Nightcap Hour 1: Lane Kiffin’s DECISION: LSU or Florida?! + Arch Manning BIG PERFORMANCE + Diego Pavia SHINES in win over Kentucky + Notre Dame HANGS 70 on Syracuse

23:56Shannon Sharpe:You show up late for a meeting, I find you. You miss weight, I find you. You know, you late for birth, you curfew, study hall, I find you. Because theoretically, although you're a collegiate athlete, an amateur athlete, you're getting paid so now you're a professional so i have to treat you as such because that's what would happen if you're in the nfl if you're late for a meeting you miss a meeting you're late to practice you miss practice right or a team schedule function you miss that or you're late to that you get fined right you have to be under the same guidelines because for the longest time ocho we've forgiven it's like oh man these are kids these are college kids i mean they were they were making a little money ocho you know they make a little hush on the side But it wasn't like what it is now.

24:36Shannon Sharpe:These guys making$50 ,000,$100 ,000,$200 ,000,$3 ,000,$4 ,000,$5 million. So I think the thing is that we've kind of taken the reins off, Ocho. And we judge these kids a little harsher now than what we did, say, when we were in school or the last 10 years. Now we don't look at these kids like, bro, he's making money. Jeremiah Smith making$4 million a year. There's some receivers in the NFL that don't make$4 million a year. And those receivers that don't make$4 million in the NFL, they ain't Jeremiah Smith either. He'd make that for a reason. Normally, you would expect a professional to make more than an amateur.

25:14Shannon Sharpe:I mean, you would, wouldn't you? Can I tell you something? If that's the case, who would want to be a pro? Why not just stay an amateur? Let me tell you something. There's a reason he makes the$4 million he makes. Even those that are already in the NFL, they don't look like him. It all comes down to... Wait, let me finish. Jackson Smith and Jigba. He don't make$4 million. He makes$1 million. How he looking? Hold up. Oh, he's looking real good right now. He's looking real good. And it's also about timing. It's also about timing. You know, when NIL happened. So it's kind of different. Did you not see him in the Rose Bowl?

25:47Shannon Sharpe:Did you not see Jackson Smith? Hey, I'm sure he got something. That might have been the greatest receiving performance. I saw this guy. He was at Louisiana. I forget. He ended up going to the Steelers. He ended up having 400 yards. The short guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It didn't work out for him in the NFL, but he had him a day against Nebraska. It's just tough, Ocho.

26:13Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing is that because we look at free agency, and we look at baseball, we look at basketball, we say, okay, that's free agency. A pitcher can make$50 million,$70 million a year. A first baseman can make whatever. It's not slotted where quarterbacks make this, running backs make this, and wide receivers make that. and then you got a cap. Well, that's theoretically, that's not free agency. If the market should bear, should set what a player can make. In college, the market sets it. It ain't no, you can't say, well, Jeremiah, man, you're on the receiver. You can't get no four million.

26:50Shannon Sharpe:You can't get no five million. Why not? No, I don't think it's the market. The market doesn't set it. The actual player sets it. No, but in the NFL, we don't have a market because there's no free agency. See, crazy, I got to be totally free with no restrictions, no salary cap over here, no this or that. You can't franchise me. You don't have no right of first refusal. Hey, my time is up. Ocho, you work a regular job. Your contract in, I'm free to go. If I'm at Google, I'm free to go work for Apple. Okay, I got you. I'm free to go work for Microsoft. That's, in my estimation, that's how it should be.

27:27Shannon Sharpe:I ain't got no problem. It's free market. Hey, I got a product to sell. You know what, Ocho? I got this phone to see you mm-hmm you shouldn't be able to say well I can only sell this phone for$500 that ain't free that ain't no free market I should be if I want to sell this phone for$10 ,000 I should be able to do it right if the market were bear that if there are people out there to pay it yeah so be it yeah I mean I got you I got you I kind of I kind of like how it is where it's free-flowing you know players can actually choose and do what they want to do because for so many years when nobody's saying that when all these universities were making goo gobs billions off these players like this and now they now that they get opportunity to take advantage you know not not really take advantage but get what they're old based off their likeness and their skill set i think i think they should have free reign to do so yeah i mean look at all the all the great players that came before and yeah ocho they got a little couple of bucks on the side here there oh it ain't nothing like that they got a little car here they got some jewelry there but they ain't get no money like what these kids making now yeah and they ain't mad at them right because you look at a guy like arch manning arch manning gonna be in the hat he's gonna be unstashed about 12 million dollars by the time he get to the nfa and the funny thing about it look at all the stories look at all the horror stories we've heard where collegiate athletes getting in trouble because they're hungry taking clothes stealing stuff yeah yeah i just just food not having to be able to eat like like it's it's been too much too many have gotten in trouble to now they have an opportunity to be able to fend for themselves, take care of their families a little earlier than normal, not having to wait on the NFL check.

29:02I think just let it be. Let it be.

29:07Shannon Sharpe:No, they're going to put some rules in place because right now there's not a whole lot of rules. Even the NCAA even went to Congress and tried to say, look, we got to have something about it. And I agree with Coach Saban. The coaches, once your season is officially open, I don't believe you should not. So now, guy laying here, but let's just say he gets the coach. He's supposed to coach. He takes this job after the Egg Bowl. He's supposed to coach an SEC championship. He's like, nah, I ain't going to coach. I'm going to go on down here to my team. Or he gets an opportunity to go play in the college football.

