Joel Klatt ranks the Top 5 QBs in CFB, best Value Bets for 2024 & reaction to Connor Stalions doc

Intro I'm disappointed in the lack of Integrity from whoever knew college football's never been better interest has never been higher believe that we are at the dawn of the golden age of college football it was an epic day of college football it was one of those days where you fall in love with the sport all over [Music] again hey hey what's up everybody welcome into to the Joel clad show this show is presented by Hampton by Hilton and we are thrilled to be here in week one of the season it's finally here we're going to get a real Saturday of college football last week was just an appetizer so uh buckle up because here we go this is going to be a big show here I've got my top five quarterbacks that I'm going to run down in college football some value bets um in the in this season as far as National Championship Playoff Heisman some long shots that I think are actually great values and then with today's uh excuse me yesterday the dropping on Netflix of the uh the sign stealer we got to get into the Michigan sign stealing Saga and I will run down uh that including what we know what we don't know and then what my thoughts are on that and we'll get into the mailbag as well so a packed show here for you on a Wednesday as we get ready for week one of the college football season remember wherever you're listening make sure to rate our show and review our show that obviously helps us out so if you could do that we would really appreciate it um and then if you're not subscribed on YouTube make sure to go subscribe on YouTube that's growing every single day and trust me when want tell you this we've got some really fun and and awesome content planned exclusive for YouTube from the show this fall so even if you're listening uh wherever you get your podcast you're going to want to make sure to get over there and subscribe to the YouTube channel jump into the comments um make sure to like the video and then I like to jump into the comments as well uh by the way I'm going to start kind of like my own YouTube account so it's not just from the show's account and jump into the comments and it will just be me unfiltered in the comments so you're going to want to be down there just in case I get cranky one day if I haven't had something to eat you never know it could go off the rails and then it could get really fun let's go here we go a block um top five Top 5 QBs quarterbacks in college football um I I thought about doing 10 because there's easily 10 that I think that you could put on this list I thought about doing a Heisman list but really it's just a quarterback list so I just wanted to to say okay here we go who are the five most Elite play callers Elite I guess I should say quarterbacks I still call them play callers in college football these are the guys that make everything run and we're going to go five to one at number five transferring from Oklahoma to Oregon I've got Dylan Gabriel Dylan Gabriel I think is going to have a Dillon Gabriel phenomenal season for Oregon you can see this in the Heisman odds he's way up there he's a great fit for what will Stein the offensive coordinator wants to do if you've listened to this show at at all you know that I'm a huge fan of this fit and what it could be with all that Talent around him at Oregon great wide receivers and now you get into that experience factor which you know is a big factor for me he's got 49 career starts going back to UCF and OU guy has been around forever which means he's replacing Bo Knicks who started more games than anybody in college football at that position I believe that number was 61 and he has a chance based on the length of this season to Sur pass that and become the new most experienced starting quarterback in college football I think he's going to have a great year I think he's a really good player a point guard smart knows where to go with the ball and he's accurate he's number five and number four I've got Quinn ures at Texas Quinn's going to have a great year he's an incumbent we saw what he Quinn Ewers was able to do a year ago and I think he just takes another step I understand there's some pieces around him that he's going to have to navigate um going into year three though as a starter he's never going to feel more com comfortable or confident in his game or his team than right now and by the way every one of those years is going to be with the same play caller he's got Steve sarkeesian so not only does he have experience just on the field which by the way pays huge dividends but he's also got experience within this specific system that's not always the case with these experienced quarterbacks it is the case with him the former number one recruit is my number four quarterback in college football and number number three this is a guy that I think has gotten totally forgotten in the leadup to this season largely because we didn't see him last year cam Rising is my number three quarterback in college football uh Cam Rising quarterback of the UTS we should not pass up well Les we forget the fact that every time this guy is healthy and on the field his team wins the conference this is a guy that has started two Rose Bowls in his career He's Got Talent around them Utah Pack 12 titles the last two years he was healthy he's going into his seventh year he has seen it all he's got