Texas Gets Revenge, Oregon and Oklahoma Lose on the Road | Week 2 Recap | The BFW Show 9.12.26

What's up, Brandon Walker College Football Show fans? You can find every episode of the Brandon Walker College Football Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Holy fucking shit. That's what I have to say to that. Holy fucking shit. We are here. Brandon Walker College Football Show on a Saturday night, on a night where it looked like all the demons were back for Texas. They never went a big game, they'd never do it. Arch would never do it, Sark would never do it. They couldn't do it, they were choke artists. They were choking, they choked until they didn't. Amazing comeback in Austin. Our pets' heads are falling off in Stillwater. And holy fucking shit, did that really happen in Ann Arbor? All the while, Camario Taylor is taking over this whole goddamn sport. Our pets' heads are falling off, folks. Liam, hello. Hey, Brandon, why are pets' heads falling off? We got a lot to react to, a lot to react to. There are three major, major, major, major events that happened today. And if you have a fourth, please tell me. But one being Texas and Ohio State with an absolute classic at night, a classic where it looked like Texas was going to be the Texas of old. And finally, finally, finally, Arch Manning feels like he has arrived as at least a clutch player, if not a prolific player throughout the game, at least a clutch player. And I know, Liam, I already know, I can smell it in the air. You're going to tell me these early season losses don't count. Well, for Ohio State, who had a win in their pocket on the road against Texas, for an Ohio State team, who's going to have to go to Indiana later, who's going to have to go to USC later, who's going to play Oregon, who, by the way, has their own issues they got to deal with. There's so much to talk about. Now, I don't really know which one y'all want to talk about first. We're going to talk plenty about Oregon and the absolute disaster class they have put on for the first two weeks. We're going to talk plenty about Michigan, although that might be a little bit more about Oklahoma. And then we're going to start here. We're going to start with Texas and Ohio State because it was two national title hopefuls, not just one like Oregon and Oklahoma State, not just one like Michigan and Oklahoma. It was two national title hopefuls, both trying to get an early season win, both trying to make a statement. Now, last year, Ohio State made that statement, opened the season with a 14-7 win. Texas never got it back on the track, and Ohio State used it to go to playoff. We'll see what happens this time. But all I want to say before I give it to you, Blutman, is there were an awful lot of people in this company, some of them Ohio State fans, that thought it was awful goddamn funny when I couldn't hold a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter against Texas last year. Awful lot of people in this company, some Ohio State fans, some on this show, some on other shows that clap like seals when I couldn't hold a 17-point lead against Texas in the fourth quarter. Those are dots I never connected until now. That's pretty frightening for the next seven days. You have that ammunition. Awful lot of people thought it was real fucking funny. Now, what's tonight? The Texas comeback or the Ohio State collapse? Liam Bluntman. I think it was Arthur Smith. Welcome to college football. You can't dribble down your leg, urinating everywhere, trying to bleed out the clock in college football. That other team has a chance. You're more susceptible to this in college football than the NFL. We've already seen his conservative play calling Gavin Trouble in the NFL. I think that's what led them down this road. Well, not only that, but how many times does Ohio State have to get victimized by the lack of a kicker? How many times can Ryan Day get to this point where if you're going to be in elite games with elite teams, if you're going to be in wars in the fourth quarter, and you have a five-star at every single position, and you can outspend everybody at every single position, how the fuck are you still going into it with a kicker who's not going to be automatic? All these other teams have automatic kickers, and you, when the chips are down, in the Big Ten Championship game against Indiana last year, you missed 21-yard field goal tonight, you make that field goal, the game's over. The game is over, and you don't, and you get beat. But Arch still had to go, what, 70 yards, 80 yards? Still had to do what he did, still did what he did. I thought for the first 45 minutes of game time, it was just Arch and Sark and the receivers and other players on Texas, just taking turns shitting down their leg, taking turns looking like they had no idea what to do in this big spot, taking turns. Arch, how many, if I didn't nickel for every time Arch overthrew an open receiver tonight, I'd have a lot of nickels. If I had a dime for every time one of his five-star receivers blew a play, I'd have several dimes. Like I would have accrued some money, but Texas ends up coming through. They fight through all that shit. They fight through all that shit, and Sark is the one that gets the win, and Ryan Day is the one holding the bag. Ryan Day has a national title, but he still has a knack for pulling out defeats from the jaws of victory in situations he should win football games. How do you have a roster like that and still have that knack? I mean, this is one of those chalking up the college football speechless moments, Brandon. I don't know, Ryan Day finds himself in this position of coaching cowardly again, or at least coaching someone who on his staff was super cowardly. The thing that really does stand out to me is why Arch Sark and the wide receivers seem to be so out of sync. And this is something that even dates back to last year. Tonight, they gather away with it, but aren't you worried about that? Like, that happened so consistently. I would be worried. It's almost freaky. First of all, Ryan Wingo is the best receiver that can't receive in the entire history of the sport. The motherfucker just can't receive balls. He just can't do it. Secondly, weird shit happens. Like, the early throw where Arch hits Cam Coleman, Cam Coleman had to stretch out for it, but how many times in the history of college football does that ball bounce off the chest so perfectly and into the defender's arms who was beaten by five yards? That just doesn't happen. They were just snakebending for so long, but now they bit the snake back. Again, we're almost talking negatively about them because they played so negatively for the entire game, but in the end, they win the football game. And this is the, Sark and Arch, both needed a moment. They needed a moment to say, here we are, we have arrived and they have arrived. And now Oregon, Ohio State has to go deal with the schedule. They already have a loss. They have to go deal with the schedule with USC and with Oregon and with Indiana, a road trip. They have to deal with that. Texas has a tough schedule, but they don't have the loss on their resume that Ohio State has. Big time performance by the Texas offensive line in that second half and that fourth quarter. Dude, they were down 23-3, and they were able to just run the ball pretty much at will whenever they needed to. It's not like Arch hit like five bombs or anything. No, they got the stops on the goal line at the end, but that was a game of cat and mouse, and did you want to score? Did you not want to score? What was going on here and there? Whatever. It's not like Ohio State was ever again that big stop to put Texas back behind the sticks, really. Maybe it happened once or twice. Maybe my memory escapes me. But Texas offensive line dominated that fourth quarter. He did, and credit to Texas, credit to Arch. We're going to circle back to this game several times when we do our categories later, and we can circle back whenever you guys want to. But I do think there's a lot of people in here that want me to come to the carpet and either eat some crow or say I was wrong or do certain things. And this sport is so crazy. The sport is so magical. It's so amazing. I'm going to go ahead and admit to you, you can knock me over with a feather the fact that Oregon is one and one right now and lost to Oklahoma State. And there's so many reasons why so many people are saying, did you really have Oregon as your national title? You really picked them? You fucking moron. You moron from Mississippi. You picked Oregon? I picked a team who was in the Final Four last year, who was in the playoff the last two years, who was bringing back a guy who could have been the number one pick last year, who was bringing back every relevant receiver they had, who was bringing back every relevant defensive player they had. Everything on paper looked exactly right. Everything. And then, I had the audacity to pick them to win this week against the team who had lost by two touchdowns to Tulsa last week. So if your reaction to Oregon losing to Oklahoma State is, Brandon Walker is a moron and it isn't, oh my God, college football is amazing. I don't know what to do. You can think I'm a moron all the more. I look at Oregon on paper, I still don't know what the fuck's going on. My theory is, Nick Saban was the greatest coach of all time, because even when he left and when he lost coordinators, his leadership