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All right, first order of business, let's react to the
week that was. Let's start out with that Friday game
between Nebraska and Minnesota. Nebraska just Riola took a million
sacks in this game and put his team in bad
situations and Minnesota was able to run the ball. Darius Taylor,
the Walled Lake Western graduate, He's been phenomenal at Minnesota
in his career, went down with an injury earlier in
the season, and you know, he just continues at when
he's at full strength. He's one of the best backs
in the Big Ten. He's been like that since his
freshman year. He's won the Big Ten Freshman of the
Year at running back. He is one of the best
players and best playmakers in the Big Ten. Drake Lindsay
played a solid game. I've really been happy with his
progression over the weeks, other than really that Ohio State game.
But I mean, he's got a couple of guys just
Jyaln Smith on the Ka Brockington, like, there's there's some
decent playmakers on this Minnesota team, and I think if
he can continue to develop, because look, Gus, he's still
like a red shirt freshman. He's young, he's one of
the young quarterbacks that doesn't get talked about, and he's
a pretty good player. On the Nebraska side of things,
the lines of scrimmage are not built up that well,
and people on social media that love the troll are
gonna be like, well, the rule might not even beaten
here next year, So why would he care about this
season when he's got to build this team for Penn State. One.
That doesn't look good if you're gonna quot out a team,
because what if you're at Penn State and Ohio State
comes opening and Matt rules that candidate. Is he like
gonna take the season? No, you want to do the
best job. I mean, you're auditioning for it. You haven't
really had any proven success at Nebraska. Let's be completely
honest here. I mean five and two this year. Yes,
he has the program trending in the right direction, but
you lose to a Michigan team that's better than you.
You've beaten all the other teams that you're better than,
other than maybe Cincinnati. But that's a week one game
in the neutral field where Soresby, by the way, he's
like one of the top five most pass efficient quarterbacks.
And like it really hasn't been that impressive of the season,
and they don't play anyone like they play usc and
that'll be a good game on November first, but Northwestern
Ucla might beat them man at home, because you know,
Ucla is quite an impressive team. And then Iowa and
Penn State. Like I don't think Nebraska goes ten and two,
but like it's a nice nine and three, eight and
four season, But are you really pleased with that? If
you're Nebraska fans. I mean, it's better than recent success.
But you know, this is a program with fans that
are very passionate, that want to take this team back
into the right direction and you know, be that Nebraska
team that was winning national championships, you know, being one
of the top teams in college football. You know, I've
never witnessed Nebraska football be good. I'll be honest, guys, I,
like I said, like I mentioned, I'm twenty years old,
I in memory have not remembered Nebraska football ever being elite.
Like I've seen Michigan State be more successful recently than Nebraska,
and that was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and the kind
of twenty twenty one that was it, That was it.
Nebraska's not been good. Moving on USC Notre Dame. I'll
keep this quick because I want Matt Zemic to also
give his thoughts on this. I thought my Ava just
played a super up and down game. He threw two touchdowns,
but also threw two picks. Jacobe Lanez a stud. These
receivers like both Wlayane and Lemon so Lane is he
a sophomore? Okay, he's a junior. I believe both of
these guys are gonna be draft picks. Now where will
they be drafted, I'm not too sure, but these guys
better be on NFL rosters next year because they're both
really impressive weapons. Also, just the ground game for USC,
I think once Miller got on tape and then Jackson
came out there and wasn't really effective at all. By
the way, Minnesota had nine sacks in that Nebraska game. Crazy,
and I mean they just really didn't get any pressure
up front, like they forced one sack on CJ. Carr. CJ.
Car is a good player, man. You didn't have the
greatest game. And this was a rain game. And Jeremiah
Love e Jenderian Price Jered Are and Price had that
uh kick return for a touchdown. But also, I mean
both of them combining for over three hundred yards. Love
with two twenty eight nine point five yards per carrying
and he had that big explosive play for a sixty
three yard touchdown. This Notre Dame team's good and they
have a first year starting quarterback which they lost to Miami,
and that's a not a good loss. I mean it's
still a good loss, but like, what the f was
Friday Nebraska losing twenty four to six to Minnesota and
then Miami losing to Louisville and I get the big
game brom stuff, and I'm a big Jeff bron fam.
