Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Big Ten Paradigm Podcast
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Please welcome in Noah Drury's we cover the Big Ten
throughout this whole entire twenty twenty five college football season,
and welcome into the Big Ten Paradigm Show.
Speaker 2: My name is Noah Drury. You can follow me on
Twitter at Drury Noah d r U R y n lah.
And how about the first week of the college football
season that just wrapped up, well, not technically at the
time of this recording. We still have Sunday and Monday
to play in about three point thirty at ob Virginia
Tech South Carolina and then seven o'clock Notre Dame Miami,
which we'll talk Notre Dame over the time of this
season as they are technically in Big Ten country. They
are just choosing to be an independent, so we don't
consider the Big Ten. But we'll talk about Notre Dame
here or there. But I gotta watch them play their game.
And how about the show what started off with the
weekday games? And then we will have our guests from
Ohio State ninety seven won the fan down there in
the Columbus. The Ohio State football sideline reporter Tyler Danberg
also does a little bit of Ohio State women's basketball
play by play, and we'll be doing Ohio State baseball
as well, So that'll be great to see from him.
And you'll be our Ohio State guy for as long
as we need him to be, hopefully, unless he doesn't
want to be on the show anymore. No, we had
a great conversation earlier, and I cannot wait to have
him on the show. What I mean great conversation earlier?
I mean I hit him up in his DMS, you know,
not in a weird way, not in a way that
maybe some of you guys at home would, But No,
I had a good talk earlier. Can't wait to have
him on later. Start off with Thursday, Rutgers in Ohio
was the first game of the Big Ten season and
it kind of didn't disappoint Rutgers what up thirty one
to I believe fourteen or thirty one seventeen in Ohio
trying to make that back to our comeback. Rutgers ended
up holding on to the lead. Afe and Kelly acmanis
he looks a little bit different this year. It looks
a little bit better. Eighteen for twenty three, two fifty
two eleven yards per except two touchdowns. I liked the
running game from Rutgers with Antoine Raymond, C. J. Campbell
junior ian strong in the receiving corps. He looks pretty
strong defensively. This this does not look like Rutgers giving
up thirty one points to a MAC team. When you
watch Rutgers games, you're thinking like, okay, when they're playing
like a group of five opponent or typically in the
non conference, with the team that they have a chance against,
not to say that you know they don't have chances.
When they play different teams, you think typically like yeah,
you know they it'll be like a LITW scoring game
kind of how like uh Minnesota Buffalo was. I guess
to say, which, we'll talk about that game in a second.
That will be the next one we move on to.
But yeah, I thought Rutgers, like, while I don't know
how they're gonna do over the courts of this season,
I think being able to win every game that you
have a chance in or you're not more than a
ten point doggin over the season, I think that could
be very beneficial to this team moving on Minnesota Buffalo,
and we're gonna hit across every Big Ten team in
this episode, just because it's the beginning of the year,
and well, overt talk when we need to. But I mean,
for the most part, like a lot of these matchups,
especially on Saturday, there's not too much to note of.
So I think if we could talk across every single
Big Ten team that played, just for a short brief
period of time, it'll be great. And then obviously when
the season continues to move along, let's take a look
at standings, you know, talk about the big matchups all that.
But I wanted to since I watched every single Big
Ten team of some variation. It could have been five minutes,
it could have been five hours. I guess the viewer
will never know at home because they can't. I guess
there's probably no like data that you could put in
a human to do that. Anyways, I thought Minnesota with
Darius Taylor and Drake Lindsay looked well. Drake Lindsay had
that one bad play ended up being a pick for Buffalo,
but he also had that nice ball at the end
to kind of seal the deal against Buffalo as well.
I thought that he looked pretty solid. And I thought
this Minnesota defense, to be quite honest, looked pretty good
in this game. I thought that, you know, how are
they looking second year without Joe Rossi? Joe Rossi was
a big part on this coordinator's staff with PJ. Fleck,
and you know this is your win? Did PJ Flack join?
It's been a long time for PJ. Fleck at this
school enough to make the impact and row the boat
still to be a big part this Golden Gophers team.
Other than that, like I didn't see necessarily anyone in
the receiving corps that I thought really like amazed me
and maybe that'll be something that gets better throughout this season.
I thought the defensively they played really well seven TFLs,
four pass deflections as a group, No one really in
particular that I'm like sold on, But I think a
nice collective group of players that I think Minnesota actually
has a chance if Drake Lindsay continues to be solid
and he had his inefficiencies this game, you know, the
first year start or not making the correct reads, that's
just gonna happen. I thought Max Brosmer actually was a
really solid quarterback for Minnesota, and I actually liked his
tape when he came out of I believe, the University
of New Hampshire. So yeah, for Buffalo, I don't know that. Okay,
not to discredit mac teams because they're fun to watch
during the week. I just they didn't really do anything,
Like Minnesota really had the ball a lot in the
second half and they kind of just put the game
to sleep for me, like a was bedside for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyways, Uh, Nebraska Cincinnati will go a little bit more
deeper on this game. I thought that Nebraska still stayed
pretty well on the defensive side. That was one of
the concerns with me with Tony White departing and going
to join Florida State, which, hey, how about that went
over Alabama? Like, I thought Nebraska's defense looked really well
in the secondary obviously, I think Sowresby's honestly a pretty
good quarterback and they were able to hold him for
basically nothing. Cyrus Allen, while he had five receptions for
forty one yards, he struggled to get separation a lot
of the time. No one else was able to even
have remotely an impact in the receiving game. Sowresby was
the only one really anything to get done on his legs. Like,
I think this defense really took this Cincinnati offense out
of the game, and they scored a field goal early on.
