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Sugar Bowl Preview | 2024 Georgia Football
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Jim and John preview Georgia’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup with Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl and answer listener questions.
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Georgia vs Notre Dame: Previews and Expectations
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We're in like Woosah Kirby right now. ah
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Welcome to my got a podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Paul and I preview Georgia's college football playoff quarterfinal matchup with Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. We talked through what we're looking for in the game and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
00:00:23
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As always, remember to check out the newly redesigned mygottapodcast.com to see our latest merch. And you can follow us on social media at mygottapodcast. Finally, if you need help with your website or your online presence, head over to workingwebmedia.com slash dogs. Now let's join the conversation in progress.
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ah
00:00:49
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oh We're back. We're back. Another episode. I got a podcast. Just us. Just us this time.
Christmas Specials and Family Humor
00:01:00
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If you're, if you, if you missed out on the, on the Christmas Camden special, um, you should go back and you can go back and listen to, uh, listen to that episode and all of its, uh, amazingness.
00:01:13
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ah This one will probably come out first. We'll see. Go search the YouTubes.
00:01:22
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Oh, man. ah ah yeah had the We had the regale. We had the regale. That was fun. um my I talked to my my parents, and they thoroughly enjoyed the ah um Ponda's Famous Student reference. so they and They enjoyed the whole thing, but it was pretty funny.
00:01:41
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I meant to draw him upon this famous ah earlier this morning and I was like, dang it. When we recorded with Camden, I meant to say this is Ponda's famous granddaughter. Nice, yes. Well, Ella and Lily enjoyed getting to talk Christmas with Camden. It was fun. I appreciate it. I appreciate you guys entertaining her.
00:02:02
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Amazing. Amazing. I don't even know how it came up. I don't even know how it came up. I think that we must have done the Christmas regale. And she called me. So remember. remember and oh That's right. That's right. That's that's how it came up. She called you to talk about Christmas presents for me. and And I think that she just kind of was like, I like talking to that guy. Can we do a podcast?
00:02:29
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Uh, it was too funny, too funny. But then she ended up not getting, uh, what I suggested and it sounds like it was maybe a timing issue. So I'm not going to reveal yet, uh, what she and I talked about in case it could be a future gift. So someday I'll tell you the full story of our conversation. It was hilarious. All right.
00:02:49
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but Amazing. But I did, I did end up getting one, which, uh, someone so politely pointed out was perfect timing for, for this game. But, uh, I did get the, the Jesus,
Bourbon, Boxing Day, and Holiday Traditions
00:03:00
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Jesus was a Georgia fan with the picture of Jesus on the shirt. With, with, with touchdown Jesus on track two, which is, I guess is a nice segue into actually talking about the game. and yeah we It's weird. Like we've been, we've been, we've been able to record twice and not talk about
00:03:20
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um I know, right? Yeah. It's wild. You get, you know, even it it is weird to me, like in the, even with this new expanded playoff, uh, you get the 12 team playoff, but if you're a team like us, you still have this long layoff. Um, it's the same as it was. It just could go longer afterward. So, um, it's interesting. It's interesting.
00:03:42
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Yeah, ah it it feels, it feels weird, but it probably feels weird because, you know, I found myself enjoying the bowl games today more so than the first round playoff games. I know, Josh, cover your ears. I love the whatever the, uh, I can't remember what it was called, the sport bowl. this somethings but The one in Detroit, uh, Pitt and Toledo. That game was amazing.
00:04:09
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Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. I mean, it was, I was, I was sitting there wondering if they were going to break the record for, for over times in this ball game. I know. I know. It was incredible. Uh, our whole family got into it, uh, on like the first round playoff games, but whatever. Yeah. Uh, I believe you brought a bourbon. I brought a bourbon. Okay. I got the them dogs as hell. Uh, very nice. The maker's mark label, the maker's mark. Excellent.
00:04:35
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I, uh, I've been sipping on this one a lot. I need to, I'm almost out. Is it your infinity bottle or is it the 46? No, it's the makers. It's the maker's 46. Although that would be a good idea for, for a new infinity bottle. This, this one would mean a heck of a lot more than the one that I have, but I do have the redemption bottle. The one that I started during the 21 season.
00:04:59
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Right. I didn't have anything that I could make like Notre Dame reverence. So I just grabbed this one because I opened this last week and I really like it. It is the smoke wagon. Uncut the younger. It's very good. So I'd had it for a while. I do like that one. Yeah, it was really good. I'd had it for a while and hadn't opened it. Opened it last week and I really liked it. So brought that.
00:05:22
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Excellent. Well, cheers. Cheers to getting back in the swing of things. It's the day. It's Boxing Day for the the the soccer fans out there. um It is Boxing Day as as of recording time and we're quickly approaching. I'm full of cheese. I don't know what day it is and I don't know if my kids have taken a shower in a week.
00:05:48
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Yeah, I've kind of like already hit that. I hit that today. I was like, what day is it? Like ah my days of the week are all off. So, um, yeah, trying to get back back in this week. My god podcast has been on Christmas break.
Deep Dive: Georgia vs Notre Dame Game Analysis
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yeah
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ah Seriously, seriously. Um, but yeah, we've been, we've enjoyed it. So and had a, had a good, uh, a few days off this far and then looking forward to the weekend and then, uh, the play after the rest of the play up next week.
00:06:15
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Excellent. So and I know that you guys had a good Christmas cause we already talked about it this morning or this afternoon. yeah Um, but yeah, um, we also had a good, also had a good Christmas. So we're ready and ready and rearing to get back into the, uh, the football playoffs. Yeah. So let's talk about Notre Dame, Jim.
00:06:34
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Let's do it. Let's run down the matchup. um So kick off New Year's Day at 8.45 p.m. Eastern. ah So late. Couldn't be a late kickoff. ah and Might want to take the second off of work. I don't know. It's gonna be late night. um We are in the Caesars Superdome, ah which last I remember it was the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, but Now it's the Caesar Superdome i in Nolans for the Sugar Bowl. ah Dogs coming in in at 11-2, 6-2 in the SEC and the regular season at least, and Notre Dame coming in at 12-1. No conference record because they are not in a conference.
00:07:17
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Uh, Georgia is seated number two and ranked number two Notre Dame is seated number, uh, seated number with their rank for, or sorry, ranked five, uh, seated seven. Uh, the broadcast crew, we've got Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, and Molly McGrath are going to be at this game. Uh, in case you're wondering the Fowler herb street, uh, crew is at the Rose Bowl, um, on New Year's day.
00:07:43
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Not 100% sure what the official hashtag is because they have not seen the notes come out from the school yet. We're talking about this earlier. Technically, we're recording like a day earlier than we usually would based on days away from the game. I'm assuming it's going to be hashtag UGA versus Andy because Georgia is the home team, ah but we'll see.
00:08:03
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All-time series record, ah Georgia leads this series 3-0. They have never beat Georgia, with the last meeting being a 23-17 win in Athens back in 2019.
00:08:15
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Uh, the weather actually looks fairly nice. like So last time I checked, it was like high of highest 64, um, games inside anyway. Um, but, uh, it's going to be, so this sounds like it's going to be a far cry from, uh, the frigid temperatures, um, that we've been experiencing of late. So, uh, if you're down there, enjoy bourbon street, hopefully some decent weather for you down there. Yeah. thats i've i've I've heard, I've heard good things. I've actually never been to a New Orleans.
00:08:43
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Hmm. Gotcha. I've only been once. Don't have much on you. I know that if I were to go out have the beignets for sure. Nice. And you would stop by to see Hunter on the way, obviously. I would definitely stop by to see Hunter. All right, JP, hit us with the fun facts.
00:08:57
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All right, fun facts. So Notre Dame, as everyone knows, is located in South Bend, Indiana. South Bend is one of the most northern cities in Indiana. It is almost in Michigan.
00:09:14
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and it sits on the south bend of the St. Joseph's River, um which is where it was first founded and settled ah by a person that I completely forgot who it was.
00:09:35
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um However, that person ah greeted Edward Sorin who is was the very first president of the all male institution, that is, that would later become a little bit of.
00:09:54
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history there yeah it was founded by it was founded by french bishops basically from the catholic church um the bishop of vicinies i don't i'm totally butchering that uh basically came to france and made a call for help Um, and you know, wanting, wanting missionaries in that area. And this guy, Sorin, uh, Edward Sorin came and basically answered the call. And, um, it's kind of mind boggling to think about life back then in like the 1800s and stuff, like the journey that this guy took to just, just to even get to South Bend. Um, it was kind of crazy. Um, basically got to New York, made his way.
00:10:42
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up north they paddle They took a a boat, a steamboat, across Lake Erie. um ventured down the river um into what they you know would would eventually found as South Bend. It's crazy, man. like yeah It just seems kind of crazy the what life must have been like back then, trying trying to push westward into the expansion. I mean, the the city of South Bend itself, um ah aside from, you know it's basically you know industry, right? so
00:11:17
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A couple of famous companies were, you know, headquartered there. It's the Studebaker company, famous automotive brands, the Studebaker company, and what would eventually become Jeep um was started there as well. It's actually American american General um is is the military contractor.
00:11:41
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that builds the jeeps that built the Jeep that eventually spun off and became the brand that it is now. um But a lot of those vehicles and the Studebaker, those brands kind of helped build South Bend into into what it became.
00:11:59
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gotcha um And obviously with the downfall of those companies, some of the downfall of the the area also kind of came with it. You know, industry leaving, um they call it the rust belt for a reason. um But, ah you know, the the university largely is the the major employer in the state, or in that area. Right. um You know, college town, basically, that's all there is.
00:12:26
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Um, there's some, um, there's some, some manufacturing still, still going on there because obviously they they have the plans and the manufacturing facilities there too, but the university by and large is the economy there.
