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Please welcome in Noah Drury's We covered the Big Ten
throughout this whole entire twenty twenty five college football season.
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Coming up upon Week three in the college football season.
As yesterday was a good college football day across the
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in and we need to actually talk about something of substance.
This college football week was great, by the way, I
watched pretty much everything I could get my eyes on,
and there was a lot of matchups that, you know,
like Baylor SMU. Not going to get too into it,
but that was a great game. How about Michigan State
yesterday winning in double overtime against Boston College. We'll dive
deep it later into that game when we need to
get to it. This Ihawk game is great, we'll recap that.
And yeah, there's just a lot to talk about across
the college football world, so let's start with And by
the way, there will be no guest on the show
today as well. I tried to connect with some people
and times just didn't work out. So don't worry. This
should be the only week that it doesn't happen. Let's
keep her fingers crossed on that. But regardless, let's talk
about Oregon first and then we'll get to other games
as well. But I wanted to point out that keep
in mind Oklahoma State did not have a great season
last year after having great projections with oh, what's his name,
the seven year quarterback? I can't remember, but Bowman, that's
the only thing I forget his first name. They also
had Ali Gordon and other weapons that they wanted to
use as well, and with Zane Flores and you know,
kind of things just not really working out here for
the Cowboys squad and Mike Gundy, it got tough and
there was some stuff talked about through the week about
how Oklahoma States. Mike Gundy said that Oregon, you know,
is paying for a national championship. But in this era
of college football, you know how nil works, even though
it's supposed to be name image and likeness and getting
it through sponsors and not some third party collective from
the school that boosters round up and to pay these plays.
It's just kind of the way how it's gone. And
obviously with rev share and other things, they won't need
to do that as much unless penalties are enforced on
the team and this and that basically my prediction of
that all. I think it's gonna come down to. Players
have to join some sort of union or some sort
of organization and they will all be paid in terms
of maybe not a salary cap, but they'll be actual
employees and we will move on from there. But I'm
not gonna get into the financial literacy of everything. I'm
here to talk about the football on the field, right. So,
Oregon just dominated yesterday, and while they've played two games
that really don't mean much them and then they play
a big noon game next week against Northwestern, which that
game will be on Fox Big Noon Kickoff with Gus
Johnson and Joel Klatt. Twenty eight and a half point spread.
Organ is favored by to open up, but I bet
you could see that game getting bet up to who
knows how much. Organ doesn't play a real opponent in
my opinion. I'm not saying these opponents aren't real, but
I don't think they necessarily face a challenge till Saturday,
September twenty seventh. They played Penn State on the road
in Happy Valley, which I'll touch on Penn State a
bit later in this show because they were on the
quad box. And when you're playing FIU on the quad
box at for more than a quarter, just because I
want to see how you look like, it's typically not
a good thing. But Oregon, I mean, they just got
it done. Dante Moore, the mature approach he took after
leading being UCLA and his freshman season. That takes a
lot of guts, that takes a lot of being humble,
that takes vulnerability. It's really just kind of fascinating that
he's able to look at himself and be like, maybe
I need to sit for a year, learn how to
develop behind Dylan Gabriel who was a good college quarterback,
and you know, really hone in on my development and
come out this season and be strong, because that's what
he's been. Twelve point seven yards per attempt with three
tum twins and pretty good completion percentage against a Power
four team. Keep that in mind, and this isn't supposed
to be like a Stanford or a Northwestern or a
team that's really lowly rated in terms of Power four
teams like Oklahoma State not too long ago was in
the Big Twelve championship against Texas in Texas last year.
