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Tennessee has first 10-win season since 2003, and it looks like the Vols are Orange Bowl bound. Brando and JC talk Vols hopes for post season and the future, and discuss the new playoff expansion.
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Tennessee has first 10-win season since 2003, and it looks like the Vols are Orange Bowl bound. Brando and JC talk Vols hopes for post season and the future, and discuss the new playoff expansion.
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Tennessee has first 10-win season since 2003, and it looks like the Vols are Orange Bowl bound. Brando and JC talk Vols hopes for post season and the future, and discuss the new playoff expansion.
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Boom. Boom. Boom. We're at your house. We're at my house. We're at your house. Tremble, household. This is episode three, Power Chief Podcast. I'm the host. B. Young was my co-host, as always. J-Rock. What's good, bro? It's 1120 at night in Tennessee beyond the Orange Bowl. More than likely. We are going to go play in the Orange Bowl. Thank God. Thank God. Yeah, I think that before tonight, we're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're going to go play in the Orange Bowl. We're not Ohio State. We're not going to complain about the bowl game. Yeah, you're right. The Cotton Bowl is the Cotton Bowl. The Cotton Bowl is still a great bowl game. Nothing to hang your head about if that's where you do end up playing. But we're hungry, man. We're a hungry fan base. And I think we're a hungrier team than matching up against somebody like Tulane and the Cotton Bowl. I agree. I agree. And what I was thinking about tonight is, well, the Cotton Bowl is just a lose-lose situation. If you play Tulane, if you play UCF, that's their Super Bowl. They're playing everybody. They have no guys going to the draft that are going to opt out. I'm not saying that Jalen Hyatt would have opted out of the bowl game. But playing Clemson in an Orange Bowl, Jalen Hyatt is from South Carolina. He's 32 yards away from the school record, I believe, with receiving yards. Dude, he's had an incredible year. You can't tell me that guy's not going to play. Oh, he's playing 100%. He's playing. He's not wired like that to not play because he's that, you know, what's next in front of him, that's the most important thing to him out there. At least that's the way it seems just by the approach that he took coming into this season. Last year, we were really frustrated with this guy. Begging for him to do better. He wasn't making that leap, that really good leap that he ended up making this year. But he came in this season, dude, and it's like, who the fuck is this guy? I mean, we didn't plan on starting off with Jalen Hyatt, but it's a great topic. Jalen Hyatt, as a freshman, came in, and he had a pretty good year. I don't know how many yards he ended up with, but it was right around 500, I think, and everybody knew, okay, this guy's a burner. We're waiting on him his sophomore year. He's going to come in. He's going to tear shit up. His sophomore year, he didn't do anything. He was dropping passes. I don't know. I don't think he had 10 catches last year. And this year, he comes in, and he's the Bolitnikoff winner. If he doesn't win the Bolitnikoff, it's a sham. He's the best receiver in the nation. He has the most yards, most touchdowns. It would prove that, like, it's rigged. I mean, it's already, like, 98% rigged just because of what we've seen in the past week. And let's just, like, talk about this past week really quick. Let's just step off of Hyatt and Tennessee. We'll come back to that. But just, like, in the past week, like, we didn't even really get the chance to catch up, like, a lot over the past weeks and Thanksgiving, really. Yeah. Like, starting off with the Egg Bowl, did you watch any of the Egg Bowl? I watched most of the Egg Bowl, and it was the same old same with Ole Miss. Like, they're not a bad team, but they can't win games. And Lane Kiffin, he doesn't have a quarterback. The guy's offense looks great at times. It looks stagnant at times. They can't score in the second half, and they lost to a better Mississippi State team. And what happened at the end? Like, was there fans throwing trash and other things onto the field or something? Yeah, I believe that. I might have even seen a mustard bottle on the field. I saw a chair. I saw a WWE 10, like, one of those old, like, church cafeteria 10 chairs. I saw one of those, like, the fold-up ones. I saw one of those go at a player. Tell me, where's the outrage from the media at all? I mean, whenever Tennessee last year during that game, and that's what you're alluding to right now. Last year when Tennessee and Ole Miss played, 31-26, they beat us at the end of the game. There was a bad call when Tennessee was driving, trying to tie or win the game, and it pretty much ended the game. I think it was pass interference on a catch that we made, offensive pass interference, something crazy. I don't know. It was, like, that or it was the fourth down? We had, like, the fourth and 19 or something like that. Fourth and 19, and we were a half a yard short, they called, but it looked like the tight end got it every time. Yeah, it looked like he stretched over the, you know, said invisible first down yellow line that they put on the TV screen. Anyway, like, it was just, it's funny to see, you know, it kind of takes one to know one, I guess. Like, as well as getting that with the Ole Miss