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Ten throughout this whole entire twenty twenty five college football season.
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Big Ten Paradigm here. And there's
something we need to talk about here. As the music
continues to set in, Penn State football took one of
the worst losses not only a program can take. But
this is just not what I expected to happen this weekend.
And yeah, if you didn't see, on Saturday, UCLA beat
Penn State forty two to thirty seven. They were up
twenty seven to seven and a halftime and the winless
Bruins pick up a win against Penn State and drop
their season the three and two where they will most
likely be out of the college football playoff. And yeah,
let's look at a couple of things. I have two
screenshots pulled up, and then I will que off this
sad music. UCLA interm head coach Tim Skipper is now
tied with James Franklin with one career Top ten win
against a Big Ten opponent. And then also Penn State
is the first Top ten team to lose to an
zero to four or worse opponent in forty years. All right,
now that we have the dramatics out of the way,
we can actually talk about football. But once again, this
is where we are going to open up the show
and with our guests later and Tyler Danberg, I will
make sure to get his opinions as well. With the
UCLA Bruins at home, big game on CBS. They're able
to take that forty two to thirty seven victory. And
how about it, Nico el Mova able to pick up
his first win as a starter for UCLA along with
a bunch of other players. Is Nico in this game
one sixty six passing, one to twenty eight, rushing five
total touchdowns? Is his draft stock? Rerisen definitely not. But okay,
let me set the scene here. So I am watching,
you know, other games in the Big ten and across
the country that have my attention, because I was gonna
be honest, I was gonna watch a twenty minute recap
of this Bruins Penn State game. And I did not
need to because this ended up coming up on the
quadbox very quickly and for the Penn State side of things. One,
I mean, this offense just didn't exist in the first half,
and the defense didn't either. They were down twenty seven
to seven. Nico was cooking with this team in Their
defense actually did a decent job of holding Penn State
to limited opportunities, and they were kind of just able
to take advantage. They were able to score seven touchdowns
in this game, or excuse me, they were able to
score six in this game. But regardless, I mean, this
is uh yeah, this was not not a good win
or not a good loss for the Penn State and
nit the Allians, and especially for them trying to get
to a college football playoff opportunity. This really hinders the
chances because you still got to play Indiana, and you
still got to play Ohio State, and you already took
a loss to Oregon now a three and two. By
the way, they dropped out of the top twenty five.
I normally bring up the eightp pole later in the show.
I feel like that's something. They dropped from seven to
twenty five. Keep in mind, after them when they lost
to Oregon, they were ranked about Indiana, And while I
think Penn State's still good enough to you know, get
back there. Maybe they're not Drew Aller not impressive yesterday,
the running game non impressive yesterday. I don't know what
happened with Nick Singleton this season, but averaging three point
five yards per carry against UCLA. You know a team
that G five schools have been able to beat UNLVA
New Mexico able to do wonders against UCLA. Well, I
don't think. Well actually up until yesterday, and I thought
Ucla was one of the worst P four teams they
which they still might be. They just kind of caught
a lucky win. This was like I don't have necessarily
enough x's and o's, just because I was just more
in utter shock than anything of actually taking any sort
of notes for this game. They you know what, they
won a football game. I thought they were gonna blow
it at the end, you know, Penn State. They blocked
that punt for a touchdown. They were able to hold
UCLA to some stops in the second half, but they
got the fourth and two stop at the end. It
was all over from there. What does this mean for
Penn State? And I hate to open up the show
talking about the team negatively, but you got Northwestern next week,
you should beat them, although they took care of business
against Jel Monroe. Happy to see that at Kennick at
Ohio State host Indiana, go to Michigan State, Nebraska and Rutgers.
It's not the toughest the stretches, to say the least,
but you got two really big games in there, and
Iowa was in Nebraska. Aren't teams to take too lightly either,
especially if you're dropping games to UCLA. I don't think
you should do that if you're trying to quote unquote
compete for a national championship. We take a moment of silence,
take a breath, and if you're Penn State, you just
want to forget about this game. Because I already went
on Penn State last week. There is no point in
me really doing any sort of conversation about this team
that I just they just I have no words. Like
a part of me is still shocked in the sense that,
you know, like I didn't even care about like the
actual like game track and how it was going, because
I mean, UCLA was just playing great, like I typically
don't try and do that, but it was a fun
watch and I feel bad for any sort of Penn
State fans that really thought they were gonna do something
this season because there's a lot of investment, a lot
of players are returning. You know, a good amount of
their defense return their offense. They really tried to build
a round and you know what, they scored thirty seven points,
but you know they they should have scored fifty on Ucla.
This is not I know Ucla won the football game, okay,
and if you would have put it about a neutral field,
I don't care about your power ratings or were rankings
or wherever you're gonna put this team. You cannot lose
to UCLA and expect to be a winner. I know
you could say the same thing about Notre Dame. Notre
Dame bloist to Nord Illinois. I'm telling you last year's
Northern Illinois team when it beat this UCLA team like
this is a bad loss. You were favored by basically
four touchdowns and you lost. I get it. It's a
road game in LA. That place was not hostile. You
see the attempt of them rushing the field. They barely did.
Just Yeah, Penn State, James Franklin. It was great following
Twitter because I follow a good amount of Penn State
writers because I planned on having them on the show
at some point, which we will be talking to Tyler Danberg.
