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Week twelve has been concluded. It was a good week
from the Big Ten and across all of college football.
He had some crazy games. Got to watch some games
outside the Big Ten, especially in the night slate as
the week in the Big ten. Wow, there was some
interesting games, especially one in the noon window, one in
the three thirty window, and then other than that, there
was a lot of BTA situations as the kids would say,
which is also known as belta ass or you know, yeah,
that's what it's known as. What I wanted to say is, like,
I mean, the Texas Georgia game was great. Love seeing
Georgia wip on Texas. I am Texas's number one biggest heater.
And look, I mean the Oklahoma at Bama game was great.
There was other games across Arizona beating Cincinnati, like, there
was plenty of good games across college football, and you
know what, we only have two regular season weeks left
before we get to conference championships and then the college
football playoff and what we call bowl games, even though
they're not what they used to be obviously. But with
that being said, you know, let's kick it off. What
happened this past week and Week twelve? Oh Oregon went
to play or hosted Minnesota, I should say Minnesota kind
of what to play Oregon not very well. I mean
almost just above two hundred yards of offense in this
gar a exactly two hundred yards of offense in this
game from Minnesota. Oregon got Kenyan Sadiq back. He had
an amazing game eight yards ninety or eight receptions ninety
six yards and a touchdown and just kind of other
guys coming in. Noah Whittington might have had one of
the most insane rushing touchdowns I've ever seen. He had
four guys on him, you know, past the first down
marker and just breaks out of it, almost doesn't get called.
He had a little bit of that Kenneth Walker situation,
if he remember in that twenty twenty one Michigan Michigan
State game where he like lost the ball at the
goal line trying to celebrate it was it got scary.
The touchdown did count. Dante Moore continues to look amazing.
He's had a couple of rough weeks. You know, the
Iowa game. Iowa was a good team. That was a
rain game, a very nice bounce back statistical game, and
just you know, getting his getting the throws off being
he got great protection all game. Oregon starting to get
a little bit more weapons back. And I think this team,
you know, if they could get Gary Bryant junior, and
even if they could get Evan Stewart, you know for
the playoff, if as long as they continue to win
like this, Oregon team can be very very much of
a threat to anyone. I think defensive like, they struggle
a little bit in the secondary. I think Theinemann, while
I think he's a good tackling safety, I don't think
he does an amazing job in coverage. And I think
the guys on the outside aren't particularly amazing, but I
think they're gonna be good enough. I'd like to see
their d line get a little bit more pressure because
you remember in that Penn State game, it they just
both teams kept holding the whole entire time. If they
can do that, have that same Penn State style game
against USC and be able to out physical USC, which
is speaking of which USC is a very physical team.
And we'll talk about that game versus Iowa, like I
think that game next week. We're gonna break it down
here later on in the episode. But it should be
a lot of fun between both of these teams. I
think both of them, you know, do such a good
job just continuing to win ball games. And obviously Oregan
lost that game to Indiana at home by ten. Look,
Indiana is a juggernaut of a team. Even when it's
not like completely going well, they still find ways to win.
They're still a good football team. And I mean they
have a easy rest of the way the rest of
the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean on the Minnesota side, like cool six and four,
you're bull eligible Northwestern next week and then West kjonsin.
I mean, if you can add eight wins PJ. Fleck Man,
especially with the talent on this roster, like Drake Lindsay,
He's had his moments where I think and he has
like the raw tools of being a great quarterback. I
don't disagree on that front. I think offensive line wise,
they're not great. Darius Taylor he should be back for
one more year. See if he decides to stay. He's
been in and out of the lineup. He is also
your best receiver in this game.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's been a season for Minnesota. They play
good against the bad teams and bad against the good teams.
