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Weekend Preview, Oklahoma/Ole MIss, Cowboys/Broncos, TAMU/LSU, and a Huge G5 Battle
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The boys break down all of the biggest storylines of this weekend in sports including a huge G5 showdown between Memphis and USF, some coaches on the hot seat in the SEC, AI is scared to bet against us anymore, and we analyze all of the biggest matchups of the weekend.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And what is up? Welcome back to the Next Guy Up podcast. You have got Zach and Tens here today. We have a fun ah weekend of football ahead of us.
00:00:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We think that there is going to be some, there's some upsets in making potentially. ah There is a fun slate of NFL and college.
00:00:31
tins
Bruin.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And so we're excited to talk about all of it with you today. Tens, how we doing?
00:00:39
tins
We are doing great. Uh, so Zach, this is my last, uh, week of freedom before we're six days a week at the old UPS. Um, so just, you know, shout out.
00:00:52
tins
If you want your packages delivered, make sure we can see your, uh,
00:00:52
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Shout out.
00:00:55
tins
the numbers on your house and on your mailbox, or I'm going to deliver it to your neighbor and they might not give it to you. You never know.
00:01:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
That's true. Our packages always get delivered to the house down the street. um We, without giving away my address, we live on a street and there is a drive of this, or there's a road.
00:01:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's like the exact same road name, but it's road instead of street. And boy, do they get those mixed up literally all the time.
00:01:23
tins
Uh,
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
So there you
00:01:27
tins
Yep, that's a struggle. I can see where that would be a very big struggle.
00:01:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yep. And they're like the roads like are running at each other. don't whoever named it. And so they have the exact same numbers as well.
00:01:39
tins
Hmm.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
So there's like a one, two, three, so-and-so road and a one, two, three, So-and-so street literally right next to each other. And boy, it's just, it's horrible.
00:01:52
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
So there's my problems
Sports Events Overview: NBA and College Basketball
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
for the day. feel i feel like there's a lot going on in the in the, in the world of sports right now. The NBA is just tipped off.
00:02:02
tins
Yes, NBA just tipped off, and there's your NBA recap and your preview.
00:02:02
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um Which feels crazy. Yeah. ah LeBron's on the bench. yeah
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tins
Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know he was hurt.
00:02:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
KD got foul baited on the end of the, on the end of their first game. That was funny.
00:02:17
tins
That was funny. That's what happens when you play SGA.
00:02:22
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um We got...
00:02:24
tins
who i who I quietly got dynasty mode points from last year because i have the Thunder, and it doesn't matter because Zach has such a lead, and here we go again with the Dodgers.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Speaking of dynasty mode, the Dodgers. Yeah, we're in the World Series right now. the Blue Jays and Dodgers. Dodgers are about to single-handedly cause a lockout probably.
00:02:47
tins
Probably.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
shout out to them.
00:02:50
tins
Shout out baseball.
00:02:51
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, a lot going on. And within all of that, a college basketball is right around the corner.
00:02:53
tins
Lots of going on.
00:02:57
tins
Oh, it's on the horizon.
00:02:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We're having some exhibitions. We're having scrimmages. Things are starting to cook a little bit there.
00:03:05
tins
I um just saying, love...
00:03:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i saw on the news. Yeah. Sorry.
00:03:08
tins
No, you're good. I i love football. Football is my 1-1.
00:03:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's
00:03:11
tins
I love NFL. you know I'm married to the NFL. I'm dating college football. and
00:03:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
fair.
00:03:20
tins
But college basketball is like... is my sneaky obsession. I love college basketball. It's my favorite thing to bet on for sure by a mile.
00:03:27
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. It's chaos.
00:03:31
tins
Yeah. But it's just so fun. i mean, there's games all night at all times. It's just like, and they're always good fun games on just randomly during the week. Like, i don't know. I love college basketball.
00:03:42
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Honestly, like small-time college basketball is more fun to watch than like small-time college football. Like you're, i don't know, you're like Mac and stuff.
00:03:47
tins
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:50
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Like sometimes those games in football can just like look really sloppy, but in basketball, it's just chaos. Like it's fun.
00:03:57
tins
Yeah, because there's...
00:03:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Guys are just, I mean, they're laying all on the court.
00:04:02
tins
The talent difference in basketball, i feel like, is just not that much different. I mean, yes, there's there's gaps to it, like any sport.
00:04:07
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:11
tins
like Duke is obviously better than Toledo. But at the same time, like any any basketball game, the right players get in the right rhythm, hitting threes or playing lockdown defense, and anybody can beat anybody.
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tins
And that's why March Madness is so fun. College basketball season is just the best. And we got, you know like the Maui Invitational. Something's always crazy going on at those. So it's – I'm excited for your college basketball.
00:04:36
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I'm on the record saying, excuse me, I think that college basketball is the perfect link for a sporting event. um
00:04:45
tins
Yes.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
In a day and age where football games are going four hours, four and a half hours, MLB just kind of reduced theirs with the pitch count and the pitch clock and stuff. But I mean, if you if you put a timer to any college basketball game, it's going to be right at two hours pretty much every single time.
00:04:54
tins
Yeah.
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tins
Yeah.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Which is, or maybe a little short, like an hour 45 to two hours, unless it's going to overtime or something.
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tins
Yeah. But even then, overtime's five minutes.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
The Shudder thing is awesome. it's It's so nice. It's like the game starts at 6, it's over by 8. It's great.
00:05:12
tins
Yep.
00:05:13
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
You get to go to bed at a normal time.
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tins
And then...
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
You know, stay until 10 o'clock watching the game.
00:05:16
tins
You can... Yeah, you can turn it on the second game and kind of watch it while you're in bed, go to sleep.
00:05:20
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Sure.
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tins
It's not not tipping off at 9 o'clock.
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
The first half of it or whatever. It's
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tins
Like these these Monday night games this last week, the doubleheaders, I don't – I mean, but I'm on central time.
00:05:27
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
<unk> awesome.
00:05:32
tins
The second game didn't kick off until 9 o'clock, my time.
00:05:36
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, who's who's watching that to the end?
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tins
That is – mean –
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
starts to It's going to end at 1 Central time? It's crazy.
00:05:42
tins
Yeah, like, congrats. I mean, I'm glad it was the Texans-Seahawks because no one cares because the Texans are so bad. But, like, that was just poor planning by the NFL.
