Eye on the U: Miami Hurricanes open with Stanford rout. FAMU is next

What's up everybody, welcome back to another episode of Eye on the U, I'm your host Andre Fernandez, joined by my partner in crime Jordan McPherson, the UM beat writer who was there on site in Palo Alto, California, witnessed the start of a dominant, potentially dominant hurricane season, started with a dominant victory of course, with not one, but two players pretty much stamping their candidacy, starting to solidify their candidacy for the Heisman Trophy, and that would be Malachi Toney, and that would be Darian Mensah, because Malachi was posing a few times after each touchdown, but Darian Mensah has been the talk of the country, not just the ACC, but a lot of people thinking he's the front runner early on for the Heisman Trophy, we're going to dive into all of that, and most importantly the Dub, 45-6 over Stanford for Miami, a good start to their season, a good start in conference play, we're going to talk about other areas of the team that stood out, some areas that still need some work as we go forward into the season, and some unfortunate news as OJ Frederique looks like he will be gone for quite a little bit, got hurt on the second play of the game, the injury doesn't sound very good from what Coach Mario Cristobal has said about it, sounds like they're going to be without him, which already depletes, which depletes an already depleted cornerback room as far as that goes, and we'll look ahead to Florida A&M, Thursday night, the home opener, should be a decent crowd, I would think, even though it is Florida A&M, because the home opener, what's expected in that game on a short week for Miami, and we'll see if they've paid the electric bill in Miami, because, you know, all kidding aside. Got to make sure the clocks are synced too, Andre. Yeah, got to make sure, oh my god, yeah, they're going to get me started on the directional Michigan chip that happened at Ann Arbor, but... Don't worry, I'll wait until later in the show for that. Yeah, we'll get into that, and then some, and then the fiasco at Tallahassee before what ended up being a pretty good game after all of that, but let's start with the very good result, if you're a Hurricanes fan, of being able to go out to Palo Alto, take care of business, beat Stanford, and now Miami's 1-0 in both overall and conference record, holding steady at number seven, not a surprise as far as the rankings go, the top six took care of business, we did not see an LSU team leapfrog them, but got pretty close, they're right there, right behind Miami now, but anyway, the game itself, Jordan, you were out there, you got to see it up close, what people saw on TV, anything, just seeing it up close that impressed you even more? Yeah, well, I mean, which campaign are we going to start first, the Darien Heisman campaign or the Malik Heisman campaign? I mean, it's a flip of a coin right now, like you were saying at the top of the show, Darien Mensah, 27 of 30, 401 yards, five touchdowns, no interceptions, he's just the sixth quarterback in college football since the turn of the century to complete at least 90% of his passes, throw 400 yards and have five touchdowns in the game, absolutely unreal, and the majority of that went to Malachi Toney, 12 catches, a school record 234 receiving yards, and three touchdowns, absolutely electric, you saw the chemistry right away, the first play was 40-some-yard bomb out to Toney, first drive was pass to Toney, quick run, short pass to Toney, fade into the end zone, touchdown for Toney, the chemistry there, I knew the two of them when they began to sync up were going to be electric and potentially unbeatable, I did not think they were going to do something like this, this early in the season, it's just to see how quickly they developed everything, since Mensah got here in January, is incredible, and then the best part about that is it opens everybody else up, yes, Malachi Toney got his 230, but Mentos cleaved past the seven other guys, Cooper Barcate still had a great game, had I think it was three catches, four catches, 67 yards and a touchdown, and almost had another big catch on a deep ball in the third down the second quarter that just missed by a hair, that would have been another big game, Josh Moore and Galen Upshaw, who are basically the 3A and 3B behind Toney and Barcate, they each had three catches, they combined for 66 yards, and Galen Upshaw had another touchdown, the tight ends got involved, Elijah Loftin and Gavin Mueller both got catches, you just saw how he was able to spread the ball around, and Gary Mentos said it best, when it comes to how the defense had to defend the receivers, like, if you're going to defend Malachi Toney one-on-one, good luck, and if you're going to double him up, well, good luck defending everything else that's there, that's something we talked about