Postgame Show: Lose Your Faculties
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Dan, you did it again to me. What'd I do? We went through the whole show. You don't want to hear about my listener league experience. I never do. I never do want to hear it. I'm just not interested in any way about your listeners. Why? You can participate. Join us, Dan. Every week you can do it. DKNG.co slash Smirnoff presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. That was too fast. You need to help people get the information in a way that's slower. DKNG.co slash Smirnoff.

Yeah, you just have to do it correctly and not that quickly so that people understand what you're saying. I just boom, boom. I get it in and then I talk about it a little bit more and then boom, boom. I get it in again later on. That's why. Is that. You know what? Maybe that's what it is. Maybe I've been reading it too quickly and that's why you haven't joined the league yet and that's why you're not interested. It's one of the many reasons I would put on the list that I'm not interested on, although I am tired of hearing Stugatz talking about how well you and

witty are doing and he's doing like during the break. That's a different league. No, that's not the one that DKNG.co slash Smirnoff. That's a different league. I'm not interested in that one either. The abilities of that league are questionable at best. Does anyone here have a league I would be interested in, Jessica? Are you in any good leagues that people would be interested in? League of Legends. Do you want to play with me? Yeah.

Dan, I'm trying to tell you, John had a great week for me. He was a steal of the week. I got him. 31.1 points. You know who wasn't? Russell Wilson. Terrible performance. He really shit the bed. 7.3 points. Speaking of shit the beds, Greg, you had something about potty training? Yeah.

Good natural segue, Billy. I'm glad that we just offered you that during the break. You said you had a good way to lead into it, and you showed me nothing. Thank you for that. I don't want to talk about Greg Cody's potty training. I want to talk about college football. It's actually not my potty training. I've been potty trained for about 67 years. When you lose your faculties, and I'm not saying that you have, but you will at some point. When you lose your faculties and you go back, you can't re-potty train, right?

You know what? I'm going to cross that bridge when I get to it. It's an incontinence thing, I think. Like you want to use the toilet, but you can't hold it anymore. So you're still technically potty trained. Yeah, I think so. You're always potty trained. Jessica, over the weekend, and I know that this happens all of the time where professional football engulfs college football, but in a season that hasn't had a college football team,

that is actually flawless, although there are unbeaten records. Seeing Oregon whiff and wheeze and just barely eke out a road victory at Wisconsin suggests to me that basically winning on the road for college kids is really hard. Just everywhere and that there's not actually a team talented enough

to be able to consistently overcome it, even though Oregon did win that game against Wisconsin. To me, Oregon this weekend did more damage to all the things that I think Oregon is by winning, even though they won at Wisconsin, reputationally, than anybody did by losing because I'm watching that game against Wisconsin and Wisconsin is wildly unimpressive to me.

Yeah, Wisconsin's offense isn't great. They fired their offensive coordinator Phil Longo after the game because it just really hasn't worked out. They're on their third string quarterback because Tyler Van Dyke got hurt in the Alabama game earlier this year. But also I think Oregon, it was a close game. It was a really close game. Oregon was not very good in the red zone. They weren't...

good at finishing drives, kind of like the Steelers on Sunday, honestly. But it was also like they haven't had a bye week since like week three. And so it's like their eighth game in a row and now they get a bye and play Washington. So really they just had to get through that long stretch and be undefeated. And I don't

really picture a scenario now where they miss the playoff because they're going to beat Washington. I'm pretty confident of that. And then they're undefeated. So, yeah, it was a close game. I think Wisconsin, like, they're confusing because they haven't really been great this year, but they're not, like...

The players were up for that game, especially the defense. And it was a home game, and the energy was really great. And so I think all of those factors kind of play into it being a little closer than you expect. But Oregon, obviously, they get the result, and that's all you need in a season where you already have 10 other wins. But do you understand what I'm saying when I see that game and I'm like, oh, came away less impressed. You're undefeated, yes, but came away much less impressed about anything.

I believe that any team in football that we put in the playoff can beat that one. It was a bad win, huh? Yeah, but I think that's where college football is. And I think people, media and fans alike, are really struggling viewing this sport any way than they used to. Right. Which is, wow, that's an indictment on Oregon. I don't think it is. If you provide the context of it's their eighth straight game, it's their third time traveling to a different time zone within that stretch, it's

It's a conference road game and a historically difficult place to play. Winning is hard. There isn't a dominant team in college football this year. There isn't an entire tier that pretty much anyone in that tier can beat the other. I think it's a fascinating season for some of the reasons we're mentioning.

For example, a second-tier team like Miami looks at Oregon barely win, and they're emboldened to think, why not us? I actually don't think Miami's a secondary-tier team. I think the first tier's got about 20 teams in it. I look at Miami and I see, man, if you just have a C-plus defense, you can win a national title. I'm really excited for the college football playoff. I'm excited for this Indiana-Ohio State matchup that we have this week because I think Indiana

Everyone just assumes Ohio State is going to hand Indiana its scheduled loss. And I maybe feel a little bit differently than that. I think what's happening with the Big 12, I certainly want to give Deion Sanders his credit because what he's done there this year. Thank you. Yes. There's plenty of people doing that. However, he's got Kansas coming up at Kansas next.

