Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: And welcome back to 90.7 the Capstone. I am not Nicholas Pursley, if you could tell. I will be your host today. Elliott Miller joined by Adam Hambright.
Apologies if you heard the outro play for a brief second before the intro. That was a little weird.
[00:00:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we're trying to work out some kinks. You know, usually Nick's in here. You know, he's. He's got us set straight. And then today, unfortunately, he was not able. Elliot's been thrown to the fire. He has been run through how to do it, but, you know, it's taken a little bit. We're. We're working some kinks out.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's okay, guys. I swear that my tech major makes me technically sound. I promise that this. This is not a reflection of my technical capabilities.
We're going to do better next time.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: But anyway, Adam, you had a. You had a topic that you wanted to talk about. You want to lead us into that?
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Well, you know, for me, I wasn't here last week, so I'm sure y'all had a great time talking about the Missouri game, you know, finally getting back on track, you know, keeping the playoff hopes alive. I wasn't here. And then this week, Alabama's got the bye week. I was able to relax. I assume you were pretty relaxed. You know, we both had Alabama bye weeks and Pittsburgh Steelers bye week, so we have not had to worry about anything football related. And now we got to get back into it. Next week, next Saturday at night in Death Valley, Alabama is going to take on LSU.
And currently Alabama's ranked 11. LSU is at 14. Both teams had the bye week, but like, this is. This is the game, right? This is probably.
I mean, right now it's the only ranked opponent Alabama has left. And you know, you have to win this game if you want three losses. I don't know how you can justify getting the playoff with three losses unless just absolute chaos happens. So let's. Let's kind of look at it and see, see what we think about this game right here. I mean, I kind of wish it was moved up to like a 3:32, 30 game, but we got to go in at night. It's going to be. It's going to be tough. But Alabama does have more wins against LSU in Baton Rouge than LSU has wins in the entire series.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: So no interesting little fun facts. Now. You can correct me if I'm wrong. Did I see that? Game day is going to be in Baton Rouge.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: Game day is going to be there.
Luckily, it was also at the Alabama, LSU game last year when Alabama won here in Tuscaloosa. And it was also at the Alabama Georgia game where Alabama won that one. Now, they were not at the Vanderbilt game. They were not at the Tennessee game. So were they at the Tennessee game? I can't even remember.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: Anyway, recent history suggests we have been.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Good with game day, unless I'm mistaken about that Tennessee game. But, you know, game day is going to be there. Nick Saban's going to be there. You know, it's. It's always fun. You know, I'm thinking about making the drive down there. I don't know if it's going to work out. Tickets, I still don't have a ticket. They're. They're kind of expensive right now. But I think, you know, really, the last game day, I'm not going to count the Rose bowl because technically they were there. You know, that Texas game was probably the last. And we had them, I believe, three games last year, and then, you know, had them for that Georgia game. And, you know, right now, taking into account this is at night, this is in Baton Rouge, Alabama has not played well on the road other than Wisconsin, and we can talk about what helped Alabama out in that one, too. But right now, Alabama is favored by 2 1/2 points and the ESPN matchup predictor gives Alabama 69.8% chance of winning. What do you think about that, Elliot?
[00:03:54] Speaker B: I'm looking at the exact same thing and I think that that is absolutely nuts.
I don't see I can maybe get behind favoring Alabama by two and a half. I mean, it's basically just a field goal. But to say that they have a basically 70% chance to win this game, it, to me is insane considering the fact that they have lost their last two road games, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Now, however, I don't know and I wish I would have looked at this because I believe LSU was on their bye week this week as well. Yes, but so the previous week in which they lost at Kyle Field to Texas A and M, I wish I could have seen what the matchup predictor would have said like before that loss occurred and then what it changed to afterwards. Because I have a feeling that this is recency bias in which they're saying, you know, well, we saw Garrett Nussenmeyer basically melt down there in the second half. And so if Alabama's defense is able to rattle him to any degree, you know, Alabama should have an easy time doing that. So I don't Actually know how accurate that is. But I will say that I personally have my concerns. And again, strictly based off of their past road history this season.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, I, I feel more confident about this game than I know you. And then I'm, I'm gonna assume Nick, you know, he's, he's, he's a real. I'm probably more, you know, biased in my opinions. You know, we'll be honest. But, you know, I can, I can usually, you know, tamper my expectations with games like this and. But like with Alabama, they have not played well on the road. But I can't say that the game against Missouri has, you know, made all my worries about the team go away because, you know, when, when you're anything like that. And Brady Cook, you know, he can't play. I mean, the defense still played well even when Cook was in. Cook came into the game injured. Defense played well in the game, helped out with that injury, and then the backup just not playing well. The offense struggled at first, but we really saw in that second half that they kind of started to come alive a little bit. Something we hadn't really