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2025 Sun Belt Football: Week 6 Preview
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It's conference play week, as Brian and Zeke run down several inter-Belt matchups between Coastal Carolina & Old Dominion, Arkansas State-Texas State, and Troy-South Alabama.
Out of conference, App State welcomes in a 0-5 Oregon State team, and UL Monroe will attempt to upset a bad Northwestern squad.
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Introduction to Week Six in the Sunbelt
00:00:15
Speaker
Welcome everybody back to Warm Weather Fans. It is Brian joined by Zeke and we are here to talk week six in the Sunbelt.
Predictions for Sunbelt Blowouts
00:00:25
Speaker
um Interesting week, I would say, ah stylistically.
00:00:31
Speaker
um a lot of these games project Zeke as potential blowouts, including a couple of Basically, some of the best teams in the conference taking on the bottom feeders, so to speak.
00:00:46
Speaker
But we do have two pretty interesting stylistic games that I'm interested to see how they plan out play out and how we talk about them. But ah how's it going?
Interesting Non-Conference Matchups
00:00:58
Speaker
Good, good. Yeah, this is a another short slate as we get fully integrated into conference play. um We get a couple of interesting non-conference opponents in Oregon State and Northwestern, as you mentioned, Northwestern playing ULM, Oregon State playing app.
00:01:16
Speaker
Yeah. And then you have, as you said, some of the top, I would say there's really only one in-conference game that really projects to be much of a contest.
00:01:28
Speaker
um We'll talk about all six games here, of course, but only one of the Sunbelt versus Sunbelt games really looks like it's going to be a you know, ah there's only one game that's going to be less than two scores between the two teams.
00:01:43
Speaker
Right.
UL Monroe vs Northwestern Analysis
00:01:44
Speaker
um Well, if we if we want to go ahead and get to our kind of respective games of the week, I'll go ahead and take the first shift here. 330 Big Ten Network, you alluded to it already.
00:01:56
Speaker
UL Monroe is traveling to Evanston to play Northwestern, ah who is... I don't think it's too crazy to say is historically a doormat of the P five, um, especially since they fired Pat Fitzgerald.
00:02:11
Speaker
Um, they have kind of been adrift and are not competitive a lot of times. Um, you know they They had kind of played over their head at times when Fitzgerald was there, but ever since, they just don't they don't have an identity.
00:02:28
Speaker
ah They can lose to anybody on a given week. And so you've got this UL Monroe team who we've... we've talked to about some kind of some of their shortcomings, especially when it comes to like throwing the football, like they are efficient, but when you press them and, and kind of stop the run, they're, they're not able to do it consistently. So like a lot of their wins this year have been like,
00:02:55
Speaker
Aiden Armenta is, is somewhere around the range of like 14 of 21, 170 yards, one touchdown and one pick, but they've got two guys that have almost 150, 170 yards rushing between them. And that's kind of how they win games and their defense is pretty good too. so um,
00:03:16
Speaker
I'm interested to see what they do with this Northwestern team, ah just because, ah again, historically, they've not been very good. Their two wins, Northwestern this year, have been against West Illinois or Western Illinois and UCLA, who is another doormat in the ah the FBS.
00:03:33
Speaker
And they lost Tulane Week 1, 23-3.
00:03:38
Speaker
Uh, so I think, I think the door is wide open, ah for you all Monroe to come win this game. Northwestern is a 10 and a half point favorite at home, but I think I like you all Monroe to cover.
00:03:50
Speaker
I would say. Yeah, I mean, it' it's just going to come down to, as you said, the key to beating Monroe is always just going to be make Aiden Armenta make plays because he is an efficient quarterback that will get the job done. He's not going to lose you a game.
00:04:09
Speaker
At least that's what we've seen from him thus far this year. um But you need to put him in a position where he has to win the game ah for the Warhawks. And, you know, simply that just hasn't been the case.
