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What's better than that? Welcome in, Bull Edition Part 2. I'm not even sure how many we're gonna have there, but we're here back at it. Ready for another week of preview of the games.
How you doing this one? Maybe it might not be free, there might be four, we would have no. Do all right, get to see San Diego State get the double S9. I know we disagree on that.
And that one kind of hurts the BFO on the over one of the two, it's all year long, but we just thought that the stock were up to the San Diego State. Just kind of warm down to a hundred people in a second half. But yeah, but we'll get to the end of the day. We're kind of fun.
You had that color fest up in Boise with a mustard and yellow and brown and terrific visually. NFL has been bothering me just because of this contest that I'm in. I'm at second place and I had the Chargers on Thursday night and they were totally the right side. You got to take the field goal before the half and the math people of course, you were saying that but the leader went up half Buffalo which probably wasn't the right side.
He got lucky there and then he had the Rams last night, the terrible non PI call. So I've been getting every lack of benefit of the doubt and break and the leader's been getting all the breaks and that's why he's a leader and I'm in second but three more weeks and so that shot. So it's been all I can hope for. There we go.
Now we go. Yeah, that Fresno Utep over finally got there. Should have been over way earlier than it was. Man, that was a weird game.
Eastern couldn't do it. Liberty played well. I'm fascinated to see Malik Willis at the senior bowl. I'm really excited for opportunity is ahead for him.
So we'll get to the next week. We'll take you probably through a couple on the 29th on this edition. But before we get started, I just want to mention two things. First, listen to the SVPOD.
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And make sure you make sure you follow your check your local listings because I guess there is possible that those games can come move right? Everybody on standby. Check the old bird for any updates. Speaking of updates, Missouri is going to be well a bunch of I would say maybe the top four players, tackler quarterback, rusher.
I think it's the four captains, right? Yeah, tough tough deal here against army. I know it's up to six and a half. Good to you.
If you like to find some sevens out there too. All right, sounds like you're going to take a seven. I am and I think you know coach drink. He's going to have a little bit of a red behind about everybody with the with the players not playing and he was the one that came out and said he made the call that baby wasn't in play.
Everyone talking about how poor their rush defense has been this year. I think it's a good opportunity to give cooking opportunity against a team where there's still going to be more athletic than army. I think he's like might give them an added dimension in the running game now. You've got a bunch of back to get an opportunity to kind of show what they can do in real game action as they head into next year.
I know Navy faces the other option every day, but the army offense did not give me a whole lot of confidence. It may be one of those classic games. I actually thought it would be before the ball season. I saw this was like this is this is on me.
This is easy. But but after seeing army in that game, I don't I don't know how good that office really is. Maybe they do wind up going up and down the field on on Missouri and control on the clock and Missouri's checked out and doesn't want to be there. But I can it's seven.
I'm absolutely going to take a flyer on on the Tigers in this one. I think it's way too big of a reaction. Yeah, I'm thinking I'm on the hook last pod for even up the over in this game. That's always great news when you lose all the offensive talent on one of the teams.
So just a great a great part of this deal when you give out picks a week before the game. So we're on the hook for that one. Oh, well, we'll we'll sit back and see what comes about. Let's get to tomorrow.
I believe 330 Eastern ESPN versus the Frisco football classic presented by Ryan believes on the same field as we saw the road runners and asked to explain the other night. I was looking to say he had a game there last night. Yeah, good looking stadium there. North Texas comes in red hot.
My in Ohio, I just can't get out of my head the idea of these max schools in these bowl games. It is not been pretty. There was plenty said, you know, through the course of the year, they provided awesome games once we started November with the week with the week that action. But I don't really have anything here.
My in Ohio hasn't won a bowl game since the 2010 Go Daddy Bowl. If you remember that big one. So I this is a stay away from me. I don't have anything really here.
North Texas is plus two and a half. I would lean North Texas, I guess, just the way they're coming in playing even though my in Ohio almost got the two point conversion shy of making the title game in the Mac. But I would lean North Texas here. I got nothing for you here as well.