This seague team is supposed to be pretty decent. Like
I don't think people understand like or really realize, like
Oklahoma State's supposed to be like a pretty good team
like in the Big Twelve per se and they're just
not anymore. And it sucks to see. Obviously, if you
are a Cowboys fan, which you'll be listening to that
Big Twelve in West Coast Pod most likely if you're
tuning in, but if you are in Oklahoma State, be
if you're a fan of the Pokes. I feel bad
for you. Things should be better in still Water, but
they're not. There's not too much to talk about in
the game. I just wanted to point out that Oregon,
like the ap pole just came out today. They're ranked
number four. I believe they deserve to be there based
off of what they've shown up. Sure they haven't beat
a great quality opponent in terms of being ranked or
you know, having great like a talent composite, speaking of
that nature. But they are playing good football and obviously
they'll have their test against Penn State. Not saying Northwestern's bad,
but they've looked. Of course, they did bounce back against
Western Illinois on Friday night, and cool story I want
to bring up. So Cason Carswell, the Western Illinois I
believe backup quarterback came into this game. Well he actually yeah,
he had the most efficient passes. So the first game
I've ever called in high school football radio for ninety
three to five WHMI, Mason played Fenton and Case and
Carswell as a quarterback for Mason at the time, and
I was like, this kid's pretty good. I wonder what
level he'll go. I thought he was like D two
maybe FCS and turns out he's going to play at
Western Illinois and he threw his first career touchdown in
that game, so I'll be excited to see where he
goes from that point. And obviously you didn't get the
result that you want if you're Western Illinois, and good
for Northwestern because they had a bad week one showing
verse two lane. But I thought that was a cool
story to point out, just me at my young age.
But regardless, Yeah, anyways, next game, we'll move on to
Michigan Oklahoma. I don't think Michigan was necessarily that much
at a talent disadvantage, other than maybe in the receiving room.
I think they just personally got out coached. Venables is
now calling the defense for Oklahoma, and with that happening,
he was really able to give Bryce Underwood and the
whole Michigan offense just kind of tough looks all game,
and other than a Justice Haynes seventy five yard rushing touchdown,
the offense was kind of immobile the whole game. I mean,
they've just barely cracked over two hundred and eighty yards
two hundred and ninety and they didn't look great defensively, Obviously,
there's only so much their defense could do, right. I
think Matier looks pretty solid, and the thing for Oklahoma
is moving forward into SEC play is that they don't
have a ground game outside of John Mattire, and that
could be trouble unless they really think that Matier is
this Heisman guy, which he could potentially be. There's no
reason or evidence to say that he's not. I'm pretty
sure he's the Heisman odds favorite right now, which I
think he will be beat by someone not in the
big tens. So I'm not gonna mention his name. But
if you guess and get it right, want to maybe
at me at Twitter, I'll send you five bucks, yeah,
or I'll do something. But I like, I think Mattier
looks pretty good in this game. Dion Burks. I'm so
glad he's able to return and be a focal point
on this Oklahoma team. And then the defense, I mean,
they really were just able to outclass Michigan's offense and
like Oklahomas only scored twenty four points, and I thought
the defense for Michigan played decently well. I just don't
think when the offense, especially in that first half, struggles,
you're gonna have a tough time, you know, trying to
beat you know, anybody. It's just not how that works.
Like Michigan didn't even score until the third quarter, and
they were able to push it close. But when you're
not able to stay consistent throughout the whole game, I mean,
it's just it's gonna be tough. Like you have really
good field position to get one field goal and then
then it's kind of it. Yeah. I mean, like I
don't blame Underwood necessarily for this loss. I think there's
a receiver problem. They were without Climb this game as well,
so but I mean, like Morgan, he's not been who
I thought he would be. I think mccaulay's good. I
think Goodwin could be a nice piece for you. But
there's things they have to be figured out in ann Arbor.
Now you play Central Michigan next week, and then you
go on the road to Nebraska, which Nebraska kind of
started slow versus Akron, but they really got it going
when they got it going, and I think that team, like,
I think Nebraska is gonna be pretty good, and I
think their defense is still sound to the point where
it's gonna be a tough challenge everyone kind of thought, well,
since Tony White left and there was a decent departure
with the talent on the defensive side, like it might
look a little bit less. No, no, it doesn't, not
at all. Illinois Duke. How about that game, Illinois like
was playing close with Duke going into halftime andrel Anthony
makes one of the catches of the year, and I mean,
Darien me so looked good for the majority of this game.