seen in a couple of weeks. And I wish they had handled business a little bit earlier in that game, but that second half, it made me feel a little bit better than going into the bye week. The last time Alabama had bye week was before that Georgia game. I'm expecting, you know, I'm not going to say a 21 nothing first quarter that Alabama comes out with, but when you have the bye week, you've. You've already lost twice, you know, you're going on the road, you know how difficult it is. You have the bye week to set, you know, whatever you can straight with this team. You know, I'm expecting a much more focused team coming out. I'm hoping they can put together a whole game and not just a first quarter or first half. You know, I feel, you know, fairly confident that Alabama will be able to pull out this, this game because, you know, really with lsu, you know, that game against Texas A and M, they had it right. And let's see, I'm trying to pull up some of, some of the stats right here, but like, Marcel reed only threw two passes in this game.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: I was like, for like 70 yards or something.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: It was 70 yards and, you know, before Wegman wasn't really playing that well. Nussmeyer, he ended up throwing for 405 yards, but he was also 50% completions, 25 of 52 touchdowns, three interceptions. Now Alabama's defense has been, you know, fairly, you know, good the last few weeks of forcing turnovers or at least taking advantage of mistakes by the offense to give our offense the ball. So if our defense is able to force Nussmeyer, make a couple mistakes, you know, maybe get a fumble here and there. I'm trying to think it's been over the last three games. I think it's been like they forced like 10 turn. I don't know the exact number. They forced a lot and you know, helped out a little bit by, you know, some, you know, just mistakes by the offense. But in the, in the past years, you know, we haven't really seen them capital. Like we're still struggling to see the offense capitalize. But I remember there were many times like defense could have forced turnovers in previous years. They just weren't able to hold on to an interception or recover fumble. They're doing a lot better job this year, I think. And you know, if also LSU does have that by league, so they, they might have figured some stuff out too. But from that A and M game and then, you know, what we saw from them in their two losses against A&M and USC, you know, I think Alabama is going to be able to move the ball on them. I think the defense is going to be able to force Nussmeyer into a couple of uncomfortable throws that hopefully we can have either Malaki Moore or one of the other defensive backs take advantage of it, set the offense up with good field position and actually score. Because that the biggest issue is once we forced those turnovers, we haven't put in the end zone. But we did see, you know, more consistency in that Missouri game for sure.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: I think when you look at it.
So we talk about the bye week and both of these teams have one.
What, what do you make of the team? Let's say they come out like gangbusters in the first half again like they did against Georgia out of the bye week. But then we see the same slide in like the second half and then like the resulting games afterwards of where it just isn't the same standard, I guess you could say as what? That, that little, like, I don't even know what to call it. That, that one, that little pocket, little ray of sunshine, you know.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: What do you make of the team at that point?
[00:09:27] Speaker A: I mean, I think, you know, it's. It's tough to really comprehend because, you know, we've seen, you know, teams in the past after they've taken that first loss or, you know, even a Second loss. Right. You know, they've come back out and they've shown, you know, progress and this team, you lose the Vanderbilt game, you come out against South Carolina looks good early, you had the 14 nothing lead and then all of a sudden you're almost, you almost lose it. You win by two points at the end, you know, give up the onside kick.
Then you have the Tennessee game and it's like, why did we regress so far? Like I got, you have the Georgia game and now you know that Georgia game, even though the Georgia is still winning. So it's making Alabama look a little better. But like, you know, Georgia almost lost to Florida this week and you know, it's, it's almost to the point of like you're seeing why Alabama was able. Like he threw Carson back through three interceptions against Florida. I believe he threw three interceptions against Alabama. I know he at least had two.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: He also threw three interceptions. I'd have to look it up on who they played, but he threw three interceptions in back to back weeks.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: So I forget who Georgia played before Florida.
He threw three picks. Oh, it was, it was Texas. I can't believe I forgot about that. Yeah, it was just Texas. Yeah, it was Texas. So he threw three picks and back to back. So he's throwing. I need to look at how many picks he has overall. So nine of his interceptions have come from three games.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah. And you know, those obviously loses to Alabama. Florida, you know, they, they had a chance to win. You know, it's 20 to 20 before Georgia scores to go up 27, 20. And then Florida's I think third string.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Quarterback at that point, transfer from Yale.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: By the way, throws it right to the guy and you know, Georgia scores like two minutes later. Little bulldog, bulldog violence and but yeah, like with Alabama, it obviously didn't like the message did not get across after the first loss. And you know, that was a game I thought, you know, for, for what it was. I thought Alabama played pretty well considering like what only having the ball for about 17 minutes of game time and scoring 35 points and the defense just being on the field way too much.
