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All boys and girls.

Here we go in a busy Wednesday night.

Normally this man would join us at three twenty on Thursdays.

But tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I don't think Rick Neuheiseel.

I know he likes us, but I don't think he wants to spend Thanksgiving with us.

We're giving Kevin Harlan the day off, Rick full disclosure, So you are you're taking harlan spot here on the radio program?

How are you?

I am thrilled to be with you boys today and tomorrow.

I would have been fine with you as well, except I'll be in the air.

I'm in Arizona.

I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving to day with my crew, and then I got to fly back because we got a double header on Friday, and then we bring the Oregon Ducks at the Washington Huskies on Saturday.

That's right, be interested in that little game just a little bit happening over there at that little venerable spot called Husky Stadium.

Yep, just a little bit.

Well, let me let me first of all, because I don't want to get in trouble here, let me just start the radio show properly.

Another win for you, propski.

Props UNLV getting it done against Hawaii.

You've crawled back to seven and seven on the air, so we're looking to get to above five hundred today where you're talking a time pick of the week.

But why don't we first of all start off by I don't know how much you saw.

The game last week.

It was a late game on the East Coast, obviously seven thirty in LA, but Man, Ucla just looked terrible against you.

Dub jed Fish up thirty four to seven early fourth quarter, is going for it on fourth and one with Joannah Coleman and a gigantic knee brace just to get the guy the touchdown.

It's like the words shut her down do not exist, and jed Fish's vocabulary Rick at all.

Yeah, listen, not only that, it was the did I watch it?

I stayed up for every excruciating moment of it because if my son had to go through it, I said, I'm going through it too.

Yeah.

It was a terrible night for the Bruins, and we could get into that story, but it's not necessary.

It was in a great night for Washington.

They wanted the Rose Bowl, and who knows if they'll be there again anytime soon, so that was a cool thing.

Jed obviously spent some time there, so there was some nostalgia for him, and look, he's trying to win games.

No, no grudge held understood.

At the end of the day, It'll be interesting to see now where Jed is.

He's got this huge opportunity to get a win over a college football playoff found Ducks, and maybe he could knock him out.

That would that would be exciting for Washington fans.

He could also get himself in position to get a tenth win, which I think would be a monumental step in the right direction as they head down the path to the future.

Well, m coach, the questions are twofold going into that game on Saturday.

One is how much trouble is Oregon in going to Husky Stadium?

And the second part would be if Washington does beat Oregon, how much trouble is Oregon in getting into the CFP.

I think they're out.

I think they have to win.

I think there's too many ten and two teams lurking.

Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt beats Tennessee in Nyland Stadium.

That's a team that probably could get there.

You've got Texas.

I know they are a three loss team, but Texas with a big, big, monumental win over Texas A and m might get the judges nod.

You've got Miami sitting there outside looking in.

That solves a problem for the committee because they don't want to put them ahead of Notre Dame even though they beat him.

That's a team that could jump in.

It's not any place you want to be if you're Oregon.

There's a chance they could survive it, but I wouldn't test the water.

Yeah, well, what is the elixir to beating this duck football team?

I mean, obviously Indiana did it, but that's Indiana right Not a lot of people are Indiana right now, which is still crazy to say in twenty twenty five that the measuring stick is the freaking Indiana Hoosiers, But here we are.

What's the elixir?

What's the magic potion you think for taking these guys down Saturday.

Shutting down the running game.

Yeah, they do not have a huge wide receiver room right now, and I don't know that to Corey and Moore or Gary what's the kid's name, Gary Blanket on his Brian talking about Gary Bryan.

Yeah, Gary Brian, if he's available, I don't know.

They were not available last week, and I'm sure they're trying to get them healthy, but I don't know that they'll be ready.

And because of that lack of depth there, it's the ability to slow these guys down.

They have four guys that average over five yards to carry.

It's an incredible running game and if you don't stop it, it's gonna bludgeon you and then create all sorts of play action opportunities for a couple of big tight ends and the guys who are left in the wide receiver room, and that's where you just don't want to find yourself.