00:05:54
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yep. No, that's true. i don't like that. um And I really like you're talking about chaos and in college basketball. And it's I think the fact that it's only 40 minutes of game time It's just that like shortened length makes it to where every possession is important.
00:06:12
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And it makes it to where those upsets can happen. Like he said, the scores are so low that you get a couple of threes. You get somebody go off
College Basketball Insights: Players and NIL Impact
00:06:20
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
for 25 points. All of a sudden, it's anybody's ballgame, which fun.
00:06:26
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We'll probably dig into college of a little bit more. We we do love college basketball. while You're on the show. We do a lot of March Madden stuff. But it's becoming pretty fun. i feel like college basketball is on the up and up. ah Speaking of college basketball, though, I did have one news story I want to just talk about with Tens here.
00:06:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um this This news story came out this week. but There's a guy named London Johnson who's been playing in the G League with the Maine Red Claws and the Cleveland Charge, and he is going from the G League back to college at Louisville.
00:07:03
tins
Yeah.
00:07:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Um, it says he's probably going to get to Louisville mid-year. He's going to sit out this season and play next season. Uh, we've not seen this happen ever pretty much. Uh, but boy, what a weird story
00:07:18
tins
Yeah. I mean, make the G league.
00:07:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
going from G league, like professional basketball back to college, probably making a lot more money. Um,
00:07:30
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And it's like, maybe he just didn't make it in the G League. Maybe he got there and was like, go i'm I'm a little bit out of my depth here. I'm not playing like I wanted to. let me Let's go back and kind of get actually coached at a college, make pretty good money.
00:07:41
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And then I can maybe make a take a shot at the and NBA eventually. It just it feels like it feels pretty bad. i don't know.
00:07:50
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
going to take some this?
00:07:51
tins
Yeah, I mean, imagine you're – mean, this guy's got to be making a lot of money to to get lu lured out of the G League to go play back in college.
00:08:00
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Definitely.
00:08:01
tins
Like, I don't know. This guy's probably just – I think he's probably accepting the fact that he's probably not going an NBA roster. So he probably made a little money in the G League. Now he's going to make some NIL money and call it a career.
00:08:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Make some good money.
00:08:17
tins
Yeah, exactly.
00:08:17
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Louisville's got some pockets, I'm sure. Yeah.
00:08:20
tins
Louisville's basketball, they have a very good coach. They're a sneaky team out of the ACC this year.
00:08:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
yeah
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Next Guy Up Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:31
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I'm excited. I know this not really a college basketball podcast here, but I'm pretty pumped.
00:08:38
tins
It's going be fun. It's going a lot of...
00:08:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
feel good.
00:08:40
tins
I feel like the NIL... And I've said this probably before on the pod. Actually, know I have. NIL was the best thing for college basketball. For making it... Everyone's got a better playing field.
00:08:55
tins
Because you can pay 10 players and make that money last and go a lot further than you can in football where... you got You got to pay the backup running back probably a half a mil to keep him around just in case you need him.
00:09:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, before, i mean, even more so, the talent hoarding happened at college basketball it to such an incredible level at Duke and Kentucky when Calipari was... I mean, it was just like people knew the hotbeds to go if you wanted to make the NBA and wanted to play like... mean, it's the same thing that Nick Saban did. and the same I mean, it's not it's like a secret that people pick those places because those coaches have a track record of sending people to pros, but I feel like it was so the talent hoarding was you feel it more on such small rosters in them in the in college basketball.
00:09:44
tins
Yeah.
00:09:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
But now I feel like the talent spread out some more, which is fun. But you also have to be really selective. You can't with your, because you have such a small roster that every single acquisition in the portal or whatever, it becomes so important that you can't just pick your best, the best people available. You have to really pick and choose who you want, where where they're going to fit into your roster. I mean, I feel like it's, it's more fun than football, which is just like, let's go out and just get best available and just pay them a jillion dollars. And to be here for one year and then probably go somewhere else.
00:10:17
tins
Yeah.
00:10:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:10:22
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Uh, okay. Tens, you got something to go off your chest.
00:10:24
tins
um
00:10:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Uh, you said you had some, something that was stirring inside of you.
00:10:27
tins
Yeah, I had... Well, I did... ah ah forgot what it was.
00:10:31
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:10:34
tins
should have wrote it down.
00:10:34
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ooh.
00:10:35
tins
I remember I was leaving the Zaxby's parking lot and said I had a gripe for the boys.
00:10:38
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:41
tins
I don't remember what it was, so if it comes back to me, great.
00:10:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm. It's tough.
00:10:45
tins
If not... I'll figure it out myself. But I do have a new gripe that's happening right now, live, on air.
00:10:51
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I like that. I like that.
00:10:53
tins
um ChatGPT is officially the biggest coward in America.
00:10:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yup.
00:11:01
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Scared.
00:11:01
tins
So, as you know, we've been doing the Parlay Challenge. And not only did we beat AI, but we beat them twice this year. ah We didn't have a weekend preview last week, so we didn't have another Parlay.
00:11:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
we
00:11:14
tins
There must have been...
00:11:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
would have beat him again
00:11:16
tins
We want to beat him again. Something must have happened to chat GPT Something must have happened in the last week because they will not give me a parlay.
00:11:27
tins
ah I have asked multiple ways. um I've been asking since this episode started as well. ah It's telling me it can't do it anymore. That they can give us options for parlays for a fun discussion, but that they are not allowed to build a parlay.
00:11:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
no
00:11:47
tins
and give it what I assume is people were using AI and getting it to say this was a guaranteed winner and then now someone's trying to sue these people so no i was very nice
00:11:59
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Maybe it's because you kept trash talking to me every time we beat him. And you're like, haha, we beat you on our podcast. And then they're like, What you mean podcast?
00:12:10
tins
I was pretty nice about it maybe they want a cut of the profits
00:12:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Maybe they want to cut.
00:12:14
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:15
tins
Well, jokes on them, while I ever bet a dollar on because I never trusted them. Never trusted us or them. ah
00:12:24
tins
So, yeah, ah that's the I can't. I'm trying. It's giving me picks from last week saying this would be a good discussion on how you can break down what a parlay. I'm like, I know what a parlay is.
00:12:35
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We're not stupid AI.
00:12:37
tins
We've been doing parlays for years, decades.
00:12:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We want to just humiliate you.
