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College Football picked up right where it left off by having an incredible start to their new season! There were so many great storylines from week one in College Football, and The Sports Junkies broke them all down during this segment! What was your biggest takeaway from this past weekend?
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00:00A lot going on. Labor Day weekend, man.
00:03Week one of college football is Dunsky.
00:05Ended last night with SMU and Florida State.
00:09I was looking forward to watching at least a quarter,
00:12but they had a power outage.
00:14Weekend of delays.
00:16Power outage.
00:17Some late games.
00:18At Dope Campbell.
00:19Almost two hours, so I did not see any of it.
00:22SMU ends up winning by three.
00:24Kevin Jennings had 430 yards passing, three touchdowns.
00:28I believe the 430 yards is a career high.
00:31And they beat Florida State.
00:34I mean, obviously, Florida State's head coach, Mike Norville,
00:38he's got a short leash.
00:41I mean, went 13-1 or 12-1 two years ago, three years ago,
00:46and then followed that up with two wins.
00:48And then last year, five and seven.
00:50This is a big year for him.
00:51This is a big loss.
00:52And SMU was favored, though, right?
00:53They were slightly favored.
00:55Yeah, they're ranked.
00:55Slightly favored.
00:56And this was a game without electronic communications, right?
00:59That's right.
01:00That's right.
01:00They had to go old school.
01:02They went old school.
01:03Wow.
01:04And they kept the clock on the field.
01:07I don't know what exactly happened.
01:08I heard, as I was driving in, our pal Linnell was talking about it,
01:13that SMU hadn't practiced in two years without electronic communications.
01:20Oh, I bet.
01:20It's just that it doesn't happen anymore.
01:22I'm sure.
01:22But they still got the win.
01:24Got the win.
01:24They win by three, so they improved to one and zippy.
01:29So it's a good win for them on the road.
01:31I thought the biggest game of the weekend was that close affair between LSU and Clemson.
01:39Man.
01:39Hey, what an embarrassment for Dabo and the Clemson program.
01:43I mean, you just get humiliated.
01:45There's no other way to put it.
01:46Lose by six touchdowns.
01:48I mean, he got dismantled.
01:50That's Dabo's.
01:52Look, I don't necessarily disagree with the way that he's trying to build a program.
01:59Okay.
02:00But with the way you win these days, you have to take in more transfers.
02:06It's a must.
02:07I understand you want to go out and recruit and develop a bunch of guys, and that's what he likes
02:11to do.
02:11And he's starting to take the portal a little bit more seriously than he did three years ago.
02:16Well, he's still way behind, clearly.
02:18Yeah, I mean, he has a handful of portals compared to a lot of programs that have 30, 40, 50.
02:24But look, man, you're Clemson.
02:27It's one thing to lose to LSU.
02:29You can't lose by 40.
02:30You can't get boat raced by them.
02:31Yeah, I mean, that's just embarrassing.
02:33How many national championships did he win?
02:34Two?
02:35Or did he win three while he was there?
02:36I think he's won at least one or two.
02:38Two, right?
02:39I think two.
02:39Yeah, to lose by 41 points is ridiculous.
02:43But maybe Lane Kiffin's got a powerful team.
02:46The payroll's great.
02:50Of course, Jaden Daniels got booed when they did the introductions of players in the NFL.
02:56I think technically they shouldn't have used his likeness, right?
02:59They just put his name.
03:01Is that likeness?
03:02I don't know.
03:03You can't even mention a name, I guess.
03:06I don't know.
03:06Maybe they worked something out behind the scenes.
03:08But Dabo won two national titles.
03:11Yeah, he definitely won an 18.
03:1316 and 18.
03:1416 and 18.
03:15Yeah, that was just bad.
03:17At some point, you might have to move on.
03:19It's crazy.
03:20It would cost him a lot of money.
03:22But yeah, I think he's got a short.
03:25If you win two natties, you would think you would have lifetime job security.
03:27But not in today's era.
03:29Apparently, there's some donors that are just really upset.
03:32I was talking to a buddy who knows a couple of them, and they're not happy.
03:36I don't blame them.
03:37But he's got a huge contract.
03:39It would cost a lot of money to buy him out.
03:42But how can you lose by 40 points against Lane Kiffin in the first week and be safe?
