Special - Netflix SEC Football Any Given Saturday Review

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In this special episode we review the new Netflix special "SEC Football Any Given Saturday"

The Overrated Experience review the 7 episode series.

This series will get you pumped for the start of the 2025 College Football season.

We will go over what worked and what we thought was left out.. on purpose?? maybe.

There will be a Season 2 and give our wish list what we want to see next year.

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Kyle Blondin (00:01.906)
Welcome to the overrated experience sports and sports betting podcast. I'm your host Kyle Blondin and we are back season three smells of football season football kickoff is a matter of weeks away from the amazing time we have between the fall and the beginning or mid February to the end of the Superbowl jam packed with football action to bet on I can't I can't be more excited

We have NCAA football kicking off this Saturday. A lot of games, you know, there will be starting off the college football season. And then the NFL kicks off with Eagles, Cowboys in a week Thursday. It is the overrated experience sports and sports betting podcast. If you haven't joined us before, this is a sports podcast that talks about sports betting from a common person perspective. You know, we talk about the ups and downs.

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and also Instagram and Facebook at overrated experience. you'll find us there. Please join us, hit us up, let us know that you're joining because you'll listen to the podcast. But today's podcast will be one of many in the fall that aims our focus on football. And before we get into the sports betting of the NFL and eventually other sports as the winter joins us, reluctantly, we're going to talk about, this is more of a special

presentation by the Overhead Experience to review, and if you haven't checked it out yet to review by the title, you'll probably see it, is Netflix's series, SEC Football Any Given Saturday. So this is a seven episode look at the world of college football and really focuses on the Southeastern Conference, the SEC, which makes up a part of the NCAA football program.

Kyle Blondin (02:27.521)
These are the schools that you're very familiar with. What the ones that tend to generate a lot of NFL talent. So if you heard of LSU as an example, Jaden Daniels, superstar quarterback for the commanders coming off his rookie season. He just came out of LSU, you know, and other guys like Tua Tunga-Vaiola of the Miami Dolphins, Alabama Crimson Tide, you know, back in the day Auburn, part of SEC, Cam Newton.

but also Joe Burrow LSU led LSU to a national championship. Well known, obviously Cincinnati Bengal quarterback. So this is a seven episode series that focuses on a handful of those SEC schools. And I'm to review those episodes, you know, touch upon it. So spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the series, maybe you want to put a pause on the podcast, hold it off until you've taken a look at the series on Netflix. And I want to explain, first of all,

What would motivate, are you getting into? What's the reasons why we would watch this series of college football and who is it aimed at? Well, what I'll tell you is, with the success,

Netflix has had with let's say the f1 series where if you were not into car racing f1 car racing You probably if you sat down and watch the f1 series and it's multiple seasons. It does get you Really jacked up to kind of follow along you start recognizing driver names Storylines within the season within the teams amongst the teams amongst the executives on the teams

That's kind of what this is meant to do is to draw you in. don't know. Let's say from my perspective, I am a college football fan. I'm a college football sports better, but there is a level of fan when it comes to college football and especially the sec where I'm wondering what their perspective is on this series because they are already bought and sold.

Kyle Blondin (04:42.702)
on college football and everything that has to do with their school they support. are all in this series works out for a guy like me who's on the fringes of trying to understand, you know, the narratives and the storylines and the history and some of the things that these guys are battling for and what the experience is like at in the college ranks before many of them turn out to be NFL prospects and some of them peak and that's it. Football life is over from the

College ranks. So it attracts me to come watch a series and I have watched a series and enjoyed it a lot and it's changed my perspective, which I'll share with you. What are you going to notice when you watch and you know, I'm going to go through some of the storylines here that you're going to see and hear about when you watch the series. The things that stood out to me and especially being the SEC is the massive

Massive like a length that these schools go to make these programs successful You will notice the practice facilities the weight rooms Like it's insane every SEC school that I recall in this series has a like state-of-the-art indoor practice facility multiple practice facilities ridiculous locker rooms that we're talking NFL level

Right? If you don't understand the level of love that goes into NCAA football, college football, especially the SEC, you'll get it here. You'll see it. You'll see that some of these programs are bigger to many fans across the United States than the NFL is. They live and die based on their school, how they do each season. And some of the, you know, some of the focal points are obviously these programs are.

