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And away we go.

It's time for week eight in the college football world.

And great to have you with us on game notes here on LPB alongside my Super Bowl champion partner, Scott Shanley.

I'm Victor Howell, getting into the meat of the month of October, getting into some of these very important, conference games for these teams.

And last week, unless you were a fan of only two teams, it's a tough week for Louisiana schools, a lot of them coming up on the short end.

Now it's time to rebound from a very important time to get on the right track.

Yeah, rested up both mentally and physically for that stretch running into this important part of the season, a lot of conference matchups coming up and a lot of rivalry games coming up.

So I think it's an important time of year.

You get into the October and early November part of the football season.

That's where you know what type of football teams you have.

And there's that quirky balance to it because like a Tulane and a Louisiana Tech played on a Thursday and now Louisiana Tech don't play again until Tuesday night.

So the schedule kind of gets a little strange as well.

Yeah.

And you have to be able to bounce as a coach and a player.

We're creatures of habit.

You get into a routine and that's what you want every single week.

And like you said, it's not like that where you're playing holes every night of the week.

So you have to be prepared and be ready and be flexible.

Yeah, we've got a lot of fun games to talk about, and we are going to start with a matchup out of the Southland Conference.

And it is a very storied one.

Indeed.

This afternoon for the 70th time, the Lions from southeastern will face the demons from Northwestern State.

SLU has played NLU more than any other team, and lately they have feasted.

When these two teams have met, the Lions have won the last 14 meetings between them and Northwestern State.

They're kicking it off for homecoming this afternoon for southeastern.

As for the demons from Northwestern State, they're still trying to take command of their comeback tour, if you will, or rebuild with the program, take away the two big losses to Power Four teams.

The demons have been in every game but one, taking them down to the wire.

Last week they lost on the road to Houston Christian by three and had the ball that could have led to a tying field goal or game winning touchdown.

Unfortunately, an interception ended the game for the Lions.

Their trajectory has taken off this week.

They cracked the top 25 in the FCS polls, and last time out handed McNeese its worst shutout loss ever in Lake Charles.

The two quarterback system has been working extremely well and the defense has been tough on everyone.

Now they come off a bye week and have homecoming this weekend.

So the big question how will they respond after some time away?

We had a couple of days off over the weekend, and you always wonder if you know when you're playing well.

Is the open day come at a good time with built up?

I don't think it's ever a bad time to be able to get your guys healthy again.

So, like a good football team, a mature football team, and that those guys understand what you got to be able to do when you get a couple of days off.

You talk to as a staff.

And our year and a half here, this is probably on film, the best FCS team we've seen so far.

I think they're they're a complete team, in all three phases.

Defensively they're big, they're fast or physical.

They can run, their structure is simple, but they're very disciplined in it.

They know exactly what they want to do.

And they just line up and there's better than you.

4:00 kickoff for the homecoming game over in Hammond at Strawberry Stadium.

As you mentioned, the Lions lead the all time series and have won 14 in a row.

Caleb Proctor, four sacks.

That is tied for first in the Southland Conference.

One of the bigger names on the defensive side.

If you're not making your way to Hammond to check out this ball game at Strawberry Stadium, you can check out all the action on ESPN plus scoreless.

First one, let me talk about the demons for just a second from Northwestern State because as you know, I've been on record saying I like what Blaine McCorkle has been doing, given what he was handed and what he took over Northwestern State.

Now you're at the point where you've been in some games close last week on the road.

You need to play down the stretch.

How do you keep in it as a player to stay focused, knowing that eventually that one play will come to turn things around to get you on the other side of the home?

Yeah, because to your point, the more of those positive plays come, that positive mindset enters and then everything kind of starts to snowball into that confidence.

And so it's little victories.

It's not so much the victory at the end of the games win loss.

And I know that's the final score of all the games.

We look at.

It's the inner battles that each player has across the line of scrimmage with their one on one battles the game within the game.

So if you can get a lot of guys have an individual success, play after play after play, that's how it becomes team success and winning those games.

At the end of four quarters, as you heard McCorkle say, he thinks this southeastern team might be the best one they're going to face at this FCS level.

With the way southeastern has played as of late.

