College Football Playoff Rankings Reaction (Hour 4)

It is the JR Sportbrief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Super producer and host Ryan Hickey is coming to you live from New York City. We'll be hanging out with you for one more hour.

This show gets started every weekday at 6pm Eastern, 3 Pacific. And we've had one hell of a show. Thank you to former NFL coach, college coach, NFL player, ESPN analyst Herman Edwards.

Herman Edwards joined us last hour. Thank you to Alex Shapiro for coming through to join us to talk about these bears from the Chicago Sports Network. And thank you to you for listening on the free Odyssey app, on your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate, on Sirius XM Channel 158, and a smart speaker. All you got to do is ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. How about this?

The college football playoff, the second edition of the rankings, have been released. We'll tell you about that in a second. We've had a busy day. Bears get rid of their offensive coordinator and Shane Waldron. Jerry Jones continues to throw his head coach Mike McCarthy under the bus this time because of the sun.

Not knowing what to do and what direction to play in because of the sun. What else is new? Dak Prescott is done for the year. Daniel Jones looks like he'll be done as New York Giants quarterback going into the next season. Dolphins still got some playoff hope. They believe they can go to the playoffs. Beat the Rams last night, 23 to 15. I think they got a future. I don't think so.

There's just a lot going on. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.

You can also find me online. I am at JR Sport Brief everywhere. Joel Embiid making his return. I can't even say to the NBA. I don't know if it's the NBA or the Sixers.

He's back for now. Joel Embiid is playing ball. The Knicks are leading 61 to 60. Joel Embiid looks like he has a Mack truck wrapped around his left leg. That is the size of his knee brace.

Meanwhile, Klay Thompson is making his return tonight to the Bay Area as a member of the Dallas Mavericks as they get ready to take on the Golden Estate Warriors. Now, let's get to brass tacks. Let's just go through the rankings.

Hickey, you ready for this? Let's do it. Yeah, let's see how fast I can count. Hear the rankings, people. College football playoff rankings at number 12. You get Boise State. At 11, you get Ole Miss. 10, Alabama. 9, Miami. 8, Notre Dame. 7, Tennessee. 6, BYU.

5, Indiana. Indiana jumped from 8 last week. We got Penn State at 4. They move up two spots.

They will last at 6. We got Texas at 3. Yeah, because Miami got their ass whipped by Georgia Tech. Ohio State, they still sit at number 2.

The Ducks are number 1. The two teams that are out from the 12. We got Georgia and SMU. Boise State makes it in, obviously, because they would be a conference champ.

And let's be real. I mean, after you are the Georgia Bulldogs and you lose this past weekend, you don't necessarily have the same juice in the SEC. And so you think about the SEC teams that would make the college football playoff as it stands right now. Four teams out of the SEC. Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Ole Miss. Obviously, the Georgia Bulldogs and Tennessee, they both have an opportunity to, A, kind of lay their claim and stake that they should make it into the top 12 by one of them beating the hell out of the other this upcoming Saturday. Miami is still leading here in the ACC.

I guess that's a benefit despite them losing it to Tech, as I just said. And it's still early. It's still early. Unfortunately, I want to give. Hickey, it hurts my soul.

No, it hurts my soul. I would normally take Tennessee just because of how bad Georgia's offense has looked. But I think being back home at Sanford Stadium, I'm going to take them over Tennessee this Saturday. I would agree.

Now, there's a report. It's not confirmed, but there is a report that Nico Iamalia will not play for Tennessee, which obviously missing their quarterback would be huge for the Vols. I agree. I think Georgia at home, I mean, the games they've lost so far this season have been on the road. I think we see a bounce back at home from Georgia. I think they win.

They've won seven straight against Tennessee by two touchdowns or more. I'm not leaning blowout yet. Oh, no. But I'm starting to get around to it. Hickey, I should go. I should go. You should go right around. I mean, that's an elimination game, essentially.

Be great atmosphere. No? I don't think so. You said 45 minutes down the road, an hour?

