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BONUS: B1G Title Contenders Facing The Toughest Schedules In Conference History · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 2: up down here. Anyway, appreciate you guys for joining me
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  Speaker 2: over here at Buckeye Huddle on tonight's show. Listen. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the best teams in the Big Ten might not
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  Speaker 2: make the postseason simply because the schedules are so much
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  Speaker 2: harder than other teams in the Big Ten. We might
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  Speaker 2: see some real cannibalization in conference. This year, we got
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  Speaker 2: a combination of these really great teams at the top,
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  Speaker 2: then some real quality teams, and then a pile of
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  Speaker 2: cream puffs. So it's very possible for a team to
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  Speaker 2: kind of skate through and get a pile of cream puffs,
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  Speaker 2: and not many of the big time teams. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't really like the way this has shook down. So
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  Speaker 2: I have broke down the ten contenders in the conference
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to go through their schedules. I ranked them.
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  Speaker 2: I want to show you how I ranked them. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a pretty fair system, and there are a
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  Speaker 2: few teams that I think got a pretty easy path
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  Speaker 2: to the playoff. Conversely, a couple very very hard. In
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  Speaker 2: addition to that, the Big Ten Ross Byork Tony Pettiti
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  Speaker 2: supporting the twenty fourteen playoff elaked memo that comes out
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  Speaker 2: through ESPN leaked. I say that loosely it it was
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  Speaker 2: given to ESPN to float to the public. Want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. Want to show you the format that
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  Speaker 2: they want to use for the sixteen and then the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen playoff. You couldn't make it any worse. Man.
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  Speaker 2: These guys are really something. It's not just as if
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fourteen playoff isn't bad enough and nobody wants it,
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  Speaker 2: but the sixteen team playoff, which everybody's kind of like, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can handle that. The way they formatted this thing
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  Speaker 2: is unbelievable, but we'll go over that. Let's all please
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  Speaker 2: like to show it's a rough time. It's a rough time, guys,
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  Speaker 2: that the views are low. You know, creators are grumpy.
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  Speaker 2: We can't even stream on Twitter tonight. There's something wrong
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  Speaker 2: with Twitter, the Twitter streaming. So let's get this puppy
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  Speaker 2: going hit that like button. We start today with the
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  Speaker 2: Columbus Aviators, and I want to know if you guys
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  Speaker 2: are playing and on trying to get into this. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say like I'm gonna try to get into this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try to watch the UFL because we
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  Speaker 2: got a team. We got the Columbus Aviators and their
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  Speaker 2: uniform has been unveiled today. And here is the Columbus
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  Speaker 2: Aviators uniforms. Now, the colors are Tennessee Titans colors. They
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  Speaker 2: got the dark blue, they got the baby blue, and
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  Speaker 2: then they got the red and the logo itself. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not thrilled with. I don't really love the propeller through
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  Speaker 2: the logo. I don't know. I think it's kind of cheesy.
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  Speaker 2: You got the ce with the wings. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's all right. I do like the tie in of Aviators,
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  Speaker 2: but there are a lot of teams in this league
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  Speaker 2: that have pretty really I don't know, really cool, mean
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  Speaker 2: sounding names. Aviators isn't very mean. But all in all,
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  Speaker 2: I dig the uniform. I dig it. Here's the whites here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the font. I don't like how they've
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  Speaker 2: done the font shadow of the numbers, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: crazy about the shoulder striping. Not crazy about that. I
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  Speaker 2: do like the striping on the pants, though that's pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we got. Let me know what you
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  Speaker 2: think of the uniform, and let me know if you
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  Speaker 2: are going to try to follow this team, at least
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  Speaker 2: check it out. With Ted Gen coaching the older saying
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  Speaker 2: brother is the quarterback. We got g Scott. I think
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  Speaker 2: maybe Matt Jones is playing too. Maybe I think I
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  Speaker 2: might have heard that, might be making that up. Not
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  Speaker 2: quite sure. I also so I was looking around for
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  Speaker 2: an aviator's helmet. Obviously they're not for sale yet. I
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  Speaker 2: did find a guy on Twitter who has three D
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  Speaker 2: printed his own, so I'm gonna get a hold of
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  Speaker 2: him and see if I can get a three D
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  Speaker 2: printed aviator's helmet. But I bought two new helmets today
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  Speaker 2: for the studio. I got Indiana because I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: balance out. I think I have like nine sec eight
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  Speaker 2: Big ten, three acc and I wanted to balance it out.
