This was our hardest Heisman vote EVER + Ranking the best non-playoff bowl games
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Travis Hunter won the Heisman, but Ashton Jeanty had a real case. For David Ubben and Chris Vannini, this was their most difficult Heisman ballot ever. The guys unveil their ballots, and Damien Harris tears them apart. Before that, the trio rank the non-playoff bowl games they're most excited about. Plus, the transfer portal sent Jackson Arnold to Auburn and Miller Moss to Louisville.
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| 0:47.5 | I'm here host Dan Beto with my guys, Chris Finini. |
| 0:50.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:51.1 | And Damien Harris. |
| 0:52.6 | Ashton Genti was robbed last night. |
| 0:55.7 | Gentlemen, we have a Heisman Trophy winner after the season-long deliberation between Travis Hunter and Ashton Genti, the two-way star won. |
| 1:04.1 | Chris and I will unveil how we voted. |
| 1:05.6 | We'll get Dame's opinions on our ballots and the winner. |
| 1:08.5 | Before we close out today's show, the portal tore a rift in the sky, dropped off Jackson, Arnold, Miller, Moss, and others at new programs. We'll give our opinions on that, and we'll get Damien's thoughts on his former coach Bill Belichick, officially coaching in Chapel Hill and getting started there. But before our Heistman ballots, and our Transfer Portal news, we are going to rank the non-playoff bowl games |
| 1:29.8 | that we are most excited to watch. We're going to have the three bowl games that we will rank |
| 1:34.4 | from three to one. I guess let's jump into it, guys. There's a lot of games on here. We were |
| 1:41.2 | looking at the bowl, we were kind of talking before the show. It's in a weird place because now instead of four teams that are technically not participating in bowls, you got 12. So you don't really have New Year's six matchups. Those would all be grandfathered into the playoff. So it's a little slim pickings, but we've also already played a bowl game. Yeah, I didn't love that. I didn't love that. There was one after the Heisman ceremony, South Alabama beat West Western Michigan. That's all been moved up because of the playoff and everything. So it's a it's a new bowl season. I've always felt like that first Saturday like earmuffs Heisman trust. I never watched the Heisman ceremony because it's kind of boring. |
| 2:18.1 | I'll watch the speech after, but the rest of it is like, it's a little stale for my taste. Anyway, uh, but that's sad that first Saturday where when I have games, you know, it's really like, an I don't know what to do with my hands situation. Like we usually go out, do something, hang out. The season is not really over, but it's kind of over. |
| 2:16.2 | But then the bowl game's on, and I'm like, |
| 2:17.6 | I feel like I should be watching this, but it's kind of over. |
| 2:32.2 | But then the bowl game's on, and I'm like, I feel like I should be watching this, but this isn't the most compelling football. You know, there's no fluff Bothwell for South Alabama. Like Western Michigan wasn't that good. But I still watched most of it. And, you know, it was what it was. So anyway, and then it felt a little, |
| 2:35.2 | I was glad that obviously didn't go head to head with Army Navy, |
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