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wide receiver. So you know, Alabama was going to crowd the box, make them throw because they didn't respect them over the top, and they and that's kind of what happened. Despite multiple special team gaffes by Michigan. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. They won twenty seven to twenty. When it was going to overtime, I felt like, this is Michigan's game. They're gonna run the ball better quarterback,
They're not having snap issues. You know, let's be honest about Alabama four yards of play, one hundred and sixteen yards passing, multiple bad snaps, bad on third down, a quarterback who's very, very limited, and a coach who's a defensive coach in an offensive era. Michigan far more yards better and overtime. NFL quarterback had a really bad third quarter. But Michigan dominated the first half of play. I mean, Alabama had just barely over ninety yards, so Michigan dominates
the first half, that tying drive and overtime. And I think Alabama had an amazing third quarter and made some real adjustments. But I thought the first half Alabama was completely overwhelmed, surrendered five sacks, didn't have time to throw, multiple bad snaps. They were a mess. First half was embarrassing for Alabama. Now, Michigan was a very solid special teams program every time I watched this year. I didn't watch every game. I watched seven Michigan games, six or seven.
I don't know what happened.
With their special teams. I've never seen anything like that. You know, it would be like a great receiver just having six drops. We knew Michigan's receivers were limited. We knew that their receivers including the illegal block on that game tying drive. We knew that was a weakness of this team, the receiving unit. I never thought i'd see anything like that with special teams, and they overcome and
they win. So they dominate the first half, they're the better team in overtime, and despite multiple gaffes on special teams, they win. Listen, Alabama beat a Georgia team that if they played again, I'd take Georgia. Georgia's tight end, their best player, one of their best receivers were banged up, and Georgia just didn't play with a ton of energy. And Bama came in and deserved that game and deserve to win. I have nothing but a respect for Nick Saban,
who went undefeated in the SEC. But I never felt Alabama was a great team. Usually with the National championship team, you watch them in about week five or six, you're like, Okay, they look different. And I felt that about Michigan this year. I didn't think they were a perfect team. But they have an NFL quarterback, a super Bowl coach, a dominant offensive line, great pass rush, excellent backs, solid tight ends. You know NFL players. Eighteen, I thought about Week four
or five. You're like, yeah, Michigan looks like a team that win the national championship. I thought Texas looked like that when they dominated Alabama physically. They just look bigger and stronger. I didn't think that with Washington. I still don't know if that's Washington. But I never once looked at Bama and thought, you know, that's a national championship team. They're bad regularly at quarterback, like Jalen Milroe is not an NFL quarterback. He's an athlete, but you know he's
not an NFL level quarterback. So you know it's when I look at Alabama. I saw him get rolled at home late in the second half against Texas. I thought they were pushed around in this game. I watched the Auburn game and I thought Auburn was the better team that Saturday. Milroe just made a great play late, they were the better team. So I just I never felt
like Alabama was a national championship team. I talked to Urban Meyer on FS one today and he got stuff into my head, and I'm like, man, that I make the bad bet.
Oh boy.
I don't know how I feel about this, but in the end, I think Michigan was the better team. Took a while to figure it out, and again I thought, when it went to overtime, I'm like, this is don't go for two. Don't go for two when you score the touchdown. Don't do it unless you've got some clever play dreamed up. Get to overtime. Michigan was not struggling regularly with snaps. I just felt like Alabama, it's amazing that Alabama had all this time and struggled with protection
in the first half. Snaps just kind of remedial stuff from your offense. Now, special teams are different. A lot of college special teams coaches, they you don't get scholarships, They don't keep out scholarships. Some don't even give scholarships out for kickers. Many do, some don't. So when special teams go sideways, it's a lot of backups. You're talking about kickers and punters. These are backup players, third string guys that make their mark, you know, often on special teams.
So you know college special teams.
In my lifetime, if I said to you best college quarterback ever, best college defense, best college offense, you'd have a list. If I said best college special teams, They're mostly shaky.
