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Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Big Ten Paradigm podcast

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here on the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast Network.

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Please welcome in, Noah Drury. It's we covered the Big

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Ten throughout this whole entire twenty twenty five college football season.

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Speaker 2: And welcome in to the Big Ten Paradigm here on

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College Gridiron Coast to Coast Network. I am no addura

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and happy to be along with you for our Week

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seven recapp And there was a lot of good games

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this weekend, but I think first order of business and

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the man that's kind of been the topic of conversation

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of the Big Ten is no longer going to be

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in it, at least with the Penn State Nitney Lyons

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as head coach. James Franklin has been fired. I saw

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the report from Pete Thamil, and quickly later everyone else

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reporting about it in the Penn State Athletic department and

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the whole university put out a statement saying they are

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going to pay the buy out in that they needed to.

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Kind of short story short if you haven't seen the

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report already, y'all, though, this has been all over college

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football social media, and if you're listening to this show.

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I'm assuming you're at least a fan of a Big

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Ten program or love following the Big Ten in general.

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They need to move on and have a high standard

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further athletics. So James Franklin is out at Penn State.

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Now what are my thoughts about this? Well, they took

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a twenty two to twenty one lost who Northwestern Andrew

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Aller goes down in that game and he is going

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to be out with the season ending injury. And yeah,

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I mean back to back losses to two Big ten programs.

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While UCLA they did handle their business against Michigan State

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more on that later. And then Northwestern, which a team

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with David Brown who's kind of been able to hold

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its head above water since the firing of Patch Fitzgerald.

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I know in his interim season he was able to

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make a game, but Northwestern's not a program. I know

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they've made a couple of Big Ten titles back when

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it was the East and West, but this is not

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two very good losses. And we see Oregon, you know,

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being able to beat them, and it kind of broke everything.

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You had to go take a West coast trip and

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then you come back home and end up falling short

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in the final seconds against the Northwestern team that got

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handled by two lane early.

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Speaker 3: In the season.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm not gonna say Northwestern's bad. They're not a

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bad team. In fact, they might make a bowl game

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because if you look at the Northwestern schedule and this

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is not meant to be a Northwestern segment. But I mean,

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they barely beat UCLA, get handled by Oregon in that game.

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They had a backdoor cover in that game, and then

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went against the ol Monroe, went against Penn State. Now

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you got Purdue, Nebraska, USC, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois. I

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think they could beat Purdue, and I think they could

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beat Minnesota and have a chance to find their way

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into a bowl game. And look, they're four and two

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on the season, a lot of season left to be

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played for the Wildcacts among other Big Ten teams, and

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you know this, they did enough to win this game.

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And I think it's more of Look, Penn State's quit.

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They I don't know if it's quit or they just

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didn't want to play for Franklin, but it has not

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been well, not well for this team at all. Like

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k Tron Allen was able to kind of produce in

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this game and DeVante Ross had a huge game throughout

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the air, but other than that, defensively only able to

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pick up two tackles for lost against the Northwestern team

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that I don't know if they recruit any blue chip

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players at all, and that's just embarrassing. Now, Northwestern only

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had two tackles for loss too, but I feel like

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they were just kind of able to just slow this

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Penn State team down enough where they really couldn't find

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a moment to get up big. And while watching this

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game the most intently, I saw that it was close

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the whole way through. I'm like, God, dude, is Penn

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State going to do it again? And this is a

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team that was ranked number two to start out the

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preseason AP Top twenty five pole, which is the reason

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also why preseason rankings shouldn't matter at all, because situations

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like this can happen all the time, so ap voters,

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when you see teams struggle and they continue to fall down,

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and I'm glad they got unranked after losing to UCLA

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and against Oregon. While Penn State did have two backdoor

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touchdowns to send it to overtime and actually had a

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chance and they were leading in overtime, at a certain point.

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think with Indiana beating Oregon, you know how good is

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Oregon to this point? And are they still one of

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those teams that you think could compete for a national title.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That will be a discussion topic for later. I want

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to stay on the Penn State side this this Penn

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State schedule, you play Iowa, who just handled business against Wisconsin.

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Like I'll touch on that game quickly. Wisconsin is quit.

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Luke Fickle will probably be gone within the coming weeks.

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too sure, but I'm assuming Luke Fickle will be a

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coordinator somewhere next season or at a Group of five job,

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because he's not going to get a power coaching job

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with how bad he's handled Wisconsin. I still think he

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could be an excellent play caller and offensive mine somewhere,

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but other than that, just because of really what he

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did at Cincinnati. Needed a great job at Cincinnati's that

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Cincinnati program, and I mean they're still getting out. They're

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ranked in the top twenty five with Scott centerfield, but

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that was a hot seat job at one moment not

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too long ago. I want to say it was like

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two seasons ago. Centarsfield jobs was almost called for. But

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Fickle did a nice job with Cincinnati, and obviously he's

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not going to go back there, but maybe a group

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of five school will want to take a poke at

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him and then Yeah, but regardless, Wisconsin's not a good

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team and I was really starting to build it together

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on the defensive side because they didn't play well offensively

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that game. And I think if they could really halt

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this Penn State offense, especially with having Krunkmeyer as their quarterback,

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and he's someone that's just kind of been a backup

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for this Penn State team all along, it could get

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ugly for Penn State. Then you got Ohio State in Indiana.

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is a game you can win. Then Nebraska, then Rutgers.

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Like is Penn State making a bowl game this year?

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Like they're gonna have an interim coach in Terry Smith,

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which former player coach in the defensive back rooms, like,

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but I think we're gonna see major losses in the

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recruiting trail and then also a lot of exodus in

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the transfer portal from guys who do not graduate in

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their depth pieces and are like, what new staff is

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coming in? Am I going to be able to play

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with this new staff?

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Speaker 3: And then not? It could be it could be bad.

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Speaker 2: But that is besides the point. Who's next at Penn State?

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This has been the big question all day that I've

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been seeing everywhere and so far from every show that

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I've seen react to this podcast or people on the internet,

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mainly Twitter, who is Penn State gonna go after? Because

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the first name I keep seeing is Kirk Signetti. And

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I'm telling you right now, if I was Kurt Signetti

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and the success I've been having at Indiana so far

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one and a half years and just picking up my

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first win and a really good shot at a chance

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of playing in the Big Ten Championship and potentially getting

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a bye in the playoff win or lose that game,

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I don't think he would leave. So who else do

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you look to? I see Matt Roll with Nebraska. That's

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a possibility, especially with howt Nebraska is playing recently. You

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could probably get Ryola to transfer over and have some

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stability at quarterback. That could be good. You would have

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Matt Campbell at Iowa State. I think that you would

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definitely need to hire some assistance to help on the

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recruiting side if you are Matt Campbell. But in terms

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of player development and coaching, but good ball teams, I mean,

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a long time. Matt Campbell has been able to develop

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this Iowa State team and put receivers in the NFL

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like Xavier Hutchinson, Jalen know Well, a bunch of I

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know there's two receivers drafted in that last draft class.