It feels like it's probably an over type these Mac defenses have performed so far. We don't know Texas's team that they've been involved in some fairly high scoring games as well. They blew out UTSA and the end of regular season game won their final five games to get all eligible. So if I had to play the game, certainly close to home there, team that got hot at the end of the year to make a bowl game, I would I would lean towards North Texas and the over to your level of this game.
I haven't seen what other uniform these teams are going to well. It has a chance to be a good uniform game. I have started the old uniform rankings through these bowl games. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Had Wyoming, Wyoming's at two after those beautiful Brown and Golden Mustard. The Jackson State uniforms, I thought were tremendous.
They are currently sitting at one. But the problem is, is all the teams that are high in these rankings of mine and their uniform, they all they all have lost. I love BYU's look. They lost.
You look like a great look. Yeah. I mean, they do it. They've been a lot of simple.
Oh, do you as a nice stormtrooper all whites couldn't get the job done. We did the highlight of that game was kickoff turn and they have to that. Yes, it was Thursday night. Seven o'clock ESPN, UCF Florida.
It's in Tampa. These schools are pretty close to each other. They've only played twice. I was looking at ever.
So plenty on the line here. We're Deo Emery Jones is going to quarterback Florida, but he's in the portal. I'm guessing they just didn't have anybody else in their field. So I guess I would lean UCF here.
They've been awesome over the second half of the year. But you know, I think you and I can get a squad together, be successful against the likes of Memphis Temple Tulane, Yukon and USF the end of the season. The one side I saw Florida does like to run the ball. They average about 210 yards a game.
UCF's own four when allowing 190 or more rushing yards. So we know what Florida is going to try and do. I do think Emery is pretty talented. It's just obviously the big question as we're going to face a lot of these games there in the next seven days.
What is the motivation factor for Florida? We know what it looked like last year without the opt-out against Oklahoma. Do you expect the Gators to show up? Oh, no, you can probably you can take two schools of all.
You can take one that they've got their entrance from head coach now watching and the guys that are there are going to be looking to make a positive first impression or you can just take the stance of this is a team that underachieved this year and they're just ready to end the year. But the thing that makes me think that they might take the game seriously, A, is that Jones is playing even though he's in the Portland goal. He's going to want to impress someone and the way they played in Florida state in a game that they needed to get ball out of the ball. I thought it was a big check out time there and they did win.
And I think the fact that UCSF is a very vocal fan base and the old administration there certainly was as well. That might ring true with some of those players and just trying to put UCF I guess kind of in their place even though they're not the same team that they were a couple years ago and they finished on defeat. So I think there are signs that Florida will take the game seriously. So I think this is a this is a stay away from me.
I certainly would expect both teams to come out and give a give give a give. I'm almost you. I just don't know how good UCF is. Yeah.
And that's the question. You know, Gus is going to have a team prepared. Always does what these teams are so similar points for game, scoring and allowing UCF averages 32 a game, Florida averages 31.8 points allowed for game, UCF 25, Florida 26. So feels like an even matchup.
I would lean the points in your office pools or whatever there. So I think you'll know pretty quick with Florida and I never doubt the players. I just as far as the motivation goes, I just don't want to have any part in giving seven points. That's a great thing.
There's so many games. You don't need to play them all. You just do not better. Better feel it.
Of course no matter what Big Cat says. Make the board love you. Right. A Christmas Eve annual.
Hawaii ball. Yeah. This line is what 17 points. Not one good thing has been coming out of the Hawaii thing deal Memphis is now minus eight and a half.
55 and a half. If you have something, go because I don't. I can't know. I mean, what possibly could you say to talk yourself on to a lot here with basically the team we're telling against against their head coach.
It's interesting that both quarterbacks in the game now face each other in a high school playoff game last year. So that's kind of interesting. This could be a this could be a defense optional game though that that would be the one thing I might take a look at. It's when when you've got players or the the fall is that we don't care.
Tackling might be optional and Memphis's defense historically isn't very good either. So yeah, then this could be one of the eight big days Hawaii rack desk type of games where it could go flying over the pole. I will remind you it is on TV if you're really, really, really bored eight o'clock. Yes, we can.
