Numbers with Ari, Andy's 100 Pushup Payout & Random Rankings!
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Pull out your abacuses because it's time to calculate weekend outcomes with Ari Wasserman! He and Andy cruise through Pittsburgh-Notre Dame and set the stage for the Andy's pushup party (:30). As the upper body workout begins, Ari previews the Big10's opening weekend, starting with Wisconsin-Illinois (8:30). Are the 19.5-points the Badgers are favored by enough? Could Wisconsin blow the doors off this game early? "Mom's spaghetti, knees weak, arms are heavy." Andy's not enjoying his mother's pasta dish, but his arms sure are HEAVY, speaking of which, is there a heavy favorite in Penn State-Indiana (15:00)? Clapping pushups??? Are you kidding us, Andy??? Could Nebraska clap back at Ari for believing Ohio State will dominate this contest (18:00)? On the topic of the Big 10, will Bo Pelini's defense keep South Carolina in check (23:45)? Can we expect the 2-0 Tennessee who started the season off strong, or the 0-2 Tennessee club that's floundered against Georgia and Kentucky this Saturday against 'Bama (26:15)? It is done. Next week's bet is set. Michigan-Minnesota...and a dark beer (36:45). Plus, would P.J. Fleck be more likely to stay at Minnesota where he could, potentially, have a statue of himself outside TCF Bank Stadium, or take over a more prestigious program and earn more dough? Who's most likely to drop their first conference game of the season, Oklahoma State or Iowa State (46:15)? Lastly, Random Rankings!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:10.1 | It is a Friday show. |
| 0:11.3 | That means Ari Wasserman is here. |
| 0:12.9 | That means we are talking numbers. |
| 0:15.2 | It means I am probably losing some bet or paying off a bet I have lost, which unfortunately |
| 0:20.1 | that is the case. In this particular episode, I must do some push-ups while we talk. I don't know how good of a podcast that's going to make it, but it's better than me nearly vomiting mayonnaise, I think. I think it'll be much easier and much, uh, probably won't be quite as funny, but at least you won't almost die. So that's good. Oh, maybe you will. I don't know. Well, the idea is to get you doing push-ups, but I screwed up. I took the over in Ole Miss Arkansas at 76 because here's why are you. I assume the Ole Miss defense would be what it had been all year, but they, they actually played a pretty good game. Ole |
| 0:55.2 | Miss's offense did not follow suit. They threw six picks and Arkansas won the game. |
| 1:01.7 | I wouldn't say handily. It was still a little tight there at the end, but it wasn't even close |
| 1:06.8 | to 76 as a total. You know what's crazy? After you made the bet, I was absolutely terrified of being |
| 1:13.0 | humiliated on this podcast. And I'm actually working out with a personal trainer right now to try |
| 1:17.0 | to get some pounds down, as you know. And I had like worked with him to give push up form to help |
| 1:23.1 | me like get through them because I was so afraid of humiliation. And I actually did a 63 in an hour |
| 1:29.2 | at the training session. So I would have been able to do it, but it wouldn't have been, |
| 1:34.3 | it would have been much funnier if it were me. And I appreciate the gesture. And next time we go |
| 1:39.1 | into a bet that, um, you know, is me doing something physical and you not, you should do something that |
| 1:47.0 | you don't have to eat and I'll do something physical because you're in much better shape than I |
| 1:50.1 | am. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, that's why I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups, but, you know, I'm going to have to split that |
| 1:55.5 | up. |
| 1:55.8 | There's, like, I'm not going to knock out 100 push-ups in a row. |
| 1:58.1 | That just didn't going to happen. |
| 1:59.3 | But I'll split it up and it'll be good. But we have a lot |
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