weapons I love cam Rising this is the this is the main reason why I've picked Utah to win the Big 12 is because of Cam Rising he's my number three quarterback all right two left two spots left my number two quarterback is going to be shador Sanders at Colorado shador had very little help in front of him last year Shedeur Sanders and he was making the jump from FCS to FBS and all he did was go out there and throw for 500 yards in his first game and become one of the most efficient and accurate quarterbacks that we had in college football if you really watch this guy and you watch him play and you watch him operate his accuracy down the field his decision making he takes care of the ball as evidence by the fact that he only threw those three interceptions he had 31 total touchdowns on a team that was only a four- win team shador Sanders is an excellent player there is no doubt in my mind mind that this guy will be up there in the top five picks of the NFL draft as long as he can stay healthy and if they can keep him upright then this is a team that I think easily could win eight games and maybe more he was sacked the ridiculous 52 times and he still had 31 total touchdowns and only three interceptions that's remarkable people because of his last name and their hatred for his father coach Prime they don't want to give him his due but he is an excellent player and he is my number two quarterback in college football that leaves one left and that is Carson Beck Carson Beck is Carson Beck excellent at Georgia he I thought it was pretty obvious that Ohio State should be number one because of everything that they have returning but the thing that kept coming back and giving me pause was the fact that Carson Beck was back for Georgia this guy is an excellent player he led the SEC in passing last year it's his fifth year at Georgia it's his second year as a starter he is really accurate but he's got to make up for some weapons that he does not have around him not having Bowers and and lad is an issue right so can they replace the those guys absolutely maybe not Bowers because Bowers was I think somewhat of a generational tight end but they've got talent so he's going to have a good year and he's going to have the opportunity to go out there and play maybe the most difficult Road schedule in the sport uh and it's a good thing that he's there I love Carson Beck he is my number one quarterback in college college football so there you go there's the top five list it is Dylan Gabriel it is Quinn y it is Cam Rising it is shador Sanders and it is Carson Beck value bets let's get into some some value bets I know that all of you guys Joel Klatt’s best value bets do this uh truth be told I have never bet a dime on Sports in my life um I'd like to keep it that way most of you know I Pro I have an addictive personality so I don't want to go down that road um and those of you that do have an addictive personality just be careful just be careful with this I'm not suggesting any of this um I am saying though these jumped out to me when I look at odds when I when I look at this I started looking at like value bets long shots that I thought to myself boy that's a that's a clean path and here's here's where I landed let's start with the national championship the favorites are the favorites and you know what those are those are good bets Alabama is plus 1400 Alabama +1400 to win national title that's 14 to1 to win the national championship and I'm like hold on a second kayin dbor just played for the national championship kayin dbor has success with any quarterback that plays for him going all the way back to sou Falls including guys that were dual threat quarterbacks at sou Falls so the style issue if there is one with Jaylen milroe compared to Michael pennick I don't think is is going to phase Alabama and certainly not kayin dor that roster is as talented as any in the country they were the number one in recruiting Talent composite on the 247 and number two in Blue Chip ratio behind only Ohio State and they've actually done it in that building this is the most important piece is that to get a long shot yeah you can get good teams that have long odds but it's like are they really going to do it because a lot of times you've got to be knocking at the door you've got to get you kind of get your nose close to the Finish Line before you can ultimately finish race Alabama's done it Alabama's done it and they expect to do it within that locker room so when I'm looking at the long odds and I'm seeing Alabama at plus 1400 with kayin dor who's an excellent coach with a incumbent quarterback who I think can have success and and a building that is not going to fear Georgia they are not going to fear Texas they're not going to fear Ohio State those are good odds at least for me 14 to1 Alabama to win the national championship sign me up uh okay couple of longer odds to Oklahoma State +850 to win conference actually go to the playoff and a and a small caveat on this I'm going down and I'm seeing these odds and I and I saw Oklahoma State and Kansas at plus 700 I believe the number was just to go to the playoff and I thought to myself oh man I like those those are good value bets and then I've got to remember I I think and and expect that only one team from the Big 12 is actually going to go to the college football playoff well if that's the case then what I'm actually betting on if I'm