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The guests just keep on a comment here, so yeah.
You know, and the reality is, the quality teams here, so all good, all good chance.
And our guests, now we get, we had holiday trivia.
Now we get back into the meat and potatoes.
We get some college football and we start going head to head there.
Maybe that's why we were so good because it was non college football.
That might have been it.
Maybe you should have a Christmas show and some of the college football show.
I think the pickle in Japan were pretty wild guesses.
But we're very happy to welcome Keith Andy, executive director of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul Cabrini conference, the SSVDP located at 131 West Thomas Street here in
Wasa.
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Keith, good to see you.
Great.
Chad and Sully, so glad to be here.
Thank you so much for having me.
I got to start with a quick story.
St. Vincent de Paul walked in the holiday parade last night and just a great crowd out there.
Just very touching.
A lot of people that we've helped through the ministry actually mentioned, actually hugged
a couple of our walkers, so it's just very humbling experience to be part of the community
in this way.
Chad is wonderful, especially this time of year to hear a story like that.
And Keith, with that, I really want to give a big shout out to you, Keith and all our sponsors.
As a result of your willingness to partner with Sully's college football page, we were able
to reach our 2024 goal of donating $1,000 to volunteer private and charitable institutions
in our area and beyond.
These donations include the following, Hagerhouse, Wounded Warriors, Women's Community, Newman
Catholic Schools, the Good News Project, Maine All-Volunteer Fire Department, the Humane's
Society, Knock MS out of the park, a local MS charity, Central Wisconsin School of
Belay, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, which, of course, you're representing here today,
the National MS Society Children's Miracle Network and St. Jude's Children of the Sur
Hospital.
So, on behalf of the service school's charities, both falls radio and Sully's college football
page, a straight thank you from the heart, Keith, to you and to all our sponsors for making
these donations possible.
So thank you.
Sully, that's great.
And there are some heavy hitters in that that you guys have been able to donate to just
for St. Vincent de Paul to be part of that.
The organizations that you donate to is very humbling to us, very honoring, and keep up
the great work.
Thanks so much.
Yeah, and your story about that might happen last night is really, I think, a reason
that Chad and I are so much into this.
Thank you.
Can you, let us know a little bit more even about the society because you just kind of
touched on it.
Obviously, it does touch people's lives a little bit more information for folks that may
not be as familiar.
Yeah, thanks, Chad.
So, Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a global organization.
Nationally, it's got about a million volunteers.
And locally, we are here in Wasa.
And the public facing portion of St. Vincent de Paul here in Wasa is our thrift store.
As you mentioned, at 131st Thomas Street, many people come in and get some great deals
there.
We are very blessed to have so many donations from the community coming.
And there's some very unique things that come through the donations area.
But what I want to share is that 100% of the proceeds that we raise is goes to families
in need in the area.
In the last fiscal year, which ended in September for us, we were able to provide $232,000
in assistance with things like rent, things like utility payments, things like that.
The fundamental purpose of the society is to really help our volunteers grow in spirituality.
And in this day and age, with all the stuff that's going on to have a fundamental faith
is very important.
We choose to build our spirituality by helping those in need.
So we actually do a home visit process.
We'll go out.
Somebody has asked for help.
We'll go out and see them.
See them in their home and be able to connect with them on a very, very spiritual level,
very peaceful level, and then provide assistance, like I mentioned.
Fantastic.
All right.
After all that heartwarming stuff, it's time to get into the, as Sully calls it, the
meathouse here, and start getting into the, into the football and see whether or not
you can knock Sully off his perch as Mr. College football here.
So it's our 10-to-game challenge.
10 big games.
You're talking about big games.
You came out of good time.
We got big games to talk about here on Championships Saturday.
So let's start off with the big 12 championship game Iowa State, 10-to, Arizona State, 10-to,
and as our guest, Keith, you make the first pick.
Well, thanks very much.
Challenge accepted.
I did my research on these games.
Start off with a barn burner here quite the line.
This is probably the closest line in the, in the games that Sully provided me here.
But hard for me to go against Arizona States.
