Nightcap Hour 1: Unc, Ocho & Johnny Manziel react to Oklahoma win, Texas beating Vandy!

23:42Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I can win any war. Just give me the weapons. Give me some weapons to go fight, and I can win any war. And Georgia got those dogs that can run and can fight. And so it was a big win because we saw Georgia come back. Who did they come back against? They came back against Ole Miss a couple of weeks ago. They've done this like three or four times this year, either losing at the half or losing going to the fourth quarter. Auburn was another one. They found a way to come back and win Auburn, Ole Miss. They did it today with Florida. And so, you know, you can't count these guys out. If you get them down, like killing that with a sledgehammer, you get them down, you better make sure they stay down because if they get up off the mat, they're coming.

24:25Shannon Sharpe:They're coming. But Georgia, look, they still right there. They know they got to hope Alabama lose the game because Alabama's beating them. I don't know how this thing's going to play out right now, Alabama. and Texas A &M. But I guess they don't divide it up in the East and the West anymore. They just take the two best, the one loss record. So theoretically, it could be Texas A &M playing Alabama, even though they're on the same side. So it used to be East versus West, but they've done away with the division this year. So it's going to be very, very interesting to see what goes on, what happens.

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30:03Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Joe. Yo, Cain. Oh, man. 26-20 overtime loss to SMU, a defeat that significantly damages Miami ACC Championship and college football playoff hope as the Hurricanes dropped their second ACC game in three weeks and fell to 6-2. 12 penalties for 96 yards, including an unsportsmanlike conduct call against defensive end Marquise Lightfoot on the final drive in regulation when he hit quarterback Kevin Jennings after the whistle had blown for a Miami timeout. That penalty helped Miami get in the field goal range, and they kicked a 38-yard field goal to send the game in overtime. Carson Beck threw an interception on the goal line in his first possession, and then SMU took the ball in from one yard out and they won.

30:51Shannon Sharpe:Miami playoff chances dropped to 9 % according to ESPN's playoff predictor. Ocho, over the last three, four years, Miami has always had games like this. They always lose a game that they should win and they're favored. We've seen this from Coach Cristobal's team. And I don't know why. I don't know why. We saw this the other night. Who did they play? And Beck threw those four in the center. Yeah, absolutely. That was, I think, Virginia. Was it Virginia or Louisville? Louisville. It was Louisville. That's who they played. Louisville. And I just don't get how every year this time, oh, this is Miami year.

31:34Shannon Sharpe:This is Miami year. This is Miami year. And every year, somebody that's not even ranked. You know what's funny? Also, Unc, for those of you in the chat that are watching right now that haven't watched SMU play, hey, them boys can play some ball, huh? Them boys down at SMU, despite not being ranked, they can play some ball. They're very good. Goddamn Jennings threw for 365 today. TJ Harden had, what, only 9 for 27. My little nephew played for SMU, went to Miami Northwestern, Romello Brinson. He used to be down there at University of Miami. You know, he transferred. He's having a really good season for SMU as well.

32:13But I'm not sure what it is with Carson Beck. When it comes to games where you should dominate as a quarterback, playing against what most would consider an inferior opponent, you got to come to the party. You got to show up. And I just talked to you about it the other day, when we talked about the Heisman Trophy candidates and how no quarterback is stepping up to the plate where it seemed like everybody's in one pot. One week they play good, one week they play bad. Everything just happened to be up and down and inconsistent all the way across the collegiate football when it comes to quarterback play.

32:47And, I mean, this is a game Miami should have won. This is a game they should have won.

32:53Shannon Sharpe:They should have. I like the kid from Ohio State. He's playing his ass off. You know, he's a transfer out of Alabama. Salem. Yeah. Salem. I think that's his name. Salem. Salem. The kid at Texas A &M. He's playing. Marcel Reed. He's playing well. Simpson. Ty Simpson from Alabama. You know, Mendoza's going to be there because this team is 8-0. They're averaging damn near 50 points a game. But I agree with you. Carson Beck, 26-38, 274, two touchdowns, two interceptions. I mean, just he'll play great for a stretch. And you're like, oh, man, okay, I see why Georgia won. I see why he was a 4-5 star going to University of Georgia.

33:33Shannon Sharpe:And then you're like, bro, what are you doing? Not only that, now we're not basing it off just your stats now. Now we paying you four, five million dollars in NIL money. Now we expect you to be goddamn a mini Patrick Mahomes idea. If you making that kind of cheddar. Expect that at the collegiate level. You're absolutely right. We be judging you different. Now we expect you to get us over the hump. You are supposed to be the one to take us to the promised land. Making that kind of money. It's different. It's different. and you got to come to, you have to be the reason we win. Not the reason for us losing.

34:11That's two weeks in a row now. Last week you threw four. Today you threw one. No, was it one or two? Two. You threw two. Come on now. And then Cossie in the goddamn red zone.

34:24Shannon Sharpe:Mm-hmm. You got to be the difference maker, man. And Ocho, we talk about college football. You used to be, man, that's just the kid. They don't get played like professionals. If you notice the tenor and the tone have changed because now you do get played like professionals. And we expect a certain level.

34:50Shannon Sharpe:Presidents and universities, they treat them different. Bro, we're paying you$50 million. We're paying this guy. We got another$10,$15,$20 million tied up in this roster. Oh, no. It ain't no more, oh, these are kids. Oh, you know, we're going to take some time. No, it ain't going to take no time. You got to get this done. We've given you everything that you needed. That's just the way it is because I remember we used to talk about it and I really hated talking college football because, you know, coming from an NFL background, we critique differently than that's a grown man making a salary versus an 18, 19, 20-year-old kid that's not getting paid.

