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doubd on the lining give us his keys to the

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game and score predictions. But let me break down for

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you what what's cooking with the cougars right now as

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we get your prep getting ready for this Holy War

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six pm kickoff. Obviously it's gonna be on Fox right

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This is a game in which BYU is not favored in.

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I am surprised that that Vegas went that way, but

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it is what it is. There in the vetting game.

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They aren't in the win loss prediction game, that's not

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what they do. But BYU ESPN Analytics they slightly favored

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BYU in this game. Six chance of victory per ESPN Analytics.

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Kyle Whittingham is eleven and five in this this robbery game.

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Since taking over his head coach in two thousand and five,

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Kilani is two to four in the robbery game over

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unders set at forty nine and a half. We chatted

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with Gurney yesterday. G Man says, take the under. Take

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the under if you are a betting man. Ins A

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report is out. Marcus McKenzie, Jojo Phillips, h Bryan Strathersioni Mola,

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Tommy Prass is all out this game right and the

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Mooney is doubtful and Anissi per Sale defensive tackle is

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probable on the Utah side. Key contributors in the secondary

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Rabbit Avans Evans, excuse me, Nate Ritchie as well as

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Josh Soffern. Three safeties are out in this game. Wide

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receiver Tater and Zipper is out as well. DN Paul Fitzgerald,

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linebacker Grady Moreco and offensive lineman Isaiah Garcia all out

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this game for the us SO byus on a two

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game winning streak right now, beating the Utes twenty six

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to seventeen in Provo in twenty twenty one and then

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last year twenty two to twenty one at rice Eco

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Stadium will Ferron kicked a forty four yard field goal

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to win it in the final seconds on that final drive.

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What a glorious game that was, and it was It

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led to a bit of a controversy with Mark Harlan

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going to the podium and complaining about being a part

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of the Big twelve, and then he received a ft

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FT fine of you know, I don't know how much

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money it was, one hundred thousand dollars possibly, but crazy

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times in this rivalry game, Red versus Blue over forty

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miles apart, only forty miles apart, and can't can't wait

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to see what this rivalry game is going to contribute

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to the lore. Andrew Peterson, you're in my ear. What

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do we got? We got? We got Darnell on the line,

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We'll get I'm here on the line here momentarily, I

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have shot. I also have Sean Walker by my side

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of KSHL dot com. Sean, how do you see this

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game playing out tonight under the lights of levelle oh Man.

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Speaker 2: I was just enjoying being a thoughtful listener to this

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fine here program, Ben, So thanks for bringing me on.

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Speaker 1: Really do appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I love that you bring up both the ESPNFPI the

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fifty one percent in favor of BYU versus the Vegas

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spread minus we're gonna have points in favor of Utah

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because that somewhere between those two diconomies is where I

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be as single as a game, probably a one possession game.

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and really flip a coin as to who as to

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who wins this one. These two teams are so similar,

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like they are almost mirror images of each other right now.

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a slightly better offensive line, one probably has a slightly

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better tailback, if you will. Quarterbacks are both first year

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playing their first year in at their current schools, first

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year in this rivalry game, both laying on their defenses

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very heavily. Like, these two teams are so similar that

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see this being very much a field goal type of game.

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Speaker 1: Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in Darnell Dixon

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the Daily Heraldean for a little cougar beat, and he's

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gonna provide some insight into this rivalry game, Darnell, how

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you living?

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Speaker 3: I'm living and getting ready to head on over to

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the stadium for what I hope is another classic BYU

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Utah game.

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 1: What do you recall about that? I mean you, you've

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been covering the coup for a long time. You were

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a student once upon a time here in Provo. How

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would you describe the rivalry? What do you remember about

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growing up in the rivalry?

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Speaker 3: Well, I didn't really grow up in the rivalry because

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I grew up in Oregon and I was familiar with BYU.

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BYU game I ended up seeing was an ABC aclassic

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against San Diego State on a Saturday afternoon where BYU

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won by like sixty points and San Diego Chicken was

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entertaining everyone by by carrying the ball. But I didn't

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really get a look at the by UTI rivalry until

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Cougars were pretty much ruling the roost and had won

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a bunch of games in a row and kind of

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dominated the rivalry, and we've seen over the years how

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that's kind of changed, gone back and forth, and right

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uteven once since twenty nineteen, they haven't played each other

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every year. But the thing I'm most grateful for and

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I you know, I talked to Riley Jensen, our good,

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good friend of the program this week about the story

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He said, you know, we should just be really glad

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that we still have this rivalry.

