College Football Playoff Picks - Semifinals

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Tennessee and Clemson best matchup of the week?

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Stoy Hall: 0:00

College football's back. It's back, baby. And by back, I mean like, it's been around for a long time, but for us, and it's

Cole Ingle: 0:08

been, yeah, I mean, what we're talking about meddling through bowl season basically at this point, but it's playoff

Stoy Hall: 0:12

week, week one week one on that. So let's we jump. Yeah. I mean, I don't think we have much too much on the news. So, no, you want,

Cole Ingle: 0:27

I was gonna say we can flip through the the news cycle if you want, but I think most of it's nfl.

Stoy Hall: 0:31

Yeah, it is. So we'll just do a little college first. It's gonna be a long, longer session. We got five guy. There's actually like seven technically ranks, right? No, but I figured these are the, these would be the five. Yeah. And they're in order so. Start off Clemson, Tennessee. 10 verse six minus five and a half to Clemson total of 63 and a half. How you, how you feeling about that one? I mean quarterbacks are gonna be interesting.

Cole Ingle: 1:06

The thing, I don't know. is everyone gonna play for both of these teams? For the most part, I haven't heard of anything big with either one of these two teams. Obviously Tennessee's backup quarterback will be playing. Yes. But we've seen flashes of very good play. Clemson's backup quarterback will also be playing. Yeah, but we cuz he's better, they're actually better with him. Him, yeah. And it would arguably be in the playoff if he just would've been playing all year. So. I'm going to lean towards defense because I think both offenses are fairly level at this point. Yeah, I'd agree. I would agree. Tennessee I think has a little more explosiveness on offense, but Clemson's defense I think is clearly better. So I would lean towards Clemson winning the game. Five and a half. just doesn't speak to me in any way. So I'd probably take Clems in both on the money line and the spread of that without digging, do too deep into overall statistics and stuff like that. Tennessee's defense has given up a lot of points in several of the bigger games against bigger opponents, but they've shown flashes of being able to turn the ball over as well. If Clemson doesn't take care of it, then you know, Tennessee can put up points in a hurry. Even with the backup quarterback, cuz that guy can play. So I'm gonna lean, lean towards Clemson on this one, but I wouldn't be very high on my confidence scale.

Stoy Hall: 2:48

No. But overall things can be a good game. There's a, there's NFL talent on that field. It's gonna be great to watch. Yeah. backup quarterbacks. One is a true backup. Obviously Hooker is a better quarterback, but this guy's still stud too. Mm-hmm. So let's not get crazy about that. Andy's had a

Cole Ingle: 3:04

lot of time with the team now. What? Just

Stoy Hall: 3:07

but talent on both sides. Backup quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are solid. Yeah, I think it's a really fun, I think it'll be a really fun game. I, I, I, I love how we're kicking that, kicking this week off with that. I'm not so heavy on Clemson. I think Tennessee will cover I, I am gonna lean towards Clemson though because of what you said about the defense, but mainly so because Tennessee's quarterback is good, but also he is a true backup. Like he does not have his best experience as the Clemson. So, and Clemson's played in a lot of big games. Tennessee has been not as, Good in big games. Right. So I'll go Clemson, Tennessee, and apparently we're back to excellent connection. 63 and a half. Yeah. This bowl, season's. Bowl seasons have trends. This bowl, season's trends has actually relatively been under mm-hmm. The thing is Tennessee can score so fast. 63 success. That's a, you know, 34 30 can easily get there. Whew. One's tough for me. I'm gonna go with the trend on this one though. Gimme the under.

Cole Ingle: 4:41

There it is. I'm taking the over more from an entertainment perspective. Hope to see the best out of both offenses. See if Clemson Contin can continue to trend in the right direction with their offense as they've switched quarterbacks. And we know Tennessee's. explosive will be I would say arguably the most explosive team that climbs and plays all year.

Stoy Hall: 5:08

So, yeah, absolutely. Now, and let's, let's, let's not get it wrong here. Bowl season's difficult because they've had a month to repair. Mm-hmm. like bowl season for probably the first half is all coaching, right? By the way, second half is just cuz they have to make adjustments. Like this is a lot of

Cole Ingle: 5:23

coaching, but both of these teams are actually, in my opinion, the offenses are going to benefit from the break more. 99% of teams simply because they technically have new quarterbacks Yeah. That are going to now be fully ingrained or should be fully ingrained in their systems into one game plan, into a game plan against one specific opponent that you've had this long to prepare for. Right. So, yeah, you're right. And that's what makes it, that's what leads me. It's gonna be a fun one. Lean towards the over and I think it should be a fun game. This is gonna be a real fun one because I've had no interest in watching Clemson all year with the, with no lyric

Stoy Hall: 6:07

quarterback in that DJ Yu

Cole Ingle: 6:09

Yu ukulele. Yeah, that guy. DJ U dj. Transfer portal, hands

Stoy Hall: 6:14

for portal. He'll be starting somewhere. Nah, at clems, will he? Yeah. I mean that somewhere You're not gonna transfer to go sit.