But I mean Cincinnati did have that drive at the
end that looked kind of scary. But I mean Nebraska
stepped up. They did their job. You're supposed to win
a game like this. Sure you would have liked it
to be in a more dominating fashion, you know, maybe
have Dylan Royola look a little bit better. Not to
say that he played bad. He had a couple of
red zone balls that I thought were really well in
this game. Emma Johnson looks great out of the backfield too.
I mean, like nothing flashy. He's not gonna be, you know,
Doak Walker Award winner, but I thought he looked pretty solid.
Isaiah Hunter and Dane Key two good players for this team.
I think this receiving room is gonna be one of
the better Nebraska receiving rooms we've seen in quite some time.
I was a big Dane Key fan when he was
at Kentucky, and I think he he might not be
a Day one guy. You might not even be a
day too guy, But I think he will end up
on an NFL roster by this time next year. And
if you want to throw a little bit bet on it,
go for it. I'm not going to. But no, And
like I mentioned, I think williams Nowarney was a good
pick up from this team from Missouri as well. Son
McCulloch as well from I believe he just came from
Oklahoma because he was Indiana to Oklahoma, now Oklahoma and Nebraska.
I thought he looked really well. I'm like, no, wait,
I forgot to sound McCulloch was on this team. So
all in all, I thought the defense was amazing in
this game, and they really just have to find a
better way to convert on offense. I think that was
one of the things that I saw. I was kind
of like, uh, they could do better. But I mean,
for the most part, like you know, opening game, they
played solid. They played solid, and yeah, and then let's
get through these next week day games. I guess we
could start off with the final one with the Wisconsin
Miami Ohio not of anything too, of no other than
Billy Edwards. They get hurt in this game and they
had to put in O'Neill, which he didn't look too bad,
but their offense kind of like it was three to
zero at halftime in Miami, Ohio. First of all, what
happened to Daikwan Finn, the former amazing Toledo quarterback. But
also kind of just like I was a little disappointed
in the fact of, uh yeah, they just didn't look
good on both sides of the ball, Like day Kwon
Finn just missed like a good amount of throws. They
really couldn't run the ball in Wisconsin, So I'll give
him that. That's something that you probably do want to
see out of a Big Ten team, is good run defense.
But yeah, there's just not much to say there. Like
I don't have too much expectation expectations for Washington this season.
I thought Jones played okay, Anthony, you know, he did solid,
but defensively they looked solid. But you know, Miami Ohio
is not like really gonna threaten you on the offensive
side of the ball, at least not against the likes
of a Big ten team. And I think Wisconsin played physical.
But like like I said, I'm just not a big believer.
I don't know if Fickle is going to be the
head coach and Madison this time next year. But that
is for under review. Let's move into the two games
and the Big Ten. On Friday, Illinois Western Illinois fifty
two to three. Yeah, there, there's no much Illinois should
be pretty good this year. They take care of their
FCS opponent, didn't allow them to score until a field
goal in the fourth quarter. Yeah, yeah, they should be
pretty good. Obviously, we'll have to see how they look
throughout the rest of the non conference season, just because
that's just you know, Western Illinois is not really a
good indicator of where this Illinois team is at per se.
But they played Duke next week noon game that one
will be entertaining to watch, and then they'll play Western
Michigan a round out the non conference season. I don't
really know how good Michigan State was, so I'm not
gonna say, oh, that's an impressive winner. That's not an
impressive win for Michigan State. But I'd like to see
because while I don't think Western Michigan was particularly amazing,
there's a few things that I liked from that squad.
But yeah, I mean, Illinois, Gosh, they just looked really good.
It'll be interesting to see what they do in the
receiving room just because they they don't really have anybody
that I was like amazed by, compared like a Pat
Bryant or Zakari Franklin. Like, yes, Hank Beatty looked good,
and to be fair, a lot of different guys got
targets in receptions. But does that mean particularly anything when
you're gonna need a guy to step up in a
big game. Who knows. I guess that'll be wait and
see and look, they play Duke next week, so I
guess it's kind of TVD on that and the Michigan State.
We talked about Michigan State with Tom Cavanaugh the preseason.
While I don't think they look too like improved per se,
I thought they played solid. I'm gonna ended up going
back and watching this. They were up twenty three to nothing,
and I think they kind of just took care of
Bear's business. After that. Giles, he looked a lot better.
He still had a couple of out of pocket plays
where it's just like just turned the ball away and
ends up taking a sack a couple of times. Anyways,
I thought McKay Frasier looked good. I thought Brandon Tolas
looked good. Omar Kelly. He got a lot of a
lot of targets, especially in that first half, and really
trying to get him in space. I think that's something
we can continue to see, and as the season develops,
I think we'll see Nick marsh more used as like
the middle of the guy, you know, try to just
get big third down receptions, you know, be a red
zone target. I didn't really see Belling touched the ball
too much in this game, and I would like to
see how the craze gonna get used as well. But
I think that if I mean, if we can run
the football like this, I say we, I'm a Spartans guy.
If you didn't figure that out by the first episode,
they're they're actually recording this podcast from East Lansing. They
are a really good team when they want to be,
when they have the right pieces in place, when they
have good coaching. So I happened in twenty twenty one,
So what happened in twenty fifteen, So what happened in
the year they run the Rose Bowl, which I believe
was twenty fourteen or twenty no twenty thirteen as well.
So I mean, like they're a team that's capable of
having really good years when the right pieces are and play.
It's just we haven't had that with everything in place.