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Speaker 4: And you know how much of an old school guy

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Speaker 3: When it comes to college football, And I'm just glad

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Cougars and Youth are back on schedule to play each

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other every year. It is what college football should be

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all about. And so I'm excited for the opportunity to

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cover another yu Utah game that invariably goes down to

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the end of the game, somebody makes a play here

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or there, and we end up talking about it for

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The national pundit's chiming in on this particular robbery

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game this year. Dave Portnoy at Big New Kickoff picking

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the Utes, saying Vegas knows all Vegas has sold itself

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to the devil and they are picking Utah. Therefore he

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will pick Utah. Yet game day Game Day crew Desmond

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Howard says, BYU, Nick Saban Utah, Pat mcv BYU. Jelly

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I don't know if it's a good sign or a

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bad sign that the national media is split on this

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particular rivalry.

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Speaker 3: Game well, I was reading a story about four Apparently

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when he was just out of college he lost like

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forty thousand dollars betting on sports. So I don't know

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Speaker 4: But I feel like, you know, the national.

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Speaker 3: Media get why this is such a big rivalry. In

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our experience, we know whether comb or Away doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Really have that big of an effect. I don't think

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on the game.

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Speaker 3: It's just a matter of who's going to play the

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cleanest ball and who's going to make a play when

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it needs to be made. And so far this season,

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Bay He's been able to do that. Past few games

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have been closer than YU fans would have liked, but

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the Cougars figure out a way to win it and

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make the plays, and so I expect today to be

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a similar type situation. I think Utah is a pretty

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good football team. When they lost to Texas Tech early

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in the season, I think that that was a blow

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for them, and I think the fans that followed buy

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has been really good since then. So I think that anybody.

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Speaker 4: Who picks Utah has seen how they've played.

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Speaker 3: The last several games, and then when they pick BYU,

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they think it's a home a little bit of homefield advantage,

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and the Cougars have found a way to win certain games.

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split when it comes to the national media and this rivalry.

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Speaker 1: How do you see this game playing out tonight out

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of the lights of Lavelle Double D.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that popped into my mind the

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other day was nine to nothing and wilfare and kicks

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three field goals.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think that's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: I feel like BYU needs to force Devin Dampier to

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beat them over the top with some longer throws. If

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the Cougars can slow down the running game for Utah,

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and that's the big short Utah has been running the

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ball really well, and their offensive line is very highly regarded.

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If by is helping up a defense and they can

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slow down the run game and force some second, third

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and longs, which pretty much is every game. But I

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another thing that's happened in the last couple of games

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is the Cougar's turn the ball over and they need

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to limit the amount of turnovers. And it seems like

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Utah manages to get the Cougar's turn the ball over

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a couple of times and make some key mistakes in games.

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did not play well in the first half at all

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and came back with a better second half. Of course,

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the get return for a touchdown help, but but it's

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it's just with this game, we just don't know what

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in the first half and and what happens for the

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end of the game. So that's kind of my thought

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Speaker 1: What did you make of at big noon kickoff? All

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the BYU fans uh heaping booze all over Urban Meyer

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and then furthermore, the the sign of the day Elder Oaks,

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President Oaks the profits here in Red Lady. Now that

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Jesus Christ of Latter j is getting AI to pit

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with a A U's down sign, he got was it Tyler?

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I don't know who was the BYU fan? Was he

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got a five hundred dollars check for issuing that that

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sign for all of the Cougar football in college football

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world to behold, give me your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Well, I feel like both by U and Utah fans

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were really appreciative of Big New Monday or Big New

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Saturday coming and the kickoff show. And I read somewhere

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earlier in the week that Utah was going to try

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to take it over and bring a couple hundred folks

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down to kind of see if they could dround out

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the Cougars. And BYU loves to have the national media here.