Can't remember if I mentioned that or not. It's been
a long day for me, in a long weekend in general,
but definitely a great one in college football and talking
to the Big Ten and in general. I mean, like
the three thirty window was great for you know, Big
Ten football, but there's also a lot of other interesting
games going on and a lot of interesting football in general.
And you know, this was a great college football Saturday,
and I enjoyed watching it, you know, all through and
through because I'm still a college football fan at the
end of the day, and especially with the UCLA game,
and it just reminded me why this sport's so great. Not
any who, we'll move on to the Big Neton game next,
Michigan Wisconsin got a decent amount of eyes on this game.
Wisconsin went to Hunter Simmons at the helm of their
offense this game, and I think he looked half bad
Benny Anthony. That is that he was very impressive nine
receptions in ninety seven yards and look, if Wisconsin had
any sense of pushing the ball down the field, it
could have been a lot better. But when you're talking
Michigan Michigan football, that defense man it is it is
relatively not relatively, It is really good to see Rod
Moore come away with a pick, you know, after all
the injury and you know, comeback he's had to do
in terms of his health. That that was something really
cool to see. I'm not obviously a Michigan fan. Everyone
knows I'm sparty till I die, but it was really
cool to see him come back. And while their defense man, like,
I know, they didn't put up any sacks, but they
halted that Wisconsin running game and they weren't necessarily having
too much success passing it through the air. Justice Haynes
once again looked rim he might be one of the
best running backs in college football. McCauley kind of had
a breakout game seen with Andrew marsh He had a
few catches in a row that I was like, Okay,
you know, maybe Michigan State recruited the wrong Marsh kit
They didn't, but you know, it's just a thought at
the time. Bryce Underwood, you know, he really started to
have a good game. This say is I believe his
first game over two hundred in fifty passing, you know,
nine point six per attempt. Like, I think things are
starting to come up together a little bit more and
more for this Michigan team. And it's great things to
see on the Wisconsin side, Like they didn't play a
bad game, but they're just gonna get out physical by
Michigan in the situation, especially when you're not capable of
running the ball. Thought Hunter Simmons did an okay job.
I thought, well, once again, I mean Jones had a
couple of runs where it's like, okay, like maybe Wisconsin
can get it going. But all in all, Michigan was
the better team. They came out with a win. It's
tied seven to seven, but Michigan, you know, they just
they they took control. They go up twenty four to seven.
It's kind of all said and done there. Kind of
just one of those classic Big Ten games that you
would maybe see in November or snow on the ground
or you know, it's a little cold, they're out. But
we got it on an eighty degree day in Michigan
in October. Crazy stuff. Next one, we'll move into Illinois. Purdue.
Hank Beaty was magical yesterday for this Illinois offense five receptions,
one hundred and eighty six yards and a touchdown. Luke
Altmeyer had a very impressive date nineteen to twenty two,
three hundred and ninety yards seventeen point seven yards per
it's empt in a touchdown. Illinois still has this little
struggle of running the ball. And I mean, Purdue, they're
a fun team, man. Like I've said, I don't think
Purdue is necessarily a great football team this season by
any means. But I think they're a fun football team.
And you know what when I watch, when I want
to watch a team play in the Big Ten, you
know they're they're gonna be able to do some stuff
on offense. They're gonna get a little trickery. Ryan Brown's
not a half bag quarterback at all, and you know
he threw the ball fifty times yesterday. But like, I
don't know if this Purdue team is capable of pulling
a big upset like Purdue teams in years past and
just absolutely derailing a season. But I mean, like they
could pick up a winning It's Minnesota and maybe Northwestern,
maybe Rutgers. Like their next three games, they could stay
relatively competitive and you know, have a shot of winning.
Then they play Michigan, Ohio State Washington in Indiana. I
don't think you'll have as much success, you know, in
that November stretch, but the month rest of the month
of October, they could work some magic and maybe find
their way not into a bowl game, but on the
door aiding there. And I think that's where you want
to be if you're bury Otam in the squad, because
I don't think you expect to have her due completely rebuilt,
you know, right now, and I wanted to expect you to.
But you know, their fun ball Club Illinois, Big test
next week. It'll be a great game Washington Maryland. Now,
this was a game that had a lot of my attention.
I thought was gonna be the best game in the
three thirty window, ended up not being. It's still a
really good game, man, Maleak Washington. While his his style
line's not completely you know, shows the story of this game.
On third down and I believe their last possession of
the game, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, they turned it
over on downs. He threw this absolute ball into the bucket.
It was just dropped by the Maryland receivers and Maryland
had five drops on the game, but that last one,
I was just like, man, dude, he put that in
a perfect place, and he deserves better than Maryland. I
don't want a dog on Maryland. I don't want to
say they're a bad program by any means. But he
is the level of quarterback where he could be like
Ty Simpson at Alabama. He could be like Dante More
at Oregon. Just a really good quarterback makes a bunch
of good throws. He did throw a pick in this game,
but I think he was trying anything to try and
get Maryland to win. Look, there's been this meme in
joke ring around about how Maryland's always four and knowing
or three and one in September, and they look great.
And the first half of this game they go up
twenty to nothing. Washington's throwing the ball well, their defense
is just eating on all levels. You know, Demond Williams
can't find an open target. And then here comes the
three headed monster of DeMont Williams. Jonah Coleman, Dunzel Boston
and also Ducker de Graft played well two in this game.
