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Diesel (0:00)

Tolos, if you haven't sent us your upset pick yet, what are you waiting for? 844-326-3663. It's a Friday edition of Wire 2 Wire here with Diesel and Cole Bryson. Accepting your upset picks all the way until 7 o'clock, text them in, we need your name, your game, and the spread, Cole, we got some- Kolo. Yeah, you're the Kolo in charge.

Cole Bryson (0:27)

Cole Bryson, Kolo. You just created that accidentally.

Diesel (0:30)

That's great, great job, Kolo. Hey, you know, I accidentally named one of Twisted Todd, a guy who used to work here on 93.3, The Planet, I accidentally named one of his bands once, kind of in the same way. You know, we're talking about rock and roll, and he's like, what band was it that did this or did that? And I said, I think it was Jethro Tull, but I bit my lip while I was saying it, it came out as Deathro Tull, and we're like, dang, that's a cool name for a band.

And it became Todd's band name.

Cole Bryson (0:59)

There's my new name, Kolo.

Diesel (1:01)

Kolo.

Cole Bryson (1:02)

I like it, that's cool, that's good. By the way, this Upset Picks thing, man, it's got me in a little bit of a tailspin. You know, Delvin convinced me to take...

Diesel (1:11)

Uh-oh, USC.

Cole Bryson (1:12)

USC over Indiana. Well, we heard all week that Josh Hoover was gonna be out, like that's what the experts said, now they're saying, oh, he's fine.

Oh, boy.

Diesel (1:21)

Yeah.

Cole Bryson (1:22)

So it's like, well, what are you...

He, the availability report, he looked available. So I don't know that his status has been, like, completely decided on, but, you know, Josh Hoover not playing is kind of the reason I took USC over Indiana, and I mean, Kurt Signetti hasn't really, like, said one way or another, and if he... I mean, he wasn't on the injury report yesterday, so that's... I mean, what are we doing here? So I've got an al hope that USC can beat Josh Hoover and Indiana.

Diesel (1:49)

Well, you know, all these coaches now, they're playing with the availability report. Shane Beamer earlier this week wouldn't answer any questions. Oh, just go look at the availability report.

Cole Bryson (1:59)

It's going to come out tomorrow.

Diesel (2:00)

It's like, come on, man, what are we doing here? Why does anybody bother showing up for press conferences anymore if you're not actually going to answer questions?

Cole Bryson (2:07)

Just send an email. I know.

Diesel (2:09)

Yeah, could have been an email.

Cole Bryson (2:11)

No more weekly press conferences. They're now just emails because the coaches are pissed, like Beamer. Hey, easy, Mongo, easy, easy, easy.

Diesel (2:18)

You can't be too hard on him. Gotta take it easy, toss the softballs.

I thought Shane Beamer was a football coach, not a softball coach.

Cole Bryson (2:27)

I know, I know. But hey, nonetheless, go Trojans this weekend. Go Trojans.

Diesel (2:32)

We'll see. Cole, how about this? With Clemson taking on Georgia Tech, that is a limited program and limited team in a lot of ways this year. We've talked about how they fired four different coaches and they've been in a free fall this year.

Are they in a bigger pickle? Is there more threat level for Clemson facing Georgia Tech than there is for South Carolina facing Arkansas? Now, remember, this is relative to the teams that they're facing. South Carolina is a better football team than Clemson. Arkansas is a better football team than Georgia Tech. If Arkansas and Georgia Tech played on a neutral field, Cole, we'd probably take Arkansas seven out of those 10 games.

Cole Bryson (3:15)

No, I'd say the threat level is definitely higher for the Gamecocks.

Diesel (3:19)

Really?

Cole Bryson (3:20)

Yeah. Yeah, look, that's weird though, because like you said, they're a better team, so it does sound weird. Listen, Georgia Tech is so bad. I took a deep dive yesterday on the show, on their defense.

Diesel, their defense is like last in FBS, which is not good. Like it's...

Diesel (3:37)

Last.

Cole Bryson (3:38)

Oh, it's near the bottom. And you said it, they fired like four people.

DeAndre Hopkins is now coaching receivers. And I'm telling you, man, I even had the conversation while you were out yesterday about maybe Brent Key already being on the hot seat conversation.

Diesel (3:56)

We like Brent Key, though.

Cole Bryson (3:57)

We do. We do. We've talked so many times on this show.

Diesel (4:00)

Snazzy Dresser.

Cole Bryson (4:01)

But Diesel, they're bad. They're really bad defensively. There is no way you can convince me that Clemson's on any threat of an upset this week. I think the Tigers probably look really good against that bad defense.