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You've been able to have other good players Breze Hall,

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Brock Purdy, a bunch of guys on the defensive side

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as well. Like Matt Campbell, would be perfect in terms

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of where this Penn State program needs to go. And

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I don't know if they would recruit all necessarily that

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well at Iowa State or excuse me, at Penn State

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with him in the start, but I think if you

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could really get something built there. And he's a former

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Ohio guy, he's been wanting to probably have a Big

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ten job. He was considered for the Michigan job. I

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know that and the Wisconsin one as well, but I

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think he wanted to move a little bit more east

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and this might be a perfect opportunity. I've seen Manny Diaz.

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I don't make that higher. I think he's fine at

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Duke and he's got a good thing built there so

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far taking over from Mike Elco. And I don't know

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if he would want to leave. Obviously, if you get

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that call, you might want to entertain it. I saw

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Dan Mullen. I thought that would be interesting, but that's

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kind of a tough job to call, and I don't

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know if the Penn and State fan base would be

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happy with that. And what were some other names? Lancelipoled In,

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Clark Lee. I don't think Clark Lee leaves Vandy. To

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be completely honest with you, I don't think that's something

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that I don't think we see that, to be completely honest.

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or Brent Key really take it. Alex Scholish is a

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good name, and then I saw it, Yeah, this was

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the one I saw. Fran Brown I think has a

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good chance to maybe end up being that head coach.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It would be tough because he doesn't have that much

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experience as being a head coach and while he is

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at the P four, Syracuse is a team that doesn't

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really give you a good infrastructure in terms of actually

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how to handle a big program. No, no offense to Syracuse.

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I mean still, you know, this season's kind of gone

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with losing Steven Jelly and obviously you know you want

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to hear the All Day, All Sports discussion with the

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ACC podcast and listen to that as well if you

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want to hear more Syracuse talk. But yeah, I think

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this is, uh, this is not good, not a good

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place for the Penn State program. You gotta be able

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to kind of heal the wounds as quick as possible,

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you know, obviously with the advancements in medical and you know,

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just in terms of recovery and everything like, obviously that's

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gotten a lot better in terms of actual physical health.

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But Penn State's got to find a way to work

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or straight something for them to you know, be able

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to bounce back and be able to get back to

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where they were and even where they were winning in

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top ten games, making deep runs in the postseason, which

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they did last year with James Franklin. But being able

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to beat those teams that are just as good or

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better than them. And I don't think James Franklin's a

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bad coach. I think we will see him somewhere, maybe

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not next year. I think he could take it off.

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And he's getting paid fifty million dollars, so I wouldn't

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really it's I saw forty nine million, I saw fifty

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six million. I don't know what the actual buyout is

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going to come out to. It might be fifty six

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million with his assistants. But yeah, I think that we won't.

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I think we will see James Franklin somewhere again. I

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don't know where it would be. He's good enough to

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be a head coach. He's a great program builder, dragged

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this Penn State program really out of the mud and

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out of the old school ways and being able to

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modernize this team. And he's had a lot of success,

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won a Big Ten championship, but in the end, it

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didn't go well. And I think Oregon broke this team

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this season, and I think that everything kind of came

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falling down after that. It's been so many long years

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of Oh, is Penn State ever gonna get over the

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hump with James Franklin.

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Speaker 3: And they didn't. They didn't at all.

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Speaker 2: Moving on from that discussion, Indiana and Oregon a Top

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ten matchup on CBS in the three thirty window, and

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we're gonna start with the winners in Indiana because wild

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they did not play a perfect game by any means,

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because Oregon's a really good ball team, the good ball club.

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Mendoza had a solid game, and he got enough help

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from the ground game with Hemby and Boy doing their part.

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And look, Elijah Suratt is one of the best weapons

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in the Big Ten. He was someone that I did

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really like coming into this season. Obviously last year he

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played decently well for them as well, getting almost a

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thousand yards and eight touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: He was a jam you guy.

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Speaker 2: And then before that, looks like Saint Francis Pennsylvania, This

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kid and Kurt Signetti and his team one and a

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half years are able to pick up a top three win.

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And look, they're sitting at number three in the AP

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poll right now. And the one thing and the one

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difference between this year's narrative about the Indiana team and

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last year's team, you know that had a lot of

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success and did things. Indiana football was really never expecting

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The only time they came close was the COVID year

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with Michael Pennix and Kitlin de Boor.

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Speaker 3: It was that they.

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Speaker 2: Have legit dudes at the line of scrimmage on both sides.

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Their offensive line did well enough in this game, and

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their defensive line absolutely confused Oregon and especially Dante Moore

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six sacks, eight TFLs, and they played relatively well in

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the secondary. Dante did not have a good game, two interceptions,

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five point five yards per attempt. I still think he

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made some good plays in this game, but as looking

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at as an overall grigrade in terms of the game

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they made Dante Moore and will Stein as the play caller,

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they've got him in so much second and third and

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longs with getting these tackles for loss that it kind

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of took what Oregon wanted to do, which with will

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Stein is you know, have this more short converted offense

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and not really have to make too many reads down

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the field, and they took it away. Malik Benson had

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that one shot play. Other than that to Coreyan Moore,

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Gary Bryant, Kenyan Sadik guys that we've thought we're really

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good players just not really come to life in this game.

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And this was at Austin Stadium too. And look, Indiana's

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got two really good wins on the season now obviously

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the one versus Illinois, which that one looks less impressive

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after they drop out, and Indiana six and zero again,

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this team plays Michigan State, UCLA, Maryland, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue.

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There is a really good chance that this team's twelve

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and zero and goes to the Big Ten title game.

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Speaker 3: Are they.

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Speaker 2: A national championship contender? You really have to ask this question.

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In twenty twenty five, a school that has a basketball

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school label on it, Hwire's this coach from James Madison.

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Kurt Signetti would be great for WWE as like a

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Paul Hayman or some sort of manager or maybe he

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has like a GM some sort of role in that

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because he gives great postgame interviews, press conferences, everything.

