Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUA FM Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Fourth and Goal Podcast, WVUA 90.7, the Capstone's number one podcast for all things college football. Today we're going to be recapping a strong Week eleven slate, including our very own Alabama Crimson Tide, knocking off LSU at home yesterday in what was probably one of the best environments that college football has seen this year. Alabama got the win 42 to 28, scoring the final 21 points of the game. Jalen Milrow was fantastic. He had four rushing touchdowns throughout the game. I think all six of Alabama's touchdowns were on the ground.
[00:00:41] Speaker C: Right?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: How do we feel about this Alabama rushing attack?
[00:00:45] Speaker D: Man, that was something.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:48] Speaker D: I don't even know where to start to be sitting or I was hanging out down there and I'm watching the first drive and we immediately went we actually got a first down on the first drive and then we went three and out after that. And I was like, holy crap, we're going to do this again. We're going to do nothing in the first half. And I was like, if we do nothing in the first half against Jaden Daniels, we're losing this.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah, we're cooked.
[00:01:11] Speaker D: Yeah, they're going to score 30 points. And then we gave up a touchdown and my hope was in the gutter. And then they came out and Jalen Milro literally ran down the entire field by himself and then scored a touchdown. And it was all hope from there. And it was all Jalen Milro from there. I mean, it was an incredible game from Jalen Millro. It was an incredible game from Shout out Tommy Reese, who I didn't think I'd be giving this much praise to at this stage.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah, seriously.
[00:01:39] Speaker D: But shout out Tommy Reese. He called an amazing game.
But yeah, I mean, you couldn't really ask for anything more from Jalen Millro. He had eight incompletions on 23 attempts. He carried the ball for 155 yards and four touchdowns.
He was by far, unless you want to say Jaden Daniels was playing better, but with the injury, Jalen Milro was by like, for the first time all season, I can confidently say that Jalen Millro was the best football player on the field for four quarters.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he was awesome.
[00:02:11] Speaker C: Yeah. It was also just really interesting how you kind of shouted out with Tommy Reese a little bit, but how the running game was able to work.
Jalen Miller obviously carried the ball well. He ran the ball 20 times, I would imagine probably like a couple of them were not just designed runs, but McClellan had 14 carries. Rodo Williams had a really good game with limited touches. So, I mean, it was just a really balanced attack. And I thought that that's kind of what Alabama has to do. Because Miguel McClellan and Royde Williams and even J. Miller, who got a couple of touches, they're all very different players. And I think if you can kind of mix them together in the running game well enough, the defense won't really know what's going to come with them. Rodeo Williams was able to run people over and McClellan was just able to get extra yards there. And Millro is obviously like a freak athlete at quarterback, so he can make people miss. I mean, I think that was probably the first time in a while I've seen both quarterbacks juke out somebody on the defense in the same mean. Because Jaden Daniels had that one crazy spin move on. I think it was Deontay Lawson that I think legitimately injured him.
[00:03:26] Speaker D: He sprained his ankle.
[00:03:28] Speaker C: Yeah. And then Milro had another one. It wasn't quite as bad where he juked around a guy, he had a.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Spin move that was tough.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Like, he made a couple of really good plays and I'd never seen that in the same game before with both quarterbacks able to do yeah, I mean.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: That'S one thing you got to admire is both of these quarterbacks were running like they wanted to win the game. There was no sliding. This was like, I'm going to get every yard that I can get from both sides. And Jaden Daniels is kind of known for doing that because he gets just absolutely killed. He gets like twice a game, one shot, a yeah, and that happened to him in this one. But he was able to just run all over the Alabama defense. There was absolutely nothing we could do. I think we tried to play a spy at first and then we kind of went away from having a spy and then it got worse.
But even when we would have a spy, they would kind of get jammed up at the line of scrimmage and it would open up the middle of the field. And LSU was killing Alabama in the intermediate passing game. Malik neighbors caught a lot of his balls over the middle on just like, ten yard. Little Digs and Kyron Lacey, Brian Thomas had a couple too, that were just like right over the middle.
Yeah, but obviously in the second half that kind of slowed down, especially in the latter part of the second half. As for Alabama, though, offensively it was just perfect. Kind of like Lincoln said, nobody kind of thought that Tommy Reese would be able to call this good of a game. It kind of felt like we had a completely different offensive system. Did either of y'all kind of pick that up too?
The whole game plan was different. Like, we were hitting those intermediate short passes. We were hitting our running backs in the flat. There was the pitch plays for I think Kendrick Law had a couple of plays on some jet sweeps that were really nice.
[00:05:15] Speaker D: He broke one tackle for a first down.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Exactly. But we were just incorporating a lot more motion, a lot more creativeness in the offense. It wasn't just this inside zone where we're running straight at the line of scrimmage with like a maximum of four yards able to get we were really being productive and finding creative ways to.
[00:05:33] Speaker C: Move the ball down. And to be fair, LSU's defense was like, they're awful to begin with, but I mean, the Alabama offensive line looked like it was like going to win an award.
[00:05:42] Speaker D: Like, shoot, Kaden Proctor was moving people.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: Off the like, you were talking about that inside zone and they tried it in the first quarter. A couple know old tendencies, die hard, where they were just handed off to McClellan or whoever and just try to bully and they would get like five yards. And it's like, that's not a play that normally gets Alabama five yards. No, it's been like one all year. You're not getting that level of push. And I think that Tommy Reese, when he kind of realized that the ability to when you take a defense like that, that's not really good, and you're getting a good push. And then you force them to spread out and worry about, like you said, Kendrick Law in a jet sweep or a screen pass to the outside or even just like a slant, a quick slant route or something, you get them on the outside and then you can just run up the middle with ease. So I thought that that was a really good point. Part of the game, too, for Alabama was LSU's defense was bad and Alabama made them pay for having a bad defense.
[00:06:41] Speaker D: Yeah, one other guy I want to shout out is on kick return. Kendrick Law was very good. He was twice one broken tackle away from taking a kick to the house on two separate occasions. His longest was 30. He was averaging over 25 every time he got the ball. He did it three times.
Our kick returns this season have been pretty man. We didn't have a pun return all game. But yeah, Kendrick Law made an impact just outside of playing receiver, where he also played very well today or yesterday. But yeah, it was a big game from literally everybody on that team did their job and that's all you can ask.
[00:07:18] Speaker C: It's crazy, too, because you say that, but Alabama is arguably their best, most consistent player. Will Record actually did not have a great he, but that's okay.
And he probably will never miss a kick after. It's one of those he's just so good that it's going to happen once and it might never happen again, or it might happen in one game and not again.
But it's just crazy that because some of those kicks, I think Alabama was up 14 seven and he missed one that would have put him up by ten. And it's like that could have legitimately killed some momentum because LSU, I believe, went down and tied it and then obviously they ended up going again.
I forgot what the last one he missed was too.
[00:08:08] Speaker D: The last one put us up 45.
[00:08:11] Speaker C: Yeah, it would have gone us.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: It would have pretty much decided game.
[00:08:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
But I mean, still, I believe that was still with like nine minutes left. Yeah, Jaden Daniels was still in the.
