It's the Big Twelve Breakdown time with Jone Sabbath Bridge is here with you where
they look around the Big Twelve. This week plenty to talk about, as
we'll have our hot takes here at just a moment, we also have the
future Big Twelve schedules out. We'll take a look at the first Cottage Football
playoff rankings and more coming up in just a matter of moments. Before we
get to all that, though, we begin as we do in every week,
with our hot takes in the Big Twelve, and Tom, I gotta
say, first and foremost, I'm so thrilled with the way my Kansas Jayhawks
performed. My hot take, I'll go to Kansas this week. I do
not think it is a foregone conclusion that we are going to see in Oklahoma,
Texas rematch of the Big Twelve title game. I would not rule out
possibility that the Kansas Kansas state winner finds their way to Arlington. That's my
hot take this week. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but I think
it's too early to count out the Jayhawks. A Wildcats either won the winner
of that game, uh still alive and well to get to Arlington. That's
my hot take this week. Could we see a ku ou rematch or maybe
a k State gets to laugh? I mean case State gets the laugh last
last laugh against Ou. Wouldn't bet not honestly, as much as I'd love
to see ku Wouldn't it be very fitting if k State got to play Ou
in the last big TRILD championship and got him right one more time they tried
to avoid him on the schedule, and then they still meet up one more
time. They said nay, yeah, they they were like, all right,
just kidding, maybe we'll see you in Arlington. Here's my biggest worry
as an Oklahoma State fan and and just just from like an anxiety standpoint.
Supposedly supposed to be at Bedlam on Saturday, and the time that we're taping
this, this is ten o'clock on a Thursday. I have to work all
day tomorrow, which would mean I would have to leave after work or very
early on Saturday and have a ticket to do so. I think that if
Oklahoma State beats OHU, which I think is a fifty to fifty, then
OHU was kind of eliminated one they led lost to Kansas. As long as
Texas you know, or Kansas State beats Iowa State, they'll be fine there.
But if something happens where like let's say like k State beats Texas and
something happens, there's five way tie for first. Right now, anything can
happen. I'm going to tell you right now on the date of So this
is a second kind of a hot Yeah, you can call this the hot
tech November two, twenty twenty three. If there is a script in college
football with what is happening with OHU and Oklahoma State in Bedlam being the last
one, supposedly, if there is a script in college football, it will
be bedlam in Arlington, m They will find a way to make it bedlam
in Arlington. That's my that's my script. If that happens, you can
call it collusion, you can call it whatever you want to call it.
And you know, our our buddy Bretton McMurphy thinks that from his college Bowl
predictions, thinks that, oh, you, you will lose to Oklahoma State
this weekend and be interesting to see. I mean, there's this, this
is the biggest week in the Big twelve. Everybody's speared up perfectly. I
don't trust Brett McMurphy because he projected Texas Tech to go to the Big Twelve
title gain at the beginning of the season. I mean, you know,
Tom lugen Tom lougan Bill has projected Texas in the Big Twelve Championship for it
seems like thirty years. So if you don't trust Brett, you can't trust
Tom Lugenbill either. Uh. The worst was when uh Jojo Joey Gallaway picked
Baylor to win the league and they won one game that year that that was
the Yeah, yeah, that's an all time ball drop. That one took
the cake. Now out of conspiracy theory land and back to reality for a
second. The thing that I think everybody's watching for as far as what could
you know, shake things up besides the obvious of Oklahoma losing to Oklahoma State
this week, Really it's what goes on in Austin with this Texas team.
Here's what Texas has to finish here KSE State this week, then at TCU
at Iowa State, and then Texas Tech on Black Friday to finish off the
season. All four of those games, Texas will be favored. They should,
in theory, win all four of those games. We don't know when
quinn Ewers is coming back. Malik Murphy looked good enough last week. It
didn't look bad, but it didn't look great. But I would expect improvement
week by week with malink Murphy there. But you also have to think about
this too. Every team is gonna give Texas their best shot. Winning in
Names ain't easy. Winning in Fort Worth in easy, a very hungry Texas
Tech team is not gonna be easy. And then K State this week.
You know, the old adage is if you have two quarterbacks, you don't
have any quarterback. But it's worked out pretty well for k State with their
two quarterbacks. Here, what is the game Texas is most likely to lose?
Tom, I tend to think it's this weekend against K State. Yeah,
it's absolutely this week. I mean, Case State's on a tear.
You know, our our buddy Pete Mundo at at Heartland Sports thinks it's this
week. It's gonna be this week, right, If it's gonna happen,
it would be this week like any other time, would be almost like an
As Naim pick like this, this is the week that you pick against Texas
And this is you know, what do they say? This is the word
champions are made Texas. Everybody you the great thing for Texas, As much
as I hate to say it, They're not playing in Manhattan, They're playing
in Austin. It's an early game. You don't go to to Manhattan and
at night in the middle of fucking nowhere. Kansas, you're at home.
You've got a little bit of hype behind you. You can do this.
I feel like I wouldn't even call it at this point. You can't even
call it a trap game. Oh no, it's it's two ranked teams.
Yeah, it's not true. I mean KSE State's after they lost to O
s U. I would rather play k State if I was O SU at
this point because of their struggle with OU. But at the same time,
I mean K State has become a whole new team since losing to O s
U. The same way OSHU has become a whole new team losing since losing
an Iowa State. You know, so, so I think they could lose
this week. I'd say I'm gonna give sixty forty to Texas right now on
winning out right, I think Texas wins, But I do think this is
gonna be their toughest challenge this is the most likely scenario of them losing the
next four is this one here against K State. We'll see how so with
with the odds. But that being said, from what you know right now,
most likely scenario, you're gonna say, you're you're locking in Texas in
the Big Total Championship. I'm not putting a lock on that, but I
would still say eighty twenty. I would say Texas has about a seventy percent
chance to make the Patrol title game right now, seventy thirty. What about
OSU OSU? I'd put it in about a twenty five percent chance. So
you're thinking, so you're you're saying you're giving Texas is seventy thirty and OU
is seventy five twenty five. Uh, well, ou'se loss I'm giving.
I put OU's about the same as Texas, about seventy percent chance. So
yeah, like seventy so oh you will be the one seed or anybody at
that point, it really doesn't matter. So all right, enough numbers,
Enough with the numbers, move on, move on. Seventy thirty OU Texas
and your with the numbers, move on to this week. Let's go through
the slate. Uh, Texas Tech just beat TCU thirty five to twenty eight.
Texas Tech. I gotta tell you this quarterback is a different Uh.
You know, Morton looks really good. The other night. They're four and
five. Now Texas Texas Tech. Uh, you get Kansas next week,
you get a UCF after that in Texas any of those three teams, I
would not want to be playing Texas Tech right now with Morton figuring it out.
Yeah, Morton, I think before the season, before he got hurt.