And again, you have to go back to this two quarterback system.

You're talking about two men that came into this campus.

Remember, they're both transfers with Carson Camp and Kyle Love one from the West Coast, one from the East coast.

They meet in the middle.

They're both trying to become starters now.

They've figured out a system very well.

It doesn't matter who starts because they're both getting in and they're both proving to be successful on the field.

Yeah, and they're doing a great job.

They're doing a great job.

It it's tough as a coaching staff to integrate two quarterbacks.

And I know it happens at every level.

High school college in the NFL.

You've seen it with obviously Taysom Hill with the Saints creating a new package of plays.

But I think it's hard because a lot of times the locker room likes to galvanize and unite around one player.

This is our guy, this is our leader.

So the fact that they've been able to do it with two guys in the locker room is still, accepting of that and accelerating based on their leadership.

And play, I think, speaks volumes about the maturity of this football team.

Like coach was saying earlier.

And quarterbacks always like to have a go to guy.

You have two quarterbacks, both of them have a go to guy and it's the same guy.

His name is Jalen DiMarzio.

He has been outstanding and has been one of those go to guys.

I love this play against McNeese.

Scott.

You put everybody on one side, you go one on one with the big fella.

Let him go up top.

But DiMaggio has been outstanding eighth in the conference and receiving yards.

But he's also tied for first in receiving touchdowns.

Yeah we talked about playing two quarterbacks.

You can play five quarterbacks.

They're all going to look for this guy.

He's he's been the big target for them.

Makes plays.

When his numbers called it a huge red zone threat.

And that's the thing you get down in the red zone.

This is a game of matchups.

You isolate him out there on a corner or a DB.

He's too small, too fast for a linebacker.

So he's a huge mismatch for other teams.

Defenses will be a good one between the demons and the Lions this afternoon.

Again, it's a 4:00 kick homecoming for the Lions.

We talk about those two quarterbacks.

We'll hear from them on Sunday on postgame though.

So join us for that.

There are some other games taking place out in the Southland Conference.

And we'll start with the Colonels from Nicholls, another team that's looking to get back on the winning track for Nicholls Colonels and head coach Tommy Wright back here trying to get back in the win column after they got that first big win of the season against UAW.

It's been a bit of a struggle, but they're going to try to get it done again this afternoon for the Colonels and see if they can get it.

After dropping five straight last week, they were in the game until the fourth quarter.

But then a special teams mistake allowed a punt return for a touchdown.

And that led to the loss against Lamar.

Tonight they're back on the road.

Their fourth and final road game of this four game string.

Back in Texas they will face Stephen at Boston.

The criminals have won four of the last five in this matchup.

And boy would they like to make it 5 or 6.

It's a 6:00 kick.

Check out all of the action on ESPN plus.

We got to execute that offensively.

No doubt about it I think that's the that's been the big thing that, that we have to do from a, you know, execution standpoint defensively.

You know, we got to quit.

You know, we have to I say quit.

But we certainly have to limit the number of explosive plays to somebody, say explosive plays.

I think he did.

Well, you might get him in this ballgame because there's I Sean Edwards remember we talked about him and you saw what he did last week against Northwestern State leading the way in the Southland Conference last week.

He went for 214 and two touchdowns against the demons.

He has to be the number one focus for the Cowboys defense if they want to grab an important win at home.

And boy, it would be important for the Cowboys if they can get it done.

But it will be a challenge when they face a Houston Christian team that has a little more momentum going for Jake Strong, by the way.

You see he's third in the South in conference and passing yards.

They've got to get that ground game going if they want their game to be successful.

The Cowboys lead the all time series even though they've lost two straight to Houston Christian.

It's a 6:00 kick.

Hopefully good weather over there in Lake Charles.

If you can make it out to Navarre Stadium.

If not I once again you can check out the action on ESPN plus.

Well, there are two games set to tip off at the top of the hour this morning.

A little breakfast football action for you.

One of those games, breakfast at Yeomans Stadium where the Tulane Green Wave are set to host the Black Knights from Army.

The last time these two teams met, it was in the conference game one year ago.

It wasn't in New Orleans and it wasn't pretty.

As Army dominated the ball game to win the conference championship, something that the Green Wave not forgotten.