35:27Shannon Sharpe:But no more. No more. We see guys like Jeremiah Smith and when he drop a pass, like, come on, bro, we can't have that. Or we see a guy like Ryan Williams at Alabama dropping passes. And they were like, man, Ocho, you were hard on him, bro. The man getting two and a half million dollars. Yeah, things are different. You're judged differently based on this. But he only 18. Well, he getting money like he 28. Yeah. I tell you what, when that money hit direct deposit, it ain't got no age on it. It going straight to his account. we have a different level of expectation now with our college athletes after they've started getting paid especially the ones that getting paid now we don't judge all of them like this but the coaches we hold even higher because of the money that they're getting paid because they're upgrading the amenities because they're doing everything you know you got a a a red light sauna and you got cryo and you got these dip tanks and you got the best best of offense defensive coordinator d line coach linebacker coach db coach you got the best of the best for a staff you get the best i mean you got these guys i mean whatever you need protein shakes i mean soon as you come out the field they got protein shakes you get this much protein this much carbohydrate this much fat bro so now oh joe it's we we we're looking at collegiate players differently we're looking at collegiate teams differently because guys are getting paid and there's so much money involved so much.

36:58Shannon Sharpe:I mean, the payout, what was it? The payout probably going to be$70,$80,$90 million per SEC team, per Big Ten team. Ooh. Yeah, I mean, go to the college football playoffs and Ocho, this is paying your athletic budget for you. Let me tell you something. Now, you know what the payout is, you know,$70,$80 million. Again? You understand? 5-4? You understand what the budget is. Now, the fact that you don't want to put your hand in the pot, and see what we can do. As a coach and staff, be like a president and VP. Ocho, you know why I'm good at things? Talk to me. Because I know what I'm good at and I know what I'm not.

37:44Shannon Sharpe:I try to stay. You try to stay in your lane. And I stay away from where I'm at. I didn't try a whole lot of things because I don't do good with a learning curve. Oh, you doing good? Man, get out of here. I suck. You doing good? No, hell, I don't. No, I know what I'm doing. I'm not doing good. You got to take that back now. Now, you said you like to stay within your comfort zone. I'm going to take it as that. You want to do things that you know you're going to succeed at and be good at. But anything you put in. That I like doing because what you like doing, I'm passionate about. You can tell what I'm passionate about.

38:20Shannon Sharpe:You love football. I don't love coaching football. If Dodgers win this game, Yamamoto is going to be the World Series MVP. He's going to do a Curt Schillings and Randy Johnson. If they win this game, he's going to be the MVP. Who's on? Wait. Two complete games. It would have been three wins because he'll have three wins. It won't be a save because he didn't come in on a save opportunity. He would have won the game. Wait a minute. It's 5-4? It's 5-4 at the bottom of the 10th. Who's up now? The Dodgers? The Blue Jays. How many outs?

38:57oh

38:59Shannon Sharpe:hadn't started no what I'm the thing is is that I learned at a very young age if you're like passionate about something you're going to pour all into it and it doesn't feel like work and it doesn't feel like work this is why I was passionate about playing football I was passionate about training I was passionate about you know getting up and going and doing my school work I was passionate about that I'm passionate about this creating content I'm passionate about doing club shake shake because I'm anxious to know about what how this person came to be To sit on my couch You just didn't magically appear on my couch What were you as a kid?

39:37Shannon Sharpe:What were you as an adolescent? What were you as a young man young woman? How did you get here? I'm interested in knowing that I'm interested to see how similar or how different our back Brack Browns work Everybody didn't have the horror story where they had to work or had to walk five miles of school and they come from broken homes some came from great two-parent households but i'm i'm i'm i'm eager to learn and to find out and to hear their story so i'm passionate about that i ain't passionate about no coaching i got you i got you i ain't gonna lie i i i i i i go i go okay okay okay i i just thought i thought you know you know there was a huge incentive there is a huge incentive that i continue to see all the time and we talk about and the pot seemed to get bigger and bigger for those that are at the collegiate level and i understand what you could do and being able to pass down some of that knowledge that you that you would you you attained and achieved over the years and passing it back down to the youth you know you could be like another nick saban you could be like a prime you could be like a uh uh who else who else uh a kirby what's up what all right we got who's just huge Hoosiers cornerback D 'Angelo Pons Chaminade McDonough Prep in Hollywood Florida he was also a track star he won the 100 and the 200 meter dashes in the state of Florida his senior year transferred from James Madison to Indiana bro if you win the state track meet if you win the state track meet in the 200 in Florida Georgia Texas and California you can run one thing by Hey, we can't do nothing but bow down.

41:19Shannon Sharpe:We gotta give you your flowers, bro. Bro, so, hold on. What was your time in the 100? What was your time in the 200? In the 100, I was a 10-4 in the 100. 200, I was a 21-1 or something like that, so yeah. Hey, that's been good time, man. That's been good time. Now, you know I had a chance to be Olympian. And when I was at, you know I'm at the city now, right? Yeah. Yeah, you know I went to Beast High, you know. What you ran in the 100? in a hundred uh uh in high school i was like a nine nine nine nine and a half school at beach no i'm just saying listen i'm a nine nine in the beach in uh in a 200 i was like a i was like a like a a 10 what 10 one um no no i was 19 19 something 19 5.

