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Danny Kanell On The 2024 College Football Season
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You know what that being baby, it is time for some action. It's been a long off season. There's been a lot of speculation about a lot of teams. Like who's going to look like what? What's the conference real line that going to look like? We get to find out this weekend. I'm fired up. How different are things going to feel with this 12 team playoff system getting introduced this year? It's going to feel new and fresh and shiny and clean for a while, I imagine, Danny. Oh, absolutely. I think this is one of the best problems we've seen in college football. And maybe in the last 50 years, like I was kind of excited when they went from the BCS to the 14, but I was like, man, that's still a really small number of four teams out of 130 that can make it. And going to 12, I think the most interesting aspect to it. And some people don't like this. And I'll give you an example. Florida State last week loses to Georgia Tech, right? My alma mater. In years past, that might have been a devastating blow. Like, man, you have almost no chance to work your way back into the top four. But you not only can win when you're way back in the top 12, you also can still win the ACC potentially, which is an automatic birth to the 12 team playoff. In fact, in a power four conference, it'd give you an automatic top seed in a buy for the 12 team playoff. So I actually like that. I think there's a lot of teams throughout history who have lost games early and missed out on a championship, maybe due to injury, maybe due to somebody starting that didn't wasn't supposed to. And they were able to play their way back in. Most importantly, though, I think the month of November is going to be that much more entertaining for way more fan bases. Historically, it's only been about eight to nine teams that felt like they could make it in that top four. Now we'll probably go 25 deep. And it'll be a lot of fun. It'll make more meaningful games in November that I cannot wait to look forward to. So I think it's gonna be a really fun season. So we've had so many evolutions, right? I mean, you and I are old enough to remember when like Washington and Georgia Tech just shared it, no chance they would play. The voters just voted and that was the end. There was no ceremony, no nothing. Then we go to the BCS, then we got to go to this tournament. And the reason I wanted one more evolution was I want that UCF magical season. I want them involved. I want that Boise State team to be involved in a playoff. Well, they were going to win it or not. I just kind of wanted to see that. That's more fun than the sort of same collection of blue bloods. And I'm going, okay, now we got 12. It's going to happen. But is it? Does it still? Is it feel like it's going to be more wide open or is it now? Well, we got two major conferences and it'll be, you know, five teams from each one and Notre Dame probably. How's it going to shake out? Oh, it'll be largely dominated by the power conferences. So in the power four, there's really a super two, right? Let's be honest, the big 10 and SEC just go follow the money. That's always what you have to do in college athletics and probably anywhere else in life. Follow the money. They have the richest TV contract from ESPN and Fox respectively, the big 10 and the SEC. So I would, I would expect of the 12 for from each of those two. And I already saw Nick Saban making his predictions, trying to get five SEC teams in the 12 team field. Here's the one good thing, but I do think you better enjoy it before it goes away. There will be at least one group of five team in the playoff and it'll probably be that 12 seed, but they are guaranteed a spot. The highest ranked group of five conference champion will get a chance to play that role of Cinderella. And I agree with you. Like I was a, I was a big backer of UCF when they got left out that they should have had a chance. I was a fan when Cincinnati got a chance and actually I thought they held their own. They didn't beat Alabama, but they played Bama just as good as a lot of teams. And one of the things we love about the NCAA tournament basketball, Cinderella stories, right? Like those upsets that first round. We love seeing those. Here's the thing though. I think we could possibly get an upset. I don't think we see a Cinderella run to the championship game. There just is such a big gap in the talent level. And while I say that, I do think, so they're going to revisit the structure in two years. And I think we're probably closer to having a group of five teams have their own playoff system and their own champions as opposed to still getting access to this one with the big boys. Again, follow the money. Those teams are not going to like like, I can just hear it now. Greg, thank you to commissioner of the SEC when a Boise State gets in saying, well, our fifth best team would be favored by three touchdown versus Boise State. You know, he's going to make that argument and their voices carry a lot of weight. I don't think it should matter. I hate using that, you know, philosophy, using points spreads to justify teams in the playoff. We've seen that before. I'm with you. I wish we could see that Cinderella type run, you know, still exist. But I have my stronger feeling that is after two years, that probably their chance goes away. Danny canal, bet online, bet online net. You can check out Ben online for updated college football playoff, win