Tennessee, you, you know, defense, it gives you so many opportunities in the first half and offense just can't move the ball. And I think I said this two weeks ago, you know, just with Jalen Milroe, this being his third offensive coordinator, you know, the third offensive coordinator in three years for anybody left over on this offense, and specifically Jalen Milroe, I think that has hindered how good the offense could Be now next year we'll have to see, you know, who's on the team.
Probably a new quarterback. Jalen Miller probably will not come back for another year. But if we can actually have consistency with who's running the offense, I think that would help out now for this season. You've had two losses now. Maybe it's with the 12 team playoff, maybe that's why the message just didn't get across. I can't really say I'm not there, I'm not on the team. But you know, now it is, you know, pretty much win or, you know, you're just playing for a bowl game that nobody really.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: It's do or die. Yeah, right. Well, and that's the case for both of these teams. They're both two losses, they're both on the brink. I mean, they're 11 and 14, so they're already on the edge as is. And then depending on how many teams out of a certain conference the committee wants to have, they could already still be on the bubble even though they're at like 11 and 14.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So to answer the original question, like if they do not come out in this game focused or they come out and they have a game like George and they come out and then they just get complacent, you know, I'm still gonna support the team, obviously.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: Well, obviously, yeah, we're gonna always gonna support the team.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: But it's like at that point you're just, you just gotta think like it's no longer at that point, like that's what the point that I would be at, like this is not a playoff team. Like right now, you know, they're friends. But that's the point where I'm like, okay, we just need to get through the year, basically focus on, you know, the next season. And I don't really know the words that I'm looking for to say right here, but it's just like it is for the majority of this coaching staff. First year loose, lost a lot of players to the draft transfer Porter. You did have some stay, you did have some come in. I think, you know, they just need to like some form of, you know, consistency like within the program, within a coaching staff and you know, hopefully next year. I mean, Kalen DeBoer has won everywhere he's winning. He's won fast everywhere he's been. He went to Washington, you know, had them in a national championship game in two years. Will that happen in Alabama? Who knows? You got a little bit tougher top to bottom conference, I believe, than what he was dealing with with the PAC 12. But, you know, if you take a third loss, and Alabama has not had three losses in a season since, I believe, 2010, and that. That third loss that year was the Auburn game at the very end of the season. So you take three losses and you've already got.
I mean, technically you'd have three games left, one of them being Mercer. But then on the road at Oklahoma, like, I immediately am, like, are we going to lose to Oklahoma, who's looked not very good?
You know, what's the record right now? They're like five and four with. They just. They just beat Maine. So, you know, they got.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: I'm happy for them.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: You know, they were down seven.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: They are five and four.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So they were down seven. Nothing, you know, came back to win by, like, 50 points. But, yeah, you know, basically all these games that, I mean, they've already lost two games I thought they would win before the season started. But it's immediate to the point where it's, will they beat. Will they be able to compete on the road at Oklahoma? Will they be able to handle Auburn, who's only won two games when they come in? Because even though it's. It's a good thing it's in Tuscaloosa, because, like, with Auburn, nothing else to really play for other than just ruining other people's chances. Ruining, like, giving Alabama four losses for the first time since 2007, like.
But, yeah, it's. It's tough. I'm hoping Alabama just comes out, you know, focus. Hopefully the coaching staff and the leaders on the team have been able to get through to the rest of the people who might not have been as bought in, whether it be from, you know, people that have transferred in or just new to the, like, new to college football. I don't know. I wish I could actually be in there and, like, see, like, what's actually going on, because you're only going to get so much from what they say in their press conferences. But, you know, hopefully we don't have to worry about any of that.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: Absolutely. And before we head to a break, you know, you mentioned a little bit about continuity, you know, with regards to, like, coaching players. And I've seen a couple reports that just based on the play and the body of work so far this season, recommendations for Jalen Milroe to perhaps stay another year, you know, instead of declaring for the draft. What are your thoughts on that?
[00:17:00] Speaker A: You know, I saw that.
I mean, it really depends, I think. And, you know, this.
I think it Would be great for him to come back. I think with the second year with Kalyn DeBoer and Nick Sheridan, if Nick Sheridan stuff the offense coordinator, I think that would be, you know, great for him developing before going to the NFL. I think it would also, you know, help out, you know, the team having somebody like Jalen Milroe. Because, you know, we haven't really seen any of the other quarterbacks in like, I mean, we saw Ty Simpson in the South Florida game last year, then we've seen him in garbage time and other games. You know, who knows how he would go up against, you know, the top, you know, a top 10 team, a top 10 defense. You know, we haven't really seen it. And then, you know, there are some good players coming in.
