Exploring Terry Bowden's Insight on Week 7 in College Football

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00:00I always love every week talking to Coach Terry Bowden.

00:06You can catch the Bowden Blitz podcast.

00:08It's badass.

00:09You can follow him on X at the Bowden Blitz and everyone knows what he's accomplished

00:15as a coach.

00:16We love him talking college football on Coast to Coast every week.

00:20Coach, you know, I got to start with that Canes game in Berkeley down 35 to 10 and what

00:27Cam Ward pulled out of his arse to win that game.

00:32I'm sorry.

00:33That puts him back on top in the Heisman for me.

00:37The kid Jenny's been unbelievable.

00:38They're not giving the Heisman to some kid at Boise State unless he runs for 4,000 yards.

00:42I'm sorry.

00:43So for me, it's Ward and Hunter 1-2.

00:48I'm all in.

00:49I think that's the 1-2 rate it's going to go at Cam Ward.

00:51I think he's the best in the country and he's the best at leading his team.

00:55No team in America depends on their quarterback as much as Miami.

00:59That's good and that's bad, but he is by far the best.

01:02He can do about anything with the ball.

01:04There's nothing he can't do.

01:05I'm a little bit concerned about some of the judgments decisions he makes early.

01:09It's almost like he's baiting the other team to get a little bit of a lead.

01:12He gets himself in trouble doing some poor like he threw an interception right after

01:16halftime.

01:17It was just up for grabs and you know he knew that was a bad judgment, but he is so talented,

01:22so good.

01:23It's kind of like Brett Favre.

01:25You got to take the good with the bad.

01:26When you get a great one, you got to take the good with the bad.

01:28Honestly, that game, I thought my, I thought I was going to have another heart attack.

01:33I've already had one.

01:34I thought I was going to have another one.

01:35Like I was losing my mind.

01:37All right, tonight we got Utah ranked going into Tempe to take on a tough Arizona State

01:44team that's 4-1 as well.

01:47They're laying five and a half to Utes.

01:50I'll tell you that the Utes with Cam Risen, I think Risen is expected to start.

01:55He was the reason they were picked preseason to win the conference.

01:58They got annihilated by BYU, but he's back supposedly healthy.

02:03I don't think they would play him if he wasn't healthy, but Arizona State has a great running

02:07attack.

02:08If they can keep Utah off the field and keep Cam Rising on the bench where he's been the

02:11last three or four weeks, they can come back and win things, but I'm going with Utah tonight

02:16against the spread.

02:17Yeah, I'm with you.

02:18I really, I think they'll get it.

02:20They always own Arizona State.

02:23It's just inevitable.

02:24All right, the Red River tomorrow in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl, Texas and Oklahoma.

02:30I got to tell you, Coach, based on history, that number is too big for me.

02:35Yeah, I think it's too big for me too.

02:37The fact that the only way Oklahoma could win because they don't have much offense is

02:41to play great defense, keep their run the football, although they're not going to score

02:45very much, keep Texas offense off the field because they've got too many weapons offensively

02:50at Texas.

02:51So Oklahoma doesn't have ability to score a lot of points there.

02:54And I should know Zach, Zach Alley, the offensive defense coordinator at Oklahoma was my defensive

03:00coordinator at ULM and AJ Million Way, the quarterback coach at Texas was my coordinator

03:05for nine years.

03:06And so I know a little bit of insight there, but I think Texas offense is more than Oklahoma's

03:12defense and that's who's going to have to win the game.

03:15Listen, they've treated yours poorly before that Oklahoma defense.

03:19I remember a game, he had three turnovers against them and they racked him and he's

03:25been out.

03:26Do you think there'll be any return to that?

03:28Well, I'm thinking that's part of growing up, probably learning how to be a quarterback.

03:32What is he, a seven year veteran?

03:34He's been there forever and he's done a great job, but he's a veteran now.

03:37He's more experienced.

03:38I don't see him making those kinds of mistakes in a game like this.

03:43So tomorrow and Eugene at Outson Stadium, beautiful spot, tough place to play.

03:49But if anyone can do it, it's this Ohio State team, man, are they stacked.

03:58So I think we lost coach at some level here, coach, do I have you?

04:03I got you now.

04:04What was that?

04:05So I was saying, if anyone can beat Oregon at Outson, it'd be this Ohio State team.

04:10They're so loaded.

04:11Yeah.

04:12You know, I can't, I'm really a fond of Oregon, I play for Oregon and that stadium, Outson

04:16Stadium.

04:17I've been there.

04:18I coached there.

04:19I've broadcasted games at the stadium.

04:20It's not that big, but it's right on the field.

04:22There's no room between the stands and the field or side by side.

04:26It's a great environment to play if you're Oregon.

04:29But man, if you can beat Ohio State, you're better than the Big Ten because Ohio State

04:33to me has the most talent of anybody in the country.

04:36There may be the best team in the country.

04:37They just haven't played anybody.

04:39I don't think people know what they're getting, but they're going to know this weekend.

04:42But Ohio State to me, best talent, best team in the Big Ten.

04:47And I don't believe it.