fan base. You know, they had everything to say about Tennessee when they did that, and so did everybody else. But when they did it, you know, the only thing, the only people I saw talking about it was ball Twitter. Yeah. The only Tennessee fans on Twitter was talking about it, of course. But nobody else talked about it. I know you remember last year when we threw stuff. It was the number one, it was, like, headliners, everything. Bro, there was media outlets calling for Tennessee fans' head. We're the worst fan base in the nation. We're trying to kill Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin threw the first pitch of the Tennessee Ole Miss game, I believe, I don't know, in the baseball game last year. Yeah. And he threw a yellow golf ball out. Yeah, he's a – Which, you know what, I'm not even mad at him. Like, that's just funny. He's just a funny guy. He's a dick. But, like, you know, I'll always have, like, a, you know, a little welcome area for Lane Kiffin for some reason. Like, he's an entertaining person. I like having him around. He's fun to have in the SEC. But, so, Egg Bowl, that's over with. Anything else that really happened over the weekend other than Ohio State, pretty much, like, not showing up to play at their own house in the biggest game of their season. I was at my dad's house with Corey watching that game. I left at halftime. They were up by three at halftime. But I had that weird feeling. And I was like, I'm getting out of here. I don't like the way this is going. I'm getting out. And I'm glad I did because I still don't know if Michigan's really that good. I think so. I think Ohio State forgot to play defense in the second half a little bit. Well, it's like they accounted for that run so heavy, so heavy, and Michigan hit those big plays downfield that you're supposed to hit. Yeah. And it just took the life out of that place, dude. So, when that game started, it seemed like Ohio State had the upper hand. They were pretty much dominating the game through a quarter and a half. Yeah, I remember, I think they scored on their first drive. I think they went straight down the field and scored first drive. And I was like, I think I kind of murmured, like, it's going to be a blowout. Yeah. Probably going to be a blowout. But it wasn't. I do remember, you know, halfway through that second quarter, I was in Kentucky at my mom's house for Thanksgiving. I turned to somebody and I said, Ohio State's going to blow them out. I think it was 14-3 or, you know, something like that at that time. Ohio State was controlling the game. And in the second half, Michigan had a few big plays. Their quarterback had some shots down the field that they hit on. And, like you said, four-point game at halftime. Ohio State comes out in the second half and forgets how to play defense. Just lays an egg, man. Just lays a complete egg. Complete egg. We've seen that, though, this year. Yeah, we have. We did it against Georgia. You know, that game was 14 points, I believe. We kind of did it for, like, four quarters against South Carolina. And that's when I was, yeah. Yeah, can't forget about that one. That's the game we're going to be thinking about for a long time. But, yeah, Ohio State, they played terrible. But we're sitting here talking on 11-30 on Friday night. And it's Friday. USC just lost about 21 points or more. Yeah, so let's talk about USC for a second. They're out. They're pulling below Tennessee. They'll be playing in the Cotton Bowl. USC's done. They'll be lucky to get to the Cotton Bowl after that. They've all routed them tonight. Railed them. Which I'm not even going to talk about my bet tonight, but I saw it coming. I mean, that USC team is not good. I mean, they're a good team. They have a good offense. They're not a playoff team. They're not a playoff team. That just so happened, you know, to be the case last week. They slid in at, you know, that number four spot. Because they play in a whack Pac-12. And I don't care what people say about the Pac-12 this year. I know that there's like, what, four ranked teams in the Pac-12. But here's your sign, okay? Utah is 9-3 with a loss to Florida. They're playing in the Pac-12 championship. And they're the number 11 team in the rankings in the college football playoff. They do this to give teams like USC the shot. And USC couldn't do it in the biggest stage with Lincoln Riley, with Caleb Williams. It's exactly what I expected. He's banged up, too. He is banged up. He's banged up, man. Utah came after his ass tonight. They did. And Utah deserved to win the game. And they completely dominated in the second half. Your four playoff teams are going to be Georgia at one. Michigan at two. You're going to have TCU at three. Honestly, what happened tonight, TCU's in, win or lose tomorrow. Kansas State being a top ten team. If they don't lose by, you know, 30 points, I think they're in. And then you're going to have Ohio State at number four. Those are your four playoff teams. Georgia plays Ohio State. You can probably, yeah, you can probably bank on that. It's happening. And I don't have a problem with it. You know, it's a little different. But this is just, you know, we should be in there. But it is what it is. Hey, also, I wanted to go back last week. One more thing about last week. I called that LSU loss. You called that and you also, I don't know if you remember on our last podcast, you told everybody that's listening, which hopefully there's a few people that are going to listen tonight. There's a few more than we think. I'm not going to say way