00:04:22
Speaker
something he can do. i I, think I might like Monroe
Betting Odds and Predictions
00:04:26
Speaker
straight up. Um, Northwestern has played some weird teams, as you mentioned. I mean, with the losses to a good Tulane team and then obviously Oregon, um, this is, I would say this is the closest Northwestern has had to an even fight all year where they are either heavy favorites or heavy underdogs.
00:04:46
Speaker
Um, But, I mean, UL Monroe, they started the year against St. Francis. um Then they went to Alabama, so they had their share of unfair fights. But then they played UTEP and Arkansas State, won two games back-to-back.
00:04:59
Speaker
I think I like Monroe straight up here. Interesting. I mean, i don't I don't hate the call. I just – I could see them losing by, like, a field goal and it being, like – Yeah, kind of wish I had taken the plus 10 and a half. I mean, I've been sending you, I'm sure you're tired of it. I've been sending you like parlays that I've been like kind cooking up and putting together. And it was like, I've been much better on my NFL ones than I have been on college. But last week I had a four, a four team parlay. And the only leg that lost was ah Marshall straight up.
00:05:33
Speaker
Yeah. And I had Marshall straight up over Louisiana because I was like, well, if Daniel Beal's playing, go ahead and give me Marshall. And then, of course, they put lunch Winfield in and it was lunchtime and crunch time.
00:05:44
Speaker
ah But yeah, I think I like ULM plus 10 and a half. I think they can easily cover this spread against a not good Northwestern team with a quarterback ah in what is his name?
00:05:56
Speaker
um Preston Stone that has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns this year. So fun to they if they can take advantage of of him and and, you know, get in the passing lanes, I like their chances if they can control the clock and and kind of a game.
00:06:12
Speaker
Yeah.
South Alabama vs Troy Insights
00:06:13
Speaker
ah My game of the week is really the only other game or is the only game from the conference slate, as I referred to, that I think is going to be close. It's going to be South Alabama at Troy.
00:06:26
Speaker
That game, 7 p.m. m in Troy. This is interesting because both of these teams have to kind of figure really need to figure out what they're doing quarterback wise. Troy needs to figure it out in the ah wake of Goose Crowder. Is Tucker Kilcrease going to be what you do?
00:06:44
Speaker
um Because Troy has a chance to go bowling this season, ah but you're coming up on that point where it's like, all right, well, you need these wins now. You've got to beat the South Alabamas now ah if that's something that's on your radar.
00:06:56
Speaker
South Alabama, on the other hand, still has to figure its quarterback situation out. ah In that Bishop Davenport, despite some interesting ah performances early in the year, there's just nothing there.
00:07:08
Speaker
um And this is a South Al team that is kind of spiraling, beat Morgan State, but has lost since lost to Tulane, Auburn, Coastal, and North Texas. um eat you know You can point to the ah a close loss against a good Tulane team, then obviously ranked Auburn, and then you also lose to 5-0 now North Texas team.
00:07:30
Speaker
um I would argue North Texas, yeah I mean, five and o teams, G5 teams get the recognition when the AP polls come around. There's a reason North Texas did not.
00:07:41
Speaker
um And then you also lost to a really bad Coastal team. So South Alabama is... I mean, for me, this is like major Applewhite. It's like, all right, man, we got to turn it or we have to start looking at your position with the team.
00:07:56
Speaker
We've said since at the beginning of the year that he's his seat's going to get warmer week by week. um And if you can't get past Troy, um I think we're really approaching that point.
00:08:09
Speaker
i think I think this is the hot seat game um because, let okay, so you've you've run down the problems with South Al or South Alabama, sorry.
00:08:20
Speaker
ah let's So this has been Troy's season in a nutshell. have to come back from behind to beat Nichols in week one. You eventually win 38-20.
00:08:32
Speaker
You jump up on ah what we know now is not a very good Clemson team, but they were up, I think, like 16 to nothing at one point. Clemson rallies and beats them 27 16. They get smoked, they get smoked by Memphis a couple weeks ago in a game that was maybe one of the least competitive games I've i've seen in a while.
00:08:52
Speaker
And Tucker Kilcrease looked really, really bad. And it's kind of a Jekyll and Hyde thing with him on a weekly basis. You truly don't know what you're getting. um He could come out and look competent.
