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2024 Predictions Extravaganza/Episode
This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. ♪♪♪ ♪ Lord of mighty, I feel my temperature rising ♪ ♪ Football's fever's burning through to my soul ♪ ♪ Yeah, cats, cats, cats, you're gonna set me on fire ♪ ♪ Mmm, my brain is flaming but I know just where to go ♪ ♪ Yeah, the seasons kickin' off and the bell will feel rockin' ♪ ♪ And basketball's worth no talkin', prayerful love ♪ ♪ Prayerful love, my school boy ♪ ♪ Oh, just a hunk of hunk of prayerful love ♪ ♪ And just a hunk of hunk of prayerful love ♪ ♪ Oh, just a hunk of hunk of prayerful love ♪ ♪ Five good boys and the phone hands are talking purple love ♪ Boom, the boys are back and it is time for my own personal pre-dictions. That's right. I've taken just about everyone's information I've tried to come up with what I feel. And I will go on the record. Now, we will be ending the Blitz Month prediction series on Thursday with Derek Young. Um, I couldn't flip flopped it because I believe it's getting recorded before, uh, Tuesday. Um, but we're going to switch to having, uh, you know, guests on Thursday, Thursday conversations. So I figured, uh, we would end Blitz Month guests on Thursday and park that in a spot where we will, uh, be, uh, having guests all season long. Um, so looking forward to that. Tomorrow we will have full game preview. We will go over, um, some stuff that has been, uh, shared in the media, Chris Klimans. Last conference, we had some player press availability as well that we will touch on. Um, that should be a good time. We will talk about the depth chart. The depth chart was released, um, uh, Monday morning, like I anticipated, um, nothing too crazy. We had kind of gotten to the point where none of like the positioning of players, uh, was too shocking, um, having three defensive end spots listed, having two different tight end spots listed, two different running back spots listed. Um, I mean, that's a little weird, a couple spots going three deep without any ores. That was a little weird, but we'll talk more about that to Morrow. Like I said, Derek Young will wrap up Blitz Month with us on Thursday. And then Friday we will have the whip around show returning. So it's going to be a very fun time. I can't wait. I hope you guys are excited for it as well. Before we get things going, we'll give a shout out to our friends over at Manhattan Brewing Company. All right, folks, you guys know they always have awesome stuff going on at the brewery right up there in Manhattan. Well, first off, of course, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they got stuff going on down in Wichita at the NBC lounge. So if you're in the air capital of the world, make sure you're checking it out. We got a couple beer releases yesterday as you guys are listening, the cactus cutie beer release, which is a cactus sour, which is honestly so delicious for this end of summer time period. They got that going on Monday. Today's you guys are listening, Taco Tuesday, grab food from El Patron, and then they got El Bandito Margarita's $1 off Thursday, the stay golden beer release is coming Friday. Again, every Friday before home games, they're going to have fun events going on. They, of course, the band comes through, they're going to have the KSU Alumni Association tailgate party from four to six out of the alley. They are going to have a food truck. There's going to be all sorts of purple, all sorts of fun stuff going on. So if you're in Manhattan on Friday, make sure you stop by. Make sure you're stocked up for tailgating on Saturday. Um, Saturday morning, they're opening up at nine a.m., kegs and eggs from nine to 11. They're going to have food from the chef, uh, mimosas, beer moses, bloody marries. They're going to have the French toast cask tapping. So that's the third beer that they're going to release the stay golden beer with the golden cats. That's dropping on Thursday. Um, and DJ Bria Shockey is going to be spinning as well. And of course, if you're not going to be at the game, if you need us about to watch it, it will be on at six p.m. On Saturday, Sunday, fun day there as well. Great vibes, uh, as it is a holiday weekend. Shout out to our friends over at Manhattan Brewing Company. All right. So we, I'm going to have some extra predictions. Um, I have, uh, all the Blitzman's predictions as well. Um, so it's going to be a fun episode and, uh, look, let's get into it. Let's see how right and wrong I'm going to be on these. All right. Uh, so I have some extra predictions. So I have, uh, all the Blitzman's predictions, but I have some bonus ones, uh, early on here. So the, the first one we got is, and I can't remember if I've said this on the show or if I said it on Twitter or online or someone else's show. So back in the era of the live show, we used to have super specific predictions and it was a prediction for the game that, uh, had nothing to do with the score. It could be a very specific stat line. I always liked the stuff that didn't really, uh, you know, it didn't really fall back to the game on the