A Numbers Game | July 24, 2026 | Hour 1

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_1** (1:01)
This is VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Jensen Lewis** (1:09)
The numbers told the story, they always do.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:11)
So, I'm those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (1:18)
Good Friday morning to you, this is a numbers game at VSiN, the SportsBetting Network, vsin.com game, plus iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, SiriusXM channel 158 So many options. We just require that you pick one. We don't require it. We're grateful that you do. It's Gill Alexander in San Francisco, Kelley Bydlon back in Las Vegas. What up?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:38)
Hey, yo, good morning. How we doing?

**Gill Alexander** (1:40)
I'm doing pretty good, man.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:41)
Doing all right.

**Gill Alexander** (1:42)
You know?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:43)
Yeah.

**Gill Alexander** (1:44)
We got some tennis going on this morning. As always, sweating through that.
On the show today, Jensen Lewis kind enough to hang out. Man does buy the books for three hours every morning. And then we have the audacity to ask him to hang around for another 15 minutes and join us. That's right. But he's kind enough to join us. So we look forward to his plays in baseball today. Maybe some trade deadline thoughts. Chris Felica, College Football Futures. Let's go. His bread and butter, besides horse racing, of course, will talk college football with the bear, as he is known. We've done NFC divisions all week. Kelly, why stop now? Let's wrap it up with the NFC West, largely considered the best division in football, I guess, except for the Cardinals. So maybe not.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:28)
Yeah, well, that's where I think you got to go. NFC West or NFC North, right? Like do you go the top to bottom NFC North or NFC West top heavy?

**Gill Alexander** (2:36)
Yeah. Three great teams or two great ones, one very good one. And then the Cardinals will get into all that. Tyler Shoemaker, both College Football Futures and WNBA Futures. Looking forward to that because those are his two bread and butter sports. With the T shoe index, we will talk to him about that. And then a little later on, Chris Gordy is going to join us breaking down the SEC. Looking forward to this because we just had SEC media day, not sure if anything developed out of that. But the SEC is a pretty interesting discussion because you have a situation where you go into nine conference games this year, Kelley.
And so, you will most likely, right? You will most likely end up with a situation where, you know, they're all playing each other one more time than they have in the past. And, you know, if you look at projections, like Bill Connolly, our buddy Bill Connolly, who's like the Aaron Schatz of college football with SP Plus. Matter of fact, his background is at football outsiders with Aaron before he broke off the ESPN and started doing SP Plus. He did SP Plus before he got to ESPN. But his projected win total, his highest projected win total in the SEC is like, I think, 9.8 wins. So what I'm getting to is this will be a question I'll ask of Chris Gordy later is adding the extra conference game.
Sure, maybe Georgia exceeds that, right?
Maybe even another, maybe a Texas does, but maybe not. What happens, I guess, when the committee has to evaluate all these SEC teams? Will it? Sure, they'll get to a lot of bowl games, but what will it impact one or two or three of them when it comes to the actual playoffs themselves?

**Jensen Lewis** (4:21)
Yeah, I'm also interested.

**Kelley Bydlon** (4:22)
Yeah, very interesting. I'm also kind of obsessed with the Arch Manning conversation at this point, Gill. I mean, I feel like I've heard in this off season that like Arch Manning is still live to go like first overall in next year's draft and that he's also could be out of the first round. So I'm really interested to see how that develops this season.