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Indiana-Oregon Preview with Grant Shouse (2.55.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report, who's your fans for a special edition of the IU Report with Grant Shows, a preview of the Hoosiers Top 10 Showdown.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, Top 7 Showdown in Eugene, Oregon against the Oregon Ducks.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: We talked a little about this a little bit on Wednesday with Mike Hutzl, who could not join us tonight for the preview.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we said we think this is probably the biggest regular season game, and I use football history grant.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thoughts on that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a decent perspective there.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look at it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the Ohio State game from last year is Comparable.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would argue this is a bigger game.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Indiana this is a game.
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: They they have to prove that they can compete in you know, maybe not necessarily win the game but compete in the game would be You know is is gonna be huge and
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't think we're gonna be at all shocked at either result, whether Indiana wins the game or not.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll just have to kind of see how it plays out on Saturday.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like Indiana's chances in this game, but it's also one of those games Greg, where if you told me they were gonna get blown out, I wouldn't be shocked.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll just have to find out.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I would be shocked.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Oregon's good enough to beat this team.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Going away.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just say it that way.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I could see Oregon controlling the game, winning a close one, where they had to pull away late in the game.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I've been looking at the college football landscape grant.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: You win this game and everything opens up for you.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I think it's the biggest game in IU history.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: If they win this game,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's suddenly a top five team, and essentially a lock to be in the playoffs and an excellent chance to go to the big 10 championship game for the first time ever.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what's all I want.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is just a huge momentum and shifter for the program.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, with Indiana here competing in this game on Saturday, I think that, you know, you got to be able to put it all out there on the line.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is not going to be an easy game.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I think having a game like they did with Iowa almost now two weeks ago.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to help them going into this game, but the thing is, having a game like they, like Oregon had against Penn State a few weeks ago is also going to help them in a close game.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw what Penn State did last year against UCLA.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: They shot the bed for a lack of a better term.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And UCLA, who we, we sat there and were like, they're, they're not going to win a game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They beat Penn State at home.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it took Oregon double over time to be Penn State.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot, there's a lot, I think you can take away from that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot that I think we'll see happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing is, I think Indiana is going to be able to hang with Oregon on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is an Indiana team that's more talented than they were last year, when they went into a big game against Ohio State later in the year.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And my thing is, I think you'd rather play this Oregon game at this time in the year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to lead off with it to begin the conference slate.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you kind of want this game to fall right where it does in the month of October because you want to play against the team that you're probably going to face some adversity against and a team that people may doubt you against that should only give you more motivation to
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the bigger, if they get to the Big Ten Championship, I think that, obviously, you're a lock at that point that all starts Saturday for Indiana.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey Grant, let's talk about the Oregon Ducks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Clearly, one of the best teams in the country, one of the best programs over the last decade, decade and a half.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they've reached the new level under Dan Lanning since he got there in 2022.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They went 13 and won last year and won
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A, this is a team though, that at the end of the year, if you get, give me 14, if you could win the national championship, I think everyone is saying the word.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like Mike said the other day, a really great analogy, is what he said was that Iowa is a tractor and organ is a Ferrari.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're kind of, um,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're kind of a college football sweetheart a little bit in terms of a program.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Who organs a program that so flashy the uniforms, the colors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the, uh, it's crazy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just sound the location of where it's at.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of America's West Coast team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's America's West Coast school.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can use it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a program that hasn't had a lot of fatigue with college football fans because it's only been the last 15 years.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: we never heard about Oregon until 15 years ago or so.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think like the Alabama's and the Georgia's and the the teams that have been here forever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not a ton of fatigue with Oregon football.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a program that you don't really hate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may not like Oregon, but I don't think you hate Oregon.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I had never had a problem with Oregon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it's a place I've always wanted to go visit.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've always wanted to go out there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Austin Stadium is amazing and let's face it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That place is going to be rocking on Saturday afternoon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, you mentioned how Oregon is and how I put the stats together every week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a, this is a game that, and a team that Indiana stacks up with pretty well, pretty comparable in a lot of categories.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana score 239 points, Oregon score 233.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's averaging 47.8 points per game, Oregon's averaging 46.5 points per game, so they're right there with each other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's had 140 first downs, Oregon's had 123.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana said 73 rushing first downs, Oregon has had 60.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's only had one more passing first down than Oregon
