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Off My Pylon, it's Western college football and the lead

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story was not on a Saturday. It was on Friday.

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It was Boise State against UNLV, the Group of five

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game of the year, also the separator in the Mountain West.

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And what's really impressive about Boise State's victory beyond, you know,

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beating a good UNLV team on the road, is that

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Ashton Genty did not go off. He was held under

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one hundred and fifty yards rushing, which is not easy

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to do. I mean, he's been making two hundred yard

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games look effortless and pretty routine this season. He's still

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a top tier Heisman contender. I mean, if he's not

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in a top three of your Heisman list, you're doing

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it wrong, all right. I realized that Travis Hunter exists,

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and I realized that cam Ward exists, and those really

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would be my top three. But Dyan Gabriel, please please,

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he struggled early in the season. He benefits from having

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a good team. Let's not turn the Heisman into the

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award for you know, the quarterback on the highest ranked team,

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the team that's most likely to play for the national

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championship or make the semi finals. That's not what the

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Heigs I'm supposed to be about doing. Gabriel should be

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nowhere close. It's Travis Hunter, it's cam Ward, it's Ashton Gente,

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those three in some order or another. So I'm not

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saying Genti has to be first, but he should certainly

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be in any one's top three. And UNLV was able

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to contain him, and Boise State is able to win anyway.

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Boise State won this game with defense. Boise State won

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this game, you know, with with balance and its depth

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and its physicality. So a very mature performance by Boise State.

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It was a physical game, It was a spirited game.

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It was everything that you'd want in a game, you know,

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billed as a big deal. Like they both went after it.

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They both traded punches, Both teams, you know, carried themselves

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like as though they belonged I'm not talking about it

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didn't belong against each other. They belonged on the stage

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as teams worthy of competing for a big prize such

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as the Mountain West title, such as the Group of

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Five championship. You know, it felt like a game that

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generally lived up to the hype, you know, and if

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you were if you were wanting Genti to explode, well

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U and OV held him in check. And yet Bois

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State had the resourcefulness to win anyway. So a very

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good advertisement for college football, a very good advertisement for

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the Group of Five and the Mountain West, and Boise

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State now takes that step forward. And you know, in

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the Group of five race, it's gonna be interesting to

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see how Army is able to do. And of course

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you have maybe losing to Notre Dame. So you know,

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Boise State, UH and Army very much at the top

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of the of the list among Group of five contenders,

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and it's gonna be interesting to see how things evolve

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in November. But Boise State now in a very good

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position to contend for the Group of five and a

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college football playoff birth as we move out of the

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Mountain West, it's really fascinating to see what's happening in

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the Big twelve. And you know, Dion Sanders, as much

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as he failed last year, he has succeeded this year.

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to own it. I gotta take the l you gotta

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admit when you're wrong in this business. And I've been

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flatly wrong. I was not expecting anything close to this

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kind of season for Colorado. And yes, Travis Hunter definitely

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a Heisman candidate. He is absolutely spectacular what he does

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on both sides of the ball. You know, a significant,

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high level performer two ways. Just don't see that very

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often in college football. So he is special. He adds

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so much to Colorado. H Shuder Sanders as well, But

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not that should Losing Sanders wouldn't matter a ton, he would,

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but Travis Hunter just adds so much to the overall

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puzzle for Colorado, and he's been absolutely dynamic. Colorado handles

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Cincinnati to stay in the Big Twelve race. So Colorado

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being in the Big twelve title race going into November

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and having clinched Bowl eligibility, you know, that's a really

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good season for Dion. That's that's a really good job

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by coach Prime. And you know, the obvious question was,

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be able to uh pull its weight? And obviously true,

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and I was I thought Colorad was going to get

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demolished on the lines, and early in the season when

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Nebraska just absolutely thrashed the Buffs, I was thinking, you

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know what, yep, the preseason conventional wisdom was going to

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hold up that Carrale just wasn't going to have the

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line play needed to have a good team. But that

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became wrong. That that has not held up. Carale has

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been able to go toe to toe with some good

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teams such as Kansas State, like that was a really

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close game, Colorado let it late. Carral has shown some

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stained power and as Colorado continues to stack wins, one

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thing we have to say is, you know the Baylor game,

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lucky escape, but instead of being more of an indicator

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of Colorado, it's turned into more of the exception for Colorado.