29:37Shannon Sharpe:Nah, I'm going to go ahead. What was that? Hold on. I'll give you a prime example. Coach Schembechler. You remember who was the guy that left? They were going to the NCAA tournament. Right. And the guy had accepted another job. And Bo Schimbrecht would say, nah, he ain't going to stay. We want a Michigan man. I think it was Fisher that ended up getting the interim job and coaching. And they ended up winning the national championship in 1989. But Bo Schimbrecht would say, nah, nah, you go ahead and go where you're going to go. We don't need you to wait here because I want a Michigan man to coach a Michigan team.

30:12Shannon Sharpe:Not somebody that's at Michigan right now. But he's already accepted the job he's going to be somewhere the moment I see him. And he ended up winning a championship. Yeah, I don't think Lane will do that. I think he's going to finish the task at hand. He's going to finish the assignment. You know, he started the season. I know Ole Miss is hoping. Huh? Ole Miss is hoping that he does that. Oh, yeah. Think about it. I say he finished. He going to finish. I didn't say he was staying. No, no, no. I'm saying they're hoping that he does what you said he's going to do. Yeah. If they get an opportunity, if they're fortunate enough to play in the SEC title or if they get a college football playoff berth.

30:47Shannon Sharpe:Hopefully, because Ole Miss, I mean, when you think of Ole Miss and you think like, okay, when's the next time they're going to get an opportunity to play in the college football playoff? Yeah. I mean, since Lane, they've gotten guys that go into the NFL and got playing at a high level. So, you know, sometimes this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hopefully you're right that he gets this. Because I believe he's gone. It's just that these other programs can offer what Ole Miss can't. Yes. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I mean, shoot. I mean, who would stay? Who would stay with the numbers that we saw today?

31:23Shannon Sharpe:That's a lot of money, Ojo. That's a lot of money. Man, who you? That's a lot. That's a lot of money. And maybe Ole Miss could, you know, give him, I don't know, what is it, a nine or eight-year deal? How many years is the deal? Yeah. It's 90 million. Is it 10 years? That's 9 million a year. Is it eight years? 11 and a half a year? I mean, what's the deal? I think Kirby makes like 13.

31:51seven years wow so so that's about that's that's kirby that's that's right right

31:58Shannon Sharpe:that's kirby's number hey well it's just it's just it's just hard though it's gonna it's just hard to turn that kind of money down yeah and it's not because all those programs and he's done a great job of building? Oh, it's 14, Ocho. So it's 98 million. Oh, seven years, 98 million. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because it's hard. It's hard. Now, if that's a preeminent program, let's just say that's Ohio State. Right. That's Notre Dame. That's Alabama. That's Michigan. That's USC. Right. We get it. Him staying if they match it. Right. Ole Miss is not the same tier as Florida. It's the same conference, but it's not the same tier as Ohio State.

32:40Shannon Sharpe:It's LSU. It's not Georgia. It's not Alabama. It's not Florida. It's not LSU. It's not Texas. It's not Oklahoma. It's just not. Yeah. I mean, it's true. And so, man, it'd be hard to turn that kind of money down. I mean, shh, man, turn that down, man. Please. Listen, Lane Kiffin, get there, man. That kind of money. I ain't turning nothing down for Carlos. He get there. You understand the type of players he can get. He can attract, you know, those people jumping in the portal. There's a good chance they might look like they did back in 2019. I'm not saying they're going to have a Joe Burrow. I'm not saying they're going to have a Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson, but they can get back to that.

33:11If he can turn Ole Miss around the way he did, he can damn sure turn LSU around.

33:15Shannon Sharpe:We saw what he did at Alabama when he had Amari Cooper and he had those guys. So just imagine him getting a tier, a little notch more, more than five stars, bigger guys from the portal with the way he can call plays offensively. You can say what you want to say. You can say he's arrogant and all that other stuff, but there ain't no denying that he can call. He's one of the great minds in college football. And I don't know. Hey, he's been to Tennessee. He's been to Ole Miss. Now he's coached at Alabama. Now he's about to be at LSU, seemingly. That's good. All errors are pointing in that direction.

33:59Shannon Sharpe:So, 14 million, Ocho. I don't know, Ocho. What's up? Oh, so you think about coaching now, huh? You see what I told you? Think about it. No, I can't be on the road, but back bad. Listen, listen, listen. Head coach, head coach sharp. What, you can't be on the road because what? Back bad. Okay, but listen, you just coach the home games. No problem. Ain't no problem. You just coach the home games. I'll be your assistant head coach, and I'll take over the games on the road. Boom, problem solved. You take over the games on the road? Huh? Hey, you know, hey, can I tell you something? Can I tell you something?