But enough Homerism on the Spartans. We won't spend that
much time on them. It's not what you're here for.
You're here to probably talk here hear the Big Ten
Paradigm TALC about the Texas game, and we will with
Tyler Danberg, man, what a game that was. You will
be joining the show here coming up next here on
the Big Ten Paradigm, And yeah, I guess you'll have
to wait and see and join us coming up next.
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Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: I am pleased to be joined by Tyler Danberg. He
is ninety seven to one the fans Ohio State football
is radio sideline reporter. And I also see you're gonna
be doing some women's basketball and baseball play by play
a wise, so kind of talk to me how did
you land that opportunity because I know it was relatively recent.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, first off, no, it's great to be with
you and great to be a part of an incredible
team at the Ohio State Sports Network from Larfield. I
was a graduate of Ohio State. I graduated in December
of twenty twenty four, and while there as a student,
we got a lot of opportunities to broadcast seventy different
sports between the radio and TV side, between Scarlett and
Gray Sports Radio and Big ten Plus, So we got
to interact a lot with the people in and around
the athletic department and its programs, and especially the women's basketball, baseball,
and football teams. So when it came open, applied for it,
went through the process, continued the process, and was grateful
to Skip Masik and Matt Fishman for affording the opportunity
to help you on the sidelines, on the hardwin and
on the diamond this year for Ohio State football, baseball,
and basketball.
Speaker 2: It would be busy throughout the whole year with everything
going on in the Ohio State including yesterday's game, which
was a big one, the first win in a while
for Ohio State beating the number one ap team, and
to start off, I just wanted to ask before we
dive into the details of everything, what is just your
overall assessment from the fourteen to seven win over Texas.
Speaker 3: Well, it starts with the defense, Matt Patricia. There were
not I would not say there were question marks, but
there was a lot of anxious on how the defense
is going to look under Matt Patricia after a defensive
renaissance under Jim Knowles, who's not at Penn State. I
think Matt Patrician, not coaching college for twenty years definitely
raised some eyebrows in terms of how is this going
to look? How is he going to adapt? Well, this
Ohio State coaching staff has over sixty two years of
NFL coaching experience. Patricia's got a lot of that, and
what he did to disguise his defense yesterday befuddled Texas.
I mean arch Manning. He had that throw down the
left seam to Ryan Wingo. He had that throw that
he dropped in the bucket to tight end Jack Entries
late in the fourth quarter. Then he had the touchdown
to Parker Livingstone. You can maybe chart one or two
more passes where Manning looked comfortable the rest Ohio State
Greek Havoc. I think what stuck out to know about
the defense was that there were no two players that
were in the same spot back to the back plays.
Linebackers were playing up towards the lines, dropping back in coverage.
The defensive backfield in the secondary was playing press coverage,
and then they'd sit back and they would just be
all over the place, even rushing off the edge. Just
so much chaos that was wreaked by the Ohio States defense.
And then I think I was talking to Ryan Day
after the game and he mentioned in our postgame interview
talking about guys like CJ. Hicks Jermaine Matthews Junior stepping
up after being behind on the depth chart for their
first couple years, after being such highly tied of recruits.
He said, that's what college football is all about, those
guys that develop through the program and stay with the program,
and it's that idea of those who stay will become champions.
You know, those are two guys that could have gone
anywhere in the country at linebacker and defensive back, respectfully.
Jermaine Matthews Junior could have started last year anywhere else,
but he was behind Davis and Niguanosen and Denzel Burke. CJ.
Hicks was behind a plethora of linebackers, So what did
he do? He moved to defensive end and he makes
the fourth thousand stop. He pressures arch Manning Caleb Downs
finishes it off. So I thought that really resonated about
how this is a completely new Ohios d team after
losing fourteen NFL draft picks. But it's cool to see
the guys who didn't get brought in via the transfer portal,
but the ones that have been homegrown and homebred through
the program get to finally see the fruits of their
labor payoff. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: Actually I've been pretty like watching closely to Ohio State
just because my best friend actually is a Buckeyes fan.
So ever since I've been around like thirteen fourteen, I've
always kind of just knew a lot of information about
the Buckeyes because he pays pretty close attention and CJ.
Hicks when he was a high school recruit, and even
when I saw like a springball tape, I'm like, dude,
this kid's gotta play. Why isn't he playing? And I
know there's been a lot of talents and linebackers to
come through that program and now him converting to edge
him actually, you know, showing an ability to get pressure
and kind of step into a role that he really
wasn't recruited to do. It's just special to see in
Jermaine matt I mean, we'll talk about the secondary, but
Jermaine Matthews looked really good yesterday, just like an all
fat and all coverages as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he did. And I think the only slight
blip for Matthews yesterday was the touchdown to Livingstone, which
might have the peard looking back at it, maybe Matthews tripped,
maybe Livingstone had about a half a step pasted him.
But outside of that, he had the pass break if
that almost led to the Sunny Styles interception that ultimately
got overturned. But like, the secondary was just flying everywhere,
and Jalen McClain might be might be the guy that
nobody's talking about. He's from New Jersey, four star recruit,
started one game last year against Nebraska, twelve tackles. Yesterday,
a bunch of solo stops just flying all over the place,
really raking havocs. So he's another guy to watch. And
then offensively, I think Julian saying, did exactly what Ryan
Day was looking for him to do against a number
one team, not to turn the ball over. Be smart.
He said, when you have to throw it away, throw
it away. Julian say. It had one throw when he
went back to pass and he didn't throw it away,
and it was from his own end zone on a
play action rollout, and luckily he completed it on a
nice play to Carnal Tape. But that being said, every
single time outside of that he had to throw the
ball away, he threw it away. And he just managed
the game really well and he made the big bros.