I really wish he would go coach at a big
school because I think, like a scheme and game prep wise,
probably a top vibe coach in that department, if we're
being completely honest, Like, I don't think there's very many
better than him. He's not the best recruiter, but he
gets players to play hard for him and dials up
a really good play game plan most of the time.
But look Notre Dame. They got it easy, not an
easy I think Pitt and Navy. I don't think Navy's
gonna be that tricky, but it could be. I think
Pitt could get a little tricky. I don't think Syrah,
Kuse or Stanford or Boston College are threats. But it
was speaking on it from the USC side. Man, this
team isn't changed in big games. We thought it was
with Michigan, which we'll talk Michigan in a second. In
their game against Washington they're not out gonna out physical,
and they look they have amazing scale talent on both sides. Yeah,
I mean like Eric Gentry is a great player. I
thought he did well. Kamari Ramsey is going to be
a day one day too. Safety. They do not play
as a team, and this is something you see from
USC in big games and something that I witnessed earlier
when they played Illinois. They do not play together for
four quarters collectively, and it's gonna be hard to win games,
which Notre Dame didn't have the perfect game either, but
guess what, they stick together. You know, they they block
even when the receiving game is not going well. You know,
they have this amazing run game. They have defense that
you know what, they're somewhat playing. It's not perfect. They're
not the best defensive team. It's not as good as
last year's seat They're still a good football team and
they forced USC in the mistakes and they have one
of the best head coaches who's getting photed around for rumors,
which I think it's crazy. Marcus Freeman leaves No Dame
unless Georgia, Alabama or Ohio State become open. Right. So
with that being said, good Win Notre Dame. USC is
still the same Lincoln Riley USC, the same Lincoln Riley
that's always existed. You know, we talk about James Franklin
getting fired. What has Lincoln Riley done? Sure, he's won
Big Twelve titles. He left when that the Oklahoma joined
the SEC in the Big Ten, and he really hasn't
had that much success like at least James Franklin, you know,
has his teams winning games and not losing games that
it's not supposed to like he does at USC, like
he did at the later end of his career in Oklahoma.
I will give Lincoln Riley crap too much because I
think he's one of the best offensive mines in football
and is when it comes to developing quarterback not only quarterbacks,
but running backs and skilled players as well. There's not
too much that do it better than him. And I'm
just saying, if we're gonna go off this, you know, oh,
he doesn't really win big games? What is he he done? It? USC?
He's been there since what the last year of the
Pac twelve and then this year, so it's his third
fourth season something like that. What has he done? Yeah,
this is fourth season because he had two years of
Caleb not much, not much. Gleb won a Heisman. That
was cool. That's about it really, if you look at
it AnyWho. I don't mean to complain. I'm just saying, yeah,
I know, James Franklin had this way longer sign but
James Franklin did a lot more for that Penn State
program that people get at credit for. I didn't really watch.
I saw some clips from the James Franklin stuff on
game day. Look, he's gonna get another job somewhere. He's
a phenomenal person, a good head coach, knows how to
run a program, and he'll get the opportunity somewhere else.
I don't know what type of prestigious job he might get.
Love to see him at Michigan State, because I think if,
especially if Michigan doesn't really show up in this Michigan game,
you know, at home versus your rival, and this would
be the since twenty twenty one, so twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four, This would be four years in a row
of losing to your arrival. And I get it, the
Meltucker area lost twice. But Johnathan Smith hasn't done anything.
