Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: W VUA FM Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, to the Low Tide here on 90.7, October 15 edition. Very exciting. I'm back. Finally, Nicholas Persley, as always, joined by Joe Schatz. Adam Hambright. I think this is like our third episode that we've all been together in the studio.
[00:00:34] Speaker C: Yeah, we were talking about that. A little preshow. I was thinking about that. I'm like, oh, we're all kind of here, which hasn't happened at least consistently.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah, true. Buzzer beater in the studio. We thought it was going to be a two man show tonight, but Adam comes in literally 20 seconds to go in the song before we were here.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I knew that the shows are better, like when we have all three of us and with the amount of times it has just been a two man show, I was like, I can't let him down, I got to get there. Even though it's been a real tiring weekend for me. I was just like, I think I can make it. And then now I'm here. But yeah, for some people, they don't understand what Saturdays in the fall are like.
So wife's family, not big football fans, except for like her dad, but he's like only an NFL fan, he's a Cowboys fan. The rest of the family doesn't understand the sanctity of Saturdays in the fall, so they decide to plan a wedding in North Carolina.
And I was working Friday night, I got off and then I started driving up there. I literally got to Charlote, North Carolina, at 08:00 in the morning.
Wedding was at eleven. So I get ready, took like a 30 minutes nap, then I got ready, go to the wedding, supposed to start at eleven, ends up starting at twelve because it doesn't start till the bride gets there and she had to get ready.
But yeah, so then there I am.
It's twelve eastern. So eleven central. So it's literally starting at the exact time that the Alabama football game is starting. So I am the traditional football guy at the wedding with the phone, watching the game, trying to make it not known. I couldn't wear my traditional outfit for the game, but I had a bracelet on, I had my Alabama Koozie in the back pocket, so I was pulling for him as best as I could. And I'm glad Alabama pulled it out because if it didn't, it would not have been good.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: Yeah, the church would have heard some words.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Truly a clutch performance from Adam getting here and being there for the wedding. Yeah.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: We drove back this morning and well, kind of this morning we had to stop a couple of times. I got back into Tuscaloosa around five and then I was pretty tired because the whole weekend and so I took a nap, woke up, it's like 645. I'm like, I have to get there. And then I'm battling traffic through Tuscaloosa. I'm like, Why are you all out here and it's raining. Anyway, I'm here. Let's have a show.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Truly clutch performance and we have to acknowledge clutch performance.
[00:03:17] Speaker C: This is like flu game jordan, ask for Adam to get here. I mean, that's remarkable.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: True. Truly an exquisite performance. And some people are saying we're actually a proper radio show now. Everybody's got the headset on. It's truly impressive.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Yeah, we're on radio.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: Is that all we have to do.
[00:03:40] Speaker C: To be we're on it. We got all co hosts, we're all here, we're making waves.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: And you can find us on Spotify.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: True and Apple podcasts and voices. ua.edu. Shameless plug articles on GameDay ua.edu. Yeah, I don't even think we're five minutes in and we've already done three shameless plugs. Anyway, let's get into the show. Number eleven, alabama survives a bit of a scary game. It is October, but a bit of a scary game there at them. They survived 24 21. Joe, you were at this game.
[00:04:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: What was this like coming down to the wire?
[00:04:18] Speaker C: It was really interesting because obviously in the first half, Alabama, I mean, they look like what they were kind of supposed to be. It was 21 to six and ended up getting to 24 to six.
The start of the third quarter, at least in the press room, it kind of seemed like people kind of were relaxed. It was chilled. I think a lot of people were expecting it. Somebody, a guy next to me had a phone or a couple of seats away from me, had his phone kind of like up a little bit and he was watching another game kind of during, like, I think, Alabama commercial breaks.
But then he quickly had to put his phone away because Arkansas made it quite the game. And I'll say that it was way too intense for Alabama's perspective.
Just a disastrous second half and Nick Saban's press conference was a little tense, just a tad.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: It was a weird game anyway, with it being an SEC home game. And it was an 11:00 a.m. Kickoff, and it's homecoming and it started off. Arkansas took that six nothing lead in the first. And then Jalen Miller finally completes a pass and it's a 79 yard touchdown to Isaiah Bond. Or was it Kobe Prentice? I might have misspoke. I think it was Kobe.
