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Charlotte Preview | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John preview Georgia’s matchup with Charlotte and answer listener questions.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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Maybe you'll see him stuck in traffic in Gaffney.
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Welcome to
Expectations and Listener Q&A
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My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I preview Georgia's matchup with the Charlotte 49ers on Senior Day. We talk through what we're looking for in the game, and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
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As always, remember
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Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
Game Time and Charlotte 49ers' Growth
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Here we are, back again. We're back. We're back. um Senior night. That is true. Or senior day, I guess I should say.
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Also true. Yeah, 1245 kickoff, kind of a an interesting time, I guess I'll say. It is suboptimal. It's not a standard. That's not a standard kickoff time, so...
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I guess it's better than 12, which would be, you know, as as game times go, probably yeah one of the worst times. so Gives you a little bit extra. At least it's not 12. It gives you 45 minutes extra tailgating time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. um Yeah. Charlotte, the 49ers. The local boy team down the road for me.
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um i will you gonna follow the bus down. That was a listener question. i can't answer that yet until we get to it. Oh, sorry. Just how much I paid attention. i John, I have shared the document with you.
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I know. I don't read the listener questions usually. i'd like It's like Christmas morning. Every time we have an episode, I'm like, ooh. So good. um I will say, yeah like we go down close to there like generally, like occasionally or whatever. and like it is like If you're in Charlotte and someone says, go over by university or we'll call it like the university or area area or whatever. So that's what they're talking about That's over mywe where Charlotte is. Yeah.
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yeah
Charlotte's Sports History and Game Preview
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um Be an interesting one. I think we just talked about this in the podcast before the podcast, but you were saying that like the girls have been to camps there and stuff, and it's kind of grown, I guess, kind of similar-ish to like how fast, I would guess, how how fast Kennesaw State has kind of grown.
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Yeah. in ah In our neck of the woods, to where it's like, it used to be just this this commuter college, and now it's like a full-blown university with dorms and everything. Yeah, exactly. And it's also another thing like for us, like the the very most northern stop on the Charlotte light rail, which is our closest thing, like Marta-ish kind of thing we've got here. The most northern stop is actually on the campus.
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on So that's that's the last stop. Interesting. OK. Yeah. Yeah. um But yeah, they both used to do like um and the Ella actually did like a theater camp there once. And then they'll do things they're like, you know, like elementary school chorus or whatever. And you'll get like nominated and you can go do like a workshop thing there. So they've they've done some stuff like that.
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So, yes, we've been down there definitely for some performances down there in their performing arts center, which is nice. um I went um I've seen i've I've been to a basketball day game there. I've actually seen Georgia basketball play at Charlotte basketball.
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Um, we had an exhibition game. We played them in an exhibition a few years ago. Um, it was actually Anthony Edwards first game. Although I guess technically it wasn't a game because it was, it was an exhibition. Um, but that was the one time I saw Anthony Edwards play in person, uh, for Georgia. I took Lily down there for that. So.
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Got it. Well, that's cool. um That definitely tracks with some some of the fun facts that I had, but I guess let's just get into the the quick rundown before we get into that. right, let's hit it. um So the matchup we've got, actually, before we get to the matchup, got to remind everyone, always ah you can follow us on social media. at MyGottaPodcast on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
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right, now we'll get into the matchup. ah So, okay, kickoff is Saturday at 1245, as we discussed, at Dolly Field at Sanford Stadium. The dogs coming into this game 9-1, in the SEC. Charlotte is 1-9. It has been a ah struggle for the 49ers thus far this season.
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and We'll talk more about that. We will. The dogs are number four in all the polls, including the latest playoff rankings, which came out tonight.
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um This game is on SEC network. If you're unable to attend, the broadcast crew is Taylor Zarzor, Matt Stinchcomb, and Alyssa Lang. um Sirius XM 106 or 190.
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The official hashtag that we will forget to use is hash hashtag Char, C-H-A-R, verse U-G-A. a um And there is no history between these teams in football. This is the first ever meeting between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Charlotte 49ers.
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um Weather looks like like hot, actually. um i saw a high of 77. On Saturday, um brief shower in the morning, potentially, but we're a few days out. So we'll we'll see by then. But um I was thinking, you know, a week later into fall, you know, maybe is some more fall attire, but doesn't look like it as of now.
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So we'll see as we get closer. Interesting. Okay. All right, JP, I believe you have some fun facts. I do have some fun facts. all right. So the big question, you know, why are the 49ers will we'll answer that one later. I think that's a listener question. Spoiler, no spoilers for anyone on that one. I was kind of excited about that one because it's like, you know, why don't we, why don't okay, we can do it now. Let's do it now. We'll do it live. If if yeah if you want to roll onto into that. I believe that was one of Matt Key's questions, but I think he had a few. So, okay. So Matt, we're going jump to this for you now.
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All right. So the forty nine ers is nick the nickname forty nine ers is tied to ninety forty nine um there was it was chosen but it was chosen in recognition to the nineteen forty nine pivotal year The future of the and institution was was uncertain.
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um Basically, like there was near-death kind of experience there for the university. um Bonnie Cone is the person that is most um associated with this, and her supporters did not convince the North of Carolina legislature to make the school permanent.
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And the campus might not have become a full-fledged university without her and her supporters. So that was that was part of the the origin of the 49ers. Did that match your your research as well, Jim?
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It did. That did match my resource my research. um I think the there was something about like, had to do with the 49er spirit that Bonnie Cone felt embodied the university.
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Right, right, right. means Yeah. I did have that, that it was mainly her. Yes, yes, yes. So I do have some other items to to kind of talk through. So um their very first mascot was actually and the Night Owls.
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um I guess that this was previously when the school was really early, it was called Charlotte Center, um the center of the UNC system. And classes were only held in the evenings, which is why the mascot was,
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The Night Owls. um I guess that they changed it later on, obviously, for for reasons that we were just talking about. Let's see here. The original school colors were actually gray and maroon.
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And I have very little information on why those colors were gray and maroon. However, what what I do have is that they actually switched their colors in the 60s. think it was like 61 or something like that.
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um where they switched their colors to be blue and white. And then when they got folded into the university system in North Carolina, they decided and noticed that all of the other schools in the university system had white and, you know, UNC was also blue.
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And so in order to distinct them, like to make them distinct from all the other universities, they adopted the color green. Hmm. um And so that is why they are now like um green and white. And then I guess they adopted gold like later on, but it was originally gray and maroon. Now it's green and white. And then they adopted gold not too long ago.
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um But yeah, that's ah that's that's a bit of a story on on their their colorations there. um It was originally founded. um it began September Charlotte Center.
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um it was charlotte center The University of North Carolina, and it was created exclusively to serve World War Two servicemen that were seeking a higher education. So they're very much originated in in serving the veterans of of World War Two. That's cool.
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Um, Jim, you mentioned this as well. there's two locations. Um, I guess there's a main campus and then there's an uptown campus. And you I think you mentioned uptown, um, in our, in our podcast before the podcast. And so I saw that connection. i was like, Oh yeah.
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Yeah. That's a whole thing. For some reason we have an uptown, not a downtown. Um, I'm not, I never, I've, I've looked into it a little bit and still don't quite understand it, but we're just going to roll with it. Somebody really liked Billy Joel, I guess. I guess so.
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I guess so. Let's see here. um So it does mention like it does mention that they had a connection to the first gold rush, which I guess maybe be further like ah establishes the 49ers. I guess there was a nearby gold mine called the Reed Gold Mine, um and that's part of the regional history of of the area. i don't Does that sound familiar, Jim?
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Heck yeah. Reed Gold Mine? Or kids here, kids around here go to a field trip there. Just like we went to Dahlonega. Dahlonega. Okay. ah Yes. So yes, I have, I have been there. um like I, I was a chaperone for one of those. So.
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And so they go panning for fool's gold and read gold mine? Yes, exactly. It is just like when you go to the line to do that stuff. So so funny. So funny.
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um And we kind of alluded to this, but it was at one point the fastest growing school in the University of North Carolina system. um That is... beyond fact. Yeah. All right. So the other thing that I had was um couple of different ones.
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The last two items. So they have a they have a gym that is actually underground. Like the on-campus gym is actually underground. It's called the Belk Gymnasium and it's called the Mineshaft. Again, playing on the on the gold mines here in the 49er theme. Yeah. Okay. I just learned something. I did not know that. So you got, you got me there.