[00:08:22] Speaker D: Game at that point.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Yeah, but they rallied. I mean, I don't want to say you rallied around a kicker like that might be a crazy statement, but those were just kind of momentum things, and Alabama was able to handle them, I think, better than they have in the past, at least where stuff like that might have happened to them and they kind of falter. Everything else breaks. Yeah, I agree.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: I think I'm perfectly fine with Will Rikerd missing two kicks. He's absolutely bailed us out before. Yeah, he's bailed us out so many times this year. And then not to mention last year in our overtime loss to LSU. He had a 50 yard field goal in Death Valley as time expired to send us into that overtime. So he's proven time and time again that he can make clutch kicks. I'm not worried about Will Riker moving forward, but moving on to our defense a little bit. It was absolutely unacceptable in the first half for the most part. We forced that one missed field goal. I think we got the fourth down stop in the first half. That was good. But I was so frustrated and you guys obviously probably were too, with the 1 minute drill touchdown drive to in the half. And then not only that, but with 13 seconds left, LSU has zero timeouts, throws it over the middle.
Neighbors, I think neighbors catches it at the eight and someone gambled for the interception instead of just going for the tackle. And that's just ridiculous.
That's like 6th grade junior high football like IQ. I mean, that's just ridiculous.
I don't even want to call names because I don't even know who it was that gambled on the interception, but gambling on that pick right there when you can tackle them. And LSU might not.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: LSU, obviously the clock stops until the chains are moved, but they don't have a timeout. They would have had to have scrambled their entire kicking team out onto the field and got that ready in probably like seven, 8 seconds. There was a chance that LSU could have even yeah, they would have spiked it, probably.
But either way, the big difference between getting seven and three before the half, especially when LSU came out and had the ball first to start the second half, that was pretty frustrating. Along know, the first drive of the second half was really bad. And then like we talked about with Jaden Daniels, but you got to give credit to where credit's due. Jaden Daniels is absolutely amazing and if he had a defense, he'd be the Heisman front runner, probably.
[00:10:50] Speaker C: Yeah. I do wonder where this game puts the Heisman conversation because it's not to say that Daniels is less of a player because his team lost. Because like we said, it wasn't on him. Even his interception, it wasn't inherently on um, but I do wonder because there is a thing of normally if you win the Heisman, your team's got to be up there in the rankings and LSU will not going to make the playoff.
[00:11:17] Speaker D: They'd be lucky to finish as a top.
[00:11:20] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. They got to win out at six and three to have a hope for something, which I mean, Florida, Georgia State and A and M. Yeah. And very well beat know? But it's know. I do wonder kind of where that puts his standing in that Heisman race.
Obviously, essentially on the same time that we were Know, michael Pennix and Caleb Williams, who caleb isn't going to win the husband, but Pennix and just dueled out and had an incredible game. So I do wonder what that race is.
[00:11:58] Speaker D: It's more just the fact that at this stage I expect Jaden Daniels to not play next week. Yeah, with a concussion, I mean, it's hard to get out of concussion protocol. He tried to come back into the game and he could not play.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Yeah, and Nusmeyer isn't terrible either.
[00:12:15] Speaker D: He's playing solid pretty well.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: He's had experience before, too. So I think they would be fine letting Daniels rest up a little bit.
[00:12:23] Speaker D: Especially with the season and off point.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: That too. You got to think about player safety. But just joining us now, we got our producer, Nick Gaddis. Nick, what's going on? How are we feeling about this Tide win?
[00:12:36] Speaker A: It was a great win. I mean, it was a great like.
[00:12:40] Speaker C: So from where I was, I don't.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Know if it was the same for you guys. It was the loudest I've heard Brian Denny throughout the whole like, that is the loudest game I've been to. It was fantastic. The fans were there, the team was there. I think we played a full four quarters. It was a great showing for More, he didn't have any passing touchdowns, which is a little alarming, but four rushing touchdowns and what was it, like 160 rushing yards.
It's great for Mulro. I love to see that he spread the ball around. It was a great win.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah, perfectly said.
And we just didn't have to pass the ball, really. For the most part. The ground game was just so dominant. Like Joe talked about earlier, we were getting pushes that we have not seen before from this offensive line. And that can also be credited to LSU's kind of weaker defense, especially with Mackay Wingo being out. The D lineman for LSU and he's one of their best defensive linemen. LSU also had some injuries in the secondary too, but even when they're at full strength, they were still giving up 50 some OD points to Ole Miss and 45 to Florida State. So this is an LSU team that's just plagued by having a really bad defense and yeah, that's just kind of been their killer moving forward. We talked about the rest of their schedule isn't not easy, but it's not terribly challenging either. You got Florida, Georgia State, and A-M-A-M is a rivalry and A M actually kind of does have their know, they beat them last year, but it's in. So I think I think they'll be fine.
[00:14:15] Speaker C: They'll probably that's going to be an interesting thing to see, too, just for them. I mean, I know that obviously they're not really well, we might never talk about LSU again, just in the nature of the fact that they're kind of out of a lot of the national, you have this type of loss, especially when your quarterback gets like you got to rebound and play Florida, and it's like it's not no, it's at home.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: Their last three games, they're all at.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Home, so that shouldn't be a problem. But it's know, we've kind of seen or I remember it last year with Alabama, where after that Tennessee or after the LSU loss, there's only a couple home games left. But it's just like a deflating place.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: When you have the expectations like that when your program is built, that kind.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Of so you're just kind of like, oh, God, football know, I think know they should win out, and I think that they will. They might honestly fire Jimbo Fisher. That might be his last game.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah, seriously. They might send him out.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: So, I mean, I guess there's stuff to play for. Obviously. Still got a season to try to salvage, but yeah, it's going to be tough for them moving forward.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Kind of off topic, but didn't A and M and.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: He would fire long before but yeah, he was their last game and I think he beat like, I don't want to say this officially, but I think when they beat right, yeah.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Okay. So Edo won his last game right.
[00:15:54] Speaker C: Against A. M. And I think it was at college. No, it wasn't, it was at death rally because he had a nice reception and I think A M was actually not terrible.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I think A M was probably was favored to win and LSU pulled off. They were just bad.
[00:16:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, Coach O might as well go out with a yeah.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: We'll move on from this game. We've given Alabama their props and we'll get into more of the national side of things. We'll start with our player of the week. I'll get things started here. I have Dylan Johnson, the running back out of Washington. He had 26 carries for over 250 yards and four touchdowns. Washington absolutely dismantled the USC defense just like every other team USC has played this year. And Washington was able to come out with a win 52 42.
[00:16:46] Speaker D: You can go next.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: Okay, looking at stats, I'm going to go actually, it was a pretty I think kind of underrated game going into the day just because of the kind of slate that was ahead of us. But Clemson, when they beat Notre Dame, phil Mafa just had an incredible game.
The stat line reads kind of what like Derek Henry would do at Alabama. 36 carries, 186 yards, two touchdowns, averaged five yards a carry.
Really kind of put the team on his back because Kate Klubnick was not good.