00:12:43
tins
So yeah, that's that's what we got going
College Football Preview and Analysis
00:12:45
tins
on. AI is officially scared of us.
00:12:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We got to bet anyways. We're going to keep hitting.
00:12:50
tins
Exactly. Yeah, it'll be us against the void.
00:12:56
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
like that. Okay. Well, we do have a fun week of college football ahead of us. um Want to kick off with best of the rest ends?
00:13:04
tins
Yeah, let's do it.
00:13:06
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
This game has been circled on our best of the rest calendar since the really since like week two because these two teams have been at the forefront of the G5 playoff discussion since the beginning of the year.
00:13:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um And they are matching up. Unfortunately, one of these teams took a pretty bad loss last week, ah which makes this a little bit of... I mean, it's still a fun game.
00:13:29
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah So this that would be your South Florida Bulls against... the Memphis Tigers. ah This is a fun matchup. They're both in the American Athletic Conference.
00:13:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah This matchup, these two teams have been like basically one and two favored for who is going to get the G5 spot in the playoffs. Memphis took a bad loss last week. USF is entering at 6-1.
00:13:57
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um Their only loss of the year so far came against ah Miami team that is ranked... In the top 10 They were top 3 until last week But a very good Miami team When Carson Beck decides he wants to play well And so I got a fun matchup Yeah o Miami
00:14:11
tins
Something about Louisville. Because that's who did it to them last year, too. was their first loss. It was Louisville. Or maybe not. Maybe I made that up.
00:14:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah Virginia Tech last year feel like I feel like they lost to Virginia Tech That was when I knew they were losers
00:14:25
tins
I feel... No, they beat Virginia Tech on the Hail Mary.
00:14:32
tins
I knew they lost i know they lost to Syracuse at the end of the year.
00:14:34
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I um basically counted that as a loss.
00:14:36
tins
Right, right, right.
00:14:38
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It may have been Louisville. remember.
00:14:40
tins
I know they lost to Syracuse because that was their last game to get into the ACC championship game. And as a person holding the future, really needed them to win that one.
00:14:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
a
00:14:48
tins
ah I feel like it was louis Louisville was like their first loss. Louisville's just something about them, man. They're just ah sneaky little football team.
00:14:56
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Some world beaters.
00:14:59
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Well, um I broke down ah most of USF last week. They did take win last week. And so we don't have a ton to cover. If we just want to do a very quick um summary of where we were, ah South Florida is now 6-1 3-0 in Arizona.
00:15:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
American Athletic Conference play. They're they're averaging 41 points per game, which is very high. They also rank pretty highly in turnovers. um This is likely the Alex Golish's last season with the Bulls.
00:15:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I think that most people are expecting him to take an opening somewhere around the country, perhaps in the same state that he's currently coaching in, perhaps in a much larger job in an SEC school.
00:15:38
tins
Yeah.
00:15:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I've heard his name topped around in the top top four candidates for that position. We already have a couple of spots open, though, in the Power 4. It does seem like he is poised to take one of them.
00:15:55
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um Memphis is up all-time in the series. A fun fact. ah But this team is led by Byron Brown, dual-threat quarterback. He's been very good.
00:16:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Chaz Nimrod came from Tennessee. Fun fact. He's a leading receiver. um Like I said, all all said, they're a team that scores a lot of points. They um had a very high-scoring affair in the last game that we covered that they were in.
00:16:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah This is a fun team. And so they are going to play Memphis. Tins did a little bit of a deep dive on Memphis.
00:16:32
tins
Yeah.
00:16:32
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
You got some info?
00:16:33
tins
umm Yeah. So Memphis is head coach. um Shoot. I lost his name.
00:16:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ryan Silverfield.
00:16:41
tins
Yeah. Ryan Silverfield has been there for six years. They're led by dual threat quarterback, Brendan Lewis, who has thrown for 1300 yards. He has rushed for 440. He's second on the team in rushing by only 40 yards, but he leads the team in rushing touchdowns with seven. He's also thrown for eight touchdowns with four interceptions.
00:17:04
tins
Um, Very big guy. He's really big. like when you look like When you watch their games, he reminds me of Cam Newton, honestly. like He's just very big. um As a team, they are averaging 38 points per game.
00:17:26
tins
38 points per game, average 8 yards per passing a game. so i i mean I know we're kind of ah broken record here with overs, but South Florida doesn't play a ton of defense. Memphis' is team is more well-rounded. They do play solid defense, but I think in a situation like this, we're probably looking at a shootout with two dual-threat quarterbacks.
00:17:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Well, this, so just, I think that Brendan Lewis is injured.
00:17:47
tins
um
00:17:51
tins
He is.
00:17:52
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He got injured against UAB.
00:17:54
tins
I did not catch that.
00:17:55
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He, said he sat out like pretty much all fourth quarter, I believe.
00:17:59
tins
That's probably why they lost. That would have been good thing to catch.
00:18:01
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Um,
00:18:02
tins
Thanks.
00:18:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, so
00:18:03
tins
I used chat GBT for information.
00:18:07
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
he yeah he had a lower body injury, and from what I gather, he is ah questionable to play this week.
00:18:08
tins
They got me back.
00:18:13
tins
Question play. Okay.
00:18:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um So there's a couple of quarterbacks who could be playing his place. um I have been said that Silverfield said Lewis is considered day-to-day in either freshman A.J. Or who is the guy who came in for him on Saturday? Or Arrington Maiden could start in his place potentially. Or they could do a multiple quarterback system.
00:18:35
tins
I've seen AJ Hill play for them. they've They've actually brought him in for like some ah gadget packages because he's he's like he's a dual-threat quarterback, but in a different way, he's very fast.
00:18:47
tins
um I've watched some Memphis games this year because they score a lot of points. So, I mean, AJ Hill would bring a different... kind of vibe to the team a lot more probably uh rpo quarterback running kind of stuff uh but yeah i did not know lewis was hurt that i don't like because i kind of like memphis in the upset spot here yeah
00:19:06
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:09
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I think that line would be much tighter. Uh, if it's a four and a half point line, 62 and a half over under, I think that's four and a half points because it's at Memphis is because of the unknowns at the quarterback position there.
00:19:22
tins
Yeah, that makes sense. so memphis Because Memphis does have a good home field, but...
00:19:27
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, it would be, a I mean, it's a, it's a big game, but I think that also speaks to, um, the playoff, uh, Chances make the playoff line shifted a lot this week.
