2026-05-12 The 2026 College Football Calendar Utility (raw)

00:00:18 Ty Hildenbrandt: Dan Rubenstein, I saw some stuff floating around about you that I'm not sure if you're aware of this.

00:00:22 Dan Rubenstein: I'm ready.

00:00:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: There were some people out on the very vibrant college football subreddit debating whether or not you had the gumption, you had the courage.

00:00:37 Dan Rubenstein: Uh oh.

00:00:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: To put Zhoug sauce in your breakfast this morning. Confirm, deny? It's cool if you don't want to say anything at all, but where are you at on the Zhoug Sauce scale right now?

00:00:44 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. I'm so glad you asked about this sauce that you found out about 13 minutes ago and I found out about 11 days ago. Very much pro Zhoug. Z-H-O-U-G looked good in Trader Joe's. Thought to myself, I'm proteining up before recording a college football podcast. How can I add some, what was the old Big & Rich line? A little zing to my zang zang, whatever it was.

00:01:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right. Yeah.

00:01:16 Dan Rubenstein: That's where I'm at right now. Herby, spicy, delicious.

00:01:19 Ty Hildenbrandt: The Middle Eastern pesto is what it tells me here. At least the Gemini preview says that it's the Middle Eastern pesto, and you added it to your eggs to get psyched up for the show that we have today because I am excited for it as well. As people know, this show is as much a meeting of friends as it is a meeting to talk about college football as it is a public service to those of us out there who do appreciate all things college football. If you listen to our preview episodes, you may be familiar with this sound.

00:01:55 Dan Rubenstein: Sure.

00:01:57 Ty Hildenbrandt: We are here in service of you, kind Verballerhood, trying to help you get prepared for the weeks that are ahead. Oftentimes, we play that pretty much exclusively. We play the window of opportunity sound to get people up to speed, to know on any given Saturday when they can go out and be amongst the people or watch Cats, which I'm told now is back touring now if you do want to go see Cats this fall.

00:02:16 Dan Rubenstein: Of course. Great.

00:02:24 Ty Hildenbrandt: We are doing a little bit of advanced intel on today's episode. Is that right, Dan?

00:02:30 Dan Rubenstein: That's true. What we're doing is we're looking at the schedule ahead, and I just we both, I think, saw on social media that there were people circling a couple different weeks that were just like, man, this is wall to wall. And in the interest of communication, be it with your family, be it with a spouse, be it with kids, be it with friends, whoever, what you want to do is you want to add communication, and you want to add items to your calendar. And what we're here to do is provide, some are saying, a utility, a social utility.

00:03:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think so. I think that's fair.

00:03:03 Dan Rubenstein: I've done this in my relationship. I'm sure you've done this in your relationship. You were like, let's not make plans for Masters Sunday. I'd very much like, that's a priority for me to watch. I've done that with basketball games, with tennis matches, whatever. So, what we're doing is we're looking at the calendar and we're saying, look, this week is loaded. This week is top to bottom. Couch time. And so we are circling that. We're going through why it appears to be loaded in this moment. To, I mean, anybody can just look at a schedule, but we're going a little bit deeper because it's not just about the teams that, oh, they might be a top 15 team, they might be a top 20 team. We are also identifying specific weeks in which, look, this is actually like kind of scary for a bunch of teams who are in letdown, look-ahead sandwich mode, who are in maybe just a letdown, maybe just a look-ahead, maybe it feels trappy. And we went through and looked at the dates that we had the one in, what, 2011 when Oklahoma State went down to Iowa State. And then the next day, Oregon, I believe, went down to USC.

00:04:01 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, yeah.

00:04:06 Dan Rubenstein: I want to say, and completely shifted the BCS picture. So we're trying to identify that in advance as well. And hopefully fingers crossed, we are right about two of seventeen things and can help you on your merry way.

00:04:22 Ty Hildenbrandt: Do you have a shared calendar with Jodi with an I?

00:04:24 Dan Rubenstein: Of course I do. We have one of those, there's like a tablet that we have in our kitchen that just displays the family calendar when there are soccer practices, when there are dinners, when there are school functions. I think it's for me, to be honest, that I have no excuse if I mess something up.

00:04:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: So let me ask you a let me ask you a an honest question then. So now, obviously, we do this and

00:04:43 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:04:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: You know, once the fall hits, college football is first and foremost for us on the weekends. We kind of plan around that. Okay. We are not the norm here. If you were in the norm, if you weren't doing this, and if you were listening to an episode like this one. And you heard some of these dates, what would your strategy be for putting them on the shared calendar? A, would you? And B, if you did, would you label them honestly? Would you say week seven loaded, maybe keep this date tentative?

00:05:13 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:05:17 Ty Hildenbrandt: Or would you make something else up entirely? Like, I've got to go out of town. Like, let's keep this one free. What would the strategy be?

00:05:24 Dan Rubenstein: I think it would be first vocal out loud. So you have that. You're putting that into the universe. Like, hey, October 7 is Oregon-Ohio State. Let's not make plans. It's probably a night game. So, like, I want to tell you now months in advance that that's a priority for me. And then Jody would probably say, put it in the calendar. Like, I can't remember that far in advance. You can't remember that far in advance what you did or didn't tell me. Put it in the calendar. And then it's on me to do so. So, I don't know what I would do if I didn't have to watch every game every week and there was a particularly loaded weekend. But I think it comes down to: okay. We have these couple options to make this plan, going on a hayride with the kids, going to a whatever game. Like, would it work this weekend or that weekend? And so, what we're trying to do with this episode is say: why don't you push it to week seven instead of week four?

00:06:26 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right.

00:06:26 Dan Rubenstein: Why don't you push it to week eight instead of week six?

00:06:26 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right. That's right.

00:06:28 Dan Rubenstein: And so, hopefully, that can help clarify when you should or shouldn't make plans.

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00:07:32 Dan Rubenstein: I'm trying to give you off-season reps.

00:07:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: I hate you.

00:07:35 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, I know.

00:07:35 Ty Hildenbrandt: I hate you so much.

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00:07:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: All right. Do you got that computer sound over there by any chance?

00:07:39 Dan Rubenstein: I do, of course. You have just doing some old calculations on a ’60s-era computer

00:07:44 Ty Hildenbrandt: All right, let's move some stuff around here. I've got all the games in front of me. I know you've got a bunch of trap games that you want to call out that you think make life very interesting as we go through the schedule over the next hour or so. I broke it down by games that are projected to be, and I say that projected to be, ranked games between two ranked teams. I've also got ranked teams that are on the road in some spots that might make a certain week interesting, as well as ranked teams at home, as well as just some other ones. Maybe your trap games, maybe just two games or two teams. Playing in a game in Dublin, like we've got in week zero. Stuff like that that is of particular interest. We're going to talk through these here, okay?

00:08:32 Dan Rubenstein: Absolutely.

00:08:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week zero, sort of don't waste your time. Okay, so here's the deal. I'm not saying don't watch college football. Of course, watch college football. We're a college football show. But this exercise is as much about building up some capital that you can deploy later so you can get in front of the TV, sit on the couch for 12 straight hours when it counts. Week zero, not one of them weeks. You got TCU versus North Carolina in Dublin. You've got NC State versus Virginia in Rio. Perhaps you want to be CFB Internacional, whatever you're into. We'll be watching. The only game that week, though, featuring a projected ranked team is San Jose State at USC. That is August the 29th. All right. So plan accordingly. Nice little appetizer. But if that happens to be a week that you can't move stuff around to get in front of the TV to watch, So be it. There will be much more to come. Agreed?

00:09:32 Dan Rubenstein: Agreed.

00:09:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's go to week one then.

00:09:35 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:09:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week one is September the fifth. We have had many great week ones in the past. Great week ones. Starts on a Thursday, goes into Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. This is not really one of those weak ones, is it?

00:09:56 Dan Rubenstein: It's different in the way it feels at the moment. Yeah, I think that's fair.

00:10:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: We have one game between projected ranked teams on a Sunday night in Nashville between Louisville and Ole Miss. Otherwise, we've got what I think is going to be a banger of a game, a really important game on Monday night between SMU and Florida State, that one in Tallahassee. And then we've also got the neutral site game that I'm interested in in Lambeau Field between Wisconsin and Notre Dame, albeit Wisconsin is not projected to be a ranked squad.

00:10:32 Dan Rubenstein: You said that's the Monday night game?

00:10:32 Ty Hildenbrandt: Now That's the Monday Night game. There are some others on here that I think are interesting.

00:10:35 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:10:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay, if nothing more, these are interesting games. For sure, a game like. The Apple Cup Wazzu against Washington, I think is of interest to a lot of our listening audience.

00:10:47 Dan Rubenstein: Sure.

00:10:51 Ty Hildenbrandt: For sure, a game featuring, what is it, Baylor and Auburn?

00:10:56 Dan Rubenstein: Mhm.

