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Best Case & Worst Case for Every Game (The IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell, 3.19) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the IU report with Grant Shows and my Cutsal this week they're going to go game by game and give the best case in worst case scenario for every opponent on the sending national champion IU's 2026 schedule.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My Cutsal we've got a big IU report this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana is
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[SPEAKER_01]: opening up the season on Saturday against more Texas in this episode, we're kind of going to do the, you know, best and worst case scenarios for the season this year, kind of like what we did last year, which was our inaugural podcast, so we've been doing this now for a full season, a full calendar year, and I'm looking forward to another potentially,
1:00
[SPEAKER_01]: National Championship season Indiana football hasn't lost the game since you and I started doing it podcast.
1:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to be saying the podcast is undefeated until it's not so we got to keep this streak going.
1:13
[SPEAKER_01]: The Purdue Report is not undefeated and that's okay, but you know sometimes you can't be the best But I'm looking forward to talking about it being a football night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hear you Yeah, so
1:27
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll start opening game of the season obviously North Texas will have a preview on this Kind of a shorter preview compared to what the season preview's gonna be tonight but Beth K and worst case scenario will kind of keep it brief because we want to save stuff for the for the preview Indiana Say thing a former quarterback that was on their roster that started
1:56
[SPEAKER_01]: quite a few games for them for about a two, about a year and a half to your stretch and taven Jackson.
2:03
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be good to see him again, but hopefully Indiana can come out and take care of business because in season openers might get seems like they've kind of struggled.
2:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Over the last couple of years, at least they've struggled in terms of the eye test, but when you go back and you really watch it again, or you look at the statute, they've kind of dominated.
2:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't really know that it's that they struggle, but I just don't think Indiana wants to put anything.
2:29
[SPEAKER_03]: particularly on film and that opening week game.
2:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the game last year again, so do you?
2:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, I don't know that you could start the season any worse than last year when Odee U goes 75 on the first play.
2:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
2:42
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was almost in the hospital after yeah, I mean, Grant texted it's over.
2:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Now actually, that was the Wisconsin game on the
2:59
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, Indiana last year, they struggled in the red zone a couple of times, go back to Signetti's first year that FIU game where they won, but it wasn't like they ran them out of the building.
3:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm taking the under, especially in the first half, I'm betting North Texas to cover the first half.
3:20
[SPEAKER_03]: I just don't think Indiana is particularly that worried about week one.
3:29
[SPEAKER_03]: But the ball in the air, they're going to see what they have with Hoover.
3:32
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to see what they have with some dead pieces in the second half.
3:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure, but it's a 40 and a half point spread.
3:39
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a crazy number even on paper.
3:43
[SPEAKER_03]: This door Texas team got gutted by the portal.
3:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Their coach left to come up to all team with them.
3:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Indiana wins comfortably.
3:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's ever really a game.
3:53
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't think style points are really on the table for this one.
3:59
[SPEAKER_03]: uh, best case in the end of wins, comfortably, you know, 35, 10 something along those lines.
4:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Worst case, we get a full on Taven Jackson revenge game.
4:10
[SPEAKER_03]: He comes in, throws four TDs.
4:13
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a close game in the fourth quarter, and we're going back to, is this the accurate game all over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
4:21
[SPEAKER_01]: See, I was going to say best case scenario, kind of like what you said, like a 35 10 or maybe like a
4:28
[SPEAKER_01]: a 38, 14, maybe 38, 17, something like that, and then worst case scenario is Taven Jackson, Jannels has entered Akron for overtime game and wills north Texas to a close game in the fourth quarter in Indiana's trend to pull it away while the whole country lasts.
4:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
4:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's really anything else to go off there.
4:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And then week two, they're going to play Howard.
4:56
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be ready to leave by the middle of the second quarter.
4:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be hot.
5:01
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be ready to get home.
5:03
[SPEAKER_01]: You just kind of go to go.
5:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Best case scenario Indiana puts up a thousand and Howard doesn't score at all.
5:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Worst case scenario.
5:12
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to
5:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Here, a Kamala Harris Blaftrak, the entire game because Howard keeps putting up points and maybe their burners are just post in Kamala Harris videos, I don't know.
5:26
[SPEAKER_01]: She was out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think.
5:27
[SPEAKER_03]: She did go to Howard, I was getting ready to say worst kitty scenario here is we get some sort of Kamala Harris motivational speech on the jumbo tron, I can't imagine.
5:36
[SPEAKER_03]: Although, of all the vice presidents of all time, I bet Kamala rips it up in a tailgate, man.
5:43
[SPEAKER_03]: You think I think, man, uh, my money's on Dick Cainey.
5:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Dick Cainey will just straight out shoot you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, you don't care.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's pro, pro second amendment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He'll just shoot you as Conola.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
5:57
[SPEAKER_03]: She, she was sloshed in some of those videos you've seen over the years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lastly, I'll say on that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think J.D.
6:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Vance probably has gotten pretty lit.
6:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I don't know how to stay tailgate or maybe down, you know, like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he's he's at Appalachian man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably been working.
