Anticipate Epic College Football Match-ups This Season

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00:00Let's get after it. Same thing we do every single morning on the early line.

00:04It's what we do. It's a sports grid network. Get in the mix, people.

00:07College football, NFL, it's all coming up soon.

00:09And also, one coming up a little bit sooner than the other one.

00:12Yeah, we're going to wait until the first week of September, Joe,

00:14for that Thursday night football game in Philadelphia.

00:16We're not going to wait too much longer for the college football season.

00:18Not this Saturday, which you'll wake up and yawn and be like,

00:22ooh, we're seven days away from college football.

00:25I feel like we're not ready for the college football season,

00:28but we're ready for the college football season, if that makes sense, Joe.

00:31You know what I mean?

00:32Like, just getting prepared to see it on your TV.

00:34And when it does appear in two Saturdays, like, this is fantastic.

00:38And then before you know it, it's like week 11 of what happened.

00:41Where did it all go?

00:43Yeah, well, and what makes it even better, Donnie,

00:45is we're in an errant college football where there is a big push

00:50to play very meaningful games as early as possible in the season.

00:55And we are getting a ton of those in week zero here.

00:59I mean, this is no longer Alabama versus the sisters of the poor.

01:03Like, this is, we are going to go mano y mano.

01:06We're going SEC, Big Ten.

01:09We're going Notre Dame, Miami.

01:11I mean, we have got monster games right out of the gate.

01:15And I love it that way.

01:16I think that's the way it should always be because, listen,

01:19these teams we know are likely going to be at least the ones playing in week zero

01:25are going to be top 10 teams with an opportunity to play for a national championship.

01:30If you're going to lose a game, I want to lose in week zero, Donnie.

01:34Give myself an opportunity to be able to come back and learn a little something.

01:38So none of these teams that are going to lose, by the way, in week zero can be ruled out of anything

01:44except maybe dropping in this poll here, which makes no sense to me anyway,

01:49if we're being completely honest here with how is Penn State, the number two team, is beyond me.

01:54Penn State quarterback returning back, Drew Aller, dominant backfield here.

01:59But number one overall is Texas, number three, Ohio State, four, Clemson, five, Georgia, six, Notre Dame,

02:03seven, Oregon, eight, Alabama, nine, LSU, and the Miami Hurricanes are number 10.

02:08But you bring up a good point at this too.

02:09Like, it used to be like you opened up the season and college football in the past,

02:13which I loved it, I love it now as well.

02:15You lose opening day, you're probably never going to win a national championship,

02:18even if you lost a game against a top 10 opponent, which seems like it wasn't fair,

02:22but that's just the way it was.

02:23Mythical national championship, you got to go undefeated and you got to beat all those teams

02:26just to wind up in that championship game.

02:29But I got to tell you, there is something special about these early season matchups

02:32that get you so, so excited.

02:34Like in the past, we've seen it so many times at the Miami-Florida State games

02:37that used to play on Labor Day weekend were absolutely spectacular.

02:40One of those games in overtime, Frank Gore rumbling into the ends

02:43and like sets up your entire season for success against a rival.

02:46But understand this, you do get some brownie points for loading up early in the season.

02:51And even if you take a loss, you can recover.

02:54And the polls will find kindly on that because they'll go, well, hey, look,

02:57one verse two, one verse three, one verse four in the preseason,

03:00you're basically week zero, week one, you lose that, you can rebound.

03:03In the past, you couldn't do that.

03:04And we're going to get a spectacular game, Joe, right off the start

03:08with Texas and Ohio State.

03:11And Ohio State's going to be at home in the horseshoe,

03:13a slight favorite over number one, Texas.

03:15The total is 47 and a half.

03:16Intrigue all the way around.

03:18Like you could just dive right back into college football immediately

03:21and sink your teeth into an absolute thriller for what we're expecting.

03:26Yeah.

03:26I mean, listen, it wasn't like Texas didn't have some success, right?

03:31In its infancy here in the SEC.

03:35Now they're the number one team in the country preseason-wise.

03:40And that carries a lot of weight, you know.

03:42But with that comes a lot of expectations, Donnie.

03:46And that Texas fan base might be one of the most unrealistic,

03:50unselfaware fan bases that you will ever see every year, though.

03:56Like, you know, like many schools, though, but Texas is over the top.

04:00And anybody that has seen the locker room renovations at Texas,

04:05have you seen those, Donnie, with what they've got better luxuries

04:10than NFL locker rooms right now at Texas?

04:13There is a lot, I mean, a lot of pressure for this University of Texas

04:18football team to come out hot on the road in one of the hardest places

04:23to play in the country at Ohio State at the shoe and come out

04:27and dominate them, the champions.

04:30Good luck here.

04:31Can the Longhorns deal with all the pressure that comes with being number one

04:36is going to be what I'm interested to see.

04:38Yeah, it used to be in the past, like every once in a while,

04:40we'd get those big games called the kickoff classic in college football,

04:43usually play like the Meadowlands.

04:44I remember going to school in northern New Jersey,

04:46and the one year was Texas A&M, and it was Florida State to open up the season.

04:49I was there.

04:50It was fantastic.