He was 50% completion, just over 100 yards. So they really relied on Mafa and he got it done. Clemson was able to top the Irish 31 23.
[00:17:32] Speaker D: Yeah. My player of the week I'm going to go away from. Obviously, we gave Jalen Morrow his praise. I'd love to talk about it more, but my player of the week here is going to be Bryson Daley, the quarterback for army went on the road at Air Force. And this is not a player of the game for his passing performance. It was a Derek Henry stat line at quarterback, 36 carries, 170 yards, 36 carries for the quarterback, 36 carries, 170 yards, and two touchdowns for Bryson Daley on the road at a ranked undefeated Air Force team. He beat him 23 to three.
Yeah, that's my player of the week. That's unreal a quarterback carried the ball 36 times and was that efficient with it and got in the end zone twice as well. He was only four for nine passing, but 36 carries will get it done.
[00:18:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: For my player of the week, I think I'm going to go Malik Murphy, the Texas backup quarterback. Obviously, Quinn, yours was out this week. Texas had a tough matchup against Kansas. They almost lost. But Malik Murphy, he's a true freshman. He stepped up well.
He only won touchdown, but he had 248 yards. He was able to spread the ball around a lot.
He had two interceptions, but still, he let a good Texas team sorry to defeat Kansas State, which was a tough matchup.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah. One thing I've noticed, too, Nick, I know you caught yourself right there, but yeah, I've had to watch myself when I try to say that Texas is overrated now. Yeah. We actually have to be, like, really big Texas fans for the rest of the year.
[00:19:05] Speaker D: They're so good guys.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: I caught myself on the phone to my dad today and I was like, yeah. And Texas just I watched that game against Kansas State yesterday, and Kansas State is bad. And Texas really got lucky to win. I think Texas might not be and I was like, well, actually, no, Texas pretty good.
They're good. They're great.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Horns up.
[00:19:24] Speaker C: Yeah, but I loved burnt orange.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: With a huge question mark. It's Horns up.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: They're a great team. Anybody that loses at home to Texas is surely still good.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: I mean, that team, you would have to imagine still playoff national champions.
You just ran into the Buzsaw.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:45] Speaker D: And when you're looking at teams who may have lost to Texas like, I.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: Don'T know, some of the greatest National.
[00:19:51] Speaker D: League.
[00:19:56] Speaker C: 18 years ago. They beat USC guys. Yeah, this is a big program. Yeah.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: There was that one time that Vince Young did the cool thing in the championship.
But anyways, we'll get into our risers and fallers. Starting with the risers this week, we've had some risers in college football. I'd like to point out Oklahoma State, the turnaround that they've had this season, from getting absolutely throttled by South Alabama at home to winning bedlam in the last bedlam for ten plus years and looking good while doing so, oklahoma State has established themselves now as a pretty good team. And Oklahoma State, I guess, is going to be who plays Texas in the Big Twelve championship, is what it's starting to look more and more like. Oklahoma State got a dub 27 to 24 over Oklahoma. Alan Bowman, Ollie Gordon. Both look great. Ollie Gordon, heisman hype starting to build up a little more, too. We'll see what's in store for the Pokes.
[00:20:50] Speaker D: Yeah. My biggest riser this week is hold on, I got to find this team. Oh, it's the Alabama crimson tide they may not move up in the rankings at all. I haven't checked yet. I would not.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: The AP poll didn't move them up.
[00:21:03] Speaker D: Yeah, but the biggest riser aspect for me is that now the Crimson Tide sit three games. They'll be favored in by a lot of points. They sit those three games in one SEC title game win away from being in the playoffs. Yeah, and that's the fact of the matter. But the fact that there won't be an undefeated Big Twelve champion, it's whoever wins that SEC title game will be in the playoffs.
[00:21:25] Speaker C: But I mean yeah. The big twelve, though.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: You got Texas.
[00:21:32] Speaker C: That one score to Oklahoma. Anything could happen there.
[00:21:37] Speaker D: I think my biggest riser is going to be our team. The Alabama Crips are tied. I mean, they now sit obviously, as I said, three. I mean, they're not easy games. It's on the road to Kentucky, it's obviously Chattanooga. Then it's an easy game. But then it's on the road at Auburn to end the season, which is a game that we got to go in and we got to take care of business. Yeah, for sure.
It's a must win game. Every win from here, obviously, every game since that Texas game has been must win. They've handled it so far. And now they sit with the most clear cut photo of any team that isn't currently undefeated to make the College Football Playoff.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm going to go for my riser. I think I'll get a little subtle. Jab not ranked currently, I believe.
No, they're not. But the Arizona Wildcats, they've won three in a row.
They just knocked off UCLA. These are all ranked wins, technically. They crushed Washington State on the road, beat Oregon State two games ago. Sorry. And then UCLA, they just kind of dominated defensively. But this is a team, they're six and three. They're obviously both eligible. They're not technically out of the Pac Twelve title race, but realistically they are, unfortunately. But this is a program that had a lot of tough years. I mean, Kevin Sumlin was their coach before they hired Jed Fish. They have not won more than six games since 2017, both eligible for first time since then. And their future is looking very yeah.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: They could be ranked.
They're a legitimate good team.
[00:23:19] Speaker D: That was seven points away from beating Washington and two points away from beating.
[00:23:24] Speaker C: USC on the and with a backup quarterback shout out. And their third loss was at seven points. I love Fafita against Mississippi State on the road in week two. So, I mean, week two was just a killer week for a lot of these top no, but still, either way, the Wildcats are my biggest riser just because of the fact I think they're finally getting something going under Jet Fish.
[00:23:51] Speaker D: It's fun football over there.
[00:23:53] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: For once, my riser of the week. I actually really like this team. Well, I don't really like them, but I like the team that they've got going on right now. I'm going to go with the Hogs. I'm going with Arkansas. They needed this win against Florida this past weekend to stay in contention for a bowl.
So they're three and six now. They've got Auburn, FIU, and Missouri coming up. It'll obviously be tougher.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Where's that Missouri game at?
[00:24:19] Speaker A: It's at Arkansas.
[00:24:20] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: So they've got to win the Missouri matchup in order to be bowl eligible. But every game that they've lost has been a close game. They were three points away from beating Alabama.
They were down by a touchdown against Ole Miss, eight points against Texas A M and three against LSU. So obviously not a terrible team in just they've just been unlucky this week or this year. So I'm going with Arkansas as my rise.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Just adding on to that. Arkansas beat Florida in the Swamp yesterday for the first time in program history. Really? Yeah. First time ever. That's crazy that Arkansas won in the Swamp. I think they were owing five going into that.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: It's crazy what happens. You fire your offensive coordinator and you go from scoring three points to 39.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: Against, like, a solid defense.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: Who would have guessed?
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: A defense that beat Tennessee.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:12] Speaker D: Hard to do a really tough win there.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:18] Speaker D: I feel like any team that beats Tennessee should be in the playoffs.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:22] Speaker C: And then imagine if that same team beat LSU. Yeah.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: They've got to be playoff lock no matter what the outcome of the SEC championship.