[00:05:42] Speaker C: Yeah, it was prentice.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah. See, this is what happens when you're watching and you can't listen to the game while you're doing it. You're just trying to figure out who actually made the play. Anyway, Kobe Prentice, 79 yard touchdown. And then at the end of the first half, it's 21 six. Everybody's feeling good? Jalen Milroe was seven of ten, over 200 yards passing. He had the three well, two touchdown passes, one touchdown run, and then everybody did relax. You could see it on the field. Team was kind of relaxed. You were talking about the press room was relaxed. I'm sure the fans were relaxed. I don't really know how the stadium was because this was the first home game I was not in attendance at since 2020. So I can't really speak for how the environment was there, but everybody just seemed relaxed. And then that's when 24 six, Arkansas gets a touchdown, they get the ball back, they get another touchdown, they go for two, they get it. Now all of a sudden, it's a three point game and you might lose. This might be your first SEC loss of the season. It didn't happen. Alabama ended up getting the ball, running out the clock, even though they tried to try to get some penalties, give the ball back to them anyway, you escaped. Now, this might be a good thing, not saying that you don't want the bad stuff that happened in the game to carry over, but if Alabama was able to just get up 21 624 six and then coast the rest of the game be like, oh, we're good. And then all of a sudden, you got Tennessee coming into town next week, that's when it could come back. I mean, we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know how the practices are going to go this week. But I hope that they're able to take the second half performance of this game, refocus the team, because if you can't get up for Tennessee, one of the biggest rivals, you can't get up for anybody. So I'm hoping they play a little bit better next week. Now, the second half, Jalen Milro only had three completions, and that was kind of the Millro people were talking about before the season or like, after the first couple of weeks, and it wasn't all on him, but they have to play better on offense right there. And when you're not able to move the ball, because in the first half, they were moving it pretty well, in the second half, they're not able to move it. Defense is on the field a lot. They're getting tired. And when you have, you know, you once you're getting tired, there's no way you're bringing down KJ Jefferson. You saw it when he threw off Terry and Arnold on that corner, blitz on that one play.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: But yeah, a couple things for me, at the end of the day, we have to remember they still won. The know. Nick Saban talked about in the postgame press conference how there's a difference between winning the game and beating your opponent. They definitely just won the game.
It got very scary.
I'll admit I looked away a little bit once they kind of got up. I expected them to coast in and then near disaster, almost a season ender.
Not what you want to see, but they do still end up winning the game.
Will Rykert becomes SEC all time leading scorer. Congratulations to him.
One thing that I thought was really interesting, right, is that once again, and I know that we weren't super worried about the beginning of this game, right. We were more worried about what happened later in the game closing. And one thing I'll say about that is that I think I saw somebody on Twitter call it a hangover win, right? Like you just went on the road, beat A and M in a thriller. Everybody was super pumped up for that game. And then you've got this 11:00 A.m. Kick. It's kind of cold, not exactly the easiest environment to get pumped for.
So I'm glad that it happened now and that this doesn't happen against Tennessee because that would truly be a disaster.
Arkansas came into this game, Owen, three in conference. This is a team you can get away with that.
You can get away with having a game like that, but glad to get out of the way. What I was going to say, I know that we weren't worried about the beginning of the game, but once again in this game, alabama had a slow start on offense. And I'm really worried that when we get later in the season to games that really matter, a potential SEC championship against Georgia, you get the ball first. You need to come out and set the tone. Alabama hasn't shown that they have the ability to do that at all. I'll kind of go through some of them, right? And I took off the middle Tennessee State game, but first points against Texas in the second quarter, 1445 to go, that's a field goal. First points against USF with two minutes 10 seconds to go left in the second quarter, that's a field goal. Ole Miss 657 in the first quarter, that's a field goal.
Mississippi State 448 to go in the first quarter. That was a touchdown. One of two that they've scored in the first quarter.
In this little stretch against A and M, they don't score until 331 left in the first quarter with a field goal. And against Arkansas, 58 seconds left in the first quarter. Score that touchdown on a wide open. A huge error from Arkansas.
But are you guys concerned like I am with Alabama's inability to get off.
[00:11:23] Speaker C: To a hot mean? I I am a little bit, just because I don't know how well the defense can kind of keep them. Like, you lift off all those slow starts and South Florida, the defense played really well, and South Florida got three to three.
Arkansas was only six nothing. They scored a couple really long field goals. But I'm just concerned, like Tennessee or even LSU, if you're down like 14 nothing early or the defense can't come out and kind of wait for the offense to score, that's essentially what they do.
They kind of have to wait for the offense to score.
That has a very strong possibility of happening against some of these teams. And like you said, Nick, if you talk about a potential SEC championship game against Georgia or even like auburn on the road or Kentucky on the road. If you can't set the tone early then it's really hard to kind of come back from that. And we saw it a little know, Texas, it took them a while and they couldn't quite get it going.
Obviously there are some Mississippi State, they really got it going. But I'm concerned just because I don't know how much longer the defense can kind of keep doing that. Where the first quarters or the first couple of drives for teams, it's not game over already.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: I think the defense has done a tremendous job this season. The only time they've really struggled has been late in games where they've been on the field a lot. So when it's been that Texas fourth quarter or like this game, after a while they just couldn't keep holding Arkansas out and then missed tackles and stuff like, you know, I'm really not too worried about the beginning of the game, but also once you start playing because the next three games are going to be very interesting to see.
Obviously we're in the home stretch of the season but you have Tennessee at home, bye week, LSU at home and then you have Kentucky on the road.
So it could be LSU has the best offense out of any of those. Luckily we get the bye week and get people healthy. We get people more rested.
Tennessee is going to be pumped up. Their offense hasn't really played that well against SEC competition yet, so I'm hoping the defense can.
Texas A and M. Tennessee scored 20 against Texas A and M.
I expect probably a similar result against Alabama depending on circumstances throughout the game. If Alabama turns the ball over the offense itself.