03:50Was the audio that was going around allegedly at halftime of Lane Kiffin, was that real?
03:54Was that AI?
03:55What was that?
03:55Does anybody know?
03:56I just saw that this morning where he's doing a halftime speech.
04:00He's just screaming like a maniac.
04:01And they were up by 28.
04:02Yeah.
04:03Yeah, he was just absolutely just screaming.
04:05I don't know if it's real or not.
04:07I bought into it.
04:09His buyout's $57 million, by the way.
04:11Yeah.
04:11That's pretty prohibitive.
04:13He signed a 10-year, $115 million deal in September 2022.
04:17Yeah.
04:18It would cost a lot of money, and they might be strapped.
04:21But if they're okay going $500,000 until his contract's closed up.
04:27Clemson expectations should be much higher than just finishing $500,000.
04:31Of course.
04:32Yeah, but he took them to a new level because for many decades, when we were younger, they
04:36were good, not great.
04:37He did.
04:38He took them to that elite.
04:40But the rules have changed.
04:41Yeah, he made them national power status every single year.
04:45Yeah.
04:45But those days seemed to be over.
04:48But that wasn't the only blowout.
04:50There were a lot of blowouts this weekend, right?
04:53Terps are the big blowout.
04:54Terps are the big blowout.
04:55I played Hampton.
04:56But here's what was shocking.
04:59My daughter and her boyfriend went to the game.
05:01The crowd was actually pretty damn big.
05:04Oh, really?
05:05That's surprising.
05:06She said that the student section emptied out at halftime because they're just boat racing
05:10Hampton, but the overall crowd was good.
05:15And I found that a little surprising for Hampton.
05:18I thought it might be sparse.
05:19I saw some of the clips.
05:20It looked pretty full.
05:22Yeah, the student section was packed for the start of the game.
05:24It was packed.
05:24Packed.
05:25Yeah.
05:26Well, good.
05:26Good for that.
05:26My daughter and boyfriend ran into Baba at the stands.
05:29The Terps hoops team is out there supporting the football team.
05:32Nice.
05:33Talk to him for a couple minutes.
05:34A lot of times the athletes will go.
05:36They'll go for a quarter or a half and they roll out.
05:38But it's nice that they went.
05:39That's cool.
05:40Very cool.
05:40I was shocked.
05:41I was so well attended.
05:42Well, people want to tailgate.
05:43People want to have a good time.
05:44People want to tailgate.
05:45They want to party.
05:45What's better than tailgating for a football game?
05:47It's Labor Day weekend.
05:48My son told me he was tailgating, probably not going to the game.
05:52Uh-huh.
05:53I get it.
05:53But maybe he stepped in for a quarter.
05:55I don't know.
05:55I've been to a few Terps tailgates with my son and daughter.
05:59It's not unusual.
06:00It happens a good amount of the time.
06:02I remember talking to Joe B when we were doing the show from Monumental a few days ago.
06:06And Joe B said, he goes, JP, don't be surprised if it's 42-0 at halftime.
06:13So that was fully expected when you play Hampton.
06:17Pretty close.
06:18But you know what?
06:1934?
06:19Maryland did to Hampton what Rutgers should have done to UMass.
06:23Now, Hampton's a lower level, I understand.
06:27But they took care of their business.
06:29They did what they're supposed to do.
06:30You're supposed to beat up on a guaranteed team.
06:33On your opener.
06:33It comes into your place.
06:35Especially against a team that hadn't won a game.
06:37But the blowouts persisted, right?
06:39Yeah.
06:39Like Texas, big blowout win.
06:42Yeah.
06:42A bunch of touchdowns.
06:44A bunch of these teams are playing nobodies.
06:45I mean, you saw what Virginia Tech did.
06:47I mean, Virginia Tech put up 73 against nothing but small, slow white guys.
06:54And look, props to them.
06:56Props to them.
06:57They're going to be defending our country.
06:58So they're really good people.
07:01They're just not good football players.
07:02So you can't just buy into a 70-point win.
07:06They were catching 50.5 points, I believe, at the outset of the game.
07:10Yeah.
07:12But, you know, and Virginia Tech hadn't been playing openers against, you know, FCS-type
07:20teams in a while.
