College Football Week '0' + Tour Championship: Early season spoilers? | The Spread Zone

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**Rizzuto** (0:29)
What's your number one pick for this week zero, Anthony?

**Anthony Stalter** (0:33)
NC State. NC State is catching...

**Tony Patrico** (0:38)
Four and a half. Four and a half, okay, thank you. And I know it because I love Virginia.

**Rizzuto** (0:45)
All right, welcome to The Spread Zone, recording Wednesday, August 26th, 2026, noon central. Man, and we've got the perfect combo. The PGA season finale and not only is Anthony Stalter back.

**Tony Patrico** (0:57)
Yeah, Tony to you.

**Rizzuto** (0:58)
College football is back. So it's the Tour Championship for 10 million and week zero.
Dublin in the morning, Vegas at night.

**Anthony Stalter** (1:08)
Rizz, can I address something with these? And again, I wasn't here last week, so I don't feel like I should be talking about that. Can we address the elephant in the room?
I sent you guys an email. You said, Rizz always does a great job putting the show together, Tim. Rizz says, hey, what are we talking about this week, gents? And I send back, I believe in all caps, so you know I'm yelling.

**Tony Patrico** (1:33)
Yeah, I sense that.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:34)
Yeah.

**Anthony Stalter** (1:35)
College football, week zero, you sons of you know what.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:39)
Yeah.

**Anthony Stalter** (1:40)
You, Rizz, respond, which is more than what McCurnan did.

**Tony Patrico** (1:44)
Right.

**Rizzuto** (1:44)
And McCurnan was no response to anything yesterday.

**Tony Patrico** (1:48)
Still getting rid of the macro, I bet.

**Anthony Stalter** (1:50)
I'm assuming golf is what you said, too.

**Rizzuto** (1:52)
Yeah.

**Anthony Stalter** (1:53)
The lack of excitement for week zero in college football was quite frankly appalling.

**Rizzuto** (1:58)
Should I have put everything in all caps when I wrote back?

**Anthony Stalter** (2:00)
I had something.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:01)
Acknowledge something.

**Tony Patrico** (2:02)
I'm a little disappointed with the week zero schedule.

**Anthony Stalter** (2:07)
What?

**Tony Patrico** (2:08)
Relative to...

**Anthony Stalter** (2:10)
What we normally get?

**Tony Patrico** (2:11)
Yes. That's the problem.

**Anthony Stalter** (2:14)
What was week zero in Dublin last year?

**Tony Patrico** (2:16)
I presume Notre Dame was over there. I think it's an Irish guy can say that.

**Anthony Stalter** (2:21)
No, I think it was... You know who it was? It was Iowa State, because we all cached.

**Tony Patrico** (2:24)
Oh, that's right.

**Anthony Stalter** (2:25)
It was Iowa State and it was somebody.

**Tony Patrico** (2:27)
K-State. Iowa State, K-State.

**Anthony Stalter** (2:28)
There we go.

**Tony Patrico** (2:29)
I feel like Brian Kelly was beginning his campaign in a good way against Clemson. It's a little slow this week zero. We'll get some good ones.

**Rizzuto** (2:37)
We start in Dublin. We end in Vegas.

**Tony Patrico** (2:39)
Yeah. That's not bad. Hey, he's a college football guy. I am thrilled. And there is a game that I do like on this week.
That is right. That's teasing.

**Rizzuto** (2:47)
We will get to week zero, but we'll start with the tour championship.

**Tony Patrico** (2:51)
Yeah. And now you're a golf guy.

**Rizzuto** (2:53)
And now I'm a golf guy.

**Tony Patrico** (2:54)
You're making money. You went. You got a free libation.

**Rizzuto** (2:58)
Went to the BMW championship last Sunday, cashed out on Morkawa top five. Nice.

**Tony Patrico** (3:05)
That was a nice play. That was a nice little play there.

**Rizzuto** (3:08)
Got to Bell Reef Country Club at around 2.30, just as the final groups were rolling through.

**Tony Patrico** (3:14)
Scottie Schaeffler is walking up the course to meet you. First guy I saw.

**Anthony Stalter** (3:16)
With an eagle club at 17, no less.

**Rizzuto** (3:19)
Yeah, that's what I saw. Got a free drink at the bar because they made a wrong drink. Saw him there two-fisting at the tee box at 17, probably on TV, in a collared shirt.

**Anthony Stalter** (3:29)
Which is rare for you.

**Rizzuto** (3:30)
I don't know.
The only collared shirt I had was from a costume where I played the skipper from Gilligan's Island. Halloween party. I go, this will do.