The problem five turnovers from Duke. If you're gonna be
negative in turnover differential, you're most likely gonna lose. It's
pretty good indicator when you're box score watching, not that
you should be doing that, you should be watching the
plays on the field. I Illinois kind of struggled to
run the ball, which is kind of not typical of
a fighting a LINEI team, especially with Brett Beilama, you know,
really having an ephesis on the offensive line, you know,
being able to be physical. But with that said, Hank Beatty,
he is that Pat Bryant, that Zakari Franklin, that he's
just a clear cut number one guy that's gonna be
able to get stuff done on the outside with getting
receptions and being a consistent performer. He looked really good
to me this past weekend. Now, he did not get
in the end zone, but he was a big reason
why Illinois was able to get down the field in
a lot of plays. And I'm like, I'm sitting there
talking with someone on Meta frums with Yester. I'm like,
I mean, he looked solid against they played Western Illinois
last week and I was like, well, that's good. Maybe
he can be their number one guy. And then he
started making catches. I'm like, yeah, he can be their
number one guy. There is not Yeah, he's not. He's
no joke. And Luke Altmeyer looks pretty composed for the
most of the game. I was very excited to see
him perform. Well. I think he's one of the most
underrated quarterbacks in the country that doesn't get enough credit
just because Oh, I was playing at Illinois and you know,
last season they were good and this year, I mean
two and oh ranked in the top ten. Like that's
not a normal for Illinois football. Now it could be
in the coming years, but like typically Illinois football is like, hey, yeah,
we're in middle of the pack big ten teams. Sometimes
on the lower end. Sometimes you know, we're in that
eight nine winsier Like I thought when they had Witherspoon
and Chase Brown, Tommy DeVito, like I thought they were
gonna be like a decent football team, but no, like
just for season, like they were cool. They challenged Michigan
to the end like they were good, and then they
had a little bit of a drop, and then they're
now back up and it looks like they want to
stay here. So I think Illinois is just like one
of those teams that you're gonna continue to see around
in the Big Ten. They play was Western Illan or
not Western Illinois? Sorry, they already played Western Illinois Western Michigan.
Next week that game will be a night game, as
they will take on a team from the MAC. The
last big game we will touch on Michigan State Boston College.
I promise I'll watch. I paid pretty attention, good attention
to that game, the Syhawk game. The thing I was
disappointed most with Iowa is one Gronowski had a lot
of plays where he had time. I wasn't disappointed in
any fact with how he played. I don't think Iowa
State really got like that much pressure, and the only
times they really got sacks was when he was out
of the pocket and really not trying to make plays.
He made a lot of plays with his feet his receivers,
while Iowa's receivers aren't particularly anything special. Like he just
made like some weird decisions And I don't know how
much it's him actually making these decisions for himself or
this is what he's been coached to do. And I
know he's coming off with surgery, you know, maybe he
wants to play it safe. But like against Iowa State,
a team that I go back to, played pretty well.
They they they did okay on the ground, like both
Sama and Hanson did their part. They're like they they
lost to NFL one thousand yard receivers and they are fine.
They were good on the defensive side. Six tackles for lost,
three tackles, three passed or excuse me, three sacks, three
pass deflections, and they get an interception from Jeremiah Cooper.
Like they looked way better than Iowa, not way better,
but like Iowa had plenty of opportunities in the Kirk Farrence,
you know, settling for field goals instead of going for
it on fourth and short or punting the ball, Like
I get it. You want to play this field position
possessive style and you know, try to win the games
and really using all thirds of your team, especially on
the defensive in special team side. But that's just not
gonna win you national championships. That's not gonna win you
Big Ten championships. IWA's been in the Big Ten Championship
back when the East and West were separate, and there's
a reason why, well most of the West teams got killed,
but there's a reason why there was just such a
difference just in terms of their coaching style. It's not
like IOWA doesn't get good talent, they don't attract great
skilled position players, but that's just because other than running back,
like you're not gonna really have a chance on the
offensive side to show your success. I mean, I guess
tight ends too. They kind of had that run. But
you know what I'm saying, it's like it's just frustrating
to watch because I am someone that like wants to
like IOWA, and I think Tim Lester has definitely thrown
his own, you know, influence on this offense. But I
mean they're they were able to run the ball, okay,
like jazon On Patterson did decently well he's not Caleb Johnson,
or at least not yet. But yeah, it like it
just frustrates me that Iowa, I think has a lot
of potential to be, you know, a pretty good college
football team. And while Kirk Farns has developed talent, like
he's had good overall seasons, when you don't have production
on the offensive side, it's tough. It's tough to win
games against good teams. So yeah, you know what game
had a lot of offense, Michigan State versus Boston College. Now,
a lot of points were scored in overtime. Michigan State
ends up winning forty two to forty over the Eagles.