07:21They've been playing South Carolina and Vanderbilt, Old Dominion a couple times.
07:25You need to get a couple dubs, huh?
07:27Now they're going to play Old Dominion, who they owe, because they've lost to them two
07:30out of the last three years.
07:31And then, of course, they play here in week three.
07:34If Maryland can take care of UConn this weekend and Virginia Tech wins, you've got two 2-0
07:40teams coming into college football.
07:41Oh, it'll be a big one.
07:42That place is going to be jumping.
07:44JP, is that your computer or my computer that's making that sound?
07:47Are you guys hearing that?
07:48I did hear it.
07:49It's yours.
07:49Mine?
07:50Mine's on mute.
07:51Hmm.
07:52Mm-hmm.
07:52I'll put mine and see what happens.
07:53All right.
07:54So you've got a lot of stuff going on.
07:55We'll talk about the Michigan-Western-Michigan game here in the next segment.
07:59Obviously, a lot to talk about there.
08:01In terms of baseball, the Nats lost to the Pods yesterday.
08:07I think they've lost five straight.
08:09Podra is tickling a wild card spot.
08:11Yeah, their half game back of Arizona, correct.
08:14And that's probably going to go down to the last weekend.
08:18But the Nats, obviously, they've got 67 wins.
08:21There's about 16 games left.
08:23Just kind of riding it out.
08:25Jake Irvin got the loss.
08:26He's 2-9 with a 5-5-2 ERA.
08:29Didn't pitch horrible yesterday.
08:30But his overall number's not good.
08:32They lose 3-2.
08:35A couple of injury notes.
08:36Aaron Judge is off the injured list.
08:40He had a fractured rib.
08:42Hadn't played since May 31st.
08:45So he's back with the Yankees in Colorado, I believe, starting tonight.
08:49Shohei Otani will not pitch the rest of the season.
08:53He's been battling injuries.
08:54Even though his numbers, his offensive numbers are good,
08:57he's been battling injuries all year.
08:59He's had a knee problem.
09:01He had an arm problem, a neck problem.
09:04And the reason he's not going to pitch the rest of the year is because of that neck pain that's
09:08going into his arm.
09:09So he's going to be able to hit.
09:12He did hit, I believe, last night.
09:15He went 0-3 with a couple strikeouts and a walk.
09:18But that was the first time he'd been in the lineup for about four or five days.
09:21So he's been batting a lot of stuff, and they're just trying to get him healthy enough to at least
09:26be in the lineup for the playoffs.
09:28But he's not going to pitch.
09:30Hey, Valdez, maybe I need to use my magic fingers on Otani.
09:33He needs it.
09:34Give him a silly massage.
09:35He definitely needs it.
09:36Get back out of the field.
09:37So in terms of the overall standings in the divisions right now, you've got Tampa up four on the Yankees
09:43in the East.
09:44You've got the White Sox up three on the Guardians in the Central.
09:48You've got Houston up two on Texas in the West.
09:51National League, pretty much all of them are over.
09:53Braves are up four on Philly.
09:55Milwaukee's up eight on the Cubs.
09:57PCA did hit number 41 yesterday for the Cubs.
10:00He's going to win the MVP in the National League, but they're going to be a wild card.
10:03And, of course, the Dodgers are up ten and a half on the D-backs.
10:06Wild card in the American League.
10:08Yankees and Sox pretty much locks.
10:10And then Cleveland is up one on Toronto, one and a half on Texas.
10:15National League, Philly, and the Cubs are locks.
10:18Arizona's up a half on the pods.
10:20Baltimore swooned in the last week.
10:22Got swept by Boston, and then they did win yesterday, but they lost six straight.
10:25Yeah, it's going to be tough to make up three games.
10:28We talked about the U.S. Open.
10:29I watched a lot of tennis yesterday.
10:33I wasn't going to have anything else going on until college football with that SMU-FSU game.
10:39But that was supposed to start at 7.30, start at close to 9.30.
10:42But you've got the quarters are locked.
10:46You've got three Americans into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open.
10:50Tiafoe is going to play Mickelson.
10:52And Ben Shelton's going to play Alcaraz.
10:56And Mickelson, of course, is also American.
10:59So you've got three Americans in the quarters on the men's side.
11:02And you've got three lady Americans on the women's side.
