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Week five recap. As there was a lot of great
games this Saturday, not only in the Big Ten, but
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Big Ten. A lot of good games, really, all of
them except for the Ohio State Washington game. All of
them are one score, so there's a lot of games
in That Washington game was good until about the very
end where Ohio State got comfortable in Alaska Airlines Stadium
and they just came away with a big, big win
over the Huskies. And wanted to mention there will be
no guest on the show this week, just schedules didn't
work out with the guest I was gonna have on,
but I wanted to kick off here with Oregon and
Penn State obviously, one of the biggest games seven thirty
NBC Prime Time, and look, I'm gonna pull up the
stat and this is going to be the story for
the rest of his career unless he is eventually able
to turn it around here at Penn State. James Franklin
record against ap Top ten rink teams at Penn State
is four and twenty one. That is a sixteen percent
winning percentage after the loss versus number six Oregon. This
includes a particularly challenging one in eighteen mark against Big
Ten opponents in the top ten, So he has only
one win in his coaching tenure against the top ten
school in the Big ten at Penn State. And when
you have the likes of Michigan when they're at the
cream of the crop, or you have the likes of
Ohio State when they're pretty much always at the cream
of the crop, Oregon's a team that is going to
be at the cream of the crop. Indiana seems like
they're going to be there throughout the next couple of years,
at least the way that trajectory of that program is going.
You have also usc that has the potential to stay
up there. Washington's capable of getting there every a couple
of years. Like, there's a lot of programs in the
Big ten that are going to be, you know, top
ten teams at certain points, while Penn State they get
placed in the top ten every single year. They are
the biggest beneficiarya of this twelve team playoff because while
they don't win the big games, they are still have
good put together seasons along with good talent that they're
able to finish within that top ten top fifteen range,
sometimes even closer to the top five, but they just
don't win these big games. And this is a white
out at home against the inexperienced quarterback in terms of
his playing time at Oregon. This is the first road
game Dante Moors played with Oregon, and this is probably
the first offense to Montana State, Oregon State, and Oklahoma
State in northwestern Ah. What shout out to them. They
picked up that win versus UCLA. We'll briefly touch on
that game, but yeah, this is a team that, wow,
is very great, very talented, a lot of inexperience and
experience in the running back room, inexperience at the at
the receiver position. They have some guys were turning on
the defensive side but this is a game that Penn
State is supposed to win, especially with all the people
that return, especially on the offensive side. Obviously you get
an overhaul in the transfer portal, in the receiving room,
but you get your two backs and quarterback back and
a lot of studs on the defensive side. And what
do you do. You lose in double overtime, And obviously
that outcome can change with just a few plays, like
if we were here in Penn State Dante Moore throws
an interception. I'm probably more lenient with orkind just because,
like that's a tough test to go into Beaver Stadium
in College Station and come out with a win there.
But they did that. That is a huge accompliment, accomplishment
for this team. Let's talk about this game more on
the football side rather than just criticizing the Penn State
football program for James James Franklin's tenure over time. Dante
Moore had a fine game for me in terms of
how he played. Twenty nine to thirty nine, two three touchdowns.
That was a big touchdown pass to Gary Bryant Junior
in overtime, and he looked he looked good, like obviously
Penn State was able to put pressure on him. They
were able to give him tough looks like he didn't
have all day to throw. He did have to make
decisions and Oregon kept it relatively simple. They didn't do
anything too challenging. They didn't get try to get too creative.
And that shovel pass in overtime was huge to get
that touchdown in the first overtime. That was a yeah
to Jamari Johnson. This only reception on the game gets
it on a shovel pass. That was a gutsy call
because that could have went either way. That could have
been intercepted at the defensive line. Game could have been
over right, but it wasn't. And they go down and
like I mentioned, Gary Bryan Jr. Gets the touchdown on
a crossing route and look, Oregon was able to run
the ball decent with deer Hill was their main back
in this game. Noel Whittington got some tough early on.
Lamar was kind of non existent for the Ducks in
the backfield and on the defensive side they had Bouschetter.
I was really impressed with to eot he was able
to get pressure. He got one sack on the game.
