Buying, Selling & Second Thoughts with Brett Ciancia of Pick Six Previews

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's the feeling every college football (and sports) fan knows too well: Doubting your own takes. In this episode, we're joined by Brett Ciancia from Pick Six Previews to talk through the opinions we're second-guessing the most after several weeks of conference previews. From Ty's thoughts on Miami and USC to Dan's comments on Missouri, we lean on the most accurate college football predictor over the past decade to set us straight. Brett even has some doubts of his own in the SEC.

We also dig into Brett's "Game Grader" formula and how it spots teams that were way better (or worse) than their records showed. Plus, an honest conversation around how the transfer portal is making projections more complicated, how the Big 12 remains unpredictable, and a brief look ahead at the marquee matchups in Week 1.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
7:27 - Brett Ciancia of Pick Six Previews
57:29 - Closing Thoughts

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:06.4	Welcome to the solid verbal.
0:08.2	The solid verbal.
0:09.2	Come after me.
0:10.9	I'm a man.
0:11.9	I'm 40.
0:12.7	I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
0:15.1	You want to be happy for a day?
0:16.7	Eat a steak.
0:17.7	It's that woo, woo.
0:19.3	And now, down and tie.
0:22.6	Dan Rubinste, welcome back.
0:24.3	How does it feel to not have to do a preview on this episode?
0:28.0	I'm under the impression.
0:29.4	Today is our Pat League extensive 2025 and Futurecast, 2026 league preview. And then you were like, I have so many very specific Colgate thoughts and I was like Ty, great. This is your forum. So I don't feel great. I'm still hammering. Well, look, it's funny. You mentioned the Pat League. I was putting together a Pat League lightning round for week one last night. I started putting
0:54.2	the week one dot, not week zero, but the week one doc, and there are seven Pat league teams
1:00.6	that are going to be in action. Some of them playing teams like Boston College and Air Force
1:05.4	and Bowling Green and NIU. So there's going to be some opportunity here for the Pat League
1:10.2	to show out. And then we have what, the Pat League Ivy's, right? There's like that week two, week three, so week four, right? Because they don't play huge schedules. It's a smaller conference, I believe. So they have that annual the matchup selection. That's great by me as well. I can't wait. I am so excited for Pat League football, Ty.
1:29.8	Who isn't? Who isn't? Well, welcome back in. Trustiever Baller. I am Tai He is Dan. This is the solid
1:34.9	verbal. Hit follow, hit subscribe if you do nothing else. If you really like the show,
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