And we see these other head coaches, like we saw
head coach firing on Sunday of Billy Napier. He hasn't
done much with the Florida program. He had some promise
at the end of the season, but they play Lagway
hurt and then nothing happens because he's trying to save
his job. And when you're playing a hurt quarterback that
you know was in a boot all summer and had
no practice and probably still a little bit dinged up,
which I don't mean to go on a Florida reht
because that's football Florida football insiders. With Jason Powers, it's
more of his his thing, which that'll be interesting to
listen to later in the week. Regardless, Michigan, Washington, Washington
loves the show up against like teams like Rutgers and Maryland,
Washington State and Colorado State who actually fired their head coach,
but teams of actual substance that play both sides of
the ball, they don't show up against. Demon Williams tried
everything he could, they couldn't run the damn ball, and
Michigan probably the most complete game they've played all season
against a competent opponent, like the Nebraska game they played Okay,
I'm not gonna say they played bad. They played okay,
they did enough to win. I was on the road too,
so you gotta give them a little credit to Lincoln's
not the hardest. It's not the hardest, but it's still
a hard place. Like that fit in base is passionate
and shows up against Washington. This is Bryce Underwood's best game.
The types of throws and the decisions and him being
able to extend and make good plays. And how about
Zach Marshall, how about Andrew marsh Like Morgan McCauley, they
weren't the focal points. And I really liked watching Andrew
marsh this season. As much as this pains me to
say as a Michigan State fan, Andrew marsh has been
the best receiver on this team probably, and Jordan Marshall
having a good day in the run game, Justice Haynes
ain't back, don't matter. I think it's a good amount
of carries. And yeah, like I said, I mean, this
defense is really starting to develop more and more. I'm
really I've been a big fan of Ernest Hausman ever
since I watched the film of him transferring from Nebraska,
And yeah, I mean this is It's a solid D
line with Barrom and other guys at the helm, you know,
Damon Payne. There's like this D line. It might not
be as good as the D line of the past
couple of years, it's still a talented team. And I
really like, I really like all the levels of the defense.
I think the secondary did a good job in this game.
I don't think it played like overly amazing, but it's
getting better over the weeks. And yeah, yeah, it'll be
a fun game versus Michigan State and then the rest
of the season. I mean, you're pretty much not coasting. Wow,
Northwestern's five and too. We need to get more respect
to the Wildcats because I know I dog them a
lot on the show, and they had in a very
oppressive shutout win versus Purdue. They don't have to worry
about anything until Ohio State most likely. Like, yes, they
still have to go out there and play every week
and take care of business because that's just not guaranteed
in college football Missouri Texas. But yeah, two games, I'm
just gonna go over quickly. Indiana beats Michigan State thirty
eight thirteen Michigan State joke Giles didn't play bad, and
they actually started out decent in this game, and then
the weather delayed to happen. Look, Michigan State can't run
the football. In India's defensive spectacular, Mendoza has one of
the most efficient passing games you'll see on a stat sheet.
Sarrot and Cooper and EJ. Williams and you know, running
games with the running backs and Black and Hemby and
the rest of that running back room committee. And look
this this is a good this is a good Indiana team. Okay, signet.
He gets extended. It's like eight years, ninety two million,
It's it's something around that marchin. So he's getting paid
a good amount of money because we knew it. But
he wasn't gonna take the Penn State job. Like why
would he? Right, why would he? He gets extended stay
at Indiana, he's gonna retire sooner most likely not a
sooner a Hoosier sorry wrong, Red and White school, but regardless,
Like he's got that program in such a good place.
Why would you leave something that you've built. It's like
someone that builds some sort of I don't know, some
sort of architect is like, no, I want to destroy
it or take it and move it. So no, no,
you don't continue to build, continue to add on, continue
to make it better. On the Michigan state side of things,
I'm not going to get into it. Yeah, their football
team of the Big Ten, like I legitimately think other
maybe Wisconsin, they might be the worst Big Ten team
me and one hundred percent transparent, maybe produce worse. They're
in the echelon of like get better, get better, right
right right, No, they don't. Oregon killed Rutgers fifty six
to ten. I like, I saw highlights of this game
and I watch it and it's full four hundred rushing
yards from this Ducks team. Whittington and Davison had over
one hundred. The running back by committee approach continues to
be successful. Also, three thirty five through the air. I've
said it all year. This Rutgers defense is horrible and athy,
and Kellia Manis finally came down to earth. Yeah, I
mean Rutgers is a look. I don't know, because Greg
Ciano's typically got like a good defense. Not this year, Man,
not this year. Northwestern beats Purdue nineteen to nothing. That
was a surprise, uh, because yeah, I mean they just
they did. Purdue didn't play well at all, and I
don't know just they it was a football game. I mean,
Northwestern forces three turnovers Indiana or excuse me, Purdue only
gets two back. I mean like, it's just like, I'm
gonna be honest, I didn't watch much of this game.
