Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Welcome into the low tide here on 90.7. The capstone. Nicholas Pursley, Elliot Miller, Adam Hambright. A true buzzer beater right before it started.
[00:00:25] Speaker C: I don't know about a buzzer beater. There's like a solid like 10 seconds. Is it one of those situations where like the play is blown dead and then like the refs got to get together, talk about it for a second? They're like, yeah, that's, that's good. That's the game.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to take away a penalty after like fans throw some bottles on the field.
[00:00:42] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Well this week, you know, they didn't even have to have the fans throw. They just you know, watched the replay on the Jumbotron and then we're like, you know, we're gonna, we're going to throw a flag on or take a pick it up. What was that? Was that the Pittsburgh game?
[00:00:54] Speaker C: No, they actually, they threw a flag after they were kind of like yelling outcry wise on that one. Although I will say not to be a homer. That was a definite flag. And the fact that that was not called a flag immediately kind of baffles me. That is crazy to have your hand in a dude's face to where his neck snaps back at like a 90 degree angle. But hey, that's just me though.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: So Look, I don't think that there's a ton to talk about but we're going to do, you know, our good two minute drill. Everybody can have two minutes to, you know, rant about whatever you want to rant about about this game. Alabama beats Mercer 52 to 7. Pretty much exactly what you would expect out of Alabama in this game. Mercer, a good FCS team, 9 and 1 headed into this game. They lead the SoCon. You know, we're, I believe they're ranked inside the top 10 in the FCS rankings.
Obviously no match for a program like Alabama. Although I do not know his name. But the receiver who had that insane one handed grab, Harris, that was insane.
[00:01:57] Speaker C: So shout out to Kendall Harris. Kendall Harris, freshman baller. Yeah, baller.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: And the quarterback, he was low key like at halftime. I think he was 13 for 15.
Pretty decent stats at least at halftime. You know, he's putting some dimes out there. It's about as good as you would expect from Mercer, but who wants to start on this one?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Well, I guess I'll do it. You know, Elliot, you know, all he wants to talk about on the show is the weather. But you know, obviously like you said, you know, there wasn't like a whole lot you could learn from this game. Mercer, a good team, nine and one coming in, ranked number seven in the FCS coming into this week, their only loss was to Samford and you know, Alabama just took control early and showed them, you know, why there's FBS and there's fcs.
I really liked how Alabama played in this game offensively, you know. Jaylen Milroe 11 of 16.
We ended up getting four quarterbacks into the game. You know, later in there saw some good things from, you know, really everybody. Ty Simpson, you know, showing, you know, his mobility. We've seen it before. But you know, seeing him like break out of that sack, you know, that was good. I wish it was in the end zone when he threw the, the pass, you know, that would have been even better. Austin Mack had a really good, you know, touchdown pass. Came out of his hand a little wobbly. I made the joke over there where if it was actually a perfect spiral, would probably been like 10 rows into the stands. But you know, they're good at the quarterback position. It's just how many of these people will actually stay who will transfer out. Obviously there's, you know, good players coming in as well. Running game, Alabama rushed for 189 yards. We had a rushing touchdown from Ryan Williams and then, you know, it was just, they didn't show, you know, too much. Obviously it's Mercer, they're you know, saving stuff for Oklahoma, Auburn, possibly an SEC championship game. Especially like you know, going forward, bowl game, you know, possible playoff appearance, you know, they're not going to, you know, pull out all the stops against Mercer. But once again, defense played really strong in a game where, you know, we've seen a couple of years in the past where, you know, the team just comes out flat. Austin Peay a couple years ago was like a 10 point game at halftime.
Might have been a little bit more, but you know, it was just, it was good to see with a game like this that the team still came out focused and you know, should have had the shutout if Kendall Harris didn't make a one hand snag right before halftime.
But also once again, you know, defense, even though they gave up the one touchdown they forced, you know, three turnovers.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: And the first non offensive touchdown of the year, first defensive touchdown of the year. So, you know, really, really good things.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: I mean, obviously, you know, it's not a game that you're going to write home about, but you know, I really liked seeing how focused the team was on a week where they could have came out, you know, just flat sure.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: This is not even going to be a two minute drill. This is going to be more like the Patrick Mahomes 15 second drill. Because I'll just repeat everything that Adam just said. I'm not going to go through the whole thing again. Obviously defense was outstanding. Offense was also very good. There were a couple head scratchers a couple of times, but barring a couple of those, I think that was okay.
Penalties weren't outrageous.
I wouldn't say a couple. You'd like to clean a couple of those up. I guess the more the most puzzling thing for me, I was a little confused on why they felt the need to trot Jalen Milroe out there at the start of the second half. I thought for sure Ty Simpson would be in after halftime. The game was not really even out of hand. It was just that one crazy catch that they gave up and I don't know, kind of felt like a little, little stat pad moment. But it's okay. All for the fans, I guess. The real interesting thing for me, speaking from quarterback perspective, thought it was interesting that Austin Mack got to come in. They went between like Lonergan and Mack and then back to Lonergan again or something like that.