Roebuck ends up catching a pass for a touchdown, and
their defense was able to hold wild they didn't get
a single sack on Washington. They were able to do
a decent job of kind of just maintaining and posting
Maryland to go for these third and shorts and third
mediums and not really converting on anything and just keeping
them on their own side and really just kind of
taking full control. They're able to have twenty four points unanswered,
come away with the win and mention all season big
Demond Williams fan and just to see, you know, Washington's
on the road, they're down twenty to nothing, They're like, oh,
well you might as well take the loss and go
back home. No. No, they they come back and win
the ball game. And for Jetfish in the squad, like
I think at this first season last year, you want
to have seen it from this team. This year you do,
and it's very impressive to see and shout out to
Washington and Maryland. I mean, you still you still got
a lot of life left in your season. And I
think if he can go seven to five, eight and four,
you know, social promise, maybe might have to open up
that check book a little bit to keep Malik Washington.
They host Maryland, or excuse me, they host Nebraska. Travel
to UCLA host Indiana, travel to Rutgers, travel Illinois, host Michigan,
and then go to Ford Field last week of the season.
I don't think that's necessarily out of the reach for
this Maryland team. I think playing Nebraska will be another
good test to see where this Maryland team's at, because
we're gonna get to it here in a moment. I
don't know how good the corn Huskers or the Spartans are,
so still definitely within something in reach for this team.
Let's good to Lincoln and this is where this is
gonna get bad. This was a horrible football game yesterday.
I mean, Michigan State only had like two hundred and
twenty six yards offense. They scored twenty seven points. Keep
that in mind. Riola and Chiles. I know Ryola ended
up finishing with the decent stat line. He did not
play good. He did an eighteen point nine QBR for
a reason. They there was a stat of Emitt Johnson
had thirty seven receiving yards on the game hit sixty
three yards after the catch. That means he's catching it
from behind a lot of the time and just having
to really run up field. Isaiah Hunter had a cool
touchdown in this game. Damee Kee was like non existent
for the corn Huskers, but they were just able to
get to the quarterback. Four sacks, twelve TFLs. They were
in that Michigan State backfield all day. And the same
thing for Michigan State. They had five sacks on the game,
seven tackles for lost, like both defensive lines were eating.
The problem was Michigan State could not run the football.
Maryland or excuse me, Nebraska could a little bit more,
and you know, they just escaped enough to do this game.
They forced eight in Childs two picks and he potentially
played the worst game of his career at Michigan State
three point seven yards per attempt in two interceptions, nine
to twenty three. He was able to run it on
the ground for a little bit and ended up having
two rushing touchdown but Mi and Lo Javic was able
to come in and throw a touchdown after an eight
in Child's injury. He ended up going six for seven
for seventy one yards and ten yards per ettept. I
know some of that was in garbage time, but he
was really the only sense of throwing we had on
this offense. I say we because what I was in
East Lanson to watch this game, and it's just bad.
Like it's just bad football. I know we scored twenty
seven points, it did not feel like they scored twenty seven.
This game was terrible on all fronts, just bad football.
Just two interceptions before the end of the first half.
Really nothing else to come up of it that Maryland
was able to get a nice win. Michigan State scores
a touchdown near the end of the game for garbage time. Yeah,
that good win for Nebraska, terrible for Michigan State. And
like I mentioned, I don't know if this Michigan State
team is gonna go bowling Ucla next week. It still
should be a win. Michigan State right now seven and
a half point favorite. Okay, travel to Indiana loss. Hosting
Michigan most likely gonna be a loss. Minnesota coin flip,
Penn State, I don't know anymore. At Iowa I'm gonna
lean loss. And then Maryland at ford Field, I don't
I don't know what direction that game goes. And like
it is very possible other than the UCLA or Minnesota,
we don't have another win, a chance, we might not
even have a win. But I'm still on the front.
We should not They should not fire Jonathan Smith just
yet just because it's her two and unless they go
three and nine, I don't see the point in doing it,
and you have to restart this process all over again.
They've actually been able to get some decent recruiting wins,
so I I wouldn't pull the trigger yet. EU Monroe
Northwestern Northwestern proves to three and two on the season,
and there they were able to take care of business
versus Ule Monroe is a big question. You know where
they gonna play close with this team? You know it
is Northwestern good enough to beat you Monroe and play
with their hearts and cover the spread. They won't travel
to State College Pennsylvania next week. Could it be interesting?
Can we see another letdown? I hope for penn State?
I hope not. We're gonna talk to Tyler Danberg about
a little bit about the Minnesota Ohio State game, but
mainly what's the expectation and what is the current assessment
of this Ohio State football team. So we will be
talking with mister Danberg coming up next here on the
Big Ten paradigm. And welcome back here to the Big
Ten Paradigm. As I en joined by Tyler Danberg of
ninety seven to one, the fan Ohio State sideline reporter
and also, like we mentioned in the first in season
episode of this podcast, he also is going to be
covering women's basketball and baseball as well. And Tyler, glad
to have you back, man, thank you so much for
having me. Now, So first things first, I wanted to
just have a light recap about the game yesterday. But
having you, having you on and not having any West
Coast guests, just because Matt Zemeck of Get Off My
Pylon he covers Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA, we'll get too.
I'll ask your opinion on that in a second. Just
kind of recap the game that happened between Minnesota and
Ohio State yesterday. You know, it was kind of a
domination fest. It was a little interesting in the first quarter,
but I mean after that, the Buckeyes just took care
of business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they scored forty two unanswered points. And that defense
continues its tremendous start to the year. They have now
allowed noah two touchdowns this year. That's right, two touchdowns.
