Nightcap Hour 1: Ole Miss SHOCKS Georgia to ADVANCE to Semi-Finals + Indiana THRASHES Bama in Rose Bowl + Oregon SHUTS OUT Texas Tech & Johnny Manziel CLEARS the AIR

24:47Shannon Sharpe:But Chambliss, his ability to get outside, Ocho, and throw the ball over the top, that's what was most impressive for me tonight. I think that was really the difference in the ball game. Georgia has outstanding speed at all three levels. His ability to race them to a point outside and still be able to throw the ball with marksman accuracy over the top was extremely, extremely impressive today. And they won this ball game. Oh, man, I can imagine what it's like at Oxford. I know they're going crazy. They probably say, Lane, who? Who? We ain't miss it. We ain't miss it. But unfortunately, Charlie Weiss Jr.

25:25Shannon Sharpe:is going to be tagging along with Lane to LSU. But I will not be surprised within the next year, Charlie Weiss Jr. gets the head coaching job because what he did tonight was masterful. Let's move on. College football playoff win. But Lane still get paid. He got $250 for the first game. What does he make for this game? Another$250 or the$500? He still get paid just like he coached. You got to understand that this is his product. This is his product. He must have been like it. You said sell itself. Yeah. I mean, it's set itself, which is why it looked the way it looked today. Just because he didn't coach this last game, you got to understand that he's had these players all season long.

26:09He's had them prepared and ready to go.

26:13Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

26:16Shannon Sharpe:So it's going to be very, very interesting to see. Boy, can you imagine if Ole Miss goes on to win the national championship and Lane don't win one at LSU? Well, hold on. You're saying he don't get no ring? Hell, I ain't going to get no ring. Oh, he's still getting the check, ain't he? How much you want to bet he don't get a ring? How much you want to make a bet he does? I bet you. I bet you. I bet. Bet it. Oh, if he's. That after letting. That after. Hold on, Ocho. They wouldn't let his ass stay in coach. Hold on. Let me finish. Let me finish. Go ahead. Don't even listen to me now. What sense did this make to?

26:54Now, if you're going to have to make some sense to me, come on. now you're still getting checks but you're not coaching the team that's in the playoffs but you mean to tell me if they win a national championship it's okay to give you the checks but you're not going to get a ring? What sense that make?

27:08Shannon Sharpe:A lot of sense The checks in the contract ain't no ring in the contract I guarantee you his players wouldn't give him a ring Hell no! And he wanted to stay they didn't want him to stay Right. Well, obviously, when you take another job, I don't think they would want you to stay either. Now, the players, they might feel a little different. Administration? Nah, buddy. Nah, Ocho. I don't know if you've been listening close enough. The players, the players, ain't no love lost. The players did not want him to stay in coach.

27:46They don't understand the nature of the business yet. They'll get it. They'll get it. They're in college right now.

27:50Shannon Sharpe:They do understand. They do understand. If you love me so much, why are you leaving? It happens all the time, but I don't care about that. I'm talking about here Yes, there are a lot of kids get put up for adoption, but that ain't got nothing to do with our situation right here right now We're talking about me and you I understand yeah, there are hardships. Yes Some moms go through things and they're not equipped. I get all that. But what does that got to do with me? Yeah What'd you say a lot of kids get what yeah? Yeah get put up on doctor but that ain't got nothing to do with me you you said you didn't want me now when i have success you want some of this credit come on that it happens all the time yes sir i ain't give you none of it right so we'll see how this thing copenhagen spit free packs american grown tobacco into pouches made from when your elbows deep in an engine block they're masked up torching deep She cuts into stubborn pipes.

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33:00Shannon Sharpe:Indiana routes. Oh, Lord. 38-3 in the Rose Bowl behind Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza. Three touchdown. Indiana earns its first bowl game. Since 1991, the Hoosiers advanced to face Oregon in the semifinals. Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza threw for 192 yards, three touchdowns, while the defense held Alabama to 193 yards. Man, Alabama ain't got no speed. Their defense looks so slow. Their skill, everything on offense, they was moving in mud. Indiana was flying. It was all over the place. It was flying. and try to take off what'd you see man that this is kind of the same alabama team we've seen all year i mean at times they've looked good but they had to fight and claw to win the iron bowl they had times throughout the season where they look terrible this is still a team that lost to florida state to open the season just a very inconsistent team i think Ty Simpson at times throughout this year.