I mean, forty of his one hundred and thirty yards
came on that touchdown to Carnell Tait, which is just
a remarkable double clutched catch. So I think that saying
like that's that might be the worst we're going to
see of the former five star this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he really should have went sixteen for twenty
two because I remember watching the beginning of that game
Max Claire drops the ball. I'm like, well, why did
they Why Purdue was cooking at the time, too, So
I'm like, oh, man, maybe maybe Purdue doesn't need Max
Claire jokingly, but no, he drops the ball, and then
Jerebiah Smith dropped two balls. I'm like, these guys like
not in sync. I saw Jeremiah Smith obviously switch the
gloves and he ended up having a pretty okay game.
But yeah, Julian saying, like, maybe not the best statistical game,
but this is probably gonna be a top three to
top five defense, you know, throughout the whole entire country,
probably gonna be the second best defense you play other
than Ohio State at some point throughout the season. But
I thought that like him actually throwing the ball, like
he looked like a five star prospect throwing the ball
kind of how like Underwood looked yesterday, Like that's how
I thought saying looked as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing about saying is that his confidence
keeps growing. It's grown since he was named the starter.
So that and I think there is something to be
said about when you get that starting role, you are
a little bit more vocal, you are a little bit
more confident, and it shows that you've you've won the room.
So especially with you know how how hard Link and
Keynolds worked in trying to vibe for that spot as well,
so saying like he's just got such a great demeanor,
such a very cool, calm, collected demeanor. He doesn't get
too high, he doesn't get too low, and just observing
him yesterday, after every series, good or pad, he's back
over on the iPad. He's got his headset on and
he's communicating with whether that's Brian hartline quarterbacks coach, Philly Fessler,
somebody upstairs in the booth. It's constant communication and just
digesting what went right, what went wrong on that previous drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like I'm gonna make the joke Alabama wishes
they had Julian saying yesterday because Tys Simpson looked awful,
well not awful, but not particularly great. And I mean
we just see it, like so of these quarterbacks like
that are end up being ranked in like you know,
twenty four to seven Sports Top two four seven or
ESPN's Top three hundred. Like a lot of these guys
just some of them pan out and some of them dope.
And you can typically tell what the quarterback in their
first couple of like throws and starts of a game,
if they really were supposed to be there or not.
And not to say that, you know, arch Manning wasn't
because I think he played the best secondary in the country.
To be fair, I think that you know, Julian saying
like he could legitimately finish as like a top five
Heisman candidate when you know he plays some weaker opponents,
is really gonna be able to get going with this group.
Speaker 3: No doubt. He had every right to show some type
of frustration early on yesterday, but he did it. And
that's such a big thing. He just doesn't get high,
doesn't get low. He stays even keel, and he stepped
up in the biggest moments. It's it's incredible that he's
the first. He's the first red shirt freshman or freshman
quarterback to start and beat a number one AP team,
says Jim Harbon in nineteen eighty four. So, you know,
for him to do that in his first start against
a really good Texas defense that did have some different
looks compared to last year, but still nonetheless very good
despite not having the Thorpe Ward winner John A. Barron.
Speaker 2: I also missed mccooba on that team as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cooba is doing great with with the Eagles right now.
So and and then I think another thing that's not
getting talked about enough is how the offensive line stepped up.
Texas got no sacks. Ohio Steed only got one, but
Ohio States offensive line gave up one quarterback pressure all game.
All game, Colin Simmons was getting chipped. Colin Simmons was
getting beat by left tackle Austin Sarahveld one on one.
When you can do that against the freshman sack leader
last year in the country, who got better obviously with
another year of reps, that really says a lot. The
tight ends were great, not just you know, I'm sure
Max Claire there are a couple of passes that he
might want back, but they made a lot of impact
out side of the stat sheet. And I remember overhearing
Will Howard, who was on the sidelines. He was talking
about Will kas Merrick, who has been referred to as
one of the best, if not the best, run blocking
tight end of the country. And kas Merrick on that
thirteen play eighty yard drive was just mowing down defensive
linemen and linebackers for Texas. And Will Howard looks to
his right and he says, man Kaz is bullying these guys.
I mean, that's what he was. I think kas Merck
actually gave up the loan quarterback prussure, but he was
on fire all day and just helping pave the way
and then helping him past protection on that forty yard
bomb to Carnel tape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they were referring him on the TV
copy like a pretty decent amount saying like just having
him as an extra basically maybe not offensive lineman, but
like he basically an extra offensive lineman, you know when
you go in an unbalanced set or do something of
that nature. That's basically what it's like having him at
the tight end position. And like my Ohio State didn't
really like get any explosive plays on the ground, Like
I thought Donaldson did pretty well first game coming over
from West Virginia when they played West Virginia. Ohio State
played West Virginia like three years ago. Am I correct?
Speaker 3: I think you'd have to go a little bit back.
I know the one that I think immediately that comes
to mind, they played West Virginia back in ninety eight
when it was.
Speaker 2: A top Okay, maybe maybe it was Penn State then,
but I know that I remember seeing Donaldson against a
good big ten team and like when he was at
West Virginia, I'm like, yeah, this guy can actually, you know,
run the football. And when I saw that he transferred
over to Ohio State, I'm like, One, he still has eligibility,
but also I was like, yeah, no, this is good.