He was kind of just a force off the edge
for the Ducks all night. Mateo ugly did a really
good job to TfL's in one sack, and they were
like five tackles for lost two sacks. Like, it's not
like they did anything special or anything crazy to really
win this game. Defensively, they kind of just halted Penn
State's offense and they weren't able to really give it
make it a tough night for Drew Aller. Now let's
go to the Penn State side. Drew Aller fourteen to
twenty five, one thirty seven yards, five point five yards
per attempt, two touchdowns, one interception. He didn't have the
worst game. Like, while I think five point five yards
per attempt is not what you really want to see
out of your quarterback, I get it. It's a tough
opponent running wise, I mean the average four yards per
carry Singleton was non existent, and then Allen and Aller
were able to do okay things. I was actually pleased
with Devontae Ross stepping up for the Nitney Lions in
this game, but I mean they Kard Hudson didn't exist
in this game. Jor Penya. I mean he was a
decent gadget guy like Penn State not having any weapons
once again or their weapons getting taken out of these
games on the outside has been a problem. Like other
than Parker Washington and Johan Dotson, I don't really remember
any other Penn State receivers being like useful and they
haven't had a multitude of them. Like look at Ohio State.
They're a great team with Carnel State Jeremiah Smith Britton
and this hasn't been that great, but they have multiple
weapons on that team. Oregon maybe not this season, and
I think if they had Evan Stewart to be different.
But Corey and Moore was a difference maker yesterday. He
was their leading receiver a freshman. A freshman, how can
you not get a playmaker to go out there and
just do anything solid for you? Like you have these
two amazing running backs. They're going to be playing in
the NFL, playing on Sundays. I don't know if anyone
in this receiver rooms playing on Sundays. And I hate
to talk about Penn State so negatively, especially for them
losing a close game, but it's just the same story
over and over and over and over again. Like yes,
they made it to the semi finals. In the playoff,
you played Boise State and SMU. You didn't play anyone
of actual substance. Not to discredit SMU or Boise State
because they had great seasons last year, but on terms
of a talent composite ranking, you were better than those teams.
And then you get to a team like Notre Dame,
which Notre Dame was a great talented team last year.
You're capable of beating them. It's not like they're severely
out recruiting you or any team is. To be honest,
maybe Ohio State does by margins, but at the end
of the day, it really comes down to your talent
development and these teams that are just as good as you,
maybe in the slightest margins better, they just outclass you
in these games. I don't care that it went to
double overtime. This is a game, especially on your home field,
that you should win and you just don't. So that
is my rant for this game. And I know we
spent time a bunch of time on it, and we'll
get away from it because yeah, Oregon wait to come
out with the win, Dan Landing able to get it done,
and look their next game they got a bye week
and then they play Indiana, so they're gonna have another
probably all time game. Although Indiana looked a little concerning
versus Iowa, but I think it was more of a
hangover effect for the Hoosiers. Odd next game, I want
to get into another top twenty five matchup, this time
on the lower end of the top twenty five. USC
and Illinois played each other yesterday in Champagne and Illinois
wins on a field goal. Luke Altmeyer has a really
great pounce pack game. They were able to run the
ball with Valentine and Vegan, and Almeyer did his thing
as well. Colin Dixon was a nice reliable target for
the line eye along with Hank Beatty. I think those two,
while I don't know if they're as talented as Pat
Bryant and Zacari Franklin, they're both really solid options for
this Lini team. And they were able to return a
lot of defensive backs that got hurt in that Indiana game,
and they did a really good job just kind of
covering everything downfield. Now, USC, while Jacobe Lane did warm
up yesterday, he didn't actually play. I think that really
hurt this USC team because they are starting to really
hone in on mckaye Lemon, who he still had a
great day yesterday. I'm not gonna say that, oh mkayle
Lemon was not existent. No, he was still good. A
eleven receptions, one hundred and fifty one yards and two touchdowns.
And Jacoby Lane did play, but he was like non effective.
And then they also had to new kinds play and
other guys and I mean, Wayban Jordan wasn't insanely productive.
