Nightcap Hour 1: Alabama ROLLS OVER Tennessee + Georgia PROVES They Are BACK + Johnny Manziel says the AGGIES are WINNING the NATTY

23:28Shannon Sharpe:Georgia dominated time of possession, almost 38 minutes to 22 minutes. Both teams were really good on third down. One was 5 of 9, the other was 6 of 11. Georgia had 510 total yards. Ole Miss had 350. No turnovers and only one sack in the whole game. Really, four penalties for Ole Miss for 40 yards. Three penalties of 37 yards for Georgia. So it was really a clean game. It wasn't laundry on the field all over the place. There weren't a whole lot of turnovers. But for the first three quarters, neither defense could dig their heels in and get a stop. And then when Georgia really needed to bow their backs, Ocho, they did that and Ole Miss really didn't have an answer.

24:13Yeah, that's what I was going to say. When it matters most, who's going to make the play when it actually matters most? If the turnovers aren't going to make the difference in the game, and come in a team that makes the fewest mistakes when it comes to executing the offense or the defense when you got to have it. And Georgia was able to do that and pull it out. I mean, Ole Miss played extremely well today. They played extremely well. Hell, Georgia played well. It was a back-and-forth game, and I'm thinking to myself, well, in order for either of these teams to win, it's going to come down to two things.

24:43Somebody who had to execute in a time where it matters most or turnovers are going to be the side of the game. and that's exactly how it went.

24:53Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you look at – I think the thing is that when I look at an offensive defense, it doesn't matter how good or whatever your stats say you are, we average 500 yards of offense. We have the number one scoring defense. We're number one on third downs. Okay, I measure offense and defense. Can you be good when you have to be good? What good is that you're number one on third down if you can't get off the field when you absolutely have to in a meaningful – in a game like this? No doubt. What good is scoring 35, 40 points a game, and all of a sudden you need to score, your offense needs to score, and you can't get it to make it 24?

25:27Shannon Sharpe:So don't give me all this number. I throw all that stuff out the window. Can you get done what you need to get done when you absolutely have to have it? Prime example, Ocho, the other night, when you guys needed to make a play, all that, yeah, Joe Flacco's going for this many yards, and Chase got this many yards. Okay, now you need to go down and get in field goal range. Can you do it now? Now it matters. All the other stuff was great. Now it matters. And Georgia, this is the second time they've done this. Remember Auburn, we talked about them against Auburn, John and Ocho, is that Auburn was dominating the ball game.

26:02Shannon Sharpe:The difference is Auburn's going in to score. Georgia punches it out, goes 99 yards, gets a field goal right before intermission. And then they come out and take the game over and they don't look back. Georgia down 9 start the 4th quarter and now they score 17 straight and they don't look back am I surprised at how teams are moving the ball against Georgia because the one thing we know about Georgia Kirby keep defensive guys normally linebackers and D-line I was surprised at which the ease in which Ole Miss was moving the ball at least through the first 3 quarters I think they have a good offense I think Lane is really prepared for the defenses in the scheme.

26:48Look, these guys have gone against each other for years. Kirby's going to run his defense. He's going to coach his way. Lane's going to coach his way. And that's the way it's going to be. These are guys who are very familiar with each other. They're definitely trolling each other throughout the game, throughout the week. They have a good relationship, but it's competitive at the end of the day. So, look, you see it so much. They've gone up against each other so much that you're going to have so much familiarity with everything that this is real high-level college football on the scheme side, both offensively and defensively for both squads.

27:21So I'm surprised that it was as high scoring as it was, but, you know, both of these teams can go.

27:30Shannon Sharpe:Anything else you want to add to that, Ocho? No, no, no. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, yeah. All right. We're going to take – Johnny, we're going to get to your squad now. Let's go. Texas A &M goes on the road, scores 45, and they needed all 45. Every bit of it. Those Razorbacks gave them everything they wanted down in Fayetteville, and they win a squeaker, 45-42. Johnny's guy, Marcel Reed, was 23 of 32, 280, three touchdowns. He also had another touchdown on the ground, so he had four total touchdowns. Arkansas passing Green, it was 19 of 32, 256, three touchdowns. They ran the ball 32 times for 268.

28:18Shannon Sharpe:500, you guys had right about 500 yards. Arkansas actually outgained you guys, but you guys found a way to get a victory. What do you like about what you're seeing from your team, Johnny? I mean, look, sometimes you might need the defense to make a stand, and then sometimes offensively, you need to score 40-plus points. And it was clearly one of those games your offense really needed to be flawless tonight and get 45. Clean game, no turnovers, no INTs, no fumbles. A clean game, and you guys needed it to get a win against an underranked Arkansas on the road. I thought this game was going to be a game when I looked at the forecast earlier in the week.