You know, I usually don't like freshmen coming in and starting right off the bat. So I think, you know, having somebody with a second year of this system, it would help out. But also, if, if one team is like, we're going to take you in the first round, I don't see any reason to come back unless you just really wanted to play it up because he's already graduated.
How much more is he going to improve the draft stock if they say he's going to be a first rounder? I don't know.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Well, it's a flip of a coin, right? Because you can come back and have the intention of, I'm going to improve my draft stock. But then what happens if you get hurt? What happens if you just play really, really poorly and you play even worse and then your draft stock slides even more? Yeah, I also think that, that. I also think if he comes back, I think it sets back Alabama as a team because they have so many younger guys quarterback recruit wise already and like prospects on the roster in like Lonergan, you also have Simpson.
Right. And they're going to be probably, I would assume, like, okay, well, I mean.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: At that point you do expect at least one to transfer out.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Exactly. But you can't keep losing, you know, those kind of players. Right. With the three that they have, it's Simpson, Lonergan and Mack. Right? Those are the three.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: You would assume one, maybe two are probably gone if he comes back.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Definitely.
And then, you know, the freshmen that are coming in, you know, if they're, it depends on what's been told to them. But if they wait that first year and then all of a sudden it's like Lonergan gets a shot or Mac gets a shot, whoever's still on the stat, like if they get the shot instead of them, then they're probably gone. So, like, I see what you're saying, you know, might set back overall, I think it'd be really good for that one year. Definitely.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: It's a gamble that you take, right? It's like whenever you, you know, you sell the farm draft pick wise in the NFL to get like a high end player, but he's like a rental for like maybe one year, maybe two years because he has such a high cap hit.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: And now here's one thing, like, I don't know if we've had a situation like this yet. I don't think we have.
But you know, it's usually I want to be the number one draft pick. Right? Like you want to be that number one guy off the board, you know, get all the money.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: I'd argue that's just not.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: But like if depending on what you're making in nil, I don't know how much Jalen Milro is making. I know on three gives their evaluations and it's, you know, it's a decent chunk of change. He would obviously be making more.
But like, are we going to get to the point where it's like people are going to stay out of the draft unless they're a lower first round pick. Like to where they go to a better team, a better situation to where they're not going out and getting killed every game? Yeah, we haven't seen that yet. That was just a random thought I had.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Like, would he, it's a valid thought.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: Like, would somebody be like, oh, I have, you know, Kansas City wanting to take me, you know, 30th overall in the first round or 32nd, depending on how the rest of the season goes. And it's like, so I get to go sit behind Patrick Mahomes and, you.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Know, collect change sitting on the basket.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: Not get drafted by the Panthers and get killed every snap.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: But hey, but shout out Bryce Young winning the second game of the season against the Saints there. Yeah, that's a dumpster fire over in New Orleans.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: But we don't need a, we don't need to get in that. I'll make some of my friends mad. You know, they're big New Orleans guys and they, they're, they already ready for next year.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Well, that's not good. Anyway, we'll be back after a short break. We'll probably get into the AP poll, maybe some potential playoff implications. But we'll see you after the break.
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And welcome back to the low tide on 90.7, the capstone. Adam and Elliot are still here. Still no Nick.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Kind of hoping he would just show up. He'd be like, you know, y'all are running this show into the ground. You know, I'm back to save you, you know, a little second half comeback.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: But a little stop the yap, please get off the air type thing. But a new AP poll dropped today at 1pm Central Time. Depending on where you're listening from, it could differ. But what are, what is your initial reaction?
[00:22:40] Speaker A: You know, I'm, I'm trying, I'm trying to tell myself that this poll doesn't matter because in the grand scheme of things, AP poll does not matter. This upcoming Tuesday, we will have our first College Football Playoff poll that the committee puts out. But I think it's, you know, some of the decisions on this poll like, kind of make me scratch my head a little bit and you know, a big one that we kind of talked about already off air, LSU being ranked ahead of A and M after A and M, you know, just beat them two weeks ago or not even two weeks ago, but two games ago for A and M. Obviously A and M lost, but they dropped five spots in LSU on the bye week, goes up two spots and just so they could be one spot ahead. I didn't really agree with that. I am glad Alabama is now back in the top 12. So, you know, things are looking good for Alabama. But there's, I would have ranked teams a little bit differently this week.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Sure.
So, like looking at some of these, I'm going to be honest, and I understand that they're undefeated and that's why they're top four. I don't understand the love for Miami. I really just don't because they're very talented on offense. Do not get me wrong, they give up so many points to teams that struggle to score. It's kind of insane.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Yeah. And you know, for me, you know, I've, you know, I talked about him. It might have been our first show, but it was my beef of the week.