34:30What is that? I just heard, right? a little birdie now i'm not sure things when you see stuff like this most of the time if they're smoked there's a fire somewhere that the head coach the head coaching job is going to be available down there famu now i mean what you think about me and you going down to famu moving moving to tallahassee you can coach all the games at home all the games on the road i take over think about all the players we can get in the portal to come on down there to tallahassee why would i go catch

35:00Shannon Sharpe:another HBCU school and my HBCU school. Because your HBCU don't got the kind of money we got down there. Well, it wouldn't be about the money for me. The hell it don't. I won't go to Savannah State to do well. If any team that got orange in their uniform at an HBCU do well, it's damn sure going to be HBCU. Now you heard that lie you just told. It's a good thing it ain't Sunday. Talk about it ain't about the money. The hell it ain't. If it wasn't about the money, Lane Kiffin would be staying right in goddamn Ole Miss. Ocho, I'm saying it's not about the money. For me, Ocho, you going to an HBCU, they not finna pay you no$14 million.

35:36Shannon Sharpe:You not gonna even get a million. Slow that. Slim it down. Slim it down. Slim it down. You don't know what we got. You don't know what we got. You hear me? Probably the high-paid HBCU coach probably makes$300 ,000 to$400 ,000. Hey, Unk, let me tell you something, man. Listen, Unk. Yeah, Michael Vick's the high-paid. He make$400 ,000. So what you trying to do? You trying to get his money in there. Hey, listen, I talk to the program. We give you 500. We give you 500, 5 million NFL NIL roster money. Tell him, no. And you can bring the dog with you. No. Teddy say no go. It's all good. It's all good.

36:24Listen, I'm just... He said they got gators in Florida.

36:27Shannon Sharpe:and they be trying to get me. He'll be all right. He'll be all right. They're going to speed him right back out. I'm just, hey, listen, I'm just trying to diversify your portfolio. Well, they definitely get Teddy because Teddy can't run. At least Thanos might be able to get away. Can you get away? All you got to do is zigzag up. You know, Gator's only fast in a straight line. Hey, they run fast enough. I turned off news altogether. I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything. It's the rage bait. It feels like it's trying to divide people. If we got clear facts, maybe we can calm down a little.

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40:38Shannon Sharpe:Coach O. Arch Manning. Yeah. Ooh. Arch Manning probably had his best performance in his career at Texas. Yes, sir. He threw for a career-high 389 yards, accounted for six total touchdowns and a 52-37 win over the Razorbacks. Manning did something not even Vince Young or any other Texas quarterback had ever done at the university. He became the first player in school history to catch a touchdown, throw a touchdown, and rush for a touchdown. Look, I don't want to get too far over my skis because it was Arkansas. But when you do something that a university that's 125, 150 years old and no other quarterback has ever done that in history, we got to give it kudos.

41:22Shannon Sharpe:Even though it was against Arkansas, he still had himself a day, 18 to 30, 389, four touchdowns, no interceptions. They still can't run a damn football, so they had to throw it like that. But Livingston had two for 104 and a touchdown. Mosley the fifth, four for 81. Ringo, six for 81. Moore, three for 74. So he had a day throwing the football. But I think in order for them to be what they really want to be, Ocho, they've got to have some resemblance of a run game. You know what? They've got to have a run game. But I like this for Arch. I like this for Arch because you're going to get into games where you can't run the ball, and the fact that your run game has been your Achilles heel all season long and you haven't been able to run, and teams are making it one-dimensional, I know they played Arkansas.

42:10But the fact that you are one-dimensional and you're able to be successful, you know, doing what you struggle with, you know, throughout damn near the whole season, you know, as far as the passing game is concerned. And for Ars to go out there and have a game like he had today, four TDs for 389, I would like some of the other receivers that play for Texas to step up. I would like some of those for those other receivers to step up because I think of Texas. I think of one of the schools that should be somewhat equivalent to the LSUs and the Ohio States as far as pumping out, you know, top tier receivers that that should be going into the first round.

42:43And I just haven't seen that yet this year. Ringo, who I thought was supposed to be that guy. He hasn't just he hasn't shown me enough this year. You know, outside of that, Archman, I'm glad to see him playing well again, even though they play. hey, you want to steer caution to win because they were playing Arkansas. We'll see what happens.

43:04Shannon Sharpe:Who's fired their coach during the season. Yeah, yeah. I'm curious. I mean, think about it. We got Arkansas that fired their coach, Florida that fired their school coach, LSU that fired their coach. So we got three coaches in the SEC that got fired in the middle of the season. I have one question. Does Texas have another test before the season ends? Oh, yeah. A &M. Oh, shoot. Next week. Now, see? Now, that's going to be. please tell me they're playing at Texas A &M so I can go to the game. They're playing in Texas. Damn it. I don't know nobody at Texas. Now, he puts a performance like this against A &M.

43:39Shannon Sharpe:Let's talk. Let's talk. Yes, sir. With the confidence he's built in this game and the San Jose even though those games don't count, being able to put up a performance like this, regardless of who you're playing you go into Texas A &M next week with that confidence already built up, listen, he might throw for 500. You never know. You never know. Sark said Vince Young was at the game and came up to him after saying, man, I wish I could have had a play like that. Oh, you talking about the Philly special? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was nice. That was nice. Well, Vince, you did everything else. Damn, you won a single-handedly won a national championship, dude.

44:19Shannon Sharpe:I mean, you put on one of the greatest performances in championship history. Yeah. I mean, and then the year before, you did a number on Michigan. Yeah. And I think he almost threw for 200 and ran for 200. So, he put together a year. And then to do what he did against USC that was going for a third straight national championship, when they had all those guys, Matthew Leonard, Reggie Bush, Lindell White. You know, they had Cushion. They had Clay Matthews Jr. They had a squad over there. They had a squad, right. And Vince Young said, nah. They had a squad. Stars were shining on Texas that night.