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Speaker 3: You know, he is very.

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Speaker 2: Very fun to watch, maybe not if you're a er

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actually in the room, but turns as an outsider who

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looks at media. You know, has talked smack all this

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time since really coming to Indiana. I remember when he

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first got hired and went to the basketball game and

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set a bunch of stuff like people are like, oh, okay,

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well let's see if it actually no, it's actually happening.

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On the organ side, I thought they still played decent,

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like especially on the defensive side. I know they gave

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up some stuff, and I think the secondary might be

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a little questionable, but like Dynaman was flying around out

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there making tackles in space, Boshtter as well. I just

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think really they got owned on the defense. On the

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offensive line for Indiana did a pretty solid job, and

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Mendoza was orchestrating in a way where it was hard

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to establish pressure on him. And Mendoza made one really

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bad throw fading away trying to throw a crossing route

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and Oregon ended up picking it off and I'm pretty

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sure that was a touchdown Forregan off the pick six

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is well, yeah from Finney junior. But I mean Indiana

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did a really good job of running inside zone and

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scheming up plays on the outside. There's multiple comeback routes

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from sarat and Amari Cooper back shoulder throws that you know,

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we're really impressive. And you know, Indiana, I thought coached

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a better game and I thought their players played a

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little bit more harder. There's multiple times where there was

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broken tackles in that game, and Indiana was able to

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take advantage. They were able to come away with a victory.

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And that's what you want to see if you are

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it's Kurt Signetti and it's an easy road from here.

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I don't think we'll ever have to bring on or

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we'll have to talk about Indiana as a headline unless

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they get upset, which is possible in the Big Ten.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say it's not, but.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be tough for anyone to really stop

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this team that's left on its schedule out Big Ten Championship.

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Still a lot of season left. We'll see what happens

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next game. I wanted to move on to the seven

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to thirty game on nbc USC Michigan, so King Miller

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came out because Waymont Jordan didn't have a great game.

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King Miller one of the six guys I think he

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was the only left guy in the top six in

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the depth chart for USC that was actually available for

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this game, and he has one of the best rushing

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performances I've ever seen. Eighteen not and I've ever seen,

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but like in terms of a guy coming out of

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nowhere since like one of the kind of Walker games

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obviously when he was at Northwestern, one of the Hassan

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Haskin games. Like in terms of Big Ten football, he's

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a guy that really emerged. And I believe he's not

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on scholarship either, so they will be paying up for

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him in giving him some sort of money. Eighteen for

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one fifty eight point eight yards per carry at a

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touchdown with him in Miava. Mieva looked really good. He

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did have that one interception in the red zone that

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was like what are you doing? And I know he

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was probably intending to throw that one out in a

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way because he was outside the pocket, but ended up

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being a pick by Barry of Michigan. But man, McKay

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Lemon one of the most special players in the Big

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Ten across the whole entire country. I think he's gonna

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be a nice Day two pick for someone in this

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NFL draft. Kobe Lane ended up having a nice touchdown

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grab and I think if you have Lane and Lemon

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and whoever is at the running back position in Mayeva, Wow,

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I don't know. If USC is a top four team

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in the Big Ten, they're making their case and I

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think if they have their weapons playing all right and

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can really scheme it up, and you got one of

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the best offensive coaches in Lincoln Riley with the good

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quarterback and good skilled players, and that if the defense

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is gonna play like this now, I don't think Michigan's

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uber talented on the offensive side. Justice Haynes goes to

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in this game, and I think there's a difference between

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him and Marshall out of the backfield, and look, Caines

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went down. You know, in the first half. Marshall was

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able to do okay, but Underwood didn't necessarily play bad,

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but he had some plays. I was kind of just like, man,

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this is just and I'm I'm sure he got hurt

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because you remember he came up after getting hit. He

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came back up and he yeah, it was It was

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kind of all over from there. Jane Davis goes in

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at the end, he throws an interception, and how about

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Bishop Fitzgerald getting two picks. But I think Ramsey coming

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back in the secondary for this USC team really made

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a difference. Eric Gentry is a stud That kid should

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be an All American if he remains to stay healthy.

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So I think it'll be good for this team to

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continue to play on and do well and look USC

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they play Notre Dame next week. We'll preview that game

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a little bit. I also want everyone to hear Matt

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Zemic on Get Off My Pylon. He's an editor for

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Trojan's Wire, and we should have him on the show

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at some point during the year. He does a really

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good job of covering the West Coast, and yeah, I

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think that getting his opinion on what USC and Notre

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Dame can look like, and also the reaction on this

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game as well, would be good for your ears. Also,

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they play Nebraska, Northwestern Iowa, Oregon UCLA. Not the easiest

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schedules of finishing up, but hey, you know they're five

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and one to this point. Back in Salet the top

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twenty five. They're going to South Bend. That will be

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a very crucial game to really see if the Big

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Ten's is gonna get a fourth team in because I

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think Oregon's still going to be able to maintain their

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way in there. I think Illinois and Michigan and losto.

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Michigan goes undefeated the rest of the way or out

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of it. So I think USC is kind of detrimental

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and will they be.

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Speaker 3: In it or not?

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Speaker 2: And I mean if the USC can be Oregon, that

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would be huge. I don't know if that's necessarily possible,

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but that could be huge. Also, does Orgon get in

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if they have two losses because they would lose to the.

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Speaker 3: Two best teams on their schedule.

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Speaker 2: That's a conversation for another day. All Right, a couple

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more games I want to react to, and then we'll

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get into the AP Top twenty five and see if

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we will or we'll get a prediction of the week

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eight matchups. This I can't believe we're already almost halfway.

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Speaker 3: Through the year.

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Speaker 2: It's been going by so fast, right, And another team

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that makes games go by so fast with how dominant

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they are the Ohio State buck Guys. Look, if you

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box score this box score watch this team, you're gonna

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be like, man, this Ohio State team, Like how were

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they ranked number one? But you have to watch this

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team play on the tape. They just took care of

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Illinois and got them out of this game. They ended

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up going up twenty to nothing at one point. Illinois

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was able to do some things when Ohio State was

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playing more and a relax just oh we can't let

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him beat us type of way, and the better. While

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Julian san is not the best quarterback in the country,

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not even in my opinion, the best quarterback in the

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Big Ten in terms of the talent perspective, but the

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way he is utilized in this offense is I would

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describe him maybe not Steve Nash. What's like a good

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overall point guard that's like a very solid contributor on

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a team. But you know, he's not necessarily this super

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elite guy, at least not yet. He's still young. He's

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a red shirt freshman, and he's got more time to develop,

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like a Mike Conley, like a guy that's really good

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and funny because Mike Conley actually.