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Yeah. So it's underground or enclosed feeling. so they call it the mine shaft. um all right last one this one's for Brett Belding uh marching band little bit of marching band facts um the marching band is called pride of nine of the Niner Nation um and it didn't actually exist for a very long time um so even though the school started in the 40s uh the band didn't actually start until 2015 which I thought was kind of weird Okay.
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I can explain that. And I have, okay I'm going to, I'm going to pile on to fun facts. So okay one extra bonus fun fact. Tag team. Bonus fun facts. First bonus fun fact is Ella and Lily have a friend who is in the marching band at Charlotte. They were texting him earlier tonight to confirm whether or not the marching band is coming to Georgia. What size and does
Georgia Football's Wartime Impact
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he get to come? um Earlier, the last time I asked him, he said he did not think he was going to get to come. So we're trying to figure that out. um That's the one thing. The second one is, did you know, John, they didn't even have a football team until 2013. So that, that explains the, the 2015 band thing. So the, they decided to have a football team in like 2011 football.
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football The team started playing in 2013, And their first ever head coach, actually, for Charlotte 49er football was ah Brad Lambert.
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um And he has a ah Georgia tie. So he was an assistant for Jim Donnan at Marshall and then came to Georgia with Coach Donnan. So he was at Georgia from like 1996 until back then.
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um a defensive defensive coach back Then and he went on to Wake Forest when Donning got fired and then was named the Charlotte head coach in 2011. And they started playing in 2013. Got it.
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i Okay. The only other thing I was going to say is they used to be known as like, you would hear like UNCC, UNC Charlotte. Like that was the official name. Yeah, UNC Charlotte is what I remember.
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Yeah. And so they like rebranded at some point. Um, they rebranded in 2000. two thousand Um, because they felt like it was same thing. Like earlier were talking changing the colors to distinguish from the other, like basically Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill kind of overshadows, right? Cause they are there. If you say UNC, you think of Chapel Hill, honestly, same thing as you, you know, UGA, right? So there is a university system in North Carolina, just like in Georgia. So same kind of deal. So they were always getting confused.
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in like bylines in sports media and stuff. It was never consistent. And so they're like, we're trying to establish an identity. and they changed to just simply Charlotte to distinguish themselves. So those are my bonus. That's all that I had.
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Got it. Got it. um Speaking of all that, um I mentioned that the the mascot was the Night Owls originally. i never mentioned like the current mascot. So the current mascot is actually Norm the Niner.
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He's pretty cool looking. Yes. Norm the Niner is pretty cool looking. Yeah. But that's it. that's That's the fun facts. Okay. Cool. I like it. um We.
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Oh, actually, I do have other fun facts. but I totally forgot. Bonus fun facts. Over time. Famous, famous alumni. Oh, yes, that's right. We were talking with that. i forgot. I forgot. Although I don't know who you're going to say, but you mentioned that you had some.
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Yes, I do have some famous alumni. ah A former American Idol singer, Clay Aiken. Okay. is i did' I don't think I knew that. Studied studied at UNC Charlotte.
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Seth Avett of the Avett Brothers also also went UNC Charlotte. They're from Conway, by the way. Oh, yeah. the Another one, this one's a shout-out to shout out to Lamar, Pittsburgh Steeler.
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A former Pittsburgh Steeler, Alex Highsmith. Also UNC Charlotte. um Let's see here. And then another couple of items. um I don't think anybody's going to know who this is, but um I do think you might know this one. Professional wrestler Matt Hardy from from the Hardy Boys tag team. Since we just we just did a tag team thing. Shout out to Matt Hardy of the Hardy Boys. Yeah.
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um Another person that I think everybody will probably recognize, Earnhardt Jr. um He attended but did not graduate. Okay. Okay. Makes sense.
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let's see here I'm just looking through the other ones that I had here and I think that those were the those are the big ones um those are the big ones but ah yeah that's a that will that will wrap up the the fun facts so I went through the full repertoire since this is the first time we're playing these guys even though like I had a bit of um what do you call it dome the Mandela effect like I could have sworn that we played these guys before Yeah, more insight into the podcast before the podcast.
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You were like, how many times have played guys these guys before? Like zero. Honestly, i i i felt like we had played them too. And the funny thing is too, again, i live here.
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ah They started playing football in 2013. So I was looking into that and i was like, they only started playing football in 2013? was like, thank right? Yeah. That can't be right.
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Three years after we moved here. they know And they started looking into it in 11, which is also after we moved here. So pretty wild. Cool. KSU is kind of in that vein too, but since we're making the connection there.
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Right. with you know Also with Georgia Connections, with you know if you recall, Vince Dooley helped them kind of launch the the the Kennesaw State football program. so Yep. Yep.
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All right, this Hastie's Hargit history for the Charlotte Week. John Pell recently shared an Instagram video showing a timeline of seasons played by SEC schools. Aside from the schools that have left the conference or those that have joined the conference since the conference championship era began 1992,
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Georgia and LSU are the only programs that have participated in every football season since the SEC's founding in 1932. Neither school suspended their teams during World War II and both played during the abbreviated COVID season of 2020.
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That doesn't mean Georgia has played continuously since its first season in 1892, however. The 1916 Georgia season was was a success, with wins over Clemson, Florida, Virginia, a strong team from the Citadel, and Alabama.
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At the conclusion of the 16th season, coach Alex Cunningham had a record of 39 wins, 16 losses, and 6 ties. He'd completely turned around what had been a floundering program prior to his arrival in 1910.
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The 1917 season was expected to be another success. The schedule was set with games against regular opponents Tech, Florida, Auburn, and Alabama, as well as rivals North Carolina, Clemson, and Virginia.
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As an aside, this would be a really great schedule even today. The captain for 1977, WW or WG, Garmony, had been elected and was ready to act as a coach on the field.
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World events, though, had other ideas. The United States had maintained its neutrality during the conflict that had broken out in Europe in August 1914. though that stance had been strained due to Germany's campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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On April 6, 1917, the United States could no longer keep itself out of the conflict and entered the war on the side of the Allied powers. The effect of unit on universities around the country was immediate as men began to volunteer for the armed forces.
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Athletics contests faded in importance when shipping out to fight in the trenches of the Western Front became a reality. On October 11, 1917, after little debate, the Red and Black carried the headline, No Varsity XI for Georgia this year.
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The football program was suspended for the duration of the war so that men could focus on military training. To quote the article, And so the edict has has gone forth. There will be no Georgia football team this year, no brave bunch of Red and Black warriors fighting for their hearts out on the gridiron for their alma mater, No Bob McWhorters, no Dave Paddocks, or Tiny Hendersons to bring joy to a howling mob of Georgia brewers by a thrilling run or a beautiful tackle.
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From the 1916 team, 15 men and two coaches, Cunningham and assistant coach J.D. Henderson, J.G. Henderson, volunteered for the service. The only athletes from the team who didn't volunteer had family obligations that prevented them from doing so.
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The war was not without cost. Five men who had played on the 1916 team as either starters or backups died during the war. Tom Beasley, Elliot Braxton, Walter Levy, Macon C. Overton, and Edmund Rube Tate.
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Perhaps the most tragic death of university athlete was Joseph Brown Connolly, who had played on Pop Warner's undefeated 1896 team. In 1918, while serving in the U.S. Army in combat on the Western Front, Connolly was exposed to poison gas.
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He was involuted home, then finally died of the gas exposure in 1920 at Fort McPherson in Atlanta. He is buried in the Brown family family plot at Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery.
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When play resumed in 1919, the university was changed. What had been a sleepy all-male college was now co-educational with the first woman joining the student body in 1918. The university had also begun to grow. 1916, there were only students enrolled.
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and nineteen nineteen there were over eleven hundred Also, in a topic sure to be covered in another point, Georgia's suspension of his athletics programs caused enough tension with the arch-rival Georgia Tech that there were no games between the two schools from the time that Georgia resumed athletic activities in 1919 until There is no one alive who remembers the First World War, and fewer and fewer were alive to remember the Second. We should always remember those men who competed for our university, then went on to far more dangerous fields of competition.
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Thanks, Jason. That was fantastic. Just a reminder for everyone, you can always head over to the Hargit Library and see Jason. He gives free tours of his fall exhibit every Friday afternoon.
Injury Updates and Season Highlights
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All right, let's ah let's hit the news and notes. um We'll talk just mainly just a little bit of an injury rundown. so And I think we generally mention this in the review, but in in case you didn't tune in for that, us Kirby on CJ Allen said that he's week to week. He said he'll be week to week, and we will see when we can get him back. So...