It's kind of a vice versa flip flop thing, all right. Indiana,
they they yeah, they beat Wisconsin. Wisconsin never really had
a chance. Mendoza breaks the Indiana school record for passing
touchdowns in a season, which can't believe it's only thirty,
but I guess the Pennox year it was covid because
I feel like he would have broken it. And also
with how the rule changes are, it's just gonna be
tough to see like school records getting beat unless it's
like a school like Indiana where you don't have very
much success. Wisconsin did take away the run game, but
it didn't matter because Mendoza threw for pretty much three
hundred yards four touchdowns, and Charlie Becker with out Elijah
Sarrat out of this game. He is someone that's like, hey,
I'm gonna step up and have my moment. And he
had a good week last week too, so you know,
they they just continue to have this talent and continue
to have these evaluation on guys. And you know, defensively,
I mean it's against Wisconsin, so it doesn't mean much
because they have like one hundred and gosh, they had
like one hundred and seventy yards of offense in this game.
Couldn't do anything through the ground or era. And I
feel bad for Carter Smith, the freshman. You know, he's
got to come into a situation at Wisconsin where he
doesn't have much, He doesn't have much of a run game,
doesn't have much of a buy in of a team.
You know, he's got to be like, hey, guys, you know,
like you guys know the meme where it's like, guys,
if we want to win, it's on us. Like that's
the type of like, you know thing he's got to say.
And for a freshman quarterback that doesn't really have a
control probably of this locker room and everything's just going
in so much different directions, it's hard to lead a
team to even have a chance. I know, they got
the big win versus Washington last week. But it's like, Okay,
now you have to come off that and come win
a game against Indiana. Yeah, that's just not gonna happen, unfortunately,
and this will look it's a lost season for wesconsin
not too much preseason hype but outside in the national
media base. But I know in Madison they really want
to see that team improve it at some point, but
obviously not now. Michigan Northwestern, oh man, oh man, Michigan
did everything to lose this game, and they didn't. They
they still won. I don't know how. I don't know why.
This was a uh yeah this I mean zavodamus two
field goals underwood through two interceptions, they had three fumbles.
Like this was bad, a very bad game. But when
you can't run the ball in can't like credit to
Michigan's defense. They held up even when like they shouldn't have.
Like Northwestern did not have an easy day, and I
know they only had two TFLs and one sack, but
I mean they just continue to play well in the
secondary and get good run fits. Like Northwestern really never
threatened Michigan in this game too much. They had a
couple of rushing touchdowns, but I mean Northwestern got a
ton of good field position in this game. They forced
five turnovers and you're only able to get twenty two points,
Like you should win, but you deserve to lose the
game if you know that's your team in that situation.
So I under one had a really good first three quarters.
Like yes, he didn't have a touchdown, and Jordan Marshall
All went also went down with an injury in this
game as well, and that kind of shifted trajectory of
this Michigan offense because no offense to Bryson kuz Dolls,
but he ain't No, he's not Jordan Marshall, and they
lose Justice Haines. I don't know what the word is
on Jordan Marshall and his injury, but it's going to
be scary and something to really look forward too. Because
Michigan in their next game they do play Maryland. I
think they'll be able to handle Maryland just on the
sense that Maryland, although they do struggle with Maryland here
and there, Like you remember the year they won the
national championship, they had to play a really close game
versus Maryland, but especially for that Ohio State game, if
you're without your two top backs and with that Ohio
State team. Look, I understand if you're Michigan, yes you've
beaten Ohio State the last two year or the last
two You beat them last year when you should definitely
shouldn't have, and then the three years prior, Yes, you
beat Ohio State. I don't know how you would do
it in this sense, But I also didn't see it
happening last year them beating Ohio State as well. But
Ohio State's healthy are going to get healthy. I know
Carnell will Say and Jeremiah Smith are looking like they
might miss some time. I think it's more of a
load managing situation, like we're gonna see it in college football,
you know, more and more as the years continue on,
you see it across all sports. I mean, if you
have an opponent that you can afford to not as
you shouldn't look at it that way. But if you're
Ohio State, the best team in the country, like you
can afford to have them miss a game, and you know,
saying didn't look great in that game versus CLA, But yeah,
I mean they still beat the crap out of them,
Like on the Michigan's side of things. Andrew Marsh this
kid I really liked all season. He's definitely stepped up
as their main receiving target and they don't have much
outside him. That's what kind of concerns me. But him
and Underwood, they're both I believe they're both freshmen. Like
that's a tandem where if you can get a couple
of other guys you know that want to buy in,
get some guys I want to transfer, you can get
Nick Marsh from Michigan State. Maybe I don't know if
he would make that flip or what Michigan State looks
like roster and maybe coaching staff wise next year. But
if you can find some guys in some unhappy situations
that have some talent, can run some routes and be
nice targets for Underwood, who knows, who knows. We'll move
to the Iowa USC game. This was a good football game.