all camp, and we saw it on full display. Yeah, it was on full display, the passing game, A+, I mean, it looked amazing, like you said, it was able to spread it around, you know, the pass protection was there, the running game, I know some people have said, oh, because they didn't look as dominant, I mean, I think as long as the offensive line continues to gel, and that's the important thing, you know, we'll see as time progresses, how that plays out and all of that, this week is another chance against a team that they should be able to get a foothold and pretty much dominate, so that's the only thing that maybe could cause a concern, if down the road you see them struggle a bit, but a game like this, where the passing game works so well, it just didn't have enough reps for the running game, I think they'll be fine eventually. Yeah, and I'll also say that, again, Stanford's stacking box, they had 7-8 guys in the box regularly, so I mean, they were purposely trying to eliminate the run game, which just set up for the pass game to do what it did, and that's the thing with this U.M. offense, you're going to have to pick your poison, you're either going to try to stop the run and pray that you can handle the defense, the receivers one-on-one, or you're going to go and try to do as much as you can in terms of your pass coverage, and hope that you can stop the run with 5, maybe 6 guys, again, it's going to be a very big give or take, and whichever one they try to eliminate, U.M. has shown they have the guys on either option to handle it. I mean, the run game, yes, they only got about 4 yards of rush, it was 32 carries, 121 yards, I will say, props to JV and Mallory in the 4th quarter, by the time the 2nd unit was in there, Mallory had 3 runs and ripped off 31 yards, so he actually made the stat line look a lot better than it was overall, but they got a lot of gritty yards, muddy yards, as Shannon Dawson described it, and operation-wise, they felt fine, but again, it was just a numbers game. They have 5 offensive linemen, 6 if you throw a tight end in there, and when you're going up against 7 or 8 guys, it's just the math doesn't math. But that's the one thing, if they're able to keep passing the way they are, eventually that's going to open something up for the run game, and they're just too talented back there for them not to succeed. I mean, we know what Mark Fletcher can do, we know what Marty Brown can do in the short yard situations, JV and Mallory impressed me in Week 1, and we know Gerard Pringle, if he gets into space, he's going to make a play. So it's just a matter of just getting everything to come together, and again, it's one game, and we'll see how things progress from there. And collectively, they still ran for 121. Some people are acting like they got limited, only because Mark Fletcher had 40 yards. Collectively, they had 121. That's not bad. I mean, the problem is they've set such a high bar last year that maybe people are a little spoiled by it, and that's fine. But there will be other games where the strategy may be different, and they'll have to hit the ground game a lot harder than they did this game. So that's why I'm not that worried. Like I said, as long as that offensive line continues to get the reps together, stays healthy, continues to gel, all those good things, they should be fine. The defensive side, look, they didn't allow a touchdown. Held them to two field goals, bottom line, did their job in terms of that. Could they have generated a little more pressure on the quarterback? That's what people... But again, I think it's a high bar that was set last year that we're still seeing some of these pieces kind of fit together. Overall, what did you think about the defensive front? Yeah, I agree. And again, on my initial glance, the pressure was the main thing. I mean, they only generated seven quarterback pressures in the game. Last year, the fewest they had in the game was 12, and they consistently had 20 plus. So that's something that needs to... They need to figure that out. And again, they will in time. But something that also that I didn't think about until Corey Hathorman brought it up when we talked to him on Monday, the defense coordinator, that they forced five holding calls by the Stanford offensive line, which, again, it may not be a pressure in the stat sheet, but a hold, which basically brought them back 10 yards, essentially did the exact same thing. So from that standpoint, they were okay with it, or at least the coaches were. Talked to a few players on Tuesday, and Marquis Lightfoot, one of the main guys who's taking over in those edge roles with Reuben Bayne, Nakeem Ezdorgan, his exact words were, we did our job, but there's a lot of meat left on the bones. There's a lot more to get to where we want to be. Week one was a start, but in no way, shape, or form can that be how we are week in and