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tomorrow at about six o'clock Eastern time, or whenever you
listen to this throughout the week. But once again, happy
Week ten man. We're officially in November, the final stretch
of the regular season in the college football It's twenty
twenty five season, and obviously we should expect a couple
of Big Ten teams to make the playoffs as well,
so we can continue to react and predict those games
as it goes along. We have the Big Ten Championship
and plenty of other things, but a lot of these
teams are gonna be done playing after Thanksgiving, and I'm
not ready to see it in I don't want it to.
I'm like actually getting a little sad that, you know,
the season has gone so fast and I can't appreciate
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for Division One starts tomorrow, which I know there's a
game at like eight o'clock in the morning, which is ridiculous,
But hey man, it's excited. It's exciting to have basketball back.
Don't get me wrong. I'm excited, really excited for Michigan State,
even though in the exhibition on Thursday when we played
Yukon didn't seem to go too well. But Colgate tomorrow,
I'm not going to open up the show with Michigan State.
I will open up with Ohio State versus Penn State
and wild I'm not really here to talk about Penn State.
It's kind of a lost season. They want to go
back or they have to go back into the coaching
realm and figure out who's going to be the replacement
for James Franklin, because obviously that was a marriage that
ended kind of weirdly and badly. Don't get me wrong.
Losing to two I mean, Northwestern is not necessarily a
bad program, but not great. And then as well as
obviously losing to UCLA was not good news for them either,
So I wanted to talk about on the Ohio State
side on While Julian San he is not this physical
freak at quarterback, he is a damn good football player.
You look at the stats twenty twenty three, three sixteen
and four touchdowns against the Penn State defense. That is
not bad by any means. A lot of NFL draft
picks on this team, but he is just doing such
a good job of what he's being asked to do,
which is essentially what we've talked about the past couple
of weeks being a point guard, right, he showed a
little bit more in this game and really just setting
up Carnell State and Jeremiah Smith into spots where they
both can be successful, as they both had catches at
a lot of fifty seven yards and Ohio State's really
good at hitting at these forty plus yard plays their
top twenty in the country. In these they're not necessarily
an explosive for eight team, but when they do hit
explosive plays, it is like the really big explosive plays.
So having that along with guys like Bo Jackson in
the backfield really taken over that number one role, and
then you have People's and Donaldson to really be counterparts
just as kind of like power backs. They can get
good and short down and distant situations on second or
third down. This team works out so well, and on
top of that, they are so good on the defensive
side Kenietta, Jackson, rvel Rees, Cayden McDonald's. You got guys
in the linebacking position at Sony styles. You have guys
on the outside like Jermaine Matthews as well and Davis
Senig Bonosa and Caleb Downs getting a really clutch prick
to save this spread. Like, this team is just so
good on so many different levels, and the coaching has
done a really good job. Matt Patricia has really kept
this defense in a really good place. You know, Brian
Hartline's calling good plays and really has a control in
the dynamics of this offense really intact. But with that
being said, like I don't know who's gonna stop this
Ohio State team, right because who who could imagine? You know,
what are you gonna do with this team? Right? Who
is going to beat them? Like Indiana? Yeah, and the
Big Ten championship maybe, And that's really the only other
team other than Texas A and M that's been really
dominant this season, and it's been pretty much Ohio State
this whole entire year. It's interesting to see the really
good football team and I like watching them play every
single Saturday. Has been a treat because there's in a
world where nil and the transfer portal and all these
things are glorified. And you know, these teams can't stack
rosters like they used to, you know, pre nil, like
the teams at Bama, the teams at Ohio States, you know,
Georgia when that il era started to become more of
a thing, Florida back in the heydays, like Clemson. You know,
they used to have these two and three deep guys
where even if guys injured, like okay, we have another replacement.