You know, there was somebody who clearly did not know that much about football, but you know, big Miami guy and, you know, he was, he was right about one thing and, and that is Cam Warren in the run for a Heisman. He said front runner at the time, definitely was the front runner. We've had some Moving around. Who knows if he's going to win it? Maybe Travis Hunter, Ashton Dinsey, who knows? I did say when I was doing that I expect Miami to have a good year because they don't really play anybody. And I believe at that time they had one ranked opponent left on their schedule. I'm trying to see.
Because they do not play Clemson and I want to pull this up just so I can, you know, be for sure.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Okay, so Miami Hurricanes, they. They beat Florida Week 1. This, this is their whole schedule so far. At Florida, Florida A and M, Ball State, at South Florida, Virginia Tech, Cal, where they were down by 28 points and had to make that comeback. They won that one. 39, 38. Louisville, 152, 45. Florida State.
That's really. Other than South Florida, other than South Florida and some of the other teams, Florida State's the only one that they've really handled business. I mean, they did beat Duke, ended up by 22, but they were down to Duke in the second half there. And it's just, it's a good thing Miami has not lost a game because if they had lost, we might be talking about Miami only getting in if they win the conference championship. Right now. They got a little bit of breathing room. But remaining schedule at Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and at Syracuse, well, I.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: Wake Forest is not very good, so they'll definitely be Wake. You know, Syracuse, I don't imagine.
[00:26:10] Speaker A: Here's the thing, that Georgia Tech game, it intrigues me because it's an 11am kickoff on the road and Georgia Tech's been, you know, they've been okay, so I'm going to pay attention to that one. That'll be the nine. Is that the ninth? Yeah, it'll be, you know, this upcoming weekend.
But Miami might finish undefeated. Like this is what I said earlier in the year. I was like, they might face their first, like really good team once they got into a playoff. Because even if they make the conference championship game, you know who I mean, SMU did look pretty good. They looked pretty good, but you know, it's. They have not had to run the gauntlet that some other teams have had to this year.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: No, I think there's an interesting log jam with the ACC now at this point because you have Miami, who really hasn't played anyone, but they've managed to win their games.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Great for them. I wish Alabama could say the same thing. We have not been able to handle business. Miami staying alive.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: You have SMU who moved up seven spots because they boat raced Pitt In Dallas, much to the dismay of my father who was in attendance. But you know, in SM you look good. You'll have to remind me who SMU had lost to.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: That is a good question.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: They only have that. They only have that one blemish on their schedule so far. But they've looked relatively good, like the rest of the way through. But I also don't know who they've played in their entire schedule either. Yeah, so what's SMU schedule?
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Come on, espn, don't fail me. Okay, so they started off the season with a 29 to 24 win on the road against Nevada.
They've played Houston Christian. Now their one loss was to byu. So okay, that's a quality.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: That's a quality loss.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: They beat TCU 6642.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Not moved.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: Beat Florida State.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Like everybody not moved.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: One against Louisville on the road, Stanford on the road, Duke on the road.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: By one, which they should have lost that game.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: And then they, they beat Pitt. Okay, so the rest of their schedule, Boston College, Virginia and Cal.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: So same, same issue as Miami. They just happened to lose a game and it happened to be the out of conference opponent to byu.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Now time, you know, nobody knew BYU was going to be as good as.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Sure. And so like it looks better in retrospect, but like again, suffering from a schedule, again, you can't. It's not. I'm not blaming either of these programs for playing like, not like high quality teams, but they're both very much benefiting from a relatively weak schedule.
And so I don't know. So then somehow, I guess the thing that I'm a little confused by with the ACC right now, they've got two other teams or. No, they got three other teams, my bad. Three other teams that are ranked. They have Clemson at 19 at 6 and 2 who obviously lost that first game to Georgia. And then they just got shellacked in a similar manner by Louisville.
Yeah, Louisville is six and three.
There are only two, three lost teams that are ranked. One of them being Vanderbilt, one of them being Louisville. Vanderbilt I can understand because they did beat a number one Alabama team. They did hang tight against a very highly ranked Texas team.