I think the reason for the Tech hype was because of Morton, right,
and he got hurt in in Obviously, Joey maguire is not that great
at uh was their opening day starter. I mean that's true too, but
he's you know, he didn't do so well. But I mean I remember
Morton what last year against Oklahoma State played kind of impeccable and what Morton is
a sophomore. I think he you know, Tech has always kind of been
that team that had the the rotating almost like a coaching carousel, but for
quarterback and in terms of how that goes before you know, after after Graham.
So, you know, does Texas Tech make a bowl game? I
think they can win on more at least I would lean towards No, I
think they'll beat you see yah, But I don't see them beating Texas or
Kansas. But it's not impossible. But they can. I mean, I
think with the I only say that because of the teams that are eligible right
now. I know they take some five and seven teams as Bowl teams because
of the number of teams that don't ball games. Yeah, but it also
comes down to like great point average and stuff like that. I'm not factoring
that in right now. But yeah, Texas Tech is trash in terms of
academics. I did not say that, now, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Yeah, they're all stupid out and fucking love it. Hey, I
know, O s u ohe you the last Bedlam Ever. I wouldn't say
it ever, it's the last Bedlum for now. We'll put it out one
yeah for your twenties. Yeah, you're probably right, the last bed Lim
until Oklahoma State comes calling and says we need to play this game because okay,
all right, it's gonna be a while before these two teams meet again.
You know, it's I'll say this, it's a sad thing that this
has to come to an end. Oklahoma, you know, made their bed
and they had to live with it. You know, this is the decision.
They may go to the SEC. No one else's fault to blame but
Oklahoma for this game not going forward. I mean, yeah, you can't
blame OSU for doing it. Osues just kind of saying, well, you
guys, exactly what you said in Major bed o ISHU and and for o
ISU, good for them, like you do not cater to older brother.
I do think eventually it will. It will. I'm back because it will
get to a point where Okalhoma State needs this game. So you think it'll
come back before oh you Nebraska ever came back. I don't think oh your
Nebraska is ever coming back as an annual series. Well, I'm saying,
like they'll meet again. You like, what would you give it? Like
you say, because I mean because OSU has the the non consc scheduled out
for like at least probably like eight years, I feel like, yeah,
is it a decade? You think it's a decade or less? If not
including like bowl games, doing research on this and the earliest they can make
it an annual series again, it's like twenty thirty seven. Oh my gosh,
I'll be old as balls, so it'd be a long time. It's
unfortunate this is coming to an end. You know, it's been a I
know that the record shows it being very lobsided in Oklahoma's direction. I understand
that, but that's not indicative of how fun this game typically is. This
is one of the you know games that everyone has circled that's usually exciting up
and down a lot of points. You know, my, my, my
favorite bedroom games usually the ones in still Water. Usually that's the better atmosphere.
And and you know the one, the one bedroom game I've been to
was in still Water, and you're just incredible to see that place firsthand.
You're saying still Water is a better environment than Norman. Yes, when both
teams are like full capacity, you know, full stand. I just wanted
it on record. I'm sorry, all right, Can I get a word
in please? No? Not on this game. I think when I when
I look at this, it's it's been incredible to see these two teams over
the years and just the memories that have been made, and you know how
fun this rivalry has been. When I look at this matchup, you know,
Oli Gordon is going to be up and special to watch, and Canny
go off like he's done the last few weeks, That to me is gonna
be something to follow. Will Dylan Gabriell bounced back after the struggling performance he
had last week when he didn't have a passing touchdown, That'll be something to
follow here. And then you know who is gonna flinch first, Who's gonna
make the mistakes? You know we've seen in the past where Mike Gundy made
dumb decisions in this game, or maybe it was a key turnover that went
won directions to determine, you know, how this game ultimately played out.
For me, I think Oklahoma is the better team than Oklahoma State is,
but nobody should be surprised if Oklahoma State finds a way to win this game,
if they insert their will and Ollie Gordon goes off and they win this
football game. Oklahoma hasn't been really the same team since the Texas game,
and I'll say this the reason why I have Oklahoma winning this game. I
do think that, you know, historically speaking, we've seen Oklahoma do a
really good job of bouncing back off the losses and the way they stepped up
in that Texas game. You know it meant something. Right last year we
saw against Oklahoma State. They were an underdog in that game and they came
with their best foot forward bred Vinnibles. Say, what do you want about
him? He's done a good job in his short time in these big games
of sorts and stepping up for the moment. I'll go with Oklahoma. But
I think we're in for a truth in this one. And those guys I'm
watching for Tom it's Atley Gordon and it's Dylan Gabriel, who's gonna show out?
What what are you watching for here? I mean yeah, I think
we're all watching for Ali Gordon, Like what what is the And I'm interested
in what you have to say as a non Well, you're obviously biased.
You're a gooner, but at the same time, you're a little less gooner
than the rest of them. I will say that, because if you're gonna
call me a gooner, you gotta call me a cowboy too. Oh no,
no, you're a gooner. But we talked about alcohol State rooted rooted
for your Jayhawks obviously last week, and I shared that win with you,
and I'm so happy for you. And I know how you. I know
how your dad. You and your dad conversated last week, so I know
you're you're a Jayhawk first. But at the same and it would it would
probably benefit your Jayhawks if oh you lost. Oh yes, it would benefit
them heavily actually, But at the same time, at the same time,
I know your gooner at Hart, but Billy knows that too. If here's
my ultimatum for you, and I only say this as a hypothetical and just
to see how you react. If Olie Gordon has two hundred or one hundred
and ninety nine yards rushing, who wins? If he has two hundred plus
yards rushing, who wins? As one fifty Oklahoma State wins? You really,
really, absolutely I'd be I mean, I do you think? Here's
my thing? Because I know how ou plays against os U. I think,
oh, you is going to stack the fucking box. And I think,
and you know, if if Brett Vnables is worth a damn he will
stack them stack the box and he'll make Alan Bowman win Bedlam that Honestly,
this is what every team that's played OSU should have been doing this year.
Make allan Bowman beat you like take. Yeah, it's been not the easiest
game plan in the country. I can't believe nobody's figured that out of it
point like, why didn't k State do that? Why didn't West Virginia,
Like, I'll take my chances if if if you beat me with Alan Bowman,
get on you, like, I'll shake your fucking hand like that.
