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T&L Extra: 247Sports's John Talty Gives His Biggest Surprises of the Early Season

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, News, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Who has been the biggest surprise of the college football season, both in a good and bad way? Brian Hadad welcomes John Talty from 247 Sports to the pod to discuss who has his attention after the first three weeks, and why Mississippi State is one of the teams that he's got an eye on. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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You know, I love to talk to this guy right here, John Talti. I love saying national college football writer, reporter, best-selling author,

0:57.0

and my friend John Talti. That's a great resume as far as I'm concerned.

1:01.2

I've come a long way from when you first met me. I didn't like you. I'll just come out and say it. I didn't like you.

1:06.6

It's getting bullied on message boards for wearing the color red out in public.

1:13.6

It's an interesting start to our relationship. You know, it's just like anything else in life.

1:16.6

You know, you have the good and the bad and you get there.

1:20.6

Um, one of the things I remember talking in the spring, I remember talking to Cole Kublich.

1:25.6

And he said, you know, he lamented

1:27.8

the fact that because there were so few spring games, he didn't have a lot of film, you didn't

1:33.1

know what a lot of teams were. And so I guess my question is, in that situation, three weeks

1:38.8

into the season, what has surprised you the most about this college football season?

1:44.0

Well, I think that's a great lead-in because I think we've already learned so much, I think,

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