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Welcome in. Lake Kick is live. It is Thursday night. It is June 11th, the year of our Lord, 2020. We have shaved the show down to where we're somehow going to try and get it in in about 50 minutes, 45 minutes, maybe. Every finger we have crossed 40 minutes or less tonight, which is where we've been. Not by design. We've just kind of been going 40 minutes every time except for the random hour show, but that was pre-recorded the other day. So we've got a lot to get to tonight. The blue chip ratio is out. You guys have gone crazy over this all day, even though you don't realize it, but our own Bud Elliott basically eliminated, like most teams in college football from a college football national championship this year. But that's okay. If you don't mind, I don't mind. There's a lot to talk about. We're going to discuss that. We're going to continue our most important in college football 2020 discussion, and we're going to go up to State College PA for that. I'm also going to answer one of your questions that I really thought needed to be answered on air instead of just on the late kick extra podcast. It has to do with LSU, but it doesn't just have to do

with LSU because there are a number of teams who have recently transitioned offensively that this

applies to. It really applies to LSU. So we're going to get to all that. I've got a couple of other

Q&As to get to as well. Those of you who already

listened to this week's Late Kick Extra podcast, and if you have it, you can go there and you can listen to it anytime you want to. That's the beauty of a podcast. Actually, two parts this week. I went so long that I got, you can still see a little redness here. I got slapped on the wrist because I think I went like an hour and a half. No Bueno. So we're going to cut it up into two parts and the other parts being released tomorrow. So those of you who cry that you want more, more, more, more, this week at least, you're getting more and more and more. That's the price you pay when I answer every question that you send me more details on that later. But I really wanted to start tonight with the aforementioned blue chip

ratio. What is this? Well, I don't think it's too hard to figure out, but let's dive in. So

our bud Elliott releases his blue chip ratio today. I don't think you need to necessarily have come

from NASA to 24-7 sports to understand how it works, but yet the beauty is in the simplicity.

The method and purpose here is basically we're trying to marry logic and data, and you want to

generate essentially a list of title contenders.

You want to get a list together, and with about a 98-plus percent certainty, the national

champion from this year is coming from this list. Now,

please don't be that guy or girl. You know who you are. Most of you aren't that guy or girl,

but every one of you has one of those guys or girls in your life. The one that tries to pick

apart. The one that says, I remember one time in 1838, this happened. I remember one time in

1945, this happened. Well,

that's why I said 98% and not 100%. This is the rule. The overwhelming rule, this isn't science,

though. So what is the blue chip ratio? The blue chip ratio is essentially look at the past four

recruiting cycles at any given point in time. So right now we're sitting here in 2020, we're taking the last four recruiting cycles,

and we are measuring how many four and five star kids you signed versus kids rated three stars

or less.

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