Christmas Eve moving down as we go past Christmas and the weekend Monday right down the road here or first 11 a.m. Oh, wait, hold on. Where am I? There is a game Christmas day.
You're getting excited. Whoa. Yes, there is. Merry Christmas up against the NFL.
That's great. Very nice Georgia State ball state. Yeah. Wow.
This line has gone up to Georgia State up to minus six. Yeah, we did this one at four and a half. Actually, huh, guys can fly up. Is that for closing line value?
Yeah, people are all over that. Hope you did well with those. I see. I'm a weight guy.
I'll wait. I will rather wait as well. It's funny because some people love it. I think it's irrelevant.
If you win, you bet you lose your bet. You lose. I said, when we had to do the triple option stuff this year during daily wage, you're like, I'm a guy who likes to wait. And they're like, you're going to go Tuesday.
I'm like, Oh, I'm going to go Tuesday. The black hole of the betting week. You don't get to get to get into the opener. And then you don't get to bet later in the week after going to get thrown in the middle there.
And my record certainly indicated my disdain for having to go then. That's for sure. Yeah, a little mini right now. Like, Oh, good.
I mean, it's a who's betting serious money on my Tuesday during the week on a college football game. I don't know. I don't know. Talk good.
You would lean the points every ball state then or the over? No, I mean, I gave out Georgia State in four and a half. That's where that's the way I would probably go. I mean, the thing is that the Mac defense is like we talked about it.
I've been terrible. So I just joined this Georgia State team that wound up putting 42 up on coastal Carolina. Yeah, 37 on Troy. Did this game wind up going going over the top?
I mean, I hate laying I lay in six now when you'll like, you'll aid four and a half a couple of weeks ago. So I might take a look at the over here. What are we going to do for a total? 51.
51. It seems like we could get 31 24 type of game. So yeah, I might take a look at the over here with the three teams. Both balls, they was defense on my team last year when they won the conference.
And the defense is as good as it was last year. And just based on what we've seen from some of these defenses early on over might be the the play here. And if you can get a five or five and a half somehow, so on Georgia State, go for it. But six things I could talk to number.
So over would be the way I go here. Yeah, just looking at some of the stats of all states six losses, teams of restaurant average, 218 yards, Georgia State on average, Russia's for 223. So there could be a significant advantage there with Georgia State. I always love I always think they're prepared.
And I think the coach is that does a good job. So I would lean there, but I just don't want to give any part of six points. Not knowing how that's going to go. But I would lean going against the Mac again.
Speaking of Mac, another one Monday, 11 a.m. Eastern board field. It's a quick lane ball. Another team we have no idea what we should expect from Nevada coach and change quarterback up and out transfers following the coach to Colorado State.
No idea what the roster is going to look like Western Michigan on the other side was some people's pick to win the Mac. They've they're good as been good. They're bad. They've been really bad.
They beat it earlier this year and then lost the ball state. So you don't know what you're getting with Western Michigan. They're giving six and a half in another incredible line movement since the lines were posted with all the stuff that I mentioned, coach and change and transfers over under 56. I don't want to get lay six and a half of Western Michigan.
It's a stay away from me. I want nothing to do with this game. You have no idea if you got the information on Nevada early and you're able to get Western Michigan as a dog or a smaller favorite. Congratulations.
And you're in a great situation here to lock in a pretty much like in a profit and make fat milk. If you want to transfer that, but yeah, I can't. I can't go near this game. One game I will dive in on two teams that are near and dear to my heart.
The Boston College Eagles who did not get there for us in the season. When total of seven. Unfortunately, I'm fortunate there with the board of back. That's really what what did it.
So you you are on the right side there. Unfortunately, we'll be back at it next year because I love what I've seen from guys coming back. And that's why I like them in this spot against ECU. Where is this game?
This is in an apple list. I was thinking about. No, you've got to be on a recap for both teams. Right?
Can we call the can we call the ball people and or at least our programming people at least have to be the honorary tosser of the coin? I got that. I did. I got maybe they don't have my number, but my phone didn't ring for that one.
