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Welcome for the month of October for some more college football here on Game Notes on LPB.

It's great to have you with us this morning alongside my Super Bowl champ partner, Scott Shanley.

I'm Victor Hall.

A lot of teams in our state are enjoying this first weekend of October off.

In fact, we have six teams here in the state, Scott, that are enjoying a bye week this week.

You and I for all these years covered the Saints we talked about in the NFL.

You look at the schedule we play in primetime.

And when's your boss week?

We're five weeks into the season.

Is this a good time for.

When did you always like to have a bite?

I think this is perfect.

This is an ideal time.

From a player's perspective.

It's an ideal time because you get a rest, get, get, get over those bumps and bruises from the first few games of the season.

From a coaching perspective, you have a chance now to go back and self scout.

Find out where your tendencies are.

Discuss getting other players more reps, changing some of the different things you're doing schematically.

So I think this is a great time.

You know what you have now as a team from a coaching perspective, as a player.

Just mentally and physically to get a refresh and making those tweaks, because everybody is now jumping headfirst into conference play, right?

So where the games really do mean a lot.

So yeah, we have a lot of teams that are taking the weekend off.

Hope you're enjoying us on game notes.

But the teams that are playing, we're ready to talk about them because we've got some nice matchups ahead.

Here's what's coming up here on game notes.

First of all, watch out for those Warhawks at New Ulm Monroe.

They have found some momentum.

But a big road challenge today they are taking on northwestern out of the Big Ten.

We'll talk about that.

We'll also introduce you to Fernando Washington and what he's been doing as a defensive leader for the demons from Northwestern State, the fact they are coming off of their bye and the Tigers.

Yeah.

From LSU, they're on a Bible.

They certainly have some things to work on.

And we'll talk about what they might be focusing on.

That's all coming up here on game notes.

Well let's start with one of the matchups.

We have two of our teams in action.

They'll be facing each other.

It's a big conference play in the South and conference.

This one taking part at Navarre Stadium over in Lake Charles.

And it's about as even as you can get between McNeese and the Lions and Southeastern.

They faced each other 48 times.

Each team, it won 24.

So something has to give tonight when these two teams face each other over in Lake Charles.

Let's start with the Lions and what they've been doing coming off of a Southend's conference opener at home.

They beat Texas Rio Grande Valley last week, 4531, cut out to a 21 nothing lead over 530 yards of offense.

A major weapon has been the use of two quarterbacks, Carson Camp and Kyle Lowe.

They've combined for seven touchdowns in over 1000 yards passing, while both battle to be the season starter.

That tag of being a starter hasn't meant that much, with both proving to be weapons on the field.

And head coach Frank Southall says that approach to the team concept is a huge reason for their and the team's success.

Where we've made so much progress in that room has been the unselfishness of those two guys and the relationship that they developed in there to be able to do this, you know, it's it's be the quarterback, you got it.

You got to have an ego about yourself.

And I think these guys have checked it at the door.

All they want to do is win over, provide opportunities for us.

So we got Carson running.

We've got Kyle throwing.

Both of them have the capability of doing both.

But, we wanted to make sure that we broke some tendencies that we had.

And we'll continue to do that as the season goes on.

As for the Cowboys and head coach Matt Vittoria, they're back home after a two game road trip for McNeese.

Coming off a tough loss at Stephen F Austin, it was a 17 point loss in a game where the Cowboys had three turnovers that resulted in 17 points.

You can do the math.

McNeese will be looking for its second win of the season and second at home, having won the season opener over Louisiana Christian.

It's been a frustrating few weeks for the Cowboys.

Matt.

Theaters actually glad his players are frustrated because now he wants to know what are you going to do about it?

I think being frustrated is a good thing.

And, I'd be really disappointed if our guys weren't frustrated.

But how you use that frustration, I think, is what you know, is what defines you moving forward.

You know, do you get frustrated and point fingers or you know, or do something undisciplined on the field or, or hang your head or or whatever?

Do you work harder and become more accountable?

Is it, you know, if it's that kind of frustration, like I plan on doing and I think our players do too, that's a great thing.

All right, Scott, let's start right there and focus on the Cowboys.

First you had a chance to win at home.

You went for two instead of going to overtime.

Tough loss.

Three turnovers.

You've told us time and time again how much that equates.

