Week 4 reaction: Clemson at crossroads; sluggish Sooners & Arkansas is for real
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari adjust their slacken jaws enough to rave about an unforgettable fourth week of the college football season. Clemson's stunning loss to NC State, which isn't totally shocking if you listened to Friday's podcast, places them squarely outside the CFP discussion, right? Andy has "zero confidence" in Oklahoma right now. Is it warranted, and will the Sooners even win the Big 12? Arkansas is for real, but are they real enough to test Georgia? Plus, Cincinnati was Saturday's biggest winner; where does UNC go from here; an Ohio State player, apparently, quits mid-game and tweets to his team, and Andy avoids eating the chip of death.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. You're going to hear that introduction a second time, but this is, this is an addition. This is time travel. That's what kind of Saturday it was in college football. |
| 0:22.3 | We had to time travel. The buzzing you hear right now is the turnover chainsaw. |
| 0:28.5 | Oregon State has fired it up one final time. The Beavers are in victory formation as I speak at a |
| 0:36.2 | basically empty LA Coliseum. |
| 0:39.5 | Oregon State is finishing off a 45 to 27 win against USC. |
| 0:44.1 | The first time Oregon State has won at USC since September 1960. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes, the last time the beavers won at the Coliseum, it was six weeks away from John F. Kennedy |
| 1:02.6 | beating Richard Nixon in the election. That's how long ago that was. Forty-five to 27, Oregon State wins this game. |
| 1:13.8 | The beavers rushed 50 times for 323 yards. |
| 1:17.6 | They averaged 6.5 yards of carry. |
| 1:20.0 | Chance Nolan, the quarterback that they went to, basically half time of the Purdue game. |
| 1:25.2 | 15 of 19 for 213 yards, 4 TDs. That's an 11.2 yards per |
| 1:30.7 | attempt average. This was a complete butt kicking. As I will say later in the show, you can't |
| 1:37.9 | fire Clay Helton again. But whoever gets the USC job, you have a monumental task ahead of you. |
| 1:45.6 | Guys, if you haven't read Bruce Feldman and Antonio Morales' story in The Athletic about how USC got here, |
| 1:51.4 | by all means, check it out. |
| 1:53.5 | If you're not subscribed to the athletic, subscribe to read it. |
| 1:56.8 | You will understand better why USC's in the position that's in. |
| 2:01.0 | But whoever gets that job, you got to fix USC at the line of scrimmage because they are getting just whipped up front. |
| 2:08.8 | So why am I here by myself? |
| 2:11.4 | Well, I let Ari Wasserman go to bed, but we got to take care of our West Coast listeners. |
| 2:16.2 | So we're tagging this thing on the beginning of the show. |
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