Bill O'Brien, I'm gonna be completely honest. I thought Boston
College looked better than Michigan State in this game. Lewis
Bond had a crazy day receiving, so did Jeremiah Franklin
for the Eagles. Turbo Richardson, which, how about that name,
Like Dylan Lonergan looks like a good QB. There is
a reason why he was recruited to Alabama at the
time that Nick Saban was there. Now I had to
sit behind last season by Tommy Castianos. He moves on
he gets his shot, and he might be like the
Eli Holstein of last year with this year's BC team
Because Eli Holstein, I don't think Pittsburgh necessarily finished great
to the season last year, Like Eli Holstein was a
nice bright spot on that team, and I think Dylan
Lonergan could be the same thing for Boston College. How
about that to sec backup quarterbacks transferring to acc s
goals and being able to have success. He's not the
reason why they lost this game for Boston College wise,
I mean they just really no team was really that sound.
On the defensive side, Aiden Chiles look good both running
and passing. I thought that, you know, they looked solid,
and like both these quarterbacks looked good. I was happy
with Makai Frazier out of the backfield. He seems to
be the RB one for the Spartans. Nick Marsh had
two good touchdown receptions. Amari Kelly had some pivotal points
in this game to really haul in some reception. Kashan
Riquay McCrae should be decent this season. Jordan Hall, while
he had nine solo tackles, is a problem when and
this was pointed out by insiders around the college football
game just around in the country. Jordan Hall got picked
on yesterday. Anytime he dropped back into coverage, they were
typically targeting something his way, which is something you don't
want to see out of a linebacker because you know,
those guys technically are supposed to be able to cover
even if you throw in some nickels and even some
dime sets, like, he's gonna be someone that's gonna have
to be watched. I know we'll league. Spencer went out
at some point in this game. They were without Martinez
in the backside, so a couple of defensive injuries, which
I think Boston College is just a good team, Like
they're not great, and I'm not expecting Michigan State to
be this eight nine win team, but it is good
that they were playing someone probably similar of their competition
and similar to their talent level. The game was a
three and a half point spread, like Michigan State. You know,
being able to win a game like that is something
that you don't see very often of a bad team,
because good teams typically win the close games, no matter
if it's the number one team or if it's an
FCS school. If they get into a close game, typically
it's good teams are able to come out on top.
And I'm not saying they're great. I'm not saying they're
gonna make the College Football Playoff or being Big ten
Tital contention, but they're gonna be, in my opinion, a
good team. I think you'll be able to beat UCLA
on the schedule. Now that that looks like Ucla, I'm
gonna leave that to Matt Zemch. I'm not going to
talk about that team. That team is not worthy of
my attention the rest of the twenty twenty five season.
It's not a good showing down there in Westwood. That
That's all I say. They played Donstown State next week.
Michigan State does, so that'll be interesting to see, you know,
how much the offense continues to develop. Other than that,
Wisconsin started slow but finished really strong against Middle Tennessee State.
They were able to score a late fourteen in the
second quarter because I like kept checking in on the
score and I was eventually watching it, I'm like, what
are we doing here? Why? Why is it so close?
And then in the second half they're just able to
completely pull away, which Danny O'Neil, if you remember Graham
Mertz coming in his freshman season, his first year of play.