28:56It was wet. It was going to rain. I thought it was going to be low scoring. We were going to rely on our defense. No, no, no, no, no. They score 87 points in this game, and they need every single one of them. The thing that you have to like the most is, look, week after week, we're relying on different areas of the football team to win the game. A couple weeks ago, we needed every bit of the defense to come in and hold some ground against Florida, against Auburn. Those are good wins for us. And then you go into an Arkansas game. Look, for the last 13, 14 years, this game between Arkansas normally happens in Dallas, and it's been wacky every single year.

29:37We found a way to pull it out. I saw a clip of Kenny Hill throwing a cover two hole shot to Reynolds, and they score late in the game to tie it up, and we go on to win that. I'm on the sideline. This is 10 years ago now. And the whole series with Arkansas has been this way. They played us tough. I think from 2013 on, even my second year there, they played us really, really tough. This is just one of those matchups where you're going to get a grinded out style of game. The thing I like the most, no turnovers, no sacks. Marcel Reed's not on the ground. He's running just enough at 35 or 40 yards or whatever he had in a touchdown to be super, super effective with his legs, picking up a first down here when he needs to go and get it.

30:21And he's throwing the ball really well. Look, 280 yards and three touchdowns. Put some respect on his name, for real. I mean, this guy's leading a very good ball club with a defense that looked a little banged up at times tonight and had some guys down and coming in and coming out. But at the end of the day, look, Elko has these guys rolling. He's got them juiced. We still have a hard schedule. We still got a game against Missouri. We still got LSU. We still got Texas. But for now, if they continue this week-by-week approach, how can you not love the Aggies? I mean, we're ranked four in the country.

30:53We're going to get to LSU in just a second.

30:56Shannon Sharpe:Are you sure that's going to be tough? But look at A &M. Johnny, you guys had 29 first downs. You were 5 '11 on third downs, but you were a perfect 3-for-3 on third downs. 497 total yards. Possessed the football a little less than 34 minutes. As you said, no turnovers. The ball wasn't on the ground. Neither was your quarterback. We're missing our running back, too. We're missing Le 'Veon Moss. We're missing Le 'Veon Moss. That's a huge piece for us. So to have guys, to have Owens come in, add in 69. Reed has 55. EJ Smith has 52. Like for us, those guys are averaging 5 yards a carry, 9.2 yards a carry, and 7.4 yards a carry.

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36:14Shannon Sharpe:You guys have probably climbed the number two, Miami, the Canes. They lost. Beck had a horrible game through four interceptions last night. The question I have for you, Johnny, is this the Aggies year? We're in the best position we've been in in decades. We're in the best position we could possibly be in. Our schedule is favorable. Our team is playing well. Our coach is embodying everything that Texas A &M is about. Once again, and every Aggie will tell you, read any comment on any of our posts or anything Texas A &M. Everybody is like, just keep playing ball. We don't need to be crowned national champions right now in October.

37:02We need to get into the college football playoff, playing good football, and hopefully get a favorable matchup. That's all the Aggies can hope for. So is this our year? Yes, this is our year in the sense that we need to get into the playoff. We have a schedule that the outlook of it looks like worst-case scenario. We drop a couple. But at the end of the day, the way they're playing, I would put us on the field against anybody right now and say we have a good shot to be victorious at the end of the day. And you want to get hot too, aren't you? You want that timing. You want that timing. And when you get into a groove offensively and defensively, you want to hit it at the right time.

37:41You don't want to peak too soon. You don't want to peak too soon. Peak right before, maybe a week or two before the college playoffs, and then you get going, that's when it's best. It's all about who's playing the best ball at the end of December, middle of December.

37:57Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you don't want to peak too soon. Look, I try to watch a different team, obviously the games that we're going to talk about. But right now, if you force me, I think Ohio State is the best team in football. Now, I don't know if they play top-notch competition, but the way their defense can dominate and those playmakers they got on the outside and they can run the football, and that quarterback, I don't know where they got it from, but he's playing his ass off. So, on a neutral, because is it still the same? Well, you know, the first game is a home game? And the college football playoff guy, Johnny, you know?

38:35Shannon Sharpe:Is it the same? I'm pretty sure that you still get a home game. for the top seed of teams in the home game. So it's going to be tough. Good luck going into the horseshoe and beating Ohio. Yeah, because they got playmakers on the game. This ain't going to be no cakewalk for them. They ain't going to walk through this playoff. They're not just going to walk down everybody and hawk them down and walk through this and be like, what's up? We're champions again. That ain't going to happen. Yeah. Well, we're going to look. The game that they want, they look. Obviously, they want to be national champions, but they want some revenge on Michigan.