Head coach related so every time for the most part not every school They touched upon in the series and it wasn't all schools in SSE by the way the head coach was kind of the main character What was the head head coaches? Situation what were their thoughts? How did they react to a win? How did they react to a loss? How they react to the end of the season? All came down to the head coach with a sprinkle in of many of the players but again the focal point and a lot of this that is

Kyle Blondin (07:11.256)
college football is surrounded by the head coach and how successful the pressure pressure there there is to succeed and win trophies. Also you'll notice and I talked about the size and popularity that many of these programs on game day are coming you know their their buses are coming in to basically a parade of hundreds of thousands of people.

Maybe that's overdoing it, maybe I'm maybe I'm understating it. these fans in these communities know who you are. And if you're on the opposite side of the fan base, they know who to boo. So there's a lot of pressure there. And these fans will show up for anything team related. So many of the scenes in the show are coaches heading to restaurants, looking at the, I guess, talking to local radio stations about their hopes and dreams and

and some of the questions are answering related to how the season or they expect the season to go.

some of the key position battles they have leading into the season. So we'll touch on that. So a lot of interesting stuff. If you are not familiar with the college program that is NCAA football, SEC specific, take a look at this series. Seven episodes that I find very interesting. You'll get to understand some of the key rivalries. Now, one of the appealing things about European football, when I mean European football of soccer, is that many of the

diehard fans of lot of these teams in Europe, they may never taste a Champions League victory. They may never chase a Premier League championship. They may settle for a good run in the FA Cup, a good run in the second or first division below the Premier ship. And those are the same kind of things that happen across Italy, Germany, Spain, France, et cetera. It has that same feel to it where

Kyle Blondin (09:15.19)
If you're having a tough season that one win over your state rival or your long-term rival could go a long way of kind of curing some of the feelings your fan base has on maybe your lackluster season. you get to learn a lot about that and we'll touch upon that. You also look at not much footage about these guys going to class. So I guess let's not kid ourselves that

Business in the SEC is football. you got footage of guys walking on campus, but I don't recall, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, if I seen one footage of a guy studying for a test, a big test that may make or break his availability or eligibility into that next game. I didn't see none of that. So that was interesting. You'll find that interesting. And then maybe I'll talk about

at the end here what I probably want more to see and maybe it's unrealistic or what I can ask and what maybe going forward I gotta believe this can be a season two what I wanna see for that next season going into next year now just to get you a heads up for your for your folks out there unfamiliar with what the SEC is it is the southeastern conference that was established in 1932

there are 16 teams and the Southeastern conference and they participate in the NCAA division one program. They've I'm pretty sure you're familiar with NCAA and there are 16 teams in the SEC and it was originally 14 or last couple of years, but it expanded by two more Oklahoma, Texas. And you're going to find these teams predominantly in the South central and Southeastern United States.

And you'll be blown away by the size of these programs and what you see in these episodes. So it kicks off episode one, obviously with an opening kind of trailer, a kind of opening where it's kind of touching upon everything you're going to see in the upcoming season. some of the teams you're going to look at predominantly, was early on LSU, Florida a little bit, South Carolina, the Gamecocks get a lot of times coach Shane B.

Kyle Blondin (11:42.819)
Beamer gets a lot of time and they're kind of spread out through the whole experience The Texas A tends to be at the tail end when it comes to the focal point there the Mississippi State Bulldogs again tail end Kentucky Wildcats very minimal and I'm trying to figure out what value there was Bringing the Kentucky Wildcats into the series instead of spending more time in other places Vanderbilt Commodore is one of the programs that's up and rising and

and kind of the whipping horse of the SEC really, you know, until the last few years under head coach Clark Lee, laughingstock. Let's just put it out there. Vanderbilt was considered a joke when it, you know, comparison to the Alabama's Texas's and Tennessee's.

There's a lot of focus on Vanderbilt. Tennessee near the end, a little focus on Tennessee. The Auburn Tigers, not much at all. Very, very little. The Arkansas Razorbacks, maybe the smallest. Maybe I'm debating if Kentucky get less or Arkansas get less. And that's pretty much it. You know, talk about what I want to see in season two, but there are some big teams that are left off. You'll see some of these teams play those teams like the Alabamas and Texases, but you didn't get an inside look.