That was really nice from Graham Mertz at the time. Now,
obviously Graham Mertz's I don't even know if he's on
an NFL roster and you eventually transferred to Florida. But
like I think Danny O'Neill actually is a nice piece
and he might have this job over Billy Edwards by
the time he does come back Wisconsin. I don't know
how much of a ground game they're not necessarily have.
They were really bi committee yesterday. Lance Mason looks like
a nice piece there on the outside. But like I know,
I had my frustrations with Wisconsin last week, and I
think that will change. They do play Alabama next week,
which Alabama hung a seventy three burger on Uell Monroe yesterday.
But we saw with that Florida State game. Now, how
much worse in terms of power ratings is Florida State
from Wisconsin. I don't really know. I just know if
you're Wisconsin, you cannot start that game out slow, because
really stealed the deal for Florida State in that game
is they were just ahead and being able. Tony White's
also a mastermind at the defensive coordinator position, and he
was able to just kind of mix things up and
do a good job. And that's that's really what you
want from him. But yeah, I mean, I think Wisconsin's good.
I think they're better than what I went out a
tangent on last week for. And I apologize Madison Wisconsin
for now. It might be a temporary apology or it
might be a full time I'll be interested to see
how they play against Alabama next week, because one, I
don't know where Alabama's at in terms of you know,
how are they gonna look because it's not you all Monroe.
All Monroe is on the border of being FBSTFCS in
terms of talent, But I don't know that that's that's
tough to look at. Yeah, I'm not gonna get into
UCLA not doing it at all. There's not too much
more like this was a pretty calm week, Like we
had some good games, but like most of these, like
other than the Syhawk in the Michigan State game, like
things just got a way. Illinois Duke was good for
a while too. I was very happy watching that. Can
we talk about So I'm gonna name the these team
totals and gause. You just don't see this, Like I
know they're playing FCS group of six opponents. This is
just insane. Ohio State seventy to nothing, Oregon sixty nine
to three, Indiana fifty six to nine, Minnesota sixty six
to nothing, Nebraska sixty eight to nothing, USC fifty nine
to twenty, and then you see Davis ten points Washington seventy,
Like this is just absurd how much points are being scored,
which it might mean college in college football offense might
be back, probably not, but I mean most of these
teams just dog walked, Like Minnesota first play of the game,
it's a pick six. Now, like I'm not gonna really
probably tune into much of this matchup, but I mean,
like Minnesota looked very good. They were playing their third
string quarterback, which if you're playing your third string, and
a lot of these teams did, typically means you're doing
doing a pretty good job down there. So I'm like,
oh my gosh, like what is happening because that was
the first thing that caught my eye. I like Ohio
State being grandly by by seventy. It doesn't matter effect.
I did not expect Nebraska to hang sixty eight because
they were looking slow to start out that game, and
you know they had thirty. I'm like, okay, so they're
just gonna take it in a half now. They they
decided that they they were gonna they were gonna make
their mark. They were Yeah, I mean Rutgers beat Miami
Ohio forty five to seventeen. That game was a little
bit dicey to start out, but Rutgers ended up pulling away,
which that's what you want to see. At the en
Calick Manis, I'm telling you he's made me, if not
Luke Altmeyer at thean calaijack Manus is the most underrated
quarterback in the Big Ten. I know he didn't have
a great season last year, he didn't start necessarily out
great at Minnesota. I think he is going to be
someone that you really need to watch out for. And
you know, take Rutgers seriously and how they're passing the ball.
I know they're playing MAC defenses. Okay, Miami Ohio, Ohio,
like those are typically two solid MAC programs. He's doing
a really good job. And who does Rutgers play next week?
Just got to take a look Norfolk State. Okay, well
they'll play Michael Vick. That's cool. But their first Big
Ten opponent is Iowa which that might be tough because,
I mean Roco back threw some nice balls and his
receivers dropped it. Savers also got that ty done, got
lucky on that one play for Iowa State. But regardless, yeah,
that'll be a good test. I mean, they don't play
like a scary, scary opponent until Oregon, and they do
play Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State. They play Ohio
State and Penn State to end the season. They play
at Penn State at home, so maybe maybe we could
see a surprise there. Obviously we have to see the
weeks leading up. I'm glad Indiana got it done. It
was twenty one six at halftime, but they really pulled away.
