KillerFrogs writer JD Andress joins Brett to preview TCU's Week 3 matchup at the Houston Cougars. The Horned Frogs open up Big 12 Conference play.
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00:00 Welcome back to the killer frogs killer minute of fan nation college football
00:03 podcast brought to you weekly by killer frogs dot com. I'm Brett Gibbons and
00:07 today I'm joined by a new face J. D. Andrus. He's one of our fellow writers.
00:13 J. D. What's going on, man? Thanks for joining me today. How are you? Great.
00:17 Thanks for having me brought. Uh, happy to be here first time. Yeah. So,
00:21 hey, since it is your first time, let's let the people listening know who you
00:25 are, kind of your background, maybe ties to TCU and how you got here. Uh,
00:31 so I'm J. D. Like you said, I was born and raised here in Fort Worth, went to
00:35 high school, you know, less than five miles from TCU. I grew up less than
00:40 five miles, live less than five miles. Uh, so TCU has always been basically in
00:45 my backyard and my backyard team. Uh, growing up, my dad's diehard long
00:50 words fan. Um, and I don't, you know, always something about the little guy,
00:54 little team for worth. I always love TCU. They're my team. And so fell in
01:00 love with them. I mean, purple is the best color anyway, so looks good on
01:03 anything. Uh, and then, you know, one of my friends and I were talking sports
01:09 one day and he was like, Hey, man, have you ever thought about writing about
01:13 sports? And I was like, not anything I've ever done, but like, I think it'd
01:16 be cool. And one thing led to another. And then I joined the team and writing
01:20 for killer frogs. Yeah, and we're happy to have you. I'm happy to have you on
01:24 the podcast here. Uh, JD and I are similar minded in that we ruin things
01:30 with math and numbers. We won't get too far down that rabbit hole. We'll save
01:35 that for the offline conversations, of course. But today, JD, you're joining
01:40 me to preview the upcoming game at Houston. Uh, TCU, you know, week one
01:47 didn't go well. Everybody watched it. You know, got shocked. 20 and a half
01:52 point favorites losing outright. And then you roll in your host Nichols,
01:56 kind of a get right game. I don't even know if it's a get right game. You know,
01:59 it's like playing the local junior college, you know, for a for a payday.
02:03 So I think this game against Houston is really interesting because I think it's
02:07 gonna give us a good gauge as to what we're getting from the horn frogs this
02:10 coming season. Uh, and you know, let's just dive right into it. Let's let's
02:15 just get dirty right away. I want to start with TCU's defense against
02:19 Houston's offense. Houston's offense. I think I know more about the side of
02:24 the ball, but given the two games they played, there's a lot of question
02:28 marks. Donovan Smith is their quarterback. He's the text tech
02:31 transfer. You played started a bit for the Red Raiders past couple of years.
02:34 Now he's a quarterback one for the Cougars. Tony Mathis. That's a familiar
02:38 name to those who follow Big 12 football. He's a West Virginia transfer
02:41 who's now the lead back there, but he's only received eight carries in each
02:44 of the two first games that he's played. Interestingly, I thought they'd
02:47 use them more as a workhorse back, but they're spreading out a bit more.
02:50 And that could be because head coach Dana Holgerson, he's he's calling the
02:54 offensive plays. He assumed that role over the offseason after the offensive
02:57 coordinator left. I 22 seconds of play. That's the 13th fastest pace in the
03:01 country. So Houston does not waste any time. It's a lot like Colorado. They
03:05 get up to the line, they snapped the ball real quick. They're about high
03:08 volume, kind of high success rate, not many 80 yard plays that they're relying
03:12 on here to score on you. It's a lot of wearing it down a lot of chunk plays,
03:16 but one thing. No, this right side of the offensive line for Houston, it is
03:20 a problem. They've allowed 42% of all the pressures on Smith just from the
03:25 right guard, the right tackle. I zero pressures have come from the left side.