If you can stop the running game, which is listen Indiana in the second half other than the last drive where they were two scores down and made some yards.

Was held the forty one yards total offense in the second half.

Held the Ducks to forty one yards total offense in the second half.

Rick, I think this is a defensive battle.

I mean, I think the two maybe the two best units on the field might be the Husky defense in the Oregon defense.

Maybe speak to the Husky defense because I think it's even so underrated all season long, when all the talk preseason was demand Denzel scoring points, it's really been the defense that has been by far the most consistent side of the ball for Washington.

Yeah.

Ryan Walters deserves a big pat on the back.

That's been a great job that he's done defensively.

He's had answers against the zone read stuff.

Last week he went to basically a modified cover zero where the safety came down to take the quarterback and make plays even in the backfield.

He's done really well.

The question is can he do it against the speed that exists At Oregon, UCLA had no speed advantage.

That won't be the case with this high flying duct team.

Yeah.

Well, Rick, new Heiseel's with us and one guy that I'd like to have out there is Jacob mon who he's the transfer from Arizona, you know, blew his acl out.

I think it was a year ago and just came back a little bit in the last couple of weeks, couple of months or so, and he had four games to play before his red shirt got burned.

He's suing and he wants his five for five and he hasn't heard yet from anybody on whether or not he's getting that.

So right now, Jedfish and Jacob have no choice but to play by the NCAA's rules.

And Jedfish played them on Saturday at the Rose Bowl and that's it.

A lot of us thought maybe he'd wait until the Organ game, but Jed said that Jacob came to him early in the year and said, I'm from La servit Anaheim I'd like to play at the Rose Bowl in front of family and friends.

And Jed said, okay.

So a lot of Husky fans are wondering, is that something you would have agreed to do or would you have told Jacob looks and I'd love to take care of you, but I got to have you against the ducks man.

There would have been some horse trade and I'm sure, yeah, trying to figure out a way to make it a win win situation.

But I certainly understand, you know, the dream of playing in the Rose Bowl and having that opportunity in front of friends and family, And I certainly understand Jed making the promise.

So if the kid that's what the kid wanted to do, then I get following through on that, and we just got to find somebody next man principle in football.

But four we got to go to five for five.

There's too many people getting extra eligibility.

There's too many people that are won in the courtroom for these other kids not to be given the same treatment.

And I hate that if you just get the wrong judge, you don't get to play, because it doesn't seem fair at all.

I'm seeing beautiful weather for ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday, rick fifteen mile an hour wins, periods of snow, sleet, freezing rain, and two to four inches of snowfall for Michigan or for Michigan and Ohio State.

Does that even the playing field a little bit?

Or does that give all the favorites even more in an advantage?

You know what was interesting to me is I said prior to the game this week that Ohio State played right into Michigan's hands last year by trying to play bulleyball, you know, taking the bait that, hey, this is a slugfest.

You guys aren't tough enough to handle the trenches.

So they basically limited their high flying receivers and just played you know, nine on seven and kind of gave their advantage away.

If you're telling me that's the weather, that advantage might be taken away anyway.

So this is exactly what Michigan's pulling for, and it's going to be a yeoman effort by a kind of a beat up Buckeye team to get this done.

Yeah.

Well, Rick new Heiseel's with us, and Rick I got to be honest with you.

We got an email the other.

Day from Bovada, who's got jetfish is the new favorite to land the Florida job.

I guess there's an assumption that Kiffin goes to LSU right potentially takes that gig.

That's definitely out there.

Yeah, definitely out there.

I got a good source that said that's the confirmation.

Wow.

Okay, So if that happens and the Florida job then remains vacant, is beating Oregon enough for the Florida High Power to lums to turn an eye to the Pacific Northwest and really consider Jetfish at the top of their list.

You know, I I think, and I don't know where Steve Spurrier's been on jet because I don't know that he threw Jet's name out there.

But I know he threw Eli Drinkwitz's name out there as a guy that he yeah, that he would really like to see involved in this deal.