Yeah.
[00:25:37] Speaker D: Is that a thing now? Can I say that?
[00:25:42] Speaker B: We got to have our moment right now. Yeah.
[00:25:45] Speaker D: Big weekend.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: But anyways, going to the faller, I'm going Notre Dame. I felt like this was a pretty easy pick for me personally. I watched that game and I was just not impressed at all by any aspect of the game. They got the ball ran all over them, which is weird considering that they've had a pretty solid defense all year. And then Sam Hartman just looked awful. Like, Sam Hartman looked terrible. And he's had in their losses, especially he's looked really bad in their losses this year. That's kind of been their deciding factor. Yeah. I don't know about this one from Notre Dame.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: I think he's the first college football player to ever be owing five against the same team because he lost four times at Wake Forest, played Clemson this year and lost again.
That guy who called into Davo Sweeney's like talk show must be absolutely.
[00:26:35] Speaker D: Like.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: Clemson won, so he's thrilled. But he's.
[00:26:40] Speaker D: I mean, my biggest follower. It's obviously a game that they weren't expected to win, but it's USC.
It's more of just a combined kind of like, last three weeks thing or last couple of weeks.
They've just been a disaster for the last four weeks. They are now unranked for the first time under Lincoln Riley.
It's a loss to Washington in a game that they very easily could have won and gotten themselves back into the Pac Twelve title game conversation, and they could have knocked Washington effectively out of the playoffs. And it was at home and they couldn't get it done. They couldn't stop the run. Obviously. Kaden mentioned earlier his player of the week, Johnson. They gave him 256 yards. That is unbelievable.
[00:27:28] Speaker C: I think Washington averaged, like, under 100 per game.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:32] Speaker D: And I mean, to do that while your quarterback goes for 312 yards and three touchdowns without turning the ball over is something that just can't happen. Like, your defense can't be that bad, but it is. And so my biggest father is going to be the now unranked USC Trojans.
[00:27:49] Speaker C: Yeah. My biggest faller is going to be Oklahoma. Just suffered a really tough loss on the road against Oklahoma State and Bedlam for the final time in probably a long time.
But, yeah, I mean, this was a team not like a month ago, just beat Texas last play of the game. They looked like they could essentially march towards a lock for at least the Big Twelve title game and possibly a playoff. But since then, they've struggled against UCF. They ended up winning that 131 to 29. Then they lost to Kansas's backup quarterback.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Who'S not good, Jason Beams.
He's fast.
[00:28:31] Speaker C: He threw two picks in that game.
[00:28:34] Speaker D: And the second one should have ended the game.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: It was terrible.
[00:28:37] Speaker D: Lost the game on that interception.
[00:28:38] Speaker C: Yeah. And then you go into this game with Bedlam and lost 27 to 24. I mean, this was a brutal game for Oklahoma because not only did it knock them out of the playoff picture and the big health picture, and think about this. Imagine if.
The Iron Bowl was going to end after the season and Auburn won it. And then that's all you had to hear about was how Auburn won the final one. This was Oklahoma State because, like, dominates the rivalry.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what sucks about it, too, is it would be kind of like imagine if Alabama and Tennessee stopped playing every year, but Tennessee just throttled Alabama.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: Oklahoma leads the series 91 20 and 791 20 and then seven ties.
But the fact that Oklahoma State is going to have bragging rights for at least ten years yeah, at least a good decade of the fact that they beat Oklahoma. I do wonder if Oklahoma losing this game might have them speed up the process to play Oklahoma State again, because you probably want to revenge that. But yeah, this was just, I mean, you know, for Oklahoma's sake, this was just a terrible loss. You really couldn't have it. Dylan Gabriel didn't play, you know, with their potential Heisman winner, and Ali Gordon had a really good game on the ground. So long story short, that's my biggest.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: Father mine of the week. Obviously it's going to be LSU.
They came into the game hoping to stay in contention, to go to the SEC Championship, only had one conference loss, and then they came out with tears in their eyes. So, yeah, LSU, obvious follower of the week for me.
[00:30:29] Speaker C: Spoken like a true biased journalist.
[00:30:32] Speaker D: LSU hate week.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: They're my follower of the week because they're losers.
[00:30:37] Speaker D: Because they're and they're not good.
[00:30:41] Speaker C: Sorry, can I give one quick minor shout out or maybe not shout out of the week, but a quick riser? Sam houston State won a game.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I did see that. They beat Kennesaw State, right.
[00:30:53] Speaker C: And it's not an FBS win. They have yet to be an FBS team, as an FBS win is a win.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: Is a win.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: But they won. They beat Kennesaw State by three points. They are now one in eight. They're out of every single possible thing you could be out of on college football.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they beat a two and seven FCS team by three at home every.
[00:31:10] Speaker C: Possible I mean, like, they have at Louisiana Tech, at Western Kentucky, and the Middle Tennessee State at home, which by the way, Middle Tennessee State, that's a pretty good team. Yeah, a team that can beat Middle Tennessee State is a really good team.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: Middle Tennessee State is a great team.
[00:31:23] Speaker C: But yeah, I mean, Western Kentucky is five and four. La Tech isn't good, but they've won some conference games and Middle Tennessee State played Alabama. So what's Sam Houston to them. But no, props to the Bearcats. It was a game winning field role by Colby Sessions as time expired. So it's their first win as an FBS program. I'll beat it against an FCS school, so hopefully they can finally turn them out because they've had some brutal losses.
[00:31:52] Speaker D: And then here's your biggest risk of the week mac football. The Akron Zips won a Mac conference game.
[00:31:57] Speaker C: That's huge.
[00:31:57] Speaker D: That leaves kent State. Came in two O and four Mac conference teams. It leaves Kent State as the only wow.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: Same.
[00:32:04] Speaker D: Completely favorite by seven, completely non, no win Mac team.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:09] Speaker D: Go Akron.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Just a little side note. Tulane will always be my continuous riser as long as they keep winning.
[00:32:15] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:32:16] Speaker D: I like that.
[00:32:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Kind of behind the scenes riser, 13.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: To ten over ECU.
[00:32:22] Speaker D: What a game.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
All right, well, I got a couple of games for us to go over before we get into our top five. Start off with Missouri and Georgia. We haven't touched on this one yet. Georgia looked good, and honestly, Missouri looked pretty good, too. That's what we were talking about before the show. Georgia got out with a win 30 to 21, but Missouri competed for four quarters. That's pretty much all you can ask for. Brady Cook didn't have the best game, but Cody Schrader helped the load a little bit. Luther Burden got a little shaken up at the start. He had that quick touchdown and wasn't really able to do much after that just because of that injury. I think it was plaguing him a little bit throughout the game. But as for Georgia, in my opinion, this is a little bit of a spoiler for our top five, but I think that with this win, they've kind of established themselves as the best team in the country.
They just look good now. And Carson Beck has just improved so much this year. Dejan Edwards has stepped in, and they're doing this without Brock Bowers.
[00:33:19] Speaker D: Make sure to tune into the end. Is this the week where I fold on Ohio State?