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  Speaker 2: And I figured, all right, I have to get Indiana. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's no excuse to not get Indiana. They're a national champion.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to have all the best of the
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  Speaker 2: Big ten over there. I've got Ohio State several times over.
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  Speaker 2: We've got USC We've got Oregon, we've got Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: We've got Nebraska, Wisconsin, even Washington, Michigan State. And then
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  Speaker 2: I did something that I said I was never going
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  Speaker 2: to do. I just felt like it was not fair
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  Speaker 2: to represent the Big Ten without one of their best teams.
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  Speaker 2: As we are, we've kind of got a war going
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  Speaker 2: on behind me here right, there is a war going
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  Speaker 2: on behind me. We've got all the SEC's best. How
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  Speaker 2: can we have the Big ten's best without including one
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  Speaker 2: of the Big Ten's best. So I did something I
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  Speaker 2: said I was never going to do. I said I'd
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  Speaker 2: put it back there, but I said I would never
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  Speaker 2: spend my money on it, and I did. I broke down,
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  Speaker 2: and I spent my money on it, and I got it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't put it up yet. I assume many people
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  Speaker 2: are going to be irritated with me about this decision.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of regretting it already. I'm kind of regretting
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  Speaker 2: it already, you guys. Let me know. Did I make
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  Speaker 2: a huge mistake. Was I trying to be too fair?
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  Speaker 2: Was I caring too much about this war behind me?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Should it not make an appearance in
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  Speaker 2: the studio? You know what I'm talking about. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna say it out loud. I'm not gonna say it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to our schedules in the Big Ten. So
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  Speaker 2: last year, in the year before, I ranked the SEC
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten schedules, I kind of did it
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  Speaker 2: by feel. Basically, I would say, all right, these are
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  Speaker 2: the toughest games that you can play in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the best teams. How many of these teams, Like,
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  Speaker 2: if you do you play three of these tough teams,
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  Speaker 2: do you play four? And I just kind of went
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  Speaker 2: by the tough games, then the medium games, then the
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  Speaker 2: cream puff games, and this year I developed a point system.
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  Speaker 2: So I developed a point system to try to dial
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  Speaker 2: this in because a lot of these schedules in the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten are very similar. So for starters, I took
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  Speaker 2: the top ten competitors in the league. And it's crazy
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  Speaker 2: when I'm thinking of ten competitors like contenders. These are
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a lot of teams ten contenders in
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  Speaker 2: a league, but it's really just a little over half
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  Speaker 2: the league. So we got our six big dogs, right,
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  Speaker 2: we got Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana, Michigan, Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: and USC those who are who I consider the six
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  Speaker 2: big dogs. Then we've got Iowa, Nebraska, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of Tier two altogether. And we got a
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  Speaker 2: couple teams that might pop up into there. And we
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  Speaker 2: got a couple of those who might drop off. But
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  Speaker 2: that's what we got right now going into the season
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  Speaker 2: based on the odds. So, out of those top ten,
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  Speaker 2: who are the playoff locks, who are the contenders, who
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  Speaker 2: are the long shots? And how do we rank those
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  Speaker 2: schedules so that it can be relatively fair? How do
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  Speaker 2: we go about doing that? Well? I started by setting
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  Speaker 2: up five tiers. Every team in the Big Ten was
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  Speaker 2: slotted into a tier, and when you play a game
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  Speaker 2: against a team, each tier has a difficulty point value. So,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, Tier one is Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana. If
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  Speaker 2: you have one of those three on your schedule, that
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  Speaker 2: is a twenty five point level difficulty game. If you
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  Speaker 2: have a game against a team in Tier two Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: USC Penn State, that is a twenty point difficulty scheduled game.
