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Texas Preview | 2024 Georgia Football
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00:00:00
Speaker
I just remembered that the reason I saw that is because you sent it to me. So that was a dumb question.
Introduction and Preview
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome to My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I preview Georgia's top five matchup with the Texas Longhorns. We talk through what we're looking for in the game and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
00:00:24
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Matchup Discussion: Georgia vs. Texas
00:00:46
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JP. Some people said we would never play a game in Texas and the SEC.
00:00:51
Speaker
Yeah, here we are playing the the new the newcomer and we still haven't played Texas A&M. Take that Marler.
00:01:04
Speaker
I mean, I really don't know. I really don't know what to say other than.
00:01:10
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Uh, did you see cash Jones did that? This is an audio medium as well. Uh, we both just sit the horns down. Uh, cash Jones did that at the media availability, like at the press conference today.
00:01:24
Speaker
Yeah, that was awesome. Someone, ah someone I think SEC memes definitely mocked up something. or I think it was them. I don't know. ah Definitely mocked up something so that the gave them a nice little edit. So if you haven't seen it, I just i retweeted it earlier today. so I guess remember that the reason I saw that is because you sent it to me. So that was a dumb question.
00:01:48
Speaker
Uh, man, I saw that and I was like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Yeah, it was good. It was good. It was good. Like it wasn't even a question. He just like, like, it was almost like he had a little snarl. Like he gave it a little bit of attitude with it. Yeah. made it even Yeah. It was great. It's actually like, if you're going to throw the horns down, you might as well. Yeah. Do it do it with a do with a little swag. I like it. Yeah, exactly.
Game Day Traditions and Travel
00:02:14
Speaker
Um, what do you, what do you have tonight this evening for this preview? I have the, the only bourbon that I have on hand that incorporates horns and I'm going to throw it down.
00:02:31
Speaker
Nice. I've got, I've got Buffalo, I got a Buffalo trace store pick from, uh, my local shop up here, hops hops green vine. Um, but yeah, I figured that it was a a good ball to, like I said, you know, turn the horns down. Got it.
00:02:46
Speaker
um i I was able to grab something off the shelf that is related, so I went with the Long Branch. you know it you all right all right all right all right all right right this is a This is a newer bottle that no longer has Matthew McConaughey's signature on it. um I guess he's not involved ah with it anymore, but it does still have a Oak in Texas Mesquite Charcoal Refined. This is one that I really do enjoy. This is a good one.
00:03:16
Speaker
It is. I think it's like what it's like an 80 proof, 84 proof, something like that. Yes, 86.
00:03:26
Speaker
za That means that you can drink a lot of them, not have any problems. Allegedly. Well, I guess welcome to the SEC, Texas.
00:03:39
Speaker
ah Cheers JP. Cheers. Cheers, sir. And cheers to all of you who are about to embark on on the journey that is the planes trains and automobiles of getting to Austin, Texas Yeah, neither of us will be making the trek ah when this was announced. I had definitely planned to go um Was gonna actually gonna kind of reverse um last year's oldness Initially was thinking would go out with Lutz and seek healing I think healing was is
00:04:09
Speaker
he keep He kept like bothering us being like, you guys aren't coming. Like what's, where was what's wrong with you? Um, but man, with the F one race in town, the same weekend, all the prices of everything are great. Like flights were always crazy. Flights are booked. There's nowhere to stay. Like, so, uh, kudos to those who are able to blow it off. I'm impressed. Yeah, seriously. Um, ah there are a lot of folks that are staying in like, you know, places that are not too far away, but that.
00:04:38
Speaker
far enough away that would be kind of annoying for me. But um yeah, more power to you. like I think Bubby's staying in New Albany or something like that. I saw some folks were staying and and other in other areas outside of Austin and just entering when they were going to just drive in. Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:04:59
Speaker
Yeah, we'd love to make it. I have this like, uh, somewhat lose goal of, you know, making it to every stadium in the SEC. Eventually. Um, you know, got, got several, you got two, you got two more drops on your head. ah Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Stop expanding. Uh, in order to do these things. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I guess maybe next time this, this time wasn't, uh, wasn't the best. So we'll figure it out someday.
00:05:26
Speaker
maybe ah Maybe I'll go to Texas A&M. Maybe I'll go to Texas A&M before I go to Austin. We'll see. All right. um Let's be be like, be like the Oregon duck and just travel around to all of the SEC schools and bang on the gates. Right. Exactly. Exactly.
History and Stats: Texas vs. Georgia
00:05:43
Speaker
All right. Let's, let's, uh, let's run through the matchup. Um, so we got kickoff is Saturday, seven 30 PM, uh, Eastern time. Remember seven 30 Eastern time for those will be there. Um, this game is at Daryl K Royal, Texas memorial stadium. That's a mouthful.
00:06:03
Speaker
uh in austin it is a big stadium hundred thousand seats a hundred thousand one hundred and nineteen folks ah the dogs come in five and one three and one in the sec texas six and oh two and oh uh thus far in their first season in the sec.
00:06:18
Speaker
Um, dogs are five and four in the polls, Texas unanimous number one. And then we've got the the big group, uh, Chris Fowler, Kirk herb street, Holly row and Katie George on the call for this one. So we could, we can even get two sideline reporters. Uh, so I feel like they're pulling out all the stops for this game.
00:06:34
Speaker
um The official hashtag is hashtag UGA verse Tex and Texas leads the all-time series four to one So we've only played them five times only only the sixth meeting ah Between these two storied programs. So kind of kind of crazy there. I guess it makes sense because we're not in the same conference or weren't Yeah, it is kind of weird though a couple of blue bloods. Yeah, yeah. Um, and then the the last meeting was that, uh, the sugar bowl, um, on January 1st, 2018. Um, yeah, that can't be right. and so That's what this says, but that had to be one, one 2019. Anyways, at any rate, Texas won that game 21 to 28 in New Orleans and in the sugar bowl. That was the one where we had a bunch of like people opted out and we let them go to the game and fell behind and couldn't catch up and they declared they were back. So whatever.
00:07:27
Speaker
And they're, they're giant, they're giant cow tried to attack our dog. Yeah. Bevo stay away from that guy. Not cool. Um, so the weather for those who are going does look, does look nice. Um, looks like high of 84 on Saturday, low, low 60. Um, so if you're going to be there, uh, looks like you should be in for, in for, in for some good weather, uh, on your trip out to Austin. All right. That's it for the matchup GP. Uh, I believe you have some fun facts.
00:07:53
Speaker
We do have some fun facts. Okay, so just quick and dirty. Those of you that are venturing that way, if you're going by by vehicle, I happen to take a look and see like, how far away do you think Austin is from from Athens from Athens? Oh, I have no idea. I'm so bad. I don't I don't want to embarrass myself by guessing. I'm so bad at geography.
00:08:18
Speaker
it is It is a shade over a thousand miles from Athens to Austin, okay which is which is quite a hike. yeah yeah yeah So if you were driving from Athens or even Marietta or Atlanta, like Metro Atlanta to to Austin, you know more power to you.
00:08:36
Speaker
um But yeah, it's ah it's pretty much a straight shot. I don't i guess we'll we'll find find out how people feel about the drive. But um yeah, and it is a thousand miles from from us. So I would say that that's probably the furthest that we've gone for for a game, right? Like for a regular season and game.
00:08:55
Speaker
Uh, well, I mean, we had, uh, Arizona state a few years back. Okay. Is that would assume that's for that. And in Colorado, it's definitely the furthest sec game. Yes, for sure. i out and dry I mean, you got, you got Cal flying across the country to play in the, uh, yeah, simply in the, what, what, what conference are they in? They're in the ACC. see Nothing says Atlantic coast, like Cal Berkeley.
00:09:26
Speaker
like Oh, man. um Yeah, so Texas is, um Texas is the the university, it's actually mentioned in the state constitution, which actually like, it was actually, it was actually mentioned, even before then, but back in 1827, it was actually mentioned, ah Texas, the you a University of Texas, was was mentioned in 1827. And then the Mexican ah the Mexican state of, I'm going to totally butcher this, Cajulía y Tejas, which is the derivation of Texas.
Texas Longhorns: History and Culture
00:10:04
Speaker
um But yeah, basically, in the Mexican state that that was before independence, ah it promised a public education in arts and sciences and and a ah in declaration or whatever, ah in their constitution.
00:10:21
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so After Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836, the Constitution of the Republic um basically emphasized that there was going to be a a University of Texas. um so It's literally written into the state of ah state of Texas' is constitution that there would be a University of Texas. and Not only that it would be a University of Texas, but it would be a University of Texas ah of class.
00:10:50
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meaning that they expected it to be one of the best. And currently today it is one of the best. It's one of the top 40 universities in the world kind of stuff. That's that's their they you know their their claim to fame.
00:11:04
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um you know Lots and lots of folks who have gone through the doors there. I think Neil tyson DeGrasse the rest you have to grasss Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson, yeah, whatever his name is. I think he actually did go to school there. He was listening to some alumni things, but i had him I had him going to Columbia. So anyway, a famous alumni, and spoiler alert. um But anyway, some of the pages that I saw had associated him with that, but he definitely went there. But yeah I don't know that he graduated from there. Let's see here.
00:11:38
Speaker
ah so So yeah, ah basically they were, after Texas was annexed, you know, they basically allocated a bunch of money to start the University of Texas. um Got delayed and then basically it was reaffirmed and in 1881 they formed the university as we know it today.
00:11:59
Speaker
um Let's see, a couple other fun facts. um I'm going to try to hold back on some of the fun facts. You and I are joking about this, but I'm going to hold back on some of them because we're going to play them again next year. Yes. When I go all out on the fun facts, I haven't done things like that. Have we talked about this before?
00:12:17
Speaker
good um So I'm gonna dig out on a couple of things that make Texas like, who who they are, because they're very proud of these things. um They're not, they're not just the University of Texas gym, they're the University of Texas Longhorns. Did you know that the Longhorn was once an endangered animal? I did not know that. No.