So episode one, as I stated, talks about what you're going to see throughout the year, but it really kicks off with two schools, LSU and Brian Kelly, their head coach, talking about, you know, shows him, you know, having dinner, talking to some of the boosters, really getting prepped for the season. And it really focuses on what the program and LSU is all about. The expectations are absolutely enormous that

You cannot lose too many games at LSU before it's deemed a failing season. And you could tell like Brian Kelly's, you know, has a good regard as a good head coach. He came from Notre Dame a few years back. However, I think his reputation so far is that he's underwhelmed, with success. mean, he's developed NFL players and talent. You know, Jayden Daniels had talked about, he coached up and he's, you know, second overall pick in the NFL Malik neighbors.

Kyle Blondin (14:03.055)
NFL, you know, Brian George, uh, Brian Thomas, uh, junior of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Those are just a few names that, uh, he's been a part of the success for LSU. But I think, uh, right now the pressure is mounting on him to create a program that is a national. Champion. So we look at their preparation. Uh, you hear him on the practice field that he wants to simulate, go at real speed. He's a hard ass on his, on his players.

and they're getting ready for their first kickoff in Las Vegas to take on USC. And it follows their preparation. We go down, you know, we go to Las Vegas and you know, just Allegiant Stadium in Vegas packed, packed, right? It's massive. And they take on the USC Trojans, but they come out with a loss. Some key mistakes. Not a good start for LSU.

Not a good beginning for a team that's expected to compete for a national title. So that's a, that was a setback for LSU. And you'll notice a lot of the trends here are the coaches are challenges are challenged their players ahead of time. Make sure that this game you're playing is the be all end all, like your life is on the line. And if something goes wrong, at least if the cameras are there, I don't know if it's just because the cameras are there, but we'll put the losses on themselves. Right? So they, tend to.

if they didn't execute, it'll put the weight on their shoulders and say, it's my fault. I didn't have you ready, but I, you know, I, I, I honestly, I don't think they fucking believe that one bit they're thinking transfer portal. How would I exchange get rid of, you know, how do I move on from so-and-so? The can't come through in the clutch. I got to believe that's what they're thinking. So that's kind of where LSU kicked off. So big hype, underwhelming opening kickoff. Now they already have a loss.

South killer Carolina game Cox. It goes into shame, beamers, background as his father was a long time coach of Virginia tech and you know, him trying to establish his own, reality, sorry, his legacy here at South Carolina. And you can kind of get a feeling that he's been around long enough in South Carolina that people want, you know, results and he he's really kind of on the hot seat. It could, could teeter either way of where the season's going to go.

Kyle Blondin (16:26.937)
But you can definitely feel the pressure. You know, there's clips of his wife saying, when we lose, I do not want to leave the house because I feel that the whole town is blaming me. And that is absolutely probably what happens, you know, in a, in a community like South Carolina with the pressure and you know, even, be a coach, Beamer is talking about his kids. You know, he feels bad for them. They got to go to school and they probably feel the heat from classmates and people that are, you know, you know, just, just, probably on their ass about.

you know, the team's performance that following Saturday. So that's the interesting part. In episode one, you get to know Lenora Sellers, which, which is one of the big time quarterbacks in college football and his development and kind of like, you know, their success banks on how well he is, developing. And I can't remember if it's the first episode where, you know, he's, he gets banged up a little bit and they, you know, they start to struggle in South Carolina.

don't get the wins that they want, but there's more to come on them. Again, a lot of the focus of the series is on the South Carolina Gamecocks. We moved to episode two, QB1, that's the title. By the way, opening kickoff was episode one title. Florida stands out to me here. Florida's more of the focal point in this one. So Florida, the Gators, big time program. You'll remember Florida with Tim Tebow and other players in there.

Rex Grossman, one of the beginning footage you see is, I think he's a six-year pro Graham Mertz quarterback for the Florida Gators. He's taking promotional shots with Tim Tebow and other Florida, in past quarterbacks. So the pressure's on because they got kicked off against the Miami Hurricanes. And they really show the story that DJ Legue, who is the number one rated prospect coming out of high school that joined the Gators.

is kind of, you know, when is his time coming? When is he going to fit into the program? And the pressure being under Billy Napier, head coach of the Florida Gators is everybody knows he's the future. He's the next few years and he's going to get the reins. When are you going to pull the trigger? Right? So that is the story in Florida. And you kind of learn about DJ Legway that I think he is thinking, I need more snaps. You know, I think I deserve more reps.