42:08not not not for real i'm hey I was flying man I was flying I come from a time man We used to race in the street You know Light pole to light pole Stop sign and stop sign Car to car No shoes That's a crib thing That's a crib thing Oh yeah Absolutely Absolutely I just I want to know I'm going to let you go I have to ask What is it about This Indiana team That got y 'all boys Playing like this Like y 'all Y 'all beating up on everybody Team that a game that people are counting y 'all out as a team y 'all coming there and making making the opponents that are supposed to beat y 'all look damn near inferior yeah i feel like the outside in they ain't expecting us to uh be that as good as we are but uh-uh in-house we expect to beat them teams like all them top teams we the top dog angle yeah Yeah.

43:05Shannon Sharpe:I'm looking at you guys. You beat Kennesaw State 56-9, and you win 73-0, and you win 63-10, and you win 56-6, and you win 55-10. And after last season, I ain't going to lie, I ain't going to hold you, D 'Angelo. It's like, man, I like this an anomaly. Hey, they won and done. You followed it up basically with another season that is as good, if not better. You're saying, look, we're not one and done. We're here to stay. We're just not a cute story that old Indiana. You remember the year in 2024 with Indiana did that was so cute Cuddly now got you guys coach thing. Natty got you guys balling I'm definitely angle I last year last year was like we were making history every game Like they never had nine nine games won in a row But we're doing it again this year showing everybody we could do it again.

43:53It went luck It matter of fact, you know what I think about obviously there's a there's a deeper route to why you guys are having this kind of success Most of the time, you know, you look at the Knicks saving years. You look at Kirby Smart and some of those coaches that have always had those great teams. Where are most of the kids from that are on Indiana's team? They're from the south. They're from the south. Somewhere down south. See what I mean?

44:19Shannon Sharpe:You see what I mean? Yeah, for sure. I'm trying to figure out, bro, and you say they're from the south. Man, it get cold in Indiana. You know, I want to, you know, I want to stay down there. It's nice and sunshine, man. It be cold. Y 'all be outside practicing in the cold. You know, Penn State get cold. Ohio State get cold. It get cold an hour. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I ain't really signed up for this. So how did you get your body acclimated to it? Bro, you from Florida. South Florida. I ain't a lie. When I first got to college, I had to adjust. It took some adjusting to do, but it's a little trick.

44:52I figured out like some Vaseline and stuff like that. That gave me a right. But I just got used to it just by going out there and playing Vaseline on. I don't feel nothing when I put Vaseline on. So I think that's one of the tricks I learned. You know what? I have one more question, too, especially both of us being from Florida, being from the crib. What is it about Indiana? How do they get some of the players that are coming from down south to actually go to Indiana when we have so many other options to choose from when it comes to playing college football? I just feel like we come to them with a good opportunity.

45:28Like, just tell them what they have in front of them. See, we winning, so I think we got the upper hand with recruiting. Like, okay, everybody want to win. It's easy to recruit now. Right, right. So it's not that hard to tell them, like, yeah, we finna win. So you just come join. Like, you going to play. Okay. It ain't really hard to do. Right.

45:47Shannon Sharpe:And you know what, D 'Angelo? It's funny that it's great that you say that because if you guys continue this, 10, 15 years from now, you'll be a part of the class that started this. You'll always have a place when you go back. Oh, yeah, I remember him, man. He was part of that Coach Signetti class that came in here and kicked that thing off. They went to the college football playoffs. They went back, possibly won the college football playoffs. Bro, y 'all will be like mythical. It's true. I never thought about that too, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And once that – Because – Yeah. Oh, Joe, I mean, when I went to Savannah State, we hadn't really never had a winning season.

46:26Shannon Sharpe:Everybody still to this day talks about that class of 86. That was my freshman class. Everybody talks about that class. Our senior year, we was 8-1. The previous year, we were 7-1. So we won like 15. In two years, we won like 15 games. No team had ever done that. So this is what's, you know, you guys have a Big Ten. Can you imagine a Big Ten championship for Indiana? A college football playoff national championship? Bro, you a legend. You will never, ever have to pay for anything in Bloomington, Indiana, ever, ever again in your life. Thanks. You might have to think about moving back. That's what you eat right here.

47:07Shannon Sharpe:I ain't got to pay no rent. I ain't got to pay no mortgage. I get a car. Hey, you know what's so funny? The way y 'all beating teams, like do y 'all even watch film? brother you see what y 'all did to maryland man dude i mean do coaches just give y 'all the day off like what is there to watch at that point when you when you die i'm talking about completely dominate teams in every oh hell nah damn don't worry don't worry to that question nah yeah we watched film we we ain't uh taking nobody lightly either right right we definitely should do i don't know if you watch the game or not but we was into like four minutes left the starters were still in We was up.

47:44Yeah. We was up still. So we ain't taking nobody lightly. Everybody get the same treatment.

47:49Shannon Sharpe:Right, right. I mean, no, I'm saying. Sunday. So what do you guys do on a Sunday? Do you come in? Do y 'all get treatment? Watch film? Or do you give you Sunday off and then you guys get ready to hit it again on Monday? What's your schedule? So on a Sunday, we'll go in for health check. No film or nothing like that. We'll do some little hamstring work in health check, really. That's it. It's just treatment. And then you get to go home. You off on Sunday. Okay. And then Monday we'll come in and watch film. Yeah. No practice on Monday, but y 'all hear the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's a walkthrough, though.

48:21Right. Okay. Damn.