00:12:42
Speaker
So I guess that so the these these these cattle are the are the remnants of breeding, right? So cattle, they breed for for different purposes. And so they originally came over, ironically, like the the actual origin of the Texas longhorn, um the original animal that came over with Christopher Columbus this past Monday was Christopher Columbus day. So literally Christopher Columbus brought the University of Texas, their mascot. ah what How did three year letterman leave that out of his Columbus day tweet? Sorry.
00:13:21
Speaker
Yeah, it's been ah it's been a mascot for the university since 1917. And it was you know it was based on you know different hybrid results of breeding English and Spanish cows. And it's the Spanish cows that came over with Christopher Columbus that um you know necessitated that strain, that portion of it. um So without Christopher Columbus, you would not have the you would not have the longhorn.
00:13:45
Speaker
as we know it. um just ah Just a quick little historical ah narrative there. But um basically, they bre they bred this animal for its, its it was a cheap it was cheap to breed. So the longhorn was was a cheap animal. And that's basically the only reason that it there was around. However, over time,
00:14:06
Speaker
They started breeding them with different different strains or whatever, different breeds of of of cattle. um You probably are familiar with Angus as a type of breed.
00:14:19
Speaker
um The Hereford and the Shorthorn Durhams um were where most guys went in the 20s and when they went with those other breeds that were like they basically created a beefier animal for lack of a better description. The Longhorn can still make you know decent enough meat but it is not the preeminent um It's not the preeminent breed for for such purposes. And so basically, it's largely a lawn ornament for a lot of folks. They're not exactly like the the creme de la creme of um cattle, but you know, ah based on my research, you know, your mileage may vary on how you feel about that.
00:15:03
Speaker
Sure. If you aren't, and we need to get any of the ice. We need to get ice dog to confirm. But yeah, they're basically just a just a ah lawn ornament at this point.
00:15:16
Speaker
Um, but yeah, like that they, so with all of that, you know, breeding that went on when they went away from the Longhorn, like basically it got down into the endangered numbers and then the federal government and Texas basically saved the Longhorn. So government funded subsidy. Congratulations. Like you're written into the constitution as a, as an entity, the government had to save your animal. Like basically you're just a giant a giant wealth of our program is really what what it comes down to. Gotcha.
00:15:49
Speaker
nice Uh, let's see here. Uh, the other thing that I'm going to highlight is their color because they're not just orange gym. They are, I call it burnt orange, but I don't know. Yes. It is burnt orange. It is burnt orange. Yes. It is burnt orange. Yes. Did you, do you know what their, was burnt orange, their original color? I mean, I guess it was not. It was not their original color. And and I know about like, I about crap my pants when I realized that what they actually did wear
00:16:21
Speaker
Okay. I'm intrigued. You have my attention. If you were to guess, if you were to wager a guess on what color they originally started with, what color would you think that they went with back in the day? I mean, in general, I would have you know assumed something like white, but when you said you fell over, I'm going to go with something a little more out there. Maybe like pink. Pink?
00:16:43
Speaker
You're in the right shade palette. Okay. So the University of Texas and the Texas A and&M are heated rivals. Is it weird that your hated rival, one of the main colors was one of your first colors? Interesting. So is it like literally in or something?
00:17:01
Speaker
maroon was the color that they wore, um, back in the day. So, um, and it wasn't for football, it was for baseball. So I guess back in, uh, back in the day, they were, um, they were, they were, they were like a baseball school, right? Like football hadn't like made its way out there yet. Um,
00:17:21
Speaker
So at that time, um they basically wore maroon as, as a color. And then there eventually there was, um, so the whole reason behind it is is really not thin, like more purposeful other than it just wasn't orange, wasn't sustainable. And it wasn't like burnt orange. Like we think of today, like they had orange, but like they decided that they were going to go with maroon because it was an easier color to maintain.
00:17:47
Speaker
um and and orange was basically on unstable and basically they washed it so much that the white would get really dirty and then it was hard to clean and all this kind of stuff so they were orange and white for at first but then they eventually pivoted to maroon for several years interesting um And yeah, and the other thing was is that the the the orange would would fade to the almost yellow and then they kind of got to the i like towards the end of the season, they would get washed so much that it would turn yellow and the the news writers started calling them the Texas yellow bellies. Interesting. But the maroon the maroon stuck around for a brief period there because um they were basically ah easy easy to clean.
00:18:35
Speaker
And interestingly, Texas A&M, you know, just side note, Texas A and&M at the time was wearing red. So I guess it's sort of fair that they didn't have maroon. But anyway, I'm sure that there's probably some some rivalry that they could talk through there.
00:18:51
Speaker
Yeah. um But yeah, ah the for the next, you know, basically, they had orange and maroon. um And white was also incorporated there as well. So like burnt orange wasn't really a part of the equation here at this point. So in the spring of 1900, they went through a vote a voting process where the students and faculty and alumni were invited to to vote.
00:19:16
Speaker
Only 1,111 votes were cast. basically To basically vote on this. um And orange and white won by a slim majority. and Most of them wanted orange and maroon. Could you imagine? now did you
00:19:41
Speaker
Uh, they won by seven votes. Orange and white won by seven votes. Um, anyway, um, other options that they had out there were Royal blue crimson, um, Royal blue and crimson, which, uh, and people back in the day were just awful. The uniform on Twitter did not. but Yeah, seriously. And obviously I think it's, I think it's being.
00:20:05
Speaker
Yes. um So anyway, in 1925, they basically came up with a ah darker shade of orange that would not fade. And that is where we get the burnt orange that exists today. um The football coach at the time ordered uniforms that were a darker shade of orange. And that's that's where the that's where the burnt orange came from. Gotcha.
00:20:29
Speaker
um They went back to orange for a little while, like basically it was back and forth. So really like the burnt orange color that we know today never really like never really got solidified until the 1960s.
00:20:42
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's around when our, you know, uniform started to take shape for what we know today. So yeah so what we're saying is is that uniform Twitter has taken time to evolve and correct and find itself.
Notable Alumni and Cultural Influence
00:20:55
Speaker
Correct. Yes. Let's see here. Some famous alumni noted fraternity brother, Matthew McConaughey. Yes. It's probably public enemy number one in that regard.
00:21:08
Speaker
Yeah. otherwise here don't know How do we define alumni? Because he didn't graduate, right? Didn't he go for like a year or something? I think he attended. I could be wrong. ah but maybe maybe this is Maybe this is under the Neil deGrasse. It could be. But ah in that vein, um'm using I'm using my sources here. Good work.
00:21:34
Speaker
Other attendees can't speak to their alumni status. ah Renee Zellweger, Owen Wilson, Ethan Hawke, Janice Joplin. Let's see, Wes Anderson. the i think Wasn't Wes Anderson the horror guy?
00:21:51
Speaker
Wes Anderson, uh, is he's not, well, no, Wes Anderson makes like the kind of like offbeat movies, like, uh, Rushmore and those. By the way, I was wrong. I sand corrected. I will stop talking. Continue. John, he is a Matthew McConaughey is a graduate of Texas. All right. All right. All right. I was wrong. I guess at some point after he got arrested playing bongos and smoking weed, he figured out a way to graduate. Yes.
00:22:18
Speaker
Um, Jane Mansfield, uh, famous, you know, playboy, playmate, uh, pin-up girl of this 1960s. Um, Madman himself, Mr. John Hamm. Um, Farrah Fawcett, um, famous American pin-up girl, uh, an actress. Uh, we already talked about Neil deGrasse. Uh, let's see, um, Robert Rodriguez, uh, famous for, um,
00:22:47
Speaker
Things for the the Desperado and and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. again Obviously, the Bushes, um Jordan Spieth, and oh there's there's there's so many people that went to Texas, um so many people that you would recognize. I mean, Bobby's favorite person in the world, Stacey Abrams, is also from the University of Texas. ah A lot of folks that you probably would recognize from different shows, but probably you're not going to recognize the names because I recognized all the faces and didn't realize that they were them.
00:23:19
Speaker
catch But I will end on a couple. So there's Scoot McNary. You probably have never heard that name, but I'm going to give him a shout out because I freaking love Narcos. Do you ever watch the Narcos show on Netflix?
00:23:34
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. He plays the, he plays one of the guys that's chasing Pablo Escobar, um, or that's chasing the cartels. Um, like one of the, like one of the name guys. Yeah. and first like Okay. again first um yeah yeah Yeah. Um, and then.
00:23:51
Speaker
one of their one that I'm going to mention that you actually had the pleasure of seeing live and in person this past Saturday. Oh, Glenn Powell. Yeah, I actually I saw that somewhere where I was reading through that, youre trying to figure out what the deal was with that show.
00:24:10
Speaker
so Did he did he give the horns up while he was there? Because if I were him, I totally would have done that. Yeah, no, yeah, he didn't. I didn't know he seemed to be in character for the most part. I think when they left at the end, I guess he was kind of a little out out of the character at that point, but he didn't see he was he was dialed. He was dialed. He was he was he was taking his craft seriously. John didn't have time. That's it. That's funny.
00:24:35
Speaker
Um, but yeah, there's, there's, there's so many people that, I mean, obviously it's a huge, I mean, I guess that that actually there's another you connection, Kyle Shanahan, uh, everybody's favorite offensive coordinator. Um, ah Kyle Shanahan's also from the university of Texas. and I think Michael, I was gonna say Michael, Kyle Shanahan, I feel like we need to stop now. Now I'm just.
00:25:00
Speaker
Michael Dell, Scotty Scheffler. I mean, there's just so many, there's just so many ballistos on and on. Yeah. I'll probably fill it. I'll probably fill in and repeat some next year, but but that's, ah that's, that's what I got. um Good stuff. And I guess, I guess that you mentioned the, you mentioned the circuit of the Americas or whatever that that's coming, that's going down and in Austin. It's the only F1 track in the United States, I believe.