They came off a, a drumming of Arizona, the last game, and I just think that they're rushing
off and it's really just going to overpower Iowa State.
So I'm going to go with Arizona State Sully.
That's a good pick.
You know, they're very athletic.
I mean, this team, when you watch them play, man, that they are skill set high, mental
toughness, they compete.
But the thing you notice about them is the athleticism.
That said, I'm going to go with Iowa State, I'm going to respectfully disagree.
I like Maddie Campbell.
I think that guy's done a great job.
And I think he's going to find a way to get his guys an edge in this game.
I've played at AT&T Stadium and you're right.
SMU is favorite or excuse me, Arizona State is favorite.
But I'm liking Iowa State in this game.
Very good.
So next up, that one is on ABC at 11 o'clock.
This one, the Mac Championship game is on ESPN coming up at 11.
We got Ohio and Miami of Ohio.
Both these programs have had some pretty significant former coaches.
Oh, yeah.
One of Miami, the cradle of coaches.
And Ohio, of course, had Frank Solich in the past, right?
So Miami and Ohio and Miami of Ohio and Seoul, what do you think?
Well, you know, you're right.
I mean, both Shamburger Coach there, Woody Hayes, Arab Park Season, you know, there are
some great coaches there.
And I'm going to stay with them.
I'm going to stay with Miami of Ohio primarily because of another Notre Dame coach, Chuck
Martin, has been directing them over the past few years.
They started out Keith really weak.
They were like one in three, but man, they've regrouped since then.
They had a great run in the Mac.
So I like Miami of Ohio in this game.
All right.
So thanks so much.
I can't compete with the names that you guys know in history, all that kind of stuff.
So I'm no good there, but I am going to say what's good here for Ohio.
And I'm going with Ohio is Ohio's defense.
I think Ohio's defense really gives Miami a challenge for field, pretty dynamic place
to place.
And I think that Ohio is going to pull it out over, over Miami.
I think Keith, that actually thinking about the numbers for this year was probably more
relevant than talking about the Arab Park Season in the 1950s, probably for today's
game for you.
You may be on to something.
Good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Next up, FCS, we haven't had a chance to talk about that, but I know there's been a lot
of interesting games in the FCS playoffs as well.
You got Montana and South Dakota State, boy, you talk about a couple of names that you've
been talking about for years when we talk about the FCS, Sully, so that's a big playoff
coming up this afternoon.
And we'll start with Keith.
So Sully kind of set up the line up here and said, I get to pick on the odd number
ones.
I think Sully kind of gave me a couple of layups in here.
So this, a 21 point favorite for South Dakota State, holy smokes, hard to go against South
Dakota State, especially because they're also playing in South Dakota.
So Sully, see what you can do with this, but I'm taking South Dakota State.
Reluctantly, Keith, I'm going to agree with you to go with South Dakota State.
They may be the best team in this tournament.
You had there defending two-time champ, Montana, great history, but I'm with you, Keith,
I think South Dakota State finds a way.
Yeah, another playoff in the FCS coming up next.
You got Villanova.
We usually talk about them when basketball rolls around, but you're going to talk a little
football for the Villanova Wildcats, they're 10 and three.
And then they take incarnate word and they're 10 and two.
That one's one o'clock.
Is that right?
ESPN is going to be on that one.
Yeah, is that about that?
They're all, I think it's regional, you know what I'm saying, the ESPN family and
networks.
And so you're first.
Okay.
This game, Keith, I want you to know, I picked in difference to you with your Catholic
affiliation with St. Vincent.
These are two Catholic schools, you know, Villanova and incarnate word is the largest Catholic
college in Texas.
You know, on Division One, there's only two Catholic universities, BC and ND.
Otherwise, that's it, you know.
But in the FCS, not so much.
So anyway, that stuff, which is not relevant to anything about the pick, I'm going to go
with incarnate word, you know, they're playing down in down in Texas and San Antonio.
And I think they'll find a way against Villanova.
Excellent.
So I didn't know about incarnate word as a Catholic university.
I didn't even know they had a football team.
So I learned something today going through this here.