Both the Mendoza's played at quarterback, both Fernando and Alberto
Fernando looked pretty good. They got Beab Junior some looks
on the ground, which is nice. They still have Kilan
Black getting a good amount of touches to Elijah Surratt
three touchdown grabs. He's someone that I really like for
this team, and I think Indiana they're gonna surprise people
they're gonna be good. I know they're not. Yeah, they
play Indiana State next week, but then they play Illinois
on the twentieth. That will be one that will be
circled on my calendar and it should be circled on yours. Yeah.
I think in terms of recap, oh, Penn State, Yeah,
I forgot about this. Penn State started out really slow
and Drew Aller. I don't know. I know, tools wise,
he's probably gonna be a first round quarterback, but it's
just not like I see this Anthony Richardson, you know,
Will Levis type of situation in terms of it's just
a project quarterback in my eyes, Like, I don't think
he's looked great. Yeah, his team got to the semi
final of the playoffs, But was it Drew Aller? Was
it the amazing defense, an amazing ground game that they
have because whenever they try to push the ball with
in his hands. And I know Penn State hasn't necessarily
had the greatest receiver talent, which doesn't make sense because
Penn State definitely top ten and spending definitely a top
ten football program in terms of the last ten years
in the Big Ten. It doesn't make any sense. Why
you know, one, the quarterback shouldn't be looking amazing in
two Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense. Like Demonte
Ross got a touchdown grab, but no one in that
receiver room which you're playing FIU no offense to them
they are. She looked decent yesterday. They couldn't really, you know,
capitalize on drivers removed the ball that efficiently. But they
were giving Penn State a little bit of toughness and
k Tron Allen had that big rickaway and both him
and Nick Singleton look good. The offensive line looks decent,
but this team is going to be so dependent on
their defensive line and their ground game winning games. I'm
just not a Drew Aller believer. He's never convinced me
to be this big game changing quarterback that's gonna win
them games. And you play Villanova next week, you should
blow him out. It's a basketball school and that plays
FCS football. And then you play Oregon and that game's
going to matter a lot. And keep in mind, this
team also still has to play Ohio State, Indiana, Nebraska,
like pretty good Big Ten opponents. And if you don't
win those games, how do you win the How do
you go into the college Football Playoff because in my opinion, yes,
they could go ten to two and probably still get in.
But do they deserve it. I guess you have to
see the rest of the field, but I don't think
Drew Aller is really deserving of this first round get
grade based off of his play. Now I see the measurables.
I see, you know, oh, we could work him into
this because he's got like a Josh Allen body type
and he is someone that is capable of running the football.
I see it from that perspective. I just am someone
that when I'm doing draft analysis and looking at a
lot of these players, I like to see production. I
like to see things that will translate that have been
shown at the college level. And I'm not saying Drew
Aler should not be drafted, and who knows however he
progresses through the season, but it typically means something. And
I know it's a little bit different now because you know,
you can make money in college now, but it says
something when you go back, and I guess it's maybe
not all because there's people in the past that are like, oh,
I want to go one more year and really prove myself.
And I know Penn State really as this, But in
my opinion, I think Drew Aller probably would have been
a Day one, Day two pick regardless. Would you have
gone as high as cam More maybe, but I think
he would have been picked before Dale, Dylan Gabriel and
potentially Tyler Shuck, so he could have gone. I like
he probably would have gotten drafted in the same position
as Jackson Dart for being completely honest and he wanted
to go back because he wanted to really won win
a national championship with Penn State, but also, you know,
probably get a higher, higher draft pick. And I just
from what I've seen and I just what I know
off the past seasons of his play in so far
two games into this season, I'm really not ready to
put it there. And yeah, that's that's That's mainly how
I look at it. And I'm sorry for going on
to this tangent. And I'm not trying to say Drew
Aller is a bad kid or he doesn't deserve any
of this that or other. It's great. I think Drew
Aller is still one of the better Big Ten quarterbacks.