00:09:03
Speaker
He could come out and throw for 38 yards ah and and have you lose by four scores. And and neither one would surprise me. And then last ah two weeks ago, They beat Buffalo on the road.
00:09:16
Speaker
We kind of saw a little bit what we had other than Tucker Kilcrease and like Uwe Ale played a little bit. He was even worse than Kilcrease was. So it seems like from from here on Kilcrease is just that's his job until Crowder gets back from I think is a collarbone injury.
Troy's Season Performance
00:09:35
Speaker
i think was what it was. Yeah, definitely. I mean, he's got to play for Troy. It's game plan wise, and they were already doing this, but it's become apparent that you have to follow kind of the ULM playbook where it's like Tucker Kilcrest is good enough to win football games.
00:09:54
Speaker
Against Buffalo, he was 14 for 24 for 148. That's not very efficient. That's actually very inefficient. um But he didn't turn the ball over. ah He's averaging 6.2 per.
00:10:05
Speaker
He's getting the job done, and that allows guys like Tay Meadows, um Mojo Dortch. It's kind of a relatively barren ah running back room outside of Tay Meadows, especially as compared to what we've seen from Troy in recent years.
00:10:18
Speaker
Um, but that's the position you have to put Tucker Kilcrete in. Uh, and I think the defense is good enough to do that. I think this Troy defense, I mean, yeah they considering the, the comeback against Buffalo being kind of the prime example where, uh,
00:10:34
Speaker
I mean, you you were, what, one touchdown away from having to go to overtime, and you just kept making stops three or four consecutive three and outs. So, um again, this so this is all to say this does not bode well for Major Applewhite.
00:10:49
Speaker
I will say, even with a win, i it there's a world where that's the worst case scenario for South Alabama because after this, you get Arkansas State, Georgia State, and Louisiana, which are three winnable games, right? Those are three very, very winnable games.
00:11:05
Speaker
um And if Major Applewhite wins all those three games in a row, all of a sudden, he's sitting at four and four, and that's not that bad. I can stomach four and four, right? yeah the So the worst case scenario might be a win here against Troy that sparks momentum and kind of like what we've seen with ah Georgia Southern is just like prolonging kicking that can down the road.
00:11:27
Speaker
I think the thing that surprised me the most was I, I went through and I read another quote from the other than the one that you read on the, the recap episode that we, that we did. um They, they asked him about potentially making a change at quarterback. And he's like, I think it's still too early to determine whether we should do that or not. And I'm like,
00:11:48
Speaker
brother, we're almost halfway into the season. like If you don't like what you've seen out of Bishop Davenport, you you know you have the leeway to make a decision on that, right? like You are the the head coach.
00:11:59
Speaker
It's almost like he's sitting around waiting for someone else to dictate that to him where it's like, hey, man, we need to get another quarterback in here and try something else out. If they're just going to stick with Davenport, who...
00:12:11
Speaker
um I don't know if he's been stagnant in his development as a quarterback or he's even regressed, but like, I thought he played pretty well at the end of last year, especially in the, like, I think he played the majority or half of the bowl game um and took over for ah Gio Lopez, who I think was injured at the end of the last
South Alabama's Quarterback Challenges
00:12:29
Speaker
end of the year last year.
00:12:30
Speaker
He played pretty well in that game. that has not been the Bishop Davenport we've gotten this season. So I don't know whether it's the offense hasn't kept, you know, innovating in the off season and developing. They're still running the exact same stuff that people saw on tape last year or what it is. But speaking of,
00:12:50
Speaker
I think the Gio Lopez move to North Carolina was bad for both teams. I think it was bad for him. he He gets benched, I feel like, every week at UNC.
00:13:01
Speaker
And then South Alabama now doesn't have a quarterback. So I feel like I don't know if he's got a year left or whatever of eligibility. I wouldn't be shocked if Gio Lopez turntail and came back to Mobile at the end of next year.