So I hear you're incarnate word and everything really lines up for incarnate word to really
pull out the victory on this one, especially because it's being played in San Antonio, Texas,
which they are from.
So it's a home game for them.
But I'm going to go with Villanova and the power of prayer, two Catholic schools, Villanova,
again, didn't know they had a football team until this morning, always talking my basketball
with them.
But I'm going to go Villanova on this one.
Well, maybe they'll go four corners and you don't know when that one for Raleigh Massimino.
Yeah, there you go.
Our fifth game is Abelene Christian against North Dakota State, another FCS playoff game.
And of course, North Dakota State with their great tradition, I'm pretty significant
favorite again and Keith, you'll go first.
So I sell you again, set me up with some easy ones here.
If the previous one was a layup, this was a slam dunk, although I could never slam
dunk when I was playing basketball myself.
Well, you're not alone in that.
But how can you go against North Dakota State in this one?
23 point favorites, everything speaks to North Dakota State, so suddenly see what you
can do with that.
Yeah, you know, Keith, again, this time even more reluctantly, I'm going to go with you.
North Dakota State, the only thing that's in congruence here is the Fargo dome really
isn't a dome.
There's a hole in that.
So, yeah, you know, these two programs, North Dakota State and South Dakota State, in
all likelihood, are going to run into each other either in the semi-serve finals.
Montana State, and we're going to talk about later, is really undefeated and probably
the favorite this year.
But anyway, I'm with you in North Dakota State, too much traveling Christian, too much
there, too big of a crowd, they're going to get it done.
Again, our guest today for the 10 game challenge is Keith Andy, executive director of the
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, and Keith, oh, before we get to the final five games,
anything you'd like to add about the society?
Yes, as proud as I am to be part of it, it's one thing, and you both have heard the
adage teacher person, give a person a fish the eat for a day, teaching the fish to eat
for a lifetime.
So, I want to focus a little bit on our getting a head program.
The getting a head program is something that's been funded by Granson, by proceeds at the
store for the last four years.
We take individuals 12 at a time, we put them through a cohort class, it's actually taught
by a member of our staff, Emily Miller, she's a social worker, and it's these individuals
that we call investigators who go through their world in their life and say, where can I
do better because I just can't get a head.
So, the name is calling out itself what it does, but so far, we've graduated over 50
people from these cohorts, these people have learned so much, developed their community,
go on to be gainfully employed, and caring members of our community.
We had several of them walk in the parade with us yesterday, so very proud of that program
and the impact that it has on those individuals, and as well as their families, and one thing
I can just share with you guys, many of the people that go through that perhaps had difficulties
in their lives, maybe they even dropped out of high school.
At the end of this class, 18 weeks long, they actually get to graduate, go across the
stage, something that in midlife, maybe they never had a chance to do, stand up and speak
in front of a crowd which develops their confidence and just helps them in incremental ways as
they go through things.
So, very proud of that, and I want to give a shout out to Emily and the work that she
does and all are getting a head graduates.
Fantastic.
Really, really good stuff.
And something you said that really struck me was the fact that your primary focus, besides
all the great charity, charitable work you do, is the development, the spirituality of
your staff.
I had never heard that before, Keith.
That's excellent and I think it's one of the reasons of many, why you're so successful
at what you do there.
Thank you, Sally.
Terrific.
Maybe a final five games of our 10 game challenge of Sunbelt Conference Championship game.
You got the Thundering herd of Marshall, nine and three, and the Rage and Cajuns of Louisiana
at 10 and two.
Sally, what do you think?
Well, you know, I got to say, I cannot talk about Marshall without talking about, you
know, the previous coach, Doc Holliday, great name, and I used to love it when they played
Kentucky because the coach at Kentucky was Joker Phillips.
So you know, you had this classic cowboy and you visualized a room order sitting in their
playing poker.
But anyway, Sam, I did not say I'm a different off, Charles Huff is a head coach, they're
done good work there.
But in this case, Keith, I'm going with Louisiana, you know, that's where Billy Nupier is from,
who's done it currently at Texas, did great work there.