[00:33:23] Speaker C: Yeah. I thought this was an interesting game, too, because, I mean, Missouri kind of their problem, and name of the game for them was just settling a couple of times for field goals. That was essentially the difference for them. They had two drives that were both pretty lengthy drives, eleven plays and eight plays, respectively, where they had to get three on the board. And when you're playing Georgia, and especially in a game that was really close pretty much throughout, you got to take touchdowns and you got to score touchdowns, and Georgia was just able to capitalize, which credit for them. But Missouri, I think to a certain extent, you're looking you're like, they really.
[00:34:00] Speaker D: Could have had them.
Same thing we said last year. Could have had them.
[00:34:06] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. Except this team was supposed to kind of have them. Yeah, we had hope. Yeah. There was a thought, I don't have hope anymore.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
Other game I wanted to touch on a little bit here. Ohio State against Rutgers. Rutgers was six and two coming into this one. And in the Big Ten, when you're trying to prey on the downfall of Ohio State or Michigan, it's easy to get fooled by some of these Big Ten teams that have a decent record, because then when you watch them play, you remember, oh, they have a decent record because they're playing the other they're just better than the other bad Big Ten.
[00:34:37] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: And that's kind of the trap that we fell into with Maryland, who is really bad, by the way. They are horrible. And we sat here and talked about how they were like they were probably one of our risers, like four or five weeks ago.
[00:34:51] Speaker C: Listen, I'm going to be honest.
[00:34:54] Speaker D: Never gas Maryland again.
[00:34:56] Speaker C: Well, we're never going to gas Maryland again, that's for sure. But you got to think about it. Like, Mike Locksley, their football coach. I'm trying to find it up. Yeah. His overall coaching record is 28 and 58. So I don't know how we thought that he was going to be able.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: To win a big game.
[00:35:12] Speaker C: And listen, he was on Alabama staff and he did a lot of good stuff for Tua, and Maryland is for Maryland standards moving kind of in the right direction. But this season, after that Ohio State loss, it's just been just a bunch of L's in a row. They haven't won since then. Yeah. Northwestern, they lost too.
Mike Locksy, I don't know why we.
[00:35:37] Speaker D: Thought that would be hyped up.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: Sorry. We should have read more into him.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Yeah, seriously. But yeah. For Ohio State, though, 35 to 16 win over Rutgers game was probably maybe a little bit closer than what the score says. Kyle McCord didn't look great, really. But luckily for Ohio State, trayvon Henderson came back today. He's an absolute beast. He's a unit. He led them in receiving and rushing, and then Marvin Harrison had timely catches. He didn't have a very explosive game, but he had two timely touchdowns.
As for Ohio State, though, sure, granted they covered the spread, whatever. They beat a six and two Rutgers team on the road. Big win. But I feel like just eye test, the people are kind of separated that are high on Ohio State.
Anytime I want to get high on Ohio State, I watch them play and it's just like, man, this team does not look good or great. Doesn't look great.
[00:36:32] Speaker C: It's like the most boring team that can just score like 30 points in a game.
[00:36:37] Speaker D: I mean, Michigan exists.
[00:36:38] Speaker C: Yeah, but at least Michigan, it's just.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Like but Michigan's like, good. You know what I'm saying? When you watch Michigan, they're dominant.
[00:36:45] Speaker D: We'll see if they're even eligible for.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: The college football play. Seriously.
[00:36:48] Speaker C: Plus, Michigan has scored above 30 their entire season. Ohio State's delvedic.
[00:36:54] Speaker D: Well, I mean, Ohio State has played.
[00:36:55] Speaker C: Two good teams and that is true. But it's like Washington watching Ohio State at Wisconsin was like legitimately paint dry stuff. It was terrible.
They're like the most boring team, but they score 30 points. That was the big yeah, it's like the box score always looks good for them.
[00:37:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And I'd also like to point out, too, rutgers could have, could have big could I know. Coulda, would have, should have, but could have won this game if they didn't, for some stupid reason, try to pull out some crazy trick play. Okay, they're up nine to seven in the third quarter, marching down the field, handing the ball off to Kyle Monangai, who had 160 rushing yards. Absolutely. Like, just slashing Ohio State. And then they get to the 20 yard line and pull off and try to run some crazy trick play where their quarterback throws it into triple coverage and it hits off someone's back and ran back for a touchdown. As soon as that play happened, it was like, okay, yeah, whatever.
[00:37:56] Speaker D: All right, anyways, welcome into the Fourth and Goal podcast weekly Big Ten hate segment.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever.
[00:38:04] Speaker D: Anyways, on to Michigan. Welcome to the Big Ten.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not going to stay salty about that for too long, but that was so bad. Felt the need to point out that Rutgers kind of something similar happened to them this morning.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: I don't know if you all watched that game.
[00:38:17] Speaker D: They won.
[00:38:18] Speaker A: Yeah, they did.
[00:38:19] Speaker C: No, like, oh, yeah, I'm watching the play now. What an idiot. Sorry, I didn't watch the trick play whatsoever.
[00:38:27] Speaker D: Dude, we were watching the Ruggers one.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it was terrible. I was watching it live and it was just like, what are you doing?
[00:38:32] Speaker D: We had it on our and keep.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: In mind, this was in the middle of like, a 60 yard drive, like they had already they were perfectly marched. Five yard line, you're up nine, they score right there. That's get a two point conversion. That's 17 to seven. That's something possession game.
[00:38:47] Speaker C: That's something. You try when I would expect.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
I was just at a loss for words. That was like, what did you just draw up right there? Yeah. As for Ohio State, though, they've got a great resume, or a pretty solid resume. They're nine and other undefeated, but it's kind of hard to sit there and say, just based off watching them play, that they're going to beat Michigan at Michigan in a couple of weeks.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: And Michigan's got a game next week to prove themselves.
Are they at Penn State? Number eleven.
[00:39:18] Speaker C: Is it at Penn State?
[00:39:19] Speaker B: It is at Penn State.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: So that could be a game where they really prove themselves.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:24] Speaker D: But then Maryland let it be known, if this Rutgers player catches this football, he's also just going to die.
[00:39:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: He just throws it into triple coverage.
[00:39:33] Speaker D: Like the guy who was attempting to hit him, he's injured on the ground. That guy was going to get laid out.
[00:39:42] Speaker C: If you thought what Dallas Turner did to Jaden Daniels was bad, I actually.
[00:39:47] Speaker B: Have not seen that hit yet, still, because they just refused to show it on the Jumbotron. I don't know if y'all were frustrated.
[00:39:53] Speaker C: By that they did refuse to show it. Although I do kind of get like.
[00:39:56] Speaker D: You don't they're not allowed to show injury.