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  [SPEAKER_00]: organs rush for 1,197.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Both teams averages about 6 yards per carry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana average is 267 yards per game rushing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon averages 239 yards per game rushing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: thing is organs rush for more touchdowns 15 touchdowns to Indiana's 11 Indiana's pass for 352 yards organs pass for 1,322 yards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Indiana is 99 for 136 and one interception through the air.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon is 106 for 146 and one interception as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's past for 19 touchdowns, Oregon's past for 14.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana has had 2,691 total yards of offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's had 2,519 total yards of offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: there's so comparable.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's had 357 total offensive plays organs at 337 total plays Indiana's averaging 300 or 500 and 38.2 yards for game organs averaging 500 and 3.8 yards for game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On third down this year, Indiana is 35 for 60 good for 58 percent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon is 31 for 61 good for just over 50 percent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We round up basically 51 percent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana though is this is where they've been bad as on fourth down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've been two for eight on fourth down this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's been nine for 13.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's only converted 25 percent of their fourth down plays.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's
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  [SPEAKER_00]: converted 70% of their fourth downplays.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's outscoring opponents, 239 to 48, throughout the whole year, Oregon is only outscoring opponents, 233 to 61, throughout the entire season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The most points Indiana has given up in a quarter this year, has been a total of 17.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: against their opponent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So their opponent scored 17 points in the first quarter.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Orkin is actually getting out scored in the fourth quarter by opponents 35 27.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Grant.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not that that matters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I just want to give it up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 51 points the entire season so far in the in regulation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All the points they're giving up are in the fourth quarter when they're way ahead.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: uh... there they're outscoring opponents thirteen seven and overtime which is uh... that's the pin state game for you right indiana has a hundred forty seven solo tackles organ with a hundred thirty four indiana with a hundred and sixteen assisted tackles organ with a hundred and eighty
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's tackled opponents more than Indiana has 314 for the ducks 263 for the Hoosiers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana said 49 tackles for loss that have gone for 162 yards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 49 tackles for loss and opponents have lost over 150 yards on those tackles for loss, Oregon only with 22 TFLs for 75 yards.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana has intercepted the ball seven times this year for 58 yards.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oregon has their defenses had five interceptions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that have gone for a hundred and twenty three yards.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's put twelve quarter back heries on the opposing quarterback, Oregon has put ten, ten times if they add pressure again.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the first time this year and now six games where Oregon or where an opponent I should say is comparable to Indiana.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So this is by all means this is a huge test.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey Grant, here's what I'm picking Oregon.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna pick the reason I'm going to do that is because I think Oregon's defense is really good and they're battle tested way more than I, you, bit up.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've played four power, four schools and maybe the best team in FCS.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the best schedule in the country, but it's not bad and they've done nothing but dominate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those weeks where I understand that Indiana is not favorite organs favored by seven and a half points that line is actually dropped from ten and a half when it opened up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But organs still.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's why it dropped.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and I'm picking Oregon to win the game.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it hurts, I mean, obviously I want to pick Indiana.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But again, I wouldn't be surprised if Indiana doesn't come out.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like how they did against Ohio State go up early, maybe, and then when Oregon kind of gets settled in with its crowd and kind of gets the game under its feet a little bit.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you, I'm not gonna be shocked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: if Indiana doesn't get boat-raced in this game.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm telling you this, I'm not going to be shot if Indiana doesn't pull this one out and win the game.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm I'm really looking forward to Saturday a headline coming in is that DeAngelo Ponds their top secondary player will be available and he will play against Oregon.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: He missed the Iowa game for an injury.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of don't know what happened.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a late weekend jury on on Thursday or something before the Iowa game.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And probably a good move.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He probably could have played against Iowa and they decided to keep
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: aggravate an injury more after, you know, you were going into a buy week.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he essentially two weeks or a week to get healed up for your biggest game of the year so far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And ponds will be available Saturday against Oregon.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a game that Kurt Signetti said, they have a veteran team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of our guys have been in games like this before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dan Lanning said this this team has a about Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This team has a clear identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They know what they're good at and they know what they do really, really well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So both coaches, I think, have a certain respect for each other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You heard both coaches talk in the press conference earlier this week about how great the other coaches coach, signetti said how Dan Lanning is a young phenom coach that's
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Lanning said the respect signities want everywhere he's been they know each other from the big 10 meetings of course And I think they're about as close to each other mentality wise is Signetti is to any other coach in the country.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they kind of walk with the swagger So there's that to be said and I think when it comes down that
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: mentality wise, you know, there may be coaches out there that are better than Kurt Signetti and Dan Landing, schematically wise, and able to coach the game on the field better.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think the mental preparation
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of football.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two best coaches in the country that are good at and getting their team prepared are playing each other on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they both reside in the Big Ten Conference.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's it's it's it's pretty interesting although Kurt Signetti did say.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you kind of go back to the Notre Dame at Ohio State Game last year he goes
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I would say about Ohio State Notre Dame is you know you can you can dwell on the line of scrimmage, but I don't think we held the advantage at any position in those games.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: That includes the quarterback that includes the running back that includes the receivers, position guys, all those kind of guys, they did not hold an advantage against Notre Dame or Ohio State.