They have not allowed a touchdown in the red zone,
which is just unbelievable just field goals, and they allowed
that early field goal in the first drive for Minnesota,
and then after that it seemed like the Golden Gophers
couldn't even get it onto the plus side of the field.
The other thing that shifted in that first quarter is
that they did what Ryan Day and his staff had
wanted to do.
Speaker 4: That's be explosive. If there were one little.
Speaker 3: Question mark about this offense so far is that they
haven't really turned it loose, and to be quite honest
with you, they headn't need to.
Speaker 4: Well, this was a great.
Speaker 3: Opportunity, only home game in the month of October against
an opponent in Minnesota that has ad good defense, but
maybe it's one of those opponents that you can afford to.
Speaker 4: Make a mistake or two if you do do it.
Speaker 3: If there were an opportunity to just get a feel
for how this team can do airing it out and
how Julian Sayan can can fare airing it out deep,
this was going to be the game to do it,
and they show that they can execute it. I mean,
the thing that sticks out about this team, and this
is looking at it from even just a non Ohio
State lens, but this Buckeye's team just can beat you
in so many different ways. They've had two games this
year where they've used ball control, time and possession smash
mount football to win a game Texas and Washington.
Speaker 4: One of those games against the preseason number.
Speaker 3: One, the other one against an opponent that hadn't lost
in home at home in four years. And then Grambling State,
they just they won the coin toss. They wanted the
ball first, which they usually never do, and they set
the tone early on they wanted to play fast. Ohio
was a little mix of everything. It was kind of
an in between game. They got off to a slow start,
relatively sluggish in that first half, head sittle for a
couple of field goals, and then they adjusted. So they
show that they can make adjustments in that game during
the game and within the game. And then this last
game against Minnesota, it's that they can just go bombs
away and really overwhelm the secondary.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I watching this Ohio State team play. Mainly, the
big thing I was very impressed by was, you know, Julie,
like he doesn't have to be this, you know, like
what Ty Simpson is for Alabama or what Debond Williams
is trying to be for Washington or these other quarterbacks
that feel like they have to make these you know,
off platform, they have to get outside the pocket, they
have to do all those things. While I'm sure that
Saying is very capable of that if he's called upon
to do that. We saw with wild Howard last season.
I mean, he made play some big moments and they
were on cruise control for a lot of the season,
which Ohio State has really only had to do so far. Now,
big game next week versus Illinois. But the main thing
I was impressed with, and I mean I had the
Minnesota game off by halftime. I know it's your job
to cover the whole entire game, but for me, just
watching these two teams play, I mean the ability to
throw the ball down the field against like a defense
that like isn't half bad, like Minnesota has been pretty
you know, decent defensively throughout this whole season. It's just
his ability to you know, really start to build a
rhythm with these pass catchers in Carnel, Tate and Smith
that I think they combined for like two over two
hundred and fifty yards yesterday total. I heard that somewhere,
but it's not only that, I mean the running game
continues to improve more and more every single week, and
like that was the only question. I mean the defense
came into question. I think those questions were quickly answered
in week one by Texas, which I don't know if
that was the offense to have that answered by, as
they took a loss to Florida, which is also a
good defense. But like it seems like just both sides
of the ball have been playing so well, where you know,
they could have gotten jumped by Oregon in the ap
pole last week, or they could have gotten jumped by
Miami in the poll this week, and they continue to
stay number one. And I think a lot of the
reason is is that, you know, the offense is coming
into fruition, the defense is still playing really well, and
then just on top of it, I mean, they've just
dominated everyone they've played. Like I remember watching that Ohio
State Washington game last week, Like they started really slow
in that game and it was not looking pretty early on,
and then Washington tries to run a fake play on
a special team playing it kind of they kind of
got handled after that. For the most part, I was
just like, man, dude, what is what is Washington doing
They're not going to win this game. But regardless, Illinois
matchup next week. What are you looking going in towards
this match? I don't know how much prep you've already
started towards it because it is Sunday in the game's
not till Saturday on big noon down in Champagne. What
is it going to be like for this Ohio State
team to go onto a road road game where we
saw USC struggle but Indiana also handled them at home.
What is it going to be like for the Buckeyes?
What are they gonna have to do to get a win?
Speaker 3: Well, first off, it's going to be completely unfamiliar for
a lot of these guys because this is the first
time that Ryan Day will have even coached at Illinois
if you look at it, because illinoiss had been in
the West Division and the Illabut Game as it was
called when they played at Annually.
Speaker 2: Are they gonna bring that trophy back? Do you know?
Speaker 4: I haven't heard anything on the trophy.
Speaker 3: I know that they haven't had it in years past,
since it's become maybe less of a thing. But well,
I'm sure that's going to be a question that'll be
asked this week, so I could I could always get
back with you on that, but I bet heard.
Speaker 2: I want to know by Wednesday if there's or just
send out it'sweet about it if there's going to because
I bet that will get that will definitely get some traction.
So make sure you just kind of hold that in
your pocket, you know, from all of your buddies and
other beat writers you know across Ohio State. Make sure
you're the one to ask that question if it's going.
Speaker 4: Back hardheading journalism.
Speaker 3: But this is the first time since twenty fifteen that
Ohio State will have played in Champagne because if you remember,
they were supposed to play in twenty twenty, but that
game got canceled during the COVID season when there when
there was an outbreak. So this is gonna be the
first time Ryan Day, we'll we'll have gone out there.