6:12
[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably been a morgan town a few times man.
6:14
[SPEAKER_03]: That guy has probably lit some couches on something.
6:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say more in town or he's been to Athens and not Athens, Georgia, Athens, Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_03]: JD, I bet he can throw down to you're probably right there.
6:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Mike Pence, worst person to tailgate with.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not even close.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Dan Quail.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Dan Quail's bringing the potatoes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Potato chips.
6:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Well done.
6:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Game 3, Western Kentucky, four o'clock kickoff, September the 19th seems uh, seems pretty interesting there.
6:48
[SPEAKER_01]: At last time, Indiana, Western Kentucky played each other was in 2022, I believe, Indiana won on the last second field goal by Charles Campbell and over time.
6:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Worst case scenario, we see something like that again, best case scenario.
7:02
[SPEAKER_01]: They look probably as good as they did against North Texas two weeks prior and when pretty
7:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, would be a worst case scenario is like when they played Western Kentucky in Bowling Green in 2021 and had to tweak it out at the end with Michael Pinnock still healthy at the time.
7:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was on their way to two wins that season.
7:22
[SPEAKER_01]: That was actually I think they're the last win of the season.
7:24
[SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully we don't get something like that come the 19th against the Hill Toppers.
7:30
[SPEAKER_03]: Western's a that's a good program for that's level.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's been pretty solid through the years of course, you know, go all the way back to the earlier the days of Western football.
7:40
[SPEAKER_03]: You got, you know, the original Arborball coaching down there, but Tyson Hilton, the coach there does a great job.
7:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I give a lot of credit to Western, but I don't particularly think they're a threat in any way in this game.
7:53
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'll go best case, you know, in the end of Wednesday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: doesn't give up a touchdown and and wins comfortably.
8:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, worst case, you know, this is a, you know, I game that it gets a little hot on the sidelines for big red and there's some heat stroke going on and who's or the bison is resuscitating big red on the sideline.
8:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm big red is definitely the mascot I would most like to see pair shoot out of an airplane.
8:20
[SPEAKER_03]: We saw it with who's your last year.
8:21
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
8:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
8:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
8:24
[SPEAKER_01]: September 26th, they will play
8:29
[SPEAKER_01]: at home on a Friday night kind of weird opening up big ten play on a Friday I think it's a good opponent to start with especially trying to ease your way into the season year I like Indiana in that game of course I think the win comfortably I think they'll try and make a statement to open up conference play what about you Mike.
8:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree with you and I think worst case here is Tom Allen wandering the tailgate lots.
8:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Be grudgingly telling you you should be at a high school game because it's Friday night not in Bloomington so man loved his high school football Friday nights and pretty much told his fans not to come to his game which was just one of the weirdest coaching strategies of all time.
9:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you know, when Sigmund was kind of set up for that in his first year, it was, you know, I played on Thursday, I played on Saturday, I played on Sunday.
9:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care when we play, I don't care when they play either as a fan and, you know, with doing games and calling games on Fridays, I've been more committed to that.
9:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I don't like it just because I have to miss it.
9:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to miss it, especially opening up.
9:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, opening up conference play, but I think it is what it is.
9:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana will win that pretty handedly and again, try and make an exclamation point.
9:45
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you get into the first road game of the season, the following week on October 3rd at Rutgers.
9:52
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be interesting.
9:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like Indiana and Rutgers don't play a whole lot last time they did.
9:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I was there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was in Bloomington on homecoming in 2023.
10:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I left angry.
10:03
[SPEAKER_01]: and hopefully Indiana can go out there and take care of business in their first true red test.
10:08
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they will.
10:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Bragging rights on the line here, I think the all-time series is tied with these two.
10:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's five, five, so Indiana doesn't have a winning record.
10:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have to think against a lot of big 10 programs.
10:21
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't foresee any sort of problems here for Indiana
10:30
[SPEAKER_03]: Shionno Shionno, he's got a style of play.
10:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's Rutgers realizes he's probably the best coach they've had and are probably going to get.
10:40
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he left for a while and it was just an absolute tire fire there for a few years.
10:45
[SPEAKER_03]: He comes back, they're respectable, but they don't have to firepower.
10:49
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think to keep up with Indiana in any way.
10:52
[SPEAKER_03]: The only problem I could see here, worst case, you could
11:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm there with going out there on the road obviously it's going to be a night game.
11:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you'll definitely travel well out there.
11:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the fan base will travel.
11:10
[SPEAKER_01]: The fan base is going to travel regardless of where they're playing this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At Rutgers or at Michigan or Nebraska, we'll talk about later or Washington, the fan base is going to travel this season and so hopefully, you know, in that first road game, they show up and you can see it and I think worst case scenario there Rutgers may be throws a little bit of a wrinkle, but
11:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana may not have expected or probably didn't see come in or maybe they get off to a slow start on the road I still think they went pretty comfortably and right now we both got him at five and I'll go in into the going into the Nebraska game On October 10 in Lincoln
11:53
[SPEAKER_01]: going into the Nebraska game.
11:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, my, I think the rocker's game is gonna be a big test.
12:00
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no doubt about it, but really the first true road game and what's gonna be a wild atmosphere.
12:06
[SPEAKER_01]: We both got them at 5 and 0 going into that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nebraska, maybe 5 and 0 as well, or 4 and 1.
12:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I really haven't looked at their schedule, but that's gonna be a nice test for Indiana.
12:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably there's first big test on the road out there.
12:22
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like Indiana has had kind of some success against Nebraska over, you know, since Nebraska joined the lead in the early 2010s.
12:33
[SPEAKER_03]: They have, and you're right in Nebraska without any trip-ups.
12:40
[SPEAKER_03]: On either side, this should be a game where Indians undefeated and ranked Top 10, Top 5, potentially, I'd say Top 5, I think whoever loses that Texas Ohio State will fall back a few spots.
12:53
[SPEAKER_03]: And Nebraska has a potential to come into this game undefeated as well and ranked.
12:56
[SPEAKER_03]: I think right now they're somewhere around 30 if they keep winning at the beginning of the year.
13:03
[SPEAKER_03]: So this could be a big potential to ranked teams, big,
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[SPEAKER_03]: big noon, possibly, and Nebraska needs all the wins they can because after they're kind of easy start, it falls apart quick.
13:20
[SPEAKER_03]: They're a team that could lose six games in their last seven as crazy as that sounds.
13:25
[SPEAKER_03]: So this could be a kitchen sink type game for Nebraska here.
13:31
[SPEAKER_03]: In a lot of ways, this one scares me a little like the Iowa game did last year because
13:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I was a better team last year, but you're going on the road, you're going to play a team.
13:43
[SPEAKER_03]: that always has just a absolutely rancid wild home environment and it's going to be a huge like we said it could be too undefeated teams going at it and Nebraska has just been craving this type of atmosphere in this type of win for the entire mat ruler but I mean let's be real it goes whack way before that.
14:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean you're going back to maybe the
14:08
[SPEAKER_03]: the Bopalini era of Nebraska football since they've played a game that could potentially have the stakes that this one has.
14:16
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is my, I'm not going to say trap game.
14:21
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just one of those games that.
14:23
[SPEAKER_03]: As soon as I saw it on the schedule, that's going to be a lot tougher than anybody.
14:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I think realizes it's going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It potentially could be.
14:33
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think Indiana has all the makings to go in there and win it, but I don't expect it to be any sort of blowout by any means.
14:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Not on what do I say this, but I think it could be your first competitive game in the middle of the second half this year.
14:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I expect the five games prior to it, North Texas, Howard, Wester, Kentucky, North
14:54
[SPEAKER_01]: to kind of be a blowout and you feel good about it.
14:58
[SPEAKER_01]: You feel good about your chances of winning midway through the second half about going into the fourth quarter.
15:04
[SPEAKER_01]: This one is, you know, like I said, probably the first game on the schedule where I could see it being competitive late.
15:11
[SPEAKER_01]: this one to me screams 330 on CBS for some reason and Nebraska like you said they're craving a win like that somebody a few years ago compared Indiana basketball nowadays to what Nebraska football is that not kind of seems you know like Nebraska basketball is like Indiana football and you know vice versa all that stuff so this is something that they're craving
15:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'd be cool to go to that game out there in Nebraska, you know, the weather could be out there at that time a year, but usually really windy in the middle of October, kind of, you know, you could be dealing with 50 mile an hour wind gusts and, you know, all the farmers that bought all the tickets and, and are just, you know, given them a way to get that sell-out streak or whatever.
15:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
15:57
[SPEAKER_03]: what's the crazy start every home game Nebraska plays their home stadium becomes the third largest city in Nebraska or something
16:08
[SPEAKER_03]: maybe I could see that.
16:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember hearing that growing up and thinking to sounded preposterous and then you're like, well, it isn't a prasca.
16:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Thankfully, Indiana's God guys that obviously have played on the biggest stages in college football last year, Carter Smith, the tiger talk through a bland, you know, Charlie Becker.
16:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I think is is when you look at the Nebraska game, hopefully, and I don't think this will really be as big of an issue as we think.
16:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of with the way that Kurt Signetti has set the standard and that staff has set the standard.
16:42
[SPEAKER_01]: You really do not need the Nebraska game.
16:46
[SPEAKER_01]: being overlooked by what's coming the following Saturday on October 17th with added out the biggest game in the history of memorial stadium.
16:56
[SPEAKER_01]: You could argue obviously probably the four biggest games prior were.
17:02
[SPEAKER_01]: The Big Ten Championship, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl, and National Championship.
17:06
[SPEAKER_01]: You could argue this is a top five game in the history of the program when they play Ohio State on the 17th.
17:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I've already got chills thinking about it.
17:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm already nervous about it.
17:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait for it.
17:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been waiting for it since the schedule drop.
17:19
[SPEAKER_01]: That game has so much writing on the line of Big Ten.
