# Intro to the 2026 College Football Season

An episode of [The Solid Verbal College Football Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/270037732), 7 Jul 2026, 1 h 20 min.

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In this episode, we officially welcome ourselves back to college football with a full 2026 season primer. Before preview season begins in earnest, we reset the board with the biggest changes you need to know, from conference realignment, new teams, and bowl games to rule tweaks, the coaching carousel and a longer road to the national championship in Las Vegas. Consider this your intro course for the upcoming season. We also run through the biggest names and roster moves shaping the season, including a huge crop of new head coaches, notable broadcast changes, the biggest transfer portal targets, and the quarterback storylines that could define the year. Plus, we look at early national title odds, conference favorites, Group of Six playoff contenders, and the broader themes we’ll be tracking all summer as our full preview series gets underway. Also: the Ball-Sac rivalry, North Dakota State’s FBS arrival, the triumph of bike shorts, the return of the Poinsettia Bowl, and a joyous march in the Fleck Parade. Timestamps: 0:00 - Welcome back 3:35 - What is this episode? 6:26 - The Basics 10:20 - Notable Changes 30:16 - New Coaches 35:49 - Announcer Changes 39:52 - Notable Transfers 56:16 - Big Storylines 1:01:34 - The Odds 1:06:21 - Common Themes 1:15:57 - Parting Thoughts Support the show!: https://www.patreon.com/solidverbal See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal holl that for me. I'm
[0:06] Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
[0:09] Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
[0:11] Speaker 1: for day Edith State? Is that?
[0:13] Speaker 2: Whoo whoo?
[0:14] Speaker 1: And no Dan and tie Dan Rubinstein.
[0:19] Speaker 2: It has been many long, cold, boring months of not
[0:24] Speaker 2: talking about actual college football. But at long last, my
[0:29] Speaker 2: good friend, we have arrived. It is time to start
[0:33] Speaker 2: the engines. It is time to start talking about the
[0:36] Speaker 2: twenty twenty six college football season.
[0:38] Speaker 1: Welcome back, how are you? I'm really good, Ty, I'm
[0:42] Speaker 1: really really good. This is our opening ceremonies, right it is.
[0:45] Speaker 1: This is essentially our welcome to everything, and I have
[0:50] Speaker 1: to sort of make an admission here, Ty. I was
[0:53] Speaker 1: driving home today carpooling kids to camp before recording this,
[0:57] Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, what would be like
[0:59] Speaker 1: a cool, like punny theme to think about the opening ceremonies?
[1:05] Speaker 1: A welcome back? Well, you know you got welcome to
[1:07] Speaker 1: the jungle. You know there's all this welcome back cod
[1:10] Speaker 1: or for all the really young people references that are
[1:13] Speaker 1: looking for something fun. And then I thought to myself, Okay,
[1:18] Speaker 1: let's go, let's steer more into who we are and
[1:21] Speaker 1: what is meaningful to us culturally. And I now have
[1:25] Speaker 1: to admit that I'm completely useless because I've been writing
[1:29] Speaker 1: lyrics to Welcome to the Fleck Parade. I don't know
[1:36] Speaker 1: if we're even gonna mention Minnesota on this episode.
[1:39] Speaker 2: Can't image. I don't know why we would, but okay,
[1:41] Speaker 2: keep going, Please keep going. Don't let me stop you.
[1:43] Speaker 1: By the way sidebar Minnesota. People use that as fuel
[1:47] Speaker 1: ty saying I don't know why we would talk about Minnesota.
[1:49] Speaker 1: We'll talk about Minnesota, just not on this Sine episode.
[1:53] Speaker 1: And it completely derailed my efforts just thinking about lyrics
[1:58] Speaker 1: to Welcome to the Fleck Parade. Of like when I
[2:01] Speaker 1: rode the boat with Yeah, and it's just I apologize
[2:06] Speaker 1: to you and to everybody for being so com like
[2:08] Speaker 1: I went and looked at like Fanfair audio tracks and
[2:12] Speaker 1: just like I just kept coming back to Welcome to
[2:15] Speaker 1: the Fleck Parade, and so I apologize.
[2:18] Speaker 2: Well, the expectation is going to be now that you
[2:20] Speaker 2: finish Yeah, before we get done with all of our previews,
[2:24] Speaker 2: certainly by the time we get done with the Big
[2:26] Speaker 2: ten previews, the expectations among our verballerhood is going to
[2:30] Speaker 2: be that you have a fully working I don't want
[2:34] Speaker 2: to say like music, but you're gonna need something to
[2:39] Speaker 2: show your work here.
[2:41] Speaker 1: Well, the working title of the band obviously is Thai
[2:44] Speaker 1: Chemical Romance. Sure beyond that, I just I don't have
[2:47] Speaker 1: much to offer beyond the title and the few opening
[2:50] Speaker 1: lines to welcome to the fleck Parade. That's it.
[2:53] Speaker 2: Well, we are very excited to be recording this episode.
[2:56] Speaker 2: I know I speak for you when I say that.
[2:59] Speaker 2: For anybody you stop it on by, please hit follow
[3:02] Speaker 2: or subscribe. We've got a bunch more preview episodes in
[3:06] Speaker 2: the queue. We're excited about it. We're excited to be
[3:08] Speaker 2: talking about some actual football and not a lot of
[3:10] Speaker 2: the offseason stuff, which we will recap to some degree
[3:14] Speaker 2: over the next hour or so. Of course, if you've
[3:17] Speaker 2: been here for a while and want to help support
[3:20] Speaker 2: the team Forballers dot com is where you can go.
[3:22] Speaker 2: That's our patreon that goes directly Dan and I helps
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[3:27] Speaker 2: so inclined, if you got a few minutes to kill,
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[3:33] Speaker 1: All that stuff goes a long way. Speaking of sounds Dan,
[3:37] Speaker 1: I found this one in the vault. I don't know
[3:39] Speaker 1: what it's from. But in a world this fall, some
[3:43] Speaker 1: people think they're God in.
[3:44] Speaker 2: College football, thought maybe we could get things off to
[3:50] Speaker 2: a dramatic start here.
[3:51] Speaker 1: Yeah. Even though college football doesn't want Jimbo, he is
[3:54] Speaker 1: still very real to us. He's still he still can it? Yeah, yes,
[3:58] Speaker 1: of course he is. So.
[3:59] Speaker 2: Look, we did this episode for the first time a
[4:02] Speaker 2: couple of years ago. We ran it back last year
[4:04] Speaker 2: as well. The verballer hood told us it was actually
[4:08] Speaker 2: quite useful, more useful than I think you or I
[4:10] Speaker 2: even envisioned when we put the idea.
[4:13] Speaker 1: Down on paper.
[4:14] Speaker 2: Today's episode is, in effect the intro to the twenty
[4:19] Speaker 2: twenty six college football season. College Football twenty twenty six
[4:24] Speaker 2: one oh one. The purpose of this episode today is
[4:27] Speaker 2: to go through the when, the where, the why, the how,
[4:32] Speaker 2: the who whatever else we can come up with, just
[4:36] Speaker 2: as a primer to get you started. Because, as is
[4:39] Speaker 2: ever the case in this damn sport, so much changes
[4:43] Speaker 2: throughout the course of an offseason. It seems useful to
[4:46] Speaker 2: have some sort of starting point to get people back
[4:49] Speaker 2: into the swing of things, to whet the beak right
[4:52] Speaker 2: to slowly build towards the coming twenty twenty six college
[4:55] Speaker 2: football season. So that is the purpose of this episode.
[4:58] Speaker 2: We're not going to get everything, I'm sure, but from
[5:00] Speaker 2: a very high level, the purpose of this is to
[5:03] Speaker 2: bring you back up to speed.
[5:05] Speaker 1: Yeah, this is basically to help you in your backyard
[5:08] Speaker 1: barbecue cookout grill sessions, by the way, when you are
[5:11] Speaker 1: just trying to catch up with what has transpired the
[5:15] Speaker 1: past six months or so and what has changed from
[5:17] Speaker 1: last year to this year with regard to the way
[5:20] Speaker 1: you this is, which is nouns right, the people, places,
[5:22] Speaker 1: and things of the off season, and how that's going
[5:26] Speaker 1: to sort of shape shift as we head into the season.
[5:30] Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna lie. I think our audience is
[5:32] Speaker 1: aging with us. So this is helpful for us. Hopefully
[5:37] Speaker 1: it's helpful for you. There are times when I will
[5:40] Speaker 1: give myself memory tests when I'm like sitting in the
[5:44] Speaker 1: car in traffic or something like, all right, what was
[5:46] Speaker 1: the name of this? Yeah, like who did Bill Belichick
[5:49] Speaker 1: hire to make his offense way better with? I think
[5:53] Speaker 1: Billy Edward's gonna run the North Carolina allegedly that's what
[5:56] Speaker 1: they tell us. Yes, I was like I remember it
[5:58] Speaker 1: was a name. I remember it was somebody interesting. I
[6:00] Speaker 1: remember it's an interesting duo. It's like, oh, Bobby Petrino.
[6:03] Speaker 1: So I'm giving myself like little bouts of jeopardy to
[6:08] Speaker 1: combat memory loss with college football and otherwise just in life.
[6:13] Speaker 1: I just quiz myself. So this is again, I think
[6:16] Speaker 1: our audience is aging with us. So hopefully we are
[6:20] Speaker 1: all in the same We're all rowing the same boat here,
[6:24] Speaker 1: ty to close the loop.
[6:26] Speaker 2: Keep the fleck parade going, all right, So let's start
[6:28] Speaker 2: with the basics. Then, what people need to know is this.
[6:32] Speaker 2: The season starts on August twenty ninth, when North Carolina
[6:37] Speaker 2: and TCU do battle in Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland,
[6:41] Speaker 2: DAN twelve pm Eastern time. That is the first game
[6:44] Speaker 2: of week zero. There are a couple other games in
[6:46] Speaker 2: week zero. There was supposed to be another international game
[6:50] Speaker 2: between Virginia and NC State in Rio, which apparently took
[6:55] Speaker 2: on a bit of a firefest field to it. Yeah,
[6:58] Speaker 2: and they called that whole thing off their play in Charlottesville.
[7:02] Speaker 2: So those are maybe two of the games of note,
[7:05] Speaker 2: the most games of note in week zero. As I said,
[7:07] Speaker 2: there are a couple others. The season runs all the
[7:11] Speaker 2: way through now until January the twenty fifth.
[7:17] Speaker 1: It's a long time. The season is longer. It is
[7:20] Speaker 1: longer by at least a week. Now.
[7:23] Speaker 2: The final game is going to be played Allegiance Stadium
[7:26] Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. You'r CFP National Championship Game January the
[7:30] Speaker 2: twenty fifth. It is a Monday, so you can count
[7:34] Speaker 2: up those months if you want to. But yeah, the
[7:37] Speaker 2: season is long. The season is growing. Certainly, there will
[7:40] Speaker 2: be many storylines that pop up between then and now.
[7:42] Speaker 1: But they extended it by a week. Why not? So
[7:47] Speaker 1: we're saying the name of this thought exercise is Welcome
[7:53] Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty sixth season colon from Aviva the
[7:58] Speaker 1: number two Allegiance from Aviva to Allegiance.
[8:02] Speaker 2: I mean your pun game is lacking a little bit.
[8:05] Speaker 2: Maybe those are the tests you should do with yourself
[8:07] Speaker 2: in the car.
[8:08] Speaker 1: You think that's a lacking a Viva to Allegiance too. Again,
[8:11] Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't roll off the tongue for me.
[8:13] Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty twenty sixth season colon from a
[8:16] Speaker 1: Viva to Allegiant'.
[8:21] Speaker 2: Verbal solid verbal at gmail dot com. Way in, It's
[8:25] Speaker 2: not tie quality.
[8:26] Speaker 1: I thought that was absolutely a Ghoulian effort.
[8:29] Speaker 2: It's not your Duke of Hazzard Alanlizard caliber. But it's
[8:32] Speaker 2: okay approaching there.
[8:35] Speaker 1: It wasn't even supposed to be a pun. It's just
[8:37] Speaker 1: a viva to allegiant.
[8:38] Speaker 2: We do have some other notable neutral site games while
[8:42] Speaker 2: we're on the topic, throughout the course of the first
[8:45] Speaker 2: couple weeks.
[8:45] Speaker 1: Now, of course we know there.
[8:47] Speaker 2: Are games like the World's or South Door Cockail Party
[8:50] Speaker 2: whatever we call it now between Florida and Georgia that
[8:53] Speaker 2: is played at a neutral site annually. Notre Dame plays Navy,
[8:56] Speaker 2: I believe up in Boston, like there are plenty throughout
[8:59] Speaker 2: the river of the yet Red River, right like the
[9:01] Speaker 2: traditional ones that we see often. I haven't so much
[9:04] Speaker 2: pulled those out, but just five other notable ones. Baylor
[9:08] Speaker 2: and Auburn in Atlanta Week one, Louisville Ole Miss in
[9:12] Speaker 2: Nashville Week one, Wisconsin versus Notre Dame lambeau Field.
[9:16] Speaker 1: It's a pretty cool venue in week one.
[9:18] Speaker 2: And then we've also got Virginia at Western Virginia versus
[9:23] Speaker 2: West Virginia excuse me, in Charlotte and Arizona State versus
[9:27] Speaker 2: Kansas in Week three, also in London, as the Big
[9:29] Speaker 2: twelve continues to build its global brand.