So I think that Eli is the favorite.

So hopefully Husky fans can rest easy that Jedfish will be back and happily back wanting to be the head coach of the Huskies.

Lane's got much more hype than Jed does, much more name familiarity nationally.

Is he a better coach than Jedfish?

Oh, I don't know.

I think they're both tactical coaches.

Both like to call the plays.

Both are you know, guys that enjoy pouring over film and looking for new ways to do things.

I think Jed has probably more experience a different offenses and things of that nature, having been so many different places in so many systems.

But I think both are interesting guys and make for great college football coaches.

Yeah, I would always I always thought that Jed would want eventually to get to the NFL.

I never felt that way about Lane, even though that's where his career started.

We'll wait and.

See Rick new isislah with us.

I don't know if you saw this news about the Heisman, but they're limiting the window to forty eight hours for voting from Saturday night.

I believed a Monday afternoon.

So nobody's sitting around for three days waiting to decide who they're going to vote for for the Heisman.

And I don't know.

I just wonder if it's for Nando Mendoza's right now, Can we just give Fernando Mendoza the Heisman Trophy today and be done with it, or is there actually something to play for this weekend in your mind?

I'm telling you, don't count out that little kid, Diego Papa at Vanderbilt, all right.

I think I think Diego, if he has another monster game against those boys at Knoxville, I think he's going to be right in the mix of it.

And I wouldn't be surprised to see a guy like Trindidad Chandliss to climb the Ranks or Ty Simpson with some heroics in the Iron Bowl, or any of these guys.

What's been fascinating about this year is the incredible amount of win change in terms of who's been the favorite.

Dante More was a favorite for a couple of weeks, so it's been crazy.

I think it's going to be one of the great Heisman presentations recent memory, because I don't think any of us is going to know.

Rick.

A few minutes ago, you brought up Texas if they can pull off the upset.

You think a three lost Texas team could sneak into the back door of the college football playoffs?

Do they pull that upset off albe at minor one?

I think they're two and a half point dogs at home.

I think they actually win the game.

I think they're a better team at home.

I still think Texas amm is a little bit of fools gold.

I think Marcel reads fantastic.

But I think the Texas defense, especially in this kind of environment's going to play inspired football.

And I'm going to say Texas pulls an upset.

Yeah, Well, how about what's happening down at USC.

I just saw where Lincoln Riley said he's not going anywhere, much to the chagrin of a lot of USC fans.

By the way, it's like, damn it, man.

And if you saw what happened over the weekend.

There was a young reporter that asked Lincoln Riley about the Oregon fans holding up a sign that they wanted to extend Lincoln, as if to say, you know, we'd like you to stay forever, because we'd like beating you every single year.

Lincoln kind of popped off on him a little bit.

There was some embarrassing moments from the athletic staff as well down there in Eugene, Oregon.

I mean, this seems like a friggin mess man in LA.

Can they bring Lincoln back?

Can they afford to bring him back again?

There was just a year where they got to finally swallow it and buy him out.

They can't buy him out.

It's ninety million, it's ninety million.

I think that through they can't do it.

They're stuck with the their Lincoln.

Whether they wanted a new Chevy or a they got a Lincoln, and they're going to have to see if that can get better.

I think there was improvement this year.

I've been around Lincoln Riley he's a nice enough guy.

There's nothing really wrong with Lincoln.

I don't know that he's a detailed guy from a head coaching standpoint.

I think he's a detailed guy when it comes to offense, and I think some of the stuff it gets away, which makes for a little bit of a divided Trojan alumni base, which is always a problem.

That's what ended up getting Clay Helton, That's what ended up getting a lot of the Trojan coaches in the past.

When they get divided, it's just a matter of time.

But they cannot afford to get it rid of him now.

They were hopeful that maybe some of these big suitors in the SEC would have wanted them.

A little Lincoln Riley and a win at Oregon would have created a market.