I just think it's a little bit you get him
too much praise, which is Okay, it happens in Penn
State fans, you should still, you know, really believe in
the success of your quarterback. I am just looking at
it from my point of view, and that's it, and
we can agree to disagree. And you know, all of
us have opinions because you know, we have the right
to a freedom of speech and you have a bunch
of things in this great country that we live in.
But yeah, okay, let's round off the show with looking
at the next week Big Ten schedule and also take
a look at Big Ten teams inside the ap pole
because I also think that's very important because some things
did shake up across the other parts of college football. Friday,
Indiana Indiana State six thirty, Big Ten Network. You can
watch it if you want. I think that Indiana should
take care of that game UCLA New Mexico. Ucla is
still a fifteen and a half point favorite totals at
fifty three and a half. I I would I would
take that spread with New Mexico. Keep in mind, this
New Mexico team, while Michigan had some things go wrong
in their game and some calls were made and this,
that and the other thing. I would take the plus
fifteen and a half. That is my advice. You can
take it, you can leave it. I don't think you
say LA is good like I'm legitimately they might. They
might be the worst team. And I follow a lot
of UCLA stuff on Twitter. Ironically, it pops up on
my feet all the time. And they are not happy
with Nico. They're not happy with a lot of things
about the football program. Does just Sean Foster have a
job after you year two? I don't think his buyouts
too much, so maybe not. Yeah, it's gonna look scary
down there in the UCLA down in Westwood. Watch out
for them on klitt Alert when they move into Big
Ten Conference play at Nune Oregon Northwestern, Oh. I got
that down to twenty seven and a half now from
what I'm looking at. I'll watch probably the first half
and if Northwestern competes, that's great. I'm not a big
fan of Preston Stone, per se. There's a reason why
Kevin Jennings beat him out at SMU, And I know
Preston Stone. You know twenty twenty three they were the
American Champions. He was at quarterback. But there's a reason
why they're going with Jennings, because Jennings pretty good yesterday
and there's a reason why he's at Northwestern now, and
not say Northwestern's a bad team, but I just don't
I don't think they're particularly going to give Oregon that
much of a competition. We'll see Alabama favored by twenty
and a half against Wisconsin. I don't know if they're
twenty and a half points better. I think it would
be more like thirteen and a half. But Wisconsin's been
weird so far to kind of predict what they're gonna
be like throughout the season. But I know Luke Fickle
trying to save his job, keep another year under the tenure,
really start building something that'll be a trial and airpor
Central Michigan and Michigan. Michigan twenty seven and a half
point favorites. I think you're gonna see a nice bounce
back game from Underwood and the offense as a whole,
really try to establish themselves as you know, one of
the big ten premier teams still because they're kind of
slipping out of the race and Illinois kind of jumping them.
Theyn't want to remind folks that they're Michigan. They're one
of the greatest football programs ever in Division one FBS football.
They got over a thousand wins. They're a great program.
I'm able to say it. I think Michigan is a
good team still. I think they're still top twenty five caliber.
It's just how much more do they go up? Are
they top fifteen? It's early in the season. You got
a young quarterback, you got new players in places, you
can figure it out. You can still make the College
Football Playoff potentially, but I guess I would be waiting
see Nebraska plays Houston Christian don't need to talk about it.
Maryland will play Towson on Peacock. Yeah, but I don't
think there's too much with that game that we necessarily
have to worry about. Like we mentioned, Penn State plays Villanova,
USC Purdue three thirty, USC twenty one and a half points.
USC's looked dominant so far to start the season, playing
Jeordia Southern and Missouri State would shout out to them
by wagging their first ever FBS win Delaware. I believe
we'll look to do the same. I don't think they
won yet. I know they lost to Colorado. I think
the boiler Makers there might be some magic in West Lafayette.
Hopefully they looked good in Week one. Southern Illinois like
they were able to take care of business, didn't look
dominant in the process. That will be a fun game
to look at. Rutgers Norfolk State. I think Rutgers should
be able to confidently win that game. Ohio State Ohio
Ohio Gate b Rutgers some trouble. Will they be able
to do the same to the same in state college.