48:24Shannon Sharpe:Man, we was out there thudding up on Monday. I need to go back to school now. I should have been born back in 2000. Yeah. 2003, 2004. Damn. Hey, dude, what I was talking about when I was talking about watching film, I'm not talking about before a game. I'm saying when you dominate a game, like you played Maryland most of the time. Let's say the Bengals, we played the Steelers. Obviously, we play Sunday. But sometimes Sunday, I mean, Monday, you know, you come in, you do your treatment, do whatever. You go upstairs and you watch the previous game. But when you dominate games like this, y 'all still watch film when you win a game, 5 out of 10?

49:00That's what I meant. Yeah. There's always mistakes made in each game you can learn from. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Okay. I was just curious. shit man see that's why I couldn't be no head coach but we beat somebody 52 10 or we consistently dominating people week to week scoring 40 plus man y 'all boys take the day off man nah our coaches demand perfection so they they're gonna perfect you no matter what yes okay okay I got it I got

49:25Shannon Sharpe:it never accept anything in a win you wouldn't have lost so even though we beat somebody 55 10 and somebody missed some assignments that's not acceptable I'm not gonna allow that to happen because then you'll think that play because we want is acceptable. You guys have the third best defense in the country. I mean. God damn. When you think of Indiana, I don't know if you really think of defense. I mean, you're putting up 55 points. You're probably thinking about offense. But when you see 10, you see 6, you see 13, you see 15, you see 10, you see 9, you see 0. You're like, okay, yeah, okay, I see.

50:01Shannon Sharpe:Is that your mindset? is like, look, if we get turnovers, we create short fields for our offense. Our offense is going to cash in and then that's going to allow us to really pin our ears back and then we can just sit on stuff because we know that ball will come out. That's definitely the mindset. Just to have our offense back each game, make it easier for them. And they make it easier for us some games too. So that's definitely the mindset just to not give nothing up. We don't like catches, we don't like yards, we don't like none of that. So that's why we're one of the top defenses in the country.

50:33Shannon Sharpe:Let me ask you, what made you choose Indiana? Because obviously, first of all, you probably had some opportunity to go somewhere and run track. You run 10-4 in high school, that probably figures like, you know what, with the right training. Because they're looking at it like, in high school, these guys ain't really getting training like they're supposed to. But we get the right training, we get the right supplementation into them, get them the right nutrition, right track coach. We can probably get this guy down to 10, maybe even sub-10. We definitely feel like we can get him down low 20 low 20 point.

51:03Shannon Sharpe:Oh low 20s. Maybe even dip below 20 so what was your thinking when you went to Indiana? What you did you want to do a dude? Did you want to run track play football or was in there? Were you all in on football? The crazy part with me is I I didn't have no like big offers out of high school I went to James Madison with coach the netty. Okay. Okay. Yeah, okay, Madison No, I wasn't thinking about running track either. I ran track because everybody who played football had to run track. So I just happened to run track. But I went to James Madison. And then out of James Madison, I entered a portal. And it was really a no-brainer to follow Signetti to Indiana.

51:42So that's how I ended up at Indiana. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

51:46Shannon Sharpe:But I had like – I see what you're putting down now. And you know what I'm saying? They drop a little bread, comes, you know Hansel and Gretel. You know how they got back home. to have bread crumbs. Yeah, you know Coach Signetti dropped a cup of bread crumbs for him. Like, hey, I'm going to leave this right here for you. You're going to pick it up. You just a little something on the floor for him. He grabbed it. In Bloomington, Indiana, there he is. Hey. So, look, you got three games left. You're at Penn State, you're Wisconsin at home, and then you got Purdue. Everything that you guys, I'm sure, everything that Coach Signetti put up on the board of what the goals and what you wanted to accomplish.

52:24Shannon Sharpe:your three wins away in the regular season. That's not the ultimate goal. Obviously win the Big Ten. Obviously get into the college football playoffs. This year, obviously cash it all in. You're three games away. How do you keep the focus? How do you stay right here and don't get here? Like, man, Penn State, they already done fired. They done gave up on the season. We got Wisconsin at home. Ain't nobody beating us at home. And then we got Purdue. Nah, we got them. even though that's a rivalry game, Purdue and Indiana. That's a rivalry game. We just keep that same 1-0 mindset. We ain't got to change that enough.

53:01Just go 1-0 each week, not looking ahead. It'll come. Whatever we got in store for us, it's going to come. So just go 1-0 each week. That's the goal for us.

53:12Shannon Sharpe:That's it, man. Man, congratulations, man. Thanks for joining us tonight. We really, really appreciate having you on night camp tonight, man. Best of luck. Tell everybody, hey, congratulations. Keep your head down. Keep your ears open and full steam ahead, man. Hey, when y 'all win the Big Ten, come back and tell us. Oh, I got you. I appreciate that, man. DeAngelo Barnes joining us tonight. Hey, that was dope. For the Indiana Hoosiers, he's the cornerback on the third best defense in the country, and they give up 11 points a game. Less than 11 points a game, actually. 10.9. Hey, you know what?

53:49That Wichita McCauley game is going to be really good. that Penn State game is going to be really really good. That's going to be a tall tale. Hey Johnny! What's up boy? What's up Johnny? I had a I guess we'll call it a Nissan I guess I had a Nissan Altima on the World Series so I've been sitting there trying to You took the Dodgers? Maybe. I took the Dodgers. Wait, they lost? No, they won in extra innings.

54:23Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, they won in 11. Yamamoto was sensational. I mean, Earl Horshizer in 1988 did the exact same thing. He was World Series MVP. If you go back and look at 2001, I think that's when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees. And that's when Curt Schillings and Randy Johnson shared the MVP. And I said, based on what he had done in the first game, complete game. And then he followed it up in game six to get them in game seven. And I say, you know what? If he comes in and get the save, he's going to be the MVP. And rightfully so. Rightfully so, for sure. Wait. Hold on. I'm confused. Now, you say you bet a Nissan Altima on the Dodgers to win this game, right?