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so I don't know. It didn't seem good right after the game. So that's much better. um well I would expect him not to be there this week, and then we'll see got from there on. um Chauncey, um Kirby said that his status is day-to-day.
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um and he did he did get the hopeful. So Kirby said it'll be day-to-day, and hopefully we'll get him back. um he said i actually I would say that classifies as the hopeful gets to death.
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Yeah. So, and then the last one was, he had a question about Kristen Miller, which I'm not, I don't remember anything going on with him, but he said, as far as I know, he's good. So I'm not sure what that question was was from.
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And no what's didn't he get, didn't he get a knock at one point in in the game? He may have, he may have. I don't remember. Again, I need I don't know if mentioned this or not. I know I mentioned it to Kim. I feel like I'm, I'm starting to consider like bringing back the in stadium headphones so I can hear it. You did mention that. Okay.
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So we'll see. um Let's see. Charlotte is coached by Tim Albin. um That's her head coach. I don't have any notes from his press conference or anything. didn't Didn't look, to be honest. All right. I think we're going to run through the game pretty quick, the matchup type stuff, et cetera, fairly quickly. um It's been a struggle for these guys this year. um hidden Let's see here.
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Okay. So talking about some kind of macro stuff, they, man, Georgia's net yards for plays up to 1.06. Charlotte's is negative 1.66. They are also minus eight in the turnover margin. So not great.
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Um, they rank, um, they rank dead last and total yards given up in the FBS as well. Um, I mean, most of their stat categories, FBS ranks are over a hundred, um,
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In fact, most of them are over 120. Uh, so they're really struggling on defense. Um, the only thing is they, they are good and like explosiveness. So like not giving up hugely explosive plays. So that tells me the teams can just march down the field on them. They don't need big plays to put up a lot of points on them.
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Um, But some notable defenders for them. Their leading tackler is Reed Wilford. He's a senior linebacker. 60 total tackles, four sacks in the season. Jaquarius Conley is a senior defensive back. He leads the team in interceptions with one. And Reed Wilford, mentioned him already, he also is a lead. Those four sacks lead the team.
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So, John, what are you looking for out of our offense against these guys? No injuries, lots of points, lots of yards, and lots of rotations. Agreed. Okay.
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<unk> I don't know what else to say. um Let's talk about our defense, their offense. um Their offense is, a I would say, equally struggling. They rank 117th in the FBS out of 136 teams in total yards per game.
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um Yeah, 130th in points per game. So been tough for these guys. Their quarterback is Grayson Loftus. Um, he is a sophomore. He's thrown for 1100 yards, eight touchdowns, five picks. Uh, Rod Ganey, Jr. is a freshman running back. He's got 231 yards and a touchdown. Uh, Cameron Smith, senior running back, 196 yards and no touchdowns. Uh, their leading receiver is Javin Nicholas.
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Uh, he is a junior, receiver. He's got 676 yards and five touchdowns. And then Sean Brown is a senior receiver. 422 yards on 29 catches and one touchdown.
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um Yeah. 126 on yards per play too, by the way. Like it's just, it's brutal. They have legit struggled.
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Yeah. I think we, yeah, I think, like I said, I think that we're we'll be looking, we'll be looking to have a big game against these guys no matter what. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, here's what I want to look for in the defense.
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Uh, rack up some sacks for the Jordan Jenkins sack challenge and Bulldogs battling breast cancer. There we go. i like The sack challenge. Yeah. Yeah. I'll, I'll, I'll take that. I'll take that.
00:27:22
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Um, I think there' that, that, uh, Yeah, this would be a nice game to gain some ground on the on the net your yards per play kind of situation.
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um i think we're a ways off of the statistical the statistical mark benchmark for what what makes cons what makes and constitutes an elite team.
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um based on the advanced stats. And I think you you mentioned where like 1.06 or something like that. i think they, I want to say it's like 2.7 or something along those lines. Yeah. because it is ah Was a truly elite team a few years back. That's like something that, that's something that the Senator used to talk about.
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um And I'm sure Josh, I'm sure Josh knows a little bit about some of that that as well, but yeah, overall, I think that it's just a good opportunity for us to get some, get some guys in make some, make an impact and then get them immediately out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.
00:28:22
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Yeah. Expect to see some new, some new faces on Saturday. Yeah, guys that have been kind of chomping at the bit. Maybe they've been on the bubble, on the perimeter of playing time.
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um Maybe you've seen even seen them in some of the highlights and said, wow, you like that where's that guy been? you know kind of thing This would be a nice game for them to have a coming out party. Yeah, i agreed.
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Okay. um We'll do a quick special teams. um Their place kicker is Liam Boyd.
SEC Format Changes and Playoff Scenarios
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He's a junior, eight to 10 on field goals and 15 to 15 on extra points. um Sorry to report. They did not take special teams seriously. Their punter is a junior Bronson long.
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He averages 42.64 yards a punt. um He is from, I believe, Nebraska. So that's a long way from Australia. Okay. It started out so strong with a name like Liam.
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now now um I will say, i mean, I don't know. Hopefully we're not, you know, I actually, I guess I just hope Brett Thorson gets the rest, gets to rest this week and he doesn't have to punt.
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Yeah, seriously. um And if he does, hopefully he is rested. I don't know. He seemed off in the last Last a little bit here.
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I realized after we, or after I published the episode, I realized we didn't talk about the fact, mean, not to nitpick on things from the Texas game, but he was a little off. Brett was a little off against Texas. So I'm sure he'll balance that. Suboptimal.
00:29:49
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Yeah. Yeah. eight All right. That's what we've got for Charlotte. um Yeah. Score a lot of points. Don't give up a lot.
00:30:00
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ah Take the football. get Get the youngsters in there. What's the spread on this one? um It is like it's like 40 something. 43 and a half.
00:30:12
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Oh, gosh. 43 and a half. Yeah. That does not spark. That does not spark joy. it does for us. It does for us.
00:30:23
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All right. ah You want to hit the listener questions, John? ah Let's do it. Although I do want to revisit something real quick because sure i realized that ah I missed at least like part some, some fun, like UGA connections to UNC Charlotte. do you Are you aware of any UGA connections to UNC Charlotte?
00:30:43
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I mean, other than the one Charlotte, I guess I should say other than Brad Lambert. Like, yeah no. Okay. This is actually going to be kind of interesting. So UGA has a former quarterback connection to Charlotte.
00:30:59
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I did know this. Sorry. Go ahead. Joe Cox and Joe Tereshinsky III have both gone on and coached at Charlotte.
00:31:10
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um Joe Cox, I think, as you know, he was ah he's part Ole Miss staff now. So that was one of his first stops after his playing days were over, being from Charlotte.
00:31:21
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Joe Cox was it was a coach at Charlotte at one point. and he neither way has he He played high school at Independence High School in Charlotte as well. Yeah, with A.J. Green, right?
00:31:32
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Yeah. yeah yeah and No, no, no. Massaqua. Oh, Massaqua. Sorry, I knew it was one it's one of our big-time receivers. um But I think, isn't A.J. Green also from North He's from South Carolina.
00:31:47
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He's from South Carolina? Okay, never mind. Totally botched that. um But yeah, I thought that that was kind of cool. Joe T3 and Joe Cox.
00:31:58
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Yeah. A little UGA quarterback connection with West Charlotte. That is true. I knew that. I knew that but that did not come to mind when you asked me. So cool. Got it.
00:32:10
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Okay, um let's see. As we head into the listener questions, we'll just remind everyone that the listener questions are presented by Working Web Media. So Working Web Media has worked with us for a few years now. They help us really out with all of our technology. They redid our website a couple of off seasons ago. You can hit head over to mygotapodcast.com to check out some of their work.
00:32:34
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00:32:54
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All right, John, kicking it off as always with the building bonus TMTMTM from our friend Brett building. Um, Brett says number one under the new nine sec game format, what happens to these late season cupcake games?
00:33:11
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Um, I, I actually, I think I have an answer to this and I think it's these go away. Um, we do not have one of these next year. Um, um, I'll say that we actually we actually have to cancel a game next year because we had four non-conference.