That's something that we'll have to wait and see. I
have to see it to believe it. But typically Ohio
State does decently well against MAC components. Western Michigan Illinois
twenty seven and a half point favorites. I have to
take a look and see that one. Iowa plays UMass
thirty three and a half point favorites, forty four and
a half total. Yeah, we'll see it. And then Minnesota
Saturday night they will take on California, who's also too
and on this season. Minnesota two and a half point favorites.
Traveling on the road to the West Coast, which is
an extra West coast trip they probably don't want to make.
That will be interesting. Minnesota looks so dominant and good
and also Youngstown State Michigan State plays next week as well.
But yeah, if this is a weekend, I don't want
to say this lightly. I will obviously be tuned in
because you know, I love college football and I wouldn't
miss any of it. This is a weekend where if
you want to start with the fall festivities, maybe start
getting Halloween decorations put up, go to the apple orchard,
like it's never too early to go and do that,
and get your donuts and cider mill and other things.
I think this is probably the weekend to do it personally.
And yeah, I think that this is you know, this
is that time of year. It's that time of year.
You're gonna have weeks like this. You're gonna have weeks
like this and the next week will lead up to
big stuff. So I think next week we'll take more
of an approach at you know, the big game coming
up and hopefully our guest that's able to come on
the show unless it's an absolute upset or you know,
something crazy happens in the Big Ten, like if Wisconsin
bes Alabama will have to get a Wisconsin guy on
the show. This, that and the other thing. But yeah,
I think that you know, this is the weekend where
if you're not really like, if you have stuff you
need to get done, it might not be a bad idea.
Now I'm not encouraging you not to pay attention, but
if you simply just need to listen to this show
what happened on the week before, I will be glad
to present that to you. And not that this week
really felt like that, because there was a lot of
crazy stuff on it, especially on the national Landscape, and
like I mentioned, go listen to the other podcast here
on the College Gridiron Coast to Coast Network. But other
than that, this was a This was a fun week.
I had fun watching football. Football is always fun to watch,
unless in you're Alliance fan, which I am so alis
the Spartan's got the win. I know some Michigan fans
that are also some Lions fans that we might have
one on the show in the near future. I know
that had a very bad weekend, but you know, there's
always next week. There is always next week, and life
continues to go on. And don't take anything for granted,
because you know, and a lot of the things that
we have in this day and age, you know, we
have the escapabilities of football and sports and being able
to listen to podcasts and really having the freedom to
do a lot of things legally that you know, you
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ranked at number one fifty seven first place votes, a
nice comfortable lead there at the top of the poll.
Penn State is number two that will fall behind. Do
they deserve to be there over teams like LSU and Miami.
I don't know. Organ's rinked at four. I did not
know if they were gonna move up based on the
as I would like to say, slobber knocking over the Cowboys,
the pokes down there in still Water. I'm glad they did.
I'm glad they did move up. We mentioned that will
talk Notre Dame. They're ranked at number eight. Tough game
versus Miami back in Week one. They had this week off.
Their next game that they will play is Texas A
and M next week. That should be a really interesting game.
Marcel Reid, you know, how is he gonna look against
a big opponent this year? How is that Texas A
and M team as a whole going to look this year?
Lost too edge rushers and Nick Scurton and Jamar Stewart
last year, which Schmarts Stewart almost went back to text
saying that let's keep that in mind. That's actually not true. Well, yeah,
that's NFL talk. But regardless of Notre Dame at Illinois
is at nine. I thought they looked decently well again
their game against Duke, and you know what, they'll probably
continue to climb up the pole as they continue to win.
If they continue to win. When they continue to win, however,
you want to look at it. And then Michigan at
twenty three, Indiana at twenty two. I think both those
teams being in similar spots, I don't think is a
bad thing. Six total teams in the Big Ten ranked
this week. As we take to look at the other
receiving votes, USC received sixty four. I think they're a
team that you're gonna see in the top twenty five
in the coming weeks. Also Nebraska with ten, I think
that's a team you can see make a college football
playoff push from this conference. And then looking at it, Nope,
no one else received any votes. And that is it.
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