00:10:57 Ty Hildenbrandt: In Atlanta, that's going to be of interest.

00:10:58 Dan Rubenstein: Home and home-ish, yeah.

00:11:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: Colorado at Georgia Tech could be interesting. Get to see Alberto Mendoza. UCLA at Cal. Will be interesting. It's going to have its own set of storylines because two new coaches. The only other one here that I pulled out as being of particular interest to me is Clemson at LSU. We get to see what. The start of the Lane Kiffin era looks like maybe Boise State at Oregon if you want to go there, Dan.

00:11:20 Dan Rubenstein: Sure, that was close a couple of years ago, yeah.

00:11:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: But otherwise, I think as week ones go. This is one of the lighter week ones that I can remember. This is going to be again on September the 5th. So, again, not saying miss week one.

00:11:32 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:11:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's when it all starts, man. But if so happens that you got to go out and be amongst the people a little bit in week one, fear not, there is much more to come, I promise you.

00:11:44 Dan Rubenstein: Not an obvious if you're at a cookout Monday night for Labor Day, not an obvious I have to stay inside the whole time. If I don't have a rooting interest in either Wisconsin or Notre Dame.

00:11:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think I think that's right.

00:11:54 Dan Rubenstein: So, yeah.

00:11:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think that's right. So, again, a little bit of a different start to the season. We're used to week one coming out of the gates hot. And I don't know if we have that this week, this year.

00:12:05 Dan Rubenstein: No, a little bit different, but we're pacing ourselves, Ty.

00:12:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: We are.

00:12:09 Dan Rubenstein: It's a marathon, not a sprint.

00:12:11 Ty Hildenbrandt: Then we get to week two, September the 12th. Three games between ranked teams. Arizona State, projected to be ranked according to our friends over at FBSchedules. On the road at Texas A&M, big spot for both teams. We've also got Oklahoma playing the back end of that home and home with Michigan, that one in Ann Arbor. And we've got the big end. This might be the biggest non-conference matchup. The entire season through. Ohio State on the road at Texas. That's pretty much the biggest one of this weekend. Now, obviously, you're going to want to be in front of the TV for that one. There are a couple other games that I think are really interesting, just from like a trap game or from a letdown look-ahead standpoint.

00:12:59 Dan Rubenstein: Please, yeah.

00:13:01 Ty Hildenbrandt: We've talked about Alabama before, but Alabama on the road at Kentucky in week two. I'm not necessarily expecting Kenny Minchey to go off and take down Alabama, but That game falls at an interesting spot in the calendar for Alabama. So, on the road against Kentucky, we could talk through what it looks like for them after that. Tennessee at Georgia Tech could be of interest. I also think Oregon at Oklahoma State. Though I'm not expecting Oklahoma State to win, I am excited to see what Oklahoma State looks like against a team like Oregon. In week two. These are ranked teams that are, again, projected to be ranked and on the road in week two.

00:13:42 Dan Rubenstein: It's also, there's a lot new, right? So we don't know who's going to be playing quarterback for Texas Tech. We have a good idea about who's going to be playing quarterback for Alabama. We don't know Tennessee. We know Penn State, but we're a new coach. Oregon, we know, have a good handle on Oregon. What does Drew Mestemaker look like? It's a great quarterback matchup. We know Drew Mestemaker, Dante Moore. So. Week two already looks, and look, that's Alabama and whatever their new quarterbacks. Whoever that quarterback is, I think we have a good idea. This can be Keelan Russell. But that's first SEC start. That's first true game. I mean, we should put respect on East Carolina's name, but there is a lot novel about those teams on the road.

00:14:25 Ty Hildenbrandt: There's also the Cy-Hawk game. In week two, Iowa State at Iowa might have A little less shine on it now with Matt Campbell leaving and Iowa State sort of being in transition as they embark on the Jimmy Rogers era. But nonetheless, That's an interesting game as well. The rivalry between Mizzou and Kansas got North Dakota State at Air Force as they get rolling here in the Mountain West. So, I mean, there are plenty of games of intrigue. One that I think probably is not going to get its due amid some of these other games that notably are a little higher profile, but Arizona at BYU in week two, man.

00:15:05 Dan Rubenstein: One of the best Big 12 games of 2025. If Arizona's defense can survive what they lost, especially in their back seven or whatever. Then look, Bear Bachmeier and BYU barely got by last year in the desert. This year it's in Provo, correct? So hopefully a banger of a game, but you're absolutely right. And week two does a really nice job laying the foundation for a couple Trappertunities the following week.

00:15:30 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right. That's right. So if we go back through, week zero on a scale of one-to-five can't go any lower than a one. Week zero gets a one.

00:15:39 Dan Rubenstein: Right.

00:15:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week one, I think, gets, let's just say, a two and a half in my book. If only because there's excitement, there's not a lot of big games, but I think two and a half is sufficient. As we get into week two now, what we're discussing here, this one to me goes up, I'll go three and a half with this one.

00:16:00 Dan Rubenstein: I would do three and a half up to four, sure.

00:16:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: I'm going to go three and a half with this one. So again, this is September the 12th. Mark this down on the calendar. Hopefully, people out there have a notepad that are taking notes on this, trying to do a public service.

00:16:13 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, look, the the novelty even look, new coaches at Arkansas, Utah. New coach at Iowa State, new quarterback at Iowa, and new quarterback at Iowa State. Like, there's just a lot that, and maybe it's just because it's been so long without football and looking at the a roster of games like this looks incredible to me right now, but oh, this gets my juices flowing.

00:16:33 Ty Hildenbrandt: All right, week three, September the nineteenth. LSU at Old Miss. This is one of the biggest games of the year.

00:16:40 Dan Rubenstein: Did you read the Vanity Fair profile of Lane Kiffin?

00:16:43 Ty Hildenbrandt: I did not.

00:16:44 Dan Rubenstein: That came out today.

00:16:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: I did not read it. Just today?

00:16:47 Dan Rubenstein: Literally today. I believe the author is Chris Smith. It's a really good profile, and you're just like, man, we're still. We're already starting the Lane Kiffin conversation right now. It's he mentioned something about how like that Racism in Oxford played a role in not getting recruits. I'm not telling you that it's not true from his perspective, but started stirring the pot. Mid-May between LSU and Ole Miss. He refers to the place, he refers to Ole Miss as like the last place, right? In the very like Ohio State, Michigan, that place up north. That kind of thing. And had a quote about how, like, nobody, no coach I talked to said you got to stay, which is, I think, code for Pete Carroll and Nick Saban. So. It's uh we're we're diving in to the the Lane Kiffin LSU time already.

00:17:47 Ty Hildenbrandt: Guy loves attention, man.

00:17:49 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:17:49 Ty Hildenbrandt: Loves attention. Week three. Okay. LSU at Ole Miss. That's going to be a banger. They're already talking about it at Ole Miss. They're already talking about it at LSU. That is going to be the headline for a whole multitude of reasons. I would expect GameDay is going to be there. Game day has to be there. The other ranked game between, again, two ranked teams.

00:18:12 Dan Rubenstein: Are you telling me ESPN is going to put as much attention as they can on the SEC? Hold on, let me write this down.

00:18:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: I'm just I jot that down too if you're keeping track of these dates.

00:18:19 Dan Rubenstein: Hold on. In the notebook.

00:18:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: We also have SMU at Louisville, which factors to be, I think, a pretty good game.

00:18:20 Dan Rubenstein: Continue. Lol.

00:18:27 Ty Hildenbrandt: What other ones here jump out to you? Because I know you talked about Trappertunities.

00:18:30 Dan Rubenstein: Okay, so right on on my list, in terms of the trap opportunities. ASU, who you mentioned has A&M the week before on the road, is for some reason playing Kansas in Wembley? I mean, I get it from a certain perspective. Like, yeah, the Big 12 is trying to pop on the national, the international stage, whatever.

00:18:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Is this a Brett Yormark thing? This has got to be a Yormark thing, right?

00:18:59 Dan Rubenstein: Of course it is. So ASU, Kansas, in foggy London Town is It feels kind of like ASU is going to be very much up for that A&M game. The environment should be crazy at Kyle Field. And then to shift, like, has there ever been A back-to-back as strange as College Station, Texas and London. I say likely no, but I'm open to suggestions.

00:19:31 Ty Hildenbrandt: Right.

00:19:32 Dan Rubenstein: So I have that down as a potential trap situation for ASU. The other one I have here is you mentioned Oklahoma traveling to the big house the week before, correct? So Oklahoma And this would be the week after Michigan on the road and the week before Oklahoma travels to Athens to play Georgia.

00:19:55 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay, okay.

00:19:56 Dan Rubenstein: Oklahoma has New Mexico.

00:19:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, you love you love New Mexico, we both do.