00:33:27
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We currently have four non-conference teams scheduled next year, um and they all have dates, and there was not one the week before Georgia Tech. They're all up up at the beginning of the season, and one will have to get canceled. um And then with the other seasons, I looked out – um we don't have stuff like this lined up so much. So I think, I think this probably goes away. We're probably playing a conference game the weekend before Georgia's tech heading forward, I believe.
00:33:55
Speaker
And how you feel about that, John? Yeah. That's, that's what my analysis is telling me. Yeah. i don't know. I think this is one of those things that, uh, the cupcakes need to get a little bit.
00:34:07
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Yeah. Yeah. i'm um' I'm a fan of getting rid of cupcakes. okay We're trying to make this the NFL light. um That's going to be the next step is getting rid of cupcakes because then people will want to be at the games and you know i'm I'm seeing already people trying to offload tickets and things like that make me an offer kind of things.
00:34:28
Speaker
um And if you're one of those people doing that, I get it. Like, you know, Texas was a big, took a toll and there's things going on, but like these cupcake games are, are they have their place, I guess. um Like, I mean, I'll be taking a kid there. So it's a good, it's a good game to come if you've, if you've got little kids. So, yeah but I do think that it's just the reality of the business, that the business that is college football, big time college football these days.
00:34:55
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. um Second question from Brett. Is there a chance that a three loss SEC team makes the playoff? I mean, i would say non there's a non-zero chance, but um the likelihood, in my opinion, I think is low.
00:35:12
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actually don't think it is all that low. So here, yeah, here's my scenario. My scenario is, and well, it's Alabama has to make it to Atlanta um and then lose.
00:35:23
Speaker
um And I don't know. So new playoff rankings are out. Alabama is 10th right now. Currently A&M and Alabama are the leaders and to make the SEC championship. If they both went out, there's still a few other things that have to happen actually. Cause it,
00:35:40
Speaker
there's ah There's a scenario where Georgia, Ole Miss, and Alabama all end with one conference loss, um and then you get into some weird tiebreakers because they did not all play each other. um So it ends up coming down to like opponent strength of schedule.
00:35:54
Speaker
um At any rate, ah if that happens, Alabama goes in 10-2 and loses to A&M, I don't know. I'm not sure what that happened. I think that's the that's the way that a three-loss team gets in is that – Alabama goes to the SEC championship, loses, and doesn't really drop.
00:36:12
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there's There's this whole, like, now in the 12-team playoff, if they're saying, like, they don't want to punish teams for making it to a conference championship game. We saw that with SMU last year in the ACC.
00:36:22
Speaker
So, to me, that's that's where it's possible. Yeah. Should it be? No. But again, this is the world that we're we're living in these days. yeah We're living in a world where freaking Texas is tweeting out their number 17 ranking in the CFP and Alabama's posting their number 10 ranking. Like, what are we doing, guys?
00:36:46
Speaker
Did we post anything? and No, we never posted anything. I know we didn't post that, but you sometimes we'll post something else like as a joke. It's basically like, we don't post this stuff, so we'll we'll post like something else. i mean I do see one. i do see one so there's It's just pictures from practice. It says, day in, day out. Go Dawgs.
00:37:06
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see days and Day in, day out. That's what we do. Just another day in Athens. It's just another day. Another day, another dollar. Yeah. oh Cool.
00:37:16
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Okay. um Let's head to 51 to seven GATA. He says, that as we get closer to the playoffs, should the group of five have their own playoff?
00:37:27
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He says, I personally think would be a good thing. i mean, i I, don't think that's a bad idea. Honestly. um I think part of the issue we're in right now is there's too many teams in FBS. Honestly, personally.
00:37:39
Speaker
I mean, we've got teams that just decided to play football a few years ago, you know, joining into the fray. Right. um I agree. we need to We need to contract. I think that um if they if if anybody had any any gumption, um they would break apart from the NCAA and start their own start their own thing. Big Ten and SEC should just start their own thing and and let everybody else kind of fight it.
00:38:07
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Maybe pluck a couple teams from the ACC and just do a super conference. We were texting about that with Josh, you know, just make it at the champions league situation. um
00:38:19
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I mean, I like your idea, which I guess is, this is this where we talk about this now? um Sure. Sure. I like your idea of having it um smaller conferences, more regional, um and then having the champions of said conferences actually play a Champions League format.
00:38:38
Speaker
But i I worry about what that does to the SEC. Like, do we go back to the old SEC? That's what I was saying. Your vision? My, well, yeah. I mean, I don't even know that that's like my preferred model, but in that, what was about, you're yes. Like you can't do that with these huge super conferences.
00:39:00
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Yeah. I'd rather go back to, i think I thought 12 teams, I thought 12 team conferences were the right size. And like when we had the power five instead of the power four, um I liked it.
00:39:13
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I liked it that way. Got it.
00:39:19
Speaker
you could have done an eight playoff or something like that right you could do you could have done the five conference champions of the power five and then three at large something like that like i think that would be better than what we have personally because i think right now you run into these crazy scenarios like where, like I said, you've got, we're, you know, there's, there's two weeks left in the season.
00:39:37
Speaker
<unk>m So I'm not saying this is going to happen definitively, but you could end up with Georgia, Ole Miss and Alabama all eight one. And the only teams out of that in the Georgia played two of those teams, the other guys didn't play each other. It's like, there's no way to solve it. um And that I'm not saying that it still like that never happened in a, you know, in the 16 division of 12 team conference, but there's more few and far between.
00:40:00
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nowadays it's so hard to evaluate this stuff. You got Ohio state and Indiana haven't played each other. you know, I guess they will in the, in the championship game, but it's, it's so hard to judge all this stuff. Cause all these teams aren't, they're not playing each other. I mean, look at the ACC, all the teams at the top are not playing each other. It's weird.
00:40:15
Speaker
They'll never do it. But, um, I think part of the problem is preseason rankings. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's especially now that there's only one poll that matters. Um, but as, but as John texted us, um, it looks like they kind of read the AP poll.
00:40:30
Speaker
Right. um I'll say this too. Somebody else posted this. So on top of the group of five playoff, and maybe this is kind of it, but someone, I think they were joking, but it might actually be kind of cool. It was like, what if we had like an NIT bracket for football and you take those, you know those teams that don't make, that don't make the CFP and put them in, put them in a tournament and do that instead of all the bowl games, something like that.
00:40:56
Speaker
I mean, I wouldn't, don't think I would be opposed to that. like That could be fun too. so Right. All right. let's and Yeah. If, if there was some way to make, make it matter. Cause I just feel like that. Um,
00:41:09
Speaker
I mean, we I proposed this. if If Texas A&M really wanted to, like, sandbag or whatever, like, they could. like basically just take another bye week this week because they're going to be in the SEC championship no matter what, right?
00:41:24
Speaker
um No, they are not. If A&M loses to Texas. Well, if sorry, if Alabama had won, if they didn't lose. Sure, yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Everything is, i mean, yeah, these games in the sec do matter as far as the sec championship goes. Um, I'll say too, there, I mean, here's how crazy this stuff is. There is a world where Georgia wins out, um, doesn't go to the sec championship yet gets a top four seed in the playoff, um, and gets a buy. And so then it's basically like, I mean, it's like a double buy,
00:41:58
Speaker
you know, ish. So you, you're, everyone has been talking about, you know, you want to be third in the sec. You skip the sec championship, third in the sec, but not be number four. Right. It's like, yeah. Third in the sec, skip this is Jim Jim to get a home game. It's like, well, can I interest you in third in the sec, skip the sec championship and don't even play until like new year's day.
00:42:18
Speaker
What is going on? Cause that's on the table for Georgia right now. Um, obviously we have to win out for that to happen, but it's possible. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. So I think that would, that, that would basically be everything.
00:42:30
Speaker
a and M, a and M and Bama make it to the sec championship. And then beats Alabama. Georgia stays at number four. Um, you know, assuming Georgia beats Charlotte and Georgia tech. That's, that's that scenario, which is wild as well.
00:42:44
Speaker
Then didn't, isn't there a scenario that I think I saw somebody, was it John had posted that Ole Miss in Georgia could end up playing in the SEC championship? That is possible. i think if ban i think I think that's like Bama loses to Auburn and A&M loses to Texas.
00:43:02
Speaker
And there could be other tweaks to it. yeah yeah How ridiculous would that be? yeah Just absolute chaos at the end of the season here. Yeah.
00:43:14
Speaker
Wow.