[00:39:57] Speaker C: I was going to say you don't want to show an injury to this, especially in opposing kind of the opposing when a guy like Jaden Daniels well, you can see that. I mean, you can see the hit.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: Yeah, but in the moment I'm thinking you just called a rough in the passer. I need to see the rough in.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: The like they showed every other penalty replay, whether it favored Alabama or.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: Oh, well, we're going to move into our we're going to move into our top five right here. It's pretty stock for me. I actually have the same five teams as our last episode two weeks ago. I'm going to get started, though, with number five. I have washington. They've kind of had some struggle wins, but winning at USC. Even though USC has a bad defense, it's still impressive to go and beat the Heisman, the former Heisman winner at his own home place. And I thought Washington did a pretty stalid job and they established a run game. This isn't a team that only has to pass. They have multiple layers to their offense. I think them or LSU is the best offense in the country. Washington's undefeated for now. I've got them at number five.
[00:40:59] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, we've got five undefeated teams here, so it should be pretty stock for the five teams. I've also got Washington at five.
It's more. Just like with Florida State. I can see it, but I trust their defense a little bit more than I trust Washington's at this point. I mean, 42 points. Obviously, USC's offense is great, as Kaden just mentioned, but yeah, they're number five for me. They're still undefeated. They still control their own destiny. So definitely a Washington Husky year.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's tough because I think Washington would give for just State a game, but I'm just going to go Washington at five as well.
I can't for some reason get the taste of watching them struggle against Arizona State and Stanford. I get that they beat USC on the road, but this was really you got to get up for those games and they did and credit to them. But can you do it?
I don't want to say because it's not like you're going to play Stanford in the playoff or anything, but.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: I.
[00:42:03] Speaker C: Wouldn'T be shocked if they lose their last game of the season to Washington.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: You can kind of smell it. It's coming at some point. You can only win so many close and before you lose to one of those bad teams.
[00:42:15] Speaker C: And Appendix played terribly in those two.
[00:42:17] Speaker B: Games and he didn't really even play fantastic last night. Like, he didn't have a bad game by any means, but he didn't play like a Heisman.
[00:42:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:26] Speaker D: The difference between Washington and these other teams is these other teams, if they can't throw the ball, their quarterback can run. Michael Penix is a statue.
[00:42:35] Speaker C: He can't move.
[00:42:36] Speaker D: And so if you can't throw the ball, there is yeah, and part of.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: That is too, because he's just had injuries throughout his career.
[00:42:44] Speaker C: But I'm just going to go watching that five just because of the undefeateds, I think they've been the weakest and the least consistent week to week.
I would not be shocked if they play Utah next week.
I don't know if it's at Utah or at home, but either way I wouldn't be shocked if that's a game where they play. Yeah, it's at home, so maybe that'll help.
[00:43:09] Speaker D: But on the road at Oregon State.
[00:43:10] Speaker C: That could be tough. Yep, that could be tough.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: I think for my number five, I'm going to go with Florida State. It's just the thing about resume for me. Yeah, they beat number five, who was ranked number five at the time?
[00:43:22] Speaker D: LSU, obviously they're really bad, but yeah.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: Obviously LSU is takes a lot to beat them.
And then they went out and beat Pitt 24 to seven, but they also went into overtime with a terrible Clemson team. Honestly, honestly, a pretty bad Clemson team.
So, yeah, that's why Florida State's at.
[00:43:45] Speaker D: The five for me was on the road, though.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Yeah, and not to mention the Boston College game too. Yeah, I've got Florida State at four. I think they've played better than Washington though, and I think those teams that they've struggled like, I think Clemson's better than Stanford and Arizona State. So I'm not worried about Florida State too much. I think that they have had shaky moments throughout the year and they actually did start pretty rough last night against Pitt. I think Pitt was up seven to zero late into the second quarter. But that being said, they were missing Keon Coleman and Johnny Wilson, so they were without their top two receivers. If Florida State can get healthy, though, this is a team that at their full potential, I think can win a playoff game. I don't know if they can win the championship, but I think if they're at full health, I think they can win a playoff game. I've got them at number four right now.
[00:44:34] Speaker D: I'm saying that we also got Florida State at number four. I just like their overall roster a little bit better than I like Washington's. I like the dynamic ability of Travis, especially, especially considering what I just mentioned. If something goes downhill and say you're missing Keon Coleman and you're missing Johnny Wilson and you don't have as good of a passing game, I know Jordan Travis can take off and run the football, and I just don't see that. Obviously with Washington, the win against Clemson I actually view as more of a positive. I mean, this is a Clemson team that just beat Notre Dame at home. So Clemson at home is a good football team. Clemson on the road is a very bad football team. They had a resounding win over Duke a couple of weeks ago. I remember people were talking about the Syracuse game like, oh my, Syracuse. They were ranked at the time, I think, or just barely out, but people were talking like, oh, Syracuse could upset them and then they absolutely trounced Syracuse 41 to three. So they beat Wake Forest on the road handedly. I mean, they've got a great resume with LSU, Clemson on the road. They've got wake. Forest on the road, duke at home. I mean, it's not a bad resume. And they get Miami, North, Alabama, and then on the road at Florida to end the year. It's a Florida State team that is three wins away from a playoff berth or four. They?
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:54] Speaker C: I got Florida State at my board, too. I just think that with those two guys out for them yesterday, coleman and Johnny Wilson. Johnny Wilson, that's his know, they still look pretty good. I mean, Jordan Travis, you know, didn't turn the ball over, didn't really look flustered. Obviously Pitt's terrible, but still it looked good. Didn't turn the ball know. I think that it's tough for them because they don't have maybe on their schedule. That LSU game is really it not necessarily up to them. I mean, beating Clemson on the road normally is a big deal, but this year it's kind of taken a little bit of a they're probably I think that they're honestly a better team than maybe we think. We just have to see them play in like a big game, which we're probably not going to see maybe until the Florida game just because that could be a big game, but realistically not until ACC championship game.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: For my number four, I'm going with Washington. It's just the fact that they beat a team that arguably is playoff caliber.
Oregon's still a great team after their loss to Washington. It's just that win against Oregon a few weeks ago and then being able to beat a USC team that still has a great offense, I mean, they still have Caleb Williams, he's a great player.
I think that pushes them up to.
[00:47:26] Speaker D: Number four for me.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: For my number three, I've got Ohio State. I'm not going to go into it too much just because we just talked about them, but yeah, just eye test wise, I would not pick them to beat Georgia nor Michigan, and there's actually some other teams under them that I probably wouldn't have them beating either. But with that being said, they're still undefeated and they have a solid resume.
[00:47:46] Speaker D: I'm going to go Michigan at three. It's more just a resume. They still have not beaten a real football team yet this season, unless you want to count like Rutgers or Michigan State as a real football team. But if they beat Penn State this weekend, I do think they're a better football team than Ohio State at this point. I am not living in denial anymore.
If they beat Penn State handedly this weekend at State, like they'll be my number two team in the country. But for now they're going to stay at number three. Obviously, if I'm talking resume at Florida State should probably be over them. But Michigan is also a team that was in the playoffs for the last like two or three years. So they've got that going for the resume as well. They're very well coached. Obviously they got a little bit of a problem going on right now. But yeah, Michigan is my number three team. They are very good once again.
[00:48:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
I'm also going to go Michigan at number three. Kind know, like you said, Lincoln, for essentially the same reasons, just resume is not great. If they win Saturday, they'll obviously move up a lot or move up in my rankings, but they just have yet to play that caliber.
