00:00But Heather getting all hot and bothered by a Stanford tree.
00:03Uh-huh.
00:04Oh, boy.
00:05Heather with a two-game lead after only one week.
00:08Come on, boys.
00:08We've got to pick this up.
00:12Let's not overreact to week one.
00:15Heather Park and the Stanford tree.
00:18K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
00:20Week two of college football.
00:21We're going to skip right past Georgia State and Kennesaw State,
00:25the Battle of Waffle House Road,
00:26and instead go to Austin, Texas,
00:28where the Longhorns are favored by one and a half points
00:31against visiting Ohio State.
00:32Jim.
00:33This game really killed them a year ago.
00:35They need it.
00:35It's at home.
00:36They'll even the score.
00:37Hook them.
00:38Oh, wow.
00:40I'm going with Julian saying Jeremiah Smith.
00:43You want to talk about a guy that needs it.
00:45If you're going to have a wide receiver that wins the Heisman,
00:48could have his first set of Heisman,
00:50not just moment, but moments in this game.
00:53And I do have questions about the secondary for the Longhorns.
00:57So give me Ohio State.
00:58Yeah.
00:59So one of my favorite Christmas movies is Christmas Vacation.
01:02Ellen Griswold was played by Beverly D'Angelo.
01:05Her grandfather is the architect that designed the horseshoe.
01:09Give me Ohio State.
01:11It's not in the horseshoe.
01:12It's not in the horseshoe.
01:13Oh, it's not?
01:13It doesn't matter.
01:14Okay.
01:14I'm just saying that's why I'm picking Ohio State.
01:16Another deep dive by Heather.
01:17It doesn't mean that's where it's playing.
01:18I just, that's the reason I'm picking it.
01:21We're losing to her.
01:23For all the Oklahomies that have made the trip up here to Detroit,
01:27man, both of these teams suck, but I'll pick Texas.
01:29You know, probably the one program in my whole life
01:32that's never phased by an environment is Ohio State.
01:36I just think it's irrelevant.
01:37They're playing a night game in Austin, Texas.
01:39I think they've got the best player, Smith,
01:42and they might have the better quarterback.
01:45I will go Buckeyes.
01:47Eastern Michigan finally made the picks to Tom's Delight.
01:50They are at Michigan State at 17 and a half point underdogs, John.
01:55Tom's Delight.
01:56Sounds like a nice little sandwich shop, doesn't it?
02:01I think Michigan State continues not turning the ball over,
02:04not making stupid penalties.
02:06They give themselves not just a great chance to win this game,
02:09but to cover the 17 and a half points.
02:12So I'm going to take Sparty.
02:14I picked Spartan last week.
02:16They only beat Toledo by 10.
02:18I know.
02:19I think they're going to win, but I think the spread's too big,
02:21so give me Eastern.
02:23I'll take Michigan State.
02:25Yeah, these teams' lifetime have played seven times,
02:28and the average score is 49-9 in state's favor.
02:31I'm going to go against my alma mater and take the Spartans.
02:36Eastern has the dumbest entrance in pro sports
02:38with those stupid cinder blocks.
02:40I don't think they're bringing them with them.
02:41I just was waiting for somebody to actually trip and fall.
02:45It's going to happen at the factory, but this is not at the factory.
02:48I don't think it matters.
02:49Sparty party.
02:51Speaking of dumb, Oklahoma, merely four and a half point favorites
02:55as they travel to Ann Arbor, taking on the Michigan Wolverines.
02:59Heather.
03:00I mean, I think you know what I'm going to pick.
03:02Oklahoma.
03:04Okay.
03:05If I pick Michigan, the week after they looked like that
03:10against Western Michigan, and they get their doors blown off again,
03:14man, I'll just pick another way to be dumb.
03:17Boomer Sooner.
03:18Yeah, I kind of feel like Greg here,
03:19and I just think there's too much noise for Michigan to overcome here.
03:23And I know the whole week one to week two thing,
03:26I actually believe that, but I just think there's too much happening.
03:29And Brent Venables, one of the best defensive minds in college football,
03:34going against this quarterback, I'm going to take the Sooners.
03:38Yeah, right.
03:39Michigan's terrible.
03:40They needed help in a heave to beat Western.
03:42Whittingham is Monte Williams.
03:44Bryce is an immature idiot.
03:45Look, there's a lot of noise, a lot of noise after week one.
03:49Week one is the spot that people overreact.
03:52This is the Costa lock.
03:55Michigan, plus four and a half.
03:56I'm ready to look stupid.
03:58This is bounce back in a foxhole, run the ball, shrink the game,
04:03get back to basics.
04:04That offensive line's going to hear all week how they couldn't push a Mac school.
04:07Michigan, plus four and a half.
04:10You Costa locked my school.
04:12You really hate me, don't you?
04:14Give me me.
04:16Oh, like they can hurt you worse than what they played like last week, John.
04:19Oh, no, no.
04:20Trust me.
04:20Nothing he says can hurt me worse than what I had to watch by that offensive line.
04:24I was hurt.
04:25I was weeping.
04:26And there are a lot of things that could be better from week one to week two.
04:31And I'm hoping they take that monumental step.
04:33But there's also another team that can be better between weeks one and week two.
04:37And that is their opponent, Oklahoma.
04:39There is, in my mind, I keep trying to rationalize and make justified different reasons why I
04:47would say Michigan.
04:47I just simply can't do it because of what Tom said.
04:51Brent Venables, that defense.