00:19:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah South Florida is now like a plus 120. and know And I also think some of the unknowns that quarterback from Memphis now have something to do with that.
00:19:45
tins
Yep, okay.
00:19:45
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
If South Florida can win this game, they are really, really in the driver's seat for that playoff spot.
00:19:46
tins
That's my bad.
00:19:53
tins
Yeah, I mean, they're favored right now, right? Or like they're plus like 120.
00:19:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, they're definitely the best odds in the country right now.
00:20:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Boise State's still up there. I mean, it's a lot of your teams that you would expect to be to be right there still, but I can look it up right now, actually.
00:20:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
a
00:20:15
tins
This would be a good gauge of how... much like is Gullish already talking to Florida? Like how distracted is he in the team with that opening happening this week?
00:20:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
True.
00:20:27
tins
Cause I, I kind of feel the same way about Ole Miss. It's like how locked in are we going to see like Giffen, especially coming off a loss?
00:20:32
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:36
tins
Like, okay, is he going to come out and be locked in or maybe, or is he a little distracted by the things going on in Gainesville, Florida?
00:20:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Very true
00:20:48
tins
Is he hearing some here's some sweet sweet things whispered to him out of the swampland?
00:20:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Nothing sweet's ever come out of the swamp ah Plus 120 for South Florida Plus 350 for Plus for James Madison ah plus eight hundred and plus nine hundred for north texas plus nine fifty now for memphis
00:21:11
tins
I wish they had... like a play in for these schools, like college basketball to get in the playoff.
00:21:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:19
tins
That would be cool.
00:21:21
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, at this point, if South Florida can win this game and then wins the AAC championship game, they'll be in.
00:21:29
tins
Yeah.
00:21:29
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I feel pretty good about that. mean, Tulane is their biggest competition at this point.
00:21:35
tins
Another coach competing for ah ah SDC opening as well. The two lane coach.
00:21:41
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, it's those... you're Once you're successful in the FCS, all of a sudden your name starts popping up everywhere.
00:21:49
tins
Yep.
00:21:50
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's kind of how the cookie crumbles there.
00:21:51
tins
who's ah Who's your nightmare hire for Florida?
00:21:55
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Sorry, not FCS. It's not FCS. um It's just Division II. My nightmare hire...
00:22:02
tins
Yeah.
00:22:04
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i don't...
00:22:08
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Alex Golish really scares me.
00:22:11
tins
Right.
00:22:12
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Because...
00:22:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I kind of know what Lane Kiffin is. um A lot of people say that Lane Kiffin with like an elite NIL budget, blah, blah, whatever. um
00:22:26
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i just, I know Golis has some, ah some real top end talent. Yeah. I mean, and I feel like he has a potential to do some damage.
00:22:37
tins
Yeah. Especially since he already has the pipeline there.
00:22:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
kind of Kind of on the Kurt Signetti trend. Yeah.
00:22:42
tins
Yeah.
00:22:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
that um That Kurt Signetti coming from James Madison and kind of plugging in right away to Indiana, bringing some guys with him, and all of a sudden he's got a team that's competing. It feels pretty scary.
00:22:54
tins
I can see that. Dream hire would be to get Urban to come out of retirement. Yeah.
00:23:04
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I mean, laine Lane would not be a bad for... Obviously, I think he would probably do pretty well at Florida. I'm not sure he what he wants to leave Ole Miss, but maybe he does. i don't know.
00:23:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He's, in my experience, not the most honorable guy. We'll take whatever's in front of him if he has the potential, so...
00:23:24
tins
Well, that's what's crazy is one of Florida's biggest boosters and biggest people pounding the table for Lane Kiffin, allegedly, is his ex-father-in-law.
00:23:34
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Really?
00:23:35
tins
Yeah. So, you know, ex, because he's been divorced.
00:23:38
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ole Miss, I mean,
00:23:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
brian Brian Kelly gets fired and all of a sudden, LSU and Florida are open and it's like all bets are off.
00:23:48
tins
He's fired.
00:23:54
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
What the heck's going happen there?
00:23:56
tins
And Penn State.
00:23:56
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And then you throw in James Franklin and Penn State and there are some huge openings around the country. And who in the world is going to fill them all?
00:24:03
tins
Arkansas.
00:24:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:24:08
tins
Texas could be open for all we know.
00:24:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Texas?
00:24:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
No.
00:24:13
tins
Oklahoma's still on the table.
00:24:14
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
hugh for ah auburn Auburn certainly could be open. Hugh Freeze loses two more two or three more games and Hugh Freeze is gone.
00:24:20
tins
Who wants... i wouldn't want that Auburn job the way they're turn churning out coaches right now.
00:24:26
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. it's It's not the most sexy job right now for sure.
00:24:27
tins
No thanks.
00:24:30
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It kind of looks like a... but Florida is kind of the same way that I feel like Florida's had a string of rough coaches.
00:24:38
tins
They've had some bad hires in a row. They should have just...
00:24:42
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Which since he had the same same song and dance, I get it. I mean.
00:24:46
tins
Yeah. That's why you don't want Gullish going in there. Because he's a program... like he He injects juice.
00:24:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, he feels like a guy who could turn a program around pretty fast.
00:24:58
tins
Yeah, I wouldn't. i I don't want to see him go there either. i That would not be great.
00:25:06
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay, so what's our official take here? um Yeah.
00:25:10
tins
um I like, well, I probably still like the over. i don't know the number. But I love.
00:25:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's 62 and a half. It's pretty high.
00:25:20
tins
So, yeah, but so was that last game we took with South Florida and they almost covered it alone.
00:25:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I mean, South Florida could put up, yeah, I mean, they can do that.
00:25:30
tins
Yeah, I still like the over. i i like the over.
00:25:34
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's taking the under South Florida feels pretty bad.
00:25:34
tins
i just do.
00:25:36
tins
it feels like a bad idea.
00:25:38
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I feel like South Florida probably covers, though. I think South Florida wins this.
00:25:41
tins
like it, too.
00:25:41
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i think
00:25:42
tins
do, too.
00:25:42
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I feel like Alex Gullish realizes this is his last kind of hoorah in these leagues, and I feel like he wants to like... making Him making a splash in the playoffs ah is like...
00:25:53
tins
Help with recruiting, for sure.
00:25:55
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He's making money. He's just like making dollars. every
00:25:57
tins
Yeah.
