Arkansas QB KJ Jefferson joins the show & Kansas leads Texas in our week 4 FPI
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In an exciting new Andy Staples Show, Arkansas QB KJ Jefferson sits down with Andy and Ari to discuss the Hogs' season thus far. The trio chats about Sam Pittman, KJ's most memorable recruiting story, the Razorbacks' squaring off against Texas A&M, KJ's Walmart NIL deal, and how he's helping his home state of Mississippi (24:15). Before then, Andy and Ari reveal their latest ASSCLOWN rankings. Which surprise team is among the top 10 in our latest FPI, and why is it Kansas (who ranks ahead of Texas, by the way)? Proceeding our interview with KJ Jefferson is an excerpt from the latest 'Prospects to Pros' podcast, which is co-hosted by Andy and The Athletic's Dane Brugler. The pair discuss college football players who might have elevated their draft stock after week 3. Make sure to check out Prospect to Pros, in its entirety, in The Athletic Football Show feed (41:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show presented by Sling. |
| 0:13.3 | And we have a big show for you today because we promised this over the weekend, Ari, and we didn't deliver. |
| 0:19.6 | And I think it's time that we give the people what they need. Because, you know, I don't know if you've noticed. There's been a lot of arguing over the rankings of late. And, you know, I got to question my mailbag about, can we stop doing early season rankings and preseason? I get to this every year. And I'm like, no, we won't stop because you're engaged. You're complaining. That means you like it. We're not going to stop doing things that you clearly like. And, you know, I get frustrated. I get frustrated with the rankings too, though, because obviously they are wild guesses this time of the year. There's no science behind it. And people lean on them. |
| 0:55.2 | And right. |
| 1:00.0 | But, I mean, it's not going to affect the rankings at the end of the season. |
| 1:01.9 | It never does if you actually look at your history. |
| 1:04.7 | But it certainly makes people mad now. So I just feel like we need to, we need to make some changes and, you know, give the |
| 1:10.7 | people a more accurate ranking. |
| 1:14.2 | The FBI was just what inspired us to start this in the offseason. |
| 1:19.1 | Remember the FBI in the offseason had Auburn at like nine? |
| 1:23.4 | And they're like, that's idiotic. |
| 1:25.7 | I mean, I don't care. |
| 1:26.8 | You know that I'm not a math person. |
| 1:28.4 | I don't care how many SAT prep courses I take. |
| 1:32.2 | There's nobody that will ever be able to explain to me the math formula of the FBI. |
| 1:36.1 | Well, I really don't think there's, I think there's probably a math formula, but I really, |
| 1:41.2 | you know, normally I'm not a conspiracy theory person, but I do believe somebody at ESPN probably just |
| 1:47.3 | was like this is not that interesting let's move some teams around some teams around |
| 1:51.5 | Auburn probably was like number 60 and they're like let's put him nine just Texas is always |
| 1:56.1 | number one it's like yeah I but you know I think our rankings are more accurate. I think we stand by them. We put our names on it. Yeah. We come together and we make sure that we're on the same page. And, you know, I think that if you are going to, you know, refer to a team as a top five, top 10, top 15 team at any point during the season, it would make most sense to refer to ours because we actually cover these games. |
| 2:18.3 | We watch them. |
| 2:18.9 | We talk about them. |
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