<v Speaker 1>Wednesday, September tenth, twenty twenty five, you are listening to

<v Speaker 1>the Daily Dose Sports podcast and I am your host,

<v Speaker 1>Clinton Daily, coming to you from my high seed here

<v Speaker 1>in Denver, Colorado, and we are back for another week

<v Speaker 1>of talking sports with a dose of common sense. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Happy Wednesday to you. Hope you had a good weekend.

<v Speaker 1>I hope that you enjoyed that opening weekend of just

<v Speaker 1>jam packed football, college football, the NFL. We had it all.

<v Speaker 1>It was amazing. Hope your week is going well and

<v Speaker 1>I hope you, your family, your friends, everyone in your

<v Speaker 1>world is staying strong and healthy right now. And Hey,

<v Speaker 1>like I've been saying, we suddenly have sports again, college

<v Speaker 1>football season is already heating up. We are seeing some

<v Speaker 1>teams step up, we are seeing some teams slide back.

<v Speaker 1>The NFL kicked off their regular season this past week two,

<v Speaker 1>and never fear, We're going to be covering a lot

<v Speaker 1>of both of those today. But I do I want

<v Speaker 1>to remind you of one other big event that is

<v Speaker 1>coming this weekend that might have slipped a little under

<v Speaker 1>your radar. Because Mexican independs once Day weekend is traditionally

<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest weekends in the world of boxing. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>and this year will be no different. We're going to

<v Speaker 1>have Mexican superstar fighter Canelo Alvarez, who is now sixty

<v Speaker 1>three to two and two with thirty nine knockouts, putting

<v Speaker 1>his undisputed super middleweight championship on the line against former

<v Speaker 1>two division undisputed and undefeated champion Terrence Crawford. Crawford is

<v Speaker 1>forty one to zero with thirty one knockouts. That is

<v Speaker 1>going to be fought at Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas

<v Speaker 1>on Saturday. And by the way, you might be sitting

<v Speaker 1>there listening and going, well, I'm not gonna pay for

<v Speaker 1>pay per view. I don't want to buy that fight.

<v Speaker 1>I get it. It's gonna be on Netflix starting at

<v Speaker 1>seven pm on Saturday. You don't have to pay. If

<v Speaker 1>you have that subscription, just turn it on. Yes, you

<v Speaker 1>might have to kind of move some things around so

<v Speaker 1>you can still keep up on college football. But Canelo

<v Speaker 1>versus Crawford, Hey, this event is being billed as a

<v Speaker 1>once in a lifetime by the organizers and we're going

<v Speaker 1>to see if Terrence Crawford can move up two weight

<v Speaker 1>classes to challenge Canelo and become the first men's boxer

<v Speaker 1>to be an undisputed champion in three different weight classes. Now,

<v Speaker 1>for Canelo, this is probably going to be the toughest

<v Speaker 1>fight he has faced since he lost to Dimitri bevol

<v Speaker 1>when he attempted to move up and challenge for a

<v Speaker 1>light heavyweight title in twenty twenty two. That didn't go

<v Speaker 1>so well. Now, I'll be honest, I love Crawford. Dude

<v Speaker 1>is an absolute warrior. He is slick, He is an

<v Speaker 1>extremely intelligent fighter. However, Crawford has never competed at one

<v Speaker 1>hundred and sixty pounds, much less at one's sixty eight.

<v Speaker 1>That's a big jump, and it's not like he's taking

<v Speaker 1>a tune up fight. First, he's jumping to one sixty

<v Speaker 1>eight and then fighting the undisputed champion in Canelo. Now

<v Speaker 1>that difficulty, I don't know. That is a bit steep

<v Speaker 1>to me. And like I said, we saw Cano try

<v Speaker 1>to do something like that when he jumped up to

<v Speaker 1>fight Bell. Beev All bullied him. He was just too

<v Speaker 1>strong for Canelo. Now I am guessing that this jump

<v Speaker 1>is going to be a little too much for Crawford.

<v Speaker 1>But I will say this, if anyone could pull it off,

<v Speaker 1>it would be Terrence Crawford. He is as tough and

<v Speaker 1>as smart as they come. I expect Terrence Crawford to

<v Speaker 1>go to distance here, but I expect Canelo's strength just

<v Speaker 1>to wear him down because Crawford is just a smaller guy.

