Chapter 1: What is the role of Smirnoff in game day culture?
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Chapter 2: How does Lucy feel about attending too many Iowa games?
Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jagermeister, must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold.
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
We'll get to Lucy Rodin in a second. Again, if you were not listening earlier in the show, I think we kind of skipped past this a little bit. Local radio icon, host of the Zazz Show 2.0. Zazz Show 2.0. With Greg Cody. The Zaslow Show 2.0 with Greg Cody.
No, the Zaslow Show 2.0.
Zaslow has said it's a disappointment if the Miami Hurricanes are not undefeated, which means that Mario Cristobal has already done his job. I don't think that Zaslow has said that on his own show, just like that, where Mario Cristobal has already succeeded.
I feel like, hasn't that been the case? Even the years they weren't back, you're still expected to beat these type of teams? Not undefeated, though.
No, but I think Dan's right in the way that he phrased that. Yeah, Mario Cristobal has done the job. If they are in a place where I'm... confidently telling you it's a disappointment if they don't finish, not going into the year, but at this point, if they don't finish the year undefeated. I'm not sitting here telling you it's a disappointment if they don't win the national championship.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of James Franklin's firing at Penn State?
And what he's telling you is... The way Miami looks, size and speed on defense, violence on defense, discipline, offense that can beat you multiple ways. You want a 16-play dry at the start of the third quarter? Notre Dame, how about one of those? Oh, big plays, FSU, okay, they'll beat you that way. In a diluted college football, Zazzle is telling you he expects the Hurricanes to go undefeated.
That means Mario Cristobal has improved every year that he's been in charge. There's only one other team doing it the way the Canes are doing it this season. It's Ohio State.
That's it.
I agree. These are the only two teams that you can look at. I'd say Texas Tech.
We'll see. Interesting test. Levitt's going to be playing for Arizona State. At Arizona State will be an interesting test. Levitt's is right here.
Lucy's going to join us in a moment. Do you guys have any opinions about the fact that I think Zaslow making an official has raised the expectations to a place that I have not heard anybody in Miami say that Mario Cristobal has already succeeded?
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Chapter 4: How does Auburn's football culture impact its fans?
I haven't heard it from anybody. I think we figured it out together. We talked it out. Yeah, like any of these games, okay, Louisville, Stanford, SMU, Syracuse, NC State, Virginia Tech, Pitt. If the Canes lose any of those games, wouldn't your reaction be right after the game ends, wow, that was really disappointing? Sure. Then here we are.
It would be really disappointing if they don't go undefeated.
I don't think, for me, there's not a huge difference between 12-0 and 11-1.
If anything, this is a season where one loss, maybe even two losses, gets you in the playoffs. One loss, so you win the ACC championship then?
You have to win the ACC championship.
For me, UM has to win the ACC championship and get in the playoffs and at least win one game in the playoffs to call this a success. That's my parameter. I mean, it would be disappointing if they had a bye, okay, and they lose in the quarterfinal at one of the bowl games because, remember, they wouldn't have a home game there. I guess that would be disappointing.
But if you win the ACC championship and you make the playoffs for the very first time ever as a school, I'm not going to sit here and say it was disappointing. I think it is. I think when the playoffs expanded from four teams to 12 and starting off this season the way they have and being number two, if you don't get in and win a playoff game, you look back and say, we underachieved.
I mean, you're going to play another top 10 team in the quarterfinal. You lose a neutral site bowl game to a top 10 team. Yeah, I can't sit here and say that that's disappointing then. All right, so Lucy's going to join us now. She's bouncing around all over the country following all sorts of college football teams, but with a specific bias. Too many Iowa ones, I would say.
Find her at too many Iowa games. I feel she's grifting off the expense account. going home and partying and just enjoying her time in Iowa because she wants to spend time in Iowa. It's not the epicenter of the college football universe. I don't understand why you're there so often. But Penn State being around Iowa is fun this week because James Franklin is fired.
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Chapter 5: What are the expectations for the Miami Hurricanes this season?
We do spend too much time there at Rosewood. Definitely agree. But when it comes to James Franklin and sort of this, you know, decision to fire him, which is objectively crazy, like I totally understand the decision to fire him. This was probably something they've wanted to do for a long time, just given sort of the. the kind of cloud over Penn State football with can't win this big game.
But with the context of three weeks ago, they were two overtimes away from, you know, beating Oregon, being this top five team to now, okay, you don't have a head coach. I think it just shows how ā
intense things are in college football and what I think this is really interesting outside of the Penn State scope is if you're Luke Fickle at Wisconsin okay this is just going to move a lot faster if you're Hugh Freeze at Auburn this is going to move a lot faster because if Penn State was willing to take that 56 million dollar buyout which is closer to 50 whatever
and be like, you know what, we're done. We're ready to spend it now. I think that's going to put a lot more pressure on other schools to do it, which is interesting because we're in a year where I don't know if we've ever seen this many coaches fired at this point in the season. Just week seven and so many powerful jobs are open. Several group of five jobs are open.