So we can so we can so number one of the end, bounding like sweatshirt on the first album bowl with like half Clemson and half half Lawrence. We can do like a half a half East Carolina, half BC jersey or something. The worst version of those I remember was the the A's Giants Bay Area World Series where it had the hat down the middle and it could not have been worse with the black and orange of the Giants and then the green and gold of the A's like it was just a terrible looking deal. But yeah, I like BC here.
I've seen the news about your COVID coming back next year as they flowers their star receiver. I believe he's been all ACC two years in a row. He's going to come back. Garble is a great running back.
Our guy, Ehlers is on the other side. Unbelievable job getting this team to a bowl game with all they've been through. They played well against the good teams this year. They just didn't really beat any of them.
They hung around with Cincinnati. They got a huge win at Navy to become bowl eligible. So, your COVID when he came back, I think he kind of came back too early trying to help that team, you know, as the ACC was wide open for a little bit there. And I think that had a lot to do with it.
Grosel just couldn't get it done when he was in there. BC's failed to score more than 17 and six of the last eight games. But I like the idea here. I think Halfley knows the momentum he could create with all that's coming back.
It's the potential of the offensive line, but they were all dinged up this year. You know they're going to play good defense. And this is a defense I think that'll be towards the better half of BC. I know you see you played Cincinnati, but BC's defense is legit.
And I know you see you once the possessed the ball, but I think BC will do some things offensively known at their healthy. And I think they're going to be motivated. So, I'll lay the three here with BC. You broke it down.
You have a conviction. I don't. As unfortunately, I don't in a lot of the games this week. This is kind of like a nebulous area of bully, I don't have a ton of conviction on a lot of these matchups.
So, you've got a conviction there. So, let's just move forward. Very good. Tuesday, December 28th, 12 Eastern ESPN, protective stadium, brand new facility in Birmingham, Alabama.
It's the ticket smarter Birmingham bowl. Coach Harrison against Coach Holgerson. Auburn's minus two and a half is Auburn Place Houston. Over under 51 and a half.
I saw Houston has a couple opt outs, but the tune, the quarterback, who's been very impressive this year is going to play for Houston. Obviously, Bo Nick's is transferred. He was hurt, but he's transferred to Oregon. So, I'm actually fired up to see this game because you don't get a team like this from the American play in the middle of the road.
SCC team, we know the last time we saw Auburn was that brutal loss in four over times to Alabama. Do you have any expectations for Auburn in this game? I think defensively, I think they'll play pretty well. They've battled on defense all year long.
I think Houston, curious to see Houston, how they bounce back off of the blowout loss in the conference championship game if they just kind of end their season now, or if they didn't, those guys are wound up to play an SEC team to woken up. I mean, it's basically an Auburn home game. Yeah, you would think. Under-under might be the way to go here.
Okay. Yeah, I mean, and I just want to see Finley in a position where he's had time to prep. I know he was dinged up in Alabama, he was gutting it out on that ankle. But like with the time, it always feels like he's thrown to the wolves here.
LSU last year, that was a weird deal. I mean, super young. It's just to see what he looks like here. I think Tank Bigs, he's going to play for Auburn.
So that's an awesome sign for them. He's one of my favorite running backs in the country. But I just want to see Finley here in a circumstance where he's been the guy getting all the reps in practice. He gets full prep.
He's healthy. And let's see what he could do. So I would lean Auburn in this game, but I'm not giving him out as an official pick. Yeah, I would lean Auburn and under just because I mean, Bigs, he's playing that big.
But I just don't know what's running in that. Yeah. Auburn's going to be an interesting team heading into next year. No doubt.
Later that day, 315 ESPN Air Force, Louisville blind. I will take Air Force, Louisville minus one and a half. This could be an automatic over though, 55 and a half because Louisville is not going to play any defense at all. And I think that'll feel this good job off at this point.
So you know what we'll take, we'll take the over in this one. Yeah, I'm with you. Yes. Yeah.
I think this will be a fun game. Yeah, this will be a fun game. The athletes at Louisville has on the offer. So we have a ton of success as well.
So I'm with you here on the over. Yeah. Air Force with that run game, Russian for over 341. Louisville does rush for 211 yards too.