03:29 So if you're attacking this team, you really want to come at them from their
03:33 right side. The offensive line. It is very clearly weaker, and that is shown
03:36 through the first two games. But the quarterback not helping these guys out
03:39 either. He's 12th in the country in pressures allowed that you contribute
03:45 to the quarterback. So holding on to the football too long, stepping up into
03:49 pressure, bailing too early, etcetera, etcetera. Those kind of mistakes to
03:51 quarterbacks can make PFF pro football focus counts that up and counted
03:56 against him, and he's one of the higher percentage quarterbacks in the country
04:00 that's getting himself into trouble on his own. Now I asked his head of the
04:05 Colorado game. At what point are we concerned with the TCU defense on
04:09 Saturday?
04:10 Um,
04:14 based off of what we saw Houston perform against Rice last week, which
04:18 yeah, with overtime, it ended up being a higher scoring game with help. They
04:22 started against Rice. I think anything more than I'll say, 350 total yards of
04:30 offense is kind of gonna be a letdown. I mean, we held Nickel State to 263
04:36 yards. Um, and I think that's just kind of like a happy median. Of course, that
04:41 could change if TC comes up to a big lead, and they're, you know, just
04:43 passing the ball. We're running soft coverage, allowing it, and that changes
04:47 it. But I really don't think there's any reason to worry about TCU's defense at
04:52 all. Um, we saw them against Nichols. I mean, yeah, it's Nichols. It's like
04:57 playing the school for the deaf and blind, and that's kind of an insult to
05:00 the deaf and blind. But they I mean, they played well. The coverages were
05:07 there. I mean, it's still the issue that coming into the season we had and we
05:11 saw last season is the defensive line. We can't get any pressures, which is
05:15 interesting. But I think what makes what made the defense look bad is we're in a
05:22 new season with new clock rules, and everyone's offense productions has been
05:26 down. How many plays the running, uh, specifically. But interestingly enough,
05:31 TCU's running on average six more plays per game than we did last season with
05:36 Gary Lee's office. And I think that when we played Colorado, our defense was on
05:42 the field way more than they needed to be. And when you're playing at the
05:45 beginning of September, and it's 110 degrees, like even though we practice
05:49 for it, your body's gonna wear down naturally. I think that makes our defense
05:53 look way more, you know, like they could be exported than they actually are. And
05:58 I think this weekend we're gonna see a whole new side, and we're kind of gonna
06:03 leave that game. You're like, Okay, that's deep into be expected. And every
06:06 week that you know we're going and going, Colorado looks like the real
06:10 deal, man. I mean, like I said, I, you know, mentioned before in multiple of my
06:15 articles is we could be week eight in the season and be like, Dang, the fact
06:19 that that was 45 42 impressive game by Colorado might just be it. I, you know,
06:25 but I really think 350 yards of total offense from Houston and I'm looking at
06:29 the defense of being like, Okay, maybe we should shake things up. We got to
06:33 figure something out about a D line with no pressures. So I think at that
06:36 point, that's when there's cause for worry.
06:38 I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna have a shorter leash in that. I think if
06:42 they don't come out in the first quarter and look prepared, I'm gonna be
06:44 concerned because in my opinion, my assessment of watching the game against
06:48 Colorado, they were not prepared. They were confused. They were surprised that
06:54 Colorado was fast and getting the ball. The perimeter. I Gillespie looked like
06:58 he's never seen an offense like Sean Lewis is. And to be fair, not a lot of
07:02 people in the country run an offensive system as clean and efficient fast as
07:07 Sean Lewis does. But what were you guys doing for the past few months? You
07:12 know, I ranted about this a little bit on the last podcast that you have film
07:17 from Kent State and no, it's not Colorado's guys and is different. It's
07:21 against Mac team, stuff like that. But they looked like they didn't even know
07:25 what colors that Colorado is going to show up in it. I thought they were
07:29 completely unprepared. So if I see them on the first couple of drives first
07:32 quarter, still looking lost, still looking not prepared. I mean, that
07:36 falls on Gillespie at that point, and that's what I'm gonna be concerned.
07:39 But I think even then, even to go more of a stretch that way, T. C. S.