00:25:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Playing a competitive playoff game with South Florida would just make him bukoos of dollars and give him any job in the country.
00:26:05
tins
Yeah, and gives him like the right to walk into any job and say, you're going to give me what I want for resource-wise because look what I just did at the University of South Florida. Now think about what I can do now.
00:26:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Definitely. I think that's true. um Yep. Okay.
00:26:23
tins
Yeah, i like that's ah that's the same game parlay right there.
00:26:24
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah We got, like the over.
00:26:28
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i like the over. I like, yeah, I like South Florida.
00:26:31
tins
Yeah.
00:26:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay. Well, we have some ah some categories to cover. We're going to break down. Mason's not here, so our NFL expert, we do have a wild pick from him that we're going to mention later.
00:26:46
tins
Yeah.
00:26:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Mason loves, ah but well, talk about it. we' We'll get there. Shout out to Mason. ah So we are going to start with, ah let's start with our upset potential of the week, your upset spot.
00:27:04
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i'll I'll go ahead and give mine. My upset spot of the week is Uh, at a place that I think is set up, they've been throwing punches all season.
00:27:17
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Um, and I think they're poised to finally land one at some point. Uh, and that would be at Mississippi state. They are hosting Texas. Uh, this is the Texas team who obviously had a lot of preseason expectations. Most of those are kind of down the drain at this point or very close.
00:27:35
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Um, They did beat Oklahoma, so they do have a little bit of momentum, but they struggled at Kentucky last week. And here we are at Mississippi State. This is a good Mississippi State team. Not great.
00:27:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's a very tough schedule who has played very well. ah They are at home. They have shown us a formidable place to play. And they are giving up seven points to Texas. So the money line there is plus 225 Mississippi State over Texas. i know it's a long shot, but That's what we kind of got try to give in this segment.
00:28:09
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I just feel like that is a game Texas is pretty beat up. They've not been playing very well. Arch continues to underperform. um And it just feels like one of those games where Mississippi State can finally land the punch.
00:28:24
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I kind of equated it to what Vanderbilt did last year where it felt like they had a lot of teams on the ropes and they finally got Bama um and landed the knockout blow. it It just feels like Mississippi State's poised to get one.
00:28:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
a Big one. So I think this is going to be it That's an upset watch on Texas.
00:28:43
tins
Love that. Yeah, i I agree with that one for sure. that was That's a really good one for a college slate. um I'm going to give one in both since we don't have our NFL expert here. um
00:28:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:28:54
tins
I'm going to go in college first. This is plus 124, so not anything crazy. I do think this will be a pick-em by the time things end here, but I'm going with my BYU Cougars. um On the road to Iowa State, I just think that...
00:29:11
tins
Man, they're undefeated. This a team that's won some close games. A team that always performs well. This freshman quarterback ah who has like three older brothers come through college football as well.
00:29:23
tins
It's just, I mean, his name's Bear. He wears number 47. He should not be doing these things. But I do think they get the upset in Iowa State. I think their coach, Matt Campbell, for Iowa State, is he's been linked to a lot of these jobs.
00:29:40
tins
He's been linked to NFL jobs the last couple years, too. I think he's gone. i mean like he's He's squeezed all the juice he can at Iowa State, and it's time to upgrade a little bit. So I'm going to BYU with my upset of the week in college.
00:29:57
tins
Now, NFL, I know we talked about it a little bit before, and I can't remember if I just sniped a different category for me.
00:29:57
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
like that one.
00:30:03
tins
So if I did, that's my bad.
00:30:04
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
No, it's good.
00:30:05
tins
Okay.
00:30:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's good.
00:30:07
tins
And then in the NFL, I've got one that's super gross. We're going to take the Dallas Cowboys on the road against the Denver Broncos.
00:30:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I like that.
00:30:17
tins
Look, this Broncos team going into the year, everyone talked about their defense. Their defense is playing very well. Bo Nix and this offense have been off. They were down 19 points.
00:30:30
tins
in the fourth quarter to a Giants team that's just kind of okay. They've got some, you know Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo are electric, but they're not a super great team by any means. Had the score.
00:30:42
tins
It was an NFL record. Most points scored in a quarter for a comeback win. They've had a couple of these crazy comeback wins this year, and I just don't think you can keep doing it. ah The Cowboys coming into the year where a team no one really believed in, especially after the Michael Parsons trade.
00:30:58
tins
But the way their offensive line is blocking for Dak, Dak is an elite quarterback when he is not getting sacked a thousand times a game. a key Especially Lamb's back.
00:31:10
tins
You saw what they did to the Washington Commanders last week with him back. Him and George Pickens is an elite one-two punch at receiver. Javante Williams, revenge game against the Denver Broncos for cutting him because Sean Payton never really liked him last last year for some reason.
00:31:26
tins
So Cowboys at plus 150. I i look i and i think i think they they get one. I think the Broncos are due to drop a game. They can't keep having all this magic.
00:31:38
tins
And so I like the Cowboys to get an upset here.
00:31:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I
00:31:41
tins
It'd be kind of like the talk of the town come Monday morning. Everybody's like, whoa, the Cowboys are a lot better than we all thought. Like i can hear it now. Are they for real? Are they a contender?
00:31:54
tins
But I like it. I like Cowboys plus 150.
00:31:57
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
like that. Shout out to the Cowboys. um Okay.
Key Players and Game Highlights
00:32:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
We have our player to watch or person to watch.
00:32:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um In my case, I'm watching a couple of people. there are There are two I'm calling must-win games in the SEC for
00:32:21
tins
Oh.
00:32:22
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um some teams whose season are practically on the line. um One of them is, and we just talked about these teams, so this is not a surprise, but a couple of coaches on the hot seat.
00:32:34
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
One of them is LSU hosting Texas A&M.
00:32:37
tins
oh
00:32:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah They are giving up two and a half points to Texas A&M.
00:32:41
tins
It's over.
00:32:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They're at home ah Garrett Nussmeyer has been... The LSU offense is just tough to watch. ah Not very good. A&M has been living up to expectations. They have, for the first time ever, maybe, they have a good quarterback in Marcel Reed.
00:33:00
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They are a team that looks like they're trending towards a playoff spot and some potential postseason action. ah LSU is a team with two losses now that feels like the season is on the line for them.
00:33:14
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
ah They're at home. The two and a point underdogs, this feels like Brian Kelly could be playing for his job at this point. um And in a similar spot across the SEC, we have um another coach I just mentioned.