<v Speaker 1>I would take Canelo in a decision if I were

<v Speaker 1>betting on this. But this is, without a doubt, one

<v Speaker 1>of the better fights we have had recently. We haven't

<v Speaker 1>had anything to watch in the world of boxing lately.

<v Speaker 1>This will be better, and we have a couple of

<v Speaker 1>decent undercard fights that might be worth checking out. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>don't forget about the Canelo Crawford fight on Saturday night. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>today n does. Like I said, we now have both

<v Speaker 1>college football and the NFL rolling, and we're going to

<v Speaker 1>take a look at both of them today. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>we've only had one week in the books in the NFL,

<v Speaker 1>and already we've got the so called experts telling us

<v Speaker 1>all that they know, they know so much as usual,

<v Speaker 1>they're overreacting, and so we're going to look at some

<v Speaker 1>of the overreactions that we might want to be a

<v Speaker 1>little bit more patient before we declare that then over.

<v Speaker 1>In college football, wasn't a great week of college football.

<v Speaker 1>This last week, number of good teams facing a number

<v Speaker 1>of bad teams saw a number of blowouts among the

<v Speaker 1>top ranked teams. I've got a few of those teams though,

<v Speaker 1>and their blowout actually me some concern. We'll get to

<v Speaker 1>that in just a minute. We will also have a

<v Speaker 1>daily those top five for you today. Here's a question

<v Speaker 1>I have for you, does losing early in the college

<v Speaker 1>football season doom your entire season? Going to look at

<v Speaker 1>a few teams today that decided to test that theory.

<v Speaker 1>But first off, I do have one story I want

<v Speaker 1>to touch on this week, and I know it is

<v Speaker 1>not basketball season per se right now, however, we need

<v Speaker 1>to touch on this last week there was a big

<v Speaker 1>story coming out of the NBA that we need to cover.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure if you've checked out. Pablotory, whose podcast

<v Speaker 1>Pabulatory finds Out, has been digging into a number of stories. Recently,

<v Speaker 1>he did a brief investigation into Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson.

<v Speaker 1>He dug into the NFL's player Association a little bit,

<v Speaker 1>and last week Pablotory dropped a big one because he

<v Speaker 1>uncovered evidence of the Los Angeles Clippers allegedly Lee circumventing

<v Speaker 1>the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard and hiding that

<v Speaker 1>money in a laundering scheme of a tree planting company

<v Speaker 1>that went bankrupt. And I know, as I say that

<v Speaker 1>that sounds insane. Let me give you a brief synopsis.

<v Speaker 1>Back in twenty nineteen, Leonard signed a three year, one

<v Speaker 1>hundred and three million dollar contract with the Clippers in

<v Speaker 1>free agency, and the NBA actually investigated the clippers pursuit

<v Speaker 1>of the famously mysterious and kind of weird superstar because

<v Speaker 1>there were allegations that his camp was seeking improper benefits. Now,

<v Speaker 1>according to Pabulatory's investigation, Leonard also signed a twenty eight

<v Speaker 1>million dollar endorsement deal with a company named Aspiration, which

<v Speaker 1>they say helps companies go carbon neutral and had financial

<v Speaker 1>ties to Clippers owner Steve Balmer. However, there were no

<v Speaker 1>actual obligations, so he wasn't really going to work for

<v Speaker 1>this company. He was just going to get the money.

<v Speaker 1>And that was right around twenty twenty one when he

<v Speaker 1>got an extension with the Clippers. So for the contract,

<v Speaker 1>it was just free money. He didn't have to do

<v Speaker 1>anything for it. It was just a bonus to give him. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I know, far be it from me to think the

<v Speaker 1>NBA is ever doing anything unsavory, right, That league is

<v Speaker 1>always on the up and up. However, what I do

<v Speaker 1>want to watch over the next few months is does

<v Speaker 1>this just go away? Did we just not hear anything

<v Speaker 1>more about it? Yeah? Not really sure what happened? Then

<v Speaker 1>some I'm crazy? Not really sure? Or are we gonna

<v Speaker 1>start hearing about Well, we weren't the only ones doing it.

<v Speaker 1>Teams all over the league have been doing this for years.