I don't know, I just thought that was really interesting.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: You know, I thought for a moment that, you know, when I got down there on the field with six minutes to go, I thought I was going to get some snaps with how the game was going. But you know, overall, exactly what you wanted from them. Kind of like I said, exactly what you would expect out of Alabama. Playing an opponent of this level, you kind of get everybody in the game. Everybody gets some snaps, scout team guys get some snaps. That was something that everybody was super excited about. Also shout out Ty Simpson for going for the true highlight moment. And I don't know how he got out of the sack to begin with, but then just truly just firing a prayer that gets caught, you know, I felt like in the past that would have been something that Saban was quite frustrated with, but DeBoer in the post game was like, if it gets picked off, it gets picked off. Which I was like, you know, that's, that's fair. I like it. So that was, that was fun to see.
So I'm going to use my two minutes to just say that like games like this, this late in the season are a perfect example of why like a college football, like super league would be awesome, right? Like, there are a lot of things that you can say that you know, you wouldn't like to see about a super league, right? There's a lot of bad things that come with it. You know, certain surprises that come from an out of nowhere school and NIU beating Notre Dame early in the year, those types of things that you wouldn't get.
But I mean, for all intensive purposes, and this is something that I kind of appreciate more about DeBoer than I did about Saban, because in the postgame press conference, Saban would have been super frustrated with reporters just acting like this was a gimme, right? Deboer, like pretty much openly acknowledged that it was a gimme, which you should be because you're Alabama taking on an FCS school. I don't care if it's the best FCS school in the country. This game should not be close. It was not close. Starters really didn't play after the second or after halftime. Except for, I think Melro played what, one series after the half?
[00:07:58] Speaker A: I believe so. Yeah.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So I don't know. It's games like this that, you know, for all intensive purposes, this is a bye week.
It's just kind of a.
I don't know, you're just kind of going through the motions, right? Which I don't think that is something that anybody wants to see this late in the year. Because honestly, for all intents and purposes, the whole slate of football this Saturday just really wasn't super exciting. I mean, you got Oregon almost losing to Wisconsin. You know, you got a shocker. You didn't expect that one. You got a good game between Georgia and Tennessee, but really that was the only super quality game that was, you know, big time of the afternoon. And I just think that it's games like this where I'm like, why are we playing this? Like this is the perfect example of why like a super league would be awesome. Because you're not going to get matchups like this, right? Like every week is truly going to matter. Like it's really a game that, you know, everybody's showing out to, you know, makes for great tv, those sorts of things. Because this just felt like, you know, I'm sure it's nice for Alabama fans to see, you know, a pretty stress free win two weeks in a row. But like there's no reason Alabama should be playing Mercer. I don't.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: This game was boring.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Straight up.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Well, you know, I'll bring up a couple of things that I do like about a game. Like this and you know there's, there's other things that you could probably do to change it up a little bit. One, if you do go to the Super League then you know who all actually goes. Like who gets left out, right. You know I do like those random upsets that you sometimes get. It usually is not against an actual top 10. I know Notre Dame this year losing Northern, but even Northern Illinois, you know, they're an FBS team. What we've had in the past, Jacksonville State when they were in the FCS beating Florida State.
A couple things that I actually like other than you know when those upsets do happen, I like the walk ons that have put in a lot of work. This is one of their few games that they, you know, usually can get in.
You know you saw a bunch of them excited after finally getting into a game, being able to give stuff to their family. I do like, you know that the Kendall Harris, you know that he's going to remember that play in Bryant Denny Stadium. One handed touchdown for the rest of his life.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: I hope he got on sports. I didn't check but I hope I.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Wasn'T able to watch it either. But you know that was, that's something he'll remember forever. And then you know you could, there is another way you could do this. But you know a lot of the smaller schools when they play this game, you know they're given so much money because they are expected to lose. But that kind of funds their program. But you probably could do that. I believe I saw, I can't remember exactly. It might have been Rich Rider. Anyway, somebody brought up possibly doing it in the spring game where they still give the same amount of money for the team to play in the spring game. But you know that's just a couple things that I do like about the game. But you could probably change up a few things about it.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Yeah, and let me like be super clear, like I don't have a problem with them playing Mercer. I think I more so have a problem with where it is in the schedule. Right. Like it's way late getting towards the end of the season. Like there should like nobody should be playing a game like this. I think last week Oklahoma played Tulsa.
Like it. These are, these are the types of games that just shouldn't be happening this late in the year. Like when you know everything's supposed to be, you know, playoff bubble watch, you know, it feels like you got a hold, nice slate of games.