betting Oklahoma State and Kansas is for them to win the Big 12 so then you look at those odds and you realize that they're even longer so I can get Oklahoma State at plus 850 to win the Big 12 and I can get Kansas at plus a thousand to win the Big 12 and I'm like oh sign me up for that one in particular Oklahoma State they bring back 18 starters from a team that won 10 games and reached the Big 12 championship game by the way team that beat them no longer in the league that was Texas Oly Gordon reigning do Walker Award winner he's back if they can get through this little this little I would call it a ripple in the schedule back to back they've got Utah and at Kansas State in weeks four and five then watch out they're set up for a nice run they're set up to go to the big 12 championship game and if they win that then they're going to the playoffs and they're the Big 12 Champions and you've got them at Plus 50 I'm in on that you know how I feel about veteran teams I think that veteran teams have been rewarded over the last couple of years and that's exactly what Mike Gundy has at Oklahoma State so a great value bet if you think Oklahoma state has the chance to go to the playoffs don't take them at plus 700 just expect that the Big 12 has to get their champion and probably nobody else in that playoff and bet him to win the Big 12 which is plus 850 so you get even longer odds on basically the exact same sentiment and bet that you would make in the first place and I feel similar about Kansas Kansas has what I would deem as Kansas +1000 to win Big 12 the most advantageous schedule of any team in the Big 12 so you can you can provide a really clear and clean path for them to get to the conference Championship game and now you're 60 minutes from winning it and going to the playoffs so again you can get Kansas at plus 700 to go to the playoff yeah that's a good bet guess what's even better expecting that the Big 12 only gets one team into the playoff and bet them to win the Big 12 which is plus 1,000 now we're talking I know that they lose Andy Cal Nikki to Penn State the offensive coordinator will'll see him at West Virginia but they brought in former Baylor o Jeff Grimes I think this guy is a really good coach didn't go well in the last couple of years at Baylor but I'm a big fan of Jeff Grimes Jaylen Daniels similarly uh similarly to cam Rising who I was talking about earlier in the program when he's healthy Kansas is a premier team in their league period he's missed 14 games over the last two years if he can stay healthy I know that's a big if but watch out they will likely be in the Big 12 championship game they do not have to play I repeat do not have to play Utah Oklahoma State or Arizona man you're missing some of the the heavyweights in that League the favorites in that League their toughest games will be at Kansas State that'll be a tough one and then they've got home Iowa State Home Colorado and at West Virginia manageable schedule they can get themselves there and if Jaylen Daniels is on the field for the Big 12 championship game that's a coin flick you can get him now at plus 1,000 I love that bet all right some individual bets um Jackson Arnold +3000 to win Heisman similar uh sentiment here in terms of some longer odds let's talk about Heisman and let's talk about some longer odds than the Heisman I'm going to start with a guy that is plus 3,000 so that's 30 to one and you sit there and you're like I could see that that's Jackson Arnold Jackson Arnold the quarterback for Oklahoma one we know that Oklahoma has a pedigree of of Heisman Trophy winners so it's not it's not a team or a program that that voters will be apprehensive voting for so that's number one number two they have this brutal schedule that provides a platform for Jackson Arnold if they were to navigate that schedule well all the sudden he will be elevated the offense I think is much more suited to Jackson Arnold than it was Dylan Gabriel this is why I love Dylan Gabriel at Oregon and I love Jackson Arnold at Oklahoma they've got Nick Anderson Jalil Farooq andrel Anthony on the outside they added Deon Burks in the slot from Purdue I know that they lost Jaden Gibson for the season he was injured in Fall camp but they still have depth that's an interest uh an injury unfortunately for Jaden that they can absorb because of this Talent around and so the ability to throw the ball downfield with the stronger arm of Jackson Arnold means that he might have a huge year if he's having a huge year and they navigate that difficult schedule and you've got him at plus 3,000 30 to1 I like those odds a lot couple more even longer odds Travis Hunter +6000 to win Heisman and this one I really love and and it's because it doesn't take much for him to immediately not just be in the conversation but to be the odds on favorite at plus 6,000 or 60 to1 you can get Travis Hunter at Colorado sign me up for the best non-quarterback in the sport at plus 6,000 we've also got a little bit of this like Otani Factor even more so than Charles Woodson or any of these other players like he's legitimately a two-way player so now you've got the Otani Factor where it's like he could be considered one of the best corners in the game and one of the best wide receivers in the game he averaged 115 snaps per game last year that's the top number in all of college football he could be the best wide receiver in the sport