Last Call | Alabama’s 8.5 Win Total Is INSULTING? Jake Coker Reacts

The Next Round

Football, News, Basketball, Sports, Sports News

4.9 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jake Coker and Mick Gillespie are back with a wild mix of college football talk, competitive eating stories, NIL drama and celebrity encounters. Mick shares the unbelievable story of officiating a bologna-eating contest where Joey Chestnut crushed 16 pounds of bologna in eight minutes to set a new world record. The guys also revisit Chestnut’s rivalry with Kobayashi, including Joey’s dominant 83-66 win in their 2024 Netflix showdown. Then the conversation shifts to college football, where Alabama’s win total is getting attention. MGM has the Crimson Tide set at 8.5 wins, but is that too low for Kalen DeBoer’s team — or realistic with Georgia, Tennessee, LSU and a brutal SEC schedule ahead? Jake and Mick also discuss Alabama landing four-star linebacker Kenneth Simon II, the positive buzz around Kane Wommack’s defense, and what Jake is hearing through the grapevine about the Crimson Tide. Plus, the guys break down Lane Kiffin’s Vanity Fair comments on Ole Miss, his move to LSU, the pressure inside Baton Rouge and whether LSU’s NIL machine can help Kiffin finally challenge Alabama at the top of the SEC. Also on the show: Mick’s Tim Burchett story, UFO disclosure talk, the cutthroat NIL landscape, schools struggling to meet financial guarantees and Arkansas cutting its men’s and women’s tennis programs. Topics include: Alabama Football, Kalen DeBoer, Kane Wommack, Lane Kiffin, LSU Football, Ole Miss, Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi, Tim Burchett, NIL, SEC Football, Arkansas athletics cuts and more. #AlabamaFootball #secfootball #collegefootball #cfb #RollTide #JakeCoker #LaneKiffin #LSUFootball #JoeyChestnut #SECFootball #CollegeFootball #NIL #TheNextRound SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
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0:18.0	What do you say, everybody?
0:19.4	And roll tide.
0:20.3	Welcome to the next round's last call.
0:22.8	That's Jay Coker, and I'm Mick Gillespie.
0:24.7	We have had a celebrity-packed week since we talked to you last.
0:29.2	We got a lot to get into on the show, or maybe I'm talking about myself.
0:33.2	It seems like every time I turn around, I'm running into somebody else.
0:38.4	Bama picks up a huge recruit, a linebacker, and Vegas telling me that they don't think
0:45.5	Bama is going to be the same Bama that we're used to.
0:48.1	We're going to get into that and more on the last call.
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0:52.2	Make sure that you know that we're brought to you by Pearl River
0:55.2	Resort where this is the time of year to hit Dancing Rabbit Golf Course. It's the Augusta you can
1:01.5	play. It's really fantastic this time of year. Let's get this party started. All right there he is Jake Coker and Mick Gillespie, Jake.
1:22.5	I got to tell you, man, I've met some championship athletes in my time.
1:31.0	And, you know, guys that are great, right?
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