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CFB All-America - Week 1 Winners and Losers - Top Freshman Debuts - LSU Struggles

The CFB All-America team wraps up week one of the college football season. They talk winners and losers, which includes a recap of the Notre Dame win over Texas A&M. They also talk freshman standouts in week one and discuss Brian Kelly's continue season opening struggles at LSU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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05 Sep 2024
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The CFB All-America team wraps up week one of the college football season. They talk winners and losers, which includes a recap of the Notre Dame win over Texas A&M. They also talk freshman standouts in week one and discuss Brian Kelly's continue season opening struggles at LSU.

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Keep an eye on the main sporting news account at sporting news. Bill Week One, Long Week One, is in the books. And when you go back from Thursday night with Colorado, Saturday night with Notre Dame, Sunday night, the USC LSU game, and then Monday night the upset that Boston College pulled one heck of a five day span right there, huh? That was fun. There's a lot of football, a lot of truth gets told in some ways. Now I always caution people, what we saw in week one was great, but if you see something completely different in week two, don't be surprised with some things. And I know we can get into that, but I definitely a lot of fun to get through that first weekend. And then you get into like the rhythm of the rest of the season. As we put, I mean, to me, it's the seven games between powerful opponents. I need, I don't need to watch Ole Miss Furman anymore. I need LSU, USC. I need Miami, Florida. I need games that have consequences. I don't need to watch the 50 point blowout anymore. Even between the group of five and the power five. I don't, those games don't do it anymore. Nope, nope, I agree. But the ones that were good matchups did not disappoint, which was great. And even the blowouts like the Miami's over the Florida's was, you know, stories in themselves that will have consequences in the coming weeks, months, and years really from those games. So all right, let's get into quick trochi trivia. LSU has lost five straight season openers. Can you name the five games they lost? I bet you can. Yeah, they all have a story to them too. Very. That'll be the. That's not my trochi trivia. So maybe a little too easy from this, a little bit of a layup there that each one of them has a unique Brian Kelly story or Ed Orger on story. Maybe I opened up with an FCS opponent for you in the trivia department. That's fine. But I mean, if we want to, yeah, well, yeah, I know that one. But I'll throw in a couple. When we do the pick show, be prepared. Buckle up. I'm going to try and I'm going to bring it for a week for our second or third show of the week actually. College football nation. What's going on? Marking in the second here. Get inside access to the college football world and be on every week at three time national champion head coach Urban Meyer announced a Rob Stone and I take you from the field into the locker room and beyond discussing the top moments in college and pro sports plus conversations with the biggest names from every corner of entertainment delivered to you at home or on the road. Watch triple option on YouTube or listen on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. All right. Well, let's get into it. So, you know, big thoughts. The big winners of the weekend, you know, I think Miami obviously USC with the huge win Notre Dame goes down, pulls it out in the last two or three minutes at Texas A&M. And then of course, Georgia just hammers Clemson. I don't know which winner stood out to you the most. We can start with Miami. I think that was probably the one. It was a two or three point spread or so that really was impressive for a team that we needed to see them prove something and they did. Yeah, Kim Ward, the 380 yards, the total control couple NFL throws, calm, took a couple personal fouls on lay hits in the first half and it didn't face him at all. And going into an in state rivals house and beating them down to the point where we're talking about firing their coach in September. All of those things, Miami, I picked Florida to win. I thought, and that's like, I don't care about losing picks, but it strikes me when you think something is going to happen. And then you see that they West Virginia is another great example. They didn't have as much fight as I thought they might. And to get beat at home like I think it does say a lot about Miami, but it also says a little bit about Florida. Yeah, I mean, Florida, they, you know, they've got the tough schedule. Everybody knew that. They thought they were going to put up a big fight. It's funny too. You know, Miami comes in with, uh, Cam Ward, a quarterback out of the transfer portal. You hear about they did a great job in the transfer portal. And you look at their in state rival, Florida state, who concentrated a lot on the transfer portal. Now they're off to an O and two star. We can talk about them in a minute, but it's like the transfer portal. It's like, I'm reading, well, Florida state, you know, they built their team last year on the transfer portal, but