04:53We have no idea what defense is going to show up because every single week it's different.
04:57Every single snap could be different.
04:59And if you can't decipher that, you can't win.
05:02I'm going to take Oklahoma.
05:03So you're on Wolverine Island with a cost of lock.
05:06Yeah.
05:07Well, hey, that brings us to our Gardner White sleeper pick.
05:11And this week, Duke at Illinois.
05:16And I think maybe one of the best games last week is the one that I picked in Baylor and
05:20Auburn.
05:20But let's go with Duke at Illinois.
05:22Illinois is a six point favorite.
05:23Last year, Duke reigning ACC champs.
05:28And they've got a running back in Nate Shepard carried the ball 35 times last week.
05:36He might carry the ball 40 plus times.
05:39Give me the Blue Devils.
05:42Be interesting.
05:43We'll see what John Shire can drop out of timeouts.
05:45Yes.
05:46To the national.
05:47False.
05:48Football League.
05:49Week one.
05:49Bills travel to the Texans.
05:51Bills are favored by one and a half points.
05:53Let's go.
05:53Buffalo will take the Bills.
05:55I'm going to take the Texans here.
05:56I'm texting Tom.
05:57I think they could have one of the great single season generational defenses this season.
06:02And guess what?
06:03Not only that, they're going to win the game.
06:05They're going to do the Lions a favor and beat the crap out of the Bills physically.
06:09So the Lions can go on and face a wounded team.
06:12Tom's already counting two wins.
06:14I like the Texans this week, too.
06:16I'm going to take the Texans.
06:17I think it's the defense.
06:19And I think they're going to find a way to keep Josh Allen in the backfield and also
06:24beat the heck out of them.
06:25Kind of hoping the same thing, Tom.
06:27Josh Allen has a new girl to play for, his daughter.
06:31So I'm going to go with the Bills.
06:34He's not going to the zoo on Sunday.
06:36No, he's not.
06:36Packers travel to Minnesota to take on the Vikings.
06:39Vikes are favored by one and a half points, Tom.
06:41I'm going to take the Vikings here.
06:42No Josh Jacobs, no Micah Parsons.
06:44I'm not a Hugh Jordan Love guy.
06:46I think the Packers offense can struggle to score points in this game.
06:50Could struggle to score points.
06:51No clear number one receiver.
06:52Tucker Kraft off that ACL.
06:54Is he still that same yak guy?
06:56Get the yards after the catch.
06:57And then no Parsons.
06:580-5 without him at the end of last year.
07:00I'm on the Vikings.
07:01I'm just going to say, ditto, Tom.
07:04Ditto, Jimmy.
07:05And let's go Vikings.
07:07I'm going to take the Packers.
07:10Oh, what an upset.
07:11I was writing in Vikes.
07:14I thought you were going to take your people.
07:16I'm going against my people.
07:20I don't know.
07:20It's a very confrontational Sunday for you.
07:23Greg?
07:24Apparently so.
07:24Did you pick the Vikings?
07:26Oh, my turn.
07:27Yeah, I do pick the Vikings, too.
07:29Heather's on Packers Island.
07:30Why do you hate your people, Heather?
07:32My goodness.
07:33Cowboys travel to the Giants.
07:36The week one tradition.
07:36This game is either the America Game of the Week on Fox or it's Sunday Night Football.
07:42And it's Sunday Night Football.
07:43The Cowboys are favored by two and a half points.
07:45Jim?
07:45I will join the chorus of talking heads that think this is the year for Dallas.
07:49How about them Cowboys?
07:50Yeah.
07:51They added four playmakers on defense.
07:53And we know that our offense is going to put up a lot of points.
07:56Giants not ready.
07:57Let's go, Cowboys.
07:58Yeah.
07:58I love the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
08:00Let's go, Cowboys.
08:02Yeah.
08:06Me, too.
08:06Is that your pick?
08:07No, I've got...
08:08Well, me, too.
08:09I also agree.
08:10I'll take the Cowboys.
08:11I've got Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb in fantasy.
08:13We done, boys.
08:14Let's go.
08:14Yeah, I'm believing in the Cowboys hype a little bit, too.
08:17And even if they kind of muck it up and it's a close game, they've got the best kicker
08:20in the game.
08:20Give me the Cowboys.
08:22And finally, Sunday, while Heather is at the Toledo Zoo with her kids, the Lions will
08:28take on the Saints at six and a half point favorites.
08:31John?
08:32I waffled back and forth.
08:33The Lions win this game.
08:34It's just a matter of do they cover?
08:36And Tyler Shuck really played well at the end of last season.
08:39But I think he's going to test this Lions secondary.
08:42I think they step up big in week one.
08:45So give me the Lions.
08:47Yeah, give me the Lions, too.
08:49I'm going to go with the Lions.
08:51Make that four of us.
08:52I'm going Lions.
08:53Alvin Kamara probably won't play.
08:55No Cam Jordan.
08:56Draft pick Jordan Tyson's out.
08:58And I think the Lions are really going to get pressure on Shuck in this game.
09:02Lions will win the game.
09:03Saints are this upstart team.
09:05Six and a half's a good number.
09:06And Lions have some questions to answer.
09:08I think Colin's sweating this one by himself on the couch.
09:12Give me the Saints.
09:13Oh, you're on Saints Island?
09:15Two Island picks?
09:17I think Heather has two, too.
09:19You want to cost a lot that one, too, to help me out?
09:22Staying away from that.
09:22Come on, man.
09:24It's the picks.
09:2597-1.
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