But you know, the fighting a line I under Brett Bielaman.
You know what you're gonna get a lot of a
lot of a lot of experience. They brought. They brought
back over over ten plus starters. I mean, that's that's
what they've done. Luke Altmeyer's back and Company and Hank
Baby and a lot of these guys very talented up
front on the offensive line, and they have a great
set of running backs as as they often do. I
remember that going into the year, Brett Bielama came on
Buckeye Round Table on the Ohigh State Sports Network and
he compared he compared the three running backs he had
to when he was at Wisconsin and he had Monte
Ball and Melvin Gordon and Jonathan Taylor and all these
guys consecutively, and even when he had three three backs
that were incredibly talented at the same time.
Speaker 4: So, you know, it reminds oh, you know, it.
Speaker 3: Reminds him of when he had uh, not just Melvin Gordon,
Monty Ball, but James White John.
Speaker 2: Yes, they've they were on a run there for a
while with uh. I forget the head coach's name at Wisconsin,
what was he the head coach? Or was he the O. C.
Speaker 4: Bilamo was the head coach at wiscott Okay.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of similarities between that, but but.
Speaker 4: A lot of experience.
Speaker 3: They're gonna they're gonna run the heck out of the football,
They're gonna play great defense, good secondary. That that's what
you're gonna get from from Illinois, and and I wonder
too how much they look at this as redemption from
what happened a few weeks back at Indiana, because you
know that that was a loss that stung, and their
offense certainly took out a little bit of frustration last
week against Purdue because they just put up the points.
I'm really interested to see how this game unfolds in
a in a new environment.
Speaker 4: And just the second road trip for this Bucket.
Speaker 2: Team this year, yeah, because I mean the first one
is definitely a tough road trip that maybe you don't
want that to be your first away game, just in
the sense that it's a long flight, you got to
experience it going out to Husky Stadium and beautiful side.
I like that is one of the bucket list places
I want to go to when it's all said and
done that I do want to go visit Husky Stadium.
I do want to go out to Washington because I
know it's like right along the coast and you know,
just a beautiful scenery. So I think that's definitely definitely
gonna be hopefully a trip and hopefully it's a game
that I can get paid for, whether wherever my career
ends up. But yeah, so another thing when you look
at the rest of the schedule, and especially with Penn
State by the way, what was it like, you know,
I'm assuming you guys are doing all your crew set up,
you know, getting ready for the broadcast and everything, and
what is it like to see that UCLA is up
seven to seven on Penn State at halftime and then
also they end up winning the game out right? I
just want to ask what the vibe was in that
in that building.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it started to take control when we were
up in the press box because everybody's everybody's got their
eyes on this game. It was once UCLA took a
two scored lead, that's when everybody's attention was grabbed. When
I believe it was fourteen to seven, that's where the
attention was grabbed. And then it was seventeen to seven,
and that's where once halftime hit it it got real.
Speaker 4: And so in the Ohio State press box.
Speaker 3: Upstairs, there's a big main room where everybody will get
the press meal and just sit down eat. A lot
of people will will do some more prep write their stories.
The NBC crew meets for briefing before the before the game,
that's where they'll hang out, you know, the broadcast crew,
No Eagle Top, Blacklege, Catherine Tapping, They're up there talking
to people and just a great keep unity area. And
you know, you've got about eight to nine different TVs
and the big ones UCLA, Penn State. Now, by the
time that it was forty two thirty five and it
was crunch time and that fourth down I was down
on the field, and by that time it was about
an hour till kickoff, our hour fifteen, and so a
lot of people have gotten into the stands, so there
was a big build up. So they put it on
the jumbo tron, which is in the south end, so
if you're facing the field, it's to your right. And
by that time all the Ohio State skill players were
stretching and just getting some warm ups in. So the
coordinators were out there offensively, so Brian hartline offensive coordinator,
was out there, tight ends coach Kingdon Bailey was out
there running backs coach Carglos Lachlan and so on and
so forth. Mickey Mronnie the legendary straight coach, and then
Ryan Day was out.
Speaker 4: There as well.
Speaker 3: He's walking around, he's got his whistle in hand, he's
walking around checking things out group from group, even got
the c PJ. Fleck and those two got to catch
up and his Ryan days son RJ got to talk
with coach Fleck as well. He's an aspiring quarterback, great
quarterback at Saint Francis de Sales here in Columbus. He's
going to be playing at the D one level at
some point. But but to see to see coach Day's
reaction and the fans reaction, hear their reactions, the loud
eruption that it made, and to see coach Day look up,
just just to observe and take it all in. You know,
he didn't give much of a reaction to it. You know,
you you don't want to you don't want to show.
Speaker 2: You know, especially in the especially in the public eye.
You don't want to be right.
Speaker 3: But because you don't want, you know, let's say something
happens in November first and it doesn't go your way,
then it comes back to bite you.
Speaker 4: And and coach.
Speaker 3: I mean, Ryan is just such an absolute professional and
super super classy and a great person. So you know
he would he would never he would never let let
himself the show in motion like that. But just to
see just to see all time stop and pay attention
to that jumbo tron, to see that final play on
fourth and two, and to see to see that UCLA
defense come through.
Speaker 4: I mean see to see.
Speaker 3: Jerry Neuheisel and and Tim Skipper, I mean he's now
what seven and nine as an interim head coach over
the last two years. Between Presdo State and UCLA, it's
unbelievable what they're doing. And so it's it's really cool
to see what what UCLA did and and for Penn's State,
you know, this is this is a stunter, This is
a shocker. This is something that hasn't happened in forty years.