It's they're both like not good football teams. I'm sorry.
I hate to be that guy that's like, oh no,
they're they're not really worth watching produce socks. I thought
Barry odom when they don't like I thought, they they're not.
They're not. It's the same old Purdue. They lost one
of the best game day coaches in America, and all
of a sudden, Hey, we're back down to earth. So
it'll be basketball season really soon here. Actually, I know
the NBA starts tomorrow. I don't know about college basketball,
say all, I should say the NBA starts on Tuesday,
whenever you're listening to this, so it might have already
started when you're listening to this. Regardless, Iowa played Penn State.
This was a football game. Penn State's got a losing record.
I can't remember the last time I could say that,
like four games into a four games plus into a season,
although I don't really remember them any losing any non
con games in recent memory. Gronkmeyer went out there stunk
it up. Like not that Mark Ronowski out played him.
He did. On the ground, Mark Ronowski had a fantast
astic game. And he looks healthy. Man, he looks like
a dynamic athlete. You know, the guy that we thought
Iowa was getting coming into this year, and they were.
They were able to supplement the rest of their offense.
Moulton had near one hundred yards as well. They had
that pick that got them like within that the one
yard line. And look, they took care of business on
special teams, were able to do what they needed to
do get a winning Kinnick and Nick Singleton disappears they
don't have any different difference makers in the receiver room.
They only got two tackles for loss with you know
guys like Deni Dennas Sutton, you know the guy in
the middle, what's his name, Durant with him. And they
have Zion Tracy, a guy that was supposed to be
well in aj Harris. You know, team that's kind of
just lost it, be honest, they've just lost it. And
Iowa good win. You're five and two. What does the
rest of their schedule look like? They play Minnesota three
thirty CBS. That'll actually be a good game next week,
Oregon USC Michigan State. No Brad. That's kind of a
They got a tough schedule to finish out the year.
But if you're I one and you can go seven
and five and the new Big Ten, you know, just
keep batting Ayowa overs because the totals look really funny
if you hit on him. Yet on them u c
LA be it's Maryland. Uh, it's just been the story.
Maryland has a one out of the month of September.
Milake Washington, man, go get your money somewhere else. I like,
I'm typically not someone to tell these quarterbacks to hop
in the portal. And Nico didn't even really have a
like a fantastic game, but you know they they were
able to take care of business on the on the
u c l A side, Yeah, if you're if you're
in Lake Washington, get your money. I think he didn't.
He didn't have an impressive stat line, but watching him
play throughout the season and see what his high level
ability and if he actually had playmakers to throw the
ball to he would be having a lot better of
a time, let me tell you, because I mean they
they're not great on the line of scrimmage. And look,
no one expects this Maryland team to be like, oh, yeah,
we're just gonna go contend for a college football playoff, right,
And I might get a lot of fan bases mad
at me today because I'm kind of just spewing. It
was a long weekend and I'm tired, but you know,
I still watched the decent amount of these games and
want to give you guys a preview for next week
as well. And yeah, I watched this team play, and
you know, it's like this quarterback's awesome. He was awesome
for a lot of the season. And it started to
dwindle down more and more and more really after that
Washington game, Like the second half that Washington game happened,
and then all of a sudden, it was like, oh,
we're just not going to exist as a football team
anymore at all. So and then Ohio State beats Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's up there with with Oklahoma State, a team that's
just dead. It's dead. I like, yes, they go out
there and play the game, they show up, They wear
a jersey. They're getting paid in on scholarship most likely
most cases, Julian Saying is just one of the best
players in terms of just being that guy. We compared
it to Mike Conley on My last show. Just a
point guard that gets the ball in the best player's hands,
knows the offense, doesn't really make any mistakes. Like he's
not a game manager because he's not like a Caid
macnamara where he's like incapable of making a play. He's
kind of like, I don't know how to put this
in perspective, Like I think he's better than Stetson, like
in terms of a talent perspective, not the accolades and
accomplishments that'sn't been ahead because yeah, it's so tough to like.