Cole Ingle: 6:22

You heard anywhere That's picking him.

Stoy Hall: 6:25

There's a lot of places that would, well,

Cole Ingle: 6:27

I'm saying do you see Hartmans going Notre Dame. Oh, really? Wake Forest quarterback. Really? Yep. Fun of new college news on the week.

Stoy Hall: 6:36

Number 11. K State verse number five. Alabama minus six and a half. Total. 55 and a half.

Cole Ingle: 6:44

Yeah. Love a good underdog story. Love a. Absolutely. I can't

Stoy Hall: 6:52

see it. Bama is going to beat them and beat them per T wealth. Six

Cole Ingle: 6:59

and a half. I mean, this is the old, you know, Kansas State pulling out all the stops. Mm-hmm. this. Yeah. I just, I feel like Alabama's got a chip on their shoulder right now. Yeah. And Bryce Young. Still trying to make an impression on

Stoy Hall: 7:17

scouts. Bryce song's gonna throw for 400 yards in four to six Tudies. He's gonna have to show up. Bama is going to want to run this score up to a million. Okay. There's no way around that situation. Yeah, I mean, I, so Bama Bama over, like this has to happen for them. K State, I believe will they'll do what they. They'll come back late and which is why the over, like, it's going over 55 and a half, like that's gonna happen. Mainly because K State's gonna come back. Let's go look, we're two 50 last week, let's ride that train. But yeah, no, no. Bama is just an overall better squad. Yeah. Nothing to say about it. They shouldn't be ranked five, but whatever they're just gonna wipe the floor.

Cole Ingle: 8:00

Yeah. I, I, I wish I could think differently. I don't like the matchup. What? I don't like the matchup for

Stoy Hall: 8:07

Kansas State. Ah, no. No, poor, poor matchup. Now, speaking of matchups, number nine, Penn State, verse number seven, Utah. Utah is minus two and a half. 52 and a half is the total. Yeah. What do you think about this matchup?

Cole Ingle: 8:23

I don't know what to think about. Penn State. They played Michigan tough for a half. Ohio State, tough for three quarters. I remember correctly. But they don't like, they just don't do, they don't do anything bad, but they don't do anything elite.

Stoy Hall: 8:43

They, they have a solid defense offense

Cole Ingle: 8:45

there. This is a big 10 up average from a stylistic standpoint of, of how Utah plays strength is going to be in the quarterback play, and being able to lean on defensive play makers. Penn State's strength is gonna be big 10. Strength of defensive running game. Try not to make mistakes. Team that makes the least amount of mistakes gonna win the game. Again, all coach speak very basic items. I think Utah has more explosive players specifically on offense, and so that's going to make me lean towards. Two and a half is the number. And so I have them covering as well, the two and a half.

Stoy Hall: 9:30

I can't argue it. I utah's more explosive. They, their offense is, to me, head, shoulders above Penn State. Yeah. Defensively sure. If, if we say they're even, they're even, but. Right. Penn State will not be able to run, they can't do a track meet. Utah's used to it in the PAC 12. Mm-hmm. And I don't think that, it's not a dominant Penn State team. It's not a dominant, it's not a Iowa off defense in the Big 10. Right. We're not talking about that type of Big 10 defense. No. It's above average. Right. But it's not that, and Utah's able to, they're gonna be able to just outplay maker stuff. Yep.

Cole Ingle: 10:08

So you've got Utah covering the two and a half as. Yeah. And the numbers 52 and a half. Again, and neither one of these offenses is overly explosive. Penn State's not going to want to play fast unless something changes from, you know, the rest of the regular season. And Utah is not a team that plays with a ton of tempo. I mean, they can play. They can mirror teams well, and so I just don't see this game going over the 50. There it

Stoy Hall: 10:48

is. No, no, no, no. I don't see Penn State scoring more than 20, and that means. Utah's gonna get to 33. Mm-hmm. ba.

Cole Ingle: 10:58

Yep. That's all points. All right.

Stoy Hall: 11:02

God, I'm gonna break a lot of rules with this one, just cuz I Oh, we don't have, oh yeah, we do. The chills, the excitement through the veins. YouTube did not yell at us, so that's cool. Maybe we can play those. Any who? Here we go. Cols Playoffs.