I think it's inevitable that, like our guys even that were here understand that they they beat the stew out of us.

I mean, it wasn't even close.

Offensive coordinator Coach Craddock has the picture of them hosting our trophy.

I'll say it because we should have won that.

We should have took pride in that.

So now it's essentially a get back.

We're coming with everything we have is going to be a bloody fight.

We're coming with everything we have.

It's hard to beat them in time of possession.

It's hard to beat them in rushing yards, you know, and they're so committed to run.

You know last week's field goal fest won't won't win.

When you get a chance to score touchdowns you guys score touchdowns.

They're well coached in all phases.

But I think where they really do an elite job is special teams wise.

Like they're going to rush punts and field goals at a different level.

They're going to fake punts and field goals.

Like every defensive call we got in this week, I've told our staff and I met with them multiple times already.

I'm like, guys, forget blocking a field goal.

Just don't give them a fake.

Well, after a two game losing streak, the Black Knights have won two in a row.

They're now three and three on the season, two and two in conference play.

Two Lions loan loss, remember, was in Oxford against Ole Miss.

They've also won two in a row.

Remember their last game was a Thursday night contest and now they get set for 11:00.

Top of the hour.

They'll kick it off at home against Army.

Scott has one of those games where you want to forget the game the last time you played them, but as you can see, they remembered very well because of how bad it went.

But different players, different year, same army system.

You made your living on the defensive side.

How does Tulane prepare for this Army offense that is so unique when they when they have a triple option and wing-t everything else, you only see it once a year when you face them.

So how do you prepare for something like that?

Yeah, this is a tough team to beat.

Army's a tough team to beat because they don't beat themselves.

They do everything.

They try to stay ahead the sticks.

I think it's critical when you play these option run first type teams, you have to win on first down.

If you get into second and six, third and fourth, third and three, it's a long day and it's going to be a four quarter dogfight.

First down.

If you can get negative plays on first down or hold them the two yards or less and get them into third and long, that's when offenses like Army become uncomfortable.

They have to throw.

They don't like to be in that world.

Yeah, well surprise, surprise, Army's disciplined second fewest penalties in all of FBS right now.

And they lead the nation in time of possession.

So to your point, if you can't get to that run game early, they will just run and beat you to death with that running game.

And you don't know with the way they line up, is there going to be a talk?

Is it going to be a keep or you're going to the secondary guy and then all of a sudden they might surprise you with the pass.

So you've laid out very well what the defense has to do in the challenge.

Let's go on the other side of the ball Jake Retzlaff we know Tulane can be explosive.

Last game out it was four field goals against ECU.

They finally got a touchdown late.

But on the offensive side of the ball how much can they help the Tulane defense.

Because you know what.

Army's bring it to the.

I'll tell you exactly how when you face these teams they like to lean on you like Army does.

They wear down the time of possession.

They wear down on the clock.

The biggest threat they have, besides you stuffing them on defense and making them play in third and long, is your offense scoring points.

If Tulane can come out and get it 14 nothing.

Get up 17 to 7 and put that pressure on the Army offense again, not let them do what they want to do.

They want to run the ball every play.

They want to stay inside the tackles and just run downhill.

North and south, make them throw the football.

That's how the Tulane offense can help their defense come out with a fast start.

Get some points early on the board, make Army chase you.

Hey look, splash plays are great, but maybe the offense can even little clock to keep them.

Keep them off on the bench.

Look, this could be a big win for Tulane when you look at the schedule for the Green Wave and what's coming up.

Because if you get this win against Army, you're right back on a bye week.

And then that sets up the crucial back to back road games.

And we talked about this back in mid-August on our preview show at UTSA.

And at number 22 Memphis.

You get a win for Tulane.

You've put yourself in a position to steal some big road games and being a great shot to win in the American and get back to the championship game.

But first things first.

It's Army and it's early.

Top of the hour here at 11:00.

They'll be playing at Yeomans Stadium.

When I say that there's a championship game coming Saturday 2 to 2:00 to Malone Stadium.

You've got a championship caliber team in Troy coming to Malone at 2:00, and you'll have a Ulm team that's prepared to play.

Yeah, it's getting real up there.

