Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown,

live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.

The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.

The one thing you notice around here is we don't go through seasons very quickly. What's the high today? 54 and rainy? Is that what the four guests is? Yeah, it's a winter. Yeah, this is not great weather. This is, again, cocktail party weather. It seems like every year we have Florida. That's right. I went one year, and this was the weather I got when I went to Jackson. I mean, this is the time change weekend too, right?

Is it?

Yeah, Sunday. Sunday? Yeah, boy. Did we fall forward? I know. We fall back. You get the 430 sunset. You never fall forward. Damn, the high is 55 today. I know, Lance. 55 and rainy, drizzly. It's a good chilly night. I think I told you guys this.

This goes back to our radio days because he night. I think I told you guys this.

This goes back to our radio days because he's not there anymore. But you guys remember my college, my good college friend, Joel Lamp, that runs. Joe, I know Joel. Yeah, you do. He runs the Huntsville basketball game, the guy that always book you. I do know, Joel, yes. As I always say, I love Lamp. Lampshade is what we called him in college.

But Lampshade used to run the cocktail party.

He was, I do know, Joel, yes. As I always say, I love Lamp. Lampshade is what we called him in college. But Lampshade used to run the cocktail party. He worked for the guy in Huntsville right now? Yeah, yeah. He worked for the organization in Jacksonville that's the equivalent of like Gene Hallman's organization or Night Ead here in Birmingham. Please tell me he tapped out when they said, no more cocktail party. I don't know, but he used to invite us.

We had a standing invite to do our show down there. You never told us. I thought I did. Well, I had such little interest in going. Do you have interest in going? We were trying to get to Grant Field first. We were trying to do that game there. If we could have, like 2020 was a cocktail party where it was a legitimate matchup. I don't feel, I know Georgia is only a seven and a half point favorite in this game. And look, Florida could upset them. But if we could ever get both of those teams in the top 10 again, which I think they were in 2020, I'm all in. I'm just saying, did you ever like desire to go to the cocktail? Oh, if I'd have said, let's go to our show from the cocktail party it'd have been like I had a great time now I was young when I went it seems like Alabama's always off that weekend traditionally always since the LSU game yeah yeah so it feels like that that's always a weekend I can count on being at home and watching games and it's always the worst schedule it is look at the schedule said the cocktail party now this was supposed to be a great weekend I know but I'm just saying it ends up let us down it ends up being bad teams let us the cocktail party has never resonated with me I don't know what it is Duke and Clemson let us down I mean I don't think that we expected Duke was going to be that good or Miami was going to be that.

I think you've oversold what Duke and Clemson was going to be a top 20 team. We thought Clemson would be like number four. No, no, no, no. I thought it would be big for Clemson. Yeah. Penn State, Ohio State. I'll give you that one. Yeah. But, I mean, again, we've got Vanderbilt, Texas, which nobody thought that would be bad.

Nope, not at all.

I mean, I think we thought got Vanderbilt, Texas, which nobody thought that would be

bad. Nope. Not at all. I mean, I think we thought Miami SMU was going to be impactful. Yeah, I mean, like a sneaky good game. That might have been sneaky good, not like, oh my gosh, I got to have it on my main screen. Yeah, I mean, if it's in November, we know Miami's out of it. I mean, Oklahoma, Tennessee is still going to be pretty good,

but we thought that was going to be a big game.

We thought USC Nebraska is still sort of a sneaky good game.

I mean, Oklahoma, Tennessee is still going to be pretty good, but we thought that was going to be a big game. We thought USC Nebraska is still sort of a sneaky good game. I mean, we got good game. I'm not now playing the schedule. I'm just saying for some reason. Now, look, the SEC is getting away from this, but you guys know, now part of it, let me, I've started like three different thoughts here. By the way, we do have two elimination games. Take a shot at me and then I'll piece my thoughts together. Two elimination games and an

SEC team will finally win a conference game this weekend. You guys know the SEC used to just like

feature the cocktail party and the schedule around at the rest of the schedule just kind of, oh. Now part of

that was Alabama and LSU were both on buys because they played the next week. So, you know, you took Alabama and LSU away for the better part of a decade. You're taking away your two best teams in the SEC a lot of years. So they used to build the cocktail party, but hey, we've actually got a better game in the SEC than the cocktail party. Oklahoma, Tennessee is a better game or more meaningful game, I guess I should say.

Yeah, I can see that.

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