more, but there's a couple more than we think. Well, to all the people that did listen, you called minus 13 and a half Tennessee against Vanderbilt. I told everybody to put your house on it. I told y'all. I don't know. So, Brandon, I heard something. You did call it. I heard something. So, before the South Carolina game, the early line was Tennessee minus 31 and a half. Okay? So, Tennessee loses to South Carolina in a bad fashion. Yeah. Terrible. We looked bad. We lost our starting quarterback. Joe Milton's coming in, who we can talk about later on in the podcast. I'm not sold on him next year. But anyways, we beat Vanderbilt 56 to nothing. And if Joe Milton would have hit on a couple of those deep shots, we could have beat them 75 to fucking nothing easy. I mean, you know, he was missing shots all night long. We ran the ball on them like they were fucking warm butter, baby. So, like, the funny thing about the Vandy game, I have a little funny story real quick. So, like, I think it was rainy here last Saturday. It was really cloudy and cold and it was rainy. I was in Nashville on Saturday night, leaving Nashville, and it was raining. Yeah. So, I was in – when it gets rainy, dude, I get, like, cozy in the house. I like to, like, be chill. I like to take advantage of the weather. I'm like a – I take advantage of the weather. That's the type of person I am. But so, after the Ohio State game's over, I go back home. I'm not doing anything all day. I'm chilling. Jenna's at home. She's not feeling well. So, like, she's just hanging out all day. I take a nap. I go to sleep at, like, 4 o'clock. And I tell her, I say, babe, you know, we play at 6 o'clock. Will you wake me up at 530? Like, you know, at least wake me up before we kick off. Last game of the season. Dude, I woke up. I woke – we were up 14 to nothing when I woke up. It was, like, first quarter was maybe three minutes or something like that left in the game. But – or left in the first quarter. And I had just woke up, right, and I was really pissed off about it and I was, like, super eager just to see how Milton came out. But it turns out – I went back and watched. It turns out, you know, he looked really good coming out. That was a bomb that he threw to Jalen. He had a great first quarter. But there's just – there's minor things. I don't really feel like getting too deep in that Milton bag tonight. But there's, you know, of course, like a lot of people, there's plenty of things that he can improve on. But that's a guy that I'm glad to have right now. Here's what I'll – yeah, I agree. He's good to have. He's a good backup quarterback. The good thing about Milton is he's experienced. You know, he's played in games before. And what I'll say about that game, he had a really good first quarter. And the weather conditions were terrible. The wind was blowing. The rain was coming down. You can't tell me a quarterback's going to have his best game with conditions like that. No. It's just not going to happen. So, he didn't play well. He overthrew people. It reminded me a lot of the Pittsburgh game. But what I – he didn't throw – in the first quarter he came out. He didn't throw like any – he didn't throw any picks, of course, did he? No, I don't think he had – he had no picks. But he came out in the first quarter and he was throwing those intermediate routes to squirrel white. You know, he was hitting some good passes. And then he hit high at deep, scored a touchdown. After that, it seemed like he was pretty much just going for deep shots. Once we got that lead, it was like he was trying to prove something. I don't know if that was a scheme thing by the coaches. Yeah, so, like, what's up with – like, I mean, of course, he doesn't – we haven't seen him play a ton. You know, he came in a good bit this year because, you know, we beat teams to sleep. But where's that takeoff, Joe? That takeoff and run, Joe, that we saw at Pittsburgh. Do you remember those runs early on in the game against Pittsburgh that he had? I'm talking about, like, some 60s – like, 50, 60-yard runs. Peebo type shit. Yeah, they just looked nonchalant, dude. He's such a fucking big body running down the field. He was fat. He was just deforming people. Yeah. Like, where was that this year? I mean, I understand he doesn't have to really do that. He's kind of putting – you know, you're also putting your body on the line more when you take off running. You said that he doesn't have to do that. I think he does have to do that. He's going to have to do that. For this offense to be – He's going to. Yes. For this offense to be what it needs to be, if Joe Milton's your starting quarterback, he's busting off those runs like that. Yeah. He's going to have to do it January 1. When the pocket breaks down, sometimes he can't stand still like a statue. If he will move around like Hooker, that's one thing Hooker was really good at. If he didn't have his first two options in his route and the pocket was closing in, he took off. He was very good. He was a one, two, three. And if there was nothing downfield, nothing at the check or whatever, he was gone. There wasn't, no, let me pull back up and try to – no, he was gone. He was just – He's smart. He's smart and he always made the right decision. And, you know, he was a quick trigger. He was everything this offense needs. When the pocket broke down, he took off. Milton's going to have to do that. And that's what I do worry about with Milton. I don't know, even after two years almost of being in this offense, I don't know if he's fully grasped it. And I don't know if it's just something he hasn't been able to show because he's only started, what, two and a half games in his career. He has all the physical tools. Can he run the offense like Hooker? I don't know if he's our guy next year. I think he starts off as our guy. I don't know if he's our guy. That's something we can talk about towards the end of the show. We were kind of talking about the Vanderbilt game, everything this weekend meant. Yeah. But, hey, dude, 10-2, man. First time – first 10-win season since 2003. 