HOUR | Transcript: Wire2Wire Hour 1 (Wed 11/4/26)Announcer: It's alive! Live from the Upstate of South Carolina. From the fields to the courts, and the gridiron to the tracks. Electrifying sports talk from start to finish. You're going Wire to Wire with

SPEAKER_1 (0:30)

All the action from Johnson-Hagood Stadium, beginning with a Pepsi countdown to kick off at 12:30 p.m., kick at 2 o'clock, Furman and the Citadel in Charleston, and you'll catch all the action live via The Fan Upstate.

SPEAKER_2 (0:47)

WFPC HD3 Greenville, W249 EL Greenville, W246 CD Spartanburg, W240 EL Anderson. And Odyssey Sports Station.

SPEAKER_3 (0:58)

You ready?

Cole Bryson (0:59)

Let's go.

SPEAKER_2 (1:06)

From the fields to the court and the gridiron to the tracks.

SPEAKER_5 (1:10)

Electrifying sports talk from start to finish.

SPEAKER_2 (1:13)

You're going wire to wire with Diesel and Cole Bryson. on The Fan Upstate. Let this be said, The gauntlet has been thrown down.

SPEAKER_3 (1:24)

Ring the bell, we are off to the races.

Cole Bryson (1:27)

The Upset Picks Challenge, it is open.

SPEAKER_3 (1:30)

The most exciting challenge on this station.

Cole Bryson (1:33)

No prizes, no trophies. I do this for pride.

SPEAKER_3 (1:36)

Every single week, every single college football season. Who will upset this weekend? That is your challenge.

Cole Bryson (1:43)

We need your name, the game and the spread.

SPEAKER_2 (1:46)

My husband got me into this challenge. My son is in it, too.

Cole Bryson (1:50)

My pick, I'll take Arizona State over A&M.

SPEAKER_1 (1:52)

Give me the Tigers to get the Upset, plus 13 and a half. It's not fair.

SPEAKER_6 (1:55)

I try and I try and my picks never hit. It just got too hard.

Cole Bryson (1:58)

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.

SPEAKER_1 (2:00)

Oh, but when you get one right.

SPEAKER_5 (2:04)

We are back, baby. We are back.

Cole Bryson (2:05)

Yeah, baby.

SPEAKER_3 (2:08)

The text line, I mean, it's buzzing.

SPEAKER_5 (2:10)

We are back.

SPEAKER_6 (2:12)

We are back.

SPEAKER_1 (2:14)

It's hard.

Cole Bryson (2:14)

It makes it great.

SPEAKER_1 (2:15)

We're fired up.

Cole Bryson (2:16)

We're jacked up. Ready to go.

SPEAKER_3 (2:18)

Who do you think gets the outright upset?

Cole Bryson (2:21)

You're looking for an underdog to outright win the game.

SPEAKER_6 (2:24)

So who's it going to be?

Cole Bryson (2:28)

The Upset Picks Challenge. It is open. It is underway. The most popular yet difficult challenge in the up. It's open. We need your name, game and spread at 844-326-3663.

We are live at Ingles Markets, South Carolina Highway 9 It's the newer of the two on Highway 9, the one closest to Lake Bowen. And joining us live in person, Diesel is Melissa Leavell, Marketing Director of Ingles Markets. And over the weekend, when we saw the news come down, I thought, we can't wait to talk to Melissa.

SPEAKER_3 (3:02)

Nothing to talk about today, Melissa.

Melissa Leavell (3:05)

Don't ever tell you that Florida State doesn't get people to graduate that doesn't pay well. OK, because they left with $41 million.

SPEAKER_3 (3:14)

How much of that money did you put in, Melissa?

Melissa Leavell (3:16)

Oh, my goodness.

SPEAKER_1 (3:17)

All of it.

Melissa Leavell (3:18)

But I mean, a lot of us did it. OK, that was a part of our boosters and alumni association and everything like that. But I'm going to tell you, defensive coach got fired, safety's coach got fired, all of it. So we'll see what happens.

Cole Bryson (3:32)

What was your immediate reaction when you saw the news? What were you doing? Were you at a game or?

Melissa Leavell (3:36)

No, I didn't go to the game.

I was listening and I, but I mean, it was on Sunday and I went, the first one was darn. I wish it could have been different, right? Yeah, no, that's a good reaction. OK. And then I was thinking, well, you know, the Furman job is open.

SPEAKER_5 (3:54)

That's pretty good, that's pretty good.

Melissa Leavell (3:57)

He might be able to go to work for them.

Cole Bryson (3:58)

Melissa, why did Melissa Leavell's plane fly Mike Norvell into Green Hill? Do we know why?

Mike, can you come to Furman? That would be great.

Melissa Leavell (4:08)

He could do it for free, because he's already got $41 million. I'm crying out loud.

SPEAKER_3 (4:13)

Have you thrown your name into the hat to be head coach? Because now everybody's doing it, right? Jimbo's, it's like the popular name, Brian Kelly. And by the way, Cole said that this was the most popular and most difficult challenge in the Upstate. I thought that was dodging potholes in I-85. Well, that too.

Melissa Leavell (4:28)

A lot of people do that one every day. That's pretty bad.

Well, I don't, you know, I think that a lot of people are saying, like, for example, we heard the coach from A4us. He was interested in Duke. And he came out and did a news conference. I'm not interested.