34:09We've praised on this show. We praised his play. We praised his poise at times, making big throws. That wasn't the same guy today. And you got to give a lot of credit to Signetti, the way he has Indiana playing. A lot of heart flying around the field. They're determined. They're focused. Obviously, Mendoza has to feel extremely confident with the way that he's playing football right now. You knock off Ohio State. You go and smack Alabama. You're just looking at this situation like next up. They almost seem to me like a little bit of team of fate, of destiny, to do something for them and their program that hasn't been done ever.

34:48And I think everybody in that locker room has bought in. And since the Penn State game, we really haven't seen them slip up very much. You know, I think I've made a lot of noise about was Mendoza deserving of the highest man? Was he the best player in the country and all that? You put that to bed and put that to rest because you have the trophy now. His is sitting in his room or in his house or wherever it is. Now you go out and solidify it. And you know how you solidify that? Running the table and going undefeated and winning the national championship and doing two things that have never really been done at Indiana on the football side.

35:23Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I agree. Ocho Signetti also was at Alabama. Yeah? Yeah. He was an assistant under Coach Saban. So both coaches that was in the Ole Miss Georgia game was at Alabama. The University of Crystal Ball, he was at Miami. Signetti, he was at Alabama. Dan Lanning, he's at Alabama. Right. Ain't an accident. It's not an accident. What you see in this game, Ocho, Alabama looked awful. other than they looked awful. What did you see? I mean, listen, the game was one up front. Defense, huh? Defense. Indiana, they all over the place. Made Ty Simpson uncomfortable all goddamn day long. I'm not sure if Indiana's defense and offense is moving that fast or just Alabama's offense and defensive players were just that slow.

36:20I see the skilled players. They weren't effective. And almost to a point, it's like, is Alabama, did they really belong here where they they really belong in the playoffs to begin with with the way they look uh tonight i mean early earlier today obviously i understand indiana hasn't lost all season long they look really good all season long and they played up the par and let and put everybody else everybody else on notice that we are serious what you saw last year from us we are the real deal what you saw from us during the regular season yes that is us and we can play with the best and they proved the day and a thrashing of Alabama and just it almost it was a lopsided game it was a lopsided game to the point where I was like why is Alabama even out here in the goddamn I agree

37:10Shannon Sharpe:I can't recall and I've been watching Alabama a long time I remember when Coach Bryant actually coached Alabama so that's how far I've been watching Alabama and I told y 'all earlier this year I've never seen an Alabama team look like this team they're big they're slow yeah they're slow Alabama I mean their defense there's nothing when you there used to be things there are things that you could look at Alabama says okay they're special you look at their offensive line the defensive line they would used to be littered with first round pick special you look at their wide receiver groups special you look at their DVs special you look at their linebacker special you tell me one thing that's special about Alabama offense defense or special teams tell me one thing chat that you guys have seen all year long that says okay that's a special player that's a special unit nothing nothing jumps out at you absolutely nothing

38:10Shannon Sharpe:boy they got Alabama fans and alumni and boosters probably said that we sure wish you to took that job at Michigan and leave us the hell alone yeah damn it was bad it was it was it was bad um and I think the thing is maybe uh you people like well well oh man them days no it's not that's Alabama those days are never over yeah it's just like Michigan it's just like Ohio State there's still a standard they're not gonna settle because coach Saban's not there or coach Bryant's not there go ahead johnny and you know we talk about the standard about alabama having a standard when when when coach hey coach saving coast there well obviously when coach saving coast there nil wasn't wasn't active everyone wanted to go to alabama the the the the players think about all the receivers at one point they were receiving university huh they they filtered one after the other running backs filtered one after the other having one of the best defenses they all filtered one after another going into the draft so everybody wanted to go there now with nil is even the playing field so all the players are going all over the place so now everybody everybody is good everybody getting those five star four star players now so now coaching comes into play even that much more because you're not getting the best of the best now it makes it a lot easier when you got the best receivers you got the best d line you get the best defensive backs you get the best safeties.