field. So I have a super specific prediction for this year and it's going to be that there will be a game, whether it's kickoff to start the game or some part during the game that is delayed due to pyrotechnic mistakes or smoke or something along those lines. Um, I don't know if it's going to be a home game or an away game. I know BYU has some very elaborate fire and fireworks and stuff that happens in between the third and fourth quarter. So maybe that might be a good one. Um, maybe there's a game that it's just super dense air, you know, super either foggy or muggy. And then the purple smoke that case that comes out, maybe it just lingers a little longer than the referees would like, um, maybe, you know, some rogue Iowa state fan shoots a bottle rocket on the field and it sparks up a little, uh, you know, fire patch or something. I'm not sure where or when, but that is my super specific prediction for the year. Um, we'll get into some offensive leaders. So I think that a DJ Giddens is going to lead the team in rushing and in rushing touchdowns. Um, I think, I, I think something bad would have to happen. I think an injury would have to occur for DJ Giddens not to be the team's leading rusher. Um, especially with how they continue to say they want to be very cautious and they want to be very selective when dialing up Avery Johnson runs, uh, and I think Dylan Edward Teal get plenty of touches. And I think ultimately he ends up being the number two rusher, Avery being number three. I still think DJ is going to be the guy, um, so I think he's going to lead the team in rushing yards and I feel very confident, uh, rushing touchdowns. On the other hand, that's where it might get more difficult. It might be in the red zone where they look to unleash Avery Johnson's legs. So I think he could be a tender for rushing touchdowns again. I think Dylan Edwards is going to get plenty of touchdowns. Um, but, but I don't think he is going to lead the team in, uh, rushing touchdowns. Uh, I think Jase Brown will be the leading receiver by yardage. I feel the most confident in him. I think like we all kind of say to ourselves, you know, if Keegan Johnson, if he has, uh, everything clicking, he has the talent to maybe be the leading receiver, but I feel more comfortable predicting Jase Brown on that one. Um, I do not have Jase Brown being the leader in receiving touchdowns though. I'm going to say that Garrett Oakley, big Oak ends up leading the team and receiving touchdowns, you might get, uh, five or six somewhere in there. Um, being a red zone target, being a big body, being an athlete, I think he's going to end up leading the team in receiving touchdowns. Um, I, I, I talk a little bit later what I think DJ Geton's stat line is going to end up looking like I, for Dylan Edwards, I, I think he's going to have six total touchdowns. Um, at least one of those being a special team's touchdown. And I think he's going to be right around a thousand yards from scrimmage. I think you're going to see maybe 650, uh, rushing in between 350, 400 yards receiving. Um, so maybe 600 is a little high. I don't know. I think he's going to be right around that thousand yards from scrimmage, um, uh, on offense. I'll just say DJs and I'll touch on it a little bit later. I think he's going to be right at a thousand yards rushing. Um, so I think he's going to be like 10 50, uh, total rushing yards, probably around eight or nine rushing touchdowns, uh, an extra receiving touchdown or two, an extra 200 yards receiving, so put them around 1200 yards from scrimmage show a slight setback from last year. Um, but, but I think that there's going to be a lot of folks who are getting involved in the passing and rushing game. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. You might say all kinds of stuff from things go wrong, but these are the words you really need to remember. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Now we will flip over to the defensive side of the ball for some of those predictions. Uh, I'm going with Austin Moore leading the team in tackles. Uh, I don't know how many 90, I should have, I should have done a little bit more research on that one. Um, but I think, I think Austin Moore's going to lead the team in tackles. I have Brendan Mott's money. Mott's. Uh, I have him grabbing eight or nine sacks, which I will have him giving the team lead. I have him taking a step up again. We saw him put up a big number when he was across from Felix. I think we have a lot of guys who will be opposite of Brendan Mott in different situations. So I think he capitalizes on that this year and has a bounce back season. I have him getting eight or nine sacks, I have marquee seagull leading the team in interceptions. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say he gets two pick sixes. That's right. I'm going with two pick sixes for marquee seagull after he leads the team in interceptions. I have three special teams touchdowns from K state. Um, at least one is going to be a pump block and at least one is going to be Dylan Edwards. Um, I don't know. I mean, it could be two from Dylan Edwards. It could be two pump blocks, uh, it could be a field goal block. Um, but, but I have at least three, uh, special teams touchdowns, at least one from Dylan Edwards, at least one on punt block. So that is my first set of predictions. We're getting to the next set, which is going to be all the blitz month predictions plus some bonuses attached to those. But before we get there, shout out to our friends, Charlie Hussle, if you haven't yet already, get over to the Bosco's boys Twitter account and find the tweets. We are giving away a t-shirt in the month of August. And again, every month all the way through March, all you have to do is make sure you're following us on social media, Charlie Hussle, and then retweet that tweet. So that's what you do, you get one entry, you get a second entry, if you either quote that tweet or reply with your favorite picture at Bill Snyder family stadium. So get in there, check out some of the other pictures and make sure you enter. Also make sure you're geared up for this football season. Uh, if you order now, it would be tight, probably not going to have it for Saturday, but you definitely will be able to have it, have some new gear for that trip to Tulane, or when Arizona comes back to play under the lights. So check out Charlie Hussle.com, or if you need it now, come to Kansas City in one of their great retail locations and get geared up, Charlie Hussle, vintage made fresh. All right, offensive MVP, look, it's Avery Johnson. It is Avery Johnson, and so many folks have tried too hard, have thought too hard, have tried to outsmart things, it's going to be Avery Johnson. Avery Johnson, here's my bonus prediction on that. I think he's going to have a top 10 Heisman vote getting season. I think K-State, and we're going to get to game by game predictions here in a second, but I think K-State's going to have a massive season. I think K-State's getting to Arlington, and spoiler alert, I've been saying it all summer. I think K-State wins the big 12, it's just a matter of who we're going to be playing. I think Avery Johnson starts in all 14, if not 15 games for K-State this year, granted Heisman Trophy is before the bowl season playoffs begin, but I think Avery Johnson has a big enough season, I don't think he's going to be a finalist, he's not getting to New York, but I think he is going to do a good enough job, and K-State's going to be good enough that he picks up a handful of first place votes in the state of Kansas, in the Midwest and big 12 territory. I think he gets a handful of third place votes from national folks, some second place here there, and I think that he has a big enough season where he does show up on the top 10. Now, I don't know when this started, but they only released the top 10 now. I know this for a fact, because I have voted for guys the last few years who have not been published, so I know it's only the top 10 get published as Heisman vote getters, but I think Avery Johnson is going to be in the top 10, so there's my extra and bold prediction there. Additionally, I want to talk about DJ Guiness, because again, I think he's going to have the type of season where he cements himself and he'll go down as the possibly the number one most underrated player in K-State history. I think he's going to have over a thousand yards rushing. Will he get back to that 1200 yard number? Maybe, maybe not, he might be aided in playing two extra games versus last year, but I think he's going to go over a thousand. I don't think he's going to have quite as many receiving yards, but I think he's going to probably end up at least 1200 yards from scrimmage or around 1200 yards from scrimmage. Depending on how healthy he stays and some of the other stuff going on with the offense, but I think with a season like that, it's going to put him even higher in the record books, and he is just penalized because he is playing in an era in the big 12. We're just about everyone has an all American candidate at running back. He was immediately following Deuce Vaughn, who was an all time great player at K-State, so I think when the history books are written and when we look back 5, 10, 15 years from now on the Chris Kleinman era of K-State football and K-State football as a whole, I think DJ Giddens will go down as maybe the most underrated player of all time. I think he has a good enough season where he moves on and he's either fourth or fifth round draft pick, maybe a third round, late third round draft pick, but that's my prediction for DJ the Blue J. Giddens absolutely love that kid, and I am going to really enjoy and cherish every moment we get with DJ because again, I think he's one of the best to play the position, and I think we always have to cherish and really enjoy those players when we get them. Alright, moving on to defense now, I've already put out a pretty big sack number for Brendan Mott, I've said that Marquis Seagull is going to lead the team in interceptions and take two back for touchdowns, I've said Austin Moore is going to lead the team in tackles, I've been saying for a couple weeks that I think Jordan Riley and Vijay Payne