Iowa had it in the first half. They were up fourteen,
and then it was kind of a kind of a
great just comeback from USC. I mean, you like you're
able to go up if you're Iowa twenty one to seven,
score twenty one points. So guess what you get shut
out in the second half. Jade Mayeva has two great
receiving targets, and Jakobe Lane, especially McKay lemon. Mckaye Lemon,
I don't know if he's a first round graded guy,
but he's going to get drafted and he will be
utilized on an NFL team, I can guarantee that. I mean, defensively,
they really stepped up in the second half. While they
didn't get any tackles for loss, they were able to
force this Iowa team into some bad mistakes and Iowa
had great field position in the beginning of the game,
and it kind of just went away. Like if you
are Iowa in this situation, You've lost to all the
ranked teams you've played this season, loves to USC, lose
to Oregon, lose to Indiana, and then Iowa State was
ranked at the time as well when they lost to them.
I mean, look, this is not like an insanely great
Iowa defense. Not a bad team by any means, defensively,
not a great Iowa defense. And then I mean, I
think they have a better quarterback than what they're used to,
especially though the last ten years, I think Mark Ronowski
is probably the best quarterback they've had, and I believe
this will be his last year there. Yeah, he had
a good first half. That interception was crazy by the
way that he threw. He was it was a bad read,
like it should have been an incompletion, but the way
that it bounced back into Jaquem Stewart's hands, it's like,
oh my goodness, that's just a lucky play. But you know,
I think Mayova was a great quarterback. He's able to run,
get it done on the ground, and also I think
he's just really solid through the air too, Like I
think Lincoln Riley's doing a good job skimming it up
for him more times than not. I got a big
test on the CBS game. You know, it's going to
be a good football game. I think both of these teams,
you know, there's some questions about them, like, oh what.
Speaker 3: Can they be?
Speaker 2: You know, Oregon and they're one only tough game. They
weren't able to really do anything. They've looked good against
the other teams. Not all the time, but for the
most part, they've looked good against the other teams that
were able to be iowall, who knows if I was
going to be ranked in this college football playoff rank
and coming up. That'll be interesting to see. I don't
want to give any projections just because I'm really terrible
at projecting where teams should be just off my own
because I you know, I like to base things off
film and obviously results and resume matter too, but eye
test is a big thing for me as well. And
I mean there's a lot of data points now that
I think we could have a good collection of rankings
and we'll see and we'll react to the AP ballot too.
But with that being said, the game that was on
CBS Penn State Michigan State twenty eight to ten. Michigan State,
they they hung around. You know, Tala Tolliver had a
huge play to start off the game, fifty seven yard
rushing touchdown and it kind of went downhill from there
for Michigan State. They had an early seven zero lead, like,
oh man, maybe we can they can get a big
win on Senior Day. Just not the case denied Denis
Sutton just causing havoc k Tron Allen just being the
great running back that he is. I mean, he's great.
Devantae Ross had a huge explosive touchdown. I mean defensively
they just caused havoc. They were in the Michigan State
backfield for a lot of the game, and other than
one explosive play, you know, Michigan State couldn't really do
too much. Nick marsh had two catches for five yards.
Like they just struggled so bad and Landergan as the
play caller.
Speaker 3: It's just not great. It's just not a great scene in.
Speaker 2: East Lansing with the football team. Like I went to
the basketball game on Thursday against San Jose State. It's like,
while they have their own issues of their own like
they're a good basketball team. They beat Arkansas last Saturday
or not was it last Not last Saturday, but the
Saturday before. You know, a good team that has a
lot of expectations, and then they're just fun to watch,
like they beat up on the bad teams. They do
their job. Owen Carr insane basketball player. And then you
go watch the football team and it's like, well, what's
going wrong here? And I know there was the whole
vacated win situation that we talked about on the last episode.