That one I can maybe get behind a 25. I don't know if I can get behind Louisville at 6 and 3 because they beat a pretty, again, a pretty average Clemson team.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: Especially like, because we're not talking about like getting into a playoff at this point. Like it's obviously if some crazy stuff happens, Louisville ends up somehow winning the acc. I don't I don't even know if that's mathematically. I mean, I guess it could be if.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: I think it's possible if they win the.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: Yeah, but like I'm looking at the others receiving votes. Right. And yeah. So Vanderbilt ends up getting in there at 24, 6 and 3. Just beat Auburn now that tied their record with Auburn again. Both of them have 22 wins in the series. Just throwing that out there. That's. That's awesome. But others receiving votes. Missouri received 81.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: Missouri doesn't deserve to be.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: You know, that's. You know, Missouri's okay. They're better when Brady Cook is not. You know.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: Sure, I like Missouri over Louisville in that 25th spot.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: South Carolina, you know, who just beat a top 10 team that would be.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: But that they would be. They would be in the Vanderbilt conversation of like the high quality of a win but also hanging tough with a lot of teams.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: It is like. So if they beat Texas A and M, you know, very recently, you know, this, this week they only lost by two to Alabama. You know, they've. Who. Who were there other. Lsu. That was another three point loss. I believe it's. Anyway, if we're talking about going up against Louisville, I think both. Missouri maybe about the same. South Carolina thinks a little bit better. Tulane I could even see possibly.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: I mean the rest of them know.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just, you know. Well, I guess what good. Obviously Louisville is going to get the benefit of the doubt being acc.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: We say that. But speaking of benefit of the doubt in the acc, something that confuses me and this is not me being a homer, I promise. I do struggle to see how Pitt, who yes, they did get beat pretty badly by SMU. However, this was like the number 18 team versus number 20 team on the road and somehow the number. I forget what Clemson was that. Were they at like 10, 11, something like that. Dropped eight spots.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: They dropped eight spots.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: So they were at 11. Yeah. Right. Okay. So they're at 11 at home and they lose to an unranked opponent, but somehow they're still four slots ahead of the ranked team who lost on the road to another ranked team.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: Does that make a lot of sense? They also have two losses instead of one.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me but you know, that's. They don't give me a vote for a reason.
I mean I wish I had a vote but you know, after Tuesday and none of this is going to matter. I. The one team that I am very happy with there because they're just hanging around. Right. And that's army still undefeated. They have a game against Notre Dame.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: You know, hopefully they have to win that game.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Hopefully they see the thing is like that's the one game they could possibly lose and still get in. I mean the big thing is Boise State. Right? Like if Boise State wins out, they're going to get in no matter.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Sure. I, I think the other thing though is that if you're going to lose to Notre Dame, you better make it close because you cannot get blown out.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Like Navy, like the black Boise State, their one loss on the road. Oregon, very close game like week two, I believe it was. But yeah, at least keep it close. Hopefully you pull off the upset. Hopefully you finish undefeated.
It would be a very interesting conversation if you had a one lost Boise State and an undefeated army who had a win over a top 10 Notre Dame team. That would be, that'd be interesting.
Do I expect any of those teams to really make a push? You know, it would most likely be that 12, 5 matchup. Who gets that fifth seed? I don't think you want to face either one of those teams like and at least you get it at home. Right. But I don't think you want to face what both those teams can do like with Gentee and like you know, they, somebody finally shut down Gentee for a first half and the quarterback had like five passing touchdowns. So.
And then as long as Army's quarterback, Army's quarterback, he was injured or not injured, I think believe he was sick, did not play this week, they still hung on to win.
But if he's healthy, I wouldn't want to face like if Alabama somehow got the fifth seed. I would not want army coming into Tuscaloosa and having.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Oh, I absolutely would believe that army would make it a super competitive game from the get go. Let's pivot to a couple of the other conferences that have had a little bit more of, I guess of a chaotic like meltdown this past weekend. So there's the Big Ten in which they really had their heavy. They're too heavyweight in Ohio State and Penn State square off and in a clash of the head coaches who cannot win the big game. Ryan Day managed to come out on top on that one.
[00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah, James Franklin. You know, I, I have been a James Franklin defender. You know, we haven't talked a whole lot about Penn State on this show, but you know, I like James Franklin. I really liked him when he was at Vanderbilt. I've liked him at Penn State. Obviously he has not been Able to beat really any top 10 team other than the one time beating Ohio State. I believe it was 2016.
I picked Penn State to win this game. I will probably never do that against a top ten opponent ever again.
But they had chances, right? They had a 10 nothing lead. They had two chances inside the five yard line. They had the interception right before the end of the first half and then with about five minutes left in the game, you know, just not able to complete the pass and you know, Penn State loses. The thing to me is, do I want to see either one of those teams? Like obviously if Ohio State they could turn things around. They still got to play Indiana. That'll be an interesting game with how Indiana's played, but I don't really want to see like Penn State if they end up, you know, with just one loss. They're probably going to get in even without absolutely their championship game. But it's like are you just going to get the Penn State that you just saw that could barely move the ball and you know, just couldn't, couldn't put in the like inside the five yard line?
[00:36:04] Speaker B: And that's, that's the argument though against you know, like the Big Ten in the sec asking to have all these teams come in like, okay, because then you see things. Okay, so it was what it was like 17 to. No, it was 14 to 10 at halftime in this game, Ohio State and they managed to score a whopping how many points combined in the second half. I mean that, that was, it was, it was an absolute barn burner if you, if you weren't tuned in. But yeah, you bring up the good point with Indiana who's now in the top 10.