Losing three turnovers lead to 17 points.

You lose a game by 17.

It's like you just need that one good thing to happen before you get too deep into a hole is you're back home tonight for conference.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's really is that it's that simple.

First of all, it starts with taking care of the football.

You take care of the football and you and you create takeaways defensively.

Give your give your offense more opportunities to score that.

That fixes a lot of problems.

Don't forget about the third phase of football.

We often forget about special teams, especially gives you field position.

We've talked about that time and time again with with injuries.

So those are just those are little things you can do to create that turning the corner moment.

Because this is a well this is a well-coached football team.

It's a good football team with talented players.

Jake Strong but outstanding at the quarterback position for state all year long.

So I think it's just about finding that turn the corner moment, having that little bit of success and riding that wave of success.

Let's go to the other side of the ball with the Lions.

We heard Frank South.

We'll talk about the two quarterbacks.

Look.

And I'll go back to the Saints analogy.

When Taysom Hill comes in there's the Taysom package.

It's Wildcat.

You know he's going to run one thing selfless done with his two quarterbacks.

You don't know.

It's not that there's one that's just a specialty.

They both throw.

Yeah they can both run.

So what are the difficulties for defense trying to face a team that consistently uses two quarterbacks where you don't know that one of them is just coming in to run the ball?

Yeah, it makes life a lot harder defensively because I think offensively teams like to have one quarterback because there creates a chemistry and a timing.

But from a defensive standpoint, it's difficult because you get on defense and you watch film of a certain guy, you get tendencies, you start to listen to cadence.

There's a lot of little things you can decipher from from quarterbacks before the play even starts.

But when you have two guys coming to the game, guys who maybe have different skill sets, maybe somebody can throw the ball deeper.

Maybe somebody is better in the intermediate short game.

That changes how you have to call things defensively.

It changes how you have to play each individual responsibility for that.

For that rep.

Well, you mentioned strong being very good at quarterback for McNeese, the two headed monster for southeastern.

They're going to get it on tonight over there in Lake Charles.

The newly named Navarre Stadium should be a great matchup in the Southland Conference.

When we see southeastern take on McNeese, can the Cowboys get their second win of the season?

Can the Lions keep the momentum rolling?

We'll see if somebody is going to break this 2424 tie.

You see the Lions have won the last five in this one.

If you're not headed down to Lake Charles or in that area to see the game, don't forget you can watch it at home.

This game will be broadcast tonight at 6:00 on ESPN plus.

Now let's go over to North Louisiana.

Let's focus on the Warhawks from you all.

Monroe, it's been a while since we can say the momentum has been on the side of the Warhawks, but that's what's happening right now up in Monroe.

For head coach Brian Vinson and his Warhawks team.

They have been playing some really good football over the last couple weeks, and they're going to try to keep it going later on this afternoon.

So let's talk about the Warhawks.

Remember one week ago they came off of a big win at home against Arkansas State.

Tonight.

They're going to be facing a Big Ten team against northwestern.

That's the same team that Tulane ran through in week one of the season.

So that momentum comes in.

All sizes are for the Warhawks.

They're starting small but they've got no problem doing that.

No there's this team.

It's been it's fun to watch a team go from the preseason where we started to now where there's hope early in the season.

Now there's belief this team is our role.

They go to the on the road to be the good UTEp team.

Now they break a 15 year losing streak to Arkansas State.

They're on a roll and they believe they can win.

Here's what head coach Brian Vinson had to say this week about the progress he's seen.

You know, every week we've gotten better.

You go back and you go from from week one, Saint Francis to Alabama to the open week to UTEp.

You know, our focus has been the same from day one as they were worried about us.

It's about us.

It's about us.

And your goal really is to be peaking around week eight.

You know, if you're going to make a run, you have to be peaking.

You just got to stay on that journey.

A lot of things happen week to week.

There's a lot of things to clean up from the Arkansas State game that we've got to build on.

You know, really going into this next game.

A couple of notes on the Warhawks.

First of all, start on the defensive side of the ball.

There are a lot of dynamic players on the offensive side.

But this defense for the Warhawks take Alabama out of it for a moment.

This defense they're playing very well very very well.

16th run defense in the country in the entire country.

They are playing at the line of scrimmage as good as anybody in the country.

They're going to go play play a good northwestern team there.