I just think that the standard for giving a little grace is pretty much gone, even though I do think Luke Fickle should be gone, Hugh Freeze should be gone, Billy Napier should be gone. Why is it crazy that they fired him? Well, I think just like sort of the context of, okay, three weeks ago, you were a top five team. I think the timing is what is crazy about it.
And also like, I like to make a lot of fun of James Franklin. You guys know this. It's funny that he can't win the big game. We know that. However, when you're looking at James Franklin objectively from a college football standpoint, who is better that Penn State is going to get? That is what I think is so crazy.
I would assume they have to have somebody in mind to be willing to make that giant cut to pay that giant check because he's winning 10 games every year. Obviously, things change with UCLA and Northwestern and whatnot, but I don't know who they get that's better than that because I don't think Kurt Cignetti is leaving Indiana for that job.
Yeah. I think you're right. Obviously just a few weeks ago, they were ranked number two. I think that's even more reason why you fire him a few weeks ago, they were ranked number two and then they lost to Ohio state UCLA and Northwestern.
Yeah. I just, I think it's the two weeks is such a long time to, or such a short time, excuse me, to like make a decision that brash where, okay. So two weeks ago, you had no idea that James, none of us would have ever assumed James Franklin would not have a job two weeks from now. So you make that giant, you make that giant decision. I understand the decision.
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Chapter 6: How do fans perceive the current state of college football coaching?
I don't think so. Is that Manny Diaz? I don't think so. So that is what is confusing to me is to make a decision that is that expensive, that is that quick, and you have to have somebody in place already, and I don't know who that would be.
I know how terrible his record is. It's epically, historically terrible in big games. But he has won two of the last four big games that we would have assigned as big games. Northwestern and UCLA don't get to be big games just because he lost them. He lost the Oregon game, but he won playoff games last year.
So can you get a coach better than winning two of his last four big games if we're going to do this as dumb as you've got to win big games? And that's it.
See, that's what I think. So I think Penn State is in a unique position because there are still members of their fan base that were alive when they were winning national championships. Lots of schools cannot say that. So the standard at Penn State is just a little bit higher.
The playoff thing is interesting because a lot of people will say that Penn State had the easiest run in the playoffs, which I do agree with. But I think it's the fact that he was losing the big games. We all know that is something he has done, but he had never lost the small games until UCLA and Northwestern. And UCLA might be the greatest football team in the world now.
We're not quite sure on that one, so that could end up being a great loss.
What do you do with that? What do you do with Deshaun Foster going 0-4 with a UCLA team that then turns around and beats Penn State and then smokes Michigan State?
I saw someone tweet, I wish I could remember who it was because I want to give them credit, and they were like, were they just not practicing? Like, it really doesn't make any sense because, like, they have looked like a great football team. Like, truly, and it's weird because Foster was a guy that, like, players loved. Like, he was a players coach. People talked about him in that manner.
And so, like, truly it doesn't make any sense to me. And I think it's honestly hilarious and really, really funny. Right.
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Chapter 7: What celebrity gossip has caught Lucy's attention this week?
Like, he has everything he could want at Indiana. And he signed a pretty long extension last season. I think he'll be there for a long time. I think we all just need to sit down and collectively tell ourselves, hey, Indiana, they are not a playoff team. They are a national championship caliber team.
Because that Oregon game, although the score, I mean, 10-point win, 30-20, outside of one big sort of breakdown in the defense and a pick-six from Mendoza, Oregon did nothing. Take those two plays out, it would have been 30-6. Indiana was dominant in that game. They were a very good football team. And you could say that they have less talent than Oregon, and I think that's fair that they do.
And it still didn't make any sort of difference in how good they are. When it comes to Chris Cignetti, I mean, just listen to what he says. Google him. Like, he wins. He wins everywhere he goes.
Yeah, but it's not just that, though. I'm not sure that anybody would say that his players are very vaunted. Like, whatever the rankings are.
Composite talent rankings have them as, like, the 72nd most talented team in the nation. So, hold on.
So when I'm saying, guys, no joke, Indiana football has never been this good, has no right to be this good. Pennix was great for them, but this is the best Indiana team there has ever been. Indiana has always been terrible at football until like the last five years of sometimes they'll give you offense. But going into Oregon, there's never been an Indiana team that can do that.
No, they're outmatched when it comes to talent, and there's more to it when it comes to winning football games. That being said... Especially when we look at what's happened at Penn State. Got my eye on Dan Lanning, one of these media darlings. Do something, okay? Do something to deserve how people view you.
Win the big ones. Not only win the big one, Mike, but hey, these two teams. Penn State came back on you late, and Indiana ground you to dust late in Nike Stadium.
What happened to that team? Embarrassing. Dan Lanning just catches break after break after break.
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Chapter 8: How does the podcast discuss the significance of the college football season?
Quite the tattoo for Lance. Yeah, on the stomach.
Yeah, crazy tat.
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