Kyle Blondin (18:53.667)
but when he gets the ball and he eventually does because of an injury, season ended injury to Graham Mertz, you could see that, you know, shit, shit. Like, you know, I'm kind of overwhelmed now. Like I'm the guy. So that was an interesting storyline of, you know, a top prospect coming to a program as a freshmen and you know, things are thrown on him and he's kind of got to learn on the fly and how Billy Napier handles that quarterback. Cause there originally was a quarterback, you know,

Sharing duties there before the injury. So Billy Napier you hear, you know Billy after the loss against Miami Billy Napier getting ripped by his fans. You're a bum Billy. You're a bum. I mean he's got to live with You know those losses wins and losses are like death, you know you lose you you suck what's what's the famous saying that John F. Kennedy talked about is failure is an orphan and

Success has a million fathers. That's exactly the life of a of a SEC head coach And that was displayed in episode 2 episode 3 shocked the world. This is where we get into more focus and insight on the Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Commodores and You know Clark Lee few seasons in using Diego Pena a quarterback and their journey to bring this program to respectability Clark Lee

is a form, you know, he's from the school as a player, really has a lot of invested to bring this program to respectability. And it's really a kickoff to the start of that story of, you know, how do they become respectable? How do they earn some, you know, street cred in the SEC instead of being the doormaster thought of and the work ethic by quarterback Penaia. He's, they show him.

You know, he's getting up early doing like just ridiculous workouts, 5 a.m. or whatever it is and every day. So he's a bulldog. He's a gamer. He's a small guy. a really, you know, he I don't think he's a prototypical NFL quarterback to say.

Kyle Blondin (21:05.359)
Really a guy you'd go to battle with and he goes to battle for sure and then episode 3 it focuses on Arkansas and But Arkansas and Tennessee kind of quickly so the story of this, episode is two upsets in one weekend Now before I get the Vanderbilt Arkansas goes in upsets, Tennessee 1914 that that's really

Kind of what you see of Arkansas. come back to Tennessee later, but it's to me superseded in the story in this episode could have probably predominantly focused on Vanderbilt hosting the Alabama Crimson Tide. I think they showed some ridiculous stat of the last time Vanderbilt knocked them off was like just some sort of ridiculous. I can't, I should have wrote it down as 30 years ago, maybe as longer, but it just.

You know, the thought is this is never going to happen. They're never going to be in the same ballpark. There were a 20 something point favorite underdog against the Alabama Crimson Tide. You got the footage of former Alabama coach Nick Saban saying something derogatory about Vanderbilt and they're playing that Clark Lee's getting them all pumped up. I mean, they're ready to go and they go out and win. They go out and win. They beat the number one team in the country at that time.

The scene is like just chaos as the Vanderbilt fans rush the field. Like it's just people everywhere. They rip down the goal posts, the party's going, they're dragging the goal posts down the street in Nashville, throw it into the river. you know what, this, you know, anything that coach Lee has done now is justified, right? He's got the belief that if we're knocking off Alabama.

You know, the number one team in the country, we might get to the point where eligible for a bowl game, which they needed six wins to be eligible for a bowl win. And they haven't done it. I think 2013 or something like that, whatever the lengthy period of time before Vanderbilt played in a bowl game. that was ridiculous and chaotic. And, that's what college football is all about is that win against Alabama may not be a national championship, but that is everything to that team.

Kyle Blondin (23:30.971)
That is everything to that program to even build credibility for new recruits coming in or transfers from the transfer portal, which is becoming more of a factor in NCAA college football, but just a big win. And that win will go down in history for this program. Pineda, the quarterback will be forever a legend. That time you beat Alabama here at home. This is where legends are made.

You're never going to see Vanderbilt as a national champion, probably not at least, but that game tells you everything you need to know about that season. That is everything to them. And then we get to episode four, turning point. And this is where we see LSU in a situation where they got to beat Alabama to kind of keep their national college football playoff hopes alive. And I'll get to that in a bit.

And so they go into Alabama, must win, and they falter. They can't be at Alabama. Alabama is way too much. And you find that, you know, at this point, you know, LSU, they're in a quandary, right? They're in a quandary here after that loss is the odds are that, you know, they're not going to be placed into the, they're not going to win an SEC championship. They're not going to make the college football playoff.