Find out what they have in the trenches.

But I think this this thing, this whole thing started two weeks ago when they went to UTEp and coach Vince, it talked about we have to control the line of scrimmage.

UTEp has a really good offensive line, defensive line.

They came out of that game with a win.

I think you've seen the confidence grow the last two weeks because of that game.

And on the offensive side, the defense is stopping the run.

The Warhawks on the offensive side, they're getting it done.

They've got a deep running back room and we've started to see that depth come alive.

Yeah I mean pick your poison I mean they have five guys who can move who can get in their play.

But McReynolds has been outstanding.

Palmer Smith and then Darren Lewis.

These guys are over five yards a carry.

When you have that type of run defense and you have that type of run offense, that means you're controlling the time possession and you can win a lot of football games that way.

Yeah.

No.

They've been doing very well.

Let's see if they keep the momentum.

It's a big challenge.

Last big non-conference game of the season for the Warhawks.

It's an afternoon kick again.

They're going up to take on a Big Ten team in northwestern.

A team that got run over by two late.

Just two and two on the year for northwestern.

Look at Warhawks.

Also tied for first in the NCAA in red zone offense.

Their perfect ten for ten.

Scott just told us about how outstanding that defense has been.

The Wildcats see where they are offensively as well.

It's a 230 kick.

You can enjoy it by watching all the action on the Big Ten Network.

We already mentioned the demons from Northwestern State after a much needed bye week.

They're back on the field and finally back home.

First time since the season opener that the demons are waking up in their own bed on game day tonight, they host East Texas A&M, a team still looking for its first win of the season.

There should be some extra buzz in the air tonight since it's homecoming on a Northwestern State campus.

A lot of positive vibes.

And Blaine McCorkle said the rest of the half from the bye week has helped re-energize this team.

A young team is going to make mistakes.

A young team that's tired is going to make double mistakes, and that's kind of what we were.

And that's not excuse.

That's just the truth of you kind of what happened in Prairie View.

So like we've talked a lot.

You know you lose or you learn.

So what are the lessons we're going to learn from that.

Because I can see us being in a very similar type game, this week against East Texas A&M, you know, I think this can be another four quarter game if we handle our business.

And, you know, hopefully we learn those lessons and, complement each other a little bit in all three phases, a little bit better this week to to get us over the hump and find a win.

To me, it almost feels like the first game of the year.

Coming off the by having two weeks and prepare for this team.

And then.

Yeah.

And not being home like I mean I'm giddy like ready, ready to play at home again.

So it's exciting.

Yeah.

Everybody feels like that.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

They're excited to be back at Turpin Stadium.

East Texas comes in at oh and four.

But don't pay too much attention to that.

Last year when these two teams played, East Texas A&M was, oh and five.

And they beat the demons by 21.

So don't get fooled by the fact that they're winless on the season.

The demons do lead the all time series.

And you see Fernando Washington, he leads the demons with 33 tackles on the defensive side.

If you're not heading out there to homecoming, you can check out the action on ESPN plus.

But as we mentioned there and you saw on the graphic, one of the defensive leaders for Northwestern State, a young man named Fernando Washington, already recognized once this season as a South End Conference defensive Player of the week.

His 33 tackles lead the team in tackles on defense.

He's also ranked ninth in all of the Southland Conference.

He transferred into Northwestern State and for Washington, making the move to Natchitoches says it was an easy decision.

And time the demon pass rush gets there.

Guess who.

There you see him, Fernando Washington.

The best compliment I can probably give Fernando Washington is he is a football player.

You know, he was born to play linebacker, there's no doubt about it.

And he can rush the passer.

He can get in the box and stop the run.

He can drop into coverage and do some things there.

And he can make a play at a lot of different levels on the field.

And he loves the game.

He loves his teammates.

He comes to work every day with a smile on his face.

And he's really a lot of fun to be around.

You know, he's quickly become one of our favorites around here.

And, he's been a new kid to have here right up the middle.

Fernando Washington, heating it up.

When I first got here, they let me in with open arms.

They really they wanted to get to know me and not to get to know the football side of me.

They want to know me off the field.

So just hanging out with them, getting to know everybody really translated to the football field.

But if I'm able to trust them off the field, I can definitely trust them on the field.

This time.

They bring pressure that was going to be almost intercepted by Fernando Washington.