Eli Sanders once again non existent. But this is this
is another team. I mean, we've seen this story with
the USC not being able to out physical teams or
stay as physical with teams that you know they're on
the same talent perspective as and I know they've done
a lot of reshaping and a lot of reutilization of
different parts. But the only reason why you're able to
push around the four teams you play for Illinois is
because you're significantly better than those four teams in terms
of the line of scrimmage. Missouri State, it's their first
year in the FBS, Georgia Southern, you get way better
talent than Georgia Southern does. Purdue. Purdue took in eighty
new guys. You should be able to push around a
team with eighty new guys Michigan State. Michigan State has nobody.
I'm not gonna sing nobody, but in terms of the
line of scrimmage, you're gonna be able to push them around.
Illinois with the experienced offensive line and decent guys up
front on the defensive side, they were able to give
you a challenge. And when you play outside the numbers,
and that's your motto, and you can't really do too
much up the middle offensively or defensively, you're gonna get
pushed around. You're gonna get pushed around, and you're gonna
lose games playing that way, not all of them. You're
gonna be able to compete in a lot, but you're
gonna lose games. They have Michigan on October eleventh. Michigan's
a team that's gonna want to push you around. You
have to be able if you're USC and you want
to make the playoff and maybe stay in contention for
the big tenant and really kind of be able to
sell recruits. And you know, Lincoln Riley, if you want
to have an extended stay at the University of Southern
California within the football program, you really need to make
your mark because they haven't won a game physically against
a good team. Miava is a great quarterback. He did
have that one pick yet yesterday, but he's a great quarterback.
Eric Gentry is a really solid defensive talent on this
team too, But it's not all coming together. That is
the problem that I have. And you know what, credit
to Illinois. They were able to bounce back after a
disgusting loss last week, which some of that's because Indiana
is really talented at the receiver position and they were
able to take advantage of defensive backs. They also out
physical to Illinois just kind of got the best of
them at their own place. And like I mentioned last week,
if those teams played again, like I think Indiana would
be favored, but I think it would still be a
close spread. Like I think it's one of those outlier
games that Indiana just had one of the best nights
you could have for a college football team and Illinois
quite frankly had one of the worst. So they played
per Due next week the Finding GIL and I twelve
pm on Big ten Network. Yeah, well, we'll reevaluate each week,
like we continue to do. Let's talk about Indiana Iowa
because this game was close, and look, Fernando Mendoza did
not play perfect yesterday. He still was great, don't get
me wrong. And Hemby, I think is really asserting himself
as that lead back here for Indiana at least that's
how it was in this game. And Elijah Surat is
a stud six receptions, one hundred and thirty two yards,
one touchdown. I mean, he was just making Iowa DB's
look silly the whole entire game, and Mendoza was putting
it in great spots. And Mendoza still made a lot
of great throws in this game. And I think part
of it was Iowa did a decent job of kind
of just taking their time on their possessions and also
getting them off the field as well. I mean, Indiana
l gained them by one hundred yards, but I mean, yeah,
Iowa just did a decent job of controlling the clock
in that game with their offensive possession. And look, I
don't know that Indiana really played its best game. I
think it was a little bit of a hangover effect
going to Kinnick. Believe it or not, Still one of
the toughest plays is to go play a football game.
Farrell and E. J. Williams both had interceptions in this game. GJ.
Williams plays on both sides of the ball as well.
We're gonna see a lot more two way guys in
college football thanks to mister Travis Hunter. But we're gonna
see a lot more players get opportunities. I think, like,
I think I did a really good job of playing
outside the numbers. Mark Ronowski did go down in this game,
and kind of when they threw in Hank Brown, it
was like, oh, this doesn't look so good. Kamari Moulton
actually looks pretty poised out of the backfield. Sam Phillips
and Jacob gill were both solid targets for Gernowski, and look,
I would played a decent football game yesterday. The two
interceptions really killed them, especially on drives where they're trying
to take it down. Indiana they missed a field goal.
Indiana was able to throw a nice touchdown at the
very end to mister Surrat and look, Mendoza, I'm gonna
say this is probably going to be one of the
top qbs, if not the top QB taken in this
NFL draft, especially with how Nuss Meyer didn't look great yesterday,
and I don't really know what quarterback that looks better
like Mayava's looked good. Williams isn't gonna be able to
get drafted I think this year. Yeah, I like, I
think I'm pretty confident that Fernando Mendoza will probably be
the number one quarterback taken in this upcoming NFL draft.