45:01Shannon Sharpe:Diego Pavia threw for a career-high 484 yards, Ocho. Five touchdowns as the number 14 Vanderbilt Commodores beat the Kentucky Wildcats by the score of 45-17. That's not fair. The Commodores kept their hopes for a college football playoff berth alive going into the regular season finale. That's not fair. Pavia, who struck yet another Heisman pole celebrating with his teammates, set the program record topping 464 passing yards by Whit Taylor had against Tennessee in 1981. Pavia ran for another 48 yards and a sixth score. Vandy coach Clark Lill said he's the best player in the country and deserves to be in the Heisman conversation.

45:40Shannon Sharpe:He tips the field when he steps on it. There's only a few players in the world that when the ball's in their hand, that can take over a game, and he's done that repeatedly here. According to Vegas, Fernando Mendoza still holds the highest Heisman Trophy odds at minus 120. Meanwhile, Jordan Sane holds the second best at 360. Diego Pavia improved his odds to plus 650. Ocho? Yeah. He was 33 of 39. 484. 484, five touchdowns to one interception. He was their leading rusher. And again, here's a team that really couldn't run the football today, Ocho. 25 carries, 65 yards. not even three yards a carry, but he was able to do it.

46:26He had two receivers over 100 yards.

46:29Shannon Sharpe:Richardson had six for a buck 59, three tubs. Cheryl had eight for 115 and a tub. He did a little bit of everything. Like I said, he ran for a touchdown, and he threw for five more. Six total touchdowns. That's crazy. I mean, even that interception, it is what it is. It didn't affect the outcome of the game, but this is another game, though. So this is another game just like the Texas game. You're playing Arkansas. They're playing Kentucky. They're playing Kentucky. Kentucky's not very good offensively and defensively. I'm sorry to all those Wildcats out there, including my daughter who goes University of Kentucky.

47:03But probably a deal with what you're supposed to do against an inferior opponent. You're supposed to throw 44. You're supposed to look like this. The receiver is supposed to go off the way they did. So this is a great game for him. As far as his Heisman hopes, I would have loved for him to have a game like this against some of the bigger schools. some of the bigger schools

47:21Shannon Sharpe:like when he played Alabama bingo like when you play Alabama but they beat LSU he had a good game I said Jordan saying if Julian saying Ohio State quarterback look Mendoza played really really well we'll see what he looks like when they play Ohio State in the Big 12 championship game that seems to be that's going to be a matchup and we'll see that's next week no no no no No, no, no. Next week is Ohio State-Michigan. That's probably the following week. Okay. So we'll get a better sense about Mendoza. We'll get a better sense about Sane. Sane, yeah. Because those are the one and two teams in the country, and deservedly so, both unbeaten, untied.

48:06Shannon Sharpe:So it's going to be very, very interesting to see how this thing shapes up. But Sane, look, he's throwing the two top receivers. We know he has Jeremiah Smith. I mean a guy from Vanderbilt winning the Heisman Trophy would be crazy to think. That would, huh? A school mainly known for academics. Right. And nobody really thought about Vanderbilt until this kid Pavia got there because Vanderbilt used to be everybody's homecoming. But they put everybody on notice last year. Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, isn't he trying to get another year? Yeah, no, Pavia. I think I saw he was like a part of a lawsuit because he went to JUCO and he's trying to say Juco is not a part of it.

48:44Shannon Sharpe:Something to that.

48:50Shannon Sharpe:He's like, I'm trying to get some more of these old Vandy Bucks. Oh, listen. He's staying another year. He's going to get himself up that draft board now. It's going into next year. Is that what?

49:07Oh.

49:09Shannon Sharpe:He's fine. Yeah. Ocho, Oregon. And 10th win of the season, 42-27 victory over USC. Dan Lanning had a lot to say in his post-game news conference. Lanning fired shots at the SEC saying, we didn't play Chattanooga State today, right? Like some of the other places, we competed. It's tough playing nine conference games. It's tough playing in this league. I think proof's in the pudding. We can beat you in a multiple ways, right? We can outscore you at times, right? We can hold you to 18, 16 points type of game. Winning tough environments, any weather, put the ball down. Let's go play football. That's the kind of team that we have.

49:43Shannon Sharpe:Landing also took issue with how teams win are sometimes viewed by the committee. A lot of times we play really good teams and they become unranked all of a sudden. That's not our fault. Maybe it is our fault. The Dubs currently 10-1, 7th in the CFP rankings behind 3-1 lost teams, three other one-loss teams, Georgia, Texas Tech, Ole Miss, as of last week's ranking. You like what Coach Landing had to say, Ocho? I like it. I like coaches talking shit like, oh, excuse me, I'm bad. I like coaches talking like that. I like them talking jazzy because it's the reason the teams are playing the way they play now.