39:38Now when you're not and they're going all over the place, every team is sprinkled in some five stars. So now other factors come into play when it comes time to playing and competing.

39:49Shannon Sharpe:I guess you already looked at Ohio State when they had the Bolsa brothers, when they had Chase Young, and they had all those guys. It wasn't no NIL when they had Zeke Elliott, when they had Vernon Golston, and Denzel war it wasn't when they had denzel war and what's the one they got he went to uh he went to detroit what's the db no no no no he was from ohio state jeff okuda okuda yeah there wasn't no nil so don't pretend like alabama was the only one getting them down top players ohio state was getting them because remember they went defensive player rookie of the year defensive rookie of the year defensive rookie of the year.

40:32Shannon Sharpe:They went with Joey Bosa. They went with Chase Young. They went with Nick Bosa. Okay, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something real quick. Go ahead. I think it was NIL back then too, huh, Johnny? No, the difference is they went to the front going to the back door. This time they just walked through the front door. That's the only difference. There we go. You said it before I can get it out. You said it. That's the only difference, Johnny. It adds, for all that's wrong in NIL right now and people are frustrated about it and there needs to be a lot of changes the one thing that it has done is create parity in different teams getting into the playoff absolutely what we wanted we were tired of seeing the same teams in every year same national championships same matchups so georgia alabama alabama clemson alabama you know same thing so it has added to where the talent pool is definitely spread out now do the players have too much power now to do whatever they want and and i saw i think sark saying this the other day he's like we're dealing with kids who are leaving you know before the bowl game or whatever and we go and talk to their agent and their agent may be their roommate sitting down on the couch with them so like you don't know what's going on there definitely needs to be some changes and it's going to take some regulation it's going to take a guy like nick Saban to come in and oversee a committee and they're going to have to find some rules on how to do it it's going to take somebody really powerful like that to make the changes that are necessary John Calipari went on a seven minute rant the other day after the game and it was all time for what he's dealing with on the college basketball side and I will say this as well I can't believe I'm going to say it but even though Notre Dame's taking their ball and going home and running off they would have put up a better fight today than alabama for sure yeah well you gotta do is get in the carvers and play somebody that's very true you you just gotta play somebody and i think that with the nil they just go to show you you can get good in the hurry now it's not so much the nil because but you got to spend the money on the right places it's all about location location location just because you open up a restaurant it can be great food but if it's not in the middle of nowhere ain't nobody traveling way way out there you gotta have you know you want foot traffic you want people oh let's try this place you get the right you see what happened with texas tech you gotta have a quarterback they got mendoza indiana got mendoza yeah uh uh old miss got chambliss

43:06Shannon Sharpe:uh miami got got back mm-hmm yep uh did didn't oregon's guy transfer too i think so i think oregon's got a transfer also but you can get good in a hurry yes if you get the right people is everybody think well hey he transferred from ucla okay so you see yeah quick i mean look what do you think lane kiffin's gonna do next year when he gets to lsu you think he's not going to poach a quarterback from somewhere first and foremost yeah guarantee you what he's doing right now you know johnny it is about they're about to do away with spring ball because all guys are doing a spring ball is getting the tape cutting it up and sending it out say okay what you got for me pretty soon it ain't gonna be no spring ball like you and I had the spring that hey I see you come summer don't even worry about it that's where you make a lot of your development though I mean that's where you grow a lot as a football player is that time from January to to May those are some of your biggest gains in the weight room and your in your technique and what you do I know for me you know from first year to second year I have my biggest growth from that offseason and spring ball and getting more comfortable in the offense and more camaraderie with your guys so you know i think it just takes you know your development back a little bit because you're playing the business and that's what's changed so much about college football is that you better go get this bread because you're not guaranteed it at the next level so you may as well stick around in college for as long as you can get your bag up get a good financial advisor and save your chicken for sure but see that's the thing john do you see how you say you made yours from February to May.