Cole Ingle: 11:40

I wish I was more excited for these games. I know, but it's called playoffs. That's, that's my hot take.

Stoy Hall: 11:45

I don't give a shit about your hot. At excitement. We have to, it's our job. It's our job to put hype

Cole Ingle: 11:51

into these games. It's my job to be realistic on the number one and number two teams, as we've talked about all year, being head and shoulders above everyone else in college football. I know, I know. There. How's that for excitement? I

Stoy Hall: 12:10

know, I know, I know,

Cole Ingle: 12:12

I know, I know, I know. Let's start with Michigan. T. Yeah,

Stoy Hall: 12:16

because it's the first game, so let's do that.

Cole Ingle: 12:18

That is a seven and a half point spread for Michigan. And they have been susceptible to first half blunders and or nohow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. and then been one of the strongest closing teams. in college football, if not the strongest closing team in college football. However, they are playing tcu, who is also the strongest closing team in football, in college football as far as comebacks putting up points, A quarterback that has the never say die attitude. They're kind of the, the cardiac horn frogs, I like that.

Stoy Hall: 13:12

Are, are you teeing up a backdoor cover or a backdoor cover of the

Cole Ingle: 13:15

over under. But here's the thing is that one over is Michigan. Is Michigan's strength more going to, to rise more than tcu? and I have to say yes.

Stoy Hall: 13:34

And by their strength

Cole Ingle: 13:35

you mean the fact that they're run the close games, run the football in the second half, and not only run the football, but run the football for points. Correct. They're not just running the football and getting three first round and then punting. They're running the football down your throat, down your throat, down your throat. And then we're gonna score score. Score. And what's C, Ohio State Game. C. Penn State Game

Stoy Hall: 13:56

C. And what's the problem with tcu? U'S? Just, I mean, the defense, like the defense, I know that's

Cole Ingle: 14:03

it. General. Yeah. They're big 12, just very susceptible.

Stoy Hall: 14:05

Correct. So I don't, I don't feel like they're gonna be able to stop Michigan. No, not unless they come up with something. Again, it's been a month, right. Scheme wise, first couple

Cole Ingle: 14:15

drives. And TCU is going to be able to do some things early, in my opinion, because Michigan is going to be feeling them out, trying to figure. like Michigan does wear their holes. Where can we expose them? Michigan's

Stoy Hall: 14:31

gonna come out and pound the rock to say, we are better than you and we're gonna run the ball. Right. If that fails, then they'll figure it out. Right? If it doesn't long day for TCU U. Yeah. Long day in that first. And it's the first two drives, first two drives, they're going to, why wouldn't they? I don't

Cole Ingle: 14:47

see TCU being able to run the ball against Michigan. No. They do have some big receivers that they can throw to obviously. they've got, you know, Duggan can run and, you know, he can make plays. But by the way, is it Duggan or Duggan?

Stoy Hall: 15:00

Both. Okay, good. Yeah. Duggan needs to be in Duggan mode. Yeah. For a good three quarters. I'll give him the first quarter, fill it out. Good. Three quarters. He needs to be in that mode. That's a long time.

Cole Ingle: 15:16

Yeah. And it's not a, it's not something that he hasn't shown all year that he's a four quarter and like, not even in a bad way, but like, The reason why you're a good comeback team is that your quarterback takes himself to an elite level of which you can't sustain for four quarters. And so like fourth quarter, late third quarter into fourth quarter, when they get down, Dugan's leadership, his Throw it on my shoulders. Yeah, all run. All pass. Yeah. All good. All fake. I'll scramble. I'll do whatever. You can't do that against the elite level competition, which Michigan will be the best team that they played all year. And

Stoy Hall: 15:52

he'll have to do it for three quarters, not a quarter and a half. Right. And it's gonna end up being short and he'll, so he'll have his

Cole Ingle: 15:57

run. I really like the first half under in this. Do you? I just, whatever that is. Just makes sense. Whatever the first for what these teams do. Yeah. But overall game total's 58 and a. If you think that TCU will find a way to score against Michigan, then it probably gets there. If you think that Michigan can dominate for four quarters, I don't think it does. So that's where I'm at. As far as the overall thinking of it, I don't think that, I don't think Michigan can lose

Stoy Hall: 16:30

this game. No. They'll be in cruise control most of the game, in my opinion. So, They won't lose. Right. If we're wrong about everything else, they're not gonna lose the ball game. Right?

Cole Ingle: 16:42

Can t c U be competitive enough enough as they have been pressure for the whole time all year? To cover the seven and a half?

Stoy Hall: 16:58

No

Cole Ingle: 16:59

dam it. I don't think so either.