04:48I think Oregon fits right in with the Big Ten, but I don't believe right now we're going

04:51to see them be number one of the Big Ten this Saturday.

04:54All right.

04:55How about Ole Miss at Death Valley against LSU?

04:58That's going to be a great game.

04:59Tough place to play under the lights.

05:02That's the toughest place I've ever coached.

05:03I've been there about seven times coaching with my dad, four times, three times when

05:07I was at Auburn.

05:09It's the most intimidating home field environment, and at night, and Brian Kelly, the head coach,

05:15he's not lost at night.

05:16He's 12-0 at night, has not lost since he's been there.

05:20But you know, this is the 100th anniversary of their stadium, and they have added millions

05:24of dollars worth of jumbotrons and lights and strobe lights, and I'm going to be honest

05:29with you, that's the one place where I have to give the home field advantage a lot of

05:33points because I think that's the difference in these two games.

05:35The other thing being, LSU was off last week.

05:38They're healthy.

05:39They've got their players all healthy to go.

05:41Ole Miss has been beat up in some tough games.

05:43Trey Harris, their star receiver, I don't think he'll play, and so I like LSU, again,

05:48to beat the team and beat the spread.

05:50Yeah, I'm with you, Coach.

05:52K-State going to Boulder to take on Primes-Buffaloes.

05:56Yeah, I'm a Deion fan.

05:59I just always – Deion took one of the toughest jobs in American football.

06:03Can he be a great Division I coach?

06:05If he'd have taken a great Division I program, I bet you'd see a lot more, but he's done

06:09a great job at Colorado, but they don't have – again, the athletes that keep going.

06:13Kansas State, again, has just got the conference's best team.

06:16I think I would pick them.

06:18The one thing Deion is not doing, he still doesn't have a running attack, and once you

06:22get against your better opponents, you've got to run the football to keep the pressure

06:26off your quarterback.

06:27They've got a great quarterback.

06:28Shadur Sanders is an outstanding quarterback.

06:31He's not going to be a first-round draft pick, and probably will be, but you've got

06:34to get pressure off him and you've got to run the football, and so they have to get

06:37better at that.

06:38For that reason, Kansas State, which I think is going to be – I think they're now going

06:42to give Utah that run for their money in the conference, and they'll beat Colorado this

06:46week.

06:47Yeah, I'm with you.

06:48I'm with you here as well, Coach.

06:50Florida going to Tennessee.

06:51Tennessee – I had Arkansas last week in Fayetteville getting 14.

06:55I think Tennessee gets right at home in Knoxville against the Gators.

07:00Well, you know, if they're going to get right, they need to get their mojo back.

07:03They've got to go back to being what Josh Heupel is.

07:06He's a vertical passing game coach.

07:08Everybody thinks he's a run-first-throw-second because he runs so much, but he runs so much

07:12because people are already playing the pass by the time the first play starts, but if

07:16he doesn't hit more vertical passes, that's what they lack, the vertical passing game

07:20to back the safeties off.

07:22He runs the inside zone.

07:23It doesn't work unless you get the safeties out of there, and you've got to throw deep,

07:26But when they're at home and they're comfortable, I think that's where they're playing best.

07:30To me, there's no question at home they're going to win this football game.

07:33I'm not quite ready yet until I see the quarterback play with a little more consistency on his

07:37passing game to say they're going to beat the spread.

07:40So last week, I had UCLA in 28-and-a-half at Happy Valley, and they covered UCLA lost

07:47whatever, 27-10.

07:49Do you think Penn State handles their business at the Coliseum against USC, who's lost a

07:55couple of games?

07:56Yes, I do.

07:57I think Penn State will go out there and do what they, you know, they've been like the

08:00third person at the Big Ten.

08:04There's Ohio State, there's Michigan, and then there's Penn State.

08:06They're 5-0 every year, and then they lose a game they're supposed to.

08:09Well, they've got a very, very good team this year.

08:11They're solid, and I think this is a perfect opportunity.

08:13Southern Cal is playing below the standard they thought they were going to be when the

08:17season began, and I like the talent and the physicality of Penn State, and I think they

08:22go out there, and they beat against the spread.

08:24They win the game, and they beat USC out there on the West Coast.

08:27Does Arizona have a shot in Provo against a 5-0 BYU team laying three?

08:33I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.

08:34Who was that now?

08:36Do you think Arizona can give BYU a game in Provo?

08:41I don't think so.

08:42I think BYU gets that one.

08:44I think they've got a little stronger team.

08:45Arizona is picked pretty high.

08:47They've been hot and cold, so again, it's a matter if they get hot, but I do believe

08:50I'd go with BYU.

08:52And 20 seconds, Iowa State's in Morgantown against the Mountaineers.

08:57Do you think that'll be a good game?

08:58You know, I'm a Mountaineer.

08:59I did play for the Mountaineers, or at least I sat on that bench for the Mountaineers.

09:03I was a tailback.

09:04Every time I'd go on the field, my dad would tell me to get my tail back on the bench.

09:07That being said, I have a hard time.

09:11I'd love to see West Virginia win, but I think this team is just too strong, and that the

09:15old Mountaineer field is going to be one where they have to take a loss.

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