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Speaker 3: Went to Ohio State too, and Mike.

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Speaker 2: Conley had some years on the Grizzlies. He's really good

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and yeah, but regardless, Okay, getting off topic, he does

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a really good job of just kind of you know,

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doing what he's told, just really setting up the offense

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for success. Jeremiah Smith, Carnell Say Max Claire are really

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fun weapons for this team. And Brandon Innis I think

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could be worked in there more as that third like

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dynamic receiver Bo Jackson and CJ. Donaldson doing off out

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of the backfield, and then the defense is special on

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all fronts, defensive line, linebackers. I think they have the

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best secondary with guys like Davison and mc nosen, Jalen McClain,

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Caleb Downs, Like this is a really special group, Jermaine

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Matthews as well, Like they seriously have the best defensive

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backfield in America. Like I don't think it's close. I

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think they have one of the best d lines and

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really front six is front sevens and the way Matt

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Patricia is able to utilize those guys and kind of

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just keep them disciplined, like you don't see Ohio State

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really get super undisciplined on the defensive side. And Jim

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Knowles was a little bit more of a gambler. And yeah,

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I mean he did a good job coaching this defense

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the past two seasons, especially last year on their playoff run,

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Like they did a good job. But I think there's

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something a little bit more different about this group. Even

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with losing JTT and Jack Sawyer and Denzel Burke who

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really didn't have a great last year but still a

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good solid player, Cody Simon as well, this is still

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a really good Ohio State team, and then on the

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Illinois front, like they got handled. And I don't think

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Illinois necessarily the bad team or a bad team, but

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I think they just kind of got taken care of.

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They used Laffert Laffery at the running back position as

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their main guy that got touches, Like they just they

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got taken.

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Speaker 3: Care of early.

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Speaker 2: And when that happens to you, you're just not gonna

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be able to come back in that game, especially when

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you don't have an explosive offense. I mean, hink Beat

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he's a very fun weapon for this team, and I

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mean Dixon Clement are other solid guys on the outside,

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but they ain't no USC. They're not Washington, which that

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was a fun game Friday night. We'll get into it.

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They don't have n Isaiah Hunter and Dean Key. Not

479
00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:36,440
like I'm not saying they're necessarily that much worse, but

480
00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:39,680
especially with the quarterback and Luke Altmeyer, that's someone that

481
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,519
you want to have when you're ahead, but maybe not

482
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:46,559
when you're behind because he's another like game managing point

483
00:26:46,559 --> 00:26:50,279
guard type of quarterback. You're just not gonna win football

484
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:56,839
games that way. Speaking of fun football games, there's two

485
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,599
that I want to talk about, and then I'll lightly

486
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:04,480
touch on Michigan State, ucl In Purdue Minnesota. Nebraska won

487
00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:07,960
a crazy game. They have one of the best running

488
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,039
backs in the Big Ten and m at Johnson. I mean,

489
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,400
he averaged eight point four yards per carrion. While he

490
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,359
didn't have touchdowns because Dane Key and Isaiah Hunter are

491
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,160
freaks and Lindenmeyer had that nice touchdown grab, he was

492
00:27:20,319 --> 00:27:23,000
really good for Nebraska, and I think kind of the

493
00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:25,599
difference in this game because while on the one Ray

494
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,680
and Dawan Williams weren't bad for Maryland, I think he

495
00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:32,440
was just kind of the X factor in this game,

496
00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:36,319
especially with Riola throwing three interceptions, which he is sometimes

497
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,720
way too careless of the ball with the ball and

498
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,759
he plays so nonchalantly and tries to have almost this

499
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,960
like gimmick, like he's a pro wrestler, you know, at

500
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,559
the quarterback position, when he's still a really talented kid.

501
00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,119
I mean, when you throw three picks and still have

502
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,519
nine yards per a time, typically you're doing something well.

503
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,559
And I known Isaiah Hunter had that one, you know,

504
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,839
kind of broken play on the outside and was able

505
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,519
to take it for a huge touch and then also

506
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,160
having weapons like day Key, like is Isaiah Hunter is

507
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,519
a very good receiver. I would expect him to play

508
00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,079
on Sundays. And you know this is this was a

509
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,279
kid they got out of the transfer portal from cal

510
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,839
He's only a sophomore, so there's a chance that he

511
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,359
will be back next season two, which is crazy to

512
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,279
say unless you know Matt Rule goes and takes the

513
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,680
Penn State job and then he's at Penn State, which

514
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,880
would give Penn State a great wide receiver to work

515
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,960
with because they don't have that necessarily. But oh, I

516
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,079
want to hate and look, Nebraska is not great on

517
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,720
the defensive lines of scrimmage. I don't think they're that

518
00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:36,880
great of a defensive team. But they were able to

519
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,039
force Maryland to some stops and force them to field goals,

520
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,680
So or a field goal, I should say, and I

521
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:46,960
think Malik Washington.

522
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:48,599
Speaker 3: Let's see.

523
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,279
Speaker 2: I don't wouldn't want to do a quarterback power ranking

524
00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:54,480
at this point, but I'd probably go Mendoza. I probably

525
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:58,160
go to Mott Williams. I think Dante's still up there

526
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,480
even after the bad performance versus Indiana, Like I still

527
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,559
think he's a good quarterback, But I'd have Malik Washington

528
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,759
up there with like Myeva. I guess he would put

529
00:29:06,759 --> 00:29:09,359
Maeva up of all of them. But I think Malik

530
00:29:09,519 --> 00:29:13,599
Washington is a top five QB in the Big Ten

531
00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:17,960
and he's only a freshman. Keep that in mind, and

532
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:22,839
he looks so well controlling that Maryland offense if he had.