Jonathan Smith still doesn't have a win in Big Ten
play this year. It's just sad, unfortunately, and I don't
think they're going to get a win in.
Speaker 3: Big Ten play.
Speaker 2: Like, as much as I hate on Maryland for you know,
the team that they are this season, I think they're
gonna beat them. I think Malik Washington's gonna have a
career game against Michigan State. On the Penn State side
of things, like, they looked like I don't think Grunkemeyer
is a great QB.
Speaker 3: By any means at all.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's bad, but in the spot that
he's in, I don't think he does anything particularly well
at this point in his career. But when Penn State,
they're still playing hard. But the guys that they're throwing
out there, they're still playing hard, they're still playing decent football.
And yeah, I mean they just they they played a
better four quarter game than Michigan State and they were
able to get it done. Let's see, let's see. Ah, Yes, Maryland, Illinois.
Illinois just took care of business. Hudson Clement had a
huge game. He was wide open a lot. And I
mean I don't think Illinois played particularly well. I think
Altemeier made a lot of bad decisions. I think ground
game wise, they weren't able to get anything going and
a couple of Vegan runs that were all right. But yeah,
I mean, I think Illinois did a good job of
just containing this Maryland team. You know, Maryland, they can
move it in their own end of the field, but
when they once they get to the opposite and it's
tough and they're throwing the Lake Washington to throw forty
six times. Like imagine telling no matter what team in
the country is, unless maybe it's Mississippi State in the
air raid era or like you know, Western Kentucky with
Bailey's appy, Like, imagine telling you you're gonna say, your
freshman quarterback is throwing forty six times. That's just not
ideal at all, but it's their only source of way
that they generate yards. And like his stat line doesn't
look good, guess what, Lake Washington looks amazing throwing the ball.
The problem is he's got receivers that get a lot
of drops, and he has an offense that's just not
gonna sustain any success. Like he there's no ground game support,
Like even like the greatest quarterbacks, even that Joe Burrow,
you're that Clyde Edwards Hilaire who could do stuff too.
Like it's just insane to think that this kid is
just gonna carry them two wins when he's really just
one out of eleven guys on the offensive side that's
a stud. But the rest of them, Mart, I mean,
it's just it's unfortunate to see the Maryland defense doesn't
do anything to help him out.
Speaker 3: Like I feel bad for Milike Washington.
Speaker 2: Well, I love him to stay in the Big Ten
and continue to make plays. Go somewhere else, Dude, I
know Locksley is staying next season. I saw the report
earlier today that he's going to be the head coach
next season no matter what. Like I guess I get it,
like he's done things from the Maryland program, But I mean,
they're not in a place to even come close to
competing in the Big Ten. I don't know if there's
ever a window of success for them to be competing,
like I don't see them having in Indiana rise and now,
especially not under Mike Loxley. And who knows, maybe he'll
be there next year and do good things. But unless
they could get some real receiver talent to come play
with Malik Washington's and kind of buff up on the
lines of scrimmage, whether that's transfer portal talent or an
insane hall or an insane return on the guys that
are on the team currently. I mean, it's just not
a good situation. Unfortunately. I'm one of the biggest Molique
Washington fans. I think every week I make a mention
of this kid is spectacular. But when you don't have
the pieces around him against teams that are just as
good as you were better, it's gonna be tough to
win football games. Like, yes, your quarterback can lead you
to wins, but not when you're at such a disadvantage
against other teams. It's just unfortunate to see. But that
that's just my take right there. Like Maryland's got an
amazing quarterback. In all other twenty one positions, they're just
outclassed and more times than not, Washington took that. Wisconsin
lost personally, and it sucks for Purdue. They had to
travel to the Husky Stadium and yeah, they they they
did the thing. They put bta. They were without Jodah
Coleman in this game, without Denzel Boston, it really didn't matter.
Jordan Washington had and seeing run on the ground of mind,
Williams ended up having a pretty good day. Yeah, I
feel bad for Purdue. I do. I do feel bad
for Purdue. You know. So at the beginning of the season,
all this team could be fun and they do run
some fun plays, but man, they just didn't have a chance.