2003. How fucked up is that actually now that I'm thinking about it? We were 8, 7, 8 years old. 7, 8 years old maybe. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy to think about. That's bad. You're a 30-year-old Tennessee fan right now. Probably the best ball. What he remembers is that. What is the best ball we've been to since the 10-win season? So, I remember going to the Cotton Bowl, what, was it 2007, whenever we – 2004. It was 2004. We went in 2004. Ainge was – yeah, we had Ainge, Schaefer and company, and that was actually Rick Colson who came in and destroyed A&M. Yeah, beat A&M. In the Cotton Bowl. It was like 35-3. Yes. Something like that. Or 38-3, maybe. Something like that. Then in 2007, I believe, we went to the SEC Championship and lost to LSU and went to the Outback Bowl. So, yeah, I think the last New Year's Six Bowl, which I'm not even sure if it was classified as a New Year's Six Bowl back then. No. No, I don't think so. I mean – I don't think it was. I don't even think it was played on New Year's. So, we've never seen Tennessee in a New Year's Six. So, how can we complain? Well, like, so we have played on New Year's. Not in a six, no. No, not in a six. We played it like on the Outback Bowl and shit like that. They have that on New Year's, I think. It might be different now, but I 100% remember that it used to be a 9 o'clock – a 9 a.m. kickoff. 9 a.m. In Tampa for the Outback Bowl. Because we played Penn State, Wisconsin. Penn State. Like back-to-back years. Yeah. I think the year that Tennessee – that I remember in 2007, we lost the LSU SEC Championship and went to the Outback Bowl and played Penn State. Yeah, we had a basketball game that day. Yeah. I actually was trying to – it was just Taylor's birthday. It was Taylor's birthday yesterday, right? It was, yeah. Yeah, so, like, I was thinking back, like, for some – like I had a – like a nostalgic moment for some reason for a minute, and it took me back to around this time of year, like a long time ago, thinking about the Christmas parade and then the state championship for the high school football was played all on, like, the same weekend in the SEC Championship game. It's all this weekend. But anyway, I was thinking back to, like, you know, where were we the last time we played the SEC Championship? And we had a – we had a church league basketball game, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. In Millington. And on that point, you know, we can kind of dive into the college football playoffs, which I'll switch up later. It's going to go to 12 teams. But Tennessee's going to have a shot, I think, pretty much every year. Yeah, but it's over 11 other teams. Yeah. I agree, and you can really knock that down to 11 because one's going to be the group of five winner. So, you're two-liner UCF this year. So, there's really 11 power five football teams. And I know how the bracket said, like, the locations for the – would the first round with the home team, the higher seed, be at home? Would it actually be a home game? You're talking about fucking home. Host season. Neyland Stadium. Host season in Neyland. Neyland Stadium playoff game. Neyland in December. Can you believe it? No. How crazy. I mean, you know, you got to empty out your credit card and your lifetime savings to go to that game and get a hotel. It's what you live for as a Tennessee fan. I mean, it's literally playoff, like, NFL playoffs now. I mean, it's literally what's coming after. And, like, I don't want to take, like, too much away from this because, like, I really do think the playoff expansion is a good thing. Like, I mean, of course, I think it has its cons, too, and it's going to show that. And I'm not the only one who thinks that. No, there are cons. But, like, I'm just going to throw, like, a couple of points out there real quick about why I don't think it's the best decision to make it 12 teams. Maybe eight teams would have been a better decision, but it's eight or it's 12 now. So one of them is, like, dude, you're asking college athletes, some of them with, you know, future at risk. You know, they've got NFL careers ahead of them. You're asking those kids to play anywhere now from 13 to 17 games. If you're a 12 seed, if you're a 12 seed in that playoff, J.C., think about it. If you're like a Utah, like a 9-3 Utah that just beat USC in their Pac-10, Pac-12 championship. There it is. So Utah would be in, right? They're 10-3. It's 13 games. They've got to win first round, second round, semifinal, third round or second round quarters, third semifinals, and then championship games. There's four more games. That's 17. That's an NFL schedule. You don't think that guys are actually probably a little pissed right now, maybe? Dude, could you imagine Caleb Williams playing four more games? He wouldn't. He wouldn't. Say they would have won tonight, you know, We're in the 2024 playoff bracket. Caleb Williams has to play four more games the way he's limping around tonight. And he probably wouldn't because of his future. He's thinking long