are going to be future NFL draft picks, I've said that Keenan Garber and Jacob Parrish have the potential to also be NFL draft picks and be potential all conference honorees, Damian Alaleo, he's going to be starting right there in the middle, but I'm going with Des Purnell. Now is it sentimental, do I really enjoy this kid's game and part of it has to do with him being at Topeka Cat 100%, I'm not going to sit here and say that him being one of my favorite players isn't playing into this, it is, but I think he is someone who can do a little bit of it all, I think he's going to grab an interception or two, I think he's going to be among the team leaders and tackles for loss, I think he's going to get a few sacks this season on some blitzes, I think he's going to have a couple fumble recovery, I think he's going to have a few forced fumbles, I think he is going to be someone who makes plays in just about every single game and he's never doing it the same way. Like I said, he's going to drop back in zone and pick off a quarterback who's looking to hit the tight end right over the middle, he's going to punch out the ball and make big turnovers, he's going to get a couple sacks, he's going to get tackles for loss taken out of running back in the backfield, he is going to be able to do everything he's going to be maybe third or fourth in the team and tackles, I think Desmond Purnell is going to have an absolutely massive, massive year, so that's who I'm going with for defensive MVP, all right, who's the newcomer of the year going to be again, I think Jordan Riley's going to be a good option there, I think there's a chance it might be him, Travis Bates, you know, again, he gets lost in the mix when you talk about all these young defensive ends, but keep in mind he was one of the most highly sought after edge players in the transfer portal. Of course, Dylan Edwards, I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned a little bit more, but again, I think we're going to see big things from Dylan Edwards, Dante Sifis reconnecting with his coach from Kent State where he was so good, we'll see if Matthew Middleton can unlock what he was able to in Dante Sifis up in the Mac a few years ago, I think there are a lot of good candidates and I could make an argument for a lot of them, but I'm going with Easton Kilti, look, he's going to be playing left tackle, I think in a perfect royalty be playing left guard, but I think he's going to be playing left tackle, I think he's going to be in all conference contender, maybe even a first team all conference contender, I think he is going to be drafted, he will be in the NFL draft next year, whether or not it's early day three or on day two, time will tell, I think he'll play guard in the NFL, but I think we're going to see that and I think he is going to be one of the key guys along with Hadley Panzer and I'm anticipating and I'm hoping for another big year from Willis as well and have those three kind of be the mainstays in the rocks of that offensive line, again, that's not taking anything away from Sam Heck, that's not taking away anything from Taylor Portier or Andrew Leingank, who I'm sure will get plenty of time all season long as well, but I think East and Kilti is going to be a rock for this team and I think it's going to lead to some postseason honors and I think everyone's going to think back to themselves. That was a massive portal pickup and we're glad he was a big part of an offensive line that surprised a lot of folks who aren't paying attention, so I'm going East and Kilti for my newcomer of the year. Like out player, look, again, I could've gone a lot of different ways and I talked about how Brendan Mott's going to end up, I think, what we'll call eight sacks there. I'm saying eight sacks, but in my foot down saying Brendan Mott's going to have eight sacks, but I'm going with C.D.O.B.A.'s or I think amongst the young guys, that class of Redshirt freshmen, he actually might be a sophomore. This is bad on me. He might have burnt his red shirt last year, I don't know. Amongst that class of 2023 defensive ends, I think he's going to get the most time and I think he's going to flash the most and again, he might be a guy who ends up after his time's done at K-State being a day one or day two NFL draft, but he might be a guy who is going for all American honors as a junior or senior. I think he's that good, I think he's that athletic and I love the size that he's at right now. I think C.D.O.B.A.'s or is going to put up a lot of sacks and he's going to be considered as the breakout player of the year. Again, could have gone a lot of different ways. Again, Davis, we talked about it yesterday. That's where a lot of the noise is going. That's where a lot of the momentum is and if I had to make a guess, I haven't recorded it with him yet. I think there's a chance Derek Young might choose him to be his breakout player, but I'm rocking with C.D. the pendulum game of the year, and here's the thing folks, we'll go game by game and I have K-State losing, like I'm not having as go 12 and up, but I don't have us losing this pendulum