[9:33] Speaker 1: That's also it's kind of like a John Denver matchup, right,
[9:35] Speaker 1: because there's the argument that Country Roads is about Western Virginia,
[9:40] Speaker 1: not West Virginia. You've probably seen the TikTok or whatever
[9:43] Speaker 1: platform that went up on by Now. I don't think
[9:46] Speaker 1: it's officially settled, but it's probably West Virginia. And you're
[9:51] Speaker 1: talking neutral siers, right Yep. Most UCLA games as well
[9:55] Speaker 1: have that neutral site feel.
[9:57] Speaker 2: Well, maybe not now under the tutelage of Robert Edward Chesney.
[10:01] Speaker 1: You know, Bobby Chez. Yeah, I hope it changes.
[10:04] Speaker 2: So we got a long season, we got a couple
[10:06] Speaker 2: neutral sites. The season is set to get rolling on
[10:09] Speaker 2: August to twenty ninth. Now, yes, you can find that
[10:13] Speaker 2: if you.
[10:13] Speaker 1: Go on out to ESPN dot com or a number
[10:15] Speaker 1: of other websites. This is not news.
[10:18] Speaker 2: Maybe it's news to the ears. But here are the
[10:21] Speaker 2: notable changes, the things that I think the forballerhood needs
[10:25] Speaker 2: to sink its teeth into and understand as the season
[10:29] Speaker 2: gets rolling. Number one who would have guessed it? But
[10:33] Speaker 2: more changes to the college football playoff Dan, Yeah, I
[10:37] Speaker 2: want you to write this down. They're changing it again.
[10:40] Speaker 2: Here is what they are changing this year. The four
[10:44] Speaker 2: Power four conference champions automatically get in.
[10:48] Speaker 1: Check.
[10:49] Speaker 2: Also, the highest ranked group of six team gets in. Okay,
[10:56] Speaker 2: plus the other seven highest ranked at large teams. That's
[11:02] Speaker 2: going to comprise your field of twelve. Now what is
[11:04] Speaker 2: different about that? What is different was that last season
[11:09] Speaker 2: it was the five highest ranked conference champions who automatically
[11:14] Speaker 2: earned the bid, regardless of what conference they were in. Right,
[11:18] Speaker 2: tl DR. That's how you get JMU. That's how you
[11:21] Speaker 2: got two lane in the same.
[11:23] Speaker 1: Right that dumped Duke out because they were not one
[11:26] Speaker 1: of the five highest ranked conference champions.
[11:29] Speaker 2: So I interpret this as a net gain for the
[11:33] Speaker 2: Power four and also something that probably decreases the risk
[11:39] Speaker 2: of two G six teams getting in again like we
[11:41] Speaker 2: saw last.
[11:41] Speaker 1: Year, sure, which was the unstated goal of this adjustment.
[11:45] Speaker 2: Practically speaking, that's what this means. I don't necessarily think
[11:49] Speaker 2: it's a horrible change. I don't think we're fully disenfranchising
[11:53] Speaker 2: the G six, but I would say, just again, practically speaking,
[11:57] Speaker 2: it decreases the risk of that happening again.
[12:00] Speaker 1: Of course, by the way, we should mention last year's
[12:03] Speaker 1: inclusion of both James Madison and Tulane was a crazy
[12:09] Speaker 1: confluence of unrepeatable events of Duke losing five times and
[12:14] Speaker 1: winning the acc and not making the tournament. But yes,
[12:19] Speaker 1: we have to do everything we can all of the
[12:21] Speaker 1: time to adjust continue.
[12:23] Speaker 2: The other thing worth mentioning is that this is going
[12:26] Speaker 2: to be the first year and we saw reporting about this,
[12:29] Speaker 2: it sort of flew under the radar amid everything else
[12:32] Speaker 2: going on in college football. Notre Dame will receive an
[12:36] Speaker 2: automatic bid if they are ranked in the top twelve
[12:38] Speaker 2: and the final rankings.
[12:40] Speaker 1: Yes, finally Notre Dame catches a break, and again if
[12:47] Speaker 1: they get an automatic bid if they finish in the
[12:49] Speaker 1: top twelve, but they have to officially accept it right
[12:53] Speaker 1: which they don't always do. This is going to be
[12:56] Speaker 1: a topic of conversation. I can just tell you right now.
[12:58] Speaker 2: I don't know if it's so much going to be
[13:00] Speaker 2: a big deal this year because Notre Dame, as we
[13:02] Speaker 2: will get into over the course of this episode, figures
[13:05] Speaker 2: to be one of the top five teams in the country.
[13:08] Speaker 2: They've got a schedule that should keep them in the
[13:10] Speaker 2: top five teams in the country. It is a loaded roster,
[13:13] Speaker 2: Notre Dame will be very good. I don't think it's
[13:15] Speaker 2: going to be a circumstance like we saw a year ago.
[13:18] Speaker 2: Things change. I didn't think that would be the case
[13:20] Speaker 2: for Penn State last year either.
[13:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not automatic. You know, there's a lot of
[13:25] Speaker 1: a lot of evaluations of Notre Dame schedule that say
[13:29] Speaker 1: that they're going to coast based on not having a
[13:33] Speaker 1: ton of obviously formidable opponents, And it'll be You're right,
[13:38] Speaker 1: it'll be a topic of conversation. I will just remind
[13:40] Speaker 1: people Notre Dame has scheduled some of the best Canadian
[13:43] Speaker 1: high schools who are willing to play against the Irish. Right,
[13:48] Speaker 1: all right, you never say never continue. We now have
[13:50] Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight teams, Dan bron Bombshells entering FELLA.
[13:57] Speaker 1: Two new teams joining this year.
[13:58] Speaker 2: As if we didn't have enough last year, let's add
[14:01] Speaker 2: two more on to the growing list of FBS teams, starting.
[14:05] Speaker 1: With North Dakota State.
[14:07] Speaker 2: Man. Yes, I am fired up for North Dakota State
[14:11] Speaker 2: to play at the FBS level. They are officially joining
[14:13] Speaker 2: the Mountain West. As many who listen to this, no
[14:17] Speaker 2: North Dakota State has been an absolute FCS powerhouse. They
[14:22] Speaker 2: have ten FCS national championships in the last fifteen years.
[14:26] Speaker 1: Just pretty good.
[14:27] Speaker 2: Yes, Over the last decade or so, North Dakota State
[14:31] Speaker 2: has acquitted itself quite well when they play FBS teams.
[14:34] Speaker 2: They have played three Power Conference FBS teams over the
[14:37] Speaker 2: last decade. They beat Iowa, if you want to go back,
[14:40] Speaker 2: ten years back in twenty sixteen, by a twenty three
[14:43] Speaker 2: to twenty one score. In twenty twenty two, four years
[14:47] Speaker 2: ago they lost to Arizona by a thirty one to
[14:50] Speaker 2: twenty eight score, and two years ago in twenty twenty four,
[14:54] Speaker 2: they lost to Colorado by a thirty one to twenty
[14:56] Speaker 2: six margins.
[14:57] Speaker 1: So right, a back and forth game. Yeah, do the math.
[14:59] Speaker 2: That's two losses by a combined eight points all told,
[15:03] Speaker 2: three games against powerful opponents decided by just ten points.
[15:08] Speaker 2: North Dakota State jumping now into the fray here.
[15:11] Speaker 1: Yes, and by the way, they just to in all seriousness,
[15:15] Speaker 1: they have if you look at some of the advanced
[15:17] Speaker 1: metrics that are from Bill Connolly ESPN, does they have
[15:21] Speaker 1: acquitted themselves in a way that a top fifty or
[15:24] Speaker 1: sixty no matter the division type, team would acquit themselves
[15:29] Speaker 1: given opponents and such. So they're joining the Mountain West.
[15:33] Speaker 1: I'm sure this is an easy runway for you, but
[15:36] Speaker 1: they're joining the Mountain West due to a number of
[15:39] Speaker 1: teams shuffling conferences to accommodate the new look PAC twelve.
[15:45] Speaker 2: We will get into conference re alignment here momentarily. A
[15:48] Speaker 2: sweet set of ice, man, thank you. The other team
[15:51] Speaker 2: that is new is Sacramento State. Yes, Sacramento State, returning
[15:57] Speaker 2: to its traditional roots is apparently a team DAN. They're
[16:02] Speaker 2: joining the MAC.
[16:03] Speaker 1: Yes they are.
[16:05] Speaker 2: It is a different scenario all together than what we
[16:08] Speaker 2: are seeing with North Dakota State. I'm not going to
[16:12] Speaker 2: pretend that I understand the math on this one.
[16:14] Speaker 1: Okay, it's not.
[16:16] Speaker 2: But Sacramento State is joining the MAC on a five
[16:18] Speaker 2: year agreement. Under this agreement, Sacramento State takes no conference payout.
[16:26] Speaker 2: They also, for the first year at least, are covering
[16:30] Speaker 2: air travel for visiting MAC teams.
[16:32] Speaker 1: What I don't think I knew that detail.
[16:34] Speaker 2: And in year one of disagreement they are paying six
[16:38] Speaker 2: million dollars of a total eighteen million dollar entry fee,
[16:44] Speaker 2: so they will need to pay out the remaining I
[16:46] Speaker 2: guess what thirteen million, twelve million. Excuse me over the
[16:49] Speaker 2: remainder of their four year stay if it is only
[16:53] Speaker 2: four years, but at least in year one they're going
[16:55] Speaker 2: to owe six million.
[16:57] Speaker 1: Of that eighteen million.
[16:59] Speaker 2: There were questions when they made this announcement around the
[17:02] Speaker 2: fact that they were doing it at all, a bunch
[17:05] Speaker 2: of folks questioning the math behind it. There is some
[17:08] Speaker 2: concern that this could be financially speaking, an air in judgment.
[17:13] Speaker 2: All that said, because they are joining the MAC we
[17:16] Speaker 2: do get to see them play ball State, which means
[17:18] Speaker 2: the ball sack rivalry is on and we're very excited
[17:20] Speaker 2: about that.
[17:21] Speaker 1: Also potentially the wildest collection of notable alumni on a
[17:27] Speaker 1: Wikipedia Notable Alumni page Sacramento State, Tom Hanks, the former
[17:33] Speaker 1: chief of staff of the President of Iran. Those are
[17:35] Speaker 1: two different people, by the way, Okay, Tom Ryan Coogler,
[17:39] Speaker 1: who's now like a legendary and acclaimed director Creed from
[17:43] Speaker 1: the Office and a terrific musician way back when, a
[17:48] Speaker 1: notorious serial killer the Golden State Killer, and perhaps my
[17:52] Speaker 1: favorite addition to this list, legendary Toronto blue jay Buck Martinez,
[17:58] Speaker 1: real former voice of Trip will play Baseball Anya sports
[18:02] Speaker 1: are all at least on the Wikipedia page of Sacramento State.
[18:06] Speaker 1: Didn't cam Scantabu went there for a little bit before ASU. Right,
[18:11] Speaker 1: I don't think he measures up to any of those names.
[18:13] Speaker 1: But no, of course, yes, I'm not saying he's an alum,
[18:15] Speaker 1: but he was there for a moment in time. Yeah. Right, Well,
[18:17] Speaker 1: I don't know if any of those people actually graduated,
[18:19] Speaker 1: but yes, yeah, I'm pretty sure he transferre from Sacramento State.
[18:23] Speaker 1: I think you got that right, the Hornets. I believe
[18:28] Speaker 1: Sacramento State Hornets. So we get sack State UMass if
[18:31] Speaker 1: not this year, some year. So there's that.
[18:35] Speaker 2: You mentioned conference your alignment. Yes, the PAC twelve is
[18:38] Speaker 2: back back like it never left. They're calling it the
[18:42] Speaker 2: PAC twelve. But it's only got eight teams, continuing the
[18:44] Speaker 2: long tradition in college football of naming a conference with
[18:47] Speaker 2: the number despite the fact that the conference itself does
[18:50] Speaker 2: not have that number of teams.
[18:52] Speaker 1: Correct, And also it's back like it definitely did leave.
[18:55] Speaker 1: The manner in which it is back is like, oh
[18:57] Speaker 1: it left.
[18:58] Speaker 2: Okay, continue eight teams, all of which end with the
[19:03] Speaker 2: state suffix, which is a fact that I'm sure we'll amuse.
[19:08] Speaker 1: Almost nobody other than me.
[19:09] Speaker 2: But we've got Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Oregon State,
[19:13] Speaker 2: San Diego State, Texas State, Utah State.
[19:16] Speaker 1: And Washington State Dan eight teams.
[19:18] Speaker 2: Yep, the games are going to be broadcast across CBS
[19:21] Speaker 2: USA and the c DUB back in the game. So
[19:26] Speaker 2: by virtue of Texas State leaving to join the PAC twelve,
[19:32] Speaker 2: the Sun Belt needed another team. They went out they
[19:35] Speaker 2: poached Louisiana Tech from Conference USA. So now the Sun
[19:38] Speaker 2: Belt is fourteen teams, even number.
[19:41] Speaker 1: That's quite a number of teams that are shifting things around.
[19:44] Speaker 1: And by the way, I joke about the new look
[19:47] Speaker 1: PAC twelve and how funny it is that they're just
[19:49] Speaker 1: calling it the PAC twelve as it's just not. But
[19:54] Speaker 1: those are all teams that have been of like varying
[19:57] Speaker 1: impressive quality in the last decade or so. Like it
[20:00] Speaker 1: looks to be a conference that has pretty solid depth
[20:04] Speaker 1: of quality. And I've been a Mountain West fan for
[20:07] Speaker 1: quite some time now, and so with some of those
[20:09] Speaker 1: Mountain West teams moving to a new conference together, the
[20:13] Speaker 1: Mountain West seems like it perhaps has added some quality.