They have all. They're also. I will bring this up, you know, to the credit of the voters that a lot of people were like, why is Indiana not a top 10 team? Their schedule is pretty, those teams are pretty bad now. Now granted they're blowing them out, so they are handling their business, but the schedule is not that strong. The big test will be the Ohio State game. But then I do question. Let's say Indiana loses.
Okay, let's say it's a 10 point game. So I mean it's somewhat close. Not like a blowout or anything. I am, I have a feeling they're going to drop them like a rock.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like they would kind of suffer the same thing that like Pitt just had happen to them, you know, when they lost their first game. I mean they dropped five spots, you know, depending on how close they keep the Game. But it's just like if Indiana loses, like it took them so long to get into the top 10.
[00:37:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like this one loss is just going to drop them out.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: And you know, once again we need to see what the committee thinks. But the committee, it'll be interesting to see, you know, if Indiana like, if they, if they're in the top 10 for the committee and then they lose, like does the committee just drop them just so they don't have to deal with them later? You know, just like.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: Well, that's what I'm saying because you're.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: Going to have, obviously you're going to get the champion. Right. So Oregon, they're kind of the predicted, you know, they're number one right now. They're predicted to kind of win that championship. So they got the automatic Ohio State probably going to get, I don't think.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: Penn State probably going to get in.
[00:38:06] Speaker A: So then you already have three teams and then you have possibly getting in a fourth with Indiana if they're hanging around there.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: So that's the question. So before. Because we'll probably have to hit another break here before we'll go to the long awaited, I'm sure beef of the week between just the two of us.
The Big 12 now BYU is still undefeated.
However, the thought was, is that this was. There was other players in contention such as Iowa State who lost in Kansas State who lost.
But I see a familiar face at 21 who decided to creep up a little bit, who's now in the Big 12 conversation in Colorado.
So what, what happens here? I mean like in all likelihood BYU probably does get that automatic bid, right. They probably do win their conference championship. I would imagine the Big 12 is going to get two teams. Who is the second team?
[00:39:06] Speaker A: And you know, it, it really depends because you know, Colorado had Kansas State at home, lost by three.
They've so that one game on the road at Nebraska, it's, you know, unfortunately for them, they lost 28 to 10. Right.
But Nebraska has been pretty decent until this past week. I don't know what happened. You know, they played Ohio State pretty close and then, you know this, this week was just bad. The rest of their schedule, Colorado goes on the road to Texas Tech, they play Utah on the road to Kansas and then Oklahoma State.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: Oklahoma State and Kansas should be relatively easy.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: You would think Texas Tech could be tough on the road. Utah at home. Utah's been another team. Like they play good one week, bad in the next. Right. And lately it's been more on the bad side. But you Know, if Colorado ends up season 10 and two once again, I want to see what the committee thinks first and I also want to see how Kansas State ends up with the year. But I think, you know, Colorado might have the easiest path to get that second.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: You know, who does Iowa State have to play still?
Because they are still the higher ranked team by four. They're the second highest ranked Big 12 team.
[00:40:31] Speaker A: I just think, you know, well, I won't, I won't get into that right now, but. So the Iowa State on the road to Kansas, they play Cincinnati at Utah and then Kansas State the last weekend.
So Kansas State and Iowa State, one of them is going, they're going to.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: Eliminate the other one.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: And you know, I just think Colorado, unless something happens, they drop one to Texas Tech this week.
They're, they're kind of the team that I'm kind of picking right now to be that second team that just like barely gets into the playoff from the Big 12. But you know, let's see what was the. So they lost by one to Texas Tech. So it's not.
If they lost by more than that, you know, you might be able to make the argument that they shouldn't.
[00:41:21] Speaker B: I think it's still a pretty bad.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: Loss, you know, but like basically the, so the big 12, the ACC and then the group of five. Right. You know, you, you are only allowed like that one loss. Like you get a second loss. Like, I know we're talking about Colorado maybe getting in with a second loss.
[00:41:38] Speaker B: No, you're, you're stretched.
[00:41:39] Speaker A: It's like that's, maybe that's like barely getting it. Like, but 10 schools, the SEC, two losses, it's like, oh, yeah, you're gonna get in or there's too many of you, we can't put all of you in. And then a third like, like that. If Alabama beats LSU And LSU has three losses and they're still hanging around like 13, you know, that committee's going to be like, well, you know, SEC 3 loss team. Yeah.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: I think the kicker for LSU, the one that really hurts is that USC loss at the beginning. I don't think anyone could have foreseen them being that bad, but I think that that would be something. The committee would probably stray away if LSU has the three losses, whereas Alabama, they lost to a Vanderbilt team who happens to be ranked now at this point. Tennessee is also a ranked team. You know, so how much, how much time we got before we have about 10 minutes. So we should probably head to a break, but we can kind of revisit this very shortly. Right after the break. Adam wants to look something up, it seems like to me.
