What's Wright - Nick Wright Mailbag: World Cup predictions, Nick plays the VIRAL 82-0 NBA game
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What are Nick Wright's predictions for the 2026 World Cup?
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All right, welcome in What's Driving the Great, episode 464. This episode, as always, is brought to you by Boost Mobile. This will be a quick episode going to do a little World Cup preview thanks to our great friends at Hard Rock Bet. Might play a little bit of the 82-0 game and going to get to a few of your listener questions. A reminder to everyone to please like, rate, subscribe, and review the show. And let's jump right into it with a little World Cup discussion. So here's the most important thing. Because I understand a lot of you guys are not diehard fans. uh international soccer fans you know very there's only select few of you listening that were sweating arsenal blowing the champions league final like i was over the weekend scoring a goal five minutes into the game and then having two missed penalties neither of which the
Opposing team's keeper even had to stop. Just one dead left of the goal and one right over the goal. But World Cup's the World Cup, and I imagine you are going to be watching it. Some of you might be gambling on it. Some of you might be going to the games. And this World Cup is different. So if you're a big soccer fan, you know all this. But just stick with me on this for a moment. Historically, this is how the World Cup has worked. 32 teams broken down into 8 different 4-team groups. The top 2 teams from each group advance to the knockout round. Once you get to the knockout round, it's a single elimination 16-team tournament. They've expanded the field from 32 teams to 48 teams. So now instead of there being 8 four-team groups, there are 12 four-team groups.
It still is the top two from every group move on. However, that would only give you 24 teams into the knockout round. And then the... eight best third place teams also move on which is to say it has never been easier to get out of to get into the knockout round than it is in this year's world cup however
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What are Nick Wright's predictions for the 2026 World Cup?
0:00–13:58
2
How does Nick evaluate Team USA's chances in the World Cup?
13:58–32:31
3
What insights does Nick provide about Luka Doncic vs. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?
32:31–34:55
4
What is the significance of the 2020s all-decade team discussion?
34:55–52:43
Speakers
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