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  Speaker 2: Tier three Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington, that's a fifteen
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  Speaker 2: point game. Tier four Northwestern UCLA, Wisconsin, Michigan State that's
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  Speaker 2: a ten point game. Maryland Purdue, Rutgers, that's a seven
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  Speaker 2: point game. Now, in addition to that, if you play
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  Speaker 2: on the road at Ohio State at Oregon, in Tier
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  Speaker 2: one at Indiana, that's an additional five points, which makes
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  Speaker 2: that a thirty point difficulty game. If you play at
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  Speaker 2: Michigan USC, Penn State, that's a four point difficulty, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: Washington that's a three point difficulty if you're playing at
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  Speaker 2: their stadium. So we have factored in how difficult each
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  Speaker 2: matchup is, and we have added the addition points if
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  Speaker 2: you have to play them on the road. For out
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  Speaker 2: of conference games, I'm awarding no points for purchased games.
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  Speaker 2: If you purchase a game from a Mac team, you
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  Speaker 2: better win the damn game. That's just it. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give you any points if you have a power for
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  Speaker 2: team in your out of conference. I slotted them in tiers. Now,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately there were not many, but fortunately they were very
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  Speaker 2: easy to slot. For instance, Texas Oklahoma are on Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State and Michigan schedule. They're Tier ones. Oregon plays Oklahoma State,
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  Speaker 2: that's a tier. That's a Tier four game. They were
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  Speaker 2: terrible last year. Duke plays Illinois, Iowa plays Iowa State.
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  Speaker 2: So I slotted those guys all in with their corresponding
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  Speaker 2: Big ten tier and then the rest you got Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: Indiana three purchase games, Nebraska, USC, both canceled their big
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  Speaker 2: out of conference matchups. Nebraska canceled Tennessee USC didn't renew
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  Speaker 2: with Notre Dame. So we are more and more teams
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten are going to the three cream
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  Speaker 2: Puffs to start the season. In college football fans, instead
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  Speaker 2: of getting mad about this, many choose to look at
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  Speaker 2: this through the terms of the as if they were
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  Speaker 2: the GM, instead of the college football fan who's losing
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  Speaker 2: the game, can't watch the game, but instead looking at
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  Speaker 2: this as though they're the GM, saying that's smart, which
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  Speaker 2: I'll never understand that logic. But the Big Ten in
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  Speaker 2: the SEC have these absolutely pathetic, increasingly pathetic out of
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  Speaker 2: conference schedules with three by games. We do not need
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  Speaker 2: schedules in the Big Ten in the SEC with three
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  Speaker 2: cream puff games. Man, these guys have got to come
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  Speaker 2: to an agreement here to get something else rolling. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Maryland's Purdues, Rutgerses, UCLAs and Northwesterns and Michigan States
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  Speaker 2: on your schedule already. You don't need additional crumming teams
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  Speaker 2: to warm up. It doesn't need to be done. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't need to be a thing. So that's my spiel
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  Speaker 2: with that Anyway, let's take a look at our schedules
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  Speaker 2: here and we'll start with the number ten team. Remember
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  Speaker 2: the ten contenders here. This is the team with the
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  Speaker 2: easiest schedule out of all the ten contenders, and we
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  Speaker 2: like to call them Iowa State East. That's Penn State.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Campbell's first year at Penn State. Penn State Matt
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  Speaker 2: Campbell's schedule is about as easy as it gets. It
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  Speaker 2: is a one hundred and twenty two point schedule. He
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  Speaker 2: starts off with three cream puffs. Then he's got Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: at Northwestern USC at home. That's a big one, than
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  Speaker 2: at Michigan. That's a tough stretch right there. So USC
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  Speaker 2: at home at Michigan and after that, buddy, they're cruising.