No, more than that. Two hours? Not two hours.

A little more than an hour, but then everybody's going out there in the same direction and I'd have to get there the night before. I am not doing that because I don't want to sleep out there. What? What? What?

What do you want me? The game said 730. Yeah, but the day of?

No, bro. You just, you were just out at Penn State and it took you how long to move? How far? Four hours to drive three miles, but that was a noon game when everyone's going there at the same time. This is a night game. Everyone's going to filter in throughout the day, bro.

So what's you? Since you're the expert here, what time do you advise me to get in my car and leave Atlanta to drive out there? You said it's about an hour drive.

An hour, 90 minutes, but it's going to be longer because everybody's going out there. And are you tailgating? You just want to drive there, park the car, go to the game. See, that's the thing.

The first I can do. So I got to drive out. Hickey, if I go, I just got to ride with the radio station.

Okay. You know, when I got a park, I don't. I pull up right to the place.

The thing is right around the corner. But if I decide to get in my car and drive, and I got hell to pay, you know, I got to park my car out there. Then I got to walk to the stadium. And after the game, I walk back to my car and then I got to leave with a hundred of a thousand people. I'm not doing that.

The living that's going to be the tough part. Yeah, screw that. Late at night. Screw that. Hickey, when the game is over, you know what I can do? Go to bed. And turn it off.

Yeah. And turn it off and watch another game. I'm just getting blown out. I'm not doing that.

So that's it. You're out. You just in that split second, you made the decision. You're not going. Oh no, I didn't make the decision. I already knew.

I didn't have to make or think about anything. Damn, missing out. Now, if I had a helicopter now, that'd be different. Fly in, fly out. Is it? Yeah, easy, easy. I'm not doing that though. Forget it. I do like Grondhouse.

Grondhouse burgers are good, but I'm not going. Anyway, I still think Georgia is going to make it in because I think they'll, they'll end up beating Tennessee. Pretty wild to see that. I don't want to say no matter what happens the rest of the way that Miami has fallen. And because they are likely to still go out there and win the ACC that we'll see them in a college football playoff. But this is how the rankings stand right now.

Is there anything else that caught your attention? I think all the upsets and blowouts pretty much took care of us of this weekend. I know Indiana and BYU, they have taken some jump ups. Indiana five, BYU six, Indiana eight, BYU nine last week. So they both move up four spots respectively, or BYU's case three spots. BYU, they got a little lucky against Utah.

What are your thoughts on that one? They did. It was not a great showing, but with that said, they won, which is something Miami can't say, which is something Georgia can't say. And so I think that, you know, they moved up rightfully so. Now when you look at, you know, some of these rankings, why they are still behind Indiana to me is mind boggling. You still looking at the strength of schedule, huh?

Yeah. I mean, BYU, for example, here, they beat SMU on the road. SMU is 14. Indiana has been a great story this year. Indiana has one of the worst strength of schedules in all of college football. And they've not beaten a ranked opponent, let alone a good opponent.

And even though, yes, last week was close. I mean, Indiana only beat Michigan by five. Let's not pretend like, you know, they blew Michigan out and just dominated them. They played their closest game of the season at home. BYU struggled against, you know, in a historic rivalry on the road with two better wins than anything Indiana has. Again, nitpicking here, Indiana's four, BYU's five or not, or five, six, excuse me.

You know, it's not earth shattering, but I'm a little surprised about that. And honestly, I don't know about UJR, I thought Miami would fall farther. Yeah, they lost to Tech.

They lost to Tech. That lets you know how much everybody thinks about the ACC, about it's pretty much crap. That's what it, I mean, that's what it is.

We know there's no strength. Clemson is not worth a damn out there. SMU is, you think about them, is probably being a top competition there. I guess that's what it is. I think it's already a given that Miami is going to end up winning.

That's it. I mean that, I like, I still wonder, I still think they dropped from four to nine. If SMU wins the ACC, right, and they beat Miami in the ACC title game, with Miami sitting there at nine, maybe they creep up one or two spots, depending on, you know, how the last three weeks fall, shake out here.