00:20:01 Dan Rubenstein: Now, Jason Eck, upset-minded, even when, even when New Mexico doesn't pull that upset. It was New Mexico who exposed some flaws from Michigan, I believe, last season. They were competitive in that game. And it was Jason X Idaho team who gave Oregon kind of a scare a couple years ago. I'm just saying, situationally, I don't feel great about New Mexico winning that game. But he can throw some junk at Oklahoma in a fun way. So my antennae are buzzing.

00:20:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: The other one here that I would throw out, and I don't know if it's as much of a trap game. It probably was never going to be a trap game. But it will fly under the radar because you got LSU Ole Miss, because you have a couple other matchups this week. You got the London game. What else we got here? Florida at Auburn will definitely get some attention.

00:20:52 Dan Rubenstein: Sure

00:20:55 Ty Hildenbrandt: Two new coaches. There's a neutral site game between UVA and West Virginia and Charlotte.

00:20:56 Dan Rubenstein: Mm-hmm.

00:21:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: Like, there are a bunch of Kentucky at Texas A&M could be just interesting to talk about, if nothing more. Um, Houston at No. 7 Texas Tech is an enormous under-the-radar game.

00:21:10 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, great. Yeah, not a trap because they'll be taken seriously.

00:21:15 Ty Hildenbrandt: We have not a trap.

00:21:17 Dan Rubenstein: The Cougars will be, but good game.

00:21:18 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, very much not true. We have been talking up Houston now for what feels like four straight months. We're both pretty high on Houston. I've been reading some of the practice reports. They feel a lot better about their defensive line this spring than I expected. So some of my questions on that front appear to at least have been answered, at least the coaching staff believes. They've been answered. I think Houston is going to be really good. And not knowing what state Texas Tech is going to be in at the quarterback position. Is problematic. We have to wait and find out what comes of the Brendan Sorsby news. By all accounts, it appears as if Will Hammond's a bit ahead of schedule or at least on schedule. recovering from his torn ACL. So, if nothing more, will Hammond, who I think we have seen be a very, very capable backup at a minimum, if he is the dude at home against Houston, either way, whether it's him or Sorsby, that's going to be an enormous matchup for Houston and a really big deal for Texas Tech because remember, This is not a schedule that sets up as one of the hardest in college football.

00:22:24 Dan Rubenstein: Are you not putting respect on Oregon State, the pride of the new Pac-12? As part of Texas Tech's non-conference slate of Abilene Christian, Oregon State, and Sam Houston?

00:22:35 Ty Hildenbrandt: I I am not, actually.

00:22:36 Dan Rubenstein: Are you disrespecting the Pacific Twelve?

00:22:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: I am.

00:22:40 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:22:40 Ty Hildenbrandt: I am. So we week three is spicy to me.

00:22:42 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:22:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: It's spicy. We gave week two a three and a half. Is week three better or worse than week two?

00:22:52 Dan Rubenstein: I don't think it's as good at the top.

00:22:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: I got about a three.

00:22:55 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, a three feels right to me. Sure.

00:22:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's go to week four.

00:23:00 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:23:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week four is at least a four on the one-to-five scale. We've got five ranked games. We've got Texas at Tennessee, Oregon at USC, an old Pac-12 matchup. Iowa at Michigan, Texas A&M at LSU, Oklahoma at Georgia. So a really big week for sure in the SEC with three of those five-ranked games. We've also got TCU on the road at UCF. We've got Ole Miss on the road at Florida. We've got an Illinois team that I do not know what to make anything of at this point on the road at Ohio State. We got Wisconsin at Penn State. Don't know what to make of either of those teams right now. By my count, that's like what? Seven to ten games that are very interesting, and it is extremely intriguing at the top. So, this at a minimum is a four. In my book, I don't know what we've got in terms of trap opportunities, but September the 26th, it's the last week of college football games in the month of September. Mark that one down on the calendar.

00:24:12 Dan Rubenstein: I think that's a huge week. Yes, I would say so, across various conferences, obviously highlighted by Big Ten and SEC. But even still, I expect UCF to be better this year, especially with maybe a quarterback and Alonza Barnett, who's got some more pop than where they were last year against TCU. Whatever new-look Utah and Iowa State look like, that should be a measuring stick game. By well, this is what, late September, we should have a better idea of, and I know you and I are both decently high on Florida. And that's a Florida game that's Ole Miss after they have LSU. So in a huge letdown emotional spot.

00:24:50 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yep. Huge.

00:24:53 Dan Rubenstein: They get what could be a pretty decent Florida team. I think it's enormous. Yeah, I think this is great. Four plus.

00:25:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: I'm contemplating, as we go through this, putting together just a utility page that people can go and click on and add all of these to their Google Calendars.

00:25:07 Dan Rubenstein: Mhm. Oh, I like that. That's smart.

00:25:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let me know if you're interested. solidverbal@gmail.com. I'll hook you up.

00:25:16 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:25:17 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week five, let's turn the page. Let's go to Coctober, Dan.

00:25:22 Dan Rubenstein: Of course.

00:25:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: We do own the domain three ranked games week five.

00:25:23 Dan Rubenstein: Or Brocktober or yeah.

00:25:31 Ty Hildenbrandt: October the third. Washington at USC, Ohio State at Iowa, BYU at TCU. We've also got Notre Dame on the road at North Carolina. Okay. You've also got Texas Tech on the road at Colorado. Okay. Miami on the road at Clemson. Louisville on the road at NC State. Okay. We've also got on a Friday night the grand opening of Ryan Field, new Ryan Field, with Penn State coming to town to square off against Northwestern.

00:25:59 Dan Rubenstein: That's true.

00:26:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: We have to figure out if we're going to get together for that. We've also got a couple other ones here that I think are very interesting. It's a kind of an underrated week to me. Florida at Mizzou could be interesting. Got Navy at Air Force. I like to highlight those games. Virginia at Florida State was a really big game last year.

00:26:17 Dan Rubenstein: Of course.

00:26:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Don't know what it'll look like this year. And we got a night game in Lane Stadium on a Friday night. Pitt at Virginia Tech doesn't factor in as a rank matchup as of now, but you know that crowd's going to be pretty excited about a home night game on a Friday night.

00:26:36 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, absolutely.

00:26:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think it's a low-key, really solid.

00:26:37 Dan Rubenstein: So Baylor ASU, yeah.

00:26:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, Baylor, Arizona State. So, this is a quality and bulk week for me. Like, if week four on my scale is a four and a half, I don't know if week five is quite that good, but it's easily a three.

00:26:58 Dan Rubenstein: I got a couple big Trappertunities in week five as well. So Alabama has Mississippi State, correct, in week five? This is before Georgia and after South Carolina. I don't know what South Carolina is, but I do know they could have one of the best, I don't know, five or six quarterbacks, eight quarterbacks, three quarterbacks, right, depending on the week, LaNorris Sellers, who nearly beat Alabama last season. That could be a weird result. And you have Vandy, whatever they are, with what looks to be a true freshman quarterback a week before that Georgia game. Right?

00:27:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah.

00:27:36 Dan Rubenstein: Excuse me. Georgia, that's yeah, Bama has Mississippi State. So I'm talking about Vandy. Georgia has Vanderbilt also that week before Bama. And that's Georgia, I believe, that's between Oklahoma and Alabama for Georgia. Did that make sense? Did I just just name a bunch of teams?

00:27:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, no, I got I got you. I got you.

00:27:58 Dan Rubenstein: Okay. So there is trappertunnel in the SEC there that I am if I'm one of those fan bases, the Alabama or Georgia fanbases. A little bit not scared, but unnoticed for okay.

00:28:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week five is a three and a half for me.

00:28:18 Dan Rubenstein: Look, it could, if we suddenly know that Clemson is better than LSU after week one, right? If Clemson looks really good in some universe, and then they host Miami in week five. and are looking good up until then, that's a big deal. But big, big if. Also, I had a trap opportunity with Clemson specifically. September 25th, the week before that, they have a short week traveling across the country, taking on Cal after playing against North Carolina.

00:28:52 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, I saw this. I saw this.

00:28:56 Dan Rubenstein: It seems unpleasant. It seems unpleasant. New coach, a lot of juice, it seems, to this Cal offense with how they rebuilt this roster. Quarterback with experience under his belt, getting Clemson traveling across the country after what might be a tough North Carolina game. I don't know. Serious trap situation for me for Clemson. So that's all.

00:29:18 Ty Hildenbrandt: Going across the country to square off against

00:29:20 Dan Rubenstein: ahead of Miami, yeah.

00:29:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: To square off against Cal before coming back home in this year, week five, to play against Miami. An obvious trap spot.

00:29:32 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:29:32 Ty Hildenbrandt: An obvious trap spot where maybe we're looking at Cal.

00:29:37 Dan Rubenstein: And that's if it's a Friday night game at Cal, right?

00:29:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: At Cal.

00:29:41 Dan Rubenstein: Is September 25th a Friday night?