The more that the weeks go on and the more
we watch just other quarterbacks underperform. He's a guy where
he's really talented, and he was someone that I really
liked out of cal I think I've mentioned this every
single time we've talked Indiana football. Fernando Mendoza is just
a great football player. And we talked with mister Browning
last week and he said that these were perfectionists and
continues to want to improve. It isn't really like satisfied
what you got to take your wins when you get
them right. I mean, you can't just be like, oh,
I had a bad game and then you know, throw
three incompletions in two weeks and obviously through ten incompletions
in this game. And they'll have to work on that
and this week in practice. But Indiana's got to buy
a week. Next week, then they take on Oregon. They're
going to Autson Stadium, another top ten matchup in the
Big Ten. That one will be interesting to follow and
I cannot wait for it. Moving along, Ohio State traveled
played Washington. Started out really slow, but in the end
they are able to get it done. There is no
scoring until a field goal from Washington made it three
to nothing and then Jeremiah Smith was able to score
on a touchdown the end of the half and Ohio
State really got it going in the second half. Bo
Jackson he was able to uh the freshman running back
point it or not. People thought it was gonna be Donaldson,
which Donaldson did get a touchdown in this game when
was still a contributor out of the backfield. People thought
it was gonna be James Peoples in CJ. Donaldson. Bo
Jackson has been the most spark that the Buckeyes have
had in the running back position. Jeremiah Smith has a
good game, innoc and Tate both make contributions, and Julian's
saying he's looked good. Eight to eight, two touchdowns. I mean,
he did a really solid job. But I think Ohio State.
On the defensive side, I think that this defensive line
is back Kateen Curry three sacks, five tackles for loss.
That is a monster game. Like that doesn't happen. Kenyana
Jackson gets a sack and then Kayden McDonald gets two
sacks with three tackles for a loss. I mean, to
get two players to get five sacks in a game
is pretty ridiculous. But I mean, like de Mon Williams,
while I still thought he had a pretty good game
yesterday eighteen to twenty two, from one to seventy nine,
his ability to tag teams with his legs was just
not there yesterday. And Washington, I think Denzel Boston's a
great receiver for this team, uh and they have a
lot of weapons. Joonah Coleman's a solid running back. But
I think with how this Huskies team's built and look,
de Mont Williams isn't draft eligible, I'm like ninety five
percent positive. So I think that you are going to
see another season from him, where it might take time.
And I think Washington's gonna be a team that's gonna
have to buy into the portal if they want to
be successful in the twenty twenty six season, and not
to say that they won't be good in this twenty
twenty five. Like I still expect Washington to make a
bowl game, but they have an interesting matchup next week
that I do want to talk about a little bit
before we get out of here. But they play Maryland
and then Rutgers, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue, Ucla, Oregon. I
think like, if you get to eight wins, I think
you're really happy. Maybe you sneak an upset versus Illinois
or Michigan in there, but yeah, I have like, I
think that's what you're happy with if you are Washington.
And I did want to point out something that big
fake field goal attempt. They should have just taken their
six there because I think they still would have had
the momentum in their favor and realistically early down one
going into the half, that was an interesting play goal.