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lot better since then. So instead of like that game

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being you know, kind of well Caloradle should have lost,

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and now you're going to see the Buffalo's get back

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to losing. You know they're gonna be the mediocre team

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we thought a b No Colorad used that game as

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a real catapult to become something better. And so Dion

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and he made his team better as a result of it,

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instead of Colorado, you know, being full of itself and

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overconfident and then regressing in the week since then. So

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that that shows that Dion really has the right hold

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on his locker room, on his players. And you know,

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there was so much drama, there was so much soap

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operatic theater in the off season. It seemed as though

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Carrale was a circus. It seemed to be the portrait

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of instability. It hasn't turned out to be true. So again,

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own it. I have to take the l Colorado very impressive,

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continuing to get better as the season goes alarm, and

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that is part of a fascinating upside down story in

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the Big twelve where Colorado way up Utah way down

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Utah loses to Houston. It just gets worse for the Utes, who,

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interestingly enough, seem to have a locker room that's as

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fractured as I thought Colorado's locker room was going to be.

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crumbling as this season spirals downwards. So you know, Colorado

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being very good, Utah being bad? Who thought that before

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the season? And John Wilner of the Wilner Hotline he

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dug up notes on the preseason Big Twelve poll and

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the predicted order of finish amazing stat Four of the

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teams picked to be in to finish in the top

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five of the Big Twelve have no more than one

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conference win through October entry November. Isn't that absolutely wow?

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Oklahoma State, Arizona, Utah, Kansas four teams that are just

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having missed seasons, absolutely awful seasons, and they were all

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picked to be in the top five. The one Big

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twelve team that was picked in top five in the

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preseason and has been a generally good team and has

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generally lived up to preseason expectations Kansas State. The Kansas

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State is not in the driver's seat. That's BYU and

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Iowa State. BYU was you know, BYU was a Vegas

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underdog at UCF that made no sense in BYU promptly

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thrashed the Knights on the road. So the Big Twelve

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has just been upside down land this year. Everything has

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just been flipped upside down throughout the conference with very

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few exceptions and you're seeing, you know, instead of Utah

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and Arizona being at the top two of the Western teams,

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two of the teams that were in the Pac twelve

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last year, it's instead Colorado and BYU, those are the

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two teams. So you do have a team from the

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state of Utah, but it's not the Utes, it's the Cougars.

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refugee rise to the top, but it's Colorado not Arizona.

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as well. So it's just the Big twelve has been

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a wild and crazy, very unpredictable conference. It's going to

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be fascinating to see what's next in the Big twelve,

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including those schools in the West who are part of

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the conference and the story it has written in two

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thousand twenty four. As we continue on, if this look

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at Western college football, we have to also include Washington State.

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Washington State, you know that in part of the two

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pack and part of you know, the Pac twelve that's

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eventually going to be reconstituted with some Mountain West schools

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starting in twenty twenty six. Washington State was down big

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against San Diego State. That game seemed to be going

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one way and it was not the Cougar's way, but

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they get a key interception in their own third of

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the field. They were trailing and San Diego State was

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about to go up two scores midway through the fourth

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and put the game away. But Washington State gets the interception,

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drives down the field, pulls out an improbable come from

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behind win over the Aztecs Washington State seven and one. So,

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Jake Dicker, what what a thrill ride it has been

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for the Cougars this season. And let's see what happens

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for Washington State. What kind of bull bit the Cougars

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can attain? Just how just how much that program can build.

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limbo with you know, the PAC twelve crumbling. What what

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what can Washington State achieve in terms of a bull

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bit this year? But the bigger question, can Washington State

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leverage this season into growth in recruiting, transfer portal and

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become a more relevant national program despite its awful, you know,

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bad luck in terms of the conference realignment shuffle, being

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left standing holding the bag? What can Washington State leverage

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out of its situation. That's gonna be a fascinating talking

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point for twenty twenty five and beyond. But Washington State

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seven and one, I don't think anyone had that on

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their bingo card two months ago. But entering November, Washington

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State with just one loss, that's a pretty neat and

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remarkable story. But those fans in Pulman, after everything they

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went through with the PAC twelve death and realignment and

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dissolution disaster, you gotta feel good for the folks in

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Polman and anyone who else who is a Washington State fan.

