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The McShay Show

Coaching Carousel Buzz with Pete Thamel, and Ohio State Prospect Tiers | The McShay Show

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Football, Sports

4.7663 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Todd and Steve welcome ESPN insider Pete Thamel to discuss the first College Football Playoff rankings and the job security of coaches such as USC’s Lincoln Riley and Florida’s Billy Napier. Then they dive into Ohio State tape and tier the Buckeyes' defensive prospects before pondering not one, but two potential Ohio State–Oregon rematches. (0:00) Welcome to The McShay Show! (0:25) Today's Show: Pete Thamel, CFP Reveal, Prospect Breakdown (1:05) Pete Thamel Joins The McShay Show! (3:20) CFP rankings (7:00) Projecting the College Football Playoff Teams (19:00) Miller Moss Benched, Dana Holgorsen Joins Nebraska (22:10) Will Stein's Impact as Oregon OC (29:35) How Did Chip Kelly end up at Ohio St.? (38:25) Who's on the Hot Seat? (44:50) 2025 QB Class (55:25) Ohio State Defeats Penn State: 20-13 (58:55) Evaluating #2 Caleb Downs (OSU Sophomore Safety) (1:02:00) 2025 NFL Draft: First Round Locks (1:05:40) Evaluating Tyleik Williams (1:08:10) Evaluating Ohio State's Cornerbacks: Davison Igbinosun & Denzel Burke (1:12:00) Expectations for Ohio State Going Forward (1:19:15) Coming up this week on The McShay Show (1:20:50) Evaluating Oregon's Win over Michigan: 38-17 (1:26:15) Jordan James' Draft Stock (Oregon Junior RB) (1:28:25) Dillon Gabriel's Draft Stock (1:34:25) Thanks For Watching! Host: Todd McShay Guests: Pete Thamel and Steve Muench Producers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, T. Cruz, and Daniel Comer Social: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.3

The McShay show is back.

0:34.6

We've got a lot to cover today.

0:36.3

So let's not mess around here at the top.

0:54.5

We are pumped to have ESPN College football insider and good buddy. Pete Tham will stop by the show today, especially on this huge day. No, I'm not talking about the election. I'm not talking about NFL trade deadline. But yes, the first college football rankings reveal day. How lucky are we, Mench, right?

0:57.2

Then we have a lot to unpack, Munch.

1:00.1

We did a lot of tape study the last 48 hours.

1:02.1

Oregon, Ohio State.

1:03.4

Where are they personnel-wise?

1:04.7

Who are the NFL prospects?

1:07.3

Listen, it's week 11 in college football.

1:13.2

It's week 10 in the NFL and just 172 days remaining until the NFL Draft. Ments, you good?'s going on, man.

1:38.5

Todd, good to see you, man. Thanks for having me, bud. Always, always good to talk a little draft and a little ball.

1:43.6

Mench. I'm not going to bore everyone with the background, but I'll never forget, right? Like 15 or so years ago and Pete wasn't, wasn't at ESPN yet. And I was, I had the, the year where Urban Meyer was off, right? Yeah. Right. And I'm flying, right? Well, but I'm'm but i'm flying down on like on tuesdays every

2:03.1

week and we're taping a segment every week for game day and and and he was so you know how you know

2:09.7

urban like when he gets on something like you just can't get him off the set and he like for three

2:14.5

straight weeks he was telling me he's like pete d'amble he's like, I just love this Pete Dammell guy, you know.

2:19.4

And he's like, you know, I was like, well, I haven't met him, coach. I haven't met him, but, you know, I read his stuff. He does a really good job, you know, one of the real insiders in college football. And he stopped me. If you know where we stop, you go, no, no, no.

2:33.8

Pete's the only guy.

2:35.5

He's the only guy.

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