Yeah, sorry, he doesn't even like Texas, he's at Florida and done really, really good
work while he was there.
And that has continued.
So with that in mind, I'm going to go with Louisiana.
So you reluctantly agree with me on a couple, I'm selling and reluctantly agree with you on
this one.
Okay.
However, it's fascinating to hear about you, the Doc Holliday Association and the names.
I picked up on, it's the Marshall Hunt Thundering herd, awesome nickname, and the Louisiana
Rage and Cajuns.
And this game is at Cajun Field in Arlington, Texas.
So kind of hard to get bet against Louisiana when all that stuff is stacked up against it.
That's a good point.
That's very good.
Up next, one of the massive games, Southeast and Conference title game, Georgia and Texas,
for the second time around, the first time Georgia went into Austin, knocked off the
Longhorn, the only loss for Texas.
This one being played in Atlanta, so closer to the home turf of the Bulldogs.
Keith, what do you think for this massive game?
I am so excited.
I get to pick first for this one.
This is my slabber knocker of the weekend.
I think this is going to be just a great game.
I'm excited to watch it.
Everything kind of points to Texas, right?
But I'm going to go on the emotional side here.
Georgia just came off of a thrilling eight overtime victory over Georgia Tech.
And I actually have family members who are living in Georgia.
I'm moving my parents to Georgia in January, and so I'm going to go on the emotional side
and that Georgia wins against Texas to welcome my family and my parents to the Georgia
area.
Well, you know, that's a really good pick, considering the fact that this is almost
a home game for Georgia playing in Atlanta.
That said, I think there's going to be a paradigm shift in that he wears the quarterback
for the has a bad ankle.
I think manning their backup is going to enter the game.
And this time they get it done against Georgia key.
So I'm going to go to the other side of the coin and I'm going to take Texas getting
a macromo for a venture fair enough.
Up next, it is Rhode Island and Mercer.
Is this another FCS playoff soul?
It is.
Okay.
That's Rhode Island 11 and 2 Mercer 10 and 2 being played in Makeham, Georgia.
And I assume that's where Mercer is from.
That's it.
I'm George.
See, learn something new every day.
There you go.
You know, people don't realize, to be honest, how good these teams are.
You know, I get to watch them.
I do watch them.
And I mean, they can really play.
Now, I'm going to pick Mercer for a reason that's independent of any of them, what's going
to go on in the field.
And that is they were getting really disparaging remarks made about them when they were playing
Alabama, a couple of weeks ago, people that ESPN were there playing Mercer, hey, they
were nine and one.
They're a really good program and didn't deserve all the abuse they were getting.
So I'm going to say today, Mercer finds a way against a very good Rhode Island team at
home.
Oh, good pick, Sully.
Hard to go against you here.
I actually did my research for all my picks and I was looking at this one.
I used the Sully's matchup web page.
So it's kind of a game simulator.
Awesome.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I can't judge.
And Mercer is favorite in every single category.
So how can you go against Sully's game simulator?
Oh, don't ask that question.
Yeah, if I were promoting it, Chad would not be able to speak to it.
So who do you got Mercer?
Did you say Mercer?
I'm agreeing with Sully Mercer and his game simulator page.
Another massive, massive, massive game tonight, the Big Ten Championship game.
For the first time, Big Ten Championship game doesn't have a Midwest team in it.
Got Penn State and Oregon.
Yeah.
I get to pick first on this one.
So I have to tell you guys, I am not a bit, I have not gone down to the whole expansion
of Big Ten.
I'm a Big Ten.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We can probably do a whole other show.
Bring back 10 teams.
That's what I want.
I'm a little bit reticent of Oregon.
Oregon's been a pack 10 team for me forever.
So I cannot choose Oregon even though they're heavily favorite this one.
Sully, I'm going Penn State on an emotional pick.
Well, I think the game is going to be closer than people.
It seems to think that Penn State can't play with them.
Oregon is going to learn what Notre Dame has known over the years.
Traveling across country is not an easy thing to master.
I think the game is close and indie.
But I do think that Oregon has a little bit too much team speed for Penn State.
So I think Oregon gets it done.