game versus Oklahoma State and the reason why I'm going with this is the pendulum game and I've thought about a couple others. I think you could have gone KU, that's going to be a massive game, I think that they're going to be a contender for Arlington and I mean it's a massive rivalry game, you can't be dropping that game. If you go 11-1 and you go to Arlington, hell even if you win the big 12, but you're sitting at 12-1 going into the college football playoff, that one is a loss versus KU, you're going to have, it's a small, it's small, but you're going to have a subset of the fan base that would try to trade that all away to get that win versus KU. So I understand why that was picked earlier in the year, that would be on my short list. The most popular game was West Virginia and I understand that one as well, it's sandwiched in between two of the games at the locker room at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in the veneer family football complex, that is the game that is sandwiched between the two that the players probably want the most, it's right in between Colorado and Kansas. So there is a definite look ahead situation, especially if West Virginia stumbles out of the blocks and they're sitting with a 500 record and they've lost Penn State and lost a couple of big 12 games, I easily could see how that is a look ahead game and they have enough talent, Neil Brown has kind of had K-State's number, especially earlier on in his tenure. So I 100% understand why folks are picking that game as a pendulum, but I'm going with Oklahoma State and the reason why I'm going with that one is because it's early in the season, yes, but that is one of the only games on Oklahoma State schedule where they're going to be tested in big 12 fly, you know, they're hosting Utah the week before, so they're going to be coming off of an emotional high, I have Oklahoma State winning that one. So in spoiler, I have K-State coming into this game undefeated as well. So this could be a top 15 matchup, depending on how rest of college football goes, maybe even outside shot being a top 10 matchup, you're going to have eyeballs on this game, you're going to have the world of college football hyper focused on this game, and if you win it, you have that head to head tiebreaker versus Oklahoma State. And with as tight as I think this season's going to go, you not only need that tiebreaker over Oklahoma State, but you need tiebreakers over common opponents, hypothetically, if Utah goes eight and one in the big 12, and their loss is Oklahoma State, K-State goes eight and one in their losses Oklahoma State as well, you then have that tiebreaker over Utah. You know, it would be an absolutely massive game when you're talking about the race to Arlington. So that is what I have as my pendulum game. Not only is it going to be important to win that game for tiebreakers, but if you lose that game, you're chasing ghost rest of the season and you feel like you might have to be perfect rest of the way. So again, if you win that game that gives a lot more margin for air possibly later in the season and doesn't have that little nagging feeling in the back of your head as you're chasing after the race to Arlington. All right, K-State's record, I'm going to go game by game here. And then we'll go to big 12 standings, I predicted every single game in the conference. And yeah, and then I'll also, I gave in, I'll have some college football playoff predictions as well. So game by game, UT Martin, I have it big, I have it as a blow out win, wire to wire, comfortable, not worried about that one at all. At Tulane, I'm going to say close early, maybe first quarter, middle of second, but they start pulling away, have a two possession lead, maybe a half time and pull away late, maybe a 17 point win when it's all said and done. That might be a little much, that might be a little high, but I think it's a relatively calm day out in New Orleans. Coming home Friday night lights with Arizona, I have it going to be a win, I'm going to have us jumping out early and kind of holding on late. I think Arizona is going to make some big plays, but ultimately, K-State's star tot makes enough plays of our own in the second half to get the win over Arizona. At BYU, I'm going to have us trailing at halftime, but ultimately winning the game and actually winning by double digits by 11 points. I'm going to the game and I'm going to be pissed off as all hell at halftime, I'll be grumpy, but I'll be a happy camper exiting the stadium in Provo, Utah. Oklahoma State, I've kind of already shown my hand on this one. I think it's going to be one of the best atmosphere of the Chris Kyman era. I have them being undefeated at this point after beating Utah the week before. I have it being a close game, a good game, an entertaining game, but I have K-State coming away on top. Then I have K-State going to Colorado and I have K-State jumping on them early and I think this is a massive, massive, national narrative change around coach prime and Colorado. I have K-State jumping on early in Colorado, kind of packing it up after and it's a