[20:17] Speaker 1: Of course, with North Dakota State, hopefully it means for
[20:21] Speaker 1: even more watchable football out west, which is always meaningful
[20:24] Speaker 1: to me. We should talk about the Mountain West because
[20:28] Speaker 1: northern Illinois is now in the Mountain West. Right, that's
[20:32] Speaker 1: the other edition.
[20:33] Speaker 2: Yeah, your Mountain West is now comprised of Air Force Hawaii, Nevada,
[20:37] Speaker 2: and New Mexico. Seen those before and also got San
[20:41] Speaker 2: Jose State, unlv utep In Wyoming out there. But this
[20:45] Speaker 2: year we now add yes, North Dakota State and northern
[20:48] Speaker 2: Illinois as.
[20:49] Speaker 1: A resident in the northern of the northern part of Illinois.
[20:53] Speaker 1: Seeing Northern Illinois join the Mountain West, it seems funny
[20:58] Speaker 1: to some, but when you think about mountainous regions of
[21:01] Speaker 1: this country, the northern part of Illinois has to be
[21:05] Speaker 1: one of your top seventy five thousand regions.
[21:09] Speaker 2: We have so many people who email this show soliverbo
[21:11] Speaker 2: at gmail dot com speaking lovingly about the mountains of
[21:14] Speaker 2: northern Illinois.
[21:16] Speaker 1: Okay, look, you have the Andes, right, you have the
[21:19] Speaker 1: Sierra Nevadas. You got a lot to contend with. But
[21:24] Speaker 1: there are a couple off ramps in this part of
[21:26] Speaker 1: the state that get pretty vertical. Tie I'm I'm.
[21:29] Speaker 2: Envisioning that scene from dumb and dumber where they're like, yeah,
[21:33] Speaker 2: I expected the Mountain West to be a little bit
[21:35] Speaker 2: more mountainous that John Denver was full of.
[21:38] Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that was not the Mountain Yeah, the Mountain West,
[21:41] Speaker 1: the Rockies, Yeah, I hear you. What else is new? Well,
[21:45] Speaker 1: we've got a bunch here. Okay.
[21:47] Speaker 2: Rule changes. There were some rule changes of note. I'm
[21:52] Speaker 2: not going to go into all of them, but there
[21:55] Speaker 2: are three that I pulled out that I thought were
[21:57] Speaker 2: kind of interesting. The first is targeting. What are the
[22:00] Speaker 2: controversial topic targeting? So the NCAA has approved the one
[22:04] Speaker 2: year trial Dan, It's like a new medicine. They've approved
[22:08] Speaker 2: a one year trial whereby a player is not suspended.
[22:11] Speaker 2: If they get hit with targeting a second time, then
[22:13] Speaker 2: they missed the first half of the next game. If
[22:15] Speaker 2: you get hit with targeting for a third time in
[22:17] Speaker 2: one season, that means you are suspended for a full game.
[22:20] Speaker 2: But it seems as if they are reducing the punishments
[22:24] Speaker 2: associated with targeting.
[22:25] Speaker 1: I think it's worthwhile just because we're never going to
[22:28] Speaker 1: get to the point where an official on the field
[22:34] Speaker 1: is going to feel one hundred percent certain all of
[22:36] Speaker 1: the time. There is a judgment element to this. There
[22:41] Speaker 1: is like, it's certainly a call that when you watch
[22:43] Speaker 1: a play in super duper slow mo, it seems a
[22:47] Speaker 1: lot more obvious than what the officials have to contend with.
[22:51] Speaker 1: I know they replay it and stuff, but a play
[22:55] Speaker 1: in super slow motion is not reality. These players are
[22:58] Speaker 1: making bang bang decisions. And unless you see somebody making
[23:02] Speaker 1: a play defensively or offensively where it's like, oh, it's
[23:05] Speaker 1: so clearly them trying to injure somebody, I'm glad that
[23:11] Speaker 1: we're not going over the top with punishment. I like this.
[23:14] Speaker 1: I think this is the right move. We'll see how
[23:16] Speaker 1: the one year trial goes.
[23:18] Speaker 2: Elsewhere, we've got offensive pass interference I guess standardizing on
[23:24] Speaker 2: the NFL model as opposed to what we've had in college.
[23:27] Speaker 2: It is now only ten yards instead of fifteen. The
[23:31] Speaker 2: NFL has done this for a while. College is now
[23:34] Speaker 2: going to this as well, only ten yards instead of fifteen.
[23:37] Speaker 2: Shot that one down. Like I said, there are a
[23:39] Speaker 2: bunch of other more nuanced rules, fair catch rules, dropkick
[23:46] Speaker 2: rule like I'm not going to talk about that. The
[23:48] Speaker 2: one that I found funny though, just because we made
[23:51] Speaker 2: a lot of this last year I'm calling this the
[23:53] Speaker 2: Terry McCauley rule, or I guess the Terry McCauley proposal,
[23:57] Speaker 2: even though.
[23:58] Speaker 1: The uniform regulation I don't think terrym.
[24:00] Speaker 2: Callie had anything to do with this, but I mentioned
[24:02] Speaker 2: Terry McCauley because this was like one of the only
[24:05] Speaker 2: three things he tweeted about all last season. Yeah, Terry McCauley,
[24:09] Speaker 2: former NFL ref doing rules analyst work for NBC. The
[24:13] Speaker 2: Oversight Committee saw a proposal that would have required players
[24:17] Speaker 2: to wear leg coverings from the tops of their shoes
[24:21] Speaker 2: to the bottoms of their pants. Yeah, Terry McCauley had
[24:24] Speaker 2: an issue with what he called bike shorts being worn.
[24:28] Speaker 2: The Oversight Committee did not approve that proposal, so we're
[24:31] Speaker 2: still going to see some bike shorts out there.
[24:33] Speaker 1: Sorry, Terry, Sorry, apologize. What else?
[24:37] Speaker 2: Well, we got some bowl situations. Okay, we got three
[24:42] Speaker 2: bowls that are no longer if you can believe it,
[24:45] Speaker 2: Pour one out for the LA Bowl, the Game Above
[24:47] Speaker 2: Sports Bowl, and the Bahamas Bowl going the Jimmy Kimmel
[24:51] Speaker 2: LA Bowl, the LA Bowl presented by Gronk Sayanara, no more,
[24:55] Speaker 2: you said Bahamas Bowl. Bahamas Bowl, which has not always
[24:58] Speaker 2: been played in the Bahamas. Correct, what's the third one?
[25:02] Speaker 2: The game above Sports Bowl?
[25:04] Speaker 1: The game above Sports Bowl. The only thing, the only
[25:07] Speaker 1: other thing I remember about the Bahamas Bowl was Roger
[25:10] Speaker 1: Sherman went and noticed that they served Popeyes. But there
[25:14] Speaker 1: is not Popeyes on the island cot the Bahamas or
[25:18] Speaker 1: something like that. So all right, pour one out. You know.
[25:21] Speaker 1: I enjoyed the brief tenure of the La Bowl and
[25:26] Speaker 1: always enjoyed the Bamas Bowl, always early on in the process,
[25:28] Speaker 1: had some memorable plays.
[25:29] Speaker 2: I enjoy the idea, the concept of maybe them flying
[25:35] Speaker 2: a seven forty seven of Popeyes Chicken over to the
[25:37] Speaker 2: island just for the boll game.
[25:40] Speaker 1: I think it's great. Too bad we do have new
[25:43] Speaker 1: bowl games, though, I'm not gonna play the sound. What
[25:45] Speaker 1: do we have?
[25:46] Speaker 2: We've got a new bowl game, the Puerto Rico Bowl.
[25:50] Speaker 2: It will be played in December. I jotted down.
[25:53] Speaker 1: Then. It's got a sweet f and logo. Do you
[25:55] Speaker 1: have this in front of you? Do you see this?
[25:56] Speaker 1: Look it up right now. I love good Good brandt
[25:58] Speaker 1: this logo Arico Bowl. I have it in our document.
[26:03] Speaker 1: Oh look at that logo, man, what am I? It's
[26:07] Speaker 1: in our Yeah, the Google doc yeah, you got the
[26:10] Speaker 1: document open. I can see you in there. I am
[26:12] Speaker 1: in here scrolled down. See I'm scrolling. Oh that is nice.
[26:15] Speaker 1: That's pretty dope, isn't it? Look at that? That is nice.
[26:18] Speaker 1: We've got a palm tree in there. And we've got
[26:20] Speaker 1: some kind of horned skull situation for the O in
[26:25] Speaker 1: Puerto like a little Eldo delos Wertos going on there.
[26:29] Speaker 1: There is something. Yeah, and it's got the Puerto Rican
[26:31] Speaker 1: flag painted into it. Yeah, beautiful.
[26:33] Speaker 2: Right. We've also got a new slash old bowl game
[26:36] Speaker 2: in that the Point Cetia Bowl is coming back. It's back, baby,
[26:40] Speaker 2: been ten years without the Point Setia Bowl.
[26:42] Speaker 1: Is the San Diego County Credit Union involved or have
[26:46] Speaker 1: they washed their hands? I don't know. I don't know
[26:48] Speaker 1: what the status is of the San Diego County Credit
[26:51] Speaker 1: Union right now. I have basically one memory of the
[26:53] Speaker 1: Point Setia Bowl, and I think we had a couple
[26:55] Speaker 1: of interesting matchups. It was an early Bowl game like
[26:58] Speaker 1: we had maybe like a TC Boise or something in
[27:01] Speaker 1: that range of those kinds of quality teams. I remember
[27:04] Speaker 1: Navy played in it one when they got me flooded
[27:06] Speaker 1: out right flooded Point Sedi Bowl with Navy, with Navy who,
[27:12] Speaker 1: by the way, strong naval presence in San Diego County.
[27:15] Speaker 2: Right, didn't they play Michigan State played a college basketball
[27:19] Speaker 2: game in Perrier area.
[27:20] Speaker 1: Yes, So yeah, welcome back Point Seddio ble a beautiful flower.
[27:25] Speaker 1: I'm glad that we get this back.
[27:26] Speaker 2: This is like a weird thing, and I know bulls
[27:28] Speaker 2: aren't what they used to, but it's still weird to me,
[27:32] Speaker 2: or it's been weird for me when we go through
[27:34] Speaker 2: and we talk about bowl games and who's playing and what,
[27:37] Speaker 2: and we haven't been able to talk about this one.
[27:39] Speaker 1: So it's back. I mean going down to that stadium
[27:41] Speaker 1: was always very fun for me from southern California in
[27:43] Speaker 1: the LA area, just because it would be like a
[27:46] Speaker 1: dilapidated Chargers old Padres stadium. You're like, all right, let's
[27:50] Speaker 1: go see Oklahoma State Oregon. Let's see what happens. Ye.
[27:53] Speaker 2: Speaking of stadiums, another setup, Dan Man, we're already in
[27:57] Speaker 2: mid season form here, Okay. We you have a new
[28:00] Speaker 2: stadium situation this year in college football, Ryan Stadium within
[28:06] Speaker 2: walking distance of you.
[28:08] Speaker 1: So is it Ryan Stadium or Ryan Field? What are
[28:10] Speaker 1: they calling it? I think it's just Ryan Field.
[28:12] Speaker 2: What I jotted down Ryan State, You know what I mean.
[28:14] Speaker 2: Northwestern's got a new Ryan Field that's opening on Friday,
[28:17] Speaker 2: October the second against my beloved Penn State and Nitney Lyons.
[28:22] Speaker 2: I think I might try to come out for that one,
[28:23] Speaker 2: though we haven't drawn up official plans yet.
[28:26] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a long walk, to be clear, I'm not
[28:29] Speaker 1: in the shadow of Ryanfield. You live in the con Yeah,
[28:35] Speaker 1: it's it looks beautiful. I walk by it all the
[28:38] Speaker 1: time when i'm around there. There's a good bakery around there,
[28:41] Speaker 1: so I find myself on Central Street a good amount
[28:44] Speaker 1: of time. If it does open as planned in early October,
[28:47] Speaker 1: because I think originally they wanted it open for the
[28:49] Speaker 1: start of the season. So it's never great when you're like,
[28:51] Speaker 1: well what about early October. It's a Friday night game
[28:54] Speaker 1: against Penn State, so you have, you know, a big
[28:56] Speaker 1: name opponent, big fan base coming in. It looks to
[29:00] Speaker 1: I think it only seats about thirty five thousand. Yeah,
[29:02] Speaker 1: it's smaller, it's a little bit small. Sitelines look great.
[29:05] Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have great concessions and it looks
[29:08] Speaker 1: like it's going to be excellent, So I hope it
[29:10] Speaker 1: all works out for the Cats.
[29:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited they're opening back up. I'm
[29:15] Speaker 2: gonna miss the old portable stadium though.
[29:18] Speaker 1: That was kind of fun. That was fun. The sheer
[29:20] Speaker 1: logistics of that were pretty crazy. I went to two
[29:23] Speaker 1: games there. You and I went and saw Duke play
[29:27] Speaker 1: future ACC champion Duke in the Driving Wind and Rain
[29:31] Speaker 1: off Lake Michigan. Yeah, and I went with our friend
[29:34] Speaker 1: Jeff to the Oregon game last season, a game in
[29:37] Speaker 1: which I learned the Oregon team changed on the nearby
[29:41] Speaker 1: indoor tennis courts as their locker room, so a different experience. Yeah.