But yeah, I mean Washington got pushed around on the
defensive side, not able to get any tackles for loss
really for so anything in terms of pressure on Julian
Sand and Julian Sand it looked good, yesyesterday, he's a
good football player. All Rutgers Minnesota was actually a pretty
entertaining game yesterday. I didn't get too much eyes on
this one, but it was back and forth. I'm really
impressed with Anthony and caliac Manis. This is a guy
where he came from Minnesota, this was his homecoming and
look on a season fourteen hundred yards, nine touchdowns, tube interceptions,
like he's been relatively solid, a nice rock for this
Rutgers team, and he had a great game yesterday. Antoine
Raymond did a really solid job. I love the Ian
strong receiver. kJ Duff also had a nice game for
the Scarlet Knights. But like we've mentioned, this Rutgers team
just not a really solid defense on the season. Minnesota
Drake Lindsay had a pretty good game over three hundred
yards passing three touchdowns. We're not able to run the
ball of any sorts, but they had three different receivers
Jalen Smith, Javon Tracy, Mica Brockington. They were all able
to be pretty solid contributors, and Minnesota was able to
get sacks and tackles for loss. And I think that's
really the difference in this game, because even though it
was only a three point game, on another game winning
field goal actually it was a missed game winning field
goal from Rutgers that decided this thing. But yeah, I
think that, uh, I think that Minnesota is just like
they were able to put Rutgers in worse spots and
you know, the better team won. And I really liked
this Rutgers team. And I think that's the first time
any once really said that, like, oh yeah, you know, Rutgers,
they have a good team. Even the last season, like
they got a bunch of wins, but they also played
a week schedule. To say the least. I could use
harsher words, I'm not going to They play Washington on
October tenth. Oh that's a Friday night game. Oh okay.
And then they played Oregon, Purdue, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio State,
Penn State. So you face three of the top ten
teams or three of the top teams in the Big
Ten plus Illinois in Maryland. Hey man, Maryland, I'm excited
for that team. And Okay, I know Maryland's typically a
program that is like, oh, we're all shiny and glamy
and bougie in the month of September, and then October
hits and it's like, oh, we're you know, not great.
You know a lot of mean things you could say
about the Turps, but I really like the quarterback Lake Washington.
And I don't know if they're great on the defensive
side per se, or even like have amazing skill talent
on that team, but I trust him to Lake Washington
and even though he's a freshman like I still think
he's gonna do pretty awesome things for the Turps this year.
And Locksley, I think is gonna be there for another season. Yeah,
which Sam Pittman got fired today Arkansas, So I think
all power for conferences have now had a firing with
Defont Deshaun Foster in the Big Ten, Brent Pry and
the ACC, Sam Pittman in the SEC, and then Mike
Gundy in the Big twelve. Northwestern and UCLA played football yesterday.
Was it great football? Not really? But they did play yesterday. Yeah.
I mean I saw bits and pieces of this game.
I'm not gonna be like, oh, I'm super over analytical,
and you know this happened, and this happened. I checked
all the PFF. Now that I didn't like Nico played, Okay,
he was their best player probably, but it's just sad man,
like I'm telling you if you I said this last week,
if UCLA does not win this game, are they going
to win a game on their schedule? I'm gonna say
probably not. Like I would take this team to go
oh in twelve. I mean you might be crazy. You
might be like, well, they should be able to sneak one,
like maybe Michigan State's on quit watch by October eleventh.
Trust me, Misskin State is better than UCLA. Well maybe
they could beat Maryland. I don't think so. I don't
think Maryland's gonna go and sleepy versus UCLA. Like Maryland's
looking to make a bowl game and maybe get seven
or eight wins, and that's a game that they're gonna
want to guarantee you. Oh you know Nebraska. No, No,
they're not Like I just you didn't beat UNLV or
New Mexico. What you lost to Northwestern? And you don't
play Perdue like that's a chance game. It's just embarrassing,
Like could they have moved to the Mountain West maybe
because it's not like their basketball I know, they made
the Final Four in twenty twenty one, and it's not
like their basketball programs anything particular. And I don't want
to hate and I don't want Bruins fans to hate me,
but I'm just looking at it honestly, like it's Northwestern.
Like they'll get me wrong. I don't think Northwestern is
a terrible program. But and David Brawn, I mean, he's
done the best job he's can where he can do
with this program, which they have you am and Row
next week, so that'll hopefully be a win. But like
Northwestern's a team, like, yeah, making a bowl game, it's
pretty good. When they were in the Big Ten West,
like making the Big Ten championship every so often, like
it was a cool thing that you would seem they
had a couple of guys that you can get excited about.
But all in all, it's not like an awesome football program.
I mean it's Northwestern, Like it's a very good academic school,
and you know they do have a supportive fan base.