entertaining and fun, easy win. At West Virginia, as much as I want to predict K-State to go 12 and 0, I think this is the first time maybe ever, maybe ever, that I've sat here and said every single game, if K-State loses any of them, I will be mad. I will be upset. There is not a single game on this schedule where if you say to me, "Hey, K-State loses," I'm like, "Oh, that makes sense. That's all right." No, I would be pissed off, I'd be pissed off if we lost any of these games, but I just can't predict this to go 12 and 0 and this has been a popular upset pick by K-State fans, K-State dropping the game at West Virginia. It's sandwiched in between, like I said, the two games that I think that the players in that locker room want to win the most at Colorado and KU at home. I think there's a look ahead situation and West Virginia is good enough to handle that. I mentioned Neil Brown has had K-State's number at times. I think we dropped this game and look, I don't think it'll be the end of the world. I'm sure I'll be in my feelings and pouty if this happens, but ultimately I think it'll be okay. If you have to drop one conference game, it makes sense. It makes sense. I just wasn't going to predict us to go 12 and 0. They're coming off that loss, playing KU, again, depending on how their season's going. There's a chance they could be higher ranked. They might have a better record. Losing that game may cost something like college game-date, may cost something like big noon kick-off. I'm sure the atmosphere will be neutered just a bit. I don't think it would substantially change anything. Again, I talked about how that Oklahoma State game may be one of the best atmospheres in Chris common era. I think that this KU game, regardless of what happens in Morgantown the week before, has the chance to be a great atmosphere. I have K-State winning this game. I think it's going to be closer than we've all become accustomed to. I think K-State will be in control the majority of the game, have KU at arm's length, but never quite put them away. So I think it's a one possession win as we sit here right now. Again, there's a glass boy playing quarterback for KU. If he's out, I guarantee Cole Ballard is not keeping this one close back to back here. It's just I'm in Manhattan. So if they're having some injury luck go against them, I could get nasty, but right now I'll have it as a single possession win way closer than any of us want, but it'll be 16 straight, I think. I think they'll be 16 straight, which is wild, but yeah, 16 straight. At Houston, boring first half kind of an emotional letdown, but ultimately they get it figured out in the second half, win by three possession, so winning by 17 points. Home vs Arizona, state, blowout city, home on senior day, Cincinnati, blowout city, and then K-State at Iowa State in a must win game for Arlington, because as you're going to see, there is going to be a bit of a log jam at seven and two, and I think K-State wins. I think it's close. It's never comfortable, but you'll have, you know, you know, player too late. You have a whole sleeve of thumbs after the game, but K-State clinches their birth to Arlington, and what would be a, you know, I think definitely top ten, maybe top eight at this point in the rankings of that went over Iowa State. Now before we get to who K-State's playing in the big 12 championship game, again, I went through and picked every single game, and look, I had, and here's the thing when you go through this exercise, if you're not looking to find the upsets, which I mean, there are a couple games that I have circled, then I'm like, all right, an upset is going to happen here, and none of them are massive upsets by any means, but unless you're looking to find upsets, I think that you're going to have some of the teams especially at the bottom and middle, the bottom of the conference you have a little too low and probably the middle a little too high, but, you know, it is what it is. I went through all the games, I have three teams at one and eight in the conference, Houston BYU and Baylor, if you had to make me guess, I would say maybe Houston gets a couple more than that, maybe Baylor a couple more, I'm just not high on BYU, and yeah, so I have those three at the bottom, I have Arizona State, Colorado, and Cincinnati at two and seven, again, I'm not very high on Colorado, and Arizona State and Cincinnati have more of those games versus the bottom half of the conference at home, so that's where they get that extra win. Big jump up from there, I don't have any one at three and six, I don't have any one at four and five, which seems weird, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles, at five and four, this is where I have West Virginia, Iowa State and TCU, again West Virginia, they're going to be the kingmakers, I think that they're going to knock off a handful of teams, but they have such a tough schedule, so I have them kind of maxing out at five and four, which would probably be a seven and five season if their non-con goes about the way I expect a decent encore performance by Neil Brown, but probably