On Monroe for the Warhawks.

Different mentality than a year ago when they lost their last six.

Now trying to carry the mentality onto the field.

It was a tough, ugly loss on the road last week in the monsoon.

The Coastal Carolina now the big matchup at home against a good Troy team, two of the better defensive players in the Sunbelt will be on the field for this matchup.

By the way, Troy quarterback Tucker Gilchrist in his last nine quarters, he's completed 69% of his passes thrown for over 700 yards and eight touchdowns.

And he's run for two more to the mat at home.

That's two games in one quarter.

So he has been red hot.

That's the challenge for the Ulm defense.

Kickoff is at 2:00 up there on Monroe.

Get out there if you can and enjoy the ballgame.

If not, stay at home and enjoy it all on ESPN plus.

Well, the second breakfast time kickoff at the top of the hours in Nashville, where Garrett Nuss Meyer will lead his Tigers against the Vanderbilt Commodores, who are favored in this matchup against a ranked team for the first time since the 1940s.

Last week, much Meyer looked a lot more relaxed.

Scott called it about how he had to play be at ease with your game, and he led the Tigers to a win over South Carolina.

And Scott said a week ago he needed to feel free to let it rip and play more relaxed, something Brian Kelly also wanted to see, and challenged him to be, and thus himself said it made a difference.

He plays with the swagger and he's better with a swagger, right?

I don't know that he had that the previous weeks.

I thought it was a little bit robotic and we said, listen, you need to be Garrett Ness Meyer.

And he was, unfortunately, some of that comes with some mistakes, but but I like the version of Garrett Ness Meyer we saw.

He was a lot more confident.

He was a lot more, active in the pocket.

He, you know, had an opportunity to run a couple of times.

That's the version we want.

We want to clean up those.

What I would call uncharacteristic mistakes.

Just just trying to, you know, play like myself.

I think it was, you know, I think with the stuff I was dealing with in the first couple weeks were definitely frustrating and things like that.

And so, just allowing myself to go out there and have fun playing football again, that was kind of the biggest thing for me.

And so, I think that, you know, whenever I do do that, I think I play a lot more free and play better.

Well, now the Tigers play one of the hottest QBs in the country in Diego Pavia.

Not at all lacking in confidence.

He's a major reason the Commodores are ranked and playing as they are as hot as they are, and as well as they are through the air, on the ground.

He is someone you have to have an eye on at all times.

If you're LSU defense, here's Brian Kelly once again on what he sees as a focus for his Tiger defense to stop Pavia and the Commodore offense.

Make him one dimensional.

You know, I think that those dual threat quarterbacks, if they can do both you're in trouble.

So we've got to really do a great job in the running game.

And not to say that he can't throw the ball because he can.

They average over 200 yards throwing the football.

And he's capable.

But I think if you trying to choose one or the other, he's going to kill you if he runs.

So we're going to take the path that we need to be really good against the run and then put them in predictable situations.

They're the best in the country.

And third down because they're in third and short most of the time.

So we got to get them, you know, off schedule.

All of us here at Game Notes.

I'd like to thank Brian Kelly for watching the show one week ago, because you called it.

That's exactly what you wanted to see.

Are you willing to live with the mistakes?

I want to take you back to the media days of the SEC.

Because getting us.

Why?

I even said, look, I know it's a problem, decision making, but are you willing to live with the mistakes if knowing that you're going to see him play like he did last week?

Yeah.

And that was the point I made last week, is there's been plenty of guys in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Brett Farve comes to mind.

Brett Barber was a gunslinger.

He went out there, he turned the football over.

But he made a lot of big plays.

And I look at Garrett in the same way.

This kid all offseason long has listened to.

You have a chance to be the top quarterback taking the draft.

You're going to be the top ten in the draft if you just don't turn the football over every single person.

I'm sure his dad told him that.

The coaches told him that.

Every fan has told him that.

And so he wasn't playing like himself early in this year.

And last week he went and cut it loose, threw a bad interception in the red zone.

He'll admit that he was reading the wrong guy and the RPO that he threw down there late in the game, but he was playing more free and you could tell by the way he was playing and the team around him.

Diego Pavia might turn off some people because of his.