week out. They have to find a way to keep getting more, and they're probably going to need to a little bit more, especially now, since we're going to talk about in a minute, just about where they're going to be in terms of their past defense with a couple injuries out there in the secondary. Yeah, O.J. Frederick, unfortunately, hurt again. Jabari Antoine already out. How does this team compensate? And here's a game, obviously, that even though it's on a short week, a chance to kind of see how they mix and match with it a little bit, even though, yeah, considerably an inferior opponent, you would think, but how they fit the pieces to kind of shore up that part of the secondary. What do you think, Jordan? Yeah, well, the main two guys were still healthy as of right now. You got Xavier Lucas, Jabari Brown, and Ethan O'Connor. They were the other three guys in addition to O.J. Frederick, who was part of that rotation last year. When O.J. went down two plays in to the game against Stanford, which it looked like it was a shoulder injury just after his open field tackle on that play, but didn't get specifics on what the injury is, but it looked like something to do with his shoulder. But with that group, Jabari Brown played the majority of the reps. He played, I think, 55 of the 61 snaps that the first-team defense was out there for. Xavier Lucas played about 30-some and then didn't really play the majority of the second half. I'm not sure if that was just because of by the time they started running the score, they started getting rotating more guys in. And Ethan O'Connor played about 25 or 26 snaps. So they're going to be your main three that you're hoping to build around while O.J. Frederick and Jabari Antoine are out. And then from beyond there, it's going to be a lot of their younger guys. Ryan Mack is a guy who we don't really talk about much, been injured the last couple years, who got some reps later in the game. Camden Portis, a true freshman, is going to have a chance to get some playing time. J.J. Dunnegan, who we've primarily talked about in a safety nickel role, they feel confident playing him on the outside as a true freshman if they need to. They played him 30-some snaps and he played just about everywhere. He played about 9 or 10 snaps in the box as a pseudo linebacker. He played a bit in nickel. He played a bit in safety. He played a couple snaps at outside corner. They utilized his versatility a lot late in the Stanford game. We're probably going to see a little bit more of that against FAMU. But they have three guys they definitely trust, and they have probably three or four more that over these next three weeks, they're really going to have to try to rotate them in hard to sort of have a better understanding of what they have beyond their primary top guys as they move forward. Yeah, depth is going to be tested, but these are quality guys that they have back there. So, you know, it's something in a way it's good. They start getting these reps, like I said, this week against Florida A&M and get ready for the road trip against Wake after that. Speaking of the Rattlers, didn't go too well for them in the Orange Blossom Classic last week. They come down to Miami and are playing Thursday night as you're listening and watching this podcast. Eight o'clock start on the ACC network. This Florida A&M team, and granted against another FCS team, gave up over 200 yards on the ground. So here we are talking about running game, Miami. The antidote right there. I think if you I mean, if you want to call it an antidote, I don't think it was that bad like we just spoke about. But if you want to see big rushing yards, the opportunity very likely could be there this week, albeit against Florida A&M. Yeah, definitely. And also, family, we're going to talk about Miami being on a short weekend a little bit. But damn, you don't even shorter. Yeah. And you played Sunday and they're turning on Thursday. They say, yes. OK. Yeah. They stayed in Miami. Yeah. Yeah. They stayed and the band stayed. So we're going to get to see both their band and the U.N. band at halftime on Thursday, which you know that that will be a treat in and of itself. But yeah, fam, you stay down. And they lost again. It was thirty one thirteen against South Carolina State, who is one of the top teams of the FCS. I think they were number 19 or 20 of the FCS going into that week. But still to give up, I think it was 260 to some 200. Yeah, it was in the high 200s and rushing yards against them. And then to know you only have really two days, give or take the prep to go going into a game against the number 17, number 17 nationally in the FBS. It's going to be tough sliding for them, for fam, you no doubt. And again, they know what they're getting into. They know what what's coming at the end. They know the check. That's going to help them out in the long run again. But again, but