Ohio State is probably all twenty two positions. You know,
if he were to do a grade on every single
thing how they performed and talent wise this season, they'd
probably be the best team. And I don't know, this
was supposed to be in an anticipated matchup preseason, and
it just a Penn State moves three and five and
who knows if they make a bowl game. Rooting for him, ah, well,
kind of, But yeah, I hope they do get it
figured out. It's interesting to see because Matt role did
get a two year extension on his contract at Nebraska,
so it sounds like he won't be going there. Signetty
obviously got extended, you know, a week or two ago,
so he'll be interested to see, you know, who else
is going to be in the coaching carousel and really
eyeing for this Penn State job, the only really big
ten job other than UCLA that is open. So what
will the Nitney Lyons do. I think Matt Campbell is
still the best hire for it. Now. Matt Campbell might
go to one of the SEC jobs, but I think
this would be the best place for him personally where
to go. Speaking of Matt Ruhle In Nebraska, they unfortunately
took a twenty one to seventeen loss at home. It
was blackout, black themed everything. They took a loss to
usc and for the If you didn't see the news
that came out, Pete Damil earlier tweeted that Dylan Rayola
is going to be out for the remainder of the season.
Really unfortunate. It is a broken fibula. He suffered the
injury against the USC, and he yeah, I mean that's
a crucial part of this Nebraska offense, right, Like Emma
Johnson was dominating early on. I mean broken tackles. You know,
Nebraska was actually decently blocking up front for the beginning
of this game against the USC. Now as USC that
powerful on the line discrimmage, absolutely not. But Emma Johnson,
I mean he had a huge game one hundred and
sixty five yards five point seven yards per carrying a
touchdown and just overall consistent. Dan Key had that huge
touchdown snag early on, like this team was moving along
and then latif he comes in relief four Ryola and
the complexion of the offense just completely changes his stat
line on the night five or seven for seven yards.
They could not move the football with the ball in
his hands, and they kept giving USC opportunity after opportunity
after opportunity to go in. Maeva was having a bad game.
He threw a pick. He was less than fifty percent
completion percentage, only one hundred and thirty five yards. Like
he was not having a good game through the air.
But when we got to the ground game, King Miller
really stepped it up. This walk on back who wasn't
really projected to get any touches much on the year
inside of our I should say, outside of garbage time probably,
but he's really stepped up wayman. Jordan got hurt, and
they had the other kid as well that the name's
not coming to the top of my head, but you know,
they had two pilic prolific backs early on in the season.
Here's this kid, right, I mean, he's not supposed to
be any have any of all, a kid from Calabasas,
California as rushman, and he goes and has a huge game,
and he had a huge game versus Michigan as well.
My Ava you know, had a big drive of where
he got chunk yards on the ground and USC is
able to move it on the ground and do just
enough to go into Nebraska and win this football game.
That Flee flicker play, by the way that they ran
absolutely beautiful. That was like I thought, King Miller was
totally looking like he was gonna run and it looked
like it was his zone blocking scheme for the run game, right. Well,
it turns out he actually just paus it, tosses it
back and bam, it's open down the field, which at
Nebraska didn't even do a bad job covering it. It's
just it was a it was a great play and
it was a nice throw down the sideline. But yeah,
I mean, this this usc team league. I don't know
if they're gonna get into the college Football Playoff because
they do have that huge game versus Oregon and also
a huge one versus Iowa too, and they play with
next Friday against Northwestern as well. Like Northwestern, they're not
a great football team, but they're not a joke. They're
not Northwestern of like past COVID to the end of
the Pats Fridge Gerald era, like you know, they're a
good football team this year. Man. So it'll be interesting
to see how they finish out the season. But you
could expect like this team's going to compete till the end.
So it'd be good for the Big Ten if they
want to get multiple teams in. All right, quick one,
we'll hit Indiana versus Maryland fifty five to ten victory.
Indiana continues to just steamroll opponents. I would bet any
Indiana ultimate spread for the rest of the season thirty
five plus because they play benn State in Wisconsin and
Indiana and not to really like joke about those teams like, oh,
they're so bad, but it's like like they are not
impressive on the season. I mean, Purdue kept it close
with Michigan. We'll get to that game next. But like
Wisconsin's a walking, a zombie program. Penn State, they're not
really playing for much at this point. They're waiting to see,
you know, who's going to be the next guy in charge.
And you know where does this football program go? On
the Maryland side of things, Look, they started the season
four and on now it's four straight losses. Malike Washington
will continue to say this, I don't know if he's
at Maryland next year. He's trying his hardest, but there
is no legit playmakers on the outside for him, and
his ground game did not help at all in this game.