Oh boy. I really, I don't know if they're going to make it. Well, let's look at the, look at the games left for SMU. They have Boston College this weekend. Who just made a quarterback change, so they're kind of in a mess. They have Virginia, the Cavaliers.

Okay. And they end the year against Cal. Hmm, not very good.

No, not, not at all. And if we take a look at the Hurricanes and what they have left here, and these are, these are gonna, they're probably, yeah, you're probably right, they're probably just gonna play each other in a championship. What do we got here? Okay, so Miami is not in action until next week. They have Wake Forest and then they have Syracuse.

Whoop-de-doo. So they should, right, I mean, we should be talking about, with those two teams, the five games you let out here, they should be five and oh. But you look at, again, for Miami, especially here, they have a win over Louisville, who I believe checks in at 19 this week. If you fall and have two losses, now all of a sudden you're in a conversation with Ole Miss, Alabama. If George is able to win this weekend and beat Tennessee, if you're in a conversation with those teams, they have one, two, three better wins than anything you have. Miami could be like ACC title or bust here.

Yeah, yeah, true, touche. Well, it's gonna be one of the two of them. Right, but like if Miami loses, right, like I think a lot of people thought they'd be maybe in still, but now after this loss. You think they're gonna lose to either Wake or Syracuse?

I don't think so. I don't, but if they lose to SMU, who's very good. Yeah, then SMU has to take their spot in the ACC.

Right, and then will Miami get in that large bid? Oh my god, this is why this stupid thing is dumb, okay? The fact that you, no, no, no, no, the fact that you have to reward in the top four spots, you automatically have to give it to the conference one, like that's whack, man. Like why, why, why is this a weak school out of the ACC getting a, I don't want to say a Twinkie, but why they getting a bow?

Why they getting love? Why they getting a top four spot when they're not one of the top four teams? This is a waste. Because otherwise I think the conference championship game would be a waste. If you want to wipe that out, we can wipe that out, I guess. I just picked the top, pick the top four teams, okay? And then use the fifth one, but we don't automatically, I'm trying to think this out in my brain. Does that, does what I just said make sense?

Probably not. When you say top four, you mean top four like conference champions? No, just, forget the conferences. Like if y'all can sit around and start ranking everybody and who deserves what versus who they played and you don't even factor in legitimately strength of schedule, then, then do what y'all already doing. Look at the top 25 teams in college football and just throw them in there regardless of conference. Like, okay, sorry. Some of these teams are still going to make it in out of the ACC, but nobody needs to be sitting automatically in a, a fourth spot because they, uh, they, they want a conference like it out of here. I think that's terrible, man. Well, it'd be funny to see SMU right now. Who's currently 14 jump up to number four here. If they win the ACC, we don't need that crap.

Like this is dumb. Oregon is one, Ohio state is two. Texas is three. Penn state is four.

Indiana is five. BYU is six. Tennessee is seven.

Okay. You have Notre Dame at eight. The hurricanes are nine. Alabama is now sitting at 10. Ole miss is at 11 after smoke in Georgia. Georgia is technically 12, but because we have, uh, uh, what's gen CC, Mickey, help me out the broncos. We got Boise state here at 13, but then they would automatically jump into 12 because they would win their conference. Then you have SMU at 14, Texas A&M at 15, uh, Kansas state at 16, uh, Deon's folks are sitting here at 17.

I know people are, are really excited about what the hell they can do there. This is all a way sticky. I'm just saying we got a few more weeks before this actually is worth a damn. Let's get to the conference championships.

I just, uh, this is dumb. And before they fix it, they're just going to go ahead and expand the playoff anyway. Do you think there's a cutoff? Like, do you think they're like, how many teams do you think can win a national title this year? So how many teams like legitimately? Yes.