00:12:38
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ah Fun facts. um So Notre Dame, I was reading, yeah they they have a very large endowment, but I was interested to see like where their endowment ranked on the on the scale of you know universities in the kind in the in the country. Harvard, as we all know, has the largest endowment by a substantial margin. They have almost a $51 million they have a fifty one million dollars endowment.
00:13:06
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Yale's number two, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Penn, University of Pennsylvania. This fund is it's kind of crazy. You've got Texas A&M is also listed on there um as having one of the biggest endowment funds in the country. And then right behind them is Notre Dame. Got it. Notre Dame has an endowment of $17 billion. dollars um which is kind of crazy to think about. um Michigan for what it's worth is right underneath them. So of all those schools that I mentioned, obviously Texas A and&M has the biggest shame that they need to be, you know, flogged because they don't have any any national championships or anything like that. that new They don't have, you know, they're they're not a huge sporting university, you know, as far as, you know, Michigan and Notre Dame have been around and have had, you know, pedigrees for for forever, right?
Notre Dame's Cultural and Historical Influence
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Yeah. We don't really associate Texas A&M with, you know, just, you know, all all of the, all of the history and grandeur of, of college football. Right. Um, but anyway, the, those two schools kind of stick out as those two schools to stick out as as sort sore thumbs in my opinion. Yeah, seriously.
00:14:23
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You got all these you got all these research and research institutions that are not really known for their sporting you know prowess. And so as we move into the n NIL era, you start talking about you know universities when they can start paying players and things like that. you know You've got these these schools that are sitting on endowments of substantial amounts of money. you know Eventually, that that money will probably get put to use for for sporting purpose purposes, I figured. But who knows? Yeah, we'll see.
00:14:47
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Um, all right. Let's talk about famous alumni. Jim, do you know any famous alumni from Notre Dame university? Oh, my joke is going to be Rudy. Yes. Who's also offsides for what it's worth. I actually don't mind because like he sacked at the Georgia Tech quarterback, so it's fine.
00:15:08
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It's fair. Yeah, it's totally fine. Condoleezza Rice is a Notre Dame alumnus. Phil Donahue of famous 90s talk show, the Phil Donahue show. Nice. That's a good one. Regis Philbin. I knew that. I knew that. Is a University of Notre Dame He would talk about it on Regis and Kelly all the time, or Regis and Kelly Lee, either one. Yeah, it was Regis and Kelly, Regis and Kathy Lee, whatever, whatever it was. yeah Um, Jesus himself, June Caviezel, Jim Caviezel was an alumni of Notre Dame.
00:15:48
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I just did the Touchdown Jesus signal for those that are not on YouTube. It's amazing. I was going to talk about Touchdown Jesus in a little bit too, but um if you remember um Mr. Jump to Conclusions,
00:16:02
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Okay. From office space. from office space Yeah. Uh, obviously everybody knows Heisman, Joe, Joe Montana, uh, Joe Theismann, another guy. Um, a couple, a couple of ones that I thought, you know, stuck out because obviously there's a long list of, you know, famous people that, and you know, famous and politicians and all this kind of stuff that went to Notre Dame, but, um, a huge list of governors, by the way, like, I feel like there's like 20 governors that went to Notre Dame, which is weird to me.
00:16:32
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Whatever. Nicholas Sparks. Does that name sound familiar? Oh, yeah. Yeah. ah ah and Novel writer. ah The Notebook. The Notebook. That is correct. Yeah.
00:16:45
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ah And, and, and other, and other movies. Yeah, many others. Yeah. Yeah. The notebook, it was the one that sticks out to me is the one that put Nicholas Sparks on the, on the map. Yeah. Uh, another one that I, you know, are you hearing some of these names? Like I've always known Regis, you know, Joe Montana.
00:17:03
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um Mark Cuban is an alumnus of and an alumni of the University of Notre Dame. Which I didn't realize i thought was yeah thought was strange. I would imagine Mark as being like a college dropout, you know, like bootstrapped guy. he's he's He's really big on on all that kind of stuff. So anyway, I thought that that was interesting.
00:17:22
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and um Let's see. Let's see here. Let's see here. um I do have some other fun facts that are not necessarily Notre Dame related because I mentioned on the, I mentioned on the podcast previously when we're talking about the, you know, that who who we were rooting for in the Indiana versus Notre Dame game. I'm seeing, I'm seeing reports that Mark Cuban went to Indiana. So I don't know. Maybe there's a rivalry thing there. off to We'll have to check on what's going on with that. Really?
00:17:48
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Yeah. He graduated from the Kelly school of business at Indiana university is what I'm saying. Interesting. So I have to have diet my research, my research, uh, may have been, may have been wrong because I have enlisted as I have enlisted as a, as a famous notable alumni. and Interesting. We'll have to, we'll have to get an intern on it. but Seriously.
00:18:12
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Um, sorry. kean Yeah. So no, what I was going to say was the, the rooting interest for me is, you know, geared towards just Indiana history in general, right? Obviously both teams were from Indiana. Um, the, one of the reasons that I really wanted Indiana to win was so that I could talk about this and I'm going to briefly talk about it nowhere near as long as I planned on it. If Indiana had one.
00:18:38
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But the reason that I wanted Indiana to win is because my family history extends into politics in the state of Indiana quite extensively and impacted it. It still to this day has impacts to the to the world at large. um My great grandfather or my great grandmother um Her brother, James Grover McDonald, was an alumni of Indiana University, University of Indiana, whatever. um And he eventually became the first ambassador to Israel for the United States.
00:19:15
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How he got to that point was basically a an Americanized version of what the Israeli-Arab conflict looked like from an American point of view.
00:19:31
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um and how he basically rose through the political ranks to be put into a position to take on that that role as as the first ambassador to Israel, um and was an instrumental figure in the creation of the country Israel. um You know, how it became from Palestine to Israel,
00:19:55
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um A lot of it was steeped in the
UNC vs Georgia: Historical Football Rivalries
00:20:00
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World War II, you know, kind of fallout with with Hitler. um I guess that he was friends, really good friends with someone from the Israeli government and basically started hearing stories and and, you know, atrocities and things like that. He basically was was front row as a politician for the American government to try to monitor what was going on and had people listen to what he said about what was going on in Germany with Hitler and what his what his plans were to basically, you know, what was it, the the final the final solution or whatever.
00:20:39
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um He warned the American government of what Hitler was doing and what he had planned to do. um but they didn't listen to him and didn't listen to his um you know what was going on so a lot of a lot of that history um was kind of lost for for us as a family but um i'd i discovered this as um because i never really heard a whole lot about this but i discovered it when i was doing research for a project in in high school but
00:21:12
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Anyway, that's my that's my brief, my brief, my brief Indiana, Indiana history is that my great grandmother's family and my grandmother's family are very prominent Bloomington, Indiana, and Indiana folks. And there's a lot of Indiana, you know, pride, I guess that I have as as a result of a lot of that stuff. That said, FTMF.
00:21:37
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ah too good again Very cool. Anyway, a little brief history for you guys. Okay. I knew, and I didn't know that. I knew there was Indiana excitement and didn't know the backstory. So thanks for sharing. Cool. Yes. It's funny. If you look at the picture of James Grover McDonald, the the way that he looks, he looks exactly like my great grandmother. He's just a boy. He's just a boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. okay Cool. That's all I got, Jim. Okay. Okay, cool. Why don't we move into AC's hardware history?
00:22:27
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right Jason was kind enough to ah send us something just before going out on vacation. uh for the holiday season so yeah you've been sitting on this one for a while yeah yeah right uh you wanna run with this i'll run with it like before we do i will tie a a bow around what i was just talking about because i i just realized that i forgot one of the connections to uga my my great grand uncle taught at one of his stints before getting into the politics he actually taught at the university of georgia which i thought was really funny
00:23:01
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just He was a summer fellow as part of the Harvard University because he went he went ended up going and getting a graduate degree from Harvard and it was a summer fellow at the University of Georgia during 1916 and 1917. That said, let's get into Hasty's hardware history. In the last installment of Hasty's hardware history, I looked at a long ago connection between Georgia and Syracuse. This connection was brought to mind brought Brought to my mind because of Syracuse coach Fran Brown ties to UGA. While I don't necessarily want Hasty's hardware history to be tied to current events, because it's about history after all, UNC hiring Bill Belichick made me think of a long ago event during a Georgia UNC game that helped to change the course of football history.
00:23:45
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Georgia may have played the first football game in the Deep South, but North Carolina was playing games starting in 1888. Being the more established program, North Carolina fielded stronger teams than Georgia in the 1890s.
Tactics and Predictions for Georgia vs Notre Dame
00:24:00
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With that as the backdrop, Georgia, with its first year coach,
00:24:04
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Glenn Warner, sometime from being known as Pop Warner, scheduled a game against UNC for Friday, October 26, 1895 in Atlanta, Georgia. this was arguably the biggest game in georgia's football and This was arguably the biggest game Georgia's football team had played in its short history And our players knew that going up against North Carolina would be a big test. During the game, Georgia had North Carolina backed up against its own goal line. So UNC's punter, a man named Stevens, was sent in to kick the ball away. However, in desperation, instead of punting the ball, he flung it forward to a teammate named Whitaker.
00:24:43
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who somehow caught it, Whitaker, then ran through the equally surprised Georgia players and touched the ball to the ground behind Georgia's goal line for four points. Keep in mind the touchdowns at this point were literally when the ball was touched to the ground behind the opposing team's goal as there were no end zones.
00:25:01
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The conversion kick added two points and UNC would win the game six to nothing. The problem with that play was that the forward pass wasn't legal in 1895. The Stevens to Whitaker pass was completely illegal, was a completely illegal play under the rules as they were written at the time. The referee though, in the fine tradition of referees through the ages, claimed he hadn't seen the play happen.
00:25:27
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did So he let the score stand. The crowd which was standing on and around the field became so unruly that Atlanta's that atlanta's police chief, Connolly, had to intervene.