It's like, I think Saying still has the ability to
be in an NFL quarterback because he's still young, and
you know, he does some things really well. I don't know,
I don't know what I would describe him ass he's
kind of like he's not a one of a kind player.
But I don't know, Like, Okay, hear me out on
this one, Kyle Trask. Maybe it's not like a terrible comparison.
Mac Jones, I guess too like just a good distributor
and getting into the playmaker's hands. That twenty twenty Florida
see Cayle's rest did a really good job of getting
the ball to Canary Tony when he actually cared about
football and not being a rapper and other things. Kyle
Pitts as well was on that team. Good football player?
Is anyone else on the Florida team? I remember those two.
Those two were fun to watch on in that weird
COVID year. He Yeah, Julian San really good QB. I
really can't say too many bad things about him this
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All Right, football is being played in the Big Ten
next Saturday. Oh, where do we start? Where do we start?
What's an intriguing Matchhow so? Ohio State's off next week? Okay,
Indiana plays UCLA. Indiana is a twenty four and a
half point favorite, fifty four and a half over under.
This game being in Bloomington. I think you see, La
could give this team a little bit of fight, right.
Ucla has been actually playing defense this season. Now, Okay,
they're playing Indiana, right, so it's a little bit of
a different caliber of a team compared to all the
other teams that they've played so far. Right, because I
mean when they played the Utah This has been a
different team since the UH since Tim Skipper and Jerry
new heisl have been the coordinators or head coach offensive coordinator. Right,
Indiana has just kind of been like a really good
football team. Right. It's not like an Iowa situation where
they're in a look ahead spot because like we've mentioned,
like Maryland will be maybe a decent game, sure, Penn
State Wisconsin Preduer like those last two games really the
last three, Like, yeah, Indiana's just got an easy schedule,
and I think we said that last week, right, So yeah,
like it's a twenty four and a half point spread.
I think UCLA could personally cover, honestly, but I have
to wait and see Big Noon Fox with Gus Johnson
Joe Klatt. Yeah, Northwestern versus Nebraska. Nebraska a seven and
a half points favorite. It's dropped a little bit. Said
it was opened at nine and a half now seven
and a half. Yeah, I mean in terms of things
to look out for if Nebraska or if Nebraska can't
pass protect and Ryola runs himself into sacks too. He
is just one of the most careless quarterbacks I've ever seen.
If they're really not able to establish things with them
at Johnson, which they were able to kind of too,
but the sacks kept killing them in that game versus Minnesota,
why Minnesota was able to dominate. Look, Northwestern is good
enough to do the same thing. Well, I think the
Minnesota offense is maybe a little bit more dynamic, Like
Northwestern is still gonna do things, and especially if they
can establish good field position against Nebraska, like they're gonna
have a good time. While they're not insanely impressive and
getting sex this season only eleven so far total, they
they could get it done. I think they're a team
that you know, Nebraska doesn't take this seriously, or if
Dylan Ryola is just not having a great day, Northwestern
can get this team. I mean, look, they're on a
four game winning streak. We're gonna it's UCLA before they
fired Deshaun Foster, it's you all Monroe, or maybe Deshaun
Foster got fired after but they it was a mess,
you a Monroe, Penn State and Purdue. But like, hey man,
they're winning ball games forty three and a half over under.
It could really go either way. And look, Northwestern's got
a bye week next week, so they might play this
one a little bit harder as well. And Nebraska plays
USC So there are two kind of like tough opponents
for Nebraska Northwestern man David Braun able to take over
do well things for this program that weren't really expected
of them, right, because the whole Pats Fitzgerald thing, I
don't even know if I should discuss that happens. But
he takes over, has a control in a command of
this program. That's all you want to see. You just
want to see Northwestern be successful, right, You want to
see a lot of people be successful, but especially our
friends at Northwestern can't wait to see their new field
when they're finally done with it, although I do love
the legendary practice field that they do play on. Rutgers
and Purdue play each other fifty nine and a half total.