now that they're all gone, you can't keep sustaining that. So it's like, people try to pin narratives on, uh, you know, whether or not the transfer portal is a good thing or a bad thing. And it's just, it's not universal. It's not easy to draw on conclusion, uh, whether or not going through the transfer portal is a good thing. That's just continuity. I mean, that's, to me, it's what it is. It's continuity is, well, I know we're going to talk about Florida state, but everybody was banging on Clemson because Clemson's the easiest one to bang on because they don't use it. Well, they don't use it, right? Well, I thought Danny canal had a good tweet about old misuse. Is it more than anybody else and got beat 52 17 by Georgia? Sometimes you just get beat by Georgia. So, um, I think it's a happy medium. And one of the schools that actually has done a really good job with it, and we'll see if it continues. Michigan's done a good job equal recruiting. They don't really get five star guys and they supplement with the portal and the guys they bring in and bring in from the portal are normally pretty good. Sean barham this year and offensive lineman that chip in right away. So again, like you said, like the portal is not a bad thing. It gives kids a chance to play. But when you bring in 30 kids from the portal and they haven't played together, I'll use the example of my daughter's volleyball team of the weekend. All these girls are friends. They play other sports together. Four of them had never played volleyball before. The first game was rough. But as the first game, you know, the first set was bad. The second set, you're like, Oh, we got some athletes out here by the third set. You're like, Hey, they're going to be all right. So it takes time. That's my way. That's my long way. Winded way of saying there you go. It's going to take time for it especially takes time for quarterbacks to settle in. So that that's kind of my theory. Unless you can't ward, of course. So I just woke up Miami schedule. Okay, Florida and M, easy win ball state, big favorites, ball state, big favorites. South Florida, they're going to be favorite. Virginia Tech, they just lost a Vanderbilt. Big favorite. Cal, Louisville, maybe Louisville will be a challenge on the road. Florida state, they're going to be a favorite. No question. Duke, they'll be favored at Georgia Tech. They'll be favored. Wake Forest Syracuse. What's got suddenly Miami going to be 12 and out. Well, I mean, here's the thing though. Are they, are they, I'm impressed, but ACC is weird. Always has been. Do you have, where do they, do they slip up in the ACC? It's a hell of a year for them not to play Notre Dame. That would have been a great game to have this year, have Notre Dame and Miami on the schedule. But I think they're pretty legit. The things that Manny told us a couple of weeks ago about the physical running game, the dudes on offense, the locker room, you know, can't ward on top of it. Yeah, I mean, who else are you going to pick right now, Clemson? I know. Who else? I mean, right now, if you were asking me, it was funny, I was thinking about this last night. What if the ACC championship game was Boston College in Georgia Tech? I mean, those are the two that I think are right now, if you were asking me, who's going to challenge Miami? It might be those two. It might be, and it might be Miami Boston College. Who knows? Get Doug Flute out there for the coin toss. 30th anniversary, by the way. That's right. Wow, that would be interesting. Speaking of Notre Dame and a team that needed to get over an initial hurdle to possibly go on a nice little run on an easy schedule, you got Miami in one end, you got Notre Dame. On the other hand, they pulled out the win against Texas A&M 23 to 13. It was 1313 late. Neither team could get control of the game. A little bit sloppy. It wasn't like the most well played game. I thought USC LSU was much better played, much sharper on both sides of the ball, big plays. This was overcoming errors. It was such a cauldron of noise in that place. Hats off to the Aggies for getting that kind of environment. But Notre Dame cleared the hurdle, and now that Florida State is looking questionable at best with some of their transfers. DJU does not look good, obviously. Notre Dame has a similar easy path. What did you make out of the Irish? How important was that fourth quarter now for the rest of their season? Oh, huge. I saw it like afterward, Matt Berry. I mean, I like him, but he's like Notre Dame at a 10 and two is a questionable playoff team. I'm like, really? They'll find a way to squeeze them in. And that was a huge win for them. I think Marcus Freeman showed a lot of emotion you saw. I think Matt Fortuna showed them in the tunnel or whatever. He was fired up. He's a linebacker personality in the game. Pretty calm. You know, he's learned from Jim Trussell. And I think he, as a coach, has learned lessons from losses last year at Ohio State Clemson. They didn't freak out. They ran the ball. It was ugly for Riley Leonard at times. With the two things Notre Dame has going for him, offensive line, despite the injuries or, you know, they didn't allow sack. The defense is nasty. And I said this before the season, they reminded me of like this year's Michigan on defense. And yeah, if they played Michigan, it'd probably be three to nothing, or six to three or something. Those