time. He's got to go to the NFL. Exactly. I can't play a quarter of a football season. It's insane. You're right. I haven't thought about that. The only thing I thought about was, and I guess here's another point to your argument, is you might have, all right, so take Michigan and Ohio State this year. They play one time in the regular season. The Big Ten is going to go, just like the SEC, they're going to go the best two teams in the Big Tens are in the Big Ten championship. So this year it would be Ohio State and Michigan once again. So they would play two weeks in a row, and they could both end up in the top 12 in the playoff. They could play each other three times. You could see that with the SEC schools as well. Tennessee and Alabama, it could happen. That's another downfall of it. But I do think that it makes the postseason that much better. I'm not saying I don't want to play Alabama three times a year because I'm scared. We're not fucking scared of Alabama anymore. But, dude, we don't want to play Alabama three times a year because it takes away the importance and the excitement of winning that game that year, dude. College football, I don't know, man. It's changing fast. But college football has always been a seasonal sport. It's always been about the games during the season. And, of course, it's starting to change here lately with the committee, and then there's certain criteria that they look at. Which, by the way, keep off of your criteria list an injured quarterback. Yeah, please. An injured quarterback, especially when that team has the second best backup quarterback in the country. Don't shun that team because one of their best players is hurt. And can we get into this? Let's go ahead and use this as an opportunity to fucking get into this. All right. You have your college football playoff rankings, these fucking white hairs sitting in a fucking room, right? All just talking to each other. At least they're talking about it, unlike the AP poll members. Okay. But how do they end up with the Alabama Crimson Tide over the Tennessee volunteers in the college football playoff ranking? Let me just give you a couple things, Brandon. We have the same record at 10-2, right? Tennessee has a head-to-head win over Alabama. They have more ranked wins than Alabama. Strength of schedule is better. Strength of schedule is better. Tennessee beat LSU by 27 points on the road. Alabama lost to that team. Okay. Tennessee. I'm going to add one. I'm going to add one real quick. I might forget it. Go ahead. We also beat Vanderbilt 56-0. Alabama won 52-3 or 55-3, something like that. Yes. We have two college football. I'm getting technical with it. No, no. That might be a petty-ass bullshit. No, that's real. I'm getting technical with it. You're getting technical with it. You have to think about common opponents. The two common opponents are LSU and Vanderbilt. Tennessee beat LSU by 27 points. Tennessee beat Vanderbilt by 56 points. I think Bama lost to LSU. I think Bama beat Vanderbilt by 51-3 or something like that. A 48-point win. You can get technical all you want, but Tennessee looked better with their backup quarterback against Vanderbilt. Here's my thing, Brandon. If the committee was just like, okay, Tennessee lost Hindenhooker. I think they're a different team with Joe Milton, and I think Alabama has a better chance, if they were to get into the playoff, to win the game. If they said that as their reasoning, I wouldn't love it, but it at least sounds reasonable. They beat Vandy 55-3. 55-3. Okay. Even still, we beat them worse. Doesn't matter. But to my point, if the committee would just say that, if they would say that it's because Hindenhooker's hurt, that's why Alabama's ranked ahead of you, okay. I don't know if I agree with it, but I understand what you're saying, but that's not what they said. You know what they said? It's better than what they said. You know what they said? They said that Alabama has two close losses, and the South Carolina loss for Tennessee, the committee couldn't forgive that, or some weird shit like that. First of all, one of Alabama's two close losses are against Tennessee, the team you're comparing them against. So if you remember, Oregon State beat Oregon last week. Oregon State jumped all the way ahead of Oregon. They were one spot ahead of them. I think they were 14, Oregon was 15, something like that. Okay. LSU, they lost to Florida State, game one. They both finished with a 9-3 record. Who's ranked ahead of who? It's Florida State, ranked ahead of LSU. You know why? Because Florida State beat them head-to-head in the regular season. You have Tennessee, you have Alabama. So where's the head-to-head? They both have the same record. Tennessee beats Alabama, Alabama's ranked ahead of Tennessee. It doesn't make any sense. It makes zero sense. Even if they were to come out and say that the quarterback is the reason why Tennessee's starting quarterbacks are their Heisman contender, I would understand it. But it still doesn't mean that Joe Milton couldn't come out there and run a team in a playoff. You're about to see Ohio State get in. Ohio State has one good win. That win's against Penn State, and I will tell you that I think Penn State is fucking ass. That's just to say it's not a great win. It's not the best win in the world. It was a good win given the circumstances because Penn State jumped out on them and was playing ball. Ohio State had to reach in their ass and pull out a win, and that's what good teams do, of course. But it's not a great win. But, I mean, yeah, if