07:45 Defense under epilepsy in the last, I think it's like after the Colorado
07:49 game is like the last 11 games. What T. C. S. At defense was giving up on
07:54 average, like 43 points per game. It was, uh, and that, you know, even
07:59 includes if you take the outlier out of the national championship. So, like
08:03 you take that out, we're still giving up 43 points. And I think last year's
08:08 offense kind of build out epilepsy a little bit more. And I talked about
08:11 that coming into the season is that I think he's gonna be on a little bit
08:14 hotter seat. People anticipated because with the returning production that we
08:19 had in the secondary this year in the linebacking position, we shouldn't have
08:22 been giving up that many points to begin with against Colorado. No, and I
08:27 even went out and said that I thought that the T. C. S. Defense could be the
08:30 stronger of the two units and through one usable game, like you said, No, no
08:35 offense to Nichols, but I have Nichols rate is the 59th best FCS team. That's
08:40 not great. Not exactly South Dakota State that they're playing. But, you
08:46 know, I said that maybe the defense could be stronger than the offense.
08:49 That just has not been the case through the one. And I get it. It's a
08:53 first game of the season against the team that maybe is a lot better than a
08:57 lot of expectations, but maybe legitimately very good. So that's why I
09:02 think Houston's gonna be a good game to watch. I, you know, they run fast.
09:06 Like I said, the 13 fastest pace right now is actually technically faster than
09:10 Colorado's. But Colorado got off to a slow first half starting in Nebraska.
09:13 Whatever. Let's be clear. This is not Colorado's offense. Travis Hunter is
09:18 not walking out that tunnel. Shadura Sanders is not lining up across from T.
09:23 C. U. Uh, this Saturday. All respect to Donovan Smith here. They just don't
09:28 have the same personnel. So if you're thinking about a worst case scenario
09:32 for T. C. S. Defense, I know you said you'd be concerned with 350 yards, but
09:36 worst case scenario for T. C. S. Defense. Let's say first half. What does
09:40 it look like?
09:41 I think first half what it looks like is
09:47 explosive plays happening from Houston. I think if you're gonna allow long
09:52 drives, you know they're gonna get chip gains five yard rushes constantly, then
09:56 that's fine. I mean, obviously still cause to worry, but if we're giving
10:00 explosive plays, the secondaries busting coverages like they did against
10:03 Colorado, um, or even against Colorado, what I saw a lot was we're playing deep
10:09 soft coverage and we're still getting burned off vertical routes, which was a
10:12 big worry. And I think if we see that happen again that, you know, after the
10:17 first quarter, I'm like, all right, you know, panic button. Let's reset
10:20 something. Yeah, Houston has not been giving has not been breaking off
10:25 explosive play so far. If you I define explosive play is 20 plus yards. I know
10:30 there's different, different between explosive runs and passes just for the
10:34 sake of the argument. Let's just say 20 plus yards. They have nine of those
10:37 through the two games this season. That's good enough tied for 68 with,
10:40 like, a million other teams, but they're not by any stretch of the
10:43 imagination and explosive offense, at least not from what they've shown this
10:47 year against U. T. S. A. Who's been playing solid defense, but not the best
10:52 defense in rice. Who is good God. If I'm a Houston fan, I'm pulling my hair
10:58 out over that rice. Get that like you're in Big 12. Now those are not games
11:02 you're supposed to lose, especially. Yeah, you're on the quote unquote road,
11:05 but it's in your same city. You went 15 blocks over to go play rice. Personally,
11:12 I need to see better execution from the defensive front. Colorado's offensive
11:15 line was bad and TCU's offense or defensive line. Pardon me at times made
11:20 them look not so bad, especially on that one goal line where they stuck in that
11:23 defensive lineman or whoever it was at the fullback and cracked down on the
11:26 linebacker and blew him right off the ball. I mean, that's just not that's
11:29 not Colorado's off offensive line. They're bad. Metrically, they're
11:32 terrible and TCU's defensive front really didn't take advantage of them
11:37 like I think they probably should have. But again, Sean Lewis is really good
11:40 about getting to the to the edge and get involved space and all that kind of
11:44 stuff. I also want to see that this is just nitpicky, but it matters. I need
11:48 see better pursuit angles from the secondary. You know, Houston doesn't
11:51 have Dylan Edwards. They don't have a 59 guy that runs a high 4 to 40. Um, but
11:57 guys, we we gotta be taking better angles. Now you can't be surprised when
12:01 a Division one football player, especially wide receivers fast. And to
12:04 me, that's that looked like they were surprised that Dylan Edwards was fast.