Rick I wrote an article on The Athletic Today, and the writer was complaining that Miami could miss the playoffs and the ACC title game despite me the highest ranked team in their power for conference.

Is that a legit complaint?

Yeah, it's a legit complaint.

But it's how crazy because of the size of these conference schedules, how crazy the conference rosters are, how crazy the schedules are, and how disparate they are.

You're not always going to play the same schedule, and because of it, we're going to have really good teams that sit outside watching Georgia.

Think this through, guys.

If A and M wins and Alabama wins, they will play in the SEC Championship Game.

George is the number four team in the College Football Playoff Bowl.

They won't have to play in the SEC Championship Game.

They won't have to play in the first round.

They get a free pass, which means complete rehabilitation time to get ready for a January first ball.

I think that is an incredible, incredible opportunity.

And I'll promise you if the Ducks get the Dogs, they do not in any way, shape or form want to see mission can win that game, because that would mean they have to play next week, and they want those their receivers to get healthy and so forth.

They don't want to go play again.

We're going to.

I think we're precariously close to the end of conference championship games.

Yeah, they're worthless.

I mean, for lack of a better term, they're worthless.

I mean they make money on TV.

I guess, they make money at the gate, I guess, But most teams would rather not play them, don't you think.

Remember Carson Beck got hurt in the Georgia SEC championship game last year.

So this is this is we're getting close.

And the fact that they just extended the deadline to determine what the CFP will look like next year.

It was going to be December one, they moved it to January twenty third.

I think we may go past sixteen and go all the way to twenty four.

Do not be shocked if we go to twenty four teams.

Wow.

Well, I gotta tell you, man, I like Georgia to win the whole thing.

If I'm taking a slight underdog, I think they have the best resume in college football.

I know why they're ranked four because they have a loss, but they've got three wins top nineteen teams.

Nobody else in college football can even come close to saying.

That wreck and in their DNA they know how to win a close game.

Kirby Smart likes to call it, we're hard to kill and they'd only have to win three games.

That to me is incredibly fortunate.

If you get a really healthy team and a confident gunner stocked and they will be hard to kill.

Well, speaking of killing, you've been killing it on the Taco Time Pick of the week.

Man, I'm gonna go with you, Chris beef burrito, the spicy tator fries, the spicy rams.

You are on a heater right now, six and two in your last eight games on the air to climb back from the dead, from the dead to get to seven and seven?

Who do you like?

We're going?

You know what those who follow these trends called the Hawaii game, the get right games.

Right that's the last game on the schedule.

Yep, you've had a rough Saturday.

You go to find out what the line is in Hawaii.

All I can tell you is Timmy Chang's Rainbow Warriors have had a great year.

They have seven wins.

Wyoming's come into town.

They lost last week to UNLB.

I know because of the way this team is played, they're going to play great at home.

The Cowboys can't go anywhere.

Give me Wyoming, excuse me Hawaii.

I'll lay the ten and a half.

They're going to win by two touchdowns or more.

This is Hawaii and we're going to get ourselves to the right side of the law.

I actually got an early Christmas gift for you, pal, it's down to eight and a half.

How about that even better value?

Okay?

I love I love value.

Hawaii concerns me?

Why it is?

Who cares if.

Somebody knows something that I don't know?

As long as that little as long as that little freshman quarterbacks play, and I'm.

Happy absolutely U Hawaii minus the eight and a half against Wyoming over the weekend.

All right, man, listen, have a great stuff Thanksgiving.

Enjoy yourself today, enjoy yourself tomorrow.

Dogs and Ducks.

You'll be on the studio call for that game.

Is that right Saturday?

I can I cannot wait.

I cannot wait.

I love it.

Go get them man, We'll talk soon, Bud.

All right, Jack, happy Thanksgiving you as well?

Now, Rick, you weil with us on the radio show.

We'll get a break.

A lot more to get to, including Lane Lambert will join us before tonight's Dallas Kraken game around six ten tonight before face off at six thirty or excuse me, seven o'clock.

Pregame at six thirty right here on ninety three to three KJRFM