00:13:14
Speaker
I don't know if there's he's going to have better options. We know Gio Lopez can be a good quarterback in the G5. I don't know that he is after the way he's played this year at UNC. we i mean We know that at this level he can do it, ah and if he's gonna come if he's going to take that step back down, ah it's certainly not going to be a team that, again, we kind of anticipate is going to be a first-year head coach South Alabama team.
00:13:39
Speaker
um baby I'd like to see him come back to the conference or come back to G5 because hes he's fun to watch, but certainly not the mobile. Pull like a Corey Rucker where you go to South Carolina for one year and you're like, grass isn't greener, and then just come back.
00:13:55
Speaker
um All right. So let's start running down some of these other games. This was this was in the running for most interesting to me. This is this is comparable to what you said about Troy South.
00:14:06
Speaker
Oregon State is traveling to Boone to take on an App State team that seems to be reeling, especially the last couple weeks. It's basically Rashad DeBinion running the ball and then it's Not much else.
00:14:20
Speaker
ah You've got AJ Swan, who's really struggling. You've got Billy Wiles, who came back down to earth last week. You've got Noah Gillen that we saw against Southern Miss, who looked really bad.
00:14:32
Speaker
Um... You know, career ah quarterback journeyman Malik Murphy is the starting quarterback for Oregon State. um Oregon State's a one and a half point favorite on the road.
00:14:46
Speaker
I kind of like Oregon State to pick up their first win here. i I truly do not like anything I've seen the last two weeks out of ah ah the last couple weeks out of App State.
00:14:58
Speaker
So this is going to be a rough season, I think, in in year one for Dow Loggins. Yeah, i can i hear I agree on the kind of general overlook. um But if there's one thing we know about App is that they win at home.
00:15:12
Speaker
That is like the one thing that this program does. i could be wrong, but I think almost better than anyone else in the country is win at home. um And so I don't see Oregon State picking up the win here on the road in Boone. I like App State here.
00:15:31
Speaker
Well, let me let me rephrase. I was i don't like App State. I think apps State will win the football game. Okay. What is it about App State that you think that other than having the home field advantage, like what do you think is going to you think AJ Swan's going to turn out to be closer to what he was against Charlotte?
00:15:50
Speaker
No, I mean, i think Rashad. I mean, it's obviously Rashad DeBinion, right? with That's where that offense goes through. But it's I would counter your question with a question in that.
00:16:01
Speaker
Well, what's Oregon State going to do that's going to wow you? you know This is a team that really couldn't do it against Cal, couldn't do it against Houston, couldn't do it against Fresno. I'm willing to dismiss your Texas Tech and Oregon losses um due the nature of those teams, but like what what out of Oregon State have you seen that's really doing it for you?
00:16:23
Speaker
Me personally? i yeah Is that what you're asking? I guess it's like rhetorically is like what if you're asking, well, what about app is going to win them the game? I would counter and say, well, what is Oregon State doing? Well, that's going to win this game, ah win this game.
00:16:41
Speaker
I mean, I don't know, but it's just app has been outscored the last two games. What? 85 36. So and now that we've got the benefit of hindsight, it's like their wins are over a seven point win over an FCS team in Lindenwood.
00:17:01
Speaker
And then they beat Charlotte. who i I don't know anything about how the rest of their season has gone thus far. um But i I don't know. I think this app team is a lot closer to, hey this season's a wash in year one for Dow Loggins, and like we just need to go back to the drawing board, go back to the transfer portal recruiting things. like We need to get back to whatever...
00:17:28
Speaker
the identity was supposed be. like falling into this, but i I really think this is a weak argument, um but I think there's a non there is a non-zero impact of also being the first game in Boone since the passing of Sean Clark.
00:17:47
Speaker
Like, yeah I think that, yeah i you know, there's there's magic there. i really Again, I think that's a lazy argument to make. um But I think you'd be crazy to dismiss that as not also a factor against, an oreg again, and an Oregon State team that on the converse side is down in the dumps because they suck.