You know, just being able to talk to everybody, they really just let me know.

Open arms.

As soon as I got here they they just gel me into their family.

And I really love that Fernando.

He's a high caliber player.

You know, he gives us a lot of good looks on the show team or just team, third down, things like that.

So having Fernando here at practice, you know, it really helps a lot for me.

Watching him all summer work, with Coach Smelser and really bond to his teammates and the attitude he came to work with.

I knew he had a chance to be really, really special.

And, you know, he's he's still young in our defense.

He still learning.

And he's been here a spring practice in a couple of games.

And I think he's one of those guys that as he learns and grows and his football IQ, develops and matures a little bit, he can be as good as he wants to be within our defense.

You know, he likes to run sideline to sideline.

He's really aggressive and he'll come in and fit the run.

So you know having a guy like that and anybody in that room in that linebacker room, they all do the same job.

They all work just as hard.

But you know having a guy like that, if we can do our job out here at practice throughout the week and, you know, we can block anybody any given day.

Danny, you may have got really close to number nine.

He's really good.

Yeah, he got really close.

When I got here, him a hickey person hit you through you being like the general that the defense really just helps until they're together as a defense and more as a team.

So it really benefited more than me a little bit because just me being able to talk to him, get what I needed him to know, it's going to be fun to watch the rest of the year and see how much he grows and continues to make way for us.

Now, I know that's a story that makes you smile because you had that same position on the field.

Here's a young man.

Remember, I take you back to our preview special with Blaine McCorkle.

We're bringing in kids and aren't running from something.

We're running to something.

He's just a sophomore.

He leads the team top ten in the Southland Conference.

You played with Lee.

You were a leader at the linebacker position.

You played with some outstanding leaders.

So when you see that story, what does it make you think about it?

Well, yeah, I mean just seeing it, seeing those highlights.

And listen to coach talk about him.

He's a spark plug of the defense.

And as a linebacker I might be biased, but I obviously believe that the linebacker position is the glue of the defense.

Defensive linemen are putting their hand in the dirt.

They're worried about just banging heads every play with another guy across from.

It's a war of attrition.

The DBS are kind of on an island, so as a linebacker you're the glue to that unit and then to play good defense.

So he's been playing outstanding football and just watching his clip.

He can play in space.

He's a great blitzer.

He's got great athleticism.

So he's got a lot.

He's got a bright, bright future ahead of him.

Special two year eligibility plan McCorkle got a good one there.

Absolutely Mr.

Washington.

And again, they'll be in action tonight for homecoming against East Texas A&M.

All right.

Let's talk about the kernels from Nichols.

It's been a minute since they've been in conference play.

But they're back.

Remember they opened up the season with a win in conference play.

This is game three of a four game road trip that has the kernels now in southeast Texas to face Lamar.

The Cardinals are three and one this season playing their first conference game against the one and four kernels.

But remember that one win for the kernels, the season opener against Ewing.

That's why Nichols is currently tied for first place.

And for what it's worth, for Lamar.

They were preseason pick fifth, but now a month into the season, they're the only conference team ranked in the FCS top 25.

They are number 20.

It's an afternoon kick at 3:00.

You can catch on all the action on ESPN plus.

Well, the Southern Jaguars are in that oddity where they had a bye two weeks ago.

Played one game against Jay State.

Now back on another bye.

And the Jags still looking for that consistency in the second half.

This season they've been outscored 96 to 24.

And that bug beat them again last Saturday night in the loss to Jackson State a hard fought very important Swac game.

But southern still self-inflicted wounds.

That's causing trouble for the Jags like penalties and turnovers and not being able to score in the second half.

Terrence Graves was nice enough to join us in the studio.

We talked about some of the adjustments he's making with coaches and on the defensive side, what it's like to be able to be the head coach of one of the standout players in the Swac.

You made some coaching changes.

You moved another coach off to be kind of a coach, offensive coordinator calling the plays and you admitted you're head back, hands on.

Now you're getting into the special teams.

So how has that transition taken and helped with the bye week kind of implement what you're wanting to do as you're on the doorstep of getting in the conference play?

Yeah, I think it helped.

Everybody I think is we have a staff that everybody wants to win and everybody is all in and wants to do whatever we have to do to win.

And so we have to take a look at everything that we're doing.