Definitely gonna be a good get from Ohio State. I
don't think he's like as explosive as like which he
was like his freshman sophomore year. But I also think
people's is like I think he'll get better as the
season goes along. I just think it's hard to get
the running backs that you had obviously last season for
this team.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I think Carlos Laughlin, who's the running
backs coach, he does a great job of building that
depth and managing Carrie Chaer, so he knows when and
how to use guys. I think this is a more
comfortable spot for him because he's been used to working
in a big rotation or carousel of guys. Whereas last
year Henderson and Judkins, those are your two guys. You
don't have to give the ball to any anybody else
in meaningful moments like that. Also, Will Howard could run
the ball effectively, whether it's designed or improvised, so it
will be interesting to see. But like James Peeples, there
were some runs where he looked like a bell cow,
which is great to see because he got a lot
of He got a lot of snaps really out of
the season last year because they were they were blowing
out Western Michigan and Marshall and but now you know
you're you're going up against uh, You're going up against
a really good front in ut And I thought he
handled himself really nicely. And Donaldson is the perfect slasher back.
I think of a couple of years ago when Ohios
did at Traveon Henderson and Mayan Williams. Yeah, he was
like a bowling ball type of runner, just very very physical,
very hands y back who you could give it to
him inside the ten yard line and you know, darn
well he's gonna punch it in. I think that could
be a very similar thing. But then on top of that,
Donaldson also he said he feels like the flash. He
dropped I think eight he shan't eighteen pounds and leaned
out a little bit more. He retained that power, but
he added a little bit more speed. It'll be really
interesting to see how those two develop and then maybe
these next couple weeks against Grambling State and know Ohio
where we're gonna see true freshman running back Bo Jackson,
great running back Nat Yeah, but the pride of Bill Angels,
Saint Josephs in Cleveland. I'm really excited to see how
the running backs progress these next few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean Ohio State, they even like when
they start conference play, I know they open up against
Washington And this is the last question or the last
thing I'll ask you on the way out. What are
your expectations kind of moving forward with this team and
where would you like to see this team maybe, you know,
develop a little bit more before they really get in
the thick of conference season.
Speaker 3: Yeah. What I like is that this is a championship
level defense and an offense that's going to continue to
improve as this year goes on. You look at yesterday,
Texas did a great job flipping the field and the
podcast inherited four different possessions inside their own twenty yard line.
They're going to be dell better field positioning as this
year goes on. That's just the way these games work,
and they're gonna have a lot more room to work
with They're also going to face defenses a little bit
more inferior caliber than Texas. That's a great defense that's
only gonna get better too after week two. But then
we're gonna learn a lot about this team at the
end of September against Washington. Huskies have an incredible quarterback
in Devon Williams, they have the second longest home winning
streaking college football, a great home environment and a new
environment for Ohio State and Husky Stadium up in Seattle.
And then these next two weeks are great weeks to
establish some depth. So I'm I think we saw this
past weekend that there's there's really no signs of stopping
Ohio State. The question is how do they respond to that?
How do they keep limiting those mistakes to make sure
that they're not in their own way? And I think
they're going to be on a great course for success
if they can manage that.
Speaker 2: All right, Tyler, thank you for joining us on the
Big Ten paradigm. And if we need to talk more
Ohio State football, we'll be glad to have you right
back on here because there's a few dates that we'll
definitely want to probably talk about Ohio State in the
coming future.
Speaker 3: It's a long season, but it's.
Speaker 2: Definitely uh, it's definitely always good talking to anyone about anything,
and we're glad to just have you on the show.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much. Knowing yes, if you need anything,
call any time, happy to be a board.
Speaker 2: And thanks to Tyler dan Berg for joining the Big
Ten paradigm here, great guest. We definitely need to have
him back on more. Very nice person. Me and him
got to talk before and after because you know, that's
just how Shenanigans go with this guy. But regardless, let's
talk about what happened the Big Ten on Saturday and
then also preview a few games coming in the next weeks.
I'm gonna be completely honest, it was. It was a
good day on Saturday, nice weather here in the state
of Michigan. Some good college football. The first thing I
wanted to point out, and we'll kind of just go
around the horn and make notes of everything kind of
how we did during the weekday games. First thing to
start off, Bryce Underwood. I mentioned a little bit in
the conversation that we had with Tyler Danberg, but Bryce
Underwood actually looked pretty good now New Mexico, right, we
got to realize that New Mexico is not that great
of a team. But Bryce Underwood looked really good. Uh
twenty one for thirty eight point one yards per attempt.
Justice Haynes, Yeah, that's the kid. I was Hugh John
at Alabama, and I know he had a little bit
of injury problems and also just probably wasn't utilizing the
right way. But man, did he look good in that
blue and gold uniform or Mason blue whatever, you know
what I mean in terms of receiving wise, Marvin or
Marlin client, excuse me, looks pretty good. I like that
they got Donovan mccoley and samaj Morgan involved a little
bit as well. And on the defensive side, like, yes,
New Mexico did score two touchdowns, but I mean the
only person that really gave him trouble was Dorian Thomas,
and Dorian Thomas is a solid tight end for the Lobos.
But yeah, other than that, I was like, even though
the score doesn't indicate this, I was decently impressed with Michigan.
I think d line like, yes, they did get three
sacks and nine tackles for a loss, but I think like,
if you were to have Kenneth Grant Mason Grant, we
probably get like thirteen tackles for a loss in like
five or six sacks as a team. Ernest Houseman I
think will be one of the leaders on this defensive side.
Gyr Hill, he did allow that one touch, but that's okay, uh.