His brashness, if you will, is Braggadocious style.

But boy, he's fun to watch and he he's a problem for defenses with the way he plays for Vanderbilt.

And the question that I would want to ask you, Scott, is when you look at him and you hear Brian Kelly talk about, we want to make him uncomfortable.

Seems like if you make a quarterback uncomfortable, you're forcing them out of the pocket, which is exactly where he wants to be, because that's when he beat you with the run.

Yeah.

So the world's been flipped around.

He's uncomfortable when you keep him in the pocket.

And that's the challenge for the LSU defense.

And whoever's rushing the passer, whether it's a down four linemen, whether you're bringing a blitzer, it's not rushing too far up the field to where he steps up.

You have to have a great rush plan.

And I can think of all the coaches we played, guys like Cam Newton and Michael Vick, guys that want to take off.

They want to see if their first two receivers are open.

If they're not, they're looking to take off and run.

You have to have a great rush plan.

Collapsed the pocket and you're almost having like four spies on him.

So you're rushing.

You're not getting by your guy too quick.

Keep him in that pocket.

That's where he's a little more uncomfortable.

You have to trust me.

This.

Trust me on this one.

When I give you the stat, Vanderbilt is averaging 43 points a game.

This is not your parents, your grandparents.

Vanderbilt Commodores, okay.

They're averaging 43 points a game.

LSU is not.

And they're nowhere close.

So what's the key for this offense to be more productive on the field against the team at home, where LSU fans are no longer going to be on Broadway an hour after kick off.

They're staying for this one.

The Commodores are favored, but this LSU offense has got to find a way to get past 20.

Yeah.

The key.

And just like nuts, Meyers gets tired of people saying don't turn the football over.

The key to this game is you have to run the football.

And that's what I heard.

You know, going back about a month now, you have to run the football more effectively.

Go back to the Ole Miss game.

Ole Miss is rushing three guys.

You're still having a hard time running the football.

You have to remain a little more committed to the run game.

And and even if it's three yards in the cloud of dust, getting into those third and manageable, I think that's where I like the mascots.

I like the matchup on the outside that LSU has against the vanity.

Yeah.

Look, any other season with Texas A&M on deck next week, you might think Vanderbilt's a sandwich game.

Not this year.

It's number ten against number 17.

Coming up at the top of the hour, an 11:00 kick in Nashville.

The Tigers lead the all time series, but we know Vanderbilt is a very difficult team this season.

You can check out all the action at the top of the hour on ABC.

These guys do a great job of taking ownership of what they do or don't do well as well.

And that's that's good to see.

And like I told them, it starts and stops with me, starts and stops with me.

And we got to be better at it.

It starts from me on down.

As I told my assistant coaches, we have to be better from top down.

We looking forward to putting a great game plan together to go out here and compete against Peavy.

We know that coming in at the top of the West right now, you know those guys are going to come in fired up, ready to go, and we got to be fired up and ready to go.

We'll be ready to go.

And I'll be fired up because it's homecoming out on the block.

But it's a very good preview.

Team who's undefeated in Swac play.

Terrance gray is telling his team, hey, you get this win.

And guess what?

We now have the tiebreaker over purview, but you got to take small steps moving forward.

He's got they've got to stop with the penalties.

Last week against the Toon Cookman a team that had never beaten them eight penalties at halftime.

Six of them were pre-snap penalties.

And it's the pre-snap penalties.

Nobody wants penalties.

It's the pre-set penalties that drive you crazy because those are preventable.

In between the white lines, things happen.

You're running into people.

So those have penalties coaches can accept.

But you have to stop from beating yourself three one games, 4:00 kick out there.

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Well, it's an interesting situation up there in Grambling.

Remember, Ashton Fry got the start one week ago and he was playing pretty well until this happened.

In the third quarter.

He went for a loose ball, injures his shoulder, carted off to the locker room.

You might remember he was playing because his head was in a boot, while no more boot he went, got his uniform and came back into the fourth quarter and almost led the team to a victory.

Unfortunately, a late turnover cost Grambling and they weren't able to win even though that came back well.

Mickey Joseph had no intention on playing Xavier at his at one week ago.

We saw how it turned out.