That should be the game plan that that should be yet and that's what I
haven't I haven't seen. I haven't seen anything saying that Stuntsman's going to be
out, you know, And and if Stuntsman's not going to be out,
well, that's a huge plus for your chances. Just be I think Stuntsman's
a great player. I think he is a early second round pick and at
worst maybe a first third round pick at work. It can be true,
though Tom Stuntsman is a great player, But the middle linebacker position is the
most overrated position on the football field. That's true, but he's I think
he could play any position. But just from his leadership that I've seen,
he communicates very well. And I hate I hate talking good about the know
you player, I really do. I hope I don't think you're wrong,
But off ball linebacker is the easiest position to replace. You think you think
his worst his worst draft spot would be late fifth round. Yeah, something
like that. I'm not exactly sure, because you know, off ball linebacker
is always going to be you know, I mean you looked at who's the
charger linebacker that played for OU with Murray? Yeah, he was the last
mittal linebacker. What he went third round, fourth round? He was the
first round pick and he was way over valued. Yeah, and then you
had really since that draft class that had o'roonco see left outside linebacker Obo Ironco.
He was an edge rusher. Yeah, that's he played. I guess
he played linebacker for RAMS. But I mean yeah, like but if you
but in terms of bedlam, in terms of college football, if you don't
have Danny Stuntzman the way that OU seems to rely on him, and you
could see that it was a little bit evident when he went out in the
second half against Ku, Well, I mean you say that, I mean
we were listening to Bennetti. I'm not taking away anything about Ku because Ku
Lance Leopold played the way he did things. He controlled the game well better
than Mike Gandi Rock you wered and Jason Bennett he pointed out the broadcast.
I think the kid's name Lewis that stepped up from him was doing it really
bad. They were, they were giving him a lot of credit saying he
was doing a really good job. I'm not so worried about whether Stumpsman plays
or not. I think I think Oklahoma wins, but I think we're in
for a very good game on Saturday between those. Do they cover? I
think so? I think you know, a late touchdown, you know you're
talking. I think less than less than ten. Yeah, I think it's
about seven point win for a you barely covering? Is what is six?
Right now? Houston and Baylor both teams at three and five. This game
just looks disgusting to me. But I think Houston's offense is a little bit
better than Baylor's. Alan lean towards Houston to go get the job done in
Waco. There, Oh, really interesting it is in Waco. What time
is that game? It's a two thirty kick? Yeah you mentioned that if
Houston wins, because I think it is a little toss up game because like,
what have we come to see? Baylor in my eyes, is a
lot like Tech so far. I think a tech has looked a little bit
better than Baylor. I mean a little biased. It won tonight against TCU,
But I mean, Sonny Dykes is in his sophomore slump a little bit.
But you look at Dave Randa. We've given him so much praise.
How much is the longevity with David David Randa's fraud And you think so?
Do you think it's like so we heard about potential fraud. Could other than
Jimbo Fisher. Dave Randa is the biggest fraud in college football? Buddy,
David think he could? Do you think he could leave? Who would want
him? I mean, where do you think he would go? Who would
want him? Like, he's not going to get a job better than Baylor
right now. I mean Mike Gundhy was wanted by Tennessee for a long time.
Mike Gundhy actually had success. David Randa's got I mean, David Randa
and Mike Gundy have pretty much like in the last ten years, the same
number of Big Twelve championships. I would not hire Dave Randa for anything.
I went two years ago, two years ago, they were singing fucking Jesus
praise for Dave Randa. I never bought into it. I never bought into
David Randa. He's a fraud. So you would you take Matt Campbell immediately
over Dave Randa. I'm not as much so much a believer in Matt Campbell
eating I take I take Chris Climban over both of them in a heartbeat.
Okay, that's fair, that's fair. I like I think Chris Climbing Like
if I could compare k State to any NFL team, they seem like the
Detroit Lions. I don't know, I haven't I haven't determined what Baylor feels
like, and I haven't determined what Iowa State feels like. But to me,
you know, KSE State feels like the Jared goff led Detroit Lions.
That's how I feel about k State. So you got Baylor this week?
You're taking that fraud David Randon. What's the line? It's three for Baylor,
so it's a toss up because they're at home. So what you got?
And Dana, you know, I don't feel to take I have to
take a line. Just take a team who you got winning? If there's
no line, straight up, I'm taking Baylor. Okay. Uh, I
wouldn't touch money with this. Okay, we get the point. You see,
if in Cincinnati you see a three and a half, wint favorite game
is in since the two and six, you see f three and five,
both of these teams stink bad. Since he is a joke Scott Sadderfield,
I wouldn't even call him a fraud because he was never was. Uh you
know, you never even got a chance to be a fraud, right,
Gus smells on like they're showing some flashes. I would at least say,
you know, Plumbing is a decent quarterback. They got some weapons there,
they're they're they're taking their lumps as they transition to Big twelve. I like
Gus and I would say, when you even factor in the new Big twelve
members, Tom, you see f you could outside of Utah probably has the
brightest future. I mean yeah, I mean they have that. I mean
they have the that area on lock in terms of like hey now we're power
five. Yeah you want to come here? You want you want to come
here and start or do you want to go to Auburn in like wait two
years and they're gonna make more in TV revenue than Florida State and Miami are
like they're a legit powerhouse program. Watch out for you say they should win
their big jump. I think is gonna be next year we'll talk about UCF
competing for potentially for a conference title. There was more like eight wins b
YU in West Virginia, both teams at five and three, both teams fighting
for both eligibility. B YU has been on a downward spiral ass of late
West Virginia. Uh man, after everything that's going on, they're one went
away from being both eligible here and Neil Brown might live to see another day.
Like this is my hell here of Neil Brown getting to stick around in
West Virginia. Like, I don't see them losing to b YU. I
hate admitted, but I think West Virginia finds to get it done, become
bow elgebra and they're all the way in Morgantown like b why used halfway across
the country. They didn't press last week. I thought they could maybe hold
their own a little bit and they really couldn't. And uh, I don't
think it's gonna change this week. I like West Virginia. Kay, you
take it on. Iowa State Night Gaming aims Iowa stayed much better than any
of us. Anticipated credit to Matt Campbell. He's doing a good job at
five and three, Ku had six and two. Tom just being realistic here.
I am very concerned about a letdown game. The emotional high out of
eating Oklahoma last week and how special that was, and everybody telling this Kansas
team how great they are and rushing the field and putting you know, the
goalposts and Potter's Lake and everything. You know, how big of a deal
that was. That was all cool and all, but now you go into
Ames for a night game. Jason Bean, to his credit, made some
big plays on you know, last week down the stretch, but he still
threw two interceptions. I'm still not at a point no offense. I'm rooting
on Jason Bean. I wish him nothing but the best, but I can't
trust him like I would Jaylen Daniels, Jalen Daniels, you can win.
You can go in any week and convince yourself you have a shot. I
am very concerned that a Jason Bean mistake or two is gonna be what cost
Kansas this game. A night game in aims like Iowa States favored and by
two and a half, and I just do not feel good about this game.
On Saturday night. I feel like, Kay, you can win,
but I'm not confident at all. Yeah, I feel like, K,
you can win too, but I would not touch this game with money.