But I don't know, I can't with that school. I
can't with UCLA. I just I don't know if I'm
gonna mention that team ever again in this season of
the Big Ten paradigm. Maybe next year, and I'll be
interested to see and maybe we'll have a UCLA right
or on at some point this season. But yeah, I
just it's disappointing, like you get Nico you No, all right,
we're done. We're done. We're not talking about that AnyWho. Okay,
the eightp Top twenty five came out today. Ohio State's
number one, Oregon's number two. Oh what happened to that? No,
I'm not gonna say that. Penn State is at seven,
Indiana is at eight. That is a problem because it's
not like Penn State's been like overly convincing that they're
just this far and more superior team over in Indiana.
Indiana has a better win than Penn State. They beat
Illinois in Iowa. The best team Penn State has beat Nevada, Like, Wow,
we're gonna get excited about Nevada, which Nevada this season
just lost to Western Kentucky, lost in the middle Tennessee State,
and barely beat Sacramento State, Like this is the team
we're gonna get I know they beat them by thirty
five points, but this is a team we're gonna get
excited about. Are you kidding me? FIU they beat thirty
four to nothing, Like FIU, they just lost to Delaware, Like,
I don't know what the ep voters do in their
free time because it's not watching football. I'll tell you
that it's supposed to be their job, and I know
a lot of them are committed to other things. And
like it's been a big discussion across college football media
and how the ap ballot is is you have to
submit it like that night or like very early in
the morning, and a lot of the voters can't get
to the games. And that's the beautiful thing about the
college football playoff rankings. While they still are controversial because
among fans, because a lot of things are just going
to become controversial no matter what I believe that popular opinion.
I don't believe Penn State is better than Indiana. If
you look at their resume, they might be better on
a talent perspective in terms of oh what their recruiting
rankings were in transporportal and all that. Indiana's is the
better team so far this season. They have two more
better wins, they had a better record. We scrolled down
the list and oh hey, Michigan at number twenty, so
a big drop off twelve spots, but Michigan fitting in
there at the twenty slot. Notre Dame's twenty one. They
killed Arkansas, twenty two is Illinois. That's it for Big
Ten teams ranked in other receiving votes. USC got twenty
two points in terms of AP and then Maryland got seven.
How about the Terps. Maybe they'll be ranked at some
point this season. That'll be interesting to see. If they
beat Washington and like the sky falls down for like
BYU or Arizona State, Illinois picks up a lost Purdue.
I don't think that's gonna happen. Oh, but yeah, Like
it would be cool to see that team ranked at
some point this season. I don't know if we will
see it, but it would be cool. It definitely would
be cool. All Right, what happens in the Big Ten
in Week six? You might ask, Well, let me let
me tell you about it. So at nude Big noon kickoff,
we got Michigan versus Wisconsin. Michigan opens up as a
sixteen and a half point favorite forty one and a
half total points. Wisconsin has had problems at the quarterback
position all season with their transfer from Maryland. Billy Edwards,
produced to being the Guy, has not really played football
for the Badgers so far this season. Last time they
played it was a twenty seven to ten loss versus Maryland. Meanwhile, Michigan,
also coming off a bye week, picked up that big
win versus Nebraska, and other than the lost to Oklahoma,
I mean, it's a team that's been really solid Underwood.
While he hasn't been fantastic in his freshman season, there's
been a lot of promise and a lot of hope.
And you see the plays and the high moments of
this five star talent, number one quarterback ranked in just
this previous recruiting cycle. You see the flashes there. Justice
Haynes has been a really solid running back for this team.
He's averaging about nine yards per carry six touchdowns. Problem
with Michigan and I don't think it'll be a problem
in this game, just because I do think they'll be
able to out physical this Wisconsin team. And there's a
chance after this game that Luke Fickle could be gone.