So coach, what about this week?

I had ruled him out.

I had ruled him out and say, you know what, I'm going to hold you, you know, and then when and all that's happened to Katie is, you know, I'm not going to stand back and let this go.

I'm not.

You're going to cut my leg off.

That's that's that's how that's how much he believes in his teammates.

Believe in Grambling.

You got to put yourself in this kid's shoes.

If I can walk the old school, your philosophy was if you can walk, you can play.

But that's you know, that's change.

We soft on him these days, but probably wasn't a smartest thing.

But you know me.

And, you know, if the case, say he was able to go, he can go.

But I ruled the kid out because I didn't want him playing banged up.

But he decided that he wanted to go.

So when he was able to go, he he did the best that he can do.

It's going to be what his pain tolerance can take, what he can take for his pain tolerance.

So we're going to have him day to day and we'll work.

Byron Eden will work at some quarterback with Dan Burke also.

We remember Grambling had several quarterbacks in the preseason trying to get ready.

Then they wind up selling off his avian to Z. And now all of a sudden the the quarterback situation with the injuries, I'm sure I'm looking at him knowing Mickey Joseph played back in the day and you yeah, those were the tougher days.

You just went out and played.

Now I agree with him.

They are a little softer, but it's a tough position.

I understand him wanting to get in and when he wanted to do everything he could for his team, seeing his guy go down with a shoulder injury when he's leaning like this, you know, it was trouble.

But then again, you don't want to go out, hurt yourself because they need you today.

Exactly.

So you talk about sending a message to your teammates and your coaches.

This is a cool story.

You come in to kind of save the day.

But in this day and age, all we do is talk about how safe the kids are.

They transfer, they sit out a bowl games, and here's a young guy is in a boot and says, I have to be out there for my teammates.

I mean, it's a cool story, and I think what it does is it shines a light on Coach Joseph, the program he has instilled in the culture and the type of young men he has in his locker rooms, that they're willing to do that for one another.

Well, it'll be a big win this afternoon for Grambling and what they're going to be doing on the road.

We'll see.

How much does that will play.

We were all just as shocked as I'm sure Mickey Joseph was when he entered the game one week ago, knowing he was on the sideline in a boot, but he shed that boot and try to get back and win the game.

So Grambling will look for its first Swac win of the season against Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

That game kicks off at 2:00.

We might see a good run game from Grambling, as Uapb allows the most rushing yards in the Swac.

You can check out the action on Swac TV.

For the Ragin Cajuns.

Well, last week's disappointment of James Madison has to stay there.

And that's in the past.

It was close, but not close enough for the Cajuns, who came up just short in a potential matchup of two teams that were picked preseason to face each other in the conference championship game.

Today, the Cajun celebrate their homecoming when they welcome southern missed Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium.

And Michael Desormeaux knows that everything really starts with this game.

To determine how the West will be won.

We were four and two, you know, a couple of years ago, sitting here in first place in the Western Division, and we completely screwed it up in the second half of the year.

What happened to this point doesn't matter.

We're still in position to win the Western Division.

And that's the vision that we've got to go after.

And that's what we've got to.

That's what we're talking about.

That's what we've got to understand.

And the only way you win is by going want to know this week and as cliche or whatever as it sounds, you know, where we are at right now as a team.

It is it is truly one week at a time and it is in the West.

And Scott Winfield got his first start last week, played tough.

It was on the road, maybe a little calmer for him now.

At home when you are now all in the West the rest of the season.

Yeah, he definitely showed enough in those limited snaps.

I mean the amount of yards he had just in that limited play, I think.

I think the team has got to rally around him and if he can just be a fraction of that productive, it should be a good sign for the offense.

And if they get that running game going, it's a 4:00 kick over there in Lafayette.

The game will be televised and you can't make it, but it should be a fun one.

As we promise you, we have a full weekend of football here throughout the state, with two games kicking off here momentarily.

Top of the hour with Tulane against Ami, LSU and Nashville against Vanderbilt.

Enjoy the game full of football.

And of course we'll be back here Sunday to wrap it all up on post-game notes for Scott Shanley.

I'm Victor Howell, thanks for joining us for Game Notes on LPB.

And enjoy the action.

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