50:18When you think of Oregon in the past, you think of finesse, speed all over the place. Oregon right now, the game they're winning, a win up front, and then everything else takes over from there. They're running the ball. They dominate the front. They're throwing the ball. The quarterback Moore had a day-to-day. he was 20 22 for 30 with two tds 257 they uh whitening had 104 on the ground and the td hey um they not the same organ of old where you call them a finesse team oh they ain't gonna hit nobody they weak up front man they got the meat and potatoes up there battling battling the trenches and the skill position is taking over from there so i i like i like i like you talking a little

50:58Shannon Sharpe:trash though i like that i mean the usc gave him a game for a while a little bit you know they kind and pulled away. I mean, it was, what, 28-14 at the half. Both scored a touchdown. Then USC scored six. But, look, Oregon's got a good team. I think if they hold serve, they're going to be in the college football playoff. It's hard. That's the number 17 in the country. When they got Oregon State probably next week. They got 11-1. It's going to be hard to leave a team that's in the top 10 out of the college football playoff. It's just going to be hard. I mean, hold on. They might lose Oregon State next week.

51:33Ain't nobody losing to Oregon State

51:34Shannon Sharpe:Don't sleep Don't sleep on us Yeah we slept We sleeping Don't sleep Hey listen It's Civil War you never know what might happen You never know Well they the North We know what happened to the Civil War in the North and the South General Lee surrendered to the Appomattox Courthouse So So that's where I'm at on y 'all. Look, I think the SEC is going to nine conference games also. Because, yeah, I mean, you play in Mercer and you play in Chattanooga and you play in all these teams. Yeah. But, boy, that's why I think the thing is that, you know, you go unscathed in the SEC when you got Alabama and LSU and you got, you know, you got Oklahoma and Texas.

52:25Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. You got all those teams on your – you got all those teams on Georgia. but it's going to be hard for you to go unscathed and play a and play a a a conference championship game right so it's going to be hard for you to be unscathed in these conferences moving yeah it it it just is it just is and i know you know people like well hey this is the x y and z but it's going to get harder and harder um for you to go unscathed well listen that's that's a good thing that's that's a good thing obviously because for for us for us fans of of the collegiate game that's a good thing for us now maybe for the committee it might be a little difficult it might be a little difficult to them maybe they will take into account that listen it's going to be difficult for for us for the team to go undefeated so maybe you have to have some of the a little a little curve when it comes to your judging who you let in the college football playoffs because it's so difficult yeah i i think i think um when you look at i mean you got penn state really down this year you got illinois you got northwestern you got some of these teams like michigan state right right so it's going to be interesting you know i i don't i don't envy being in and and you know their plate their position because you're gonna have to make some tough decisions yeah it's gonna be it's gonna you're gonna have to make some very very tough decisions and and if you're not careful here ocho it's gonna be the sec versus the big 10 that's who's going to make the college football playoff.

53:52Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah. Ochoa, the effort to solidify his college football playoff case, the number nine ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish left little doubt today with a record seven, 70 to seven route of Syracuse. The Irish scored 21 points before taking the first, damn, offensive snap. That's not fair, man. And now won 19 straight regular season games when facing elimination from the college football playoff discussion, many in blowout fashion. If there's a lingering question about why the committee ranked Notre Dame as the second highest of the two lost teams this week, theirs were answered in South Bear.

54:28Shannon Sharpe:Jeremiah Love bolstered his Heisman Trophy candidacy with 108 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Ocho, on eight carries. Hey, what is Syracuse doing, man? Nothing. Don't look like they were doing nothing. Hey, after the game, they need to be out there doing tackling drills. Well, you remember early in the year, Ocho, they had them running wind sprints when they lost the game oh that's right oh that coach did have see now right now after the game is over they shouldn't even be able to shower everybody outside and we do what they must be they got b77 you ain't do nothing you ain't musty you you know what is that they the correct way is musty we say musty man get your musty ass out Hey, listen, they played in South Bend, right?

55:15Yes. Yeah, listen, I can't remember the head coach's name for Syracuse, but I would have had the plane. We not going nowhere. Wait till the stadium clear out. Everybody come back out here. Put your pads on. We doing tackling drills. We not even getting on the plane. We not even going home. We don't even deserve to get on the flight.

55:33Shannon Sharpe:They need to do some offensive drills, too, because they only passed for 95 yards. And they only had 112 yards. They only had 112 yards rushing. They had 112 yards rushing on 50 carries. Oh, hold on. Notre Dame had, Chad, Notre Dame had 329 yards rushing, six touchdowns on 24 carries. Hold on. Let me tell you what's even worse, though. Think about this. Think about if Syracuse could tackle, right? Think if Syracuse did have defense and was able to stop the run. please tell the chat how many yards car had throwing today 49 they had 67 total yards there were 9 of 15 for 67 yards and a touchdown see if you was able to stop the run if you was able to stop the run now you're allowing people to run if you're able to run on a team if you're able to impose your will and move a man off a spot against his will and freedom this is the kind of day you're going to have and once you can do that it's a wrap it's a wrap there's no need to throw the ball there's no need they had less than four because here's the problem that they run into is that every time they touch the ball they go and hit the head on the goal post yeah jordan love because think about it you had 24 rush attempts and basically a fourth of those ended in a touchdown touchdown i'm i'm curious i mean at some point pride has to set in.