11:06You've got Coco.
11:07She's going to play Andreeva.
11:09And you've got Pagula playing Navarro.
11:11So you've got three Americans on the women's, three Americans on the men's.
11:16And the men have not had a winner since 2002 from the U.S., Andy Roddick.
11:21Andy Roddick.
11:22It's been a long drought for U.S. men's tennis at the U.S. Open.
11:25Well, yeah, because Federer was winning all the time.
11:28And then Nadal and Djokovic.
11:30I mean, how many other guys have won it?
11:32I mean, Shelton's got to play.
11:33Still in one or two guys?
11:34But those three guys probably won every U.S. Open in the last 20 years.
11:37Shelton's got to play Alcaraz, who's going to be very tough to beat.
11:41As I mentioned, Tiafoe's going to play Mickelson.
11:44And on the other side, Zverev, the 1C, is going to play Van de Zanschelp.
11:49Don't know much about him.
11:51I'm not sure if he's from Norway or Belgium, where he's from.
11:54But he's going to play Zverev, the 1C.
11:56He's unseeded.
11:57And then Kachinov's going to play Blocks, Alexander Blocks, who I watched yesterday.
12:01I believe he's the 26th seed.
12:04But he played really well.
12:06So if you're into U.S. Open, you've got some big matches coming up,
12:09especially with the Americans.
12:10It'd be very cool to see Tiafoe play Shelton.
12:14But it's going to be difficult.
12:15It's going to be difficult for Shelton to get by Alcaraz.
12:17I'm very curious to see how he does today against Mickelson, to be honest with you.
12:21He should win, but Mickelson's been on a tear.
12:24He's been playing great.
12:25Yeah.
12:26Right?
12:26Yeah.
12:28I was watching Rabacana yesterday against Osaka.
12:32Oh, my God.
12:33Her forehand is absurd.
12:35Yeah.
12:36Did you watch the day before?
12:38Who did Coco beat?
12:39She beat the American girl, Eva, whatever her name is.
12:42Her friend.
12:42When she played the Filipina chick.
12:45Yeah.
12:45That match was unbelievable.
12:50Yeah, and they're close friends, too.
12:52Yeah, they're buddies.
12:53The points are just spectacular.
12:54Just pounding the ball.
12:56Right.
12:56Right.
12:57So, you got week one of the NFL starting tomorrow.
13:00Tomorrow night.
13:02Super Bowl rematch.
13:02The Commanders playing the Eggles on Sunday at 425.
13:07You guys will be watching it with a bunch of fans.
13:09We're going to be at Honor Brewing.
13:10That's right.
13:11In Sterling, Virginia.
13:13Be there at 4 o'clock.
13:14Yes.
13:14Please meet us there.
13:16But how are you guys feeling?
13:17I mean, now that college football's week one is over, now you kind of focus on the Commanders
13:21and week one of the NFL.
13:22How are you guys feeling about this matchup?
13:24Have you changed your opinion about it?
13:26I think the Eagles are deservedly favored.
13:28Yeah, they're favored.
13:29They were the better team last year.
13:30They won the division the last couple years.
13:32I do think the Eagles may be sliding down a little bit.
13:35We'll see how their offense is without A.J. Brown.
13:38They could be.
13:39I mean, I think we're dogs.
13:39That's a big loss.
13:40But I'm just going to pick the dogs.
13:42I don't know.
13:43See, everyone's against them, so maybe they'll surprise us.
13:46Yeah.
13:46Well, there was a couple announcements over the weekend.
13:50The Falcons did name Tua as their starting quarterback.
13:54But he didn't really win the competition.
13:56It's only because Penix has been banged up.
13:58Yeah, he's banged up.
13:59Yeah.
13:59Penix will be inactive in week one against the Steelers.
14:02So Cooper Rush is the backup.
14:05Mm-hmm.
14:05I saw a video.
14:06See, again, now you're like, is it real or not, of Tua doing karaoke in, where was he?
14:13Maybe in the Bahamas?
14:14I don't know.
14:15Yeah.
14:15No idea.
14:15Is that happening during training camp?
14:19No chance.
14:20I don't think so.
14:20I mean, maybe it's a clip from him from the offseason.
14:22To get two days off and he goes to the Bahamas?
14:24I doubt it.