and I think he could be the best corner not just one of the top ones you know obviously Woodson comes to mind and and now all of the sudden if you just think to yourself like I do like man Colorado protect should do a little bit better their schedule is not quite as difficult as it was a year ago and now they're in eight wins and they're nine wins and he's averaging 15 to 120 snaps a game and he's not only the best corner in college football but you could argue that he's the best wide receiver in college football and guess what he's right there and you got him at plus 6,000 that is a great value BET right Donovan Edwards+10000 to win Heisman there my last good value bet is is a guy that will be the Workhorse for a team that will no doubt Lean On The Run Donovan Edwards is plus 10,000 that is 100 to one to win the Heisman I mean was Blake corm a candidate last year sure was was he the year before that before he got hurt he sure was you think that Chiron Moore is not going to run this offense through the running back I know col mullings is still there I know Alex orgy might be their quarterback Saturday night but folks Donovan will be the Workhorse he will be the guy that gets the bulk of the carries he is the most talented guy and he catches it out of the back field even better than korm did so now he's going to be a dual threat running back he's an every down back he can hit the Home Run and there's a chance based on how much they might run the football that he's going to inch close to 2,000 yards now all of a sudden you get one of those giant wins against Texas Oregon or Ohio State and there's Donovan Edwards and he's going to be sitting in New York that is not a stretch and you got them at 100 to1 plus 10,000 those are some great value bets as I look at this season and we start getting into week one all Connor Stalions documentary reaction right we've got to get into the Connor stallions docu documentary it was released on Netflix The Untold sign stealer that came out on Tuesday here's what I want to do um I want to talk about what we know what we don't know and then I want to talk about like what should we think about it and then how do I view it let's start with what we know here's what we know sign stealing occurs in almost every single game in college football that's that's a fact that's true it occurs in three ways it happens in Game just looking across the field at the opposing signs it happens in advanced scouting but without technology through television copy so there's a staff member assigned in the building to watch every single television copy and just scour that television copy for any audio or Visual Evidence of sign or signal so that's the second way and then the Third Way is Advanced illegal scouting okay so those are the three ways that you can steal signs the first is obviously the most difficult which is just ingame deciphering across the field and and that's the most pervasive and the most prevalent in college football it happens in every game now for Michigan and Conor stallions I feel really confident in saying that all three of those occurred all three of those occurred there's there's no doubt in my mind that illegal Advanced scouting occurred there's no doubt in my mind that advanced legal scouting occurred and there's no doubt in my mind that in-game deciphering occurred all three of those occurred okay so now you have to ask yourself like okay what do we not know then let's ask ourselves these questions what do we not know the first one is obvious who for Michigan knew to what extent did they know what was going on and in what timing those are really important questions I think that that everything in regards to that question is speculation at this point now if the investigation comes out and proves something about someone or some people then obviously we'll deal with that but at this point I do think it's it's evidence of the way you view this whole situation what you think about who knew what did they know and in what timing did they know it um what else do we not know well this one is is a little bit more difficult to explain but it's it's also true everything I'm saying is is true we have no way to measure the percentage of influence the legal versus illegal scouting had it is impossible to know and guess what that's not coming out in any investigation you have no idea I don't think even the people involved Connor SC stallions himself could not give you a percentage of of influence of one of those three categories I'm almost certain all three categories occurred and there's zero way that you're ever going to be able to to decipher the percentage of influence the legal portions had versus the illegal portions had all right so now let's start to get into and by the way nothing that came out in the Netflix documentary was news I I didn't think I mean the the biggest piece of news that I got from it that didn't know that I didn't know was the the factoid about his time at Navy and basically his first job as a student coach at Navy was to what decipher signs right so like that should suggest even a little bit to all of you regardless of of where your angle is on this if you're you're pissed at Michigan if you're not pissed at Michigan whatever it is that should at least give you a little bit of evidence that this is a pervasive I would say act in college football like this happens all right and I'm not and I'm not