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Dan Wetzel's Week 4 College Football Podcast: SEC West is king

Dan Wetzel
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Dan Wetzel's Week 4 College Football Podcast: SEC West is king

Chris Vernon of ESPN Radio Memphis joins the College Football Podcast this week, ostensibly to discuss how outrageously good the SEC West is – 19-1 overall, five teams in the AP top 10, all seven teams receiving votes.

The discussion, however, runs off the rails almost immediately.

Topics include:

• After attending a Michigan game as a fan, and hearing everyone else grumble about the state of the Wolverine program, Dan wonders if Saturday’s game against Utah isn’t an unexpected make-or-break contest for Brady Hoke.

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• The guys try to figure out how exactly Hoke commands a $4.1 million salary, including a $500,000 retention bonus when no one would hire him away?

• Could Bret Beileima’s new team, Arkansas, win his old league, the Big Ten, despite being the likely seventh-best team in the SEC West?

• Kansas State fits all sorts of gambling trends this week: weeknight home dog (plus-9) and Bill Snyder coached. So why is Vernon so convinced Auburn will roll the Wildcats?

• Is Kansas coach Charlie Weis’ job really on the line against Central Michigan this week (the Lawrence, Kan., paper suggested as much), and has there ever been a more pathetic Waterloo game than hoping to beat a MAC team that just lost by 37 points?

• If Florida winds up firing Will Muschamp, who could the Gators get to take the job? And how was it that Muschamp was offered both the Texas and UF jobs with no head coaching experience?

• There’s a debate over whether Clemson is lying in the weeds as a 20.5-point underdog at Florida State.

• Vernon thinks Mississippi State will beat LSU, outright, in Baton Rouge.

• BYU’s playoff chances are discussed.

• A breakdown of which fan base is most pleased right now: Alabama, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State or Tennessee. And if things go right, how Oct. 4 could be the greatest day in the history of the state of Mississippi.

• There’s a retelling of the classic day in Tuscaloosa when, at a tailgate party, some Tennessee fans watched on television as their team blew a game to LSU and a grown man cried.

There’s a whole bunch of other nonsense also. Check it out here or on iTunes. As always, it’s free.

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