00:25:40
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This is like some, this is like some professional wrestling type stuff. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I didn't see it yet. Among the crowd was Auburn's head coach, John Heisman. Heisman would later during the college athletics reform movement of the early 1900s advocate for the forward pass as a way to open up the game.
00:26:04
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make it safer for players, and more exciting for spectators. He wrote to Walter Camp, man, listen to all these names, the legendary Yale player and athletics administrator who was the most infament influential voice in college athletics during the 1890s and early 1900s about the Stevens to Whitaker pass that he'd seen and used it as an example of how game-changing the pass could be. Despite opposition from Camp and other college officials,
00:26:31
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The forward pass was made legal for the 1906 season. North Carolina felt that winning the winning the game in a in the manner that they had was both illegal and ungentlemanly, so they scheduled a rematch for the next Thursday, October 31st, again in Atlanta. North Carolina won the game 10-6, apparently with no illegal or ungentlemanly behavior, so both sides went away satisfied.
00:26:56
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du Can you can you imagine like hey that was ungentlemanly, so let's play again like It was it was bad form old sport Man man how times have changed Uh, that's yeah seriously, I can't imagine, you know, being around like, I don't know, talk about the, you know, these are the good old days or whatever. These are the, these are the future legends of this game kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, had a bit of an exchange with Jason after this one had no idea of the, I hadn't had never heard the story had no idea that we had any kind of potential tie to the, the Ford pass becoming a legal play. Uh, it's pretty, pretty wild.
00:27:38
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Yeah, that is, that is kind of crazy. um Yeah. And then Heisman, then Heisman would do Heisman things. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. We can leave that part out. Yeah. Nerd. Well, thanks Jason. Uh, you know, like we always say, um, if you ever in Athens, um, when school is in session and school is open, definitely stop by the, uh, the hard grit library and go, uh, check out the collection, uh, all kinds of amazing artifacts that, uh, that Jason has that he can help you take a look at. It's pretty cool stuff. Yeah. Do not stop by now. He's probably on trail somewhere. Agreed. Agreed.
00:28:15
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Jason, hope you're enjoying your time off this season. All right, let's go. Let's see news and notes. I don't have a ton. um I mean, shoot I guess officially, I don't think this was official the last time we were actually talking about football.
00:28:31
Speaker
um The big news and note is that Carson Beck is officially out for the season. so yeah we We knew he was out for the Sugar Bowl, um but had surgery on his elbow um successfully, what, earlier this week. um so He will be rehabbing. And then I think he's supposed to be able to start throwing the ball in the spring. So hopefully, hopefully a healthy and speedy recovery for Carson. Uh, we don't know what's in store for him just yet, but we will find out soon enough. Um, but Hey, now, now we know, um, it's a, it's over to Gunner, uh, for the duration of the playoff.
00:29:07
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That's really all I got. And then on the Notre Dame side, um, Riley Mills, who's like one of their, one of Notre Dame's like star defensive lineman. Uh, he got hurt in the Indiana game. Um, and he is out. So he's out for the remainder of the season as well. So Notre Dame will be down one of their, uh, star defenders in this game. Yeah. that I saw that guy get hurt in the, in the Indiana game. I remember thinking to myself, Ooh, that's, that's going to leave a mark. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Agreed.
00:29:37
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ah Okay, let's see, going through some kind of overall um matchup type stats. um So let's see, Georgia is plus one in the turnover margin category, Notre Dame plus 16.
00:29:53
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Um, so they're doing very well there. Um, dogs are at 0.99 net yards for play Notre Dame at 2.11. Um, I'm going to say in general, if you look at all the stats and everything Notre Dame, their statistics.
00:30:08
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are way better than Georgia's. um um But I'm going to add my big like caveat of, but the schedule is i mean nothing like nothing at all close to what to what Georgia played. All right, so what we're looking for when but Georgia has a ball.
00:30:26
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So um some notable defenders for Notre Dame. So Jack Kaiser is a senior ah linebacker. He's a leading tackler with 69 total tackles and a sack. x Xavier Watts is a senior safety. He leads the team with six interceptions. And then, you know like I mentioned before, Riley Mills, he's out of this game. So he is their leading sack artist in the defense. He had seven and a half sacks on the season. So they will be without him.
00:30:54
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But then I think obviously the big story you know for Georgia and what we're looking for with the offense is, what are we going to see this offense look like with Gunnar Stockton at the helm and instead of Carson Beck? So we've only seen it for a half, second half of the SEC Championship game. What's it going to look like? you can count that Right. And like, I will say this, I like coming out of that and I think we talked about this even now, I was kind of like, Oh, we should kind of like change the offense and kind of run like a modified version of what Georgia Tech ran against us with hand skiing. Like I think Gunner would be really good at that. I'm kind of backing away from that. Like, I don't know, like we, you know, we throw so like the offense has been a lot of like short lateral type stuff. Like I don't see any reason why Gunner
00:31:39
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can't do that. And then I also um just been kind of reading up on Gunner a bit. um I will say Seth Emerson had a really good article in The Athletic last week. um We've heard about like Gunner's ties to the Bobo family. So basically like when Gunner was like six years old, his dad went to George Bobo, Mike's dad and was like, Hey, will you work with my son? And he was like, your six year old son? He was like, yes. So he was like helping him train throwing when Gunner was like six years old at like, like in the morning before school. Um, so long history there. Um, this is the guy that like broke. What was it he broke? Like he said the Georgia high school touchdown record and like total yards records. He, broke he broke those records. They were owned by Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson.
00:32:23
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did that as a senior year. Um, and I will say this, George Bobo said that, uh, like that Gunner has like, he's got an arm, like he's got a serious arm. Um, he said a bigger arm than Stetson. So I don't know about that, but that's what Bobo said. So we'll see. So I'm not sure that we need to modify it so much more, just like play with the strengths kind of stuff. Refine it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:46
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Yeah, I would say that the if you're the type of quarterback that can out gain out touchdown guys that are playing in the NFL or that have played in the NFL, um that is that is saying a lot. And to do it at that level, um you know this isn't just some schmuck that we got off off the street. Kid knows how to play football.
00:33:10
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Yeah. I mean, he was a highly, he was a highly recruited guy and he had offers from everyone. He was more highly rated than than Beck was coming out of high school for what that's worth. yeah So I don't know. I will say like, just kind of look at it in Notre Dame's numbers again, you know, kind of like against what their, I mean, their, their statistics against the past are really good. They actually fourth in the country, um, around,
00:33:32
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as far as yards allowed against the pass. So I don't know. I mean, I, I do expect us to kind of lean on the, lean on the run game. I feel like having ETN back made it such a huge difference against Texas. I feel like ETN is kind of like the engine that makes this offense run. So I'm, I'm looking for a ah healthy dose of that. Get the ball of the tight ends, you know, um, catch the ball.
00:33:56
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You, you, dear listener, maybe the same yourself. Oh my goodness. Like, how are they, how do they have such stats? Well, let's, let's take a step back on that from a defensive standpoint. They have played Texas A&M. They lost to Northern Illinois. They played Purdue.
00:34:12
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Miami, Ohio, they played Louisville, they played Stanford, they played Georgia Tech, they played Navy, they played Florida State, Virginia, Army, USC, and Indiana. Yeah. What do you think Georgia's record would be in that and that schedule?
00:34:28
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Oh yeah, seriously. Agreed. 100%. I would say that of the two teams, one of these two teams does not look like the other in terms of battle testedness and battle prepped. Yeah, I agree. I'm with you. They ain't played nobody. They ain't played nobody, Paul.
00:34:46
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Anything else you're looking for out of the offense or anything you're looking for from their defense? I mean, I will admit, like the only game that I flick fully really watched was the indig Indiana game. um I mean, you know the defense looked good against Indiana. I don't know what Indiana's ah offense has. like that There was the same kind of deal there. like I feel like they hadn't really played anybody. and Nothing I really saw in that game from either team like jumped out as scary to me.
00:35:08
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so I mean, Notre Dame was the beneficiary of what, like four or five turnovers in that game or something like that. And they still could only, they still couldn't put 30 points on the board, yeah which, you know, maybe, maybe some of that is that they just took the foot off the gas late, but I don't know, man. um To me, this is, to me, this scene this screams a situation of just, if we can not turn the ball over, um we're going to be fine.
00:35:37
Speaker
You know, just like all of, all of the games this season for Georgia. Um, if we don't run the ball over, we'll be fine. Yeah. Um, I think that our offensive line being healthy or defensive line being healthy, like all all those kinds of things, but you know, as far as just the offense, you know, as long as the offensive line is, is healthy, I feel pretty confident that we can figure out how to, how to get some points on this defense. Um, yeah.
00:36:04
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You know, I mean, they, they seem like that they put up the points, but like, I'm looking, you look at their stats, like, you know, there's nothing gaudy about any of the stats necessarily in a couple of games with a hundred yards rushing, you know, a handful of games with over 200 yards passing. Like a lot of their numbers have been fairly pedestrian from an offensive production standpoint. Um, it's not like Riley Leonard is going out here and just slinging the ball all over the field.
00:36:32
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And it's not like that love or price or, you know, completely running all over people. I mean, their largest, their largest rushing outputs are against service academies and ACC teams. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:48
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Let's, let's keep going with that with their, with their offense. So yeah. So quarterback. Uh, so what we're looking for when, when Notre Dame has the ball, so you have Riley Leonard, the Duke Duke transfer, um, is that is a quarterback, uh, 2002 or neither yards passing 17 touchdowns, six picks.
00:37:03
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Uh, Jeremiah love is the leading rusher sophomore tailback, uh, 1057 yards and 16 touchdowns, 142 carries Riley Leonard. Um, the quarterback is also the second leading rusher by the way. So definitely dual threat there. Um, he's got 751 yards and 15 touchdowns on the ground.