not what their fans would be hoping for, Iowa State there as well, again, they have some tough games, again, you know, they have K-State, K-U, Iowa State, not Iowa State, Utah, they have some tough games on that schedule, I have them falling in a bunch of close games, and I have TCU there, a middle of the pack for them, so we'll see what happens. At six and three, this is where I have K-U, Arizona and Texas Tech, look, I like Texas Tech's schedule, I think that they are a talented team, they were everyone's darlings last year, I think that they're going to be on the outside looking in when you're talking about Arlington Hunt, but they have a decent schedule, I think they have a decent squad, so I think wearing the Patrick Mahomes uniforms, I think Texas Tech goes six and three. I already showed my hand, I have K-State going eight and one in big twelve play, at seven and two I have UCF, who again, I've been high on them, I think that KJ Jefferson's going to have a great year, I like Gus Malzahn, I've been saying it really since, you know, pre-season content started, I think UCF is going to surprise a lot of folks, so I have them going seven and two, and this is also where I have Utah, I have Utah dropping their game at the bounce house and at Oklahoma State, so I have Utah going seven and two, they will not be making it to Arlington, and yes, I have Oklahoma State trying to avenge their only loss against K-State in Arlington, I know the adage is it's tough to beat a team twice, but I do have K-State winning the big twelve for the second time in the last three years going head to head with fellow big eight original Oklahoma State and K-State coming out victorious. You guys know my thoughts about, you know, the playoff, whatever, I put together a projection because everyone else is doing it, so maybe it's wacky, maybe it's not, but this is where I am. I have Georgia being the number one seed, winning the SEC, I have Oregon winning the big ten with a two seed, I have K-State getting the three seed in front of the ACC champion Miami, I have at the twelve seed, I've gone back and forth with this, I've said Memphis, I've said Boise State, I'm going with Appalachian State, why not, let's get weird, let's go with the Mountaineers of Appalachian State, saying it out loud, I hate it, I kind of want to switch it to Boise State, but I'm not going to, so Appalachian State winning, and they are in the playoff as the twelve seed, God, that is horrible, what am I doing picking Appalachian State, I hate it, I hate it, no I'm going Boise State, screw it, screw it. Tried to be original, I tried to be fun, Boise State's at the twelve seed, winning the Mountain West with a ten and two record, and they're the highest ranked group of five champion, Boise State, the Broncos, all right, number five seed, we got Ohio State after they bench Will Howard before they get too deep into the season, before the halfway mark, got Texas as the six seed, we got Alabama as the seven seed, Penn State as the eight seed, I have Oklahoma State as the nine seed, only two losses on the season, both coming to the Super K State Wildcats, Oklahoma State gets in as an at large, I have Ole Miss as a ten seed, and LSU as an eleven seed, look, I mean what, I have five SEC teams in there, three big ten, one ACC, two big twelve, and I switched it up to Boise State, look, that's a gross playoff, I doubt I even get half of these teams right, but look, everyone else is putting their predictions out there, so whatever, I have a podcast I feel like I have to. That's all for those, so I've predicted big twelve jobs opening in the past on the show, I'm going to do that, I have BYU moving on from Kalani Satake, Baylor moving on from Dave Aranda and hiring Jeff Traylor, and then I think the move that shakes college football, it's not a massive job, so maybe I'm cheating a little bit here, but I think Colorado moves on from Deon, whether it's presented as mutual, or if it's presented as just straight up him getting fired, I think Deon Sanders has a disastrous season, both on and off the field, and Deon is not to coach at Colorado in 2025. Bonus prediction, I said it with Shahan, I agreed with him, I think that Mark Stoops is going to retire from Kentucky, and I have Colin Klein becoming the new head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats after Texas A&M has a decent year with a good offense. I also am going to predict that Van Malone moves on and has an FCS head coaching position next season, so those are the coaching carousel predictions as well. That's all we have, folks, again tomorrow we'll have my UT Martin preview, Thursday we'll get the final Blitz Month preview episode with Derek Youngout for you guys, then we'll have the whip around on Friday, so that's all we have for Chauncey Bosco, the best dog in the world, for the greatest sponsors in the world, Charlie Hussle and Manhattan Brewing Company. This is Scott McFarland, you can find me on Twitter @ScottWildcat or @BoscosBoys. We love you guys, and go cats. It's time to get set for the Cat Attack. 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