44:55Shannon Sharpe:Somebody else would have came in and said, oh, he did make some development. We got$3 million for him. And then bye-bye, Johnny. See? So that's why they do it away with spring ball. I agree with you. I got so much better from that time I got an opportunity to hit the waves and got an opportunity to really work on what I needed to work on, Ocho, getting out there every day, competing. And I could feel like, man, I'm getting better and getting better and getting better. But you get these guys, Ocho, they're getting better and better and they say you know get me a little cut up and they send their practice tape off oh that kid works oh he's he gonna start for us that's 750 that's a million dollars they already talked about top quarterbacks going for three and a half to five million oh two a 19 year old 20 year old three and a half to five million yeah hey hey absolutely and and when you think about it too hey johnny the fact that these these quarterbacks that they're not proven to a point where they're going to come to your program and make that much of a significant difference and they're getting that kind of money so the pressure is on the pressure is on them once they get the money and oh i'm a four star i'm a five star based on where you come from based on what you did in high school and you come to these huge entities in organizations and they put all that pressure on you well here we pay you that kind of money you got to come and make a difference right away yeah look at carson back look at carson back for example not to mention just the money that you're making, right?

46:19He's in Florida. He's not paying state income tax. He's seeing a lot of that bread. On top of that, there ain't no way he's paying for a car. And I see him in the cluster at Liv. He ain't paying for no bottles. He going out for free. Everything else, you're walking in, alumni sees you at dinner. I went to dinner with Diego Pavia this year. I looked, it was like a$1 ,500,$2 ,000 bill. He ain't paid none of that. so the perks you're getting on top of the money you're getting if you're really smart about it you can leave college if you're a guy like that after three years you can have 12 14 million

46:56Shannon Sharpe:dollars cash all day yeah yeah and and but that's that's the thing that's what you need to have happen guys and i don't begrudge the guys the only thing and if you look at it not uh johnny nocho teams are really not going after the high school guys like they once did they want a guy that's already established. She already knows the college routine. He knows he has study hall. He knows he has, you know, weight lifting and things of that nature. So he's already abreast of the college experience as opposed to getting somebody in that doesn't really understand college. You hope they figure it out.

47:30Shannon Sharpe:They're mature enough. But let me get somebody that's already gone through this. Three to five million dollars. The top receiver is going to go to one, probably somewhere between$750 and$2 million. Maybe even$3 million. Man, hey. I ain't got no problem with it. But you see what's going to happen, Ocho. It's just kind of a very similar situation to, like, the Georgia kid. He got the money and then left. Georgia's suing him. Yes. When it comes to that situation, Uncle Johnny, with Georgia suing him for actually leaving, because he got the money and decided to leave, who's going to win that? We don't know.

48:04That's why they go in the court. Somebody will set a precedent for it, and it'll kind of go off of that moving forward. But listen to this. for single sport recordings more than 3 ,300 plus college football players had entered the portal by day two of the 2025 window. That kills high school kids. That kills these guys who are guys like me, really. The three-star guys who are, man, I waited a long time to get my Texas A &M offer. I had to wait for a lot of people to turn that down. I would have never got that offer living in this day and age. I would have been going to Rice or Sam Houston.

48:41Shannon Sharpe:yeah and played one year there and then guess what then it came back and dumped a bag in your lap and you'd have been in Texas A &M and then I would have been somewhere else the next year and then somewhere else

48:54Shannon Sharpe:it's like one of these smart kids one of these computer analysts one of these coders and things like that MIT graduates, Apple you got Apple, you got Microsoft you got all these companies what you got for your boy? they dumping the bag out on you now it's crazy to see I went to the Texas A &M game this year, and I was around a lot of our bigger boosters. And we're sitting there talking a little bit during halftime, and they're telling me, like, oh, watching our season develop with how much money we've invested into this team, they're like, we're a nervous wreck watching these games. They have a lot of their money on the line on these guys every single week, every single year.