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They've went through so much trauma and difficulty. Now they

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get to savor the good life, at least on Saturdays.

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So that's a real feel good, warm fuzzy story in

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Western college football in twenty twenty four. All right, on

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the Big Ten, you know, Oregon just does what it

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does handles Illinois. Oregon's defense is just locking down on

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these week Big Ten offenses. So the Ducks doing exactly

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what they're supposed to do. In the Big Ten. You

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have Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State. All the top

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four of the polls in Ohio State and Penn State

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play this week, so that Ohio State Penn State game

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winner of that puts itself in position to potentially play Oregon.

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the Washington Huskies this past weekend. In Indiana's defense steps up.

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magic of the Hoosiers. But could you imagine what would

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not going to say it's likely, but it's very much

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in play. How absolutely amazing would that be. It's kind

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of even hard to contemplate even now, but it's just

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a loss in the Big Ten. Indiana is still unbeaten,

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so like that would improve Indiana's odds in Ohio State

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beating Penn State, Like that's certainly possible, especially if Drew

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Aller cannot play for Penn State. You know, that might

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be a game time decision. Indiana right there as a

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potential Big ten title contender alongside Oregon. You know, what

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what a new world we have, and what a what

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a coaching job Kurt Signetti has done with the Hoosiers.

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I know that's not the Western United States, but you

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know this is we're talking about contenders with Oregon for

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the playoff. And of course Indiana beat another Western team,

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Washington over the weekend. So Western college football creating some

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fascinating stories in a season where you know, parody is dominant.

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I mean, you could reasonably compare this season with two

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thousand and seven on the chaos meter, But of course

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two thousand and seven still like sets the bar for

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the ultimate in college football mayhem, and we do need

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to see a lot more upsets of the top teams

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before twenty twenty four fully rises to the two thousand

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and seven standard. You remember, in two thousand and seven,

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every major college football team, every team that was in

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a big bowl game, with the sole exception of Kansas

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that was the Mark Mangino Kansas team with Todd Reesing

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at quarterback. Remember that one every major team in a

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big Bowl game except for Kansas had two losses. So

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we don't We still need to see a number of

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unbeaten teams get kicked in the teeth to match the

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two thousand and seven standard. But to twenty twenty four,

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it's remarked for its parody and how many top teams

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are losing, how balanced the SEC is. This is not

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the Alabama and Clemson and then everyone else's dynamic that

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we had really for four years twenty fifteen through twenty eighteen.

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Clemson and Alabama continue to be really, really good through

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twenty twenty one. We're in a very different time now.

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The parody, the democratization of college football through nil in

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the portal. You know a lot of people thought it

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would create just an even more entrenched top tier. No,

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it's actually increased parody and balance in the sport. That's

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been a very welcome development. The national Championship feels very

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much up for grabs. I don't think you can point

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to any one team, including number one Oregon, Like Oregon

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was fortunate to beat Ohio State. Remember, if Ohio State

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doesn't commit that soft passing offensive passer turns County. I mean,

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I can understand why it was called, but many will

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say it was a TICKI tag call. If Ohio State

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doesn't get flagged for that penalty, the Buck guys kick

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a winning field goal at the end, at least they

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have a chance to you know, would have had like

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a forty three forty four yard field goal at least,

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maybe even closer without that penalty, and maybe they beat Oregon.

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So like Oregon is not a dominant number one. Oregon

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should be number one, but Oregon is not. Like several

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laps ahead of the field, there's no great team. There

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are lots of very very good teams, but there's no

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great team at least not yet, at least not yet.

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And so that is part of the dynamic we have

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in college football. So teams in the West fighting with

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teams from the SEC, fighting with teams in the Midwest

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and the other parts of the country for supremacy. And

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in November it just feels as though everything is up

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in the air. And that is a great way for

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a college football season to enter the month of November.

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