[29:46] Speaker 2: This is also supposedly the final year of South Florida
[29:51] Speaker 2: USF playing at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, because they're
[29:55] Speaker 2: also building their own stadium. I think they've had some
[29:58] Speaker 2: delays with that, but at least at time of recording,
[30:01] Speaker 2: it seems like they're on track to jump on over
[30:04] Speaker 2: to their own thing starting in twenty twenty seven. So
[30:07] Speaker 2: we'll keep tabs on that. But when we do this
[30:09] Speaker 2: episode a year from now, we might have another new
[30:11] Speaker 2: stadium to discuss.
[30:12] Speaker 1: Yeah, looks pretty cool. I don't know, can't wait.
[30:17] Speaker 2: Let's get into the people Who. There's a lot of
[30:22] Speaker 2: who going on here. I counted twenty nine new head coaches.
[30:26] Speaker 1: Did you not license any of the music from the
[30:28] Speaker 1: band The Who? I did for this specific segment. We
[30:30] Speaker 1: don't have that in our budget. We do not have
[30:32] Speaker 1: that in the budget.
[30:33] Speaker 2: No, all right, I jotted down twenty nine new coaches.
[30:38] Speaker 2: Like we knew at the start of last year that
[30:41] Speaker 2: the coaching carousel was going to go crazy. We even
[30:44] Speaker 2: built our own version of a game for it. I
[30:47] Speaker 2: don't expect that this coming off season is going to
[30:51] Speaker 2: be nearly as active as we saw this past cycle,
[30:54] Speaker 2: but who knows. Things break all the time. Just a
[30:58] Speaker 2: small sampling of names. Lsu Lane Kiffin Virginia Tech, James Franklin,
[31:04] Speaker 2: Penn State, Matt Campbell, Florida, John summerl Michigan, Michigan, Kyle
[31:09] Speaker 2: Whittingham UCLA, Bobby chez Ole, Miss, Pete Golding Auburn, Alex
[31:15] Speaker 2: golesh Arkansas, Ryan Silverfield, Kentucky, Will Stein Oklahoma State, Eric Morris,
[31:21] Speaker 2: Michigan State, Pat Fitzgerald, Cal Toshlpois Stanford, Tavita Pritchard, South Florida,
[31:27] Speaker 2: Brian Hartline, and James Madison Willy Napier, Billy Napier. When
[31:30] Speaker 2: I say WILLI Napier, I said Willy Napier because underneath
[31:34] Speaker 2: him on my list is Will Hall at Tulane.
[31:38] Speaker 1: There are a bunch others, a bunch others on this list.
[31:40] Speaker 1: Do you want to rapid fire anything interesting about any
[31:42] Speaker 1: of these coaches? Just talking points over Broughtwurst or something.
[31:46] Speaker 2: I mean, where do you start with Lane Kiffin? The
[31:48] Speaker 2: whole Lane Kiffin thing is a talking point?
[31:50] Speaker 1: Okay? Lane Kiffin wanted to keep coaching at his last
[31:54] Speaker 1: school even after he accepted the job at this school
[31:58] Speaker 1: for the duration of the playoffs and was told nowhere good.
[32:01] Speaker 1: James Franklin was fired mid season after leading a team
[32:04] Speaker 1: to the top four the final four of the playoff,
[32:07] Speaker 1: fired mid season after disappointing losses in big and not
[32:10] Speaker 1: so big games. Accepted this job in the middle of
[32:13] Speaker 1: the season, yes, or near the end of the season.
[32:15] Speaker 2: And I should add there has been a windfall of
[32:19] Speaker 2: new money coming into Virginia Tech. Maybe not exclusively because
[32:23] Speaker 2: of James Franklin, but it has definitely been coordinated around
[32:27] Speaker 2: James Franklin in the rebuild of this Virginia Tech program.
[32:29] Speaker 1: So that's been exciting Virginia Tech. I think is maybe
[32:32] Speaker 1: putting together it's best recruiting class ever, like he's always
[32:34] Speaker 1: been able to recruit. So obviously, when you see that
[32:37] Speaker 1: proof of concept, you're gonna keep spending money, because money
[32:40] Speaker 1: and recruiting are one and the same. In this moment,
[32:43] Speaker 1: John Summerl comes over from Tulane to Florida after leading
[32:46] Speaker 1: them to the playoff and a good amount of success.
[32:48] Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham was a late in the process thing after
[32:50] Speaker 1: Sharon Moore was fired for inappropriate conduct within the athletic department,
[32:54] Speaker 1: and Kyle Whittingham was at Utah forever an older guy
[32:57] Speaker 1: but very successful at Utah. Bob Chesney from a across
[33:00] Speaker 1: the country, also a playoff coach. Pete Golding was the
[33:03] Speaker 1: already at Ole miss and was the interim and had
[33:06] Speaker 1: the interim tag taken off of him. Will Stein was
[33:09] Speaker 1: the offensive coordinated Oregon. Oklahoma State and Eric Morris bring
[33:12] Speaker 1: a bunch of superstar looking offensive players with them from
[33:15] Speaker 1: North Texas. Billy Napier was fired from Florida. He's now
[33:19] Speaker 1: at JMU, which has been the cradle of successful coaches recently,
[33:23] Speaker 1: notably Kurt Signetti going from JMU to Indiana. Kirby Moore
[33:27] Speaker 1: is a really good coach in his own right, coming
[33:29] Speaker 1: over from Miszoo. Also, Kellen Moore's brother going to WAZU.
[33:34] Speaker 1: I didn't mention him when I join to wazo run through. Yeah.
[33:37] Speaker 1: Jason Kandell was at Toledo forever and had a ton
[33:39] Speaker 1: of success. He's now at Yukon taking over Jim Moora.
[33:42] Speaker 1: Jim Moore is at Colorado State. Alex Mortenson at UAB
[33:46] Speaker 1: is the son of Chris Mortenson. Has been a college
[33:49] Speaker 1: football coach for some time now. JaMarcus Shephard a really,
[33:53] Speaker 1: really well regarded receivers coach. He's been at big places.
[33:56] Speaker 1: If you remember those Purdue receivers, JaMarcus Sheppard was there
[33:59] Speaker 1: the great Washington receivers from a couple of years ago.
[34:01] Speaker 1: He had a hand in that. He was at Alabama recently.
[34:04] Speaker 1: He's going to Oregon State. Yes, he's going to Oregon State.
[34:07] Speaker 1: JaMarcus Shepherd taking over there. Ryan Beard was at Missouri
[34:11] Speaker 1: State and helped Shepherd them to their FBS status and
[34:16] Speaker 1: had a good season last year. Does not have a beard,
[34:19] Speaker 1: has had a beard. Yeah, you can call him coach
[34:22] Speaker 1: Beard like the ted Lasso character. But of the pictures
[34:26] Speaker 1: I've seen him in at Coastal Carolina, he has kept
[34:30] Speaker 1: a close shave.
[34:31] Speaker 2: Do you think we need a rule on this, Like,
[34:33] Speaker 2: if you've got beard in the last name, you need
[34:36] Speaker 2: to be now. The counterpoint would be, it may be
[34:41] Speaker 2: harder for some people to grow beards, right, but he can.
[34:45] Speaker 1: I've seen him with a beard.
[34:47] Speaker 2: It's easy for guys to grow a beard, but it
[34:49] Speaker 2: takes more effort if you're a woman, right, and if
[34:51] Speaker 2: you're missus Beard. I think maybe just men named Beard
[34:57] Speaker 2: need to at least dabble with growing the beard. Is
[35:00] Speaker 2: where I'm at.
[35:01] Speaker 1: He has dabbled. He has a good beard, so he's okay.
[35:03] Speaker 1: But I'm saying, moving forward, is.
[35:05] Speaker 2: There a beard rule we can put we can institute
[35:07] Speaker 2: here as part of the It's like quar.
[35:10] Speaker 1: Right that he shouldn't shave until they win, sort of
[35:12] Speaker 1: like Nebraska fans with the balloons exactly, the college basketball
[35:16] Speaker 1: fans who don't cheer until the first basket, okay, or
[35:19] Speaker 1: what's his name at, Sarah Huse who refuses to shower
[35:22] Speaker 1: if you don't win. No, totally cool Brown, Fran Brown. Yeah,
[35:27] Speaker 1: so yeah, a lot of it. I mean, there's a
[35:29] Speaker 1: ton of movement here. Pat Fitzgerald back as a college
[35:32] Speaker 1: football head coach after being fired by Northwestern, speaking of
[35:35] Speaker 1: Ryan Field a few years ago. Now, uh, he's at
[35:38] Speaker 1: Michigan State. Yeah, I mean you'll you'll learn all of
[35:42] Speaker 1: these if you haven't been playing close attention. But yeah,
[35:45] Speaker 1: a lot of new names and faces, some of whom
[35:48] Speaker 1: do or don't have beards. Some other new names.
[35:51] Speaker 2: Charles Davis is stepping in for Gary Danielson as the
[35:54] Speaker 2: lead analyst for CBS.
[35:57] Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. This was like telegraph.
[36:00] Speaker 2: Everybody kind of knew about it last season that this
[36:02] Speaker 2: was going to occur, But it is a little bit
[36:06] Speaker 2: of a different change in the media landscape at time
[36:10] Speaker 2: of recording. I haven't seen if ESPN is going to
[36:12] Speaker 2: jumble any of its announcer teams by hunches. They probably
[36:16] Speaker 2: will by the time this drops, or certainly by the
[36:18] Speaker 2: time the season gets here. But this is one notable name,
[36:23] Speaker 2: one notable addition that we can report now a time
[36:26] Speaker 2: of recording. The other one, and it's not perfectly a
[36:30] Speaker 2: fit for what we're doing here, but it is tangentially related,
[36:33] Speaker 2: and that is Kirk krb Street. It's going to be
[36:35] Speaker 2: replaced by Joel Klatt as the main analyst in the
[36:38] Speaker 2: college football video game. We're trying to be comprehensive here
[36:41] Speaker 2: on this show. Sure, So it Warren's mentioning that Clatt's
[36:44] Speaker 2: going to be in the game now.
[36:46] Speaker 1: This is the like Olive Branch and the demilitarized zone
[36:49] Speaker 1: between the Fox and ESPN, bringing Fowery Clatt together. I
[36:56] Speaker 1: think Holly Rose in the game now, which is kind
[36:57] Speaker 1: of cool, bringing them together the Cold War. Yeah, that
[37:02] Speaker 1: Joel Klatt is, he's bringing people together. Charles Davis, I
[37:06] Speaker 1: want to say Charles Davis was on the Boise to
[37:08] Speaker 1: Oklahoma call with Tom Bradi. Oh yeah, yeah, No.
[37:10] Speaker 2: Charles Davis has called plenty of college games in the past,
[37:13] Speaker 2: but he's been doing NFL for a while and now
[37:16] Speaker 2: he's coming back on under the CBS umbrella on the
[37:19] Speaker 2: college side.
[37:19] Speaker 1: So I think a lot of us have used Gary
[37:23] Speaker 1: Danielson broadcasts on CBS over the years to make sure
[37:26] Speaker 1: our eye muscles are stretched with all the rolling we do.
[37:30] Speaker 1: So we're going to have to find new ways. I
[37:32] Speaker 1: looked it up. Extra ocular muscles are what make sure
[37:36] Speaker 1: your eyes well. Brando.
[37:37] Speaker 2: Brando, I think is still calling games, so we could
[37:39] Speaker 2: we could like watch repeats of those broadcasts.
[37:42] Speaker 1: Right, So if you feel those muscles stagnating atrophying a
[37:45] Speaker 1: little bit, just flip on a Brando joint.
[37:47] Speaker 2: You'll get your work, yeah, or you'll be asleep one
[37:50] Speaker 2: way or the other. Because there's a lot of times
[37:51] Speaker 2: they put him on like those later games later. I
[37:54] Speaker 2: don't think they want people to hear him either.
[37:55] Speaker 1: But yeah, I in all seriousness, I know people criticize
[38:00] Speaker 1: announcers all the time, and I have not been the
[38:02] Speaker 1: biggest fan of that booth recently, so that would be
[38:06] Speaker 1: the brad Nessler Gary Danielson booth. And I've always enjoyed
[38:10] Speaker 1: having Gary Danielson in my life. Oh yeah, one hundred
[38:13] Speaker 1: percent voice. But yeah, I don't want to just kind
[38:18] Speaker 1: of plainly feel everybody's fine. I want to feel like
[38:21] Speaker 1: I have opinions of announcers that sort of change like
[38:24] Speaker 1: a Richter scale. So yeah, happy trails to to Gary Danielson,
[38:28] Speaker 1: who did a ton of work for CBS, and I
[38:31] Speaker 1: hope he has fun as a fan of the sport
[38:33] Speaker 1: on his couch.
[38:33] Speaker 2: We are not affiliated with anybody. We are very much
[38:36] Speaker 2: our own show here and so if we want to
[38:40] Speaker 2: be honest with the reballer hood. We got to give
[38:44] Speaker 2: our opinions of some of these broads. I agrees right like,
[38:47] Speaker 2: we're not living in a vacuum, and they'll we bring
[38:49] Speaker 2: some of these folks on and have definitely heard from
[38:52] Speaker 2: people in the past.
[38:54] Speaker 1: We just got to be honest with the people. By
[38:56] Speaker 1: the way, speaking of announcing announcing changes, I know you
[39:00] Speaker 1: didn't omit this name because I'm not sure we should
[39:03] Speaker 1: fully omit this name. But Jason Bennetti is not at
[39:07] Speaker 1: Fox anymore. Correct He's calling baseball at NBC, and I
[39:12] Speaker 1: think we'll dabble in other sports. So I haven't seen
[39:14] Speaker 1: anything official with how it relates to, you know, maybe
[39:18] Speaker 1: doing like Netflix or whatever, NFL stuff for NBC and
[39:23] Speaker 1: you know, other other networks that are not TV networks
[39:26] Speaker 1: in that same way. But hopefully we have some Bennetti
[39:30] Speaker 1: in our life moving forward with NBC's college football deal.