trying to to minimize it and I won't minimize it and let's get into kind of more of of the actionable items of this whole topic okay now here's what I I I want to talk through about about sign stealing is that as as some of you know or many of you know I went on coward last year and said The more you know about football the less you think this had to had an impact and the less you know about football the more you think this had an impact on each game is what I was referring to so people have said that I minimized it that I whitewashed it for Michigan and I I still don't think that that's the case I tend to minimize the impact of sign stealing and I'm going to explain why right here okay so let's let's explain my rationale of why number one it's still regardless of how well you do it it's still just a probability or an educated guess because you don't know if they've changed their signals or their pattern or their mechanics so it is still a probability now it could be a high probability it could be a low probability but it is still a probability there is a chance every single time that you're wrong there's also vagueness and you see this in some of the videos people will say well look he yelled run right okay which run right I I'm not sure and this is by the way this is not six-year-old soccer so I'm not going to send all 11 Defenders and just run them over to the right side in order to stop the run they still have a job to do they still have details to execute with within the content of their defense and the structure of their defense that Rings true whether you decipher or don't decipher a sign okay so it's still a probability and it's still an educated guest then you get into this idea and and this is where really I sit which is offensively you can negate the impact of what's going on if you feel like this is happening and this is also true every team and I think that they do this but every team and every coach should go into every single game Thinking to themselves hey the other team is at least trying to figure out what we're doing from our mechanics because remember that first way I told you of of stealing signs that's legal and pervasive so it's you have to have an at at least at a minimum some acknowledgment that this is going on okay so so once that happens you have to build in some Solutions in order to combat what inevitably is happening to you on the field so what are some of the solutions within your offense well you can obviously huddle uh you can go hyper fast so you can change and Vary your Pace to make it almost impossible for them to communicate what they feel like they're deciphering and then here's here's kind of a last one the quarterbacks can handle more on the field and this is where I want to sit for just a moment for just a moment I'm not going to sit here and decry where we're at in college football from a schematic standpoint but I am going to try to give you or or paint a picture in the past quarterbacks were given much more autonomy to control what was going on on the field so let me give you an example of what I'm talking about in the past we would have things called a package of plays and we would get into a formation a Personnel Group in a formation and then call a package of plays that package of plays might have three plays it might have four plays in it and then it was the quarterback's responsibility to get into the right play based on the defensive structure so our attitude was they cannot be right whatever they're trying to do they cannot be right okay so what does that look like a simple version of this is as follows we ran the West Coast system so let's get into a a zebra group okay that's that's a um 11 personnel one tight end one back three wide receivers so we're in zebra group we get in a formation called Trey right okay so let's get into Trey right we're going to stick the the tight end of the field so the WID side so we're Trey right uh wide Sid is to the right and then we're just going to call wide package that's it just wide package in the Huddle on yellow one ready break and you clap and you walk up to the Huddle or out of the Huddle and up to the line of scrimmage now it was my responsibility as a quarterback to get us into the right play so remember now maybe a signal has occurred maybe it hasn't occurred but whatever has occurred from the mechanics from the sidelines now it's in my hands as a quarterback so we walk up to the line of scrimmage and here's what I have if the middle of the field is open meaning there's two safeties high in the middle of the field guess well we have run ratios we can block everybody in the Run front which means that we want to run the football but we don't want to run our wide Zone to the three technique because I don't feel like we've got great angles in the way that we're trying to block towards the three technique we'd rather run it to the one technique now the three technique is the defensive tackle that's lined up on the outside shoulder of the Guard the one technique is lined up on the outside shoulder of the center so we want to run it to him he's the shade is what we'd call it in football terms and we want to run that that wide Zone that direction so now I can either run 96 zone or 95 Zone well middle of field open Where's the one technique here he is I don't need to move the defense so I can get into a live color with my Cadence and I can just say okay