I hope not, especially if they lost to Iowa, Ohio State,
and Oregon. That is a tough four game stretch. They
really don't have an easy and easy season at all,
and losing to Maryland is definitely not a good sign
at all in terms of if you think you're gonna
be around for another season or not. But yeah, I
mean Michigan. I think they'll come out as victors. I
don't know if they'll cover the spread necessarily because they're
not offensively, you know, fantastic. But there's a reason why
this total is at forty one and a half. But
who knows. I'm not gonna tell you which way to
go in the spread direction. Illinois Purdue, it's a football game,
it's in West Lafayette, Illinois. Only nine and a half
points favorites West Lafayette is really that big? I don't know,
is it that big of like, because I think like
Illinois should be favored by like fourteen and a half,
fifteen and a half maybe if they were at home
or on like a neutral field. So okay, I guess
that does make sense because you give like a three
point difference. It opened at seven and a half. I
think it'll probably get better up to like twelve and
a half. AnyWho, Yeah, I mean, Ryan Brown's been a
solid quarterback. Altmeyer has been pretty good. I mean, even
in that Indiana game, he wasn't terrible. He just was
fighting for his life. Gave jackis you know, one of
the best linebackers returning from the past season. Was a
preseason All American, probably gonna finish as an All American
and be a first round pick. Scott in the defensive
back room, really solid player for this Aliani team. Hank
Beaty and Colin Dixon out of the receiver room for
the Alini. Moral of the story, I think the Alini
are gonna get this done well. I don't think produced
necessarily a bad football team if they've actually been somewhat
of an enjoyment to watch this season. They did take
that twenty six point loss to Notre Dame in their
last game coming off a bye week. Maybe they get
things right, Maybe they can sneak out the upset. I
want to go with Brett Biebloma and his fighting line.
I all right, three thirty window Penn State ucl IT,
I'm not gonna finish that team. Penn State has a
really nice to get back game. They do have to
travel to the West Coast twenty five and a half
point favorites. They'll take care of business if they don't
fire James Franklin, because yeah, there's just no point I'm kidding.
Don't fire him, But that's just such a tough spot.
I don't want to get into that again. Washington and
Maryland play. This game will be good. Washington is a
five and a half point favorite. But these are two
quarterbacks that I really like, and they're not the best
because I think Mendoza is the best quarterback, but they're
up in the upper Achelona of Big ten quarterbacks along
with like Luke Haltmeier. Only think that's not a great
sign for Maryland is they have not been able to
really run the ball this season and Washington has been
with Jonah Coleman, and that kind of concerns me just because,
like I think Washington's like decently talented enough and I
don't think the Maryland o line is going to be
able to play such a big threat and pass protection
that they're not gonna get home for sacks, especially with
Lane Lade's a really good guy off the edge. For
this Washington team that I was kind of impressed with,
and so far, I'm watching all the Washington games so
far this season. But look, Maryland, while they haven't played
great opponents this season FAU and IU, Towson and Wisconsin,
like they've look solid enough. Now I think this is
a team that's going to Poise a bigger threat in
terms of talent and being able to beat him and potentially,
you know, beating him by a couple of scores. But like,
I don't know, if Washington's really not much better, and
when you have a high end quarterback and if you
could give him time to throw and he's able to
find his targets, like wow, the score might get a
little out of hand in terms of how high the
total is going to be. I think that the Terps
like they could get it done. It's sat ed where
it's open, and the over under hasn't gotten met anywhere.
It could be a very enjoyable game. I know that's
one I'm gonna pay attention to personally. So and then
Uel Monroe and Northwestern. I don't know Joel Monroe is now.