00:43:16
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and But to quote our coach, like well we well we're going to play to win no matter what game we're in Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's head to John Michael D. He has a little stitches update for us on the evening of last week. He said, late games and young kids' bedtime are tough at our house. It's a tough battle. was late to the game. Game time, a tire change. So I waited until the 14-3 stall cut, the stall out, before changing after house start. Any goals besides healthy this week?
00:43:44
Speaker
um Not really. I mean, win, obviously. Yeah. I think we hit that earlier pretty much. Yeah. Stay healthy. Play the young pups. I guess that's it. Yeah, win the game, play the young birds. That's it. That's the goal.
00:43:57
Speaker
and so Okay. So this this next one, John, I did some some some prep on this one and
Creative Logos and Game Preparation
00:44:03
Speaker
just in case. Okay. But I know you're going to in you're gonna be coming and cold on this, as as as was previously discussed. So this one comes in for my old friend, Matt Moore, at MattMooreATL.com.
00:44:14
Speaker
On Twitter, he says, ah the Charlotte 49ers have an underrated logo, in my opinion, with the pickaxe hidden in the sea. What are some other underrated and creative logos in sports and business?
00:44:27
Speaker
um So I guess I should have looked at this one. I'm going to ah change. I'm going to do a little screen sharing here so I can, if you're on YouTube, in case you're not familiar with the Charlotte logo, you can see it. so never actually noticed that. Yeah. Yeah. So that was pretty cool. Right. So it's a C. There's a pickaxe in the middle of the So kind of a little hidden thing.
00:44:52
Speaker
Okay. I've got a rundown of a few things that I'm aware of. So I don't know that this is totally it, Matt, but hopefully this is doson do some sort of justice. So just in the business world, have you ever noticed the Baskin Robbins logo, John? What's in there? 31 flavors, right? That's right. So there's a three and a one within the BNAR for their 31 flavors. So that's one. I've got one.
00:45:16
Speaker
Okay. Okay. the wendy's logo and it says mom underneath underneath her head that's right that's right okay cool that's a good one um i've got the amazon logo okay to z a to z yeah the little arrow they sell everything from a to z um then fedex have you seen this one Have you ever noticed this?
00:45:41
Speaker
The white space between the E and the X is an arrow pointing to the right. Oh, right, right, right. Okay. I think it's because they're always in the move or something like that. Always going forward something like that.
00:45:53
Speaker
Yeah. I think that's it. Okay, so I got a couple of sports ones. um So this is the Milwaukee Brewers logo. So it's a baseball mitt, but there's the M and the B in it. So I like that one. I do like that. That's cool.
00:46:10
Speaker
And then I've got, so this one, mean, don't know how much people notice this. So the for the Chicago Bulls, like the bull's horns, there's red on the tips as if it just gored somebody or something. So that's blood, blood on the tip of the horns of the Chicago Bull.
00:46:25
Speaker
think that's kind cool. um And then I've got an honorable mention, JP, Alabama, because they added the Bama bangs to distinguish from the Atlanta Braves. ah That's funny.
00:46:39
Speaker
That's funny. That's all that I've got. I'm going to throw out another one okay just just to piss off Josh and and everyone else.
00:46:50
Speaker
um The Manchester United logo. okay Super, super cool. um I actually recently just found this out. So if you look at Manchester United's logo, maybe you can just do a quick Google and see it yourself. But um yeah it's got the it's got the arch that says Manchester and United. But the really, it's the coat of arms in the middle that is the the big middle finger to Liverpool.
00:47:17
Speaker
um So we're the Red Devils, right? And so that's that's part of the the current logo. But there always wasn't the logo previously. But what has always been omnipresent is there's a ah boat. It's a large vessel, a shipping vessel, basically.
00:47:36
Speaker
And part of it is when Manchester was founded. um they didn't have access to a port. And so they were constantly using the Port of Liverpool. Well, they eventually built and invested in a port and no longer needed Liverpool anymore.
00:47:52
Speaker
And so hence why they put a photo of a picture of ah a shipping vessel on there so that they could send a middle finger to the Liverpool in perpetuity.
00:48:03
Speaker
a Got it. I finally just got it up. i was I was trying to scramble to bring it up. So if you're on YouTube, there's the boat there in the in the middle. Excellent. Hey, and you got you got your ah your soccer minute in.
00:48:16
Speaker
so I did get a soccer minute in. That's also a shout out to our British Bulldog. Nice. Nice. um Yeah. Matt, Matt, Matt works for Atlanta United.
00:48:28
Speaker
Excited to see Tata coming back. So looking forward to next season with Atlanta United. right. Let's let's get the band back together. That's right. Yeah. i'm excited it who might as well just bring Joseph back.
00:48:43
Speaker
I think that they will do. That'd be cool. um Okay. We're going to go to submitted by a friend of the show, Tim Riley for his daughter, Addison. He says, Addison too shy to communicate directly. Addison. That's okay. Like I told, I said, you can just email us. It's fine.
00:48:58
Speaker
um How do we use this game to prepare for Georgia tech? um That's a good question. I'm not, honestly, I'm not, I'm not sure. so one thing that we used to do, um like back when Paul Johnson was at Georgia Tech, we would sometimes schedule another team like the week before Georgia Tech with a funny, funky, gimmicky offense.
00:49:20
Speaker
and So for stuff like that, we would definitely use the the opponent prior to Georgia Tech to prepare for stuff. um I guess the only thing I would say is there could be some manufactured adversity type stuff, potentially.
00:49:33
Speaker
So I guess that's what I would say we might do. Yeah, I mean, I think that playing the youngsters will prepare us for for Georgia Tech because we could be in like five overtimes. yeah Oh, God. two in Too Too soon.
00:49:50
Speaker
um Okay, let's go to Fletcher Proctor.
Gunner Stockton's Potential
00:49:54
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Fletcher says, Stetson had it and Gunner has it, but it's a different it. Stetson was snarky, cocky, with a chip on his shoulder. Gunner will all shucks you and stab you in the heart.
00:50:05
Speaker
Just glad we don't have back under center. Uh, dogs by 49 and who dogs swatted the bugs. Uh, yes, they did. That that fun. We talked about the last one. Um, I'll say, man,
00:50:18
Speaker
Gunner has the aw shucks off the field on the field. I don't, I don't think he does. I mean, like I, like I've said, like you can see him like staring guys down after he scores. Um, another, ah remember last week we talked about, um, Brooks Austin had showed like how Gunner was running down the field to celebrate after a touchdown at Mississippi state. They went to the wide angle. Okay. So he did that again this week and this week it was,
00:50:45
Speaker
um It was the touchdown pass to Lucky, I believe. So he's kind of rolling out to his right and he got hit after he threw. And what Brooks, Brooks is, uh, his like theory on this is that Gunner basically like stood up and kind of like looked at him and flexed at him, the guy that hit him.
00:51:04
Speaker
ah Like after the touchdown was scored. So amazing. Yeah. So I think Stenson was, had that kind of a bit of a cockiness, brashness always. Right.
00:51:16
Speaker
um Gunner definitely kind of like seems to flip a switch or something. It's like he steps onto the field and Superman, you know, jumps into the, jumps into the, the telephone booth or whatever and comes and comes out.
00:51:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like when Lincoln Hawk turns his head around in Over the Top. Yeah, yeah. What a what an absolute pull.
00:51:42
Speaker
You never know what you're going get. You never know what you're going to get here. ah All right. Fletcher, hopefully that suffice for you. um Excuse me. Okay, so we've got a few we've got ah a theme here for a few. So we'll start off with Ryan Heinco.
00:52:00
Speaker
um He said, i was watching ancc an short the other day, and an old one started right after that. And it included a South Carolina fan claiming with five-star Gunnar Stockton coming in that they were going to run the table the next year.
00:52:14
Speaker
So he said number he said, his first question is, Gunnar sitting behind Beck has caused the rest of the world to forget that he was a highly-tatted recruit and would have been a day-one starter for ah a USC junior program in shambles. It's time he got some Heisman talk.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah. I'll just add the real Stewie asked us, why isn't Gunner at the top of the Heisman list? Then also Allschool wanted to know if Gunner is going to get it a trip to New York for the ceremony Heisman ceremony. I know, John, I was i was texting you about this like before the season, by the way. Sorry, what was your question?