Stoy Hall: 17:04

They're gonna be down, I mean, they're gonna be down 17 going into the fourth and Michigan's gonna be in Yep. Hand the football off and run clock. Mm-hmm. They might get a late one, but 10. I'll beat'em by 10 at like a minimum to me. And that's a like a late backdoor. Michigan fumbled while trying to run the clock out type

Cole Ingle: 17:27

thing. This game just, I look at it and I just see 34, 24 written all over this game, which is 58. Woo. But I don't see getting any higher than

Stoy Hall: 17:39

that. Michigan has to get to 40 for this thing to go over. Mm-hmm. you don't think they do? I, that's, that's no, I don't think it's, I don't even think that's in their game plan. Right. The only way it does is turnovers Right. Which we cannot account. Which is, which is a scary, scary situation. Go. Ooh.

Cole Ingle: 18:01

We're in for well if you'd like the teams that we're picking against you should be in for a really good week.

Stoy Hall: 18:08

Absolutely. Cuz we haven't picked college football in while either. Yeah. So that's good. Ohio State, Georgia. Minus six and a half, 62 and a half. Everyone knows Georgia. Georgia. I don't know what the problem is. I don't have a problem. Like I know Georgia, I know what we're getting at at Georgia. Mm-hmm. I don't know what we're getting from Ohio State. They have not shown the capability of big games and doing what we think they should be. Yeah. Howard six and a half is actually a absolute mind effort to me. Mm-hmm. maybe Vegas knows something we don't. Right. But I was thinking more like 12 and a half. Then I'm gonna play with, oh, hey, this is something to think about. Six and a half is not.

Cole Ingle: 19:01

Yeah. We're both in Georgia here. I think Money line and on the spread of six and a half. The only questions, the number at 62 and a half and what you think Ohio State's offense can or can't do against. A Georgia defense who's been susceptible this year more so than mm-hmm. pretty year. Yeah. Yeah. And an offense that's been a little more up and down. I mean, they have the weapons obviously, but

Stoy Hall: 19:27

do they, have, they really shown to me, if you have weapons, you're, you're averaging 30 point 35. 30, 40 point among college, sorry. Averaging that they're not on paper. Cool. But like no, they have not show. I don't, I mean, I don't disagree. That's where you get to this, back to this argument when we'll get, I cannot wait until the off this off season. It's gonna be great. Is

Cole Ingle: 19:50

George gonna score 40

Stoy Hall: 19:51

in this case? That's my thing. I I, I can't rule it out, but I don't, I don't think they're going to, turnovers will get'em over 40 without a doubt. They're gonna, they're gonna score in the thirties. and that's the issue for me. But they have to give the turnovers because I don't think they're going to try to be that ex explosive cuz they don't need to be. Yeah. Why do they need to be

Cole Ingle: 20:22

explosive? This is like a 37 20 game.

Stoy Hall: 20:29

Yeah. Now a random, you know, punt return or a pick six and we're screwed. I, I will hold my hand on my Lord. Just four straight. Huh? Just disgusting

Cole Ingle: 20:45

because it's gonna make me physically ill,

Stoy Hall: 20:49

but you start to follow the money. We haven't played that one. I, I just had to. Yeah. In this one, the squad. So this comes down to we could actually tie this whole thing. That's the worst part. And if we tie, we both take one because yeah, that's where we're at. Speaking of that, you haven't taken your gold schlager? No, not yet. Okay. A lot of show left. Damn. We do

Cole Ingle: 21:11

have a lot of shit left. So I mean, we're just tip of the iceberg here. So hope the games are great. Really do, I hope that we see the best of TCU from a Max Duggan perspective. I hope that actually I don't really care If we see the best of Ohio State, they can go crawl under a rock, in my opinion. I mean, let's be

Stoy Hall: 21:32

real. We want Georgia. Michigan. Yeah. How would you not want Georgia? Michigan?

Cole Ingle: 21:38

Right. And I would like both of those teams to be somewhat dominant in just showing that that's, that's the two teams that we deserve to see the other games. I just don't see much excitement coming outta that Penn State. Hopefully there is. We've had a lot of exciting games this year. Hope Kansas State can give Alabama all they want. Again, just don't see that happening. And I think the most exciting, I'm really just hoping that Clemson, Tennessee game can live up to

Stoy Hall: 22:07

it right now is the one that is,

Cole Ingle: 22:11

that's the most intriguing, in my opinion.

Stoy Hall: 22:12

Yeah, yeah. Aside from the, you know, the whole playoff right thing. That's kind of where we're at. Do we do, we do best bets on just. Oh, I mean, or no? Well, then it's.