39:08Shannon Sharpe:Michigan been kicking their ass for the last two or three years. And it didn't make a difference. Coach Jim Harbaugh, he leaves. And now the other guy comes in, and he's still kicking their ass. And he beat them last year in Ohio State. So you know that's how he got the contract. He got that contract. Hey, may you beat Ohio State? Yeah. Let me go and get that. But the guy that you're mentoring, the Vanderbilt Commodores, the number 17 Vanderbilt Commodores 31 the number 10 LSU Tigers 24 Pavia 14-22 161 touchdowns no interception quarterback the ball nor the quarterback was on the ground he had another 17 carries for 86 yards and another two touchdowns so he had three total touchdowns they ran the ball 45 times for 239 yards you man you know or Brian Kelly.

40:07Shannon Sharpe:Now, you know, he known to jump ship, you know, Penn State job opening because he's Cincinnati to Notre Dame, Notre Dame to LSU. It's a lot easier route up there in that conference, that's for sure. And he's going to have a lot less of a hot seat up there. It'll be nice and comfy, cushy, new contract. Look, Vandy can play. They went in there at home. Nussmeyer played well. He scrambled out of a lot of plays. They had a lot of explosive plays in this game. LSU did. And Vandy answered back every single time. Pavia needed to scramble for a touchdown late in the fourth or whatever it was. Really good drive by them.

40:48I think Vandy just answered the call. This is not the Vandy of old. They are playing with a lot of swagger. They played two and a half really good quarters versus Bama and then kind of let it down and didn't play the way they needed to. But at the end of the day, Vandy's a good football team. Diego Pavia is an experienced veteran of a quarterback, a guy who spent a lot of time there. He plays with a lot of swagger, a lot of heart, and the guys on the team love him. You look at the sideline when he comes off, when they score a touchdown, that's great team camaraderie. He's a great kid. He's a great friend of mine, and I'm happy for him.

41:24If you look at the LSU side of things, we're back to banging our head against the wall because this is a tough one to swallow. You can see it on the sideline. Nussmeier was hurt after this one. And, you know, for me, I've had a lot of people reach out to me about, you know, why are you supporting Diego Pavia so hard when you got a guy in Marcel Reed that at A &M is doing amazing things? You want me to tell you why? Because I fuck with every quarterback that's going out and living their dream and playing on Saturdays. Every single one of them. So Carson Beck, you're on my shit list a little bit right now after what you did this week.

42:01But I still love you. I'm still going to see you in the club and live on Sunday, I'm sure. Nevertheless, I want to be a guy who comes in and helps hype up these dudes, give them good advice, learn from my downfalls, from my pitfalls. So whether it's Marcel, whether it's Diego, whether it's Ty Simpson, whoever it is, I'm reaching out to all these guys. I'm sending a lot of love and a lot of advice in whatever capacity they want it from for me. And any quarterback that's out there in college football, living their dream, walking into a Saturday and putting the university on their back to go try and win a game, it's nothing but love for me.

42:41Shannon Sharpe:Vanderbilt is 6-1 for the first time in 75 years. And so in seven decades, seven and a half decades, they're 6-1. Pavia has a passing and a rushing touchdown in 25 straight games. That is the second longest streak behind FSU, Tommy Castellanos, 27 games. Look, this is not the Vanderbilt that I grew up on, Ocho, you grew up on, where there was everybody's homecoming. They had their coming out party last year when they did what they did to Bama, and everybody thought that was a one-time thing. They backed it up this year. They played Alabama tough, as Johnny mentioned. Now they get a win over a number 10 team in the country.

43:25Shannon Sharpe:So now they start to believe because they got this quarterback. When you got the quarterback, you got a chance. I don't give a damn what conference you play in, and I don't care who you play. If you got a guy that's going to touch the ball in college somewhere between 65 and 80 times a game, if he's legit, you got a chance. no doubt and that is that that's exactly what they got that's why Vanderbilt looks the way they look now this is why they've been there's why they're six and one after being after never having a record like this at 75 years you know how goddamn not not being able to be to be good and obviously it's obviously coaching but also also also having the players having the players on both sides of the ball including special teams as well that that gets left out but when you have a quarterback in place, like you said, that can handle what he needs to do as much as he touches the ball, this is how you look.

44:23Shannon Sharpe:Vandy dominated time of possession almost 12 and a half minutes longer than actually 13 minutes longer than LSU had the ball. They were 6 of 13 on third down. There were 2 of 3 on fourth down.