And you know, when you're getting pounded by teams Indiana,
like why can't Maryland be like in Indiana? You know,
they were really similar in terms of the last thirty
years before the Signetti era in terms of football success,
and all of a sudden, hey, you know, Neian has
a really good program and I don't even think Loxley's
the worst coach ever, but like it's just unfortunate that
they they they are just they have this awesome freshman
QB who's looked better than probably any other of the
true freshman QB's in the country up to up until
this point, and he's not even really you know, getting
spotlighted because his team, like other than the month of September,
you know, the month that Maryland football is good every
year because they schedule a bad non conference and then
you know, typically play a week Big Ten opponent, you know,
in the early conference season. Like they get some talent
every here and there. Deontay Biks a couple of years ago,
like he was a good, really good corner for Maryland
and that secondary is pretty good overall, but there's just
no team success. And you get an awesome quarterback and
Malik Washington and who knows if he wants to be
there and honestly if he stays there. You know, I
thought MJ. Morris was a really good quarterback. You know
what happened to him? Right? I mean in Talia Tagai Loola,
like he did a good job for Maryland in his time,
but is he really that good or was he that
good or did he just keep getting opportunity like It's
so tough to judge, like where Malik Washington is, but
I truly think with how much zip he can throw
on it, and you know what he's able to do
controlling the pass game and really navigating the offense, I
don't know, Like I think a big school would love
to have him, and I think he would be a
lot better at a big school than most of these situation.
I think he's better than Underwood right now. I mean,
is he better than ryle Up? Maybe probably not. He's
I would love him at Michigan State, but we're not
even a functional football program. So and speaking of Michigan State,
they played Minnesota. They were down early in this game,
ten to nothing, you know, going into halftime, and then
they score on the opening drive on a huge touchdown
pass to Bollard, which he's a guy that hasn't exploded
onto the scene. And then all of a sudden, hey,
you know, he's gonna be a guy out there consistently,
and he ended up having a pretty productive game. We
tie at ten to ten, you know, fourth quarter drive,
and then all of a sudden, hey it's a ten
to ten game. And then late with one oh seven
left on the clock, we get a huge one yard
touchdown after a from Minnesota in a huge eighty five
yard run from Tal Tolliver Tolas rushes it in and
we're up seventeen to ten and there's a minute left.
It's like or there's only so much time left. There
is one fifty five left on the clock, and it's like, oh,
can we can we close out this game? And the
Michigan State defense says, no, we cannot close out this game. Instead,
Minnesota goes down and they end up running it in
with Drake Lindsay on a QB sneak that looked kind
of questionable, and yeah, this game goes into overtime. Michigan
State can't do anything and they get a huge penalty
and all of a sudden, hey, it's got to be
a field goal, right, And then Minnesota has an absolutely
electric run at the end from Drake Lindsay, just stiff
arming the guy into the ground, and you know, it
was a huge situation on third and goal could have potentially,
you know, been a field goal and Michigan State plays
it into another overtime but instead, you know, well, Drake
Lindsay didn't have a good games box score watch like
he was able to lead the team in the end.
And I mean, fam eja boy. He had a good
game too, stepping up in the Darius Taylor spot. Javon
Tracy former Miami Ohio receiver, and la Matka Brockington, you know,
two guys leading them in the past game. Defensively, I mean,
they did amazing. They had seven sacks and twelve tackles
for a loss. And I think Milojevic had a really
hard time in the first half. He's had ended up
having a really good game and I was really impressed
with him. And when I saw the notification earlier in
the day that he was going to start over Aiden Chiles,
I'm like, oh, oh, he's He's starting over Eden Chiles. Okay,
we're finally making the move because Chiles hasn't really been
good over the past few weeks. I mean he just
hasn't had He's been playing good football post September, right,
and you know, he does a pretty good job really
maintaining the offense and throwing it around. Roddy Bullard had
a huge game, Like we mentioned him all right, Kelly
had a nice game as well. Nick Marsh was able
to hit some nice plays too, like the passing game
looked pretty good and they were able to run the
ball a decent amount. Now, he did get sacked a ton,
but yeah, I mean for Michigan State, man, it's just
on the defensive side, they just don't help out the
team at all. Whether a team scores forty or in
the twenties, Like when it comes to crunch time situations
and making big plays, it just does not matter at all. Like,
the only two really defensive pieces that I can really
point out that were, you know, pluses in this game
were obviously Jordan Hall, and I think Jordan Hall is
capable of being drafted. And then Malcolm Bell. Malcolm Bell
has really came onto the scene as of late. You know,
I obviously got that big play taken away in that
Michigan game, and I still think he's a solid corner
you can line up in the nickel or on the outside,
like he's very versatile. But other than that, like Malik
Spencer has one of the worst pass interferences you can
have on a tight end in a crucial moment. Like,
it was just not a good, not a great game.