00:29:44 Ty Hildenbrandt: September twenty fifth is a Friday night, yes.

00:29:45 Dan Rubenstein: Do we have a kickoff time for that game?

00:29:50 Ty Hildenbrandt: It just says time TBD.

00:29:50 Dan Rubenstein: It's not going to be early. So it's probably going to be I'm seeing on one site, I don't know, whatever time that is going to be, it's probably going to be either 7 or 8 p. m. Eastern. Excuse yeah. At least oh, buy from that 7 a.

00:30:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: At least.

00:30:11 Dan Rubenstein: m. Probably like 7 p.m. Local?

00:30:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: It'll be a late game, and they're traveling cross-country. And I think that's the point.

00:30:18 Dan Rubenstein: So the bot there's a body-clock situation for Clemson in that one.

00:30:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:22 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:30:22 Ty Hildenbrandt: All right. Week five is decent. Week five is three and a half.

00:30:27 Dan Rubenstein: I agree.

00:30:28 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's go to week six, okay? Okay. You're going to be away for this weekend.

00:30:38 Dan Rubenstein: Yes, the weekend of October 10th. Yeah, I'll be watching games during the day. I'm not going to miss the games, but I won't be able to broadcast because I'm going to a wedding that night.

00:30:46 Ty Hildenbrandt: I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do Now we've got, I think, enough lead time where we can figure it out.

00:30:53 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:30:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: And again, I did the solo show last year when you were away, another wedding, which I thought went okay.

00:30:54 Dan Rubenstein: All right. Highest rated show, highest rated show in the history of the show.

00:31:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, it wasn't.

00:31:03 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:31:04 Ty Hildenbrandt: No. So I got to determine what I want to do.

00:31:08 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:31:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: Is there a guest to bring on? Is there a different format? The Verballerhood out there can email us solid Verbal at Gmail. And let me know their thoughts on what we should do, how we should handle.

00:31:19 Dan Rubenstein: You know who's getting some broadcast experience, reportedly?

00:31:22 Ty Hildenbrandt: Who's that?

00:31:22 Dan Rubenstein: Brian Kelly.

00:31:24 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, no. Brian Kelly is the co-host?

00:31:27 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, TY and BK Oh man, he has thoughts, man.

00:31:27 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You think BK is staying up till midnight?

00:31:33 Dan Rubenstein: He runs hot.

00:31:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: He definitely runs hot.

00:31:34 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:31:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: He also might run asleep at that point.

00:31:38 Dan Rubenstein: That's true. I think, is he doing stuff for CBS or CBS Sports Network or something? I think he's doing something.

00:31:43 Ty Hildenbrandt: I know he's prompting Claude. That was the joke last week.

00:31:45 Dan Rubenstein: He's prompting AI. I did see that as well. Yeah, it's great.

00:31:51 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week six, October the 10th, four games projected to be between ranked teams. Iowa at Washington, Texas vs. Oklahoma. USC at Penn State, USC traveling cross-country at Penn State. And I got to think this is the crown jewel of the weekend. Georgia against Alabama, Georgia on the road at Alabama. Now, Texas and Oklahoma fans might have something to say about that.

00:32:20 Dan Rubenstein: Surely.

00:32:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: But given recent history, given the fact that these teams have been playing now in the SEC title game, Georgia and Alabama is real interesting to me. Those are four biggies.

00:32:35 Dan Rubenstein: Huge.

00:32:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: We can expand it a little bit. We can talk about Indiana and Nebraska, which is a huge game in Memorial Stadium, even if Nebraska gets smoked. Doesn't matter. That's a huge game. That'll be fun. LSU at Kentucky. We can talk about LSU at Kentucky why I'm interested in that one. Otherwise, we've got Florida State Louisville. Otherwise, we've got UCLA at Oregon. Who knows what we're going to get out of UCLA this year? Otherwise, we've got Arizona at West Virginia, which is interesting to me because of the long trip.

00:33:08 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:33:09 Ty Hildenbrandt: This is a very Good week of games. I think I give this one a four. Week six, October the 10th, is a banger.

00:33:17 Dan Rubenstein: I think at least.

00:33:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Put that one on the calendar.

00:33:21 Dan Rubenstein: I think there's a good amount of depth here. The Iowa State BYU game, I believe, is a Friday?

00:33:27 Ty Hildenbrandt: I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. It's at BYU.

00:33:28 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:33:29 Ty Hildenbrandt: Again, if it were 2025, Iowa State Maybe we'd be a little bit more definitive in saying that we think it'll definitely be a good game. I don't know what to expect from Iowa State, from Jalen Raynor, from the Jimmy Rogers era, but BYU is definitely going to be very good again this season.

00:33:44 Dan Rubenstein: Sure. Okay. BYU down at the half last year against Iowa State. I think it was an LJ Martin injury situation. He only had a handful of carries in that game, but they were down 7, 10 points or something at halftime. It had a monster second half to their credit and came away looking good. This is the one week, if I could circle any week in terms of a trappertunnel for Indiana. Second consecutive week on the road after playing at Rutgers. I don't think they're going to struggle either at Rutgers or at Nebraska. But it's something to note because after this Nebraska game on the road for Indiana, they have OSU and Michigan, Michigan being on the road, Ohio State. And on the road against Michigan. So, just in terms of situationally, second straight game on the road ahead of those. Look, they're going to be a well-coached team, but that's what I would have circled. And I don't have Nebraska's home slate in front of me. Is Indiana their de facto Super Bowl?

00:34:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think it you get the defending national champion.

00:34:45 Dan Rubenstein: I assume everybody's the defending national champ, right? If you're hosting them.

00:34:52 Ty Hildenbrandt: This is one of the things that some of the folks that cover Indiana have been talking about in the offseason.

00:34:57 Dan Rubenstein: The Nebraska game.

00:34:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, not necessarily the Nebraska game, but just how the mentality around playing Indiana has now shifted. Over the last two years, suddenly you're going to get everyone's best shot. Suddenly, you're going to be circled on the calendar. The Nebraska slate this year. Has a really good home slate. Okay, so if you're a Nebraska season ticket holder, I'm not saying you're going to go 8-4 against this. I find that maybe hard to believe. But at home, You've got Indiana. At home, you've got Washington. At home, you've got Ohio State. Three big games, to say the least. And you also have a road game at Iowa. Heroes game closed things out. You've also got a road game at Oregon a week after. That Indiana tilt. What I think is notable about the Indiana spot is that it is their first de facto Super Bowl. Okay, so they go through a run of games here. In the early part of the season against Ohio, Bowling Green, North Dakota, not the state, just North Dakota, Michigan State, and Maryland before

00:36:01 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, U and D.

00:36:05 Ty Hildenbrandt: They come to that second week in October where they square off at home against Indiana. So they should be relatively unscathed by that point in time. They will probably be ranked if I were putting money on it. And before they get deeper into the season, they're going to get Indiana. Maybe Indiana at that point is looking ahead to some games that are further down the line on their schedule It only gets tougher from that point forward for Nebraska, and they do have that game second to last week of the year at home against Ohio State, which is a bit of a trappertunnel, to be honest with you. But

00:36:39 Dan Rubenstein: Thank you.

00:36:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's going to be a very big deal. That's going to be the toughest ticket to get in all of Lincoln.

00:36:46 Dan Rubenstein: By the way, just going back to that Iowa State BYU game, that is a short week for BYU, and the game is at home. But that's after they're at TCU, so it's not like a quick bus ride or whatever from like a Holy War matchup. And it's a week before BYU hosts Notre Dame as well.

00:37:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yep, yep, yep.

00:37:03 Dan Rubenstein: So I think it fits snugly in that Trappertunity title that has existed for thirty seven minutes.

00:37:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: Florida State-Louisville is this week too. Louisville's got a little bit of a gumpiness to their schedule.

00:37:14 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, go on.

00:37:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: This season. Yeah, they just they play a lot of games in interesting spots that seem to be extremely consequential, not just When you zoom out and look who they play, but if you look at when they play these teams, Louisville is an interesting team to chart. So I've got week six at a solid 4.0. This is one for the calendar.

00:37:36 Dan Rubenstein: Okay. I agree with you.

00:37:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week seven. Now we're cooking with gas as you get into October. Definitely as we get into November. In going through this, there are, I believe, five weeks. Five weeks with at least five games between two ranked teams. Three of those.

00:37:58 Dan Rubenstein: Let's be clear. Let's be clear. The rankings won't be out for another three months.

00:38:02 Ty Hildenbrandt: Projected.

00:38:02 Dan Rubenstein: But whatever the projected rankings, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:38:03 Ty Hildenbrandt: I'm going off the projection. Yeah, I'm going off projections.

00:38:05 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:38:06 Ty Hildenbrandt: My apologies.

00:38:06 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:38:07 Ty Hildenbrandt: At time of recording, the projected rankings.