If you go back the last couple of years and even last year, say what you want about that offense, we had our issues with it. But you could trust that offense to be able to just drive the ball down the field and get a touchdown at some point in the first half or usually in the first quarter. I don't really know how many times they didn't score in the first. Didn't, you know, look up all of last year's games. But last year with Bryce Young. Obviously, Jalen Millrow is not Bryce Young. Jalen Millrow is not a, you know, quarterback that you have. Bryce Young was able to just lead the ball down the field. This offense hasn't really shown the ability to just drive the ball down except for like a couple of times. They're mostly built on the big play, just getting either Burton Prentice Bond pass, the defense open touchdown and if you can't, like so far they haven't really been able to get it early. They're usually late first, sometimes the second and a couple of those games they did have a couple of touchdowns called back. That would have been an earlier touchdown. But I am worrying, especially if it's like LSU.
LSU is going to know that's the only team I really see that could jump out to that big lead and then Alabama's got to fight back. And right now you don't really have faith that the offense is going to be able to like so Tennessee game last year on the road, tennessee, I believe, was up by a couple of scores early. And then Alabama fights back, takes the lead, loses the lead, obviously lost the game 52 49. You're not expecting this offense to score 50 points anytime soon. Hopefully it happens. I mean, they did it against Middle Tennessee State.
[00:16:06] Speaker C: But I mean, Chad Nuggets in three games, the chance is still there.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: We'll see. But LSU, really high powered offense.
If you're not able to score early against LSU, that's the game I'm more worried about. Kentucky could be interesting because once again, so it's going to be another road game and we don't know what time that game is going to be at yet. We'll see. They'll announce it in a couple of weeks.
Kentucky. Just lost to Missouri. Missouri looks a lot better than they did last year. But if Kentucky playing like this, what if they come out and they give us a road game at Kentucky 11:00 A.m., and then the offense starts out flat and then I don't know, I'm a little worried. I do have faith in the defense with how they played.
I don't know. We'll see. It's hard to really tell right now just because they can score at any time. They can hit the big play, they can hit the 80 yard pass. But I would like to see just an opening drive just to run it down their throat, put it in the end zone. We haven't seen it. We'll see.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see. A true watch this space before we go to break, one thing I have to acknowledge KJ jefferson dude is seriously.
[00:17:24] Speaker C: Like I feel bad for him because he's like getting well, he should have got sacked a lot just due to the offense. Alabama's scheme was to clearly get him and get him uncomfortable and they tried and he broke off multiple sack attempts, especially late in that mean. I almost feel bad because he's getting no help from his, you know, Alabama's defense is really good, but he's kind of lost that all year. And it's crazy because if you look at I don't want to get too deep into this, but Arkansas, the last couple of games, they lost on the road at LSU by three, they lost to Ole Miss by seven. They lost us by three, a and M by twelve. They could just as easily be like five and two as they are two and five.
And probably the difference is the fact that Jefferson just doesn't have really anywhere to put the football. It's essentially just him out there.
They hike him the ball and they're like, all right, go do it. Go do something.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: I will say their schedule does get significantly easier. I mean, we'll see how Arkansas actually shows up for the games, but they have Mississippi State at Florida, florida does play well at home. Then Auburn, Florida International, and then a much improved Missouri team. But could you imagine, so they started off two and O, they play BYU, they lose to BYU by 738 31. And then their first four SEC games. LSU, A and M. Ole Miss, Alabama. That's a very rough start to the season. And they were in. I mean, I know Texas A and M won by twelve, but that was still a competitive game for the most part. And they could have beat LSU, they could have beat Alabama, they could have beat Ole Miss.
KJ jefferson is one of those guys where once he gets to the NFL, that's when people be like, oh, he was really good.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he might be scary. I thought it was hilarious.
Saban said something about having to just grab on and hold on for dear life trying to tackle him. It was funny. There was a play when Arnold this is not the play where he got shrugged off, which is unbelievable that that could even happen, but where he comes off the edge, blitzing and he just grabs onto his ankles and just hold on for dear.
[00:19:56] Speaker C: I mean, the big funny kind of one liner Saban talked about with that Terry and Arnold clip of him just getting thrown off was something about Jefferson, terry and Arnold was like getting swatted off like a fly on a cow's butt, for lack of a stronger term.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: He used some different language that we can't say here.
[00:20:21] Speaker C: He said a different word there.
But yeah, he's just an unbelievable, just like, athlete. And it's kind of a shame that he's on a two and five team that's owing four in the SEC and really can't get much going offensively.
Last year, played really well against Alabama two years ago in Tuscaloosa. That game was pretty close, so he's had his moments, but it's just a shame.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Hopefully things can go better for him in the second half of the season. Speaking of the second half of the season, when we come back we're going to kind of take a look at the playoff pictures since we're midway through and we'll preview Alabama Tennessee right here on 90.7.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: W v uafm tuscaloosa.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: Welcome back in, ladies and gentlemen, to the low tide here on 90.7, the Capstone.
Nicholas Joe Adam talking Alabama football and college football in general.
Short break, but we need all the time this week that we can get with so much to talk about not only in Alabama football, but Alabama athletics as a whole. Speaking of Alabama football, this next Saturday, the third Saturday in October, you know what that means, alabama, Tennessee this time here at home. A stretch of three home games in a row for Alabama no, we did.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: Two, but you had to buy a.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Weekend, including this past week's game.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: See, that's what happens when you don't go to the game.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: You forget the Alabama Tennessee scheduled for 03:30 p.m. Eastern time, so that'd be 230 Central time. I'm getting all mixed up. It's awful when you don't go to the know. Same problem for me on Saturday on CBS.