12:07 That tells me you weren't watching film and you don't know who you're lying up
12:10 against. But let's flip to the other side. Let's see. TCU's offense against
12:14 Houston's defense. Houston's defense so far has been very inconsistent in
12:20 their two games against UTSA. They held them to just 14 points, which at the
12:25 time seemed pretty good because UTSA's offense was very good last year. But
12:30 this year, man, I don't know their offense might be bad because they went
12:33 and scored 20 points against Texas State, who, uh, not the best defense in
12:38 the country. That's for sure. Frank Harris, their quarterbacks a little bit
12:41 beat up to either way. They give up 14 points the first game. Then the second
12:44 game, Rice, as we alluded, they allowed 28 1st quarter points and 43 in total,
12:49 including overtime. Uh, I'd be concerned if I'm giving up 43 to Rice JT Daniels,
12:56 an old friend from the Big 12 and the SEC and the Pac 12 because he's been
13:00 in college football for 55 years for 10 different teams through for over 400
13:05 yards on this Cougar secondary last week, Houston had really trouble
13:10 covering anybody. Rice had two receivers over 80 yards. One more with 70 yards.
13:16 Uh, but you know, I need to see better execution from Chandler Morris before I
13:20 think he's gonna be able to fully take advantage of the secondary. I amani
13:24 Bailey. Special shout out to him. I carry the ball. This year has just been
13:27 electric. He has the fourth most yards after contact on average. If you're
13:32 looking at running backs at 20 or more rushes 5.4 yards every single time that
13:37 he's touching the ball, he's getting extra five yards on average after
13:40 contact. And Houston is actually like one of the worst tackling teams. Their
13:43 bottom 25 and tackling grades, according to pro football focus so far.
13:46 One injury note. I do want to mention J. P. Richardson. I heard he's back at
13:51 practice. He should be good to go this Saturday. I know there was some
13:54 concerns about being banged up. Um, so yeah, what say you about the about the
14:00 TCU offense here? Uh, yeah. Also, uh, on the J. P. Richardson report, JP
14:05 Richardson, Dylan Wright and Savion Williams were all reportedly practicing
14:09 this race, so they all three shouldn't be a go for Saturday. They were held
14:12 out last week. Um, it's like you said, I mean,
14:16 UTS. It could be a bad offense, but
14:21 which Houston defense shows up. I mean,
14:24 I think I think TCU is going to take advantage of it. The only interesting
14:29 thing is
14:30 the spread for this game set at 7.5 and over under set at 63, which means
14:36 they're not really expecting that high scoring of a game. It's kind of gonna
14:40 be a competitive, like 35 28 game, and that's kind of worries me a little bit.
14:46 Like, what does Vegas know about this defense that I haven't seen? Because
14:50 by all reports, TCU's offense should take a lot of advantage of this defense
14:56 this weekend. Um, I I think Chandler Morris is gonna prove this week. He is
15:01 the guy. I mean, he went 16 for 20 last week. Really could have finished 18 for
15:05 20 had he not had two drops in the first drive, and I think he's gonna
15:10 prove that he's finally coming into using his legs. He's not max talking.
15:15 Won't be maxed up. Max talking was last year. We'll never get him back.
15:18 They have Chandler Morris. We have to accept that, and I think this week it's
15:22 gonna be a lot easier to accept that. I think he's gonna take advantage of it.
15:25 He's settling into the offense. Uh, if Kendall Bryles can call it, you know,
15:30 reasonable game this week and learn how to distribute or learn to, you know,
15:33 not run the typical. All right, we're gonna run on first time. We're gonna run
15:37 on second down. They didn't work. Let's pass on third. Everyone knows what's
15:39 coming. Um, or a little screen place on a first and 15 that we don't need. Um,
15:45 I think that TCU's often should have a really good game. I've really I honestly
15:51 truly think Chandler Morris is gonna throw for 350 yards. I think he's gonna
15:56 come out and we're gonna Houston secondary isn't that good, like at all.
