Colorado, said Timber seventh. Colorado finished last year one and eight against the Pact quickly, and Nebraska just finished their seventh and second. But this game has implication up for and for Matt We're gonna have and there is no waste for Nebraska to show that they're back anymore than having the viewing audience that Don Sanders to box and Colorado win this game. Eight is going to There have been a bunch of media back one from last year. It is crazy again and ate it n win because it is Hanado USC versus LSU in elite stadium. He said what hemburg first in lost Van. This is a meeting that Lincoln Riley did not want to happen. Us best to get out of this game, and this is the first meeting for those also universities have forty weeks is here. We're gonna look at this Florida State Georgia Tech game and actually talk about who is going to have the best game of the weekend, Not the most popular game of the weekend, but the best game of the weekend. Take a little bit of a peek at what's going on next week because college football is upon us, and who's going to and if this game in particular has any ramifications for the college football playoffs. Oklahoma State is doing something very very unique. They're trying a new NIL gimmick with putting QR codes on the back of their helmets. And now is this going to work? Is this going to be received like Colorado putting their ig names on the back of on the back of their jerseys and all that in between. But we're gonna start though quarterback ones. So there was a bunch names. Now one of the most prominent positions in all the college football this year is over at USC because you have you had Jade Maiveia kid to transfer it over from U and Miller Moss really battling it out for the QB one position. Now, Miller Moss had a big time bowl game which people were excited about. Was through five, six, seven touchdowns. It was a lot and so people were excited, but you know, it was a bowl game and Miller Moss has been a kid that has stuck it out. Now, when people talk about kids who they don't want to competent, they don't want competition. Kids are scared of competition. They're they're scared of competing. They just want to run away. Well, Miller Moss is a kid who has done the complete opposite. He has stuck it out. Even though the Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams transferred in what did Miller Moss do stick it out? They recruited Malachi Nelson? What did he do? Stick it out? Malachi Nelson's gone over at Boise State, and we'll talk about his situation as well. So and this is a kid that did play his senior year of high school football. So he's thrown ninety two passes in games in four years. That's sticking it out and he's in a good position for it. We got in usc. Their entire season is going to be hinged upon two things. Number One, Obviously, the defense has to play better than it's played in the last couple of years, and that's gonna be important, but you have but you also have their quarterback position. And Miller Moss. Now people aren't expecting him to be Caleb Williams, but if he can come out and play efficiently and play well, now he's different than every other quarterback that Lincoln Riley has had since he's been there. He doesn't run like Kyler Murray or Jalen Hurts or Caleb Williams or Baker Mayfield. So this is going to be a test for Lincoln Riley as well as it in terms of style of play of his quarterback, as well as it's going to be a test for Miller Moss because if he can pass this test, that'll be another quarterback that he throwed that Lincoln Riley ends up in the first round into the NFL. And I'm not putting that above Miller Moss because of what Lincoln Riley has done so many times. Now, the next quarterback, this kid transferred from Texas. He was a kid that you didn't have a ton of high school experience either in Malik Murphy. But he's a kid that looks good getting off the bus. And when I say that, I mean like when he gets off the bus, You're like wow, Like that's the kid was impressive in high school. Big Strong got a chance to see him in person, and he was playing behind Quinn Ewers at Duke. I'm sorry at Texas and then he transfers to Duke, wins the starting job and Manny di as his head coach, says that his preparation, work ethic and productivity have made him QB one and you know, Murphy loved Texas. This is a kid who didn't want to leave, but that QB room is deeper than the Gulf of Mexico, and so he was like, yeah, it's time for me to get up out of here. Especially when quinn Ewers decided to come back for this season, it was probably the right move. And now he's got his own shot. Now here's the interesting part about Duke is that most people have them picked to finish, you know, out of the seventeen teams in the ACC somewhere in between like thirteen and seventeen. So if Malik Murphy plays well Manny di As, you know, his defense is going to be a pretty good you know, even if it's not where it needs to be right now. In short order, he's going to be putting out a really good defense. Now. If he can get good production out of Malik Murphy and this offense, because Duke has been a hot bed for transfers as well, then this is a team that there's no shot they win the ACC. But there's a difference in finishing in you know, fourth to seventh than it is thirteenth to fifteenth in a super deep conference like the ACC. Next up, we got Boise State. And now remember I mentioned Miller Moss over at USC. Now, the guy that was supposed to be next up out of high school. You know, some people had him the number one recruit in the nation, but he was damned sure. In everybody's top five and all the recruiting services top five is Malachi Nelson out of Los Alamito's high school. So he goes to USC. Now there are rumors that he was not as focused and everything as he needed to be there, So you hope that it changed to Boise State was going to be the thing that you know, propelled him to have an opportunity. And he was supposed to be the kid who you know, showed Lincoln Riley and showed everybody else like yo, I'm ready. They didn't believe like they needed to believe. So I'm out of here and I'm gonna prove him wrong. Well, he got beat out by Maddox Madden, a kid who split time last year. And this is and their OC has been around the block. Now. He was my former OC with the