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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

The Big Ten's worst idea ever, Dari Nowkhah talks John Mateer, Brent Venables & new gig

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Big Ten has come up with the worst idea ever. That's saying something. Connor and Will dig into the conference's proposed Playoff idea and why it blows chunks. SEC Network/KREF host Dari Nowkhah joined the show to discuss all things Oklahoma, including John Mateer, Brent Venables, his new gig, witnessing OU's most brutal stretch ever and much more. The guys close with Jaxson Dart and thoughts on Michigan's punishment in Lad of the Week!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday Down South podcast. I am Connor O'Gara. Will, good to be chatting with you on a Monday. It's just like old times, man. Yeah, man. This is actually a perfect way to start my week. You know, it's like everybody has like the Monday blues or the Sunday scleries or whatever. It's like, are you just talk about college football? My buddy on Monday. I'm looking forward to it now, man.

0:23.6

Amen.

0:24.1

That's, uh, look, we are officially in a football week. I know people get too excited about week zero. I really like it is officially the start of college football season. I get it. And I, I am not one to say we should hold back on these count downs.

0:40.5

Just temporary expectations with week zero.

0:42.5

It'll be good to have college football on the TV.

0:44.9

I had the ultimate calm before the storm weekend before the last Saturday without

0:52.4

college football.

0:53.1

And it was great.

0:54.9

It was, it was lovely.

0:57.3

I had, so Lauren and Claire went to Indianapolis, Thursday through Sunday to see our new

1:06.1

niece Cooper, was doing well, doing great.

1:09.2

And Claire just got to run around with her cousins all weekend,

1:11.8

had an awesome time. I did, I think, three to four hours of yard work both on Saturday and on

1:19.5

Sunday. I, as the commissioner of my fantasy football league had to do like all my keeper information,

1:25.1

which is a multi-hour process to get that out,

1:27.7

get that information out to my league members and whatnot.

1:30.7

And then I got seen Nate Bargettze in Orlando.

1:33.7

Yes, it's Bargetti, not Bargazzi on Saturday night.

1:36.7

And it was awesome.

1:38.0

Absolutely awesome.

1:39.1

Great, great show.

1:39.9

So I feel, I feel refreshed on this, this Monday morning.

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