00:37:23
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um And their top two receivers are Bo Collins, a senior, and Jaden Greathouse, a sophomore. I like your saying they are not gaudy numbers receiving. So 445 yards and two touchdowns and 353 with one touchdown respectively for those two guys. so um And yeah, I mean, again, like watching that, watching the, I guess the first round game, whatever, against Indiana, like their offense didn't do a lot other than the Jeremiah Love 98 yard touchdown run. I mean, you take that, you take that play away. I think it's a totally different game. So I agree. And you, you know, you, you did the rundown of their, of their schedule earlier and knowing that they played, I mean, I guess, I would say, I guess Texas A&M maybe is the closest.
00:38:09
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but, you know, they don't have a, even them, they have not faced like a Michael Williams, Jill and Walker, you know, getting after the quarterback. So yeah. Um, yeah, no, I mean, none of their receivers have a hundred yard game. Yeah. Um, like I said, there they're, they're, they're rushers.
00:38:30
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I mean, they they they they're, they're, they're run first team. Like you mentioned Riley Leonard being the you know second leading rusher. yeah These aren't like, these aren't like designed quarterback runs and it's not at all in the same vein as what would typically scare the out of me. Sorry, Carter.
00:38:48
Speaker
um what would typically scare me would be like a mobile quarterback in the vein of like a Jalen Milrow or Jalen Hurts that can they can scoot like Riley Leonard is the kind of guy that's the reason that he is the leading rusher is because he's sitting back in the pocket he's biding his time you know he has pocket awareness or whatever you know whatever terms you want to want to call it like basically he scoots out he's he squeaks out of you know contain or whatever and and and is able to generate a bunch of yards with his legs because frankly none of his receivers are open downfield and you know he's just he seems like he's really good at at escaping the pocket and and having that pocket awareness. um I don't think that they've seen anybody with our defensive you know
00:39:35
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makeup, DNA. um To me, this just just seems like, and I think that he had, I think his average average depth of, you know, pass or whatever was like six yards in the Indiana game or something like that. Yeah.
00:39:49
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um Like they're not, they're not taking big pass plays. He's not taking shots down field. It's just, if we can hold our coverage, keep, keep him under wraps. I'm not necessarily thinking that we need to, you know, spy him or anything like that. Frankly, I think that that's not necessarily in our wheelhouse necessarily anyway, in this particular defense.
00:40:11
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But this does this does read me as like we're going to see heavy doses of blitzes just overwhelm overwhelm their offensive line, put him in put Riley Leonard in conflict on making decisions quickly on what he needs to do. And then you know if you if you i'm sure he'll I'm sure he's going to break away because it just seems like this is tailor-made for a game game like that. But I think that we're going to get him We're going to get to him and get our wins more so than he's going to break off these long runs or anything like that. Yeah, the they are the one 100th best passing offense in FBS. So not much of a passing attack. and I mean, within this Georgia is built on stopping the run. So I feel like they can their offense kind of plays into our strengths, honestly. Yes. I mean, please tell me when a one dimensional team was able to beat Georgia.
00:41:10
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Yeah. Yeah. No, agreed. I'm with you there. All right. Anything else there? I got a couple of special teams. Thanks. Um, nothing, nothing on, on nothing on their offense versus our defense. I think, like I said, I think that the biggest thing here is just going to be, you know, keep them under wraps when, when the first, when the first downs and don't turn the ball over. Um, if we can beat them on first down and if we don't give them free opportunities to put points on the board, um,
00:41:40
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Gunner just I mean hesitate to use the phrase, you know game manager or whatever But you know, I mean that really is what what he what he needs to do He just needs to manage the game and not take any You know any situational shots or throw away is like, like he did. but He did against Texas where he was trying to throw the ball away. We think, um, you know, don't do too much. I don't think that he's going to be asked to do too much. It's just to whether or not he decides to do too much is kind of what I'm, I'll be looking for. I totally agree. I don't think Like it this is not like a, we need Gunner to win this thing kind of thing. Like like we're we're putting this game in your hands and all. Like you have to be the savior kind of thing. Like I just, I don't, I don't see it that way. I think it's more like a do your job kind of thing, you know?
00:42:28
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I think that if I'm Notre Dame, I'm probably doing the same thing. I'm probably going to try to shut down the run and make Gunner Stockton beat you. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Now, if they do that, I do believe that he will beat them very, very significantly. Nice. I like that. I like that ah train about there. Um, okay. Quick, quick, uh, special teams. Um, tell me about the Aussies.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah, so they do have an Australian punter. So they do take they do take special teams seriously. So ah James Rendell is their senior punter. um But you know he averages 41.5 yards per punt, so he's not you know quite up there in like the Brett Thorson level. But they do have an Aussie punter. Now their kicker, though,
00:43:14
Speaker
Their kicker, Mitch Jeter, he's a senior. One, he's a transfer. He's he's actually from my neck of the woods, so he went to a school called Cannon School um and in up in our area, like in Concord, North Carolina. um so which i Greg, if you're listening, I know Greg is a tailgate from art from our tailgate, Morris Hall. Greg is quite familiar with Cannon School.
00:43:35
Speaker
um So yeah, so got a little relation there. But what I was going to say is yeah he was hurt. Their kicker was hurt um and was out for a big part of the year. So Notre Dame has had some like major kicking woes um this season. and He's eight of 15 on field goals. But they've also had like some other guys had to come in and kick while he was out. So something to watch for in a tight game. I don't you know. They don't have the best track record this season in the kicking game. So just watch out for that.
00:44:04
Speaker
Um, and then we will have a new face at punter. Um, I think all signs are pointing to drew Miller, uh, to be the punter this game. Um, what do you think is interesting? He's not who was lined up in punt formation in on the fake punt in the sec championship game. Um, but it looks like we are looking to him. Um, so he is a freshman punter from. Metiopolis I'm guessing that's how you say it. Metiopolis high school in Iowa. So.
00:44:32
Speaker
Uh, we will all get familiar with, you know what? Hopefully we don't get familiar with Drew Miller in the sugar bowl because we just don't punt. So, but we'll see. Hopefully Gunner Stockton does not like punters. Yes. Gunner Stockton does not like punters. We're going to go with that. We're going to go with that story. Uh, cool. All right. That's all I got on the special teams. You ready to, uh, read the listener questions.
00:44:55
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00:46:10
Speaker
I think that my i mean my favorite in terms of just like what I think about when I think about Georgia versus Notre Dame, probably recency bias, but I i i think of the 2017 game where we went to their home and did what Tennessee tried to do against Ohio State and take over a stadium. We actually took over an entire two cities. We took over Chicago and we took over South Bend.
00:46:39
Speaker
And I will never forget watching the ESPN highlights of everybody chanting and doing Georgia things at a Chicago Cubs game dressed in their red plaque. That to me was one of the most amazing like examples of we travel and georgia and Georgia fans show up and show out that I think I've ever seen.
00:47:02
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. Taking over a major league baseball game in a city that is not even in the city that you're playing the game. I will say, so I went up for that game. ah i I was not at the Cubs game. I went to the Bears game on Sunday, um but we were heading over. So Dustin was hosting us and had like a band party Friday night. ah So friend of the show, Tim Riley picked me up at the airport. Actually, he was already up there for work, I think.
00:47:30
Speaker
He picked me up at the airport and drove me to South Bend on Friday. ah So we did not go to the Cubs game, but absolute takeover. So that's that's mine as well. um We saw a lot of Georgia fans, you know, like in the airport, heading there and everything. And then and kind of out in the bout during the day leading up to it, I actually had convinced myself it wasn't a takeover. And then we got into our seats. It was just unbelievable how much red was in there. So I've got to go with 17. That's my favorite as well for personal reasons. That's awesome. You need to, you need to tweet out some of your photos that you took from, from that trip.
00:48:00
Speaker
I can do that. I can do that. I've got a great one of, uh, myself, uh, Tim and and Patrick, uh, like with all the celebration behind us going crazy, uh, on the field at the end of the game, it was great. I'll say to i everyone was incredibly nice. I will say that, uh, when we were there, uh, to the point of like w we were talking with everyone around us during the whole game. And like, when we, when we got like the s sack bubble,
00:48:26
Speaker
You know, got the fumble recovery to kind of seal the game at the end of that game. Uh, we were always like in a big, like dog pile in the stadium, like hugging and jumping up and down, celebrating. And like, as it kind of started to wane, I got a tap on my shoulder. There was a guy behind us that I've been talking to all game and he like stuck his hand out and shook my hand and was like, congratulations. That was a great game. I was like, whoa, what does happen? People don't do that. What is this hospitality? It was crazy. So, um,
00:48:50
Speaker
that as always that has That whole experience really stuck in my mind. of like that's like That's how it should be. You know like you can sit there. and Everyone's cheering for their team, but we were all talking about like god comparing notes. you know like I'm teaching them about Roquan Smith and all that kind of stuff. like It was a lot of fun. yeah ah so It was really cool. It was really cool. its there's this There's this guy. He's an absolute machine.
00:49:11
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Hey, and you know, not to leave out, ah you know, that was Jake Fromm's first start. This is Gunnar Stockton's first start. Maybe some little parallels going on there. So just watch out for that. Watch out for that. All right. And then. bret had and Didn't didn't get from didn't from like take over from injuries. to Take over. Took over in the prior game doing an injury to the starter. Finished out that game. Then first start was in the next game against Notre Dame. So.
00:49:40
Speaker
yeah i'm not saying there's any anything going on there but i'm not not saying it either i wonder i wonder if that'll come up on the broadcast oh my gosh i actually i actually will be surprised if it doesn't i i feel like that'll come all right brett's follow on his second was which one of those was the most important to the program as he said and for that i've gotta say 80 Well, I guess technically 81 sugar bowl, and but yeah, yeah one the first, uh, national championship of the modern era. I can't, I don't think I can say anything other than that. Yeah. Yeah. I would say that one. Yeah. If you're, if you're talking about like the modern era, you know, obviously since then we didn't win anything until much later. But, um, I think that 2017, I don't know.