[39:34] Speaker 1: Love Benetti, good dude, great, So he's not He was
[39:36] Speaker 1: with Brockhwared a couple of years ago and I thought
[39:40] Speaker 1: they were a very very good booth. He was with
[39:42] Speaker 1: RG three last year and I'm always gonna like Benetti
[39:45] Speaker 1: and the best of RG three is fun. So yeah,
[39:48] Speaker 1: I think college football announcing gets worth worse without weekly Benetti.
[39:53] Speaker 1: All right, let's talk transfers. Please.
[39:58] Speaker 2: Where do we want to start with transfers? So full disclosure,
[40:02] Speaker 2: we're working off a shared Google doc right here. And
[40:06] Speaker 2: I went through all of the transfer portal listings and
[40:11] Speaker 2: I went to twenty four to seven for this. The
[40:14] Speaker 2: way that they set up the top transfers for each
[40:16] Speaker 2: position was they gave you like a preview, like the
[40:20] Speaker 2: top twelve, let's say, and then you could click on
[40:23] Speaker 2: the button that says view more and you view more,
[40:25] Speaker 2: and then you get like twelve more, and you click
[40:27] Speaker 2: view more and you get twelve more. I kept going
[40:29] Speaker 2: with quarterbacks. I was like, man, where do I cut
[40:32] Speaker 2: this off? I'm interested in all of these names, but
[40:35] Speaker 2: my hunch is at the Verbeller Hood probably has a cutoff.
[40:38] Speaker 2: Especially for a one oh one episode, we don't necessarily
[40:41] Speaker 2: need to go all the way down to like Walk
[40:43] Speaker 2: or Egot going from San Jose State to Duke. That
[40:46] Speaker 2: might be a bit overkill for a bigger picture episode.
[40:49] Speaker 1: Well, guess what you just did? I just Johnny did
[40:52] Speaker 1: I just did? Anyway? I'm sorry? Right, you want to
[40:54] Speaker 1: talk some cutter bowlie. I don't know if that rises
[40:56] Speaker 1: to the one oh one level here that we're going for.
[40:58] Speaker 2: Yes, I've got a long list of candidates on this thing,
[41:02] Speaker 2: at quarterback, running back, wide receiver. I didn't Detych probably
[41:06] Speaker 2: should have done tight end, but a bunch of defensive linemen, linebackers,
[41:10] Speaker 2: defensive backs, you name it. I didn't do offensive lineman.
[41:14] Speaker 2: Jordan Seaton's the big name there. But where where do
[41:17] Speaker 2: we start here?
[41:18] Speaker 1: Where do we start? I guess with quarterbacks? Right, Yeah,
[41:22] Speaker 1: quarterback was interesting this year. Obviously, there's a number of
[41:24] Speaker 1: notable names. Sam Levitt is the final quarterback that LSU
[41:30] Speaker 1: was able. They tripped a couple of different quarterbacks, but
[41:33] Speaker 1: Sam Levitt, who is a playoff quarterback coming off of
[41:35] Speaker 1: a pretty significant foot injury for ASU, obviously took them
[41:39] Speaker 1: to the playoff a couple of years ago. He is
[41:41] Speaker 1: going to be Lane Kiffin's presumed starting quarterback pending health recovery,
[41:46] Speaker 1: so he'll be at LSU. But basically, like look, if
[41:50] Speaker 1: you root for or know of teams who have been
[41:53] Speaker 1: to the playoff, have playoff aspirations or are spending like
[41:56] Speaker 1: they'd like to be a playoff team, they likely landed
[41:59] Speaker 1: what they hope a game changing offensive weapon quarterback, running back, receiver. So,
[42:04] Speaker 1: like ASU, Miami has Duke's quarterback and that was a
[42:08] Speaker 1: sort of contractual dispute near the end of the process,
[42:12] Speaker 1: as Miami very much in the market for a quarterback
[42:14] Speaker 1: who is of playoff caliber because around him is a
[42:17] Speaker 1: lot on both sides of the ball. Roster wise, two,
[42:19] Speaker 1: once again go to the college football playoff. We mentioned
[42:23] Speaker 1: the North Texas situation with Eric Morris going from North
[42:25] Speaker 1: Texas Oklahoma State. Drew Mestemaker was very much in demand
[42:29] Speaker 1: as a huge breakthrough quarterback last season, throwing for a
[42:33] Speaker 1: ton helped to develop receivers in the running game around him.
[42:37] Speaker 1: A lot of that is going to Oklahoma State, who
[42:39] Speaker 1: is investing in its program in a way that they
[42:42] Speaker 1: haven't necessarily these past few years. Dylan Royola was a
[42:45] Speaker 1: big five star name for Nebraska. He's gonna be Oregon's
[42:48] Speaker 1: backup quarterback.
[42:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a really interesting one, right, So the
[42:52] Speaker 2: Levitt move we saw coming, obviously, the mess to Maker
[42:56] Speaker 2: thing makes a ton of sense. He's following his coach.
[43:00] Speaker 2: The Darien Mensa thing, you mentioned it briefly, but Duke
[43:02] Speaker 2: to Miami. There were some contractual hiccups, let's say, with
[43:07] Speaker 2: regard to that, but the Riola move, the Riola transfer,
[43:12] Speaker 2: I think caught a lot of people by surprise when
[43:14] Speaker 2: he announced intentions to go into the transfer portal. There
[43:16] Speaker 2: were a lot of potential suitors out there that were mentioned,
[43:20] Speaker 2: but him ultimately going to Oregon kind of following the
[43:23] Speaker 2: Dante Moore model before.
[43:25] Speaker 1: Him sitting in a year.
[43:26] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how Dante Moore went to Oregon, transferred up,
[43:31] Speaker 2: sat for a year behind Dylan Gabriel, And now here
[43:35] Speaker 2: we got another Dylan going to Oregon who's going to
[43:38] Speaker 2: sit behind Dante Moore for a years? So listen in
[43:41] Speaker 2: a year, in a day and age in college football,
[43:45] Speaker 2: where having any kind of quarterback depth is very much
[43:49] Speaker 2: at a premium because no one has it, Oregon now
[43:53] Speaker 2: has a bit of a war chest at the quarterback position.
[43:56] Speaker 2: God forbid something happens to Dante, they can go to
[43:59] Speaker 2: Dylan Roola, who's coming off injury but also has a
[44:02] Speaker 2: ton of game experience.
[44:03] Speaker 1: He played in the spring. He looks like he's healed.
[44:06] Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza is being replaced by Josh Hoover, who put
[44:10] Speaker 1: up a number of big stats at TCU in a
[44:13] Speaker 1: very past happy offense. There was a little back and
[44:15] Speaker 1: forth about his turnovers, but certainly when you see what
[44:18] Speaker 1: Indiana has done with regard to quarterback development, Josh Hoover
[44:21] Speaker 1: is expected to have a big season for the defending
[44:24] Speaker 1: national champions. DJ Lagway, former five star, was a big
[44:28] Speaker 1: deal for Billy Napier at Florida when he was able
[44:32] Speaker 1: to secure that commitment. He's now headed back to his
[44:35] Speaker 1: home state and will play for Baylor. Rock o'beck follows
[44:39] Speaker 1: the coaching staff and all a number of Iowa State
[44:41] Speaker 1: players going from Iowa State Matt Campbell to Penn State,
[44:45] Speaker 1: and so he's expected to take that next step, whatever
[44:47] Speaker 1: that is for him. Byron Brown does the same thing
[44:49] Speaker 1: with Alex Golesh moving from USF to Auburn. Grunk is
[44:53] Speaker 1: following James Grunk. Yeah, I can call him Grunkmeyer. James
[44:57] Speaker 1: Franklin to Virginia Tech from Penn State. There's some backup
[45:01] Speaker 1: situations and other names that will be starters that are
[45:04] Speaker 1: not household names at the moment. But that leaves us
[45:07] Speaker 1: with Brendan Sorosby. Soorsby was one of the big gets
[45:12] Speaker 1: in the transfer portal.
[45:13] Speaker 2: If you believe this list I've gotten in front of me,
[45:15] Speaker 2: he was the second best quarterback in the portal. So
[45:18] Speaker 2: Texas Tech wanted an upgrade there. They believe they've got
[45:20] Speaker 2: the best roster in the Big twelve, and I happened
[45:22] Speaker 2: to agree. But they needed the quarterback. They needed the
[45:26] Speaker 2: upgrade at quarterback. It came out that Brendon Sorsby had
[45:29] Speaker 2: been gambling on college football more broadly speaking, had bet
[45:33] Speaker 2: on all sorts of stuff, from balls and strikes to
[45:36] Speaker 2: how his team was doing in Indiana when he was
[45:38] Speaker 2: there his own team.
[45:39] Speaker 1: Yes, to be clear, his own team. He was wagering
[45:42] Speaker 1: on his own team, which has been a sort of
[45:44] Speaker 1: an uncrossable red line in sports of all levels.
[45:49] Speaker 2: Initially, initially, Brendon Sorsby was out. Brennon Sorsby was out,
[45:55] Speaker 2: done for the year, in effect done for his college career,
[45:58] Speaker 2: going to go into the NFL supplemental Draft. But through
[46:01] Speaker 2: the court system, Brendan Soorsby won a temporary injunction, So
[46:06] Speaker 2: for a moment in time, it looked like Sorsby would
[46:09] Speaker 2: only have to sit out two games but would be
[46:11] Speaker 2: able to play out the rest of the season afterwards.
[46:14] Speaker 1: Then all hell broke loose. We had legal threats coming
[46:17] Speaker 1: from far and wide.
[46:18] Speaker 2: Someone had the wherewithal to realize that this situation was
[46:22] Speaker 2: simply not tenable, which is the point at which both
[46:26] Speaker 2: Tech and Soresby mutually parted ways. Soorsby then said he
[46:30] Speaker 2: wanted to go into the supplemental Draft, but the NFL said, no,
[46:34] Speaker 2: tl DR, your starting quarterback at least for the moment
[46:38] Speaker 2: at Texas Tech in twenty twenty six, will be Will
[46:41] Speaker 2: Hammond and not Brendan Soorsby. Yep, I will give you
[46:44] Speaker 2: three other quarterback names that I am very interested in.
[46:46] Speaker 2: We cannot run through this full list. It would take
[46:48] Speaker 2: us an eternity, but three names that are very interested
[46:52] Speaker 2: in seeing how they perform at their new locations. In
[46:55] Speaker 2: addition to the ones you already mentioned, Austin Simmons has
[46:58] Speaker 2: already been named the starting quarterback at Miss Zoo. He
[47:00] Speaker 2: comes over from Old Miss. Obviously, Trinidad Chambers is still
[47:03] Speaker 2: at Old Miss, but uh, Trinidad Chambliss. His success meant
[47:09] Speaker 2: that Austin Simmons needed to go somewhere else if he
[47:11] Speaker 2: wanted to play. Missouri is going to be that place.
[47:13] Speaker 2: Curious to see how he Translates.
[47:15] Speaker 1: Also sued for eligibility also season, Yes Trinidad. He was
[47:19] Speaker 1: a D two transfer dealing with injuries at his previous
[47:24] Speaker 1: place that cost him time playing, and so he sued
[47:28] Speaker 1: and was able to get an injunction to continue playing
[47:31] Speaker 1: for ole Miss and Pete holding right Trinidad Chamblas Trinidad Chambliss.
[47:35] Speaker 1: That is not Austin Simmons.
[47:37] Speaker 2: The other name here for me is Aaron Filo. I
[47:41] Speaker 2: don't know if Aaron Filo at time of recording is
[47:43] Speaker 2: going to be QB one at Florida, but Aaron Filo
[47:47] Speaker 2: follows from Georgia tech buster Faulkner, the offensive coordinator who
[47:52] Speaker 2: is going to be coordinating things under the new regime
[47:54] Speaker 2: at Florida. Curious to see if if Filo gets on
[47:58] Speaker 2: the field and what that could mean. I happened to
[48:00] Speaker 2: like Florida more than seemingly. Most people will get to.
[48:03] Speaker 1: That when we talk about our sec previews stuff.
[48:05] Speaker 2: Okay, yes, and the final name on my list may
[48:07] Speaker 2: be a little bit of home cooking here, But Kenny
[48:09] Speaker 2: minshe Kenny Minshe.
[48:13] Speaker 1: Has no surprise to anyone. Wanted to get some playing time.
[48:16] Speaker 2: Initially committed to Nebraska, shortly thereafter decided he wanted to
[48:21] Speaker 2: follow will Stein.
[48:23] Speaker 1: Do you want to mention who Kenny minsche is because
[48:25] Speaker 1: he's a quarterback who has never thrown a meaningful college book.
[48:28] Speaker 2: I am getting there the reason I say home cooking.
[48:30] Speaker 2: Kenny Minshe was the guy who lost out to CJ.
[48:34] Speaker 2: Carr at Notre Dame. And if you listen to some
[48:37] Speaker 2: of the Beat riders and read some of the Beat
[48:39] Speaker 2: reports in advanced the twenty five season, there were a
[48:42] Speaker 2: lot of folks who believe that Kenny Minschee actually beat CJ.
[48:45] Speaker 1: Carr out. CJ.
[48:47] Speaker 2: Carr worked out pretty well. I think Notre Dame feels
[48:50] Speaker 2: pretty good about that decision.