I want to say, let's see, alabama opened as an eight and a half point favorite over Tennessee.
[00:22:49] Speaker C: It's up to nine and a half now, according to ESPN gotcha.
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Depending on the book you look know.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: What number you can get, but that's a significant know anything over a touchdown favorite, especially in like a big rivalry game.
If it's around that three mark, that's almost where it's like it's a toss up. We're giving it to the home team with it being up at nine. They're like, we think Alabama is going to win this one pretty handedly. Even though they're not saying 40 point spread like Alabama against Chattanooga or somebody for an SEC game. That's still a pretty big spread right there.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah, very true.
Stakes maybe not as high this year as they were last year for this game. Two teams maybe not as talented as they were last year, but still a very important game for Alabama. A loss almost surely takes you out of any kind of national championship hope.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: If you're talking about the playoff right now, both these teams would just have to win out to have a chance at that. But more importantly than the playoff, the first thing that any team is trying to do is win the conference. Right. Obviously right now, Georgia's still undefeated. They're in the lead in the east. Tennessee already has that one SEC loss. They can afford another one if they hope to get to an SEC championship game. Nobody's really picking them right now, but if they were to beat Georgia and win every other game, they would be in Atlanta. We'll see if that happens. Alabama still undefeated in the conference, but if they lose to Tennessee right now, so LSU, they have the one SEC loss.
That's the only one that can challenge like right now. But if Alabama were to lose to Tennessee and then LSU, now all of a sudden Texas A M's kind of get back in the know. So it's very important for the SEC. We'll see if it could turn into potential playoff implications depending on how the rest of the season goes. Right now, Alabama continues to win, but they can't get back in the top ten. So I know we haven't got to playoff rankings yet, but right now, every week somebody's jumping Alabama. So right now everybody's saying, yeah, we understand you're winning, but you're not a playoff caliber team.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I do think that it's almost like, I don't know, the Walmart version of last year's game. Both these teams are still good. They both have a lot of stakes. Obviously, like you said, Adam, like Alabama or Tennessee still wants to get there. They still want to try to win the east even though it's going to look really difficult, they still want to do it and they got to win. And Alabama has to win and not only win the west and potentially get to the SEC championship game, but also get to the it's. It's still a really important game. But yeah, there is something missing between the kind of the spectacle of Bryce Young and Hendon Hooker last year and Jalen Hyatt going off and all the.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Other stuff that you don't have game day. You just have SEC nation.
[00:25:59] Speaker C: It's like just like a football game. Like how lame.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: I do anticipate the environment being pretty.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: Hot, though, I would imagine.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: I would imagine fans are going to get up for this one.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: I mean, goalposts might not end up in the river, but that's going to happen.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: This is the first time it's been a revenge game for Alabama since that 2007 when Nick Saban's first year because it was 15 straight years of Alabama winning until last year, which I still think Alabama should have won that game. We won't get into it. We're just going to talk about this. But could that maybe not for the team because it's a different team. Nick Saban always says they look at each opponent differently.
He doesn't really talk up, at least to us, to the press, to the fans. He's not going to talk up. It being a revenge game. So he's not saying that maybe in the locker room it's different. Players obviously are going to have some thoughts about it. But for the fans, knowing that you went so long without losing to him, maybe that'll change for the environment of Bryant Denny, which has been pretty good this year with the big games. But this game, I think the atmosphere, the fans are going to have a little bit extra for them feeling that it's the revenge game.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's also interesting know, in past years Alabama had this sort of invincibility at home, right. Never felt know, maybe on the road they were a little bit weaker but never felt like you could really challenge Alabama at home. This year things are looking a lot different. Texas comes in early, dominates Alabama at home. Arkansas gives you a scare. Last week ole miss was close. That's true. Yeah.
Could be a very interesting game and I think it's going to be a better game than a lot of people think looking at this Tennessee team because obviously they struggled like Alabama did against Texas A M this past week.
So it's going to be a sneakily, interesting game.
But who knows? I mean, Alabama could also come out fired up from this past week's game and show you who they really are.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: I think we all hope that and the atmosphere, like I just said I think is going to be good. But also, if you look at Tennessee this year, they've only had one road game and that was Florida. That's their only loss this year so far. And they got dominated in that Florida game, 20 916.
No, but I was watching the game, at least for me, I never felt like Tennessee had a chance in that game. Florida just dominated it. And Florida is not that good of a team, at least on the road they're not. They lost to Utah and then at Kentucky at home, they beat Tennessee. Who knows how good Tennessee is? But that one loss on the road. There are other games. Virginia at home, austin P, Texas, San Antonio, South Carolina, and then A and M. They did beat A and M 20 to 13.
Some people on the A and M side are complaining about some missed face mask calls and stuff, especially on that last drive. But Tennessee still won the game. But this will be their first time on the road since that loss of Florida. It's only their second road game of the season. So we don't know how Tennessee is going to be able to handle the bright Denny atmosphere, but we also don't know how Alabama is going to play. So if our offense, like we were talking about earlier, if they don't come out again, you start giving, you know, getting it goes in the second quarter, still a scoreless game, defense might start getting tired. We'll see.
I think we're all going to pick Alabama to win the game, but I think if anything, it's the home field advantage that really matters.