00:50:27
Speaker
You could make an argument that the 2017 game set us down the path to where we're at now. right Exactly. that's yeah that's That's where I was going. That's where I was going with it. I feel like yeah i feel like that that was the the the flag that was planted both from a fan base like energy as well as you know team energy for lack of a better description. Yeah. um like Like you said, I think ah it just set us down the path that, uh, that led us to where we're at now. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. All right. Let's see. Next up we got, uh, John Michael D. Wait, no, I skipped one. Sorry. Next up 51 to seven GATA with Notre Dame making their way to new Orleans. Do y'all think Brian Kelly is having second thoughts about taking the LSU job? but I don't think he cares at all. he's He's making, he's making plenty of bank and changing accents. So. so
00:51:18
Speaker
in changing accents. yeah i think that I think that he knew that he was in a Cush situation and he wanted he wanted a challenge. He wanted to be taken seriously as the head coach, I feel like. So he came down to the SEC and he he effed around and found out.
00:51:35
Speaker
yeah I love it. He added a uniform Twitter ah fact. He said, you've got to give NerdAIM credit for using their Rudy uniform when they played tech this year. ah So that was good. I will say, therere i as far as uniforms go, you know Notre Dame is a school that yeah you think of like traditional schools or whatever they actually do a lot of uniform changes like they were pinstripes or one game or whatever they do the green jerseys and all that kind of stuff but um one thing that always jumps out to me is like how actual like shiny gold their helmets are in person it's kind of wild when you see the light shine off of them if you've never been if you're good if this is your first time seeing them you'll notice that for sure
00:52:18
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. um I'll also say like a sidebar on the Notre Dame uniform. When you see them in the game, you'll notice that they are wearing their names on the back of the jerseys. That is a tradition that Notre Dame, I guess does, which I didn't realize that this was a thing, but they only allow their players to wear the names on the back of the jersey in the postseason.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I picked that up on the, in the playoff game, bra broadcast, right? Is that. that Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the the In the, in the game that they played against Indiana, they, they mentioned that they're, they're allowing, they allow them to wear their last name on the back of the Jersey because, because it's in the playoffs or, you know, historically they get suited in the bowl game or whatever, but.
00:53:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is interesting. All right. Another fun fact. Yeah, for sure. All right. Now to John Michael D. Sorry, I tried to skip ahead earlier. John Michael D has a Gunner Stockton little stitious update. He says, matching white sweat bands on either wrist, no arm or leg sleeves, black Nike skull cap and a headband, no eye black. That's kind of what he's looking for, for Gunner.
00:53:26
Speaker
Um, but he said, uh, who likes slash liked the rat poison more Kirby or Satan, the more they doubt us, the calmer I become going into games. I don't know. I Kirby has been kind of, he's been a little different this year and kind of feeding off that, um, and using that a lot. I feel like even more than any years past. So I feel like no, I don't know. no So I feel like that the Kirby that we see.
00:53:54
Speaker
is the Phil Jackson, like, Zen Buddhist, Zen Buddhist Kirby right now. Like, we're in, we're in, like, Woosah Kirby right now.
00:54:06
Speaker
Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Like I feel like that there's a PR like situation that's gone on with Kirby over the last couple of years where he's just like a lot calmer in person. Like we don't see anymore. Like he's not dropping any F bombs in the press conference kind of thing. Like, um, I don't know. Uh, I I just think that in on the on the bullhorn when we hear about practice and things like that like yeah he was he was just making fun of our butt kiss award winner he's like is this our butt kiss award winner like
00:54:39
Speaker
I think that, I think that the rat poison is definitely a Kirby thing. He is a Michael Jordan to his core in terms of like how he gets the edge yeah when someone pushes him around. So yes, the more they doubt us, the calmer I'm going to be. And there's a reason why, there's a reason why we changed the text thread photo to a dark side Kirby smore. A Sith Lord Kirby smore.
00:55:08
Speaker
that that That is one of my new favorite things to do is like whenever you see someone tweet something that's like there was the video of the guy. I don't even know who it was. It was like someone from CBS. He was like, I'm going to tell you. right I'm going to say the quiet part out loud like Notre Dame is going to beat Georgia or whatever you seen that clip.
00:55:24
Speaker
It is all around. And like I replied to it, I think, from the podcast account, just of the picture of Kirby like in the postgame interview from the Texas game, the one at Texas, just the look on his face. Yes. It's like, yes. ever Save more of that. more The more you say that, the better I feel, for sure.
00:55:41
Speaker
I agree. I agree. Hopefully he's not wearing the, hopefully he's not wearing like the the leg sleeves, which I guess that's that's actually another fun fact. Uh, those neoprene, those neoprene, uh, sleeves that, uh, Carson Beck wears are, you know, I guess a lot of quarterbacks wear or whatever, but the it just sticks out off off the question. Um, that those neoprene, that product neoprene was actually developed at at Notre Dame.
00:56:08
Speaker
No, I have less. Yeah. Yeah. No, the, I guess some reverend, uh, at the chemistry building there, uh, I guess whatever formula he, he created, um, well, a lot of large scientific words that I probably will mispronounce, but, uh, DuPont basically used that formula to create neoprene, um, the the synthetic rubber.
00:56:34
Speaker
Interesting. Interesting. At Notre Dame. Anyway, I saw the question, saved a fun fact for then. Nice. Nice. I also missed an opportunity since we missed the building bonus and I'm talking about fun facts for later that I totally forgot to mention. Notre Dame was also, Brett, the very first university to establish a university band. o Okay. I expect that to be covered extensively on Chapel Bill Curve, Nathan and Yara.
00:57:05
Speaker
Are they even gonna record? I don't know. We'll find out. People are asking. People are asking. We're asking. but we should submit We should submit our questions for the episode that they may or may not record. Yeah, let's add let' do that. All right, let's see. you Next up, Will will Garland. Will be in... Oh, I need to pull the response to this. Okay. He said, Will be in Germany during the Sugar Bowl and kickoff is 2.45 AM m local time.
00:57:28
Speaker
should we A, pull an all-nighter and watch it live, B, go to bed at a responsible time and wake up stupid early to watch it live, C, shut down all notifications and social media and watch it the next day. Now, he replied to his own question and tagged our buddy, Chris, British Bulldog, and asked him for his advice.
00:57:48
Speaker
so damn I because my answer was going to be like you do you like I tried not to like tell people how to be fans. I will say this, like for myself, I've tried the turn notifications off thing and it just never works. um Not nowadays. Like, you know, in the olden days before, like there was a hundred percent a picture from that Oahu Bowl we played in one day this week. So that game, I was on a plane coming back from Montana and Kim, recording Kim and I were dating at the time.
00:58:16
Speaker
And she like recorded it and then brought the tape over so I could watch it ah when I got home. It was like amazing. Like I knew she was a keeper. You know what I'm saying? But like, you you can't, I feel like like I can't personally do stuff like that anymore. So I would suggest live, but that's just pee. But that is also what Chris said. Chris did respond. So shout out British Bulldog and gave him some pointers. He basically was like, you need to take a nap.
00:58:42
Speaker
You take a nap and you kind of like go to bed super early, take a nap and then wake up for the game. That was, that was ah the short version of what he said. I like it. I like it. That's what I did for studying, studying all nighters. I would take a nap and then take a nap and then wake up and then just power through it. Nice. Nice. That's what I would do. If I were in your shoes, I would, I would do the all niner and watch it live. We'll do it live. do it live Uh, nice. All right. Uh, let's see. Next up, Fletcher Proctor. Our national basketball writers like Goodman, Rothstein, Fanta, Leonardo and Paul finally giving Georgia recognition because of the basketball minute. And he said, they're, they're listening. I mean, they are, they may be, I'll say, man, Rothstein was like,
00:59:25
Speaker
who he was tweeting about, uh, like, like individual players recently. I think he was tweeting tweeting about ACE and Ool. So man, hoop dogs continue to be a blast to watch. Um, and dude, I'm i'm telling you, man, Santo surreal. I love watching that guy play. I love watching him block shots, uh, get rebounds and just dunk the ball emphatically and watch the rim shake for like 30 minutes after he does it. It's amazing.
00:59:55
Speaker
That's funny. Anytime I hear his name, I think about my brother-in-law who used to, ah back when this was like a ah phrase that people would say when they'd be like, are you cereal?
01:00:08
Speaker
He needs to come out with a shirt that says, are you cereal? that, uh, like and there was a South park, uh, man bear pig. Um, anyways, they said cereal and that a lot. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's where it came from. I'm super sorry. That sounds, that sounds about right. I'm being super serial right now.
01:00:28
Speaker
Uh, so yes, uh, basketball minute, uh, making waves, dude, best start since we were in college. Uh, fun, a lot of fun. SEC schedule starting soon. So like it's going to be a gauntlet. Um, but I think one, hopefully this team can navigate. All right. Um, he said, oh, wait, football, which is more likely Gunner throws for three scores or runs for two. Happy new year, gentlemen. Happy new year, Fletcher. I'm going to go with runs for two.
01:00:58
Speaker
I'm going to say that too, just on volume and also look, Bobo likes to call the quarterback sneak, uh, in short yard, short yardage situations. So I could see it happen. Yeah. Agreed. All right. Let's see up next. We got boss dog. Um, Oh, over under mentions on the 1981 sugar roll on the broadcast set at three and a half. I believe that's in, that's actually in coaches over under. So he's a different line based on coaches line. I'm going to say under.
01:01:24
Speaker
Because coach has a little lower line than that, but we'll get to the lower line. Yeah, I'm gonna go low. I'll go i'll go under um And then he said also will the Irish be able to match our physicality for four quarters I'm gonna go ahead and say no. I agree. That's where I think get back to like to the schedule um I think they may be able to do some things early, but they're not as deep as George is so yeah All right. Fresh IRC podcast is up next. Um, can the offensive line continue to pave the way? How will Bobo use Gunner's mobility? Um, and then he said, both teams are mirror images, toughest and most disciplined team wins. I agree with that last seven toughest and most disciplined team wins for sure.