<v Speaker 1>Is this common? Is this common among other teams? Is

<v Speaker 1>this common among other sports leagues? And again, the absolute

<v Speaker 1>biggest question that I have for this story of Kawhi

<v Speaker 1>Leonard possibly getting paid money by the Los Angeles Clippers

<v Speaker 1>for basically nothing is if you're blatantly cheating and you're

<v Speaker 1>doing so to get an advantage, then shouldn't you actually

<v Speaker 1>be good? Shouldn't you actually be winning? The Clippers never

<v Speaker 1>win anything, so how did it benefit them? Because they're always, always,

<v Speaker 1>always terrible. So the NFL season kicked off last week,

<v Speaker 1>and we did see some very interesting games already in

<v Speaker 1>just week one. But as we know, it takes quite

<v Speaker 1>a while to solve the mysteries of a new NFL season.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, you can say that after one week we

<v Speaker 1>already know exactly how this season is going to go.

<v Speaker 1>But we don't, and we're already hearing some overreactions that

<v Speaker 1>seem completely silly to me. So let's take a look

<v Speaker 1>at some of the biggest and let's just say it,

<v Speaker 1>some of the dumbest thought was an overreaction. The Buffalo

<v Speaker 1>Bills came back from a fifteen point deficit in the

<v Speaker 1>fourth quarter on Sunday night as quarterback Josh Allen went

<v Speaker 1>on a tear and the Baltimore Ravens could just do

<v Speaker 1>nothing right in the final fifteen minutes. So now we

<v Speaker 1>are hearing, Hey, the Buffalo Bills. They're the top team

<v Speaker 1>in the AFC, if not the entire league. Right, Hey,

<v Speaker 1>I picked the Bills last week to win the Super Bowl.

<v Speaker 1>I should be all in on this take, and yet

<v Speaker 1>I saw a few things that concerned me. For one,

<v Speaker 1>the Ravens' best players keep making crucial mistakes in big games.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, remember the playoffs last year. You had Lamar

<v Speaker 1>Jackson kept fumbling, throwing interceptions, Mark Andrews dropping a pass,

<v Speaker 1>and then on Sunday night, Lamar Jackson making mistakes running

<v Speaker 1>back Derrick Henry putting the ball on the ground. When

<v Speaker 1>do the Ravens big players make the big plays. Their

<v Speaker 1>defense completely collapsed. And again, this isn't the first time.

<v Speaker 1>Those same things happened last year in the playoff game

<v Speaker 1>against the Bills, and they've happened before in playoff games.

<v Speaker 1>But you know, the other big concern for me because

<v Speaker 1>we can just look at it and say, well, the Ravens, hey,

<v Speaker 1>they're not up for the moment whatever, But also remember

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday night that the Bills defense allowed four hundred

<v Speaker 1>and thirty two yards and the Ravens were averaging over

<v Speaker 1>eight yards per play. That's not good. The Buffalo Bills

<v Speaker 1>pass rush, it was mostly non existent. I'm gonna need

<v Speaker 1>to see way more from Buffalo before I buy this hype.

<v Speaker 1>I actually came away a little bit unimpressed with both teams,

<v Speaker 1>and I know that's probably blasphemy right now, but I

<v Speaker 1>kind of looked at both teams like, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if he the one of you can play in defense.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see. Of course, the Pittsburgh Steelers came out and

<v Speaker 1>won a game in Week one and they looked well decent. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>maybe Aaron Rodgers is going to be better than everyone expects.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe the Steelers are actually going to be a sneaky

<v Speaker 1>team in the AFC. Now again, I picked the Steelers

<v Speaker 1>to make the playoffs last week. I should be all

<v Speaker 1>in on this. On Sunday, the Steelers beat the New

<v Speaker 1>York Jets thirty four to thirty two. Aaron Rodgers passed

<v Speaker 1>for two hundred and forty four yards. He threw four touchdowns.

<v Speaker 1>But I want to lie about one word of caution,

<v Speaker 1>or maybe two. One the Steelers could not run the

<v Speaker 1>ball at all. That could be a problem, and two

<v Speaker 1>that Steelers defense allowed the Jets and quarterback Justin Fields

<v Speaker 1>to rack up nearly four hundred yards of offense. And

<v Speaker 1>here's the worst news. A lot of that was running

<v Speaker 1>the ball. The Jets rushed for nearly two hundred yards. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>if teams can run the ball in the Steelers this year,

<v Speaker 1>and on the flip side, the Steelers aren't running the

<v Speaker 1>ball very effectively themselves. Yeah, I don't like their odds.