and his identity for his team was so strong that it didn't matter. You just rolled over the next coordinator. Dan Lanning isn't that. Dan Lanning has all the talent in the world that Oregon has bought for him. They have all the stars in the world, but he has two new coordinators and he doesn't have the ability to imprint his will on this team and the new coordinators aren't ready to make this team elite. That is what I see so far. Liam Blutman. Yeah. Maringer is just not right for the bright lights of this. Dante Moore has also played a really stinky two games for a guy that was probably going to be in New York jet in 2026 NFL draft has all all everyone everyone you talked to mixe. You talked to Kiper. You talked to draft analyst here. It's going to be a top two pick again. He's one of the best quarterbacks in the entire galaxy. He was 14 of 29 in Stillwater a day. He couldn't make the simplest of throws. The simplest of reads. Something is missing. I'm not smart enough to know. Something is missing. I've always thought something was missing. I've always said the one thing I don't like about Dante Moore is when the when the level of the opponent goes up, his play does not. But now it's not even that. Now he's played Boise State. Now he's played Oklahoma State and he was bad in both. But OK, so Oregon loses and Brandon Walker's a moron. That still doesn't answer the question here. What the fuck happened with Oklahoma State? Forget Oregon. Forget picking them to win the national title. Forget any of that. Forget anybody liked them. Forget it. Even though they're consensus top five team, because you forget any of that. Don't put Oregon on the side. Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa last week in a game that could have been worse. In a game where the coach for Tulsa said, we could have been 37 to 10. There's nobody on the Oklahoma State side that could have said he was wrong. Now, they have a top five team coming into their place after getting embarrassed in week one of Eric Morris, and week one of Drew Mestemaker. All of a sudden, Drew Mestemaker is fucking Johnny Menzel out there. Drew Mestemaker is going out there making plays with his feet. He's making plays with his arms. He's all over the place. He's flipping into the end zone. There's heart, there's desire. His teammates are up and down the field. I know they won this game by eight points, 39-31. They doubled them in offensive output. They outgained them by 250 yards. They had 500 yards. They kicked the fucking shit out of Oregon. What the fuck happened? Liam, what happened? I mean, when we're talking about that Tulsa game, all I could keep saying was one Mestemaker was missing throws high. He maybe did that once today. Two, that offensive line and their defense line were getting smooshed in. It was like, remember that scene in Toy Story or whatever, down the incinerator where they're all getting smooshed into the fire? That's what was happening to Oklahoma State on both sides of the trenches. They handled a great Oregon pass rush, a great defensive line that was nowhere to be seen against Boise State. Doesn't show up again today. So there's another disconnect happening. Dan Lang's got a drill into them, but Mestemaker is that future NFL QB one, and he showed that today. He is one of the most talented throwers of the football in this country. Fine. Fine. But what happened? What happened last week? How do you start the season? They were getting smooshed. How do you start the season against Tulsa, and you look like you don't belong on a division one football field, and then Oregon comes to town, and you beat the living dog shit out of them. Why? Because college football is fucking crazy. I guess the world of really knowing what you're talking about coming into the season is kind of over. The only teams that people think they're right about now, are the teams that haven't fucking played anybody. I guess I should have picked Georgia who played two tomato cans, or Indiana. The only two teams that nobody has doubts about right now, are the teams that have played absolutely fucking nobody through. If you played somebody, you've had a moment where it's like, oh my goodness, holy fucking shit. Ohio State's had it, Texas has had it, Oregon State, Oregon's had it, everybody's had it. And now the third one. We're gonna circle back to Oregon, Oklahoma State. Like I said, we're gonna do all that. The third one is Michigan, and it is Oklahoma. Now I can stomach people saying, oh, you picked Oregon, you're stupid, I'm fine. I'll pick Oregon again. I have no problem picking Oregon. The talent profile on that team is so crazy. I don't know what the problem is. I didn't see the problem coming. I will admit to that right now. I don't think I'm going to sit here and let Michigan fans say, oh, you doubted us. You got us wrong. We stuck it in your face. I didn't doubt you. You doubted yourselves. You guys are the ones that lost to Western Michigan. You guys are the ones that embarrassed yourself last week. You guys are the ones that were trash. You guys are the ones whose coach was saying he's our quarterback right now. You guys are the ones whose quarterback said, cool, I guess. You guys are the ones that embarrassed yourself. All I did was point it out. And then Oklahoma. Oh my God, Brent Venables, you, you, you crappy coach, you. My God. The one thing I regret in all of this, the one thing I regret in all of this is throwing some belief behind Oklahoma. Because I've had Oklahoma pegs since Brent Venables got there. And for whatever reason, my dumb ass, let myself talk myself into something else. Because Brent Venables is not a good head football coach. Brent Venables is a good defensive coach. But he inherited a soft, pathetic half of a football team from Lincoln Riley. He inherited a great offense and a bad defense. And in five years, the only fucking thing he's done is flip the patheticness. He just flipped the pathetic. All he did was make the defense good and the offense pathetic. They're the same punk ass team they were when they were Lincoln Riley. They're the same team, they just got punked by Michigan today. They're the same team, they're half a football team. I don't know why Oklahoma can't hire a coach that can build a whole football team, but right now they are half a football team, and that half is on the defensive side. And frankly, they got punked today too. So I don't know, I can't explain Oklahoma. I don't know why Oklahoma did what they did. Bryce Underwood was nine of 17 today for 111 yards. He ran for 87 yards, so he was definitely better than he was last week, but last week he was historically bad. So if you want to say, oh, I told you so, I told you so, you didn't tell me so. Michigan fans didn't believe in this team. They probably still don't believe in this team. But Oklahoma fans, I guarantee you, you better not believe in your team, because Brent Venables was garbage today. And John Mattier, oh, oh. Lest we forget, it was a 10 to 10 football game in the fourth quarter. Mattier's got the ball in his hands and throws one of the worst picks you'll ever see. A guy who's been in college for now four years, multiple years in the SEC, and he's throwing that pick, one of the more garbage picks you will ever see. Liam was today about Michigan getting off the mat, showing they are a solid football team, or was it about Oklahoma once again, showing they're not anything to worry about? This comes down to what we are talking about on Thursday show, where it was the spread opened at one, one and a half and it got to six and a half and then what? And a four and a half, five and a half, whatever it be. And the whole time we're like, just don't make sense, man. Just don't make sense. It was obvious what to bet, yeah. Correct. When it don't make sense, it makes a whole lick of sense. It just meant the whole world thinks it's Oklahoma's game to win. It's going to be Michigan's game to win. I think that was pretty evident in the first quarter today. To me, what I'm most mad about is you for conning me in the taking this Oklahoma team to make the playoff, when I didn't even like their quarterback last year, when he was the people's Heisman in September. I agree. I follow you into the wilderness with this. Their quarterback is literally just another Bryce Underwood. I don't know why you're hollering at me. He's not as good as Bryce Underwood. I don't know why you're hollering at me. I don't have Oklahoma in my playoff. I don't have Oklahoma in my playoff. Lukey, do we have time at the end to show my playoff? No, I don't think we do. I don't think we do. Lukey can't talk because he's sick. Michigan isn't good. Oklahoma is just bad. Michigan, I guess they're okay. They've scored 30 points in two games. They've got 350 yards of total offense this year. If you want to feel good about Michigan, feel free to feel good about Michigan. I think it's more about Oklahoma just absolutely being fucking wretched offensively. John Matier, yes, go Liam. Who's good? That's a great point. There it is. Once again, this sport has flattened out so much and it's so much closer. The margins are so much closer that what I said earlier is correct. The only teams that seem good are the ones who haven't fucking played anybody or Mississippi State. Those are the only teams that are good. Georgia seems great. They played nobody. Indiana seems great. They're cowards. They play nobody. Like all the teams that