Jacksonville Jaguars for a short time. Dirk Cutter coached at Arizona State as well as their head coach coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as offensive coordinator and head coach. So this is a dude that's been around the block and seen a lot of different types of quarterbacks and they chose Maddox Madden. Now this kid does not Now he's a kid that don't look good getting off the bus, you know he's I mean, Bryce Young doesn't look good getting off the bus either, So there's no disparacement upon him upon Maddox, but it's just the reality he's under six feet tall, doesn't necessarily look the part, but he split time last year with an excellent athlete with Green that was there last year. So Boise State, who is a team that a lot of people are picking to make the College Football Playoff as the highest ranked group of five team. So it is going to come down to Maddox Madden and how he's able to play, because if he ends up having to be replaced at any point in time this year, it is going to be very tough because changing quarterbacks that means that you lost some games or there was an injury, and now that means that something was going wrong for you to have to switch quarterbacks, So that's gonna make it tough if Maddox is not the right guy for the job. Arizona State, they decided to go with Sam Levitt as their stared and starting quarterback, and this was very obvious. And you guys know, I got a chance to interview Kenny Dillingham, their officer coordinator defense coordinator here on the Unafraid Show. So make sure that you guys go back and watch that. Go to the interview section all of them in there, and you'll get a chance to see that one. Well. Sam Levitt from Michigan State was clearly brought there to start at ASU and Jaden Rashada saw that and he bounced And people can say it's for whatever reason, but that's the reason why he decided to leave. Now. Jeff Simms, he was brought in to add an athletic dimension, but the turnover bug was still biting him in fall camp. And then you had Trenton Borgay, who is a six year guy and he's been a backup the entire time, but he's ended up starting at some point in time in the last few years and he's played well. So this feels like a situation where Trenton may have actually been the better situation, but you know that you might get Levitt for more than one year. So that's gonna be one to watch at Arizona State because Arizona State has switched up quarterback so much in the last couple of years that it hasn't even really been funny. Now you got Nevada. Nevada is a kid that in Brendan Lewis that you have seen at Colorado. You saw him starting last year as well, and he was in a quarterback competition against Trooper Party, who is Brock Party's brother, who's a pretty good player, and he had transferred in and he's been out for a decent amount of time, been dealing with a shoulder injury. So Brendan wins the job there. Now, he was a kid Lewis who was a kid who looked like a bright spot for Colorado in twenty twenty one, but he's only thrown two touchdown passes in one hundred and thirty six attempts in the last two years. So is he going to be able to hold on to this job for the rest of the season after Trooper Party healthy. That's one to watch over at Nevada over at Baylor. And remember we have their head coach, Dave Randa on the pressure cooker this year. He's under the pressure cooker for coaches and he's on the hot seat for coaches, coaches because Baylor has to win this year, Like this is not one of those years where you can just show you know where you can just get by and you say, ah, this is an aberration for the coach because Baylor the last two seasons has underperformed dramatically, and now they're going with the Kwan Finn as their starting quarterback according to Dave Wilson and Adam Rittenberg yesterday. Now, this kid Finn was a three year starter at Toledo, the mations Most valuable player last year, twenty six hundred yards, twenty two touchdowns, nine interceptions. So now, and he helped his team go to an eleven and two record and the MAC Championship last year. So this is gonna be a big departure from what they got out of Blake Shapin last year, who had started twenty three games for the Bears over his three seasons, and he was an honorable mention All Big Twelve last year. But then he transferred to Mississippi State and then finn He beat out Sawyer Roberson, a Mississippi State transfer who had started four games last year at Baylor. RJ. Martinez who appeared in three games last year too, So that's one to watch over at Baylor because they got a new offensive coordinator and this is an absolute must win for Daved Randa. So this is one of those you had to choose the right quarterback because you are switching styles because last year Baylor was a pro style offense and this year they're going to the spread because they got Spavatol as their offensive coordinator who came in from cal who had previously been there as well. So we're gonna see yeah, because this is a pivotal year for Spavadol as a head coach and for Dave Randa as a well. Sbabital as a OC and David Randa as a head coach. Now, this is one from the Dion Sanders fallout from Colorado last season, and that is freshman Danny O'Neill who was committed to Colorado last year but now last second flipped when their new head coach, Sean Lewis took over. So Sean Lewis was the officer coordinator for Colorado who when they were putting up a lot of points last year, and then for some reason he got relieved of his play calling duties and then ends up as the head coach for San Diego State because he got blamed for all the sacks that Shoulder took last season, even though he ended up taking a bunch of sacks after Sean Lewis got demoted as well. And this is gonna be San Diego State's first ever true fresh and starter. And he beat out A. J. Duffy who had transferred from I believe Florida State, and you know the rest of the quarterback room who had been out there as well. The last one that we want to talk about is South Carolina. Now, after two years of Spencer Raller, the game Cocks are going with Leonora Sellers. This is a local kid who plays in his respecs. Wait till you see a picture of this kid. The kid plays in his glasses. And he beat out Robbie Ashferc, who had been you know, part of the quarterback battles at