For one, you mentioned it, K, you can potentially come off for
like a hangover type game, and I don't want to touch that. Another
reason, night game and aims. I've been there, done that, and
I refuse to even look at that in terms of making money. Yeah,
I know better. Let's tell you a look at college ball playoff rankings.
Here first poll that just got released, five Big twelve teams in the top
twenty five. Texas the first team ranked at seven, Oklahoma at nine,
KU at twenty one, Oklahoma State at twenty two, k State at twenty
three. As far as the Big twelve teams go, Tom the committee,
I guess, just doesn't care about head to head Like why do we even
play the head to head games? I mean, Oklahoma's behind Texas, Kansas
is in front of Oklahoma State. How does any of this make any sense?
I think the committee did their job when it came to the top four
Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, Florida State. I have no problem with
that. Washington five Oregon six. That all sounds right, And at the
end of the day, the committee's top job is to get the top four
right. That's what they're there for. They're not there for the other rankings.
The committee did what they're supposed to do with their main assignment. But
the rest of Paul like we're the big twelve teams are ranked here, it's
just out of whack. I mean, yeah, I think I think Texas
deserves it. And you know, when you think about you know, Ohio
State in Michigan, you know you can rank them however you want to.
Eventually it's going to sort itself out. So that's fine. You know,
I think you have Georgia versus Missoo this week. Yeah, you know,
I've seen how you picked. I know how I picked fifteen and a half
a little big for me, and if it was if it was in Columbia,
I'd be way more active to pick Missoo to to get the job done
at least to cover. But Perst and Beck looks better. I think Georgia
is gonna run them out of the building. The Missoo, I feel like,
has the same feel that k State at Texas has. I mean,
I'm not putting by Georgia. I'm not putting Georgia on upset alert give a
better chance of beating Texas than Missoo to beat Georgia. Yeah, no,
that's fair. But I don't want to take away from what Missoo has done
so far. Missoo has looked good. They haven't played anybody, They're not
Who would you pick? And how I know? I can't ask you that
question. I can't say if you pick Missoo ku on the neutral site being
it has a lot to do because I don't have it, don't. I
don't have any feelings towards Missoo and it has nothing to do with anything.
Oh it does. It's irrelevant to this conversation. Your miszoo is like my
ou. I would pick against OU the second I got a chance. Miszoo
is nothing them in Kansas is irrelevant with this conversation. It's not. It's
really not. It really is. It's really not like your miszoo is like
me asking about It's me like picking ou Ohio state at number one, Georgia
to Michigan at three, Florida state at four. I think all that's right,
Washington at five. That to me down there the lowest ranked undefeated,
that number five spot. I'm starting to think after that game against Oregon that
Washington's kind of getting exposed, like they might lose the USC this league or
sometime soon. Like I know Oregon beata they beat Oregon, but if they
rematch, like, I think Oregon's probably the better team and would beat them
head to head. So you're not you're not a fan of Pennis. I
didn't say I wasn't a fan of Penis. I mean, like you don't
think you get the job done, like you're saying bow Knicks. I don't
like bow Knicks. I like Pennis, but I think Oregon is probably the
better team around them. Pennis hasn't played great the last couple of weeks.
That's fair, that's fair, But I think I like that team that Oregon
has more around it. They look like more a complete team than what Washington
is. If they mean it's Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Washington in the
PAC twelve Championship, you're taking Oregon, I would, I think right now,
if I were to guess how the playoff is going to play out,
I think we see Michigan gets in as an undefeated. I think Georgia gets
in as an undefeated Florida State gets in as an undefeated pair. That leaves
one more spot, and I think at that point you have a choice a
one loss Oregon Pac twelfth champ or a one loss Ohio State as a non
Big ten champ for that final spot. Do you go Ohio State, who's
got the non con win against Notre Dame, Or do you go the one
loss Oregon who doesn't have the non conference but did it was a conference champion.
I think I leaned towards Oregon because they would have then got to win
over Washington. You resurrected themselves from their previous loss. Su're saying, but
actile a one lost Texas against a good OU team. I think Texas is
going to slip up somewhere. I think the Big twelve champion will be a
two loss team. So you're thinking, you're thinking Big Total champ is going
to the Cotton or the Beach Bowl, and then the second place Big twelve
team ends up in the Alima Bow. Third place. No, no,
no, I think that the Big twelve problems still have to New Year's six
ball teams. Oh, so you think Cotton and Peach I don't care about
those balls though, I mean, I mean, but looking at the playoff,
we're focused on the playoff here, stay focused on Well, no,
I'm saying like, you don't think you don't think Texas worry about that.
I don't worry about that. My top four is Ohio State. Who I
think it's going to play out? I got Michigan, Florida State, Georgia,
and Oregon. I think it's gonna be your final four when it's all
said and done. Who do you think is gonna be the file four when
it's all said and done, Town, I like all of that. I
will just I would just trade Texas. I mean, I say that it
isn't align with I picked this week because I picked Case State. With that
being said, I guess I'll take I'll take Phoenix, I'll I think Washington
gets the four spot. So you got the same three of Florida State in
Georgia, but Washington as the four. Where's Michigan Ohio State? What?
What stadium is that ins at Michigan? Yeah? Okay, yeah, fair,
yep, all right? One more? Is that game? Is that
next week? No? That's final week of the regular season? Okay,
oh yeah, man, that's incredible. Yeah, that'll I mean, that'll
be that'll be prime. I mean, that'll be. That's that's top TV.
We know, hey listen, hey, I know, you know,
let me get let's get to what matters here. The Big Twelve schedule for
twenty twenty three and beyond. I thought it was odd that they only went
with four locked rivalries going forward. Protected rivalries include Kuk States. You also
are going to have Utah and BYU as one of them, Arizona and Arizona
State as another, and then the last one among the Big twelve protections.
As I pulled this up in real time protected rivalries anyways, there's only four
of them. I was surprised that we didn't see Kate Iowa States a protected
rivalry. Didn't see or TC used Baylor's the other. I'm surprised that Texas
Tech and OLSU didn't get protected rivals. Kind of bizarre that it played out
this way. I mean, you know, k State and Iowa State had
been playing each other every year for one hundred years, and they're not gonna
play each other every year all of a sudden. That that to me surprised
me. Oh, I mean yeah, like how can you not keep Farmageddon?