you're like, oh, wow, they're good. Have just not done, have not had to do anything yet. Everybody who has had to do something has had a moment where you're like, oh, my gosh, I'm Michigan. All but got beat against Western Michigan. Oklahoma stunk today. Ohio State was awful in the fourth quarter against Texas. Texas was awful in the first two quarters against Ohio State. If you've had to do something so far, you have given somebody reason to doubt you. I don't know who's good. I'll say this. Ohio State and Texas will both be good. They're both good. Indiana's good. Can Oregon still be good? Of course, they could still be good. And that's where I get mad is that they're still alive to win their conference championship. Of course, they are still well within the mix to make the college draw play. They're probably minus odds favorite to do so. That's where my beef comes in is, hey, they just lost those 24 point favorites at Oklahoma State. A team who had what? Lost like 50 games in a row, wasn't closer competitive against Tulsa. And the loss doesn't truly punish them as it should. And that's where I get upset. Well, I disagree totally with that. I think losses are punitive. You know, this world where a team loses and you want them to be shut out of the playoff entirely, I just don't think that's right. You know, there's more parity in the sport. And if you... Michigan is a great example. Let's say they had lost last week to Western Michigan. We all would have just given up on them, which makes the comeback more interesting and more fun. And you know, we all give up on teams and they come back. So I don't want losses to be as punishing as you do. I think it goes both ways. And again, if we all had the same opinions in life, what would be the point of anything? I just, when I was growing up watching college football, it was these bad dudes, these gladiators who had no room for any margin of error. And the true best of the best, the cream of the crop was always rising to the top. And I missed that aspect a little bit. That's what made me... Well, that's the kind of mentality to get you two important games after October 15th. And that's not what I want in my college football. Anyway, we're talking big picture stuff. I'd like to focus right now, because at the heart of all of this, at the heart of every single thing we're talking about, Oregon has a head coach that is underachieving through two games so far this year. With the talent they've got, with the quarterback they've got, with the talent profile they've got, Dan Lanning, and it's probably because of the two new coordinators, but he is underachieving so far this year. Brent Venables with that defensive talent he's got is underachieving through two games this year. Ohio State, by choking that game the way they did tonight, is underachieving so far this year. They had Texas. They had them. They were right there. Ryan Day. What you're seeing is at the very top of the sport, these coaches who have accrued the most talent, for whatever reason, are not slamming the door. And I don't know why it is. I can't explain it, but I'm looking at some weak coaches at some strong programs right now. And when are those coaches going to get stronger? Are they going to fix these things? I don't know. We'll see. Oh, man. What a great day to be alive. What a great day to be alive. I really think, you know, talking about picking an organ to win the national title, it's going to be as wrong as wrong can be. And I truly think that's what's so amazing about the sport. If you look at what they had, Dante Moore coming back, all the defense coming back, everything coming back, everything about them on paper is amazing and almost perfect. And through eight quarters, they're kind of trash. And this doesn't happen in many sports. This just doesn't happen. And Oklahoma State doing what they did, being as bad as they were and then being as good as they are. Just fantastic, good stuff. Let me read an ad. And then we will get into all of our stuff because we have a lot of stuff to talk about. This episode is sponsored by Tony's famous Cajun kick, less salt, more garlic, a clean hit of heat. It's a new blend in the Tony's tradition. 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You know, and it's not even that they were trailing 23 to 3. It's how dead Texas looked in trailing 23 to 3. It's how many passes Arch was missing. It's the fumbles. It's everything. I was fully prepared to get here. I think the Texas Ohio State, the story they were telling was so encapsulated by Sarc's bizarre fourth and one play call. When it's fourth and one, there was a whole sequence there late in the first half. Help me with the score. I believe it was 13-3. I think it's 13-3, Texas has the ball. It's third and about eight. I don't remember the running back, but they give the ball the running back, and he's running to the sideline to both get out of bounds and get the first down. He kind of lollygags and doesn't get the first down. He just goes out short of the sticks, even though all he had to do was step over the sticks. Then it was bizarre. Then Sarc on fourth and one calls a reverse that gets sniffed out, loses eight yards. Not only have you now not gotten it, but you give an Ohio State the ball at the 45-yard line, they go score, it's 23 just like that. You think, oh my God, Sarc will never win a big game. That's some of the worst big game coaching I've ever seen. And then Ryan Day says, you know what, 20, 23, 23, 23, we're good. I'm not going to use Jeremiah Smith to overwhelm this team and break their back. I'm not going to make sure that we go ahead and win this game. I'm just going to kind of chill out. We should be fine. And here we are, Sarc and Ryan Day, both kind of like pussy footed around each other, and Texas ends up winning the fucking football game. Can Brandon admit Bama is a top 10 team? I think it's bizarre Alabama fans won't, they won't assure it's so bad. Because you know they don't actually believe it. You know in the first half when they were just absolutely in a war with Kentucky and didn't look very good, you know they were just motherfucking their team. And you know they know that their team is just kind of okay, it's kind of pretty good. And they're just begging me, they're sucking my dick. Can you admit they're a top 10 team, please, please, please, please? Can you give me some bread, please? No. Alabama's fine. I didn't see anything today that made me go, oh my God, Alabama. Jesus Christ. Yet three years ago, you're sitting on top of the sport killing everybody. Now you're in my chat sucking my dick. Please pay attention to us. Please, please pay attention to us. All right, going to go around the country here. Let me make sure. Is anything happening right now that's fucking crazy? Clemson's only up 16-7 on Georgia Southern, entering the fourth quarter. Oh my God. Yeah, 20-point favorites. You know, there's so much that has happened tonight. You know, Cyhawk was tonight. LSU was great. LSU was kind of in a war for a while. Texas Tech was in a war for a while. So many teams that were just, you know, Cyhawk again, 16-13. If 16-13 is like a rivalry, it is Cyhawk, right? 16-13 should be the official score of that rivalry game. That just feels like what it is every single time. I'm going to go around the country because there's so much. Can I just be selfish a little bit real quick? Yep. I don't know why you were scared. I don't know why I was scared. I was telling you. No, no, no, no, no, no. I know why I was scared. I was scared because we haven't won more than five games in half a decade. I was scared because we went 2-10 a couple of years ago. I was scared. All of these things. I was scared because we haven't proven it lately. I was scared because we blew three games last year. That's why I was scared. But Camario Taylor is the fucking man. Camario Taylor goes to Minnesota and beats the fucking shit out of Minnesota. Just goes down the field. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Games over at halftime. Camario Taylor and Jeff Lebby has recruited a team of fucking track stars. The receivers we got, what's his name? Anthony Evans from Georgia. It's just, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about my team. I'm ready. I'm feeling good about where we're going and all that. All right, so I actually was about to talk Alabama and Kentucky. Because I thought that first half, both offenses were really struggling against both defenses and ended up, Alabama ended up pulling it out in the end. Now that defense is very, very, very, very good. I don't know that I'm sold on Keelan Russell and that offense. They're still not running the football very well with their running backs. They're averaging what, three and a half, four yards of carry with their running backs. Keelan Russell, he's pretty good and probably will be elite at one point, but I don't know if he's there now. I think Alabama is a solid SEC team. I'm not sure I'm ready to put him in contenders, but again, we probably lost Oklahoma as a contender in the SEC today, so who knows? Who knows? What do you think about Alabama, Kentucky? I really don't understand what happened to Kentucky's creativity offensively in the early third quarter, and that put them well behind the eight ball. The final score is 45-17. I'm like good for Alabama right there. It did feel like a grind. It was a grimy. They were down half time. It was an absolute