00:25:25
Speaker
um Like maybe full like actual like not in road racetrack. Is that you're saying because there is there's there's more races now There's Miami race and there's a Vegas race, but I think those are like road road courses. I guess i don't Yeah, I hate look I watch f1 dr. Survive on Netflix. So I know and enough you knowt that you know You know these things Go man cool Um, let's see. Do you want, uh, I guess I can do, I can do Hasty's hardware history if you want. Yeah, i go ahead. I talked long enough. Oh, good. like All right. Let's hit Hasty's hardware history.
Historical Connections and NFL Ties
00:26:18
Speaker
All right, this one, uh, I've got a bit of of a prologue from, from Jason's email. So, um, Jason said that Texas is odd because we have very little history with them. And outside of the 84 cotton bowl, all of that history is bad. I thought that diving into some connections that people might not have known about would be more interesting than just another retelling of the story of last singer's touchdown to beat the Longhorns. So appreciate that Jason.
00:26:41
Speaker
Although, I don't know, John, if you know what time it is in Texas, it's always 10 to nine. ah That was the score of that game. At any rate, from 1954 through 1958, New York Giants head coach Jim Lee had the greatest coaching staff in NFL history.
00:26:58
Speaker
His offensive assistant, what we now call the offensive coordinator, was Vince Lombardi. His defensive assistant was Tom Landry. Howell liked to joke that his main responsibility with the team was to make sure that enough footballs were inflated prior to games on Sunday. This this is a great trivia for NFL fans and a massive what-if question for Giants fans contemplating why neither Lombardi nor Landry was ever named head coach in New York. But what does this have to do with Georgia?
00:27:24
Speaker
As it happened, both Landry and Lombardi crossed paths with the Bulldogs during their college careers. In 1936, Harry Mayer took his Georgia team to play Fordham at the Polo Grounds in New York City. It is mostly forgotten now, but prior to World War II, New York City had a lively college football scene.
00:27:40
Speaker
new york The New York area schools played their home games in the large baseball stadiums with the polo grounds and an especially popular venue. Fordham's coach was Jim Crowley. Crowley had been part of Notre Dame's famous Four Horsemen back field in 1924.
00:27:56
Speaker
After playing for Newt Rockne, Crowley was an assistant at Georgia from 1926 to 1927 under Coach George Kidwoodruff. Harry Meyer had also played for Rockne, and we have to assume that this connection between the two coaches is why this game was scheduled. Post schools also ran the Notre Dame box offense, which had been developed by Rockne.
00:28:14
Speaker
Ford had met a strong football program during the 1930s and its line was known nationally as the seven blocks of granite. One of those blocks was guard was a guard with poor eyesight Vince Lombardi. Let's see, Georgia, like so many other schools then struggling through the lean years of the Great Depression, was playing a powerhouse Northeastern team for respect.
00:28:36
Speaker
while a win for Fordham would have sent them to the Rose Bowl. As it turned out though, Fordham was denied a spot in the pre-minute postseason game in large part due to Georgia's Pete Tinsley, a 175-pound guard who broke through broke through the seven blocks of granite and throughout the game to disrupt Fordham's offensive attack.
00:28:54
Speaker
Keep in mind, these were the days of two-way players in very limited substitutions, so a guard played both the offensive and defensive lines. Georgia and Fordham ended the game in a 7-7 tie. Lombardi is alleged to have later said that Georgia was the meanest, toughest team he went up against in his college career. But what about Landry?
00:29:14
Speaker
Tom Landry played fullback, defensive back, and occasionally hunted for the Texas Longhorns after serving in the 8th Air Force in the European Theater during World War II. In 1948, Landry's senior year, Texas, then a member of the Southwest Conference, fielded a strong team with losses only to Oklahoma, SMU, and North Carolina. Georgia won the SEC in 1948 with an unblemished in-conference record. Its only defeat was oddly to North Carolina.
00:29:41
Speaker
The Bulldogs and Longhorns were mashed in the Orange Bowl. It was the first meeting between the two teams, and Georgia was the favorite. Georgia was led by its record-setting quarterback, senior John Rauch, who was the first quarterback in college football to lead his team to four postseason games, and he would graduate as the NCAA's all-time leading ah passing a yardage leader. In Rauch's career, he passed for a then-dizzying 4,212 yards, which is that actually is pretty crazy here back then.
00:30:10
Speaker
Behind Landry's strong play, though, the Longhorns pulled the upset. Georgia finished the season ranked number eight in the AP poll, a testament to a strong season. Georgia fans will remember that Herschel Walker would play for Landry's Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s. Landry coached Walker to his only two Pro Bowl appearances. Bring this full circle. Lombardi's Packers defeated Landry's Cowboys 21-17 in the legendary Ice Bowl on December 31, 1967.
00:30:37
Speaker
The Packers then advanced to the second AFL NFL world championship game, a game renamed as a Super Bowl the next year where they defeated the Oakland Raiders. Oakland's head coach in that game, former Georgia quarterback, John Rauch. I think as you said, JP, that was a nice ah weaving turning story there that ah the Jason Gaffors was because this was a good one. Yeah. it's it's It's interesting the interconnectedness of the early the early college football dudes.
00:31:05
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's wild. Absolutely wild. So yeah, and if you're watching on YouTube, I had a bunch of pictures of of the folks mentioned and the old the program from the bowl game, all that. So be sure to check that out. And like we always say, if you ever in Athens, i go ah say hey to Jason over at the Harvard Library. And he'll be happy to show you around. Can you actually have the 84 program?
00:31:28
Speaker
Yeah. Or the cover of it was in there, was on there. And then a couple of pictures from the inside. Oh, the 84 program. Yeah. know The cotton bull one the one. I emailed him the. Yeah. Oh, does he actually have it? Yeah. I'm not sure. I wonder if he actually has it. Good question. I found, I found that one. I went, I went digging for programs for the the playlist that I created for the road trip, which yeah probably might be a good time to to drop that here.
00:31:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Good note. Uh, so I, it will be, it's in, it's, if you're listening to this head to the show notes, it's there. We'll, we'll put it out on social media as
Player Updates and Strategy Analysis
00:32:03
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well. But, uh, John made a Spotify playlist for anyone heading out to to Austin this weekend for the game. Uh, so be sure to go, go check that out.
00:32:13
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some texas theme tunes and uh if anybody has anything that is missing that they feel very strongly should be added let me know and now i'll i'll consider nice okay a couple of quick news and notes um so we did get an update on branson robinson Um, he, it's an MCL injury. Um, so Kirby said, like, doesn't know how many weeks it'll be, but like, you you know, he won't be available this week. Um, but it, you know, sounds like it may not be like season ending or anything. Um, he also said it was not the same leg, uh, that he injured previously. So that was good news at least. I guess, uh, kind of glass half full side there.
00:32:52
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um So he he said that yesterday, we' we're recording on Tuesday, and today he got asked, Kirby got asked about Jared Wilson and Jordan Hall. So, you know, Drew Bellow has been the center of the last few games. He said Jared's been, Jared Wilson has been practicing and seems to be doing more in the last few days than he did last week.
00:33:09
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Um, but then with Jordan Hall, this has been a long hard process. He said he was doing more than last week as well. So I don't know my, I think we'd heard some rumblings that Jared Wilson might actually be back this week, like that. He could, may have been able to play this past week. Um, but wanted to kind of rest them up for this one. So hopefully that is accurate, but we'll see. Um, and then as always Kirby's got a lot of respect for Steve Sarkeesian in case you didn't, I can't believe he, like he literally says that every week about the coach. Anyway.
00:33:37
Speaker
All right. All right. let's it's the protein It's the coaching version of hopeful. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right, man. this is a This is a big one. So, um you know, number one team in the country, um they are, they're net yards for play or three and a half, like 3.51 net yards for play, which I know is much, very much it's so in that wheelhouse of elite team that we've looked at.
00:34:02
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ah The dogs are down to 1.66 net yards for play. um Then turnover margin, dogs are now minus one on the season, um like in the negative. ah Texas is plus three, so they've got three more takeaways than giveaways. So just some kind of overall all things there.
00:34:20
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Um, but I guess that's let's, let's talk about what we're looking for when Georgia has the ball. So, um, some notable defenders for Texas, uh, their, and their leading tackler is Anthony Hill Jr. He's a sophomore linebacker, uh, 42 total tackles, four and a half sacks and one interception. Uh, JV on Cole is a junior defensive back. He's the leader with interceptions, uh, with one. So I guess no one has more than one, or one pick.
00:34:47
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Um, and then for sacks, uh, also four and a half is also the lead there, but Anthony Hill Jr. He's a sophomore linebacker. He's also got four and a half, uh, sacks on the season. This Texas defense, um, is good. It has been very impressive thus far this year. They lead the nation in total yards allowed, uh, points per game, explosiveness.
00:35:13
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in Yards for Play. ah They're number one in all four of those categories. um So they they look really good on paper. I think the only thing I'll add here, I'm going to shout out Coach Trillbill here ah because he he texted you and I. um I can't remember when this was. I think this was Sunday.
00:35:32
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Um, he said that they're scoring out the scoring offense ranks, uh, for the offenses that that this defense has played against Colorado state is 107 Michigan, one Oh two ULM one Oh six, uh, UT San Antonio, one Oh five Mississippi state 71st at Oklahoma 96th. So as far as scoring offenses, like Mississippi state is actually by far the best team that they've played, uh, thus far this year. So all that does say that, you know, they ain't played nobody ball, uh, as far as offenses.
00:36:02
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Yeah. Yeah. So what are you, what are you looking for? And we've got the ball. No turnovers. Yeah. Yeah. Don't, don't turn the ball over. You win this game. Period. You know, I've been thinking about that because like, you know, I keep like, you know, sometimes you're like, well, you need to do more than that and stuff. But I've been thinking like, I don't know, like that may just be it. Like, wait you know, when's the last time Georgia lost a game without shooting ourselves in the foot kind of thing? You know, like it's been a minute.