55:03No. The series. When the series first came out and I saw it was Toronto versus L.A., I immediately was like, I think the Dodgers are going to win this game, win that series 100%. The series, okay. And I went to game three, 18 innings. I sat in left field until 1230 in L.A. and watched every play of that game. Probably the best sporting event I've ever been to in my life. Right. And crazy. What a series. What a game. The last two nights. Unbelievable World Series. Everybody who's a baseball fan should have thoroughly enjoyed that. Sure. And what a wild day of college football, too. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

55:40If I'm not mistaken. So the series is what? Is it tied? It's over. It's over. It's over. 4-3. That was game set. That's it? That's it. Yep. Goddamn, the Dodgers done went back-to-back? Back-to-back.

55:55Shannon Sharpe:Back-to-back. That's the first time. That was the first time since the big red machine, 75-76, that a National League team has gone back-to-back with Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan and all those guys. Tom, see, don't worry about it. Back in the day. And see, listen, when you think about the investment, when you think about the payroll and investment that they put on these players freeman otani um who about bix mookie hey they got yamamoto they got glass now they played blake snail yeah this is this one i don't know i don't know why the dodgers figured it out johnny well how come the yankee can't do it because the yankee did the same i had the same goddamn philosophy pitching and yankees i mean if you think about it it was it was the dodgers pitching that actually saved them yomamoto game because yomamoto game a complete He gave him a complete game in game two.

56:44Shannon Sharpe:He gave him a complete game in game two. Wait, he played nine innings? He gave him nine innings. And he came in tonight. And he came in tonight. He came in in certain situations. Last night, he gave him six inning last night. And he came in tonight. How the hell are you going to come in tonight after just pitching nine? And your shoulder is supposed to be off the bone. Because you don't play until next spring. You ain't got to do nothing. Yeah, we worry about that. That's why they gave him what they gave him. Okay, okay, okay, okay. When you pay that, that's why the Dodgers, the Dodgers guy is the same guy that just brought the Lakers.

57:20Shannon Sharpe:Ah. So they're going to spend money. They say it takes money to make money. You see Mookie Betts got a$200 million contract. Freddie Freeman got$150. Shohei got$700. You got Glass now. You got Snail. Well, congratulations to you Dodgers fans. You know, I'm not much of a baseball fan, despite me being a 5-2 in high school. But congratulations to y 'all, boys. Don't worry about it. I'm a bigger – I like baseball. I don't watch it like I used to. I used to watch the World Series all the time. I'm very familiar with the players. I'm very familiar with the history of the game. But, man, the Dodgers are mean.

58:00Shannon Sharpe:Think about it. It's been 75, 76. That's 50 years that you've had a National League team go back to back. I mean, the Yankees, you remember the Yankees won, what, 92? No, 98, 99, 2000. They lost in 2001 to the Diamondbacks. That was the 9-11 series. But, man, Dodgers, congratulations. I mean, hey, I guess they got the best team money can buy. Ohio State hasn't had a Heisman Trophy winner since Troy Smith captured the award back in 2006. but heading into the final month of the regular season, the Buckeyes now boast a Heisman frontrunner. Julian Sayan delivered another performance in the 38-14 win over Penn State.

58:44Shannon Sharpe:The sophomore quarterback completed 20 of 23 passes, 316 yards, four touchdowns, with the latest outing, Sayan jumped Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson and Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza to become the Heisman favorite. it. Johnny, what you thinking? I mean, he was an Alabama, he was an Alabama transfer. Coach Saban said today that, you know, he was the coach that had him running scout team. Yeah. I mean, look, this guy is playing really, really well right now going into the last month of the season. Obviously things change in the Heisman race, but when you look at Ohio State's picture, the way that they're playing, the way that he's playing, you think all of us would probably have to agree here that he's a shoe-in for New York.

59:32He's going to end up as a finalist for sure. Now it's kind of hand somebody else. There's that moment, right? We talk about it all the time. There's the moment that comes. Has he played stellar enough to get to New York? Absolutely. Do I believe that Marcel Reed so far has played stellar enough to get to New York? Absolutely.

59:55I think Mendoza as well from Indiana has probably played well enough to get to New York. But look, Ty Simpson has played well enough to get to New York as well, if you had to ask me. Those four guys, obviously leading the odds right now if you're going by the odds makers. But there is still that time to capture a moment. There is still that time to go out and have a game or a play or a series that sets you apart from the rest. Is Ohio State going to have a game that they're actually in for him to have something like that? Or are they just going to breeze through undefeated, kick everybody's ass, be the number one seed?

1:00:36Maybe. We'll see. Michigan didn't look very good today, but you know that game. You throw everything else out the window. I'm really looking at Marcel Reed. He does get that moment. If Texas plays the way they did today, you go into the last game of the season. You take care of business in Missouri next week. You go beat Sanford. You get Texas day after Thanksgiving on the road. You look what just happened. I'm really interested because no way would I have thought that Vandy would have been favored or would have been underdogs in that game today. Vandy was never in that game today until the onside kick was wiggling its way out of bounds.

1:01:16They were never in that game for a second. So Texas manhandled them. That was the best Texas team has looked all year. You have to, for the first time as I've sat on here and bashed Arch Manning, bashed the way Texas has looked. They still have no run game. Did his receivers and their outside blocking scheme, Ocho, that was some of the best hat on hat outside blocking I've seen in a long, long time. Opened up the play, first play of the game. Arch didn't have to do a lot to get started in the game. But get the ball out of your hand quick, get it on the perimeter, hat on a hat, take it to the crib.