49:37This isn't a couple million dollars we're talking about. this is tens of millions of dollars that one individual at one school can have and unless you're sitting in that five ten twenty billion dollar range like somebody like at michigan you know you've got to look back michigan like we're going to be like larry ellison is worth 250 billion crazy he that doesn't even make him flinch but you got guys that maybe got about five six hundred million and you're dumping about 40 50 60 100 and that's a different that's a different level of nervous so you know it is it is crazy you know the world that we live in I mean sometimes it goes good like a Miami Carson Beck situation that's the reason they're allowed to be in this round of the playoffs and then you have a situation where you're Bryce Underwood and you get smoked by 20 points in your bowl game against you know Texas and I think he'll be good I think if they give him time to develop he'll he'll be okay but it's a lot of pressure what you have on you right away with the kind of money that you're getting.

50:39And they gave him a crazy deal coming out of high school.

50:42Shannon Sharpe:What,$12 million? What,$12 million? $13 million for four years? And when you look at this, this 35-point defeat is the most lopsided postseason Alabama loss in history, which was previously a 32-point loss, Nebraska, in the 1972 Orange Bowl. That's when they have many think that's considered the greatest football team with the Heisman Trophy winner, Johnny Rogers. Yeah. that's what i mean this is crazy i mean this is like what alabama did to notre dame and the national championship in 2012 this turnaround and they got smacked the same way that they beat them down like this was this was um my first thing that i said to everybody is listen you can put another coach in there but alabama will never be what they were without the main guy nick saban running that program the way that he did it'll it'll never be the same i don't care if you have a million disciples of Nick Saban come through there.

51:36They will never be him.

51:38Shannon Sharpe:It's got to be somebody that's – if you look at Coach Saban, Coach Saban had coached in the SEC. He was at LSU. He won a national championship with LSU. So he – Kalen DeBoer has no idea. I get it. He won wherever he was. But Washington is a different brand of football in Alabama. Every place ain't Alabama in the SEC. So you need – Kirby Smart knows what it's like. He knows what it needs at Georgia because he was under Saban. Lane Kiffin, Pete Golden, they know what they need. Right. And you look at Cristobal, look at the type of guy that he gets, Signetti. You have to understand what wins. But I need to see it up close and personal, Ocho.

52:23Shannon Sharpe:When you say, because I'm a visual learner. You hear Cristobal talking, he say, hey, mass, something he said like mass wins. you got to get them. Yes. Alabama, Alabama looks ordinary. They look routine. If I took those, if I took that, that crimson away. Right. And just put them out there. You're like, who the hell is that? What division? What D2? What, what FCS team is that man? That's Alabama. Man. Not that slow. Not that there's nothing. There's nothing special. Right. About Alabama. Nothing pops out on film, Johnny. You know, nothing pops on. out on film like most alabama teams that we used to seeing offensively the receivers offensively the quarterbacks most of the time has been a running back i don't think they've had a running back come out of there since jameer gives that just popped out on film like you know what we're watching alabama you got to watch out for this kid here defensively the d line there's always a good d tackle there's always a good end that can get after your quarterback they've always had a very, very good safety or very, very good corner at some point.

53:33Right now, I don't see nothing that exemplifies the Alabama that we're used to watching, especially after that goddamn outing today. I still got faith in Ryan Williams. I still got faith in Ryan Williams that this is a sophomore slot.

53:47Shannon Sharpe:He made a couple of tough catches today. But, you know, they don't have no Quentin Williams. They don't have no Deron Payne. They don't have no Jonathan Allens. They don't have no Barmore. They don't have that. There ain't no Pass or Tans. No CJ Mosleys. No, no, no, no, no. There aren't any Coops. There aren't any Ridleys. There are no Julios. There are no Devontae Smith. There's no Ruggs. There's no Jalen Waddles. There aren't any of them, Mocho. No. They're not. Fernando Mendoza's season in Indiana. First ever number one ranking. First Big Ten title since 1967. First undefeated season in 80 season.

54:26Shannon Sharpe:First Hoosier to win the Davey O 'Brien Award. First Indiana Heisman Trophy winner. And now, the first ever playoff college victory.