And I talked about earlier that this program is built around sending a lot of guys to the NFL. So it's a NFL machine, especially a wide receiver and quarterback. And you have their best player, a quarterback, Garrett Nussmeyer is, you know, he's pondering, do I make the jump to the NFL? So all other decisions we're seeing in this episode surround about what's his future hold.

What is next year hold? Does he sit out the remainder of this year because he is preparing to be an NFL quarterback and you see a conversation, you know, with coach Kelly, because apparently he shares the same agent as Nussmeyer and he's chatting with the agent and they're talking about, you know, Hey, he's got to make a decision. You know, we got to really project, the work and project really where he's going to be drafted. Cause if it's later.

Kyle Blondin (25:55.953)
know, third, fourth round, is it really worth it compared? And they don't say it, but he's referencing the NLM money that he'll make coming back to college football with LSU that may be more valuable than being a later round pick in the NFL. So that's the reality of what a head coach's life is at a program like LSU and what college football is. It's a business, right? The program might've taken a step back if Nussmeyer leaves.

and they have to hit the transfer portal hard to find a replacement. so that, that, lot of that conversation was surrounding his future. He eventually comes out and states he's coming back to LSU, which I'm sure was fine with coach Kelly and he can plan and load up for the 2025 season. So that was that. Auburn. Yeah. And again, another focus on Auburn going into an exciting game.

Already done, Auburn's cooked. Their season is not going anywhere. They have a couple national championships in their history, but this was not going anywhere for Auburn. But at the same time, they're taking on Texas A And let's make something out of this game. So they go take on Texas A They wind up winning 43-41. Four overtimes.

Just some great footage of a great game. Drama, know, when you're watching the NCAA, overtime rules are different than the NFL. If you don't know, they play, each team starts on 20 or 25, whatever it is. And then eventually after a while, it goes to two point conversions until somebody misses.

Kyle Blondin (27:45.329)
So just an interesting footage there for that, for Auburn. And then you look at episode five, it's called Football Family. And this is where we get into South Carolina again. Coach Beams feeling the pressure and then they start turning it on, right? They start winning. Things are going their way. They're getting win after win. we're getting introduced. If they keep this going.

They may be eligible for the college football playoff. Like they feel good that they keep on this run, coach beam, that they can do something, some damage here, right? They can bring this program to where they want it to go. So there's this, this is kind of the turnaround episode where this team, this program is on the rise. They're dangerous, right? You know, the momentum of college football, which is 12 games yet has so many ups and downs and swings of emotion.

They are on the upswing. And then we go to Vandy Vanderbilt again needs one more win to get into that bowl eligibility and play a bowl game that they desperately want. But at this point they're hosting Texas. They're on the road to Texas. One of the big powerhouses in college football. Like I said, Texas just joined the sec in 2024 along with Oklahoma. So we go into that game and the emotions and the, and the prep.

that Vanderbilt is, you know, putting together to face Texas. But at the end of the day, skill beats heart a lot of times, man. Texas is too much of a powerhouse and they take care of business and knock off Vanderbilt. So you see the emotion there, you know, knocking off Alabama a couple of weeks earlier, but going into Texas and just could not live up to that hype and beat the Texas Longhorns.

Now we go to episode six, the second last episode of the series. have Mississippi State and Ole Miss. the focus here goes to a state rivalry. And I think this is, I enjoyed this part of it, even though it was a very small portion of the seven episode series. And you really get into a coach, Jeff Lebby of the Mississippi State Bulldogs. You know, he takes over this program in Mississippi State. They are struggling.

Kyle Blondin (30:07.823)
He comes from Ole Miss is not, I think it was an offensive coordinator. He takes over the Mississippi state program. They're falling on hard times cause they're on the rebuild. His, he's promoting that this is just the beginning. The brighter times will find us. You know, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. This program is on the upswing. That's what he's selling. That doesn't mean the pressure's not on. you know, Mississippi state Bulldogs, their season's done, right? They're not going anywhere. But when it comes to the end of the season,

Many of these teams take on their interstate rivalry, like their long time rival. And for them, that's the Ole Miss Rebels. So you get a lot of footage of some of the players going home. They're talking about what are your chances? you feel good about Ole Miss? And you you talk about, you know, they're even talking about some of the family divisional divide on, you know, supporting Mississippi State versus Ole Miss.