And finally, the ACC, what an interesting game because you have a traditional ACC power
house.
Clemson.
And you got the new boy on the black, black have not been a major factor in national college
football since the pony express days, SMU.
Yes.
Sully, what do you think?
The death penalty now, they've been resurrected.
So SMU is kind of Lazarus there.
I'm going to I'm going to go with SMU in this game over Clemson for another reason
that's related to motivation.
And that is when SMU was offered a spot in the ACC, they said to them, we don't need
your money.
You do not have to give us a cut because they were desperate to get back into the power
for SMU.
So I was so impressed by that.
And then the fact that they're on the verge of winning the league, I'm going to go with
SMU Clemson and struggle a little bit.
So I'm with the pony expressor.
That's a good pick.
SMU, as you say, was on the rise.
They've really been hitting it as of late.
Again, doing my research, I went through the Sully's game predictor page.
As I got down to the bottom, it said, it's tie.
And it says, it says, it's a coin, so I did.
So I did.
Clemson was heads, SMU was tails, came up heads, I got to go Clemson.
That's about as scientific as the website is a game.
I think that is a perfect way to end it too.
And I think the old flip of the coin, I think in off in many of these games is probably
the best way to go.
Again Keith, any final thoughts before we take off again, all the good work that you're
doing with the society?
Well, I got to say thanks to you guys for supporting our mission as well as the other
outstanding missions that you guys are supporting.
Thank you for that.
Thanks for a fun half hour for me.
This is a great conversation.
I just would like you both to know and the listeners to know that when you're supporting
St. Vincent's, you're really supporting the community.
And actually, you're supporting your own spiritual growth by doing so.
So we're always looking for volunteers, we're always looking for donations.
So think about that this holiday season and it would be great to see people.
Thank you for one last thing, Keith.
If you do witness, you are morally obligated never to mention it.
Fantastic.
Again, Keith Andy, thank you for joining us.
Thanks so much.
We're going to take a time out, come back with more Southeast college football page on 98.9
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And then finally, after last week, everybody, we've been talking about eligible, what
they need to do.
Now we know, we know who's in.
We know who's out as you look at these conferences, what jumps out in terms of where
they're, where the conferences that got more teams eligible or less teams eligible, anything
jump out for you.
Well, who do you want to talk about?
Well, you know, first of all, I was shocked.
There's 134 teams that play in the FBS, the football ball subdivision.
This year, there are 35 ball games, and then the 12 teams for the playoff.
So you need a total of 82 teams.
So of the 134 teams, 82 were ball eligible.
So what are the odds that it would hit on exactly that number, but it did to the big
10 at a chance last week to get 14 teams of their 18, well, unfortunately, the badgers
and Michigan state lost more unfortunate that the badgers lost, but nonetheless.
So the big 10 ended up with 12, and the SEC and the ACC with 13, the big 12 had 9.
And then Washington state of the PAC 2 now was eligible and Notre Dame.
So 49 teams that are affiliated with the power for were ball eligible.
And then Chad from the group of five, 33 teams.
So right on the head, 82.
Absolutely.
And that worked out perfectly.
What do you think did the best job this year?
Which conference?
Because SEC's been a little bit, I would, it's been more competitive in a sense where
people were losing.
It doesn't mean they're up or down.
Who would you rank as the number one conference in America?
I'm going to go with the SEC because for the first time since I started the site, that
was wide open.
You had no idea who was going to emerge.
You know, Bama's kind of taken a step back to the fold.
So as Georgia, Ole Miss with my boy Jackson Darts, you know, and then how about Vandy
winning some games?
I mean, they beat Alabama and they played Texas to three points.
This is the most competitive.
You use the right word there as far as I'm concerned.
Competitive, the SEC has been.
And they still, you know, they ended up with 13 teams that are going to be playing in
the postseason.
Were any of the conference's disappointments or down at this year?
Or is it a case where the power conferences are all pretty good this year?
Yeah, they're all capable.
Maybe if you had a point, it would be the big 12, although that was also competitive.
Very.
I mean, real fast.