Washington was looking to get some frustrations out. They took
it out on this Purdue team, and I like, Wow,
Washington's not gonna make the playoff. I think they're one
of the better teams in the Big Ten. I think
they do a good job of having fun, you know,
making the game entertaining. I think they do have a
decent amount of pieces on the team, and I know
Denzel Boston's gonna be gone next year, and I'm pretty
sure Jonah Coleman might be two. But they're a good team. Man.
I think if you could build a round to Bond Williams,
you could actually have a legitimate shot at playoff. Hope's
next season. Get the defense, like the defense has been
bad by any means this year. I think this Washington
scene is very capable of really looking to have success
in the twenty twenty six. I think you could expect
them to hit the transfer portal hard. I think Jed
Fish does a really good job with this program, and
I wouldn't expect him to leave for one of the
job openings currently unless he were to get offered like
the LSU job. But like, he's not gonna take anything
in the big ten that's open because I just personally
don't see him going to Penn State. And then Washington's
at the moment clearly a better job than UCLA. So yeah,
I just don't see where Jed Fish would really fit
into the picture unless he wanted to go to you know,
he wanted to go to Auburn or one of those jobs,
but I just don't see it. I don't see it
at all. He's got a good thing at Washington, and yeah,
I just I would expect him to stay there, like
Washington's a place that you can have success at. So yeah,
Oh well, the last game we gotta talk about. Oh yeah,
So Ohio State played UCLA. Nothing really of significance. Nico
was out of this game. They started Luke Duncan. Hey,
he didn't have the worst game ever, but they couldn't
have anything on the ground. His legs were not a
threat in this game by any means. Yeah, I mean
Ohio State, like Julian saying did not have a great
game by any means, but it really didn't matter. Bo
Jackson got it going on the ground. Also, Isaiah West
and James People's were able to get touches in this game.
And you know, Jeremiah Smith, he did go out in
this game. They were able to have other guys step
in and be threats and get some playing experience. And
you know, they just did the Ohio State thing. They
I'll class the team they were playing and kind of
coasted in the second half, and they're like, hey, all right,
we got Rutgers Net next week. But you know, we're
just going to continue to steamroll opponents because it's what
we've been doing ever since the well yeah, really ever
since the Texas game. They've kind of just been on
this like coast of Hey, we're just gonna roll over
on whoever we're gonna play. We're gonna roll out of bed,
take care of business, go back to bed, like it's
eats sleep crush teams repeat that. That's the Ohio State
motto this year. They they haven't like even in that
Texas game, I didn't think they were gonna lose that
game at any point.
Speaker 3: With how Texas's offense.
Speaker 2: Was playing and look, they still gotta play Michigan. Obviously
they're most likely going to be in the Big Ten
Championship game as well. So yeah, I mean, they're just
a really damn good football team. That's why they're ranked
number one in the AP pole and gonna be rinked
number one again in the College Football playoff pole, you know,
like typical, typical Ohio State things. It's like a look
at the AP ZAP twenty five and I know this
pole doesn't really have significance anymore compared to the college
Football playoff rankings. Those will come out on Tuesday, which
Michigan State plays Kentucky and then Duke and Kansas play
each other, so I'll be watching that and then I'll
get the playoff rankings as well. And if you want
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at Drew Renoa. But Ohio State in Indiana remain one
in two Ohio State with fifty seven first place votes
in Indiana with eight text a m but somehow still
got one. After the South Carolina situation, Oregon and Texas
Tech are tied in points at sixth. Texas Tech's really
fun to see them this year Oregon. You know, they
look to good against Minnesota. I'm hoping they can finally
get this thing trending in the right direction. They can
have a good game against what's you.
Speaker 3: McCall, the the.
Speaker 2: Trojans of USC Notre Dame's at nine light touch on
their game versus pitt I think they they just took
care of business, Like CJ. Carr had a terrible game,
but you know, the Notre Dame defense is able to end. Look,
Pittsburgh is always gonna have good defensive scheme. But I
mean even that being said, Notre Dames still put up
thirty seven points. So I uh yeah, I think Notre
Dame's like they've just played really well after the first
two weeks, and look, you can turn your season around.