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  Speaker 2: They've got Purdue, they go at Washington that's a tough one,
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota at home, Rutgers at home, and at Maryland. This
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  Speaker 2: guy can lose against US and Michigan, and if he
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  Speaker 2: handles the rest of his business, Matt Campbell could potentially
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  Speaker 2: be in the playoffs. You're number one at Penn State. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand the Penn State had a really crummy year
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  Speaker 2: last year and they're turning over, but it's Penn State
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  Speaker 2: and i just when you see like Indiana's schedule compared
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  Speaker 2: to this, it just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make any sense how these guys got such an easy draw.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go to number nine, a team that would
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  Speaker 2: have made the playoffs in a twenty fourteen playoff last year,
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  Speaker 2: that is eight and four Iowa. Iowa at eight and
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  Speaker 2: four would have made the playoffs in a twenty fourteen format.
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  Speaker 2: They at least play a decent out of conference with
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  Speaker 2: Iowa State. But you know, unfortunately that Iowa State team,
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  Speaker 2: twenty two of their best players went to Penn State,
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  Speaker 2: so a decimated program, which makes it a total roll
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  Speaker 2: over this year. But they got at Michigan and then
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  Speaker 2: home to Ohio State, which is quite a way to
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  Speaker 2: start off your Big ten schedule, going to Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: having Ohio State at home, then at Washington. Those are
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  Speaker 2: three consecutive weeks at Michigan home against Ohio State at Washington,
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  Speaker 2: and this is one of our easier schedules. They also
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  Speaker 2: got at Minnesota, Wisconsin at home, and then Northwestern Purdue
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  Speaker 2: and then a relatively tough one against Illinois and Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Just to show you how much more difficult these schedules
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  Speaker 2: have gotten in the Big Ten. This is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty five point schedule, the eighth easiest schedule that
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  Speaker 2: there is in the league. And that is a schedule
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  Speaker 2: right there. If we were talking about an Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: schedule like five years ago, we would say, man, this
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  Speaker 2: is a pretty difficult schedule. That's how fast things have
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  Speaker 2: changed here. When we go to number seven, Burt, Burt
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  Speaker 2: and Illinois at number seven, and they've been pretty good
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of years now, and they got a
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  Speaker 2: decent out of conference with Duke. They had a tough
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  Speaker 2: game against them down at Duke last year, so a
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  Speaker 2: decent out of conference. Then they opened Big Ten play
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State, they got Purdue at home at Michigan State,
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  Speaker 2: they host Oregon at Maryland at Nebraska. Later on they
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  Speaker 2: got Iowa at home as well, so a pretty difficult
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  Speaker 2: schedule for them. That is one hundred and fifty four
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  Speaker 2: point schedule. And we get to number six USC. Now
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  Speaker 2: this is the number six schedule, and this one is
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  Speaker 2: a pretty banging schedule for USC. I mean, despite removing
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, these guys three cream puffs. Then at Rutgers,
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  Speaker 2: then They've got Oregon at home, They've got Washington, then
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  Speaker 2: they got to go all the way out to Penn State.
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  Speaker 2: From Penn State, they go to Wisconsin after a bye week,
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  Speaker 2: and then they host the Buckeyes, so the Buckeyes get
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  Speaker 2: them after they play Washington, Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: then they got the Buckeyes in Indiana. Like that is
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  Speaker 2: a gauntlet right there. This is the sixth most difficult
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  Speaker 2: schedule in the Big ten Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Indiana. That is rough. Man. If these guys
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  Speaker 2: can come out of this thing potentially a playoff team,
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  Speaker 2: they are an absolute legit contender. Is USC with a
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty seven points schedule. And then we
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  Speaker 2: get to number five. Poor Matt Rule, Poor Matt rule,
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  Speaker 2: And to me, this is karma. This is karma for
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  Speaker 2: Matt Rule for canceling that game that you know, last
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  Speaker 2: minute cancelation against Tennessee that he should not have done
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  Speaker 2: to try to get himself the easiest schedule he could,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what he gets for it. So he
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  Speaker 2: can't notice how they've put on their schedule the Red
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  Speaker 2: White spring game. Remember he also canceled the spring game
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  Speaker 2: last year and a revolt from the Nebraska fans, and
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  Speaker 2: now the spring game is back. What a putts but
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  Speaker 2: a couple of a couple of cream puffs to start,
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  Speaker 2: three of them, to be precise. That is North Dakota,
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  Speaker 2: the North Dakota Fighting Hawks. That is not NDSU. So
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  Speaker 2: three cream puffs. Then he's at Michigan State, got Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: then he's got Indiana at home, got to go out
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon, Washington at home, at Illinois at Rutgers, then
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  Speaker 2: welcomes in Ohio State and then goes to Kinnick to
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  Speaker 2: play Iowa. A really, really tough go for the Huskers
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  Speaker 2: as they try to You know, this is Matt Rule
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  Speaker 2: year four. Now remember we all heard Matt Year role three.
