Week 2 reaction: Oregon's upset; is Texas in trouble & Helton's future
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Andy and Matt Fortuna react to week two college football action! Is Clay Helton's job in jeopardy? Oregon may have put on the Pac-12's best display in over a decade, and are we worried about OSU? Is Texas in trouble? Iowa looks really, really...really good. Florida State looks...not so good. Notre Dame conspiracy theory time! Plus, falling cats!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show, and on the day the pack 12 rose again. |
| 0:14.3 | We figured the least we could do is wait until all of Pack 12 after dark was over. |
| 0:19.5 | And that is what we have done. |
| 0:20.7 | Matt Fortuna is joining me. |
| 0:22.5 | We just watched Stanford Crush USC. |
| 0:26.5 | And Matt, I mean, there's no tarmac. |
| 0:30.7 | It's a home game. |
| 0:32.5 | Do they drive Clayhilton to an airport and leave him there? |
| 0:36.5 | You know, it's called United Airlines Field at Coliseum. |
| 0:39.4 | Maybe if you want to get creative, it could be similar in that regard with the airline theme. |
| 0:45.3 | Wow. |
| 0:45.6 | I mean, I just filed my Saturday takeaways column. |
| 0:48.9 | It's 2.24 a.m. Eastern time right now as that game just went final. |
| 0:53.9 | My lead was all about what a great |
| 0:56.0 | day this was for the Pac-12, regardless of what happened after the Oregon game. And I had to severely |
| 1:00.5 | tinker that. Now, I still think a rising tide lifts all ships. Oregon's win over Ohio State, |
| 1:06.3 | like notwithstanding anything else that happens in that conference the rest of the season, |
| 1:10.6 | puts Oregon in prime position to make a run toward the college football playoff, |
| 1:15.4 | which is something we've not been able to say about that league this early in the season |
| 1:19.5 | and probably a decade at this point. |
| 1:22.4 | But man, that was a sobering, that was a sobering game. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean, the final is 42 4228 and that is not indicative |
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