00:38:09 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:38:11 Ty Hildenbrandt: Per our friends again over at FBSchedules to do a great job.

00:38:13 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:38:15 Ty Hildenbrandt: Five weeks have at least five games between ranked opponents. Three of those are in November. So keep the calendar open in November. We'll get to that. Let's work our way through the month of October here. Week seven, five games between ranked teams. Penn State on the road at Michigan, Alabama on the road at Tennessee, big rivalry. Ohio State at Indiana. Dan, that's a biggie. We've got Arizona State at Texas Tech.

00:38:38 Dan Rubenstein: Sure.

00:38:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: That should be a biggie. And as you mentioned, Notre Dame on the road at BYU. Ooh, yeah. Four and a half. Four and a half for me.

00:38:51 Dan Rubenstein: I think so um yeah, there's the the problem I guess would be Depth because of the uncertainty we have with a bunch of new coaches in the SEC at places like Auburn, Florida, Kentucky playing against teams like Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma. We don't have a great read because nobody has a great read on any team right now outside of a six or seven.

00:39:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: Florida State at Miami. Got another rivalry.

00:39:16 Dan Rubenstein: Well, like I'm looking at Virginia SMU. Like with the turnover Virginia had, are they able to come close to replicating success from 2025? If so, it's a hell of a game. It could be a great week for the ACC with that in Florida, State, Miami, if they're anything. Yeah. In Louisville, Syracuse, if Syracuse is anything. Like, there's a lot there, but the depth I'm uncertain about. But yeah, the top looks terrific.

00:39:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: I am fired up for week seven.

00:39:44 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:39:46 Ty Hildenbrandt: Four and a half.

00:39:47 Dan Rubenstein: All right.

00:39:48 Ty Hildenbrandt: Put it on the calendar.

00:39:48 Dan Rubenstein: Look, if you want to know anything about Ty. Ty can't get enough of explosive tops and the top of week seven looks great.

00:39:52 Ty Hildenbrandt: No. TCU Baylor for all the points.

00:39:57 Dan Rubenstein: Yep.

00:39:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: Utah at Colorado. It's interesting matchups. All right, four and a half.

00:40:03 Dan Rubenstein: Yep.

00:40:04 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay, got like five more weeks to go.

00:40:07 Dan Rubenstein: All right, what do we have?

00:40:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week eight. Ole Miss at Texas. Nice game. Texas A&M on the road at Alabama. Good game. Indiana on the road at Michigan a week after hosting Ohio State. See what Cignetti's made of. Those are three really high profile matchups. There's only three games between ranked teams. But elsewhere, we've got USC on the road at Wisconsin. I don't know what to make of Wisconsin. I don't know if anybody does. That's a long road trip for USC. LSU at Auburn. Tennessee at South Carolina. Don't know what to make South Carolina. Texas Tech traveling up to Cincinnati. We've also got SMU hosting Cal, which I think could be kind of a fun game. And perhaps most importantly, Dan. Sacramento State at Ball State. Yes, it is the vaunted Ball Sack game that we now have in our lives via the wonderful MAC conference, Dan.

00:41:12 Dan Rubenstein: Ah, yes. Yes.

00:41:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: So here's my question about this week.

00:41:22 Dan Rubenstein: Thank you for thank you for highlighting the Ball Sack affair.

00:41:25 Ty Hildenbrandt: Have to, have to highlight the Ball Sack.

00:41:26 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. Yeah.

00:41:27 Ty Hildenbrandt: Here's my question about week eight. Not chock full with ranked matchups, but the rank matchups we do have are really high profile.

00:41:32 Dan Rubenstein: Okay. Great.

00:41:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: So if I'm giving a four point five to last week, week seven, and a four to week six, where does week eight rank? Because there are good matchups, there just aren't as many of them.

00:41:49 Dan Rubenstein: Agree. I don't know, man. It looks pretty deep to me. Three and a half, four, I would say.

00:41:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's give it a four. I I'm thinking four.

00:41:57 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:41:59 Ty Hildenbrandt: Pit at Miami could be interesting.

00:42:00 Dan Rubenstein: This is again, this is the wrong time to ask me to rank these. These all look like fives to me.

00:42:05 Ty Hildenbrandt: I know, I know. Let's go to week nine.

00:42:07 Dan Rubenstein: By the way, I have Trappertunity for USC, as you sort of alluded to.

00:42:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, yeah. They play Ohio State in week nine, so

00:42:14 Dan Rubenstein: So it's at Wisconsin a week after a run of Oregon and Washington at home, traveling to Penn State. It is after a buy, which is great. And it is, as you mentioned before, Ohio State. Just the idea of they in this stretch, I don't think they'll be in the Coliseum playing a game for three weeks. So Rode across the country, back home, back on the road to play against Wisconsin.

00:42:43 Ty Hildenbrandt: The whole narrative around Lincoln Riley and USC and the Notre Dame scheduling thing, which apparently they're talking through again and might try to reboot that, which they should.

00:42:50 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. Yeah. Or I saw Nicole said that they never stopped talking after they decided to cut it off or pause the matchup. But yeah.

00:43:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: So they should definitely get that one back on the schedule, but it's not going to be on the schedule this year. And say what you will about the way that Lincoln commented on it and the way that the whole thing was handled, and neither you nor I are ever really going to know.

00:43:13 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:43:14 Ty Hildenbrandt: Who is responsible and who isn't? USC's got a murderer's row this year. It is a tough Schedule. An 8-4 USC this year against this schedule is probably one of the best teams in the country. One of the best, you know, let's say 10-2 caliber teams in the country, even if the record doesn't reflect it. As I'm looking at it right now, Ohio State coming to town on week nine on Halloween, no less. Does present an interesting opportunity for week eight, where USC is traveling most of the way across the country to square off against Wisconsin.

00:43:50 Dan Rubenstein: Say what you will, Lincoln Riley and USC have nearly won a number of road games. They have been right there over and over again.

00:43:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: They've been right there.

00:43:59 Dan Rubenstein: But, but, I add, that was before the championship window, which is now, as we agree, it's officially open.

00:44:05 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh. It's o it's officially open, right? Yep.

00:44:09 Dan Rubenstein: Championship window is open.

00:44:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yep.

00:44:12 Dan Rubenstein: No, there's a really good nice opportunity for USC. That would be a previously losable spot for SC. Their roster seems to be in a much better place, top to bottom, perhaps, than it's been the last couple of years, allegedly. That would be a great spot. to sort of win that losable moment that, in all seriousness, that it's been for them these past few years. So tough, tough spot, though, if Wisconsin shows some fight.

00:44:40 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week nine.

00:44:41 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:44:42 Ty Hildenbrandt: If week eight's a four, I'm curious to get your take on week nine, because we've only got two games projected between ranked teams. Ohio State at USC, as we've been discussing, and Arizona State on the road at BYU.

00:44:49 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

00:44:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Also, in addition, though. Washington at Nebraska could be interesting.

00:45:02 Dan Rubenstein: Sure.

00:45:03 Ty Hildenbrandt: Miami at North Carolina. We've seen Miami in weird games like this as we get deeper into the season, maybe let their guard down for one reason or another. We've got Wisconsin-Iowa, a game that is near and dear to our hearts here.

00:45:19 Dan Rubenstein: Of course, absolutely.

00:45:19 Ty Hildenbrandt: Arizona at Texas Tech is going to be a big one, in my view. We've also got Florida, Georgia. That's a neutral site game. Notre Dame Navy playing it in Foxborough this year on Halloween. So, not chock full the way some of these other weeks are. As you said, we're recording this in mid-May, so they all sort of look like fives. But I think if I am forced to rank, this is probably like a three.

00:45:43 Dan Rubenstein: So Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal College Football Show says, not chock full. That's the The evaluation, that's fine.

00:45:51 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's the evaluation.

00:45:52 Dan Rubenstein: I think that's fair. But also, I think that makes this Halloween, October 31st.

00:45:57 Ty Hildenbrandt: Hmm. Oh, it makes it weird.

00:45:59 Dan Rubenstein: We can go ahead and call this, we can call it Trappy Valley Ty.

00:46:03 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, okay, go ahead.

00:46:03 Dan Rubenstein: You ready? Trappy Valley consists of Ole Miss getting Auburn between a road tilt against Texas and then getting Georgia and a road tilt against Oklahoma back to back.

00:46:06 Ty Hildenbrandt: Trappy Valley Valley Okay.

00:46:17 Dan Rubenstein: Texas gets Mississippi State in the middle of their we can edit this in post gauntlets So this is Texas after playing Oklahoma, Florida Ole Miss. They get Mississippi State, and so Oklahoma neutral site, then Florida Ole Miss, I believe, at home. and then after Mississippi State it's at Mizzou at LSU. And then as you just mentioned, Miami at North Carolina, a week after Pitt, a week before Miami travels to South Bend.