Bet the under, like bet the alternative over eighty. I
promise you this is going to be like a fifty
to forty five game between two blow mediocre football teams.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun, and it's
going to be in West Lafayette. I don't know if
they still have fans they're gonna show up, or if
they've already bought their basketball tickets and decided not to
care about football, right, But yeah, I mean, you don't
know it can really go either way. Yeah, both bottom
of the barrel Big ten teams, Illinois and Washington. This
should actually be a good game. Three thirty Washington at home,
favored by four and a half over under a fifty
five and a half. Now, look, look, Altmeyer looked human
versus Ohio State Illinois coming off a bye. I'd love
to see what Illinois can do in establishing their round
ground game because that's something that's really been kind of
just an inconsistency of this Illinois team. S Vegan's the
leading rusher with three thirty eight and he's got eighty
five carries. Like that's something that we thought Illinois was
gonna be able to do coming into the season, as
you know, they'd be a team that actually be able
to kind of play like a crowded pound style with
experienced offensive line. But instead it's been Altmeyer having to
be this volume passer, which is just not the play
style he is, right, He's a game managing quarterback that's
experienced and you know, reach the field well, right, and
if you haven't passed twenty to twenty five times a game,
like that's the ideal situation you want to be. Now
when he has to go over thirty thirty five, it's bad.
And can Washington get ahead and put Illinois in enough
down in distant situations where you know it's Luke Altmeyer
trying to throw it and throw it And despite the
coverage that they had against Michigan's I'm still a fan
of Tacario David in the secondary, especially with them being
more of like a lengthy style of corners and being
able to play Manda Man coverage. If they can take
Kank Beattie out of this game, and I know they
have Dixon and other guys that are capable of making
plays on the Illinois side, but if they can force
you know, Illinois to kind of get tricked up and
force them into spots now for Washington, right, I mean,
Demond Williams has been an amazing playmaker. He got flustered
last game. I don't know if this Illinois defense is great,
but you got guys like Gabe Jackets, You've got a
decent defensive line. Secondary can only get more healthy and
better as time continues to string along. Soap, this could
be a really good game. It could really go both ways.
It's in Washington, so it's gonna be a little bit
more tough for Illinois. Right, It's not like this is
on a neutral field or anything of that nature. You
know people that love to discuss, oh well, if this
game was playing on a neutral feeling, he belly ratings
this debt. Nobody cares, because, you know, we care about
the game that's being played actually in time, not your
hypothetical situation. Right, So it's gonna be a really good game.
That game will be on three thirty Big ten Network,
Iowa Minnesota, three thirty CBS, Iowa favored by eight and
a half. I don't know if ire with the line
now it is at Kinnick and look whatever, I don't know.
I don't really know where I'm gonna go with this.
I guess I'll start off by saying this is going
to be if you like offense, stay away, like, go
to your big twelves, go to your some SCC games
or offensive summer, go to the ECC. You know, go
go go watch your air raid teams.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 2: This is real football. Okay, this is old school. This
is your dad's dad's football. This is their type of game.
You know, just out there, go in to fight for
sixty minutes. I don't care about celebrations. What your stats are?
You care about getting the damn win. Both these teams
are gonna try to do that. Iowa is a football
team with players that play football in Minnesota. I'm just
looking at this game and like, oh wow, over under
moved up to thirty nine and a half. It's still
thirty eight and a half earlier. Man, is it gonna
get over forty? I don't know. I think if Minnesota
could really spread this, Iowa ce Mount and Drake Lindsay,
you know, can use his arm in this game. They're
gonna have Darius Taylor healthy, which will help for Iowa.
It's all about time of possession and it's all about
establishing good field position. You know, you're a lot of
coach speak on this. No, this is literally the Kirk
Farrens identity and how they win these games and how
they won so many Big Ten West games and maybe
it's so many Big Ten titles. It's you know, win
the field position, time of possession, be efficient, just do
your job. Really, it'll be a fun game to watch
if you are a sicko. But yeah, oh, Wisconson plays Oregon.