grind. They carry away with it in the second half. Good for them. Keelan has so much talent. Just think he's going to be too inconsistent in his first few starts here. Too young in experience. Going to be a star next year. Yeah. No, I think he is too. I don't know if it will be for this coach, but we'll see. Boise State beats Memphis. This was a game we had circled. This was also a game that Boise State was trailing at the half. It was 20 to 17 at the half. And then Boise State beats the fucking shit out of them in the second half. This was, we had this marked as kind of a G6 watershed moment. This would be somebody taking their early lead, and it looked like Memphis was going to take it to them. And then Boise State just stayed in with them. Would you, do you, have you seen enough, Liam Blutman, to go ahead and give them, to say that Boise State is the prohibitive favorite for the G6 spot? They are also NDSU having a great game at Air Force right now, but Boise State obviously has pole position here. That's what this match was. It was a pole position game. Big time flip momentum change in this game. Memphis recovered a muffed punt and wasn't given the ball for it. And from there, Boise State hit explosive after explosive after explosive. Offense line killed it. They ran for like eight yards to carry. Memphis doesn't score a point in the second half. Memphis' ferocious D-line doesn't record a sack all night. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It was quite the win for Boise State. I do think they are the class of that group. My day never quite recovered from calling Purdue Moneyline. And, you know, I was on a plane coming back. Purdue is leading in overtime 36 to 30. Wake Forest has fourth and 16. And I pat myself on the back for being a genius. And calling Purdue when in beating Wake Forest on the Moneyline. I said, Brandon, you did it. We're here. I know Michigan won today, but you did it, man. And I put my phone down and I fold my hands and I say, it's really nice to no ball. It just really is nice to no ball. And I get off the plane and Wake Forest is 138, 36. I have no idea how they can first and fourth and 16. I do know what happened, but anyway, it doesn't matter. USC isn't exactly cruising right now. Hello? Yeah, I thought you were going to go on with that. No, no, no. I'm just looking at the scores right now because I'm kind of not locked down that because I'm doing the show, you know, North Dakota State's killing the Air Force. Utah is up 29-3 over Arkansas. The the artist is not even that close. What's UCLA doing? Are they still playing? We won today. Don't look at the halftime score. Look at the final score. And then LSU was LSU had a very mid kind of first half today. I think they were up 10-7 at the half. They were going up 17-0 through a pick 6, 100 yards pick 6. They ended up winning with ease. But that's one of those things. I don't think them or Ole Miss was ever going to look great today because of what they're looking for next week. Do you know what was happening in that game at halftime? Like how many yards Louisiana Tech had? No, I really don't. They had zero yards at the half. They were down 10-7. Yeah, well, I knew they had 100-yard pick six. The reason, oh, this was the game. I was trying to get to one more game I really wanted to mention. Arizona State really gave it to Texas A&M for a while. And then Texas A&M ended up winning 48 to 48-20, made that look like it wasn't close at all. I know that there was a defensive score late. I don't know what to make of either of those teams. I think both of those teams might be pretty good, Liam. I think Arizona State is going to be a really good big 12th team. Now I'm getting paused because I remember they have to go to London and out like the whole international coming back thing. Now I thought their scheme looked really good today for the most part. They outgained A&M thoroughly and then all of a sudden flipping the switch. A&M's pass rush is in the backfield on every single play and their defense wrecked havoc, flipped the game 24 points in the fourth quarter, all fueled because of that defense. They were game wreckers that front four, front seven. All right, let me do an ad. We're going to start some categories and then we'll talk through the rest of the slate through the categories. If you're looking to maintain, I'm talking about Ryobi, if you're looking to maintain your home field advantage this fall, check out Ryobi with over 400 coreless solutions across their 18-volt OnePlus, 40-volt and USB lithium platforms. 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Then we got the recent winners and losers of the week and then the what are we doing? The top 10 players of the weekend. I would like to go to the top 10 players of the weekend because I have six written down, and then I would like to fill out the rest with either the chats help or with your help. Okay, I actually have seven. So I had, this is in no order, Camario Taylor, Mississippi State quarterback, Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State receiver. They lost the game, he was brilliant. Drew Mesta Maker, Oklahoma State quarterback, 317 yards, two touchdowns. Vernell Brown at Florida, two punt return touchdowns. Dylan Riley running back, Boise State, 220 yards, two touchdowns. Vakari Swain, and make sure, make sure I got to get this right. I haven't checked the stats. Did he really have two-point returns and a kick return for a touchdown tonight? He was also doing cartwheels in the end zone. Then I would add Arch Manning for the late drive. So that is seven. So I've got seven. So Blutman, if you have any despair, I would love to fill out my eight, nine, ten with yours. But who? Give me your... Oh, Charlie Becker, Charlie B from Nashville, Tennessee. Even though I hesitate to do it because they played Howard, they're cowards in the non-conference, but Charlie Becker is great. So I have no problem with that. Go ahead, Liam Blutman. Yeah, the best performance by any player today was on your list. That's okay. Oregon State wide receiver, true freshman Jesse LaGree had eight catches for 240 yards and two touchdowns against Texas Tech. That was the best performance by anyone. It's sad that in the state of the sport, the kid is at Oregon State has no, the Beavers have no hopes of keeping this guy. He's just auditioning for NIL money this winter. So that's a cool thing. You can keep going with your list. I can? Okay. Texanum's defense. I was talking about Louisiana Tech's first half defense. Alonzo Jackson Jr. had eight sole tackles, three sacks, three half tackles for Los. Jordan McCray has his hundred yard pick six. Bear Bokmeyer and Austin Simmons. I'll add Austin Simmons. I was going to say Austin Simmons. Austin Simmons. The way that their offensive scheme is, which is so much better than what Kirby Moore was doing. It's a shocker and Washington State fans are already tired of how Kirby schemes go on and pull them and cool. It was like Madden. It was a little speed cheese and just timing routes and layering down the sideline. It was fantastic to watch Bear Bokmeyer. I've watched BYU play the game. They played against Arizona today 500 times. Every game ends the same way. Bear Bokmeyer might not be the prettiest quarterback. He might not have the most exciting stats, but when you need number 47 the most, he's number one on the field every single time. He has a 99 clutch rating and it cannot be disputed. Nate Shepard on Duke, best kept secret in the country. The one star that stayed at Duke, 29 touches for 148 and three today. Then Fama Eshoboy on Purdue. He's an exciting running back Purdue fans. You want to talk about the sad sack of fans in the sport, Brandon. I talk up the running back, and all they're doing is talk me down, because I said the running back is great. Yeah. No. Purdue is where joy goes to die right now. It is truly- A lie. Yeah. Thank you very much. Liam, who was the most impressive team today in college football? I don't think it could be anyone other than Texas in the fourth quarter, and we've talked so much about them. I think it can be somebody other than Texas in the fourth quarter, and I'm surprised you didn't take this team. And Texas was great in the fourth quarter, and therefore they were great in the whole game because they beat Ohio State, the number one team in the country. So that is fantastic, and that is great, and that is amazing. I said it earlier, Oklahoma State didn't just beat Oregon. They beat them 39-31. They beat the shit out of them. They had 500 total yards of offense. They could have had more points than they had. I think it's Oklahoma State, and if you're gonna shit on them, and me, I'm talking to myself, if I'm gonna shit on them last week when they absolutely shit the bed to open the season against Tulsa, then you go out to practice on Sunday, you go out to practice on Monday, you go out to practice on Tuesday, and are you a man? Are you gonna fix it? Are you gonna come out and play better on Saturday? Holy shit, you got number three Oregon coming in, number four, whatever they are, you got Oregon coming in. You can't beat Tulsa, and now you got Oregon coming in? You're. You're done. You're over. You're finished. And what did Mr. Maker tell you? Did Mr. Maker tell you they had something in week two? He and I and Gino were talking. Gino was like, we got something special going in week two, and he responded 100%. So listen, true