Week 7 reaction: Caleb Williams, Anthony Richardson impress; Iowa's downfall & Rocky Top madness
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
"There are cops on the field!" Before Andy and Ari paint the scene unfolding in Knoxville in real time, the duo dissect other major week seven events, including Purdue's upset of Iowa; Caleb Williams impersonating Magnus Carlsen by checkmating TCU, and what's going on at Florida? Is Dan Mullen on the hot seat, and what of Anthony Richardson and Emory Jones? Which of the two is most likely to transfer? Why would you throw a golf ball at Lane Kiffin?! Oh, and Matt Corral looked pretty, pretty good. Plus - PSYCH, Andy and Ari have actually been out on Scott Frost this whole time; Georgia earns a tough win, and Ari's out on Texas?!!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show post-game edition, and boy, we got a lot of games to talk about. |
| 0:15.9 | Not quite as earth-shattering as last week, but at least from a ranking standpoint, and I know I say |
| 0:22.3 | rankings don't matter. |
| 0:24.0 | But we did see an undefeated team that had been playing really well get destroyed by a team |
| 0:29.8 | that we didn't think would have a chance. |
| 0:31.6 | We saw a quarterback come in and start after coming back and helping his team to a miraculous win last |
| 0:41.3 | week. We saw a coach on the hot seat win, and maybe that delays the inevitable. We saw the |
| 0:50.5 | other coach in that game finally relent and put in what everybody thinks is the better quarterback. |
| 0:57.8 | And surprise, surprise, he was the better quarterback. |
| 1:02.0 | But then after the game, that coach wouldn't really say anything nice about him, which was kind of weird. |
| 1:09.7 | And they lost a game they shouldn't lose. |
| 1:12.1 | Is that coach now on the hot seat too? |
| 1:15.8 | I don't think so. |
| 1:17.4 | I don't think Dan Mullen is on the hot seat. |
| 1:18.9 | We will get Ari Wasserman. |
| 1:21.4 | We will get to the hot Gators takes a little bit later. |
| 1:26.7 | We need to start in Big Ten country because Iowa was playing really well, great defense. |
| 1:33.8 | I think the advanced stats people had been warning us all season that there might come a game |
| 1:40.6 | when Iowa got down and was not built to come back, while that game arrived |
| 1:46.1 | in the form of the Purdue Boilermakers and the creepiest mascot in America, coming to Iowa |
| 1:52.1 | City and destroying the Hawkeyes. |
| 1:55.5 | 24 to 7, David Bell caught 11 passes for 240 yards. |
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