two defenses are very good. USC is also on the Irish slate. They looked great on Sunday. And so if you want to look for a team that Notre Dame might not be favored against for the rest of the year, I think USC might be the only team Florida state. Like I said, it doesn't look like that team. But USC does. What did you think of Miller Moss? I thought they were clutch. I thought that game could have gone either way. I don't necessarily feel like LSU was in shambles or anything like that. Like Brian Kelly was frustrated or whatever. But it's like, he was frustrated because twice in the fourth quarter, they had the ball and the lead and went three and out. That's exactly. I don't know why he couldn't verbalize that. That and he's like, we got to put them away. That was what he was talking about. They had two opportunities, and they went three and out both times. Hats off to the USC defense. They've needed that forever. The old USC defense gives up a touchdown. They fall behind by 10. But that didn't happen on Sunday night. Would you think a USC? I was really, really impressed. LSU's undisciplined. 99 yards penalty yards. That's their problem. They're undisciplined. And like he said, after they had guys on the sideline thinking the game is over. Well, that's not being disciplined. I think Lincoln Riley, you could see it the way he was his sideline demeanor. They had to have that one. That was a perception altering. I mean, perception altering so much that big tell. We're recording this before the APT top 25 drops. I think they'll be in the top 10. I think you put them in the upper tier with Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon. And now you have five teams in the Big Ten that are interesting and for different reasons. And that they have a bi-week before Michigan. That game is definitely spicier because USC is probably favored now because of Miller Moss. So yeah, high marks to USC for sure for coming out and winning that game. And LSU, it's got to be Matt. You can do yourself favored. Look at Matt Moscona's Twitter page with some of the reactions, some of the LSU media type had about that loss. And Matt does a great job, by the way, down with those guys in Baton Rouge. But I'd be frustrated too if I lost five straight openers and tour them. And with the exception of that UCLA game, they probably should have won four of them. They both quarterbacks impressed us. I mean, you and I were tweeting back and forth, I mean, texting back and forth during the game. I thought no smart care, no smart look great for LSU. And I thought Miller Moss look great for USC. They just, they seemed in rhythm. The receivers were, you know, the timing was right. They were stepping up at the right times. And you know, it's funny to see that these Heisman quarterback understudies who had stayed in place, didn't have a huge learning curve in sort in terms of stepping into these offenses. Yeah, they waited their turn. Who knew that worked? If you stay in the system and wait your turn, that you ball out when you get your turn. And both of those guys did. Both of them did. There's a novel idea. So yeah, and then when you have fan bases frustrated that a quarterback who transferred struggles a little bit in the first half, well, I wonder why they have been played together. You can learn that from the great volleyball, by the way. So winner, last winner on our list, Georgia. Right. They, you know, 34 to three. They struggled to put points on the board in the first half, has settled for two field goals. They only had one red zone trip in the first half. And then they just kind of beat them down in second half. The speed on Georgia's team defense, I was there on Saturday in person. It was just like, oh, yeah, it's just unbelievable. You know, Clemson has one sort of competent receiver right now. tight end is pretty good. Club next, you know, still fine in his way. But I mean, a lot of teams are going to struggle to score against Georgia this year. I'm not totally ready to write Clemson off. But that was not a competitive game in the second half. They played, they played Georgia. I, you know, I talked to my son's game yesterday. I talked to a high school coach Brad Birchfield at Hartley. Fantastic coach been around the game forever. And I made him laugh when I said, Hey, what are we going to do with this 12 team playoff and all this excitement that people were pretending that it is. And then they get to watch Alabama and Georgia at the end of the year. Because that's probably what I would, if I was calling the national title game today, I'd say it's going to be Alabama and Georgia because those were the two best teams I watched this weekend. I mean, like Alabama, tell me about that. I think I like Alabama more as a winner than Georgia because I know they were playing Western Kentucky, but I mean, I'm telling you, Kellen DeBore wins everywhere. Ellen DeBore has more toys than he's ever had anywhere. He likes to whip it downfield. They, I actually think like a refurbished offense is going to be a big deal for Alabama with Ryan Williams with, they play and no greater measuring stick than this weekend when they play South Florida, a team that they beat 17 to three last year. Jalen Millroad didn't play. Remember how gross that game was. I think they're going to score about 50 on them this weekend. And Ryan Williams is the truth, just as Hanes is the