And we've seen a lot, at least from what I've seen, a
lot of pushback, a lot of well you know, when you gotta contact
the office and they'll from what I understand, they'll play till they'll play this
year. They'll play twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, and twenty twenty
six, but it'll stop in twenty twenty seven. You give that leniency a
little bit of time depending on how the you know, the the robbery goes
and what happens if it's close, if it's a blowing or whatever. I
think that Farmageddon is the best robbery maybe to be saved. Like OSU Texas
Tech. You could say that's a robbery, but it's not didn't have the
history as Farmageddon. Like it's gotta be Farmageddon, that's gotta be saved if
you had to pick one, right, Yeah, And you know, with
all the uproar about that, I will say, there's one thing, there's
still time for this to be saved, because I do think the ACC will
blow up before the end of this schedule matrix, and with new ACC members
coming in, then maybe we could salvage and still have Farmageddon continue. But
uh yeah, it was bizarre. I mean you're seeing most of these leagues,
like the ACC for example, seventeen team league, they got sixteen protected
rivalry. Incredible, they could have done it. The Big Ten going to
eighteen teams has twelve protected rivalries. So it just seemed kind of bizarre that
they would go this route and do that. I will say I am intrigued,
Like I love the idea of k you playing at Arizona State and making
that trip to Phoenix and you see body Will Scott he'll be gone by then.
Well man, maybe he might end up in Phoenix. He'll be gone
by then. That besides the point I gotta say, like it's going to
be it's gonna feel like non conference games expanded of sorts. Like it's almost
gonna these new members within the unfamiliarity and not much history. It feels like
an expanded non cotton schedule to next ting. I mean it does like did
OSU or OU play in West Virginia for the first time That felt like last
week Oklahoma's take place since and they fuck them? It felt a little non
conferency, but it's still like maybe not right, like okay, so oh
u UCF felt I mean, I felt like Oklahoma State versus Cincinnati felt more
non con than oh U UCF. And maybe because Dylan Gabriel used to play
for UCF, that's probably the reason. But I do get that. I
think a lot of these things and when you when you mess with conference realignment,
I think that doesn't only go for the Big Twelve. I think that
goes for everybody that like these kind of weirder matchups feel almost like bowl games
in a way. They don't share the same significance, but it still lends
itself to the oh, this is a bowl game. It If I had
to redo the Big Twelve schedule format, I would have gone to a pod
system like this, where four pod I agree. Here's my pods here,
Utah, MEHYU, Arizona and Arizona State in one pod. That's clear,
Colorado, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State in another. And then
I'd have the Texas pod. It'd be Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor in
Houston. And then I'd have Iowa State, Cincinnati, West Virginia, and
you see F and the other. You play everybody in your pot every year,
and then you go play certain teams you fill up your rest schedule after
that, poor close. I agree to a certain extent, I would take
the four corner schools and the four pod What about they can't be they can't
not be in the same pot as Utah. Well no, I'm saying,
well, okay, yeah, So I'd take Utah, Arizona, Arizona State,
and b YU Okay, and then I would take Colorado and Iowa State
and KU and k State, And then I would take Oklahoma State, and
I would take Baylor TCU in Houston. What about Texas time? Uh,
trying to think. Sorry, I'm sure I should look at a map.
So so you got you got? Sorry, I looked like a bitch.
But b y U, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah. That's one
pod. And then you've got K State, KU, Colorado, Iowa State.
That's two pods. And then you've got Oklahoma State, Baylor TCU in
Houston, and that's one pod. And then you've got UCF West Virginia,
Uh, UCF Virginia, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, and Texas Tech. I guess
yeah, So why are you sending Texas Tech away from everybody else? Hey?
Because fuck Tech? No? I mean, I'm trying to figure it
out, Like I mean Colorado. If Colorado is obviously the outside in in
terms of the like the West schools, and in terms of latitude, they're
probably a lot more equal to k u K State and Iowa State in terms
of like lat letting Tom control the schedule here, he's not gonna be taking
I mean, okay, so where would you put O s U. You're
gonna put O s U with a u K State and Iowa State. Yeah,
they played in the year one hundred years. I mean yeah, I
get that. But like I'm like, okay, oh, Colahoma State is
closer to Texas than Iowa State. Like so like you put Iowa State,
UCF Cincinnati like Iowa State Kansas. Kansas State and Oklahoma State have been at
joined at the for ae hundred years. I mean, yeah they have.
But I'm trying to make it work the most sence, Like Oklahoma State is
more south than the Kansas schools could ever be. Like it doesn't, it
doesn't fit like Cincinnati, like Cincinnati, and West Virginia is the closest game
that West Virginia could have in terms of a road game, and I think
West Virginia has been on board for so long that they should They should play
Cincinnati every single year and might as well be fucking pit. Yeah, like
it might as well be the new Pit. Like you have to pair those
two schools up. All right, Moving on, Nick Cousins sent to join.
Let's coming up just a moment. We're not gonna let Tom control the
schedule. Don't worry about that. It's not yet. We won't. It
wouldn't. It would be worse than even if you don't like this schedule the
way it is. Don't let Tom be in charge. Call me, Brett.
We're gonna talk to Nick Cousin. Coming up in a moment. Stay
tuned for that. Right here on the Jones Support join us now the program
this week. Very excited to bring in from w HBFTV and Davenport, Iowa.
It is our good friend Nick Cousin who makes his trumphant return once again.
Mike k you brethren, one of my favorite guys out there. He's
risking it all and he joins us right now. Cousin, always good to
talk, my friend. How we do it? Hey, I'm just I
just keep doing that reoccurring guest for you whenever you need me. I'm here
for you. Hey, always pleasure anytime we get the chance to chat.
Matt. What's what's going on these days in Devonport? Uh? Yeah,
it's that busy time and it's uh, you know, a crossover season,
you know how it is. Football's you know, coming to an end some
some places and basketball starting up. So I'm everywhere doing everything right now.
I love it. I love it. All is good in your world there
in a Davenport. I'm sure it's uh, it's a lot of It feels
a lot better than your day's in Fargo. Oh yeah, I mean we
talked about that earlier. I mean it's already snow It's already snowing in Fargo.
I'm just sitting here. It's fifty five degrees. I got my windows
open, have a nice little breeze coming in. Feels pretty good out here.
Is Iowa nice? A real thing? Is that legit? Have you
had a pleasant experience with your time there in Devonport? Oh? Yeah,
I mean there's a two. I mean, you know, i Ioa is
very nice and chill when it has its own Twitter account called Iowa Chill.
I mean, you gotta you gotta look this up. Tyler down Iowa chill,
and it's pretty much the same Twitter account as like everything Midwest Midwesterners say.
It's very like, oh, you know, it's okay, but it's
really not okay, you know, stuff like that, right, Or it's
uh, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. You know, there's
some things. If it wasn't so windy, it'd be a little warmer,
right right. Have you had your fair share since you moved Iowa of bush
Light and Casey's speaker these days? Oh, bush Light is Iowa water.
I mean, you go to the bar and you say, I want some
Iowa water, They're giving you bush Light. That is the that is the
beer of choice in this state. Oh man. Also, because I'm very
I'm gonna stick with from my pizza, you know, being from Chicago,
it's deep dish or nothing. I mean, you can't find deep dish everywhere
though, true, but I mean it makes that much better when I go
back to Chicago. Yeah, I will say though, By the way,
I gotta get this out of the way because you know, for folks listening
like this is the part where Nick and I just need to catch up on
life and things and then we'll give to the business of the day A bit.