Oregon. He played a little bit at Auburn the last two seasons and We're going to figure out what's going on with Robbery Ashford because he was a hell of a baseball player too, so I wonder if we'll end up seeing him play a little bit of baseball as well, especially with him not winning the quarterback competition. Now, some of these quarterbacks are going to have impact on the games in week zero because we have four games this week in Week zero, and we are very, very excited about those games. So we have Florida State, so we have Florida State and Georgia Tech. We have Montana State and New Mexico SMU and Nevada, and we have Delaware State and Hawaii. Now, on its face, you're like, oh my god, look at these games. Be happy, be happy, we have college football. Don't you toot your nose up at any damn game around here. I'm letting you know, we are thankful. We are thankful for all of these games. Thankful. So that's the first thing. Second thing is is the biggest name games do not always equal to best games. So I'm actually looking at a game that is going to that I'm excited to see how this pans out. But we're going to go through each one. Got Florida State Georgia Tech. So this is the first game, and this game is We're in Dublin, Ireland, and you're like, wait, didn't at the Notre Dame think Well, listen, you got Florida State and Georgia Tech out there this year, and these are two teams that are not necessarily evenly matched. So you got Florida State coach by Mike Norvel, and you got Brent Key in his second year and Brient Key at Georgia Tech. This is not your father's Georgia Tech. This is not your Calvin Johnson, you know, wing team Navy style offense. No, they are regular football now and they are playing very good football. And Brent Key has been recruiting well, they just got a five star commit. And Georgia Tech's a hard school to get into, but this is a place because it's located in Atlanta. This could be one of them sleeping giants, Like they can turn this into a problem for the ACC now they have. They had a top twenty five offense last year and this year they are top ten in returning production. So this is an older team, a mature team, and top ten in returning production. This is a team that is going to give people fits this year. The same team that beat Miami last year, even though that was Miami's fault, they still came out with the victory. So with Florida State breaking in a new quarterback in Dj Uyangalle, who transferred from Oregon State by way of Clemson last year, this is DJ's last stand and he's trying to prove himself not just a good quarterback, a good college quarterback, an efficient college quarterback, but he's trying to prove himself as a great NFL prospect, like a kid who is not just you know, a good college player that anybody would be happy to have, but a legitimate NFL prospect. And that's what's on the line for Dj this year, and Mike Norvel knows it. So the question is what is Florida State's mentality coming into this season because last year that was like they were riding so high last year on the way to the College Football Playoff. Quarterback gets hurt and now all of a sudden, it's oh man, see this Florida State team, See they're not good enough. It doesn't forget the fact that that Alabama almost lost to Auburn. Forget that forget they needed a miracle there. Oh but Florida State the quarterback center not good enough, No way, no chance, even though Ohio State won with their third string quarterback, but I digress. In twenty fifteen, who cares about them? Damn details. So you got Florida State and this Georgia Tech team, especially first game the season, this is going to be scrappy. This is This game is going to be a lot scrappier than people really want to admit. Florida State is favored by eleven points in this game, and I'm gonna have to take Georgia Tech. I think Florida State's gonna win the game, but I'm taking Georgia Tech plus eleven. Here, this feels like a good spot and a good opportunity for Georgia Tech to either sneak out a win or just let everybody know this year, hey, hey, we are not played and this is a prime, prime upset spot because you have a game that is not in friendly confines, You're in a whole different country. You got to keep your team focused. It's a brand new season, You're you're breaking in a new quarterback, new leadership. Yo, this has the making and Georgia Tech is a veteran team top ten returning production. Watch this from here plus eleven for Georgia Tech or the next game up, we got Montana State, New Mexico. Montana State is favored by eleven points. Yes, and FCS team and FCS team is favored over an FBS team, and you're like, wait, hold up, no, I had to look at that multiple times. Now, Montana State is ranked number four in the FCS and has a first place vote in the FCS polls. And remember we've seen FCS teams beat FBS teams multiple times. We saw Appalachian State did it when they were FCS. Montana beat Washington a few years ago. North Dakota State has beat teams Eastern Washington has come close as well. This is not a game that you can just roll your helmets out and win. And New Mexico is coached by Bronco Menden Hall for Virginia head coach, and he's trying to build this program up. But I am going to take Montana State in this game and that eleven points, yes, absolutely, I am taking them, plus the eleven points of the next game up, we got SMU and Nevada Now one of these teams we've already talked about in Nevada, who is going to be starting Brendan Lewis at quarterback. Now him throwing you know, two touchdowns over his last one hundred and thirty six passes. That ain't good, and Nevada is not looking like what you want to see out of this team right now, even though they're coached by Jeff Chop Because Rhett lastly, former offensive coordinator with Old Miss under Lane Kiffin, this is the guy that we got to pay attention to. This is the guy that we gotta pay attention to because Ratt is going to be a hot coaching name. People name that people are excited about. People are going to be paying attention because remember SMU is no longer a group of five teams. They are paying their own way in the acc they said, let us in for free, don't even give us media money, because we have a plan the SMU. I love this because this is the same SMU that got the death penalty