1:01:53I would do this with Mike Evans all the time. So you do have to give Texas credit. They have a very solid O-line because Vandy threw everything they could at them. Their defense and pass rush, pretty solid. They played really well. So if Arch can play like that, I think you go into the last game of the season, Texas versus Texas A &M, you may have Texas favored in that one too.

1:02:17Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing is, Johnny and Ocho, when you look at it, Texas played for three quarters. They can't play any better than what they played for three quarters. Their defense was outstanding on Pavia. Arch Manning was, I mean, he got hit in the chest and he threw a ball in the end zone. I'm talking about he took a shot right to the chops and he let, hey, I'm like, okay, walk into him, Arch. And then all of a sudden come the fourth quarter, they forget how to play football. Two blown coverages. Bro, how you lead, how twice. They got a third and 19 and you let a guy pick it up. I'm like, bro, no, it was fourth and 19.

1:02:58Yes!

1:03:00Shannon Sharpe:And you let two, I mean, you had three plays where I'm talking about, DBs, what are you doing? Yeah, the one play touchdown, the one play touchdown, that's just, where does that come from? And on the fourth and 19, I'm like, corner why are you sinking so much the guy catches a 16 yard route turn he's already at the first down you don't have to sink that much hey i was like hey you know back to saying he has four games this season completing 85 of his passes with 300 yards and at least three passing touchdowns no quarterback in the country has more than one such game saying who backed up will howard last year's championship run is putting up big numbers in his first season as a starter 2224 yards 24 touchdowns only three picks top-ranked book out of trying to win back-to-back national championships for the first time in their program in the uncle johnny they got a good they got a good chance to do it they got a good chance to do it listen saying saying what he was 20 20 20 24 23 today four tds and when you and when you got weapons like cardinal tape you got jeremiah smith you know having to come to the hey listen having to come to the job it's easy to get the job done when you got them kind of weapons they got over there in ohio state but what i wanted to say about the heisman trophy the heisman trophy case right and those that are all all of a sudden the names are now in the pot towards it what what what uh what game we in what we in week what 10 week nine something like that oh yeah the fact that it took this long for for i was really i was really like 10 like yeah okay i'm gonna just i'm gonna just say week 10 the fact that we're finally seeing names come out of the hat where nobody has separated themselves for the past nine to ten weeks says all you need to know that says everything you need to know you know they're good they're okay but they know goddamn johnny manziel's it ain't no cam newtons ain't no a Ain't no Joe Burrows that from week one all the way through, they cut in the fool.

1:05:11Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing was what happened is that there was really no quarterback that was in the Heisman running last year that came back to school. So normally, you know, Johnny, you normally have a guy that was in the Heisman running or, you know, he was on the, and then he came back. But you get a Travis, he leaves. You get all those guys that's leaving. You get an Aston Gentry. He leaves. So think about saying wasn't even starting. Ty Simpson wasn't even starting. Arch Manning wasn't starting. So you're coming back and guys have to show you. You know, they tried to watch Arch Manning is the favorite.

1:05:48Shannon Sharpe:Based on what? Now, he's played well the last couple of weeks, but how are you going to say he's the favorite? Now, Marcel Reed, he was a starter last year. He probably was him and Mendoza was like the only starters that we can say like, OK, you can really only say that for for Marcel after he comes in the second half versus LSU last year. If you look the way Texas A &M ended the season last year, you aren't putting him on no Heisman list. If there was any quarterback that was returning this year that you would have had on the Heisman list early in the season, it would have been Penn State's quarterback.

1:06:21It would have been Drew Lahr. Oh, yeah.

1:06:23Shannon Sharpe:Oh, yeah. I don't know. Don't get me started. And Mateer, what did Mateer transfer into? There was a lot of Heisman-Mateer talk earlier in this year for sure. Yeah. And so I think that's what you have to. And you said it, Johnny, you go back and look at Joe Burrow. He had his Heisman moment against Alabama. He had that run. They come out there and they go head to head. You know, it's star versus stars. Look at all those wide receivers that go in the first round. The quarterback is number one, and then you get Tua going, what, number five. And then you have all those receivers. You got Burrow. I mean, excuse me.

1:06:59Shannon Sharpe:You got Jetta. You got Chase. You got Judy. You got Ruggs. You got Devontae Smith. You got Jalen Waddle. You got Najee. Man, bro, look at all the talent out there. So, and then Joe has that moment. You have Devontae Smith, who just goes crazy. It's crazy. Jalen Waddell gets hurt, and every week he's having 180, 200. He's running a punt back. He's doing something that, no, you got to stand up and pay attention to me. Well, like you said, Johnny, I'm just waiting on. I don't know who or when they're going to have that moment. You had your moment down in Tuscaloosa. That was Johnny Manziel's coming out party.

1:07:43From that point on, they got a kid man down there. I needed help, though, even after that game. And this is a crazy thing, the way the college football universe works. There is an offensive coordinator right now who's sitting at Texas A &M in Marcel Reed's room every day coaching him. His name is Colin Kline. On week 12 of the season, Colin Kline was going to win the Heisman that year. Colin Kline was winning that race. I was making a late push, but they played Baylor after we played Missouri, our last game of the season. I had done everything I could do. We went out, smoked Missouri, had an unbelievable game.