So I just think the big play capability of both teams. Daniel says an awesome job running that option for Air Force and obviously Cunningham with his athleticism that really showed up late in the year. I like the potential of both those offenses in this game. So we'll go over in that one later that day, the 28th we have Miss the leech ball, Mississippi State minus nine and a half.
It doesn't nine and a half seem too high. I really liked what I've seen from Mississippi State at the end of the year. Yeah, I think Rogers got the goods. Their defense is more than capable.
Yeah, it does feel like a lot with Texas tech and knowing their potential. Liberty Bowl is always a pretty high level game. I want to say Mississippi State lost their on that brutal no-call in the punt return to Memphis or in this year, which was one of the, I mean, when you look back on outcomes that scratch your head, that's that's up there. But yeah, we know the offensive capability, both teams average over 400 yards.
A game both average giving up over 330. So that's got to be high. Fifty nine and a half. I thought that would be higher.
Huh. Looks like good weather, 69 degrees. So come, come be gone, correct? Yes.
So basically you've got ridiculous. Yeah, because I didn't know that that Kit Lee was going to coach for Western Kentucky because he's going there to be the offensive coordinator and that made me take Western Kentucky again. I waited and I saw some news and that made me jump on it. So this would be a fun game for sure in the Liberty Bowl.
Back to Western Kentucky. Why did they not leave Zappi and to get 6,000 yards? Come on. Because they didn't have you on the stack.
I was like two or three completions and the kid throws for 6k. Leave him in the game to get sick. It's a ridiculous bowl game. You put up unbelievable numbers all year and now you're going to look in the record book and it's going to be a few yards shy of six that terrible job.
Let him let him throw for let him get his 6,000 and then we'll take him out. All right. Sorry, mini rant. Love mini rants.
That's why we have a podcast from any rants. I see some tens here to serve. It's got 10. Oh, I'm missing the state now.
All right. It's just in time. Yeah. I don't know.
I need to see more about Texas Tech's roster. The holiday bowl this year on Fox. So if you're looking around eight o'clock in the East on Tuesday, December 28th, good game UCLA NC State, NC State minus one 59 and a half watching this one in Miami. We will get your travel plans in a second.
UCLA, I love the quarterback matchup in this thing. I really like what I've seen from leery and DTR is as tough as they come when it comes to these situations. I expect him to play well. I think UCLA is going to play well NC State known obviously for Doran that defense just not sure what have they faced the goods that UCLA can bring to the table offensively.
That's why UCLA in this game. But this is like top five excited. I am for the non playoff games as far as both comes because I think the capability of both teams UCLA is one three in our last five including three in a row and NC State's one four their last five. Their only loss was that 45 42 loss.
It's awake. So both teams come in UCLA eight and four NC State nine and three UCLA was there over under seven season one total or were they. We are believe it was I believe it was six and a half or seven. I think it was seven.
They got there. They got there. Yeah. I was going to say when you talked about a has as the wall have the wall pack face and office I was going to say wait for us it would be the only only team that I have.
Here's one that I played on draft games is a ACC bowl wings under five and a half. I played that minus on that one forty one forty five. Okay. I like that.
Again the caveat now being all these teams need to all these games need to be played. So Miami is going to have to feel the team for covid purposes and Texas A&M is going to have to feel the team to play their game against weight. But yeah I got a bunch of toss-up games and why not take a shot. Sharper has been really good coming in 106 against Cal 167 against SC another 67 against Colorado five touchdowns in the last three games.
So I expect he's going to get fed the ball as long as he's playing right. That's another one of these guys I would think he's playing this game. All right just want to make sure never know never know these days. Yeah I was always playing on the next day.
He announced that he wasn't so you're going to try to get somebody trying to get you I think with some information. I know they're trying to use me to move a line in a certain direction. It's not very nice. Yeah I like UCLA that's a high level game excited for that one.
I know I've said a million times all right moving on to the next game 10 15 ESPN West Virginia Minnesota. This will be fun. Yeah. I'm surprised Minnesota's given I know let he's not playing for West Virginia.