the hurricanes aren't going to overlook that. They know that when you step on the field, game to game, the opponent, whoever the opponent is, they know what they have to do. They know the work they have to put in. And they know ultimately beyond just getting win, they want to be able to get to the score that they need to get to at halftime so that they can get the reps for the guys in like they were able to last weekend, Stanford, this first month, these Stanford, this weekend's fam, you and in two weeks in central Michigan, those are your three real games to really get a lot of freshmen get a lot of underclassmen in before without without the potential that compromising again, and for you to get an understanding of who you can trust in situations when you truly need them. Because you know that Mario Crystal, he likes to use and the benefit of the new eligibility format where it's no redshirting, no matter what you get five years, they can play guys as much as they want. And no, you're not losing the year of eligibility. So they get the time to really test and tinker early and know that they can still use the guys late and not have to worry about the eligibility factor that comes with it. Yeah. On that note, it was 13 freshmen, I believe that played against Stanford, 13 on offense and defense, or some more guys who play on special teams, but getting getting reps, offense, defense, it was 13 guys. Besides JV Mallory, I know you mentioned him earlier, anybody else that jumped out at you in that in that little bit of time, a few reps that they got in there. Yeah, I was impressed with Jackson Cantwell. I mean, he didn't start, which we thought he might have right guard, they went with their more experienced group, they went with Sam Snoken, a little left tackle, SJ LFI, Tullis at left guard, Ryan Rodriguez center, Max Buchanan, right guard and Matt McCoy, right tackle. But by the third drive, they had Jackson Cantwell rotating in. He played, he played right guard for about 37, 38 snaps. And when he was in, they moved Max Buchanan over to left guard and took out SJ. But I mean, for a first game, he held his own. He had a great block. He helped seal the edge for Marty Brown's five-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. And again, were there some mistakes? Yes. But it's also game one for a freshman who they're expecting a lot out of. So the fact that he got as much playing time with while the starters were in was the positive side I'm taking away from that. I'm excited to see what he's able to do moving forward. And then defensively, JJ Dunne again. I mean, he only had one tackle, but he was around the ball. He hit basically every one of his assignments and seemed to know where he needed to be. And that to me was, for game one, that was really all I wanted to see. As long as there were no egregious miscues or anything like that, I'm good with it. I was good with it. And Dunnegan impressed in that regard. Yeah. Always good when the freshman can hit the ground running and don't look lost out there on the first snap. And JJ Dunnegan definitely did that. Short week for both this game. Like you said, FAMU has been collecting checks for 46 years now, off and on coming down to Miami. The Hurricanes, they lead this all-time series, Jordan, 11-1. That one was way back in 1979 when FAMU beat Miami back in Tallahassee. The Hurricanes never went back up there. They've won 11 in a row since every game by at least 32 points or more. So I think we can kind of expect more of the same in this game. Amazingly, that was Howard Schnellenberger's first season in Miami. Remarkably, they did not fire him over that. And four years later, a dynasty was born in 1983. So score one for being patient. And it kind of reminds me how people wanted to kick Mario out a few years ago after they lost to Middle Tennessee. And here we are. Four years later. So time is a circle, Andre. But like you said, also the whole winning by 32 or more, the line for this game, according to FanDuel, is 56 and a half for what it's worth. For those of you who like to be degenerate or whatever with these type of occasions. Aren't these the games they used to just say no line because it was so absurd to put a line on it? Yes. I'm pretty sure the Bethune game last week had no line. Yeah. And it shouldn't have had. It shouldn't. No, agree. Yeah. I mean, UCF almost scored 80 on them. Yeah. Probably could have if they hadn't slowed down. Yeah. So well, in all seriousness, this game will be one of those that, like you said, Miami has a chance to play a lot of their players, you know, coming off a short week after they recover from the long trip cross country. And we want to kind of, you know, after that, talk a little bit about what happened elsewhere around the country and look at games of the week coming up, too. But one thing we know for sure is I think all the light bulbs