[00:29:47] Speaker C: The cigars might not be lit until late in the game. End of game. That might be that type of game.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: Very true. Okay, real quick before we get into the AP poll, the College Football Playoff potential, who wins by how much?
[00:30:02] Speaker C: Oh, man, that's tough. I think Alabama, I think kind of that line that the betting line is kind of right. I think Alabama win by ten.
I think you mentioned it in the first segment, Adam. The way that they finished against Arkansas wasn't great, but it could kind of be turned into like a very motivational kind of teaching moment. And I think Alabama is going to going to win. I also think they've been tested a lot more than Tennessee, which has bearing in this game. So that's why I'll pick the.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: You.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: Know, I just said it with the home field, I think Alabama is going to be able to win the game. I hadn't really thought about picking a specific score.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: You don't have to pick a specific score. It's by how much?
[00:30:55] Speaker A: For me, it's like how much is Alabama going to score and then how much is our defense going to allow to usually okay, guys, don't make fun of me now. I'm just going through my thought process. I can't really give. A margin without determining what I think a final score is going to be. So you mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. This was before the very good offensive performance against Mississippi State.
Jalen Millro in game started, usually scores 24 points. Texas lost was 24. A and M last year was 24. He didn't. Starting at South Florida with 17. Ole Miss was 24. Mississippi State, that's the one game with 40. You have Texas A and M had 24, could have had 31. Gets called back. They do end up getting the safety, ends up being 26. And then this week against this past Saturday against Arkansas 24. So I'm just going to say Alabama is going to score 24 points and 20 417. Seven point win.
[00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll go a touchdown win for Alabama as well, I think. Tide game heading into the fourth quarter. Alabama scores early in the fourth, defense holds and not anything too exciting from Tennessee at the end. We'll see.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: Are we putting money on when that first touchdown is scored?
[00:32:17] Speaker B: That could be an interesting game to play. I'd say first score of the game going to be a field goal record, almost assuredly.
I'd say first touchdown just by Alabama or by anybody.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: I was going to go Alabama, but.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: If anybody, just Alabama. Let's go Alabama.
Second quarter.
Eight minutes left. Eight minutes left in the second quarter.
[00:32:43] Speaker C: I'm going to go the 435 mark of the first quarter.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: The first touchdown, Jermaine Burton with the third quarter.
[00:32:52] Speaker C: First.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: Jermaine Burton, third quarter. Wow. Three. Three at what time? Second right?
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Probably like first or second drive.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Third.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: So ten minutes in the list.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Okay. All right. Ten minutes in the third. Okay. We'll get back to you on our we'll have the updates next and we'll have some supreme bragging you guys are going to absolutely just closest, no prices, right rules.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: I'm hoping I'm so wrong. And it's like first play of the.
[00:33:17] Speaker C: Game, kickoff return, touchdown to open the game.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: It'll get called back.
[00:33:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Clipping true.
Knock on wood. They're like, come on, don't bring that on them.
Let's look at the AP bowl.
Pretty interesting week in college football. Obviously. The marquee game. Washington, Oregon, fantastic game, great watch.
I was saying this during the break.
I'm a little sad for Oregon because it looks like they're probably with a one loss unless they were able to win the Pac Twelve championship game. If they made it, probably no playoff hopes.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: Yeah. It is interesting, though, I will real quick on the Pac twelve, because Washington washington has a gauntlet coming up and Oregon doesn't have too much of a it's not as bad, I should say, for Oregon as it is. For Washington because I believe the remaining schedule is so they have Arizona State, Stanford, but then they have USC, Utah, Oregon State and Washington State to end the year. So there is still a possibility. I don't think Oregon is completely out of it because of how kind of wild the Pac Twelve has been in its final iteration.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: I would think that that was the first of a two game series between those two. I think both of those teams are going to make that Pac Twelve championship game. And I think if it's anything like that first game, that's going to be a good one. USC, they don't have a conference loss. They just lost to Notre Dame. But that game I kind of regret not posting on the website formerly known as Twitter.
I can't remember who it was, but they asked predictions for UFC the remainder of the year. And I was like, that's a tough last six games, I was like, I can see it going two and four. And then I didn't put it. But then they lose to Notre Dame. But three interceptions, first half, that's pretty tough to come back from. But I would expect Oregon and Washington back in that petrol championship game. Winter obviously goes to the playoff, but this could be the year where two petrol teams get in.
[00:35:48] Speaker B: You could end up with a very interesting situation here at the end of the year where, let's say that the reverse of what happened in the first matchup happens in the Pac Twelve championship. Let's say Oregon wins by a field goal. Then you're in a really tough spot. You got two really good teams.
I could definitely see two teams being in the playoff from the Pac Twelve, especially considering this is like the Pac Twelve's best year and maybe ever.
[00:36:13] Speaker A: Multiple Heisman candidates, multiple teams ranked. And it's not like I mean, we could talk about the defense all we want, but we're seeing multiple teams that we think could beat pretty much anybody in the nation. Like, we think Washington could compete with pretty much anybody. Oregon, I think, could compete. USC, that game against Notre Dame, maybe they're not as good as we thought. I mean, especially on defense. Their defense is not very good, but Utah is still fairly good. UCLA is decent.
Oregon State is pretty good. I think Oregon State could beat a lot of the teams ranking ahead of them, but we'll see.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: So, very quickly, before we head to break, I'm going to jump down the AP poll. Georgia is still at one, even though 20 points scored on them by Vanderbilt.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: Vanderbilt had a seven nothing lead.