that essentially ruined their college football program. And now they're pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and they're betting on themselves. They're betting hundreds of millions of dollars on themselves. They're like, we're gonna be able to do it. And it starts in They're favored by twenty seven points over Nevada. Give me SMU and them twenty seven points. They are going to be out to send a message every single week. And Nevada right now, with if Trooper party were starting at quarterback, might be closer to about a twenty one point victory. But with Brendan Lewis's history and with what's going on at Nevada right now, give me SMU minus twenty seven RTT. Lastly, all right, the next game up. We're not even sure if this last game is gonna happen. And this is Delaware State versus Hawaii, and you're like, George, why would this game not happen because Delaware State they missed today's ten and a half hour flight to Honolulu after a bus snaff fu to the JFK Airport. Now, this is a big school, small school program issue because on one hand, Alabama, Oregon, the USC, SMU, they can't miss flights because it's a flight. But Delaware State, who's getting paid to play this game, they are traveling commercial. Now, I don't know how many how you get that many seats on a commercial flight, and I don't know how you rebook for that, because that's a damn that's a lot of damn seats. You got hundreds of like one hundred plus seats on a plane that they missed the Honolulu So this is something that you got to watch and monitor because, yeah, because there are traveling contingencies that are playing a factor here. And but this is college football though, because you have Delaware State playing Hawaii, they're supposed to leave on a Tuesday. Get acclimated because the issue is is that this game is going to be to start at a weird time, eight point fifty nine Pacific, so that's midnight Eastern and what two o'clock three o'clock in the morning Hawaii time. In terms of what it's gonna look like for them, think about it East Coast time, Delaware State. They're gonna be playing at two three o'clock in the morning, kick off in Hawaii. All right, make it make sense, Make it make sense. I don't like, Yeah, Hawaii is a thirty nine point favorite, but give me Hawaii. This feels absolutely like some ridiculousness about to happen. This is a setup. The body clocks are gonna be off. This is there's no way to recover. This is gonna be terry. This is gonna be a blood bath, an absolute blood bath. All right. The last thing that we have to talk about. Oklahoma State is doing something very inventive. And the question is is Oklahoma stak putting QR codes on their player's helmets. Is it genius or is it goofy? Because remember Colorado put their ig handles on the back of their jerseys and people were like, oh, I got look at Diane with the gimmicks. But in the world of nil, gimmicks can work because imagine if you're at home and your favorite player scores a touchdown and you pause the TV and you be cause you can get that QR code off the off the helmet and you're like, no, no, no, I do not want my favorite player to transfer. Here we go boom, ten bucks, touchdown, one hundred bucks, touchdown, thousand bucks, three touchdowns today. Ooh, I'm so excited. It gives the fans an immediate operation coortunity to give the players money that they can't take back later when the player fumbles. That's the thing that that's the cool part about it, And I actually do not hate this at all, because it gives fans an instant way to be able to do it, an instant way to contribute to a player if they deem it necessary or warranted. And it gives them an opportunity for them to fell the love from their school and from the people around the school around The program boosters everybody because remember them used to be bags that used to show up at people's doors, nice one hundred dollars handshakes, you know, Duffel bags, show up with money or checks or however they were doing it McDonald's bags at Tennessee. Well, now you don't have to do that. The players can literally pause, score a touchdown and be like scan the Q cold, baby, give me my money. Hey, I'm not mad at it. I know that old school fans and get off my lawn. People like, oh god, I hate it. What are we doing? Don't we all like instant rewards and instant feedback. I'm just saying all right now, but they're head coach Mike Gundy. He revealed last week that he told his players, y'all need to stop asking for money and focus on the season. Now, when the way that that was presented out in the media, I didn't like it. But as you realize the rest of his quote, I was like, Yo, this is this is amazing, this is amazing. Oh but I am going to show you the QR code. Throwver real quick. Look look at that joint. You can see it on the back of the helmet right there. Yep, QR code on the back. Hey not mad at it? Okay. But back to Mike Gundy, so he said, I told the players there's no negotiating now. Portal's over all negotiation is history and now we're playing football, just coaching and playing football. Mike Gundy's one hundred percent right. There is a time for play, and there's a time for pay. The time for pay already finished. It'll pick back up as soon as the season is over with. But there's a time for play and there's a time for pay, and it is playtime right now. So we're not talking about no nil, We're not asking for more money. I don't care if you score sixteen touchdowns in one game you break every NCAA record during the season, we are not talking about money during the season. You know when we will talk about money as soon as the season is over with. Yep, you are the best back. You're Ali Gordon. Guess what we got you, We got your bread, homie. Don't worry about it. But we're not negotiating during the season, because if we negotiate during the season and you end up getting beat out, do we need to renegotiate exactly No, because that will only cause more problems on your team. Earn your money on the field, players, don't be worrying about that during the season, because there's a time for play and a time for pay. And you, guys, this is the time for The Unafraid Show Live. Make sure that you guys like subscribe, tell a friend, and be back here tomorrow. In between twelve thirty and one o'clock we will get started. Peace out.