14:25I wouldn't think so.
14:26This close to the season starting?
14:28I wouldn't think so either.
14:29I would have to think that's fake.
14:32Or it's an old clip.
14:34You can't let your starting quarterback go to the Bahamas like three or four days before your opener?
14:39They're still having practices.
14:40I haven't done karaoke since Mike Wise's event.
14:43That's the last time I did karaoke, too.
14:46Charity-oke?
14:47Charity-oke.
14:48That had to be 15 years ago.
14:49A long time ago.
14:51If not more.
14:51A long time ago.
14:53I would think that.
14:53It's a funny night.
14:54I mean, NFL teams are having practices this past weekend.
14:57That's why we're just jet-setting off to the Caribbean.
14:59Maybe it's an old video.
15:00Could be an old one.
15:01Probably fake video.
15:02Everything's fake now.
15:03What song was he singing?
15:04What was his karaoke choice?
15:07All right.
15:07Let me see if I can find it.
15:09You mentioned Bahamas.
15:10Give me.
15:10Here's an article.
15:11It says, here's an article.
15:13Headline.
15:13Falcons fans fear the worst after Tua Tungavailoa's karaoke video surfaces from the Bahamas.
15:20Tua spotted in a bar before week one.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Well, we'll see.
15:25That's very nebulous.
15:27Before week one could have been two months ago.
15:30Well, I'm going to call shenanigans on that.
15:34Tua doesn't strike me as a guy who's just going to fly out of Atlanta.
15:37That was probably in March or four days before they kick off the season to go do karaoke
15:42in some dive bar.
15:43He doesn't seem like a super fun guy, Tua.
15:46All right.
15:46So, I mean, the article says here.
15:48Yeah, it's pretty buttoned up.
15:49I mean, it is from Dove Kleinman, who's definitely a troll.
15:53But it says, I can't take that seriously.
15:55New Falcons quarterback, Tua Tungavailoa, spotted singing karaoke alone at a bar.
15:59In the Bahamas, days before the opener.
16:02It's unlikely to be true.
16:03Maybe they had Saturday, Sunday off.
16:06Are you sure it's not Talia?
16:08Are you sure it's not his brother?
16:09It could have been his brother.
16:10I don't know what his brother's up to these days.
16:11He's looking for work, right?
16:12Maybe it was him.
16:14Is JP getting duped?
16:15If the Kleinman account was sold like a couple years ago, he started as an NFL aggregator.
16:20Now all he does is post fake news.
16:23Fakie, fakie.
16:24I mean, JP's falling for the fakiest fake news.
16:27I didn't fall for it.
16:28I said that it might be fake after EB brought up a potentially fake video.
16:32Everything I think is fake.
16:33Technically, the guy was probably correct.
16:36Days before week one was probably 95 days.
16:39Yeah, that's true.
16:40It's before week one.
16:41Correct.
16:42That's very nebulous.
16:43But you got Pat Seahawks tomorrow night, 8-20 on NBC.
16:48Seattle favored by three, playing out there at Lumen in Seattle.
16:54Seattle.
16:55I want to see what that Seattle offense looks like with no Kenneth Walker, no Kubiak calling
17:00the plays.
17:01Jadarian Price looks like he's taking over as a rookie in the backfield.
17:04The Pats, one of their best players, star corner, Christian Gonzalez, four years, $135 million.
17:13That's a lot of money.
17:14$102 million in pocket.
17:17Oh, you mean the guy that the commander should have drafted when Ron Rivera was botching everything
17:22in the world?
17:22He's the highest paid DB ever, ever, ever.
17:26Who'd they draft instead of Christian Gonzalez?
17:29Forbes.
17:30Yep.
17:31That little toothpick.
17:32They drafted him instead.
17:34What a terrible pick.
17:36Because Forbes had the record for interceptions, right?
17:38Yeah, he was a ball hawk.
17:40They needed that in their defense.
17:42They needed that.
17:43The guy with the turnover gene.
17:44Oh, man.
17:45Oh, what a horrible pick that was.
17:46All right, when we come back, we will get into Western Michigan versus Michigan.
17:51Did Western Michigan get boned at the end of that game?
17:55We'll get into that next.
17:56And don't forget, big junks announcement coming up at 745 this morning.
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