00:18:05
Speaker
This is an app state team that has something to play for. Yeah. i'm I'm not trying to be like disrespectful or anything, but they, they did the helmet thing last week and then they got shellacked by Boise. So I'm like, I don't know. And plus,
00:18:23
Speaker
this team's got a lot of new players. I don't know that a lot of these guys have a ton of connection to Sean Clark, if we're being totally honest. Like, you know, I'm sure, I'm sure they are I'm sure they respect him as, as a coach that he was and like ah having been an alum and a player and all that stuff.
00:18:41
Speaker
Again, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but like if there was going to be like a bump, I thought it would have been last week and we really get that out of them. So I know, i know we're back in Boone and maybe that changes.
00:18:55
Speaker
And obviously the level of competition has come down some. But I, I would have thought that you had gotten that emotional kind of thrust last week and we didn't see it. So I, I don't know how much that actually matters for. yeah Like I said, i it's, it's going to be a,
00:19:15
Speaker
kind of Much like South Alabama Troy, it's going to be a relatively disinteresting, poorly played game. um So we're both taking dumps and arguing over who smells better.
00:19:28
Speaker
All right.
James Madison vs Georgia State Predictions
00:19:29
Speaker
Fair enough. All right. So another three 30 kick ESPN plus James Madison's traveling to center park in Atlanta ah to take on Georgia state. James Madison is a 19 and a half point road favorite.
00:19:43
Speaker
I think they cover pretty easy to be honest, like the James Madison, like, I know the man, this is such a ah I'm sorry, like JMU. I agree. You are a good team. This is such a weak year for the Sunbelt.
00:19:58
Speaker
Like it's like the West is a bunch of shrugs. We don't know who's who's going to come out of that, whether it be Texas State, Southern Miss, maybe Louisiana puts it back together with one field. Yeah.
00:20:12
Speaker
um but they don't play much defense so i i don't know what i'm getting out of that and then the east is like a two horse race with odu and and jmu and i think there's a little bit of distance between those two teams so again james madison's a good team but like i feel like every week it's like all right you're playing georgia state you're probably gonna by 31 points and then we're gonna be like don't really have much to add. Yeah. They were good against a bad team. Like that was what we expected.
00:20:40
Speaker
Well, I, the line is 19 and a half last week. You took extra points. You juice your odds and still beat the spread. Um, man, again, spend your money, how you feel it is most responsible.
00:20:56
Speaker
Um,
00:20:58
Speaker
Juice this to James Madison 21 and a half, man. I mean, yeah the one team in all of college football, there's only one team in college football right now that is worse at defense than Georgia Southern.
00:21:13
Speaker
And it's at Georgia state. Yeah. It's the only one. Um, and this is an offense that still lacks a quarterback. i as a fan, I'm hoping that they, we come out of the buy with a little more clarity.
00:21:26
Speaker
Um, you know, Christian Valera has long been out of the question. It's been TJ Finley. or Cameron Brown. um I want Cameron Brown between the two. i see merit to TJ Finley, and that seems to be the way that the team is heading.
00:21:41
Speaker
um But I'd like more clarity there. um But outside of Ted Hurst, what else does this team have? It does not have an offensive line. This used to be one of the premier running offenses in the conference.
00:21:54
Speaker
ah They do not have that. They don't have anyone to block. They don't have anyone to run. And as I said, this is the single worst defense in college football. um it's It is. i know your page may I know that they've made the move from Elliott to. um
00:22:13
Speaker
But here's the thing.
00:22:17
Speaker
their head coach is supposed to be a running back coach guy. You know what I mean? That was his job. I know he was a recruiter, Del McGee at Georgia and stuff. But this is kind of the same thing that I have with ah Charles Huff is like, you're a running backs guy. what Why are you having a hard time this season? find it or Or even going back to last year, like what happened to the Tucker Greggs of the world or or whoever where you're like, wow, they've got this three-headed running attack that we really need to account for? It's like all of that is straight out the window.
00:22:52
Speaker
And I know that the coaching has changed, but still... I would argue um Tucker Gregg. ah yeah Gosh, who else? that There were a handful of really, really good.
