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Where Are College Football’s BIGGEST Alarm Bells? UPSET ALERT! | TNR 9/16/25 - Hour 2

The Next Round

The Next Round

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today's College Football Spotlight: Upset Alert! Potential candidates for UCLA job The Auburn Tigers are at the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday. Auburn Football starts a four game stretch of ranked teams, three of which are currently in the Top 11. What is the wildcard deciding factor in Auburn-Oklahoma? The Alabama Crimson Tide has a bye week this Saturday. For Alabama Football, we give you what might be The Tide’s biggest improvement since their loss at Florida State and do you trust it? Outkick.com founder Clay Travis joins the show to talk college football and Charlie Kirk Our daily 4 Downs! FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://nextroundlive.com/the-ne.... SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.

0:10.0

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

0:18.1

Clay Travis with us in this segment momentarily.

0:21.8

He'll join us.

0:22.6

The show being brought to you by our friends at Coca-Cola.

0:26.7

Game Day deserves the great taste of Coke Zero.

0:29.3

And Auburn fans, you enjoyed it as well for your big game at Oklahoma.

0:32.5

Coke Zero Sugar, because fan work is thirsty work.

0:36.3

We'll get to Clay when he joins us here in just a second.

0:38.8

One thing to keep in mind is that UCLA job search, the athletic and others during some research,

0:47.3

they came up with three names they think will be at the top of the list.

0:51.4

We mentioned Dave Iranda yesterday.

0:54.1

Only, again, the only reason you do that is if you think you're going to get fired at Baylor. Right, because Baylor, you think they care about football more and they have more money. 100% and 100%. This is, in my opinion, the best quarterback they've had since our G3. And I think he's going to be good enough for Randah's not going to get fired personally. I don't know. You know, like this weekend, their two and a half point favorites at home over Arizona State.

1:10.8

Like every week. It's the big 12. Yeah, I know. Every week is going to be so difficult for Iran and their defense is so bad. Will Stein of Oregon is going to be a hot name for everybody because their offenses is so good. Hold i would not i would need to take that job

1:28.3

there'll be a better job come up and hold and then this guy left his previous job because of

1:34.3

realignment took this gig this gig's a tough job but it's got more funding jonathan smith

1:41.4

at michigan state like i think i think he's he I think he likes the job right now. I mean, they've got money. He's already got that win over Boston College, which in retrospect, Boston College went out and got beat pretty bad by Stanford, so I'm not even sure how good that win was. They will be able to play. Like, I don't know if they can outscore USC. Now, you saw it against Boston College. They were able to score a lot of points and keep it competitive. It's going to be an interesting late-night game in the Coliseum this week where they're catching 16 and a half. I'm not going to be surprised if that is a one-possession game. You know who I thought you were about to say right there? The way you set that up, I was not thinking Jonathan Smith. And I actually think that if you had said the name, I was like, that guy might actually take

2:18.5

it was Jake Dickert, who left Washington State to go to Wake. I mean, oh yeah, you would take that over that. I'd take UCLA over Wake. Well, let me. And I think that guy's a pretty good coach. What do you do if you're Justin Wilcox? Wilcox can coach and you start to look at Cal. nobody is talking about Cal and I'm not going to put them in the conversation that at this time last year, I was talking about Indiana. But Cal's schedule, they're going to be favored, I think, eight of their next nine. Cal might win 10 games this year. With Brian Harsit as their offensive coordinator, which a lot of people said that would bury Cal. But if you ended up looking at the, if Wilcox was taking out of the job, maybe Arson just, you know, evolves and takes over Cal right there. But if you're Wilcox, do you not try to get out of Cal? Well, see, here's the cool thing is that as wacky as that system is, he may have to read, he may be able to move jobs and not even change his contract. Well, they're already paying. University of California, University of California, Los Angeles. He may almost, he may already be working for UCLA. They're paying Calumony, right? They are. So they're 3 and 0, Cal is. 2714 went over Minnesota, which is a good win. I'm just looking, they will not play another ranked team this year. Or they will not play a ranked team. And look at the games, they'll be favored. All right. So they're at San Diego State. They'll be favored. They're at BC, which again, BC just lost to Stanford. That is a long road trip. But they're still going to be favored. They're favored. They're favored. They're favored. At Virginia Tech, fire coach. They're favored.

3:41.5

Host Virginia.

3:42.6

A favorite.

3:43.2

At Louisville, there'll be a dog there.

3:56.8

Definitely. After a buy, they're at Stanford. Favored. And then they host SMU. Probably a dog there, but I mean, so. Cal's not going to play a ring team all year. But if they win the games, they're supposed to win, they're 10 and 2 this year.

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