are going to work at Heart Rock Stadium on Thursday night. I'm pretty sure. I hope so. I mean, I mean, I mean, again, we want the hurricane to be lights out, but on the field, not on the field, not the field itself. Yeah. Because what happened Monday night was I mean, we were there sitting there texting, wondering, are they going to actually try to move this game to the next day? We're talking, of course, about if you if you missed it, SMU and FSU starting nearly two hours after a scheduled time because the lights went out at Doak Campbell, especially on one side of the field, leaving things to go old school, Jordan back to hand signals. People, you know, God forbid you have to run to the sideline to hear your coach and run back to the huddle doing stuff like that. But you know what? To their credit, both teams handled it pretty well and ended up it ended up a pretty good game game. Yeah, it was definitely a good it was a good game. I mean, FSU held them FSU kept it close the entire time. And I mean, SMU gave them some favors to help with that with four turnovers. But again, it was a really good game and intriguing first first ACC game for both sides. I mean, I will say the one thing, Kevin Jennings, when he's on and we saw that last year when Miami went out there, when he's on, he's legit. But he still makes so many boneheaded plays that can cost his team. And they almost cost them on Monday against Florida State. Florida State probably need to win that game. Again, we talked about it last week, just about just the state of where FSU is and knowing the schedule ahead. But FSU put up a really valiant effort there. Their run game really impressed me. Their run game really impressed me. And if Ashton Daniels was able to get going, especially with the receiving core he has, that offense could could surprise some teams. It could, but you you're being you're being nice to say that SMU almost gave this game away. I mean, I can't think of any other creative way that they that they tried. I mean, they had like eight different screw ups in this game and still won. To me, even if you're the most optimistic person in Tallahassee right now, you're scratching your head at how FSU did not take this game. A game that they absolutely needed because it was right there. There were so many ways it was gift wrapped for them to take this game and still didn't. So I don't know. I think they blew a big chance. And what's coming next is Alabama on the road for them. So I don't know. I really don't see. It's kind of what we talked about. The hot seats going to get hotter now up there. But yeah, when it comes to the Mustangs, I think it's definitely a team that will be in the fight for the ACC. But that inconsistency worries me for them because let's get into it right here. Let's just segue to the games of the week this week. Jordan always does a good job giving you a viewing guide to games that may interest Hurricanes fans just to keep an eye on what's going on with teams in the conference and teams overall in the country. Louisville against Villanova on Friday night is the first one we have on our list. Seven o'clock on the ACC network. Louisville looked like a team that could contend for the ACC title, even in defeat against an explosive Ole Miss team that is deep on offense. Granted, it was a shootout, but twice Louisville could have keeled over and lost that game by 14 or 21 and kept coming back, kept coming back. And their quarterback, I know you've been wanting to talk about him. He looked good. Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah. Lincoln kind of holds. He's just, he was absolutely electric. I mean, this final line, he had 307 passing yards, two passing touchdowns, a rushing touchdown. They lost 41 38, but he reminded me so much of what Haynes King did for Georgia Tech the last few years. Just he's able to make the passing plays. He's aggressive. He's physical with, with running the ball. He knows when he has to sacrifice his body to get the extra play, get the extra yards. That game was one of my favorites to watch last week, just in terms of just the back and forth match, the back and forthness of it. And he's going to be able to, he's probably going to will Louisville to a couple of games, to a couple of big wins. He's going to find a way to do it again this week. Villanova, the opponent was irrelevant. I just wanted to single this single them out. Yeah. Louisville, just because especially of where the conference hands, I mean, we saw SMU and all that. We saw Clemson LSU wolf just absolutely bluff with Clemson. So we're at the point where after Miami Louisville's looking like the number two right now, it's early. Obviously it's early. We still have, we still have what? 12 more games, 11 more games to go for everybody. But as of right now, I mean, Miami's one Louisville and SMU were the two, three, but even then I still