you want to get technical with it, we're getting technical with it. I mean, it is what it is. People will do anything that they can to try to tell a Tennessee fan that they're wrong in this situation. But, like, everyone knows that we're not wrong about it. So it's just annoying. We're shafted once again. And I just don't want to see this in the future. You know what I mean? Like, if they can do it to us now, why won't they be able to do it to us when there's other two-loss teams out there? You know what I mean? Yeah, I see your point. I don't know. I think once it gets to a 12 team, if you win ten games in the SEC, I think you're in. But you have seen it. And what happened tonight was USC lost, and Tennessee is still going to get to the Orange Bowl. But this is kind of your point. If there's ever any rule or, you know, clause, a good example is this fucking Rose Bowl clause. Somehow Ohio State could politic their way into getting into the Orange Bowl because they didn't want to play the Rose Bowl. Because they're a blue blood. And that would have knocked Tennessee to the Cotton Bowl. So USC won tonight or lost tonight, so that means that Ohio State is going to go to the playoffs, so Tennessee is going to get to the Orange Bowl anyways. I want that shit. I really want it. I do too. But it's just that kind of thing. If USC would have won tonight, Tennessee would be going to the Cotton Bowl to play fucking UCF or Tulane. And Tennessee is second in the fucking SEC. They lost to Georgia. They beat Alabama. They're the second best team in the SEC. And somehow Alabama is ranked ahead of them, and they would have been fucked out of a sugar bowl and would have went to the Cotton Bowl as the second best team in the SEC. If this was Alabama, they would be the ones getting into the college football playoffs instead of Ohio State. If Alabama was Tennessee's team this year, I guarantee you they'd be the ones getting into the college football playoffs. They'd be number three. Guarantee. And they might still get into the fucking playoffs, dude. If some really dumb shit were to happen, I don't know what else has to happen. TCU might have to get blown out tomorrow. If TCU loses by 35 tomorrow, Alabama's getting into the playoffs. It's not going to happen. TCU's not going to lose that bad. I'm sorry, right now there are people out there that are vouching for TCU saying that if they lose tomorrow that they're still in. Bullshit. Bullshit. They should be in above fucking Alabama. Absolutely. But the TCU team, the TCU team, man, if you want to go back and look at their schedule, they pulled out close win after close win against the most mediocre teams. And I still think that right now they still have, like it's still a strong, they still, if I was TCU, I'd be worried still. I would still be very worried about getting into the playoffs. Well, like, I mean, I'm not, or TCU has been. But yeah, going back on your point, absolutely, TCU deserves to get in over Alabama. Because Alabama has, what have, look at their schedule. I actually just pulled their schedule up just to show you. They don't have a single decent win. No, their best wins against Ole Miss. Ole Miss, a team that lost to Mississippi State last week. That's their best win. They don't have one good win. And that's kind of what I was getting at earlier, was whenever the college football playoff committee, when they're looking at how you lose instead of how you win. So like pretty much what they're saying, if you lose, but it's a close game, doesn't really count as a loss. You know, Tennessee had the better wins. They had the better resume. They had one bad loss. So what the committee's portraying is, it doesn't matter if you lose as long as you lose early, I guess. And you don't lose by a lot. But if you lose late and it's by a lot, then, oh well, it doesn't matter. They beat Austin Peay 34-0. Alabama has zero good wins, bro. I don't know, dude. They beat Austin Peay 34-0. Wow, that's, yeah, that's pretty impressive. Squeak out an A&M win. Ended up beating Arkansas because Arkansas was just bad. That game was close in the second half, though. Late in the third quarter, it was a one position game. They beat Monroe by 56, and nobody said anything about them running up the points. Look, guess what, dude? It doesn't matter because they're Alabama. They can do whatever they want. You know what this pretty much says, Brandon? There's an inner circle of these college football teams. Yeah, it's a cult. Alabama's a part of it. Ohio State's a part of it. Clemson's probably a part of it. There's an inner circle. Tennessee's not invited to that party yet. We have to crash it. And the only way to crash that fucking party is to keep winning. You can't lose games like you did in South Carolina. Because the bottom line is, if Tennessee beats South Carolina, a team that they're, you know, 21 points better than, they're favored by 22. If they win that game, they're sitting in the college football playoff right now. And that USC loss tonight submits that. And that hurts. The Georgia loss wasn't even that bad looking back at it. Oh, they could have lost. But still, we can't not show up in that game. You know what I mean? Like, that's got to be, that's our next hump now. You know, we won a bunch of good games this year. Like, we won a couple big games, like looking back. It turns out that we beat some really good teams. Yeah. But now it's that, it's that we're out of that funk, it feels like. Now it's, now it's, can we keep our foot on the gas? Let's build, let's build on