Colorado, said Timber seventh. Colorado finished last year one and eight against the Pact quickly, and Nebraska just finished their seventh and second. But this game has implication up for and for Matt We're gonna have and there is no waste for Nebraska to show that they're back anymore than having the viewing audience that Don Sanders to box and Colorado win this game. Eight is going to There have been a bunch of media back one from last year. It is crazy again and ate it n win because it is Hanado USC versus LSU in elite stadium. He said what hemburg first in lost Van. This is a meeting that Lincoln Riley did not want to happen. Us best to get out of this game, and this is the first meeting for those also universities have forty weeks is here. We're gonna look at this Florida State Georgia Tech game and actually talk about who is going to have the best game of the weekend, Not the most popular game of the weekend, but the best game of the weekend. Take a little bit of a peek at what's going on next week because college football is upon us, and who's going to and if this game in particular has any ramifications for the college football playoffs. Oklahoma State is doing something very very unique. They're trying a new NIL gimmick with putting QR codes on the back of their helmets. And now is this going to work? Is this going to be received like Colorado putting their ig names on the back of on the back of their jerseys and all that in between. But we're gonna start though quarterback ones. So there was a bunch names. Now one of the most prominent positions in all the college football this year is over at USC because you have you had Jade Maiveia kid to transfer it over from U and Miller Moss really battling it out for the QB one position. Now, Miller Moss had a big time bowl game which people were excited about. Was through five, six, seven touchdowns. It was a lot and so people were excited, but you know, it was a bowl game and Miller Moss has been a kid that has stuck it out. Now, when people talk about kids who they don't want to competent, they don't want competition. Kids are scared of competition. They're they're scared of competing. They just want to run away. Well, Miller Moss is a kid who has done the complete opposite. He has stuck it out. Even though the Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams transferred in what did Miller Moss do stick it out? They recruited Malachi Nelson? What did he do? Stick it out? Malachi Nelson's gone over at Boise State, and we'll talk about his situation as well. So and this is a kid that did play his senior year of high school football. So he's thrown ninety two passes in games in four years. That's sticking it out and he's in a good position for it. We got in usc. Their entire season is going to be hinged upon two things. Number One, Obviously, the defense has to play better than it's played in the last couple of years, and that's gonna be important, but you have but you also have their quarterback position. And Miller Moss. Now people aren't expecting him to be Caleb Williams, but if he can come out and play efficiently and play well, now he's different than every other quarterback that Lincoln Riley has had since he's been there. He doesn't run like Kyler Murray or Jalen Hurts or Caleb Williams or Baker Mayfield. So this is going to be a test for Lincoln Riley as well as it in terms of style of play of his quarterback, as well as it's going to be a test for Miller Moss because if he can pass this test, that'll be another quarterback that he throwed that Lincoln Riley ends up in the first round into the NFL. And I'm not putting that above Miller Moss because of what Lincoln Riley has done so many times. Now, the next quarterback, this kid transferred from Texas. He was a kid that you didn't have a ton of high school experience either in Malik Murphy. But he's a kid that looks good getting off the bus. And when I say that, I mean like when he gets off the bus, You're like wow, Like that's the kid was impressive in high school. Big Strong got a chance to see him in person, and he was playing behind Quinn Ewers at Duke. I'm sorry at Texas and then he transfers to Duke, wins the starting job and Manny di as his head coach, says that his preparation, work ethic and productivity have made him QB one and you know, Murphy loved Texas. This is a kid who didn't want to leave, but that QB room is deeper than the Gulf of Mexico, and so he was like, yeah, it's time for me to get up out of here. Especially when quinn Ewers decided to come back for this season, it was probably the right move. And now he's got his own shot. Now here's the interesting part about Duke is that most people have them picked to finish, you know, out of the seventeen teams in the ACC somewhere in between like thirteen and seventeen. So if Malik Murphy plays well Manny di As, you know, his defense is going to be a pretty good you know, even if it's not where it needs to be right now. In short order, he's going to be putting out a really good defense. Now. If he can get good production out of Malik Murphy and this offense, because Duke has been a hot bed for transfers as well, then this is a team that there's no shot they win the ACC. But there's a difference in finishing in you know, fourth to seventh than it is thirteenth to fifteenth in a super deep conference like the ACC. Next up, we got Boise State. And now remember I mentioned Miller Moss over at USC. Now, the guy that was supposed to be next up out of high school. You know, some people had him the number one recruit in the nation, but he was damned sure. In everybody's top five and all the recruiting services top five is Malachi Nelson out of Los Alamito's high school. So he goes to USC. Now there are rumors that he was not as focused and everything as he needed to be there, So you hope that it changed to Boise State was going to be the thing that you know, propelled him to have an opportunity. And he was supposed to be the kid who you know, showed Lincoln Riley and showed everybody else like yo, I'm ready. They didn't believe like they needed to believe. So I'm out of here and I'm gonna prove him wrong. Well, he got beat out by Maddox Madden, a kid who split time last year. And this is and their OC has been around the block. Now. He was my former OC with the