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Breneman brings a unique perspective as a former 3x All-American at Penn State and UMass, former 5-star recruit, the youngest Power Four position coach in college football, and now a national college football analyst for CBS Sports.
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BYU didn't just beat Colorado State on the road, the game was over after one quarter. LJ Martin ran for 176 yards and 3 touchdowns, the offensive line dominated even without their starting right guard, and Bear Bachmeier gives this team a level of confidence few others in the conference can match. Here's why I left the booth Saturday night wondering if anyone in the Big 12 can beat these guys — and why the real answer might come down to a date circled on November 7th.
Oregon needed some luck just to survive Boise State, then got upset outright by Oklahoma State the very next week. Everyone's ready to write the Ducks off heading into their Big Ten opener at USC. I'm not, and it's not just the numbers. I've talked spoken with Dan Lanning one-on-one, and I'm telling you why he's built differently than the rest. F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code HUDDLE15 at nyc/HUDDLE15 #theperfectjeanpod
NC State had the ball, up 3 points, with 6 seconds left against Vanderbilt. Fourth down. All they had to do was take a safety and kick off. Instead, a fumble in the end zone turned a near-certain win into one of the worst-managed sequences ever. I break down exactly what NC State should have done, why throwing the ball wasn't actually an option, and why this game came down to preparation, not luck.
Pete Golding took a late 6-point lead over LSU and turned it into 8 with a two-point conversion nobody else would've called. But this wasn't a gut decision, Golding spent three years as Lane Kiffin's defensive coordinator, and he knew exactly what Kiffin would do if given a 7-point cushion. Adam breaks down the call and why it’s the correct decision every single time.
This week had it all. Pete Golding made a two-point call nobody else would've had the nerve to make, NC State somehow blew a win with the ball and the lead in the final 6 seconds, Oregon's rough start has everyone counting Dan Lanning out except me, and BYU might be the best team in the Big 12. Adam breaks it all down. 0:25 – Why Ole Miss Went For Two 6:31 – Deep Dive On The Biggest Choke In College Football History 16:47 – Why I'll Never Bet Against Dan Lanning 24:37 – Is BYU The Best Team In The Big 12? 👖 F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code HUDDLE15 at theperfectjean.nyc/HUDDLE15
Jesse Legree was barely on anyone's recruiting radar coming out of high school. Jesse Legree was barely on anyone's recruiting radar coming out of high school. He didn't commit to Oregon State until early December, didn't enroll until January, and barely had a spring camp before the season started. Two games in, he leads the entire country in receiving yards — ahead of Heisman candidates like Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith and Miami's Malachi Toney. Adam called one of these performances live. This isn't a one-week fluke, it's back-to-back record-setting games against ranked Power Four competition, and almost nobody saw it coming.
Adam was in the booth when a 24-point underdog nearly knocked off Texas Tech in the fourth quarter. Oregon State's Jesse Legree torched their secondary for 240 yards and 2 touchdowns. So is this a real crack in a national title contender, or just one wild night? He breaks down the secondary issues, the red zone problems that showed up week 1, and the QB controversy that's becoming impossible to ignore.
Three straight national titles. Three preseason top-6 teams. Then one Saturday came along and humbled almost everybody. Ohio State blew a 20-point lead and lost to Texas. Oregon lost to a team that hadn't beaten an FBS opponent in 21 straight games. And that's before you get to everything else that went wrong across the conference. Adam breaks down how bad it really was, what other conferences are already saying, and whether the Big Ten can turn the narrative back around before it sticks.
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Ten months ago, James Franklin was sitting on the College GameDay set, six days removed from getting fired by Penn State, telling the world he was "in shock." Nobody's really thought about him since. Now he's 2-0 at Virginia Tech, including a 44-21 win over an Old Dominion team that beat them by 19 last year — and he didn't just leave Penn State, he took a chunk of their recruiting class with him. Is this the start of a real Playoff run in Blacksburg, or is it still too early to tell?
Two wins in, and Penn State might already have a tape problem. Temple's quarterback ran wild on their defense, and Michigan, USC, Washington, and Wisconsin are about to send four more who do it even better. It's not just the run defense, Penn State left points on the board in the red zone, and their breakout receiver from Week 1 nearly disappeared in Week 2. Put those three things together and you get one of two stories. A program still figuring itself out under a new coach, or a team with real problems about to run into a brutal stretch of matchups.
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