16:00 Um, and I think Houston's gonna key in on the run because our offense kind of
16:06 goes as the run goes. Once you once you have them start stacking the box, you
16:10 know you're gonna start being able to feast on privacy for routes, and we
16:13 have the athletes out there. We have seven guys that are all that all could
16:17 be starters for a lot of the other schools of Big 12. And I think one
16:21 there, you know, we're gonna come out in our passing attacks gonna be there.
16:24 And I think Chandler Morris will have his great game that we've been waiting
16:28 for him to have. And I mean, to be fair, he did play great against Colorado.
16:33 Like he didn't play fantastic. But all things considered, once you know, I
16:37 went back, rewatch the game. I was like, You know what? The Travis Hunter
16:41 interception was incredible. That's not a hundred play that gets made. Not not
16:45 Chandler Morris's fault. The Jared Wiley interception on the first touch
16:50 or red zone attempt. That was his fault. But other than that, he played a great
16:55 game. And now if he's gonna come into using his legs a lot more often, I
16:59 think he's set up for a beautiful position. The one thing I wanted to
17:03 mention about you, you said that, you know, it's a 7.7 and a half point line
17:06 on the road. What does Vegas know? The odds maker setting that number isn't
17:10 what scares me. It's the fact that people with supercomputers the size of
17:13 my house didn't move that number because they didn't bet it because they
17:17 looked at and said, Yeah, that's about right. That's what scares me in the
17:20 betting market. It's a little nitpicky thing, but that's my profession. That's
17:23 my space. It's just that that worries me a little bit more. You talk about
17:28 the play calling. I said it before. I thought Bryles called a disgusting game
17:35 like an offensive to all five senses type of game. And the fact that he's
17:40 already a controversial to put it very nicely higher for TCU to come out here
17:45 and call that kind of game, I think is downright inexcusable. Um, not a great
17:50 start to the to the TCU tenure at all. Like you said, running screens on 1st
17:56 and 15 run run. Okay, now we're gonna pass it an obvious passing situation.
18:00 That's not stuff you saw from Garrett Riley and get Riley's not exactly over
18:05 there in Clemson, South Carolina, tearing it up on offense. I think it
18:10 almost looks like Sonny Dykes has handed the keys a little bit too much
18:13 over to his offensive coordinator this time around. Instead of saying, Hey,
18:17 this is my system. You can put your spin on it. And you know, Ken O'Brien
18:23 was looked lost when it was 2nd and two, and he looked in the backfield and
18:27 realized he didn't have 6 ft 2 240 K. J. Jefferson to run quarterback power
18:31 or counter gap with him. He didn't really know what to do. So he's
18:35 throwing flanker screens and flash bubbles and stuff like that. That's
18:38 just like, okay, they know it's coming. They see it. And I didn't understand
18:42 the desire to get the ball to the edge. That's what you do when you're like
18:47 Colorado outsized on the front and out manned in the front seven instead of
18:52 just lining up and saying, We have a better line of scrimmage than you. I'm
18:55 going to drive you five yards off the balls. They're consistently able to do.
18:59 He got the ball to the edge and all of a sudden, Colorado's athletes out
19:02 athleted TCU's athletes. So I'd like to see that not happen. I really hope
19:07 that that was just a mistake in the game planning, and he learns from it
19:10 because if you're gonna be not running behind this offensive line and trying
19:13 to get the ball to the edge all all season long when you play Texas, when
19:17 you play Oklahoma and all these teams that are extremely athletic, that's
19:20 just not gonna cut it. Like you're not gonna score points, and it's gonna be
19:24 a miserable season for that. I haven't actually gotten a good opportunity to
19:29 vent about what I thought Bryles did in that game. So I'm sorry, J. D. But you
19:33 are on the receiving end of this. No, I think one thing that you touched on
19:38 that a lot of is just kind of going unnoticed is the offensive line. Uh,
19:43 can't kind of get into the season and had a little bit of question marks.