Jacksonville Jaguars for a short time. Dirk Cutter coached at Arizona State as well as their head coach coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as offensive coordinator and head coach. So this is a dude that's been around the block and seen a lot of different types of quarterbacks and they chose Maddox Madden. Now this kid does not Now he's a kid that don't look good getting off the bus, you know he's I mean, Bryce Young doesn't look good getting off the bus either, So there's no disparacement upon him upon Maddox, but it's just the reality he's under six feet tall, doesn't necessarily look the part, but he split time last year with an excellent athlete with Green that was there last year. So Boise State, who is a team that a lot of people are picking to make the College Football Playoff as the highest ranked group of five team. So it is going to come down to Maddox Madden and how he's able to play, because if he ends up having to be replaced at any point in time this year, it is going to be very tough because changing quarterbacks that means that you lost some games or there was an injury, and now that means that something was going wrong for you to have to switch quarterbacks, So that's gonna make it tough if Maddox is not the right guy for the job. Arizona State, they decided to go with Sam Levitt as their stared and starting quarterback, and this was very obvious. And you guys know, I got a chance to interview Kenny Dillingham, their officer coordinator defense coordinator here on the Unafraid Show. So make sure that you guys go back and watch that. Go to the interview section all of them in there, and you'll get a chance to see that one. Well. Sam Levitt from Michigan State was clearly brought there to start at ASU and Jaden Rashada saw that and he bounced And people can say it's for whatever reason, but that's the reason why he decided to leave. Now. Jeff Simms, he was brought in to add an athletic dimension, but the turnover bug was still biting him in fall camp. And then you had Trenton Borgay, who is a six year guy and he's been a backup the entire time, but he's ended up starting at some point in time in the last few years and he's played well. So this feels like a situation where Trenton may have actually been the better situation, but you know that you might get Levitt for more than one year. So that's gonna be one to watch at Arizona State because Arizona State has switched up quarterback so much in the last couple of years that it hasn't even really been funny. Now you got Nevada. Nevada is a kid that in Brendan Lewis that you have seen at Colorado. You saw him starting last year as well, and he was in a quarterback competition against Trooper Party, who is Brock Party's brother, who's a pretty good player, and he had transferred in and he's been out for a decent amount of time, been dealing with a shoulder injury. So Brendan wins the job there. Now, he was a kid Lewis who was a kid who looked like a bright spot for Colorado in twenty twenty one, but he's only thrown two touchdown passes in one hundred and thirty six attempts in the last two years. So is he going to be able to hold on to this job for the rest of the season after Trooper Party healthy. That's one to watch over at Nevada over at Baylor. And remember we have their head coach, Dave Randa on the pressure cooker this year. He's under the pressure cooker for coaches and he's on the hot seat for coaches, coaches because Baylor has to win this year, Like this is not one of those years where you can just show you know where you can just get by and you say, ah, this is an aberration for the coach because Baylor the last two seasons has underperformed dramatically, and now they're going with the Kwan Finn as their starting quarterback according to Dave Wilson and Adam Rittenberg yesterday. Now, this kid Finn was a three year starter at Toledo, the mations Most valuable player last year, twenty six hundred yards, twenty two touchdowns, nine interceptions. So now, and he helped his team go to an eleven and two record and the MAC Championship last year. So this is gonna be a big departure from what they got out of Blake Shapin last year, who had started twenty three games for the Bears over his three seasons, and he was an honorable mention All Big Twelve last year. But then he transferred to Mississippi State and then finn He beat out Sawyer Roberson, a Mississippi State transfer who had started four games last year at Baylor. RJ. Martinez who appeared in three games last year too, So that's one to watch over at Baylor because they got a new offensive coordinator and this is an absolute must win for Daved Randa. So this is one of those you had to choose the right quarterback because you are switching styles because last year Baylor was a pro style offense and this year they're going to the spread because they got Spavatol as their offensive coordinator who came in from cal who had previously been there as well. So we're gonna see yeah, because this is a pivotal year for Spavadol as a head coach and for Dave Randa as a well. Sbabital as a OC and David Randa as a head coach. Now, this is one from the Dion Sanders fallout from Colorado last season, and that is freshman Danny O'Neill who was committed to Colorado last year but now last second flipped when their new head coach, Sean Lewis took over. So Sean Lewis was the officer coordinator for Colorado who when they were putting up a lot of points last year, and then for some reason he got relieved of his play calling duties and then ends up as the head coach for San Diego State because he got blamed for all the sacks that Shoulder took last season, even though he ended up taking a bunch of sacks after Sean Lewis got demoted as well. And this is gonna be San Diego State's first ever true fresh and starter. And he beat out A. J. Duffy who had transferred from I believe Florida State, and you know the rest of the quarterback room who had been out there as well. The last one that we want to talk about is South Carolina. Now, after two years of Spencer Raller, the game Cocks are going with Leonora Sellers. This is a local kid who plays in his respecs. Wait till you see a picture of this kid. The kid plays in his glasses. And he beat out Robbie Ashferc, who had been you know, part of the quarterback battles