[48:51] Speaker 1: CJ. Car is going to be the guy. CJ.
[48:53] Speaker 2: Carr is one of the top five candidates for the
[48:56] Speaker 2: Heisman going into the new year. But Kenny minsche now
[48:59] Speaker 2: gets an opportunity to start full time in the SEC
[49:02] Speaker 2: for Will Stein in a system that's been very good
[49:05] Speaker 2: for quarterbacks.
[49:05] Speaker 1: So we'll see what you can do in Kentucky. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
[49:09] Speaker 1: there's I mean, this is going to be an annual tradition,
[49:11] Speaker 1: the number of quarterbacks moving around the country in search
[49:15] Speaker 1: of opportunity or a better opportunity. Texas went big with
[49:19] Speaker 1: offensive skill in the portal. Again, I'm just sort of
[49:22] Speaker 1: echoing myself at the beginning of this segment. If you
[49:25] Speaker 1: root for a team, if you're familiar with teams who
[49:27] Speaker 1: have championship aspirations, they are probably spending big in the
[49:31] Speaker 1: portal to improve certain gaps on their roster. And yeah,
[49:37] Speaker 1: when you look around, none of this is a surprise.
[49:39] Speaker 1: All of the names Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Texas, A
[49:41] Speaker 1: and m Oklahoma, they all spent. So that's the sort
[49:45] Speaker 1: of reality in the sport.
[49:47] Speaker 2: The really big names, Okay, and I will not do
[49:50] Speaker 2: position by position because all of the team and conference
[49:53] Speaker 2: previews are to come. Yes, we will unpack these once
[49:57] Speaker 2: we get down onto the team level. But some of
[50:00] Speaker 2: the really big names that commanded high prices. Cam Coleman
[50:05] Speaker 2: you mentioned Texas. Cam Coleman was wide receiver one in
[50:09] Speaker 2: this portal class. Cam Coleman comes over to Texas seemingly
[50:13] Speaker 2: to give arch Manning the target that he needs out wide.
[50:16] Speaker 2: That is certainly going to be a name that we're
[50:18] Speaker 2: going to need to follow. I mentioned him on one
[50:20] Speaker 2: of our offseason shows. I really like o Marion Miller
[50:23] Speaker 2: the wide receiver who goes to Arizona State from Colorado.
[50:26] Speaker 2: Obviously it's not going to be a situation where arch
[50:28] Speaker 2: Manning is throwing to him. We can get into Arizona
[50:31] Speaker 2: State and it's quarterback battle once we get to Arizona State.
[50:35] Speaker 2: The other really big name that i'd call out here
[50:38] Speaker 2: who committed very quickly. I thought Notre Dame might have
[50:41] Speaker 2: a shot at him. But Nick Marsh transfers out of
[50:44] Speaker 2: Michigan State and he is going to join up with
[50:47] Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti and Josh Hoover at Indiana.
[50:49] Speaker 1: The other by the way, the other big transfer story,
[50:51] Speaker 1: and again this stuff kind of gets lost. This is
[50:54] Speaker 1: just a bigger picture thing. And we mentioned the Darien
[50:57] Speaker 1: Mensa thing a couple of years ago. We had the
[50:59] Speaker 1: Xavier was at the Wisconsin corner who made his way
[51:02] Speaker 1: to Miami. The other big transfer story that sort of
[51:05] Speaker 1: seemed like it might have reverberations is Demon Williams at Washington,
[51:09] Speaker 1: who had an extremely promising year as their starting quarterback,
[51:14] Speaker 1: announced intentions to transfer and enter the portal with a
[51:19] Speaker 1: lot of conversation around him being the new LSU quarterback,
[51:23] Speaker 1: at which point Washington expressed that they would exercise all
[51:28] Speaker 1: of their litigation options, given that he had just signed
[51:32] Speaker 1: his rev share deal with the Huskies, and the timing
[51:36] Speaker 1: was particularly bad with tragedy within the athletic department at
[51:39] Speaker 1: the University of Washington, I believe it with a soccer
[51:41] Speaker 1: player passing super tragic and he claims he got bad advice.
[51:47] Speaker 1: His representation parted ways with him, and he looked at
[51:51] Speaker 1: his options and what might happen with his career legally
[51:57] Speaker 1: with regard to payment and everything, and decided to turned
[52:00] Speaker 1: to Washington. So he is going to be the starting
[52:03] Speaker 1: quarterback once again for Jetfish and the Huskies, and hopefully
[52:07] Speaker 1: just for the sake of their own success, that everybody
[52:10] Speaker 1: has sort of moved past that situation. I'm going to
[52:13] Speaker 1: give you a couple names here real quick. I'm not
[52:14] Speaker 1: going to go through this whole list.
[52:15] Speaker 2: There's a lot of names in this list, but I'm
[52:17] Speaker 2: going to give you a couple names that I think
[52:19] Speaker 2: are of note, just to stash away, just to remember
[52:23] Speaker 2: when we come back to previews. Since we're talking about
[52:27] Speaker 2: wide receivers. Here are a couple names we already mentioned
[52:30] Speaker 2: a few. Eric Singleton junior back on the move going
[52:33] Speaker 2: to Florida from Auburn. Remember he was a big transfer
[52:35] Speaker 2: from Georgia Tech to Auburn. Now he is going to
[52:38] Speaker 2: Florida to give them another weapon out wide. I actually
[52:41] Speaker 2: really like their roster. I think they've got a pretty
[52:43] Speaker 2: good roster on offense, provided it hits at a quarterback.
[52:47] Speaker 2: I think Florida could be a fun experiment. So Eric
[52:49] Speaker 2: Singleton junior back on the move. I think he is
[52:52] Speaker 2: a name of note. Cooper Barkett is a name going
[52:55] Speaker 2: from Duke to Miami. He is following Darien Mensa. Sure
[52:59] Speaker 2: gives Miami enough Harvard Harvard to Duke to Miami. A
[53:03] Speaker 2: smart guy, a smart guy, and has a quarterback literally
[53:07] Speaker 2: named Mensa Mensa. Pretty good. This is not bad at all. Yeah,
[53:11] Speaker 2: not bad at all. Another name here that I think
[53:14] Speaker 2: is notable. I like the JJ Buchanan transfer from Utah
[53:20] Speaker 2: to Michigan follows Kyle Whittingham. He's a guy they're going
[53:23] Speaker 2: to use in a bunch of different ways.
[53:24] Speaker 1: Get used to that name at running back.
[53:27] Speaker 2: Justice Haynes going to Georgia Tech, which means we still
[53:30] Speaker 2: have something of a Haines your Way.
[53:31] Speaker 1: Backfield, though not a double Haynes situation like last year,
[53:34] Speaker 1: transferring in from Michigan before that at Bama. Correct memory service.
[53:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned the coup of Eric Morris bringing Drew
[53:44] Speaker 2: Mestamaker with him to Oklahoma State. He is also bringing
[53:48] Speaker 2: his running back Caleb Hawkins, who is a truck with
[53:52] Speaker 2: him from North Texas in addition to White Young their
[53:56] Speaker 2: wide receiver, so he got the full three headed.
[53:59] Speaker 1: Monster coming to Oklahoma State. I'm also excited about Oklahoma State.
[54:02] Speaker 1: That's why I bring them up. Yes, you mentioned Texas earlier.
[54:05] Speaker 2: They've got an interesting tandem now at running back as
[54:08] Speaker 2: they go for both Hollywood Smothers from NC State as
[54:12] Speaker 2: well as ray Leak Brown from Arizona State, two guys
[54:14] Speaker 2: who had a pretty good season the year prior that
[54:17] Speaker 2: I think could definitely make an impact. And I will
[54:19] Speaker 2: close this one out again. There are many other names,
[54:22] Speaker 2: but one that I called out earlier in our off
[54:25] Speaker 2: season here is Adam Mohammad, who oh yeah, figured to
[54:30] Speaker 2: be the starting running back at Washington but transfers down
[54:32] Speaker 2: to Cal and he's going to join up with Tosh Willpoy,
[54:35] Speaker 2: their new coach.
[54:36] Speaker 1: Correct who is an alum and former assistant at Cal
[54:40] Speaker 1: and so has already proven himself to be a dogged
[54:43] Speaker 1: recruiter both in the portal and doing well in the
[54:46] Speaker 1: prep ranks. So a lot of energy around Cal, both
[54:49] Speaker 1: in the portal and otherwise.
[54:52] Speaker 2: A handful of big names on defense. Prince will Uman
[54:56] Speaker 2: Mialen leaving Old Miss going with link yep ed Rusher,
[55:01] Speaker 2: Ed Rusher going to be at LSU Florida, to Ole
[55:04] Speaker 2: Miss to LSU is Flida, Ole.
[55:05] Speaker 1: Miss, LSU.
[55:07] Speaker 2: My three linebackers, Kid Uluave going from CAL to BYU,
[55:11] Speaker 2: I think is a sure thing.
[55:14] Speaker 1: Very productive and has had a really great history of
[55:17] Speaker 1: recent linebackers at YU. Austin Romaine.
[55:19] Speaker 2: I won't make the Lettus joke on this show, maybe
[55:22] Speaker 2: on one when we talk about Texas Tech, but a
[55:24] Speaker 2: very productive linebacker sliding down to Texas Tech from k State,
[55:29] Speaker 2: maybe to fill that role led by left by.
[55:31] Speaker 1: J Rod Jacob Rodriguez. But we'll be next to Ben
[55:35] Speaker 1: Roberts correct to be one of the best linebacker tandems,
[55:38] Speaker 1: not just in the Big twelve but in the country.
[55:40] Speaker 2: And my guy Caleb Bacon leaving Iowa State going with
[55:45] Speaker 2: Matt Campbell going to be playing linebacker at Penn State.
[55:48] Speaker 2: A really really good linebacker room at Penn State this year. Yes,
[55:52] Speaker 2: and the close things out on the transfer side again,
[55:54] Speaker 2: I cannot list all of these names, but Coy Parrish,
[55:57] Speaker 2: big name from Minnesota going to Oregon in safety.
[56:01] Speaker 1: Yes, very athletic, played a little offense last year from Minnesota,
[56:04] Speaker 1: will be I think a center field type for Oregon.
[56:07] Speaker 1: He won't occupy the Dylan Theeneman type all over the
[56:10] Speaker 1: field in the box kind of role, but should be
[56:12] Speaker 1: a nice addition for what looks like a pretty stack secondary.
[56:16] Speaker 2: At the risk of listing off too many names and
[56:19] Speaker 2: maybe putting those dreary eyes to sleep, let's shift gears
[56:25] Speaker 2: a little bit and let's close this out by talking
[56:27] Speaker 2: about some of the bigger storylines broadly speaking, that we
[56:31] Speaker 2: are following throughout the course now of this twenty twenty
[56:34] Speaker 2: sixth season. I can tell you one off the top
[56:36] Speaker 2: of my head. I did have this jotted down as
[56:39] Speaker 2: something that is changing, but I also think it's worth
[56:42] Speaker 2: noting as a storyline. It took us now close to
[56:47] Speaker 2: an hour to get into the SEC and the ACC
[56:50] Speaker 2: moving to nine conference games now. Could have mentioned it earlier,
[56:55] Speaker 2: had it mentioned in the earlier block. Saved it for
[56:58] Speaker 2: now because this is very much a storyline people are
[57:01] Speaker 2: going to be talking about.
[57:02] Speaker 1: So the SEC, you're always talking about edging, What is
[57:05] Speaker 1: that exactly? Settle, just waiting for the good stuff continue.
[57:10] Speaker 1: The SEC is going to a nine game slate this year.
[57:14] Speaker 1: Every team in the SEC has to play every other
[57:18] Speaker 1: SEC team once every two years and every opponent home
[57:24] Speaker 1: and away over four years. So they're setting this up
[57:28] Speaker 1: sixteen teams now in the conference. Everyone's got to play everyone,
[57:31] Speaker 1: and there's got to be a better rotation for home
[57:33] Speaker 1: and away. Nine conference games makes that a little bit
[57:36] Speaker 1: more doable with regard to how they schedule. It was
[57:40] Speaker 1: harder under eight, now it's easier under nine. Did you
[57:43] Speaker 1: see that there was a I don't know if it
[57:45] Speaker 1: was a tweet or whatever, so there was a social
[57:47] Speaker 1: media post that said, because the World Cup is happening
[57:50] Speaker 1: right now, I guess Argentina is in Texas somewhere, that
[57:54] Speaker 1: they played a friendly at Kyle Field, and that MESSI
[57:57] Speaker 1: was able to play at Texas A and M for Georgia.
[58:00] Speaker 1: That's right, which I enjoyed very much.
[58:03] Speaker 2: The reason that this is more of a storyline than
[58:06] Speaker 2: it is in the change section of this one on
[58:09] Speaker 2: one episode, it's because some SEC coaches claim that they
[58:14] Speaker 2: feel misled over the move. They thought maybe it would
[58:17] Speaker 2: be paired with further playoff expansion, because you know, we've
[58:20] Speaker 2: joked off season about the gauntlet of the SEC. In
[58:25] Speaker 2: addition to those nine conference games, SEC teams are still
[58:29] Speaker 2: required to schedule at least one additional quote unquote high
[58:34] Speaker 2: quality non conference opponent from one of the other power
[58:37] Speaker 2: conferences or Notre Dame each season.
[58:39] Speaker 1: So it's a tough slate. Look, we're not going to
[58:41] Speaker 1: we make the jokes. It's a tough conference. Yeah, it's
[58:44] Speaker 1: a really tough conference to make their way through.