The thing about that, I think going into the season, a lot of folks on Ole Miss Day
was going to win it and they finished last.
I mean, that showed how you can't assume anything, can you?
No, you really can't, you know, and how about the fact that, you know, for a long time,
it was the power of five, you know, and then four of them would get the, now it's the
nine conferences all together.
And the top four highest ranked champions get the buy.
Well, this year, how about the fact that the Mountain West stepped up, Boise is currently
rated ahead of the big 12 entries.
And so the Mountain West, not the big 12 is likely to get the buy.
On that note, let's talk about the three games of last night.
You said it, Mountain West Conference Championship game, 21-7 Boise stayed over UNLV.
Yeah, you know, they kind of came out and took care of business.
They had played earlier in the year at UNLV, 28-21 Boise stayed kind of survived them.
This time they got after them early, not a lot of scoring is the game progressed.
But Boise built that three-scarly and then just held it and ended up winning that 21-2
seven.
American athletic boy, oh boy, I don't, I'm not, I guess, surprise Army one, but boy,
they won easily.
It was 35-14 and maybe not even that close.
It wasn't.
It really wasn't.
And, you know, Bryson Daily, the quarterback for Army, should they set it a couple of times
last night?
I am completely in agreement.
He should be in New York.
This guy has scored like 27 or 28 touchdowns.
He was going back and forth with the running back from San Diego State and he may have both
of them were playing last night and I know he scored when I say he daily, the quarterback
and Army scored four touchdowns at least.
And so I'm not sure to be honest yet that Army couldn't beat Boise right now today.
They really look good against a very good two-lain team.
And finally, conference USA Championship game, no contest, Jacksonville State 52, Western
Kentucky 12th.
Yeah, a name people know, Rich Rodriguez, he's their coach there and they started out
a little bit like Miami of Ohio.
They were one in three and then, man, they caught fire.
Now they were playing against some power four programs during those that time frame.
But man, they are really good, lot of speed and they fly to the ball on defensive, on
defensive.
I hope this team gets a shot at a power four in the postseason.
Let me start the first rumor.
How about Rich Rod back to the big 10, go to Purdue, offensive mind.
Wow, that's the, you know, can't you have set a lot of insightful things over the years?
That might be the best.
That's a good idea.
That may be the craziest one, but I don't think it'll happen, but it would be very interesting
to see him after his disappointment at Michigan, go back to a place where maybe his offensive
philosophy would be more embraced than was at Michigan.
I got to tell you that hopefully the Purdue AD is tuned in this week because that would
be a great place for them to start with that guy.
We're going to take a time out and we have Southeast top 25 coming up next.
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go through these pretty quickly, so let's go right into your ranking, we're gonna go
in groups of four here to begin with, we got 23, actually got 225, 23 through 25, that
times two, you got Georgia Tech and Michigan, both 25, Texas A&M 24 and Louisville 23.
Right, and you might as well throw Duke in there too.
None of these teams are rated in the committee or by the college football playoff.
I really like the effort that Georgia and Michigan put forth, Michigan in there win eight
over times, Tech with Georgia, so I put them in as part of our top 25.
And you said, Duke number 22, 93, they will remind me a little bit of Illinois in terms
of making this big move up and getting nine wins, which is very, very impressive, really
nice job at Duke.
And they really, sometimes when you lose a major coach where you feel like, hey, he came
and turned it around, you take a dip, real badly, real quickly, and they were not able,
they were able to maintain the success.
Yeah, many of these did a great job at Duke, are real happy for him and Duke played at a
high level all year.
18 through 21, you got 21, those are fighting a line eye of the BLMOS, 20 Missouri, 19 Colorado
who's still very much a part of the news cycle as always in number 18 Ole Miss, and they
had a fight with Mississippi State last week.
But those are the four.
Yeah, you know, I think when you're talking, other job, BLMOS did a great job.
You know, Eli Trinquitz did not have a lot going for him this year, but he did a great
coaching job, job winning nine games.
They won a lot of close games too.
They did.
I mean, they were in games that, you know, they really were out man, but Trinquitz, he might
have done his best coaching job.