truth. That's why like I was just giggling. I'm like, we have all these just remarkable changes in college football. And I think at the end of the year, we may watch Alabama and Georgia play for the whole damn thing. And I'm going to laugh if that happens. Week three, we get a little Alabama at Wisconsin. They get at least a little bit of a big 10 challenge in the, in the nine conference. So all right, let's step into the state of Florida, Florida and Florida state. They are what I combined. Oh, and three right now, they played three power four teams at least. You can give them that. But let's start with Florida state. Thought they would bounce back from the Georgia Tech game. That one came down to the last play of the game. Georgia Tech kicked field goal in Ireland, of course, to win it. This one did not come back down to the last play of the game, Boston College. They, that was a clinic in the first half, at least, by that offensive coordinator, or if Bill O'Brien was calling the place, whoever was calling the plays, they were working, they were open, they were finding grass, they knew how to attack. They were running between the tackles for five or six yards every time. Then they do a little screen pass. This guy was open. That guy was open. And it was a mismatch. It looked like a coaching mismatch. And it looked like an offensive defensive line mismatch. Yeah, and I had to watch it in Spanish, because of this Disney ESPN thing, like we have Uverse. So Grant gets in the app. We have the ESPN app, of course. And he's Grant being, I just get so flustered when stuff's not working. Like, I'm like, why do we not have ESPN? And I'm Googling. Grant gets in the app. We stumbled upon the Spanish feed. So like, it was kind of like, you know, he's getting on that age where he's got to take Spanish in school. I was like, well, you can learn this way. And, you know, we then I had to turn the volume off after a while. But it was funny. But, you know, they look horrible. Florida State looks horrible. And everybody's piling on DJU. And that sucks for him, honestly, because they have other functional issues on that team that make it tough to the point where I got a text this morning from a friend who said, how long until the beyond Florida State's talk starts. That won't happen. But it's like DJU's not accurate. And then the few times he was accurate, the guys would drop the ball. They're undisciplined to. They're just not, and portal stuff has something to do with it. When you, so we should probably do this story bill where like two schools that stand out to me, the last couple of TCU went heavy portal, went to the title game next year, not so good. Michigan State with Mel Tucker, the year they had Kenneth Walker went, you went to that peach bowl when they played pit, heavy portal next year, not so much. So I guess Florida State's not, you know, immune to that, I suppose. I put up a Twitter pool, but I'll ask you this question. The answer seems obvious, but I don't think it is. I said, who will win more games? Florida State or Florida? Twitter pool? Boom. It's like 60, 40 Florida State right now. That should be 80, 20 Florida State with the schedules, which tells you how they feel until I have here right now. Let's talk some Gators. What do you think? I mean, it was a, you know, Billy Napier, I don't know if he stepped in at the next day, you know, with his comment about, we're worried about getting better on the football field and not worried about what someone says in their, in their basement in rural Florida. And that was taken as a shot. Of course, he followed that up by saying, we deserve criticism. I deserve it. I can take it. That part of the quote didn't necessarily get in there. But is he going to last the season? Or is he going to, they're going to pull the plug, you know, with the next month or so. I, you know, I texted you yesterday as like, we might want to start looking at a list because the Lane Kiffin talk has already gone out there. Sure. And they just repress reset so many times and they, these like Dan Mullen, should they have not fired him? I don't think, I don't know. This is messy and it's toxic. And when you see thing, I, you know, the notion of a hot seat, I think, and you did the hot seat piece last week and it was good. But the one thing I would say is hot seats just exist less now. They'll just fire you. Yeah. Right. Like it's like he didn't have a hot seat. He just got fired. Like they could go lose one of these really tough games they have and get embarrassed and they could just say, we're done with you. We'll move on to the next one. So yeah, his hot, his seat is flaming. Lane Kiffin would be the first name. I'm trying to think off top of my head, who else they might look at because they've kind of done the G five thing a few times, right? They've tried McElwain. They've tried Billy and I thought Billy would be a hit here based on his, you know, G five track record. I think this is saving tree. So I had the power five. I had the SEC continue to Louisiana and does really well there and then comes into the Florida and just hasn't happened. Right. And that's, you know, they'll they'll get very impatient very fast. So I think, you know, I think it'll be really interesting to see how toxic this gets. I believe who do they play here? Let's look at their schedule real quick. They have a Samford this week. That gets