44:41Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I

44:46Shannon Sharpe:if you were Brian Kelly if you were Brian Kelly right we know how he is we've seen his press conferences we've seen how he is he's got a track record throughout the years but if you were sitting there and you were in his shoes what do you do? I would have never left I don't know you would have never left Notre Dame no sir but now you do and you're in the booth and now you got a bunch of fired up Cajuns on your ass every week and you ain't got it out of here. If you can't win in LSU, you're not winning in Penn State. I agree. You get superior athletes in LSU. Now, I understand it's a superior. I think the SEC is the toughest conference in football.

45:29Shannon Sharpe:Now, you can debate that and go back and forth, I mean, team for team, but I think when you go back and look at it, more players come out of the SEC, go to the NFL than any other conference. That's happened. I don't think he can recruit any better at Penn State than what he's recruiting at LSU. Agreed. Can I say something real quick? You know one thing, it doesn't even come down to recruiting anymore. It doesn't come down to recruiting anymore. I don't care how many houses and how many couches you sit on and talk to people's family. It all comes down to the check that you're writing. The check that you're writing for these individual players that you want to come in and change the trajectory of your team and want a chance to compete, ACC, SEC, it doesn't matter.

46:16How much are you willing to pay? Because in order to win now, which is why you see the playing field has even from team to team, and there's no domination by one team. Week to week, when you watch these games on Saturday, there's a good chance that either team can win. There's a good chance. And we've seen that time and time again this year. It always happens. and teams that normally dominated back in the days aren't dominating like they once did. Why? Because the money. Money talks. It's different. Players are going all over the place. Where is there more money at, Penn State or LSU?

46:51Shannon Sharpe:Whew, that's interesting. That's a good one. Because I think it's about the same. I do. Yeah, I can see that. I say it's probably pretty close. I say you're going to have a$20 million roster at both places probably. Right. And that's just a number. You've got some schools that are going to spend 25, 26, 27. That's a$7 million difference. You're definitely going to have some backups in a better spot and some starting players in different positions that are making a little bit more. But for the top 10, 15 programs, you're at a$20-plus million roster. I think it's probably pretty close. I think the SEC and LSU and what they've done has been historically better.

47:33so you're going to have a little pedigree there and just where you're recruiting the athletes from in the south is going to be better at LSU. So he's going to have to grind it out, try to find another quarterback after Nussmeier that can get the program rolling, and you just stick it out. Yeah, and he's known to jump ship.

47:52Shannon Sharpe:I don't know, Ocho, if the same amount of money, you know, you had Jayden Daniels and you didn't win a national championship or you didn't even come close. It's always – he's always losing a game, Johnny, that you're like, okay, they're going to win this one, and somebody nips him. Somebody gets him, and then, you know, he would be a hard coach to play for because, you know, he blamed the player, then this and that. I'm like, bro, what about you? What about you? You talk about us, and this is not what we coach. It is. It is. The direct deposit hits every week. When a direct deposit is Brian Kelly's bank account every week, he's happy no matter what.

48:36He's sending the blame everywhere else.

48:40Shannon Sharpe:2025 NIL rankings. LSU, 20 million. Penn State, 13 million. Okay, there you go. 7 million more. That's huge. Matter of fact, on that ranking list, who's number one? I'm curious. I think Ohio State is. Or Texas A &M. Okay. It's going to be close. We're at about 26, 27 million probably. Texas is number one with 22. They had a good game today against Kentucky. Ohio State is two at 20, 2021 or 20.5.

49:14Wow. So think about it.

49:18Shannon Sharpe:The top three are in the SEC. No, Ohio, excuse me. LSU, LSU is three. Texas is one. You got Ohio State smack dab in the middle. Alabama up there somewhere. What's the top five? Does it say?

49:34Shannon Sharpe:Did you say Alabama? Alabama's three. No. Oh. LSU is three. Texas, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, A &M. All right. Four out of five, SEC. Alabama is seven. Who's six? Oregon.

50:00but

50:02Shannon Sharpe:could we see a switch? Michigan to six. Could we see a flip? James Franklin goes to LSU. Brian Kelly goes to Penn State. I think Penn State needs to go after Matt Rule with everything that they have because Nebraska ain't going nowhere. They can't beat Minnesota. We're just we're out in the woods in the mud with our tires spinning and just burning the engine we ain't going nowhere with that program I think the thing is but let me ask you this Johnny because I think the thing a lot of times is that I remember what Nebraska used to be of course this is like talking about Colorado and what they used to be I remember what Penn State used to be the question is and maybe we need to reshape our vision or what we think they can be.

50:59Shannon Sharpe:Can Penn State ever be what they once were? Yes.