533
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,599
I mean, not that there's skilled players are necessarily terrible,

534
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,480
but like they're not the best group of players that

535
00:29:31,599 --> 00:29:36,119
I've seen. If there's there's a chance that this man

536
00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:40,680
enters the portal, this young man enters the portal and

537
00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:44,119
he finds himself some money in a really good offense

538
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,839
to orchestrate. And does Indiana take him next year, or

539
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,720
is there a Big Ten team that goes in or

540
00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,599
would he He might be an acc guy too. Duke

541
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,920
wouldn't take him because they have Mensa. An lost Mensa

542
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,480
goes pro. Syracuse could be a great option for him

543
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,480
if they give him some weapons to work with. Penn

544
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:05,480
State might throw a lot of money at him. Like

545
00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:08,920
there's a lot of teams Michigan. Now Michigan has Bryce

546
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,960
and Bryce is still a good quarterback, just kind of

547
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,720
had a bad game. I'm just trying to think because

548
00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:19,119
Ohio State's gonna have saying next year, maybe a team

549
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:23,880
if aguilars, There's there's so many endless possibilities, right, maybe

550
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,039
Alabama will take some after Simpson leaves.

551
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:26,759
Speaker 3: I don't know.

552
00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: I know they also have Austin Mack you know, Kelan Russell.

553
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,160
But Milik Washington will get paid and go play somewhere

554
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,319
next season. I think that's the bottom line of what

555
00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:40,920
I'm trying to say, because I like, even though Maryland

556
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,680
has a really good kid and maybe they can recruit

557
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,240
some talent over there to go play with them on

558
00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:48,759
the outside and an offensive line to block for him.

559
00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:53,240
I'm not the biggest Mike Loxley guy, and I don't

560
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:58,160
think that they're gonna be able to have the money

561
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,920
or really recruiting staff to get a players in position

562
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,039
where Maryland's a winning program.

563
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:07,079
Speaker 3: Oh look, they've had.

564
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,039
Speaker 2: Two tough losses back to back, and there's still a

565
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:13,319
good amount of season left to be played. Still six

566
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,640
games for the Turps. They traveled to UCLA, which UCLA's

567
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,759
favored in that game, host Indiana travel the Rutgers travel

568
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,039
to Illinois and Michigan and Michigan State like there's a

569
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,160
chance at this team, a solid chance that this team

570
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,000
finishes and goes to a bowl game. How good is

571
00:31:30,039 --> 00:31:33,799
that chance, I don't know, but I think Michigan State's

572
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,279
definitely win because that's the game Lake Washington could have

573
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,160
like five hundred yards. And then Ucla, like it's possibility

574
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,559
they beat them as well. And I don't think necessarily

575
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:50,160
Michigan or Illinois or invincible either. All right, time to

576
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,559
talk about it. Ucla is a.

577
00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: Good is a good football team.

578
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 2: Apparently I said we weren't going to talk about him

579
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,880
on the show the score and anything. That's just not

580
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,799
true anymore. Nico had another great game, and with the

581
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,680
coaches at or with the coaching changes, and also jalen Berger,

582
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,519
by the way, I saw he was out here, former

583
00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:20,480
Michigan State running back, former Wisconsin running back. He's in

584
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,880
his sixth season of playing. I saw he was on

585
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,279
the field. I was like, Wow, this gotta be a

586
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,640
great revenge game for him. But Nico looked really good.

587
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:32,839
Nilen Berger led and rushing its kind of just like

588
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,880
UCLA just handled this Michigan State team. They didn't like

589
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,279
play particularly well. But Michigan State's so bad on the

590
00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:46,240
offensive side Aiden Schiles with another like absolute performance you

591
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:48,799
just want to forget about. Couldn't get anything really going

592
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,759
with McKay Fraser, especially with going down so early in

593
00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:56,799
this game. Milovich goes in as well, and Nick marsh

594
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,119
ends up having like a decent stat line. And he's

595
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:01,799
someone that could leave next year because I mean, he's

596
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:06,319
a sophomore that's got very high on talent. And I

597
00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:08,960
think the question needs to be asked. And while we ask,

598
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,880
is Luke Fickel gonna be gone at Wisconsin? Is Jonathan

599
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Smith going to be gone at Michigan State? I think

600
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,319
there's a good chance to be honest by the end

601
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:21,039
of the season. I know I said last week, I'm like,

602
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,240
do not have the Smith era? And I think it's time. Honestly,

603
00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:29,759
after watching this game, I'm gonna be honest. I'm a

604
00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:35,200
Michigan State fan. I'm my girlfriend goes to Michigan State.

605
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:37,680
And by the way, they'll be like, oh, you're a creep.

606
00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:40,799
Speaker 3: I'm twenty years old. Okay, it's not weird.

607
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: I just work in the media space and I'm lucky

608
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,920
to do so at such a young age and get

609
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,759
the opportunities to do these things. But you know, I'm

610
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:53,200
in an East Lanton affair amount. I'm been a supporter

611
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:57,200
of Michigan State football since I could really comprehend what

612
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:02,240
team sports were football, basketball, I haven't really been too

613
00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:04,599
impactful and something else. I know, we've had good tennis

614
00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:07,319
players in our Michigan State women's soccer team won a

615
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:10,079
big ten championship not too long ago, and I really

616
00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:13,400
care about the university and how their athletics are doing. Wow,

617
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:16,920
I don't have any significance or really have any investment

618
00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:20,360
in it in terms of a like being affiliated with it,

619
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Like as a fan, I would probably say I love

620
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,639
Detroit Sports and the Tigers, by the way, and that

621
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,400
fifteen inning loss was it was, it was dreadful. But

622
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:40,079
this is just such a bad team to watch, and

623
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,199
ever since the twenty twenty one season, like it was

624
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,880
going downhill with Meltsucker. While I don't know how twenty

625
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,599
twenty three goes. If he you know, he doesn't have

626
00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:57,559
the whole situation happened, that's what we'll call it. I like,

627
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,000
maybe it's a little different, but I don't know, because

628
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,039
twenty twenty two is such a bad year and it

629
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,559
just it wasn't going well and you know, when we

630
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:10,599
make the Smith higher and thinking he can really change

631
00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:12,280
this program around.

632
00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:13,679
Speaker 3: And while.

633
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,119
Speaker 2: Jay Batt didn't make the hire, I don't know because

634
00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:22,599
it was Alan Haller and then Hallar ends up stepping down.