They figured it out. Jalen Daniels is really shaking off the struggles of the earlier part of the season. It's a big rat poison week. I love where college football is right now. This thing with Colorado and Miami is interesting because both of them are similar in this regards, Dugat. You've got coaches who have fixed it with a Band-Aid. It's not a long-term fix. It's a quarterback fix.

fix in Miami and Colorado that has made them in year two and three get to a place faster than they have any right to do. But it's not enduring legacy or program building. Dion is using this as a stepping stone. It's the best the Colorado team has been in 20 years to start off eight and two. But it's because he's got those two players. It's just come in,

fix it, and it's not a permanent fix. It's not something that's going to build the program, but it's a great thing to build off because you got the quarterback right in both Colorado and Miami. You sort of fast-track how quickly you get into this conversation in a way that Florida State tumbles off to the side. Florida fixes some things. Florida, all of a sudden now, isn't the embarrassment it was made to look like in the first game of the season against Miami, but these aren't

enduring fixes. It's all temporary and transactional. I actually, I think one of the common threads on Saturday was that like there weren't a ton of crazy upsets, but there could have been, if not for the fact that having a competent college quarterback is a luxury that a lot of teams just don't have. If Wisconsin has a slightly better quarterback, I said third string, he's their second string, Braden Locke.

That game, it might actually be an upset. Same with Arkansas and Texas. Arkansas's defense played Texas really hard on Saturday, but the offense couldn't do anything. Utah and Colorado is the same way. Utah's defense was hanging in there until they couldn't because they just couldn't score. Their offense couldn't do anything. Stugatz mentioned their quarterback earlier throwing all those picks.

like it's just really hard to win in college football when you don't have a quarterback. And it sounds like it's totally obvious, but getting a good quarterback in the portal or, or getting someone to transfer or recruiting a quarterback that you can develop. Like those are things that good programs are going to have to

figure out the balance of doing, but you can't overstate how important it is because that's been the difference in Oregon winning because Dylan Gabriel's played college football for a long time. He's good in late game situations. He has experience. He's competent. He'll get you three points when you need it at the end of the game. And from what I'm hearing, it sounds like Colorado's going to get Julian Lewis, the number two quarterback in this class, had just recently declared

decommitted from USC. Colorado feels really good about where they're positioned there. I would say with Miami, they're exactly where they need to be for this kind of coach in terms of his approach to roster building. Yeah, you may say they got Cam Ward. Where does that leave them? This isn't a Jordan Travis situation.

with the way that this head coach builds. Deion's probably a little different because his approach to high school recruiting is different. He doesn't leave Colorado all that often. But that being said, as I just told you, they feel really good about getting a five-star quarterback. Oh, but no, be clear on this part of it. You can't get to real building unless you get the momentum of it.

The reason that I say that these aren't long-term fixes is once you remove that particular quarterback, Miami's not a special football team. You're talking about getting C-plus defense to run this gauntlet through the playoffs. There's no way to go on a winning streak through the playoffs playing defense as poorly as Miami plays it. When you're going to be playing against teams that are more complete than the ones they've been

playing against. I think the Colorado thing is so interesting because I don't think anyone knows if Dion wants to coach past these two players, his son and Travis. I don't think anyone knows and no one knows if Dion would continue to be a great recruiter, a great coach. It doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter. No, but it does feel like a short-term thing where he's there just to get his son through. He's done very...

the job that he was hired to do. He has done an exceptional job. Look, man, that team was the worst program in the big time of college football when he inherited it, and they haven't been 8-2 since 2006. Like, the job has been done correctly no matter what. Now,

He can lose against Kansas. The job's been done correctly. I'm just wondering, though, if Deion wants to coach past his son being at Colorado. That's going to be interesting to see. He has built it so that he can do whatever it is that he wishes to do if he wants to get out of there. To me, what has happened with the business of Colorado is one kind of interesting. To me, optimal for Deion would be to get out of there immediately.

optimal not to stay there and and worry about whether you have to keep it there or not right you've got those two players and it's not just that you're having the best season colorado's had since 2006

you might get two dudes into the Heisman room, two of them, with a program that two years ago was worst in the country. Like, to me, I get out of there with them. Like, I figure out whatever it is, where am I wanted? Where can I turn this into something as they're talking on television on first take, whether you should take over the Cowboys or not? Ha ha ha!

You laugh at that. I don't laugh at that. You laugh, but the Cowboys can't be worse than they are right now if I put Deion in charge. No, I actually think it would be a great move for Deion to take that job because the bar is so low after McCarthy. I mean, Michael Irvin was pushing Deion Sanders to Dallas during the Tyson-Paul fight sitting right next to Jerry Jones. Michael Irvin mentions getting primed to Dallas, so...

That's a pretty good lobbyist to have, Michael Irvin. It was funny watching Jerry try to be like, oh, let's talk about something else. That's awkward, Michael Irvin. Do you guys think that Ohio State will beat Indiana by... Double-digit odd. Yes or no? I believe that Oregon had to win by... Double-digit odd.

Does the second word start with a J? Double-jidget-od. I think I went to, yeah, jidget. This is like round one for me. I think we might have to give this one first round because it's easier than I thought it would be. Double-jidget-od. I think you cut out double and just do jidget. Double-jidget-od. We don't do unfair editing, though. We just play it how it goes. Double-jidget-od.