I gotta say. Since I last spoke to you, I've tried a
couple more Chicago pizzas and I have a new favorite now I am. I
am an Uno man. Now, okay, I'm cool with that, as
long as you don't say Giordano's, We're good. I like Giordano's better than
lum Alinati's, but Uno is is str right Now, Okay, I disagree
with you on that statement, but I will give you Uno as like a
number two. There was a place I tried by Wrigley that was very good,
kind of a mom and pop plaice of sorts that that that that's that's
also another way to go, like you have to go to the mom and
pop places like the reason like Luma Nadis and Joe Donald's and all of them
have fallen off is because, just like a lot of other things in this
world, they're selling their lives to corporate so now they are like very mainstream
and it's not as good anymore. Okay, very interesting, uh pizza.
You can go to Arizona, like when you go visit, you know,
justin Yeah, you can get I Lluma Nati's pizza. There like, that's
tell me that's right? Like that shouldn't be right. Oh yeah, when
I was in Vegas, there's a lu mal Andai's right there on the strip.
See that's that's that's terrible. Donald's rather, Yeah, that's a mom
that's those are mom and pop operations. They should not be in Vagas.
Okay. Uh so you've heard it first. No Deep Dish pizza for the
rest of us. They got to save it for all the Chicago people.
I see how it is Chicago. It's that easy. Okay. With that
said, let's let's move on. And I gotta ask you, it was
a big weekend for our Hawks with getting that win over Oklahoma. What was
your initial reaction everything went down and seeing kau pull off their first UH win
against a top ten team there since nineteen eighty four. Well, it was
a great start. They really got me into it when they went up fourteen
to nothing, and then when you saw it slowly kind of slip away,
you're like, oh, no, like, is this gonna be like how
last year was where you start five to one and then you finished six and
six. But Jason Bean, despite all the inconsistencies that he has, he
showed that he's capable of coming out on top. It's like with me,
it's like, you know, it's like a roller coaster with Jason Bean.
I mean, one time you see him singing it like sixty seventy yards a
beautiful pass, and then the next drive he's on the run, those little
dinky pass that gets picked. I mean, he's for me. It's just
kind of like back and forth. I just needed to see that like consistency
from him, and maybe the fact that he was able to just pull off
this win will give him that confidence going forward, because who knows when our
boy Jeleen Daniels comes back. So did Jason Bean make you a believer this
past weekend? I would say that he since he pulled out the win,
I am more for him than I was before. I don't want to go
like all the way there, sure, but I will say that he's trending
in the right direction. In the right direction, I think that's a fair
way to put it. With that win and seeing the celebration everything of you
know, the goalpost going in Potter's Lake, and I couldn't help but think,
like, man, I would love to be at the Hawk tonight.
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, the Hawk was lit for sure.
Like can you imagine though, Like I mean, obviously, our the
twenty eighteen Final four that we went to no longer exists now, right,
we didn't go to San Antonio. We didn't go to San Antonio. But
imagine if football was good then, like and we went to a final four
in a bowl game like in the same year where we were there, Like
imagine, Like I can't imagine how it is there now, Like that's insane.
Yeah, So next week I'm actually going to Lawrence Nick. What what
do I need to like make sure and do? Like for me, one
of the very first things I gotta do is go to Soledo's and go get
my my margin h a Rando burrito. What else do I need to do
in town next week? I mean, you took the words out of my
mouth, man, Like, I mean, you got to go there for
the marks and then, I mean, but it is a little sad though,
like a lot of like the you know, og places when we were
there have already closed. So that's that's kind of it's kind of cave is
gone now, Yeah, the cave is gone. That was a great place.
A lot of the downtown bars we used to go to no longer there.
It's it's kind of sad, honestly, right. The Hawk will never
let us down though, but yeah, the Hawk and the Bull will always
be there. I love that people are just now finding out about the time
Taylor Swift went to the Hawk. By the way, Yep, she's one
of us, which more points for she was in Uh, she was in
one of the dural journalism passes too, Like it wasn't one on one.
Yeah, with five hundred other people. I'd give her an a in my
book, you know, yeah, uh in her book. Yeah, I'd
risk it all. Uh, cousin. Uh. When you look at KU,
now this this six wins and it's not out of the question that Kansas
could be in the Big twelve Tomic game. Potentially you got Oklahoma there,
Oklahoma State, Texas, k State, Iowa State still hanging around. This
is pretty competitive race here in the the Big twelve. Right now, as
we go to the the back end of a conference play here, it's crazy
to think, like you look at KU's schedule and you're like, that's a
winnable game. That's a winnable game. I mean, when don't we be
able to said that before, Like, I mean, k State has having
a down year. Iowa State has a freshman quarterback. So when you have
a good defense, like Kay, you've been the last couple of weeks,
you could definitely take advantage of a young quarterback TCU having a down year.
Those are some of the teams that you have left in Cincinnati. It's their
first year in the Big Twelve. So yeah, you're playing all these teams
that are not even great years. So now you can really say, like,
Okay, we beat Oklahoma, Now let's take advantage of some of these
teams that we should beat. When you know no one was predicting you to
beat Oklahoma, what do you think that win meant? To beat Oklahoma?
Like the wins against Texas were awesome, but like Kansas, we are,
you know, an actual contending team, now legitimate team and beating a top
six team like Oklahoma. Like I know that, we you know, we
enjoyed those days when Kansas beat Texas and all that, but I felt like
this past weekend was an even bigger deal. Oh yeah, I mean when
you beat Texas, they want a top ten team and you had to do
it in overtime. This time, you're being a top ten team, you
have your backup quarterback, you're winning in regulation, and you hit you hanging
around with them the whole time. I mean literally, like that Texas game
is just back and forth, back and forth, like a KU at one
point was just dominating the game. They let it slip away. But at
one point you're thinking, wow, like KU is coming out and they are
ready to go. Yeah, that rushing attack between high Sean and Devin Neal,
that's I mean, that's almost unstoppable. Oh, no question, no
question. What do you think that k State game is going to be?
Like they're in Lawrence this year? K State we mentioned they're a little bit
down from what they were last year, but not a bad team. KU
coming in at big winning and sou obviously, is this the year that that
Kansas finally beats Kansas State? You think at home for sure, and you
don't have to see that those EMA heads going don't have to see those EMA
chance. I know you hate k State like you despise Manhattan Wave the week,
no Ema, none, none of this, none of this only Wave
the WHEK cousin. Tell me about your your hatred for Manhattan because it runs
deep. Oh yeah. I mean every time I go there, like when
we went there for basketball or football, I just felt like I was losing
IQ points just being there. That's rough. I like Manhattan personally, but
you didn't have the most pleasant experience. I mean, you have to get
off the Interstate. Then you gotta go on the county road for forty five
minutes, and then you get there. This is the this is the Chicago
elitist coming out from you. You need to get off interstate and be there,
Like, I'm not trying to go on some country road for forty five
minutes just to get to some place. This is the big city nick coming
in YEP and in North Dakota. I did plenty of that county road,
state road, one lane going both ways pitch black, and I'm not doing
that again. Uh. The Big Teub title race we mentioned with Kansas right
there in the thick of things, they need some help to win it.