Mr. Maker, he also, somebody says he gave Oregon 14 points. Sure did. Sure did. And still they fought through it. They fought through it. They got through it. And Oklahoma State, even when they fell behind, I believe 31-30, you think, okay, well, Oregon pulled it out again. Boy, they're flirting with disaster, but they've got it right. They're going to win the game. Nope. Oklahoma State closes it and shuts down Oregon, wins the football game. Oregon's got their own things they can deal with. But for what they did in week one to what they did now, I got to say Oklahoma State was the most impressive team of the weekend. Now, there are other impressive teams that are blowing out nobodies, but it's not always how you play that impresses me. It's how you get the fuck up that impresses me. And frankly, Michigan getting up the way they did was impressive too. I don't like Michigan, but they got up and they absolutely spit in Oklahoma's eye, and those bitches from Oklahoma just said, oh, spit. I guess I'll lose a football game today. Who was the most depressing team today, Liam? And I'm going to answer that question first. It is, in fact, the Oklahoma Sooners. All you have to do, Brent Venables, is get a quarterback who can throw the ball a little bit. You have access to a level of talent very few programs have access to, and you have used that to stock your defense and be a very good defense. You go to the playoff last year, and you come in this year with a senior quarterback and all this, and you're going on the road to a team who needed a miracle to beat Western Michigan last week, a team who doesn't believe in their starting quarterback, a team whose coach has been there for about 20 minutes. Everything's going against Michigan. Everything. Nobody believes in them. Michigan fans didn't believe in them. They can lie and say they did. They didn't. They didn't at all. I saw more signs for Tommy Carr today than I saw for anybody else on Michigan's team. You know what Tommy Carr is? They're fucking backup quarterback. They didn't believe in them. Nobody believed in them. And yet Oklahoma, yet Brent Venables in year five, you're still so piss poor of a coach. You can't get anything going offensively. You can't get even an inch going offensively. You lose to a guy who throws for 100 yards. You lose to a guy who completes nine passes. Garbage from Brent Venables. And he is not good enough to be the Oklahoma head coach. It's a top 10 program. It's a top 50 coach. William, who is the most depressing team to you? And why I didn't say Oklahoma stay in the most impressive team is because I was going to bring them up, bring Oregon up as the most depressing team. Why I was going to bring up Oklahoma as well. But after thinking this, I actually want to go with the team that won, that played a really bad week one on Sunday, that played an even worse week two on Saturday, but got away with a 16 to 14 win. The Washington Huskies played Utah State today. Do you know what Utah State did in week one? Not great. They lost by double digits to Idaho State. Washington top 20 team, surprise team in my opinion. I thought they were good enough to make the playoff. Not at all. It's reminiscent of the Jimmy Lakedays as head coach when they were so highly tall in the preseason. All they did was crash and burn and nothing good happened. The quarterback don't want to be there, the head coach don't want to be there, and I still thought, hey, I'm going to invest in this team because I have an addiction to Jed Fish coach teams. That's my problem. Washington is a dud this year. Do not invest. They needed to stifle a Hail Mary against Utah State to get away with it today. They're depressing as it gets. Yeah, it wasn't good. I'm going to add one because I know nothing about this game other than the score. UNLV goes to North Texas and gets beat 44 to 6. UNLV, who I had high hopes for, and I'm watching them in Week 0 against Memphis, I thought coming out of there, they're both really good. And UNLV, Dan Mullins going to North Texas in Week 2 and getting beat 44 to 6, that's depressing as shit. Holy shit. Yeah, their trenches are garbage. Liam, what was the most badass thing you saw this weekend? Drew Mendoza, Mesta Maker flipping into the end zone, putting the team on his back showing how, hey, you guys got me, I got you. I'm going to deliver one of the best moments Stillwater has seen in so long. This team, this fan base, they ain't seen anything positive for like two, three years since 2023. It's crazy. Mesta Maker balled out from start to finish, a 75-yard run that somehow only resulted in three points. The flip into the end zone, the cap it off. That's NFL QB one. I'm so happy he shined today. I'd like to, that was mine too. Fair, fair. There's a lot of options. You should go first. I don't know what to do. Can I just say that Eli Drinkwood's reach we did Green Greg today? Yep. Is that bad ass or stupid? Do we live in the worst timeline or the best timeline? Do we live in a timeline that I should celebrate or a timeline that I should go back to Mississippi and get out of this shit? Because Coach Drink, by the way, Missouri goes on the road, beats Kansas last night. I'm going to get to the Kansas video in a minute. But Drink was fucking feeling himself after that game. Absolutely fucking feeling himself about, you know, all of that. So yeah, I like that one. The Hand Up I Was Wrong Award. And I'm going to let you choose. Because you have two options here. Three options. And I'll explain the one that you pick, okay? Liam, do you think I was more wrong about the Oregon Ducks, who I picked to win the national title? The Michigan Wolverines, who I didn't believe in after week one? Or the Oklahoma Sooners, who I did believe in? Which one do you think I was the most wrong about? Oklahoma. I will, can I just say one thing? I'm going to talk about this Oklahoma and how wrong I was. Write Oregon off at your own peril. I know that, like, remember last year in week one, when Alabama went to Florida State and lost to a wretched football team? Just got beat, got beat to sleep. They ended up making the playoff, Alabama did. In this world, if Oregon gets a couple of get-right games here and then can just get, I wouldn't write Oregon off at all. I know it was embarrassing, I know it was terrible. Oregon will probably still have a say in the Big Ten going forward. I don't believe the same about Oklahoma. That's a bad football team. Oregon, I don't think is a bad football team. I think they're a good football team off to an awful start. Oklahoma is a bad football team. Oklahoma is supposed to be led by their defense and they couldn't contain Bryce Underwood today. Oklahoma has no hope. They get no separation with their receivers. They get no push with their offensive line. They get nothing scares you out of their running backs, and their quarterback will give you a turnover whenever you need it. This is all from a team that believes that Brent Venables is the guy. They gave him an extension in the off season. What a bunch of fucking morons run Oklahoma, because that guy should be fired not given an extension. I spent the off season drinking the Kool-Aid and talking myself into them. What a fucking idiot I am. What an idiot I am. That's the wrongest team I've been. Oregon, I picked them to win the national title. Good team off to a terrible start. Oklahoma, I picked to beat Michigan today and be in the mix to win the national title. They're garbage. That's a six-win team at very best. Oh, boy, having fun. Do you have a hand up I was wrong award? Yeah, two, one, Alabama losing to Kentucky. That's for both of us hand up brain dead there for the both of us on Thursday. I brought up the Drew Mestamaker TikTok account. That account was apparently not his and was fake. So I got ballsack. Can I say a third thing that you got wrong? I'm Mr. I got things wrong. So I get things wrong all the time. Everybody gets things wrong. Can I? Why are people so angry? I like the people that make fun of me for being wrong, but then the people there like your family should die. I was like, well, just relax. Just everybody chill out. It's fun that I get things wrong. It's fun that I picked Oregon and won the national title and they're already one on one. That's fun. If you're actually angry about it, let's all just chill out. Where was I going with that? Anybody know? I'm scatterbrained. I told you I was going to be scatterbrained. You're scatterbrained. Anyway, what are the awards? So hand up I was wrong and now the, this is what you were wrong about. Did you have Army as your lock this week? Well, I'm not in charge of locks or anything. I did think Army was going to win, then they blew a 10-point lead with two minutes left. Well, that was your number one pick. Oh, yeah, it was on here. Yep, you're right. Yep, it was. My is three-and-a-half there, up 10 with three minutes left, lost outright. Shout out, South Florida. Shout out, South Florida going down. Is my former guy kind of got something going down there? Van Buren? Yeah, maybe, man. I'm salty about that game, to say the least. Yeah, fair enough. Now, we got the... Is Luke going to be able to talk to me at all? Little, he is sick. Van Buren may act right there on fourth down to win that game. So, winners and losers are sponsored? The winner of the weekend is sponsored by Reese's. Okay. Well, Reese's is delicious. We're going to do the Reese's winner of the weekend