So I think I'm fine with everybody playing games like this. But you Got to make it way earlier in the season. This should be the first or second.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: Same thing as like A and M, New Mexico State. That was a night game too, by the way, at Kyle Field, which I'm.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Impressed that they got as many people.
[00:11:37] Speaker C: As Aggie on Aggie violence.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: It's so true. It's so true. We didn't get, we didn't get any, get any fun in that game either. But kind of like I said, I mean, just these are games that should be happening early in the season. Make it the spring game, something like that. This should not be happening late in the year. We should be purely in conference matchups or, you know, marquee, like end of the season games. You know, Clemson, South Carolina, those, those sorts of things.
So, yeah, that's how I feel about it.
Kind of moving on from that. Obviously, the new AP poll is out. Alabama's up to number seven in the AP poll. They jump up two spots. Georgia jumps up three spots after they beat Tennessee.
But most importantly, new college Football playoff rankings will come out tomorrow night. Where do we think Alabama's going to end up? And you know, we can also kind of get into the whole discussion that's been happening of should Alabama want to make the SEC title game, given that it looks like for all intensive purposes, they pretty much control their own destiny. They need Missouri to win one of their last games, but other than that, as long as they went out, they would be in the SEC title game. Their opponent, not determined yet. It would probably be the winner of Texas, Texas A and M. But, you know, in general, how do we feel?
[00:13:08] Speaker A: You know, obviously I think they're going to, you know, move up a few spots in that, that poll that comes out. You know, it'll be interesting to see how they, you know, Miami, you know, they were on a buy. You know, you had Tennessee lost, but it was to Georgia. How far do they go down? You know, does Alabama jump in Notre Dame? Obviously, BYU is probably going to drop out of the top 10. I would expect to see them in that 7 to 8 range, maybe just move up a couple of spots.
It'll also be interesting to see if they decide to jump Georgia over Alabama and Ole Miss after beating Tennessee. I mean, they lost to Alabama and Ole Miss, but I saw, you know, in the, in the ap, you know, it has Alabama, Georgia, then Ole Miss behind him, even though Ole Miss beat Georgia, you know, just a week ago. So it'll be pretty interesting to see how that shapes up. And for me, for the SEC championship thing, I'm all for them going to Atlanta. Obviously got the chance to win that first round by but Alabama wants championships and you know, whether it's national or sec, you know, at least get one this year. So I want to have a chance at both of them.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah. 100. I mean I think I would be. I'll touch on the SEC championship thing. Obviously it's been something that was on my mind even as early as last week about potentially them it being in their interest to miss the SEC title game. Let me be on the record for the fact that if Alabama was to make the SEC title game and lose they would only certainly make the playoff as long as it was not a complete blowout. Because I think you set a horrible precedent if you're the College Football Playoff committee actively saying that like yeah we're going to count that conference tight like making the conference title game against you and I can almost certainly guarantee that it would basically end up in like you're not going to have conference title games anymore. They would treat it like they do basketball.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: I don't remember the name of the little documentary that it was but you know when the SEC first started, you know the conference championship game in Alabama's playing Florida Legion Field in Birmingham and you know it looks like Alabama is going to lose and it was a big question of like why do they even play this game. You know, if Alabama loses and doesn't compete for the national championship, are they just going to do away with it? Obviously Alabama ended up winning that game, won the championship over Miami that year and we've had the SEC championship ever since. But now if Alabama goes in, you know, probably, you know, barring any whoever that team that loses the SEC championship as long as it's not like you know a four loss team at that point, you know, if they get left out then it's just like, you know, it brings up the question again the same question they were asking when they first implemented it back in the 90s.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: 100 and let me so with regard to the College Football Playoff, I think we're in a really interesting spot here because I would imagine that BYU is going to drop out of the top 12 which would mean that there's all of a sudden no Big 12 Conference champion in there. So you're going to see somebody probably in that 12 spot get left out for somebody in the probably 15 to 16 range. Now who that is it's going to be really interesting. Where does like are would is the committee still going to have BYU who have won very several very close games this season, will they still have them ranked higher than Colorado who a lot of people think are in the driver's seat in the Big 12, especially considering Kansas State lost Arizona State. You know, they're, they're almost certainly out of it.
So all of a sudden like I can almost promise you tomorrow you are going to see Boise State have a first round buy just because of how it works. A lot of people thought that the group of five school could not like they were automatically. They could not get one of the first round buys. That's not how it works. It's just the top four highest ranked conference champions. So you're very easily going to see Boise State get that spot and deservingly so.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: Yeah, I think the problem that we're seeing is, and what's unfortunate because I actually disagree with it is that it is very much pushing towards the SEC and the Big Ten need to have more spots available in the top like in the top 12 or in the championship like bracket too. The problem that you'll see, you just noted it with the Big 12, okay, it's. I'm going to, I'm going to be very blunt and honest. It's a hodgepodge of mid mediocrity, okay. I can't even say that there's a single good team out of any of them. And I can say the same thing about the ACC too. The way that they beat up on one another. You know, we can, we can say that Miami's good. I've been off the Miami train from the start, okay? I never thought that they were that crazy. You know, we can talk about how Clemson is ranked. I'm be honest with you. They barely beat a pit team that was playing with a backup qb. I. And then like smu, they can be really, really good and then sometimes they're like really, really bad. Like they probably should have lost to Boston College. It was more Boston College couldn't get out of their own way during that game.