00:52:46
Speaker
When is the cutoff for when they send those invitations out? It's before the CFP, isn't it? Yeah. So basically like the votes you send in your votes, like after the conference championship games, like after that Saturday, um, the, the, the weird thing about the Heisman is that the voting actually opens earlier. So there are people who have Heisman votes who send their votes in before the season even ends, which I think they shouldn't allow that. But yeah, seriously. Um, like so you, you can't vote until the season's over. Right. Like kind of like, it's kind you know, uh, I don't know.
00:53:22
Speaker
Yeah. But I know you and i were texting about this before the season because I i was texting you. I was getting frustrated in the preseason, like listening to some other podcasts talking about Gunner and like that Beck was the five star guy and that Gunner isn't that. And I was like,
00:53:40
Speaker
I mean, in the, in the very final rankings, Gunner was not a five, but as Ryan has pointed out at one point, Gunner was the, was a five star. They like downgraded him late. Um, I saw some people talking about like Gunner basically didn't go to all the camps. Um, and so that, that, that can hurt your, your star ranking. So he dropped a bit.
00:53:59
Speaker
Um, But yeah, and I totally agree. I totally agree. I think everyone's kind of acting like he's this three-star guy or something. I mean, he was a four-star. He was a consensus four-star with a five-star at one point.
00:54:10
Speaker
And it's showing. um He should, man. I mean, I think i think he should he should get... I'm not saying he should win the Heisman, but he should get an invite to New York, is my opinion.
00:54:22
Speaker
And I know I did see tonight he's up to like fifth in the betting odds for the Heisman, so... Yeah, I think that it's going to come down to his his has odds are going to come down to how he plays against you know the next two games. I think that statistically he is having a better season than Stetson Bennett did when he was invited to New York.
00:54:44
Speaker
Yep. All things considered, like that in and of itself should probably warrant an invitation. um i think that if he continues to play or win, I think he probably will.
00:54:57
Speaker
um and he you know He doesn't have a game like Marcel Reid had last game. I think that Marcel Reed's first half against South Carolina was probably one of those like quasi-disqualifying situations, but then he had a great comeback in the in the second half, which maybe kind of offset that. but That's what I'm saying. like yeah if you have the If you have the bad game or whatever, and it it tarnishes everything else, then...
00:55:26
Speaker
um I just don't see him having that. like The body of work that exists here is that he knows how to manage the game. and he's He's building in confidence. It's only getting better. like It seems like that we're really kind of peaking at the right moment. And i just think that it would You'd be hard pressed to not invite him to. How many people do they invite? It's kind of, it kind of floats. Honestly, that's another thing. I don't think it's consistent. It's usually three to five, I believe.
Quarterback Development and Game Strategy
00:55:55
Speaker
Lately, it seems it's been like five, I think, four or five. p Someone posted about Haynes King stats, and they're like pretty similar to Gunner's, other than the touchdown passes passing. but right and I think Haynes King has more rushing touchdowns and more rushing yards, but Gunner has more passing touchdowns kind of thing.
00:56:16
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. i I found those numbers that we were talking about, the Stetson comparison, and it was it was posted by Dog Nation. um So this was when it says when Stetson Bennett was a Heisman Trophy finalist, he had 27 touchdowns in 13 games for Georgia. After another five touchdowns showing Gunnar Stockton has 27 touchdowns in 10 games for the Bulldogs. So at least on touchdowns, he's already he's already there. Yeah.
00:56:40
Speaker
Yeah, i don't know where he's at from a yards standpoint or anything like that, but yeah. yeah I think he's he's earning he's earning it. um Conversely, you got guys like Ty Simpson who I thought were like guaranteed to be, and he may still be, but you know he had a bad game as he gets close to crunch time. Yeah, I don't know how much to make of it like the Vegas kind of like futures odds on stuff like this, but Ty Simpson's way down there now. And for it's worth, Gunnar also has better odds than Haynes King right now.
00:57:11
Speaker
um Let's see. ah Allschool had said, yeah, he's finally getting respect. He was getting in August. Who's playing at a higher level against ranked teams than he is? I mean, I think that's a that's a great question.
00:57:24
Speaker
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Um, I, I, I will say Mendoza is the leader. Um, and if he goes off against Ohio state, I would, it's probably going to be San or Mendoza, honestly. Um, all school also said, what are the chances that Gunner's the starting quarterback at Miami next year?
00:57:46
Speaker
Wait, what? Don't you put that evil on me, big Ricky Bobby. Let's see. The second question from Ryan Heinko was, I can't believe I'm saying this, but where would we be today without one Robert Michael Bobo?
00:58:00
Speaker
Hmm. We probably have less quarterback talent in the room. And I mean, we just got, we just pulled in another quarterback guy for what, 2017 or something like that. So we got Jared Curtis and we got another guy coming in. Like the quarterback, the quarterback room is completely safe when it comes to having Mike Bobo and stuff.
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah. A hundred percent. hundred percent. like No matter what, we're going to have a good quarterback um when he's when he's here. So regardless of who ends up leaving, whether it's you know at the end of the season, Puglisi or Ryan Montgomery or Milander, or if if Gunner decides to go pro or something along those lines, like there's always going to be someone there.
00:58:42
Speaker
yeah um so ah we we always say in Kirby we trust but like in in UGA quarterbacks I trust Bobo yep 100% yeahp one percent Um, okay. Let's go to our friend, Greg, uh, dogs fan forever on Twitter.
00:59:01
Speaker
Uh, this is a tune-up game, which has potential to be misleading in terms of progress. The last two games we played to our potential with, uh, with room to improve in spots. I can see this game being boring with a lot of players getting reps thoughts on what a good game looks like.
00:59:15
Speaker
Uh, he had good game and in quotes, honestly, I still think it's what we said earlier. Um, stay healthy, get the young pups in. mean, I think that's it. the The only thing I would question here is like with Gunner and his stats and the Heisman, does Kirby let Gunner stay in a little longer to pad some stats for that kind of stuff?
00:59:37
Speaker
No. Yeah, I agree. I'm with you. Yeah. that's the game Win the game, survive in advance. Like that's aller that's all Kirby cares about.
00:59:48
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. agree agree. I wish he didn't sometimes, but you know then you get situations like where we're going for it and at halftime and your quarterback gets knocked out. like You're trying to pad stats and your quarterback gets knocked out. like The risk-reward there, and i mean to be fair, like the the Heisman Trophy has got to figure out something because it used to mean something. I feel like it doesn't mean anything anymore.
01:00:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like it it literally doesn't matter at all. At all. And it's also just become like the quarterback award too. Right. yeah They have a quarterback award. Isn't that the Davey O'Brien award or something like that? Yeah.
01:00:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I just, I mean, make it, make it actually matter as, and then I'll care. yeah Uh, let's see. Let's go to gimme grits. Uh, gimme grits says who are the reserves that will likely, likely play that we need to become familiar with.
01:00:48
Speaker
I don't know about likely, but I wouldn't mind seeing Melinder. You mentioned him earlier. um nah, I, I, I'd rather see Pugly seed ball out. I want see what that kid's got.
01:01:00
Speaker
I agree, but I'm not saying he's going to get like an entire half of football, but um he could, you never know. Foreshadowing. There is an over under related to this. So okay start thinking about that, John. Dang it.
01:01:15
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Dang it. um Probably already familiar, but I would say Bo Walker. Yeah, Bo Walker. Yeah, I would expect him to get in. don't know.
01:01:26
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Like you said, you have some more of those guys that we've already seen that you're kind of like, hey, how do we see more of them? Riddell. um People probably know him, but that's another one as well. Yeah, Riddell, I'm just looking through the depth chart here to see if anybody sticks out.
01:01:42
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think um I think we did see some of him. Wasn't, the I don't know if. Who? up x Xavier McLeod.
01:01:55
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oh yeah. Yeah, he plays. I mean, does he play it enough? Like, i feel like we haven't really seen a whole lot, but. Dude, he plays a ton. Okay. He was starting earlier in the year. I'm not sure if he is right now, but.
01:02:07
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I know he was earlier. That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm just trying to go through and like, look at some of these names and align them with what i can recall happening. um Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I, we, we have played so many people. So ah I think, i feel like everybody is kind of a known quantity right now.
01:02:28
Speaker
what who Who do we have on the on the roster? That's not. That's, that's kind of how I was, I was feeling. we' we've, I mean, we, we got pretty deep into the bench against Mississippi state. Um, so yeah, in, in general, i would agree.