Good luck to him at the next level. He had an awesome career and not some great West Virginia teams. But West Virginia's fresh off of win over Kansas and obviously that win against Texas when everybody was beating Texas and Minnesota still the game that doesn't get talked about at all to end the season is a Minnesota beat. Yeah is Minnesota beating Wisconsin.
Now they were they're off at score and here's gone they got their guy back. So this is a tough one because both coaching staff I feel like take whole games pretty seriously and I feel like they're going to be really into this. I think I trust Morgan more than Dagey but I like when green comes in and what West Virginia does with that offense. Wow Minnesota end of the year only giving up 18 points per game.
Yeah they're really well in the year. Again you're dealing with some pretty anemic offenses. Yes but the whole but the whole Maryland to Maryland to 16. I mean that's that's team capable perdue to 13.
You know they're defense player. I actually like him that is still in this game. Okay I think you know how PJ'll have them wound up for a ball game to finish off the year on a winning note. A couple of close losses mixed in there Morgan coming back.
I can see them being really excited about this game whereas I know West Virginia won a couple games at the end of the year but their offense is the Oklahoma State game was a total no-shall offense. I believe Kansas State struggled offense. I'm not the Texas game you were kind of fortunate to you mean Kansas of course obviously better perdue but yeah but yeah I'm I'm actually I like about Minnesota year plus but no one's come down too so I don't know how much further it will come down than four but if four and a half I'd certainly but we'll lay the points here with the goal first mostly for us though. Okay a couple early ones Wednesday we'll be taping that morning so we just want to get that out there SMU Virginia in the no coaches bowl game all Fenway so wheat let's go to Boston and play in a bowl game you can have it.
Yeah you can get somebody to fire up that drop kick Murphy song right now. Casket flag. Love you love that. I got 11 I got man.
Nothing says college football at the end of the year then Fenway Park in the city of Boston. You get a couple tall Sam Adam boys for you. Virginia minus two and a half. I'm ending up in the coach but I don't know the deal with any of the assistance 71 and a half.
What's the field configuration going to be like there? Well you kind of played BC there a couple of years ago and the field goes it goes opposite of how they do Yankee Stadium so the sidelines are like at shortstop that side so like the right sideline goes right down the first baseline. Yeah okay that's kind of how they did it when I was when I went there for a soccer match to that that's how they had to be able to go see Liverpool there. Yeah we did we got some Liverpool in Rome.
Yeah a little exhibition there because I was saying like they're gonna have to have an end zone like up against the monster. No but you could sit on the monster in the field you know how many amount of feet away from it. Yeah that's exactly what I want to do on December 28 sit however many feet in the end. All right here you go.
Winter morning in Boston. Yeah be great. 37. What did they up there?
The old weather tracker has 37 degrees so here you go. Would you rather go to this game at 11 AM Eastern and sit on top of the monster or go to the Jets Jags game Sunday? Oh geez wow that's a great question. You're talking to me I would rather go to this game because it's easier for me to get to Boston than it is to drive down and cross the bridge and go to the Netherlands.
That's my rationale for it. What if I gave you a private play into both? Well I probably have to be more of a con. I'm going to be a plane.
Oh then I'm going to see the world. Absolutely. Okay all right with that without a doubt and I can just laugh and shout cool things towards the Jets sideline. How are we feeling about the Jets?
You like them this week? How can you play that game? The defense is so bad the quarterback is bad like everything about them is bad. I need Barnwell to do a full breakdown.
Give me a pick on that game. Oh he will too. I need it. I would like to see the best offensive player so I don't check to pick Jackson and Urban is gone.
So like yeah how'd that do well? I mean you just think about this. The Buffalo Bill is probably not going to win the ASC East because they lost to Urban Meyer and the Jets and the Jets. Here's how I look at it.
I'm watching Jets Jags this week because I'm going to be able to watch the playoffs teams for the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to be able to watch with Jets and the Jags in January. How many people are getting Christmas gifts on Saturday because they're probably a million tickets available. Hey we get to go to Son we're going to go to a football game on Sunday.
It's Jets Jags. I'm going to the tree. Here's your Trevor Lawrence jersey. We're going to see him.