But we'll come back with beef of the week without Nick. It feels wrong, doesn't it? Yeah, it's fine. He'll live.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe he'll send us a message and tell us what.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe we'll text him, we'll ask him what his beef is and then I'll relay it. Anyway, we'll be back after a short break.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Well, welcome back to the load title 9.7 the Capstone. The same thing that happened at the start happened again.
I'm kind of getting sick and tired of that. It's not my beef of the week, though. But before we get into that, we got to go really quick. Adam, you have a 30 second elevator pitch about Alabama sports.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: So Alabama women's basketball, they will start their regular season on Monday against New Orleans. That'll fall. It's a doubleheader in Coleman Coliseum. Alabama men will take on UNC Asheville. So you get in there for the women's game, stay in your seat, sit there, watch. You know, one of the best men's teams in the nation support both the teams. I'm just saying, you know, the men are going to be really good this year. Also women's soccer, they are at the SEC tournament right now. They are up on Vanderbilt 1. Nothing early in that one.
[00:44:11] Speaker B: Awesome.
So we did text Nick like we said we would. He has two beefs of the week and I'm going to go through these really quick. Number one is that he's very upset that auntie Anne's at the mall or auntie aunt, however you want to say it. They are never open whenever he goes. Yeah, now that just sounds like a skill issue in my opinion.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: I mean, maybe, you know, I'm, I don't really go there that I'm usually like a Cindy cinnamon roll or the great American cookies kind of guy.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: But, you know, that's fine. You know, whatever floats your boat. Right? His other one is a little more topical related with me. He's talking about people on our flag football team not showing up to practice, which I have a similar beef. I just wasn't going to say it, but thank you.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: Was your beef people not showing up to the show?
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Oh, no, I wish. I wish it was. Adam, what's your beef of the week?
[00:44:57] Speaker A: Yeah, so, you know, not like it's been a pretty relaxing week, you know, it hasn't been the worst. I've definitely had Some other stuff, you know, previously that I've been more heated about. But I live in an apartment, right? And when you live in an apartment, choose. Maybe you have to live in an apartment. But when you live in an apartment or choose to live in an apartment, you know what comes with that? And part of that is going to be noise. You are not living in some country home, you know, with. Not a house for miles. So we recently got a. Got a little puppy, right? It is almost 12 weeks now to be 12 weeks on Wednesday. Our neighbors have called our apartment complex to complain about the dog, like being too loud barking or whatnot. You know, I understand maybe you're not the biggest dog people, but like, if you are living in an apartment with how thin the walls are, you just got to deal with it. Like, I'm not going to complain. I don't complain when I hear the activities going on on your side of the wall. And you know, they are not safe for radio, I'll tell you that. But you know, I'm not. I'm not calling the apartment being like, hey, these people being too loud against the wall. So, you know, it's.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: That's met. That's messed up. I mean, who doesn't like dogs, man? Okay. Yeah, grow up. Okay, now my beef. Okay, so you know how sometimes in parking lots there are slanted parking spaces?
[00:46:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:26] Speaker B: Okay.
You are not supposed to pull through the slanted parking spaces because guess what? Normally it's. Because it's a one way in that parking lot and then you have to make like a hairpin turn going out the wrong direction. Okay.
However, routinely I am just trying to get groceries at Sam's club and I see people doing this and it really, really irks me because then they honk at me whenever I look at them and I'm like, you're going the wrong way. But they make it my problem. But it's not my problem because they don't understand the concept of a slanted spot in a parking lot.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: Mmm. Yeah.
[00:47:06] Speaker B: So it just makes me want to like, like, you know, take one of those shopping carts and then run it down the hill straight into the side of their car.
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah. These.
I don't know what it is.
I just feel like the people that drive around here just don't know anything in general. So this is when you slant the parking spots. You're just asking for trouble.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: That's fair. Anyway, that's going to do it for the low tide on 90.7, the capstone today.
I actually don't. I forgot what Nick said as his sign off.
We'll see you next week.
We will see you in the next one. What does he say?
[00:47:43] Speaker A: I don't even remember.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: You know, it's not memorable. It needs to be more memorable, doesn't it?
[00:47:48] Speaker A: I mean, I guess you. You can come up. You just come up with something.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: You know what, anyway, that's it for us. Good night. Tri said area. We'll be back next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Thank you guys for listening.