But beauty of the college football Playoff expanded format is
that there's still a route for them to get in.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be really tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't. I I am personally going to write Penn
State off as a college football Playoff team. I don't.
I don't think they're gonna be either Penn or Indiana
or Ohio State. I don't think they beat both. Maybe
they can get one of the two, but I'm just
I that was like, okay, so I'll describe it. I'm
watching on my quadbox, you know, just paying attention to
all the games, you know I have. I had Alabama
Vanderbilt on because I wanted to see how that game unfolded.
I'm watching Maryland Washington because that was a good game.
I almost took it off who else was playing at
that time. I had Notre Dame Boise stayed up there
for a little bit because I like watching Notre Dame
because technically supposed to be a team that I cover.
And then I kind of was lingering on that fourth game.
I can't remember who I had that on in the beginning,
but I just see UCLA Penn State. I'm like, oh
my god, I gotta I gotta switch to this, like
this is man, dude, Like what what is going on?
So and then I ended up watching the rest of
the game. I'm like, oh my gosh. Oh and I
had Michigan State Nebraska on too, but I don't even
want to get into that. That's I'm already supposed to
talk about it, oh on too. And funny enough, I
was in East Lanting yesterday as well, so just having
that yeah, it was not it was not a good
vibe around town. I'll say that not a lot of
people were, uh, we're excited about that, But regardless, I
remember seeing that. I'm like, oh my goodness, like what
this I Like last week on this show I mentioned that,
like UCLA is like, I don't want to talk about
them for the rest of the season. I'm probably not
gonna mention them unless they're just playing someone and the
result of their game. After that, I don't want to.
And now it's like, well, shoot, dude, they're probably gonna
be the main topic of conversation, you know, to open
up the show. So it's uh, it's crazy, man, college football.
This is why it's the greatest sport. I'm gonna I'm
gonna say that out right right. This is why this
is what college football is all about. Just for moments
like this, And also, I wanted to bring up a
quick stat for you, Tyler. I took a screenshot of
a tweet, so shout out to field Yates. Penn State
is the first Top ten team to lose to an
zero to four or worst opponent in forty years.
Speaker 4: It's insane.
Speaker 3: It's it's insane, and it's you know what's funny too,
is that when you look at this past weekend slate
compared to the last couple of weeks, especially last week,
and how loaded it was, you're thinking, this is gonna
be this.
Speaker 2: Is this is cider mill weekend. Yeah, like me, like
me and my girlfriend we had a plan to go
to the cider mill, and you know, I'm like, we
Luckily we both ended up like kind of being congested
and sick and like having like cold and allergies, so
we were just kind of like, we'll wait till next week.
And plus, I don't know what it is like in Ohio,
but it has been hot here. It's been eighty degrees.
I'm like, dude, I don't want to go out there
and sweat. It's gonna be like beautiful, low seventies next weekend.
You know, Let's go next Sunday because I don't have
anything planned for the first time in a while. And
I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, let's go do that. And
and I'm like, oh my god, thank god, I'm just
not doing anything else because this is great. This is awesome.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this wasntder. This was intsider weather this past weekend.
Speaker 2: No, No, unless you lived in like I don't even like, yeah,
I don't even know unless does Canada do cider mills.
I bet that's I don't because well, I figured they
gotta celebrate Halloween, right you would, right, Yeah, were getting
a little off. Okay, to close this segment out, and
I appreciate your time being here and being able to
come back. Obviously I didn't scare you off that much.
Looking at the rest of the ski season, past Illinois,
it's Wisconsin, which is Luke Fickle gonna be the head
coach by then we'll see Penn State, which it will
still probably be a competitive game, because I'm not gonna
assume Penn State is just gonna quit and fall off
the face of the earth. I think that, you know,
there's still a relatively talented team. You can go to Purdue.
Hopefully we don't have some Rondale More. You know, Purdue
wins by twenty five points there UCLA, Whi's their threat
now Rutgers, which has been like while they can't defend
anything like Kelly Acmanus, that team's been solid all season.
And obviously the game at the end of the season
Michigan on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, what is kind of
the expectation in your eyes for this team, you know,
with being pretty dominant so far through these first five
games and having two pretty competitive opponents, one that's still
probably going to be pretty competitive, but overall not the
toughest road to a Big Ten championship. What's kind of
your opinion talking about or what's thinking about? You know,
where's Ohio State gonna end up? And are they going
to hit their win total?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: No, That's why this Saturday against Illinois on the road
is really really important because depending on what Penn State does,
and depending on what the rest of the schedule does,
this Illinois game could be the strongest game on the resume.
Speaker 4: Do I think that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because you know, Penn State still came
in preseason number two a lot of expectations and they
can still they can still put things and swing it
in the right direction. They do have Indiana, they do
have Iowa in addition to Ohio State.
Speaker 4: So we'll see how well that looks. But I think
this game is really important. Now.
Speaker 3: If they win against Illinois, and they take a win
against a scrappy, fighting Alni team, well they control their
own destiny. And I think the idea of controlling your
own destiny is really suitable for this team. Because Ryan
Day his staff, they reiterated a lot it's about us.
Speaker 4: It's not about it's not about them. It's about us and.
Speaker 3: What we do and how we can control what we
can control and be the hardest practicing, hardest working team
in the country. And I think that approach, you know,
Coach Dale will be the first to tell you that
sometimes be coach speak.