They really are.
Most college special teams are, you know, you hold your breath. I remember when Pete Carroll had USC's dynasty. I don't remember one fake kick. I mean, they were just pedestrian. They were like, listen, we'll out play on both ends. We just don't want to lose games on special teams. And that's how a lot of great program look at it, unless they get a great kicker. But I thought Michigan was a better team. I don't think they're an all time great team. I think they're an all time good team.
They're one of the better s Big Ten teams I've seen. But I thought the I thought the SEC this year. I thought the last two years Georgia lost so many players to the NFL that it just eventually catches up to you. I do like Beck, their quarterback. I think he can really sling it. He's got to he's got a rope. I really like him. I think he can
play in the NFL. But I didn't think Georgia was quite as good at wide receiver, quite as dominant defensively, and Alabama beat him, And I never thought Alabama looked like a national championship contender this year. I just never did so. I think the right team won, and I have said this, and I believe this to be true. Adding Oregon and Washington, if those coaches remain, you're adding two top ten teams. Adding USC Lincoln Riley will figure out, they'll get defense.
Right.
The Big Ten, with three different time zones is going to now be the conference of record going forward. Saban's eventually going to retire. Georgia will be great. I don't deny that, but much of the SEC games, many of them cannibalize each other because the conference is overwhelmingly in one time zone, so the games will all be basically in that one time zone. By adding West Coast teams, Midwest teams, Northeast teams, three time zones, you're going to
be able to stagger, broadcast, the marketing, the recruiting. Now it's nil. Those northern cities, those northern boosters have big time money, not just car dealership money.
Watch out.
I think Texas, with their ability and their economy, the Texas economy is by far and away the biggest in the SEC footprint. It's a monster economy, and Texas has some of the richest boosters. I think if you ask me today, have Sarks stayed around? I would say going forward, Georgia and Texas would be a handful of the SEC. But Michigan won twenty seven to twenty. It is a team that has an absolute identity. It's a power football team with a coach with almost a physical presence and
Jim Harbaugh. They're resilient, they're tough. The right team won. And by the way, on that fourth down play by Alabama, you knew it and I knew it. Everybody in this stadium knew it. Jalen Milroll was going to keep that ball. Did you watch Michigan's defense, They had like eight guys around the line of scrimmage. That was the most predictable play call by Alabama in the entire game. I was literally screaming at the TV Milroe is going. I think
Michigan players were pointing. My feeling was the Michigan players knew exactly what.
Alabama was going to do.
It was just I mean, listen arth jjmc karthy for Michigan, when you get down to the goal line, Blake Korham can run.
They can play power football.
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Okay, you know I'm from the Pacific Northwest, so this one feels special. My favorite team as a kid growing up was the Washington Huskies. They beat the Longhorns thirty seven to thirty one. I think I felt the entire game. I bet a money line on draft Kings today. I just kept saying Texas has better players, Texas has better players, And then over the last twenty four hours, I'm like,
what am I doing. Washington's receivers and quarterback a huge mismatch edge over the secondary for the Longhorns, and I like Sark. I love Calein de Bora as a coach, and the time, I mean, their execution until the final minute of the game was the cleanest of the four teams that played in the playoff, and they have the fewest foreign five star recruits. So this staff develops and coaches.
It's butt off. By the way, when you put in four really good football teams instead of three really good teams and one that's deserving, whatever that means, Florida State, this is what it looks like. That was the best day of college football, the best playoff day of college football in its history, because nobody got caught up on deserving. It was just four really good teams with big time quarterbacks and big time coaches, most important position healthy and
ready to roll. Okay, Florida State would have dragged this entire thing down. So bigger argument is Georgia getting in. But let's not waste any time talking about that.
They didn't.
So thirty seven to thirty one. I think Washington will probably be a three to a four point underdog against Michigan. I'll take Washington in the points, although I'm not sure they'll win. I think the game Michigan's got much better defensive backs than Texas and.
Are a handful.