51:06In my opinion, yes. Their conference is too easy. You get two big games a year. Go win those big games. If you lose one, you're in the playoff every year. Your program's hyped up enough. You're going to be ranked in the top 25. You go 11, 12, and 1. you're in the playoff. All you got to do is play ball at the right time. So, yes, because your conference is so easy.

51:31Shannon Sharpe:Well, Penn State might have been looking at Signetti, but he's like, nah, Indiana said, nah, y 'all ain't going to get him. Hey, we're going to drop the bag on him. 11.6, we're making the third highest paid. He deserves it. Behind Kirby and Ryan Day. Yeah, absolutely. To win, look. I mean, he took a – that's a basketball school. Indiana's a basketball school. Everybody, when you think of Indiana, you think of Coach Knight, and you think of the Hoosiers and being undefeated in 76, the last college basketball team to go undefeated and win the national championship. That's what you think about. He's making you reevaluate how we look at the Hoosiers.

52:12Shannon Sharpe:So now they're just not known for that bicycle race that they have every year where the co-eds ride their bikes for, I don't know, what is it, 50 miles, 75 miles or the basketball team. He's a hell of a coach. He was on Coach Saban's staff. He was a wide receiver coach but he wanted to be a head coach. He left, go to a Division II school, take a$125 ,000 pay cut, got a daughter about to go to college. He said, but I want to be a head coach. Look, you already know, if you were on Nick Saban's staff, who didn't get a head job? Lane Kiffin, Kirby Smart, Billy Napier, a Cristobal, a Mel Tucker. Who didn't get a job?

52:55Shannon Sharpe:Dan Lanning was a grad assistant, head coach. Signetti, head coach. Who didn't get a head job if you're on the staff? Right. And I got a question. Speaking of head coaching jobs and vacancies that are open, Penn State, what are the chances that Nick Saban comes back and takes that opportunity? Well, they were talking about it this morning, Zero. Miss Terry said he having too much fun and she don't want to take no championship from their babies, which is Lane, Kirby. I don't know how much longer Billy Napier is going to have that job in Florida if he don't win out from here. And that's not a very good chance because I think they still got Georgia on their schedule.

53:33Shannon Sharpe:But I don't think Coach Saban is coming back because the issue that forced him out still exists. I think you're going to have to get some of these younger coaches that are coming up in the ranks. the coach at USF, the coach at Tulane, Texas State has a really good coach that's up and coming on offense. I think you're going to have to find these young guys who are offensive-minded, who put a good program together on a smaller scale, and you're going to have to give them the opportunity and roll with some youth, and that's it. Yeah. When you look, look, what does – if he comes out of retirement, Ocho, and wins a championship, that doesn't change.

54:17Shannon Sharpe:Everybody believes he's the greatest college coach to ever live. He got one of them last year. Yeah, it is. He got six at Alabama. And he lost to Clemson. He lost to Georgia. So he's the greatest. It's either him or Coach Bryant is the greatest college coach to ever live. They're both at Alabama. So that's what we do. The two greatest college coaches to ever coach is Coach Bryant or Coach Saban. Many believe Coach Bryant, considering a lot of those championships that he won was before integration, Coach Bryant did. So we get that. But I don't think Coach Saban, I don't think anything. He comes out and he wins number eight.

54:55Shannon Sharpe:Do you think more of him because he won eight instead of seven? No. And it's just more headache. He's like, you know what? He got a great job. He does an unbelievable job on college game day. He's great at it. He knows it. He knows how to talk on both sides. He can talk to the players and like how he was with the players. It's like when they were good, I was harder on my coaches and the team when they were good. I was easier on them when we lost. So I don't see Coach Saban coming out. But, hey, never say never because that encompasses never and always. And I don't believe in saying that, especially how much money Penn State got.

55:36Shannon Sharpe:A lot. You got 15 mil a year? I mean, probably not. It ain't going to happen. It really isn't. They need to go find somebody that has wanted that Penn State job, who it's a dream job for them, that really cares and can buy into what it is, because it is a good job at the end of the day. Like we said and spoke about a couple weeks ago, do we think James Franklin should have been let go? Probably not. But at the end of the day, it's a good opening, a good job. You're going to see some good openings of good jobs around the country, and we're going to see who they fill them with. Ash was saying that on college game day that Ms.

56:13Shannon Sharpe:Terry said, we haven't heard a number yet. Uh-oh. It is. And I think Jimmy Sexton is Coach Saban's agent also. Look, I think he's very content with where he is right now and what he's doing right now. He makes good money doing what he does. He still has an office at Alabama. They still pay him. I don't think he wants to deal with a headache at this age in time. Agreed. Right. So what do you think about you, huh? Nope. I don't want it. They ain't got a number. They ain't got a number big enough. Because you already know how I am. I ain't got no patience. And so it's understood. That's why I've never – I ain't no coach.