00:36:31
Speaker
um Well, granted, we haven't lost many games period, but um yeah, I tend to agree. but so Think about our our woes on the on the offene on the offensive side or whatever. the We all complain and, you know, beep about you know this, that, and the other. Like, oh, this is this wide receiver is dropping these passes. and this offensive lineman is not doing that this that and the other like oh my gosh like why is this tight end here i can't block like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yeah
00:37:03
Speaker
At the end of the day, we're I would argue one turnover away from being the number one team in the country. like i don't know I don't know that anybody else realizes that, like you know especially if you take away a couple of turnovers that we had, you know easily the number one team in the country. um I don't know, man. it's if if if If we don't turn the ball over, we're going to win, like period.
00:37:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be plotting. It'll probably frustrate the hell out of everybody. I don't think that anyone and and in their right mind thinks that this is going to be a blowout by any stretch. I mean, even yeah even even the spread isn't that like crazy, right? Yeah. It's like three and a half points. Yeah.
00:37:45
Speaker
So yeah, you don't, I think that this game is going to come down to who who wins the turnover margin. Yeah. Cause you look at, you look at the numbers. Like, uh, I think that, let's see what I was looking at earlier, uh, was that they have, they have three fumbles that they've lost and they have seven interceptions. I know they've got 11 takeaways total that their defenses has.
00:38:13
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Yeah, their plus three turnover ratio were minus one. um yeah But they have fumbled and turned the ball over quite a bit as well. um every They're basically good for at least an interception a game, if not more, like one turnover plus per game thus far. And that is not like and is' not isolated to just one you know person player. It's it's it's all of them. None of them are are immune to it.
00:38:41
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yeah So whether your's is out there or um Mr. Manning is out there um <unk>re they're They're pretty much guaranteed that they're gonna someone's gonna throw a pick in this game And if we stay on the positive side of that we we win this game I like it. Uh, some Texas connections for some Georgia players, uh, just some kind of connections between the roster. So Dylan Bell, Anthony Evans, and Cass Jones are all from Texas. Um, so, you know, we, we, we, we see that a lot of like guys from Georgia, like say playing at Auburn, you know, coming and playing in San Mercedes.
00:39:15
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And wanting to do well in front of that home crowd. So I think a little, little extra motivation, uh, for those three. Um, and then another just kind of little fun fact, uh, build Norton. If you remember him, he is on this Texas defense. He has transferred twice. Uh, so he transferred from Georgia to Arizona. Now he's a Texas. He's like a reserve defensive lineman. Um, but no.
00:39:35
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I like that. And and like you know like we said, this this Georgia offense is by far the best offense that Texas' his defense has faced. So you yes, they put up ah great numbers defensively. um let's Let's see what that looks like now um yeah when they play against a real offense.
00:39:54
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Uh, I guess we can, we can move over to what we're looking for when, when Texas has the ball and like kind of, as we transitioned to that, one thing I will say is it it would be great to start fast, I guess on offense, um, and not have the slow start considering Texas has outscored opponents 56 to three in the first quarter thus far this season. Um, so they're, they, yeah they definitely, their offense definitely has a, has fast starts. So.
00:40:19
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notful Notable players on their offense, obviously, you know, they get two quarterbacks. So Quinn Ewers is back though. um So he was back ah last week against Oklahoma. He's thrown for 890 yards, 72% completion percentage, ah nine touchdowns, three picks. And then Arch Manning, freshman, you know, 901 yards, 70% completion percentage, nine touchdowns, two picks. ah So, but expect to see, definitely expect to see Ewers here.
00:40:49
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The leading rusher is Quinn Trevion Wisner. He's a sophomore running back 278 yards and two touchdowns and then Jayden blue was a junior He's their second leading rusher 269 yards and four touchdowns their leading receiver is Isaiah Bond ah Yes, the guy that was at Alabama last year. He is a transit. He transferred from Bama to Texas He's got 21 catches 369 yards three touchdowns. He has listed his day-to-day and He was injured in the Oklahoma State game, uh, left and did not return. Um, but I think everyone's expecting him to play. And then, uh, their second leading receiver is actually their tight end Gunner Helm. He's a senior. He's got 311 yards and two touchdowns. So just some, some folks out there for the Texas offense.
00:41:32
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And then, you know, Steve Sarkeesian is really is known as an offensive guy. He was an offensive coordinator at Alabama. He was offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. ah That's the second Atlanta Falcons, I guess ah offensive coordinator mentioned of the episode ah with Texas times here. But, uh, yeah, so, but again, you know, um, Georgia defense is going to have to going to have to step up here. Um, I want to see, I want to see more out of them. What are you looking for?
00:41:58
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you know who You know who else is offensive geniuses that Curvy's played against? Hypel, Giffen. I think that, you know, these guys, these guys, he's I mean, I'm debower, deauer would put under that vein as well.
00:42:16
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Um, he's, he's done pretty well at figuring out these, these high powered offenses that I'm not too, too worried. Um, particularly if bond's not going to be playing, you know, kind of thing. I'd expect him to, I do expect him to play, but he just, just know he's banged up. Yeah. if If he's not a hundred percent, like that's, I feel like that's a positive on our side of things. Yeah. But.
00:42:36
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um yeah i mean i think that i don't know that they've you know you look you look at the games that they've played and it's like i don't i mean i don't know that they've necessarily played anybody that has anywhere close to the defense that we have and they've still they they they have performed just about as badly on offense as we have like in terms of like the turnovers and all that kind of stuff. I'm looking at their yards per attempt. I'm looking at their interceptions. I'm looking at their sacks. It's pretty similar like for all of the hoot and holler and that the that they're getting. like and pretty similar to you know It's pretty similar to us.
00:43:17
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Yeah, and so many of their points that they're they've been putting up are against the non-power four, you know, so like they're, they're scoring like 50 points a game in those non-power four games. So that's like Colorado State, UTSA, and UL Monroe, but you know,
00:43:33
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They're still scoring a lot though. I mean, so they're they've scored at least 31 as their lowest offensive outpoint output points wise and that was against Michigan. um So yeah, 31 against Michigan, 35 against Mississippi State, 34 against Oklahoma. um I'll say too though, like from what I, you know, I mean, I've seen highlights watched a little bit.
00:43:53
Speaker
Um, uh, uh, of last week's Oklahoma game and Ewers did look a little rusty for what that's worth. That was his first came back, um, from his injury. Um, so I don't know. I don't know. we We'll see. We'll see what he looks like on Saturday. Like, is he back to old canoe Ewers or he's, he's still a little rusty, so a little shaky. Yeah.
00:44:12
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Um yeah man I mean you looked at the numbers and like I just on paper it looks like that this is for sure gonna be this is gonna be a close game like I think i think it it could come down to it could come down to something like you know kicking and special teams which I don't know if we've talked about that but I don't think we've talked about that yet but Um, the, it could also come down to, you know, which team is better on fourth down. yeah yeah Georgia tips the scales.
00:44:43
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Yeah, we should have talked about that in the offensive portion. Just pretend it's fourth down every play. We're on offense. Anyway, seriously, seriously. ah Okay, so I guess one other thing. So we do also have some Texas got some Texans on the defense, ah Julian Humphrey, and then i JJ are also both from Texas. There's a few other Texas guys, um but like some guys that and you know, haven't haven't seen on the field as much. So those are the The prominent guys though did it from Texas. So again, you know, maybe maybe another extra little edge there for those guys I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of a lot of educating going on here Yeah, not to mention like, you know, I'm sure that a lot of these guys, you know came up against each other and recruiting and um Yeah, there's there's there's plenty there's plenty of opportunity for them to to find an edge and Yeah. And the other thing is like this, this offense is not like the Texas ah offense is not as explosive as say, Alabama, like they're not just like airing it out to, you know, the 17 year old um kind of deal. um I mean, they're explosive, but they're like 56th in explosiveness.
00:45:49
Speaker
in the kind and country, um you whereas Alabama was i like top five or something. um So not quite as explosive, which is, you know I feel like it the explosiveness is what we ah have been susceptible to. um So if that's not their game, I ah feel a little bit better about that as well.
00:46:07
Speaker
I'm with you, though, man. um And here, you know, it's going to be to me, I'm going to be watching the trenches and then what's happening on on the outside, because I think everyone is just as bad, bad vibes about the corner play against Mississippi State with the busted coverage. But I know that's being ingrained in there. And then will we see young Mr. Robinson in the secondary? We'll find out. Yeah.
00:46:31
Speaker
Cool. All right. We can hit the special teams quickly. Um, so let's see, uh, for Texas, their kicker is Bert Auburn. I already don't like his last name. Um, he's a senior. hey already He's a four or six for field goals on the season. Perfect on extra points. 35 for, uh, 35 there. Hunter is Michael Kern. He is a true freshman. He is not from Australia. They do not take planning seriously at Texas.
00:47:00
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Um, he averages 42 around 43 yards of punt. Uh, and then their kick returners are Matthew golden and Silas Bolden. So, uh, that's what they're trying out there. Um, you know, hopefully their punt returner, uh, Bolden, uh, you know, and enables Thorsen to keep his history going of, uh, no punt returns for positive yardage. I have a feeling, I have a feeling that that's going to continue, Jim. Yeah. Yeah. I'm good with it. I'm good with it.
00:47:30
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right that's what That's what we got on the yeah um the special teams there. Sorry, I didn't hear any of anything that you said, so I assume that they have an Australian. They don't. That's the thing. They don't they don't take punting seriously. Oh, you know what? That's right, because I actually listened to mullets on the mic um already this week. Nice.
00:47:50
Speaker
And Mr. Thorson was was educating Tate on on the pipeline that pro kick has in college football, which by the way, like if you haven't listened to those guys, like it sounds like that the pro, like Brett brett gives like a a bit of a, you know, how the sausage is made on how the pro kick situation works. And it sounds like that basically they sign up for this program kind of thing.