17:23
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, a big tenor regular season championship, a big ten championship game appearance, huge playoff implications there, and just a chance to just beat Ohio State's acid home in front of a packed house.
17:38
[SPEAKER_01]: do I think the blow them out absolutely not I think it'll be one of the great games that we may be ever seen between these two teams.
17:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking forward to it best case scenario.
17:48
[SPEAKER_01]: They they come out and do what they did to Illinois and Nebraska the last couple of years and just beat the crap out of them or worst case scenario they lose and we never hear the end of it from a Ohio State fans.
18:01
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the NFL and still sell their tickets to Ohio State fans, that would be worse.
18:06
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be even worse case.
18:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
18:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
18:08
[SPEAKER_01]: And actually, I hate to cut you off.
18:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to call it my own father here who grew up in the state of Ohio, grew up in Indiana fan, but he's from Ohio and is considering selling our two tickets that day.
18:21
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's fine.
18:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I prefer he doesn't.
18:24
[SPEAKER_01]: But like I get it, it's tough to pass at that money, but he's got people from back home in Ohio that are wanting to come over that Ohio state fans and buy the tickets and go to the game and sit in our seats around all the Indiana fans.
18:37
[SPEAKER_01]: We've gotten over the last season that all sitting here and that doesn't sit right with me.
18:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's hard pass up like.
18:45
[SPEAKER_01]: $700 to take it because you're going to make like $1,400 just from two tickets alone.
18:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it, but it really pisses me off and I don't want to do that, so yeah, that is also worst case scenario.
18:56
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got to appreciate one thing though, is the Indian and Ohio State fans finally have something they agree on, and it hasn't.
19:05
[SPEAKER_03]: For years, it was neither one I was really like Michigan, but now Indian offense and Ohio state fans, we all hate big noon Saturday.
19:17
[SPEAKER_01]: In this situation, I kind of expected this.
19:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about you.
19:22
[SPEAKER_01]: As much as I'd like for it to be a prime time game, I kind of do that was.
19:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe unrealistic in this situation.
19:28
[SPEAKER_01]: It just seems like Fox always gobbles this up because they have like a draft for it.
19:34
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'd be right and I understand what Fox is doing, but I don't understand why they are so
19:54
[SPEAKER_03]: huge huge at this for your man.
19:58
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't I don't get it.
19:59
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I mean, I mean, people are gonna show up.
20:02
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a game that people are gonna be at.
20:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody's gonna skip it.
20:06
[SPEAKER_03]: So it really doesn't matter.
20:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Fox can say screw you.
20:08
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll do it.
20:09
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll play it at 9 a.m. if we want to because you're gonna show up and be there.
20:12
[SPEAKER_03]: But man, I don't like the noon slot for this game.
20:16
[SPEAKER_03]: I, you know, some games just belong at 730.
20:18
[SPEAKER_03]: And this
20:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree 100% and I'd love to see it be a night game.
20:27
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty much all but confirmed and I think we kind of, again, personally I expected it.
20:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of figured it would be at this time slot.
20:34
[SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is.
20:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it from a, from a standpoint of that I got to get up earlier, not that I'd probably sleep well before the game anyways, but I got to get up earlier and go down there and start to tailgate.
20:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, because even if I don't have tickets, I'm probably still going to be in the atmosphere.
20:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely cannot wait for that because not only will you have probably big new kickoff ESPN I don't know what the SEC matchup is that day I know that I think I think it's Tennessee, Alabama that day but if ESPN had a clue
21:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably doing a college game day from Bloomington that day.
21:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, what and put it past into want to go to probably Tennessee, Alabama, both those teams are undefeated or, you know, they both are ranked in the top 10 or top 12.
21:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, just because it's the SEC.
21:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but they'd be crazy not to consider Indiana for college game day that day.
21:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I could see Tennessee, Alabama at that point being two three lost teams going out of each other.
21:41
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the quickly on this so have state game what what's your best case in worst case scenario I mean, it's an area of selling tickets to them, but what's best case worst cases we lose in front of a 30,000 Ohio state fan think like like always so Best case obviously is you know Hoover Hoover and now I mean Indian is still undefeated they go into that game they win and Hoover kind of Moves into that conversation for the Heisman trophy
22:10
[SPEAKER_03]: based on how he's played and how he played against a really, really good team on the road.
22:16
[SPEAKER_03]: And, and Paul Feinbaum's in the end up to number four after they win.
22:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the next week is gonna be a big test and they go to Michigan at the big house.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: You thought the Nebraska game on the road was big, way too, you got to Michigan, especially your perception on that game, all has to do with what happens in an ideal high estate game.
22:43
[SPEAKER_01]: If you lose to Ohio State, you're saying to yourself, please God do not let us lose to Michigan.
22:48
[SPEAKER_01]: If you beat Ohio State, then you're feeling like you're on top of the world going into the Michigan game the following week.
22:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's tough to get a gauge on that right now.
22:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, honestly, I've got Indiana.
23:02
[SPEAKER_01]: just like use seven and seven and over six and one, going into that Michigan game, but man, the big house is gonna be rocking that day.