And we were doing.

We were struggling in some areas.

And so you can't wait or you shouldn't wait until the end to make changes.

I just felt like, it was a situation where we needed to make some changes.

Now, while we have an opportunity to still, achieve the goals that we want to achieve.

And so, I think that that will help us, to really get the right personnel to do those things.

We need to do, to give ourselves that chance.

I know in this age of football and nil and transfer for us, I know you're always fighting a lot of times to keep people you know from leaving, but you did bring a big win in on the offensive end.

And Trey Holley comes over from the other side of Baton Rouge.

And right now he's fifth in the Swac in rushing.

Can you just share some thoughts on how you've seen him get get himself implemented into your system and what has led to him being successful early in the season?

Well, he's a blessing to have, as a young man, very humble.

Trey's very humble.

He's he's team oriented.

He's he's the kind of guy that he stands by to kick us when we're doing p.a.t field goals.

So if they're missing, they happen to miss a party or field goal.

He's standing there in practice.

Come on, lock and focus.

You got it.

You know he's that guy.

He wants to see everyone do well and that and that's hats off to him.

You know he's a he's a quality young man.

He came in and and he didn't come in with.

Hey, I'm sorry.

Haley, that means, that he came in a I'm here to fit in, whatever that means, whatever that looks like.

I just want to be a part to help us do what have you.

And so the guys have really embraced him.

The coaches have embraced him, and everyone's embraced him.

And he's.

He's embraced everyone.

So, you know, we knew what I knew what type of football player Trey was because I recruited Trey, when he was in high school.

So I knew the type of football player he was.

I was just.

And, it just so happens that he was able to come to southern, and I'm being the head coach, and relationships matter.

Yeah, because when we talked, we said, he told his mother, the coach recruited me in high school.

We talked, we talked when he saw me.

When I was in high school.

So as well as some of the other coaches on the staff at other schools, they recruited him as well.

So, it was it was an easy transition for him.

You know, he walked on, he paid his way to come to school.

And and so we gave him the opportunity.

And I remember during media day five meetings, you talked about relationships with your time in the Swac and and how much relationships mean on the other side of the ball.

Not everybody gets to coach Calvin Calvin's.

Kevin's like you have.

He's not in the top in total tackles, but he leads the Swac in sacks.

He leads the Swac in tackles for loss already this part of the season.

What about his impact?

What's been like coaching a young man like that who was reigning defensive player of the year pick to be defensive player of the year again.

And right now the numbers look pretty good.

Coach for what he's doing for you on defense.

Yeah, I've been on Kelby a long time.

And so Kelvin is actually leading SS and sacks and tackles for loss.

So he's doing a great job there.

He he's I'll tell you this.

He played for us as a true freshman.

We lost the, Swag championship game on Saturday.

On Sunday when the season was over Kelvin was in the weight room working out.

So that talks about the type of young man that he is.

He and I tell people this all the time, everything he's accomplished, he's earned, no one's giving him anything.

And he's very humble and he knows that those things are nice.

But his thing is he wants to bring a championship, a couple championships to the university before he leaves.

And he's a leader.

He's a leader by and he's a leader by words.

He's just a all around leader.

He's a man that does well in the community, does well academically.

He's he's what we talk about all the time.

We want to be champions, honestly, off the field and in the community.

And he exemplifies that.

That's why he wears number one, the person that wears number.

And we only have one one number one on our team in this area where, you know, double numbers are hard.

I think the only number that we don't duplicate is number one, because we want that person to exemplify what we mean, what we here at Stanford University certainly appreciate.

Terrance Graves joining us here in the studio.

Speaking of number one, that's what the quarterback of Grambling wears.

Xavier tees out a former southern Jaguar has settled himself into the quarterback role at Grambling.

He's thrown for over 600 yards and four touchdowns.

He's also third on the team in rushing and has three more touchdowns on the ground.

It's never an easy move, especially going to a rival, but he's made sure to take it nice and slow on the road to finding success at Grambling.

Set back to pass, takes off with the football wide open two set those in touchdown.

Grambling State University it's been a day by day process.

I mean, I haven't even even when I made the decision, I knew not to look so far ahead into the into the future because I knew that something I could control, I knew I wanted to come here and just establish my work ethic and know that my team and my teammates know that I'm here to work and I'm here to win.