How do you see the Big twelve championship hopefully plan out what matchup do we
get and who do you think wins it? That's a tough one. I
mean you could see Oklahoma again in there. I mean I know they're going
off to the SEC, and Texas is still hanging around there as well.
But after this year, I love the I love the new Big twelve because
obviously Texas and Oklahoma Lee, but then you add some of the great Pac
twelve institutions to the conference. And we were talking about this with our boy
Justin Pierce at Arizona Arizona State. You had those schools in Utah, Utah
and b yu are BYU is already in so you just eat coast to coast.
Now, yeah, we'll give that here a second. I want to
hear your prediction though, what what's who's going to win the league? Well,
I don't want to say I don't want to say Kansas. Okay,
I don't think Jason being is there yet. Fair This is Jalen Daniels.
I'm saying, Okay, you have a good chance, But sadly, I
think it's probably going to be oh, you were Texas and then they leave
for the SEC. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the unfortunate reality at
this point. But even though Texas quarterback got hurt, the back yeah you
weres, you weres. Even though he got hurt, that the backup that's
not Manning is pretty Goodlake Murphy, Yeah, Murphy and Dylan Gabriel. Uh,
well he didn't have a passing touchdown against Kansas, but he has he
has a good arm. And I think the rest of the way, they're
going to be motivated because they because you know, Kansas has used to be
the laughing sack of the Big Twelve. So how do you think Oklahoma fans
and and you know, and the team is feeling after that. I mean,
they're probably motivated to try to try to win this thing out. Yeah,
yeah, I think so. The Big Twelve schedule came out the matrix
for the next few years, and uh, the only protected rivalries are k
U, K State, Arizona, Arizona State, b YU, and Utah
And then uh, there's one more than I'm missing off the top of my
head, Baylor TCU. I thinks together were you surprised h at the uh
only having four protected rivalries here, it's gonna be weird not playing teams like
Iowa State in Oklahoma State every year anymore. Well, I'm fine with it.
You because you keep the big robberies like you want to see those in
state rivalies. I mean, you want to be asking me the question about
k State if that wasn't the thing. I mean, I grew up an
Urdain fan, and so once that Nerdame Michigan robbery went away, Nordin joined
the ACC. I know a lot of people were upset because that was a
rivaly game that was played every year. So I like to see that KU
keeps playing k State and then the Arizona and Arizona State the in State because
those are those are big robbery games that people are really passionate care about.
So if you're going to at least keep some games, you want to keep
those games, because I mean, I don't really necessarily think KAU and Iowa
State is a robbery game. I'm not necessarily sure, especially for football.
I mean maybe for basketball, yeah, but not for football. Yeah,
Ky, you next year is going to get Iowa State, Houston, TCU,
and Colorado at home Coach Prime coming to Lawrence, and then on the
road at Arizona State, at BYuT Baylor, at k State, and at
West Virginia. What drinks your most about a next year's schedule? Well,
I might hit up my sister for that b YU game because she lives in
Utah. Uh. And then I know you already said you made up justin
where there's a mistake game, I mean big, the big talk has become
like, hey, where where's the place that I can go on vacation for
a little bit. I'm gonna I'm gonna go there? And uh so you
got you gotta love it. Maybe uh that b YU game we can play
in Vegas and make a Vegas trip. That'd be cool. Me and you
in Vegas. No one would survive, I mean we would do with your
podcast would be done. I mean, you know, hear me out on
this, and are our friends that are listening right now? Me, you,
Markey, Justin and Fish in Vegas? Who says no, Oh man,
we'd be risking it all for sure. I'm down. I'm down.
Let's go to Vegas. Uh, we know you're down. We know you're
down. I thrive in Vegas. Vegas one of my favorite cities. Summer
of Jones in Vegas might be hot, but it'd be worth it. Might
anger some of Jones, oh yeah, and then it might be it might
be the end of that. Uh more than a weekend is too much in
Vegas. Uh, Nick, I gotta ask you where you're at. Pretty
interesting situation there with Iowa with a Kirk Farrence and his son who will no
longer be the offensive coordinator at that program. Yeah, it's crazy. I
mean it's pretty much when the aid the inter maybe has to step in and
pretty much tell the head coach, Hey, your son's not going to continue
with the program. You know, that's just like, I mean, what
is that right? I mean before the season he had Brian Ferrence as the
offensive coordinator had to average twenty five points per game and he was gonna have
to resign anyway if he didn't meet that mark. And there was a bunch
of other points as well, but that was the big emphasis, the big
emphasis as far as far as that contract go, Like he really restructured it
and that was the main, the main part of it. And when you
get Cave mcmaro from Michigan, who led the Wolverines to a playoff just a
couple of seasons ago, you're thinking, hey, like that is a dual
that is very doable. Like the offense is going to be wide open again,
a lot of a lot of passing, not a lot of running.
You know, your defense is going to keep you in games because your defense
is one of the best in the country. But then he goes down with
an ACL injury. And so the last three or four games somehow, except
for the Minnesota game where they had the controversial call with Cooper de Gene waving
for a fair catch even though they said, you know it wasn't a fair
catch, was not a fair catch. You can discuss that all day.
But before that, you're still winning games with your defense and special teams.
I mean, they the backup quarterback, he's just handing it off to what
and literally they had one touchdown in that game that was offensive and it was
a seventy yard run. I mean, but they're still winning games because the
defense holds the other team to field goals or no points. So as long
as Iowa's kicking field goals or getting defensive points, they're still winning games.
Because the Big Ten West is literally the worst division in all of college football.
Yeah, it's pretty bad, and somebody's gonna get to play for a
conference championship game based on that. I was crazy because even though you're telling
your offensive coordinator you need to resign, you are still six and two and
you can win out and be ten and two and go to the Big Ten
championship. Yeah, and had they not lost this week, we could be
talking about Iowa in the playoff conversation. Wild It's just that's the only word
there. There is just just a while. So with with having to basically
fire his own son but not actually do it, his boss do it pretty
much right, and with getting a little older, I wonder how much longer
Kurt Farrence is going to be there. Well, that's interesting that you said
that, because that was actually brought up in the press conference on Tuesday.