00:33:29
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Auburn is playing in basically um ah similar situation. ah Auburn is one and a half point. i'm trying to remember if they're favorites or underdogs.
00:33:44
tins
it's Arkansas, right?
00:33:46
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yes.
00:33:47
tins
It's like minus 105 and minus 115. So like, there's no real edge yet.
00:33:50
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay.
00:33:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Right. So, okay. So there, this game is going to be very tight.
00:33:55
tins
It's basically a pick them.
00:33:56
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
This is in Arkansas. It's obviously a game where Bobby Trino is calling the shots. Now, Taylor and green has been very good. um Taylor and green has been low keyy One of the like top five quarterbacks in sec, probably just because he's playing on a losing team right now.
00:34:09
tins
Yeah.
00:34:12
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He's very good. He is very ah able to beat you. um And we've seen this Auburn team just kind of be pretty mediocre. This is a huge game for that team, for Hugh Freeze, ah for their season. I mean, this is kind of a hinge point, it feels like.
00:34:27
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
So two teams playing across the SEC that are fighting for their coaches and their seasons.
00:34:33
tins
Taylor Greene going to look really good in a Miami uniform next year or an Oregon Ducks uniform? One of the two.
00:34:40
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I think he could be very successful.
00:34:41
tins
You know he's going to get a bag of money.
00:34:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um by
00:34:44
tins
He's very good.
00:34:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Bobby Petrino.
00:34:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He is very good.
00:34:47
tins
all All time...
00:34:48
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
No, he's awesome. he He could be like a Cam Ward type, I feel like, if he went to like an ACC school.
00:34:52
tins
That's... Yeah. I do too. Yeah. I think he would absolutely... He would run it up though on the Big Ten. Just think about big like At the end of the day, the Big Ten is not trying to chase a quarterback that like that around.
00:35:09
tins
they're just They don't have those guys playing that style up there.
00:35:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Do we just ever wonder what would happen if you plugged Taylor Green in that like Iowa? Just see what happens. I guess experiment.
00:35:19
tins
Just let them loose, man. Just cut it.
00:35:20
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's like Iowa doesn't even recruit guys like that. they don't what got like But what would happen if you just...
00:35:23
tins
Moe. What if they just tried it one year? You might like it
00:35:28
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It'd be fun. so like Why haven't we been scoring points all along? This is great.
00:35:34
tins
Wait, you mean your defense doesn't have to score half your points every game? What is this?
00:35:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
touch yeah ah
00:35:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that's going to be fun game.
00:35:44
tins
hello
00:35:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Big one.
00:35:48
tins
That is.
00:35:48
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It might not be the prettiest game. It's probably going ugly if I had to guess, but it's a big one.
00:35:52
tins
Yeah.
00:35:54
tins
Also, shout out Bobby Petrino.
00:35:55
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay.
00:35:56
tins
Just all time. Just.
00:35:59
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Not good guy, probably.
00:36:00
tins
Yeah.
00:36:02
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
But yeah this that somehow end up in the same job you were in is kind of just like a wild...
00:36:02
tins
Just.
00:36:08
tins
to
00:36:08
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
To go through what he did and end up in the exact same job position that he got fired from.
00:36:11
tins
to get fired To get fired from university for all the things he did and then years later come back as the offensive coordinator in the most obvious, like, Sam Pittman, if you don't get this figured out, we're just going to replace you with this guy move ever.
00:36:24
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And it'd be like welcomed by the fan base pretty much.
00:36:28
tins
They love it. they like They're eating it up.
00:36:29
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:30
tins
i i don't I'm not surprised for one second when he gets announced as just, like, he's head coach.
00:36:36
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Probably.
00:36:36
tins
It's an interim tag taken away.
00:36:36
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, he kind of fits the culture there at little Arkansas, he feels like.
00:36:43
tins
Yeah. All
00:36:46
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
All right, Tins, who are we watching this week?
00:36:49
tins
all right. So I'm watching Josh Allen of the Buffalo bills, the mighty Josh Allen.
00:36:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
00:36:54
tins
And here's the thing, guys, the Carolina Panthers, are they back? Their defense is flying around. They've won two games in a row. They're, they're above 500 for the first time since 2019. Yeah.
00:37:06
tins
and nineteen
00:37:08
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Couldn't be me. My team.
00:37:12
tins
Now, is Bryce Young hurt and maybe not playing this game? Yeah, sure. But here's the thing about Josh Allen. Josh Allen got married this summer.
00:37:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:37:19
tins
Josh Allen, after their recent loss before the bye week, said, yeah, it's been good. like She gave me perspective. like Maybe I am more than just a football player. Buffalo Bills fans didn't like to hear that from their MVP candidate.
00:37:33
tins
We need you more than anything in life. Buffalo Bills fans, please win us the Super Bowl. They don't like hearing that he might be thinking about things off the field.
00:37:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
yeah
00:37:42
tins
So we need a vintage Josh Allen, 300 plus total combined rush pass yards, four touchdowns. Like just remind everyone that you're that guy, Josh Allen, or show them that maybe you're going to turn into Hollywood, Josh Allen.
00:37:59
tins
Start being a movies and commercials like your pal, Travis Kelsey, and just, you know, not caring about football as much.
00:38:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
No, we don't want that. He's on my fantasy team.
00:38:10
tins
That's true.
00:38:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I need him to stay locked in.
00:38:11
tins
He isn't. Well, we're going to find out how locked in he is because locked in Josh Allen goes into Charlotte, North Carolina two years ago and absolutely dummies these guys for 500 total yards.
00:38:23
tins
Just absolutely makes them feel embarrassed about the level of NFL player they are.
00:38:32
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:38:33
tins
We need it. We need to see it, Josh. I need to see it, man. I need to see it out of you.
00:38:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
No, you still got the fire.
00:38:39
tins
He's still got the fire. Or did marrying a Hollywood actress who makes more money than you? Maybe. Probably not. ah Kind of make you lose of your fire. like You just kind of want to chill now.
00:38:52
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I feel like some of those AFC quarterbacks are... may have talked about Mahomes at this point. They're kind of like, nah, we can just get to the postseason.
00:39:01
tins
Kind of just coast.
00:39:01
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Get out here with 10 or 11 wins and we'll we'll show up.