57:08You got to want to hit somebody. 35-0 in the first

57:12Shannon Sharpe:quarter. 49-0 at the half. 56-0 at the end of three. Is that disrespectful for Mr. Franklin? Running the score up like that? He didn't run the score. I emptied my bench. Hell, I called a couple of kids out of the stands. Here, come here. You don't play football, son? No, sir. He'll get in the game. Maybe they can tackle you. They can't tackle these kids that actually played before. so hey hey what'd you say he pulled a couple of kids out the stand yeah he got a couple of kids out the stand hey you ever played football before son no sir here get in here we gonna hand you the ball off hey I mean that's that's embarrassing that's funny that's funny that's a good one I mean 24 crushes bro oh that's funny that's damn near 15 yards of carry yeah them boys laid down out there man they hold on they laid down early they laid down early 35-0 in the in the first quarter in the first quarter that means you you ain't won You ain't want no smoke.

58:06You ain't trying to play no football. 70? Y 'all going through. They going through the motions, man. Come on, now. At least play for the S on your helmet. If you ain't going to play for the S on your helmet, play for your head coach. If you ain't going to play for your head coach, play for your teammates. If you ain't going to play for your teammates, at least play for the name on the back of the jersey because people can see that show.

58:23Shannon Sharpe:With all that fell, that's what it cut. Hey, I already know how my what you call him going to do. I already know my homeboy going to kill me when I go back home. Man, they beat a brace off y 'all, Shaw. What the hell y 'all was doing? Nothing. Anybody that play with Syracuse And you got a girlfriend She should dump you She got to leave you I ain't taking no calls She ain't taking no calls tonight Block everybody She might be in the DM She might be in a Love DM Listen If you're in a relationship Ladies and you're dating someone On the Syracuse football team I suggest you break up with them because that's uncalled for.

59:05There should be no reward. There should be no reward for being in a relationship after that bullshit they pull the date.

59:11Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, that's bad. Ojo, you ever scored 70 points on somebody? Yeah, man. The optimal is the actual football game. Oh, real life? Oh, no, not real life. Hell no, hell no. You know, any game I've played in, it's always been a game of what I like to call quality on both sides of the ball. No, it was thought to be a quality. no we beat we beat Morehouse one year for homecoming 70-13 we beat Clark like 60-20 we used to put points on people I mean that's not fair y 'all wasn't playing nobody we played them I mean we made it look like nobody okay I see what you're saying they were somebody before we got older they ass right I got you see that's what you gotta do see if you get into a fight with somebody you don't beat them and turn them loose you beat them till they break loose.

1:00:01Shannon Sharpe:You don't see animals fight. He break loose and go. He ain't never got to worry about them again. Okay, I see what you mean. I see what you mean. We made Morehouse break loose. They took us off the schedule for a couple years. At least until I left. Now, they about to play. They about to came back and spun the block after I left. But they ain't want no parcel number two again. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Because we cut everybody ass. Clark, Fort Valley, Albany State. It didn't matter. Didn't matter. Mo Brown, they got it too. Yeah, you know this shit ain't called Fam, huh? Listen, Ocho, now I don't know what Fam would have done before number two got there or after, but they would have said, now they are this.

1:00:42You don't think so?

1:00:44Shannon Sharpe:No, sirree. Okay. I'm getting just what I know. I'm getting off the bus getting 100. Now, your best bet is to try to keep me from getting 150, 200 in a couple of tubs. I don't know, Unc. It's a different ball game down there with them boys down there in Tallahassee. especially back in them days. What year you was at, Savannah State? 86 to 89. Oh, boy, them boys weren't playing back then, boy. Them boys weren't playing back then. Them boys weren't playing back then, boy. You know I caught a touchdown in 21 straight games? Huh? Yeah, yeah. You ain't hear what I just said now, huh? What? Think about the level of competition.

1:01:20Obviously, HBCU, great talent. Yes. Elite talent. Sometimes not getting the opportunities they want to do, want to have to be at PWIs, right? but fam you in the 80s um you didn't want none of that i'm telling you now choo you do realize

1:01:34Shannon Sharpe:i was one of them guys that was supposed to be at a pwi right yeah i understand that and it was a whole lot of them too yes but they couldn't see me oh choo if i did what i did in the nfl can you imagine me what i was doing at hbcu yeah so just think about it damn damn i went to the home from the HBCU? I can just imagine he would cook. Yes. Yeah. All right. All right. Ochoa averaged 20 yards a catch for a career. What? A career. Can I ask you something? Yes. I want you to remember this name. Jaquay Nunley. Okay? He averaged 20 yards a catch for his career too at FAMU. Yeah. Well, guess what? He's an Edison Red Raider legend.

1:02:22Yeah. Come on now. Hey. but guess what I guess he'd have had 200 I'd have had 300 nah but I them boys back then that defense back then that defense that rattler defense in the 80s boy especially 86 to 89 as a matter of fact 86 to 92 man you wouldn't

1:02:40Shannon Sharpe:it would have been no you wouldn't have heard nothing all you heard

