CFB Week 1 Chaos With Andy Staples, Western Michigan HC Lance Taylor, Who's Back Of The Week + Max Is Back From His Honeymoon With Gifts

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Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Tuesday, September 8th, and football is back, and so is Max. The rare Tuesday Pardon My Take PFT. We do have a show tomorrow and Friday as well, but football is back, PFT. We had what, going into it, a week one that everyone was like, oh, there's not a lot of marquee games. And then we had Chaos. And the last time we recorded, we recorded on Thursday afternoon, the Chaos began right away with Umass beating Rutgers. And Greg Sciano might be on his last leg.

Perry Mattfeld (3:26)

That's a sad day for the birthplace of college football, might be the death place of college football.

That was just a shit pumping. Sad, sad scenes in Piscataway.

Dan Katz (3:36)

It was, yeah, it wasn't just a situation where it's like, oh, plucky underdogs wins with a walk-off field goal or something crazy happens. No, it was Umass just kicking the shit out of Rutgers. They, I think I saw the stat.

They were 0-12 last season, did not score 21 plus on any FBS opponent. They scored 24 on the first four drives against Rutgers on Thursday night. They also are now the second biggest paycheck that a team has had to give to an opponent in a loss.

$1.55 million Rutgers paid Umass for Umass to come into Piscataway and win the football game. Only second to Auburn paying New Mexico State in 2023 and losing 31-10.

Perry Mattfeld (4:26)

That's crazy. Jackie Aprile is going to have a big purse to collect at the next benefit conference.

Hank Lockwood (4:31)

Yes, that's going to be nuts. Yes.

Perry Mattfeld (4:32)

Oh yeah, that was a tough day for Rutgers. I have no doubt that as a Chiano man, you always bounce back from that sort of thing.

Dan Katz (4:39)

Chop wood.

Perry Mattfeld (4:40)

Chop wood.

Dan Katz (4:40)

You just got to chop harder.

Perry Mattfeld (4:41)

I think you got to chop harder. I don't think that they're chopping hard enough. But then we go from that to the bookend of the weekend. Florida State's playing right now as we're recording this show against SMU. They just kicked off. There's no clock in the stadium.