01:02:42
Speaker
Um, don't Maybe Jaden Harris maybe is another one. Um, he got in he got in on, had a big special teams. He's the one that made the the tackle on the kickoff against Texas. Maybe he gets some run like on the defense. I think that's probably gonna be more of it, right? Like the guys that are playing special teams, get some, get some, some play time, like on, on the offense or the defense. Um,
01:03:04
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know. Maybe we'll see Michael Gibson. was going to Michael Bell, brother of the unofficial official wide receiver. I'm not going to podcast. Watch out for him. Nice. Nice. There we go. There we go.
01:03:15
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Yeah. I mean, just just basically go and pick some true freshmen that haven't really played a whole lot. I mentioned Isaiah Gibson. i don't know if he's, yeah. Hey, maybe we, okay, here's one.
01:03:26
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Although we've, we've seen him, but maybe Taylor and Taylor, maybe he'll, well, I did see that he was coming back. Yeah. Taylor Taylor, CJ Wiley, some of the young, some of the young. CJ Wiley. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:38
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, we were able to summon some up. hopefully Hopefully that works. Butcher the hell out of it. Okay, BossDog says, do y'all have a non-Power 4 team you pull for?
Game Day Traditions and Predictions
01:03:51
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The closest thing I've got, I don't have an FBS team that I like think of at all. The only thing I will say is the Mercer Bears. I do pull for them. They're in the FCS because our our neighbor, Kendall Harris, is a starting receiver for the Mercer Bears. and They won the SOCON.
01:04:08
Speaker
So they have, they have their social media picture actually was like him holding up the trophy. It was pretty cool. So they're so con champions. They made it to the, they made it all the way to the, like the championship game last year and the FCS playoff. So hopefully Mercer's getting ready to make another run in the FCS. So that's, that's the only other team I really paid pay attention to.
01:04:29
Speaker
I don't really pay attention to anybody, but um I mean, if Georgia state's playing, I'm like rooting for them because Del McGee, you know, Yeah. Okay. That's fair. Um, okay. Let's go to our friend, Matt key. Um, okay. First question. How long before the starters are pulled? What do you think?
01:04:47
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Um, I would say halftime. I'm hoping, I'm hoping that we get a good solid half and then we we get ah a second half of practice basically. Yep.
01:04:58
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I agree. Let's see. Matt is the one who had asked about why the 49ers in Charlotte. So we did answer that. And then he also said breakfast or brunch for early game eats.
01:05:10
Speaker
guess um it's cool It's Carol's country covered. There you yeah because i say regardless i was go. was going to say that I consider that breakfast. So it's breakfast. Yeah. Breakfast. Yeah. Give me, give give me breakfast for sure.
01:05:21
Speaker
I'll have a Chick-fil-A or something like that and inside the stadium or or and or a double Chick-fil-A if you're really dangerous. That's pretty good. ah Let's see. Bill, Ohio Georgia Bulldog, how long does Gunner play?
01:05:36
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does you Do you think Gunner plays for the full first half? For sure. i think I think we're in for a half. How many touchdowns does Poglisi have? ooh Is this part of over-unders? I do not believe that as an over-under, so you you can feel free to answer.
01:05:50
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ah um i' say i'd I'd say that he's probably due for one touchdown, maybe two. I'd sit the over-under at 1.5 if we were doing that. Push.
01:06:02
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um And then Bill said, who is the third string quarterback and how much time does he get this game? So I think it's Montgomery, right? think it's Montgomery as well.
01:06:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Ryan Montgomery. um Melender is the other freshman quarterback. um We saw him in the spring game, but have not seen him enter a, an actual game yet.
01:06:25
Speaker
Right. Okay. And, uh, Bill said for Buckeye land, Patrick and I are still raising hell among, among the nuts. And the the picture, was both of them. They had the, they've got, they've got some, I got a podcast koozies, uh, with the silver, the silver stitches, silver bridges, uh, koozies. So appreciate it.
01:06:43
Speaker
Love that. Maybe we should drop the, drop the plug for, for the holidays on that one. Yeah. Yeah. You should order them soon. head over to mygotapodcast.com slash store. ah check out the Check out the lineup. Check out the koozies. Get those orders in so they can make it in time for the holidays.
01:07:01
Speaker
Perfect. All right. Friend of the show, Tim Riley. Okay. This was the spoiler earlier. Jim, are you riding down with the team this weekend? That's why I couldn't answer that earlier.
01:07:12
Speaker
So... No, but I do wonder when they're going. I'm i'm assuming they're probably getting there before we will. We're going to be coming in ah basically like when Kim gets home from teaching school. um We'll head down. So not riding with them. Maybe we'll see him on the highway. I doubt it.
01:07:29
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don't know. Maybe you'll see him stuck in traffic in Gaffney. Yeah. ah
01:07:36
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oh Man, I will report back if we do.
01:07:42
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drinking gaff me Let's see. How long did the starters stay in? We answered that and need to get healthy for Georgia Tech. Amen, brother. Agreed. Amen, brother. Need to get healthy for all the all the rest of the games. That's right. that's Especially on the offensive line because, man, we are balling out.
01:07:59
Speaker
o oo on speak right wait okay on the christmas list is speaking terms in the cards right now like with stacy yeah absolutely don't speak i mean i don't think that this game is gonna make an make an impact but yeah yeah um you know we got we got we got some time left in the holidays nice holiday season i like it i like it all right let's do the next one fireball
01:08:30
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Jason the Huggin. Jason Huggins, the Hug Dog, checking in. He says, only one question this week, guys. Do you prefer a top four seed and a month off or a home playoff game in place sooner to regain our momentum?
01:08:45
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I'll hang up and listen.
01:08:48
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This one is because this one, i like I love it. This option doesn't even include, does not include or play in the SEC championship game. um and this This one is kind of weird, right? So you i was when I was saying that earlier, right? And like the whole like the double buy scenario. So yeah so this is the scenario where you miss, you skip the SEC championship.
01:09:10
Speaker
um Then you get like a full month off, right? Because you don't play a game in December and then you don't play a home game and you just start off. Um, that one, that is kind of a weird scenario. Like that is a long layoff.
01:09:23
Speaker
Um, and you're going be playing a team that has at least just played last week and may have also played in a championship game, um, and, and lost potentially. Um, I don't know ah how, are where, where are you on the, like, does, is there any part of you that wants to go to Atlanta to the sec championship or do you want to skip it?
01:09:42
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I mean, i look at it as a what's in it for us. um What's in it for us is to win SEC championship, which Kirby Smart mentioned that not many teams get to do, um which is a great like feeling.
01:10:02
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But what actually matters in the way that they've the powers that be have structured college football is for us to not care about that. Yeah. um getting to the show, just like just like with you know college basketball, like do you think that like the like our Duke and Kansas and all those guys, like are they like obsessing over being the first the first seed for their their region or whatever?
01:10:29
Speaker
i don't i don't know enough about it to to say like that that's something that happens. Maybe you can shed some light on that. i think that for the most part, from what I've gathered, outside looking in is a fairly neutral basketball fan, but um just getting to the show is what they want, right?
01:10:47
Speaker
Yeah, I would say the only thing I would add to that is that in college basketball, like you don't have to win your conference tournament to get a one seed either necessarily. Right. Like, and that's kind of, i think to your point, right. Is that that's where football ball is, is headed and is already going. um The only thing I'll say, and I'm trying to remember it.
01:11:08
Speaker
someone Someone said this on a podcast that I listened to. um I think it was maybe Josh and Chad. I could be wrong. Shout out 20-minute-ish podcast. um Or maybe it was Nathan.
01:11:21
Speaker
Shout out to Bill Curve. It was one of those. um and It was basically like, let's not over-course correct and just assume that because last year, Ohio State missed their conference championship game,
01:11:34
Speaker
was the eight seed, you know, played the first week and then ran the table that that's going to happen every year.
Playoff Preferences and Over/Under Predictions
01:11:40
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Like we're going off of a very small sample size of one year of this 12 team playoff. So I don't, I I don't think we should like over index on that.
01:11:48
Speaker
Um, and I'm hundred percent personally guilty of doing that. Um, so I'm not sure. Um, Between those two choices, though, that you gave us, Jason, think I would rather be the five or the six seed and get a home game and like kind of get going other than waiting and sitting there for an entire month, no SEC championship, and then have that crazy buy. I think um I'm not one hundred percent sure. i also, it's, it's really hard for me to say though. i know this isn't what Jason asked, but it's hard for me to be in this mindset of, I want to miss the SEC championship game. That is so weird. I've, I said last year in the season preview that that would be advantageous for a team to do that. So I know I've definitely said it, but it's a weird feeling.