You know, the two differences and it's called the egg bowl, by the way, the egg bowl. Um, you know, there's a trophy involved. So very, very important and almost, you know, again, Mississippi state season sucked, but with a win here against their interstate rivals, that could have gone a long way of making it a bit of a more of a success. That's how important this rivalry is. This is how important it is to each community to get at least this victory.

This victory is absolutely huge. All right. So, we go into that. We watched the prep. You know, we, we watch Mississippi state go into Ole Miss and well, they lose. Okay. They lose. Ole Miss takes them out quite easily. and then, you know, we get another scene of a coach Levy talking about how it's his fault, but you know, keep your head, chins up because the program is on the rise. So that's kind of what he's selling.

and we'll see what happens going into 2025. And then we also have a Texas A in Texas. These teams haven't met a while, but this is a huge rivalry despite not being, having played in a lengthy period of time. you really get to focus on Texas A and coach, coach, Mike Elko. he's a little more harsh, a little more veteran, a little more straightforward.

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Seems like his players like them, but he's talking to a couple boosters on the field. I think they're boosters, but they're, and supporters. And you just feel the pressure of like this, this program has got to take that next leap. Right. We all knew Texas A is so home of Johnny Manzal. you know, and they're kind of known for, you know, an upset here or there, but not never really taken a run or what they expect. And that's a potential national championship, run.

And that's kind of what you feel of this program is an upper echelon program, but just can't get over that hurdle of being taken seriously. And you can feel that pressure on head coach there. And, you know, you got to get more footage of players ahead of that game against Texas. You have their linebacker talking about how, you know, Texas didn't recruit them. had a chip on his shoulder a bit, but Texas A brought him in. You get to also find out about Texas A

and they're, they have kind of a military connection. So it's kind of a unique school there. I don't know if they're male cheerleaders, but they could have a male cheerleaders. They're in overalls. I can't recall the full story on that, but you see, you know, that tradition, they all show up at the stadium and, uh, you know, for the, what is it? The midnight yell or Yelp or whatever it is, but just the massive support and these programs have, and some of the, and the many, they have a callee like, like a, uh,

as a colleague, as a mascot. It's just insane. Like the traditions that you might find interesting by watching some of these episodes. So, and in that episode, yeah, Texas A can't get the job done. Texas kicks their ass.

And we got episode seven, the final focus on the 12 game football, college football playoff. So new to new this year, new this season was the expansion of the football playoff format where we now seen 12 teams across the NCAA football division one teams, have the possibility of competing for a championship, the largest tournament, for the championship ever.

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And there's some automatic bids, but there's also a committee that will decide who will be in those slots for, you know, the teams that don't win their conferences and don't get the automatic bids. So hopes for teams like South Carolina are on the committee. And also what's important is that the, based on the format of these 12 teams is that there's a buy. So there's a,

Top four ranking that the committee provides and those teams get home games. So it's very important that not only you make the playoffs, but you're hoping you get a benefit of a home game. So big, big decisions happening here. We're coming to the end of the season and South Carolina is going into Clemson. So the thought here was if South Carolina could go into Clemson, walk in on the road, be Clemson.

that that might sew up that spot in the college football playoff. They go in, we see the footage of them preparing, you know, you give your pregame speech, guys come out, Blair and Lenore Sellers has a great game. The Gamecocks do what they needed to do on the road, get the victory. And you find out that when it came to the committee, apparently they didn't do enough to make it.

So the South Carolina game Cox get the shaft. You know, there's not really an explanation to why they wouldn't qualify or why their opponents they did beat weren't good enough. Why that win at the end of the year on the road wasn't solidifying a spot in the college football playoff. And you see a press conference, you know, coach being, being like just disgusted, broken down and just anger.

So just that that's where college football kind of gets you where there's 13 member committee that is deciding your fate. So whatever you did on the field may not be enough because somebody has an opinion that you might be a seven to six opinion. You know, six people might be in favor on the committee while seven or not, or vice versa. You get, you get the benefit of the doubt. So they got shafted. So that was a really eyeopener in how this

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structure works and some of the teams that, you know, get really just crushed the programs, take that step back and don't get that experience that they want to make run at the college football championship. And then, you know, at the end here, we also get a brief look at Tennessee, getting a road game, which they were not happy about to in Ohio state to open up the college football playoff.