Speaker 3: And you know, this was what we.
Speaker 2: Said, Oh they could be noted they lost to Northern
Illinois last year and then they outclass teams the whole
way through and then you know they went to the
National Championship Game. So you know, is that the same
story we're gonna see Maybe maybe not, I don't know,
but we'll We'll just have to wait and see you
With Notre Dame. I mean they also just don't They
got a nice win versus USC two on the resume,
So I like they're gonna be in the playoff as
long as they don't screw it up against Syracuse er Stanford.
We've seen it screwed up against Stanford. I remember Tanner McKee,
which I believe is the Eagles backup quarterback. Now, uh,
he had a crazy game.
Speaker 3: First, then excuse me for the youd.
Speaker 2: USC we go down as that sixteen, just behind Georgia.
Speaker 3: Tech, which they almost lost to Boston.
Speaker 2: College Michigan at eighteen, just behind Texas, I guess I
mean the common opponent of Oklahoma. I don't like. I
know Texas has lost to two really good teams. They
also lost to Florida. To Florida, I know Florida gave
Florida the three and seven Gators. Yes, they lost to them.
And I know they have wins versus Oklahoma in Vanderbilt,
but you also have more losses than you do good wins.
I understand them being ranked, and look, if they lose
to tex A and m they're just gonna be completely
out of the college football playoff pictures. So well, I
have to wait and see you know football will do
its thing, and then after that there's no teams ranked,
no teams ranked. Illinois thirty one. Other receiving votes Iowa
with fourteen, Washington with eight, and yeah, you can't got
a vote? Wow, the independent school out the East coast.
How about that? Three group of five teams ranked in
James Madison Northern Northern Texas in two and it'll be
interesting to see who gets the G five bid. We'd
love to see what the rankings are gonna look like
in this upcoming ranking show that we will see on Tuesday.
Excited to see where the Committee ranks are teams. I
think Washington has a chance of being ranked. I know
they do have the lost first to Wisconsin, but hey,
losses to bad teams don't matter or do that? No,
I mean they do, but well, we'll see. I wonder
you know how the rankings are gonna shape up. Obviously
we know Ohio State and Indiana are gonna be one
and two, But what does the rest look like? Does
text say and them get punished? And does Georgia get
a bump up for playing really good? I mean, it's
just gonna be a wait and see thing. But with
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does next week look like in the Big Ten? You
might ask, well, I mean, you could use whatever site
you like to get your scores, schedules and other things
on but you could also listen here and here's some
analysis on what to expect this weekend. First things first,
big dude game Rutgers and Ohio State. Ohio State is
thirty three and a half point favorites in the over
unders fifty six and a half. Some smart betting advice
out here because some of my friends ask for some
and I look at some of the stuff, I'm like, Okay,
here we go, which I seem to make some people profits.
Bet the Ohio State first half team total over it
seems to always be a hit. I just they always
do such a good job, and especially against the Rutgers
defense that is bad bad this year, like no shame
to Rutgers or the team in Piscataway. They're bad this
year and I just don't see them having much offensive success.
Like Antoine Raymond, he did hit a thousand yards on
the season, Kelly Kmnus has kind of looked like a
stud this season. I don't think it matters at all.
I think Ohio State, whether they do have tate In
Smith out there or not, it doesn't matter. I think
you'll see a good football team that's just gonna take
care of business at home and wait to play the
big game the following week. Minnesota Northwestern five and a
half point favorites. The Wildcats are and then a over
under a forty one and a half. Is this game
being played at regular again? Oh it is okay, all right,
all right, cool cool. Not a lot of offense. I
think both these teams, like I think Northwestern does have
the better defense paper to paper, but I think the
offenses are not great on both sides. Like maybe Darius
Taylor can have a breakout game if he plays. Komo
Lafe is a good running back, like both these quarterbacks
are just so mediocre. I uh, I just don't know
how much these teams will have offensive offensive success. Especially
if it's a windy day in Chicago, it's gonna be
tough to move the ball through the air. Especially, it
could get ugly. It could be a great game, who knows.