04:50But you don't really get those matchups a lot,

04:52but now we are going to see a titanic matchup within the first two weeks

04:56of the season, which is a lot of fun.

04:57And just, again, looking at the Blue Bloods, because I'm like,

04:59oh, I'll give the other schools a chance.

05:01Like, I like, like, traditional teams.

05:03Like, how many times, Joe, have you stumbled on, like,

05:05the 30 for 30s that run endlessly with the Catholics versus the convicts

05:08and Notre Dame and Miami and their legacies that they had and, you know,

05:11old Notre Dame Stadium and Jimmy Johnson and Lou Holtz.

05:14Like, those are the ones we love rivalry games.

05:17And Texas or Ohio State, even though it's not a Blue Blood,

05:20long-term rivalry they've played a ton of times,

05:22it's two Blue Blood programs going toe-to-toe,

05:25and those fan bases are so passionate and sometimes over the top.

05:28Like with Texas, expectations are a championship every year.

05:31Ohio State feels like their expectations are a championship every year,

05:34and they can fulfill them.

05:35Good head coach and Ryan Day, one of the best recruiters, you know,

05:38and heartline on the offense.

05:39But that's the way we go into the season, which then brings us up to,

05:42what are the expectations for the season?

05:44Who are the teams that should be able to win a championship?

05:46And, yes, you're looking at the top and the Blue Bloods that we just talked about.

05:49Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Penn State, Alabama up there.

05:53If you had to take a shot right now, knowing what these teams are supposed to look like

05:57as opposed to what we know by, like, week four or week five,

06:00who are you going with preseason, Joe?

06:02Well, it's interesting because nobody is talking about Georgia,

06:07which I find hilarious.

06:08But it's not like none of these, like these teams at the top, Donnie,

06:12don't have a lot of question marks.

06:15I mean, even Texas in the number one spot, they had four offensive linemen

06:20that they have to replace who are currently in NFL camps right now.

06:25Three NFL draft picks.

06:27You have a, you've got a brand new quarterback in Arch Manning,

06:30although he has been there.

06:31This is his first year as a starting quarterback,

06:33and you have questions on the offensive line.

06:36And if you're Ohio State, you have to replace 14 NFL draft picks,

06:41seven in the first two rounds, and you've got to kind of slot new guys in there.

06:47So you've got two new coordinators.

06:49You've got Brian Hartline promoted to call plays for the first time.

06:53Matt Patricia, because Jim Knowles left to go to Penn State,

06:57is your defensive coordinator for the first.

07:00There is a ton of question marks with all of these teams,

07:03especially the number one and number three team in the country

07:07that are going to face off with expectations of a national championship.

07:11No doubt about it.

07:12Heisman race certainly should be a lot of fun to watch it play out.

07:15And Arch Manning is the favorite at seven to one price,

07:17followed by Cave Club.

07:18Nick Garrett Nussmeyer, nine to one, Smith, 11 to one, and Simpson, 16 to one.

07:22We know these things are going to change from times.

07:25But also, if you're taking a look at Arch Manning being the full-time starter,

07:28going on the road and knocking off Ohio State,

07:31what does that number go to?

07:32I don't even care what he does in the game.

07:34He doesn't need 325 yards, passing three touchdowns,

07:37and 75 yards on the ground.

07:39Just win that game.

07:40He's probably going to cut that number in half.

07:41But opportunities outside of Arch Manning,

07:44who could you be looking for here, Joe?

07:46Yeah, well, that's the problem.

07:49I do think that Clemson is an interesting, undervalued commodity

07:54if you're looking in the futures market.

07:56And I think if that does come to fruition, keep in mind that Clemson defensively

08:02was atrocious last year.

08:04So what does Dabo do?

08:05He brings in Tom Allen, the former head coach at the University of Indiana.

08:10He brings him in, great defensive coordinator.

08:14I expect them to be much better defensively.

08:17And you've got Klubnik there, who is a former Texas guy,

08:21who is no stranger to big games.

08:23He has been there.

08:24He has done this now.

08:26This could be a year here in which Clemson surprises a lot of people,

08:30and so does Cade Klubnik.

08:32Yeah, how about Smith there?

08:33He's a wide receiver from Ohio State, 11-1 price.

08:36Absolutely talented.

08:37Who is it?

08:38Ryan Williams down in Alabama.

08:39You've got some really good wide receivers.

08:40But typically, it is a quarterback award unless you get a running back

08:44that's like, yeah, I'm going for 2,900 yards and 50 touchdowns here

08:48to try to knock some of these quarterbacks off the podium at this point.

08:51But we are excited, certainly for college football

08:53and the Sports Grid Network, definitely going to have you covered here

08:55in the fall.

08:56Number one, Texas.

08:57Number three, Ohio State.

08:58Right off the bat, week zero starts next Saturday.

09:01And away we go.

09:02Weeks one, two, three.

09:04All the way through.

09:05The basically goes as long as the NFL with the expanded playoff.

09:07Now, you get a lot of college football in a short period of time,

09:10and I cannot wait for it to get started in just a few weeks.

09:13The dog days of summer are turning into the dog days of football, baby,

09:16and we love that.

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