1:02:49Shannon Sharpe:little tail moving just a little bit nah nah listen nah nah I'm telling you man I'm telling you man you do realize Georgia Southern we played Georgia Southern Georgia Southern they ended up winning the the 1AA National Championship the year we played them I set a stadium record on them 9 for 202 Cookman Elon the year before they won the NIA National Championship 7 for 221 oh the bigger the school Elon not elon uh uh wafford cooked them lamb for 142 and two if you if you were really really good it comes to a you know uh you know they're gonna be some scouts here because they got some good that's all i need to hear just they just say scouts they could have been boy scouts girl scouts selling damn cookies on the sideline i was cutting ass yeah i i listen it sound good it sound good but them boys down here in florida no boy listen hey listen oh listen let me let me finish now them boys coming out of Dade, Dade and Broward County that were down there in Tallahassee that made up that Florida A &M Rattler football team boy you wouldn't have gotten nothing you hear me and that's what hey listen that's with all due respect to what you did against them teams you played when you played you know at Savannah State man them boys down here ain't playing that man hey you ain't getting Nathaniel I'm just telling you I'm telling you I'm not telling you what I heard I'm telling you what I know I'm a double-edged sword I was cutting ass left and right you know what I'm saying they're just sharp on one side I'm double edged I'm cutting ass on the left side I'm cutting ass on the right side it's different you notice all the schools you just named none of them had to do nothing with Florida they ain't had nothing to do nothing with Florida it's a different type of breed down here man you hear me oh who we played Central Florida one year Central Florida who was that Central Florida?

1:04:46I don't know nothing about that school there. Boy, stop it. I don't know nothing. You talk about UCF, huh? Yes. Yeah, they must have just started that year. Yeah, they must have just started that year.

1:04:59Shannon Sharpe:Cooked them. Go look at it. Cooked them. They had a guy that ended up, if I'm not mistaken, got drafted by the Cowboys in the third round. Who? They came down. They came down. I think his name was Ford. Bernard Ford. Look at it. Hey, who won the game? Oh, they won. They beat us, but I beat them. Okay. You know what I'm saying? They was talking about, man, who was that number two? You used that to cut? Oh, for sure. Okay. Look, we went to my sophomore year, I made a black college All-American. I was the only sophomore to make the team.

1:05:35Shannon Sharpe:Coach Grambler's head coach, Coach Eddie Robinson. Eddie Robb. Coach W.C. Gordon. such a I mean all the coaches Mo Forte they had Willie Jeffries and they was talking about all these guys Howard Ballard was at the game Vince Carter Howard Reed all these guys my coach said I got the baddest in here all them guys y 'all talking about my guy gonna play on Sundays and he a sophomore he the baddest in here he ain't lie he was talking about you he had He had the baddest end there. A true sophomore. All right. All right. All right. You better tell him about your dad. Yeah. It sounds good. Hey, speaking of simply on the topic of ABCUs, I just want to congratulate Bethune Cook and the Wildcats on winning the Florida Classic today.

1:06:27Salute to y 'all boys, all the Wildcats out there. Rattlers, we're going to be all right. We're going to be all right. We're going to be back next year. We got one more game. We got Mississippi Valley State next weekend. We need to finish the season all strong with a win. I'm not sure what's going to happen with the coaching vacancy but whatever coach comes into play we're going to have success next year but I guarantee you one thing I guarantee we won the halftime show I guarantee we won the halftime show and if we didn't win the halftime show I guarantee we won the fifth quarter yeah

1:06:56Shannon Sharpe:y 'all bad with it I'm bad with it whoa don't do that I'm so glad I'm so glad uh

1:07:14hey that's the that's the best thing about accu football games when that thing crank up and when the band crank up or they playing in the in the middle oh man because you don't want to

1:07:25Shannon Sharpe:let me talk about you're not supposed to be playing when the opposing team got the ball to get all that. That's out the window. Out the window. Out the window. But, hey, we're going to be playing because I'm going to give them something to play for. Yeah. We're going to be playing. Mm-hmm. What's the, what's the, what? I mean, you got beat a bunch in Cincinnati. We got beat by, I think. Whoa, hey, whoa, whoa. That wasn't necessary. You take shots at me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The most I got like 37. I lost 37, nothing to the Eagles. No, ain't nobody dropped no 40, 50. Hell no. I mean, 37-0 to 50.

1:07:59I mean, same thing. You ain't too far off.

1:08:02Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, we dropped 70. No, bro, you start getting the 50s. You know how many touchdowns? Ocho, you know how many touchdowns? Hold on. We had a game. We played the Cleveland Browns. We didn't lose. I'm not saying it got in the 50s. I think the score, it was 57-45 or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Were you there then? Yeah, I was there. Yeah. I think when that they was going back and forth, there's like four. Hey, we was scoring hella touchdowns. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I remember that. So, now you got that in my head now. Ocho, if you had to guess right now, just looking at through the first 11 weeks, 10, 11 weeks, 12 weeks of the college football season, who do you see on the landscape that could actually beat Ohio State?

1:08:55Shit. Actually beat them convincingly. Nobody going to beat them convincingly. A team that can give them a hard time, maybe.

1:09:07Shannon Sharpe:Georgia, Indiana. Georgia, Indiana. Georgia, Indiana. As great, I mean, I would say Texas, if they were a little bit more consistent offensively, but they've been consistent offensively against somewhat inferior opponents. He's played good, but I need to see consistent quarterback play, great decision-making to say, you know what? You can go in there and beat Ohio State. Great defense, but you still got to put up points. Yeah, the first game, Ohio State's going to be at home. So the likelihood of somebody going in there and beating them there, probably not likely. You're going to probably have to get them on a neutral field, Ocho.

1:09:45I don't think so.