Speaker 4: But there's never been more truer words than than those.
Speaker 3: In a season like this, you've got to control what
you can control. And at this point, I mean, Ohio
State has done enough. Maybe maybe some of their wins
haven't looked as great because of Texas, you know, being
a little sluggish to start the year, then losing to
an unraked Florida team on the road but still a
preseason number one team, and that's also Week one, so
there were a lot of unknowns for both teams. I
think that's what makes that win look even better, even
though it was just fourteen to seven. And then the
road environment that they faced in Washington and beating a
good Ohio team and for a group of five program,
and I think that there's you know, now dismantling a
three to one Minnesota team that was coming off a
big win over Rutgers and you know, has a really
good defense and metrics and improved quarterback in Drake Lindsay,
it's still just a rest refreshman and beating them forty
two to three. So I think that a lot of
it comes down to controlling their own destiny. And I
like the idea of them having that bye week on
October twenty fifth. The bye weeks couldn't have been placed
perfectly to set them up for success, because you've got
that bye week bridging the gap between non conference and
conference two weeks ago. Then you've got this next by
week coming up after a stretch where they will have
played Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: They will have played three.
Speaker 3: Of four games on the road at Washington, at Illinois,
at Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: Those aren't easy places to play, and that's a lot
of travel. They haven't had a.
Speaker 3: Back to back in almost a half decade in terms
of back to back road games.
Speaker 4: It's been one on one off. So I'm outside of
the college Football playoff, of course, but you know that's
a challenging thing.
Speaker 3: So they had that bye week going into that last
leg of the season.
Speaker 4: Is really important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that judging by the schedule, I
think that this Ohio teams got a decent shot of
finishing the regular season undefeated and playing is the game
in Indianapolis again this year? Or are they moving? Okay?
I know what basketball, there was like conversations of them
moving into Las Vegas, all the shenanigans. I'm like, dude,
this is the problem with conference expansion, and you know,
they want to relocate things to different places. Not that
Vegas would necessarily be the worst place to go to,
but yeah, AnyWho, Yeah, I like this Ohio State team.
This is why I wanted to bring you on because
they I feel like, even though they're the number one
team and like, you know, they've been probably the best
team on a week to week basis, I feel like
they're not talked about enough in terms of a national
media presence, and even in the Big Ten, I feel
like it's been like, oh, Penn State, Oregon, you know,
all these other teams in Ohio State's just you know,
they've been doing their job, they've been doing what we
thought they were gonna do, and no one's really like
talking about them in the sense that you know in
the love that they deserve, and like really like this
is like the most like untalked about number one team.
And I know part of it's due to the opponents
that they are playing, but I mean, I obviously, you know,
you being in Columbus and being close to everything, I
think everyone talks about it a little bit more, but
just on the scale of you know, no one in
Oregon or no one in Massachusetts is talking probably about
or thinking about Ohio State on a regular basis. And
I'm like, this is still the number one team. Miami
just got a huge win yesterday, and while they did
receive some first place votes, like this is still the
number one team and why they're still there. So I
really wanted to have you on, you know, just kind
of talk about how the season's gone. It. Yeah, I
once again, I appreciate you for coming on.
Speaker 4: No, thank you so much for having me in any time.
Speaker 3: Let me know, love talking Big ten football in Ohio
State football with you.
Speaker 4: So keep it rolling and I'm excited to keep less
into your show.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Tyler, and we're gonna move on
kind of preview the next week coming up, obviously, Ohio
State plays Illinois but what about the rest of the
Big Ten. There's Oregon, Indiana in much more coming up
next weekend, so we'll see you there next coming up
here on the Big Ten Paradigm. Thank you, Tyler Danberg.
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a big week next week obviously, you know Illinois Ohio
State was something of conversation, but we also have a
big one with Indiana Oregon at three thirty on CBS.
Gonna be a huge game. Two high profile quarterbacks with
Fernando Mendoza and Dante More. Also some really good offensive
and defensive lines on both sides of the ball. Both
secondaries have been pretty good. Like in terms of all
twenty two players on the football field for both sides.
This is going to be a fun game. Two really
impressive receiver rooms that have taken the step up and
have really answered the ball in you know, have done
a good job this season. It's gonna be a great
football game. I'm very excited to tune in and be
tapped into this game at three thirty next Saturday Friday,
Rutgers in Washington play at the and caliac Manus versus
Washington and Demon Williams, Denzel Boston, Jonah Coleman, solid defense
for the Huskies as well. They are ten and a
half point favorites over under a fifty nine and a
half I would take. I don't know, because Rutgers can score,
but they also can't defend, and Washington can defend and score.
So I don't know. I don't know what that's sought
to read. So, but I think it'll be a good
game between both of these teams and definitely be some
good Friday night action in the college football world. So
I think we had like five games last Friday, non
big ten, but I think it was like four group
of four golf game between West Virginia and BYU, And yeah,
that was good Northwestern Penn State. I don't have to
say much, Penn State, you're favored by twenty one and
a half over under a forty eight and a half.
Take care of business this week, because if not, that's
just not a good look. Nebraska. Maryland kind of mentioned it,
you know, talking post Maryland football. Nebraska favored by five
and a half. Total is forty eight and a half
in Maryland. I still yet, like I've been kind of
impressed with Riolo a little bit this season, but I
feel like he still hasn't taken that next big step right.