00:46:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right.

00:46:45 Dan Rubenstein: That's why I call Halloween Trappy Valley, aka the Trapple Cup. Continue.

00:46:51 Ty Hildenbrandt: So my inclination was to say three, but being so it's on Halloween, it is Trappy Valley, I'm inclined to bump that up to three and 3.5, 3.5.

00:46:57 Dan Rubenstein: Mm-hmm. I'm totally good with three and a half. Yeah.

00:47:04 Ty Hildenbrandt: Trappy Valley is really good.

00:47:06 Dan Rubenstein: Thank you very much.

00:47:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's go to week ten

00:47:11 Dan Rubenstein: Okay, we're into November.

00:47:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: This is the five. Week 10 is the five.

00:47:18 Dan Rubenstein: I got so much, yeah.

00:47:19 Ty Hildenbrandt: I've been purposely holding back on giving out any fives because I knew this one was the five. This one's the five.

00:47:28 Dan Rubenstein: So this would be November. What's the date for people trying to update?

00:47:30 Ty Hildenbrandt: November 7, first weekend in November. I'll put this, I have to figure out how to do this. But I'll put the web page at let's say solidverbal.com/calendar.

00:47:47 Dan Rubenstein: I saw, I think like an aggregating college football account on some social media platform said this is Vasectomy Weekend. Get your vasectomy on Friday so you can ice your boys all day Saturday on the couch.

00:47:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, no. This is an awesome week. I will put a calendar. I'm going to do this. This is the five.

00:48:11 Dan Rubenstein: You don't even have kids and you could still, I think you can they'll let you get one.

00:48:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: I I know, I know future I didn't know there was a tech term

00:48:15 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. It's called future-proofing, I think, right, Ty? That's the tech term. You've ever heard the term future-proof?

00:48:24 Ty Hildenbrandt: I've heard future-proof, but not in terms of vasectomies.

00:48:26 Dan Rubenstein: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm combining your two biggest interests, Ty.

00:48:30 Ty Hildenbrandt: Oh, yeah. Yeah, you do.

00:48:31 Dan Rubenstein: Medical science and technology.

00:48:32 Ty Hildenbrandt: You don't want another one of these. You don't want another one of these.

00:48:35 Dan Rubenstein: Future proof. Continue.

00:48:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: Uh okay, week ten Miami at Notre Dame banger.

00:48:40 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. Can't wait.

00:48:46 Ty Hildenbrandt: Penn State at Washington, maybe not as big a banger. That should be a damn good game. BYU at Utah, holy war. Banger.

00:48:54 Dan Rubenstein: Love it.

00:48:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Alabama at LSU, banger. Banger. Georgia at Ole Miss, banger. Oregon at Ohio State, banger.

00:49:05 Dan Rubenstein: Enormous

00:49:07 Ty Hildenbrandt: Those are five games between teams projected to be ranked. Also of note.

00:49:12 Dan Rubenstein: Wait, I think that's six games.

00:49:14 Ty Hildenbrandt: Six games. What did I say? Five, six games.

00:49:15 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, five, yeah.

00:49:18 Ty Hildenbrandt: Also got Oklahoma at Florida. Could be interesting. Texas A&M on the road at South Carolina, tough road spot. We've got Texas at Mizzou. Who knows what version of Mizzou we'll get. We've also got Virginia Tech SMU. Looks interesting to me. Michigan State, Michigan, always interesting.

00:49:40 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, must win, Michigan State.

00:49:43 Ty Hildenbrandt: Must win for Michigan State.

00:49:43 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:49:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: Air Force at Army, I'll throw that in there. Notable game for a lot of folks. Week. 10 looks ridiculous. This is a 5.0.

00:49:55 Dan Rubenstein: I totally agree. I don't think I have any Trappertunity in week ten. Just because there's so much headlining, nothing really flies beneath the surface.

00:50:05 Ty Hildenbrandt: Let's put it this way.

00:50:05 Dan Rubenstein: Can you fly beneath the surface?

00:50:06 Ty Hildenbrandt: If you need surgery or something, that's going to put you on the shelf for somewhere between three to five weeks.

00:50:06 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's vasectomy weekend.

00:50:15 Ty Hildenbrandt: But you're not on the shelf for three to five weeks with that, are you?

00:50:18 Dan Rubenstein: Well, depends on the doctor.

00:50:22 Ty Hildenbrandt: Depends how much reconstruction we're talking about here.

00:50:24 Dan Rubenstein: If you're getting a vasectomy in the back of a Chrysler Pacifica, it might be three to five weeks, Ty. Chrysler, not a sponsor. I have heard good things about the Pacifica, to be fair.

00:50:33 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay.

00:50:35 Dan Rubenstein: I'm talking about the vasectomy doer, not the location.

00:50:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: Right, right, right.

00:50:41 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:50:42 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's an important specification. If you're going to be on the shelf for three to five weeks, November is your month. Okay.

00:50:48 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, yeah.

00:50:49 Ty Hildenbrandt: November's month. This is November the 7th, week 10. Plan accordingly. Don't do anything this weekend. All right.

00:50:57 Dan Rubenstein: What kind of surgery is not that invasive but will have you like immobilized for a month? Where you have to be like sitting down on a couch laid up.

00:51:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: I mean, I might be inclined if I weren't in this line of work.

00:51:13 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:51:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: To just find some kind of plastic surgery, like find find something.

00:51:16 Dan Rubenstein: I was saying, get something elective. Is there anything about? Oh my God.

00:51:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Like get the cheeks raised or what I don't know what they're doing these days, but get something like that. That'll keep you sort of give you a built-in excuse to not have to go and do anything else.

00:51:31 Dan Rubenstein: Oh my gosh, his and hers calf implants? Ty. Holy. Okay, so elective surgery, cosmetic surgery that leaves you sore, got to work from home for a month? and gets you on the couch with the ability to say no to weddings and quinceineras and pumpkin patches for a full month.

00:51:49 Ty Hildenbrandt: Right.

00:51:55 Dan Rubenstein: I don't know what that is. I don't know what gets augmented. I don't know what gets tightened. But it's not a bad call from Ty Hildenbrandt, who will write you a note saying it's time.

00:52:03 Ty Hildenbrandt: Do you remember the show My Strange Addiction?

00:52:06 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, the calf implant episode, of course.

00:52:07 Ty Hildenbrandt: The calf implant episode, I think about that a couple times a year.

00:52:09 Dan Rubenstein: Seminal.

00:52:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: Not because I'm interested in calf implants.

00:52:14 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, I don't know, man.

00:52:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, no, no. I have what would be my rationale at this point?

00:52:19 Dan Rubenstein: I was the one who brought up, to be fair, elective, his and hers calf implants.

00:52:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah.

00:52:22 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:52:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: That episode is timeless. Absolutely timeless.

00:52:27 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, I totally agree. I'm trying to think of what we probably have a plastic surgeon, a plastic surgeon, or maybe a group, a gaggle. I don't know what you call a group of plastic surgeons that can weigh in on what takes exactly a month.

00:52:41 Ty Hildenbrandt: A gaggle? Yeah, that's what they prefer to be called a gaggle.

00:52:44 Dan Rubenstein: Like a murder of crows, right?

00:52:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, no.

00:52:47 Dan Rubenstein: I don't know what you would call.

00:52:47 Ty Hildenbrandt: If you are a doctor, solidverbal@gmail.com, let us know.

00:52:49 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:52:52 Dan Rubenstein: Yes, what's the procedure that takes exactly one month to recover from?

00:52:52 Ty Hildenbrandt: In your Yeah.

00:52:57 Dan Rubenstein: I think Dr. Keith could probably let us know.

00:52:58 Ty Hildenbrandt: Dr. Keith could probably hook us up.

00:53:00 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:53:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: Not plastic surgery, but Dr. Keith knows what's up.

00:53:01 Dan Rubenstein: No, he knows that universe. Continue.

00:53:06 Ty Hildenbrandt: 5.0 for week 10, okay.

00:53:08 Dan Rubenstein: Unbelievable.

00:53:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: But then there's week 11, one week later. Okay, maybe go under the knife the Thursday before week 10. We're just planning things out for you here, okay? Week 11, five games projected to be between ranked teams. Ole Miss at Oklahoma, banger. Tennessee at Texas A&M, banger. Texas at LSU, banger. USC at Indiana, Michigan at Oregon, two more bangers.

00:53:47 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:53:47 Ty Hildenbrandt: We've also got Washington at Michigan State. I've seen weirdness in that game before. We've got Arizona State traveling cross-country to square off against UCF. Maybe the Alonza Barnett experiment works. Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, I think could be crazy fun. Utah at Arizona, I think could be a really interesting game. I just have a thing for Arizona this year. We've also got BYU hosting Baylor. Could be some points there. We've got Another one that I jotted down, it's a Friday night game. I don't really know what to expect, but sort of weird circumstances that lead us to Illinois at UCLA on a Friday night.