56:56Shannon Sharpe:I've never wanted to be a coach because I know my patience. I already know how I am. I would get mad at the guys. Bro, we done practiced this all week. We talked about the first 15 Saturday morning. We went over the next 15 to that Saturday night. And then you come and F it up Sunday? Out the gate? No, I couldn't do that, man. I couldn't. I mean, I could see the program turning around under you. What about this? What about Deion? At Penn State? Why not?

57:32I don't.

57:34Shannon Sharpe:me personally, I don't know how much time how much longer time got the coach. I don't know if his health is going to allow him to have one of those long careers. 10 years. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know, he got in most coaches start coaching college in their 30s. He got in really late. I mean, you got to think about he was in his 50s when he got in. I mean, think about Bobby Bowden was Coach Bowden when he retired with 40 years of coaching, he was only in his 70s. So I just don't know if his health, you know, dealing what he's had to deal with, with the blood clots, you know, standing doesn't help.

58:13Shannon Sharpe:The burning of the midnight oil doesn't help. You know, he had the bladder surgery. That can't help. I just don't know if his health is going to allow him to have a long, fruitful, prosperous career. I know I would definitely call Jimbo fishing.

58:36Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Jimbo said he already packaged y 'all money, so yeah, I go. I double dip. He said, y 'all gave me 84. Well, y 'all gave me 80. But him still having buyout money, too. You know what? To be honest, Penn State may be able to get, I mean, Jimbo. Get him for a$5 million deal. Sign him up for 10 of them. Yep. You're right. You're right. Another great day in college football all the way around, though. A lot of upsets this week. A lot of people went down. Arizona State played a really good game against number seven Texas Tech today. You see the Miami Canes. They lose, go down all the way through.

59:15There was a lot of upsets, a lot of good ball from underdogs this week. So it's a hell of a week for college football. I think everybody who was watching should have enjoyed thoroughly this week. Yeah.

59:27Shannon Sharpe:but I don't know if Penn State gonna let Prime have all them jerseys and all them combinations. You know, Penn State, they got two colors. They got black tops with white pants and they got white tops with white pants. That's it. That's it. That's all you get. Right. The number 21 Texas Longhorn. Go down to Lexington and hold on and win 16-13 over UK, University of Kentucky. Kentucky got stopped, second and goal, third and goal, fourth and goal. Texas goes down, kicks a field goal, and they win it 16-13. Arch Manning did not have the best day, but they won the ball game. He was 12 of 27, 132 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions.

1:00:15Quinn Trevion, Wisner,

1:00:19Shannon Sharpe:ran the ball, a long touchdown. How they won this game, I don't know, Ocho. They had 132 yards passing and 47 yards rushing. So they had less than 180 yards. The opposing team had over 400 yards.

1:00:39And they get a victory.

1:00:42Shannon Sharpe:Johnny, I need you to help me understand how Texas won this ball game. Eight first downs, five of 16 on third down, 179 total yards, 12 of 27. They possessed the ball half the time that UK had it. UK had 26 first downs. They had 395 total yards, so they outgained them by over 200. Possessed the ball 19 minutes longer, but somehow lost. The quarterback at Texas throws for 44 % completion on the day for 132 yards, 4.9 yards in attempt. Again, Texas' rushing attack this year is what we like to call abysmal. Terrible. They can't run out of a wet paper bag. 47 yards rushing, 1.7 yards of carry, and this is in four quarters of football.

1:01:41I don't know how they sneak out of here with this one, but at the end of the day, you've got to give them their props. everybody in Austin's throwing their horns up tonight and saying we snuck out of there with Juan. I mean, let's turn it over to the man that sat in the student section and watched his live.

1:01:56Shannon Sharpe:That's what I was about to say, Ocho. You had a bird's eye view of this ballgame. And you probably thought, man, the Wildcats going to get a victory over the number 21 ring, Texas Longhorn. So you were there. We got video of you there? We do. Oh, Lord, have mercy. yeah

1:02:20hey you see the rhythm we was out there going crazy I'm like you know what

1:02:29Shannon Sharpe:I'm like I'm like Cletus I don't know that fool

1:02:37listen if I'm going to go to a college game obviously it's my daughter's home coming I need the full experience I told the AD, I told Ray Oliver, who was my strength and conditioning coach when he was in Cincinnati. Oh, Ray in Kentucky? If I'm coming. Yeah. You know that? I know that.