Organ's favored by thirty three and a half. Guys, Oh well,
Wiscon's might tront out there and think that. No, no,
they don't. They don't have a chance unless they fired
Luke Fickle like Wednesday, and they were like, oh, yeah,
you know, we gotta go show that we're worthy of,
you know, having a coach and doing all these things.
And which the whole reason why Luke Fickle probably hasn't
been fired yet is because a new ad fired Paul
Christ and then hired Luke Fickle. And they don't want
it to make it look so bad, especially in such
a short span of time. But yeah, that's bad. It's bad,
hir And uh, sometimes you gotta admit your mistakes when
you're wrong, right, Nope, not in college football, and not
when there's so much money involved and you have agents
and all these things. No, no you can't. Yeah, it's
just that that. Yeah. And then the Michigan Michigan State
game being played in east Lands had Night NBC and
she Get is a fourteen and a half point favorite.
The over under is forty eight and a half price.
Underwood's been playing his best ball when this last week
he played his best complete game. They might have Justice
Haynes back. He had seven hundred and five yards before
he got injured in that USC game. If not, Jordan
Marshall's a great back and a team that can run
the football all. Michigan State doesn't play defense, right, we
know this, this is something we talked about all year.
And the offense doesn't show up the whole entire game.
It shows up for twenty minutes, so you know, I mean,
it's just, yeah, Michigan probably should be a win by
like twenty. Like I was talking with a friend earlier
today and he's like, oh, well, you know if you
were to have the Michigan Michigan State spread at because
I'm like, this spriade is garbage, and I see why
it's moving into the Michigan direction. I'm like, dude, Mike,
it Michigan like eighteen seventeen and a half. Like it's
not They're like, Michigan State doesn't have a chance. They quit,
They don't want to play. They don't want to play.
Some guys do because well, Jonathan Smith gets fired and
they came over from Oregon State, or they were a
recruit at Oregon State that wanted to flip over there,
or it is something that they were thinking about. Like
we don't get in state talent at all. We talked
about this with Tom Kavanaugh, a great guy. I love Tom,
and he was like, you know, kids, no, Michigan's a
great high school football state, and all the talent wants
to go to either Michigan or get out of town.
They don't want to go to East Lansing. I know
someone personally committed to Michigan State right now in this
twenty twenty six class. I don't know if he's gonna
still be committed there. The Gash kid from Detroit Catholic Central,
He's probably not gonna want to go there. So it's
just it's frustrating to watch this is It's not a
good football team, and I'm glad because I just can
stay basketball. Wow. I don't think they're gonna be as
good as they were last year. Tellawise, I think it's
still gonna be a fun team and got some fun pressure. Okay,
enough of that. I don't want to go on a
spiel about you know, just this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
one thing before we go, we'll look at the top
twenty five and then oh yeah we can. We can
get out of here. I'm sorry for such a cluster
based show. I probably did, like I did six games
across three days. I did one game Friday night that
took my evening up from about like five to like
eleven o'clock at night. Saturday called three soccer games for
a state tournament that took like nine hours out of
my day Sunday six more hours. And you know, I
had other things to attend to this weekend stuff. So
I'm sorry for this being such a like clusters show.
I actually got to meet TJ. Reeves, the radio sideline
reporter for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who is a big
affiliate of this podcast, and you know, kind of runs
and runs the thing. It's his thing, which lines one today.
Had breakfast with him this morning down at the Hudson Cafe.
Great breakfast spot if you are in the southeastern Detroit
region or southeastern Michigan region, you know, around the metro
Detroit area, is what I should say. And it's spent
a long weekend and you know, any to sleep and stuff.
And sorry for it being such a rambunctious show. I
love talking on here and talking with you guys, talking
to an audience. I couldn't appreciate it enough. Just maybe not,
and maybe you like this type of more like unfiltered,
like oh, he's just you know, talking talk and really
saying what he means, which I feel like I do anyways,
But I feel like I'm a little bit more pulled back.