totals, conference, Heisman and college football week one lines. Danny specific to the realignment in the super two conferences you referenced. What are the big storylines and for the casuals? What do they need to know about all the change going into the season? Well, first of all, it's going to take some a while to get used to, right? Like just speaking the lingo of college football, like I was doing a discussion on my radio show in the morning a couple of months ago, and we were looking for big, you know, non conference matchups and who the big 10 was playing. And I glossed right over USC playing LSU on Sunday night in Las Vegas, because I had forgot that USC is now a big 10 team, right? You see it, USC UCLA, like that to me just logistically compartmentally in my brain. It's going to take me a while to say USC, UCLA are big 10 teams along with Oregon and Washington. The one thing also that I think fans need to know about this is why when both commissioners, when it was Tony Petiti, the big 10 and Greg, thank you, the SEC, one of the things that they both have said is it's about matchups and it's supposed to be about the fans. And that is going to be really exciting. When you see some of these matchups on the table, like a Texas hosting Georgia as an SEC conference game, that'll be a ton of fun like the Florida Gators hosting the Oklahoma Sooners or just, you know, these new players at the party, you're going to see some really good matchups throughout the season. Every college football season in the past few years, there have been some weekends that have been kind of sleepy and you're like, where's the good matchup? Every single weekend, there's going to be some sensational matchups. Like there's going to be at least two or three because of the conference realignment. I still think you get better. I still think we should get to a place where everyone's playing the same amount of power for teams and we need to kind of iron that out. But I'll take some of these phenomenal matchups that we're going to see early this season. It's going to be a ton of fun. So we know the top of the board, a lot of the usual suspects here in Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, right there on your top five. Danny, give me a couple of teams that are maybe outside of that group, maybe 10 or lower that you like, you know, maybe working their way up, making some noise that has the potential to disrupt here. Oh, I got, I got a few. Now, here's the thing, because I do think some people thought, Oh, we'll open up to 12 teams. That'll bring parity because for a long time, it's either been Bama, it's been Georgia, it's been Clemson, it's like the same three or four teams, Ohio State, and it was great to see Michigan last year kind of shake things up and have a new player to the party. I think it'll be harder for some of these long shots to go through three or four games to win a national championship. But hey, the teams that could do it, I like it. I like Texas A&M, the Aggies. Now they have a monster game this weekend against Notre Dame, come into town, Kyle Field, the place is going to be electric. They've got a quarterback and a guy named Connor Wegman, who has played a little bit, and he's been really good when he's played. But the last two seasons have been cut short by injury. If he stays healthy, I think they could be the team that surprises. Of all these new schedules, we've talked about, their schedule is still pretty favorable. And I really like Mike Elko, the job that he's done there as the new head coach coming over from Duke. They had Jimbo Fisher, there was always sort of some sort of drama coming out. There was issues with the crew, she had to kick guys off the team, got the scrunchled about playing time. Feels like they're more about business now. And I still think the one thing that Jimbo Fisher left behind was a pretty loaded cover. There's still a lot of four and five stars on that team. So if come together, I could see the Aggies being a fun bet from a long shot perspective 45 to one. Another one that I'll give to you, another team on display this weekend. Now, I don't love their chances to win this weekend, but that's the gravity of the system. Like it doesn't matter. You could lose this game. The Miami hurricane, this is the most talented roster that they've had since joining the ACC. We're talking about 20 years. They've got the most stacked roster with four and five star talent and most importantly, a quarterback who I think is a different maker in Cam Ward, who transferred in. He started his career at Inconnet Word. He threw 47 touchdown passes at the FCS, won the award for player of the year at that level, goes to Washington State, puts up two pretty good years on a team that's not that great, statistically had pretty strong, you know, numbers that he put up. Now he goes to a situation where he's got a back and Damian Martinez was another transfer portal edition. The hurricanes made pair that with a defense, which is out of some portal guys, and they've already been recruiting pretty well. All that being said, and I do kind of like them. If it all comes together for them, I think they could be that team. Mario Cristobal, the head coach down there, better get it going or else he's going to be facing some serious answers because I think most people, the wind total for them is nine and a half. I think they should go over. I think even Miami fans feel like, yeah, that should be an over. If he struggles and they go, you know, eight wins or less, boy, Mario Cristobal is going to find himself probably on that hot seat conversation the following season, but I like their chances to get it. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. 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Danny, I actually want to hop up to the top of the rankings and the top of the board. Danny kind of glossed over Georgia, Ohio State, Dan Lanning in Oregon, Texas, Alabama with a new head coach. Oh, miss everybody's kind of crowning coming into the season with Lane Kiffin. If you would just go rapid fire if you don't mind, a few thoughts on each of those teams and what you like and what you don't like or who's as good as we expect and maybe who isn't. So the favorites, I am pretty chalky like on my postseason like final four picks who's going to win it. My pick to win it all was Oregon over Georgia. So a couple of the favorites in there. If you want a little bit better value, Oregon's at plus 750 as opposed to Georgia. It was a pretty heavy favorite. So the team that I did not talk about did not pick as Ohio State. And I actually I'll steal this from Kirk Herp Street because I saw him say it the other day on Pat McAfee's show. Ohio State has this loaded roster, right? That has never been the problem at Ohio State. They've always had talented players on the roster. The one thing they've lacked is both a mental toughness and a physical toughness, which is kind of crazy considering the talent they have on the team. How do they respond? Like how do they respond to that? Because they've been owned in the past three seasons by Michigan and they've got the opportunity. They have to go to Oregon in the regular season where they could have to travel take this thing on the road. They have Michigan come into their place and then they have a Penn State game on the road. They'll be favored probably in every single game except for that game in Oregon. I think there's a chance they could be an underdog in that situation. But I'm very curious to see with this superstar team, how do they come together? Like how do they galvanize around each other? Most of the time when you see these national championship runs, you see teams that really have a lot of guys that come back, which Ohio State did. They had guys on the defensive side of the ball that could have gone pro decided to come back. So I like some of the messaging coming out, but I need to see it. And the biggest question mark I have for them is their quarterback, Will Howard, who really is the only question mark. He played has a nice career at Kansas State, won a big 12 title there. But this a whole different ball game going to Ohio State with the type of pressure you're going to get from your own fan base. And then I'll go with you to round it out. The team that has the fourth best odds plus 750 like Oregon is the Texas Longhorns. They are a team that I do think they'll make the playoffs. I do think they'll be in that 10 and 2 conversation. I've got them playing Georgia in the SEC championship game. Quinn, yours. I think it's probably one of the more underrated starting quarterbacks in the country. Steve Sarkeeson always puts up pretty good offensive game plans. And oh, by the way, if anything happens to him, Arch Manning is sitting there waiting in the wings. My biggest question mark, what I worry about them is the defensive line. They lost a couple guys in the interior to the NFL and I'm kind of curious to see where they stack up. And then lastly, so I don't ramble too long. Two teams last year that were in the final four that I think we're forgetting about, Alabama and Michigan. Like Alabama, Karen DeBore, they still have a lot of talent on that roster. By the way, he's got his quarterback who was a finalist for the Heisman returning as well. They're not going anywhere. I think they'll have a say in this kind of finale and see if they can be in there in November. I think they'll be in the mix. And then Michigan, I don't feel quite as confident, but they have beaten Ohio State three years in a row and won the big 10. Like this is a team that knows how to win. And I think they're like sort of that perfect mix of talent. Plus you talk about chip on the shoulder, everyone, you know, picking Ohio state yet again. And they're like, wait a second. We just won the national championship and no one's giving us a chance. If they figure out quarterback, they could be a team that can be reckoned with. Danny mentioned the Heisman. I'm throwing a couple of shackles on Jalen Milro, I think, but there's some guys with some better odds. Who do you like and give me a prediction? I went super chalky and I hate it because the favorite never wins. I did pick Dylan Gabriel. You know, I had them to win the national championship as well. He's very, very similar to bonus, like similar style of player and he's going to be like, he's going to go down is probably the most prolific passer in college football history. It's a kind of don't like because he gets an extra year. Like that's the college football record books are going to be skewered because of all these guys that have an extra COVID year and you know, they're fifth and six year seniors, but he's still going to get that advantage of getting this sort of lifetime achievement award. I think he's going to put up monster numbers. And then I talked a little bit about him earlier. If you wanted a little bit longer shot, I do like Cam Ward, the quarterback from Miami. Think about the narrative as well as the quarterback who brought Miami back, right? That's going to be such a big storyline. If the Miami Hurricanes are relevant in November, he's electric