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  Speaker 2: That's when they're really supposed to take the next step.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Year rule four, they might go backwards. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go to number four and that'll be the Ducks. The
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  Speaker 2: Ducks get the fourth most difficult schedule in the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten this year. They got Boise so a decent out
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  Speaker 2: of conference, and then they also scheduled Oklahoma State. Now
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be terrible, but at least they got
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  Speaker 2: them on the schedule. They start off Big Ten play
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  Speaker 2: at USC, then they got UCLA, Nebraska comes into town.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Then they got to go to Illinois, they got Northwestern,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: who's plucky. Then they got to go to Ohio State
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: and take on Michigan and back to back weeks. Then
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: to Michigan State, who towards the end of the year
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I think will be an improved proof squad. And then
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: of course their rivalry game with Washington, and that is
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Oregon with one hundred and sixty two points, the number
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: four rank schedule, and then we got number three, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: you got to ask yourself, how in the hell did
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Washington get the third most difficult schedule in the Big Ten,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: as if they had some great year Washington for starters,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: they played their rivalry game Washington State and Wazoo. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: have no idea how good they're good or not good
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: they're going to be this year. But they've also got
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Utah State, who was a pretty tough out last year,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: so potentially two decent matchups early on, and Eastern Washington
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: is actually usually a pretty decent squad too, so not
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: so bad for the outer conference there. But they've got Minnesota,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: then at USC, then Iowa at Purdue, then they're off
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: and they got to go to Nebraska. Then they got
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Penn State, Michigan State, and they finished with Indiana and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: at Oregon. That's killer man. That is killer for the Huskies,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and that brings us to our top two. The Huskies
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: with one hundred and seventy eight point schedule. So we
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: went from like one hundred and twenty one points to
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy eight, and we could see everybody
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was kind of lumped together, moving up a little bit,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a little bit, a little bit, and from number three
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to number one and number two we get considerably harder.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: And we get considerably harder because number one two are
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Ohio State and Michigan. And both Ohio State and Michigan
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: have Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio State and Texas, which gives them
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: both another Tier one game, So very very difficult schedules
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: for both of them already, and then you add that
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: into the fray. Now Io Ohio State with a one
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven point schedule, I have Michigan with
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a one hundred and ninety one point schedule. It's really close.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: There are some people who are saying that Michigan's is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: harder I'll tell you why. I think Michigan loses, but
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: loses loses or wins depends how you look at it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But let's go through their schedule. First. The number two
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: rated schedule per the juck On Bucks rankings is the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverines. Now they take on Western Michigan and then
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma comes to town. Remember they went there last year,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: so they got Oklahoma at home this year, then Utep
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Then they start off big ten, play Iowa at home.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Then they're at Minnesota. They got Penn State at home,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: they got Indiana at home, and you can see that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that's kind of gonna be the difference here. In the end,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: they're at Rutgers, Michigan State at home. Then they go
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to Oregon into Ohio State. So we got a plethora
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: of big time games Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota has been, you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: recently kind of a thorn in their side. Then they've
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: also got Penn State, Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State, and their
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: rival Michigan State their other rivals. So it's a bear.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: It's a bear of a schedule. And of course the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: number one most difficult schedule the Ohio State schedule, which
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: everyone's very familiar with But let's just take a look
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: at it. Obviously, you got Texas Week two open up,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: big play with the Aliani, then at Kinnick, play in Iowa,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Maryland at Indiana, at us See, Oregon at home, Northwestern
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: at Nebraska, Michigan at home, and that is the one
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven points schedule, the toughest one in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten. A lot of people think the toughest
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: in the country. And that's interesting, right we're talking if
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Michigan's right up there with the Buckeyes. We're not used
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to Big Ten teams having the toughest considered the toughest