• 14:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they hold some of those advantages this year.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they have a slightly better quarterback.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: they have, I think, two better receivers than Oregon has and I may eat my words, I'm probably going to.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Serrat and Cooper are the best wide receiver duo, maybe not in the big tent, but arguably in the country.
• 15:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to see a lot of that on display this this Saturday, but it's going to be a really good game.
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You go back to what you said, Greg, I would not be surprised that this game isn't a low scoring one as well, but
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm still going to pick Oregon to come out on top, but I think it could be one of those games that ends up 35, 24.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good one.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go 35, 24, Oregon to take down Indiana on Saturday and hand Indiana's first loss of the 20, 25 campaign.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's all says 3321 Oregon.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's gonna be a lot closer and a lot lower scoring.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Give me 17, 16 ducks.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think both defenses are really good.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And both offenses are capable of controlling time of possession.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's gonna be a shootout by any means.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Give me 17, 16.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, ESPN analytics says IU has a 30.6% chance to win.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's better than that.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's more than that.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing that we're saying this.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I use that Indiana football on the college football report, which is coming out a little later today.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I asked Eric Robinson said he thinks there are 11 teams that could win the national championship.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I asked him to name him and it only took him forward to get to you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty amazing that where that's where at that time.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a hell of a compliment to Indiana.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And even if they don't win on Saturday, I'm gonna say this, I've been saying this all week.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: We predicted Indiana to go 11 and 1 or 10 and 2.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was one of the games we predicted then to drop.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather see them lose to Oregon than lose to Purdue, Michigan State, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, and any other team I'd rather see them lose to Oregon because you kind of knew this would be the possibility going in.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot there's a lot that can be said again we predicted Indiana would be like this that could go 11 and 1 or 10 and 2 even maybe 9 and 3 I think at the time we may have thought Illinois could have been that third could have been third loss.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to be shocked if Indiana loses the game.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to say this right now at all the shiitalkers out there.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to they're going to talk loud.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to talk and proud.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to walk with it.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to carry it.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of the day, just know that it took you all this time.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now this year, when you thought Indiana is going to fall off and lose Dylan Oyer, lose Iowa, took you this took you six weeks of six or seven weeks of college football.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: for you to talk about, to talk, get about Indiana, losing an F and football game now.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Grant, I think these two teams are going to see each other again.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And a playoff?
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Big 10 championship or the playoff.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the teams might be that good.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're right, Greg, and this is a huge opportunity this Saturday for Beatle put it respect on Indiana's name, and this is a game that this is how I look at it at the two big games last year.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I kept going around saying, man, when it for the guys like Bill Mallory, when it for the guys like Corso, when it for Cam Cam Ring, Bill Lynch, Terry Heppner, especially Terry Heppner.
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: We can talk about what's on paper all we want, but the game's gonna be played on the grass.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, time's only gonna tell on Saturday, but winter lose we're gonna have a lot to talk about.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think after the game's Saturday.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Great shots.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for having me, Grego.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Who's your speed organ?
• 19:55
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