too. He doesn't always play within the system. And I think Heisman voters love getting that Heisman moment. I think he's got some opportunities for that. So I like Cam Ward, it's a little bit of a longer shot in that Heisman race. Danny Canell, Grant and Danny here on the fan bed online, bed online.net. I don't know if you have question asking privileges of Colorado or not. I'm not sure if you're in the cool case. Are you in the circle? I'm definitely barred. I am definitely barred. You got a little tough the last year me and be on. I'm definitely barred. Yeah, you and me both. I mean, he doesn't know I am, but he bar me if he did. I guess my question about Colorado, they play tonight at eight. There's a slate tonight, by the way, top 25 games to watch, including 11 Missouri in action at home. A number 22 Kansas is playing, but Colorado on ESPN eight o'clock kick this evening, I think it's going to draw the most attention. Where are you at on them this season? It was a very turbulent off season for Sanders in the program, but he's got a couple of the best players in America. Oh, it was a turbulent year last year for them, right? They started off on fire and then collapsed at the end. They fired their offensive coordinator, which was like the one bright spot of the team with the offensive numbers they were putting up. Like, I think you're going to see more of the same. The thing is, like, do we get the same type of fireworks that we saw to them? Can they beat on Nebraska again the way they did last year, which was one of their more impressive wins? They're in the big 12, which is kind of wild, like it's wide open. I think there's going to be some teams that are very evenly matched in the big 12. I know Shador is going to play really well. Travis Hunter is one of the best players in the country playing wide receiver and DB, which I love. But like, Dion is a circus. Like the criticisms that he's taken are valid. Not like people are just making stuff up out of thin air. He brings a lot of attention. And for somebody who's a Hall of Famer and one of the best college players to ever play, one of the best NFL players, man, does he have some thick skin? But I think what Dion struggles with as a player, he could be brash and confident. And then he could go out there on the field himself and back it up and shut up his critics. I think he's struggling with being that brash, confident coach who feels hopeless when his team can't get it done. I think that's a struggle for him. And I think he's still trying to navigate that. To answer your question, like if I was going to lean one way or another, I think they're right around their wind total, which is five and a half. I think probably five or six wins is probably where I expect them to be. I'd probably lean under just because of the uncertainty. But at the same time, I wouldn't be shocked if they were eight or nine wins because they are a team that does thrive on the attention that drives on success. But I think a strong start is critical for them. Like tonight's game is not a cake walk. North Dakota State has beaten six out of the seven FBS opponents they face. They are an FCS team, lower level. They have played the role of giant slayer pretty well. Then next week, they have to go to Nebraska where they'll probably be dogs. Like if this the start of the season to me is crucial for Colorado because the one thing that we've seen from this circus atmosphere, when they face adversity, they don't always respond and they don't always handle it well. So very critical to the start of Colorado season. Check out bet online updated college football, playoff, wind totals, conference, Heisman and college football week one lines, Danny Canelvia bet online. We're keeping you too long. So we'll end it here. Just a little local flavor. We got a bunch of Virginia tech, JMU, University of Maryland, UVA fans, any thoughts on any of our local DMV, DC, Virginia area schools, anything that you like this season? Heck yes. I like the Hokies a lot. I do. I like Brent Pry. I like the job he's done. They have 20 out of 22 starters coming back. Their quarterback, Kyron Jones is really special. I do like them to go on the road at Vanderbilt this weekend. I would lay the 13 and a half and back the Hokies. But overall, in general, a lot of predictions and when guys look at it's very unique to college football because you can get a schedule that is completely different than some of the other teams within your own conference. Just look at the draw sometimes. They've got a very favorable schedule. They do have to go to Miami, but that's probably the one game that you look at or like there's two games. Miami and Clemson that they host. They're at Lane Stadium, one of the best home field advantages that I feel like, okay, those are games maybe they could struggle. But every other game on the schedule, I think they could win. So nine and three, I think is well within reason for Virginia Tech. And if they kind of capture some magic, I think you can see a 10-win season. And then what happens? Are they in the playoff conversation? That could be really interesting. I'm mildly worried about the September 21st matchup with Rutgers. But overall, I still like the Hokies this season as a whole. Danny, awesome as always, man. Enjoy the games tonight and we'll catch up during the season, buddy. Thank you. Love catching up with you guys, man. Enjoy the games. Danny Canell on Grant and Danny here on The Fan. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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