00:23:05
Speaker
Robert something. there were There was a running but receiver, Robert. Oh, I guess I'll get mixed up. No, but Georgia State has had a lot of really good running backs over the past several years.
00:23:19
Speaker
um And former Georgia offensive line coach Sam Pittman getting fired does not help my argument. But I would posit that that is a product of Sean Clark being an offensive line guy and not a running backs guy. No, Sean Elliott. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Of course, Sean Elliott being an offensive line guy and not a running backs guy.
00:23:40
Speaker
um i I agree, but like I don't even see the talent... out of the running back spot the way that I did. So like you can, oh I definitely think the offensive line plays into it, but I don't even see like the raw, you know, like you when you watch them on a get, you can watch a running back behind a bad offensive line and go, wow, if anybody could block for this guy, if he could get yards before contact, they'd really be cooking.
00:24:06
Speaker
It's like, I don't even really see that anymore with like Georgia state. So I don't i don't know. Neither. Yeah, ten I just counted up. Ten different guys this year have taken carries. We've got five guys with at least ten this year.
00:24:19
Speaker
ah Only one player has reached 100 rushing yards all season, not just in a single game. yeah um And that's Rashad Amos, who's been we've been good, ah not great.
00:24:31
Speaker
I mean, 165 yards through four games is bad, but he's only done it on 31 carries. So, um yeah, this is a team that's lacking talent. So... As you said, it's like James Madison, ah enjoy it, but we we expect nothing less. I made this joke last week ah when they played Georgia Southern. I think it still goes here.
00:24:52
Speaker
They can pretty much hand the scorecard with the final score to the referees, and Georgia State would probably be like, all right, sounds good. We don't have any getting buddy hurt, ah you know, all that stuff.
00:25:04
Speaker
i I don't know, man, the, the, the Dell McGee mid midway through or a quarter of the way through year two has, has not shown really signs of life.
Texas State vs Arkansas State Overview
00:25:13
Speaker
um Let's see ah four o'clock here on ESPNU.
00:25:20
Speaker
You got Texas state traveling to Jonesboro to take on Arkansas state. ah Texas state is a 13 and a half point road favorite. Um, again, not really seeing signs of life out of this Arkansas state offense. It's they don't have a running game with Jaquez cross out for the rest of the year.
00:25:40
Speaker
Uh, clay and Spencer have not been able to fill in for him. Uh, Texas state has looked good this season. Um, Lincoln pair has handled the majority of the, uh, the running game for them.
00:25:53
Speaker
I think they'll be able to run all over Arkansas State. Brad Jackson is more of kind of a dual threat running quarterback than he is, you know, pocket passer type guy. So, yeah, I mean, I i think Texas State should be able to win this one fairly comfortably.
00:26:10
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Texas State is the good ending for Arkansas State. this is what the Texas State is what happens when Arkansas State can figure out how to put points up on the board ah with its only talent being on the offensive end. um And it's again, the good ending where Texas state is able to stop drives where Arkansas state simply can't, uh, last week, Arkansas state's only touchdown a pick six.
00:26:39
Speaker
And this is a team that's best player is its quarterback. And its second best player is it's, is it's number one wide receiver, uh, in Corey Rucker. So, uh, yeah, it's kind of, it's the same thing with James Madison, but to a much lesser degree is Texas state. Uh, I expect nothing less that said, um,
00:26:56
Speaker
i I will point out the over-under is 63.5. I think that's high. I think that's rich. Texas State's going to put up points. We've not seen that Arkansas State can. I mean, if you tell me that um Texas State scores six touchdowns, gets 42 points, you're telling me you're confident that Arkansas State goes above 21?
00:27:18
Speaker
There's no guarantee of that. Yeah. There's no, there i like I just said, that against a ah last week, no offensive touchdowns. So i they're that they're getting they're getting almost and a leftover level of respect that I don't really think that they should be getting. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it feels like they're Vegas or whatever is looking at how they've played the last couple years and been like,
00:27:43
Speaker
They'll continue rolling on offense, scoring a bunch of points. And that has not been the Arkansas state team that we've seen this year. So I'm pretty confident Texas state's going to be able to roll them.