00:48:16
Speaker
and then they get developed and you know Prokick does its thing and processes them basically like cattle and then someone like Kirby Smart in this case sounds like it was Todd Hartley that like they had a connection to to Prokick and they're like hey we're looking for a punter this is what we're looking for that kind of thing And basically pro kick just tells them where they're going to go. And so the first time, the first time that Brett Thorson ever set foot on UGA's campus was day one as a fresh, as a, as a student. Yeah, that's crazy. That's great. never recruiting visits He said, he said that it was, it was basically just the luck of the draw that he ended up at Georgia, because it could largely just depend on, you know, he said just the timing, the stars aligned to basically bring us the boom and
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00:49:06
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onion. Yeah. Which, thank thank the Lord. ah But yeah that's ah he yeah, he talked he talked about that, that Texas had previously had like back to back to back guys come through and then this year is the first year that they didn't. So I do remember that now.
00:49:22
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catchching yeahcha But it was it was fascinating. last Last week it was fascinating i'm hearing about the the hunting stories and this week was fascinating hearing about the pro-cake stuff. And like I said, I said this over and over again for you know anybody that will listen. but listening to the players tell their stories in their own words and in their own ways is probably one of the best things that's ever happened with NIL. There's a lot of bad, but there's ah definitely some positive vibes there. If you get a chance, go check out our boys. Cool. Cool. Run of the show. Run of the show. That's right. That's right.
00:49:59
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00:50:45
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All right. First up, JP, uh, the building bonus TM, TM, TM is back from bread building, uh, after a one week hiatus. Uh, so first off, who is the real UT? You know, I, I still actually think Tennessee first, personally, just cause you know, I kind of like came of age in college of law in the nineties. So to me, I think Tennessee, who is there the real UT for you, Texas or Tennessee? That's gotta be Texas.
00:51:13
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Yeah. I don't know. I see UT and I think Tennessee does just so that's my honest answer, but I guess. Oh, you're saying, you're saying like, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? Well, I'm just saying, I don't know. That's what he's asking, but I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely Tennessee, just because that's where how we were raised. But like in the grand scheme globally, like UT is by far in a way like, yeah, I got you way more prominent. Yeah, that's fair.
00:51:37
Speaker
Um, and then secondly, why did they schedule this massive game on top of the annual formula one race in Austin? Um, I feel like, I feel like that's a question we're never going to get the answers to. I think that, you know, the obvious answer is it was scheduled by the anti UGA deep state. So, uh, trying to keep our fans away and minimize, uh, Georgia fans traveling, uh, to give Texas a better home environment. That's the, that's right. I mean, that tracks the Texas, the University of Texas has literally written into the state's constitution. So they're doing literally everything they can to protect that school. Exactly. So that's what I got. That's what I got. All right. Let's see. Next up, Bobby Wilson. Uh, what he's got a few here. Uh, what are the top three reasons that Georgia fans should believe our dogs can win Saturday? I think, I think we hit, we, you know, I think Texas ain't played nobody. I think that's one, that's one of the types of reasons.
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's definitely, that's gotta be one of them. I mean, the, the competition, the competition there, yeah um, Kirby's, Kirby's track record against guys of this ilk, um, has also been pretty good. Um, let's see third. What's the third reason? Um, Anthony Evans, London Humphries, and Lawson Lucky are continuing to get to be more ingrained into the offense. Perfect.
00:52:59
Speaker
I like it. Um, let's see. Did, did Bevo really try to kill Ugga? I mean, I think we all saw it with our own eyes. So I think, yes. What did it say? He definitely fought back. He definitely fought back because he was scared. I mean, clearly Ugga is an intimidating creature and Bevo didn't know how to handle that and like basically freaked out. True. True.
00:53:23
Speaker
Um, and then why is hunker vodka so much better than Tito's because it's university of Georgia related. That's right. That's right. You want, it you want to, you know, you want to support the elite superior athletes. Uh, and that's the only way to do that is with hunker vodka. Yeah. It, uh, it supports, it's the boards of the university of Georgia athletes and not, um, horns down university. Yeah, seriously.
00:53:48
Speaker
All right, let's see. Next up, we've got 51 to seven GTA with the running back room getting thinner due to Branson Robinson's injury. Do y'all think we see Dylan Bell? And he said the best player on the field, in my opinion, back in the backfield at some point. He said, keep chopping. A lot of football to go. Go, go dogs.
00:54:07
Speaker
I'm actually not sure that we see him in the backfield. um I feel like at this point, you know, we think about the the traditional Georgia rotation of running back is more like three guys. Like I think like, I mean, you know, Chubb, Michelle and Swift. Oh, I guess you could add Holyfield. Maybe it's the fourth guy, but he didn't play much in 17.
00:54:27
Speaker
um You know, you had like Zamir White, James Cook, Kenny McIntosh, like that kind of thing, like three tends to be the main number, maybe a fourth guy gets into time. So I suppose it's possible, but I, I have more expect that we, we roll. Um, with, with three at this point with ETN, Frazier and cash money Jones. I wouldn't mind it. Um, yeah.
00:54:53
Speaker
You know, you and I have talked about like, are we ever going to see Dylan Bell? Like maybe Dylan Bell would be the best running back we got. Yeah. I mean, yeah I mean, yeah, I'm not going to lie. I love it when they throw him back there. I mean, he, he looked pretty awesome at running back last year when they did put in there. So I'm all, I'm all for it. I'm all for it. So I guess it's not out of the room of possibility. It's definitely possible.
00:55:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, he could be, he could be in the backfield and end up throwing a pass. True. True. Hey, in his home state. In his home state. I have a feeling they're going to, they're going to definitely try to get him more involved in the game. All all the Texas boys, like they, they have a, you know, Kirby's, Kirby's always closing, right? what's What's a better closing statement than having the Texas boys dunk on Texas.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Um, but anyway, yeah, Dylan Bell. Um, yeah, I think that there's another question about like, you know, who's the ex receiver or whatever later in the questions, if I remember correctly, but, uh, I'll be foreshadowing me answer there. Okay. Okay. Cool.
00:55:52
Speaker
Uh, let's see dogs forever. Do we stake at all this week or save our appetite for Saturday? And I had to read this twice before I realized what he meant, uh, just because I'm slow. So yeah, I'm not, I have not had steak yet this week.
00:56:08
Speaker
Do plan to have it. It is on the menu for Saturday. Um, yeah, we usually do like being dead for the game. I'm not saying we're going to like not do being dead, but sometimes we'll do the being dead for dinner. Um, so yeah, we're going to grill some steaks for dinner for sure. So I say yes, but if you want to have more steak, I think that's okay. I've had, I've had some ground beef this week. Um, and we had, we had tacos, tacos tonight. Um, or taco salad. Uh, yeah, I would say, um, steak is on the menu.
00:56:38
Speaker
Okay, okay, for sure. Where's the beef? It's gonna be in my belly.
00:56:45
Speaker
oh Too good. Okay. There's probably a swath of kids that had no idea what that is. Yeah, seriously. Uh, let's see, John Michael D. Um, ups next. John Michael D says, has there been a softer response from a current sec school like UT? Oh, see John Michael D thinks a Texas is the really like UT to the horns down stuff. Uh, nothing comes to mind for me. So the closest thing I can think of is the Gator Chomp. And like, if you do the Gator, like I'm just trying to think of like, what else can people do?
00:57:22
Speaker
And like, you know, you can't upside down the Gator Chomp, but you can do, you know, like Todd Gurley famously scored, you do the Gator Chomp and then you do the, you know, the X with your arms. So you can do that, but I don't honestly, like, I don't know that Florida fans get super upset about that i to my knowledge. So I guess I can't think of anything.
00:57:39
Speaker
um It did this question did send me down a reddit rabbit hole to figure out what the deal isn't like do texas fans actually care um And I at least according to reddit people are saying that they actually don't care Like they're not that man about it that it stems from a mac brown thing This is what they claim so what I read and it was on the internet so it must be true Um, is that Texas got penalized for like reversing some Texas tech gun celebration once or whatever. And then Mac Brown got mad because the Texas tech players were doing horns down and he was like, well, why is it a penalty when we mock their celebration, but it's not a penalty when they mock ours and then it started being a penalty. So that's where it all came from. And then, and then people started like freaking out about it. So that's at least what they said. And then they claimed that Texas fans don't really care.
00:58:27
Speaker
I'm not sure that I buy that, but like I said, found it on Reddit. Hey man, Texas is the MVP of their own story. So that would not surprise me in the slightest. I would say that yes, softer, you know, softer than Charmin. Um, but all I gotta say is, you know, everybody's saying Texas is back. You're not back until you have nice Yeah, you have you have both of these both of these bad boys. Yeah, right. Yeah, I need I feel like we need just now when you did that we need we need a second string soundboard to be able to say two national championships.
00:59:04
Speaker
ah and Shout up shut out. Shout out. Uh, all right. Uh, John Michael Lee, uh, rounded out saying since Munson is dead, I'm confident Kirby will have the boys ready to make horns down the least of their worries. Run the dang. All right. All right. All right. Bubble. Amen. Love that. All right. Let's see. Fletcher Proctor. You guys following how how hot Mike white has been on the basketball recruiting recruiting trail.
00:59:29
Speaker
I know JP hasn't. Uh, basketball minute. No, I actually, I'm, I got cold. So I have an alongside teacher. I have on a Georgia basketball teacher under this, uh, teacher that I'm wearing by the way. Um, so I like that shirt. This, this is, you know, not a sponsor because they don't exist anymore. This is a from tailgate. You know, they went, they went out of business. Um, so yeah, got a bunch of old stuff from there.
00:59:50
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, so not entirely, although I am excited about basketball season, uh, getting started soon. We'll be all over that. So, he but then he added, oh, sorry, Texas topics. Uh, where does AD Mitchell's 2023 big 12 championship ring fall on his personal list?
01:00:07
Speaker
um So he's Fletcher is thinking his list is probably number one 2021 CFP Tyler ring to 2022 CFP Tyler ring three 2022 SEC Championship ring and then four big 12 title ring that has to be right is What Fletcher says I have to agree. I mean, I don't see how to create read anything else I would tend to agree. Yeah, I Yeah. Which, you know, on that note, um, this game is for payback for Texas stealing 80 Mitchell from us. So, uh, even more motivation for the dogs. I like it. All right. Boss dog. Give us one guy that needs to step up and stand out both sides of the ball to win this game. A clarifying statement. Don't give us layups like Michael or Beck dig into the bag. Was this your Dylan bill?