00:54:34 Dan Rubenstein: Grape by me.

00:54:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: I think we're pretty high on Bobby Chesney.

00:54:35 Dan Rubenstein: There's a lot of juice with UCLA right now.

00:54:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: A lot of juice.

00:54:37 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:54:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: So I'm not going to say this one's a five. It is a solid 4.5, though. We've got good depth.

00:54:44 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

00:54:45 Ty Hildenbrandt: We've got great matchups. And this is another one again. If you're planning the surgery, whatever it is, whatever you're into, I'm shrugging here.

00:54:53 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:54:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: I mean, it's just too obvious.

00:54:58 Dan Rubenstein: I have not full Trappy Valley. It might even be close though, because of how big the previous week was. So Utah at Arizona is a week after Holy War and a week before they're at TCU. Tricky. Ohio State, this is a stretch. This is the only one I could find for Ohio State. Ohio State has Northwestern after their you know, traveling back from kind of across the country and playing USC. And then they have, oh, sorry, they're at SC and then they have Oregon, and then it's Northwestern.

00:55:31 Ty Hildenbrandt: And it's northwest, right?

00:55:31 Dan Rubenstein: So it's potential back-to-pack banger matchups, in Ty's words, for Ohio State before they get Northwestern, who you got like the Chip Kelly narrative. They're going to do their best to throw junk and play slow and do everything they can. We've had some weird. Ohio State Northwestern matchups that I guess needed 70 to 80 mile an hour wins to make it competitive.

00:55:52 Ty Hildenbrandt: Right.

00:55:53 Dan Rubenstein: I think that was a CJ Stroud game in the Chicago Burbs here.

00:55:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's right.

00:55:57 Dan Rubenstein: But otherwise, there was something else. Oh, A&M on November 14th has Tennessee a week after they travel kind of across the country to South Carolina. And before they finish with Oklahoma on the road, and of course, the Texas matchup on a short week Friday of Thanksgiving week. So that one could be decently tricky for A&M. Even if Tennessee is not great this season. You know, a lot of changes on both sides of the ball. I don't know. I have that down as a Trappertunity spot.

00:56:27 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, and in reading some of the spring material on Tennessee

00:56:32 Dan Rubenstein: Mm-hmm.

00:56:33 Ty Hildenbrandt: Tennessee is going to be one of those teams that is not going to be on most people's radars. Because there is a lot that's different. But it's still a really talented roster with a good coach. We know that they. Are they doing whatever they can on defense now with Jim Knowles? Quarterback remains a bit of an open question.

00:56:54 Dan Rubenstein: Ton of transfers on that defense coming in, though.

00:56:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: But it just, I mean, it's an SEC team.

00:56:57 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:57:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: They've obviously been very successful over the last couple of years. I don't know what to make of Tennessee yet. I haven't done the full preview, but they're an interesting team to me because they're another one, much like Louisville, that just finds themselves playing a bunch of teams that are of real consequence. So there's a gumpy quality to Tennessee this year as well.

00:57:18 Dan Rubenstein: Could be starting country legend George MacIntyre at quarterback. I assume they are, at least to start. I don't know.

00:57:26 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, it seems like that's still up in the air, but he had a pretty good spring.

00:57:30 Dan Rubenstein: Country icon, George MacIntyre. All right, continue. I don't think I have anything else to add for that week.

00:57:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: Four and a half for me in week 11.

00:57:38 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, it looks great.

00:57:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay. So this is back-to-back weeks to lead off November. Week 10, 5. Week 11, a 4.5. Week 12 is another 4.5.

00:57:50 Dan Rubenstein: At least, yeah.

00:57:51 Ty Hildenbrandt: Another one. Three in a row. This is why we said get the vasectomy or get you know whatever you're into.

00:57:57 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. I don't think people are into vasectomies as much as they are told it is time. Look, are there people that are like, I love a snip? I assume there's something for everybody, but I don't think that's a specific genre of interest.

00:58:11 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah. Can you fake getting a vasectomy?

00:58:19 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, interesting. Now this is an interesting conversation.

00:58:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: Fake it. I mean, not in like a destructive way that breaks down the fiber of your relationship, but just for like a

00:58:27 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. And the fiber of your goods, yeah.

00:58:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: Just for like a temporary three-week stretch to act as if it happened. And then maybe, I don't know how you get out of that. Just be like, oh, you know, it didn't take. Sorry.

00:58:45 Dan Rubenstein: Right. Okay. There are, there I'm looking at news reports. HuffPost. I got pregnant after my husband lied about his vasectomy.

00:58:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay.

00:58:57 Dan Rubenstein: So there have been dramatic situations with vasectomy lies.

00:59:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: To be clear, I am not suggesting any kind of nefarious circumstances here. I'm just saying if you can use that as temporary cover

00:59:09 Dan Rubenstein: Sure.

00:59:11 Ty Hildenbrandt: To give yourself some couch time for a three-week stretch, let's say four-week stretch this coming November in a pinch

00:59:17 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

00:59:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: A possibility Sure No

00:59:26 Dan Rubenstein: Man, like if it were you, Ty, in detail, spare no detail. What if you're asked for evidence? Are you having somebody kick you so you get swollen at least?

00:59:37 Ty Hildenbrandt: I don't I feel I may have gone out over my skis a little bit here with telling people to fake this.

00:59:41 Dan Rubenstein: Look, if you're going to do something, Ty, do it right.

00:59:46 Ty Hildenbrandt: I'm not I don't I don't I'm not implying anything destructive, I promise you.

00:59:49 Dan Rubenstein: Hold on, we're going to make a social graphic with your previous quote. Fake a vasectomy if you have to, with a picture of you. I'll just copy ESPN's format. Continue.

01:00:00 Ty Hildenbrandt: SMU at Notre Dame, LSU at Tennessee, Texas A&M at Oklahoma.

01:00:02 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah. Hold on, LSU's playing Notre Dame and Tennessee in the same weekend?

01:00:09 Ty Hildenbrandt: I said SMU at Notre Dame.

01:00:11 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, SMU. Sorry, I misheard.

01:00:13 Ty Hildenbrandt: Texas A&M at Oklahoma. Utah at TCU. Indiana on the road at Washington, Dan.

01:00:20 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

01:00:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: We've also got Iowa at Illinois, Georgia at South Carolina, tough road spot, Texas Tech at Baylor, Ohio State at Nebraska. We talked about this one earlier.

01:00:33 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, it's huge week. It's trapped this is the other Trappy Valley week to me.

01:00:36 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay. What else we got here?

01:00:38 Dan Rubenstein: Because you all this is the our favorite word here, The Solid Verbal, this is the penultimate week of the season, is it not?

01:00:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: What, what That's right, penultimate, yep.

01:00:43 Dan Rubenstein: And just like on all your prestige TV shows that you watch, Ty. It's always the second to last episode where the big stuff happens, and then the final episode of the season is kind of the fallout from the big stuff that happened the episode before.

01:00:50 Ty Hildenbrandt: Has to be.

01:00:58 Dan Rubenstein: So you're going to both get Ty’s Bangers and you're going to get Dan's Trappy Valley all in one in November 21st?

01:01:07 Ty Hildenbrandt: November 21st, yep.

01:01:08 Dan Rubenstein: Is this your birthday?

01:01:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's not my birthday, but it's right around my birthday, yep.

01:01:11 Dan Rubenstein: It's right around your birthday, correct? If you're looking to steal Ty's identity, that's a key cog in your pursuit, knowing Ty's birthday.

01:01:15 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yep. Yeah.

01:01:20 Dan Rubenstein: How old are you turning this fall?

01:01:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: Uh thirty.

01:01:22 Dan Rubenstein: Oh my god, it's a big one, Ty.

01:01:24 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, huge.

01:01:24 Dan Rubenstein: Huge. I have down here for traps. So Texas Tech at Baylor. It's after. A still water trip. We'll see how difficult that actually is, but it's still coming back off a road game before a short week TCU.

01:01:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: Okay, the short week game.

01:01:39 Dan Rubenstein: Michigan has UCLA between a road trip to Oregon and a road trip to Ohio State. LSU is at Tennessee. after Bama and Texas back to back. LSU has Bama and Texas in back to back weeks before traveling to Knoxville. So difficult spots for some of those teams as they finish out their years in late November.

01:02:03 Ty Hildenbrandt: Got NC State at Florida State. We got Pitt at Louisville. Another Louisville game here, man. I feel like I've said Louisville like eight times.

01:02:10 Dan Rubenstein: Who is the team that we've said Enough that, like, last year, I want to say it was probably some combination of Clemson and Penn State, where when you look-ahead to the season, you're like, look at all these great games. And then you have to cross out so many of the future great-looking games because both of those teams are so disappointing. And you know, like, well, these aren't great games anymore.