01:02:05
Speaker
um Agreed. Dude, I mean, I think like, I think the offensive line can. um I think the offensive line is job lately. um And again, like I said, I think having an ETN back there running behind that line makes a huge difference.
01:02:18
Speaker
Agreed. I think they figured out the rotation to having a healthy offensive line is the, uh, having a healthy offensive line is the key. That said, uh, I have, I have mentioned that, um, in, in private that i I feel as though, as long as the defensive line is healthy, that I feel like that we have, I feel like we're going to win a national championship. I think as my exact quote was if Christian Miller is back and can play through the playoffs, we're going to win a national championship.
01:02:48
Speaker
I love that I love that. Um, and I think we kind of talked about Gunner's mobility earlier, like in just that how, before I was going to be advocating, like kind of like retooling the offense. I don't, I don't think that's necessary, but you know, I think Beck would, we ran QB, like design QB draws, QB runs with Beck at times and we run the zone read a lot. So I don't know. I could definitely see, you know, there's those times where we're like yelling, you should have kept the ball at our quarterback. Um, I like to think maybe Gunner tucks it runs on some of those.
01:03:18
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see. I think that they're gonna I think they're going to drill into his head what happened to him yeah against Texas. true And I think that they're going to he's going to be double double think he'll be he'll be thinking too much as far as like whether or not he should pull it around or whatever.
01:03:35
Speaker
Uh, cause it will be drilled into his head to not run. Um, we don't need a number of reasons. We don't need him taking that same hit again. Exactly. Yeah. Yes. That was scary. That was scary. Yeah, dude. But all security on a hundred, like, yeah,
01:03:51
Speaker
it ah it impressive yeah I'd rather, I'd rather not attempt fate twice. Yeah. Agreed. Uh, let's see, Mark Davis, uh, with the extended layoff, how do you think the three weeks off between games affects positively or negatively the team injuries, timing, game shape, et cetera? Um, game shape is my concern. Um, I hope that they are doing the same thing that they did before the national championship a few years ago when Jordan Davis would end the interviews with, so ah sorry guys, I gotta go run. Um, yeah.
01:04:23
Speaker
you know, that kind of thing where they're staying in shape. I think that's probably the hardest thing to do in these in these long breaks. um Carter, if you're listening, you need to go and run um because he's he's on a long break for baseball. um that's that That's one of the things that I think that is the most concerning for me. As far as injuries,
01:04:45
Speaker
I would, I would say that it's going to benefit Georgia significantly to have the injury recovery time. um Like I said, getting Christian Miller back, for example, um we were hoping to get back running backs and sounds like there may be some, you know, not so great news in that front, but um Yeah, I mean, I think that having having the injuries, having everybody get get better, having ETN, you know, maybe not wearing a Kevlar vest, yeah for example, would be a fantastic development. As far as timing goes, I mean, it's hard to replicate game reps and things like that and getting staying on ah on a weekly schedule where, okay, where we play every six days and here we are sitting at what, two, three weeks, Jim, since we played. Yeah.
01:05:31
Speaker
um i i take I take that one as this though. I'm gonna answer the timing one in that I think it helps us in that we now know we're heading into the game with Gunner as a starter and we have time for him to work on timing with the receivers and try to get that down um and I don't know something that you pointed out like Gunner may throw a more catchable ball, uh, perhaps than, than Carson. So, you know, we'll, we'll see there. So that's something to watch for as well. But, you know, and, and again, started the break. We didn't know who we were going to play and we're out there practicing. So all you can do is focus on us. I mean, you knew it was going to be one of two opponents, but you didn't know who it was going to be. Um, so I imagine there's a lot of focusing on on us and things like that and rapport between Gunner and receivers, et cetera. So.
01:06:16
Speaker
You know, I wish that, um, that would be something, you know, that I was talking to my brother-in-law about this, uh, when we were talking about the game. Um, ah there are, there are some metrics, you know, there's some metrics about the, the quarterbacks that you could measure, which we don't know, but you could measure spin rate and velocity and, you know, ball rotation and all that kind of stuff. Um, I do, I, uh, I don't know, man, the longer I've thought about this, this, this situation with the drops and how the balls are coming out. Um, the more, I think that there may be something mechanically that's just fundamentally different. Could be, could be. We'll see as we get, ah as we get a larger body of work from Gunner, we'll, we'll find out. Yeah. All right. Uh, friend of the show, Tim Riley, what is the biggest matchup that dogs need to win either a person one-on-one or position group? Go dogs. See everyone in in NOLA.
01:07:10
Speaker
Oh, I think that is, is Riley going? It sounds like it. It sounds like it. Oh man. That's, that's a recipe for disasters. Do you think that he's going with, uh, is he going to Alvi? Uh, good question. Possibly. Alvi and, um, Brad, Brad and Walter potentially. Yeah. And, and Walter. Yeah. All, all the NOLA boys. Right. Right. Uh,
01:07:35
Speaker
I would say that I think I mentioned at the position group that I feel like that is the most important for Georgia moving forward is going to be the defensive line. Yeah. Because the reason i say the reason I keep harping on the defensive line is even if our offense is clicking, um that defensive line seems to be where we live and die in terms of our ability.
01:08:00
Speaker
um If we can't stop, if we can't stop someone, like it really doesn't matter how good or bad we are on offense. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. And this is where it gets back to like, I want to see that Georgia team and specifically I want to see the Georgia defense come out and look the way they looked against Texas in both of the Texas games. Just like you come out there like hair on fire, you know, um, attacking and like, you know, not here to take pictures, came here to eat kind of thing.
01:08:29
Speaker
I hope so. Cause I mean, it's just, I don't know, man, like I said, like I said earlier, I think that this game just sets up for just, just blitz blitz and then blitz some more.
01:08:40
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Could be like, I, I could foresee this being a, a Hawaii sugar roll situation. Um, okay. More so, more so oh because like, I just, I don't know, man, the fact that the fact that I look at these stats and I see how many rushing yards this guy has, and he's not, ah he's not Jalen Miller. Oh, dude. He's just not like, there's nothing.
01:09:08
Speaker
There's nothing on the flip side and that scares me. Like, I don't know. Right. All right. Let's ah hit Jason's. Would you rather fire at all?
01:09:28
Speaker
Hey. Fire. Fun fact, fun fact, uh, I, it got really cold here, right? So I'm going through and looking for gloves to wear the other day. And I go into my, my winter coats that I wore to the Georgia tech game. And what did I find in my coat pocket from the game? A miniature bottle of fire, a bottle of fireball.
01:09:56
Speaker
ah It is currently in the freezer, a waiting kickoff, nice you know, the right before kickoff. Nice. I love it. Um, I know I also, uh, thoroughly enjoyed getting tagged, uh, by Hampton yesterday, uh, tricking out of his, my God, a podcast koozie. So shout out to the Huggins clan. Uh, appreciate y'all's friendship and support always. Amen. All right. Would you rather kick off at eight 45 on New Year's Eve or New Year's day? New Year's Eve. Really? See,
01:10:29
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. I always thought I would hate New Year's Eve. It's like, oh, people have New Year's parties. Like that kind of stinks. And like, are people going to be paying attention? However, winning at the stroke of midnight against Ohio state was kind of amazing. So if I've got to be up late, I'd rather be up late watching football rather than like nonsense that is normally on New Year's Eve. So if I'm going to be staying up late, I'd rather just be, you know, the, I guess that one of the, is the, is the peach bowl still, is the peach bowl being played on New Year's Eve or is it New Year's Day this year? I don't even know.
01:11:00
Speaker
Um, I will tell you in two seconds, the new year's Eve game is the fiesta bowl. Okay. So this is what pisses me off about modern college football. The peach bowl should be played on New Year's Eve period. Yeah.
01:11:13
Speaker
Like the peach bowl should be the New Year's Eve game. Historically, that's what it's been. Historically, I have local friends and kids that I went to high school with. that That's like, that's just like what they did on New Year's Eve as they went to the beach bowl. Yeah. Um, people should be the only game on New Year's Eve period. That's my, that's my get off my lawn. get off john's um That's my, that's my gut. That's my gym would get off my lawn a minute.
01:11:36
Speaker
Uh, nice. All right. So I think we, I think I'm going to end up agreeing with you. Uh, also like you got it, you know, a lot of people got to go to work on the second. Whereas in general, most people have New Year's day off from work. So I'll go with New Year's Eve from that standpoint as well. All right. Second, would you rather, and I'm actually don't know this chicory or is it chicory or regular coffee?
01:11:56
Speaker
i he to chikari chicken yeah I know what it is because I did some, at first I was like, what the hell is that? And I had to like go and like research it a little bit. So I have some, I have some visibility on this. Okay. I meant to, and I forgot because I saw that and I was like, wait, what is this? You don't have to worry about it because I already did the legwork for you. All right. So chicory is a, is a root. It is a root and I can't remember exactly what kind of root it is, but it is a root.
01:12:24
Speaker
that is ground and roasted in very similar fashion to coffee beans and it is unique to the French culture because the it's it's it's a French thing, right? So like they did this when coffee was scarce. So when coffee was, you know, not around as much. um the Cajuns and the French, ah they used to grind this root. I can't remember what kind of root it was. It's going to bother me that I don't remember this because I did look at this because I know that it is, um the there's the famous place that that makes the mignets that I can't recall the name of that one either, but I haven't been obviously, but um there's a famous like yellow, it's like a yellow coffee tin that they make the coffee where it's, it's there's there's a yellow coffee tin of the
01:13:16
Speaker
the place that does the does the the the coffee that everybody talks about in New Orleans, where it's a mixture of coffee and chicory. But the the the thing that I'm going to actually nail down on this is that I'm going to be i'm going to vote for regular coffee here.