And I think you're just gonna see a lot of
guys play on that Michigan front this year compared in
the year's past, and that's okay uh. I think they
do have the depth actually, especially in the interior, to
really you know, rotate a bunch of guys, and I
think you'll see a lot of progression on the edges
as this season continues along. And I think like secondaries wise,
they looked solid. So yeah, I like Michigan. They looked
good in Week one, a lot better than last year.
And I think it's just because their offense was actually
enjoyable to watch. Yesterday, moving on, Indiana kind of struggled
with old dominion. I watched like part of this game,
went to go watch it back after, Like Mendoza, a
couple of balls were dropped, so I'm not gonna say
all that was his fault, but he didn't look how
I thought he was and you know what, maybe it's
him still trying to find a them in this offense.
You know, it's it's week one, it's a long season,
transfer quarterback, new system, new head coach, new weapons. He's
throwing too, so maybe it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The running game looked really well, and that was really
surprising to see, not in terms of like, oh, Indiana
can't run the football, just in the sense of, like, wow,
that was pretty enjoyable to watch Roman Hemby and Kaylan
Black and then Lee bb Junior. I mean, they ran
the ball fifty seven times only through at thirty one,
and I think they kind of realized when the run
game was just working way better than the passing game,
and it just was like, all right, we're just gonna
hammer this out through defensively, Like, yeah, Golton Joseph is
an electric playmaker with his legs, but he can't throw
the ball at all through three picks. But he also
had one hundred and seventy ninety nine on the ground
and two touchdowns. So and you're just gonna see that
with the FCS quarterbacks that do have athletic or not FCS,
but group of six quarterbacks that do have athleticism that
most of the time, they're not gonna be necessarily particularly
great at throwing the ball. And we saw that yesterday
for sure. More Ferrell and Ponds all got picks. And
you know what, this Indiana secondary is gonna be pretty
good on terms of the line is of scrimmage that
I'm a little bit concerned about because and I don't
think like any quarterback other than maybe Demon Williams, which
I don't know if Indiana plays Washington this season, they
do not. I don't know, maybe with any of the
quarterbacks on their schedule, like maybe Dante Moore. Almeyer's not
really gonna run. Chiles might run, but like a Milik
Washington maybe, which he made his debut for Beryland. Maryland
ended up getting a pretty good win against Florida Atlantic.
But I don't think they'll necessarily play a quarterback like
like any superior athleticism in the Big Ten. Yeah, I
don't think that's something we're gonna really have to worry about. Yeah, yeah, No,
I don't think we will. Because Washington didn't even get
a rush for Maryland in their game. I was gonna say,
I don't remember him running in that game, particularly particularly
Nico Drew. Yeah, like maybe maybe that end of the
season game versus Purdue shout out to him. We'll talk
about them in a second, because I actually do have
a point. But moral of the story, yeah, that was
a little concerning, and you know what, it's the first
week of the season, new quarterback in the system. I
have to wait and see. Maryland kind of touched on it.
Not too much take away from that game, Perdue thirty
one to zero victory on ball State's not a great
MAC program over the last couple of years. Ryan Brown
actually looked pretty good. They could throw the ball around
a little bit, which was very nice to see. And
defensively they looked pretty sound. Seven tackles for loss, four sacks.
Just did an all around good job against ball State.
And you know what, it was kind of like a yeah,
I just kind of want to see how Purdue looks
to Oh yeah, Purdue actually looks pretty good when you're
watching on the quad box. Northwestern bad bad game from
Preston Stone. Just a bad game all around, four interceptions,
not good. Tulane had Retz laugh starting, which he transferred
in like the middle of August as a graduate walk on,
and you know he's probably making good nil money for it.
Ended up having a pretty solid game for the Green
Wave down there in New Orleans. They got a twenty
three to three victory. It was pretty nice. Gronowski. Iowa
kind of had some offense in this game. We're kind
of cooking a little bit, didn't really throw the ball
that much. They still ran the ball a lot. Three
hundred and ten total rushing yards on fifty three carries,
three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be able to continue to win that
Iowa way with Kirk Farns as the head coach. I
just I don't know. I mean, two point nine yards
per attempt is just not great. I didn't get too
many eyes on that game. I'm just kind of looking
at it as it is. Yeah, I'm just it's yeah,
it's Iowa. That's the best way to put it. USC
wins by sixty seventy three to thirteen. Maeva looks good,
Kyle Lemon looks good. The whole team really got We're
able to showcase their talent. The guy who's sent a
longstreet a big commitment win for them. I believe back
in that twenty twenty four class he was someone that
they were very high on on getting and Yeah, I
think I think you'll have a nice impact on this
team because I remember he was I think he was
rumored to go to Texas A and M and USC
ended up flipping him. That was a huge win. I'm
not gonna make too much notes of the defense. Uh
they I mean they played Missouri State. It's their first
year in the FBS. The defense is wait and see.
But I'm glad you're able to get a dominant victory
over a team like that, especially if you want to,
you know, let people know that you're legit this season.
Ucla and Washington. I know we have our West Coast podcast.
Just want to lightly touch on this and you can
go listen to that on our College grid Iron Coast
to Coast network. Ucla look bad. Nico didn't look particularly amazing.
They didn't really get the ground game going that much. Yeah,
I'm concerned for where this team is at. Granted, I
think Utah is going to be really good this year.
I like the addition of Dan Pierre and the offensive
coordinator that came from New Mexico. They were able to
run the ball, they were able to throw the ball
a good bit too, and defensively, but my goodness, this
looks like Kyle Whittingham defense too, So yeah, that that
might be. I don't know, it might just be a
Week one game where hey, we just don't have it
all figured out. We will the end of the season.