He did a really good job, has a lot of star power.
He got to give him credit.
Yeah.
He rose people the wrong way sometimes, but he really has, you know, after a real rough
season a year ago where he started off so well, again, you have to give a tip of the
cap and the guy obviously knows what he's doing.
Yeah, and he can recruit.
He gets players and then he gets out of their way and lets him go, you know, so all good
there.
Yeah, I got number 17 Syracuse, what a big, big win last week for them.
They beat Miami.
Boy Syracuse, but their new head coach has done a nice job.
Clemson had a boy, oh, you talk about a Slobber knocker, 17, 14, a great game against
South Carolina, BYU, number 15, and then there is still, and the BAM at 14, causing controversy
with the committee and all that stuff, so those four interesting teams.
Oh, yeah.
There's two words in Ohio.
You cannot say Kyle and McCord, I mean, the guy that was the leader enough, the leader
in passing efficiency this year, and of course, he, they wanted him out after that Michigan
game lester.
I wonder what they're thinking now based on the year he had and the struggles that
Will Howard had in the game.
Exactly right.
And then you have 13 through 11, you got 13 Miami, again, hard to believe down to 13 after
that loss.
That was a massive, massive blow.
They put, they gave themselves a lot of trouble because of that game now.
You got Iowa State, number 12, and Arizona State, number 11, and boy, what a turnaround
at Arizona State.
Yeah, and we should mention these are Sully's college football page rankings.
Miami likes your rankings better than the college football playoff ranking.
Yeah, you know, we kept Miami and I think rightfully so in front of Alabama, they had
Alabama at 11 in Miami at 12.
I'm not buying that, not even for a moment, three loss team, you know, in Alabama, didn't
show up against Oklahoma and struggled against these.
And two of the losses were not against ones that you would not consider quality losses.
Yes.
That's part of it as well.
So you're exactly right.
And they had a great win against Georgia.
Right.
Absolutely.
But three losses and this isn't everybody gets a trophy, you know, you've got to earn
this.
That's 11 through 25.
We'll take one more time out and then come back with the top 10.
And also maybe touch on Sully, what he's going to be looking for today on a huge college
football Saturday.
So that's coming up here on Sully's college football page on 98.9 WXCO.
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Welcome back, Southeast college football page 98.9 WXC, as we head towards kickoff
again, some conference championship games starting at 11 a.m.
And let's get into the top 10, and real, a goal in groups of three here.
And the number 10 team, South Carolina, they crack the top 10, 9-3, beating Clemson
17-14.
In fact, if you mentioned in the last segment, Alabama, with three losses, if you're
going to take a three-loss team, South Carolina has a much better resume than Alabama
does.
They are down the stretch, South Carolina has played as well, if not better, and I mean,
if not better than any team in the Southeast during conference, they have been outstanding.
You know, they lost that team in Alabama by two, which I think they were very upset
about, and then they have won five in a row, and they have beaten some quality teams.
Their losses are all been quality losses, too.
They had chances to win those games, I mean, they should, frankly, they would be dangerous
because they are tough, aren't they?
You hit it right out of the park with that, they lost by three points, two LSU, two to
Alabama.
There was another loss in there that was close.
The reality is this team right now, the committee has them 14.
That's too high.
10, I think, is more effort over what they're doing.
9, 8 and 7, Indiana, they had fun last week, and now, in fact, I think it's an advantage.
They don't have to play this week.
They ain't getting ready for the playoff, and they got Tennessee who had a tough one against
Vandy, and they were able to win 36, 23, and then Georgia, they survived.
They kept their hopes alive because they would have been one of those three lost teams
if they had not.
They were dead in the water.
They were down by two scores late, and they're number seven.
Yeah, I got them at seven, I kind of went back and forth them in Ohio State, you know,
which should be settled out of Ohio State in front, but, you know, Indiana came out and
just smothered Purdue, and you know, Kurt Signetti is not going to influence people and win
friends and how he does things, and he is pretty gruff when he talks about the opposition.
But anyway, great game with Georgia Tech, and Tennessee is somebody that really is trying
to get a home game in the playoffs, and it's going to be real interesting to see what
happens tomorrow.