Some some bright spots, but this team moves to three
and six and I really doubt that they make a
bowl game at the end of the season. Yeah, Illinois
versus Rutgers. Illinois had control of this game. Luk Altmeyer
another solid performance, led the team in rushing as well
as having four touchdowns through the air. Illinois kind of
just slow walked Rutgers in this game. Kelly Kmanus threw
the ball forty five times. Couldn't get a damn thing
going on the ground. kJ Duff like, I would get
your money next year. Man. He's a six to six
receiver that's really talented, has had a big, big games.
It was leading the Big Ten receiving you know, this
past week. And it's like, and I was listening actually
to a recruiting podcast. I was like, we didn't know
how to project this guy coming out of high school
and you know, he ends up going to Rutgers and
he's having a really strong year and uh, they just
didn't know what he was gonna be like. And now
he might have some suitors in the transfer portal and
it's like, oh crap, Like this kid, you know, he
could be out like Oregon next year. Hell if he
wanted to be go wide receiver. Two probaly At Ohio State.
He might be able to write Carnel Tate's leaving next year,
and I mean having him and Jeremiah Smith might be
broken in terms of the downfield pass ability, but you know,
hit is what it is. Rutgers drops to four and five.
Illinois is now Bowl eligible at six and three. Thirty
five to thirteen win over Rutgers, and then finally Michigan
pulling out the win versus Purdue in a very scary spot.
This was a twenty two and a half spread point game.
And while watching this game, I never thought Purdue was actually,
you know, gonna take controler take advantage in this game.
It was kind of like, I mean, it was fourteen
to seven and a half time, I'm like, oh crap, Like,
you know, can Purdue do this now? Michigan was able
to go on a six minute drive to and the game.
And shout out to Jordan Marshall because sounds like Justice Haynes.
You know, he was on a scooter. Ye I don't
know if he's going to come back and actually play
this season. So Jordan Marshall steps up in a huge spot.
Seven point four yards per carry, one hundred and eighty
five yards and three touchdowns. But like Michigan in the
passing game, man, it's just not been anything. Now that's
it's two weeks in a row where Bryce Underwood is
Like I don't think he looks absolutely awful. He just
doesn't look like, you know, this number one freshman quarterback.
He doesn't look like he has a complete command of
this offense. And I don't know if it's a Chip
Lindsay thing at the offensive coordinator position or if it's
you know, the kids just still needs time. And maybe
he shouldn't even started this season, like there is no
problem and you know, taking a very talented kid, and yes,
it might be tough for him because he's played his
whole entire life being the starting quarterback, being in the
lead of the team. He started all four years at
Belleville High School. Like he was on the mark early
he played him in this freshman year. I think I've
already told this story. And you know, he was a
while he was throwing to other Division one players like
d Shawn Lee was on that team. And now he's
one of the starting corners at IOWA. Like there's a
lot of talent on this team. Even more like I
know a guy went to pitt and regardless, like very
talented players on this roster, like he had easily a
command of that offense. And you know, he won a
state title as freshman and sophomore year, and you know
junior year and senior year that there was some things
with this head coach, who I believe is at River
Rouge now where Nick marsh went to high school. Actually,
and you know, it's like, hey, you know it is Underwood,
Like how is it going to be at the college level,
because you know, his junior and senior year he wasn't
as you know, potent as how he was his freshman
and sophomore year. Right, So, and I don't think Underwood's
a bad player by any means, Like obviously you see
his athleticism on the field, like he had a couple
of good runs in this game. His improvising ability you know,
has been shown as well. Like I still think he's
going to develop into this great player. It's just right now,
you know, I still think he might be the best
piece for Michigan to win football games after the Mikey
Keane situation. And you know, like Purdue they they this
was the one thing I want to say about Purdue
because I was watching this game with some people there
was I was just like, dude, Purdue has like one
red zone play that looks so tricky, Like the Malachi
Singleton touchdown that he threw was so or not he
threw but I think he actually uh it was a
Malachai Thomas reception, That's what it was. Yeah, Like they're
so creative in the red zone. It's just ridiculous. Like
I don't think. I don't think purdu is a good
team by any means this season. You know, I had
some hopes for them early on, right like I think
I was on this podcast, like they beat ball State
thirty one and nothing, which ball State's not a good team.