defense. Let's put some depth on this team. Let's build our roster. Transfer portal is wide open. And we got to go out and execute and win those Georgia games. We're 8-0. You talked about the turnaround the Heifers made in year two. You said something about the transfer portal. What kid that's looking for a place to get on the field, especially on defense, our defensive backfield, what kid wouldn't want to come play for this Tennessee team? The fact that we're 10-2, we're a South Carolina fucking win, away from the college football playoff. I would want to go play for a team that scored 75 touchdowns. Come on. I mean, I don't, you know, that's just me. Tennessee is, I'll just be young, but. I agree with being young. I'd love to play for a team that was first in like almost every category on offense. And it's probably one of the most electric offenses that we've seen in college football for a while. Just to be straight up, you know, that might be, that might be a little fingernail on the chalkboard for a couple people to hear, but it's like smoke it, put it in your pipe and smoke it. Tennessee's back. We're back. I mean, and this is, 10-2 is like a disappointing record for us now. It was disappointing. And guess what? You know, things have turned. Like, let's just, let's just take a moment to just pay attention to how quick things changed. Two years ago, we couldn't, you know, we couldn't score six points in a game. Like, you know, we were throwing three picks, six in a game. We were losing to Georgia State or Georgia Southern, whoever the fuck they were. Wow. Yeah. Wow, dude. We were in an all-time low. It didn't get any lower. That was three seasons ago. Three seasons ago. Not even a thousand days ago. Probably over a thousand, but just over a thousand days ago, which is really even that long. But I'm telling you right now, if you sit here and just look at how quick things changed from going to where we were back then to now, we're mad about winning 10 games this year. People are framing the bushes from the stadium that they rushed the field on us in and they score up on their fucking wall in their house. They're making coffee table books about it. They're making t-shirts about it. People, people want to beat us, dude, because we're fucking good again. And like, people might not, you might not, I wish Cory would stop fucking calling me. I'm gonna call you back, Cory. Stop calling me. Cory, if you're listening, this isn't live, but if you're listening, quit fucking calling Brandon. Damn. You got me all thrown off track now. I feel like I was really on it. You were on it. You were rolling. But, but yeah, man, just from, from where we were to where we are now, it's incredible. It is. And that's a, that's a great point. It's funny. I mean, dude, literally two or three seasons ago, we're watching Jarrett fucking Garantano, Garantano, whatever the fuck his name. We're watching his sorry ass throw picks against Vanderbilt and shit, losing to Vanderbilt in Kentucky. I mean, fuck. And this year, we're beating Alabama. We're beating LSU. We're having a great season. You know, it's, it's incredible. I'm chilling, man. Going to a New Year's Six bowl game. I'm happy. And the funny thing is, is we lost to South Carolina, which we shouldn't have done. And we should have been in the college football playoff attending two seasons in a New Year's Six bowl game. It's disappointing to Tennessee fans. And that, my friend, is how I tell you we're bad. That's a good disappointment to have right now. Because the disappointment a few years ago was a lot lower. We're going to the Orange Bowl, and we're mad that we're not ranked ahead of Alabama to go to the Sugar Bowl. And I want to beat Dava's ass, dude. Can we beat his ass? What is this, what is this burger talk? Can you educate, have you, have you done anything? I haven't even paid attention to it. I've been really busy at work this week, actually. I haven't, I don't even want to pay that much attention to it. But like, tell me what that's about. So, I just know a little bit. But, apparently, when Tennessee lost to South Carolina, obviously, Clemson was playing South Carolina that next week. So, I think a media member asked him, you know, what are your thoughts on the Tennessee-South Carolina game? And he alluded to Tennessee was a team that was, I think, 9-1 at that time. That was a go 10-1. If they would have won that game, like we've been talking about, they would have been square on track to go to the college football playoff without playing the conference championship game. So, what Dava alludes to is that Tennessee wasn't ready to play the game. They're going to be flipping burgers on championship weekend wondering which college football playoff bowl they're going to. Those were his comments, basically. I can't give you exactly what he said, but that was pretty much summed up what he said. He said, we're going to be flipping burgers on championship weekend. He's full of shit. And he also said, they forgot to come out there and play the game. So, he's saying that's why. We were looking ahead to the college football playoff. That's why we lost to South Carolina. Then he turns around with his Clemson team and loses to Spencer Adler in South Carolina as well. Hmm. And guess what? We get to play the Clemson Tigers as long as they can handle their business against South Carolina. It's going to be the Orange Clemson Tigers against the Orange Tennessee Volunteers in the Orange Bowl. Yes, sir. It's going to be a lot of Orange in the Orange Bowl. Battle for the