Six, five, and four, you got Ohio State.
Oh, man.
I mean, you would think that they were two in ten rather than ten and two based on their
fan base right now, after they lost the Michigan.
And obviously, losing the Michigan is not the one they want to lose to.
SMU, man, I mean, Cal has not been bad this year, and they just, they, they, they whooped
them last week, they're eleven and one, and then Penn states, and they, again, they,
what Maryland, so that's a good launching page into their big one against Oregon.
So you got Ohio State down or the down, and then those other two, I have to be feeling pretty
good.
You know, I'll tell you, and that SMU pregame live room, I'd like to be in there because
they're going to talk about where they've come from to this moment.
Last year, they played for the American championship.
Now they elevate up, they agree.
No money.
You don't have to pay us.
We just want to be part of this.
And here they are.
It's one of the best stories in college football, and I got to tell you, even as an Irish
Catholic, I'm pulling for the mountainous today.
Then the top three, Notre Dame.
I mean, that's, frankly, sometimes I feel like Notre Dame gets the benefit of the doubt
to what some of this stuff, no, this year, they've earned it.
I mean, they really have, they've, not only have they won every game since that loss against
Northern Illinois.
They've been impressive in doing it real quickly.
I mean, you obviously have to be very proud of what a team that you support is them because
they have.
They've earned it, haven't they?
You know, since when I was about four or five, we used to sit around the kitchen table.
We didn't have a TV radio, listen to Notre Dame games.
So absolutely, and Marcus Freeman has done two great things this year.
One of them is after that Northern Illinois loss, which was devastating.
I mean, they're not that good.
You know, we always try to find something good to say about people on the show.
But the reality is they're just not a real good team.
So he found a way about keeping the pain and the other thing this year for Notre Dame
does not happen without the way Freeman has recruited.
He has recruited depth and quality depth.
This is the best roster Notre Dame has had in years.
Texas number two, and talk about the war in a sense, I don't usually feel for A&M because
I just think that they do a lot of things I don't like.
But I have to admit that I feel bad for them because they did so much to get away from
Texas and then in the SEC brought him back in and then they lose to them last week.
But Texas number two, you know, it's funny.
You mentioned it because you know, the Big Ten had some initial feelers because Texas
A&M is a unit I've talked about, this they're an AAU school, which is about $9 to one,
the research to, and they would fit the Big Ten, you know, university.
They might be willing to talk again.
I think there were some people that dislike Texas.
But you know, Texas, I think Manning might be a factor for the first time today.
We'll see if I my crystal ball is foggy, but that's a great game today.
Number one, Oregon is Oregon is Oregon going to finish undefeated because they are it right now.
Yeah, Oregon wins.
They're the number one seed.
The question I have, if Penn State loses, where do they fall to?
In other words, would Notre Dame move to three and get that five spot?
You can bet that the SEC folks will lose their minds if Notre Dame's not in a championship game
and moves up the spot, they'll lose them.
So be interesting to see the not only the game, but the result of the effect of the loss for Penn State.
We got about one minute to go.
What are you looking for today?
What's the, what's, was you sit down watching these games?
What, what's, what's going to catch your eye?
Well, first of all, I'm trying not to get a speeding ticket, get home because we got some kickoffs at 11 o'clock.
I'm, I'm especially interested in the big 12 game, you know, I, I, I, I,
I want to see what, what goes down there.
I think with SMU against Clemson, you mentioned it earlier, the traditional.
And now here comes this substart.
New kid on the block.
Yes, I saw that game, the, the big 10 game, of course, is always interesting.
I'm wondering if in the next few years, this big 10 championship game is not rotated between Indianapolis and the Roseville.
I think that would be a good thing, a part of that new stadium in LA with the Rams play.
They probably play it there.
Yeah, I think so.
I think that plays the game like Super Bowls and all these other big games.
So I bet you, I bet you'll be there at some point.
Is UCLA?
Quickly, is UCLA going to move there?
They're going to play in Roseville still.
I don't know.
Okay.
Thanks all.
Have fun.