01:13:34
Speaker
big And the the main reason for that is that you can be is a naturally decaffeinated substance. And I have a hard, a hard pass on anything that is decaffeinated. and Okay. I guess I'll go with regular. What is
Coffee Preferences and Travel Tales
01:13:50
Speaker
the point? What is the point of this decaffeinated? Okay. What is the point? Yeah, fair. I'll go with regular just because I don't know what I'm getting into. Uh, but, but I'm open to trying it yeah to be able to give a better answer next time.
01:14:01
Speaker
um Would you rather go to New Orleans or Vegas? Jason has it. He has 48 hour limit with both. he I have a feeling I know why on both. So you said you've never been to New Orleans, but and you've been to Vegas, right? I've been to Vegas. Okay. And I despise Vegas as well. Although like I can't say that I despise. Cafe Du Monde is the is the the the coffee place that I was talking about that does the beignets and the coffee that it was bothering me. I had to refresh my memory. Cafe Du Monde.
01:14:31
Speaker
um I've been to both. I'm going to say orlean yes I'm going to say New Orleans. I have been to both um not a huge Vegas person, but although I've only been to both ones, honestly. But ah I would say I enjoyed my time in New Orleans. Well, this is very different. Also, I was sick when I was in Vegas, so it was kind of weird. um But yeah, I'll go with New Orleans.
01:14:51
Speaker
I've never been to New Orleans, I can't say, but I cannot stay in Las Vegas. It's just not my thing. Like, first of all, I'm not a huge gambler. Second of all, I despise cigarette smoke and confined spaces. It's just something I grew up with. Um, so whenever I walk into a, and into, into one of those casinos or whatever, like I instantly can smell all of the smoke that has happened in the past 30 years there. Yeah.
01:15:16
Speaker
Um, it bothers me to no end and it's hot. It's dry. You have to walk 50,000 miles to get anywhere there. Um, yeah. and las Las Vegas is not my thing. I agree. I can go for like a day or two, but like, and I've thought about taking the kids to like go to like Paris, you know, and go to the, what's the, um, the Bellagio, the fountains of the Bellagio.
01:15:44
Speaker
And then what's the one that has like the the rooftop that's like you're in Italy or whatever? The Venetian, I think is what it is. I've thought about like taking the kids to, you know, for a day or two, to like a weekend trip to go to Las Vegas. But yeah, I would not spend like a week there or anything like that. Yeah, yeah.
01:16:05
Speaker
Saunders. ah Saunders like weekends. like He went there for his birthday. It's like we got like sweet, sweet, it whatever, whatever. because you know but so Amazing, amazing. Yeah. All right. And then ah Oregon, or Ohio State, would you rather would you? OK, so this is not necessarily a pick. Would you rather Oregon ah or Ohio State win the Rose Bowl? I've got to go Oregon for who would I rather win?
01:16:32
Speaker
Lily has developed a distaste of Ohio state and she, and so is Kim. Um, so, uh, I think they would be upset with me if, if I said Ohio was state.
Game Predictions and Rose Bowl Preferences
01:16:42
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So for family purposes, Oregon.
01:16:45
Speaker
and I'll take the asteroid. Thanks. Okay, fine. ah I don't I don't really care. I hate Ryan Day. I think that ah the um my disdain my disdain for Oregon grows. Dan, Dan landing is starting to get on my nerves. Okay, okay. All the Nike stuff too. I would like to I would like to humble Dan landing. I'll go I'll go Oregon. I like the humble Dan landing.
01:17:13
Speaker
Yeah. In the same building where we last humbled him. Yeah. I like having the potential in the horizon. Uh, then Jason just rounded out. Thankful, thankful for you guys and wish you both an incredible 2025. Let's start the year with a huge dog win. Go dogs. Agreed Jason. Amen. Go dogs. Appreciate you. All right. We got one more.
01:17:40
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god fresh trying to
01:17:46
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It is signed for coaches over unders sugar bowl edition. Uh, it was super fun to do coaches over under the the Christmas regale. It was amazing. Like playing the music with coach on, uh, it was great. Uh, our guy loves him. Some ah SCC c on CBS music. So, uh, love to bring it. That's right.
01:18:10
Speaker
All right, so I hold the slight lead as I continue my attempt to Kirby Deathmark. So I get to choose whether I want to keep the ball or let you go first. I think I'm going to let you go first. I think I'm going to defer. I'm going to defer. I'm going to defer. So the first one, starting with the offense, over, under 225 passing yards for one gunner Stockton. I'm going to go over.
01:18:39
Speaker
Ooh, man. Death March over. And that would just be too amazing. Uh, over, under 85 rush yards for Gunnar Stockton. Um, man, that would be incredible. It feels like a lot. I'm going to go under. I'm going to go over. Okay. Uh, then back to you over, under 1.5, uh, rushing touchdowns for ETN. I'm going to go over.
01:19:02
Speaker
over. I'm going to agree over. All right. My turn over to the defense over under one and a half sacks for Jalen Walker. I'm going to go over. I'm going to go under to do everything opposite. I see what you're doing there. I see what you're doing there. Um, over to you. Four and a half tackles for loss for the Georgia defense. Uh, I'm going to go over over. Okay. Uh, I'm going to go over as well.
01:19:32
Speaker
My turn over under one and a half force turnovers. Um, wait, is it my turn or is it your turn? Uh, let's see. Hold on. Let me count. That's my turn. Okay. Uh, one and a half force turnovers, um, for the Georgia defense, man, that would be delicious. I'm going to go over. I'm going to go over to. Okay. Um, and then over to you, um, over under 0.5 fake puns for Georgia.
01:20:02
Speaker
i'm go to go under Yeah, I agree. I feel like, I feel like we burned that, uh, that last game. I don't see us being able to do that again. Um, all right. Last one. Okay. So this was for you. Miscellaneous over under two and a half mentions, two and a half 1981 sugar bowl clips during the telecast. Definitely over. Yeah. I agree. I'm with you. I was going to, uh, opposite you on that one, but decide not to.
01:20:30
Speaker
Uh, all right. That's it. The death march continues. Shadow coach, uh, had a blast at the regale. Uh, and as always, thank you for sending these and tracking them as well. Uh, always a good time. Yes, sir. Thank you very much.
01:20:43
Speaker
All right. Time for the final predictions. All right. So this is when the stuff is kind of all over the place. I'll say that. Uh, so Georgia is favored, uh, in this game, um, by two points in Vegas over, under a 44 that gives you and um an implied score of Georgia 23 Notre Dame 21. Um, the odd shark predicted score is like off of the reels. This is off the rails. I need some details here. I don't know what is going on. So they've got ah Notre Dame 41.7 to Georgia 26.3. Like I did a double take. I was like, that can't be right. um But that's what they've got.
01:21:21
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um College football insiders has this like bit basically a pickup. They have Notre Dame with a slight edge. um So they've got Notre Dame 25.65 to Georgia 25.23. I'll throw their numbers up for those watching on YouTube.
01:21:39
Speaker
Um, CBC are to their metrics didn't get released this week, but I, I know we've talked to Ross. I think Ross had, I don't know what the score was, but I know he had nerd name was like a two point favorite. So, um, they've got it, uh, you know, close as a close game. Um, our impact score doesn't come out great. Um, but it's, you know, the only adjustment for opponents that we do is on, uh, power five.
01:22:06
Speaker
And the funny thing is narrative damn stats actually get better when you do just the power five because their worst game was against Northern Illinois. Um, so that's got Georgia, like Georgia 21 to nerd aim 36. Um, yeah. So, but again, they, I mean, they have been, they they've scored 40 points a game against the power five and only given up 15. Um, so they have, they have beaten up, uh, their cupcake schedule.
01:22:30
Speaker
Which is just crazy to me because you look at their numbers. I mean, Riley Leonard has not even 2300 passing yards. Carson Beck beats him by over a thousand yards. And Jeremiah Love has a thousand yards rushing. And it's like, I mean, we've, we've played better running backs. I feel like, um, the receivers, again, you mentioned 445 passing yards for Beau Collins, like.
01:22:55
Speaker
He's their leading, he's their leading receiver and he's not even a thousand yard receiver. So like, where are their points coming from? And it's just, I mean, to me, it's just, this just screams Notre Dame is a fraud. Yeah. I love it. I love it.
01:23:10
Speaker
Um, I guess I can go. So history is what's like, I, like I feel that the only thing that's holding me off of that is like history. So fourth meeting ever between these two schools, all the other ones were like one possession games. Um, so sos actually the largest margin of victory we've had over Notre Dame was that 17 to 10 win.
01:23:29
Speaker
in the 1981 Sure Bowl. So, I don't know. i I can't, like I want to feel like, like in what was it, 2012, it was like, oh man, if we had, if we had, we would have done the Notre Dame, what Bama would did, you know, 2012, like, like that season. and i I believe that then. It was like, I kind of, I want to lean that way, but the history gets into my head sometimes. So, I don't know. I think this could be and another, another close one. um I got dogs 24 to 21.
01:23:57
Speaker
o Give me 35, 26. Man. Okay. like like right I I I think that they're going to surprise some folks um and in ah in a lot of ways. I love it. I love it. Hey, even mine would be a cover. I like it.
01:24:17
Speaker
All right. Well, Hey, this is one of three playoff games. Um, you know, we didn't really talk about this. Like the first round was, I mean, I guess it was what it was. The home teams all held surf. I guess that's why you give the higher rank team a home field advantage.
New Year's Day Football Plans and Festivities
01:24:32
Speaker
I do think it's kind of weird. I, when it's one of the things I don't like about this playoff is that these teams who didn't get to buy got to play at home and.
01:24:41
Speaker
you know, Georgia and Oregon, you know, we don't get to play at home. And that's kind of kind of weird. We'd like to kind of see that reversed maybe going forward. I've seen some people suggest that. But at any rate, um I don't know if we're going to see, I don't know what the difference will be. We've seen blowouts in the playoff before even the 14 playoff. They were nothing was really close last week. So Let's go go these in order ah ah when they happen. So New Year's Eve, 7 30 p.m. All the games on are on ESPN, by the way. ah You got number three seeded Boise against number six seeded Penn State. The lower seeded team in Penn State is favored by 11, which is wild to me. um I'm going to go to Penn State. Give me Boise State on that one. Man, I love that pick. I wish I could pull a trigger.