01:02:33 Ty Hildenbrandt: It's probably going to end up being Louisville for me. I haven't talked a lot about Louisville in the run-up to the season. I feel like the teams that I've been highest on have been Oklahoma State. Have been Arizona, have been who else have I? I've been into Florida

01:02:55 Dan Rubenstein: But what I'm saying is if this team, if this specific team is disappointing, this erases X number of really interesting, potentially huge games. I think it might be USC.

01:03:08 Ty Hildenbrandt: USC could be one Ole Miss could be another.

01:03:11 Dan Rubenstein: I think Texas is another one of those teams that if Texas for some reason is no good or suffers a rash of terrible injuries, something like that? Or you like one of those teams is either disappointing because of how they play or disappointing because of what the roster looks like. Then you have to like, man, you have to look at the next six weeks and be like, oh man, we don't have nearly as many great looking games as I thought we did. That was what was true with Clemson and Penn State last year.

01:03:35 Ty Hildenbrandt: Four and a half for me this week.

01:03:37 Dan Rubenstein: I'm great with that.

01:03:38 Ty Hildenbrandt: Again, three straight weeks here. First three weeks of November. I'll put it on solidverbal.com/calendar. All right. I'm going to make this big week. And then the very next week is, in effect, the last week of the regular season. And though there aren't projected to be. More than four games between ranked opponents. And though some of the games that I'm going to mention here between ranked opponents might not be enough to bubble up to the top of your power rankings. It's Rivalry Week, baby. We always have weirdness on Rivalry Week. So I have learned over the years of doing this show to sort of take Rivalry Week and put it on its own.

01:04:27 Dan Rubenstein: What do you got to do with the records, though, right? You got to throw them out.

01:04:29 Ty Hildenbrandt: You got to throw the records. Those records go out the window.

01:04:30 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, of course.

01:04:32 Ty Hildenbrandt: So rivalry week, in my opinion, is never lower than a four. Your mileage may vary, but this to me is a four, an easy four because of all the rivalries. You got TCU, Texas Tech. We got Texas, Texas A&M playing that one on Black Friday. We've got Washington at Oregon.

01:04:48 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

01:04:49 Ty Hildenbrandt: We got Michigan, Ohio State this year in Columbus. Also, Louisville, Kentucky. LSU, Arkansas. Oklahoma, Missouri. Tennessee, Vandy, Arizona State, Arizona. SMU at Stanford. Okay. Could be a meaningful ACC game.

01:05:09 Dan Rubenstein: I have that as trappy.

01:05:10 Ty Hildenbrandt: Very trappy. Notre Dame, yep, yep.

01:05:11 Dan Rubenstein: Not because I'm super high on Stanford, so it's SMU, it's not traveling fully across the country, but SMU, it's a week after SMU is at Notre Dame, right? So it's travel to South Bend, come home, travel to Palo Alto. And there's the weird thing with the the Stanford Cal rivalry and sometimes with USC UCLA, where you'll get a huge rivalry matchup and then still another week and you have to play a game against Fresno State or something. Or like Cal will have to play UCLA a week after they beat Stanford and they're in a huge letdown spot because they have the huge rivalry game in, again, the penultimate week. So now we have that with SMU, both getting Notre Dame, and I think Stanford Cal is the week before, is it not?

01:05:56 Ty Hildenbrandt: I believe so, yeah.

01:05:57 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

01:05:59 Ty Hildenbrandt: SMU at Stanford, USC against UCLA. We've also got the Egg Bowl. We've also got the Heroes game. We've also got Clean Old Fashioned Hate. We've also got the Iron Bowl. There's a lot going on here.

01:06:12 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, oaken bucket.

01:06:12 Ty Hildenbrandt: Can't go lower than a Foreign Rivalry Week ever.

01:06:15 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

01:06:16 Ty Hildenbrandt: So, for all intents and purposes, and this is Thanksgiving week, for all intents and purposes, the month of November should be blocked off on your calendar on the weekends, which is why we've made some. Brash suggestions here for how you could spend that.

01:06:32 Dan Rubenstein: Lying about a vasectomy.

01:06:34 Ty Hildenbrandt: Whatever it takes, man.

01:06:35 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, lie about getting your tubes tied, I guess, is an option, according to Ty.

01:06:39 Ty Hildenbrandt: I listen.

01:06:42 Dan Rubenstein: Marriage tips from Ty Hildenbrandt.

01:06:42 Ty Hildenbrandt: I, yeah, don't know. This is these are not good marriage tips. I am open to ideas. Send yours in solidverbal@gmail.com. I will pick some of my favorite out. We'll read them on the next episode. But you got to send them in right away. Otherwise, you're going to forget about it. Okay.

01:06:58 Dan Rubenstein: Yes.

01:07:01 Ty Hildenbrandt: Week 14 is Championship Week. Week 15 is Army-Navy. The weekend right after that is when the playoffs are going to start up. So this kicks into high gear the deeper we get into the season. There are pockets, great pockets of fun. The deeper we get into this year, and certainly in the first nine weeks, there will be madness that occurs. We just know week seven, as I mentioned in the middle of October, looks incredible. But At least with what we know now and how some of these teams are projected in terms of rankings, it appears as if the month of November is going to be an absolute banger from start to finish.

01:07:40 Dan Rubenstein: Agree and don't forget

01:07:42 Ty Hildenbrandt: Make your plans accordingly. Not a window of opportunity.

01:07:47 Dan Rubenstein: Don't forget to sign up for Ty Substack, howtobemarried.substack.com

01:07:55 Ty Hildenbrandt: That's not a real domain.

01:07:57 Dan Rubenstein: There's a free, there's a paid, and every morning Ty is just like, here's what you do, right in your inbox.

01:08:06 Ty Hildenbrandt: howtobemarried.substack.com. Not found. It is not found.

01:08:10 Dan Rubenstein: Ah Okay.

01:08:11 Ty Hildenbrandt: And I'm not registering it.

01:08:13 Dan Rubenstein: I would read it. I'd pay five to seven dollars a month.

01:08:17 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, you wouldn't.

01:08:17 Dan Rubenstein: Sure. For d if I got daily Thai marriage tips If I got 800 words every day with new

01:08:21 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, you you don't need that. That would go right to spam. Eight hundred words?

01:08:30 Dan Rubenstein: 500 words every day.

01:08:32 Ty Hildenbrandt: Five hundred words?

01:08:33 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah, 500 words a day. Could you could you carry it on for a week? Could you create a secret Substack? That only patrons have access to with 500 words Monday through Friday, one week.

01:08:43 Ty Hildenbrandt: What am I writing 500 words a day about?

01:08:47 Dan Rubenstein: Anything you want, successful marriage tips.

01:08:50 Ty Hildenbrandt: I don't want to please don't make me do marriage.

01:08:51 Dan Rubenstein: So what is 500 times 5? 2,500 words total?

01:08:53 Ty Hildenbrandt: 2,500. Yep, this is a math show. Yep.

01:08:58 Dan Rubenstein: I think it would be great, Ty.

01:08:59 Ty Hildenbrandt: On marriage or on anything?

01:09:01 Dan Rubenstein: Yes. No, no, no, no. Marriage/long-term relationships.

01:09:04 Ty Hildenbrandt: Five hundred words a day is a lot for me.

01:09:08 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, you got a lot to say?

01:09:09 Ty Hildenbrandt: No, I don't.

01:09:10 Dan Rubenstein: Oh, it's hi. Don't sell yourself short. You're out here telling people to fake sterilization procedures.

01:09:20 Ty Hildenbrandt: It's November, though. Look at the sleep.

01:09:22 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

01:09:23 Ty Hildenbrandt: Desperate times, man.

01:09:24 Dan Rubenstein: Okay.

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01:10:14 Dan Rubenstein: Agree? Sorry, I have a stockpile of vas deferens jokes that I'm ready to fire off if you no, I'm just

01:10:24 Ty Hildenbrandt: Why don't we leave it there?

01:10:26 Dan Rubenstein: Yeah.

01:10:28 Ty Hildenbrandt: Again, I'm going to make that site, solidverbal.com/calendar. All right.

01:10:32 Dan Rubenstein: Also, if you're listening in your Chrysler Pacifica, please know that we respect your choice.

01:10:35 Ty Hildenbrandt: Yeah, we do.

01:10:40 Dan Rubenstein: And I'm glad we said Vas deferens. So we didn't we weren't crass. And now you can answer your children when they ask what a vas deferens is.

01:10:49 Ty Hildenbrandt: For that guy over there, my good friend Dan Frupenstein.

01:10:49 Dan Rubenstein: Or Or? Or? I think there's yeah.

01:10:54 Ty Hildenbrandt: and for myself, Ty Hildenbrandt, thank you for downloading, for listening, for supporting. We'll talk to you all later this week. In the meantime, stay solid.

01:10:59 Dan Rubenstein: Peace