Let's see. One, two, three, four. It was a big pause between three and four. A lot of teams skipped over like five, five, about five teams. Yeah. I think about five, five teams, six max tap the field depending on, you know, Oregon, Ohio state, Texas, not your school, uh, Alabama, Alabama.

And you know what? I don't even want to say not even Georgia. So about five teams, not even Georgia. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Georgia could, but I don't believe them. No, that defense.

If they show up, they didn't do it on Saturday. But that's it, man. No, that's it. Five and or slash six. That's it.

Do you have a different number? I mean, I look around like, I don't look, I don't think Penn state could win a national title. I don't think Ole miss or even Georgia could. Like if you look at how everyone else is playing outside of Oregon and even maybe to an extent of Ohio state, like nobody else has looked good or I should say this.

Nobody else has looked consistent. Like, and so that's where it is. Like Georgia could get Texas again on a great day for Georgia and win that game like Alabama.

We've seen them play some bad football and almost get got a few times, if not outright lose and they smoke LSU because of that stupid tiger. Right. Right. Exactly right.

And it's just, so it's just like, you look at some of these schools, like, I mean, I mean, their ceilings and floors are fluctuating and think both high and low where it's like, I think it is open for the first time in a long time where I think, I mean, I think six or seven is fair, but still like six or seven, I think is a higher number than what we've really talked about in years past. Oh, absolutely. But that's why I understand you have to widen the field. You have to have a field here, but let's be real. Who cares about Washington state? Come on now. I mean, who's looking at Tulane who was not ranked last week and now sits at 25 and go, Oh yeah, Tulane green wave is going to win a champion. Like nobody, nobody.

And so we might as well start eliminating people. Once we get into the Boise state, Georgia territory, Ole miss and no Alabama. Yeah. Miami. No Notre Dame. No Tennessee.

Unlikely. Indiana BYU. Probably not Penn state. No, Texas, Ohio, Oregon. Yeah.

Five or six. Let's see who gets hot as the, the season winds down here, but that's your latest college football playoff ranking. Unfortunately for the Miami hurricanes, it seems like they're going to, they're still beneficiaries for playing in a week ACC. And you could say the same thing for Kim Ward and his chances at the Heisman. I don't think he's going to win it, but when you could just light people up all year long playing nobody and it works in your favor, I guess it's the JR sport show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break and we come back on the other side.

How about this? And about an hour's time, someone who used to win championships, he now plays for the Dallas Mavericks. I don't know if he's going to see a championship there.

Clay Thompson returns to the Bay area. We'll talk about him. Give you an update on these, these, these Philadelphia 76ers.

Joel Embiid is actually playing basketball. It's a shock. Surprise, surprise. We'll give you an update on it all. Talk some more college football, football and hole. It's the JR sport show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. I love Nas Queensbridge QB.

It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Yeah. This song is inspirational. Yeah. I know I can be what I want to be.

If I work hard at it, I could be what I want to be. I know I can. Yeah. We got a lot of college football teams saying this right now. College football playoff reveal came out the second edition, second week.

We know this is ridiculous. You got the top four conference champions getting buys. So that means Oregon, Texas, BYU and Miami would be one through four. So you get smacked around and lose to Georgia tech and you can still get a buy. Okay. Whatever you say. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

It's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. I'm going to give you an update on what the hell is going on with Joel Embiid. Hickey, did he get hurt yet? Not yet. Not yet. Just tired, I guess. All right. Yeah. We'll check in with him in a second as he lumbers around the court.

Doesn't want to run. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. It's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Fish is calling from Washington. You're on the JR Sportbree show. What's up, Fish? Hey, JR. This is Dave.

I'd call if you want to pour. It's just interesting, right? The playoffs in college is going to be similar to that in the NFL. Teams are going to come in and have a chance in the playoffs, but teams that get a home field advantage game the first round are going to have a really strong case for winning that game. It'll be pretty unlikely you'd have a big upset, but it's like the NCAA basketball.

You have a one seed losing to a 12 or a 16. I'm not all that. This is the first year that we're going to see this expanded college football playoff.