<v Speaker 1>I'm still gonna be a little wary of Pittsburgh. I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna need to see a little bit more. Of course,

<v Speaker 1>the NFL season kicked off last Thursday, when the Philadelphia

<v Speaker 1>Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys twenty four to twenty in

<v Speaker 1>a game that was closer than many of us were

<v Speaker 1>expecting or hoping for. And while I know the narrative

<v Speaker 1>is that the Cowboys were just terrible, I get it,

<v Speaker 1>it isn't completely accurate. I mean, Dak Prescott and the

<v Speaker 1>Cowboys offense actually put up a pretty good fight. In fact,

<v Speaker 1>I'll go one step further, it kind of looked like

<v Speaker 1>Dak and the Cowboys had some momentum when that weather

<v Speaker 1>delay happened for lightning. I mean, the Cowboys did outgain

<v Speaker 1>the Eagles on the night. Now, some of that was

<v Speaker 1>because Eagles defensive lineman Jalen Carter was ejected for having

<v Speaker 1>a spitting contest with Dak prior to the game, So

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure about help Dallas too. And I'm not even

<v Speaker 1>saying the Cowboys are Super Bowl contenders, but they actually

<v Speaker 1>might be a little better than I expected. And those

<v Speaker 1>two wide receivers, when you've got pickings on one side

<v Speaker 1>Ceedee Lamb on the other side, that's a pretty tough

<v Speaker 1>matchup for defenses. The Cowboys are gonna have to prove

<v Speaker 1>they can play defense. That offense might be concerning, they

<v Speaker 1>might be not terrible. Don't be surprised if the Cowboys

<v Speaker 1>play themselves into playoff contention, because it might happen. On

<v Speaker 1>Friday night, we got an early AFC West matchup as

<v Speaker 1>the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Los Angeles Chargers, and

<v Speaker 1>it was actually the Chargers that made all the plays

<v Speaker 1>late and came out on top twenty seven to twenty one.

<v Speaker 1>And I know it sounds crazy, but right now the

<v Speaker 1>Chiefs are in last place in the AFC West, as

<v Speaker 1>every other team in the division one, Yes it's only one,

<v Speaker 1>but they are dead last. Are the Chiefs gonna have

<v Speaker 1>that season where they fall off the cliff? Hey, it

<v Speaker 1>could happen. Next up they face the Eagles. That won't

<v Speaker 1>be easy, and then they get the Ravens in Week

<v Speaker 1>four that won't be easy. And while it won't shock

<v Speaker 1>me if the Chiefs do slip this year because it

<v Speaker 1>is so hard to rebound from a Super Bowl loss historically,

<v Speaker 1>go back and look, it doesn't happen very often. And

<v Speaker 1>yet until you kill them, the Chiefs aren't dead now.

<v Speaker 1>Wide receiver Exavior Worthy is banged up thanks to Travis

<v Speaker 1>Kelsey and the Chiefs already have had concerns at white Out.

<v Speaker 1>I know they're gonna get Rashi Rice back eventually. He's

<v Speaker 1>not there yet. But I'll say this, My concern for

<v Speaker 1>the Chiefs is more than their running game is very average.

<v Speaker 1>Do you realize that on Friday Night, Patrick Mahomes was

<v Speaker 1>their leading right sure against the Chargers, and also that

<v Speaker 1>their defense didn't get much pressure all night on Chargers

<v Speaker 1>quarterback Justin Herbert. Here's the bottom line for the Chiefs,

<v Speaker 1>and I still expect them to be a contender. I

<v Speaker 1>still expect them to be tough, but I'm not sure

<v Speaker 1>opponents are afraid of the Chiefs anymore. I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>count them out just yet, but they definitely have a

<v Speaker 1>different field to them. The Detroit Lions started the season

<v Speaker 1>well with a fizzle on Sunday as they were easily

<v Speaker 1>handled by the Green Bay Packers twenty seven to thirteen.

<v Speaker 1>Should Lions fans be concerned about what they saw this week?

<v Speaker 1>In Week one? Yeah, probably a little. You know. The

<v Speaker 1>biggest thing that stood out to me in that game

<v Speaker 1>was the lack of toughness that we saw from Detroit.

<v Speaker 1>The defense had no pass rush, the offense had no

<v Speaker 1>run game, Jared Goff didn't look that great. But I

<v Speaker 1>will cut the Lions in the slack because remember they

<v Speaker 1>lost both offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn.

<v Speaker 1>And I know you say, well, you just get new guys,

<v Speaker 1>but you don't. You can't just replace those guys overnight.