23:10
[SPEAKER_01]: For probably, if the truth be known, probably be another big new kickoff.
23:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man, why don't you bring that up again?
23:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Worst case here is, I don't know, Shiranmore, like, gets a little too handsy with who's or the bison on the sideline.
23:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I know Shiran's gone, but,
23:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude's got it, you know, he's got a cake.
23:31
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know a lot.
23:32
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Kyle Woody Ham is exponentially a better coach than what Michigan has tried it out the last couple years.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: So they're a little scary, but I still feel like they had to rebuild from a talent deficit a little bit.
23:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not completely sold on Bryce Underwood as a quarterback.
23:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if he'll be one hundred percent
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: If I need to lose it to Ohio State, I trustignety to get everybody back on the same page and get the mindset right and go up there and win.
24:08
[SPEAKER_03]: If I need to be so Ohio State, I can see a little bit of a let down because it's, yep, to be to Ohio State, you're going to have to play four quarters of just absolutely physical relentless football.
24:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we saw in the Big Ten title game last year.
24:24
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, Indiana didn't have to come back and play the week after that last year.
24:29
[SPEAKER_03]: They will, they will this year.
24:30
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it can work against both sides.
24:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I could see a lot down for both sides, whoever wins, especially.
24:37
[SPEAKER_03]: So worst case, again, I hate Michigan.
24:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe more so than Ohio State.
24:45
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the dirtiest program in the Big Ten.
24:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't think I'm speaking with hyperbole when I say that.
24:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at everything that's happened, since Harball was there.
24:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Conor Stallions for Ron Moore.
25:00
[SPEAKER_03]: There was something that came out recently about another sexual harassment case that could potentially be looming.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm losing to those guys is my absolute worst case.
25:12
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the one game I think I have circle more so than maybe any other one on the schedule.
25:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure you're tuned in on Thursday for Grant and Mike's IU North Texas Preview.
25:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, after all that, the Michigan and the Ohio State Game back to back, then you come back to the Wormington on Halloween.
25:40
[SPEAKER_01]: And you mentioned earlier, kind of with them to perhaps the game, maybe being a trap game.
25:45
[SPEAKER_01]: This, in my opinion, is your trap game.
25:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, because of all what has to do with the two weeks leading up to the Minnesota game, I think Indiana will win.
25:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it seems like they don't ever play Minnesota for some reason.
26:01
[SPEAKER_01]: The last time members in play in Minnesota, I think it was 2021.
26:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And Minnesota is always a solid team.
26:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Their team you never think about.
26:10
[SPEAKER_01]: just that they've been consistent, they've been to like eight ball games in a row, they've like one seven or eight ball games in a row, BJ Flex up their row in the boat and St. Paul or wherever they're at.
26:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana will win.
26:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it will be necessarily pretty.
26:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I could see them kind of struck.
26:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say struggling, but having to
26:33
[SPEAKER_01]: really kick it into gear at some point in the second half to pull away and win.
26:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I still think they'll do that, but I just don't think they'll blow them out.
26:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially when you haven't had a buy a week and you're going into the buy a week and you're probably excited for the buy a week after Michigan and Ohio State back to back.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll be interested to see what Indiana is able to do against Minnesota, best case scenario.
26:56
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have a let down from two huge wins.
26:59
[SPEAKER_01]: and they come out and take care of business against Minnesota going into the by week or they kind of do have a let down after going one and one or two and all or God forbid and to and you know kind of getting embarrassed again I don't think it's a game the lose but I could see them not being able to put them away as early as they would like.
27:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Well we talked last year about the game going I think the Wisconsin game was the
27:26
[SPEAKER_03]: game before the buy week and we both said after the game and the end of play like it was the Friday before vacation.
27:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
27:33
[SPEAKER_03]: At work and that's just natural.
27:37
[SPEAKER_03]: You talk about blood down.
27:38
[SPEAKER_03]: The only thing I'll say about it is typically signal eddy finds these middle to lower tier big 10 teams and just absolutely bullies them.
27:47
[SPEAKER_03]: They're why we did the UCLA last year or Michigan State two years ago when they
27:52
[SPEAKER_03]: 47 straight points and Marilyn last year where they put 55.
27:58
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't worry as much about a lead down with this coaching staff.
28:01
[SPEAKER_03]: The distraction is going into the going into the by week and Halloween and Bloomington.
28:07
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's a night game.
28:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.
28:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.
28:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that just that would just reach like some like peacock seven or clock to kick
28:23
[SPEAKER_03]: you might be right.
28:24
[SPEAKER_03]: I just feel like it's going to be a game that isn't going to get a lot of eyes on it, even though it's Indiana.
28:31
[SPEAKER_03]: And what they've accomplished over the last few years.
28:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Unintentionally, what I've noticed we've done is kind of make a pick on what network and what times plot we think each game's going.
28:43
[SPEAKER_01]: So I kind of like that.
28:44
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't even mention that we were going to do that.
28:46
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad we're
28:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We kind of picked that up.
28:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I plan on being at that game, obviously, and then maybe, you know, celebrate in Halloween, and Bloomington, it's going to be ridiculous down there, not just because of the football game, just because it's college kids, and then you got kids that don't even go to college there, like me, that are gonna go down there, and probably be an idiot all weekend.
29:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm really looking forward to Halloween, and Bloomington.
29:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye.
29:13
[SPEAKER_03]: might be at that game, but I will not be celebrating Halloween in Bloomington.
29:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not even on, I'm great on at this point, so yeah.
29:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and and now Indiana is going into the the by week much needed by week.
29:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Just with the way the calendar is this year, instead of 14 weeks or 13 weeks, so you only get one by week.
29:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana is going to take that to their advantage on the seventh which in terms of college football that day there's like so many amazing games Ohio State plays Oregon that day, uh, Notre Dame plays Miami that night or that day or whatever that's going to be that's going to be a good day at college football.
29:55
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, kind of be good to sit back as a fan, I think, and just observe and enjoy that, and have to worry about your team winning or losing, then they're going to go into the U.S. C game, and this is, this is a big stretch here, because now depending on what you've done all year.
30:13
[SPEAKER_01]: you're trying to get in the big ten championship and that u.s.e.
30:16
[SPEAKER_01]: game.
30:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's circle in Ohio state and Michigan.
30:19
[SPEAKER_01]: But the u.s.e.
30:20
[SPEAKER_01]: game in a way I think is kind of getting a little underlook maybe not all the way but a little underlook Mike and.
30:27
[SPEAKER_01]: That could be a really really fun game for Indiana.
30:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where u.s.e.l.b.
30:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Lincoln Riley could be fired by then they could be under five hundred team.
30:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they have potentially a first round quarterback and Jordan Mayada and Lincoln Riley is.
30:51
[SPEAKER_03]: allegedly amassed his most talented roster since the Caleb Williams days maybe and so his best roster since he's joined the big 10 you know they opened and front him about 18 people last and weak zero against San Jose state and look pretty good I think San Jose put up 26 but a lot of true freshman giving up some points in the fourth quarter that one uh this is the end
31:18
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a, like, in the Signetti era, I don't know that they've had a stretch quite like the stretch.
31:24
[SPEAKER_03]: that this game is going to wrap up because you go from Nebraska and Ohio State and Michigan.
31:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you had the Minnesota, you got to throw in there, which you think could be a trap game.
31:35
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you finish that off with USC.
31:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, those are, you know, contender, like legitimate contenders in the big 10.
31:43
[SPEAKER_03]: And teams that you have to beat if you're going to go back to the playoff.
31:51
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the big 10 championship, but USC at home, it's cool.
31:57
[SPEAKER_03]: In my lifetime, I don't remember those two sides ever playing.
32:00
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they played since OJ was a USC.
32:03
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was the greatest I U team ever, by the way, the 1967 Roosevelt team.
32:09
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's, you know, there's a lot of truth is out there that will argue, but.
32:17
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be cool.
32:18
[SPEAKER_03]: USC has is one of those teams where if they're uniforms, they mean something in college football, it's going to be cool to watch that uniform play at Memorial Stadium.
32:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if you're a certain age, which I am, USC was just the dominant.
32:35
[SPEAKER_03]: It went Miami, USC during my 20s in college football.
32:40
[SPEAKER_03]: So this one's going to be
32:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool, but I don't trust Lincoln Riley, I don't trust USC coming in to November in the Midwest and I think Indiana is going to win this one and maybe even comfortably.
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree, I think it could be one of those coming out coming off the by week with two weeks to prepare.
33:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you've noticed with Kurt Sigmundatti that when given time to prepare, and that was one of the great things about Bob Knight, when you gave these guys time to prepare, man, it usually meant a good result for that team, so, you know.
33:17
[SPEAKER_01]: USD, like you said, it's not a trap game.
33:20
[SPEAKER_01]: It is huge playoff implications.
33:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, that place is going to be rocking.
33:25
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, Memorial Stadium stole out for the entire season this year.
33:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we've mentioned that yet.
33:30
[SPEAKER_01]: In my opinion, this could end up being maybe your NBC Saturday night.
33:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they want to get to Bloomington, either that or the Purdue game is all they're going to have.
33:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And I could see, I could see,
33:44
[SPEAKER_01]: maybe a 330 CBS.
33:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
33:47
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think Indiana wins this game like you said pretty comfortably coming off the by week.
33:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they look refreshed.
33:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they've got some mojo.
33:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully nothing deflated, but you know, just given time to rest and get off of that by week and play a really good U.S.C.
34:03
[SPEAKER_01]: team.
34:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they win pretty comfortably.
34:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I tend to agree
34:13
[SPEAKER_03]: another potentially huge win.
34:15
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the type of win that you need to get.
34:17
[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't win the conference, you have to win these type of games if you still want to crack that college football playoff.
34:23
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't drop a home game and potentially further your third loss if you don't beat the Ohio State Michigan.
34:31
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got to win that game.