at Oregon. He played a little bit at Auburn the last two seasons and We're going to figure out what's going on with Robbery Ashford because he was a hell of a baseball player too, so I wonder if we'll end up seeing him play a little bit of baseball as well, especially with him not winning the quarterback competition. Now, some of these quarterbacks are going to have impact on the games in week zero because we have four games this week in Week zero, and we are very, very excited about those games. So we have Florida State, so we have Florida State and Georgia Tech. We have Montana State and New Mexico SMU and Nevada, and we have Delaware State and Hawaii. Now, on its face, you're like, oh my god, look at these games. Be happy, be happy, we have college football. Don't you toot your nose up at any damn game around here. I'm letting you know, we are thankful. We are thankful for all of these games. Thankful. So that's the first thing. Second thing is is the biggest name games do not always equal to best games. So I'm actually looking at a game that is going to that I'm excited to see how this pans out. But we're going to go through each one. Got Florida State Georgia Tech. So this is the first game, and this game is We're in Dublin, Ireland, and you're like, wait, didn't at the Notre Dame think Well, listen, you got Florida State and Georgia Tech out there this year, and these are two teams that are not necessarily evenly matched. So you got Florida State coach by Mike Norvel, and you got Brent Key in his second year and Brient Key at Georgia Tech. This is not your father's Georgia Tech. This is not your Calvin Johnson, you know, wing team Navy style offense. No, they are regular football now and they are playing very good football. And Brent Key has been recruiting well, they just got a five star commit. And Georgia Tech's a hard school to get into, but this is a place because it's located in Atlanta. This could be one of them sleeping giants, Like they can turn this into a problem for the ACC now they have. They had a top twenty five offense last year and this year they are top ten in returning production. So this is an older team, a mature team, and top ten in returning production. This is a team that is going to give people fits this year. The same team that beat Miami last year, even though that was Miami's fault, they still came out with the victory. So with Florida State breaking in a new quarterback in Dj Uyangalle, who transferred from Oregon State by way of Clemson last year, this is DJ's last stand and he's trying to prove himself not just a good quarterback, a good college quarterback, an efficient college quarterback, but he's trying to prove himself as a great NFL prospect, like a kid who is not just you know, a good college player that anybody would be happy to have, but a legitimate NFL prospect. And that's what's on the line for Dj this year, and Mike Norvel knows it. So the question is what is Florida State's mentality coming into this season because last year that was like they were riding so high last year on the way to the College Football Playoff. Quarterback gets hurt and now all of a sudden, it's oh man, see this Florida State team, See they're not good enough. It doesn't forget the fact that that Alabama almost lost to Auburn. Forget that forget they needed a miracle there. Oh but Florida State the quarterback center not good enough, No way, no chance, even though Ohio State won with their third string quarterback, but I digress. In twenty fifteen, who cares about them? Damn details. So you got Florida State and this Georgia Tech team, especially first game the season, this is going to be scrappy. This is This game is going to be a lot scrappier than people really want to admit. Florida State is favored by eleven points in this game, and I'm gonna have to take Georgia Tech. I think Florida State's gonna win the game, but I'm taking Georgia Tech plus eleven. Here, this feels like a good spot and a good opportunity for Georgia Tech to either sneak out a win or just let everybody know this year, hey, hey, we are not played and this is a prime, prime upset spot because you have a game that is not in friendly confines, You're in a whole different country. You got to keep your team focused. It's a brand new season, You're you're breaking in a new quarterback, new leadership. Yo, this has the making and Georgia Tech is a veteran team top ten returning production. Watch this from here plus eleven for Georgia Tech or the next game up, we got Montana State, New Mexico. Montana State is favored by eleven points. Yes, and FCS team and FCS team is favored over an FBS team, and you're like, wait, hold up, no, I had to look at that multiple times. Now, Montana State is ranked number four in the FCS and has a first place vote in the FCS polls. And remember we've seen FCS teams beat FBS teams multiple times. We saw Appalachian State did it when they were FCS. Montana beat Washington a few years ago. North Dakota State has beat teams Eastern Washington has come close as well. This is not a game that you can just roll your helmets out and win. And New Mexico is coached by Bronco Menden Hall for Virginia head coach, and he's trying to build this program up. But I am going to take Montana State in this game and that eleven points, yes, absolutely, I am taking them, plus the eleven points of the next game up, we got SMU and Nevada Now one of these teams we've already talked about in Nevada, who is going to be starting Brendan Lewis at quarterback. Now him throwing you know, two touchdowns over his last one hundred and thirty six passes. That ain't good, and Nevada is not looking like what you want to see out of this team right now, even though they're coached by Jeff Chop Because Rhett lastly, former offensive coordinator with Old Miss under Lane Kiffin, this is the guy that we got to pay attention to. This is the guy that we gotta pay attention to because Ratt is going to be a hot coaching name. People name that people are excited about. People are going to be paying attention because remember SMU is no longer a group of five teams. They are paying their own way in the acc they said, let us in for free, don't even give us media money, because we have a plan the SMU. I love this because this is the same SMU that got the death penalty