right now. Reese's winner of the weekend, Reese's is the official candy partner of Barstool Sports. Reese's is basically like the number one team in America right now. They're that good. They're that delicious. I was on the plane today. I had a handful of Reese's. It was fantastic. Go get Reese's wherever you shop. Once again, Reese's is the official candy partner of Barstool Sports. If you're at the gas station, grocery store, drugstore, wherever you go, this is what you want right here. You want that. That's just perfect little snack. It's fantastic. I'm going to give you the Reese's winner of the week. Liam, do you have your winner of the week ready? Yes. It's pretty easy. It's Texas. It's Texas. I know Oklahoma State got off the mat, and I know Michigan stuck it to people like myself. I know that. I feel that. It's absolutely Texas. Texas needed a big moment. They needed a big game. Arch needed this. Sarc needed this. They all needed this so fucking bad. Like Oklahoma State got their big win, but that might be it. Michigan got their big win today, but that might be it. Texas has plans to win a national title. If they were to lose at home tonight in the fashion, if they were going to lose, it would have been a disaster. They put it together, they come from behind, and now they have the marquee win of the season so far. Texas, the easy, rhesus winner of the week for me. Who's your rhesus winner of the week? Yeah, just going straight into Steve Sarkisian, how much he was feeling himself. The guy blew off ESPN for the halftime interview. They didn't know where he, they said he's run away, he's run up, they got the camera in the tunnel, he's just running up those stairs, veering down the hallway. Then what happened post-game? The guy is still feeling himself after he was seeing ghosts in the background of a Jeremiah Smith catch post-game, he blew off Holly Rowe. He was like, hey man, I'm going to go celebrate a team hook them and then Holly Rowe's like, what the heck? Steve Sarkisian feeling himself, having time of his life. I have, we have this award, the What Are We Doing Award. It used to be the shit list was the, what are we even doing out here? And then you can do as many as you want, by the way. You can do as many, what are we doing as you want to do, but this is mine. I like this coach. I think he's a good, solid coach. I think they're a good, solid program. They got work today, but that happens when you play a team of Mississippi State's caliber. Mississippi State wins 38 to 13. In the fourth quarter, I don't know if you were watching this game closely. Liam, were you watching this game closely at this point? In the fourth quarter, it was 38-13. Minnesota had a fourth and two from its own 37-yard line with about six minutes left. PJ Fleck punded the football. He punded the football, and that was his signal that the game was over. And I thought, PJ, what are we doing? What are we doing? I don't really understand the game plan here. Why are you doing this? Why have you decided that this game is over? Because they were still Minnesota moved the ball in the second half. I guess I'm just I'm saying, what are we doing? But all I really want to talk about is Mississippi State Football. Mississippi State Football. We're so good, dude. We're so good. Liam, we're so good. Have you seen how good we are? Yeah. Again, I don't know why you were tripping about this game. I was just I'm scared of my own shadow. I'm scared of South Carolina next week. I think South Carolina is really good. By the way, I got to check the scores and see if I want any bets at all this way. Yeah. There's a score that is very key that would salvage my night. I haven't checked it in a while, so I'm just going to check it right here in front of God and everybody. And I'm sure the game is final because they. Okay. May I ask what game? Yeah, you can, but I got to find it first. But I'll tell you, I don't want to jinx what I'm doing. Okay. Fuck yeah. I parlayed Auburn minus 32 and a half and under 52 and a half. Wow. And they won 43 to 8. Wow. That's what we needed right there. That's what we needed. Okay. Did Sark get up? But by the way, was Sark get, did he get frisky on the postgame too, or was it just the, what did he say in the postgame? I don't recall exactly what he said, but he like kind of rushed out of it, the hook up and then higher up. It's like, why is Sark so god damn goofy? Why is he so- I think goofy is the wrong word. Yeah, goofy is a bad word. Why is he so, is it prickly the word? Unlikable? Why does he still got him unlikable? I guess I'm thinking, remember when they were coming out of the tunnel that one time and the guy touched him and he's like, don't you fucking touch me? Don't you fucking touch me? Why is he so god damn unlikable? I mean, coaches or CEOs that run these big, huge programs, they got to have some personal skills. He doesn't have any. Well, even Nick Saban, who was an asshole when he wanted to be an asshole, had personal skills. All right. Okay. Do we want to go around the country? Here's what I'm going to do for you, Liam. I'm going to go around this country to the conferences, and it's going to give you an opportunity to drop either some ball knowledge or some opinions from around the country. Are you ready? Okay. Okay. We could do that. First trial at this, huh? Yeah. We're feeling the show out. We're making sure that we get our Saturday nights right. So I'm going to go to college football here. I'm going to go around the country, conferences, and I might even do the group of six conferences too, by the way. You're feeling yourself. Yeah. This isn't just going to be. So we'll start in the ACC. Clemson's still hanging on 16-7. Looks like they're going to win. You know my thoughts? Yeah. Miami obviously killed FAMU the other night, 77-7. Louisville, 59, Villanova, 13. I don't think there's anything we got to talk about so far. NC State, 73-0. UVA, 59-3 over Norfolk State. Boston College, 28, Rutgers, 21. Is it officially time to call Rutgers the worst power four football team in America? They got a big matchup against Howard coming up. And I just want to say, how blessed were we to be alive for Rutgers Boston College Friday and Wake Forest Purdue Saturday? Not often you get four of the bottom dwellers playing each other like that. By the way, Wake Forest Purdue was like compelling and good. Actually good, yeah. And plus there were points, there were good performances. Boston College Rutgers, if you watch that, just dude, get some pussy or something. I don't know what to tell you. Oh, okay, thanks. KJ Duff is unbelievable. One of the best streamers in the country and someone tweeted, he's just Calvin Johnson Alliance, which is true. North Carolina, 35 Eastern Tennessee State, through East Tennessee. Yeah, nobody saw a play in the entire game. Virginia Tech, 44, Old Dominion, 21. James Franklin ain't going to be there in two years. The only thing I felt about that one is with a legitimate head coach there, it feels like they don't have to worry about losing that ODU game again. Losing the Old Dominion game is always the tell that Virginia Tech is really bad. Oh, here's one, and this is why we do this, so why I'm going around. How about Duke going on the road and beating Illinois 31-27? How about the D word, man? How about them still finding a way to figure it out? How does Duke always figure it out? How does Duke keep losing guys and always figure it out? Can you tell me? Obviously, I was the number one Duke guy last year. How did they not beat Illinois? How did they not win more games? They win the ACC. Darian Mensah was their quarterback. Miami's WR2 was their star wide receiver. Nate Sheppard, who's still there, is still doing it. Their defense was great. I don't get it. You just chalk this one up to Manny Diaz, might be one of the more underrated, underappreciated coaches. He is consistently pulling forth a great product. I think that's exactly right. I think Manny Diaz is somebody that gets no credit. That might as well not even exist at Duke, and yet he does, and he is still finding ways to have players and finally doing these things. Cal, 21, Syracuse, 18. Steve Angeley. Oh, brutal pick to end it. There's a couple of quarterbacks here that I have big hopes for and big thoughts about. And we're going to get to another one in just a second who just wasn't that good today, but ended up winning the game. But Angeley and then Cal ends up winning that game. But then Pitt, 12, UCF, 7. Yeah. This would have been one of my overs of the day, by the way. I'm telling you retroactively that I would have picked the over here, because Heichel was going to throw for 400 yards and six touchdowns, and UCF was going to score a lot to 12, 7, your final score. Yeah. You're not in control of mother nature, though. It was pretty wet. SMU 56, 10 over, is that UC Davis? Yeah. That might be 58. No, it's 56. Tennessee goes on the road, kills Georgia Tech 45, 24. Tennessee, face on Brandon, is kind of doing the thing down there. Their defense is scoring as we kind of go through the weeks and we start to weed out contenders. And we lose Oklahoma as a big time contender of the SEC today. Alabama looks good for a half. Tennessee is just kind of plugging along at that, probably that 7 to 10 range and nobody's talking about them. And they might have something for those top level SEC teams. I mean, I, I, I, verdict still out on, on, on face on. I got to see