1:08:25And when we got out of that game, I went to a party with all my boys on the team. And everybody was doing a ring dunk at Texas A &M. And I was glued to a Kansas State versus Baylor game. And Baylor beat the brakes off of Kansas State. Colin Klein had a really rough night and I truly believed that when I left that night and went back home I knew that I had won the Heisman that night there used to be a thing called Heisman Pundit and for nine years in a row this guy had a website that would had predicted who would win it eight of the nine years he would collect enough votes from voters to see who would win it and I was on this site every day checking and when he had tallied up enough votes and said I was going to win I kind of knew but i needed help that year to even be able to get there and when i was going into the heisman i thought man i might sneak in and take it the way the media was around then i thought

1:09:23Shannon Sharpe:because you came from so far you got to realize where you can't you weren't even on nobody's lucky to even be on the field huh yeah hey wait hey johnny who'd you say might who you say you thought was gonna win it anti-tail that whole girlfriend thing came out yeah yeah okay okay The way it was, feeling like even at the Heisman, even because you do the college football awards, ESPN and Disney before that. And he came through, won a lot of awards. And then we got to New York, doing all the press and everything. I'm like, man, this guy might really have a shot. Notre Dame's a really beloved team in college football.

1:09:59He was a great player that year. Got his team into the national title. Luckily, you know, and I had the freshman bias too. That was a big thing. Yeah.

1:10:09Shannon Sharpe:Well, they had forgotten about that because once they let Tebow had won it because there used to be a situation. Adrian Peterson could have easily won the Heisman Trophy. Herschel Walker could have easily won the Heisman Trophy. Marshall Falk, his year, you go back and look at the year that Gino Toretta won it. How the hell Marshall Falk didn't win that award? I don't know. But there are a lot of guys there. There are a lot of guys that we go back and look at like, hold on. Like, I mean, hell, if I'd have played D1 ball in 2001, I think I don't want to have because Eric Crouch ends up winning it.

1:10:40Shannon Sharpe:I'm like, how the hell? Like what? And then Jason White wins it one year. I'm like, y 'all just giving it to somebody. I figure y 'all got to give it to somebody. No, respectfully, Ochoa, as you like to use the word respectfully, but Eric Crouch rushing for 1 ,000 yards and throwing for like 700, that ain't no Heisman. I'm sorry. And it took him throwing the ball in the end zone and hitting somebody, getting kicked up in there, Johnny. You probably was too young to remember that when that happened, But, man, it's going to be close. I think we're going to have a very, very close Heisman Trophy race this year.

1:11:13I think if Sam comes in and has a good game in the Michigan game, they go to the championship game, they roll things out, he continues to play the way he is, throwing for a lot of yards, throwing touchdowns, three-plus touchdowns every game. If he does that, continues the streak that he's on, he's going to be tough to go beat. but the thing about Marcel is he has so much ability to be able to bring in like he he had a couple flashes that almost looked Lamar-esque last week versus LSU yeah you know he's kind of skirting into the end zone he's so deadly with his feet his receivers you know he's chunking the ball around I think he has that dual threat that fits what you've seen from myself from a Mariota of type now does he throw it as well as us right now at this point no but he runs it well enough to have a dual threat with you know is in line for Heisman guys in the past so obviously I'm going to be a homer I'm starting my um Marcel for Heisman campaign here relatively I think about November 15th I'm really going to fire up the train but um nevertheless I think we'll have a good race one right now that seems a little bit unclear but in a couple weeks two three weeks I I think we'll start to see some people fall away.

1:12:27It'll crystallize itself.

1:12:29Shannon Sharpe:Arch Manning and the Texas return to Darrell K. Royal Stadium for their first home game in 42 days on Saturday. Arch went 25 of 33, 328, three touchdowns, no INTs. The number 20 Longhorns held off the number nine Vanderbilt Commodores despite the Commodores scoring 21 fourth quarter points. Arch became the first player in Texas history with 300 passing yards, three touchdowns, 75 % completion percentage against a top 10 opponent. Manning was blitzed on 10 of his 34 dropbacks. He finished 8 of 10, 145. All three of his touchdowns came against five or more pressure. His career touchdown against the Blitz, he had the most touchdowns against the Blitz in his career, and all three came on play action.

1:13:19Shannon Sharpe:He had such three touchdown passes in his career coming into today. Longhorns fans chatted overrated at Commodore's quarterback Diego Pabia. He wasn't no overrated, huh? Well, Pabia was 27-38 for three TDs. And he had 365. Man. And he only turned the ball over once. That one turnover. I just think the thing was, look, Texas got conservative. Johnny, you know, you get a big lead like that. You start running the ball and next thing you know, you in third than eight and then guess what you're off the field. Now team get a little momentum. Okay they score. Okay you keep the ball for two or three minutes.

1:14:01Shannon Sharpe:You kick it back to them. Now you blow a possession. Now you blow a coverage. Now guess what the guy just scored in 10 seconds. Now you got hell on your hands. Now you're like okay now what do I call? I want to make them burn the timeouts but I also want to give us an opportunity to try to you know run some time off the clock now they get the ball and you guys had it uh they had the guy bobbled the ball the linebacker had i mean you won't get a better shot i don't think i can't hear them talk this infuriated me why we got linebackers on the on the hands team because ain't none of those boys that were touching that ball ever felt leather in their life other than the couch.

1:14:47Them boys ain't touched a rock in weeks. You put linebackers on there to go blow people up. Because you're hoping. They didn't know what to do with it. It looked like an ice cube bouncing around in somebody's hands. I mean, look. Texas, throughout that game, yeah, you get comfy. You let off the gas a little bit. It is hard to keep that pace and keep that tempo up when you're just trying to get out of there, right? But at the end of the day, Texas, that was a dominant performance, one that I have to give to them. Sark game plan that and Vanderbilt very, very well. They knew their offensive line was really struggling at Vanderbilt.