that essentially ruined their college football program. And now they're pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and they're betting on themselves. They're betting hundreds of millions of dollars on themselves. They're like, we're gonna be able to do it. And it starts in They're favored by twenty seven points over Nevada. Give me SMU and them twenty seven points. They are going to be out to send a message every single week. And Nevada right now, with if Trooper party were starting at quarterback, might be closer to about a twenty one point victory. But with Brendan Lewis's history and with what's going on at Nevada right now, give me SMU minus twenty seven RTT. Lastly, all right, the next game up. We're not even sure if this last game is gonna happen. And this is Delaware State versus Hawaii, and you're like, George, why would this game not happen because Delaware State they missed today's ten and a half hour flight to Honolulu after a bus snaff fu to the JFK Airport. Now, this is a big school, small school program issue because on one hand, Alabama, Oregon, the USC, SMU, they can't miss flights because it's a flight. But Delaware State, who's getting paid to play this game, they are traveling commercial. Now, I don't know how many how you get that many seats on a commercial flight, and I don't know how you rebook for that, because that's a damn that's a lot of damn seats. You got hundreds of like one hundred plus seats on a plane that they missed the Honolulu So this is something that you got to watch and monitor because, yeah, because there are traveling contingencies that are playing a factor here. And but this is college football though, because you have Delaware State playing Hawaii, they're supposed to leave on a Tuesday. Get acclimated because the issue is is that this game is going to be to start at a weird time, eight point fifty nine Pacific, so that's midnight Eastern and what two o'clock three o'clock in the morning Hawaii time. In terms of what it's gonna look like for them, think about it East Coast time, Delaware State. They're gonna be playing at two three o'clock in the morning, kick off in Hawaii. All right, make it make sense, Make it make sense. I don't like, Yeah, Hawaii is a thirty nine point favorite, but give me Hawaii. This feels absolutely like some ridiculousness about to happen. This is a setup. The body clocks are gonna be off. This is there's no way to recover. This is gonna be terry. This is gonna be a blood bath, an absolute blood bath. All right. The last thing that we have to talk about. Oklahoma State is doing something very inventive. And the question is is Oklahoma stak putting QR codes on their player's helmets. Is it genius or is it goofy? Because remember Colorado put their ig handles on the back of their jerseys and people were like, oh, I got look at Diane with the gimmicks. But in the world of nil, gimmicks can work because imagine if you're at home and your favorite player scores a touchdown and you pause the TV and you be cause you can get that QR code off the off the helmet and you're like, no, no, no, I do not want my favorite player to transfer. Here we go boom, ten bucks, touchdown, one hundred bucks, touchdown, thousand bucks, three touchdowns today. Ooh, I'm so excited. It gives the fans an immediate operation coortunity to give the players money that they can't take back later when the player fumbles. That's the thing that that's the cool part about it, And I actually do not hate this at all, because it gives fans an instant way to be able to do it, an instant way to contribute to a player if they deem it necessary or warranted. And it gives them an opportunity for them to fell the love from their school and from the people around the school around The program boosters everybody because remember them used to be bags that used to show up at people's doors, nice one hundred dollars handshakes, you know, Duffel bags, show up with money or checks or however they were doing it McDonald's bags at Tennessee. Well, now you don't have to do that. The players can literally pause, score a touchdown and be like scan the Q cold, baby, give me my money. Hey, I'm not mad at it. I know that old school fans and get off my lawn. People like, oh god, I hate it. What are we doing? Don't we all like instant rewards and instant feedback. I'm just saying all right now, but they're head coach Mike Gundy. He revealed last week that he told his players, y'all need to stop asking for money and focus on the season. Now, when the way that that was presented out in the media, I didn't like it. But as you realize the rest of his quote, I was like, Yo, this is this is amazing, this is amazing. Oh but I am going to show you the QR code. Throwver real quick. Look look at that joint. You can see it on the back of the helmet right there. Yep, QR code on the back. Hey not mad at it? Okay. But back to Mike Gundy, so he said, I told the players there's no negotiating now. Portal's over all negotiation is history and now we're playing football, just coaching and playing football. Mike Gundy's one hundred percent right. There is a time for play, and there's a time for pay. The time for pay already finished. It'll pick back up as soon as the season is over with. But there's a time for play and there's a time for pay, and it is playtime right now. So we're not talking about no nil, We're not asking for more money. I don't care if you score sixteen touchdowns in one game you break every NCAA record during the season, we are not talking about money during the season. You know when we will talk about money as soon as the season is over with. Yep, you are the best back. You're Ali Gordon. Guess what we got you, We got your bread, homie. Don't worry about it. But we're not negotiating during the season, because if we negotiate during the season and you end up getting beat out, do we need to renegotiate exactly No, because that will only cause more problems on your team. Earn your money on the field, players, don't be worrying about that during the season, because there's a time for play and a time for pay. And you, guys, this is the time for The Unafraid Show Live. Make sure that you guys like subscribe, tell a friend, and be back here tomorrow. In between twelve thirty and one o'clock we will get started. Peace out.