<v Speaker 1>So the Lions have to allow their coordinators to kind

<v Speaker 1>of get up to speed and then we'll see. But

<v Speaker 1>I was a little concerned with what I saw from

<v Speaker 1>the Lions on Sunday because they didn't look like they

<v Speaker 1>were quite as tough and quite as scrappy and playing

<v Speaker 1>quite as hard as they have in the past. I

<v Speaker 1>won't say they're done just yet, but they need to

<v Speaker 1>show some improvement for sure. One team that actually looked

<v Speaker 1>a little better than I expected on Sunday it was

<v Speaker 1>the San Francisco forty nine ers. They went on the

<v Speaker 1>road and beat the Seattle Seahawks seventeen to thirteen. Quarterback

<v Speaker 1>Brought Purty. He looked pretty good. Joey Bosa was putting

<v Speaker 1>pressure on Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. And you know, we

<v Speaker 1>talked about it last week. The Niners have a very

<v Speaker 1>very easy schedule, so are the Niners back. Are they

<v Speaker 1>a contender? Well? Maybe, but I've still had some concerns. One,

<v Speaker 1>the Niners have no receivers, and I'm not just saying

<v Speaker 1>wide receivers, receivers in general. Now. George Kittle is out,

<v Speaker 1>he was placed on ir Randon Ayuk is out, John

<v Speaker 1>Jennings is out. We know Deebo Samuel is gone. That

<v Speaker 1>brings me to the next problem for San Francisco because

<v Speaker 1>everyone is out. On Sunday, running back Christian McCaffrey, who

<v Speaker 1>we know has always hurt, had twenty two carries and

<v Speaker 1>nine receptions. So Christian McCaffrey had thirty one touches on Sunday.

<v Speaker 1>You think he's gonna hold up with that much work.

<v Speaker 1>There were questions whether or not he was even going

<v Speaker 1>to play on Sunday. Hey, I'm not trying to jinx him.

<v Speaker 1>I love me some Christian McCaffrey. He ain't gonna make

<v Speaker 1>it to October at that rate. There's no way. The

<v Speaker 1>Niners need to get healthy if they're gonna do anything,

<v Speaker 1>and they need to keep Christian healthy, and that won't

<v Speaker 1>be the case at this rate. Finally, we reached one

<v Speaker 1>team that might have had the worst week in the NFL,

<v Speaker 1>and that was the Miami Dolphins. Hey, the Dolphins on Sunday. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>they look like the worst team in the league. Miami

<v Speaker 1>faced the Indianapolis Colts and got dragged up and down

<v Speaker 1>that field to the tune of a score of thirty

<v Speaker 1>three to eight. And it's kind of weird because I

<v Speaker 1>don't know that that game felt that close. So I

<v Speaker 1>know it's early, it's Week one, but are the Dolphins

<v Speaker 1>really the worst team in the league? Is head coach

<v Speaker 1>Mike McDaniel going to be the first head coach fired?

<v Speaker 1>Is Tua Tongue Baila really just a complete and utter

<v Speaker 1>disaster or are people completely overreacting. Well, I'll say this,

<v Speaker 1>that defense made Colts quarterback Daniel Jones look not good great.

<v Speaker 1>Tua meanwhile, had one hundred and fourteen yards and two interceptions. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that's an overreaction. I think they

<v Speaker 1>might actually be getting this one right again. People have

<v Speaker 1>figured out Mike McDaniel's offense. No one seemed to be

<v Speaker 1>afraid of it, no one seemed to be worried about it,

<v Speaker 1>and they're shutting it down. I'm not sure that this

<v Speaker 1>is an overreaction. The Dolphins actually might be the worst

<v Speaker 1>team in the NFL. You are one pathetic loser. Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>the past few weeks. They literally took our picks and

<v Speaker 1>went and put money down on what we said. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. Okay, So over the weekend, college football didn't

<v Speaker 1>have as many of the big marquee matchups that we

<v Speaker 1>had in week one, and we actually have a couple

<v Speaker 1>of good matchups this week coming. Simpson goes to Georgia Tech,

<v Speaker 1>Georgia goes to Tennessee, Texas A and m goes to

<v Speaker 1>Notre Dame in what might be a musk win game

<v Speaker 1>for the Irish. But this past week at least had

<v Speaker 1>some blowouts. Ohio State beat Grambling seventy to nothing, Miami

<v Speaker 1>beat Poor Bethan Cookman forty five to three, and Oregon

<v Speaker 1>beat Oklahoma State sixty nine to three. I had to

<v Speaker 1>look and make sure that was really Oklahoma State. But

<v Speaker 1>there were a few games that were kind of blowouts,

<v Speaker 1>and yet they made me a bit concerned. I'll show

<v Speaker 1>you what I mean. First Off, the LSU Tigers do

<v Speaker 1>not like to play Louisiana Tech. That is an in

<v Speaker 1>state rivalry. That is a dangerous game, and LSU knows it.