And yeah, that's all I have to say about that
game because my and then Demon Williams nice, nice season debut,
good passing, good rushing. Jonah Coleman, my goodness man, good game.
Yeah yeah, I just I like, what's the Utah game?
Speaker 3: Got bad?
Speaker 2: I tuned into Washington for a little bit, and I'm like, yeah,
it's time to go to bed. And that's what is
unfortunate about being on the East coast watching the Big
Ten is that it gets late at night and some
of those PAC twelve after dark games are on. So yeah,
Oregon and Penn State both look dominant. I don't think
there's anything much to take away from those games other
than I mean, Drew Aller looked good. I didn't really
even have to get their ground game involved all. All
three of the transfer receivers played for Tennessee. DeVante Ross
didn't really make an impact, but we're not Tennessee. Penn
State gosh, I'm sorry. Regardless Penn State Gyren Hudson, Trevor Panya,
both the receiving leaders in that game. Yeah, I mean,
they just looked good. They looked good on both sides.
They're supposed to look good, and they were able to
get a lot of second team reps the guys that
they probably want to develop develop throughout this this season.
And Oregon, you play Montana State, Montana State FCS runner
ups last year, fifteen to one record. Yeah, we're going
dominates as they should if they want to be one
of the best teams you. I don't care if it's
North Dakota State. She at least win that game by
twenty Dancee Moore looks pretty good in his first start.
They let Nova said get a little bit of the
running at the end. Whittington looks like he's gonna be
the number one back. Obviously, we won't want to see
them play, you know, higher quality of caliber competition. Malik Bedson.
I' about him getting a touchdown reception averaging ten yards
per catch. But yeah, like there's not like when you
watch these Montana State, Nevada games, University of Albany, you know,
like Missouri State, Like, you're just not gonna really take
away that much other than you get to know the
depth pieces of hey, how's recruiting going, or you know,
maybe a transfer portal guy that wasn't starting initially and
you get some team two reps and you know, looks
good and maybe he'll be able to be a death
feats and utilized in more formations and packages. Like I
think maybe you could take something away from that. But
other than that, I mean, yeah, it's really nothing in uh,
nothing insane. We're gonna take a look at next week
and then we will get you out of here. But
while you're listening, make sure you're following the podcast feed,
and yeah, also make sure you're following my Twitter at
at Drew Renoa. But yeah, let's talk about next week.
I will most likely being and this is still a
little bit to be determined. Gott to figure out all
the details, but I believe I will be at Boston
College Michigan State next Saturday night, seven thirty NBC primetime game.
That'll be a lot of fun. I haven't been to
an in person football game since Michigan Michigan State in
twenty twenty three, so yeah, it's been about two years,
and I'm looking to go back. I love going to
Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. Maybe I'll be able to
go to a couple of other games. I'd love to
go to a Michigan game at some point this year
and then maybe you know, make a little bit of
a road trip somewhere. Illinois Duke. We kind of mentioned
this Illinois right now at two and a half point
favorite over under a forty nine and a half, it
should be an interesting game Duke. They have Darry Mensa. Obviously,
they played elon which, like I said, when you play
these FCS group of six opponents that really don't have
a chance against you, you can't take away much. He
looked really good, to say the least. So and I
think they're gonna really want to pass it around on
this Duke team in Illinois. I mean, defensive wise, I
think they should be pretty good this season. So it'll
really be a testament of, you know, how this game
goes gamescript wise. Is Duke gonna throw it around and
try to put up points. Is Illinois you know, gonna
try to control? Are they gonna let Altmeyer? You know, maybe,
are they gonna try to let him make multiple reads.
Are they gonna try to really scheme it up for him?
How do the receivers look against a better group of
dbs than Western Illinois against Dukes DB's like it's gonna
be a lot different for Illinois in this game, for
both of these teams really playing an FCS opponent last week,
I think we will see kind of where both these
teams are at program wise and if really Illinois is
like a top fifteen, you know, college football tweener and
should they be in should they not? That will be
to be determined. The Syhawk game is this weekend twelve
on Big Noon Kickoff. I love this game. I loved
last year when rock Obeck came back down nineteen to
three one twenty to nineteen. And this year it'll be
at Iowa State, and I think Gronowski it'll be really
determined by him and how they want to utilize him,
because I think if they can get him in some
playmaking role, and he's been injured throughout fall camp and
you know, maybe they're not trying to rush him in yet,
maybe they don't have everything they wanted to work in
just because you know, he's been limited at practice and
they don't want to put him risk at being hurt.
Iowa State played South Dakota and then obviously the Kansas
State game, which Kansas State almost lost to North Dakota
by the way over the weekend. I didn't want to
let that slip by. They end up winning that game
thirty eight. Maybe Kansas State's not the team that we
thought they would be, but Iowa State looked good in
that Kansas State game. Bets. I mean, he looks like
a really good quarterback coming in where you know, he
might not. He's probably not gonna be you know, projected
to be in the first or second or third round,
but I think he's a solid quarterback. It looks like
they can run the ball with Hanson if they can
get Sama going a little bit more like I think
this will probably be, you know, lower scoring type of game,
just because these teams are typically offensive. Juggernauts over under
is at forty four and a half Iowa States two
and a half point favorite. That should be a really
good game. I will be tuning into that for sure.
This it's one of my favorite games of the season.
You know, It's just a great time. Syhawks, always a
great time. Oregon does play Oklahoma State. I don't know
what's the thing going into this game just because Oregon.
