Shane & I hold one last therapy session in talking about what went wrong during the Fiesta Bowl and what hopes we have for the future.

Be sure to stay around post-credits for Eddie and I to pick the national championship and send off the HLS podcast in quite literally the most fitting way possible.

Enjoy our final show!

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Despite opt-outs and COVID cancellations, Eddie and I went 7-2 last week, bringing our bowl totals to 13-10 and 12-11 as I keep my one game edge. Overall, we are 112-80-4.

Yes, this means that we’ve hit the point in which we couldn’t even screw up going over .500 if we tried!

But like Notre Dame getting a good draw with Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl, it’d be silly for us to lose a bunch now. So come enjoy your last large batch of winners!

#HAILGAMBLOR

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However, the show must go on despite my lack of research. With that in mind I came up with some, uh, “creative” methods to pick these games. I’m particularly proud of what I came up with for the multiple bowl games in baseball stadiums, personally.

Oh, and we have some fun with bowl sponsors too, including me trying to chat with a bot during the show as pictured below:

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As we won’t be recording until next Thursday, we have 14 bowl games to pick. More importantly, Eddie also has a list of bowl gifts ready to go. Even more importantly, we visit some of the websites to figure out what some of this stuff is and do we ever make some discoveries.

Oh, and hang on past the closing song because you will hear Eddie and I try to figure out some confusing reference material only to find out…well, you will have to listen for yourself.

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Thankfully, I realized that I run this show. I changed some rules. Gotta keep this interesting. After all, this isn’t about the money now. It’s about walking off this thing with a W.

After taking some liberties with the Army/Navy pick, I go over this year’s tiebreaker: our 2021 futures. Spoiler alert: they were real bad!

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With that in mind, I thought it was important that we highlight, not just this weekend’s data point, but the other important data point that got these teams to this all important moment. After all, these teams have the chance to lose another game that Notre Dame won’t! It’s important!

SEC

They could have two teams in the playoffs if Alabama pulls of the upset against Georgia. Just another show of strength from this powerhouse conference including:

• Georgia 56 – Charleston Southern 7
• Alabama 48 – Mercer 14

Honorable mention to Alabama’s 59-3 victory over New Mexico State as well. This is the kind of power you expect a legitimate two-loss playoff contender to have.

Big 12

Oklahoma State has already jumped Notre Dame and conference loving pundits would love for the committee to have a champion hop over Notre Dame as well. It’s easy to see with these victories:

• Baylor 66 – Texas Southern 7
• Oklahoma State 23 – Missouri State 16 (lol)

I, for one, am shocked Oklahoma and Texas are leaving a conference scheduling this kind of powerhouse out-of-conference on the regular.

*looks at above section*

Ah, so nothing has changed.

Big Ten

Kudos to you, Big Ten. No jokes here as you refuse to let your teams schedule FCS opponents. Well done.

Allow us to celebrate the extensive lists of all of Iowa’s ranked victories as that is something continuously held against the Irish: <null>

And of course, the massive amount of wins for Michigan: Ohio State…who was beaten by Oregon who was beaten by Stanford. In short, Michigan beat Stanford.

At least when these teams lost, it wasn’t to a team that went undefeated later on!

American

A group of 5 in the playoff?! It’s more likely than you think!

Yes, Cincy has beaten us, and remained undefeated to boot! But let’s not forget these great wins that they and Houston put together:

• Cincinnati 42 – Murray State 7
• Houston 45 – Grambling 0

Best of luck, conference gladiators! Thank you, and your conferences for showing us the light of a 13th data point, that isn’t an absolute money grab. If only Notre Dame was as brave and put together such incredible resumes as scheduling nine power five teams simply isn’t enough!

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Enjoy the picks, as well as me breaking in continuously to list of yet another assistant staying on board and not fleeing to Baton Rouge. I’m still three games behind Eddie in our annual Extra Life bet and I need to make up at least two here to make the Army/Navy game worth something.

It all comes down to this. I’m not sure if I made the right picks, but I know I’ll be able to sleep at night.

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Eddie and I are all tied up after I had a massive week. As usual, our $200 bet for Extra Life will go down to the wire.

This brings us both to 86-60-3 on the season. Talk about going out with a bang in the last year. In fact, I’m so proud of the record, that I did a bit a math at the beginning of the episode to let you know how much money we could’ve been making you this season.

Granted, we have now tempted fate with the brag, plus picking games on a Tuesday morning, but GAMBLOR stops for nothing, including Thanksgiving. Neither Eddie nor I have no plans of stopping our hot streak now and, by the end of the week, we should have a new leader in the clubhouse.

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As for the sim, it’s hard to believe this day has arrived, but this our final regular season sim in HLS history. Thankfully we have (at least) one more sim to go, but Shane and I put a bow on the 2021 Sim Notre Dame Season with a visit to Stanford.

All I will say is that the sim (hopefully) managed to be the most accurate thing ever–all the way down to David Shaw doing some bullshit.

Oh, and I hope you weren’t expecting serious play-by-play the whole way through in this one because you won’t get it. The second half contains many an exquisite detour and Irish Elvis provides multiple sim updates from around the nation from the HLS studios (via Twitch chat).

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Eddie still holds a two game lead over me in our Extra Life bet and he’s still giving me hell for passing out during my 24 hour stream failure (and rightly so). I’m determined to catch up, but I’m running out of time!

We have only a couple more regular season picks pods remaining. Come join the fun while it lasts!

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Eddie still has a two game lead on our Extra Life bet (which, by the way, I’m doing a 24-hour stream on Friday night starting between 6-6:30pm CST–fun stuff is happening!). Both of us went 6-6 in the previous week and there is a solid slate of games, along with a couple true sicko matchups tossed in.

There aren’t many of these left. Enjoy each one!

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