I don't know, it's. But for going back to the SEC championship thing, quite frankly, I am totally okay with Alabama making the SEC championship because I'm not afraid of any team at this point to play against.
After watching Texas performance against Arkansas, I take back what I said. I thought that Texas would dog walk up. Absolutely not.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I just think like, you know, a lot of this was brought up. I mean Alabama has the most wins against teams ranked in the top 25 out of anybody and it's not close.
You have teams like Texas who their only top 25 opponent that they have played. They lost convincingly to a Georgia team that has looked very vulnerable on the road. And I don't know whether that says more about Texas maybe not being who everybody thought they were because I don't think we've really seen a lot from Texas this year. Texas could very easily be in the same spot that Clemson is in.
They were ranked super high. We thought super highly of them. And then all of a sudden they get tested and it's like, I mean, there's an honest conversation that needs to be had. And, you know, maybe we'll kind of talk about this more after we come back.
I personally believe that a Texas team that lost convincingly to Alabama in the SEC title game would get left out of the playoff.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: We'll see. Another thing too, like right now they still only have that one more game against the ranked opponent and that's Texas A and M last week. Like, if they end up losing to A and M and then like, obviously I believe that drops them out of SEC championship, but then you have a team that might still be ranked in the top 12 with zero ranked wins and both ranked teams they played they lost to.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: I will say, though, dream scenario, because I am an avid Longhorn hater and I'll just say for all intents and purposes that I like steak for some reason.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Okay, Elliot hates everything.
[00:20:09] Speaker C: Dream scenario.
Texas walks into Kyle Field, gets dog walked and they're immediately out. And if not, if somebody, I don't know who they play next week, if they also manage to lose that game too, just to ensure that they were out, or if they do beat A and M, I hope that they get dog walked in the SEC championship by whoever plays them and they get left out.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: They play Kentucky next week. Oh, interesting game. Okay, we're going to continue on this when we come back here on 90.7 the Capstone. Don't go away.
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Welcome back into the low tide here on 90.7 the Capstone. Nicholas, Adam Elliott, as always here from a doomed student media building which is imminently going to be just a couple more weeks, guys. Yeah, Truly sad. This is our last show from this building. Can you believe that?
[00:21:39] Speaker C: Is this it? But is it the last show of the semester?
[00:21:41] Speaker B: No, it's not. We will definitely, we will definitely be around in Some shape form fashion.
[00:21:48] Speaker C: But it may only be unloaded after dark.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: If the last song played out of here is not closing time, I'll be so upset.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: I will try my best to make that happen because that's, that's a quality idea.
[00:21:59] Speaker C: Closing time.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, let's go back to football. Okay, so. Yeah. Before Elliot starts singing on air. Okay. So college football playoffs are coming up. We got some new rankings coming out tomorrow night. A lot of questions to be answered.
We saw a lot of interesting things happen this weekend. We saw Oregon tested. You know, I think the big thing that this year, like first off, we thought last year was the best year for a 12 team playoff. This is the best possible year for the 12 team playoff. You have Oregon, who's like one of the only unbeatens who barely rape away with a win against Wisconsin.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: They're so confusing to me. Three point win against Wisconsin on the road. Three point win against Boise State at home. It was a 10 point game against Idaho. Week one. I know that was week one. So, you know they've improved. But so many chances that they could have ruined their season.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: The fake field goal, really, that really had me wondering like what it, what it, what exactly are they cooking over there?
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Because that, that play almost worked. If they would not have like, if it was a little bit better of a block. And the guy running with the ball doesn't like dive forward like thinking he was going to get hit. He had that. It was some wide space.
[00:23:17] Speaker C: But like Wisconsin, they can't move the ball. It's a backup quarterback. They can't score, man, just kick the.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: Field goal, go up by six, you.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: Know, force him to make a touchdown. Like I don't under.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: Van Landing must have called less miles before that game.
[00:23:34] Speaker C: Like, I just don't, I don't understand. It doesn't make sense.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: No, very, very few things make sense. But you know, like we're talking about, I mean, we have teams all over the top 10 that have major question marks. Right. I mean, how good is Ohio State? I mean they beat Penn State. Like, I mean if Penn State wasn't like absolutely inept at playing football, they should have won that game. They were up 10 nothing and then scored three points from there on out, which is just a true travesty. Which, why they're four, I would have them like 35. But you know, that's just.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: No, Penn State isn't what you were talking about. Teams that were a victim of like, you know, the minute that they actually played somebody, they struggled. Right. Penn State Is one of those teams.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they're the Cowboys of college football. I've said this multiple times.
