Week 12 picks: Will Spartans stun Buckeyes; Tucker's 10-year deal & can Arkansas challenge Alabama?
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Andy Staples Show boasts only juggernaut podcast hosts, and that's a fact. Andy and Ari unfold the week 12 onion and breakdown its extraordinary matchups. Will Michigan State win, if not cover, in Columbus? Is MSU's judgment commendable in Mel Tucker's 10-year extension? Could Cincinnati see its undefeated season end at the hooves of SMU? Arkansas has a great shot of taking Alabama down to the wire. Plus, Andy and Ari cackle over, possibly, the most cringy question asked by a reporter ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.8 | It's a Friday show. |
| 0:12.9 | Best day of the week. |
| 0:14.6 | Ari Wasserman is here. |
| 0:15.8 | We've got lines. |
| 0:17.4 | We've got totals. |
| 0:19.0 | We've got to figure out what the shocker's going to be because it feels |
| 0:21.8 | like this is the week the shocker usually comes each year that, you know, the week before |
| 0:27.5 | rivalry week, uh, 2015, I believe, uh, we had the ultimate shocker in Columbus when, uh, when |
| 0:33.9 | Michigan State went in there and beat Ohio State and they forgot that Ezekiel Elliott was on the team in the second half. |
| 0:41.3 | That's one of the potential shockers. |
| 0:43.4 | We promise you, if you listen to Tuesday night's show, |
| 0:46.1 | Ari and I promise you we're going to reveal the games we believe might be the shocker |
| 0:51.8 | because there's just got to be one. |
| 0:54.0 | So, Ari, let's get right |
| 0:56.0 | into that. Well, there's one thing that you're forgetting, Andy. What's that? It's not just totals |
| 1:00.0 | and it's not just spreads. There's also give up meter. We're going to try to predict whether or |
| 1:06.9 | not teams have given up. There's two individual teams, I think, that are on the list that you sent me of just like, forget the total, forget the spread. Is this team have any sort of fight in it, or is it a completely given up on their coach? Oh, I think I know which teams you're talking about. I think one of them lives near me. And another one is a team that you've recently turned your back on. So that's |
| 1:29.2 | very apt observations on your part. I had not thought about that, but you're absolutely right. |
| 1:35.8 | And as I look at the lines for both of those games, I'm like, okay, that, yeah, this could get |
| 1:42.7 | interesting. So, but let's start with the shockers because I do feel like this is always, now the SEC has sort of changed its schedule so it's not all SEC teams playing the FCS opponent before they play their rival. |
| 1:57.5 | They made it, they realized that was a problem. |
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