1:15:29They did the week before. They brought some good blitzes. Colin Simmons, they had some guys really getting after Pavia all day. The pass rush really didn't settle down until the fourth quarter on those last drives where I think sometimes you get enough plays in college football where the play count starts to get up there and guys just get gas. It's just what it is. But that was pure domination. I mean, from pretty much until nine minutes, eight minutes left in that ball game, it was all Texas. And it could have – you know, there was a late pass where Texas ended up missing a field goal to give Vandy the ball at like the 35 or 40 that kind of started the whole thing.

1:16:11On third down, they threw a deep ball. that the guy bounced and hit the ground when they reviewed it. But when they put the points up and said that it was good and I looked at the scoreboard and it said 40 to 16, I'm like, oh, this is ass-whooping. It's bad. And that's how it felt really throughout the whole day. I think you got to see a glimpse of what Texas could be or where it's expected to be this season. Right. And this has given them – it should. And I did an autograph signing today with Marcel Reed, Concepcion, on cravers all my aggies because they're on a bye week here in houston um and we're watching that game and i'm like oh vandy's getting their ass kicked and they're like oh really i'm like this just gives texas the momentum they need going into the schedule that they have in my opinion this is you know you beat a top 10 team you go in this gives you a little spark listen one of the reasons why they can be the top 10 team one of the reasons why texas look the way they look you know these pad these past few weeks is because of the quarterback play Archman is he archman is decided to come to the party.

1:17:15He decided to come to the party and play much, much better than what he looked like at the beginning of the season. And again, if he had been playing like this, Ocho, in the beginning. Oh, I'm not saying that he beats Ohio State.

1:17:28Shannon Sharpe:That's not what we're saying. They have one loss. That's what they would have. Only one loss. Yep. Well, if he plays like that, you have a defense like that, an offensive line that can protect. You got a good coach. the one area of the flaw that you haven't seen in their game the entirety of the year. And Sark even said this today. If we can just rush the ball for 100, 125 yards, we'll be okay. He's on his knees every day in that building begging to be able to find a running lane. They can't run the ball nowhere. In a Pop Warner League right now, they couldn't run the ball. And that's just one thing that's going to catch up to them.

1:18:04You run into a defense like A &M who plays the run pretty well, you're going to have a hard day when you become one-dimensional.

1:18:11Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you want to mention that? I mean, if you can't, you've got to be able to make people think you can run the football. You might not be able to run it, but if you just, if them guys just say they can't run the football, they're not going to try to run the football because they can't, and we just going to go hunt your quarterback? You can't. You in for a long, long, long ass day. And Johnny, you know, that goes for the NFL as well. If you can't establish the run, If you can't push and apply pressure to players against their own will and having the running game to kind of save you so you can pass the ball, most of the time, you know, you got to run the ball to open up the pass.

1:18:53Your play actually goes out the window. What are you faking for? You ain't got no threat to run it. Once you become one-dimensional, it's a wrap. It's a wrap.

1:19:04Shannon Sharpe:Johnny the Aggers are undefeated and ranked number one in ESPN strength of schedule metric you guys beat Notre Dame you beat Auburn you beat Florida who's at ACM you beat LSU you got Missouri who's ranked 19th and but you got also you're on the road against number 20th Texas don't know if you guys already spoke about this but that Florida win for us looks a little bit badder after today because they had they had georgia on the on the road they had them on the road i don't know if it's you know sometimes you get an interim coach in there you get somebody else calling plays a little boost lagway showed a little bit of flashes i mean they played georgia really really tough today i think you know georgia had to go out and make some plays i think once again you know they're kind of lucky to be able to escape out of there but getting back to the aggies look you got to go still continue to take care of business and just one game at a time take care of business everything is setting up for an unbelievable showdown this is why the rivalry was brought back and i think there's a lot of guys in our locker room and i know there's a lot of guys in that texas locker room that remember how last year felt because i went to that game and i sat through four quarters of that we didn't come close to winning that game not for a moment both teams have a lot of people back obviously arch is the guy now but arch got in that game last year brought a spark scored a touchdown he's going to feel confident coming into this game against Elko.

1:20:26I think for our guys at A &M, listen, this is the chance to get to that game undefeated and do something that hasn't been done at this school in a long, long time. Marcel, you want that Heisman? Go and take it. Go and take it against a team that Texas by then, but they were, what, 20 this week? They're going to be ranked closer to the top 10.

1:20:47Shannon Sharpe:They're going to be a little, yeah. They beat two top 10 teams this year. They might be 12, 13. You go beat, you have a number. because Miami lost. You're going to have a number three versus a number 12 matchup in the last week of the season with a ticket to the SEC championship on the line. You've already punched a ticket to the playoff. You win this game. This gives you a two seed and a bye. Everything you want right there in front of you. How bad do you want it? You want to hit the club? You want to go chase girls? You want to mess around? You want to get in the book? You want to bless you?

1:21:17Or you want to go get it? Because for A &M, I think you're starting to get some respect. I think I heard Saban say this the other day. The two teams that have been impressive the most, that have shown complete from top to bottom, where they really look like they don't have a ton of flaws and look solid fundamentally through all areas of football, special teams, offense, defense. I have a head coach that's not putting you in bad situations. It's Ohio State and A &M. So for my Aggies, it's still premature because anything can happen in the SEC if you have one of those off days. but everything that you want is right there in front of you.

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