Second verse, hopefully much better than the first.

Tulsa just wrapped bye #1 on the year and, with that, is past all of the hardest teams on their schedule. ECU is no joke though, checking in at #68 in ESPN's SP+ rankings this week.

To help us preview Thursday night's road game against the Pirates, we welcome in Jared Shafit from The Boneyard Podcast! Always a blast chatting with him.

Also in this episode:

* A quick basketball overview as we get closer to basketball season (full preview coming next week)

* Around the American

* TU sports roundup