1:02:53Shannon Sharpe:I know Ray. Yeah. Ray is in Kentucky. I said, do not put me in the suite. I want to know what it's like to be at a school of this magnitude and sit with the students in that section because I know they get term. So they put me down there and watching the game. But for me, Kentucky, as many yards as they did have had, Johnny, you know, they couldn't score. They couldn't put themselves in position to get field goals. If you're not going to score and defense was playing well enough to where you should have won this game, this is a game that you should have won. This is a game that you should have won because you should have had more opportunities to do some of the things that Texas couldn't.

1:03:38To me, offensively, in a sense, I'm trying not to say anything too bad about Mr. Stoops because they hit the whole crowd, hunk. I'm not sure what's going on. It's my first time being in the game, but everybody, they chanting, fire Stoops. Fire Stoops. I'm like, well, goddamn, what did he do wrong? But then I watch how they play offensively and what they were doing, where at times, Johnny, they couldn't even get past midfield.

1:04:02Shannon Sharpe:Well, hell, don't look like Texas guys past midfield except that long touchdown. Do they remember what Kentucky was before Stoops got there? I don't think they remember that, Johnny. They do realize that's a basketball school. It's been a long time since the hefty lefty, Jared Lorenzen, wrestling beat, got out my guy. And also my guy, Randall Cobb. It's been a long, long time since those Kentucky Wildcats have been in a jersey. So, listen, it's SEC. See, everybody wants to be good, but they need to get ready for hoop season. They'll be all right. Yeah. I mean, look, you only going to, first of all, you only going to get, you only going to get some players.

1:04:45Shannon Sharpe:First of all, it's not like Kentucky is like when you think of great football players. I mean, I think Charlotte Alexander is from Kentucky, but where did he go, Ocho? Alabama. Alabama. So if your best players are leaving the state, you don't have much of a chance, especially if you're Kentucky. Now, you know, obviously Florida, they're going to be spread out. You got UM, you got UF, and you got FSU. And then some are going to go to Alabama, some are going to go to Ohio State. So they're going to be spread out. But Kentucky, you've got to keep your best. You can't afford to have your best go and make somebody else's program better.

1:05:25better.

1:05:26Shannon Sharpe:No doubt. And that's what like I said, I think Stoops has done a great job given what he's got. I mean, I don't know. Y 'all not getting Nick Saban? Listen, we at one point in time through our coaching search after Jimbo tried to hire Mark Stoops and College Station almost burnt to the ground. So I don't know what it is about him or what people think about him. I respect him. I played against him. He was at OU whenever I was there. whenever I was playing against him. I think he's a good coach. I think he's doing the most with what he has at concession. And that's what you got to give him credit for.

1:06:04But today, in this setting, in this game, this is one you got to go reach out and grab and find a way to win.

1:06:11Shannon Sharpe:You're right. I agree. I think also, people like, well, Indiana is a basketball school. But look at what Signetti did. So why can't that be us? Signetti came in and said, listen, You know what I do? I win everywhere I go. Google me, bitch. That's what he said. He did. And he came in with that attitude. He said, you know what? I don't care that we're at Indiana. I don't care that I'm out here doing this. I'm going to go find a way to make it happen. Their running game looks good. Their receivers can play. Their quarterback has game. Mendoza's playing with the real. Mendoza's a G.

1:06:51Shannon Sharpe:Now, I don't know if he had to run that gauntlet. That's the SEC. that's a whole different animal. Look, Kentucky has gone to a couple of bowl games, but I think when you look at it, what is their realistic expectation? Are they expecting to be in the college football playoff? Are they expecting to contend for a national? When you got Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, A &M, when you got all those on your schedule, damn, but that's murderous role. That's why it's so hard for a team, even the Alabamas, the LSU, even the top teams to go undefeated in that conference. Yeah, you'll get a situation like Alabama has gone undefeated.

1:07:33Shannon Sharpe:You get the 2019 LSU when you talk about one of the historically great teams in college football history. But for the most part, you're not going unscathed in the SEC. It's just not going to happen. So I just need to know, Kentucky, if I can talk to their fan base or their alumni, what is your realistic expectation for UK? Is it not 8-4?

1:07:59Shannon Sharpe:8-4 is good with a bowl game? Yeah, for sure. I don't think they're going to get to 8-4 this year. But, I mean, can they get bowl eligible? What's UK's remaining schedule? They're 2-3 going through this game. They're 2-4 right now. And so they play, what, 12 games? So they got six games to go. So theoretically, they could go 8-4. All right, here we go. the last 15 years of Kentucky football. 6-7, lost in the Gator Bowl. 7-6, lost in the Gator Bowl. 7-6, lost the Music City Bowl. 10-3, 2021, Citrus Bowl beat Iowa. 5-6, 8-5, 10-3 in 2018 beat Penn State. And then you go back. 7-6, 7-6, 5-7, 5-7, 2-10, 2-10, 5-7, 6-7.