And while Malake Washington, like statistically didn't have a great game,
He's a good quarterback from everything that I've watched of
this Turps team so far this season, he is not
the reason why they lost that game against Washington. I'll
put it to you that way. Nebraska in Riola in
this team, like it looks like they've been playing B
grade football to C plus football. I have been seeing
like an a game Nebraska game this season against a
competent opponent, and like I Michigan State, Yeah, you scored
thirty eight points. Michigan State gave you two gimmes, and
I would just like them this. I would like to see,
you know, Nebraska have a nice controlled game where they
just take care of business, you know, by two or
three scores, and play just solidly executed football. Because I
feel like, except for Akron and what Houston Christian, they
just haven't done that this season. And I'm not trying
to discredit and say, oh yeah, Nebraska is just not
a good football team, because they are. They're a good
football team, but I haven't seen I feel like we
haven't seen Nebraska's a game yet. If that makes sense,
I hope it does. Next up on the agenda this Saturday,
Iowa and wesconsin Iowa going on the road to Madison,
seven o'clock kickoff. Iowa three and a half point favorite
over under a thirty seven and a half. Oh, this
is where the season. This is what I miss about
the Big ten West Cuz every Iowa game against a
Big ten West opponent it would be in the thirties.
I think the lowest was like thirty three and a half.
I think this game has big potential to hit the
undersconsin hasn't been anything on defense so far this season. Wow,
Iowa three and two, but they've been able to move
the ball a little bit with Granowski through the air.
I think he's healthy, and then the running game has
just kind of been there. They have over four one
hundred yard rushers, including Granowski. I think both these teams
are like honestly pretty solid defensively too. Like Wisconsin, their
defense has been good this whole season. I know they
allowed twenty four to Michigan, but when you're thrown back
onto the field, like no team like has really like
put belt or BTA to them. I should say I
try not to curse very much. It comes on air now, No,
they're not even gonna get into that. If you know
me personally, I don't know if you would be like, oh, yeah,
you know, he doesn't say much curse words. But I
try to keep it relatively clean for our audience, just
because I don't know if you have a daughter in
the car that's listening to the show, or you know,
maybe your babysitting your cousin when you listen to this.
I'm not really too sure. Regardless. I don't want to
be the one that causes trouble or some sort of
dispute regardless. Like I mean, I know Bama put up
thirty eight on them, but Ty Simpson's really good and
like they're gonna play a good offense, and like they
have a defense. They're playing a defense that's just gonna
be able to get three and outs and four stops
in a couple of turnovers. Like teams are gonna put
up decent amount of points. I don't think Iowa's that
caliber of team. Now. When Ohio State plays wistconntin next week,
they'll probably get to the thirties, maybe the forties. So
but this game has big under potential. It'll be interesting
to see. And look, who will wiscontent. Will they play
a fourth quarterback this season? I don't know. Can they
also brought the ball at all? That's the big thing.
Like they haven't really had too much success on the
ground game, which is just very not Wisconsin Lake. So
it'll be interesting. Michigan USC USC hosts at the Coliseum
seven thirty NBC Prime time slot. USC favored by one
and a half total of fifty seven and a half.
This is a clash of styles. While USC has tried
to give attention to the defensive side, their offenses phenomenal
and if Jacobe Lane and McKay lemon are both healthy
and Wayman Jordan offensive line figured this out with Jade
Mayeva at the helm. I mean defensively, they got studs.
Kamari Ramsey was out in that Illinois game. They have
Eric Gentry, they have some guys on the defensive line
that you know are positives. Can they put this Michigan
running attack. You're not gonna halt the Michigan a running
attack unless you just have like all Americans at the
front seven and even in the safeties, like they might
have one or two guys capable of that. I don't
know if they'll you get listed all Americans, but maybe
all Big ten in terms of Michigan in this game,
you have a good secondary and pass rush like this
is going to be who has who? Who has the
better for USC? Who has the who? Who Who's gonna outperform?
Are you gonna outperform their secondary and defensive line or
are your receivers and quarterback gonna be so good that
it's gonna neutralize and potentially you're gonna have it in
your favor with your skilled guys. If you're Michigan, can
your running backs an offensive line push around that front
seven of USC? Can your defense get stops? That's what
it's gonna come down to in this game. It would
be really interesting to see how Ryce Underwood goes on
the road at USC. You know, he went on the
road early this season, played Oklahoma, came out and lost,
played Nebraska, came out on a win. Can he do
it again and show some consistently consistency and continue to
build on more and more throughout the season. That will
be an interesting point to see in this game. And
then lastly, Perdue Minnesota, Well, Mischigan State plays UCLA that game.
We'll wait to see what happens after I we're not
talking about either of those teams. All a shout out
Ucla that big win over Penn State. I don't think
I've said it enough on this show. Yeah, Perdue Minnesota,
this should be a fun ballgame. Minnesota favored by nine
and a half fifty two and a half total. The
game might go over. I could see Drake Lindsay in
this Minnesota offense really looking to bounce back after being
held to three and Lindsay had like under one hundred
passing yards and they couldn't run the ball worth anything
against Ohio State. So yeah, and then Ohio State plays Illinois.
Like we said, but talk to mister Danberg about that
a little bit. They it's gonna be It's gonna be
a game between both of those teams, and I think
Ohio State comes out in the positive direction of that one.
But look Illinois, ever since then day and a loss,
they have looked like a different team, at least on
the offensive side. So who knows, and who knows what
we'll see, but that is going to be the end
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