1:09:46Shannon Sharpe:You're probably going to have to get them on a neutral field. But Indiana, good. That defense. Yeah, I agree. That defense. We're going to find out a lot. Because we know Michigan play them tough. No matter what, no matter what Michigan might look, what you might think, may or may not think of Michigan. Michigan play them tough. Michigan is physical. They're a physical team. They're going to run the football, and they're going to try to shut your water off and stop you from running the football. So it's going to be a very interesting matchup, and you know Michigan has a true freshman quarterback.

1:10:12Shannon Sharpe:How much pressure can they put on him and to coax him into a few mistakes? Because I found out mistaken. I think this game is in Michigan, Ocho. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I think this game is at the big house. You know, normally we'd go at the big house. You ain't want to go to the big house. Nah. I mean, not that big house. No, sure don't. So it's going to be tough. Look, we got some good teams. We got Georgia. You got A &M doesn't have a loss. Excuse me, A &M has no losses. Indiana has no loss. You got a few teams out there that have one loss. So it's going to be interesting to see. They got those two outstanding receivers.

1:10:57Shannon Sharpe:They can run the ball. The quarterback is really, really good. You got your work cut out. You're going to have to play. Ohio State's going to have to get outside of themselves. Yeah. They're going to have to turn the ball over. They're going to have to be sloppy. You're going to have to make them, and, you know, you're going to have to create some turnovers. You're going to have to create some big plays for yourself. Because I just don't know if you can just methodically just go down the field. Methodically. 10 play, 11 play, 12 play. You're going to have to play drive to get there. You're going to have to get a couple of splash plays and flip field position.

1:11:27Shannon Sharpe:But it's going to be very, very interesting to see how this thing shapes out. Who makes the college football playoffs? What brackets are they in? How soon? Is Georgia going to be on the same side as Ohio State? You know, something along Texas A &M, where are the seating? So that's going to be very, very interesting to see how this thing shapes out. Oh, yeah. But I'm anxious. I'm ready now.

1:12:04Hey, is it clear?

1:12:06Shannon Sharpe:No. Huh? Huh? Is it clear? I can't hear what you said. Is it clear? What clear? Oh, you can see it, huh? Yeah, a little bit. Damn. I think the camera trying to focus by itself Hey, if I a I can join a and Jordan if I if I put my camera on auto with it would have focus on it He said if he put his camera on auto with it focus No He said no no Damn, uh, oh, so you see you can you see what they got up to about the best 50 Someone dropped the top 50 running backs ever in college in college who number one they got Jonathan Taylor hell no at number one who made that look here oh okay since 2000 now Reggie is number one since 2000 Reggie Bush is number one since 2000

1:13:07Shannon Sharpe:I'm not putting Jonathan Taylor over Reggie or Adrian Peterson well who number three they got can you see it let me look at that thing I got the chat up on my phone.

1:13:23Okay, here we go.

1:13:27Ooh, that's a good list. Hey, Darren McFadden was that boy, boy. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

1:13:33Shannon Sharpe:It's since 2008. I was going to say, because they're like, all time? I was like, oh, hell no. Hey. Ooh, Monty Ball. Oh, just bring back memories, boy. Oh, Wisconsin has some running backs now. They didn't. Yeah. I mean, Jonathan Taylor has been the best one in the NFL from there. Melvin Gordon had a nice career. But when you go look at Ron Dane and some of those other guys that came into the league, they didn't have nearly the career like a Melvin Gordon, like a Jonathan Taylor. So clearly Jonathan Taylor has had the best NFL career. Melvin Gordon was a solid ball player as well. Hey, speaking of, didn't Michael Bennett go to Wisconsin too?

1:14:09That went to Minnesota, right? Or am I tripping? I think so. He might have did. He was real fast. if I'm not mistaken. I might have the wrong school. Hey, Michael James at Oregon was must-see TV, Mark. Must-see TV. Christian McCaffrey, Reese Hall, Dalvin Cook.

1:14:33Shannon Sharpe:Y 'all like that list, chat? Hell yeah. Dalvin Cook. No, I'm saying I'm asking if they like it. No, no. Ain't nobody. Reggie Bush was the most electrifying running back since 2000. And it ain't even close. nobody was close to Reggie as a running back and he was a returner Reggie was the most electrified hey who was 25 I don't even know who that is Kadeem Carey went to Arizona he had an okay career nothing in the NFL he was a good college player Sproles was a utility knife Darren Sproles at the Chargers New Orleans, Philly Yeah, Philly. Yeah. I like that list. I mean, seeing some of these names, I haven't seen some of these names in a long time.

1:15:20They bring back good memories watching college football.

1:15:25Shannon Sharpe:I guess they ain't like Zeke. They ain't put Zeke up there. At Ohio. Yeah, he had a good career at Ohio State. Oh, man. Man, the first year of the college, the football playoff, I mean, that number that he had, over 200 yards in three games. Oregon Alabama and I think it was Penn State or who was it in the Big Ten Championship game he went over 200 then he goes 220 against Bama then he goes like 240 250 against Oregon let me see Reggie was nice they got them okay this is Tab Ramos from Inside American Soccer And this summer, Topgolf is turning into the ultimate soccer destination. They've got a new soccer-themed game you can play with your group, exclusive food and drink items.

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