Texas. We don't know who Texas is. I mean, they haven't played anybody. Indiana literally have not played a team with a winning record as of yet. I want you to just, just consider that for a moment. They play. I believe they play. What, Ohio State this next week. I am seriously, like, I don't care what you say. Like, I don't care if you think this is SEC bias. Whatever. If Indiana loses convincingly to Ohio State, they should not make the playoffs. Straight up. If they cannot make the Big Ten title game and they get blown out by Ohio State, they should not make the playoff. Put a team in there who actually means business. Look, I hate the fact for Indiana that they have not played anybody, but you literally have not played a team with a winning record. You have one chance to show up. You got to show up. If it's within. If it's. If it's a game, I got no problem putting Indiana in. But if they were to get blown out by Ohio State, who I think a lot of us have questions about still.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: And I don't know if this would change because I don't know who has been chomping at the bit to schedule games with Indiana, but curtisignetti being, like, having his team, like, even though they have not had, like, had not had to be the team with a running record. Indiana being this good under Cignetti so fast, you know, I feel like that kind of hurt him because, you know, nobody knew that they, like Indiana itself didn't know, oh, we're going to have a chance at a playoff. Maybe we should schedule a tougher team to challenge us a little.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he got an absolute bag.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: So bag alert.
[00:25:56] Speaker C: Major.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Okay. See, I just.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: Okay, but we're talking about more teams, Miami, teams that really have not played, I would say, super tough competition.
I mean, is Miami not on that list? They lose that one game and they felt like a rock.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: No. Okay, so let. I do not think Miami is that good. I think there's question marks all up and down. Honestly, if you look at Alabama right now, like, now LSU might just be trash.
Like, that's a conversation that needs to be had. Brian Kelly. If Brian Kelly does trash, they giga stink. If Brian Kelly does not win, does not. Look, if a few things go differently for Brian Kelly, he is, like, seeing the door this year. Right. But because of the way that a couple of things have worked out, I don't think his Job's in question, but he's looked. It's been a, it's been a rough stretch.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: Hear me out. Honestly, if I'm Billy Napier, I'm upset that Florida wants to retain me. You know, I personally, if you got fired, LSU probably would have been like, hey, you beat us. Come over here. Okay. I'm just kidding.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Well, I also think. Okay, so this is, I'm only briefly going to touch on this because I have something hilarious to bring up.
I like, in this new age of like, like we're about to be in a revenue sharing era where these teams are going to have to like pay out some big bucks. Their student athletes. Right. Like, and not just like through nil deals. That's going to be a whole separate thing. This is actually the university cutting the athlete to paycheck.
You are very rarely going to see coaches that kind of do a mid job like get fired. Like one of the reasons why I think like Hugh Freeze is in a very solid spot right now is because like there's zero chance that Auburn is going to fire him. Knowing that they're going to have to pay out a lot of money. You're going to see a lot of coordinators get shuffled around. That's going to be the hotspot. But you're going to have to, you'd have to be some, some giga cheeks to like to get fired.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: I would.
[00:27:54] Speaker C: Jimbo Fisher, Hugh Freeze immediately. I would jettison him on the first plane to Cancun tonight.
He stinks.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: He's terrible as what a lot of Auburn fans, I'm sure. Okay, so I just want to bring up to you this, this golden scenario. Thank you. To MRed's 2024 SEC football like machine, I guess whatever you would call it because this thing is fantastic. So let me bring up to you the chaos scenario of A and M goes on the road and loses because of some voodoo magic at Auburn. And then they were to beat Texas the next week, who do you believe Alabama would play in the SEC title game? Alabama would lead the sec, but who would they play in the title game.
[00:28:38] Speaker C: Would be like Ole Miss, South Carolina.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Georgia, rematch.
Could you believe that?
[00:28:48] Speaker C: I don't like that.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: And honestly that'd be a fun game. Here's the thing, I think like in that scenario, especially given like how many other teams would lost, both of those teams make the playoff regardless of the result.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: So since we're like one last thing about the playoff and this is just something we like, we can be kind of quick about it. But so we're, we're thinking there's going to be about four SEC teams make it in. We think there's going to be about four Big Ten teams. That's obviously accounting for Indiana right now.
We got the group of five. We have ACC champion, Big 12 champion. I don't, we don't think that there's going to be anybody else coming in from the ACC or the Big 12. Correct.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Like I zero chance. So it would, it would take some absolute chaos and I think it would.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: In my opinion, the only team or the only conference that has a shot at getting two teams in would probably between the Big 12 and the ACC would probably be the ACC. And that's just simply if they decide on a whim. I have a feeling that if SMU plays Miami straight up, SMU would probably win. But they're like, oh, we can't have Miami. We can't have Miami miss the playoffs after all we did for them. We can't do that.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Especially if CAM awards a Heisman finalist.