<v Speaker 1>But it was on the schedule and I watched it

<v Speaker 1>a little of it, And as impressed as I was

<v Speaker 1>with LSU coming back on Clemson in week one, I

<v Speaker 1>thought they looked pretty average. On Saturday. They beat Louisiana

<v Speaker 1>Tech twenty three to seven, and the Tigers defense was

<v Speaker 1>top all day, But that LSU offense was sloppy. Now,

<v Speaker 1>maybe that's just because it was Louisiana Tech, or maybe

<v Speaker 1>LSU can't run the ball as consistently as we were

<v Speaker 1>thinking they could. That could be a problem down the road.

<v Speaker 1>And also keep this in mind, LSU hosts has to

<v Speaker 1>be a very angry floor to this week. Now, the

<v Speaker 1>Tigers should handle the Gators easily, right, we'll see. I

<v Speaker 1>was also concerned by the performance that I saw from

<v Speaker 1>the Clemson Tigers on Saturday. Yes, Clemson managed to beat

<v Speaker 1>Troy twenty seven to sixteen, but do you realize that

<v Speaker 1>the score was actually sixteen zip in favor of Troy

<v Speaker 1>before Clemson kind of woke up. You know, I keep

<v Speaker 1>waiting for quarterback Kay Klebnik to just take over and

<v Speaker 1>be consistently good but it isn't happening. I mean, at

<v Speaker 1>what point should Dabbloswingey start getting nervous because tougher games

<v Speaker 1>are coming and the ACC it's still not gonna be great,

<v Speaker 1>but there might be sneakier teams in the ACC than

<v Speaker 1>we thought. Finally, I started to get real concerned with

<v Speaker 1>what I saw from the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>they beat Austin P twenty eight to six. Book, Why

<v Speaker 1>is Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton struggling with a team like

<v Speaker 1>Austin P. Stockton finished the game with zero touchdowns two

<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty seven yards, but he had to throw

<v Speaker 1>it thirty four times on Saturday. Why would you have

<v Speaker 1>to throw the ball that much? Like, why couldn't you

<v Speaker 1>run the ball? Austin P. Their FCS, they're not even

<v Speaker 1>an FBS school. If I'm Georgia, maybe you're looking past

<v Speaker 1>Austin P to Tennessee. Or maybe you should be a

<v Speaker 1>little bit concerned going into play Tennessee because that game

<v Speaker 1>might be a dog fight. A couple of interesting games

<v Speaker 1>coming this week, not a huge list of big matchups,

<v Speaker 1>but a few interesting ones to keep an eye on.

<v Speaker 1>And then College football is about to really heat up.

<v Speaker 1>Now if we do so many weeks here at the

<v Speaker 1>Daily Dose, we need to get over to our daily

<v Speaker 1>dose top five in college football. Like I said, we

<v Speaker 1>have already seen some of the top ranked teams get

<v Speaker 1>knocked off this year in just the first two two

<v Speaker 1>and a half weeks really of the season. I mean Texas, Alabama, Clemson,

<v Speaker 1>Notre Dame, and Florida already have losses on their resumes

<v Speaker 1>and they were all top twenty five teams. Now, maybe

<v Speaker 1>these losses are assigning things to come. That is very possible. However,

<v Speaker 1>we have seen in the past where teams lost their

<v Speaker 1>openers and then rebound and actually got on quite a roll. Today,

<v Speaker 1>our Daly Dose Top five is counting down the top

<v Speaker 1>five college football teams that lost a very early game

<v Speaker 1>and still managed to go on and do some very

<v Speaker 1>big things. We start off at number five. The Ohio

<v Speaker 1>State Buckeyes had been on a bit of a bad

<v Speaker 1>streak after they won the national championship back in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and two on maybe one of the worst calls

<v Speaker 1>the history of sports. The buck guys kept coming up short.