[58:47] Speaker 2: So I understand the perspective of coaches if they feel
[58:51] Speaker 2: a bit jilted over this, because it's going to be
[58:54] Speaker 2: a slug.
[58:55] Speaker 1: It's going to be tough to get through an SEC.
[58:57] Speaker 1: SC say it it's a gunlet we should have a
[59:02] Speaker 1: sound at this point. We got to make it all
[59:05] Speaker 1: we got.
[59:05] Speaker 2: We gotta cook one up in time for SEC preview
[59:09] Speaker 2: and if people want to send their own version of
[59:11] Speaker 2: it in solid verbal at gmail dot com. Yeah, absolutely,
[59:15] Speaker 2: the ACC is also doing this. I don't it's you know,
[59:17] Speaker 2: not as much of a talking point as it is
[59:20] Speaker 2: on the SEC side.
[59:21] Speaker 1: Just because it took them forever to get there.
[59:24] Speaker 2: But the ACC moving to nine conference games twenty twenty six,
[59:28] Speaker 2: not everybody's going to be playing non conference nine conference
[59:31] Speaker 2: games right away, and that is mainly because they want
[59:34] Speaker 2: to accommodate some of the non con games that were
[59:36] Speaker 2: already on the books. But they'll eventually all get there.
[59:39] Speaker 2: It's just it might take a season or two before
[59:42] Speaker 2: they can sort of work through the old scheduling stuff.
[59:45] Speaker 1: And it'll give us more data points for the ACC
[59:49] Speaker 1: who had tiebreaker issues last season. So hopefully this I mean,
[59:56] Speaker 1: I think the ACC is going to update what their
[59:58] Speaker 1: tiebreakers look like to make the conference championship game because
[1:00:02] Speaker 1: it needs to be updated. But yeah, with additional games,
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: we will have more data points to have a more
[1:00:07] Speaker 1: accurate tiebreaker hopefully.
[1:00:09] Speaker 2: And I would say more broadly, as we talk about
[1:00:12] Speaker 2: this nine game thing, and the coaches in the SEC
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: may be feeling like there was some miscommunication or misunderstanding.
[1:00:21] Speaker 2: There is an ongoing negotiation that everybody knows about between
[1:00:25] Speaker 2: the Big Ten and the SEC over the future of
[1:00:30] Speaker 2: the college football playoff. Right will they expand will they
[1:00:33] Speaker 2: not expand? The SEC seems to be more in the
[1:00:35] Speaker 2: camp of going to sixteen, the Big Ten and Tony
[1:00:38] Speaker 2: Petiti want to go all the way up to twenty four.
[1:00:41] Speaker 2: We may have resolution to that by the end of
[1:00:43] Speaker 2: this year, or it could just stay the same again
[1:00:46] Speaker 2: going into the twenty seventh season. But just know, as
[1:00:50] Speaker 2: we're talking about storylines and things that are going to
[1:00:53] Speaker 2: pop up and over and over and over again, whether
[1:00:55] Speaker 2: you like it or not, this ongoing like it's not
[1:00:59] Speaker 2: even a Cold war. They just have differing visions for
[1:01:02] Speaker 2: where they want to take the sport. Wherever it goes next,
[1:01:05] Speaker 2: it has to be agreed upon by both the Big
[1:01:07] Speaker 2: Ten and the SEC, otherwise it's going to be a
[1:01:09] Speaker 2: non starter.
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that we're looking forward
[1:01:13] Speaker 1: to a President's Day national championship, right, I think we
[1:01:17] Speaker 1: can all agree in February President's Day, deep into February.
[1:01:22] Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that this is what
[1:01:24] Speaker 1: the founding fathers of this sport had in mind when
[1:01:28] Speaker 1: they said, let's let's play some college football and let's
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: have it last eight months. Yeah, why don't we close
[1:01:35] Speaker 1: this out by talking about some odds? All right? I mean, yes,
[1:01:38] Speaker 1: speaking of Brendon sorosby, let's hit it. Let's talk some ods.
[1:01:41] Speaker 2: Here is your top ten at time of recording, per
[1:01:45] Speaker 2: the odds for the National Championship. Ohio State is your
[1:01:51] Speaker 2: favorite at plus six point fifty. It means if you
[1:01:54] Speaker 2: bet ten bucks, you get sixty five back.
[1:01:56] Speaker 1: All go about new behind the scenes with Ohio State,
[1:01:58] Speaker 1: by the way, hiring an NFL former NFL head coached
[1:02:01] Speaker 1: run the offense, losing the best receivers coach in the
[1:02:03] Speaker 1: country A lot new, lot old should be fun. Notre
[1:02:07] Speaker 1: Dame is your next favorite at seven to one plus
[1:02:09] Speaker 1: seven hundred. This makes me very nervous as a Notre Dame.
[1:02:14] Speaker 2: Fan, very nervous, but I get it, and I like,
[1:02:17] Speaker 2: I'm looking at these other teams and I'm thinking, man,
[1:02:19] Speaker 2: you can't. You can't put them realistically outside the top
[1:02:22] Speaker 2: five with this roster.
[1:02:24] Speaker 1: Yeah, made it to the championship game two seasons ago.
[1:02:27] Speaker 2: Both Indiana and Texas are at plus seven point fifty
[1:02:30] Speaker 2: seven and a half to one bet ten bucks get
[1:02:32] Speaker 2: seventy five back if they win. Indiana is still in
[1:02:36] Speaker 2: there in the conversation as well, they should be Texas
[1:02:39] Speaker 2: very much in the conversation. Arch Manning loaded up in
[1:02:42] Speaker 2: the transfer portal very very good roster bringing back, bringing
[1:02:45] Speaker 2: back Will mush Champ to coach defense defense. Yeah, very
[1:02:48] Speaker 2: aggressive and attacking as it were. And then to round
[1:02:52] Speaker 2: out the top five, it's your it's our Oregon Ducks
[1:02:54] Speaker 2: at eight to one.
[1:02:56] Speaker 1: Yeah, deservedly so made the final four last season. Yep.
[1:02:59] Speaker 1: We don't need to talk. I was gonna say, how
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: did do we want to go into this?
[1:03:03] Speaker 2: Dan? We talked all day.
[1:03:04] Speaker 1: Oh, we got a lot more stuff to talk about.
[1:03:06] Speaker 1: We don't need to waste our time with that.
[1:03:07] Speaker 2: To route out your top ten, we got Georgia at
[1:03:09] Speaker 2: ten to one, Miami at thirteen to one, LSU at
[1:03:12] Speaker 2: sixteen to one.
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: Wow.
[1:03:14] Speaker 2: Texas Tech also at sixteen to one, still hanging in
[1:03:16] Speaker 2: there despite some of the you know, controversy, lost like.
[1:03:21] Speaker 1: A lot of firepower on that defensive line last season.
[1:03:23] Speaker 2: I'm yeah, well we'll get to that. But still in
[1:03:26] Speaker 2: the conversation, right, still very good, really. And to round
[1:03:29] Speaker 2: out the top ten right now, it's Texas A and
[1:03:31] Speaker 2: M at eighteen to one.
[1:03:33] Speaker 1: Yep. So it's one two three, four SEC teams one
[1:03:37] Speaker 1: two three, I think just three Big ten teams, an
[1:03:42] Speaker 1: ACC team, a Big twelve team, and an independent team.
[1:03:45] Speaker 2: Speaking of the G six, cared adventure. I guess as
[1:03:50] Speaker 2: to the best odds for a G six team or a.
[1:03:53] Speaker 1: Group, No, we got to just looked at it, and
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: I'm not a good actor. It's in our document. But uh,
[1:03:58] Speaker 1: Boise State NEWPAC twelve program, it's right, So that's weird.
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: That is weird to say. Yeah, by the way, and
[1:04:04] Speaker 1: I think the PAC twelve I believe you can fact
[1:04:06] Speaker 1: check me on this. For basketball added Gonzaga. Yeah, okay,
[1:04:09] Speaker 1: that's new. Everybody changing banners.
[1:04:13] Speaker 2: Boise's date three hundred to one, so Vegas not expecting
[1:04:17] Speaker 2: the Broncos to make any kind of real championship run,
[1:04:19] Speaker 2: but relevant, I think as it relates to the playoff,
[1:04:22] Speaker 2: given that we've got a little bit of a new
[1:04:23] Speaker 2: setup here, right, highest ranked G six team is get
[1:04:26] Speaker 2: in right now. The odds on favorite for that is
[1:04:28] Speaker 2: the Boise State Broncos. Yes, UNLV and USF are at
[1:04:33] Speaker 2: five hundred to one, very very tall odds, but again
[1:04:39] Speaker 2: mindful of the situation, notable to mention it here. And
[1:04:43] Speaker 2: we've also got San Diego State, Navy and Memphis at
[1:04:45] Speaker 2: six hundred.
[1:04:46] Speaker 1: Yeah, San Diego State, PAC twelve, Navy and Memphis from
[1:04:49] Speaker 1: the American obviously all teams who have had a good
[1:04:52] Speaker 1: amount of success the past few years.
[1:04:54] Speaker 2: I also jotted down for each Power conference the odds
[1:04:57] Speaker 2: of winning that that specific conference, that conference. Yeah, you
[1:05:03] Speaker 2: want to run through those quick. I did about like
[1:05:04] Speaker 2: five or six for each conference.
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: All right, I'll just go through the odds on favorites
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: to make that conference championship game. If that makes yeah,
[1:05:12] Speaker 1: that makes us.
[1:05:13] Speaker 2: So.
[1:05:13] Speaker 1: Miami and SMU are the two favorites in the ACC,
[1:05:16] Speaker 1: with Louisville just trailing SMU. In the Big Twelve. It's
[1:05:19] Speaker 1: a repeat of Texas BYU with Texas Utah. Excuse me,
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: Texas Tech BYU in the Big twelve, with Utah nipping
[1:05:26] Speaker 1: at BYU's heels in the Holy War situation in the
[1:05:30] Speaker 1: Big ten, Ohio State and Indiana with Oregon nipping at
[1:05:34] Speaker 1: Indiana's heels to make the plus two to fifteen plus
[1:05:37] Speaker 1: two sixty to make the Big Ten championship game. Georgia
[1:05:40] Speaker 1: and Texas with a distant A and M and Alabama
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: behind them to win the ACC or at least you know,
[1:05:46] Speaker 1: Georgia and Texas are the odds on favorites to make
[1:05:48] Speaker 1: the SEC championship game.
[1:05:50] Speaker 2: LSU nine to one to win the SEC is kind
[1:05:53] Speaker 2: of interesting to me, and Alabama at plus eight fifty
[1:05:56] Speaker 2: is also interesting to me.
[1:05:58] Speaker 1: I like Alabama this year, an Ole miss team who
[1:06:02] Speaker 1: was in the Final four and within a I guess
[1:06:05] Speaker 1: a very physical play at the end of the game
[1:06:06] Speaker 1: against Miami to make the championship game. Last year with
[1:06:09] Speaker 1: a then first time head coach in the College Football Playoff,
[1:06:14] Speaker 1: there aret a plus eleven hundred eleven to one to
[1:06:17] Speaker 1: win the SEC. They do lose a good amount, but
[1:06:19] Speaker 1: as we mentioned, return Tonidad Chambliss bigger picture to put
[1:06:23] Speaker 1: a bow in this thing, we're going to be starting
[1:06:27] Speaker 1: up previews. The way that we have.
[1:06:31] Speaker 2: Shaped our previews over the last couple of years is
[1:06:34] Speaker 2: we do a show for half of the G six
[1:06:40] Speaker 2: in Part one, the other half of the G six
[1:06:42] Speaker 2: in Part two. The Power conferences get one episode that
[1:06:47] Speaker 2: is sort of a bigger picture overview themes tiers yea,
[1:06:52] Speaker 2: how we're feeling about just broader talking points within each conference.
[1:06:57] Speaker 2: And then we've got an additional two episodes where we
[1:07:00] Speaker 2: split it down the middle. We talk about half the
[1:07:02] Speaker 2: teams in one the other half in the other. That's
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: more team preview based, So we really go as you know,
[1:07:09] Speaker 2: pretty deep. We do our best to give you the
[1:07:12] Speaker 2: talking points that you need and also the storylines that
[1:07:17] Speaker 2: we think are going to emerge within each conference, but
[1:07:19] Speaker 2: bigger picture, looking at the sport as a whole, the
[1:07:24] Speaker 2: common themes.
[1:07:24] Speaker 1: That you that I have found.
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: In our studies here, We're not going to hit them all,
[1:07:32] Speaker 2: but what are the things? What are the themes that
[1:07:34] Speaker 2: are of interest to you as we record this, as
[1:07:38] Speaker 2: we put this out there in you know, July, middle
[1:07:41] Speaker 2: of summer.
[1:07:42] Speaker 1: I mean the main theme, and I said this to
[1:07:44] Speaker 1: you in a conversation a couple of weeks ago, is
[1:07:47] Speaker 1: if the sport is now defined by always trying teams
[1:07:51] Speaker 1: always trying to improve themselves right by either buying out
[1:07:55] Speaker 1: a head coach or hitting the portal hard, or hiring
[1:07:58] Speaker 1: a new coach and bringing in, you know, sixty eight
[1:08:00] Speaker 1: new athletes for the team. I think the concept of
[1:08:06] Speaker 1: building upon that construction aspect, how is we'll bring a
[1:08:12] Speaker 1: full circle and welcome everybody back to the Fleck Parade.
