Fighting Irish top Tigers, is Harbaugh-Michigan marriage over & coaching what-ifs
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 8 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari react to Clemson, the top-ranked team in college football, falling to Notre Dame (1:30). What was key in the Irish's victory? How does this loss impact the Tigers' playoff chances? Both Maryland and Texas A&M handedly brought home Ws in their matchups (14:00). What happens now with Penn State? Where do the guys envision Texas A&M towards the last couple weeks of the season? Oh boy, let's talk Michigan (19:00). Ari offers 10 replacement options for Jim Harbaugh, and Andy judges whether they are viable candidates (24:00). Pac-12 after dark is back! USC survives Arizona State's near upset, and Chip Kelly's Bruins continue their slide (39:30). The duo entertain some coaching what-ifs, including: which Power-5 program will Hugh Freeze land at, and Scott Frost and Nebraska don't seem to be making much headway (48:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Live from my house, it's the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:13.8 | That's what Lauren Michaels was waiting to hear as he watched review, after review, after review, after review in the Notre Dame Clemson game. |
| 0:23.7 | But it did finally end, and the ACC's dream scenario is now in play. |
| 0:31.2 | Because Notre Dame beat Clemson. |
| 0:32.9 | Clemson has a built-in excuse because they didn't have Trevor Lawrence or James Calsky, |
| 0:36.7 | and then they'll probably get to play again. And to break all of this down, because this was not the only |
| 0:42.1 | thing of significance that happened on Saturday. In fact, many, many, many things of significance |
| 0:46.7 | happened Saturday. So we're going to run it back with Ari Wasserman. Last scene making fun of me for |
| 0:51.9 | not being able to eat 100 chicken nuggets in one sitting. Hi, Ari. Hey, couldn't get enough of me the first time? That's twice in three days. I also wanted to talk to you while I wasn't chewing. I feel like we have a better conversation when I'm not trying to eat 61 chicken nuggets during the course of the conversation. And I had a feeling I was probably going to be the choice today now that Michigan's in shambles. I don't know if we're going to get to that, but, you know, I'm sure that that's exactly what Michigan. Yeah, it's what Michigan fans want right now is to hear what I have to say about that. Oh, yeah. Well, this might be the first time they actually agree with you, though. |
| 1:27.7 | I think they have stronger feelings about this than you do. |
| 1:30.6 | So that works fine. |
| 1:32.5 | But let's start with the game that everyone will be talking about. |
| 1:36.6 | Clemson and Notre Dame. |
| 1:38.0 | I was wrong about this. |
| 1:39.5 | You were wrong about this. |
| 1:40.6 | We both thought that Clemson was still going to win. |
| 1:43.1 | Not by a ton, but we thought |
| 1:44.7 | they were going to win somewhat comfortably. Notre Dame played great. I have no, there's no |
| 1:51.8 | complaints about anything Notre Dame did. They were tough. Ian Book was fantastic. I was very |
| 1:59.4 | impressed with the Irish. Yeah, yeah. I, you know, the thing with me |
| 2:03.1 | always, Andy, is, is this team going to stack up athletically? And, you know, the thing that I was |
| 2:08.3 | most impressed by in this game, not even just eking it out in a tough performance in overtime, |
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