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dot com get your tickets. An incredible place to watch college football. My favorite environment I've ever been outside of going to the Rose Bowl or stadiums. So first of all, let's tuck Penn State. So seventeen catches for tight end Tyler Warren tied for the most ever for a tight end in college football. Tremendous day. And you know, Drew Aller, you know there's something there. He basically targeted one guy. But that's okay. I mean, if you've got a great mismatch,
take advantage of it. But they had twenty four second half points, they had five hundred and eighteen yards dominant first down advantage over USC. And I think it's very hard to ask a team of college kids to travel three thousand miles plus and win a football game. Many of them had probably never been to the state of California. So I think at any time you go on the road and you beat talented players, it matters. I mean, USC couldn't beat Minnesota last week. Penn State deserves a
lot of credit for that. That that's and they were down and in the fourth quarter it looked like, you know, there were a couple of times you're like they're down and out. They fought back. James Franklin, Drew Aller, Ty Warren. Really nice win for Penn State. A very good football team and a team that has a has a shot to get into the playoff. And I think, you know, they've got some elite players on both sides of the ball. And again, Drew Aller by College Comps, a very steady quarterback.
So I think Penn States are a really good football team, not great. I don't think they're going to be Texas or Ohio State or Georgia. But I mean, we've seen how vulnerable Alabama is defensively you know, it's a good football team, and that's a really nice win. Traveling cross country in terms of USC, you know they're there. You know, I have conversations all the time in Los Angeles about USC, and you know, I think some of you, you know, think I'm I. You know, I literally don't sleep. I
toss and turn when USC loses. But you know, a lot of this is it's fun. I love college football, it's theater. I thought the team would be better, but my concern about USC coming into the season was they've got two seniors in the offense, a center and a running back, Woody Marx and increasingly Monheim. The center and Woody Marx looked like the entire offense on a consistent basis. Wood He's today is a great example. He had twenty
carries for five and a half yards carry. No other running back had more than three carries, and Miller Moss is not mobile. If they were going to run the football, there was one person and if you watch the game, he's just significantly better than the other young running backs on USC's roster. But there's no excuses. They were outplayed in the second half. And I think one of the things that's very clear about Lincoln Riley. So I think counted just off two minutes ago before I started this.
Lincoln Riley is six and seven in his last thirteen games and has beaten the bad teams. And LSU is a nice w but they've mostly lost to the better teams, the Penn States, you know, Notre Dames, Oregon's, they've lost to those teams. And you know, beating Louisville and Utah State is just those are gimmes. Those are layups. They're not winning the slam dunks. They're not winning above the iron very often. And I think you have to be
honest about Miller Moss. He is a pocket quarterback, and whether it's college or pro football, there is a huge advantage. You get another third of the playbook when you have a quarterback that can move. And that was Caleb Williams, and that was Kyler Murray. Those are quarterbacks. Spencer Rattler for Lincoln in Oklahoma can move a little bit. Miller Moss is he's Jared Goff, but not that good of a pocket passer, so there's limitations on what he can do.
They can't move the pocket, and so I don't think this is a perfect quarterback. I think he's a really good college quarterback. Not great, but he's a good college quarterback. But when you have a young offensive line, a one dimensional run game with one player what he marks, and a quarterback that can't move, and there's about thirty five forty percent of the playbook that you couldn't use if you had somebody that was able to, you know, off script,
make plays happen. So it's a pretty predictable offense with their best players on the perimeter, Adduce, Robinson, Hudson, branch Lemon. I mean, these guys are all more than capable. They all feel like twos instead of ones, but they're all capable, different body types. But it's a very limited offense that is incredibly young on the offensive line. But this is really my big and I said this last week. USC has two playable offensive tackles in the program, and that's embarrassing.
I mean, dating back to the early seventies, I mean there was a time USC was the home of the best left tackles in college football. Tony Busselli, Anthony Munnos. They really struggle to recruit the interior defensive line, and USC really struggles to land elite tackles. Michigan gets some, Ohio State gets some. You know, LSU get some, Texas gets, Oklahoma get some. USC doesn't, and Lincoln Riley's an offensive coach. They just do not recruit elite offensive tackles on a
regular basis. They settle for guys that other programs have moved off of. They arm wrestle away an occasional tackle from a Wisconsin They're not beaten out. They're not beaten out Ohio State for those tackles, or Michigan for those tackles. They pried away Elijah Page from Notre Dame. He'll be good eventually. He's not there yet. He's a red shirt freshman. But that's a failing of this program. They have not recruited the two positions that are so valuable in college
football and in the NFL. Left tackles, an interior, great defensive linemen. They don't have them. Three years in. They don't have any, not one, and you're not going to beat the top six or seven programs in the country when you're at B or C level. At those positions, you can have an egg at tight end. You don't have to have a superstar running back or great safeties, better be good at quarterback, left tackle, defensive interior alignment
and corner and a weapon or too weapons. I don't worry about USC, so you know, I think last thirteen games, this is basically a five hundred team and struggling with teams that are physical. I do think offensively, next year they'll be better. I also think last year's recruiting class they did land a couple of nice defensive linemen. It's it's called the transfer portal, and USC's got about thirteen
million dollars a year in NIL money. But that's going to vanish very quickly if they don't start winning games. LA is a big distracted market. People do not follow losers. They don't. This is not Norman, Oklahoma. It's not the only game in town. I mean the Dodgers or in the National League Championship Series. You've got Rams and Chargers. You've got the Lakers and the Clippers. Clippers have a new arena, there's thirty one music venues, the Beats the Mountains.
Vegas is nearby. People aren't going to sit around here. You go to a lot of these small college towns they have a college football program. People will go on a Friday night to you know, the college baseball game, and you know that's the biggest thing in town. This is not la money crowd doesn't support losers, and right now this is just an average program. I do think offensively their future is brighter than defensively, but you know,
I can't. I thought they would be a better football team than this, and I thought after the LSU win, I thought, Okay, they're a good program. Now they're not a national championship team, but they could sneak into the playoff tenth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelve seed. Nah, they're going to finish middle of the pack in the Big Ten. And they're very lucky. They're not play playing Oregon this
year and they're not playing Ohio State this year. So us he got Notre Dame and Penn State at home, and Michigan in a rebuild, and they'll probably end up. Vegas was right six or seven win team, and that's not good enough. They've They've had plenty of time. I mean, it'd be one thing if you didn't have the transfer portal or nil you had to literally rebuild a program that Clay Hilton handed them was strictly high school players. You can go buy players now, and they just don't
have enough good players. Kamari Ramsey's very good in the defensive side. Wood He marks at running back is exceptional. That's about it. That's your special players. Instant reaction. Congrats to Penn State thirty three to thirty. That's a really nice win for that program and good for young guys to go on the road trail in LA long way from home. A lot of you know, adversity in that game, came back and won in overtime and totally impressive. I've never I don't remember the last time I saw it.
Night End that dominant in the game. But you know what, if he's got matchup advantages, go to him. I mean, USC was running Woody Marks, that's the only guy they were running. Penn State said, tight End, Throw to him. I get it. Thirty three to thirty Penn State. Way to go the volume. Thanks so much for listening. If you've enjoyed the podcast, take a moment rate and review