[1:08:14] Speaker 1: How is Minnesota trying to build upon, you know, Drake
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: Lindsay's first season. How is Maryland trying to build on
[1:08:21] Speaker 1: a season that started well but obviously collapsed into itself
[1:08:26] Speaker 1: like an exploding star in the back two thirds of
[1:08:30] Speaker 1: the season. You know, how is cal trying to construct
[1:08:33] Speaker 1: itself to return to the best of the Jeff Tedford
[1:08:37] Speaker 1: or Sunny Dykes or Justin wilcox eras you know, I
[1:08:40] Speaker 1: think the idea of how are you building upon what
[1:08:43] Speaker 1: you did last year? Maybe it's the full gut renovation,
[1:08:46] Speaker 1: or maybe it's just Okay, we got some spackle here,
[1:08:49] Speaker 1: We've got you know, a leaky pipe there. What what
[1:08:53] Speaker 1: are teams doing to build upon twenty twenty five to
[1:08:58] Speaker 1: to take whatever they feel like the next step or
[1:09:00] Speaker 1: steps are that? That's what That's what jumps out to
[1:09:04] Speaker 1: me because also ty full transparency, I apologize for cutting
[1:09:07] Speaker 1: you off. No, I pitched you pretty hard on just
[1:09:12] Speaker 1: taking recordings from previous preview years, like just nobody's gonna
[1:09:17] Speaker 1: notice if we're talking way too much about Sam Ellinger
[1:09:19] Speaker 1: and just take the summer off, right, we just we
[1:09:22] Speaker 1: post a Maryland preview with give me an old merit
[1:09:25] Speaker 1: like Danny O'Neill. Was he an old Marathons quarterback in
[1:09:28] Speaker 1: the solid verbal era?
[1:09:29] Speaker 2: You talk about jess A Retzel? Yeah, uh, Randy Etzel?
[1:09:33] Speaker 2: Who want to play sexier than.
[1:09:34] Speaker 1: Talking about Randy Edzell. We do an Illinois preview and
[1:09:37] Speaker 1: we're just like, Juice Williams is going to change people's
[1:09:40] Speaker 1: minds this season, and we just Frankenstein's Monster the whole
[1:09:44] Speaker 1: preview out of that, and you and I go to
[1:09:46] Speaker 1: Portugal or something. I don't know, but you turned me down.
[1:09:48] Speaker 1: I did. I did turn that down. Look for me,
[1:09:53] Speaker 1: I think.
[1:09:55] Speaker 2: The theme that I have most been like transfixed by
[1:09:59] Speaker 2: as I read about these teams is the star tier
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: that we are going to see emerge at quarterback. Oh okay,
[1:10:10] Speaker 2: so much of the sport now and it doesn't matter
[1:10:12] Speaker 2: if it's college or pro, but everything's driven by the
[1:10:14] Speaker 2: quarterback position. The portal is driven by the quarterback position. Right,
[1:10:19] Speaker 2: There's no shortage of imagination around who is playing quarterback
[1:10:22] Speaker 2: for whom and what that could mean. And I think
[1:10:26] Speaker 2: the confluence of events with there being this really big
[1:10:31] Speaker 2: tier of star quarterbacks, with their being crazy star potential
[1:10:36] Speaker 2: elsewhere in college football, means that this season, maybe more
[1:10:40] Speaker 2: than most, is going to be shaded by like the
[1:10:42] Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven NFL Draft, Right, the NFL Draft, the
[1:10:48] Speaker 2: one that is coming up in twenty seven In may Or.
[1:10:50] Speaker 2: Whenever they do it now, it is going to be
[1:10:53] Speaker 2: so chock full of bona fide elite caliber talent from
[1:10:58] Speaker 2: college that they're is simply going to be no avoiding it.
[1:11:02] Speaker 1: And so not just how these guys do performing.
[1:11:05] Speaker 2: For their college team, but the constant need to translate
[1:11:09] Speaker 2: what it could mean at the next level is very
[1:11:12] Speaker 2: much going to be a storyline that will not go
[1:11:14] Speaker 2: away and will be unavoidable. And I'm talking about the
[1:11:17] Speaker 2: likes of Arch Manning, of Dante More, of CJ. Carr
[1:11:20] Speaker 2: who could go pro, of Julian Sayan, who could go pro.
[1:11:23] Speaker 2: Of Trinidad Shamblis, who could probably play for seven more
[1:11:26] Speaker 2: years if he keeps sing. I don't know what the
[1:11:27] Speaker 2: deal is there, but Darien Mensa, Jada Mayava, Sam Levitt,
[1:11:31] Speaker 2: even gunn Or Stockton, Josh Hoover.
[1:11:33] Speaker 1: Right, I got ten guys in, eight guys in before.
[1:11:36] Speaker 2: I got the Josh Hoover who's going to be taken
[1:11:38] Speaker 2: over for the national champion, the reigning national champion Indiana
[1:11:41] Speaker 2: Whoho Hoosiers. So this just underscores the point that there
[1:11:45] Speaker 2: is a lot of talent at that quarterback position spread
[1:11:48] Speaker 2: out across the entire sport. We've also got a bunch
[1:11:51] Speaker 2: of big name newcomers that I think could very much
[1:11:55] Speaker 2: impact things and impact the conversation, whether they are transferred
[1:12:00] Speaker 2: in from elsewhether elsewhere, whether they are being promoted from within.
[1:12:04] Speaker 2: But you know, I look at guys like Drew Mestamaker,
[1:12:07] Speaker 2: I look at guys like DJ Lagway, I look at
[1:12:09] Speaker 2: a guy like a Rocko Beck.
[1:12:10] Speaker 1: To Byron Brown.
[1:12:11] Speaker 2: These are names that could have a really serious impact
[1:12:14] Speaker 2: on their new schools, and they're playing for teams that
[1:12:18] Speaker 2: we may not have fully factored in yet to the
[1:12:20] Speaker 2: national conversation.
[1:12:21] Speaker 1: Right.
[1:12:22] Speaker 2: So, for my money, I am very excited about where
[1:12:26] Speaker 2: this thing goes. Just on the quarterback level. I think
[1:12:29] Speaker 2: this year, above many of the others that we have
[1:12:30] Speaker 2: seen in recent memory, has a very real opportunity to
[1:12:34] Speaker 2: be shaded drastically by the quarterback position. And that makes
[1:12:38] Speaker 2: the whole product very exciting.
[1:12:40] Speaker 1: And part of this is to your point, an Il
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: driven that you can come back another year if you're
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: Dante Moore or Lenora Sellers or arch Manning, and develop
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: and improve your draft stock and improve your ability to
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: play the position, and hopefully that benefits all of us
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: that we have more season quarter to watch from Labor
[1:13:01] Speaker 1: Day onward. So yeah, that you can make a good
[1:13:05] Speaker 1: chunk of money. Not NFL money, no, not for the
[1:13:08] Speaker 1: number of years, no, but that you are afforded the
[1:13:12] Speaker 1: ability to improve while being paid significantly. The other it's
[1:13:16] Speaker 1: good for us.
[1:13:17] Speaker 2: The other storyline that I would call out here and
[1:13:20] Speaker 2: I'm not going to read the list of these guys out, okay,
[1:13:23] Speaker 2: but know that as we get deeper into preview season,
[1:13:28] Speaker 2: one of the common themes is going to be new coordinators,
[1:13:32] Speaker 2: specifically defensive coordinators. Defensive coordinators this year, I think have
[1:13:39] Speaker 2: a very real possibility of shaping the way that we
[1:13:43] Speaker 2: view the sport. And this is always the case, right
[1:13:45] Speaker 2: defense wins championships. We say that more I find as
[1:13:48] Speaker 2: we get older. Okay, it's not any less true than
[1:13:51] Speaker 2: it was back in the day whenever they invented the same,
[1:13:54] Speaker 2: But let me just say it right here, right now,
[1:13:57] Speaker 2: that the crop of new defensive coordinators that are going
[1:14:00] Speaker 2: to be part of the sport in twenty twenty six,
[1:14:03] Speaker 2: I think are going to have an outsize impact on
[1:14:05] Speaker 2: how all this shakes out. Maybe that's like cliche to say,
[1:14:10] Speaker 2: and it's like kind of never not true. But I
[1:14:12] Speaker 2: just feel like there is more possibility this year to
[1:14:15] Speaker 2: shape it in a way that it is almost like
[1:14:19] Speaker 2: drastically reshapen by defensive coordinators.
[1:14:22] Speaker 1: Okay must Champ at Texas. Who are the other big
[1:14:24] Speaker 1: names at the.
[1:14:25] Speaker 2: Mush Champ at Texas, Danton Lynn at Penn State. I mean,
[1:14:31] Speaker 2: there's there's just a whole list of guys Dan that
[1:14:34] Speaker 2: that will get.
[1:14:34] Speaker 1: Hill at Michigan. The Hill a lot of success at BYU. Yeah,
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: Oregon made their change an internal promotion, like kind of promotion.
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: He was a code r see but like to the point,
[1:14:43] Speaker 2: to the point mush Champ, you could argue mush Champ
[1:14:46] Speaker 2: was the guy that sark one it all along at Texas.
[1:14:49] Speaker 2: He had Quitkowski there for a while, but ultimately but
[1:14:52] Speaker 2: mush Champ was the direction he wanted to go, you know,
[1:14:55] Speaker 2: perhaps initially and now he finally gets him. Muschamp is
[1:14:58] Speaker 2: going to be I'm going to make my own joke here,
[1:15:01] Speaker 2: but he is going to be more aggressive and attacking.
[1:15:03] Speaker 1: That's his style.
[1:15:04] Speaker 2: What kind of an impact is that going to have
[1:15:06] Speaker 2: in the SEC What kind of impact is that going
[1:15:07] Speaker 2: to have on Texas? The flip side of that is
[1:15:10] Speaker 2: what's going to go down at Oregon, a promotion from within,
[1:15:13] Speaker 2: a ton of talent to work with, especially upfront. But
[1:15:16] Speaker 2: will they get the most out of that unit with
[1:15:19] Speaker 2: a guy who's being promoted from with it.
[1:15:20] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[1:15:21] Speaker 2: I don't know, but I find that I can go
[1:15:23] Speaker 2: around college football, and at least in the Power conferences,
[1:15:27] Speaker 2: I could pick out like half the teams in each
[1:15:29] Speaker 2: conference where the defensive coordinator role, in particular, I think
[1:15:34] Speaker 2: is going to dictate a lot Kerry Patterson sc yep
[1:15:38] Speaker 2: taking over.
[1:15:38] Speaker 1: For Dan who left to go to Pennsada over Dan.
[1:15:41] Speaker 2: So it's just really there's an intricate web on the
[1:15:43] Speaker 2: defensive coordinator side of things. And look the same is
[1:15:47] Speaker 2: true to in a degree on the offensive side as well.
[1:15:50] Speaker 2: But I just I find defense way more interesting this year.
[1:15:53] Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I think we did a pretty good job here.
[1:16:00] Speaker 1: I mean, you're bearing the lead that there is a
[1:16:02] Speaker 1: five part Pat League preview that will sort of bring
[1:16:05] Speaker 1: everything together around everything into four dimensional shape. The tie
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: that binds is the Pat League. For sure. In a
[1:16:13] Speaker 1: world this fall, some people think they're gone in college football.
[1:16:20] Speaker 2: You know, we had that moment amid the coaching carousel.
[1:16:23] Speaker 2: I would just add this as a parting shot. We
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: had that moment where people on message boards were bringing
[1:16:30] Speaker 2: up Jimbo's name as a potential suiting. Of course, you know,
[1:16:33] Speaker 2: some job maybe wants to get back into it. You know,
[1:16:36] Speaker 2: I saw a couple of schools mentioned whether or not
[1:16:40] Speaker 2: we get Jimbo back in our lives at any point
[1:16:41] Speaker 2: in time.
[1:16:42] Speaker 1: It means to be seen. But nobody has ever truly gone.
[1:16:46] Speaker 2: No one's ever It's like being in the CIA, man,
[1:16:48] Speaker 2: like what you're You're part of the agency. You're always
[1:16:50] Speaker 2: part of the agency, whether you're retired, air quotes or not.
[1:16:53] Speaker 1: Look, you can get let go because you're just an
[1:16:56] Speaker 1: incompetent coach. You can be let go because of off
[1:16:58] Speaker 1: field situations. There are people who want to hire Art Briles,
[1:17:03] Speaker 1: you were never at Oritron his back at LSU. Brent Pry,
[1:17:07] Speaker 1: who was run out of Virginia Tech, has been gone
[1:17:11] Speaker 1: from Virginia Tech for seventeen minutes. He's their new defensive coordinator,
[1:17:15] Speaker 1: right fired as head coach. His back already another defensive coordinator,
[1:17:18] Speaker 1: Ted roofs or still getting work, Ted roof Power still
[1:17:21] Speaker 1: get Ted Roof must have pictures of somebody notable in
[1:17:25] Speaker 1: college football or I don't know how else he keeps
[1:17:27] Speaker 1: getting work he keeps getting I think you know what
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: it is. I think he like has great thumbs like
[1:17:33] Speaker 1: he does these interviews. He's given great massages. He's getting
[1:17:36] Speaker 1: all the tension he's got out of Phil Right could
[1:17:39] Speaker 1: get a warby Parker thing next to Arch. Sure, absolutely
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[1:17:50] Speaker 2: For sure, there were things that we missed here, but
[1:17:52] Speaker 2: hopefully we gave you enough of a crash course to
[1:17:55] Speaker 2: just we the beak hip toe in. Start getting ready,
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[1:18:11] Speaker 2: starting with the acc on the power conference side of things.
[1:18:13] Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's a great plan.
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[1:19:46] Speaker 1: We struggle with that. I started this show with welcome
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