more. He wasn't great today. Run game is great. Bishop is phenomenal. Offense line gets to it. But do you expect him to be great in his first road start? I know it's- No, no, no, I don't. I don't. And I do see like, I obviously do see it always be negligent not to. I think that Georgia Tech team is really bad. In the Big 12, Utah is currently beating Arkansas 36-3. Let's pour one out for Arkansas. Really good hire they made. Listen, man, I don't know what Arkansas fans did to deserve this. I really don't. This is a proud program, a proud fan base. In the Houston Nut days, in the Bobby Petrino days, they figured out ways to compete. Then Sam Pittman has the one decent year, they win nine games. It was kind of fluky, though. He ends up turning back into a pumpkin. And now the best they could have got is Memphis' leftovers. Memphis immediately kind of gets better after he leaves. I'm sorry, Arkansas. I am very sorry. If somebody says Brent Key to Arkansas, I'm not sure why they would want Brent Key at this point. Also, like really poor, poor graphic that came up as Utah was up like 29-3 on Arkansas, where it's just on ESPN, it's a Ryan Silverfield quote, paraphrasing here, pretty much just said, it's so much easier these days to flip a roster year to year and have a great team. And they have three points. I got a bonus, what are we doing right here? Missouri 38, Kansas 21. And I guess it was cute, and I guess everybody had fun with it. Dave had it as one of his highlights of the week. I don't know that Kansas thought through the slavery video. I don't know if Kansas thought through what would happen if we go out and lose by 17 and they absolutely work us on our own field. I don't know if they thought if they thought through, you know, a drink would go on a personal PR, you know, caravan afterwards, shitting all over the state of Kansas, shitting all over Kansas. Like, it was funny and it gets everybody, oh, oh wow, it's rooted in there. And then Missouri just beats the fucking shit out of them. So now are we as a college football populace supposed to say slavery won? I guess slavery won, guys. You guys brought it up and then they beat the shit out of you. So what are we doing, Kansas? We didn't think that went through. All right, Kansas State 34, Washington State 7. Liam, let's talk about them. Is Kansas State worth talking about yet? Yeah, I had them in the Big 12 Championship at the beginning of the season. I still stand by that. I think this is a really good under appreciated team. I think Colin Klein has come in and done great. Avery Johnson made two or three really bad throws, but he's going to be more ball control, run the rock a lot, be safe with it. We've got good playmakers and I think Wazoo, I like the head coach that they hired. I just don't think he's a good head coach. Like I like the person, I like the person he is. I like the person he is. I like his personality. I think he's a bad football coach. I think he's got a really bad offensive scheme. Their quarterback is throwing a fit already. I feel like in an era, I feel like this year, there were a lot of new coaches that got a lot more hype than Colin Klein at Kansas State. I feel like it was almost low key, just him going home and doing his thing. And I think he's going to be a lot better than most of those coaches that got more hype. I think he's going to be better than Golos at Auburn. I think he's going to be better than Stein at Kentucky. I think he's going to be better than a great number of guys. Maybe some are all, he's better than a lot of these coaches. And of course, Chesney at UCLA looks like he's the real deal and stuff, but keep an eye on Colin Klein there. Texas A&M 48-20 over Arizona State, Oklahoma State 39, Oregon 31, West Virginia 52, T&M, that's Tennessee Martin 7. We did Pitt. BYU 28, Arizona 17. It was a close game for a while. BYU ends up kind of outlasting them there. Defense takes over in the second half. What do you think of BYU kind of asserting themselves over Arizona at home? Yeah, they just wear you down physically. Obviously, it's more difficult to do that against Texas Tech last few years, but they wear you down very much. Arizona was gassed by the event, making mistakes. Arizona lost their best skill position player, GFI. Richardson in the first half. That hurt Fafita a lot. And BYU just rolled. Just realized I never checked. Did you ever check on our? Yes, I did. Liam, do you know what I'm talking about? And you're talking about Northwestern State. What? What they do? They got smoked. They did? Yeah, I think I could be wrong. I looked at like four hours ago. Twenty plus, I believe. Thirty eight, 14 comes to mind. I could be wrong. Let's see. Northwestern State football schedule. They play Weber State next. They lost, of course, to Louisiana Christian a couple of weeks ago. They lost, of course, last week, 80 to six to Louisiana Tech. And today they lost to East Texas A&M 38 14. Shout out. Did you say dot for yourself? Yeah, cause I remembered the score correctly. I'm happy. I like doing anything. Anything good in life is dot now. Dot, dot. Like you're throwing your food bag away in the trash can. Dot. Deed. Cincinnati 62, Western Carolina 10, Houston 77, Southern 6. I guess we'll probably have one or two more weeks of these gigantic scores. Iowa 16 13 over Iowa State and Cyhawk. Let's stop there. Drop the trophy. Let's talk about Iowa real quick. Although we're going to get to the Big Ten in a second, but let's talk about Iowa real quick. Legitimate contender in the Big Ten, you think? No, no, no, no. Okay. Offensively, they can't do it, but when we had talked about this game going in, okay, forget calling me a legit contender. Are they a problem, a thorn in the side of the legit contenders? Can they do that? I don't see what's different about this Iowa team than Iowa teams in the past aside from them having a legit WR1. Okay. TCU 63, Grambling 7, Baylor 44, Prairie View, I think that's Prairie View, 3, and then Texas Tech 35, Oregon State 24. I know you shouted out the receiver on Oregon State. I would argue that Texas Tech winning that game by 11 points is something that doesn't look that impressive coming in. Do you think there's an issue with Texas Tech? They got to figure out who their quarterback is. Is it Hammond? Is it Castellanos? Both of them played tonight. Both of them were on the field. If it's Castellanos, they're not serious about winning the national title. If it's Castellanos, they have a better shot at winning a national championship. And that's the sad fact of where we are today. They were both on the field at the same time. At times, they were trying to figure it out. I think the bigger story here, while Texas Tech might not be that super good big 12 team that they were last year, Oregon State played two big 12 teams. They played Houston, they played Texas Tech, two of the top in that conference. They held their own with both of them. In the first year of a new head coach, first time head coach, DeMarcus Shepard, you got it. He's one of my winners of the week, man. For him to get this ball club this competent this quickly and playing up to some of the best in big 12 is very, very impressive. And it's like they're no slouch. It's good physical, hard nosed football with a great wide receiver, with a hungry defense. They had Texas Tech on the ropes tonight. In the big 10, Michigan 17, Oklahoma 10. I know what to do with Oklahoma. I put them on the trash heap. They're a six and six team. I'm good with that. How can you make sense of Michigan? Is the defense going to keep them in every single game? You're not going to win a lot of games where Bryce Underwood would throw in for 100 yards. But is the defense so good? Are they going to just win every game? They won 13 to 12 in 17, 10 now. Is every game going to be played in the teens? Is every game going to be 15 to 12? Is every game going to be like that? The next time, I guess, I don't know who they'll play next week, but they got Iowa coming a couple of weeks, they'll win that game. I'm just thinking about now that I'm thinking they have Oregon coming at some point. I'm trying to remember the actual schedules. I know they have Indiana coming in. They have UTAP, then host Iowa at Minnesota versus Penn State versus Indiana at Rutgers versus Michigan State at Oregon versus UCLA at Iowa State. Boy, I mean, I just I don't see where they're going to be able to extract offensive. No, like they were super cookie cutter today. Yeah, I it's a shame Oklahoma let that beat them because that yeah, Penn State 27 Temple nine out of Penn State fan being like, it meant you were wrong about us. They look like shit. They look good at all. I don't know why would Penn State fans be bragging and in my DMs like, you were wrong about us. We're good. Not really. That was a that was a slop fest. That was nasty. Also, what do you say wrong about Penn State? Didn't you say that they're going to take it as their schedule and be a sneaky playoff team? I did. I also had a voicemail. Really harsh. I had a voicemail that said Penn State was on upset alert and for some reason the entire Penn State fan base believes I said it and I know that's intelligent. You deal with that a lot. Oklahoma State 39, Oregon 31, Washington 16, 14 over Utah State that previously mentioned Washington, Duke 31, Illinois 27, Mississippi State 38, Minnesota 13, Maryland 38, Illinois 14 over Yukon. Malik's a baller. That's all there is to that. Malik Washington is a baller. Michigan State 35, Eastern Michigan 7, Nebraska 56, Bowling Green 7, Wisconsin 36. WIL. Western Illinois 9. Thank you very much. UCLA 28 to 10 over San Diego State. I did like San Diego State's coach this week saying, I like it. Come on. I like that. I got beat, but you know, whatever. Texas 24, Ohio State 23, Iowa 16, Iowa State 13. We go to the Southeastern Conference, which kind of hit a lot of these already. But if you have a take on these games, please give me something. Missouri 38, Kansas 21, still 36-3, Arkansas down to Utah. Oklahoma, Michigan, Texas A&M, Arizona State, we mentioned Georgia 70, Western Kentucky 20, Mississippi State 38, Minnesota 13, Alabama 45, Kentucky 17, Vanderbilt 35, 26 over Delaware. Vanderbilt, not good. Nope, not good at all, Brando. 