I mean, Washington just went through a battle with a big, strong Texas team and here we go one week from now it's Michigan. So that's going to be an all time classic Let's start with Washington. This is how they play, so all their games look like this. It's exhausting. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I'm a Husky fan forever. This has been I mean, in the history of college football, the team that wins the National Championship looks like it in about Week four or five, and they usually have
six to seven blowouts. Even in the NFL over the last decade, all but one team in the last decade, one Super Bowl champ has had fewer than six blowouts. And that's in pro football. The margins are very tight. In college football. Your national championship team usually has seven or eight blowouts. That's what you know, like Michigan had this year, that's what Texas had. Washington doesn't blow anybody. I mean, the Apple Cup against Washington State was close.
Oregon State and the Rain was close. Arizona State was close. Washington plays close football games. They don't have a loaded four and five star roster, they don't play downhill. What they do is have the ability, if they play poorly, to score quickly and score late.
Because of Michael Pennix. And let's talk about.
Pennis I think he throws the best football since maybe Joe Burrow in college. You know, it's interesting. So justin Herbert and C. J. Stroud at Oregon and Ohio State and their last college game, their coaches let him run. Did you notice tonight Pennix doesn't run. He was a running quarterback to some degree at Indiana, had a couple of surgeries acl so they make him a pocket quarterback. But Washington's coaches had a couple of quarterback draws drawn
up tonight and they're gonna let him run. They will let him run against Michigan, and it is a weapon. So JJ McCarthy and Michael Pennix will be moving in that game, their final college game for Pennix, who's a more pure thrower of the football than JJ McCarthy. Again, Washington is the kind of team. They're really built for
these kind of playoff games. Because even if Washington would have been out played tonight, and they weren't they outplayed Texas, They're just built the comeback and score two touchdowns in two minutes, three minutes, four minutes.
That's what.
So Washington never out of a football game because they get very good pass protection. Pennix was only sacked eleven times all year. That's insane for a guy that just sits in the pocket. He's not hyper mobile anymore. Although he's mobile, he's not hyper mobile. JJ McCarthy's probably more mobile. He was stacked eleven times and the Pac twelve had the best conference att heading years, so he faced Oregon's
defensive front twice and Texas couldn't get to him. So between Westover Rome Adunza Adunze their best receiver, Jalen McMillan, Jalen Polk. That is a stacked tight end wide receiving corps, stacked all good hands, no drops, great routes. So Michigan does not have nearly the fire power on the perimeter that Washington does. Washington's got the better quarterback, the more accurate quarterback, the better pocket quarterback, significantly better wide receiver talent.
Both have good offensive lines. Michigan is better guard center guard. Are two great coaches. I think it'll be a classic matchup. Now Michigan's defense is better, but it'll be tested more. I mean Washington between If you watch what Washington does, they ask their receivers to block. Washington does not have great running backs and they may have lost Dylan for the championship game. He's banged up, went off the field smiling,
thumbs up, cross your fingers. If you're a Husky fan, He's vital because they don't have dominating running backs, but they have a good enough offensive line and the threat of throwing constantly. In the way they move their personnel around. They're pretty effective running the ball in spots, but Michigan's great at it, so I think you're gonna have a classic final game. I'll probably take Huskies and the points.
I'm not sure if i'd take a money line because Harball is such a great coach, but I think the two best teams won. I went in today saying I was going to take Michigan close, and I was gonna take Washington to upset Texas. And I don't think Texas is poorly coached, but I think they have more good athletes. But I you know, I don't think they're nearly as good as Washington. Quarterback position. The two best quarterbacks one today. All these coaches are good. The two best quarterbacks won.