01:00:54
Speaker
Uh, no, I think, that I think that there's a different question, but, um, Oh, do you have an answer? Cause I was going to ponder that for a second more.
01:01:04
Speaker
Okay. Um, so both sides of the ball, I i mean, honestly, I have also bell is one of mine. I mean, I, you know, this could be a huge game for him. Although like the the way that things have, have trended. I mean, Arian Smith is one. Um, yeah, I mean, he's, he's our leading receiver. Um, you know, so those are, those are two guys that this stand out for me on offense.
01:01:31
Speaker
I would say that mine would probably be like 1A, 1B. I'd say ETN. ETN would be a big one for me on there, which one could argue that, you know, my 1B would be literally everybody on the offensive line.
01:01:48
Speaker
um Ernest Green he trusts if he's going to play Fairchild. I could pick any number of those. i would Based on the last last game's performance, I'd say Ernest Green. um We need to have Carson Beck as clean as possible because when he's clean and when he has time, he is pretty surgical.
01:02:10
Speaker
Yeah. um Makes it a lot of easier to make those throws and get those third down conversions when he's in a clean pocket. um But ETN, you know I think that as far as stepping up, like can we get a coming out party here for you, dude? Yeah. Let's let let's not let Anthony Evans be the leading rusher again. Cool.
01:02:30
Speaker
On defense, if we're just taking out Mike Hill for the, I mean, I'm going to say Malachi Starks. Like I would love to see a huge game from him here, especially as much as yours likes to throw the ball around. So I'm going to go Malachi Starks in defense. On the defense. Um, I'm going to stick to the lines, like, you know, insert, insert lineman here, Brendan. Um, you know, any, anybody, anybody on the, anybody on the defense. mean I'd go, I'd go TID there. yeah He's, he's been playing really well.
01:02:59
Speaker
He's been he's been playing really well. I don't know. Yeah, like would be in the needs to step up. Sure. youm Sure. That's fair. Yeah, that's not like saying Dan Dan Jackson, right? Like, right. Well, that's what I felt like I was kind of well, although, you know, Michael hurt. Sorry. I'm like, oh, Malachi. I guess I don't know if that's cheating or not. But, you know, I'd say Malachi has lost. Malachi has lost money this season. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:23
Speaker
Um, and then he said, uh, I'll give a guy on each side of the ball that needs to be a, be a vocal leader. Um, this can be anybody. And like, I would want to say Beck, but it seems like he's not that guy. I'll give you, I'll actually give you my answer on the defensive side of the ball. I have a better answer and it correlates to the whole theme of like, let the young pups play Ellis Robinson.
01:03:47
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. Like step out onto the field and shut down all this nonsense. Talk about our DBs. Yeah. We need, we need someone that can institute, institute a no fly zone in Texas. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I like it. That's your, that's your step up on the defense.
01:04:05
Speaker
my step up on the defense Okay, who do you got for vocal leaders? For vocal leaders, I did see Kirby. That that was something that I think came up with Seth Emerson. He was talking about who were you know who are the leaders. That's a classic question. and um you know Keep saying, where's the no Kobe Dean? you know like All that kind of stuff. so I don't know. I'm i'm not sure ah that we that we have that. That's where I was saying i was I would love for it to be back on the offense, but I'm not sure he's that he's that vocal guy. I know Seth mentioned Lawson Lucky, that that Kirby mentioned Lawson Lucky has started that to step into a bit of a leadership role.
01:04:39
Speaker
um Yeah, I've heard ETN is fairly vocal, but he's also newer, you know, first year of the team. So, um, I don't know, man. Uh, there's a, there's a few guys there. And then on the defense, I would go to stick with Starks. Honestly, like I feel like, you know, that that's a guy he's, he's been here. He he's, he's done it all. Um, you know, I feel like Jaylen Walker has been that guy. That's a good one. On the offensive side, I would say, I mean, I'd like to see a little bit more fire out of Dylan Bell and Arian Smith, but yeah um I don't know. I haven't really seen anybody get like quite as fired up on the offensive side. and it it's It's just chill vibes from Carson Beck and crew. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree.
01:05:29
Speaker
I've heard in the an episode that I was talking about with the Tate and Brett on mo on the mic, they actually went into a pretty good depth of how ETN is actually like a great, they used the term locker room guy, they they maybe used it quite a bit. ETN apparently is a big locker room guy. okay Okay, that's good to know. They told a story about how he found some boots that Tate, I guess, had left in the locker room.
01:05:59
Speaker
and ETN put them in his but was wearing them and like running around like a crazy person because they're like size 15 boots and ETN is like this 5'8 kid. They were making fun of how small he was compared to the boots. It was hilarious it sounded hilarious. That's funny. ah Let's see. I just imagine like a little kid running around in boots. Yeah.
01:06:21
Speaker
ah yeah Um, ah let's see, uh, Aaron King, friend of the show, Aaron King. It felt like the light finally turned on, turned back on for Carson last week. Can he eliminate the few terrible costly decisions? Uh, he sometimes makes and carry this team. Uh, if the defense is lackluster. Uh, and then he added our Kirby and Boba willing to let Beck, uh, push the ball down the field for an entire game. I mean, how much more down the field do we need to get them 500 yards? yeah Yeah, yeah, he did was the third most passing yards, although there was a lot of it that was lateral. But I mean, honestly, I think that's part of what we do at this point. um I will say, um I don't know if Coach Hayes is offensive breakdown is out yet. I know his defensive one was, but
01:07:05
Speaker
Sitting with him the last game like he was pointing out like he's like this is leading to something like Bobo was setting something up um And we did eventually see it like that lateral stuff is giving the defense things to think about and see Before he you know changes the pattern later later in the game, so he he does that he's setting this stuff up, but Um, I think he can. I mean, look, the, the Alabama game and then, I mean, last week, you know, it was one pick, if there were two picks, but one of them was on a tip drill ball. That's kind of turnover look kind of thing. Um, the norm is that Carson does not turn the ball a lot. Like that Alabama game is a complete aberration of his entire, you know, I know it's only like one and a half seasons, but
01:07:45
Speaker
Um, that was an aberration. So I think he absolutely can. Um, and I think he he needs to this week, like you said, protect the ball, you know, don't turn the ball over with a turnover battle. We win this game. So I think he definitely can. Yeah. I don't know that he necessarily turned it off.
01:08:01
Speaker
the light necessarily turned off. um It flickers from time to time. Nice, nice. um Yeah, no, no, what he does have to say like that, as far as like the decision making and the decision making processes,
01:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's probably fair because there's definitely been balls that are just like, why did you throw that pass? Yeah. Kind of stuff that seems to seems to be happening lately. Right. But yeah, I would say that I would say he's fine. I agree. I agree.
01:08:36
Speaker
I think I found the question that you were, you were asking. Will Garland. Will Garland said, if this game turns into a shootout and we're looking for that X factor that allows off, allows us to pull off the victory in Austin, would you feel better looking to late came heroics from Carson Beck or our defensive patch rush, wreaking havoc? Uh, no wrong answers in a brainstorm.
01:08:57
Speaker
Um, I would say that, um, if we're looking for late game heroics, meaning like that we win the game, um, I would say that I would prefer to be on the defensive side of that equation because that means that we have the lead. And if we get a defensive stop, we win. sure Um, I would say that, but yeah you know, having the lead versus not having a lead intuitively is, is a better spot to be in. Um, you would think, although we had the lead inside of a minute with Alabama,
01:09:26
Speaker
or two minutes or away from us. Well, I mean, it that ultimately came down to the offense though. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, no well, you can argue either way. It ultimately came down to the offense, Jim. It wouldn't, it well it wouldn't have if we didn't give up a 85 yard touchdown pass. That's my point. Turn the page, Jim. Hey. Yeah. Maybe I did. It doesn't matter. Continue. You did bring it up. Um, I would say that, uh, the X factor is bill and bill. Um, if, if, if we're looking at X factor on the offense,
01:10:03
Speaker
I would say that Dylan Bell is going to be that guy. um When I read this question, I was like, what who on the offense do we pull? Who on the offense is the highest likelihood of pulling a Brock Bowers? And I would say that Dylan Bell seems to come up with the the clutch catches. you know We need a first down. We need to convert a fourth down, whatever the case is. Dylan Bell is that guy for me. I would say Jaylen Walker is probably going to be that guy on the defense.
01:10:30
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, I think Dylan Bell is that guy for me too. Is it safe to say that Dylan Bell is that guy for the podcast? He may be that guy for the podcast. Are we, are we ready to, are we ready to say that? I think, I think, I think we are at this point. I think it's pretty, so I think it's pretty solid at this point. All right. All right. That's it. The unofficial, official wide receiver of my got a podcast for this season is Dylan. I don't have a sound effect. bill confetti confetti just betty oh
01:11:05
Speaker
all of things ah Yeah, that's been that's been texted about a lot um Probably could have just answered that last week with John Michael D's question. I think it was but ah Held off held off for one more week, but we love us until Dylan bill here Yeah, I would say that Tillandale has been, he's earned it. He's earned it. Jim. I agree. I agree. You know, he's worked in like, like, you know, he's got, you know, he's, he's very much like the namesake. That's right. That's right. like o ge The o g OG, the OG.
01:11:37
Speaker
I agree. Yeah. Cool. Uh, let's see. Uh, Ryan, Ryan, and I hope I get your name right. Uh, Ryan Heinco, um, and have the past six games all been a part of the Kirby long con. Are we playing chess, not checkers with trying to avoid the SEC championship for an easier playoff route? I wish the answer to that was yes, but I think not.
