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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Billy Napier to UF, Bananas Rivalry Week, Iron Bowl thriller, Playoff forecasting (ep. 427)

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

What a day, what a sport. The guys recapped all the madness from Rivalry Week. Who had the best Saturday? What did Alabama’s late comeback in the Iron Bowl say about the Tide? And Auburn? Georgia earned a Playoff berth. The guys discuss all the rest of the Rivalry Week action, including Lane Kiffin’s historic Year 2, Ed Orgeron’s swan song, Jimbo Fisher vs. Kevin Sumlin, Arkansas’ rivalry domination, Kentucky’s offensive turnaround and much more. The guys closed by predicting the CFP Top 10 and mapped out a couple scenarios.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's take a quick time out to talk about some of these spicy plays by Texas Pete, that

0:05.0

is Texas Pete has the spice and flavor that's kicking this football season up and

0:09.1

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0:19.0

and hot apparel plus take 20% off your entire order with promo code Saturday. When big

0:25.0

with texaspeed when you saw us like you mean it. It would almost be weird if I actually

0:30.1

led with the normal intro of the podcast and I said we just found out that blah blah

0:35.8

blah is hiring coach X. That was never going to happen. Everybody knew that we were going

0:41.0

to record and then of course Florida or LSU was going to announce their next head coach

0:46.8

shortly thereafter and don't you know that that's what happened with Florida Yahoo first

0:51.6

reported that Billy Napier is expected to become the head coach at Florida. Ross Dahlinger

0:57.2

reported that he's meeting with team officials as of this recording and they are basically

1:03.4

having a player's only meeting at Louisiana to let them know that he is indeed going to

1:09.3

become the next head coach at Florida and it's crazy because this all happened so quickly.

1:15.0

To have this coaching search last a week when some of these you know that the vetting has

1:21.1

been going on for months even at places like LSU and USC and to see Florida be so deliberate

1:29.1

is a testament to Scott Strickland and having a vision for this replacement for Dan Mullin

1:36.7

and I think that there are a lot of different ways to look at this. Billy Napier is not

1:42.0

splashy hire. He is not. Splashy as I always say does not win football games. Get the

1:48.2

hire right. Don't worry about selling tickets. Don't worry about if he checks this box

1:53.2

or that box. But Napier checks a lot of boxes. He does and if he didn't he wouldn't have

1:58.0

been a candidate at places like Auburn and South Carolina in Mississippi State. He went

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