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Tom Fornelli on Week 1 Mayhem, 12-Team Playoff, and Italians
Football is officially back, and the first full weekend of the college slate delivered everything we crave. Big Cat and PFT opened the show still buzzing from five straight days of wall-to-wall action, from the Backyard Brawl on Thursday night all the way to the absolute chaos of LSU and Florida State in New Orleans. Big Cat was so locked in that he's already looking to expand the calendar next year.
Big CatThe college football season should start in July
They should start college football season in fucking July because it was like, I just... It was so fun watching just wall to wall college football.
While the games were great, the coaching performances were... varied. Brian Kelly’s debut at LSU was a special kind of disaster, highlighted by muffed punts and a blocked extra point that had PFT ready to fire up the moving trucks despite the massive contract involved.
PFT CommenterLSU should pay the $80M+ buyout to fire Brian Kelly immediately
It would be somewhere between $75 and $85 million right now to buy out Brian Kelly. I say, go for it, go for it right now. You're just throwing good money after bad.
North Carolina also provided some unintentional comedy, giving up a staggering 40 points in the fourth quarter to App State. Big Cat thinks the Gene Chizik experiment in Chapel Hill might already be reaching its expiration date after they made an App State comeback look like a video game on rookie difficulty.
Big CatGene Chizik should be fired as North Carolina's defensive coordinator
Gene Chizik, like what? He, I don't even know. I, you have to fire him. The fact that it happened [giving up 40 in a quarter] and then the next day Jackson state... shut down [FAMU] and like UNC gave up 24 points to them.
Georgia's Statement and the Heisman Race
Friend of the program Tom Fornelli joined the show to help make sense of the carnage. The biggest takeaway from the weekend was Georgia essentially treating Oregon like a high school junior varsity team. While everyone spent the offseason wondering if the Bulldogs would take a step back after losing a historic amount of talent to the NFL, Tom thinks the opposite happened.
Tom FornelliGeorgia is better than they were last year
I think Georgia is better than last year's team. I came into this season, thinking Alabama and Ohio State, one of them is going to win the national title... After what I saw on Saturday, I suddenly think that Georgia's probably right up there with those two.
Stetson Bennett looked like a totally different player, carving up the Ducks with ease. Big Cat is finally ready to stop the Stetson slander and see what the Mailman can do at the next level.
Big CatStetson Bennett would be great on a good NFL team
I'm kind of kind of thinking Stetson Bennett. It might be a pro, even though he's got like the best team around him, he, he looked awesome. Put him on a really good NFL team, then he'll be great.
Tom and the guys also looked ahead to the Heisman race. While Anthony Richardson became a cult hero overnight in Gainesville, the heavy hitters in Columbus and Tuscaloosa still look like the safest bets to be standing in New York in December.
Tom FornelliBryce Young and C.J. Stroud are the two best quarterbacks in the country
I think [C.J. Stroud] and Bryce Young are the two best quarterbacks in the country. I think that they will be Heisman finalists.
Who's Back and Trending
In a packed Who's Back of the Week, the guys covered everything from Brendan Fraser's seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes to the bizarre Harry Styles and Chris Pine spitting rumors. Big Ben is also back, unfortunately, launching a new podcast called "Footbahling." PFT has a very specific vision for what that show is going to sound like once the former Steelers QB starts reminiscing.
PFT CommenterBig Ben's podcast will devolve into him ranking the injuries he's played through
I'm sure that it's just gonna devolve into [Ben Roethlisberger] talking about various injuries. It should just be him talking about, I ranking the injuries that he's played through.
We also touched on the rumors surrounding Tom Brady and Gisele. While the gossip magazines are obsessed with the drama, Big Cat only sees one possible motivation for Brady to keep playing.
Big CatTom Brady will win Gisele back by winning another Super Bowl
I think you have to take the Bucs for the season because if we know anything about Tom Brady, he's like, I'm gonna win her back by winning another Super Bowl.
The Italian Mount Rushmore
To close out Mount Rushmore season, we brought in the heavy hitter. Tom Fornelli joined Hank for the Mount Rushmore of Italians, taking on Big Cat and PFT in a battle for cultural supremacy. The draft featured everything from Julius Caesar to Mike the Situation, though team Hank and Tom took a strategic turn with the first overall pick by selecting a man who checks every single Italian box: Mike Tirico.
We wrapped things up with the return of Football Guy of the Week, featuring Sam Pittman’s "old and cold" Coors Lights and a high schooler leveling a returner without a helmet. To top it off, Big Cat caught a glimpse of the future during the Clemson mop-up duty and he's already booking the flight to Canton.
Big CatClemson freshman Cade Klubnik is a future Hall of Famer after seeing just five passes
This kid for Clemson [Cade Klubnik] is a future Hall of Famer... I've seen five passes from him. Hall of Famer, talking gold jacket folks. Where were you when we said this?
It’s time to start preparing your liver for NFL Sunday. One down, seventeen to go.