And to be fair, Penn State also kind of crumbles in these games normally. But I think if Michigan can go on the road, beat Penn State and even beat them convincingly, I think that'll show something that just have not seen before. So I got Michigan at three for right now.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: I've got Michigan at my three for now as well.
Obviously it's their resume. Ohio State has a better resume, I think.
Obviously Michigan has the chance to prove themselves in a little bit. I already said that this show, but yeah, I've got Michigan in my three.
[00:49:22] Speaker B: Yeah. For number two.
Number two is where I have Michigan.
Yeah. This is just strictly eye test because like you guys said, there is no resume that you can base this off of. Michigan has just yet to play a team with a pulse, it feels like, except for maybe Rutgers. But that being said, Michigan's absolutely dominated every single game they played in and that's the difference between them and Ohio State is Ohio State has gotten these good wins or these solid wins, I guess, but Michigan dominates even against the bad teams and Ohio State doesn't necessarily do that. Ohio State doesn't necessarily dominate. So with that being said, just strictly off ITEST, I like Michigan's number two.
[00:50:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:50:04] Speaker D: And my number two team is I'm not going to keep doing it. It's Ohio State.
They're my number two team. Obviously, like Kaden just mentioned, they have not played convincingly against bad Big Ten teams. They were not convincing against Wisconsin. That game was terrible. We mentioned it earlier.
They weren't extremely convincing this weekend over Rutgers. I mean, barring that awful play, it could have been a much closer game.
And they just really haven't blown out teams that I would expect them to blow out. Like they didn't really blow out Youngstown State in week two and they should have blown them out. They didn't blow out Indiana in week one. They should have blown them out. And then obviously I just mentioned wisconsin and Rutgers, both games where I feel like they should have blown those teams out and they didn't.
They get Michigan State and Minnesota at home in the next two weeks and then it's the game of the year, it's Michigan on the road and they got to win that. They absolutely have to win that. And I don't know at this point in time if they will, but just based on resume, they're my number two.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: I also I got Ohio State number two. I think, not to necessarily spoil anything, but I think another big SEC game that happened yesterday kind of changed my mind a little bit. So that's kind of where, I mean, it just seems mean ohio State going into these games. I mean, the Notre Dame loss or win I should say, doesn't look as impressive. Now, even the Penn State win isn't maybe as great of a win because Penn State kind of has this history of those types of things.
And I wouldn't be shocked if Michigan beats Ohio State, but just simply on the fact that Ohio State does have those two wins, albeit they're getting weaker. But at Notre Dame, Penn State win.
If they can win at Michigan, that would kind of be the cherry on top for them. So that's where I got them.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: I've got Ohio State in my two as well for pretty much all the same reasons as Joe and Lincoln. I'm not going to repeat them all, but yeah, Ohio State is looking like a great team. I think they could go out and beat Michigan in week twelve.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: You think Ohio State beats Michigan?
[00:52:14] Speaker A: I think they could beat Michigan.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: I mean, I think they could too. Yeah, I wouldn't pick Ohio State.
[00:52:19] Speaker C: I mean, theory chattanooga could beat Alabama. There you go. That's true.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: Number one, I think it's going to be unanimous across the board, probably rightfully so, too. I wouldn't be surprised if they jump up into the number one spot in the College Football Playoff rankings as well as Georgia. They're kind of building up that resume with a heavy back end of their schedule and they're doing it without Brock Bowers, who's one of the best players in the country. Carson Beck has really came into yeah, seriously, Carson Beck's really came into his own. He's playing like an elite quarterback and Georgia, with an elite quarterback, got to be the best team in the country.
[00:52:51] Speaker D: Yes, just exactly what Kaden said. I've got Georgia at number one. Pains me to say it, but I've been dunking resume all year and now they have a home win against ranked Kentucky where they beat them 51 to 13. They've got a neutral site win against Florida without Brock Bowers where they were in a tight game and they blew them out 43 to 20.
And I say neutral site, but the game was in Jacksonville, I'm pretty sure, so it's in Florida.
And then obviously they just went at home against Missouri and beat a top 15 team in the country. So the resume is officially there now for Georgia, and it'll be even more there when they play Ole Miss at home and Tennessee on the road in the next two weeks. So the Georgia Bulldogs, even short Brock Bowers right now are the best football team in the country.
[00:53:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I have Georgia at number one, gotten, I think, since that Kentucky win.
They shot out of a cannon in that game, and that kind of, I think, moved my opinion on them a lot because they were struggling kind of early in the season. I mean, obviously the Auburn game wasn't great. They led up, what was it, 21 to UAB, and South Carolina almost had them early in the season. But ever since that Kentucky win, they've blown up everything else that they've played. So none of it has been particularly close. But, yeah, I think Georgia is number one.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I've got Georgia at one as well. Just like Kaden said. Carson Beck's gotten better throughout the year. I think we all knew that was going to happen. Kirby Smart is fantastic at developing players and making them better than when they started.
He's one of the greats at that. So, yeah, I've got Georgia my one. All right.
[00:54:35] Speaker B: Okay, guys, shout out of the week before we ended up we haven't really talked about it this week.
[00:54:40] Speaker D: I have.
[00:54:42] Speaker C: I've been waiting for this shout out of the week since I saw it.
[00:54:45] Speaker A: Joe is ready.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Oh, you're ready?
[00:54:47] Speaker D: He's been sitting you got to go first.
[00:54:49] Speaker C: Just know wrigley Field.
[00:54:51] Speaker B: Oh, my perfect shout out. That is amazing.
[00:54:55] Speaker C: Just know baseball games get played there 81 times every season. Iowa and Northwestern, ten to seven game. The Chicago Cubs have scored more like they have had higher scoring affairs than this game had because the Cubs won.
[00:55:10] Speaker D: A game, like, with 21 runs this year.
[00:55:12] Speaker C: The Cubs have won a game with 21 runs. Iowa has I don't know if they've had 21 points in, like, a month. Yeah, they haven't, actually, the last four games, they haven't. But this was just like I mean, if you are, like, a terrible person.
[00:55:29] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's kind of cool that they did pay tribute to Wrigley Field by kind of mocking a baseball score. That's pretty cool that they plan to do.
[00:55:36] Speaker C: That cool. The Cubs are like, oh, ten to seven.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:39] Speaker C: Okay. I thought the field day was kind of weird because the one end zone essentially like the back of the end zone was right up against a wall. So that was really weird.
But yeah, I mean, this was just everything you would want in an Iowa Northwestern game. This was like it on steroids because not only they got rid of Brian Ferrari, or they're going to get rid of Brian Ferrence, their offensive coordinator after this season, they gave him the rest of the year and. He just, like, flipped them the finger with this oh, my gosh. With this spectacle of offense. 65 total passing yards from Deacon Hill, who I think is like, their backup or third string quarterback, but there's like a true freshman right behind him.
And I hate saying this sometimes, but there's no way he's worse.
Why not just play him?