weird. And then Texas A&M, you know, one game to circle where it could get weird is UCF on October 5th. UCF, pretty good team with Gus, KJ Jefferson at quarterback coming into Gainesville, right? Gus is a guy with an SEC background. People will put the two and why don't we hire him? If UCF comes in there and beats them. So maybe that's the date we're looking at October 5th. Things could be interesting because like I said, it's it's useless to say his seat is hot now. Oh, it's hot, but they'll they'll just get rid of him. Yeah, I just he's definitely the leader in the clubhouse to be relieved. All right, switching gears. I have a story coming out. I think Thursday I looked at top five true freshman Dave Hughes from week one. I've got the list in front of you there. We start with Dylan Rayola at Nebraska. He was great. Highly touted quarterback told fans to buckle up before his debut. And he gave him good reason. He only played one series in the third quarter before they took him out as they blew out UTEP through for 238 yards, I think two touchdowns. And then we had the wide receipt two wide receivers on my list here Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State, Holy mackerel. I saw his two touchdowns were good. The one that set up a touchdown late in the second quarter, the left handed one handed catch inside the five yard line. Did you see that one? Oh, yeah. That was a catch. And I'll let you talk right after this. But I think I saw it on Twitter. I forget if I talked to you about this, but they were in the red zone early. They went trips left, and they put Jeremiah Smith by himself on the right. He ran a slant inside. They threw it to him for the touchdown. And I'm like, that's what you do for your WR one. And that's what they're treating him as already. Yeah. And which is stunning because the other ones, Garrett Wilson, Alabe, Marvin Harrison, Jackson Smith, and Jig Bell, all guys first on picks in the NFL had kind of a like first year. They didn't. That wasn't them. So he's already that now. That's the most amazing thing about him. And, you know, you mentioned Ryan Williams, they might be the two best receivers in the country. They're not because Tetrell is at Arizona. But these guys, I mean, stunning debuts for both in game changing for playoff national championship contenders that their best receiver in both cases is a freshman. So Ryan Williams, I mean, I don't he's highly regarded and all that like, he only touched comfortable two times. Now, first one was just a go pattern on third and 13. And I don't know what Western Kentucky was doing, but he was all right open by 10 or 15 yards. That one didn't totally impress me as much. His other one was very impressive. Over the middle, catches the ball, breaks a tackle from the safety, goes in 55 yards. I couldn't find how many times he was targeted. Right. He caught to, I don't know if he was targeted just those two times or whatever. No, we're only through nine passes seven for nine. So like, you know, and he I don't think Williams played much in the second half want to see more from him than just, you know, going on a go pattern and beating Western Kentucky for a for a 77 yard touchdown. Great numbers, obviously, and a great talent in high school, but like Jeremiah Smith impressed me way more with the way he played and the way they were treating him. And he had six catches. I dropped his first one, maybe, like on a little inside screen or something, just easy drop. And then the rest of the game, he was terrific. So and then another guy I want to mention on the list, Notre Dame left tackle, Anthony Knapp had to come in. They had injury at left tackle. He won the job. It was an inexperienced offensive line for Notre Dame. They only had three combined starts across the five guys before the Texas A&M game. They allowed no sacks. He had 36 pass protections, allowed one pressure against Nick Scorton, who's a sporting news all American at defensive end. He was moving back and forth on both sides. And, and Knapp did a great job on him. And I think his pro football focus grades, I've got 82.3 on past blocking. Notre Dame had the two touchdowns. We're both running touchdowns, especially the last one. The offensive line as a whole did a really great job on that. He's the third true freshman ever to start at left tackle for Notre Dame. Sam Young and Blake Fisher, the other two, both went on to the NFL. So that was a good start for him. And then my fifth two freshmen. Ashton Gianci's backup. All right. Did you see those numbers? I did. I got that confused on the rundown. I'm like, who's that guy? And then I looked, Oh, yeah, they got that on top, what 11 for 104. And 44 yards receiving and two fourth quarter touchdowns, a rushing touchdown, and a passing touchdown for Gianci, who had 267 rushing yards himself. So, Sire gains is his name. Sire gains, true freshman, three star out of California, who is backing up Ashton Gianci at Boise State. One to keep an eye on, you know, Gianci will need his rest here and there. Gains is obviously no, no, no shot of being RB one unless Gianci gets hurt or anything like that. But still a guy to keep an eye on. I think a lot of power for teams probably already tampering with that guy to try and get him. But he knows if he stays at Boise, you know, Gianci's going to NFL next year, he will be the top guy there. So really impressive debut