Coastal Carolina vs Old Dominion Preview
00:27:52
Speaker
Uh, second, last game of the night or last the night for us, you already talked about Troy South owl at seven o'clock, six o'clock ESPN plus coastal Carolina is taking on old dominion in Norfolk, Virginia.
00:28:04
Speaker
ODU is a, an 18 and a half point favorite. yeah, I lean ODU here, but Coastal weirdly showed like signs of life, even if it wasn't really reflected on the ah final like kind of box score.
00:28:21
Speaker
um So I don't really know what to make out of how they how they play. I mean, I know they beat like a bad South out Alabama team, but they played better in that game than I've seen them play kind of all year.
00:28:32
Speaker
um so I'm like, can they keep that going? Probably not, but... it be It'd be in the range of outcomes to be like, hey, actually the final score, or like you said in the last episode, ODU has not has left a lot of meat on the bone.
00:28:47
Speaker
So if you turned around and the final score of this game was thirty four seventeen they're not covering the spread with a 17-point margin of victory. So um I honestly kind of lean coastal here just because I feel like ODU will beat them, but it'll be like last week when they beat Liberty twenty one to seven I mean, yeah, I will, aside from the head coach and quarterback similarities, I mean, these coast coastal and Liberty are very similar, uh, in, in that they're just offenses that really can't get moving.
00:29:18
Speaker
They've do interesting things, um, that are really sexy and, and kind of very, very innovative and very fun to watch. Um, but there's no longer the Grayson McCall talent to run that. There's no longer, uh, like the Caden Salter to run that Liberty offense. And so,
00:29:35
Speaker
ah
00:29:38
Speaker
But with that said, Old Dominion just hasn't laid the hammer yet. um i we We finally saw other playmakers step up last week for the Monarchs, and that's really been what we've been waiting on.
00:29:51
Speaker
um But that's shoe number one. I still need shoe number two to drop, and that'd be actually beat teams, man. 14 points over Liberty i thought was really, really disappointing.
00:30:03
Speaker
And i would really, really hope that they can... at least increase that margin of victory, put up more points. Even if you're still only winning by 14 points, I need more than 21. When you have a guy like Colton Joseph, who by grade is a top 10 quarterback in all of college football, by talent is probably a top 10 quarterback in all of college football, is the best quarterback in the conference, I need you to win more, man.
00:30:29
Speaker
um Especially because last week we saw that they've got talent around him that is capable of producing. Yeah. Put up or shut up, man. That's where I'm at with Old Dominion.
00:30:42
Speaker
I mean, Colton Joseph this season has put up 1167 yards both on the ground and through the air combined. He has eight passing touchdowns and twelve four rushing touchdowns. So he's got basically 12 touchdowns, four picks.
00:30:58
Speaker
ah Three of those picks came against Indiana. What we now know is a good Indiana team early in the season. So he's played pretty clean football other than the game against Indiana. you Can you give me that number again?
00:31:10
Speaker
On Colton Joseph, his total yards this year? ah Or 12-67. Sorry, I did the— 12-67 beats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. seven beats one nine three four five six seven eight nine ten That beats programs,
00:31:24
Speaker
including coast Well, he's got 900 yards passing and 367 rushing. So yeah, 1267 by himself. He's got 12 touchdowns, eight passing, four rushing, and then four picks.
00:31:38
Speaker
But like I said, three of them came in one game. So other than the first game of the season when they lost to Indiana, ah he's thrown one pick the rest of the way ah through their last you know three games. So...
00:31:50
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I mean, i want i want to see them kind of start putting the hammer to some of these bad teams that they're playing. But if they don't, that's what gives me pause to be like, you guys' a ceiling is second in the East behind JMU.
00:32:03
Speaker
Because JMU will put their foot on the other team's throat, as we saw like last week. so As we saw last week, and we'll see this week, too. Yeah. All right. Well, that does it.
00:32:16
Speaker
We have gotten through all of the Sunbelt games for week six.
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00:32:19
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00:33:14
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