I'm not all that concerned. Are we going to have some teams that ain't got no business winning here and there? Yes, of course.

Absolutely. And people will get excited and people will get up in arms and then some team that's not used to being no damn where is going to run into Alabama and they get their ass run on right out of town. So I think all things considered, people got what they want instead of having a fight and argue about who's in the top four. We'll see things whittled down and they'll play for it. But I don't think that's ultimately going to change what we see at the end. I don't think we're going to see a Cinderella. I don't think we'll see no Bulldogs scaring the living hell out of anybody.

I don't expect that. Well, there's too many rounds, right? They have to win. If you don't get a, well, if you play in the first round, right, the first eight, they're going to play an extra week and then they have to play an extra week and then they have to play in the semis and then you have, you know, forward is like four games, right? You have to win four games to win the national championship now. Yeah. You start off in the first round, the quarterfinals, the semifinals are your final four, and then you win at the championship round. Yes. So you've got to win four straight, kind of like, you know, the NFL, you've got to win several straight in order to win the Super Bowl.

And we've seen teams that are really good, like New England, that was, you know, undefeated and then they lose to the Giants. So there's a chance that, you know, you may have an upset, but it's pretty unlikely. Yeah.

It's a roll all the way through. I doubt it. I doubt it.

If anything, winning your conference is going to be advantageous to you because if you're a team like Miami and you could sit around and you got one less game to win, you got a better chance. But look, these, these quote, unquote, lower seeds. I think not. I think not. Well, hey, have a good night, J.R. Well, thank you, Fish, for calling from Washington. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Let's go ahead and talk to Luke. Luke is calling from Alabama. You are on the J.R. Sportbreeze show. What's up, Luke? Yeah, this is wild.

I think I've gotten in like three times a year or something without even trying, but whatever. A very specific point. In the first playoff poll, they put Boise State at 12 and SMU at 13. OK. Wait, wait, hold on a second, Luke. I got it. Are you the guy who said that SMU is going to win the national championship?

Was that you? Yes. Do you have anything different to say than what you said that last week?

Yes, I do. OK, what's different? OK, the difference is, OK, compare SMU and Boise State. Very similar in the sense that, OK, Boise State lost by three points to Oregon and SMU lost by three points to Boise State. Those two teams are one and six right now. OK, so what else have those two teams done?

Those are their only losses. OK, well, OK, well, that's OK. SMU lost to BYU earlier. Beaten up on the ACC. Many of those teams ranked. OK, who is Boise State beaten up on?

The Mountain West Conference. OK, why, why, why do you let me ask you, let me ask you this question. Help, help, help me out here.

Help me out here. Why are you so concerned? Why do you care? It's not because I'm an SMU homer. I mean, that has nothing to do with it.

Nothing to do with it. Well, give me the reason that's that's one reason not give me one reason why you do because it's because it makes no objective objective sense for Boise State. OK, go ahead to be in the playoffs at this point and SMU to be out. OK, you know, Boise State 12 SMU 13 in the initial playoff hole.

What is what is the SMU done? They've beaten up on the East Coast teams on national TV. They were ranked like Pittsburgh, blowing them out. OK, blowing, I mean, Louisville, Luke.

Both of those teams are still Luke. Does he have does he have a hearing issue? You think I think you can hear just fine, I think it's maybe the understanding that's the problem. OK, Luke, can you hear me? Yes. OK, I want you to listen and not speak.

You ready? Yes. OK, what I want you to understand. And I don't know if there's a reason why they put this on television.

OK, there's a reason why they want you to call me. There's a reason why we discuss it. It's because it's all entertainment, buddy. That's it.

That's it. They want you to be upset. There's no rhyme or reason to any of this.

And it won't be because human beings are picking the stupid teams. I just told you in the last break, I find the whole concept of awarding, you know, bias here just on winning conferences. I find it absurd. But it's what it is. At least I understand that that's a part of it.