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it's just part of this great rivalry when you put

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it together and you let people know. I mean, I

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grew up watching Ohio State, Michigan, and USC Notre Dame

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in Florida, Florida State, and those were all really good rivalries.

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my job. But I can't imagine there's a lot of

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guys on the Ohio State staff that originally coaches Michigan

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transferred to Ohio State. You just have this really interesting,

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unique atmosphere for By and Utah because it's so integrated

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so all this hooplah. I'm glad it's just six o'clock game.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'd be waiting another couple hours

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Darnell, it's interesting that you bring up the hashtag

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you takeover. I think they were calling it because I

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was down here for a big new takeoff early this morning.

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And don't get a twisted like, there were a lot

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of Utah fans that most of them probably made the

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drive forty minutes south on I fifteen to get here

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nice and early. They were scrolling in a lot of

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them were kind of scrolling in with me. Right around

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five thirty six am, two hours before the broadcast started,

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and they met a big group of BYU fans and

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mostly students. Probably they were kind of camping overnight. But

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much of a takeover. I've been hearing all of these things,

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and you've been around this rivalry long enough to know that, Like,

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even when you think you have home field advantage, you

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don't always have as much home field as advantage as

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you might believe. There was a lot of blue at

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Rice Cycle Stadium last year. There's a good chance there's

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going to be a lot of red down here at

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l Ees this year. How big of an impact do

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you think that plays into this one? Or are these

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two teams that have been Are we to the point

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of the season where these two teams have been on

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the road they've seen hustle crowds enough where maybe they

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can block that out a little bit better than you know,

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guys like you and I like to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Over the radio.

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Speaker 3: I think the home field advantage is negated a little

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bit by the fact that this wave of emotion that

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goes to the stadium really works both ways. And not

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only are the BYU fans cheering really loudly when something

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good happens, but they're rolling their eyes and throwing their

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hands on their head when something bad happened. So it's

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just this wave of emotion that goes through the whole stadium,

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and certainly the Utah fans that fill that corner are

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going to provide some of that, but it's just it

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just seems like the home field advantage and this rivalry.

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Speaker 4: Is not as big a deal as it could be.

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Speaker 3: And some of it's the location and some of it

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is just there's going to be a lot of Utah

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fans that will make sure that their their players know

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they're there and when they make a good play, that'll

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that'll get them out of their seats as well.

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Speaker 4: Must have lost me too, h.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Cougar Sports one of three nine ninety eight

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from the swig location. We got some college football games

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behind us. We do want to get like a college

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football update here momentarily all the scores coming out of

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the college football world. I don't know if ap if

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you got an update for me or not taking a

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look at all the scores coming across the college football ticker.

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Let's get that here momentarily as well. But Darnell Dixon

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still on the line, Double D. Sorry about the technical difficulties,

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Double How you living, buddy.

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Speaker 3: Living well?

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Speaker 4: Probably some you fan messing with the radio station, right

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all right?

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Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, we got you fans here locally disrupting our connectivity.

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They don't want truth being bestowed upon all of Cougar Nation.

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Knows sands buds about this, But give us a little

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score prediction. How do you see this game playing out

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under the lights of Levelle tonight six pm kickoff?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think both teams are really well established as far

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as a running attack, and probably comes down to who

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can slow down the other team. Bay He's been able

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to get good yardage from LG. Martin, who was the

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big twelfth player Offensive Player of the Year of the

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week rather after his one hundred and sixty plus performance

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last week, and bar Bachmeyer as that plus one kind

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of running part of the game, we got to account

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for him and hopefully that opens up some other things

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for the Cougar offense. And Devin dan Pier has been

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putting up a lot of yards running the ball at

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quarterback for Utah, though, I think both defensive lines are

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going to be challenged, and I think whoever is able

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to slow down the other team a little bit more

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the running game might end up winning that game.

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Speaker 1: Well. As far as health is concerned, for the most part,

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both teams are are fairly healthy. Out of the injury

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report that you've seen, which team has the competitive advantage

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as far as health is concerned, I.

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Speaker 3: Ges you mentioned from what I've seen obviously Pilot Winningham

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is keeping some of those minor injuries to himself or

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ones that may or may not keep a player out.