54:39Shannon Sharpe:Mendoza, he ain't going to ever have to pay for nothing in Indiana. Nah. He ain't going to ever have. He's Hershel. He's what, you know what? He's going to be what Hershel Walker was to Georgia. Right. When Georgia won the national championship. And then, look, now they did have, I think it was Frank Sinkiewicz, one to Heisman before Herschel. But Herschel is – Stetson Bennett the same way. Stetson Bennett is the second most famous player in Georgia football history. And we know there have been some great players. Oh, yeah. It's Herschel and Stetson Bennett on Mount Rushmore. Now you can add whoever else you want to.

55:19Shannon Sharpe:You want Matthew Stafford, you want Champ Bailey, whoever you want. But those two are definitely going up there. for sure yeah johnny it's just just like when you go to college station you walk in the convenience store and come out with a bag and ain't got no money in your pocket yeah it's the same way with mendoza in bloomington man honestly i was blown away by mendoza um just being around him i never i talked to him a little bit on instagram throughout this year but had never really spent much time around him in person I know everybody's got their opinion of him but for me I walked into the Heisman thinking one way and just spending time around him his brother his family um man I was blown away with the way he carries himself with how he is he's a very you know football loving focused you know determined solid individual like that's all I got to say about Mendoza the kid um has been impressive in every interview that He's done – he may not be everybody's cup of tea, but if you're looking at it in the way that, you know, guys who love the game and enjoy football and being out there, I mean, he's one of those dudes for sure.

56:29And he's putting on – I mean, this resume and what he's done this year is solid. I mean, what else can you say about it?

56:37Shannon Sharpe:He's balling. I think the thing is, Johnny, when you look at him, he doesn't have the biggest arm. He doesn't have Cam Newton size. He doesn't have your or Lamar Jackson elusiveness. It's like you just look at him, you're like, he wasn't a Heisman with those stats? But when you watch him play? Oh, yeah. You watch his ball placement? Yes, sir. Like, I be damn. Yeah, and you know, Uncle Johnny, it's a lot of people like that, that when you look at him, you don't see the intangibles. There are certain things that you can't measure. You know, it's not about they don't run fast. You know, they don't have the strongest arm.

57:19He might have the size and look like a Josh Allen, but doesn't have the arm strength, you know, or he doesn't have the dual thread of the legs of a Josh Allen, even though he has somewhat close to almost like the build of him. But then when it comes time, you turn on the film and it's time to play football. He's ready for that. Oh, he's ready for that. Oh, he's definitely ready for that.

57:42Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Oregon swarmed Texas Tech from the start to finish in the Orange Bowl and won 23-0, forcing four turnovers while racking up four sacks, seven tackles for losses. The first game in a shutout in school's history since the 1917 Rose Bowl against Penn. The Ducks head the Red Raiders to a season low in passing yards 215, rushing yards 78, first downs nine, and the first shutout of an AP Top 5 opponent since 2018. Texas Tech also had one of the top teams in the nation in turnover margin coming in with a plus minus 17, but finished the game minus three.

58:23Shannon Sharpe:I don't know. Look, I understand that Texas Tech didn't score, but right now I think Alabama actually looked worse than Texas Tech. Johnny, what happened to Texas Tech? they didn't put their best player on the field on offense he stayed on defense the whole day that was their only chance for them to get a score today is put that linebacker it running back or something like they did earlier in the year yeah i mean look i will say this over the last couple days of these games of these playoff games there's been some unbelievable hitting going on on the defensive side of the ball swarming popping people i've had the volume him up on the tv and i'm like oh damn they're smacking folks out here and i think oregon set the tone early on kind of a slow start for them offensively but they played really sound defense turnovers i mean the turnover in the end zone the guy caught the ball like he was so surprised the quarterback even threw it i mean if you're a texas tech and you're going to drive the ball down to the eight yard line and and that's how your drive is going to end it's just it's just a recipe for disaster and they gave Oregon so many chances.