34:32
[SPEAKER_03]: If Indiana goes 10 and 2 with only losing to Ohio State Michigan, they've got a pretty solid argument for the college football playoff
34:41
[SPEAKER_03]: you lose that USC game on top of those two games that nine and three's not going to get you in.
34:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and I see don't want to put the cart before the horse, but even if you're 10 and two and you lost your Ohio State and somehow USC, where's the two games that home?
34:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I think definitely gives the committee an excuse to not get in the playoff.
35:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
35:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, home games mean a lot and Signetti has protected his home field since he's been there.
35:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Looking at the next week, going out to Washington.
35:15
[SPEAKER_01]: This right here is probably the sneakyest game on the schedule.
35:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Washington is supposed to be a good team.
35:24
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to find out a lot about them before that game.
35:26
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be a lot.
35:27
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to find out a lot about Indiana before that game too.
35:29
[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, Washington's a team here.
35:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan Walters is their defensive coordinator, which kind of gives me some ease, but going out there to Washington a place that you've never played before and a different atmosphere
35:43
[SPEAKER_01]: a really good atmosphere.
35:45
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we even saw a high of state go out there last year and kind of kind of struggle a little bit took them until midway through the second after really get it kicked into gear and pull away and win that game.
35:56
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not an easy place to play and similar to Indiana.
36:00
[SPEAKER_01]: They've got one of the nation's longest home winning streaks.
36:03
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're going to end up protecting their field a lot this season.
36:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't they could be undefeated at home going into that game.
36:11
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, unfortunately, that screams like FS1 at 11 p.m. Eastern time.
36:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even want to fathom that, but to me, that's what it is.
36:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana goes out there in wins, but again, this is a stretch like you mentioned that stretch of Nebraska Ohio State Michigan, Minnesota, USC, but no one's really talking about the Washington game of being an absolutely huge playoff implication and victim championship implications.
36:42
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not wrong, I kind of forgot that this game was
36:46
[SPEAKER_03]: was coming up.
36:47
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd kind of had slipped my mind a little bit, which is, you know, shame on me, because it does have potential to be the, the trickyest game on the schedule, you know, three times own travel for a game isn't ever going to be easy to pull off.
37:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Thankfully, Indian has a
37:10
[SPEAKER_03]: We can put all of our, you know, focus in on, on Washington.
37:14
[SPEAKER_03]: There's not really anything to think about after that.
37:17
[SPEAKER_03]: So worst case scenario is you have to spend time and see atle, um, just, and like you said 11 o'clock.
37:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think, I don't think Indian is going to get,
37:31
[SPEAKER_03]: the 11 o'clock treatment.
37:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Indiana Ohio State Michigan are kind of immune from that, at this point with the networks.
37:41
[SPEAKER_03]: They'll probably put, I mean, they could put a Michigan State home game at 11 p.m.
37:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I think before they put Indiana and that's a lot, that's just, you know, kind of, or the hierarchy is for TV at this point, people want to watch the igniting people want to watch Indiana.
37:55
[SPEAKER_03]: So this could be your 730
37:59
[SPEAKER_03]: NBCP caught game.
38:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
38:02
[SPEAKER_03]: I can definitely see that.
38:04
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, you know, Washington has a good quarterback because Lane Kiffen just went and tried to blindly, you know, take him off the roster in the off season, you know, break out of your NIL deal and and come to Baton Rouge.
38:19
[SPEAKER_03]: So if Lane Kiffens actively trying to post your quarterback, you know, he's he's a good cuby.
38:26
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's a scary game.
38:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, depending on how all the other games go, I don't really think you can afford a law up there.
38:36
[SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully they can come out with a win on this one, which I still signal against fish their head coach, just not really, I'm not feeling it.
38:48
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they get some ready and they win.
38:55
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... best case scenario eleven and i'll leave and leave and see atle uh... worst case ten and one even worst case maybe nine and two i don't know i didn't want to think of that far ahead and then the next week uh... they play per due they're gonna win a million enough and i actually think curtsignetti is i think and try to put up a hundred after what tommy mccloins said you don't want to win championships go to indiana
39:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely think they are going to try and set an all-time record there if they can.
39:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I got nothing else to say.
39:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't let Barry cook.
39:33
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I can say, man.
39:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, they're they're going to win a game this week.
39:39
[SPEAKER_01]: We are talking in a week that Purdue football is going to win a game.
39:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you believe it?
39:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, I mean, they're they're great outside the
39:50
[SPEAKER_03]: outside the power forward outside a division one.
39:53
[SPEAKER_03]: All right guys, let's move on.
39:57
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't got anything to say about this Greg?
40:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.
40:04
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to win a game this week.
40:06
[SPEAKER_02]: The Purdue Report was a very similar tone.
40:10
[SPEAKER_02]: When we talked and went game by game and talked about IU, it was a very similar tone to what you're saying.
40:19
[SPEAKER_02]: we uh uh it's gonna be ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly.
40:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I use probably gonna be better this year than last year and uh Kurt Sigmetti is uh too good for us right now.
40:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah they're gonna beat the shit out of them.
40:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just just keeping it straight forward here.
40:42
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Grant.
40:42
[SPEAKER_03]: So depending on, we didn't really break down.
40:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like two specifically wins and losses.
40:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Indiana comes out of this regular season 10 and two.
40:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's going to be good enough.
40:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana's only won a handful of teams.
41:00
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard another podcast talk about this.
41:02
[SPEAKER_03]: That could play in the college football play off for the third straight year.
41:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Oregon has a chance.
41:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Ohio State has a chance.
41:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Georgia as a chance and Indiana.
41:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I know today and we know it doesn't they can't do it Tennessee can't do it Trying to say an M isn't gonna be able to do it Texas Misty a couple years ago Alabama Alabama missed it the first year of the bore so Indiana's one of Five four that could potentially make the college we will play out for the third time in the
41:40
[SPEAKER_03]: in the 12 team era.
41:41
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think 10 and 2 could get them there depending on who the two are.
41:47
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's two home games like we talked about, it could be a lot tougher discussion.
41:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the Vegas over under this year is 10 and a half.
41:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to take the under.
41:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go
42:09
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... you mentioned the line at ten and a half on wind i'm gonna take the over i think they go eleven and one i think they uh... be to high state i think they get into the big ten championship and half to play organ uh... i think organ goes to Columbus and be to high estate this year which is a whole other story i could see a high estate maybe losing one to michigan
42:39
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the Ohio State report, but when you look at who they play this year, Texas, Iowa on the road, Illinois, they'll beat Illinois, but Illinois, you can't overlook them unless, you know, you just go out and do it Indiana to do them last year.
42:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana, you know, they're going to play Indiana, obviously, they play Oregon, they play Michigan, Ball State could be a tough one, you know, I think that she's open, I'm scared open her
43:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Big, big night in Fancy, when the Cardinal pulled that, that upset off, and I'll leave it with this here.
43:15
[SPEAKER_01]: If Indiana beats Ohio State, then Ohio's Tate.
43:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I cringe and I say his name.
43:23
[SPEAKER_01]: He has to go to the Hoosiers gym in night's town and run 500 down and back for the in represent the Indy 500 air quotes.
43:34
[SPEAKER_03]: So I did like his chat.
43:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I wanted him to lose the Northwestern.
43:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't see that one.
43:40
[SPEAKER_03]: He has to take the ACT until he gets the score that would get in into Northwestern.
43:46
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good one.
43:48
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.
43:51
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... and if they lose the u.s.c.
43:53
[SPEAKER_01]: which they play again they play u.s.c.
43:55
[SPEAKER_01]: too a house state plays a tough schedule this year man they play u.s.c.
44:00
[SPEAKER_01]: bar still big cat has to tweet u.s.c.
44:05
[SPEAKER_01]: u.s. and then the word c.s.e.a.
44:09
[SPEAKER_01]: and Ohio's take has to be in an ocean within 24 hours so that that uh
44:18
[SPEAKER_01]: this could be a fun year.
44:20
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll Ohio State can least three or four.
44:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
44:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully one of them standing in it.
44:25
[SPEAKER_01]: But right now, Ohio State's number one on the country and my eyes, I think they come to Bloomington and beat Indiana.
44:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Indiana is 11 and 1.
44:34
[SPEAKER_01]: They make the play off.
44:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they could potentially get into big 10 championship.
44:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, maybe win it.
44:40
[SPEAKER_01]: get a first round by even if they don't I think they think you could finally see them maybe host in a home play off game so I'm excited this is going to be a good year I cannot wait to get to the rock on Saturday.
44:52
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a good one.
44:55
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a lot of fun unless you're a boiler maker.
45:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, I can't believe you're underestimating your own team.
45:20
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the number one team in the country.
45:21
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going at least 11 and one, and they're probably gonna win it all again.
45:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I just said they go 11 and one.
45:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I said they go 9 and 3 last year, they would 16 and 0.
45:32
[SPEAKER_03]: 16 and 0 is a very good possibility again.
45:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is to an extent, but your coach is that.
45:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Gail and Clavio talked about this is that that's kind of I don't want to he says it's unrealistic I agree with him doing extent.
45:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't put a past this team to go undefeated Maybe especially in the regular season I'm not predicting a playoff or a big-din championship or a national championship yet.
45:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't seen with the
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[SPEAKER_01]: other teams from the country have done as of right now, but Indiana certainly in the conversation to go back to back, but I can't, I can't declare them this preseason national champions right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't, I can't really declare anyone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: even BAMA didn't go back to back and except for like 2011 2012 or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Georgia did it in 2021 and 22 I think.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean you got to go back to Nebraska in the 90s to find back to back chance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't happen a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't remember if the U went back to back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if USC did because they lost a ventjeon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's tough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's tough to win back to back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, look at the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How many teams actually got back to back in NFL?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The cheese did it a couple of years ago, but it's not common.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it'll be tough, but if you gave me one team to start the season and said, you had to bet everything on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It would be perseguedity and I knew.
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