'21's most surprising teams; remembering Bobby Bowden & ranking dipping sauces
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Indiana looks pretty impressive this season. Just take a look at their two-deep roster. Yep, optimism is a-brewin'. Alright, thanks for listening. Oh...there's more? Fine. College football's Wonder Twins, Andy and Ari, transform into a well-rounded, non-Indiana-focused podcast and discuss the legacy of legendary Florida State football coach, Bobby Bowden. The guys each propose teams that could surprise us in 2021. Could UCLA contend for Pac-12 South supremacy? Is Kentucky a 10-win program, and speaking of SEC schools, is Georgia bound for a National Title appearance? Plus, what do Andy and Ari think of Michigan State, Arizona, and, Ari's favorite team of all time, Texas?! Lastly, the gents rank their favorite dipping sauces.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.2 | It is a Monday best day of the week. |
| 0:13.6 | That means Ari Wasserman is here, at least for now, because Ari is moving to Friday |
| 0:17.8 | once the games start. |
| 0:19.8 | And then Ari and I will be making bets and paying |
| 0:22.3 | them off in very embarrassing fashion, hopefully for Ari and not for me. We've already made our |
| 0:28.9 | first bet. We have not yet figured out the stakes of that bet, but for week one, actually we could |
| 0:34.0 | probably do a week zero bet if we wanted to, Ari, but for week one, we do have, I am giving you 15 points in the LSU, UCLA game. |
| 0:41.8 | You are getting UCLA plus 15. |
| 0:44.4 | And I'm being very magnanimous here, but I just believe I am right. |
| 0:49.1 | Well, first of all, we are in mid-season form right now in the middle of August. |
| 0:53.6 | If you're giving me 10 extra points in a spread. |
| 0:55.7 | You never did that last year. |
| 0:57.4 | I mean, that's a huge leap. |
| 0:59.4 | And there was a pretty important injury at LSU. |
| 1:03.2 | And I don't know if that makes you fret a little bit. |
| 1:07.5 | I know that there are two quarterback battles or there was a battle there. |
| 1:10.5 | I thought Max Johnson was going to wind up being the quarterback by the end of the year anyway. |
| 1:15.5 | I know, but this is week one and you're giving me 10 extra points. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, and now they're not going to be changing quarterbacks in the middle of week one. |
| 1:24.1 | Okay. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm just trying to get you to sweat a little, man. |
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