<v Speaker 1>They had been to a few title games, but they

<v Speaker 1>always got blown out when they got there. But when

<v Speaker 1>Urban Meyer went to Columbus back in twenty twelve, there

<v Speaker 1>was some new hope. And twenty fourteen was the very

<v Speaker 1>first year of the new and improved College Football Playoff,

<v Speaker 1>where we'd get four teams playing it off instead of

<v Speaker 1>just two. Well, Urban had a pretty steck squad. He

<v Speaker 1>had J T. Barrett, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas, Joey Bosa.

<v Speaker 1>The buck guys opened the season by beating Navy in

<v Speaker 1>Week one, but in Week two, the Buckeyes faced a

<v Speaker 1>pretty average Virginia Tech team and Ohio State was sloppy.

<v Speaker 1>They turned the ball over three times and their final

<v Speaker 1>turnover was actually a pick six for the Hokies. Virginia

<v Speaker 1>Tech upset Ohio State thirty five twenty one. Hey, that's

<v Speaker 1>not an accident. They handled them. The Hokies would go

<v Speaker 1>on to justco seven and six on the year. Meanwhile,

<v Speaker 1>the Lucky's kind of pulled it together. They rallied. They

<v Speaker 1>won thirteen straight games, including beating Wisconsin in the Big

<v Speaker 1>Ten title game. Then they upset number one Alabama and

<v Speaker 1>the College Football Playoff, and then they beat Oregon in

<v Speaker 1>the National Championship and brought a title back to Columbus. Hey.

<v Speaker 1>They stumbled early, but Ohio State got it rolling and

<v Speaker 1>they won it all. And they come in today at

<v Speaker 1>number five. We moved next to number four and we

<v Speaker 1>go to the very next year. Because after winning back

<v Speaker 1>to back championships in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, the

<v Speaker 1>Alabama Crimson Tide had lost two straight Sugar Bowls in

<v Speaker 1>twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen. But in twenty fifteen, Nick

<v Speaker 1>Saban was returning some serious talent quarterback Jake Coker, wide

<v Speaker 1>receiver Calvin Ridley, tight end Oj Howard, running back Derrick Henry.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, that was a good NFL team, let alone

<v Speaker 1>a college team. The Tide opened with easy wins over

<v Speaker 1>Wisconsin and Middle Tennessee State, and then they hosted Hugh

<v Speaker 1>Freeze and the Ole Miss Rebels. Somehow, some way, Ole

<v Speaker 1>Miss quarterback Chad Kelly shredded the Tide for three hundred

<v Speaker 1>and forty one yards and three touchdowns, and the Ole

<v Speaker 1>Miss Rebels beat Alabama forty three to thirty seven in Tuscaloosa. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I guess Alabama's done and it's barely September. But again,

<v Speaker 1>then Alabama got rolling. They won eleven games in a row.

<v Speaker 1>They beat Georgia, they beat Texas A and m LSU

<v Speaker 1>Mississippi State Florida in the SEC title game, and then

<v Speaker 1>they pounded Michigan State in the College Football Playoff before

<v Speaker 1>outscoring Clemson forty five to forty in the title game.

<v Speaker 1>The twenty fifteen Alabama Crimson Tide lost to Ole Miss

<v Speaker 1>and then they came back and won it all. And

<v Speaker 1>they come in at number four. Next up at number three.

<v Speaker 1>We go back in time a number of years. In

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty nine, the University of Colorado was one of

<v Speaker 1>the biggest surprises in college football. They went eleven to

<v Speaker 1>zero under head coach Bill McCartney, and that roster was

<v Speaker 1>stacked with NFL talent. Darian Hagen was a quarterback. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't really a great quarterback, but he's a good

<v Speaker 1>option guy, Eric Bienemy at running back, Mike Pritchard, Alfred Williams,

<v Speaker 1>Canavis McGee, Deon Figures, Chad Brown, Greg Beeker. But when

<v Speaker 1>they faced Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that year, well,

<v Speaker 1>Lou Holtz was just a better game day coach than

<v Speaker 1>Bill McCartney, and Notre Dame escaped to the win. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>we'll see you brought pretty much everyone back in nineteen ninety,