I didn't realize that they were so bad in the MAC,
but there was that, and then the Southern Illinois gain, Like, okay,
maybe Purdue, like you know, they win like four or
five games, which is possible for them to get to
five wins, but you know, you're playing Ohio State, Washington
and Oregon like you're you're playing of your gauntlet of
a schedule right now. We mentioned this on last last
week's show. It's like, well, you know, how does it
end for Purdue, and it's a tough it's it's a
tough program to rebuild. And I think Jeff Brom, you know,
I mean, they made a Big Ten title. I know
they were seven and five and they played in the
week Big Ten West, But for Purdue to even get
to that point, like, it's just insane. And obviously Jeff
Brom has Louisville in a good position now, and I
mean they played for an ACC title in his first year,
and you know, they're looking to compete for a college
football playoff spot now. So it'll be interesting to see
the college football playoff rankings I think do come out
this week. Obviously, we have the eight peopole, so we'll
take a look at that really quickly before we preview.
And this is gonna be a shorter episode just because
there's only six games and you know, there's not too
much craziness to talk about. But Ohio State and Indiana
remain at one in two, having sixty five of the
sixty six first place votes. So if Ohio State obviously
with the dominating in fifty four and then Indiana with eleven,
Texas A and M obviously has one, Oregon is at
six behind Obama and Georgia cool with me. I'm not
too worried about it. Notre Dame we mentioned on this show,
which they kind of struggled with Boston College twenty five
to ten. In that win, they moved up to number ten.
We'll mention them and then you go down twenty as USC.
The epeople gets it right. They rank USC ahead of Michigan.
Michigan is at twenty one, and then Washington gets in
at twenty four. Iowa just outside looking in, only behind
six points. I think they should be above Cincinnati personally
because I think Cincinnati's two best opponents they've lost to
and they got handled Utah, so it's kind of like, well,
Cincinnati legit. I I don't know. They do play BYU
on their second to last game, Washington moves up without
even doing anything, and look, Washington, they're a team that
could get into They do play Oregon in the final
week of the season, where it's like, okay, if USC
beat in USC and Washington both beat Oregon, like would
they get at a nine and three. I don't think
they have the resume that shows that they can. Like
the Penn State wins only gonna have so much value
and like they haven't really done anything else super impressive
on their resume, Like what what are we going to
see from this team? Right? So obviously it's just hypotheticals
and you know, maybe they'll come in to beat you know,
both of these teams, and we're both talking about well,
USC and Washington are out Oregon, you know eleven and
one season they'll probably be a team potentially with the buye.
So there is that. There is that, all right, you
know what it's time to move on from week ten
to week eleven, and you know, glad to have you
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Northwestern USC will be playing this Friday night. Northwestern five
and three on this season and obviously the last time
we remember them playing. They took a loss to Nebraska
twenty eight to twenty one, and anytime Northwestern's played a
team with a pulse, it's kind of been weird this season.
Like Penn State, they got a one point win, they
lost to Oregon by twenty, lost to two Lane by twenty,
los in Nebraska by seven. Now USC they got to
travel there. USC is a fourteen and a half point
favorite over under a fifty one and a half. It
opened at fifty one and a half and it's gotten
bet down minus one point. I think this thing could
be at like twelve and a half eleven and a half.