Maybe I should stop. All right, I'm talking to myself.
I'm officially going insane. All right. So Ohio State and
Indiana are number one and two, and I'm pretty sure
we're gonna see these two teams meet in the Big
Ten title game, right as long as Ohio State doesn't
lose to Michigan, E know, and even if they do,
because we're going to Michigan are common opponents for I
don't think so. Yeah. AnyWho, So Ohio State, Indiana one
and two. Right, then you go down six. Oregon's there
between the three SEC schools. Georgia, TeX's at seven. That's
insane to me. Miami dressing, yeahs at Notre Dame at twelve. Okay, yeah,
they deserve to be ranked now they they've won a
couple of good games. You go down to twenty three.
Sorry the line, I are back in it for doing nothing,
but they're back in it. And the Michigan said, hey,
what is USC doing below ring to Michigan. You know USC,
I know they lost to Notre Dame Illinois. Those are
two top twenty five teams. Michigan, according to this, they
lost to a unranked team, a team that beat them,
you know, one spot below. And then I'll call them
as a good team too. Yeah, that doesn't make any
sense to me. Whatever AP voters, I don't care. And
then yeah, no other Big Ten, oh Minnesota got a
receiving vote, never mind, never mind one receiving vote. Man SDS,
you got some receiving votes. Say that's cool? Yeah, I mean, okay,
were to look at the conference title odds in Northwestern USC, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,
u CLA all have one conference loss. Obviously, Indiana and
Ohio State undefeated. Well, there's five teams in the Big
Ten zero and four Michigan State, Penn State, Rutgers, Purdue Wisconsin.
I feel like those those the Rutgers in Purdue, I
wouldn't even say wisconc dang. Wisconsin's got a twenty to
one twenty two point differential, Holy holy yeah me and
my Ohio State's got a one thirty four to twenty
five points fort points takes one. AnyWho, yeah they uh they, yeah,
this is uh embarrassing. And I'm pretty sure twenty of those,
oh the eight sixty to those came against Wow wow
wow dude. Yeah it's gonna be Indiana. I mean, I
think Oregons capable of winning a national championship as well.
But I really think these two teams and look, maybe
we're gonna take the Ohio state route right whe We're
gonna have a lot time this schedule, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
USCI like they don't have any that that's for to
fish opponents. They gotta finish out, finish out the season with.
So yeah, this is uh yeah, it's like the Big Ten.
All right, we're gonna have an honest talk here. I
love Big Ten football. I've been watching Big Ten football
because obviously my favorite team plays in the Big Ten conference.
But also I think it's like, in terms of brands
of football, I think it's like this sounds really cliche
to say. I think it's like the most how like
you could play text foot textbook football. I think the
SEC does a pretty decent job too, But like there's
nothing insanely fat, flashy, Like everyone has their own little
intricacies and their scheme and you know all that sort
of good nature, right and you know there's like you know,
the recruiting identity and the types of teams that there are,
and you know a lot of these programs have a
good prestige. Some of them are able to pop up
in bubble years like all these things. Right, Well, this
year it's kind of just been like, man, there's Ohio State,
Indiana and nothing else. There's no excitement around this conference.
And like as the senior season continues to dwindle on,
like I will watch these games because one is a
part of my job, but two also at the end
of the day, I'm just like, you know, like team
the games like Minnesota Iowa I think are still great
football games. Yeah, but like it's just a weird conference
this year, right, Like there's nob like it's there's no
like drama. I think part of that has to do
with like Penn State not being good and maybe Illinois
not living up to some hype and Nebraska really you know,
shipping the bed to be complaining, to be completely honest,
and you know, like team likes teams like Wisconsin aren't
really you know relevant right now, Teams like Michigan State
teams like u C l a USC, like not Phil
fully living up to their potential and you know where
they could be at Mexican capacity. Like I feel like
it's just been such a weird, weird time in the
Big Ten and it's like, man, which I still like
how it is now compared to you know, the East
West bull crap. Not that I thought it was like
the worst concept ever. It's just the East always way better.
But yeah, that's it. That's it for the Big Ten Paradigm.
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