here we go we're going to go red live color here we go red 95 red 95 and we're running the ball to the to the left we're running 95 Zone one technique is to the field now maybe they're bringing pressure cuz they like to bring it to the one technique I'm not sure he's to the wide side of the field maybe they're just sitting in that structure of Defense what I would call is kind of a split hawk or whatever they've got a structure that we want to run the ball over to the wide side so I just get in there and use a live color right away red 96 red 96 here we go and we're running to the right now they start to shift or I don't think I know whether two safeties or not and so I decide you know what I'm going to need to move this defense with my Cadence that's where the yellow comes in now I can use the color yellow which means it's a dead Cadence yellow 95 yellow 95 said hut hut no one's moving why it's a dead color now I see this safety and he starts to dip a little bit and guess what now I know he's coming down and now there's just going to be a single safety as soon as there's a single safety regardless of coverage one three whatever it is I know that we can't block the Run front once we can't block the Run front I don't want to run wide Zone what do I want to do throw the football well what do I have if I've got a single safety and I'm in a three by one formation a single receiver that's probably in man demand so I want to run an X tag X is my weak receiver he's over in the boundary on my left side and guess what I can run 200 jet X slant X Omaha X Sluggo whatever it is and then y spacing on the right side so I've got a foundation over here if I don't like my one-on-one but I can definitely run one-on-one I can even run two jet glance whatever it is I can call a Pass based on that leverage and based on that defense so what do I do I get in and say yellow yellow 95 yellow9 nothing happens I go boom here he comes here comes the safety he comes down hey alert alert alert alert now we know we're changing the play Red 200 now we got red 200 because we know in wide package we're running 200 jet xlent y spacing bam we got a one-onone now we're throwing it out there so guess what I did I controlled everything in the game from the field as a quarterback we stopped doing that in college football because coaches wanted to go fast number one and they want wanted to control it from the sideline because they couldn't always coach every quarterback to do that so they wanted to control it well in order to control it from the sideline what do you have to do signal and you have to Signal not just to the quarterback but to all 11 players on the field because they're already in the formation that's how we got to this point that's how we got to this point if you know that it's going to be a problem you can absolutely negate it I will speak to that based on the way that Ohio State played Clemson in the semi-final Clemson has been a renowned for stealing signs for years and years there are some teams that are better at it than others and Clemson in particular when Brent vinales was there and there have been articles written about this this is not hearsay and I'm not slandering anybody like I said there are two ways to do it legally and they did it better than anybody and guess what they were game planned against specifically because of that by Ohio State in the semi-final they used to muddle huddle they got to the line quickly they did different things and guess what Clemson could not handle that so how do I view all of this first and foremost the National Championship in 2023 is not even close to Tainted not even close it's not even close to an asterisk not even close number one when this operation were still plausibly happening they were blowing people out and there was little to no ad Advantage needed nor gained number two once this operation was brought to the Forefront and then it was eliminated they got nothing but better the first week that Connor stallions wasn't on the field they beat Michigan State 490 zero you think that they were stealing signs in the Penn State game Ohio State in the playoff against Alabama like so no this National Championship is not tainted at all if anything they were given a break that this all came out in the middle of the year if this all came out after the year there would be a huge cloud of Suspicion but there's no suspicion because I know they did it with the third version of sign stealing in the second half of the year that's what we do know cuz it was eliminated what should we think about 2021 and 2022 that's murkier much more murky part of me as I just talked about you know tends to minimize sign stealing because it can be mitigated because it's a probability an Ed and an educated guess and then part of me is like man there were some close games and a play here or there yeah that absolutely could have or did influence outcomes of games I think it's hard to say it's much murkier I do know this like did sign stealing help Aiden Hutchinson get 15 pressures on CJ stoud in 2021 probably not I don't want to minimize what happened on the field because I'm generally a players Advocate I want to advocate for the teams that feel like they were cheated as well I know Ohio State feels like they would have won a couple of those games if this wasn't taking place I know that they feel that way my heart breaks for a guy like CJ Stout who probably