52-3, Florida over Campbell. I believe Jayden Ball 14, carries 136 yards, two touchdowns. Yeah, his jump cuts a problem. South Carolina 45, nine over Towson. Tennessee, Georgia Tech we covered. Texas, Ohio State we covered. LSU 45, 14 over La Tech. Ole Miss 41, nine over Charlotte. LSU Ole Miss next week. And Auburn 43, eight over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. All right, let me pull up and make sure we get, well, we got left there. Look, we got a couple, right? Yeah, FOX One and Vegas. I'll do FOX One real quick, and then I'll do Vegas, and then we'll start to wind down. I might turn to the chat in a second. Let's see. BFW swiftly moving past Oklahoma, Michigan, scared of Dave said Michael Wells, 89, 68. Michael Wells, you magnificent dumb cunt. We literally spent 20 minutes on Michigan, Oklahoma at the top of the show. I'm not going to stop every single time and spend 20 minutes on it. We did 20 minutes on Oklahoma, Michigan at the top of the show. If you show up an hour and a half into the show and be like, oh, they're just now talking about Oklahoma, Michigan. You're very stupid. You're remarkably stupid. I don't know why you get to be on the Internet. You should be on the Internet with the rest of us. Of course, now I get to tell you about FOX One. It all goes down at noon. Big teams, big plays. Big Noon Saturday is streaming live on FOX One. Rivalries, upsets, chaos, whatever happens, you're watching it live football at noon. Streaming live on FOX One, watch three days free. Big Noon Saturday, live on FOX One, watch three days free. Offers or subjects to change. See FOX One for complete terms and conditions. I believe next week is London, correct? Yeah. Who are the two teams? ASU Kansas. Here you go, London. Here's Kansas. Anyway, I'm going to do this Las Vegas one as well. Las Vegas, you know where we're crowning a national champion this year, Liam? In my backyard. The road to Vegas, the College Football National Championship is there this year. And college football doesn't just end in Vegas, it's living in Vegas this season. There's no better Saturday than going out to Vegas, finding you a great place with great food, great people and watching an entire day and enjoying the action of college football. It is truly, truly, truly a phenomenal experience. It's the ultimate away game weekend. It's just an awesome place to go. Of course, we're heading towards Vegas. I think I'll be in Vegas for the National Championship game, but that's neither here nor there. It's going to be an amazing ride to get to Vegas. College football is at its best in Vegas, and every game is a big game in Vegas. Check out Vegas. We all know Las Vegas, but you haven't really experienced it unless you've experienced a huge college football day while there. It's pretty damn awesome. BFW, who are your updated Heisman frontrunners? Great, great. We should probably do that at the end of the show every time. Austin Grieve, thank you very much. He's a frequent flyer. I like Austin. He's a good guy. Top five Heisman just working out in my mind. And now it's goofy because some players just haven't played anybody yet, but I would still say Malachi Tony, who hasn't played anybody, is in there. Am I being a homer to say Camario Taylor? Whatman? No, he's been one of the best players in the country through two weeks. Will he be able to win the Heisman this year? Very likely not. Yeah. I personally think Jeremiah Smith came out tonight, a beggar Heisman candidate, then he went in. Agreed. I think he was excellent. He was amazing. And if they leaned on him a little bit more in the second half, they probably win that game with ease. I would have to say, based on the virtue of his last quarter and his drive, Arch Manning is certainly a Heisman contender right now. I'm thinking of the other. Is it crazy? Would it be crazy to say that Mestamaker threw his ring back in the Heisman hat today? Now, obviously, Oklahoma State would have to win a lot of football games, but he showed that he is going to put up a lot of numbers and be a difference maker. Dude, I mean, week one, hopefully, we just look back and it's an anomaly and a fluke. They're going to put up points. He's going to put up numbies. It's too early to do top five Heisman. The kids again, like Gunnar Stockton has played nobody. He's been awesome. Hey, Georgia National Championship pick looks so good. They've been so dominant. It looks really, really good. I will say, I was making fun of some teams that don't play anybody, but like Indiana just looks strong again. Georgia looks really fucking good. Miami looks really fucking good. Like these are, when you play these teams, you need to show zero weakness and that is exactly what's happening with a lot of these teams. So, hey, I just got here. Western Michigan beat Michigan. Thank you, Fred. You're exactly right. So, from week one to week two was as stark a difference as I can remember in my entire life for some teams. Oklahoma State, too, from week one to week two. Michigan from week one to week two. All of these things, who knows what we're going to get from week two to week three. Liam, any guys, players, coaches, anything we haven't said yet that you want to shout out about week one, or week two, excuse me? No, I think the one thing I would like to hone in on is Northern Illinois made one of the worst decisions of realignment when they left the MAC to go to the Mountain West. And then today, they end up starting their season 0-2 shocker. They're going to have a brutal time in the MWC. They paid in-state rival Illinois State of the FCS, great FCS team, top five in the FCS, pay them a few hundred thousand dollars to come in their place, kick them in the butt. With the laws like Norah and Illinois made such a terrible decision. I don't understand why. You know, scatterbrained again, I was about to... It's okay. We were talking, I think on Mostly Sports the other day, about what are the games that show you how ridiculous conference realignment is. And it can be, you know, Cal at NC State or Stanford at Wake Forest, stuff like that. Do you realize there's a conference game in the Mountain West in November, where Hawaii travels to Northern Illinois? That's not good. The one that was in my brain was that we already had was last week, Sac State at Eastern Michigan. Northern Illinois will host Hawaii in November as in a conference football game. Yeah, that's not right. All right, overall, I'm just going to do it one more time for people who haven't been here very long. Overall winner of week two, go Liam. Steve Sarkeesian, sassy, got done, won in big game. And my overall winner for week one, or for week two, excuse me, I keep saying that. For week two, my overall winner is the Texas Longhorns. They faced death tonight. They faced defeat. They faced embarrassment. They faced scorn. They faced all of that humiliation. And what did they do? They came back and won. My biggest loser of the week, the Oklahoma Sooners. They lost the week. Just a garbage performance, a garbage offensive effort, a garbage, garbage, garbage fifth year start for Brent Venables. You go to a team that needed a miracle to beat Western Michigan and you put nothing together offensively. You got a big time schedule coming down the pipe and I think Oklahoma solidified themselves today as a 6-6 football team. Oregon, also a loser, but I still think there's something salvageable there. I don't think Oklahoma is salvageable. All right. That was a good recap, good stuff. I appreciate all of you watching. Somebody says West Point 0-3. Yeah, West Point's first rebuilding year in two decades, man. Yeah. We got a new coach this year. We got our first rebuilding year in two decades. We played the toughest schedule in the state, so it's okay. We played Starkville and we played two below later. But you're not learning. You're not learning from college football. There's no point to be playing tough non-conference schedules. There's no point anymore. We're 0-3, but we've been to 10 straight state championship games. Hopefully, we'll go to 11. All right. There we go. All right. I said your thing. I said, stop spamming it or we'll have to get rid of you. I said your thing. Get off the Oregon train. They stink. See, that's the kind of shit. Stop saying it. Michigan lost to Western Michigan last week. They ended up winning today. Teams can stink in week one and be great in week two. They can stink in week two and be great in week three. It's in there somewhere. All right. That's it. Thanks. That's the Brandon Walker College Football Show. Peaks and Valleys and this is where the music plays. There we go.