635
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,000
I don't know if Smith is the guy because he's

636
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,920
a West Coast guy, and you know, regionality and trying

637
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,760
to relate to these players and coaching staff fits and

638
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,039
really the area and what type of influence you want

639
00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:37,639
to have on a football program. I don't know if

640
00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:41,480
he's done his job, and there is a quit watch

641
00:35:41,599 --> 00:35:44,119
on the defensive side. And it really sucks because I

642
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:46,360
really thought Joe Rossi was gonna be one of the

643
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,559
best hires in the Big Ten at a coordinator position

644
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:52,360
in quite some time, and it's just turned out to

645
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,760
be the opposite. Like Michigan State in the twenty twenties

646
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,480
has just had horrendous defenses on all fronts. I mean,

647
00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:01,239
like we've had Halliday, who is decent, but like other

648
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,639
than that, Charles Brantley was good, but he ended up transferring,

649
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:11,519
so he's gone. It's really there's just been no sort

650
00:36:11,519 --> 00:36:15,280
of effort or development like we had. We've had We

651
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,920
were lucky to have three NFL wide receivers and a

652
00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:23,519
NFL running back, starting caliber guys on the same team

653
00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:28,400
and Camp Coleman Jayden Reid, Jalen Naylor, Kenneth Walker. We

654
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,599
were lucky to have that because now, like I think

655
00:36:31,679 --> 00:36:34,480
Nick marsh is definitely an NFL caliber player, but other

656
00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:39,039
than that, like Jordan Hall, mo Leik Spencer, maybe that's

657
00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:44,960
about it. So regardless to say, Michigan State football not

658
00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:47,519
a good product to watch, not a good thing to

659
00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:52,280
be affiliated with at all. Minnesota ends up escaping with

660
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,639
the win over Purdue. Purdue had control in this game

661
00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:58,920
early and then all of a sudden came crashing down.

662
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:02,960
Drake lindsay whole kind of inaccurate able to pull this

663
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,440
out with a win with the team, and they're able

664
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,280
to get a defensive touchdown with the Koy Perch twenty

665
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,119
seven yard I n T return, and yeah, it was.

666
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,960
It sucks for Purdue And I said they were a

667
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,480
fun team. This game wasn't as fun to watch if

668
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:21,519
you were a boiler Maker fan. Ryan Brown did not

669
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:25,119
have a great game, and you know, it just kind

670
00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:28,000
of kind of went downhill from there. Not too much

671
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,559
thoughts on it because I don't really know, if I

672
00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:35,639
personally just don't think Minnesota and Purdue, it was more

673
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:40,000
of a game that I saw every so often, watched

674
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:42,239
a little cutup of it, and that's that. Not to

675
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:46,000
piss off the boiler Maker Golden Gophers fan base, but

676
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,599
you know, Golden Gophers got handled last week and Purdue

677
00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:54,760
has not been able to win really any any games

678
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,039
of substance, to be quite honest. Let's let's take a

679
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:04,960
look at the top twenty five and yeah, Ohio state

680
00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:10,360
number one team, still fifty first place votes. Indiana goes

681
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,599
up to number three, three first place votes. They move

682
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:18,039
up four spots. Oregon's gonna drop down to eight, going

683
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:20,760
down five spots from the number three place. I think

684
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,199
that's fair because I mean it's a ten point loss

685
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,360
at home to Indiana, and yeah, I mean you're still

686
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,880
above Georgia and LSU, which I think they have looked

687
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,199
better than this point. I don't know if they've looked

688
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:39,360
better than Bama and Texas Tech, which Tech's Tech very surprising,

689
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,280
but they also spend a lot of money in the offseason,

690
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,960
so they're going to continue to perform well. Notre Dame

691
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,199
at thirteen in Big ten countries, so we'll mention them

692
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:54,480
here which they slob or knocked NC State. I don't

693
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:56,920
know if Dave Doran is going to be there once again,

694
00:38:57,199 --> 00:39:00,960
not my place to talk about it, but yeah, USC

695
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:02,079
at twenty.

696
00:39:03,519 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 3: Good football team.

697
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,639
Speaker 2: I really like USC. I don't know if they're college

698
00:39:06,639 --> 00:39:11,639
football player COLLEAA college football playoff caliber, but I still

699
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:14,679
think they're a team that's going to finish top twenty

700
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:17,239
five at the end of the season. And then Nebraska.

701
00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:20,679
Nebraska gets in there at twenty five, Illinois and Michigan

702
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,880
just minising the cut and Washington, Oh. I forgot to

703
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,280
talk about that game. Washington Man Demon Williams is one

704
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,960
of the best quarterbacks in the Big Ten. That team

705
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:34,920
is fun, and Rutgers is fun too. I mean Cally Yacmanis,

706
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,280
he had a really good three quarters of that game.

707
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,719
Antoine Raymonds a fun player. They still have Ian Strong

708
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,519
and Sheffield and all of these guys on the outside.

709
00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:46,559
Speaker 3: For Rutgers, they just don't know.

710
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: What defense is so and when you're playing one of

711
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,239
the best teams with also Denzel Boston, you got Jonah

712
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,440
Coleman out of the backfield. Demon Williams had like over

713
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,079
five hundred something yards in that game. He is a

714
00:39:59,199 --> 00:40:02,679
fun player to watch. And look, he's he's only a

715
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:05,480
second year player, so he's going to be around next season.

716
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:10,519
And look, Jetfish is a good head coach. He knows

717
00:40:10,559 --> 00:40:13,800
how to win, he knows how to do things him

718
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,320
Noah Fafida to Tedroa McMillan. You know, there's a bunch

719
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,440
of good Arizona players on that team from the last

720
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,280
year in the bat Pac twelve and Arizona is looking

721
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,880
good and Jackson Ardol and when he actually looked like

722
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,920
a good player and Arizona played and that was a

723
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:28,519
great clash.

724
00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 3: And I believe the Alama.

725
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:33,639
Speaker 2: Bowl and then Jetfish leaves and then he's at Washington

726
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,719
as a kind of a slow start, but there was

727
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,719
a lot of promise. And now Washington they're what five

728
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,760
and one, there's a chance they finished top twenty five.

729
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,320
They gave Ohio State a little bit of a push

730
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,039
in that game. I think they're decent on both sides

731
00:40:49,039 --> 00:40:52,719
of the ball. They're a fun team. And then other

732
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,840
than that, there is no other teams but Michigan and

733
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:01,320
Illinois drop out of the top twenty five. And while

734
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,000
I think the top three teams in the Big ten

735
00:41:03,039 --> 00:41:05,519
are pretty solidified. It would be interesting to see who

736
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:08,800
fights for that fourth spot. If we look at the

737
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:15,079
Washington schedule for the rest of the seasons. We go

738
00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:17,760
back and pull up some stuff. And this is the

739
00:41:18,119 --> 00:41:22,039
great thing about doing a show recorded, is I uh.

740
00:41:23,559 --> 00:41:23,679
Speaker 3: Uh.

