00:00Maybe you could consider this an elimination game here, right?
00:03Texas LSU, could this be considered an elimination game here this weekend?
00:11So, I'm glad you asked it that way.
00:14There are certain things that happen in college football
00:19that I find people to be very disingenuous about.
00:25Not you.
00:27What I'm saying is LSU are favorites in this football game.
00:31And people keep saying, why is LSU even ranked?
00:35What have LSU done?
00:37LSU are good.
00:38They don't have great wins, but it's very clear that this is a talented LSU team
00:43and that that should not be dismissed.
00:47And if LSU beat Texas, people are going to say,
00:50well, Texas, three losses, can't keep them in the playoffs.
00:54But that would be disingenuous.
00:55This is a Texas team who has very good wins on their resume.
01:00Ohio State at Tennessee, Ole Miss.
01:03Their losses are not great.
01:06But again, Sark's got to be kicking themselves because those are a couple of blown leads
01:10in those games.
01:11And while a loss for Texas will drop them, it will.
01:17I don't think it'll knock them out entirely because there are only, if you look right now,
01:26Texas Tech has one loss.
01:27Wake Forest has one loss.
01:29But 16, Oregon has three losses.
01:32A three-loss team getting into this dance, Dan, I think is almost likely, much less kind of surprising.
01:39So I don't think this is an elimination game.
01:44Maybe I'm wrong, but not that it's not a big game.
01:47Not that it's not a big game, but I don't think it's an elimination game.
01:51I'll tell you what, there's two sidebar stories here, too.
01:55You know, when Brian Kelly was fired at LSU, he was five and three.
02:00You put another loss on that here.
02:02I mean, Link Kiffin wasn't brought into Baton Rouge to be decent.
02:05He was brought into Baton Rouge to get them into the college football playoff.
02:10I get it.
02:10It's the first year.
02:12And on the other side, boy, can you imagine if Texas loses this ball game?
02:17You're going to start hearing this.
02:18What's the future of Sark, maybe?
02:22What's the future of Arch Manning, maybe?
02:25Does he go to Ole Miss?
02:27Does he take over for Mensa at Miami?
02:30Is he in the portal?
02:31I mean, there's a lot riding on this ball game this weekend.
02:35So I totally agree with Arch.
02:37I think his situation is one of the most fascinating we've seen.
02:42This is a guy who was crowned king because of a high school ranking.
02:47It turns out all the high school rankings are terrible.
02:50It is like pretty much ever since Trevor Lawrence.
02:53They have not been able to get anything right since Trevor Lawrence, it seems.
02:58But Arch is obviously like a good college football quarterback.
03:03He's good, but he's been the Heisman Trophy favorite for two straight years.
03:08He has been eligible to leave, right?
03:12And he's just like, no, absolutely not.
03:14Not even considering it.
03:15And we think he's going to come back potentially again.
03:18And a Texas team that misses the playoff, I'm not sure they run back Arch Manning.
03:24For Lane, I think he is going to have a mountain of pressure on him next season.
03:32Because I don't think they're going to make the college football playoff this year.
03:36But I also think LSU fans have to, have to.
03:42This is the bed that they made for themselves.
03:44You cannot run Lane Kiffin out of town at some point.
03:48But you cannot in year one.
03:49You need to back this guy in full force.
03:53This is the decision that you made, that this is your guy.
03:56This year doesn't happen.
03:57Listen, if they had a different quarterback, maybe.
04:02If they had a different quarterback, maybe.
04:03That might be unfair to Sam Levitt.
04:05But I don't trust him as much as some of these other QBs.
04:09I mean, they got rolled up by Bam at the end of that game.