I think Oregon will dominate. Still, I think Oklahoma State, Uh,
while the Zane Flores didn't look bad, the team I
just don't think is going to be really ready.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a my Gundy squad, so you really can't count
them out per se. But I don't think like they're
gonna particularly be this great team this season, not in
the Big Twelve. I don't think they're in that echelon
of Big Twelve contenders that I'm necessarily confident in. I
think that you know, they're they're okay. I think Oregon's
you know. I like that they get the schedule, and
I like that they didn't struggle against Montana State like
they did Idaho last year. And they I mean they
Boise State, I know, out being a really good team,
but like that game was really close.
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'd want to I want to see like another like
twenty to twenty five point win where you know they
play like particularly pretty well. I think that's like what
you want to see from these games really early on,
if you really believe that they're going to be Big
Ten champions and be you know, able to potentially compete
for a college football national championship. Like those are the
type of things you want to see from both of
these squads. So no lines out on this game from
anywhere where I could see, But yeah, I mean it
should be should be a good game. Three thirty CBS
Powermount plus for that game and then the last game
of note to talk about and then we'll just kind
of talk. I'm not gonna really break anything down. I'll
just tell you this schedule. Norman, Oklahoma, seven thirty ABC,
Oklahoma hosts Michigan. That will be a really good game
for both of these teams. Oklahoma they played Illinois State
won thirty five to three. You know, a nice calm,
cruising victory. John Matsier looked pretty well. He did throw
a pick, but it happens. I mean, like, is the
Oklahoma offense going to be dynamic this year? Dion Berks
is one of those weapons. Was a Purdue guy transferred
to Oklahoma. I think it could be pretty good to countess.
Lewis also looks good defensively. I mean it's Illinois State,
Like I I hate to preferce this and I don't
want to say that these teams are not competitive or
not good, because they are good. Further level, just when
you put blue chip athletes and a lot of highly
touted guys versus guys that you know, like some of them, yes,
under recruited cam Ward, Josh Allen, like a lot of
good guys that you know, justin Jefferson, like a lot
of the stars in today is football league, especially in
the National Football League, and even who they were in college. Like, yes,
there's guys that get missed, but you can't. It's just
so hard for that to be a whole entire team
and get an upset.
Speaker 3: It does happen.
Speaker 2: But like Oklahoma, they controlled the game like they should have.
And Michigan, while the game was close in terms of differential,
I really liked how they looked. I think that they
will be good. So who am I going to take
in this game?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Spreads that two and a half for Oklahoma forty six
over under total. I like Michigan in this one. If
I'm gonna be completely honest, I am not sold on
Brent Vetables.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I think John Mattiers, a great quarterback, was good at
Washington State with Ben Arbuckle. I don't like he was
good against bad competition with Washington State and who they
played last year. Yeah, that's really it. I mean Underwood, Yeah,
he looked good against New Mexico. But there's other pieces
on this team that I'm just a lot more confident in.
I actually think Michigan's receiving cores very underrated. I think
it's just will be one of those kind of like
dog fought games that eventually someone's gonna be able to
step up with the big pass or a big play
at the end and kind of take over things. Like
I think whoever wins this game is gonna win by ten,
just because like this is just that type of game,
you know, game script wise, where you know a team
is going to catch momentum and take this thing away.
And I think it will be the Wolverines in that spot. Obviously,
I might be wrong. I'm making a prediction on Sunday,
and the game is happening on Saturday. Who knows what
happens in practice. Who knows anything can happen in the
coming days. And I hope you don't have to do
an emergency episode in that case. But like I'm just saying,
like I'm not gonna be right all the time, but
I would like to believe with what I saw with
my own eyes and what I know, I'm gonna take
the Wolverines over Oklahoma. And then yeah, that that's pretty
much it to uh wrap up the big games like
next Friday, Western Illinois Northwestern play Maryland. Northern Illinois mentioned
Michigan State, Penn State hosts FIU, Northwestern Minnesota, Grambling, Ohio
State Miami, Ohio. Rutgers will see how Rutgers can put
on the game of the year with another MAC team
at aut Tennessee State, wesconsin Akron, Nebraska, and Georgia Southern
USC Southern Illinois Perdue. Perdue is going to start the
season two and oh Alabama's going to be OH one
at least maybe oh and two. I don't know who
they play in week two. I'm gonna look that far
in the schedule. You will see la O n LB,
and you see Davis and Washington. And by the way,
if you want to listen to other conferences, first of all,
I encourage you because I think you should know. If
you're a college football fan and you really want to
consume it, you should consume multiple things and hear multiple perspectives,
but which, especially when you hear about conferences individually. I
think you should listen to everyone on this network. I
know I do. I get the feed every single week.
I listen to like almost every single preview episode. And yeah,
you guys should listen to the other podcasts on our feed.
You know, listen to the Yards and Stripes with talking
about service Academies. Listen to the acc guys. Listen to
the Big twelve SEC guys, listen to the West Coast guys,
listen to everybody on this show, the Florida Insiders. Like, really,
if you want to get an understanding of everything, because
why I do cover the Big ten and pay attention
to it most. I think it's important to really kind
of get a good understanding everything if you care to
that level. And college football is one of the greatest sports,
so why not care to that level? You know, you
got commutes, you got workouts, you take walks, you know everything.
Podcasts are great. But with that being said, this is
going to be the end of the week one recap
the previewing Week two. But this will be loosely a
recap show. And that's how I like it because it
means I gotta watch the games, and I love talking
about it as well, and I cannot wait to continue
to ride this ride all season. But until now, if
you listening to the Big sat In Paradigm on the
College Gridiron Coast to Coast Network, we will catch you
in the next one. See you have a good week. Everybody,