[00:30:01] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: Here's one thing I want to bring up. So if we. It's just, let's just say Indiana just gets blown out by Ohio State. Okay.
And they're like, we're not putting Indiana in even with the one loss.
Notre Dame loses either to army or on the road at USC the last week. So now Notre Dame's dropped out, you know, lost to Northern Illinois. And then one of those two.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: You.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: Know, now one, we could have Boise State up in one of those first round buys. Like you were saying earlier. Do you end up having another group of five team get in?
[00:30:38] Speaker B: I was just about to bring this up.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: Or do you end up having a three loss South Carolina somehow play their way into.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: Okay, like I'm going to be 100% honest. If there is a team that has three losses right now that deserves to be in the playoff, it should be South Carolina. Their losses are literally to LSU by like I believe by three points, Ole Miss and Alabama by two points. South Carolina is a very good team that I personally hope that some absolute chaos happens and that we just throw a couple of these trash can teams like out the window. Right. Like, I mean they should put me in charge of the College Football Playoff. I'm going to cinema pure vibes based rankings. No Miami, no Notre Dame. We know they're fraudulent.
[00:31:24] Speaker C: I'm rocking with Bieber ball in the playoffs.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: It would be fun.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Like, I mean the only thing that I would hate for would be you wouldn't get the South Carolina home playoff game. Because they would just sneak in, they'd have to go on the road.
[00:31:36] Speaker C: But they could win.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: We'll see.
[00:31:40] Speaker C: They could do it depending on who they playing.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: I mean.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: Yeah, you know what?
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Nobody's elite. I like, if you. Honestly, I was about to say this before the break.
Honestly, I would imagine that there are a good group of people out there who would tell you that Alabama might be in the best spot of anybody. Like, as far as like looking very strong, like headed in dangerous, like, I don't want to play them.
I think you could make a serious argument there because, like, nobody looks elite and I have serious question marks about almost everybody. But it kind of feels like, you know, knock on wood, right, that Alabama has kind of fixed some of their problems and have started to kind of round into form. Whereas, like, we're starting to see, you know, Oregon's got some issues, Texas has got some issues. I mean, we're about to find out if.
[00:32:33] Speaker C: I mean, I hope that if Texas loses, if they want to add another SEC team in, I hope that the team that replaces them is South Carolina. I mean, South Carolina. I'm just looking at the newest eight people. I didn't realize they were up this high at this point. They are sitting there at 19.
So dream, dream scenario. I think if you're South Carolina.
Well, I'm just kind of spitballing here so someone can correct me if I'm wrong. A and M loses to Auburn, but then A and M beats Texas. I think that would officially wipe both of them.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: Say that one more time.
[00:33:08] Speaker C: A and M goes and loses to Auburn, but then A and M beats Texas at home. I think that officially gets both of those two out.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Oh, out of the College Football Playoff.
[00:33:18] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah, I think, I think so.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: We can open up the door for two loss Tulane to get in there.
[00:33:24] Speaker C: Okay. I'm looking at these other. I'm trying to think about who plays who. Byu. Who do they play, who else do they play this season?
[00:33:31] Speaker B: BYU. I am convinced that the only Big 12 team that gets in, like, regardless of what happens is the champion.
[00:33:37] Speaker C: Okay? So I'm not worried about a second champion. A second Big 12 team. Okay.
Who does SMU play the rest of the season?
I'm going to need to check on SMU and Miami.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: I mean, I would imagine that they're going to play.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: SMU is on the road at Virginia this week. Then they get Cal at home.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: They could lose the Calgary. I believe in the Calgary.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: Every loss the Caleb has been by 8 points or less.
[00:34:03] Speaker C: I believe in The Calgorithm. Okay. Many people do not. I do. Give me Cal.
[00:34:08] Speaker A: Now byu, they play, they play on the road against a very good Arizona State team. Only two losses. And then Houston at home.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: Give me Arizona State to take him to two losses.
So I think, okay, who does Miami play?
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Yeah, look, that's gotta be.
[00:34:27] Speaker C: It's gotta be two ACC teams.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: So I would imagine, I honestly hope it's two acc. I think the scenario is gonna be we're gonna get smu, Miami, Miami gets.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Wake Forest at home.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: Oh, that's so easy.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: At Syracuse.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Ooh.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: So as long as McCord does not throw five interceptions.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: Kyle McCord.
[00:34:48] Speaker C: Kyle McCord. Masterclass. Give me the, give me the orange.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: 500 yards, seven interception game.