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He decided that he doesn't need to provide a full

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injury report. But as far as vous concerns, I think

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that they're as healthy as they're going to get this

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time of the year, and from what I've seen Raider do,

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Mooney won't play, but Jack Kelly will and that's a

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big deal. I think that Jack will make a difference

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out there for the Couters. And so yeah, who knows

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by U in Utah. They they are very physical with

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each other. So this could be a game that could

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put a toll on either team that could last maybe

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more than just one or two games.

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Speaker 1: If Kyleiham doesn't get a win tonight at LaBelle Edwards Stadium,

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does he come back in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he'd be tempted.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like the way he's reacted to

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the media question this week a little bit henre. I

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think he's not happy with not having beaten the Cougar

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since twenty nineteen, and it's going to put that into

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his players to get out and play well.

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Speaker 4: And he would love to go out.

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Speaker 3: They've already picked, you know, a coach in waiting for him,

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so he knows that the team will be tatting care

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of when he decides to leave, and that'll be something

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obviously he'll think more about the end of the season.

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But I certainly think that's the big deal. May be

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a bigger deal than normal for him to get a

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win in this rivalry game tonight.

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Speaker 1: Twenty of the last twenty four BYU Utah matchups have

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been decided by single digits. This is a very close,

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very competitive rivalry game. I'm sure it will become that

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once again tonight. It'll be one for the ages, maybe

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the biggest rivalry game in modern era history. Why because

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of the implications of conference championship and maybe even CFP birth.

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Because both of these teams are ranked, both of them

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are in the same conference, would you would you conclude,

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last you know, thirty or forty years that both teams

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are ranked and have an opportunity to win either a

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conference championship, and now with the expanded playoff, they could

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get to a c AP birth.

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Speaker 3: And more so than just the fact that both teams

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are ranked, because that's happened before occasionally in this rivalry,

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what really accounts for to me, what the biggest thing

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is that these are both two Big twelve football teams

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that have a chance to make the college football playoffs

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and they can earn it. I mean, it doesn't have

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to be. You know, when Utah was going undefeated, when

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they're playing in the Mountain West Conference, they had to

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get voted in and they didn't have access like they

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wanted and BYU have never had access until they joined

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the Big Twelve. That would make this even a more

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important game, I think is that both teams have access

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if they win out, if they win the right games,

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they can get in. They don't have to wait around

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and feel like they're they're not getting the the you

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know what they deserve from you know, whatever entity is

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deciding who goes where they can earn it on the field,

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and this is a big game and go and moving

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toward back for either team.

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Speaker 1: My guy double d Darnell Dixon. Nobody does it better.

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Follow him on x at Darnell Wrights. Read all of

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his content at The Daily Herald. Darnell, We appreciate you

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man as always, Thanks for hopping on.

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Speaker 4: All right, guys, we'll see you tonight.

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Speaker 1: All right, we got a little college football update. We

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got a score update by chance. Okay, let's go and

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give it to us. What do you got, Vic Graham,

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make sure that mic in front of your mouth so

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you can speak to all of cougarnation, give me some

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updates on scores.

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Speaker 6: All right, we have the number one Ohio State buck

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Guys up twenty seven nothing in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Just going into the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 6: We have number three Indiana of twenty eight ten on

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Michigan State.

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Speaker 1: And a big game that's going on right now.

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Speaker 6: We have the Old miss Running Rebels up thirty five

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to twenty six on number six Georgia.

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Speaker 1: And then the big one in the Big in the Big.

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Speaker 6: Twelve, we have Arizona State at halftime up nine to

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seven on the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Texas A and

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up Texas A and m up seven to three. And

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then in the Big twelve, we had some big games.

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Speaker 1: We had let's see we had. Let me give you

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an update on some Big Twelve scores. Baylor TCU forty

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two to thirty six. That was a final U of

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a Houston. Houston ended up edging out the Wildcats thirty

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one to twenty eight, UCF forty five thirteen over the

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West Virginia Mountaineers. Those are some of the news and

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notes coming out of the Big Twelve in the college

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football world. Here on your Utah ESBN Readio network, we'll

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be back Cougredation. We're gonna welcome in Tim mctire to

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the show, former BYU defensive back to discuss this rivalry

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game what it means to him in some of his

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