Like I think the odds makers are not giving Northwestern,
you know, a completely fair chance in this game. It'll
be interesting to see how USC responds and how my
ava really responds in this game, because obviously the game
versus Nebraska that we just talked about, he didn't have
the greatest performance. And if you're a USC you have
to look Convince has a ten to two team trying
to get in with all the other ten and two
and potential nine to three teams that are also trying
to get into the playoff. If you want to put
yourself in that position, you're gonna want to dominate this
game against Northwestern, and I think they're perfectly capable of it.
I don't think their quarterback in Preston Stone, is anything
remarkable or anything special. I mean thirteen hundred yards, ten
touchdowns on interceptions, like if your defense can play up
to par like they did in the second half first Nebraska,
and even really in the first half like Nebraska did
score fourteen, but other than em At Johnson kind of
putting the weight on his back of this team, of
his team, I should say, they didn't really have much
success in that game. So I think USC's defense, you know,
they've been good at getting to the quarterback all season.
They can approve a little bit in the secondary, but
you know, I think they will be able to control
this game against Northwestern. And you know, I don't know
if the spread at fourteen and a half is great,
but if it gets bet down a couple numbers, I
think you could place a bet on USC to cover. Noon.
We got Indiana versus Penn State. I believe this is
the big Newton game. And yeah, I mean Penn State.
They're home. They're thirteen and a half point dogs over
under a forty eight and a half. Like Krunkmeyer hasn't
looked like anything special since being the starter at Penn State.
Indiana continues to roll teams, and I believe they'll do
that against this one. I don't know if they'll score
in the fifties or sixties. I think you can get
into the forties on this team. And yeah, just assert
your dominance. Don't give any voters or any reasons to
not continue to be ranked as the number two team
unless Texas A and M goes undefeated in SEC play
and wins the SEC conference championship. Like, if you're Indiana,
you can play yourself into a bye here in the
College football playoff and make it to the quarterfinal round.
And I think that's what you should try to do
if you are Indiana, just because wile Bys didn't particularly
work out, I think you would want to have your
players more well rested, especially playing in the Big Ten
Championship and then having to go play, you know, in
a college football playoff game. Like Indiana's just such such
a well oiled machine this year, and like I know
we talk about Ohio State, you know, being this juggernaut
of our team, Indiana is also as well. So far
through the season, they kind of haven't given us a
reason not to. The best team that they played was Oregon,
who's ranked a number six. They beat them by ten points. Right.
They handled Illinois. I was the only game that they
kind of struggled, and I think it was just kind
of like you know, playing at Kani's a tough place.
You just had this huge high moment versus Illinois, like
you were going into the bye week. A lot of
variables there, obviously, you know, it has to be one
to know every week, but there was a lot of
other things surrounding that I think kind of got them lose.
And I was a good football team this year. Like
I think they're a top twenty five team. They'll finish
in the top twenty five, probably at the end of
the season, right, So yeah, Ohio State plays Perdue. Ohio
State twenty and a half point favorites. I don't expect
Perdue to do anything like, are we gonna have a
spoiler maker moment? If it is, clip this part, I'll
put it out everywhere and be like I was right. Yes,
the spoiler makers are here, but it's probably not gonna happen. Right,
So with that being said, yeah, I mean, obviously, if
you're just you want to see progression from Ohio State
and in your team more than you already have because nobody
no play. Your players don't play play play perfect every
single play, So you want them to continue to work
to that point and continue to play as perfect as possible,
and you know, maybe get some underclassmen, you know, if
you haven't hit the four games on the red shirt
guys on freshmen or even sophomores, you know, if people
with red shirt ability, like, get some inexperienced guys some
playing time as well. This one will be fun. Maryland
versus Rutgers on at two thirty a weird start time
and a bunch of weird start times. Actually, we aren't
going to talk about the YouTube TV thing because it
doesn't really pertain to the Big Ten because the Big
Ten doesn't have any uh contract with ESPN, so we're
still able to watch pretty much all the games that
we need to. But Maryland and Rutgers will play at
two thirty on FS one. Rutgers is one and a
half point favorite and the over unders fifty nine and
a half. In that game, it could go a lot
of ways. I actually like the over in this game.