Yeah, it's, it's a honestly, got, they got steamrolled Ohio State crushed them. so Tennessee's hopes were dashed and, you know, Hey, it happens just like they did. They walked into Vanderbilt crushed Vanderbilt and, you know, their hopes got dashed, in Ohio state, the eventual national champions, the Ohio state Buckeyes Buckeyes. And then we get it like, you know, quick footage in Kentucky about their program and their game against Louisville, their state rival.

But if the focus on Maxwell Harrison and Dion Walker and Harrison is the cornerback that was drafted in the first round by the Buffalo Bills. And ironically enough, they talked about his friendship with Dion Walker, who was also picked in the fourth round about the Buffalo Bills. And what's interesting here is, that Maxwell Harrison, Harrison was, you know, after getting drafted, the story comes out that he's being accused of, you know, sexual assault that was eventually thrown out. And I'm wondering.

Geez, was that like a coincidence that he was a brief focal point at the end there? You know, like, or was that on purpose? Like what was the goal? I'm trying to understand the motivation to that. Was there any reluctance to put him on film because of that? If the charges didn't get dropped, would they have cut that out before they released it? It's interesting why that storyline was brought there at such a small period. It wasn't like a journey.

for multiple episodes of him building up his draft capital to see if he could get drafted in the first round. was just, it was odd. It just seemed out of place. So that, there you have it. That's kind of where the seven episodes of the SEC football any given Saturday, that's my take on it. So here, you know, that's kind of my review, but you know, wanting more, felt there was probably more we could learn about

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DJ Legway of the Florida Gators. He took over as starting quarterback. I think the Gators went on a bit of a run at the end of the year. I think it would have been cool to see him become more comfortable in the offense and being able to expand what he could do with the playbook and get his comfort level. That's kind of where they started the storyline of, shit, I'm overwhelmed. Like I'm trying, I got the pressure on me and now I'm getting it. Like, you know, I'm ready to take this program to the next level.

I think we could have seen more about that since Florida is such a big program. I want to see more about the transfer portal. I want to talk about the transfer portal and you know, the transfer portal for the last few years has become significant in college football, college basketball on the makeup of your teams and the promises of money paid out to these players to join these programs. So I would allow to see like more discussion about the transfer portal strategy.

and or how it's impacted their programs. So there was more for me on that. NIL, Name, Image, and Likeness, where these guys are getting paid for their image. There wasn't much talk about that, but they kind of, like I talked about it with Garrett Nussmeyer, the quarterback of the LSU, dancing around what income he would receive based on his draft position. Would it be better to stay in college versus jumping to the NFL and being a later round pick as an NFL quarterback? That's interesting.

I would like to see more about how that impacts the game and it does. And I think they purposely kept that out. And you know what we want it to, you know, when I'm thinking at sec, I think Alabama, right? I think Alabama Crimson Tide is the main program that we probably wanted to see. And, uh, so that's, that's kind of like, you know, it would have been very interesting because Kaylin D'Avore left Washington state to take over from Nick Saban last year for that Alabama job.

And they kind of faded at the end there with being ranked number one and then dropped off. So that would have been something that I think would have been very interesting to kind of watch how he's taken over the program, but maybe unfair that, you here you're taking over the, this massive, you know, flagship program in the sec and you've got cameras following you around, asking you questions about Nick Saban and replacing Nick Saban. Do you feel pressure about Nick Saban? Do you feel pressure when he shows up with college game day?

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and he's on campus, et cetera, et cetera. So maybe that's a good reason why they didn't focus on them. So season two, my asks are to include Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. Three big programs that I think we want to see how some of these facilities and the other places, I want to see some of the locker rooms and facilities at Alabama. Alabama! That would be interesting to see. And more about the college football committee.

The playoff committee, I kind of want to hear more discussion on how those decisions were made and maybe, you know, what was the mindset? And we're never going to get this. Like, let's just keep in mind, this information will never come out. And this is just a pie in the sky, what I would like to see. And I would love to see kind of, you know, the discussion as the season went on and why are, you know, the committee's thoughts on what teams, if they had to pick in week seven, you know, who would make the college playoff versus maybe how.

It played out in week nine or in end, finally week 12. And then, you know, even dropping into South Carolina, why did their performance this season not, was not good enough to reach where they want it to go. And that was a college football playoff and that disappointing season for that, or that disappointing decision to leave them out to that program. So those are the things I wanted to see what I think we want to see for season two. And there you have it.

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