They want people to argue about it. So you yelling at me about SMU about a bunch of dudes who are going to win the national championship. And by the way, what makes you say that? What makes you say that SMU could win the national championship? Let me let me be clear. I'll say this again.

I do not believe they'll win a national championship if I had to bet on them. OK. Slow down. I told you to listen, not talk. Are you ready to listen, Luke? You asked me a question. I'm answering. You ready for this? Yes.

OK. If I have to look at the field and forget the whole twenty five team field because they need a field. Hey, we got to have 12 teams in the playoffs.

We got to have a field large enough. Forget the twenty five teams that they've included. If I take a look at some of the other dominant teams, if I take a look at teams that are competing in the Big Ten, if I take a look at teams that are competing in the SEC, if I think about just what they've been able to do historically, if I think about what they're doing right now, are you telling me? And I think you told me this two weeks ago, so maybe I'm the stupid one for asking again. But do you believe out of the twenty five team field that we saw today, including one of my favorite teams, OK, Tulane out in New Orleans, are you telling me out of every team, all twenty five, you would know?

You don't know how to listen. Slow down, Luke from Alabama. It's a very simple question. It's a yes or no question.

And I think this is the same place we ended up last week. It's a yes or a no. Luke, out of all twenty five teams, if you needed to bet your life savings that SMU would win a championship, would you pick them out of the twenty five teams? All of them? Yes or no? OK, well, now I need to ask you something.

Thank you, Luke, for calling from Alabama. Oh, my God. Marco Balletti, when when they give you A, B, C or D on like them tests, remember you had to put A, B, C or D with the pencil.

Mm hmm. I think he used to write E. That's right. They used to write E. I'm pretty sure you didn't have a number two pencil either.

He was that one that found the non number two pencil and it didn't work. Number three led. I don't know. I don't remember that. They had they had three. Was it three or four led?

I don't know. I remember they always said, you got to make sure you have a number two pencil. I never saw a pencil that wasn't number two. So I don't know what the other pencils were.

But apparently Luke found them and he used them a lot. Number one led. I don't I don't know. No, they did. I believe you.

You've never seen a pencil that wasn't too led. No. No. Yeah. Let me ask you a question. Mm hmm.

We were kids, right? They said led was bad. They did all the time. I feel like that came later, though. Yeah. I feel like the paint chips and whatnot. I feel like that came later.

I don't I don't think they cared when we were really young. What's the difference between the lead in the pencil and the lead in the pipes? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to eat any of it.

I think that was the main objective. Don't eat the lead. I think this conversation makes me feel like the guy I just hung up on. Oh, man, damn. It's like, hey, this idiot on the radio, he's like, hey, what's the difference between the lead in the pipes, the paint and the pencils that they gave us? I don't know.

Listen, they used to be kids. The teacher would say, hey, go get a pencil from the box, right? Pick up that pencil, have everybody's teeth marks. And I'm like, who's been chewing on this?

I don't want this. Then you go to sharpen the thing with a big giant sharpener and you do it for like 10 minutes. It would never get sharp. And then all of a sudden it would come out and it could break. You could slice your hand wide open.

And as soon as you touch it down, it breaks and falls right off. Yeah, it was great. Oh my God. Yeah. It's great.

It's like a lesson in futility. Do kids still use pencils? Do they know how to write?

I don't know. iPads and stuff. They use pencils like my oldest, my 10 year old, he can use a pencil. He could write.

I will say this. He constantly has to do like a thing where he has to write basically like a paragraph. He talks about his hand hurts when he writes. You don't know how many times I want to throw him into a wall and toughen up kid, my hand. I mean, seriously. It's soft. I think I actually used the word toughen up today or words.

I think I said that today. Are they learning cursive? Are they like a tracing over the things like the letters? No, that I haven't seen them learn. I would think you would have learned it by now, which is a struggle because they don't know how to sign their name. Oh my God. No, bro. I'm serious. Cause I think that was something in the even in the election, like younger kids, they don't know how to sign their name because they don't learn cursive. Oh my God.