00:39:02
tins
Yeah. Yeah. that's how they feel they got about one more year of doing it one more this is their last hoorah yeah yes this is the last year yeah there's definitely a big change in the guard around here next year
00:39:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:39:12
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Oh, really? This is it? You're calling it? Changing of the guard?
00:39:20
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay, I like that. Yeah. K-Mor.
00:39:24
tins
yeah Kim Ward Bo Nix Dylan Gabriel whoever Kyler Murray on the Dolphins
00:39:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Shock the world.
00:39:32
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Bonix is good.
00:39:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay. Did you have one for college too? Okay,
00:39:40
tins
ah Nope, just just NFL for that one.
00:39:43
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
gotcha. Alright, well this is the game of the week. And my game of the week in college is going to be um A very, honestly, the um
00:39:56
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
it's a very big game for both of these programs. This Ole Miss, Oklahoma.
00:40:03
tins
Mm-hmm.
00:40:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ole Miss, Oklahoma. We have two teams now that have won losses. ah John Mateer is pretty banged up, struggled against Texas. ah They took the loss there. Ole Miss took the loss to Georgia last week. Both teams played very well in their last losses, but are coming kind of have come from top five teams now. All of a sudden, they're floating around – The playoff bubble along with a bunch of other teams, ah whichever team loses.
00:40:31
tins
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
This will be firmly on the bubble along with a lot of other two loss teams around the country. Whoever wins will be in the driver's seat to take a playoff spot from what I've, I mean, Oklahoma still has a very tough schedule ahead.
00:40:45
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Oklahoma's just got screwed with their schedule.
00:40:45
tins
yeah
00:40:48
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ole Miss, they both, both these teams really, really need this win. This is a huge one. Oklahoma has to travel to Newland Stadium soon. Nothing's getting easier for for them.
00:41:00
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
And so very, very fun matchup here. I anticipate this being a very close game. um Yeah, I'm excited.
00:41:09
tins
Yeah, I feel like Matier came back too early, man. Like, he wasn't...
00:41:13
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Definitely. He wasn't ready, but it's the Red River shootout. It's big game.
00:41:20
tins
I guess they felt like he was still their best option to win that game. I don't know if I agree with that. I mean, that's that might be revisionist history, but the same time, like he just could not operate like he normally does. so um But yeah, this going to be a fun game.
00:41:34
tins
This is...
00:41:35
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Five and a half points to Oklahoma.
00:41:38
tins
That's a lot of points.
00:41:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
So it feels like a lot points, but it's in
00:41:39
tins
I don't know. um i really do feel like we're going to find out pretty quick like how locked in is Lane Kiffin. How much are these rumors real?
00:41:52
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I think the matchup to watch is going to be Trinidad Chambliss versus um that Oklahoma defense, which has been very good.
00:41:56
tins
That defense. Yeah. Very good.
00:41:59
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Chambliss has looked very good so far, but against the Georgia defense has looked um not super solid so far this year. What happens? I think Oklahoma's defense is still elite.
00:42:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
What happens? Does Chambliss step up to the occasion like he did against Georgia, or is this where they kind of bottle him up a little bit?
00:42:18
tins
Right.
00:42:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I think that'll probably the difference. And then obviously Oklahoma and John Materian, what he looks like.
00:42:24
tins
Yeah, for sure.
00:42:27
tins
All right. um my So my college game was – we've already talked about it a little bit, but LSU and A&M, like Zach said, I really feel like Kelly is coaching for his job here.
00:42:39
tins
It's amazing to me LSU is an underdog at home ah in Death Valley at night.
00:42:44
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Oh, how Death Valley has fallen.
00:42:44
tins
Like that's just – Yeah, like that's a classic.
00:42:47
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I've heard some rumors are falling off.
00:42:50
tins
Falling off. I heard that the fans are going to show up with brown paper bags over their heads. They're they're tired of Brian Kelly. And for Brian Kelly to get trolled the way he did after that.
00:42:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:43:01
tins
ah Did you see that? ah the dang who they who they lose to their last loss they like put up a sign next to the media room and is like caution uh beware of tension tantrums fists pounding on the table and red faces talking about kelly huh yeah vanderbilt yeah that's what happened they they put that on like the like where the press goes in for the
00:43:19
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They lost to Vanderbilt last week.
00:43:28
tins
Coach's interview.
00:43:29
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
That's funny.
00:43:29
tins
um I just, I don't, I mean, I've been saying that Kelly just doesn't, he does not got it. He's never, he was never a fit to me at LSU. ah never got the the whole thing.
00:43:41
tins
And A&M is rolling right now. Like I made fun of the Elko hire. And so far the way they went to the portal and up upgraded their receiver positions, um,
00:43:53
tins
And Marcel Reed, the way he's playing, I mean, I don't understand why he's not being talked about as a Heisman candidate. The guy has been electric. So I think A&M goes in there and absolutely embarrasses Brian Kelly, and this is the final nail in his coffin.
00:44:06
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
and
00:44:07
tins
I really do.
00:44:08
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Well, this is on the final nail, they have to go to Alabama next week. so Or are they get a bye week and then Alabama.
00:44:14
tins
Like,
00:44:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
so
00:44:17
tins
yeah, that's tough.
00:44:17
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Not getting easier. They have to play Oklahoma in the last game of the season as well. so i mean there's there's There's a realistic chance where they could have five losses.
00:44:26
tins
And that doesn't fly at LSU. It just doesn't.
00:44:27
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Five losses, he's fired. Four losses, he's probably fired.
00:44:32
tins
Three losses. he's
00:44:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Three losses, he's
00:44:34
tins
His seat is pretty hot.
00:44:35
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's going to be conversation. Yeah. But if he gets three losses, it means he's beaten A&M or Alabama.
00:44:43
tins
Yeah.
00:44:45
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I don't know. I don't know.
00:44:48
tins
Yeah. I don't know.
00:44:49
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Tough one.
00:44:50
tins
ah just I just don't see it. This A&M team is is really good. I did not expect this going into the year. i kind of thought they were like a fake fake good team, and I've been very wrong. there Marcel Reed has been elite.
00:45:05
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They usually have a dud on their... They have a dud once a year at least. um
00:45:11
tins
But that's Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M.
00:45:11
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They haven't had it yet. It just feels like feels like it's coming.
00:45:14
tins
You know, like...
00:45:15
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i don't know where it is, but...
00:45:20
tins
I guess.