These stats are like this game, if you put it in black and white, you wouldn't know the difference between series and, like, 1943. This game was awful. Penn State. I mean, the fourth quarter was actually kind of exciting because it was so bad, but it was so close throughout the whole game. It was like zero, zero. At was I was at the Alabama LSU game, but part of my heart was in Chicago because this game was I just wanted to know the recognition it deserves. It's very rare that the Tush push fails in today's modern football. And Northwestern failed with the Tush push in this game.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: Of course they did.
[00:57:06] Speaker C: From the 1 YD line after they got, like, an interception.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: If you showed me the score and the stats of this game and told me that it was played right after the forward pass was invented, I wouldn't be shocked.
[00:57:18] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:57:19] Speaker A: This was terrible.
[00:57:20] Speaker D: If you told me this game was played when, like, Harvard was ranked number.
[00:57:25] Speaker C: The this is like, know, the University of Chicago playing like, know something while army and Navy are dueling it out for the like, this was awful football, but that's my shadow of the week. Just in general, this whole experience of right in front of me was Alabama.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: LSU, but on my phone, you just couldn't even focus.
[00:57:48] Speaker C: On my phone was Northwestern and Iowa a little bit, especially like during long breaks, I'm, like, checking my phone, got, like, the NBC app. I'm like, oh, cool punt. And then right back to oh, I wonder what. Right back to Jaden Daniels literally juking out a defender and Jalen Miller running over people. I'm like, oh, cool, Iowa threw a ball.
[00:58:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, they threw this.
[00:58:10] Speaker D: Another punt.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Sweet. But yeah, with that being said, that was a fantastic shout out, Joe. That being said, that's going to last thing.
[00:58:18] Speaker D: We gave one to seven.
[00:58:19] Speaker C: The kicker for this game, it gets better. Game winning field goal hits the Steph Curry sleep.
He hits Steph Curry sleep as he hit a game winning kick to win the game. Ten to seven over Northwestern. And there's no kicking, so the ball went into the Northwestern crowd.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: Nice. Even better. Yeah.
[00:58:41] Speaker C: This game was like, if you that's.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: A real middle thing right there.
[00:58:44] Speaker D: Came here, dude.
[00:58:45] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. Well, also, if ESPN had this game ESPN is all over it.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
Just adding on to this. It broke Iowa's long standing record of having, like, the lowest predicted over underline going into the game. I think it was lower than the Iowa Minnesota I think it was like.
[00:59:04] Speaker C: 20 finished at 32 and a half pregame.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: All right.
[00:59:09] Speaker C: There was an in game line, I think, at halftime when it was zero to zero, that the over under was 19, which was the lowest recorded, like, of any over under, pregame weeks out, game in game over under ever. It was like 19 and a half.
[00:59:27] Speaker B: And it still went under. And it still went under.
[00:59:30] Speaker C: Some guys out there probably with thousands of dollars, betting on Iowa football to hit the under.
[00:59:35] Speaker B: And yeah, it doesn't matter how low they put it. Like, when are they just going to say, you know what, screw it? Yeah, it's almost like their offense over under.
The game opens at an over under of like, 20. Like, just straight up, like 20 and a half.
[00:59:48] Speaker C: Yeah, that is true. I'm trying to think. I don't know. And it's crazy because Iowa firm driver of the Big Ten West, this team's going to Indianapolis if we're not careful. America.
[00:59:59] Speaker A: America.
[01:00:00] Speaker D: Watch out.
[01:00:01] Speaker C: They play Rutgers.
[01:00:02] Speaker B: Who's going to step up and beat Iowa?
[01:00:04] Speaker C: Hear me out. Two weeks. So they play rutgers. Rutgers will rutgers might win that game. That's one of those are they better than crap?
Illinois in two weeks in Iowa. That's in Iowa. Their next two games are in Iowa. They play Illinois at home november 18. That over under.
That's the game where they might set the record. Because normally the Iowa over under is always like, well, the other team they're playing is all right, they might put up points. But no, this team, I mean, we talked about earlier with Jaden Daniels being wasted by having a bad defense. The Iowa defense is wasted by having this Iowa offense.
[01:00:40] Speaker D: Somebody give LSU Iowa's defense. They need it.
[01:00:43] Speaker C: Yeah, seriously, if any other team, I think in America, if any top 25 team had this defense, they might win the national championship. So, long story short, that's my shout.
[01:00:54] Speaker D: Out of the week.
[01:00:55] Speaker B: Great shout out.
[01:00:56] Speaker D: That's going to also, what do we do in the event that Iowa takes a Big Ten title game and beats Michigan or Ohio State?
[01:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah, no, what do we like, what.
[01:01:08] Speaker D: Do we do if they beat Michigan.
[01:01:10] Speaker C: Ten to seven in Indianapolis and then the offensive coordinator is fired?
[01:01:14] Speaker D: Like, do we got to put them in the playoff? I think we got to put them in the playoff.
[01:01:17] Speaker C: I mean, in theory, they would have, like, nine wins.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: I boycott the playoffs. I don't care if Alabama was in the playoffs.
[01:01:22] Speaker D: I wouldn't watch it if I was.
[01:01:23] Speaker C: Could you imagine Alabama, Iowa, what a football game.
[01:01:27] Speaker D: Talk about grounded.
[01:01:28] Speaker B: Pound the genius offense, ten total pass and Tom Uris.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: I'd like to give one more shout out, if I may.
I want to give it to whatever wind was going through Brian Denny Stadium last night because it seemed to be the only thing that can stop Will Riker.
[01:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:01:44] Speaker C: It made me so sad to see.
[01:01:45] Speaker A: Our king like that.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: Yeah, we actually talked about that.
[01:01:49] Speaker D: Had he hit both of them, he'd be 24 points shy. I know, but instead he's 30.
[01:01:55] Speaker C: I got some breaking news.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: Breaking news?
[01:01:57] Speaker C: USC has fired their defensive coordinator.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Really?
[01:02:01] Speaker D: Wow.
[01:02:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:02:02] Speaker D: Ten weeks too late.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:05] Speaker C: Should have never started him, but I.
[01:02:07] Speaker A: Don'T know if we should get into that.
[01:02:10] Speaker C: We're over an hour. It's been a long show. We literally just talked about Iowa, Northwestern, Ellis. We talked about maybe Caleb Williams now gets saved.
I expect USC to let up zero points in their next game.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't expect them to do that, actually.
Yeah. All right, are we done? Has everybody gotten the shout out?
[01:02:30] Speaker A: I think our shout out.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: Okay. With that being said actually, yeah.
With that being said, I'm Kaden Johnson. You can find me on Twitter at Kaden l Johnson.
[01:02:40] Speaker D: I'm Lincoln Burke Holder. You can find me on Twitter at link burke.
[01:02:43] Speaker C: I'm joe shots. You can find me on Twitter at joe shots 15.
[01:02:46] Speaker A: I'm producer Nick Gaddis. You can find me on Twitter at JM gaddis.
[01:02:50] Speaker B: All right. Great show, boys. With that being said, thank you for listening. This is Fourth and Goal podcast signing off.