Oh no. Well, they're going to scan eyeballs for signatures soon. I guess we already there. So I mean, they got those pad things that you sign with your finger. Nobody knows how to sign those things anyway.

So it looks like a bunch of squiggly lines regardless. So they don't know how to write. I guess. Do we need to know how to write? I guess not.

I don't know. I feel like have we gone backwards a little bit? Like I know technology is good and all, but like you got keyboards and eyeballs. I mean, finger fingerprints.

Shouldn't we know how to still write like fundamental? Why do I need to sign my name when I can put my finger on a pad? Damn. It's all my fingerprints.

Now, if my fingerprints get burned off like one of those movies, then I don't know. We have another conversation. I don't know. I guess. I feel like we're eating the lead down though. I feel like we've gone backwards. Yeah.

I feel like I was eating lead after talking about SMU winning the championship. So and what, what could you possibly know? They can't.

Oh, I need, I didn't say they can't. I said, anybody with, uh, you know, half, well, let me not be insulting you. I think most people would look at SMU. Let's just say I would feel very comfortable betting everything that I own that SMU would not win a championship.

What are the odds that you would get SMU or the field? Would they even take that bet? Uh, you want me to call him back? No, let's call him back. No, no, no, no.

Let's, let's get him. Let's go ahead and ask him. No, I'm just curious. If it would Vegas even take that bet? I doubt it.

I doubt it. I don't know. I don't know what his thing is.

He called last week and he was, he was mad at me then. And I didn't say any, I don't even talk about SMU because they ain't winning the same way. I'm not sitting around here telling everybody about Washington state winning the national chair. Like, what am I doing? Like, let's like, I'm not, I'm not going to sit here. I'm not the sports guy that's going to sit around and BS you on, on your local school.

Like we know who's good and we know who's bad. You ain't got no patience for this man. SMU. You're going to call back next week again.

Oh yeah. Anyway, it's the Jr sport. Brie show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. We got to take a break. When we come back on the other side, I'm going to share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. Quickly talk about clay Thompson. I get to your phones lines or I get to the lines.

If I can. You're listening to the Jr sport brief. Yeah, Tulane number 25 college football playoff rankings.

That's right. Shout out to my folks down in new Orleans. I love them.

All my people listening on WWL. I love y'all. I need to go back. Maybe I'll drive down there. Hickey I'll drive the new Orleans before I drive to Athens. Okay.

You are one of a kind. Hey listen, I know what I'm getting in new Orleans. I don't know what I'm getting in Athens. I'm talking about the experience, the experience. Okay.

The traffic leaving. If I go to new Orleans, man, I'm having me a good old time. Have some gumbo. I'm going to send you photos because you're not there. Yeah, that's what I do.

Hickey. That's what I do. I am jealous already. It does sound like a good time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of fun. Hey, speaking of fun, let's go back in time.

I don't know if these things were fun. What's today? Today is November 12th.

The year is 2024. Let's go back in time. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show.

I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Hey, let's go back. November 12th. The year is 2010.

Oh my God. Kevin Love. I think he's still playing today. Damn, this guy's never going to quit. 2010.

November 12th. Kevin Love playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves. This man had the NBA's first 30-30 game in 28 years.

He scored 31 points, had 31 rebounds as the Timberwolves beat the Knicks 1-12 to 103. Listen to highlights of a man grabbing rebounds and scoring shots. This is from the NBA. Oh, good job by Telfair to keep his dribble. Airball.

Love. Stodomar blocked him but he tipped it in. He's got 12 offensive rebounds. He's averaging five offensive rebounds so he's doubled his efforts. Beasley.

Love for three. This is what happens. You give a young team confidence.

You let them hang around. 31 points. 31 rebounds in 40 minutes.

Of course it took place against the Knicks. Well, look at his teammates. Darko Milicic. Wesley Johnson. Sebastian. I bring guns on the plane.