I wouldn't take anyone. And who's gonna win because both
of these teams, you know, have not been really like spectacular,
Like I think it's a good quarterback matchup. And look,
Rutgers has some guys at the scaled positions and Raymond
and Duff and Strong, like they're really good. On the
offensive side, it's just defense, it's like, oh my god,
what are you gonna do? But also it's like Maryland's
skilled position talent hasn't been that great, and there's you know,
their offensive line hasn't been that great. Like he Milike
Washington is a special player in himself. But you know,
if the Rutgers defense can at least have a pulse
on the defensive end, I think they could actually come
away with the win in this game. So that is
that three thirty odd CBS we're gonna have Oregon versus Iowa.
This is gonna be an absolutely massive game in Kennick Stadium.
Six and a half point spread and got bet up
at the open of five and a half and over
under a forty three and a half Iowa. You could
ruin Oregon season. Really, Oregon, while they've looked solid for
most of the year, in their last game coming off
the bye week from Wisconsin, they didn't look particularly amazing.
And uh like, I don't know what Iowa was gonna
personally or really do on the offensive side. And this
is something that we've said about these Kirk Farents led
teams is that you know, Iowa and these just these
big games, the style of football they want to play
doesn't really match up well for a team that's better
than them, Like if they're better than that team, yeah sod.
Like Michigan took the similar identity, maybe not so much
with the special teams crap, but the like just kind
of slow playing, you know, playing field position, just putting
your team in like best spots to succeed, Like not really,
you know, having any aggressive play calling more conservative like
Michigan obviously didn't play like that the whole time, because
you know, they did have some success and had big
moments where they had to go for it. But you know,
I win this game. They just do not. They just
did not, you know, do do well. Yeah, And you know,
I would like to see maybe a Decoran Moore breakout
game in this for Oregon. And obviously Dante's been pretty
good on the season and I think will continue to
continue to see winnington you know, stop up as well.
And you know, if you can get to twenty one
twenty eight, I think you have this game in the
bag if you're Oregon. So yeah, and then our last
two games was Washington versus Wisconsin. Washington and eleven and
a half point favorites. Love the trio of Boston, Coleman
and Williams. And defensively, you know, they have continued to
look better and better. And I think, you know, especially
the secondary, will have an easy task against a Wisconsin
team that has not been able to throw the ball
all season, and I think they'll hindle business. And you
know it is on the road, you're going to Madison,
but that doesn't really matter because fans aren't really going
to the game at this point. Luke Fickle still has
a job. We'll see if it opens up at the
end of the season. And then Nebraska versus UCLA Sola
actually two and a half point favorites. Obviously, the quarterback
injury to Dylan Royola really changes the complexion of this game,
and I think UCLA could come out with a win here.
I mean, this game is gonna be at nine o'clock
PM Eastern time, six o'clock Pacific time, and they do
have three tough games after this, so it's going to
be hard to get to Bowl eligibility. But you know,
it could be a good win and another thing to
put on Skippers and new Heiseel's resume, you know, whether
they stay at UCLA or they go take a job
somewhere else. Like just being able to control this program
and do all the things, even in a very messy situation,
I think you do wonders for this program so that
they could potentially get a win versus Nebraska. Latif is
obviously going to be the starter unless they go with
the QB three or QB four move, and obviously a
detrimental injury to Dylan Ryle, and that's something you don't
want to see if you're a part of the Nebraska
fan base because it kind of means, well, you do
get to I believe they're Bill eligible now at six
and three. It doesn't mean like the season's kind of
lost for them at this point, right, So it's very unfortunate.
I think Emma Johnson can still play a huge factor
in that offense, and who knows, maybe Latif can get
a little bit more up to speed, things will go well.
Michigan and Michigan State both on a bye week. I
believe Illinois is as well, and then who else not
coming to the top of the mind, there's one more team,
and I know fans of the Big Ten of this
program are not going to be happy with me if
I don't remember, No, I'm dying. Actually, oh, Minnesota, that's right.
The team that just be Michigan State. They won't be
playing as well. They will all be on bye week.
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