I think it's one of those classic Big Ten West
games that we could see from the Minnesota and Northwestern.
I don't know which way I would lean like if
I had to, I'd probably go with Northwestern.
Speaker 3: I think they're the better coach team this season. Wow.
Speaker 2: I admire what PJ. Fly has done with that program
and what he's done throughout his career. I think David
Brown also has a great understanding of where this Northwestern
program is. It's pissed in the press conference after their
loss versus Michigan. I think they could get right in
the spot Clam Bowl eligibility and continue to move on
with their season, you know, going six and five with
ending their season versus Illinois, which that could be a
fun game the next week as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean both these not lost seasons for either of
these programs. Like both, success is what you want to see.
Like Minnesota maybe has a year where they could pop
nine wins. I think Northwestern could do the same, maybe
more of like seven and eight wins is kind of
like what their really big ceiling goals are in terms
of realistic opportunities. And yeah, I mean it should be
a fun football game at Wrigley USC and Oregon. I've
mentioned this a couple of times. I think this is
going to be a great football game. Oregan is favored
by nine and a half over under of sixty half.
Oh boy, expecting a lot of points in this game.
I see it could go the other direction. I think
this could be kind of a defensive slug fest. I
think both these offenses, while they're very talented, I don't
know like how much like they're gonna really want to
threaten through the air. King Miller has really been stepped
up in a nice place for this USC offense. Whittington
and company for Oregon, you know, they've been really like
I could see both teams trying to utilize their ground game.
I think USC secondary hasn't been tested too much, and
when they were against Notre Dame, they didn't perform well.
So I think we're gonna want to see a big
game from Dante as well. I think Majeva is gonna
want to challenge Oregon as well, and look, I think
both these teams are really good. I think the defensive
lines are going to, like the lines of scrimmage, are
going to obviously have a big impact and who comes
out on top in this game? And you could say
that about a lot of football games, but especially in
this one, just because like neither of them are really tested, right,
Like they're tested, but like not against each other, and
we don't know how good either or are on each
side from each other. Like you could do as much
comparison and analysis on both teams and the opponents they've
played and how they played against them. Like I truly
think the test is going to be USC's defensive line
versus Oregon's offensive line in this game. I think that'll
be the designing factor and who wins because I mean,
the Oregon defensive line I think is solid, think usc
Is offensive line can block. But I think those two
in terms of who's gonna have success in this game,
I think that's going to decide. I think Oregon comes
out on top. As much as I would love USC
to have success with Lincoln Riley, I think Oregon's gonna
be able to come out on top. You know, they'll
have to play Washington next week, but it will really
solidify their spot in the College Football Playoff whatever happens
a week fourteen. So yeah, give me the ducks. Give
me the ducks. Michigan State and Iowa play at three
thirty in Kennick. It's an over under a forty two
and a half. Iowa's favored by sixteen and a half.
I don't think we see anything for Michigan State that
we haven't seen already. I think that Iowa was just
going to be able to handle business. I like Michigan
they couldn't do anything versus Penn State. What makes you
think they're gonna do anything against Iowa? Not much, Not
much at all. It's a sad day to be a spartan.
It's every Saturday is a sad day to be a spartan. Okay,
Like I I hate to even, like you know, talk
about it, just like so badly, but it's just it's
not good. It's not good at all. Yeah, Iowa should
kill them. I mean, I think Iowa can hang forty
on this Michigan State team by themselves. Like I wonder
what the Iowa team total is in that game. That
might be a good bet. Yeah, Michigan State's just bad,
just bad, bad football team Michigan and Maryland. I think
Michigan's can be able to take care of business while
Maryland poises the threat of threatening through the air. I
don't think Michigan's gonna have as bad of a game
in terms of turnovers as they did versus Northwestern. I
think as long as they can get one of the
running backs healthy or hell they might, they could throw
out their third and fourth string. I don't think it's
gonna matter. Maryland's not a physical team. In the one
superstar that they do have, he doesn't have the receivers
to really poise a threat. Now if he had. If
he did have the receivers, might be a different story,
but he does not, and the offensive line's not gonna
protect against this Michigan pass rush. Like I think Michigan's
going to have a clear path to victory personally.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't think there's much else to be
said there.