Entertainment and Light-hearted Banter
01:12:01
Speaker
but like Much like the the uniforms. We are never going to have black jerseys. We're never going to have anything fun. ah Kirby does not give two hoots about anything other than winning. yeah I think that he would just assume win every game that ever existed and there's literally no such thing as the long cons.
01:12:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's fun to talk about, though. It is fun. It's fun. It's like it's like that your favorite conspiracy theory, like, yeah you know, 9-11 was an inside job. um Yeah. Yeah. what What are some of the other conspiracy theories that exist out there? Like, that P-Diddy is a is a plant by the CIA or something like that.
01:12:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. P Diddy. Well, now there's all the P Diddy ones. it not about fifteen epstein was ah Epstein was an agent of massage. Right. ah Right. Whatever. But yeah, so I wish the answer was yes, but I don't think so. I always just fall back to football is a hard game. College football when the players are 18 to 22 makes it like even harder for the coaches. I feel like um they're just trying to win.
01:13:09
Speaker
The long kind is fun to talk about. I feel like we all, and I do this too, all the time. It's like we add stories to stuff. But at the end of the day, I think they're just trying to win. So, unfortunately. Yeah. I think they're just winning. And Bigfoot says Go Dogs. Go Dogs.
01:13:27
Speaker
All right. Let's see. For end of the show, Tim Riley, uh, what is the biggest fix that needs to happen in order to grab that W against Texas? I think it's, I think it's turnovers, right? Yeah. Biggest inconsistency. Can we do, can we, I mean, if we can turn in a ah a solid performance for four quarters, um, and you know, play that complimentary football that we've talked about where things are working in sync. I mean, that's it to me. And I know that's probably multiple things, but I mean, we just haven't seen us do that. We've been consistently inconsistent. If we can be consistent, that's what we need. Yeah, I would, I would tend to agree. Yep. I would tend to agree. It is a situation that, um, it, I mean, we've seen it all throughout the season, like turnovers, turnovers on the road will kill you quicker than, you know, anything. Yeah, for sure. All right. And in this conference.
01:14:20
Speaker
Yep. All right. Next up we've got Jason's would you rather and JP, I take your advice. Five.
01:14:37
Speaker
Jason's would you rather from the hug dog all right horns down fellas would you rather one would you rather attend the Red River shootout or Civil War in Oregon? I'm actually gonna go Civil War because it's between two teams that you know they used to be in a conference and now like Oregon State doesn't even have a conference ah so I'm gonna go with that I would say that yeah i I'm gonna go with that Okay. Would you rather much rather, I would much rather go to, is that, is that a neutral site game or is that a, I don't think so. I believe that one rotates on my home. Yeah. It rotates. Yeah. As far as I would like to go, I would, I would like to go to Eugene. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed.
01:15:18
Speaker
Uh, would you rather drink Tito's or hunker vodka? We know the answer to this one. It's a slam dunk. Yeah, clearly. We're going to go. We're going to go classic city collective on that one for sure. and great I actually was actually was drinking. Um, actually was drinking some of that last on our, on our last episode. I had a yeah ah red cocktail.
01:15:40
Speaker
Um, that was made with the hunker vodka. Um, and I was making, I was drinking a, um, and a Negroni, a vodka Negroni. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Uh, let's see, would you rather wear burnt orange or prison orange? And he said, Allah, Tennessee, Florida, Clemson, Auburn, et cetera.
01:16:04
Speaker
I mean, I guess that burnt orange is the less like the other brothers. So I'd rather take i'd rather take the cyanide pill, sir. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously we're meant to not like these guys because I hate all teams with orange. I like I and I like don't. I know we've talked about this like off the rails. Fun fact. I have actually texted pictures of clothing in a store to you. I think it was to you and Hunter and John like, hey, guys,
01:16:30
Speaker
Uh, I can't buy this, right? Cause it has like colors of insert rival. And when you were like, absolutely. Yeah, you can't buy that. Like you're never going to wear that. It's like true. Okay. So yeah, I, do yeah, my wife, my wife will bring my wife will send pictures of like, Hey, should we get this for XYZ kid or she'll bring home clothes? And I'll be like, you're never going to wear that. You know that, right? Yeah. So I guess i'll I'll say burnt orange, I guess is the lesser of the two evils, but that's as far as I'll, I'll go with that one. Yeah.
01:17:00
Speaker
Uh, would you rather blitz more or less versus Texas? And why? oh I mean, I would blitz more just to get some, get some pressure on that quarterback to disrupt the timing and disrupting the timing would yield a higher likelihood of success on the, on the passing side of things, which frankly, like, you know, we we talked about the defense getting burned and this, that, and the other, like at the same time, you know, if, if we could get, if we could get home, if we could get home more, yeah then that would help the back end.
01:17:33
Speaker
Yeah, it would, it would. um I'm going to say blitz less. ah Maybe that's because i'm umm I'm still scarred from some games where the blitz didn't pay off. But I also feel like, you know, the last couple of years, we've been more of a bend, but don't break kind of defense. And then you kind of shut them down in the red zone. So that's my ah That's my why there. All right. Would you rather brisket or pulled pork? I have a cheating answer. Mine is if I'm purchasing it at like a high end barbecue establishment, it's brisket. If I'm cooking it is pulled pork just because I'm better at making pulled pork than brisket. I can make a good brisket, but I'm really confident in my pulled pork. I'm pretty confident. I'm pretty confident in my pulled pork. I've only done
01:18:19
Speaker
a handful of brisket situations. I feel like each each step along the way, I'm getting better and better at the brisket. so But regardless, no matter where I go, like i i'm gonna i'm gonna get if brisket's on the menu, I'm definitely going to get brisket. Because yeah as i've as I've gotten older, the pulled pork gives me kiss me heartburn. Yeah. Hashtag, I am an old.
01:18:43
Speaker
Seriously. So I guess on that note, I guess my answer is brisket too. So that's the true answer. There you go. Cool. All right. And then he just said, huge game, hunker down, hairy dogs. So Amen. um Amen. Hug dog. All right. Amen.
Game Predictions and Closing Remarks
01:18:56
Speaker
All right. That that's it ah for the listener questions. Minus one, one more.
01:19:09
Speaker
Oh my god! My god, a freshman. Trying to put glasses on. It is signed for coaches over unders. JP, you still have the the lead, so I will defer to you. Do you want to take the ball or do you want to defer? Oh, sure. Let me go back. Hold on. um Hold on, wait while John pulls up the Google Doc. I got to pull up the Google Docs and see what the questions are. ah could just but I could modify the production to put the over-runners on the screen, I guess. We'll take that we'll take that into consideration.
01:19:49
Speaker
Uh, let's see here over unders offense. Is that, wait, is that quarterback? CB is Carson Beck. Oh, Carson Beck. Okay. Um, I'll let you go first. Okay.
01:20:02
Speaker
All right. Over under Carson Beck passing yards to 75. I'm going to go over. I'm also going to go over. All right. Who are you? Over under Georgia players with the catch at seven and a half. Oh, I'm going to go under. I'm going to go over and we Carson. Carson Beck likes to spread that ball around. Um, okay. So I guess so to me or no, wait, that, yeah. what mean ah Over under ETN rush yards, a hundred. Man, I would love it to be over where I'm going to go under.
01:20:30
Speaker
I'm going to go over. Nice. I hope you're right. All right. Over to the defense and over to you, JP. Over under 250 passing yards for Quinn Ewers. I'm going to go over. Yeah, I am too. I'm going to go over. Okay, then for me, over under 0.5 interceptions for the Georgia defense, and I'm going to go over. I'm also going to go over.
01:20:53
Speaker
Okay, over under 13 and a half first half points for Texas. You're you go. It's over to you. Push.
01:21:04
Speaker
I'm gonna have to go over. Yeah, me too. Me too. Me too. Unfortunately. Um, okay. And then over under 0.5, Texas punt returns our favorites that I'm going to go under under. All right. And then last one, miscellaneous a game day steak slash barbecue food books over under set of 15 smash the over. Got to agree. Got to agree.
01:21:27
Speaker
I also have to agree just so Coach Trill doesn't have to actually count the ah number of state barbecue for the PICCCs. I don't know. I've seen him bent over counting bottles of bourbon. I took a picture of that. ah Awesome. Appreciate it, Coach Trill, for sending those in. Always a good time with coaches. Coaches over unders. Enjoy the game this weekend.
01:21:49
Speaker
All right, time for the final predictions, JP. Looking at Odd Shark, the dogs are in underdogs. The first time we've been in underdogs since, I don't even really remember. I know there have been some like late- I don't know about the SEC Championship or something with Bama.
01:22:05
Speaker
and but I think we always ended up the favorite somehow at the last minute. I'm really not even sure. COVID Bama is my best guess. Texas favorite by three and a half over under 56. That gives an implied score of Texas 29 and three quarters to Georgia 26 and a quarter. um Man, the odds are you said no one's breaking the blowout.
01:22:26
Speaker
Odd Shark has this at their predicted score is Texas 48.3 Georgia 29.1, which is pretty out there. I didn't see that anywhere else. That's yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. The college football insiders, which I'll throw up their graph. They've got Texas 29.45 to Georgia 20.59. But I think like from them, you know, that's Fairly close. It's got Texas covering this red. ah They got like seventy four seventy five percent win percent or win probability for Texas But I will just say like on their stats like looking at everything like if you look at all of Texas others of their other matchups It's like and the way their stats work like blue is good red is bad And it was like Texas was blue and the other team like everything was red Like this one is fairly even like this statistical breakdown matchups between the two teams as compared to all the other games So just throwing that out there
01:23:25
Speaker
What is the what is the really big red number on in the middle of the screen there for the the folks that are? Yeah, it's our our OE and I tried to look it up. I couldn't find what that was. I don't know what all of their metrics are. So yeah, if someone can tell us what our OE is, I'm not sure we should ask. We should ask Josh. Yeah, yeah, we can find that I'm sure.