He pretty much, you know, went around the answer. That's that's what
Kirk he does, That's what a lot of coaches do. But they they
pretty much asked him, well, if your if your son is leaving,
you know, are you coming up next? And he says, you know,
he's he's he loves what he does. He's been here for so long,
he's he's healthy. The doctors tell him he's okay, so he he's
ready to keep going. And he usually says that, you know, he
makes his evaluations at the end of the year about staff, team stuff like
that. And so the fact that the AD to step in and make this
decision for him, that's kind of stepping out of his rum of realm of
things that he usually does, and so it kind of, you know,
took away from this from the season because they were coming off of bye So
obviously in the bye week they kind of did a little bit of their looking
ahead a bit and said, hey, you know, here's what we have
to do coming up in the offseason, because now they have the four games
left to go in the regular season and some winnable games Northwestern Illinois, Nebraska,
So you've got some winnable games coming up, but you can at least
are looking ahead to the future. What's kind of the thoughts where you're at.
They're in a Big Ten country about this whole Michigan scandal and affecting the
rest of the league because there was a report today about some schools requesting the
Big Ten take action against Michigan. They have this competitive advantage. What's kind
of being talked about there in Iowa about all this, Well, I mean,
this is this is like being a Patriots fan or a Cowboys fan or
whatever. You know, only the fans care about it. Any other fan
base, they're like, fire him, get rid of them, do whatever
you need to do, get him out of there. So it's really like
it's only Michigan fans that are really like, hey, like, he didn't
do anything wrong, right, But that's what all the fan bases are going
to say. So if there's anybody else in the Big ten, you're gonna
say, hey, Harball, get him out of there. But I think
I think this really pushes Harball kind of like that Pete Carroll situation. He
gets the NFL and maybe he gets away with it, maybe he goes to
the Bears, goes to the Raiders wherever, Chargers wherever, and he's in
the NFL and it's like, hey, you know, I can't get in
trouble now because I'm not I'm not in college football anymore. So I feel
like the situation might lead to it was kind of more like the writing was
on the wall. Are you ready for him to be the next Bears coach?
Hey, I'm all for it. Right now. The Bears have the
two and three picks. You can get Caleb Williams or Marvin Harrison junior,
and let's ride. Let's go. Just don't bring Lincoln Riley up there with
you. I'm going to tell you this right now. If you hire Lincoln
Riley in Chicago, you'll regret No that is, I am not in favor
of that. Harbaugh, Yes, because he's a former Bear quarterback and he's
proven that he could win in the NFL. I mean he took Colin Kaepernick
to the super Bowl with the forty nine ers. I mean that's impressive.
A lot of these other coaches, even the best college coach, Nick Saban,
didn't have success in the NFL. But Harball has proved it. So
Harball is different. Yeah, where you're at. Big Ten. Catcher imaged
earlier about the Big twelve and their changes. The Big Ten's about to have
some mass have changed is next year with the West coast schools of Oregon,
UCLA, USC and Washington coming in. What's kind of the failing about,
Uh, the Big Ten going west and these are new teams coming in next
year. Well, it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I mean, they release the schedules and who's gonna play who, But you
don't know how it's gonna play out with divisions or how it that's all gonna
realign. But I mean, if you're if you're in the if you're a
team in the Big Ten West, like in Minnesota or in Iowa like we
talked about in Illinois. I mean, and you're playing Oregon, USC UCLA
traditionally great programs. I mean, you're not gonna get away with these nine
to six, twelve to nine wins like Iowa gets away with because you're actually
gonna be playing good teams. So that's gonna be That's what a lot of
the talk is. It's like, hey, like you're actually adding some really
good, historically good football programs. Yeah, those are three really good programs,
and U c l A has just been kind of average. I mean
it's I mean, but U A c l A, if you're if they're
in the Big time West, I mean, they're gonna be good. Let's
be honest, right, Well, there's gonna be no divisions in the new
Big Ten. Yeah, yeah, exactly, So it'll be interesting to see
il plays out. But yeah, but like obviously it's I think it's gonna
be a disadvantage for a lot of the big time West teams because they're gonna
have to play some of those West Coast teams probably more a little more often
than the teams on the East, and it's not gonna be as close competition
as if they're just playing on Northwestern or Minnesota where you're you're just squeaking out
these wins. I mean you could a lot of these teams could easily just
get man handled by some of these teams coming in right right well, And
I do wonder on the flip side of that though, like take a USC
or U c l A. And let's say that you gotta go play Penn
State in November in the snow, that that's gonna be a different world than
what you have in southern California earlier in the week. Yeah. When I
first like saw US and U c l A we're going to the Big Ten,
my first thought was like, Wow, what's gonna happen when you when
one of those two teams has to go to Northwestern Evanston, Illinois on November
at eleven am and it is snowing. I mean, how much of an
advantage that that might give Northwestern? I mean you, no, you don't
know, right, I mean, but I mean, yeah, the elements
honestly could play a huge role in that. Yeah, yeah for sure.
Uh, well, we got a little bit of top left, So I
gotta ask you, uh you excited for some some Kansas hoops here? Getting
started? Uh? Hunter Dickinson and everything. I can't wait honestly, Oh
of course. I mean I watched the exhibition game against Illinois and now we
relieve one, and I was, I was excited. I was, I
was ready to go, you know. I mean, I remember the last
time we around. We were like, what's Ken's gonna do? I mean,
you lose, you lose Grady dick you lose your great shooter, and
you lose Jalen Wilson, who was your leading scorer. You lose all this
offense. What is what is Bill going to do? What is Bill going
to do? And nothing was happening. Duke was getting transfers. North Carolina
was getting transfers, and you're like, when is Bill going to make his
move? And then he makes the move, brings in Hunter Dickinson and then
adds some more pieces around Dickinson. Mccullor comes back. He's a great defensive
piece as well. You still have Dewan Harris, the best point guard in
the country, even though it doesn't show down the stats, Gray Passer,
everything like that. You have this, you go from oh my gosh,
it's going to be a down yere to hey, it is national championship.
For a bus. It is uh, as Bill would say, faces changed,
but expectations don't exactly the goat the goat himself. Yes, we love
Bill's self here. Did nothing wrong the best? Uh that that hair on
his head, that's a two pay right, it has to be. But
he's rock he's rocking. I think it's like sewn into his head, you
know, like ah that that thing doesn't move? No, but you have
to wonder when he's in the shower, does that come on? Probably right,
I don't think that's moving. I think it's like sewn into his head.
Yeah, I don't think that moves. Uh. Nick, Before we
go, where can people find you and follow all the stuff you're doing?
Man? Oh? Yeah, you can find me on social media and make
it really easy because I use the same handle for everything. It's ncauz n
c o u z that it's on Twitter, Instagram. I've recently brought back
my TikTok, so I'm excited to start doing that. And I have a
Threads too, but I don't really use threads, but you can add me
on there too, I guess. There you go. He's Nick cousin.
Check him out and I appreciate the time as always my friend, best of
luck to you and we'll definitely be talking again soon. Thanks for joining us Man