The Warhawks have not been on my radar. I know
they lost seventy three to nothing to Alabama, barely beat UTEP,
beat Arkansas State, and shut out Saint Francis to start
the season. I would like to think Northwestern is gonna
come away with a win. I hope so for their sake. Obviously,
I'm gonna root for the Big Ten program to take
a win, But we'll see, but I yeah, I think
Northwestern will win all Michigan State and Nebraska. This thing
opened at ten and a half fort Nebraska over under
a fifty three and a half two also pretty good
quarterbacks in this matchup. I like Ryolan obviously, I'm a
big in Shiles fan. I think if Nebraska, while they
struggled in terms of the lines of scrimmage on Michigan,
I think if they are going to push Michigan State around,
Michigan State around at all, I think that Michigan State's
most likely going to lose just because they're a team
where they're just not that much better than other Big
Ten teams in terms of the line of scrimmage. And
I love the playmakers and Amari Kelly and Nick Marsh,
but especially with the back seven of that Michigan State defense,
like Jordan Hall is a good player, Nickai Martinez at
the safety position solid, but overall, like the cornerbacks and
linebacking groups and the safeties and basically the whole defensive
line is just nothing really special in terms of any
talking points. And Jordan Hall, while he's amazing in the
run game and you know, being said as a blitzer
the pass game, like Dylan Lonergan was able to pick
apart the Michigan State defense all day, and they were
just targeting Jordan Hall across the middle because he's just
someone that's not a great pass cover guy. So in league,
Spencer's good too, I guess I'll give him a mention
as well. But overall, like I think Nebraska, they've had
a lot of success throwing the ball and running the
ball this season, and I don't see why that's gonna
stop in this game, especially with Michigan State traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska. Yeah,
it's just it might be a quick one, it might
be a game that's entertaining, But I do think Nebraska
ends up as the victor in that game. In the Minnesota,
Ohio State the poor Golden Gophers. While I don't think
Ohio State's necessarily gonna really, you know, try and torch
anyone on offense per se this season in the Big Ten,
I don't think they're a team that's gonna try and
like up teams for like sixty or seventy. I just
don't think that's how their offense operates. Like Jeremiah Smith,
Bo Jackson, Julian sand Are all really good players. Obviously,
there's the other receivers and carl al Tay and Brendan
Innis and Max Claire at the tight end position. Then
you have Kayan Curry, Kenianna Jackson and a bunch of
guys on the defensive line. Do you have Sony Styles
and Caleb downs Davis and Beno sending Jorm Matt like,
there is a lot of players on this Ohio State
team that are gonna end up being, you know, pretty
high draft picks, no matter what side of the ball
or what position you really put him at. Like I
think quarterback might be the lowest one, but I think
Julian sand can develop into a guy where he might
be a first round talent. Gets keep in mind he
can't even declare for the draft even if he wanted
to until next year for that twenty twenty seven NFL
draft class along with his primary target and Jeremiah Smith.
And while I think Drink Lindsay has been a nice addition,
and you know what, Minnesota's had decent back to back quarterbacks.
Obviously Max Brozmer their last season. He ended up playing
for the Bengals last Sunday, which was pretty interesting. I
think he's been okay this year. Obviously, Jayvon Tracy coming
over from Miami Ohio. Minnesota's pretty solid defensively as well.
But yeah, I don't think that defense is gonna do
enough to really pose a big problem for Ohio. Say,
like maybe they'll get him on a series or two
and get forced like a three on our early or something.
But especially going to the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio seven
thirty prime time game, the fans are gonna show up
and then they'll leave at halftime to go party down
in Columbus. Yeah, I just don't see Minnesota poising that
big of a threat in this game. And look, we
hit everything we needed in under forty five minutes. So
give ourselves a little bit of a round of applause,
because I sometimes can go for probably two hours on
the same subject, but I wanted to condense it down,
you know, make this a nice, easy listening show. And look,
we got Big ten football next week, and we got
Big ten football for the foreseeable future, and we need
to cherish it while we have it because it will
not be around forever and then we'll have to watch
sports like basketball, you know, soccer and baseball. You know,
while they are great sports, and especially me being a
play by play guy, I love calling those games. I
don't think that you know, football is It's the reason
why it's one of the most popular sports, especially it
is the most popular sports in the United States. Also,
Tmosa losing in the Ryder Cup is not what I
expected to see, especially how they went down on day
one and day two, and I know they try to
make their way back for a comeback, but it's pretty
much near impossible. And then the Tigers they barely make
the playoffs, and I get to go to the Guardians
and they blew the lead for the AL Central Division. Actually,
the guy that publishes out these podcasts and also the
host of the Yards and Stripes podcast, Steve Carney. He
is affiliated with the Tampa Bay Rays and also works
in data analytics for the MLB. He knows some staff
members on the Guardians, so he's like, oh, I will
not make sure to mention that, so Steve, if you
are listening, one, thank you, but also yeah, it's just
so disappointing. But hey, I mean if they win the
World Series, it doesn't matter if you win the Central
I just how they've played down the stretch and how
they're bullpen books. Anyways, Sorry I'm getting too off topic.
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