741
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: They play Michigan next week. That will beat so off

742
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,880
at the Big House. Michigan a five and a half

743
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:33,960
point favorite. Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue, Ucla, Oregon. There's a chance

744
00:41:35,199 --> 00:41:38,320
for ten and two, but most likely I'd say nine

745
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:38,800
to three.

746
00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so, although they.

747
00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:45,119
Speaker 2: Do have that Oregon game at home and wile Kalin

748
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:49,559
de Bor is not there anymore. Dan Lanning has not

749
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,639
had the easiest time with Washington when they've been a

750
00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:54,760
good team so far in his young tenure Army. He's

751
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:59,159
a third year head coach. But yeah, all right, we

752
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,400
do we do next week in the Big ten Week

753
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,320
eight man. It's once again mind boggling to say that

754
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,119
we are eight weeks in, well technically nine with week zero,

755
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:14,719
but we are very close to, you know, having the

756
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:19,000
College Football Playoff rankings and all these things and season

757
00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:20,519
coming to an end. I don't want to see it

758
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:26,599
happen at all. Nebraska Minnesota will be the Friday night

759
00:42:26,639 --> 00:42:28,920
game and it will be an eight o'clock kick on Fox.

760
00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:32,840
Nebraska coming out as a six and a half point favorite,

761
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,000
opened up at five and a half, and we'll see

762
00:42:35,039 --> 00:42:37,079
how it continues to move along in the week over

763
00:42:37,199 --> 00:42:41,000
under a forty six and a half. I'd like Riola

764
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:43,000
to take care of the ball more and I'd really

765
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:46,840
like to see Nebraska absolutely dominate that six and a

766
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,320
half point spread. Going to Minnesota is going to be

767
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,199
a tough test the team that is four and two,

768
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,760
and you know, they've been able to pull out a

769
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,639
couple of close ones versus Purdue and Rutgers, but I

770
00:42:56,639 --> 00:43:00,039
don't think they've looked that impressive on the season. And

771
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:04,199
the loss to California was really weird, and obviously it's

772
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:08,199
a West Coast game late at night. You know, it

773
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,840
definitely in terms of body clock had an effect. But

774
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,599
I think Nebraska is a good football team, and I

775
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:18,159
think if they can find a way to maybe establish

776
00:43:18,199 --> 00:43:20,559
more pressure and continue to run the ball, great because

777
00:43:20,559 --> 00:43:22,920
they've been a solid running team on the season with

778
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,639
Johnson and really just kind of worked Minnesota in all

779
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:29,119
phases of the game. I think they'll be able to

780
00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:33,119
take care of business. Being completely honest, Washington and Michigan.

781
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:38,039
Michigan five and a half point favorite has not moved yet.

782
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:42,480
Fifteen and a half over under got betted down the

783
00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:45,800
under just one point. Will Justice Haynes be back for

784
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,400
Michigan because that will be huge in how this game goes.

785
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:52,039
Washington has really long corners on the outside, so they'll

786
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:54,360
match up with McCauley well. And I think Andrew marsh

787
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,800
is starting to really become a factor in this Michigan

788
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,679
offense with you know, Smaje getting a little less touches

789
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,880
and other guys playing. Can the Michigan defense find a

790
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,440
way to stop Demon Williams. He's been great so far

791
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,679
over sixteen hundred passing yards, ten touchdowns, one interception, one

792
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,760
in seventeen from one fifty eight. Jonah Coleman's a very nice,

793
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,400
steady back, and they got players on the outside in

794
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:18,599
terms of receiver too.

795
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 3: It could really go both ways.

796
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,119
Speaker 2: Michigan might have to play catchup or Washington's really gonna

797
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:26,079
have to find a way to play more physical to Michigan.

798
00:44:26,519 --> 00:44:28,440
It'll be a tough one, especially in the Big House.

799
00:44:28,559 --> 00:44:34,920
Should be a fun game, and then Purdue Northwestern. They're

800
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,360
playing at the practice field. Northwestern is a three and

801
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,679
a half point favorite, forty eight and a half over under.

802
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,800
I think if this game becomes a slug fest, I

803
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,119
think Northwestern is more likely to come out as the victor.

804
00:44:48,159 --> 00:44:50,719
I think if Purdue can work the ball out into

805
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,400
space and you know, find ways and get creative to

806
00:44:53,639 --> 00:44:56,800
come up with touchdowns, I think Purdue could have a shot.

807
00:44:57,639 --> 00:44:59,440
And I think the three and a half point spread

808
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:02,639
is very iccative of you know, this should be a close,

809
00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:04,760
fun game. While it's two teams that aren't really going

810
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,239
to compete for much in the Big Ten or the

811
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,159
Northwestern trying to get to a bowl game, you know,

812
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,960
it'll be a fun game on Big Ten network. That's

813
00:45:14,559 --> 00:45:18,039
honestly the bottom line of all it. Ohio State hosts

814
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:23,239
or travels to Madison, Wisconsin and twenty and a half,

815
00:45:23,519 --> 00:45:25,360
twenty seven and a half points spread, forty one and

816
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,159
a half. I think Ohio State will come in take

817
00:45:28,199 --> 00:45:32,840
care of business. Wisconsin is a kind of dead. They're

818
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,320
on Hunter Simmons. He played really bad in that game

819
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,679
versus Iowa, and Ohio State's got a defense where I

820
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,480
don't I would I don't know if Wisconsin's going to

821
00:45:41,519 --> 00:45:46,960
score any points and their defense, while for Wisconsin is

822
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,159
not bad, it's not good, it's really not And I

823
00:45:53,199 --> 00:45:57,320
think we can I think we can expect Ohio State

824
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,760
to come out as big victor, same thing within the

825
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:04,679
end eversus Michigan State. Indiana might score sixty by themselves

826
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,320
in this game. I would bribe take their team what

827
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:08,519
is their team total.

828
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:09,119
Speaker 3: Over on FanDuel.

829
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: Let's take a look real quickly, because I think this

830
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,000
will be a really uh really good best bet for

831
00:46:18,079 --> 00:46:24,239
anyone maybe to take, like Mendoza. Sorry, I'm trying to

832
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,360
look at this live really quickly. Let's let's see three

833
00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:33,239
thirty on Saturday. Yes, twenty six half, twenty six and

834
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,199
a half point. I want to see, Oh do they

835
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,760
not have that out yet? Okay, I guess they don't

836
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,679
have it out yet. So but twenty six and a

837
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:46,400
half point spread over unders at fifty two and a

838
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,440
half on FanDuel, fifty three and a half on ESPN bet.