It's funny. I actually have a friend from a friend from high school who's a Jets fan like I am and he went to Clemson and he's coming back to and he's coming back to Ireland for the holidays. He's like yeah I'm actually just going to the game just to go see Trevor. I'm like why?
Why would you go put yourself through the traffic of getting there? Why? He's sick of the head. Yeah so I don't have anything out in Fed Waible.
Sorry. If you're going have a blast though. Exactly. Let's see.
Go to the greatest bar for Levy. He'll be happy to see you. 215 Wednesday December 29th. Maryland in the picture speaking of Major League Stadium.
Wow. What a way to start Fed Waite and then Yankee Stadium. Maryland minus three and a half, 55 the total against Virginia Tech. Obviously Virginia Tech, new coach coming in for the offseason.
Vermeister's in the portal. Maryland did pretty well in the recruiting. But those guys are going to be able to play in this game. So they've been running last couple of years.
If it's going to be 37 at Fenway, what's 41 in Yankee Stadium? Beautiful. Old Leah slinging around the yard early on. Yeah.
Got anything? Because I don't. I don't. Okay.
All right. And I do have one here later that day. The cheese at bowl. Oh, it's in Orlando.
That's a beautiful downtown Orlando. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's a bull.
I was gonna say, it wasn't in Kansas, I said, Kansas, what wasn't initially in California, one point this game? Yeah, the Giants far from California, Texas, before we moved East. I went to it a couple of years ago, and it was at the Diamondback Stadium, Air Force played Washington State. But anyway, it's in reverse.
Horace, really. She's got a reference. Clemson minus one over under 44 Iowa State. Give me Iowa State.
I'm just just give me Iowa State. Yeah, I like Iowa State too. I'm looking this more at Clemson, not having either of its coordinators, a quarterback that's bad, a team that's used to being in the college football playoff. And now you're going to face Iowa State in Orlando.
It just doesn't sound like a situation that I can see Clemson really getting up for. And I think even without Breeze Hall, I think Iowa State will be able to move the ball and have enough success offensively. I can see that Iowa State defense really getting Clemson, a ton of problems as well. So this feels like an Iowa State and under-type team for me.
Yeah, I mean, this has to be among the lowest totals at 44. No, Wisconsin, Arizona State's 42 later on in the week. I just like all that comes with Iowa State and staff staying intact. I still have a perity.
I think that edge is clearly to Iowa State even though he was subpar this year. And I think they'll be ready to go. I know they'll be prepared. Dabbles got a lot of work to figure out.
I think this will be one of the better attended bowl games. Clemson obviously always travels well. I'm no problem getting the Florida. Any guy with State could use a nice trip to Florida in the middle of the winter.
So yeah, I think that'll be a good one. Curious to see how many Clemson people go. Yeah. I know they feel a little entitled after being so successful.
Do you think the Clemson fan base grew more than the Red Sox fan base grew during their World Series runs? Good question. I'm following this. Probably.
OK. Probably there. The Paul travels now. Paul is an actual brand.
What do they hand out $2 bills or something? $1 bills. I got a couple upstairs. Oh.
I might have to actually use those at some point. I've been running this year. Can't use those on your apps. No, you can't.
No, you can't. All right. That will do it. I'm just going to give a little recap.
Little recap. OK. The big Mike. Happy recap.
Big Mike happy recap. Yes. And this week, Big Mike happy recap. I will go Boston College over in the Air Force Louisville game UCLA and Iowa State.
I will go Missouri plus the seven. I will go Iowa State plus the one. I will go the Louisville Air Force over five. And then I will go Minnesota minus the four.
And then one other one that I have for you is well. It's not college. It's actually NFL. I do have a little NFL something for you.
I mentioned the college Minnesota drug games, but drug games also has adjusted NFL win totals. I noticed the Texans were three and a half. It's obviously means they have to go almost the rest of the year. But you look at their schedule.
They got the Chargers and the 49ers in the next two weeks. They're not winning either of those two games. And then they got the Titans the last week of the season. And the Titans might need that game.
So they might not be an automatic male event. So I played under three and a half for the Texans adjusted win total. I think it was minus 120. So at the very least, you put yourself in a position where Houston will be an underdog.