1:08:53seven. So you got a couple 10 and 3 sprinkled in, but really your median point for success is probably eight and four. Eight and four would be out of this world for them in a bowl win.

1:09:04Shannon Sharpe:They just lost to Texas. They're at home versus Tennessee, at Auburn, home versus Florida. They got Tennessee Tech at home, at Vanderbilt, at Louisville. Today didn't work out well. Tomorrow ain't looking much better. Listen, Listen, today looked much better than what people thought it would have been because there was a chance. UK had a chance to win this game. They just couldn't put the ball in position to score. Maybe if you can't get a touchdown, get three. They could barely get down to 50, huh? Barely. And to me, it just kept seeing like they kept running the same play. Draw, draw, draw, draw.

1:09:49I'm like, what are we? It's the same thing over and over.

1:09:52Shannon Sharpe:I'm looking at this. No play down clear. I saw a few dig routes and a few flat routes, but there was really no creativity to the offense. And obviously you are playing against a very good Texas team. So I kind of understand you don't want to put your young quarterback in harm's way. That makes your decision-making is good. You know, you don't want to put too much on the plate, but a game like this, man, you throw everything you've got. Plus the kitchen sink. Ocho, they got Tennessee, Auburn. Florida, Tennessee Tech, and on the road against Vandy and Louisville. Like I say, today they look good.

1:10:30Shannon Sharpe:They look much better. That's tough. Yeah. On to the hardwood. On to the hardwood. Jeremiah Love and the number 13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the number 20 USC Trojan 34-24 in the 96th meeting between the two rivals. Love finished with a career high 228 rushing yards and a touchdown to lead Notre Dame attack that racked up 306 rush yards. Notre Dame finished with 442 total yards. Jadarian Price also added 87 yards rushing and a touchdown and returned to kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. Damn, USC. They just did whatever they wanted to do to y 'all. There it is. This is one of the few games I wasn't able to see.

1:11:26I didn't get the chance to see this one. Hey, how did the receiver do? The receiver from USC? He's really good.

1:11:33Shannon Sharpe:Lane, he has six for a buck 11. And a touch. 18.5. 18.5 to catch. The quarterback. 18.5. Two turnovers, though. That was the difference in the ball game, don't you? Well, actually, they turned the ball over three times. Might have been a different ball. if they could have held on to it. Listen, Notre Dame's doing what they need to do. They need to go through and run the table, and they're going and playing. This is a huge rivalry game forever. Notre Dame comes through. Yeah, they can't lose another game, though, Johnny. They got to run the table. They're 5-2. Don't run it. Look at their schedule.

1:12:07Let's take a peek at their schedule for the rest of the way, all right? They got Boston College, dub. Navy, dub. Pitt, dub. Syracuse. okay, they'll play them tough. And then Stanford. That's tough. So get through Syracuse. And they do it. Hey, listen, football on Saturdays has been so funny. The teams that you're supposed to beat, there have been a lot of surprises this season. There have been a lot of surprises.

1:12:43Shannon Sharpe:And we know Notre Dame is known to give it up to a team, the Northern Illinois and the Northern Illinois. And teams, like, always tripped them up.

1:12:58Ooh. I like Notre Dame. Look, they maybe have one of the best running backs in the country, I think. They do? They have a quarterback who you go back and look at the A &M game. Really solid. You look up through the board. Their defense is solid. They're a team that can get in the playoff and cause some havoc. Their coach is really good. I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

1:13:20Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to force that quarterback to beat me. I am as well. I'm not going to let them run the ball. I'm not going to let them run the ball 44 times. Definitely, you're not getting no 300 yards rushing. Because, I mean, you run the ball for 300 yards, that means you got the ball. You got to have the ball for an extended period of time. Well, they didn't have it that long. Only 32 minutes or 33 minutes, which is not a long amount of time when you're considering. but see they were three of 11 on third down. So

1:13:57Shannon Sharpe:three of 11 on three of 11 on third down is tough. Because if you, you, you, you know, let's just say for the sake of argument, you six or seven for 11, that means you're going to be on the field for an extra two minutes. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know, Link. They win the turnover battle. they have 91 more yards and penalties though but same amount of first downs 442 yards look it's another uh it's another good win for notre dame they're just trucking along doing what they need to do let's try and get in the playoff and see if we can't make some shake johnny thank you for joining us tonight taking time out of your busy schedule guys make sure you go subscribe to johnny podcast YouTube channel, Glory Days with Johnny Manziel.

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