wins a Heisman Trophy if if it breaks the other way right so like yes this had an impact this had an impact in those years and it's and it's much murkier which brings me to kind of how I feel I'm really disappointed in the lack of Integrity from Conor stallions and whomever knew I don't know exactly who knew what they knew and in what timing but my disappointment would be in their lack of Integrity just as is is the case when I'm disappointed in the lack of Integrity of these coaches that are poaching and and and tampering with Talent that's not on their roster all of these rules that are broken I'm disappointed in there's no question if a rule was broken they should be punished which they were they had to play the bulk of their schedule without their head coach everybody thinks that I'm a Michigan apologist that's not the case their lack of Integrity or at least Connor Stallions in this case has put them in this situation and they're going to have to pay the piper to some extent now the idea that they would have to somehow vacate anything in 2023 to me is comical it would be way over the pale from the NCAA and I don't believe that that would happen I'm disappointed in the lack of Integrity from who whoever knew I do not think that it is evidence that Jim harbon knew that he gave Conor stallions a game ball after the Iowa game that came out in the Netflix documentary and it was like see he knew well I don't think that that's evidence that he knew that the third category was taking place I think it's evidence that he knew that Connor stallion was really good at the first category which was deciphering in game it's a messy situation I'm disappointed in all of it I really am I I want to move forward I want to move forward for the players and it sucks it sucks for everybody involved it really does and we'll see who knew in what timing and to what extent let's get to Mailbag the mailbag here we go Sue writes in in the mailbag she says hi Joel enjoy your show if you had to choose between going to a wedding of your niece or nephew or go to a home football game that you have seasoned tickets for never mind that you live for fall football games which would you choose thanks sup P Sue there's only one wedding or at least hopefully there's only one wedding and there's plenty of football games however if your niece and nephew know you and love you they would know that scheduling in the fall on a Saturday is probably not smart so here's what I would do Sue I would go find the nicest gift on their registry by it for him and write him a really nice note that says hey I don't love you just for one day I love you forever and because of that here's this nice gift and call me after the honeymoon enjoy your day that's what I would do because college football Reigns Supreme and why in the world would your niece or nephew be scheduling this on a Saturday in particular in the fall like come on come on what are we doing Sue and this comes up by the way all the time I see it on social media and people ride in there's a lot lot of talk right now this year on social media about October 12th so here's what's going on on October 12th this year in college football number one October 12th is an unbelievable day of of games Ohio State Oregon Texas Oklahoma om LSU Penn State USC Florida Tennessee I'm like come on let's go this is awesome guess what October 12th also happens to be a top five wedding date in the industry of the year of the 365 it is in the top five days that people are getting married this year what you cannot miss this schedule folks this is a college football podcast this ain't a lifestyle and love podcast that stuff can wait I'm talking about Ohio State Oregon I'm talking about Red River Old Miss LSU State USC on the west coast Florida Tennessee come on like weddings can wait and anybody that has been married by the way if their if their marriage works out for any amount of time guess what they'll realize after about 8 nine years maybe 10 years it's like man we worried about that wedding for a year and it wasn't worth it because guess what you won't see 95% of those people at your wedding from 10 10 years from now you just won't you just won't so you know what don't be a offended if one of them doesn't come because there's an epic game my only chance in life to watch this version of Ohio State Oregon is October 12th you might get married a second time you might you might and guess what does it really matter you know what matters more being there for like a child's birth being there for like Hey we're going through hard times like doing life is a lot better to do with people than like hey I showed up at your wedding it's like who cares who cares we should stop spending so much money on wedd wedings anyways like what do why are we spending so much money on weddings like the bond the matrimony between a man and a woman joining as one like who who why are we spending so much money on this it's like oh this is my day is it is it it's actually your life it's all I have to say about there that October 12th is a college football Saturday first and foremost and a great one and a wedding day secondary that's second have a smaller wedding please have a smaller wedding that'll do it for today's show make sure to follow us on uh wherever you're listening to your podcast rate and review us please that Outro always 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