Telfair. And then Michael Beasley. Those were his teammates on the Timberwolves. What a terrible team that was. Hey, how about this?

November 12th, 2019. Houston Astros fans will appreciate this or maybe they won't. Mike Fiers told everybody that we were cheating. Yeah, that we had video cameras and that we were begging on cans and that we were cheating to win the World Series in 2017. The manager of the team at that time, AJ Hench.

Well, this was back in 2020 when he spoke. He says, man, I wish I just had a better culture around the Astros where we could communicate a little bit better. I wish you'd have been more comfortable.

This is from the MLB Network. I haven't spent a lot of time focusing on the emotional side of the reaction to Mike, you know, telling the story and getting this message out. I wish I would have had an environment and a culture that was better for him to have come to me in real time.

And I wish I could have done better to maybe get that nudge that maybe I needed help to get that nudge to make a better to make a better to make them have make better leadership decisions. Oh, well, they didn't take the World Series away, so you'll be OK. Took everybody's job away, but it seemed like everything kind of worked out for everybody anyway. And speaking of history, ain't no history being made tonight. This will be an interesting game. Klay Thompson is back in the Bay Area. Yeah, four time NBA champ. The splash brother is returning to the Golden State. Well, the Bay with the Dallas Mavericks just a couple of days ago, this man Klay Thompson, he was just like, man, it ain't no big deal.

Liar. Be good to see people that you're with, obviously. But to me, it's just another regular season game in November. Obviously, there's bigger implications with the NBA Cup. So that's what's on our mind is in my mind is just to win that because I haven't been a part of it yet.

I know it's young, but be fun to play for that title. Oh, whatever. They they he walked into security, into the building. People were lined up. They had cameras in his face. He was being saluted by look, I guess the staff there. All the staff showed up to welcome him back. Every fan in attendance is getting like a little skipper hat because he used to ride a boat to the stadium or to the arena.

Like this ain't no ordinary game. And when they announced him in about, I don't know, 30 minutes or so, 20 minutes, this Mickey, is he gonna cry? He's gonna cry, right? Is he gonna try to fuck it out? I actually, I think you might cry. I think I'm with you.

He'll get a little teary eyed. This is just another game. It's the NBA Cup. The most interesting thing about this NBA Cup are these ugly ass basketball courts. Philadelphia 76ers are currently playing on an eyesore right now. The court is royal blue and navy blue and yellow.

And it's just, uh, they're still ugly. The Knicks are currently winning a one on one to 92. Joel Embiid has made his return tonight. How many minutes is big man? Oh, 26 minutes. 13 points, two of 11 from the field.

Picky, his legs and his arms are tired, huh? Both evidently. Yeah. Let's see if we can do, you think we get two calls in here?

Probably not. Right. Let's do it. We can. Mike from Birmingham quick.

Oh my God. Too slow. Tom from Baltimore quick.

What's up brother? So an issue with Lamar Jackson, he was way better in the pocket. Now, do you think that he overcome the chiefs and win the big game? Yeah, I think he can.

Do I think it'll happen at this point? No, but of course the Baltimore Ravens can beat the chiefs. They better do it in the postseason. Let's see, but they can do it. They're capable.

Thank you, Tom. I don't know about that defense though, Baltimore. I mean the way that this man, Patrick Mahomes is going and now he got DeAndre Hopkins.

I think the longer he plays, the more rapport they build, the dangerous they'll be. Hey, thank you so much to former NFL head coach and player, college coach player, ESPN analyst, Herm Edwards for joining us. Thank you so much to Alex Shapiro for joining us from the Chicago sports network to talk about the bears. You've been listening to the JR sport re-show here on the infinity sports network. We'll be back tomorrow at 6 PM Eastern three Pacific. If you've missed a minute of this show, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app tomorrow, a new top six list. It's what I do every Wednesday. You can find me online at JR sport brief. Thank you so much to super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Thank you to you for listening. Cause if you're not here, there is no show don't move on the infinity sports network.