Vanderbilt and Missouri Clash as Top SEC Contenders

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00:00Missouri, Vanderbilt, Tigers, Commodores.

00:03I don't think anybody thought these two teams would be stacked up there

00:06near the top of the SEC standings.

00:08Vanderbilt, a slight home favorite,

00:11and actually looked like they had somewhat of a home field advantage

00:13against LSU for the first time in probably the last 50 years.

00:19Yeah, Bobby, it is incredible to see what Clark Lee and Diego Pavia

00:23have done in Nashville.

00:24Last week was the first time in 78 games for Vandy

00:27against the top 10 team in the SEC.

00:30Booked as the favorite.

00:31How about now two consecutive weeks against a top 15 conference foe

00:35booked as a favorite?

00:37Missouri last week in double overtime in the battle of the Tigers

00:40against Auburn did just enough,

00:43and Auburn continues to play on the offensive side of the ball.

00:47The key in this game is establishing the run and running the dang ball

00:50because both of these teams do it better than most of the SEC,

00:53two of the top three rushing offenses in that league,

00:56and honestly better than most around the country.

00:58Both teams statistically pretty good at stopping the run as well.

01:03Mizzou only allowing 2.89 yards per carry.

01:05Vandy a little bit behind, but still top 30 in the country,

01:093.38 yards per pop.

01:11The key for Vanderbilt football, as it will always be as long as he is

01:14playing the quarterback position, is number two.

01:17That's Diego Pavia.

01:18In the games against Power Conference competition this year for Vanderbilt,

01:22Diego Pavia has thrown for fewer than 200 yards,

01:24but has also ran the football at least 11 times.

01:28In the last few weeks, we have seen that be prolific for Vanderbilt.

01:31Even in the loss against Alabama, the doors put up more than 7 yards per pop.

01:36Ahmaud Hardy, who looked like a Heisman frontrunner for Mizzou offensively,

01:39has slowed down.

01:40Bo Pribula has started turning the football over a little bit more at the quarterback spot.

01:45Eileen with Vandy again.

01:46I don't think what we are seeing is flash-in-the-pan type stuff.

01:49I believe it is the embodiment of what Kirk Lee has meant for this program

01:52and what Diego Pavia has done at the quarterback position.

01:56An absolute gamer.

01:57I think it's close.

01:58I think Vanderbilt wins a second consecutive close game in Nashville

02:00against a top 15 SEC foe.

02:02All right, let me give you a quick one.

02:03I'm letting you choose.

02:04USF Memphis.

02:06Six and one.

02:07Really good one.

02:08But also BYU at Iowa State favored picket.

02:11I'll give you two angles on both of these games.

02:14Of course, the USF Memphis game loses a little bit of luster

02:17after Memphis loses to UAB and interim head coach Alex Mortensen

02:21last week in that matchup in Birmingham.

02:24But still a really good team.

02:25The reason the line is four and a half in favor of the Bulls on the road

02:29is not just because they are ranked,

02:30not just because they are the frontrunners to win the American

02:32and probably represent the group of five in the college football playoff.

02:35It's also the injury status of veteran QB for Memphis in Brendan Lewis,

02:39who was injured in the game last week against the Blazers,

02:42and the offense really stalled out at times for those Tigers.

02:46If he is out there alongside Sutton Smith,

02:48one of the best ground attacks in the country.

02:50But what Byron Brown is doing right now for Alex Kolosh,

02:53his offense, at least 350 total yards and four total touchdowns

02:56in three consecutive games at the quarterback spot for the Bulls,

03:00he is lights out.

03:01Schlegs, the thing that stands out to me about the matchup in Ames

03:04in Jack Trice is an Iowa State team that started 5-0

03:06and now has lost two straight.

03:08But both of those games on the road, Cyclones defense allowing a ton of yardage

03:12to both Colorado and especially on the ground against Cincinnati.

03:16That is going to be the biggest thing for them in this game

03:19against the dynamic backfield of quarterback Bear Bachmeier

03:22and his running mate in L.J. Martin.

03:24Can they contain the run?

03:25This is yet another example of a second consecutive year

03:28the Cougs have started 7-0 under Kalani Sitake.

03:31It's the first time in program history

03:33BYU is 7-0 to begin a college football season

03:36in two consecutive years.

03:38Last year in Game 8, on the road against the UCF team

03:43that's not nearly as good as Iowa State,

03:45BYU was a three-point road underdog.

03:47They won that game outright.

03:49The oddsmakers are hesitant to back BYU.

03:51They're a two-and-a-half-point road underdog

03:53here in Ames inside Jack Trice on Saturday afternoon.

03:57I think Iowa State figures it out defensively

04:00to win this game and hand BYU its first loss of the year.

04:03But if the Cougs go down, that will be not a statement

04:07that, oh, they were a flash in the pan.

04:09They were overrated.

04:10This is exactly what we can expect of them.

04:12No, BYU will be in that Big 12 title race.

04:14The key for Iowa State is on the ground.

04:17I'm not entirely sure who wins it

04:19because the oddsmakers have been overlooking the Cougars

04:21in quite some time.

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