59:30Oregon played really sound on the defensive side of the ball. I think all the way around, Oregon was just a better team than Texas Tech. I think Texas Tech is going to be back in this situation again because of what their conference is, because of what they're putting in the NIL, because of their coach, their AD. They have good pieces in place, so they'll be back. but Oregon looked like a Dan Lanning Oregon team that was prepared well coached offense they made enough plays quarterback made enough plays and they just swarmed Texas Tech from start to finish

1:00:06Shannon Sharpe:but some of those interceptions I'm like bro where are you throwing you thought that was going to be completed you really thought that The fade was bad. I was double covered on your throne. I wasn't even close. Dante Moore, 26-33, 234. Zero touchdowns, one interception. They ran the ball 47 times for 67 yards. They had 300 yards, 309 yards. 309 yards, and they pitched a shutout. I mean. That has to change next week for them. absolutely oh yeah

1:00:54Shannon Sharpe:if they play like that if they play like they played against Texas Tech Indiana will beat them like they beat Alabama absolutely I agree I mean you know I've watched them the last as it got closer to the end I started watching Indiana obviously I watched them in the Big Ten Championship they got SEC speed well let me take that back They got Georgia speed, not Alabama speed. Their defense was flying. I was like, damn, I thought Texas Tech was supposed to be pretty good. You know, I was like, well, damn.

1:01:32Yeah, they weren't it today. You know, I think you look at Texas Tech season, they have, you know, wins where they had to go out and get it. I think the Big 12 title game versus BYU. but I mean they really didn't play too tough of a schedule this year for being honest like a Arkansas Pine Bluff Kent Oregon State they played Utah Houston Kansas Arizona State they lose Oklahoma State Kansas State BYU UCF like what are we what are we talking about that ain't like a run of the gauntlet like they really and I think BYU was a decent team and obviously one that almost got into the playoff, but not a crazy schedule from them this year.

1:02:17And when they finally got tested in a real game, they just got beat from start to finish.

1:02:24Shannon Sharpe:I think you know what it looked like to me, Johnny? It looked like the coach, they called a game plan like, look, if they don't get pick six or scooping scores, they can't beat us. Let's not do anything. You lose the turnover battle by four, too. You're going to lose the turnover battle by three. Your chances of winning that game already go down astronomically. So you're exactly right. So there's like, nah, we don't need to do anything special. We don't need to try to do anything out of the ordinary because this team can't move the ball consistently. And unless something unforeseen, they block a kick, they get a scoop and score, they get a pick six.

1:03:00Shannon Sharpe:Because think about it, Oregon ran the ball 47 times for 67 yards. That's not even two yards to carry. That's one and a half yards to carry. Hey, and at some point you have to abandon things that aren't working. At some point you have to abandon things that aren't working and make adjustments in game and go to something else. Well, Oregon didn't have to go to anything else because Texas Tech couldn't do it. I mean, Texas Tech, but you're not going to be able to pull that shit off against goddamn Indiana. Absolutely not. That definitely ain't going to happen. Absolutely not. Jody, we're going to get you out of here on this one.

1:03:34Shannon Sharpe:Teams that make the college football playoffs semifinals earned$14 million for their conference. The ACC is giving the entire$14 million to Miami per front office sports. Johnny, what do you think about that? I mean, I think it's great for Miami. Obviously, I think something happened at the end of the season where the ACC kind of maybe trashed Miami or something a little bit. So maybe this is them giving them their little lick back, being like, yo, we apologize. Let's keep everything smooth. But listen, that team, Miami, is popping up the whole conference right now for them. They're putting on for the whole conference.

1:04:12They're making that whole conference look good. So I think it's awesome. What a great gesture. I mean, I don't really know what$14 million does for a school anymore at this point. But, you know. NIL.

1:04:23Shannon Sharpe:It helps with NIL. They'll probably grab a couple players for them a little bit. You know, a handful of players. But look, Miami's rolling. And I'm excited about, you know, obviously the matchup that they have next. Ole Miss, that's going to be an unbelievable game. Yes. Going back to the, you know, Indiana-Oregon thing, you know, they've already played each other. Indiana wins by 10. But like we were saying earlier, it's really hard to go and beat a team twice. And in that game, Oregon only rushed for 2.7 yards a carry in that game. So they didn't really run it very well on them again. I just think Indiana is a different beast.

