3YPC CFB-2026-WK6

All right, we're gonna start here with, with the new guy in place of, of Simon Clancy.

We usually start with Simon.

Uh, there was one show where I started with Kyle, and Simon was like, "What's going on? Why, why aren't you asking me the first question?" So, uh, what were the best things you saw last week? 'Cause I thought...

Look, I had a very, very good time watching college football.

It was pillar to post.

Uh, Miami-Clemson at night, everybody knows I'm a, I'm a Hurricanes fan, so I was watching with great interest.

Although a lot of people are saying, "Well, why would that, why was that game not, not on at night?" And, you know, why was the SEC getting all the bad, all the bad spots up against each other? And by the way, the SEC has lodged a complaint with ESPN about not getting any night games the last three weeks.

So we'll start here.

Oli, what were the best things you saw last week?

Well, that's...

I didn't realize, so you've teed this up quite nice.

I didn't realize you were a 'Canes man.

So I want to talk a little bit about Cooper Barkate because-

Uh-huh

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this Miami-Clemson game, obviously from a college football perspective, was one of the biggest games of the ACC calendar, or at least it should be because Clemson should be competitive.

Um, and obviously this season isn't really going the Tigers' way for a number of different reasons, and we, we could talk about that all day, but we won't.

Um, one of the biggest things for me from that game was, look, everyone wants to see Darian Mensah perform against a, a competent team because Miami's schedule hasn't been that difficult.

Everyone wants to see Malachi Tony perform against a competent team for the same reason.

For me, when you looked at that game, it's the emergence of Cooper Barkate as a legitimate, not just college football-wide receiver, but an, a legitimate NFL draft prospect as we move into the 2027 NFL draft cycle.

We knew going into this game, or certainly if you watched Duke last season, like, you know what Cooper Barkate can do.

He's...

At the catch point, he's excellent.

As a blocker, he's excellent.

He's like, he's very underrated nationally, but he does a lot of the core parts of playing wide receiver extremely well.