[00:34:53] Speaker C: I think the problem is this nightmare log jam rotation from 7 through 10. If you're south Carolina, in which it is Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, all sitting at 8 and 2. You have to have one of those teams probably lose another game.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Tennessee does have a road game at Vanderbilt. So what about old, very losable Ole Miss?
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Ole Miss? I don't think there you have the.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: They have the Egg bowl and who's the, who's the other game?
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Egg Bowl. The Egg bowl look for. I. I don't know.
[00:35:27] Speaker C: For all intents and purposes, Mississippi State give. Did give Texas a hard time.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: They're the one in the swap this week. Ole Miss at Florida.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, very losable game.
[00:35:35] Speaker C: Wait, that is actually a very losable game.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: See this is the part where I wish like flying Florida had just been a little healthier and like, because even a 3 or like 4 loss Florida like I would be very comfortable letting in the playoffs.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: That was the talk earlier in the year. Obviously Florida states fell off, but you know, it was how Back loaded fell off, brother.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Okay, hold on, hold on.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Did anybody see the meme of like Florida State was like playing the bye week and like down like 30 to.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: 7, but it was, you know, Florida State coming in. They were projected a top 10 team, right? And so it was oh, this back loaded schedule that Florida has and that's like they could be, you know, they could just lose the last six games, the schedule, but they could be, you know, the seventh best team of the day. That was, you know, what was going around. Josh Pate said on his show, some other people said it, but then they lost early against teams they really shouldn't have. And now they're beating those teams we thought they would have the trouble with. So you know, if they had like you said, just won a Couple more games earlier in the year looked a little bit better against Miami week one. You know, they could be one of those teams on the bubble.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: I feel like we could talk about this all day. Fortunately, we have many more weeks to talk about this. Maybe not in this building, but why.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: You gotta do that to me?
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Oh, truly, truly tragic.
Look, when we come back, I promise we're going to talk about basketball. And of course we've got beef of the week because what would, what would the Low Tide be without beef of the week?
Some are saying we might be a beef of the week, Merchant.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Well, you know, beef of the week and weather reports, so.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: All right. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to break. We'll be right back here on 90.7.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Welcome back into what is sure to be a chaotic final eight minutes of the low tide here on 90.7 capstone. The final eight minutes, the final segment from our glorious student media building before, before we get on out of here for the last time. So quickly, Alabama basketball. We'll talk the Purdue loss. Everybody will kind of go around and everybody. But first off, shout out Alabama women's basketball, number 22 in the country. Six and oh start. They beat Ulm 75 to 52 today. Sarah Ashley Barker had like 25 points I believe. Shout out them. Yeah, big shout out to Ballin.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: You know, hopefully they can carry this momentum into SEC play and you know, things are looking good for basketball this year.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah, let's hope. Okay, so unfortunately Alabama loses to Purdue on the road 87 78.
The first game of a very difficult stretch for Alabama basketball. But this is kind of what NATO's is known for, really testing the team. The first thing that I will say is a, do not fret. This is not college football. Even in a 12 team world you can have a bunch of losses and still easily make the NCAA tournament. But you have to play games like this early in the year to prepare your team for these tough environments, to really find out what you're made of. You saw a lot from Alabama. Alabama basically had Purdue beat at one point. They played very well on the road in a very hostile environment. Mark Sears had arguably one of his worst games as since he's arrived in Alabama. Only 13 points. Not a great performance from him, not a great shooting performance from the team. You know, they shoot like what, 30%? Roughly.
Not great. But it's very early. You still have a lot of, a lot of opportunities and you can come out of the stretch pretty Happy. So you want to lose the games now? You don't want to get hot right now?
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean we saw this last year, you know, they had a bunch of losses that we felt like they should have played better than they should have won. And then they made a final four run because they were tested when they made it to the NCAA tournament. Now for this game, things that I was happy with. Grant Nelson, you know, he ends up getting a double double. You know, really good to see him, you know, kind of, you know, just he hadn't played this well in the first couple of games and then played really well defensively when they had Clifford on where we're in. So hopefully he can stay out of foul trouble. Castay and I really liked how well LeBaron Filand played. 18 points. First road game. Now for Alabama as a tall like first ranked game they had played, you know, three mid majors, big time opponent on the road, you lose 87, 78, obviously they had a six point lead in the second half, would have liked to see them win. But now you have Illinois, Houston, Rutgers, North Carolina and Creighton and then there is a to be determined game in between there in Vegas. Now before the season, NATO said their goals to win the players ERA championship, that's the one in Vegas, win SEC regular season, SEC tournament and then a national championship. He wanted all four of those championships. One loss to Purdue on the road is not going to prevent any of that from happening. And I feel a lot better about this team after that game than I did after the first three.
[00:41:13] Speaker C: Sure. Tough look, hate to see it. Tough loss. You know, you'd like to, you'd like to close out a game in which you hold the other team to not score a, like a field goal in the last three minutes of the game. But you know they're better for it. Some of the guys just need the gel a little more, need more time together. You know, the season is young. It's not over till it's over.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, beef of the week. Who wants to start?