1:04:59They're a different outlier. They're a team that's going to be well-prepared and ready to correct on the mistakes that they had the first time. Oregon's going to have to play their best game to beat them. And Indiana can still win that game with making some mistakes, I feel like. And then, man, in the Miami side, Bain is an unbelievable player on the defensive end. I know Ole Miss has seen guys like that throughout the SEC. but he is a special special talent one that is for sure going to wreak havoc in that game cause a lot of problems listen I can't believe saying through that bubble the other day and they just pick it take it to the house like their defense you want to talk about the block that didn't happen what happened Ocho oh you got you got you got you got initiate contact right away

1:05:52Shannon Sharpe:Who did initiate contact, Ocho? Receiver. No, no, the receiver. What number was the receiver and where is he from, Ocho? Because you like to say he from Dane County. I've been watching that kid since he was in high school. Who was it, Ocho? That was Jeremiah? Okay. It was? Jeremiah Smith, not Jeremiah was a bullfrog. I know you heard that song. Hey, you know what's funny too, Ocho? Is, god damn, what's young bull name that intercepted that ball? I can't remember his last name. Yeah, Delonte? Hey. Yeah. He played it so perfect, Unc. He was inching himself inside, looking at the ball, waiting on the snap.

1:06:34You can't let him go inside, Ocho.

1:06:36Shannon Sharpe:You got to make him bubble. Yeah, yeah. You got to make him bubble. We do run the road, Rod John. What you always teach him? Make him go over the top. You got to go over the top. You can't let him go underneath, Ocho. That's the quickest way to it. The motion messed him up a little bit. He was looking at the motion a little bit. he's got to keep his eyes on that receiver and his first step's got to be inside he took almost like a false step and the false step yep stepped up on himself it was it was too late it was too late but listen that that's what you call film study on that's what you call when you when you watch asante samuels play football when you watch every play football and you and you and you're trying to figure out how the hell they knew it was coming that's watching film and knowing based on alignment based on what you're doing based on formation okay i saw this on film this is what's coming that's the only way you make a play like sure you gotta trust it though Ocho we see a lot of times guys they don't trust themselves they know it coming and they get there and they just no no no he trusted like you said his film study I trust this yes what if it ain't this if they throw the scene in behind me that's on me hey what a great time to run the pump run the pump run him off the scene oh man what run run Jeremiah Smith on the scene uh-huh now we got a we got him dead to right.

1:07:50Shannon Sharpe:Right. Probably scores. And that's the thing. But on that route, you got to make that guy. Because if you let him go underneath, there's no one there. He's got a free shot. And he hit it on the run, Ocho. He timed it perfect. He timed the snap count. What you call him? Took the false step. He stepped upon himself because he was kind of looking. That's what you just tell him, son, if you just get a pass interference call, we'll take that. But you cannot let this guy inside. You cannot let him get a running start. Because if he can catch a look. and he caught, if you look at the way he caught it, he caught that like, that's for me.

1:08:23Let me get that. Yeah. He fumbled the ball a little bit.

1:08:27Shannon Sharpe:He really caught it like they were throwing it to him. Yeah, they were throwing it to him, yeah. It took him a while to spin it in his hand. When Sam caught it, he didn't catch it clean. It took him a while to get the laces. And on that, you got to get that ball out. It's already to the field. It's already to the wide side of the field. It's already, you got a motion out there. It's a deeper throw. It's not an inside bubble. You got to, however, and we used to work on that all the time. Sometimes you just got to throw it down the seams. You just got to catch it and throw it. Got to get it out no matter what.

1:08:56Shannon Sharpe:All right, guys. Thank you, Johnny, for joining us. Make sure you go subscribe to Johnny's YouTube page and his podcast called Glory Days. Johnny, thanks for having you. Thanks for coming back, man. Look forward to seeing you next week with these semifinal games. I appreciate you, boys. I really needed it. It's been one of those weeks. You know, obviously everything that transpired, you know, got a chance to talk to McAfee, everybody on game day, say my piece on what really happened. For the people who were really concerned about me being sick, you know, it looks one way, but in reality it's another.

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