19:46 Maybe we're filling three out of the five replacements, and this season
19:51 they've performed better than I expected. I mean, we're one of seven
19:54 teams that hasn't a lot of sack all season. Uh, Imani Bailey's a great
19:59 rusher, and it's a lot of the credits to the offense line. I mean, they
20:04 bullied Colorado's defensive line, which I fully expected to go in against
20:07 Nickel State. And I think this week I they won't necessarily bully Houston
20:13 the defensive line, but the line of scrimmage difference will be noticeable
20:18 throughout the game. And I think that will be a key factor into this week's
20:22 game as well is you as long as you know, Chandler Morris has had two games
20:27 now where he kind of he kind of touched on it after the Colorado game that he
20:32 had a mental block about using his legs, you know, post injury with the need,
20:35 like not wanting to get hurt again. And I think that's a big part of why he's
20:40 gonna have a big week. He's at that comfortable stage. He's got two weeks
20:43 of not getting taking a sack. Um, he's protecting his body on runs. He was
20:48 sliding early last week, and I think that's what's gonna allow him to fully
20:51 develop into this quarterback that we're expecting to see. Yeah, it's
20:55 gonna be a tougher battle in the trenches this week by 15 fold. Phil
21:00 Steel ranks Houston's defensive front third best in the entire Big 12 coming
21:05 into the game, and I still think it's early enough in the season for that to
21:07 be actionable information and advice. But when you look at their linebacking
21:11 core in their secondary, well, he ranks their secondary dead last in the Big
21:14 12. So that's what contrary to what we were thinking against Colorado. That's
21:19 what you need to get with Houston here. So maybe getting the ball to the edge
21:22 will work this this week or something, maybe trying to throw the ball down
21:25 the field. But yeah, I mean, the offensive line has to hold up or, uh,
21:28 you know, when Chandler Morris is pressured, bad things happen. So, yeah,
21:33 continue to keep them clean again. Colorado's defensive front. Not great.
21:38 Nickel State. Not even a Division one opponent, really, that they're playing
21:41 there. So it's you know, we haven't really seen them tested yet. But when
21:44 you're talking about Houston, even SMU, who I thought played really well
21:49 against Oklahoma defensively, who would have thought that upcoming? Uh, yeah,
21:54 you're gonna have to you're gonna have sure up, put your big boy pants on and
21:58 fasten the belt because, yeah, we're in for a tougher stretch than TCU's had
22:03 through the first two games here. Um, you know, my bottom line here, I just
22:08 need a better call game from from both coordinators. Bryles, atrocious
22:12 Gillespie, I thought was equally atrocious in the first game. Um, no,
22:16 I'm not really saying much about the Nickel State game. I don't know how
22:18 much you can really pull from there. It's you know, it's a it's a varsity
22:21 team playing JV team. I don't take a lot from it. But that Colorado game,
22:25 I keep harping on it. They looked unprepared on both sides of the ball,
22:28 and I do think we're gonna end up learning quite a bit about TCU here.
22:32 Um, you know, we've had a tough sample size. You know, we've had one real
22:37 game, one not real game. What's your temperature on Chandler Moore so far?
22:41 We touched on a little bit, but like overall, where are you out with him?
22:45 So, uh, like you just said, you can't really take much from the Nickel State
22:50 game. But what I wanted to see was, can you put what happened in the
22:54 Colorado game and just kind of let it go and come to this game and not look
22:57 rattled, not look like he's trying to take that first throw that's
23:01 immediately there. He's gonna be looking for a better option, and I think we
23:04 saw that. I mean, first drive alone. He had two drops. He was kind of driving.
23:09 He was making great throws throughout the game. His decision making was a
23:12 lot better, and he's using his legs. I mean, he had a 32 yard touchdown run
23:17 that was beautiful. I mean, his acceleration was great. It's cutting up
23:21 field. And at this point, you know, post Colorado game media reaction was
23:26 Chandler Morris is the guy. He's just not it. And what? Rewatching the game?
23:31 I was like, You know what? I think he's maybe this. Maybe he is it and can't
23:36 really take much for the Nickel State game. But I at this point, I'm ready to
23:40 ride with Chandler Morris until he proves that he really isn't the guy.
23:45 I'm willing to give them, you know, 2 to 3 bad drives in a row before. I'm
23:49 like, All right, you know what? Let's try something else because, you know,
23:53 like he had mentioned himself is he had a mental walk. He had a lot going on.
