing. He gets two sacks, and they think he's had a great year, and he ends up the season with three. Yep. Usually doesn't work out well when you pay your pass rusher the top money. Yeah. Oh, Emma. Yeah. I sent you an email for end of show. Yeah, and I emailed you back. It didn't work. It didn't? No. So do we just Seattle's? Irrelevant. I mean, being the Super Bowl champs. They were dominant last year. Both running backs are gone. Sharp and Ape towards ACL and Walkers and Kansas City. That's why a lot of people like Kansas City. Yeah. But, I mean, they only lost three games last year, and they probably could have won them all. And I could, if Joe Burrow stays healthy, Cincinnati could be good. They could get back to their winning ways. They've added a few pieces on defense. I think Al Golden is now coaching their defense. They are fun to watch. Patriots have a down year after having a good year. They picked up A.J. Brown. People are excited by that, but supposedly the schedule is tougher. The worst thing the Patriots could have done was go to the Super Bowl. They could have just lost in the playoffs and it would have been a great season. Now everybody thinks this is the year. They traded Boot? Boutte. K. Shaw. Well, they picked up Romeo Dobbs, the guy. Remember the big helmet guy on the Packers? Oh, yeah. Yeah but uh i think this is the year for the bills if not they got to start looking to break it up i. Agree so emma sorry i wasn't participating there because i was trying to show you send you another one so but i sent you another one that i really would rather play You'll see it come up. All right. We'll see which one it is. He's playing around. Let me figure out. I'm done now. From you. Yeah. Not that one. Who's your Heisman pick? Heisman? Yep. I like Manning, but the fact I'm going to take Oregon to win it all is Moore. Yeah. Quarterback for Oregon. And they've got a good backup, right? They have that Nebraska backup. Yes. I mean, I think Moore would have been top 10 pick this year if he went out, but he's... Figured I'd make the same money in Oregon. Yep. Trent? I'm going to go a Notre Dame running back. They don't have any. That's why I'm going. I'm picking to win the whole thing. It's somebody you hadn't heard of yet. Notre Dame quarterback's a favorite to win the Heisman. His name is Aeneas Williams. I used to be a cornerback for the Cardinals. What are you doing? I'm just telling you. Well, when you get your money in FanDuel, go put money on that guy if he wins. I know I don't have one of those rings, but that's where I'm going. Aeneas Williams. Yeah. From the Cardinals. Yeah. No. All right. I don't know. I think this year is one of those years where the Heisman comes from, you know, like we don't know going into the season. So I don't know that I have a pick, to be honest with you. They said if Ohio State wins, it splits between the quarterback and the receiver. Yeah. I'm saying, or. Yeah. But at the same time... Wait a minute now. Does Alabama have that wide receiver back? Yes. All right. Now, he's... Even if they don't win, that guy is phenomenal. I think he's who I picked last year to be the highest one. But the question is, can they give him the ball? That's true. Mm-hmm. All right, good to thank you, Jeff, for coming in. Yeah, that was awesome. I appreciate it. As being an expert. Hopefully it doesn't jinx you when you lose a ring this year. It hasn't worked for me yet. Do you have to put your ring up? It's not like a belt where you give up your ring. He and Dave Baxter have two. Who else has won? Chris Jones. Chris Jones has won. Yeah. Have you even finished in the top five? First year or second. Oh, wow. Pretty sure. Second, fourth, something like that. You've got to change your strategy. It doesn't. It's just for fun. You draft, and then you don't make any transactions after that. You just live with what you pick. Everybody else keeps up with the whole season. It's just not worth it. Everybody else actually does what you're supposed to. Yeah, I know, but I think you should draft based on who you think how they'll do this year. You shouldn't pick anybody else after that. All right, so the season starts this weekend, right? Yeah. College, yes. College football. So what's the big game this weekend? So in my house, it's UVA and North Carolina. I mean, NC State. That is probably the big game of the week. We have Audrey. I just texted the girls, no fighting this weekend. So I've got Audrey and Riley battling. Okay. And Riley said no promises. Who are you taking in that game? I grew up a UVA fan, so Audrey knows that. So I'll probably root for Virginia. But all it takes is one crappy quarter, and I'm already against them, and I'll be rooting for NC State. I have no real allegiances to anybody anymore. First game is Carolina, TCU, and Ireland. That's– And that's where they got crushed last year. Yeah. And that happens again, I think. It doesn't seem to be any other. Hawaii, Stanford, Florida State, New Mexico State. And then we skip to the Thursday games the following week, which I will be on a cruise, so I will not be able to watch. I don't think. I don't know. I haven't been on a cruise in 20 years. I'm sure they'll have it. All right. Good. Have a good week. And we finish with Dolly Parton. A little tribute. Yep. Trent will take over next week. So I'm sure ratings will be down. But let's keep our subscriptions. You can find us on YouTube at LLH underscore podcast. Yeah. Or all of our social media platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. Now it's on to 300 subscribers. All right. See you next week. Yep.
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