Orange. Yeah. And you know what? It means more than that, too, because we recruit against South Carolina pretty heavy. This is a, you know, bragging rights game. This is what Tennessee wanted. That's why I was rooting for Utah tonight. And Tennessee's going to the Orange Bowl. They're going to play Clemson as long as Clemson can beat North Carolina, which, I don't know if that's a given. I really don't. I don't either. We have some good football coming up this weekend. Like some really good football. So, I'm ready to sit back and watch, man. I'm ready for Selection Sunday. Yeah, we've had, we've had a hell of a year. And it's all kind of starting to wind down. I think we're going to do another podcast. You want to do one again tomorrow night? Yeah. After all the games. And we'll probably, we'll probably drop one tomorrow and then we'll probably drop one Sunday on, would that be the 5th? Would that be the 4th or the 5th on Sunday? Today's the 3rd, so it'd be the 5th. So yeah, we'll drop one tomorrow, December 4th. We'll drop one on Sunday, December 5th. Tomorrow's actually the 3rd. It's 12-01. Okay, so I'm actually, okay, okay. So, back it up. Today, Saturday, we'll drop one later on tonight. And then on the 4th tomorrow, we'll drop another. But, a lot of interesting stuff coming up for college football, man. And the balls are tending to, so. Balls are tending to, and the big one to watch tomorrow now is TCU and Kansas State. So I'll definitely be tuning into that one. I think that's at 11 o'clock. And I'll be watching that. Do you want to, do you have any picks? Do you want to do some picks? Yeah, so, yeah, we can do some picks. I'll tell you what I had tonight. I really wish, you know, we were doing picks yesterday because I would have made you guys some money tonight. Yeah, let's do some picks. I actually haven't made any. I have a couple liens, but I haven't made any picks, like, on my account. Yeah, I was, I was on a burner in college basketball. And, like, I just stopped after I lost all my money on South Carolina. So, or the South Carolina game. So, yeah, I haven't gotten into the basketball yet, man. It's still football season. But yeah, so we got Kansas State TCU to kick off in the morning. That's, Kansas State's a point and a half dog. Oh, that's moved. Yeah, so it's tight. It was at two and a half, right? Yeah, it was at two and a half as early as today. I would, I'm probably going to hop on the TCU minus one and a half. I hate on TCU, man, because they were just that team that was kind of in our way for a little while this year. But I don't see them losing out. The rest of their schedule until they get to the playoffs. I hope they win. I hope they win. My lean on this one would be the TCU money line. It's at minus 125. So, you might as well just eat that juice because I do believe it's going to be a close game. I kind of, I kind of view this game tonight like I viewed the USC Utah game. I see a team that has everything to play for in TCU. A lot of people say that's an advantage, which I agree that could be the case. But I think that that means that the team might come out a little bit tight, man. And what TCU does so well is they come out and they play loose. They're not the most talented team. I think their over under was set at six and a half this year, but they come out and they play and they have late game magic. They've had a few lucky breaks throughout the year. It's a TCU thing that I think is going to win, but I don't think anything comes easy for that team. They win. They just win. That's all that matters. They do. And I think they continue that tomorrow night in a close one. It might be a last second field goal, but it's going to happen. Like a runoff? Yeah, like a runoff, like when Tennessee needed them to lose to Baylor. But that didn't work out. That didn't follow up to work out. LSU, Georgia. Georgia is minus 17 and a half. Do you have anything? I'm probably just going to stay away from that. That game could probably get icky. That's what I'm saying. I don't have a great feel on that game at all. If I was going to make a play, I'd make that over. And that's a play that I might make. I'm not too confident in it, but what I'll tell you is I think Georgia needs to round and deform really quick. Georgia's a team that has like a second level in big games. They just figure out ways to win. They come out like you haven't seen them on offense all year. And I think they're going to do that tomorrow. If Georgia can score 40, which I think they will, I think that game hits the over. I think LSU can get at least 14, so that would be 54. I think the over-under is right around, 51, 52. So that's where I'd lean on that game. I think that's the play that I'm going to make. Yeah. I don't really have too much for tomorrow. Like I said, I'm pretty much going to be on TCU minus one and a half. Other than that, man, there's not really too much that I'm comfortable with. But it's championship week, and after that, we got selection Sunday, man. So y'all stay tuned, man. I appreciate everybody listening. If you did, we will be back in action tomorrow night. So everybody stay tuned. This has been episode three of the Power TV Podcast. I'm Brandon Young, J.C. Troval, and we'll catch y'all next time, man. Yeah. Hey, one last thing I'll say, whenever we're arguing about which New Year's Six Bowl we're going to get to, I think it's been a pretty damn good year to be a Tennessee volunteer. So damn good year. Go Vols, man. It's been fun. Looking forward to the next podcast. Yes, sir. Go Big Orange. Sorry.