00:45:21
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
i hear what you're saying. I mean, it's true. Different team, whatever. It just feels like they they play LSU this week, then they play Missouri next week. They still have Texas at the end of the season.
00:45:33
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:45:36
tins
That's the one.
00:45:36
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I mean, there's still a path there's still a pathway for them to have like three losses, to end 9-3, which would be the most Texas A&M thing ever.
00:45:37
tins
Yeah.
00:45:41
tins
yeah
00:45:44
tins
Somehow it's Arch. Like, Arch will finally look like the one that he was supposed to look like, and it'll be against A&M after they've not played each other in 10 years in the rivalry.
00:45:49
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Texas could be terrible, but still beat A&M in Oklahoma.
00:45:58
tins
Yeah, that would make me sad and upset.
00:45:59
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:03
tins
All right, and then...
00:46:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um Okay, so we got our a AI parlay. The AI is cowardly stepped out of.
00:46:11
tins
Yeah, and oh so and then my NFL game of the week, this was short and sweet.
00:46:13
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay. Oh, sorry.
00:46:15
tins
You're good. It's Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers on Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers playing against his former team.
00:46:20
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Ooh.
00:46:25
tins
A Steelers team that's supposed to be good. A Packers team that's supposed to be good.
00:46:28
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:46:29
tins
I don't know if either one of them are really that good. Like the Packers trading for Micah Parsons was supposed to put them as like... the Super Bowl favorite. And i mean, they're playing around with the Cardinals last week with Jacoby Brissett playing quarterback. Like that was, I don't know, Packers. Y'all got to figure it out.
00:46:49
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Figure it out.
00:46:50
tins
And the Steelers, I mean, just, yeah, it'll be a good Sunday night game.
00:46:51
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
That's a fun one.
00:46:54
tins
So far this year, all the Sunday night games have been good. So hopefully that stays true this week.
00:47:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I like it.
00:47:05
tins
I love it. want more of it.
Parlay Picks and Episode Conclusion
00:47:07
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
OK, so going start with Mason's pick.
00:47:10
tins
Yeah, we'll go. Yeah, we'll go with Mason's pick. Mason's pick for the us against the cowardly AI is going to be Devon, a chain of the Miami dolphins over 13 and a half or no, sorry, under 13 and a half carries um his reasoning for this. That way people know why.
00:47:35
tins
They are always playing from behind, and Ollie Gordon increased in snaps, comma, rushing attempts, and even targets from week six to seven. so So a one-week bump in targets and rush attempts was enough for Mason to say this starting running back is going to start getting less carries.
00:47:58
tins
Hmm.
00:47:58
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
It's a very interesting pick, Mason.
00:48:01
tins
We know our guy Mason loves his player props.
00:48:04
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
He does.
00:48:04
tins
there So there we are.
00:48:09
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um Okay, you love to see that. ah My pick is coming from the college world. I am picking Illinois plus four. ah This is an Illinois team who is going on the road.
00:48:25
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They are underdogs. They're four-point underdogs against a Washington team who's taken some bad losses lately. Obviously, they're at Washington. It's a long trip to go from Illinois to Washington, but this is an Illinois team looked very good.
00:48:39
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Uh, they've got a very good quarterback. Uh, it's the program that has been, has been pretty fun and they've, they played some competitive games. They've lost big to Ohio state and Indiana, but other than that, they've, they played very well this season.
00:48:53
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
They're ranked number 23 in the nation. Uh, they're just watching the team. I just has not done very much to impress me so far. They've gotten ah blown out in their team, in their games against competent opponents. I just feel like four points is a lot of points. Uh,
00:49:07
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
um I'm honestly going to take Moneyline myself, but plus four, I'll take the points for the parlay.
00:49:12
tins
Yeah, I like that one. I like that. yeah if they're going give us some points, we might as well take them. um All right, my leg is going to be the San Francisco 49ers money line against the Houston Texans.
00:49:24
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:49:28
tins
This not just about me not liking the Houston Texans. Nico Collins, the only real threat on the Texans offense, has a concussion. um
00:49:37
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Yep.
00:49:37
tins
You just saw the Texans like not be able to move the ball without him against the Seahawks. The Seahawks defense is very good. Well, they run a very similar style too.
00:49:49
tins
49ers who are just a more juiced up version even without Fred Warner and Nick Bosa this is still an elite defense and oh yeah by the way the 49ers are they've only lost one game this year Maybe two.
00:50:03
tins
Nope, just one.
00:50:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
but
00:50:04
tins
They're six and one. ah Even with all their injuries, they have Christian McCaffrey. This is an elite team coached by Kyle Shanahan, who's an elite. He is an elite head coach. um He's going to know D'Amico Ryan's defense inside and out.
00:50:18
tins
D'Amico coached for him as his defensive coordinator for years. This is just one of those, the master is going to beat the pupil pretty badly kind of game.
00:50:29
tins
And this might be like the, um don't know, CJ Stroud's getting called out about his body language. Things are bad on the sidelines. The offensive line is not playing well. I just think this is going to bad day for the Texans.
00:50:43
tins
Brock Purdy might be back. I think even if he's not, Mike Jones has played well. Um, so yeah, give me the 49ers. I'm going to take money line. The spreads minus two and a half. I'm not messing with spreads. We're just going to take a money line. It's like plus one 40 or minus one 40.
00:51:01
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Kasia, I like that.
00:51:01
tins
So our three legs put together, this is actually our biggest parlay so far is plus six 24. Uh,
00:51:10
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
What is Mason's like?
00:51:13
tins
ah minus one Oh five. So we're almost touching a plus money leg there.
00:51:18
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
I like that.
00:51:20
tins
Yep.
00:51:21
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Mine's minus 108, so it's, yeah, it makes sense.
00:51:26
tins
So yeah, plus one 24 and then AI, of course, cowards and will not give me a parlay.
00:51:26
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
Okay. I like that.
00:51:32
tins
i will see. We'll try to get that fixed for next episode. Maybe I can get it. If I can get them to give us one, I'll get it posted um that they've actually challenged us, but I don't know. They're, they're talking like cowards right now,
00:51:47
tins
which is crazy.
00:51:51
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
All right. Well, that is our show. we are excited about this weekend of college football and the NFL. We will be back to recap all of it coming up next week.
00:52:03
Next Guy Up Podcast Network
But for now, we hope you all have a great weekend and we will see you next time.