01:23:49
Speaker
um Yeah, so that's let's see the last one scoring impact that we do. um That one also has Texas winning like 2028.42 to 13.26. So that's taking like Texas is scoring 33 points against the power five, they're only giving up 9.3 points against the power five, we tend to score around four more points than teams tend to allow, we hold them to about five points less. So that's where we go get that. So Yeah, I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's been a while since we've been in ah a true underdog and in Vegas. Um, I think the whole world is probably going to be probably going to be picking Texas in this game, uh, game days there. This is going to be another Texas party or, you know, Georgia's opponent party, I think on game day, kind of like the other game was. Um, but I mean, you know, I'm, I'm with you, man.
01:24:41
Speaker
Um, if we, if we play our game, we just need to play our game. We just need to play Georgia football. We need to play that complimentary football. Um, and here's the, the, the thing that that keeps coming to me is, and you said earlier, like we, we play well, Kirby and Kirby coach as well.
01:24:57
Speaker
in these big games. um And he does. I mean, this is not Alabama, right? Like that seems to be the one where Kirby has trouble. um And this is not that. So I got the dogs in this one. I think it is going to be a tight one. I'm going to go Georgia. I'm going to to 28. Georgia 34, Texas 28. Yeah. I like that. I do too.
01:25:26
Speaker
I do like that. I'm just looking at a couple of things here. What was the scoring impact? numbers You want all the numbers or just, I mean, did we look at our score, our scoring impact? So we're saying that we're going to, we're going to score 13 and you're going to score 28. Yeah. That's what our data is saying. I mean, yeah, based on that metric. I am going to go 28, 28 feels about right for them. That's what you said, right? I did have 28 for them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that, yeah, I think 34, 28 is probably inaccurate. That's how I feel. That's how I feel. something is This thing's going to go.
01:26:03
Speaker
Okay. Shocking. We agree. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be a tight game. I don't know that it's going to be as, as wide open by the end of the game as, uh, the Alabama game, but like, I could see it being just as close, you know.
01:26:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, i I just I don't I agree. I don't think it's unique could be like in honestly, like what I was going to say was I don't think it's going to be a track meet. It could be a track meet. Honestly, a track meet doesn't really scare me anymore. um Like that doesn't scare me. Like there's been in years past where I'm like, oh, well, we can't get into a track meet. I think we can. Like I think we can win a track meet. I mean, at thirty four twenty, it's fairly close to being a track meet anyways. So that that doesn't really bother me. It could be higher scoring and we can still win.
01:26:46
Speaker
Um, that's my take, but, um, but yeah, man, we, we win the turnover battle. Like I think you're, I think you're spot on there. That's, that's key here. Yeah. Win the turnover battle, win the game. Yep. Go dogs. Go dogs. Uh, okay. I did, uh, coaches, uh, pickup games, uh, in order of when they kick off.
01:27:05
Speaker
I haven't even looked. There's another game this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. And so these are all SEC games throughout the day. So you got Auburn at number 19 Missouri, uh, at 12 o'clock on ESPN, Missouri is favored by four and a half. Um, right it would be really funny if Auburn won this game. Um, in like Missouri is like truly fraudulent. Um, but I don't think that happens. I got Missouri in this one. Missouri is a tough place to play. Do you have Missouri?
01:27:34
Speaker
Yeah, um i'll take I'll take Missouri in that game. Okay. Then you got South Carolina at Oklahoma. Oklahoma is favored by three. It's a 1245 PM Eastern kickoff on SEC network. um This is a tough one for me. it you know South Carolina played really well against Alabama last week. um You got Oklahoma. I see you're shaking your head. Yes. Jim, come on. South Carolina should have won that game. I know. I know they should have. They should have. yeah But I have a feeling that they're going to let down.
01:28:05
Speaker
Oklahoma just doesn't have an offense. That's where Oklahoma about Oklahoma at home. Yeah. Yeah. 1245. That's, that's local time. Yeah, but that it's at Oklahoma. They're going to be, they're going to be sleepy. I'm going out of the limb. I got to catch up to you. I'm going South Carolina here. I'm going to go with the upset. This is where the pickup. Did the pick them still count? Oh, I mean, it doesn't count for the, it's just like a secondary thing.
01:28:30
Speaker
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01:28:45
Speaker
ah then let's see the three thirty the old the old primetime spot ah you get the third saturday october number seven alabama is a three- point favorite at number eleven in tennessee three thirty kickoff on abc Hmm, I don't know what to think about this. I think Ask I'm gonna I'm gonna go Alabama I think but this is the third Saturday in October game, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna be a third Saturday and fraudulent. Yeah fraudulent October I mean the Tennessee offense just hasn't been doing anything of late so I'm gonna stay with them Tony man, he played nobody I told you that they keep talking about his Nico kid and He's lighting up everybody, but they haven't played anybody. Yeah. Um, it's at Tennessee. Yep. Three 30. I got it. I got to give the nod to Tennessee. I just don't, this is not your daddy's Alabama team guys. Okay. Okay. Uh, I got number eight. LSU is a two and a half point favorite at Arkansas. Seven PM kick on ESPN. I'm surprised that LSU is only favored by two and a half. Honestly with this, that's interesting to me, but I'm still going to go with LSU. Yeah. Um,
01:29:53
Speaker
Can I, can I just vote against, can I just vote against Arkansas so that we can hire Sam Pittman when they, when they fire him? Yeah. So you can do that. Yeah. I'm going to do that. I'm going to, I'm going to vote literally against Arkansas all the way through so that we, so that Pittman gets fired and we can hire him. Okay. Okay. That's fair. Uh, and the last one is Kentucky at Florida. That's the night game 7 45 PM kick on an SEC network. That's a pick them. I'm going to go with the fighting Bragg Vandygriffs.
01:30:23
Speaker
Um, I'm going to go with Florida because I'd like to keep Billy around a little bit longer. If Kentucky beats Florida at home, I feel like that might be a bridge too far. Yeah. Grandma, it's out for the season though. I don't know if you knew that. Oh, I did not. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Give me, give me, give me Florida on the swamp against a fairly down SEC team. Cool.
01:30:46
Speaker
Um, okay. I'm just remembering something. I didn't see it going through in the questions. And so I must have missed one. Uh, so I don't know where it was, but someone did ask about, said that they needed us to run marathons for our pregame.
01:31:05
Speaker
warm ups are pregame routine. I want to say was boss dog. So maybe he had asked two questions. Um, so that is the plan. Kim and I already have our plan, uh, to do our run on Saturday. Uh, so that's, that's out there for sure. So yeah.
01:31:21
Speaker
But otherwise we've got like nothing going on night game. This is going to be a nap day, I think for us. The plan is get up, go for a run, take a nap and then, uh, grill some steaks, uh, you know, and have dinner right before kickoff. That's the plan.
01:31:37
Speaker
I like it. I need to check sports schedules actually. carter um We're going to have a combination of of sports I imagine is what's going to happen. Gotcha. Gotcha. I need to confirm the schedule. Okay. But yeah, we'll be doing, Carter's got flag football. I think it's his last two games of the season. um Yeah, we have a game at 12. So I'll be at that for sure. And then usually Camden has a ah cheerleading thing that's either in the morning or it's in the early afternoon. So I'll be at either part part of both of those or at least at the flag football game with Carter. but
01:32:20
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um Yeah. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. I did find it. It was boss dog. He said also, that's why I miss it. and He had had it on. He said, also, I'm going to need it. I'm going to need a freaking triathlon out of you guys. Saturday morning. Y'all go. So I guess technically there was a triathlon involved there. Cause I'll be going, so I'll try to be, try to get up early and run, do, do cheerleading and then do flag football.
01:32:46
Speaker
Okay. Uh, our triathlon is going to be run nap, eat steak, eat steak. Yeah. Eat steak will be on the menu as well. Are you gonna, all right, Jim, yeah. What kind of meat are you going with this week? Um, Hmm. I mean that I'll probably go the full way, honestly.
01:33:06
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Filet? OK. Yeah. I mean, ah yeah. Yeah, that's probably what I'm going to do. Is that is that Kim's preferred choice? That's actually my mind. I mean, for me, like if it's just me, like Kim and Lily will eat the leg. Like I like a ribeye. I mean, like personally, but when you just said you wanted to filet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the filet is part of the ribeye. The ribeye is more.
01:33:28
Speaker
It's actually bigger. I mean, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, but the river has more has the correct correct, but that you know, when that renders onto it, whatever, as we as we break down, we like our sticks. And this is important stuff. It is. It is. It is. So, yeah. So, i you know, I'll probably just, you know, dust them up, throw them on the egg. But yeah, filet filet is that's what I prefer. So, yeah.
01:33:55
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You know, what's funny is that I tell my kids, like, whenever we cook the filet, I'm like, dude, it's the same thing. The same thing. They're like, I don't like all the family. Well, this is the same thing. Just cut it out. Just cut it out. Gotcha. No, I don't want to cut it out. Yeah, ribeye would be my choice. Although I did see that they had New York strips that were nicely priced at Costco recently. I might roll up the Costco and see what they got. Yeah, my family are a filet family. My wife is very particular about the filet situation.
01:34:32
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I'm the I'm the picky steak one and Lily. So yeah, I've kind of gotten them. But yeah, got to figure out what the sides are going to be to make the full menu. um Let's figure it out.
01:34:46
Speaker
I mean, ah shoot, you know, we have some potatoes. I'm probably going to do some twice baked potatoes. Yeah. I'm super basic. Like I'm like steak potatoes, steak potatoes, maybe a salad. Uh, so yeah. And then I hope, you know what I, my hope is that when the game is over, I'm, uh, I might hopefully get to have a victory long branch, uh, sip some long horn tears. I'm going to, I'm going to go, and I'm going to go grab a bottle. I'm going to go grab a bottle this weekend too. I haven't bought one in a while, so I'm going to go buy one.
01:35:15
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um Go in. Yeah. horns Horns down, sir. Horns down.
01:35:23
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um Let's see. ah What else are we going to do? I don't know. That's all I got. Yeah. What time is it in Texas? 10 to 9. Horns down. Go dogs. Go dogs.