So just taking it day by day and throughout those days, I slowly but surely gain the team's trust.

And that's how I got the job.

Really enjoy it.

How would you know?

It's a very, focused game.

He's a very honest kid, even able to, you know, he can take the pressure, but he also give it back to you.

You know, I made a bad call.

You said that's on you.

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

That's on me.

So the next time I need you to bail me out, he said, going into the endzone.

Touchdown, Grambling.

Sometimes you know you want to throw it, but when you drive back in, the line just spread wide and you see nothing but grass right there.

Yeah, I just got to get big and just got to take off right there.

So I just bought now.

So taken with the defense I feel like I've grasped the system.

I feel like of course the being that we are at the beginning of the season, it's a lot of chaos and stuff that we still have to, you know, get out.

Being out the whole offense as a young, skill guys, it's not, you know, Tyson as a freshman, bam as a freshman, he got a lot of freshman running backs and things like that.

So I know that we have to play a lot more games to get that little bit more experience.

But like I said, I'm glad that we're winning these games now to show that we have the fight and the courage to stay together as a team.

There's nothing I feel like when you get worried about, you know, everybody else in what they're doing, you lose is who you are, is your own team, your own identity.

So I feel like just working on our Out of Time and I did was I wrote my drives and making sure I was completing the ball.

We need to be just working on ourself to where when they get to a team, like is to the football going to be full by every team, going to play the same coverages.

So it's all about this and how we execute our offense.

It will be interesting to see when those two teams get together.

Southern Grambling in the Bayou Classic and see how Mr.

T Z is doing that.

All right.

Let's turn our attention now to LSU.

It's a much needed buy for the Tigers coming off that tough loss one week ago on the road to Ole Miss in Oxford.

Still, so many questions surrounding a top 15 team that hasn't really shown its ability to play at its max.

So far this season, even though, as Scott mentioned earlier, was too early in the season.

Here's what head coach Brian Kelly said he wants his team to focus on with this bye week.

You want a little bit of recovery?

You want guys to, you know, focus on their academics, catch up in the classroom.

And then let's go to work on the things that we need to be better at.

And our biggest thing is the details, you know, when we have the details down, our attention to detail and we have focus on each play, we're pretty darn good.

The problem is we can't keep it long enough.

We get distracted.

And, that's what we're working on this week.

I'm not sure we've heard an official injury on Garrett thus far.

We've heard torso, we've heard lower body, but just about everyone agrees.

He has not looked 100% this season.

So with time to rest now with the bye week, it also gives Kelly and his staff more time to work with Michael Van Buren, who used to play at Mississippi State, started the last eight games of the season for the Bulldogs one year ago.

We did see him against southeastern already this year, ten of 12, 122 yards, one touchdown passing, one running.

But just in case LSU has to give us some help, Kelly wants Van Buren ready to go.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's a great opportunity for him.

You know, we're going to give Garrett some time to rest here this week.

Make sure he's fully at 100%.

And, and Michael got a lot of first, all the first team reps in articulation.

So he did a great job.

You know, he's he's still learning.

But you know, as we said we feel confident in his ability.

To go back to the first comment anywhere from Brian Kelly's it was curious.

And he says we get distracted.

We can't keep focus.

I'm not sure in your time if we've had any coach talk about that.

Or can you maybe guess as a former player, what do you talk about, how you get distracted?

Well, there's plenty of things to get you distracted.

I mean, it's who needs tickets for this week, you know?

What are you doing on the weekends?

Who you hanging?

There's tons of things that can distract you, I think, when instead of hearing distraction, I think of discipline.

It's easy to come out the first game of the season playing with all the eyeballs on.

Yet Clemson, you defeat a Clemson team and everybody's already putting you in the College Football Playoff and everybody's putting you in the national championship game and everybody says you're the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Then you kind of lose a little bit of focus.

You get distracted, you lose momentum, and that's up to you as a player to keep that momentum.

Whatever.

You have to fall in love with the daily grind and that's really what it comes down to.

Yeah, we'll see, because now you got South Carolina, then you get the big stretch before your second bye week, and then you close it out with Alabama and companies up and see how they handle on the bye week.

Don't forget we've got five teams in action.

Enjoy all the games.

We'll see you on Sunday for postgame notes.

Until then have a great day everybody.

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