Mm-hmm.

Like, all of these things are put into motion way in advance, and things snowball, things domino, we reach the point, right? And like there's bad luck involved.

Oregon's down a starting quarterback.

Oregon's down, you know, potentially a starting left guard in Trent Ferguson, down their most productive receiver to start the season in Jeremiah McClellan.

And I just, there was something about the, the structure of what Oregon's offense has looked like basically all season long, where you're just like, it wasn't last week's fault.

It wasn't the bye week's fault.

Now, could you make a very easy and straightforward argument that this team seemed unprepared to game plan to put Dillon Raiola in a, in a terrific position to succeed? Sure, you could.

Mm-hmm

lot

of USC friends.

If Oregon is able to get one on the road against SC, it'll feel great.

It's really a question to me at this point of, you know, the concern with Oregon is that they came out flat without much urgency on the road against Oklahoma state and USC came out and just didn't look good defensively.

against Rutgers across the country.

So what do you feel is a more pronounced reality that USC is defense is just going to struggle outside of a couple of very strong edge rushers or that Oregon can't figure out a way to get up for games and not playing with the fire we expected from them, especially on defense.

I think the offense will course correct because there's just, there's too much speed and there's too much talent in Dante Moore's right arm.

You tell me, what are you going to be watching here the rest of the day?

How are you thinking about it in 2007 when you see App State at Michigan on the schedule?

To be honest, not at all.

Yeah, not at all, because we are used to looking at week one games in the like, oh, it's, you know, Oklahoma beating Furman 66 to three.

Right.

Those are the scores that we see in the crawl that like there's a school you're super familiar with.

And then there's a smaller school.

And so in that time, you're not talking about, you know, an ESPN plus streaming everything that you could watch, you know, Lehigh Lafayette, you know, on a you know, whatever TV you are, no matter where you are in the world.

Do you think it holds up?

Big time place.

Uh, I actually wanna, I want, folks, you've got...

You both have been on this podcast.

I think you've been on it together.

We've had you separate.

Give us the history of the Solid Verbal because this...

I, I've said it all throughout the off season, um, you know, I am pro college football betting podca- or podcasts.

There's a lot of like, hey-