[00:41:37] Speaker C: Am I good? Am I double dipping? Am I going?
[00:41:39] Speaker B: We got four minutes.
[00:41:40] Speaker C: Okay. Netflix, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, I cannot stress enough. First of all, two things here. Number one, Netflix. You want me to believe in you as a streaming service? Whenever you're like, we're going to have the Christmas Day game of Steelers Chiefs. Now I might be a Steelers fan and I might want to watch that game, but whenever you're buffering like that, brother, I'm going to miss like half the game. When you're I might as well just watch on Twitter or whatever. Or X. My bad. I might as well just follow on X.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: Well, luckily you have CTE, ESPN and Antonio Brown, who livestreamed the event to over 3 million people. Yeah, and that's why he's the best.
[00:42:16] Speaker C: Dealers receiver of all time. The second part I don't like. What are. What are they doing with all this stuff? It like buffers and then it cuts to Mike Tyson. Booty cheeks. What is that? Okay, I was hoping.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: I was hoping you were going to bring that up because I wanted to earlier. Oh, man. Okay.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: So for me, my beef the week, the Million Dollar man, and you know, I think they've done a fantastic job this year. My. The thing is not about their regular performance. It's something that they did that was new and they decided to play. We ready one I under. If you want to try that out, that'd be great. At the beginning of the game, not two minutes left. Up 52 to 7 against Mercer, truly a scoreboard. That is ridiculous. If you want to do it beginning of the game and against an actual opponent that you're pumped up to play. So, like, if you want to do it Bryant Denny against Auburn in a couple weeks, that's fine. Never do that again. One for an FCS team and two, when you're up 52 to 7 on anybody.
[00:43:18] Speaker B: Yeah, you tell them. Okay, I've got two beasts of the Week, so a, I'll tag team the Netflix issue. I am terrified because WWE and Monday Night Raw will be on Netflix live weekly. I am terrified that, like, eventually, when all the pay per views and WrestleMania gets over there, that, like, the very end of WrestleMania, the last three minutes is going to start buffering. Truly a horrible experience. I hope they learn from it. I think it's great that, you know, you don't have to pay $100 to watch a fight that nobody should have paid $5 to watch.
And I also think that it was kind of a cell phone. They totally should have known with a barrier of entry that low that a ton of people were going to tune in. Cell Phone by Netflix Pretty bad all around. My beef, okay, I have had so many problems with my air conditioning unit. It has been truly tragic. I did not have AC for like two weeks. They come and fix it, within an hour, it breaks again and I'm without AC for another two days. I can report it is officially working.
So we. I have AC once again. My cat has not died in the process because if it was 75 for me, I'm sure it was 85 for him. Truly tragic. Yeah.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: We shouldn't have to worry about AC and when we're almost in December, but here we are.
[00:44:42] Speaker C: Alas, another beef of the week from the Ghost Joe.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: You know, also, shout out Jersey Mike's.
[00:44:50] Speaker C: I had Jersey Mike's today.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Really? Yeah, yeah, it was pretty good.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: I did not have Jersey.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: I was a certified. Like Jersey Mike's non believer.
[00:44:59] Speaker C: No, I'm good.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: No, no thoughts on Jersey?
[00:45:05] Speaker C: I don't know what they're doing over there in Jersey, but you know Mike, he's a really talented fella and yeah, he's got a bright future ahead of him.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Mike's way I like it. Mike's way.
[00:45:11] Speaker C: I like it. Mike's way, too.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: No, I can't even get a smile out of this guy. Okay, so I think that's going to do it for us. I mean, this is our final episode of the Tide from this building. I mean, we will, you know, we'll still be coming to you through Spotify, through voices, ua, edu. We'll have updates on the Twitter, on the X, whatever you want to call it.
We will be here. There will be shows. We are not finished.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: Stay frosty.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: But I wish I could throw in.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Another beef of the week from this building.
This is it.
[00:45:46] Speaker C: Good night.
[00:45:47] Speaker B: You can have a quick beef.
[00:45:48] Speaker A: Quick beef of the week. Okay. This is the University of Alabama and we have a whole building dedicated to communications. We also have a digital media center in Bryant Denny Stadium. And they're moving us from a student media building into a dorm. That is. That is my beef.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: That.
[00:46:06] Speaker C: That is. I second that beef, actually.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: I hope it's nice. I think it'll be nice. I think it'll be dorm. I think we'll enjoy it.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: No, the, the bottom level of a dorm.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Yeah, no, we're actually moving into a dorm room. Guys. They really downgraded the low tide. All right, well, that's. That's going to do it. We'll be back with you next week. Stay tuned to your feed. Stay frosty and Stay frosty. Truly. Have a good one.