01:12:33
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I'm not. Yeah. I mean, like, yeah. I mean, we won, we won it last year. and it yeah And it was awesome. was awesome, but it didn't matter.
01:12:43
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Right. Right. Yep. Yep. It didn't. It didn't. And the grant in the, in the way the sport is organized right now, it did. So if there was something that, uh, yeah, I don't know.
01:12:54
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I guess put me down for more home games. I'll take, I'll take playing games on, on college campuses. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out dog stats.
01:13:06
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Cool. All right. We have one more.
01:13:15
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my god a freshman
01:13:24
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It is time for coaches over unders Charlotte edition. Uh, let's see. I have the slight lead in the over unders. So I will, uh, I'm going to take the ball.
01:13:36
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So going to go, I'm going to go ahead and go first over under. Is quarterbacks that play over under at two and a half. So do we get beyond Gleese?
01:13:47
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Um, and that is a lot of quarterbacks to play. um I am going to say under. Under as well. Okay. Um, over to you over under, uh, eight and a half players with a reception for Georgia.
01:14:01
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I'll go over Jim. Okay. I actually agree. Also over. um And then over under two and a half rushing touchdowns. I am going to say over.
01:14:12
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I'm also going to go with over on that one. i think we gonna get some garbage time touchdowns. like it. I like it. Okay. Over to you as we head over to the defense over under two and a half sacks for the Georgia defense.
01:14:27
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going go over. Okay. I agree. Rack it up for that sack challenge. um And then over under six and a half tackles for loss.
01:14:37
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Oh, I don't, I'm not sure. ah we're gonna get It's like, how many sacks are we going to get? I'm going to say under, i guess.
01:14:50
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I'm going to go over just to make, there we go. Just to make him do some work. um And then over under first half points allowed by the Georgia defense at six. Oh, ah allowed. Well, that that's a good point. That's how I read it.
01:15:05
Speaker
It's on the defense. Basically. So do we give them up a put touchdown? Are you thinking it would it would be quite a flex question if in the first half over under, does the Georgia defense score six and half points? Yeah.
01:15:19
Speaker
uh is this to me yeah yeah um i'll go i'll go under okay go under i am too i agree um okay and then on special teams um over under 0.5 special teams touchdowns uh i'm gonna say over oh i'm gonna go under okay All right. um Then he just had a question. Another, ah not an
Senior Day Memory and Game Predictions
01:15:50
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over-under. But do you have a favorite senior day memory as a senior day on Saturday?
01:15:56
Speaker
I have one. Okay. I don't necessarily know that I do have one. Uh, mine is going to be when David Jacobs walked for senior day. Um, so if you're not familiar back when John and I were in school, uh, David Jacobs had a stroke, um, and it is, and it is playing career and had a goal, uh, to be able to go through rehab and be able to walk out on senior day. And he accomplished that. So that, that was pretty cool.
01:16:24
Speaker
That is cool. Yeah, I don't I don't and I got nothing on after that one. Okay. Yeah, sorry. I got nothing. take another Anything I'm going to come up with can be terrible.
01:16:37
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All right. Well, coach, appreciate you as always. We'll get to your picks in a minute, but thanks for sending these in and and and tracking them as well. Yes. Thank you, sir.
01:16:48
Speaker
Okay. Let's to get our game predictions. Mentioned this earlier. Georgia, according to odd shark is favored by 43 a half The over-under is 53.5. That puts the at Georgia to The predicted score is Georgia to charlotte four point two ah parker fleming his college ball graphs has georgia forty four point seven five to charlotte two point seven three Our scoring impact is wacky, John, because it only goes against like the Power Five. I think we're only like the second Power Five team they've played, um but it is it is interesting. Our predictive score has Georgia 25.95 Charlotte
01:17:31
Speaker
negative point five eight Sorry. Amazing. Not amazing. Not to be dismissive. Not to be dismissive. I'm sorry. Lily was actually, yeah Lily was sitting next to me when I was like pulling this stuff together and I hit the refresh button. i was like, Oh my gosh. I was like, I didn't.
01:17:52
Speaker
negative points um yeah i um i don't know i'm gonna go dogs uh 51 to 7 oh wait 51 to 7 is your score line and you predicted under on the six and a half first half points yeah because it'll get a it'll get we get a garbage time Okay. um Okay.
01:18:18
Speaker
um know what I don't know what to say about this one, Jim. um Also, I only said that because I was using GATA's handle. I mean, that's ah that was not lost on me, Jim.
01:18:34
Speaker
Carter, what's the score of predictions? Why are you asking Chad to be kidding me?
01:18:41
Speaker
okay I'm going to expose you to your own fault.
01:18:47
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I was asking ChadGPT what they thought the score was going to be. So good. so good You know what? it's it's it's not a bad It's not a bad predictor. It's not a bad... couple field goals. 50? Yeah. According to ChadGPT, it's 45-10. Okay. We're going to go with that. Outsourcing.
01:19:09
Speaker
but car yeah i'm saying Carter wouldn't answer. So you had to go to ChadGPT. That's fine. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's ah let's head to Coach's Pick'ems. um We've got, starting off, we've got Arkansas heads to number 17, Texas.
01:19:27
Speaker
ah Texas is an eight-and-a-half-point favorite. This game is at 330 on ABC. Seems like a really low spread for a game that I feel like should not be close.
01:19:39
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. Agreed. Give me Texas on that one, Jim. Okay. I do the same. Bounce back game. Yeah, i honestly, I do. I do think so. um Then we got Kentucky heads to number 12, Vandy. Vandy is a nine-and-a-half-point favorite. This game is at 330 on ESPN.
01:19:59
Speaker
Now, this is... yeah Yeah, ah I'm going to take Vandy. This is one of those ones, though, that is on the table of could make an impact. Although so is Arkansas-Texas. These are games that could impact the SEC Championship game based on this whole winning percentage thing.
01:20:12
Speaker
but But I do think Vandy's going to Okay. Yeah, I've also got Vandy on that one. Okay. Let's see. Number 20, Tennessee, is a three-and-a-half-point favorite at Florida, 7.30 p.m. on Okay.
01:20:26
Speaker
on abc Three and a half points seems like a really low number. Yeah. I don't know Give me Tennessee on this one. i think I just don't think the Florida's got it in them.
01:20:38
Speaker
I'm going to take Florida at home at night in the swamp. This feels like one of those ah Florida beats Tennessee for no reason. The trap game. And completely ruins their season.
01:20:49
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Is that there's other implications for us on that? um I don't think this one, this is not one of the ones that impacts, I don't believe. Okay. um And then the, honestly, the, the, the only like two ranked team matchup in the sec, number 23, Missouri had number eight, Oklahoma, Oklahoma is a seven and a half point favorite.
01:21:12
Speaker
And this is a 12 o'clock game. So this is the noon or on ABC. And it's the only ah like two ranked team matchup. I guess this is me going first. um I'm going to take Oklahoma. Yeah, i would I would take Oklahoma on this one.
01:21:25
Speaker
Although it is the new Missouri could very well pull a ah South Carolina, Texas A&M kind of situation and then fade out.
01:21:37
Speaker
yeah yeah I could see something like that happening. 11 local time, I believe. right yeah yeah Super early game. I'll tell you, man, that Hardy guy, he has like 300 yards rushing or something crazy like that in the last game.
01:21:53
Speaker
All right. let's thank the Thanks, Coach, for the Pickham games. We'll see how those yeah that's pan out. I'll head back to watch that Tennessee-Florida game at night.
01:22:04
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. um so yeah, woll we're heading down. or Just Kim and I are heading down, so we'll be down there for the
Final Remarks and Sign-Off
01:22:13
Speaker
game. ah sounds like Sounds like you're going to be heading over to Athens for the game as well.
01:22:18
Speaker
That's the plan. I've got the tickets heading over with the Caroline. Okay. Cool, man. Cool. Try to get out of here early-ish.
01:22:29
Speaker
Yeah. I always end up late leaving later than I want to leave. So we'll see Try to get out here early. I may try to secure some grits on Saturday morning.
01:22:42
Speaker
Ooh. That would be cool. ah we'll We'll report back if that happens. All right. All right. Well, we got the 49ers, the Niners going in there, um and we're going clean house.
01:22:57
Speaker
I like it. Go Dawgs. Go Dawgs.