think there is a gap now between Louisville to an SMU at three. And this is just giving this, putting this game on here was mainly just to let Cain's fans know if you want to get a preview of what might be to come down the road. Cause remember Miami doesn't play Louisville or SMU or Virginia for that matter. The other ranked as ACC team. They don't play any of those three in the regular season. So if you want a glimpse of what might come down the road in Charlotte, should Miami handle its business? You're going to have to watch from the outside before you get to see them in December. Now we're getting a little ahead of ourselves, but speaking of that, and we'll talk more about this game next in our next episode next week, but SMU at Louisville circle back on the calendar, September 19th, that's a telling one, but I'm with you. I think right now Louisville impressed me much more than SMU did. Um, granted who knows, maybe the old school 1980s, uh, first half, maybe threw them off or something, but that'll be a telling game, no doubt about it. And that at Louisville in a couple of weeks, Missouri and Kansas mystery at number 23, Jordan eight o'clock on Fox. Yeah. Just if they're the only, they're one of the other ranked teams playing just again, it's a Friday night. There's only so many games out there, but because of Miami playing Thursday, you guys get two days of being able to watch the rest of the college football world out there. Figure I'll give you a couple options. There you go. All right. And then we go to Saturday. Here we go. Now I can talk about it. Number 11, Oklahoma going in there to face Michigan, which is very Andre. Wait, yes. There's one second on the clock. Go in all seriousness. You robbed Western Michigan of a program signature moment that they could have looked at for decades and to hang their hats on. And I think Michigan will get exposed eventually. Cause this, this, this team is not that good after what, after what happened the other night and Oklahoma may be the one to do it noon on Fox. What do you think? Yeah, no, I completely agree. Just that was on my travels back from Stanford to just all my flights. I was flipping back and forth between a bunch of games, Michigan, the Michigan Western Michigan game was the one that I just stayed on the most and was boarding my, my connecting flight from Atlanta, right. As that last drive was happening and me and people about three rows in front of me as the play happened, may have let out a collective expletive that probably shouldn't have been done as we were boarding an airplane. But all that said, Western Michigan really impressed me. It's just the way that, and just the explanations and the secrecy and the way that everything's been going about just the non-explanation explanations. And now good for Western Michigan for finally by formally filing appeal going. Yeah. So the review that you guys did, we appreciate that you can review it, but you reviewed it wrong in terms of just what the actual outcome of the review should have been. That last, that last Hail Mary should not have happened based off of all the explanations that are coming out now. So it's just, it's unfortunate for Western Michigan. It's very unfortunate, but I think again, they're still showing though with what they did against Michigan, who knows in terms of, again, there's a group of six spot in the college football playoff. We'll see how they handle things the rest of the way. And we'll see how the CFP views that game in particular, regardless of the results. I'll be intrigued if central, if Western Michigan is able to make a run, how they do that loss when they start compiling things. Yeah. It'll be interesting to follow. Was it a blip or does it mean that they're a pretty good sleeper team this year, but great catch. I got to get credit. The catch was unbelievable. It just should never have happened. That's all, but it was an amazing haul in there at the goal, right over the goal line and a good throw too, but it should have ended before the ball was in the air. But you know, if you're looking at the other clock, anyway, going to the ACC now pit at home against UCF, this should be interesting. UCF coming off that a bludgeoning of a, of Bethune the other day and pit a team that we've circled as a, maybe a sleeper team that can do some damage in the ACC in spots. Yeah. Three words. Take the over UCF high explosive offense, Pittsburgh Mason Heidenschild, their quarterback, who is a really good last year when he came in, when he came in mid season as a starter through seven touchdowns last week, granted against Miami of Ohio, but he was 31 to 41, four 53, seven touchdowns. The seven touchdown passes top set in ACC single game record and tied the all time pit single game record. So two teams coming off very big offensive performances meeting duking it out this week. I would bet money on the offense