by all those guys, any any clothing, closing thoughts on those true freshmen? No, I mean, Ryall was a program changer, complete program changer for the attitude, the Mahomes comparisons. I mean, complete program changer for them. And I think we're going to see that Saturday night. I'm more equally excited about going up to Ann Arbor and I will talk about this more on tomorrow's show. But, uh, nobody's able to catch it, though, because the games at noon and that door door and Ryall will go at it. And that'll be fun to watch. So, uh, I'm excited about that one. I'm excited about him. I'm sure Matt Rule and the Nebraska fans. Maybe we should have Steve Sippewon next week. Um, because that that that's a game. That's going to be a lot of fun to watch on Saturday. So I think he's a program changer for sure. One last takeaway from week one, I was ranting about it all weekend to you about these FCS games and how powerful teams should not play an FCS team under any circumstances. I don't think, uh, what was it? South Dakota state, would they play Oklahoma state or South Dakota? Whoever it was, they're they won the national championship, bless you twice twice and they lost by 24 points to, uh, you know, mid to upper big 12 team. Like we just can't have these games. The SEC played six of them. Average margin of victory was over 60 points for those six games. We don't need them anymore. I wish they would somehow just these commissioners would step forward and say, do not schedule an FCS. The schedule group of five team, whatever you want to do, do not schedule an FCS team under any circumstances. Well, I mean, and then you could argue like we point this out in our one to one 34 this week that the six ranked teams that played group of five schools won by over 40 points. Average margin of 40 points. I think I had a conversation with Reggie Bush last week and he said, you know, one thing we never mentioned, the players want to play the best. Reggie Bush's best tape wasn't against Hawaii. Although you could make an argument, Reggie Bush's best tape from college was against Fresno State. But, um, uh, but they're not an FCS program. No, they're, they're a, yeah, group five program, at least, and they were at the time Fresno State wasn't bad. Right. I could make the argument that some Michigan guys had some good tape and some bad tape from Fresno State on Saturday. So I, he said they want to play the best. He wants to see these match ups. We want to see the, when you only have seven match ups, I think it said six or seven match ups in week one that were between power four schools and you include Notre Dame and that you ripped them in there. Those were the games I paid the most attention to. I mean, USC LSU was riveting. If you said it, Virginia Tech was riveting. Come on. You exactly. Like, but I'm certain like even in a bad way, North Carolina, Minnesota, there was last play of the game. Last play the game. Two power four schools play in each other. So we need to see that in these first three weeks. We need to see if you want this to be a super league NFL light schedule with that way. And I think you're dead on with that assessment. All right. Time for your layup. Trochi trivia. Oh, yeah. She was on a five year, five game opening game losing streak. Can you name the five games they lost? Yeah. Mike Leach. They threw all over the defending national champions in 2020. Mississippi State, correct? UCLA and the Sissy blue shirt that they're drawn. That's probably like the tagline on that game. UCLA punked them afterward. Oh, no Rose Bowl. Yep. Florida State. Can't remember which awkward Brian Kelly sideline interview that was. And then Florida State again. Yes. And one was in Jacksonville. And one was New Orleans. New Orleans. So they did the neutral siders. And then of course this year, it's USC and here. I'll say this and we don't have to go too far into it. But Brian Kelly looks flat. And I think Latoski, one of our co workers put this in our slack. He looks miserable coaching football. Like the most miserable person in the world on the sideline. Like, I almost think he needs to go back to the purple faced screamer guy. Because maybe that's who he is. And if you even that for the media yells at the media and the media, I would maybe yell at my players for some of their celebrations that got them, you know, 15 yards. And then he showed his teammates that it's nonsense that that happens in a game at a major program like that. So I've always been fair about Brian Kelly. I think he's won a lot of football games. I think he you're going to have an opinion of him is what it is. But man, there's maybe they should schedule an FCS team in week one. Well, last team they beat. How about that? That might be a better trivia question. There's no way you're going to get it. Who's the last opener they beat they won? Well, burrow the year before. Yeah. The year before they beat Miami, I'm trying to think who they opened with in 19. Yeah, that was week two. Georgia Southern was their last week one victory. I remember. Yeah. So I mean, maybe schedule one of them and put doing these stepping out like this. But that's the consequence. But yeah, I remember all of those. Particularly the Mike Leach one, because that was the one where we thought. And Mississippi. That was his first game in the SEC. It was amazing. 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