839
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,960
Michigan State doesn't play defense, and I don't know what

840
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,199
their offense looks like, and I don't really trust it

841
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,840
to score points against Indiana defense that has been really

842
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,559
good at all three levels as well in terms of

843
00:47:05,639 --> 00:47:09,360
you know, linebacking, corps, defensive backs. Secondary has been really

844
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,239
good this season too. With the Angel Pond's kind of leading.

845
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:16,280
There can get ugly for Michigan State in that game.

846
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,199
And they got to go to Bloomington, a college football

847
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,800
town now that really is actually very supportive of this

848
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,880
Hoosiers team. Oregon and Rutgers Oregon sixteen and a half

849
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,639
point favorite, sixty and a half go both ways. Either

850
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,280
they have a little bit of a hangover, you know now,

851
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,119
losing on their home turf going over to Rutgers. Rutgers

852
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:38,960
as a team that might challenge them through the air.

853
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:40,760
There's the reason why it's a sixteen and a half

854
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,239
point spread. I think Oregon still is going to be

855
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,400
able to take care of business. I think Dan Lanning

856
00:47:46,039 --> 00:47:47,639
is a coach that can get him fired up for

857
00:47:47,639 --> 00:47:50,280
this game and really have a point to prove that

858
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,920
Oregon is still a really good football team. I think

859
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:58,440
they will want to prove that versus Rutgers and the

860
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,719
Scarlet Knights six thirty, Big ten Networks seven o'clock on

861
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,360
Peacock Penn State versus Iowa State, Oh Boy two and

862
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,280
a half point favorite the Iowa Hawk guys at Kinnick

863
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:14,920
Stadium thirty eight and a half total. God, the undersunds

864
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,480
so good in that and maybe we'll see if Penn State,

865
00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:19,239
you know, can get it going on the ground and

866
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:22,880
you know, Iowa gets a defensive touchdown or two. I

867
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,159
would favor the under in that game, just being completely honest.

868
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,760
I think that's I think that's where it goes. Maryland

869
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,039
Ucla gonna be on o FS one. Two and a

870
00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:35,159
half point favorites are the Bruins fifty two and a

871
00:48:35,199 --> 00:48:38,519
half point total. Nicos looked really good ever since the

872
00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:42,639
coordinator changes and the head coach change, and uh yeah,

873
00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:46,000
I don't know. Maryland drop two games, It's be a

874
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,599
great spot if you want to make a bowl game

875
00:48:47,599 --> 00:48:50,000
for Maryland. Malik Washington, like we've mentioned, one of the

876
00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:53,599
most talented quarterbacks. Can someone in the receiver room really

877
00:48:53,679 --> 00:48:55,639
kind of step up and have that breakout game? I

878
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,840
really liked what I've seen him flashes from Octavion Smith.

879
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,519
But you know who's gonna step up and be that

880
00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:04,800
game changer for Maryland because I think they will have

881
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,440
to have one in this game based on how UCLA

882
00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:11,519
has played and then finally, probably the biggest game in

883
00:49:11,559 --> 00:49:14,239
the Big Ten of the week, obviously with an independent

884
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,960
school coming to town, but or I guess going to

885
00:49:18,119 --> 00:49:21,320
the independent school is USC Notre Dame eight and a

886
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,360
half point favorites over under sixty two and a half.

887
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:28,039
USC's got one of the best looking offenses in terms

888
00:49:28,079 --> 00:49:29,880
of skill of talent, and their offensive line has played

889
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,880
solid so far this season. Not particularly well, but they

890
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,760
played fine. And I think that Mayava was one of

891
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,199
the best quarterbacks in the Big Ten. And while I

892
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,760
haven't paid two close attention to Notre Dame this season

893
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,480
after taking the first two losses, CJ. Carr still looking

894
00:49:45,519 --> 00:49:48,480
pretty well in the season. Jeremiah Loves still one of

895
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,960
the most standout backs, Faizon leading the team and receiving.

896
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,559
They're a team that's been able to dial up pressure,

897
00:49:55,599 --> 00:49:59,599
and look, they look solid defensively after the first two

898
00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:05,000
weeks against well really last three because uh Purdue scored

899
00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:08,199
some points on them, but dominating Arkansas, Boise State, and

900
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,920
NC State. They know they got a challenge that's coming

901
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,199
to South Bend. And look, it'll be a good game

902
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,760
between both of these teams. I really, I really think so.

903
00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:26,159
And it'll be a good one and it'll be on NBC.

904
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,639
I think the winner of that game you could have implications.

905
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 3: For the UH.

906
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,079
Speaker 2: The College Football Playoff, because if Notre Dame lose is

907
00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:38,639
they're definitely not getting in, especially with not really having

908
00:50:38,639 --> 00:50:41,679
a resume win losing to tex A and M in Miami.

909
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:44,079
He usually two top five teams you gotta play in

910
00:50:44,119 --> 00:50:47,639
the same season. Definitely not what you want. And you know,

911
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,159
you got to prove it that you can, you know,

912
00:50:49,199 --> 00:50:52,079
beat a top twenty five caliber team, and they were

913
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:54,039
right there with Texa, A and M and Miami too,

914
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,239
So there's a chance that obviously, you know, maybe they

915
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,000
look really good versus USC USC drops out of the

916
00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:01,719
top twenty five.

917
00:51:02,599 --> 00:51:04,519
Speaker 3: I am not too positive.

918
00:51:04,559 --> 00:51:06,440
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rest of college football, watching the Lions play currently right

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now as I'm recording this Sunday night in there, Hollywood

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Brown actually just scored and dropped him in fantasy not

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too long ago. But I also had Worthy too, so

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you know, regardless, that's not important. My fantasy team, by

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the way, not doing too well this year, but we

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won't get into that.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's been.

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Speaker 2: A pleasure of doing another edition of The Big Ten

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Paradigm and I can't wait to continue more and more

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until when the season unfortunately comes to an end. But

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for now, I'm gonna sign off and say so long everybody,

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and you stay tuned in next week and make sure

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you follow College Grade Iron Coast to Coast Network on

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whatever podcast platform you prefer. Make sure to subscribe Believe

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or Five Star Review. Also watch the other shows on

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the network. We have a lot of great hosts, a

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lot of great shows. Covering the whole entire sport and

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you know, whatever pokes your interest.

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Speaker 3: I would definitely take a look at it, but for now.

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Speaker 2: I'll say see you everybody, have a great week on Compoland.

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Speaker 1: States anst patent from Contents to Poland.