on this one. By the way, off slightly off topic pit has a commit at St. Thomas Aquinas, the running back Tyler Reed. If you're a pit fan and you're, and you're watching this, get ready. This kid is pretty quick, very good skilled guy had 300 plus yards the other night in the game against Columbus. That was a nationally ranked matchup. So something exciting, someone exciting on the way to the pit backfield next year. But this year, like you said, tons of points, three 30 on ESPN to that game later at night on ESPN at seven. This one I'll have my eye on for sure. Number 18, Tennessee heading to Georgia tech facing Georgia tech in Atlanta. It's the first time they've played at, at the actual Bobby Dodd stadium in 40 years. Uh, Tennessee has disappointing start for the yellow jackets though. Alberto Mendoza, uh, shaken up at halftime was, was accurate, had an okay game, but this could have been better. He knows it. The team, the team around him didn't fare too well. They had a nice kickoff return for a touchdown was their only touchdown in the game, but we expected more from Georgia tech. We, we, we should say expect it, expect Georgia tech to be a little better than this. Can they show it though against the pretty good Tennessee team who has, I didn't realize that a true freshman quarterback based on Brandon, who looks good, like it looks like a breakout star. Yeah. Tennessee's good. Georgia tech, just like you said, their game against Colorado was very disappointing. Surprising for me was Aiden Burr missing two field goals. Again, that dude has been automatic for the last two, three years. Well, the game winner was blocked. The game winner was, and he also missed a chip shot early in the game. So he won, I think two for four overall. And that will flip the game again. We know how, we know how finicky college kickers usually are. When you have a good one, you generally are able to rely on them. They've been able to rely on Aiden Burr for a while. Now we saw with the game against Miami a couple of years ago up there, how steady he was in addition to Miami's run defense, just being God awful that game, but he was able to make, do a lot of big, big plays in that game as well. But Georgia tech, they need to bounce back and they need to bounce back quick. And Tennessee is going to give them, they're going to give them the fight, but this is all, this is probably a second chance at a litmus test about where they actually stack up. Yeah, definitely. It's a good early one for both sides. I mean, after what I saw, Georgia tech remains to be seen if they can generate a lot of offense out of that group right there. I think Alberto is capable. I just wonder, you know, is the team around him going to be able to do it also as well? Tennessee can definitely put up points though. I don't know. I think the, I think the yellow jackets might be in store for an open to start because of how strong Tennessee looks, but down the road, they'll have their chances. And then the, the marquee matchup of the weekend in around the nation, Ohio state at Texas, number one versus number four. Hey, look at that. I mean, there's a chance maybe Miami can move up in the poll after this week. If depending on how this goes, I mean, if it's a close game, probably not. But if it, if somebody really, really beats the other one bad, maybe, but this is a set. This is the, the, the, the first big, the first top five matchup, the first big, sexy game that, uh, of the college football season, ABC seven 30 kickoff. Yeah. And remember what happened last year? Ohio state, Ohio state, Texas game. It impacted the college football playoff. They, the big factor in Texas not making it in because off that game, they scuffled a little bit in sec play and the rest of their non-conference schedule was very light. So they didn't have that extra support to prop them up. Like say Miami day, when they'd be Notre Dame and then Notre Dame not getting in. Cause they lost their two quality games, these games, despite not being conference games and then being a marquee matchup that shouldn't penalize you too much. If this is your main resume builder and in your main, one of your main resume up to builder building opportunities, you need to execute. You need to do it. I'm interested to see how arch Manning actually steps up this year compared to what he did last year. This is going to be the first real opportunity for us to see who arch Manning actually is in this, this season. And then Julian saying on the other side, Jeremiah Smith on the other side, who is trying to go toe for toe with Malachi Tony this season. Again, he had a pretty good, pretty good performance last week, granted against who they play ball state. I think it was, but, but yeah, so it's always intriguing to watch Jeremiah Smith go up against, go up against, go home, which we're going to see the Saturday against Texas. And then