Speaker 2: Nebraska and Penn State. Nebraska go off the bye week,
Penn State off a convincing win, Penn State favored by
nine and a half. Obviously, Ryola out for the season.
We'll have him at Johnson I'll have Iaah Hunter. You know,
the secondary has been pretty good for Nebraska this season.
Let's if looked good in their game versus UCLA. But
I think this Benn State defense is better than what
UCLA has to offer. And look, can Grugemeier, you know,
make plays through the air. Is k Tron Allen gonna
be able to do enough backpacking with the I think
Singleton could maybe help in this game. Who knows, he's
kind of just he's had the Downovann Edwards effect. Like,
I don't think either of these teams like this is
going to be a game that I do watch. Yes,
I don't know how it looks to be completely honest,
who knows what's gonna happen? Could just full transparency, I
have no clue. So yeah, I mean both of them,
like Nebraska, if they win like that would be great.
I think a nine and three season for Nebraska is obtainable.
They would have to play Iowa next week. That would
be a tough game. But you know, I really liked
how Latief looked with a full preparation of being the
starting quarterback. And uh yeah, I I don't know. I
can't believe Penn State's favored by nine and a half.
That's so crazy, especially because I don't think they're gonna
have like an insane environment either. I mean, I guess
it is, you know, I don't know. I oh man,
I don't know. That's a tough read. Even with them
being nine and a half point favorites, I don't know
what direction I would go in just two teams that
lost they're starting, I guess I would take the more
talented defensive team, which would be Penn States. So yeah,
give me that.
Speaker 3: I think this game could also hit.
Speaker 2: The under Illinois Wisconsin. I think Illinois not and a
half point favorites. I think they'll be able to take
care of business. I don't fear Wisconsin poisoning a threat
under crazy weather circumstances like that's what it would take
to beat this Illinois team. I think Illinois very solid
and potent through the air. I think they do a
decent job of getting their ground game involved. And yeah,
I think they're gonna take air of business. Honestly, being
one hundred percent transparent, Wisconsin I don't think has a
chance they should be favored by more. I'm going to
advise you take the Illinois spread and then Washington Ucla. Look,
if UCLA doesn't have the Nico play like, they don't
have a chance. Once again, I like, I don't think
Duncan's a bad quarterback by any means, but Eco provides
such an offensive threat with both his arm and legs
that if they don't do that and they don't have
to account for him, makes it really easy for defensive
coordinators to scheme up against this UCLA team. Because despite
what people think of Nico, I think he's a special
talent and I think he'll be back next year. Will
he be back at UCLA? God God only knows, but
I don't see him trying to attest his NFL draft
stock after this season. I think he wants to have
another year of tape under his belt, and after how
poorly it started at UCLA, I think he could have
a nice bounce back season. Obviously he played well, you
know in the middle and latter parts of the season.
Will you play I'm not completely sure. I think Washington,
you know, if they can get Coleman and Boston back especially,
I think they'll be able to have a lot of
success through the air and on the ground. I think
Demon Williams is also one of the more special quarterbacks
in the country. And yeah, I mean he's an insane
dual threat talent. In my opinion, he's one of the
most underappreciated quarterbacks in the nation. And I will mention
his name every week as well. I think he's a
good player, I really do. All Right, that's gonna cap
it off here for the Big Ten paradigm. I'm gonna
be looking to get some guests on for the last
two weeks of this season.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll talk with Zach.
Speaker 2: Browning, maybe we'll talk with Tyler Damberg. Maybe we could
talk with someone from Michigan. You know, there's a lot
of different ventures in avenues we can go. I would
love to talk to Matt and Zemik too, So Matt,
if you are listening to this, feel free to reach
out to me. I think it would be great to
have you on for a episode, especially after this Oregon
and USC game, you know, kind of just shaping, you know,
what is the playoff picture from the Big Ten gonna
look like, and then kind of some storylines moving on
to the next season. Who knows, who knows how it goes.
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