[00:37:06] Speaker C: Vanderbilt had a seven nothing lead. And I think Georgia was georgia was up like 20.
Like, Vanderbilt score scored 13 of the 20 in the fourth quarter when the game was essentially over. So I'm not super worried about that 20, but it's definitely some I think.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: With you had the Auburn performance, which wasn't very good. Georgia came out with the win. Then they had Kentucky, where they blew out Kentucky and then Vanderbilt. It's almost like, hey, we're just playing Vanderbilt. And Vanderbilt came out early, took that lead, but then Georgia kind of took care of but then it was their home.
[00:37:39] Speaker C: In a way.
Performance is staggering. It's very different.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Go through the concerning, but very quickly. Vanderbilt football, just like their stadium, under improvement.
Michigan at two, ohio State at three, florida State at four, washington after the win, moves up two spots to five. Oklahoma at six, penn State at seven, very interesting sleeper candidate there in the.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: Big Ten, two games over 60 points.
[00:38:10] Speaker B: Scoring very true, 63 nothing. UMass, no disrespect here, sorry.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: Alabama punishment score 24 against Alabama, grinds that out 1310.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: Texas at eight, oregon at nine. North Carolina jumps over Alabama up two spots, they're six and Alabama at eleven.
Very interesting AP poll.
[00:38:39] Speaker C: Yeah, sorry, I was just going to say, I do think it is interesting because and I said this had Alabama kind of dominated Arkansas the way that it was looking like it was going to happen, the way that they were supposed to. If Alabama wins that game by 20, they're probably ten.
Alabama probably jumps up a spot. I think the way that they lost, sorry, the way that they beat Arkansas only by three and really didn't look.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: Good.
[00:39:12] Speaker C: North Carolina beat Miami who might be spiraling, but well, it makes sense.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: North Carolina finally got know this was his second game where he was eligible and he scored three touchdowns.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Very true.
[00:39:25] Speaker C: He was huge in that game.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Now, I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. This would be a great year, especially for Alabama. This was a twelve team playoff. Just imagine and we could have a lot of good matchups, but still, the four team playoff, alabama, my heart rate would be so much lower.
I know we don't want to say this, but Alabama, with how they have been treated ranking wise, they're still winning, but they're not doing it convincingly. So people are jumping them every week and then that team will lose and then somebody else will jump them. I think this might be a year to where if Georgia doesn't go undefeated, the SEC might not get a team in. Even if Alabama wins out and beats Georgia, the SEC championship, everybody's like, oh, Alabama will get in.
If they don't actually start beating opponents. Like Nick Sam was saying, they won the game, they didn't beat the opponent. It's almost like the BCS era where you need those style points now. You need to start showing that you can put up numbers because if Alabama keeps winning these games but they're just like hanging around eleven and ten, then all of a sudden they beat Georgia. I mean, maybe they say, we'll still put Georgia in again, but if you have two Big Ten teams with only one loss, two Pac, twelve teams with one loss, you still have Oklahoma, Texas.
This could be a year that the SEC gets left out if it's not an undefeated champion.
[00:40:48] Speaker C: I think a one loss SEC champion would get in.
[00:40:53] Speaker A: But if it comes down between Alabama.
[00:40:54] Speaker C: And Texas for one loss that's true. But then you would also have to look at the teams that you're listing about like the big Ten, like Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State are all about to play each other. One of them is all going to have one loss. One of them is not going to win the big Ten. One's not even going to win the division or two won't even win the division. Florida state is looking like the best in the ACC. But you're going to have a lot of I think it's interesting because of there's just so many kind of wild cards for those non championships.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: Genuinely, I hope that we get to the end of the year. Even know, of course, wishing that Alabama does well, I genuinely do hope that we get to the end of the year and it's not like we have a conversation between two teams getting in that we're legitimately like who is going to make it? I hope everybody has one loss and we're just truly, like anything could happen.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: And another thing, this is still the AP poll. They have not come out with the college football playoff poll. They haven't had that first round. Once that starts coming out, maybe we'll see some differences in how they're ranking teams compared to the AP. I just find it interesting that Alabama is not moving up at all and they've been at eleven for what, three weeks now.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: Yeah, very true. But I don't know that I would move them up after this past week.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: No, but that's what I'm saying. If they don't start doing like how you heard in the BCS era, it was like, oh, we need the style points. We're going to put up 50 so we can move up. And if Alabama is still at ten going into an SEC championship game and then beats Georgia, we'll see if that actually happens. But I don't know if you could move them all the way up into.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: The top four SEC champion cheese it bowl. Incoming. Is that what we're predicting?
[00:42:35] Speaker C: That would be kind of crazy. Alabama UNC for the could be crazy.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: We might have to come up with our own poll. We might have to have the low tide poll. Yeah, could be crazy.
[00:42:42] Speaker C: I did want to give a shout out too since we were talking kind of more general college football and the AP poll. On the other side of the AP poll, number 24, iowa just beat Wisconsin 15 to six. Real bad game. Nobody should ever endure themselves to watch that.