01:25:30
Speaker
Um, then you get the peach bowl at one o'clock on New Year's day. Uh, Arizona state is the four seed against number five, Texas, Texas favored by 13 and a half. This is an interesting game for a number of reasons. So we're asking Texas to come back to Atlanta when they didn't show up the first time.
01:25:51
Speaker
Yeah. That to me just screams like let down game. Um, Hmm. Hmm. I hadn't, I had not thought of it that way. The Arizona state is going to be jazzed for this game, dude. I feel like, um, I haven't looked at prices or anything like that for the peach bowl, but, um, I can tell you what ESPN yeah ESPN says it's at. So this is actually the highest get in price is this game. It's the recent, like almost two, like almost $2,000, like 1750.
01:26:21
Speaker
fritting Wow. get him okay yeah Wow. That's kind of surprising. yeah um I mean, like I said, I feel like that the Peach Bowl is a pretty popular thing for people. I knew kids that were like Auburn fans and ah Georgia Tech fans and, you know, like that they were, they would go to the game when it wasn't like, there's joke like that yeah, it was like, it was like an event that people would go to. So right yes, so that doesn't surprise me. But for $2,000, I don't know. That seems crazy. Yeah.
01:26:57
Speaker
Um, yeah, I don't know, man. I guess I'm going to stick with my gut on this, but this just screams trap game to me for Texas. As far as like a letdown goes, I guess, I guess I'll go, I'll go with Texas on this one, but Arizona state might surprise some people on this one.
01:27:15
Speaker
All right. I'm going to flip from the other one. I'm going to pick Arizona state in this one. I think, I think Texas is the better team. Um, but, um, I don't know, I'd like to see this, uh, that long layoff work for work for Arizona state. So, and they've been, they've been a cool story. So I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind for a team that we've already beaten to go ahead and get eliminated. that Yeah. Like Tennessee last week. Yeah, exactly.
01:27:45
Speaker
Uh, that was glorious by the way. Anyways. All right. And then, so that's at one o'clock on New Year's day. And then the lead into our game is the Rose Bowl. Uh, so the Rose Bowl is at five o'clock Eastern on New Year's day. Number one, Oregon against number eight, Ohio state, Ohio state favored by two and a half. So again, in, in every game, except our game is the only one where the, the better seat is actually favored. We're the only favorite. We're the only one to our seat in Vegas. It's kind of weird. Yeah. I don't know.
01:28:16
Speaker
Uh, give me Oregon. Yeah. I, I, I think Oregon too. Like I just, I don't, I don't, and that's a, I don't trust Ryan day in the big game. So I'm going, I'm going with the, I'm going with the analytics on this one. Um, teams that play each other in the regular season, the winning team in the regular season game tends to win more often than not in the post-season game.
01:28:41
Speaker
Okay. Got it. Got it. Uh, what is your, so what's your, what's your plan? Do you have a plan for New Year's day for watching and such? We haven't decided. I'm probably going to be watching at home for sure. Um, I don't know. There's, there's, there's some talk of the neighborhood folks that live on our street doing a big screen TV situation, which that would be ah awesome if that turns out to be the case, but cool.
01:29:07
Speaker
if it's still in the 50s like it's been here i may pull the fire pit outside and watch the game outside because it's been nice fire pit weather um in in marietta these last few days um but yeah as far as like menu or anything i'm talking we we're talking about possibly doing brisket um doing the doing the um the collard greens yeah um you know all that kind of jazz um the typical new year's d fair new year's day fair um i haven't decided yet we're still kind of we haven't we haven't hit the weekend yet to sort out the groceries for next week so we're still a little early in the new year's day prep
01:29:49
Speaker
But we haven't, haven't decided yet, but I imagine I'll be, I'll be watching outside as my hope. Okay. Unless it gets, unless it gets like super cold. If it gets below, it gets below the fifties. I mean, I mean, second guess that. Yeah. I mean, I, I love to watch the game on our porch, but.
01:30:05
Speaker
My gut says we'll be inside. Um, that's my guess. And, uh, yeah, we're, we'll just be doing the new year's day menu. So, which we do, we do Boston, but so we'll do, um, I'm going to make the, and I do like the Carolina style, uh, sorry, the North Carolina style.
01:30:21
Speaker
Um, and I'll make, you know, we'll have like the vinegar sauce and all that stuff. So we'll do, we'll do that with the collard greens and black eyed peas and a Brunswick stew. So that'll be our, uh, that'll be our minute. And then, Hey, this time we can have a pregame, I guess bonus of it being super late is I don't have to worry about kicking during the game or anything. I'll be doing that to worry fuck again. Yeah. We'll be, we'll be done. We'll be on does to desert by the time the game kicks off. Uh, so yeah. I don't know. I'm going to have to figure out how to work in the bean dip. Um, cause I'm going to be full. So maybe we will have bean dip for lunch or something. Yeah. I was about to say the bean dip for lunch sounds delicious. We're looking at the weather. It's not looking good for outside viewing. It looks like the high on Wednesday is going to be 49 degrees and a low of 35 in Marietta. So. Gotcha. Decidedly, decidedly frigid weather. If that pans out. Gotcha. Yeah. Seriously. Seriously. Cool, man. Well,
01:31:16
Speaker
I don't know. i don't I don't know what else to say about this. I, um, you know, the first ever quarterfinal of the six, to play off the whole thing. I still feel like it's kind of weird. Um, but I like the position we're in. I mean, this is, we got the bracket that I wanted, like when the bracket was being announced, I think this is a ah favorable matchup for us, even though some of the things you see in the media or whatever. Um, I mean, it's a time for number one gunner. He gave me the number one gunner.
01:31:47
Speaker
Uh, the video is so good. Do we have, do we have the music? I feel like we need the music for that. We need sound board. We need a sound board situation here. Hold on. That can kind of sort of be finagled. If you give me a second, let me timestamp this so I can take out my mumbling. Although John Michael D likes it when I fumble for this board.
01:32:10
Speaker
Uh, so what I'm talking about, we can talk about Chicory in the dead space if you want to.
01:32:32
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The only thing I don't like about this version is that it doesn't actually give you the money line.
Creative Culinary Ideas for Game Day
01:32:37
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I know.
01:32:41
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light hit the ice it twinkle wing glier play it late four And now it's just repeating. Yes. Number one gun. Number one son. Number one gun. Chicory is what it's called group back off the rails.
01:32:59
Speaker
oh Oh man. But yeah, it's the root, the root of a blue flowered perennial plant is what it is. What it's called. Okay. Okay. I guess it's like a ah wildflower. I don't know. Don't know.
01:33:15
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Anyway, that's, that's what it is. Amazing. I don't, I don't know, dude, there's something about like making something with a flower that is like, like it's traditionally used as a medicinal recipe for like, it's like, it's like a tea. Dude, when you're like, I don't know, man, I don't know. I thought you're going to be like, I just don't like this new playoff. And then you're like, dude, this is a root. Like I don't get it. yes I thought you had gone back.
01:33:40
Speaker
No, it's a root. I don't get it. Let's take on the root. That's okay. Yeah. No, I don't understand it. Good times. Good times. All right, man. What else you got? Oh, I, Oh, I'll tell you what I do. I do. Got the mark. My research was awful. Mark you Mark. You definitely did. Like the one, the one link that I must've clicked on said that he did. And I went with it. I read it on the internet, Jim.
01:34:12
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a Oh man, I feel like we should, you know what, maybe I'm gonna go get some, I'm gonna go get some like, so when we did the cookie decorating, I found at the end, I found at the end of the cookie decorating for Christmas, I found at the end that I guess my sister-in-law must have brought it, I don't know, edible silver paint, like edible silver paint, like spray paint for like decorating like pastries or whatever. okay Maybe I'm going to go get some gold and like do something with some, some spring edible gold, do some golden domers or something like that. I like that. I like that. Eat the competition.
Reflecting on Football Excitement and Listener Engagement
01:34:48
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We still need to do, uh, my, my wife did the, um, a chocolate pie today. Um, like, which we would I guess that we've, we've, we've kind of, we've kind of like dug into some of these recipes that are like, you know, depression era recipes that are, we're finding that are like fantastic, but they're like four ingredients, you know? Right. Um, that, that, um, shoot, what was it called? Was it sugar pie? Sugar cream pie? Sugar cream pie. Yeah. Sugar cream pie. I told her, I was like, you're listening off all these ingredients. I feel like we should just make sugar cream pie. The only difference was it it had chocolate in it.
01:35:21
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I mean, Notre Dame is in Indiana. We can still make that. It is. It is in Indiana. I told her that I was going to make sugar cream pie and she was like, are you going to post it on Twitter?
01:35:36
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yeah duh ah So good. So good. Love it. Anyway, I mean, well, uh, I'm sure that we'll be, I'm sure that we'll be texting. I know that, uh, I can't wait for this game and I'm ready for football to get it back. Uh, good football games to get to get back on. Uh, but I guess we do have some, some bowl games that are coming up. There's, there's football on tomorrow. So at least we've got that. Yeah. Yeah. Tech and Vandy battle of the nerds. At least we got that going for us, yeah which is nice. That's true. That's true.
01:36:07
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Amen. We'll, uh, we'll, we'll sync back up later this week and, um, I hope you guys have a happy new year. Um, thank you for listening. Thank you for your support. Um, if you're listening to this, thank you for your question submissions. If you have thought about submitting a question, but haven't go ahead and go ahead and rattle that rattle that question off on a tweet or a comment. Um, it's fun to do this, uh, almost wrap it up another year here, but, um, you know, thank you and go dogs.
01:36:36
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Go Dogs.