You would assume Tennessee the last week of the year. And you can fool around accordingly if you feel the need to get off of that. So Texans adjusted one total under three and a half. That's my other little Big Mike happy recap edition.
Very good. All right. And then you'll be getting on the road after Christmas. Head into the orange ball.
No, 20 days. Come in, come out to your city. Yep, with air for a game day in the morning, New Year's Eve, call the game, go to Pasadena, game day, New Year's morning, Rose Bowl, Red Eye Home, and then back down to Indiana Friday the seventh. Very good.
When do you get to Indy? I'm coming in Sunday, Red Hot. No NFL playoff game for you. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
Yeah. Yeah, I forgot about that little. I just didn't throw that in there just because I don't know the way you're going. Where I'm going.
Just pack it back, big boy. Exactly. Where I'm assuming I'm getting on a plane from Indianapolis somewhere Saturday morning going somewhere to call a game and we're sitting in the truck while Kirk and Chris and Laura call the game and then come home after the game. And just so you know, I'm referencing ESPN, NFL playoff games, Saturday night, I believe that is January 8th.
ESPN will have the broadcast, Chris Fowler, Kirk Herb Street, lower Rutledge are on that call. I would imagine they're going to want bear in their air as they do for their normal Saturday. So yes, Fowler and Herb Street are calling the orange ball, the Rose Bowl, NFL playoff game, and then the national title game. It's not a playoff game.
It's the final one. No, it's the final week of the week. I'll screw it up. I'll screw it up with that NFL season.
Yeah, but we were told it's going to be a game that has playoff implications. Got it. Because it's flexed. Got it.
But again, does playoff implications mean titans at Houston? Ooh. Does it mean? Does it mean Saints at Falcons?
Like, does it mean Jetsett built? I mean, there are a whole lot of games that have playoff implications that could be kind of brutal games. I would love to have to go out of frame a Buffalo. At least it's not too far for me.
That actually wouldn't be a bad option. Truck has heat, right? I'm sorry? The truck has heat.
Yes. You'll be sitting in for a game. The truck does have heat. That actually wouldn't be the worst option, by the way.
OK. No Buffalo. Get there. Short flight there, short flight back.
But bills potentially can win the division today. If they beat the Patriots this week. Yeah, that's a bear is viking. So about that.
Maybe we get to watch that game again. Well, that was a good one. There's the tree. No, I have one.
I have one. I made a couple of weeks ago. We're going to give you around to in Minnesota this time around again. You get them both.
I have the perfect one. Coles to ask Jags. Yeah, yeah. Coles looking to get into the playoffs.
That's a. Yeah. Well, it's all division. Every game is good.
I know, which is good. But the best game of the day is is Niners Rams. No. No.
Niners Rams isn't the best game of the day. Best rivalry in the sports playing at the Steelers. Three, two, three rivalry. Yes, but like the one I think the best game.
I'm just I'm just messing with you. What about the battle for Ohio? Yeah, I could be a big game for your boy. I could be a big boy with a little disappointed with the Browns on whatever day that was yesterday.
I can't remember any Monday. One of these whatever that was Monday. Yeah, Monday night. We should hold on.
We'll be big, big, big Ravens fans this week. All right. All right. I think I'll do it.
Anything else on the docket? You good to go? Yeah, we're really Christmas. You do too.
Well, we'll have Christmas Eve is seafood. I make I make a little seafood linguine with some muscles and some clams and scallops and some bougotini, little anti pasta salad, some garlic bread. That'll be Christmas Eve and then Christmas day will be a lasagna. Nice, easy.
And the good thing about lasagna is being it's just my wife and I make you make you can't really like make it half a trail lasagna. So you make the tray and then she'll have leftovers while I'm gone in Miami because that'll be easy for a pop into the microwave and ree so they'll take care of her while I'm gone. All right. Well, we'll be tenderloin, baby.
Big one. Make sure you take your turkeys out by now. Don't take your view. If you win any longer, turkey won't fly off by Christmas.
He's better be off by now. You heard the man. He knows his grub. All right.
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