The winning quarterback, Iowa, who admittedly did not start the year as the starter, deacon Hill, 37 yards through the air, six of 14, 6.2 QBR. So Iowa, God bless you.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: I don't remember the hold on, keep talking. Hold on. Give me like 5 seconds about Iowa. I've got something funny.
[00:43:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: You could have an eleven and one Iowa team going into the Big Ten championship.
[00:43:26] Speaker C: No, and it's crazy, too, because that's what I was just about to get to. Iowa, by winning this game, essentially controls their own destiny to get to the Big Ten championship game because Wisconsin is in second now. Kind of like what we talked about with the Alabama A and M game where the winner of it has a very firm advantage. And it's now Iowa who cannot score touchdowns.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: How many yards did you say?
[00:43:49] Speaker C: 37.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: Okay. For the record, Caitlin Clark, who played a basketball scrimmage inside the same stadium stadium football, yeah. Scored 34 points and had a triple double outside in the cold, in the wind. Super impressive.
I just thought that was hilarious.
[00:44:08] Speaker A: Just win, baby.
[00:44:13] Speaker C: If you ever want to just really know what football was like a good 100 years ago.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: High formation.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah, essentially. I was actually comparing it on the fourth and goal podcast. I think it was the 1923, like the Chicago Doohickeys or something. Whatever. They caught them back then.
The Chicago averaged like 20 points a game and they led the NFL in that. That was the NFL leading. Iowa is right around that number.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: All right, we're going off the rails here, folks. I'm taking back the reins. We'll be right back here on 90.7.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: Tuscaloosa.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: Ladies and gentlemen, here to the final couple minutes on the low tide. Nick, Joe Adam talking Alabama athletics. We've got the rain. I've taken back control of the show. We're not going to go off the talk ever. As fun as it was, we didn't.
[00:45:30] Speaker A: Even get a chance to talk about the Colorado Stanford game.
[00:45:34] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying to lane one, guys.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: Cowboys are still a disgrace. Anyway, we got a little bit of everything for you. Just like Alabama athletics. It seems like everything started this past week.
Softball had their first scrimmage the week prior. They had another scrimmage today.
They took down Wallace State in two games of a doubleheader nine one and 90. Kristen White, three for three in the opening game, drives in a pair of runs through two games, alabama softball or through four games sorry, through two double headers. Alabama softball looking good. Obviously some big shoes to fill in the pitching department, but things are looking good. Not the strongest opponents yet. We'll see those in the spring. But a good start for Alabama softball. Yeah, I think you had baseball, Joe.
[00:46:35] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like weirdly hard to find because they aren't, like, posting the final score. I know. Alabama, it was a double editor against Auburn.
They won both games.
I need to get the final kind of scores and stats. But, yeah, they're still much like softball, still in the middle of their kind of fallball kind of double headerness of it. So it's very kind of up in the air. I am just struck like they refuse.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: I know they hit five home runs over both games. I think they had like 22 runs.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a very good offensive performance. And hopefully, I mean, this is still in the fall. We're hoping once we get into the actual season, they'll continue that. We don't really know how the pitching staff is going to be this year with the departures, but we also lost most of the team, so a bunch of offensive production is not coming back. So to see that kind of performance, even though it's just the fall, it was very good for the outlet.
[00:47:38] Speaker C: I found the final scores. They won five to two and ten to nothing. Both the games were seven innings, so not maybe a full nine innings, but with the amount of people that played, it practically was nine innings. The big stat, I guess kind of the marquee one that you want to know for Alabama. They struck out alabama pitchers, I should say, struck out 22 Auburn batters across 14 innings.
So, zane Adams. Greg Farron, I believe is how you say that. They both had three strikeouts each, so yeah, his first year with Rob Vaughn as head coach came from Maryland. So, so far so good for them, especially against an SEC team and know, kind of maybe like a bogey team you could play in fallball either.
[00:48:33] Speaker A: So I'm going to bring up some soccer. So I went to the second half of the soccer game and then I watched the replay during the first half. I was working, Alabama adapted. I told you about that last week.
It was just inner squad for men and women. Both of them are going to be going for repeat national championship. Women are trying for their fifth in a row. We'll see. They looked very good in the scrimmage, but then I go over to soccer and early in the game.
So Alabama lost last Sunday. We were still here on the radio when Texas A M went up three to one. The game wasn't over. That ended up being the final score. They did not play again until Friday night. And so they were playing LSU at home and LSU scores. 10th minute, they're up one nothing. And it's almost like they've struggled to score. All of a sudden they're down. It's kind of that same thing. They've been struggling a lot recently, and especially after going undefeated in the SEC regular season last year, it was kind of disappointing seeing LSU get on the board first, but then Alabama answered. They scored. In the 21st minute, nadi Ramadan scored. Then in the 30th minute, Felicia Knox scored, the 47th minute, Mariana Anesthe scored, and then in the 59th minute, Brooke Steer scored. And that was her first goal of the season. It was a nice header that went off the post and then into the net. It was beautiful. So they won four to one, got back in the win column, and now they are currently nine three and four, three, three and one in the conference. They only have three games remaining in the regular season. They have a game at Ole Miss this Thursday. Then they have Mississippi State at home next Sunday.
And then they go on the road to Missouri to round out the season. So hopefully they know at least win two out of the three. Hopefully they win all three, but we'll see. And then they have the SEC tournament which will be in Penscolla, Florida. So hopefully with the struggles that the offense has shown this year, they're kind of getting back on the right track. I mean, a four goal performance is pretty good. So hopefully they can keep that going into that SEC tournament.