And Pennix is smooth and accurate and just has a calmness about him. You know, Stark's going to get a lot of pushback, but it was Stark's team that came rallying back, and it was Kaylin de Boor, a terrific coach. His team kind of imploded in the last minute, some coaching stuff that Washington rarely makes those mistakes. I love their staff, So I mean, we all kind of thought it was going to be a wildly entertaining, high scoring game and Washington had a chance to win, and that's
what we saw. Washington controlled most of the game. And you know, it's funny, as a kid who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, if Washington John Middlecoff has mentioned this, if Washington just was called USC, they'd probably be a favorite. But they're geographically jammed up in the corner of the country. Oregon because of Phil Knight, their uniform and the Ducks marketing program gets more love. But Washington has had four
great coaches in the history of their program. Don James won a Natty, Rick new Heisl won a Rose Bull, Chris Peterson got to the playoff, and Klin the Bores and Natty. It's a really good program, well funded, great loyal fans, home field edge. There's just enough talent in
the Seattle and Washington State area. They mostly put a fence around it mostly and then they've always recruited California, well if they have the right coach, So they do a little bit of Texas recruiting, but it's mostly California, Washington State, occasionally Hawaiian Oregon, but they don't. It's not a They've always struggled to consistently get great NFL level defensive interior lineman that a Texas can get and Alabama
can get. It is sort of jammed up in the Pacific Northwest, but it's always been just between Chris Peterson's in the program and Kaylin de Boor. You're talking about high functioning recruiting, development, patience and Kaylin de Boor and Grubb the OC. Let's be honest, too offensive coaches in the National Championship, even in the NFL and in college football, it is an advantage. And you just saw how clean and efficient Washington was in this game until the final
ninety seconds. And you know what's really interesting is I said this earlier. Michigan had good special teams this year.
And was a disaster today.
Washington is a team that gets penalized occasionally, and they played a pretty clean football game for most of it, so you know there's a lot of nerves. These are young, young, twenty year old men, twenty one year old men. Michigan was super tight early in their game. I thought Texas was a little tight as a favorite in their game early tonight. But I think we got the right teams in the champion and I think Michigan's going to be
favored by by three and a half ish four. I would take the Huskies and the points, and I think it's going to be a I it's not going to be this high, scoring this many yards, but there's going to be some points. Michigan's going to be able to run the football, Washington's going to be able to throw it. You know, it feels twenty eight twenty seven to me. Either way, Michigan should be favored. They had more blowouts,
but the Pac twelve was a better conference. And I mean Washington's got now two wins over Oregon and it went over Texas. Michigan's got to win over Bama and Ohio State. I don't think it's a great Alabama team. It's one of the weaker Nick Staven playoff teams in my opinion, But man, what a day, one a night, And thank you to the committee for not bending a knee for a team that's deserving on a third quarterback.
Let them play somewhere else. Let's get what does deserving mean? Remember, there's four playoff spots, there's five conferences plus Notre Dame. The structure of this playoff was always we could have six undefeated teams and four spots. Esthetics matter, Optics matter, always have. The very foundation of college football's playoff is four spots, five conferences plus Notre Dame. It's how you look, especially at the end of the season. And these teams
looked really good. You know what, Texas losing. What it told you was the SEC team was the weakest team in it. So Michigan and Washington win and Texas thumped Alabama in Tuscaloosa. So how about that the SEC not only is not in the championship, they had the weakest and I do believe that their offense is one dimensional with Jalen Milroe, Bama SEC had the weakest team in the playoff.
Wow, what a day, What a night.
And I've said that I didn't grow up in Texas, but I've always had an affinity for Sark and the Longhorns. Great program. They'll be back there nil. Their collective is raises a lot of money. Uh, Sark's good coach. The SEC is a different ball game. Nobody's going to go undefeated in the SEC anymore. And nobody's going undefeated in the Big Ten. I don't care how good Michigan is. You got to go out to Seattle, Eugene, La Columbus. Nobody's going undefeated in these conferences anymore.
And that's okay.
You'll be able to lose. Now, if you're a Big ten or an SEC team, you could lose two games and still get into the tournament if you're if they're the right two games you lose on the road close to a you know, an Oregon or an LSU. But I you know, undefeated, boy, that that seems highly unlikely.
Highly unlikely. God, I love college football.
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