<v Speaker 1>so they should be even better. Well, the Buffs opened

<v Speaker 1>the season against Tennessee and that game actually ended in

<v Speaker 1>a thirty one to thirty one tie. And no, that

<v Speaker 1>wasn't Peyton Manning, that was Andy Kelly at quarterback. The

<v Speaker 1>Buffs would then scrap past Stanford in week two in

<v Speaker 1>a close game, and then they went to Illinois where

<v Speaker 1>the fighting ALIONI and fullback Howard Griffith would shock See

<v Speaker 1>You twenty three to twenty one. So three weeks into

<v Speaker 1>the season that See You was expected to compete for

<v Speaker 1>a title and their won one and one, But the

<v Speaker 1>Buffs talent would eventually take over. They would roll off

<v Speaker 1>ten straight wins, including a fifth down game and maybe

<v Speaker 1>a dicey ten to nine win over Notre Dame in

<v Speaker 1>an Orange Bowl rematch, and Colorado would bounce back and

<v Speaker 1>win the national championship. Lucky, yes, dicey, very but Colorado

<v Speaker 1>comes in today at number three. We arrive at number

<v Speaker 1>two on our list of college football teams that lost

<v Speaker 1>a very early game but bounce back in a big way.

<v Speaker 1>And we go clear back to nineteen seventy four, where

<v Speaker 1>head coach John McKay had a loaded team at the

<v Speaker 1>University of Southern California. He had Pat Hayden and Vin

<v Speaker 1>Sevens at quarterback, Anthony Davis at running back, Ricky Bell

<v Speaker 1>was backing him up, Shelton Digs at wide receiver, Rod

<v Speaker 1>Martin at linebacker. So why in the world did USC

<v Speaker 1>lose their opener twenty two to seven to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Well,

<v Speaker 1>USC struggled to get going and the only points they

<v Speaker 1>scored in that game was one hundred yard kickoff return

<v Speaker 1>by Anthony Davis, but Pat Hayden through four interceptions. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>maybe this team was overrated, But again they got rolling

<v Speaker 1>and they would go unbeaten for the rest of the

<v Speaker 1>season and then beat number three Ohio State in the

<v Speaker 1>Rose Bowl to win the national championship. I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>maybe they had a flat day. Remember these are college kids.

<v Speaker 1>They're eighteen nineteen year olds. They might have an off day.

<v Speaker 1>They might be worried about their girlfriend, they might not

<v Speaker 1>have prepared like they should have. Whatever it was. USC

<v Speaker 1>looked terrible to start, but they got it rolling in

<v Speaker 1>seventy four and they come in today at number two.

<v Speaker 1>So we reached the number one team that started slow

<v Speaker 1>but got red hot later. And we go back to

<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty three. Howard Schnellenberger was at the University of

<v Speaker 1>Miami and they were improving every year. In eighty three,

<v Speaker 1>their Hurricanes had a freshman quarterback by the name of Berniekozar.

<v Speaker 1>They had a guy named Alonso Heighsmith at running back.

<v Speaker 1>They had Melvin Bratton at fullback, Eddie Brown at wide receiver,

<v Speaker 1>Jerome Brown, Winston Moss, Kevin Fagan. That team was so talented,

<v Speaker 1>but they were very young. These were all underclassmen. So

<v Speaker 1>they opened the season by just getting demolished by the

<v Speaker 1>Florida Gators twenty eight to three in a game during

<v Speaker 1>which Miami committed eight turnovers. Imagine that happening today. The

<v Speaker 1>members would have a heyday. But of course after that game,

<v Speaker 1>Miami would figure things out. They would grow up. They

<v Speaker 1>would blow out number thirteen Notre Dame, number twelve West Virginia,

<v Speaker 1>and then they scraped out a win over number one

<v Speaker 1>Nebraska in one of the greatest games ever in the

<v Speaker 1>Orange Bowl, and the Miami Hurricanes would win the title.

<v Speaker 1>So some of these teams starting slow this year, it

<v Speaker 1>could be a sign that they're overrated. That's very possible,

<v Speaker 1>or it could be that they need to grow up

<v Speaker 1>and shore up some deficiencies and they might end up

<v Speaker 1>getting rolling. You can bounce back from an early loss

<v Speaker 1>in college football. You can even bounce back from a

<v Speaker 1>bad loss in college football, but you have to shut

<v Speaker 1>out all the chatter. You've got to focus on the

<v Speaker 1>job at hand, and you've really really got to go

<v Speaker 1>to work. We will see if any of the teams

<v Speaker 1>that have lost early so far are going to be

<v Speaker 1>capable of rallying and going on to something bigger and better. Hey,

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