23:58 I mean, coming when you haven't played football in over a year, and then you
24:00 have the starting position taken from even when you were healthy, like that's
24:04 a big thing to overcome. And I think that now that he's settling in, I think
24:08 he's he's gonna be our guy this year, and I think he's gonna have a great
24:12 season overall.
24:14 All right, to close this out. I thought that was a pretty solid, thorough
24:17 review of what to expect here on Saturday against Houston. I want to
24:21 bring up four other games that are on the slate, and we're gonna do a quick
24:25 pick them. Just just win or lose. You can give a couple of sentences of of
24:29 your reasoning here. Um, Kansas State at Missouri. Who wins this game?
24:36 Missouri.
24:37 Oh, I mean, Kansas State.
24:40 I think there's what's putting him in a good position right now. I think and
24:45 Kansas State, a lot of their production didn't return as much as people think
24:49 it did that we haven't seen the first two games that I think Missouri pulls
24:53 this one out. Okay, my bank account hopes you're wrong. Mine hopes I'm
24:58 right. Uh, Minnesota at North Carolina.
25:02 North Carolina. This one's easy. I don't know what's going on with the boats
25:08 over there, but they're not growing. No, that offense is dreadful when you
25:12 don't have 37 year Tanner Morgan conducting the offense. I do like the I
25:18 do like the transfer pieces that they brought in. They have a couple of
25:20 really good receivers. Uh, I think Calica Manus, by the way, I just I love
25:25 throwing it out there because that's one I do know how to pronounce. I
25:28 pretty solid at times, but yeah, I think I'm going with the home team there
25:32 with the better quarterback. Give me UNC Tennessee at Florida. Big SEC
25:37 rivalry. Tennessee. Uh, I mean, God. Yeah. What's going on at Florida is
25:44 just not looking good. Uh, Florida's coach actually came from where I went
25:49 to school, so I got to see. I've been watching him coach for a while now, and
25:53 you're great coach. Louisiana Lafayette. But then I don't know what's going on,
25:58 but Florida's just not. They have players transferring out right now. I
26:02 think Tennessee wins this by two touchdowns. Yeah, I think Napier is a
26:07 little bit over a skis. There's, you know, good NFL coaches. There's good
26:11 big time program college coaches, and there's really good small time program
26:16 college coaches. I think Napier falls in that final category back there. I
26:20 will also take the volunteers because you will never catch me betting on
26:23 grandmothers. And then one of my favorite rivalries. You could see a
26:28 towel from last year's edition right over my shoulder here for those that
26:31 are watching us. Pit at West Virginia, the backyard brawl. Nasty, nasty
26:36 rivalry. This one's actually so closely contested pits like a point favored or
26:40 it's a pick on me. I mean, it's a toss up. Who do you think wins this game,
26:44 JD?
26:44 I've been tossing with this one all week. Uh, once you know the line was
26:52 out, you know, as one point favorite, and then it goes to pick them. I'm
26:56 going to. I think I really
27:00 I have no rhyme or reason for it. Uh, just because how closely contested is.
27:05 I just think
27:06 it's a lot better than we think. And I know last week that kind of wasn't the
27:11 case. A lot of people thought they were gonna be better, and then they kind of
27:14 came out last week, laid a little bit of an egg. But I think this week you have
27:17 that happened. You have a heated rivalry. I think it gets back in the
27:20 conversation, you know, this week, and they prove us right. Yeah, I will. I
27:25 will also take pit. Morgantown is a difficult place to play when the fans
27:30 are on the side of the Mountaineers, but the fans are not on the side of Neil
27:33 Brown. At the moment, they wanted him gone yesterday, and I'm counting it
27:38 down. This is three weeks until we think we see Neil Brown part because West
27:43 Virginia plays pit who I believe will win, and then they host Texas Tech, and
27:48 then they come to Fort Worth, Texas to play at TCU before going into a much
27:53 needed by week. So if we're looking for an opportunity for Neil Brown to be
27:57 canned, I think this is it. And I think this pit game really gets things
28:02 rolling after they were rubbed by by Penn State. So, oh, yeah. All right.
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