[00:50:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So we are continuously moving closer to Basketball know Today's podcast. A little bit of a preview of the chaos that's going to occur in the spring when we have to cover a million different sports. But some exciting news for Alabama basketball. Apparently, according to Nick Kelly Tuscaloosa news, they're going to be playing another secret scrimmage against TCU this year in Birmingham against TCU. Very exciting there.
[00:51:18] Speaker C: So how is it secret?
[00:51:19] Speaker B: It's closed door and nobody's supposed to won't. I don't remember how we found out about the score last year. Wasn't it like on NCAA.com or something?
[00:51:31] Speaker C: Somebody posted because it was like Alabama.
[00:51:34] Speaker A: Got blown out and then, you know, they got blown out. Players only meeting happened. And then you had one of the best seasons in Alabama basketball history.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: So should we be rooting for another blowout? We got a very young team this year for Alabama basketball going to be.
[00:51:49] Speaker A: I don't know if you saw it, but the transfer Nelson from North Dakota State, some video footage from practice got released. And if he can start doing that in some games, Coleman's going to be rocking. Obviously, we don't know if we're going to have a team that gets up to number one in the rankings and has a potential top draft pick. But I think with the players they got the transfers and the people coming in as freshmen, I think it's going to be a pretty good season.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: It's going to be exciting. And then also I will mention Alabama men's basketball traveling to North Carolina to take on Wake Forest in their first charity game. That's going to be our first real opportunity to see what they're made of before November 6 1st home game against Morehead State.
I don't know very much about that team, but I'll learn for the next.
[00:52:45] Speaker C: I believe they're in the Ohio Valley Conference.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Well then after that you got Indiana State. There's some pretty good players that came larry Bird in the past.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: Larry Bird from in a very exciting time for Alabama athletics. We got a lot coming on. I'm excited for basketball know nice rainy weather outside. Feels like football.
[00:53:08] Speaker C: Yeah, it's getting cold.
I don't like that.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: No, not a cold?
[00:53:15] Speaker C: Not well, it's not that it's like freezing and you need like six layers to survive. But I'm from Maryland and I came to this school so I wouldn't deal with the cold. So any chance I get or any chance that the cold hits me, I immediately despise.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: I like the cold.
I like the cold when it's just cold. I don't like rain and cold like it is right now.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: Reminds me of a lot of high school golf tournaments.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: If it's going to be cold, just snow.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: 07:00 A.m. I specifically remember West Texas. It was like I want to say we teed off at like 630 or seven in the morning. It was freezing cold and there was like sleet coming down. One of the worst experiences of my life. I won't get into that any further before we completely go off the rail.
[00:54:04] Speaker C: I feel the pain too. Cross country. When I did that, that was the same thing. You get up super early, drive to some random park in the middle of nowhere and it's 08:00 in the morning and you somehow have to find the willpower to power through 3 miles of running. And oftentimes I didn't. So I just do it.
[00:54:28] Speaker B: Are you saying you weren't recruited as a cross country star here?
[00:54:33] Speaker C: Alabama was not recruiting me over their three headed Kenyan monsters that they got power in the team now.
[00:54:39] Speaker A: So that reminds me also the rails are coming on Friday. They had the cross country.
[00:54:46] Speaker C: They did.
[00:54:46] Speaker A: Men's and women's both.
It was good.
[00:54:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Hopefully we'll see how it goes overall. I mean, it was very good opening for them, but they have good individual. They have a good team overall. But this has been dominated by Arkansas, especially once we get to the like, this was cross country. Once they get to the track and field, arkansas kind of dominated that forever. So I'm hoping they can be know, I've talked to a couple people on the team. They seem really excited for the season. So hopefully this can be like a breakthrough to where it's not know, a couple individual champions. Maybe we can get, know, more team accomplishments this year.
[00:55:31] Speaker B: Yeah, very. Oh, and one final thing I gotta mention in club sports, alabama hockey got their first one of the season against Wake Forest.
[00:55:40] Speaker C: Yeah, they had a really good, really.
[00:55:41] Speaker B: Good weekend and some very clean new alternate jerseys. I don't know if you saw those. They are fire. Look them up. Yes, very impressive.
[00:55:50] Speaker C: We got to get them on the prime time.
[00:55:53] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying.
Why can't actual Alabama, other Alabama athletics have such cool jersey?
[00:56:03] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Soccer. Soccer.
I'm saying they're setting the example. They're setting the bar.
[00:56:12] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
When's basketball going to come out and I don't know, black jerseys or something?
[00:56:18] Speaker B: Maybe they got some heat coming this year. You never know. Maybe one can dream, right?
[00:56:21] Speaker C: Hopefully, maybe if they get blown up by TCU, they get an equipment managers only meeting.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: True.
[00:56:27] Speaker C: Guys, we need new jerseys.
[00:56:29] Speaker B: The drip is not dripping.
[00:56:31] Speaker C: Yeah, we don't know about if we're getting a new stadium, but we'll get new jerseys anyway.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: Before we go completely off the rails, this has been the low tide here on 90.7. Join us same time next week. Thank you very much.
[00:56:43] Speaker C: You Sam.