just it's, this is, should be a riveting matchup just like it was in week one last year. Isn't it funny that not that not so long ago, it feels like the other day, those two were at Chaminade and heritage. Isn't that unbelievable how just like a couple of years later, we're talking about two guys that look NFL ready right now doing what they're doing. And, um, from this game standpoint, you hit it on the nose with, with, uh, arch Manning on the other side, it's time to find out if Ohio state deserves that number one ranking. Yes, we, we know they deserve a high ranking, no doubt about it. It's a very talented team, very experienced team from last year, but a lot of people wondered number one. Yeah, fine. We'll find out this weekend. Yeah, no doubt about it. And again, this is the first time where we'll actually start getting data points because again, a lot of the preseason rankings with those are, even though they're not supposed to be based off of reputation, it's a lot of it is based off reputation just because there are no data points. Now we'll be, once we get through this week where we have this matchup in particular, and then like what happened last week with Oregon, barely holding on to beat Boise state, we saw, we saw what the poll voters did. They dropped them from two to six. Right. We saw how we saw that game impact thing. We saw even with Michigan barely winning the AP poll voters, the majority of them did what they thought was right. And they knocked Michigan out of the top 25. We're sorry. We'll start getting to see some actual movement as we start seeing teams facing at facing teams at or around their level to start sorting things out more properly. And this will be the, this will be the first one that really flips some things in the top, top five, hopefully extending down to the top eight or nine with seeing how Miami, how Miami can get impacted by this, how LSU after their win against, after their win is able to figure things out. Granted, again, their win was against Clemson there. We should know where things are at that after that, but Clemson wasn't good. So I'm glad that they did not completely jump Miami, but who knows, they might be getting expelled from the sec this week to who knows with LSU either. Yeah. A lot of wild stuff going on. One tiny Ohio state connection here, which relates to the South Florida kind of, you know, stretch, but yeah, a former dolphin Brian Hartline got his first win at USF and the connection there is that they beat FIU in that game. I believe it was 1910 was the final. So another development from this past weekend. It'll be interesting to watch, of course, check out Miami taken on Florida and M on Thursday. After that, Miami is off until September 18th, another Friday, another, not Saturday, as we've mentioned before a Friday night, primetime game at Winston Salem to take on the wake forest, demon deacons, the final non-Saturday, the final non-Saturday, right. But another, but another important game, another ACC conference road game as well. Yeah. And wake forest looked pretty good. I mean, Gio Lopez, the quarterback of transferring from UNC, he can, he can do some things to a defense. He is able, he's able to, he's a dual threat type guys, able to make some passes, able to run, able to, able to extend plays. So this is after this, this is Miami's last tune up before another really big game next week. Another big road game on the, on top of that. Yeah. And to bring it full circle, I know we were talking about signs, like, you know, joking about the 1979 and Schnellenberger four years later to now the Mario four years later, after a bad loss, all that, another one that was Miami's biggest, that was Miami's biggest season opening win against an FBS opponent since oh three, you know, three was the year after the JIP against Ohio state and all that. But it's the last time that I think we entered a season where Miami had national championship, real true national championship level expectations like that. So again, I just think it's another sign of how Miami has gotten to that level again. Where they're in the conversation again, like they were, like they truly were nearly, you know, 23, 24 years ago when that was going on. So it kind of shows you the fact that they had a victory. It had been a while since they had a, let's just, let's put it bluntly, go out on the road and deliver a good old fashioned ass kicking. They hadn't done that in a while against, you know, a D one opponent and they were able to, but we'll be back next week to talk a little bit more about how it went against Florida and them, how Miami is looking as they look forward to Wake Forest and much more from around the country and the college football landscape. Until then for Jordan McPherson, I'm Andre Fernandez. Thanks as always. Remember to catch us on YouTube and thank you for watching Eye on the U everybody.