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: schedule in the country. This has changed so much, so quickly.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And you can also see that the difference the disparity
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: between the most difficult schedule of the contenders and then
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the Penn State schedule. Penn State's got two games, man,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: they got a two game season. If they win them,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: they're in the playoffs. And it's just really difficult, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: guess to make these things a little more even, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the Buckeyes schedule is an absolute bear. I love it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: But what separates Ohio State and Michigan's schedule here? For me,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: when you look at them, they play a ton of
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: common opponents. They both play Oregon, Indiana in Iowa, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: then Ohio State plays Texas and Michigan plays Oklahoma. So
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: those games kind of wash out, right. Then Ohio State
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: plays usc Michigan plays Penn State. You know who knows,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: those could end up being pretty even games. Then Ohio
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: State plays Michigan, Michigan plays Ohio State. Then Ohio State
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: plays Illinois, and Michigan plays Minnesota. I think they'll be
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: pretty like teams this year. Here's where Michigan starts to
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: lose ground. Ohio State plays Nebraska, Michigan plays Michigan State,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Ohio State plays Northwestern, Michigan plays UCLA, And that's where
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: we can sign it kind of see the dip. In
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: addition to that, Michigan with one more of their more
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: difficult games at home, and that, to me is what
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: makes the Buckeyes take the cake and get that one
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven points schedule. And I'm glad that
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I I'm glad that I came up with the points
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: them so I could verify this because I did go
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: look at somebody's rankings over on two four seven, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: it pretty well matched up with mine up until I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: think they had five and seven swapped or something like that,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: but they were clearly wrong. My point system was clearly right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and you guys can let me know what you think.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But there is a serious danger here that you could
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: see a couple of teams at the top, not going
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to be Indiana with their cakewalk schedule, but potentially Oregon,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Michigan or Ohio State with the number one, two, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: four schedule, teams that some people think might be contenders,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: depending on Michigan obviously, Ohio State and Oregon is some
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: people think Michigan might contend this year for a playoff spot,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: but that schedule, Boy, if they do with that schedule,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: then we certainly know that Kyle Whittingham is the real
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: deal up there. I don't expect they will personally, but
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: if they do, if Bryce Underwood get some good coaching
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: and they take the next step with that schedule, if
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: they're able to make the playoffs or just lose three games,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: because remember, like Ohio State, who could potentially lose three
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: games and get in the playoffs this year, Michigan could
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: too with that schedule, depending on who those three are
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and depending on how good Oklahoma is I think we
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: all expect Texas will be real good will Oklahoma, who
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: was in the playoffs last year, will they be that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: good again too? They got a ton returning. We'll see. Now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Let me pop in and see a couple of your comments. Here.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: We got our Canes buddy in here. He wants a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: sixteen team playoff with no group of five. I can't stand. Look,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate the group of five being
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: included in the playoff unless they make it by getting
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in in the top spots. It just drives me nuts
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: to have this charity spot. And then we got to
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: go watch these games in the first round where Old
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Miss is allowed to play two lane and get essentially
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a bye week, or the year before Penn State, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: plays Boise and gets a bye week. It just drives
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: me nuts. Man, it drives me nuts. I understand why
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they have to do it, but it just drives me nuts.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: John the Bow says, I'm running behind here, but I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: think Juck suggested that he might put that helmet on
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: display to quit the show's opening. I don't know what
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: world I'm living in. What's up? Nathan oh White out
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: for USC Yeah? Yeah, I think So that's gonna be awesome.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be fantastic. Cannot wait. Ethan is not sold
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: on Arch still thinks Texas is gonna crap the bed.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure yet.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: He did look a lot better last towards the end
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of the year, you know what I mean. Don't let
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: them dictate, all right? My boys are My boys are
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: not happy with me here. Don't taint the backdrop. You know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: after I made that purchase, I thought this was maybe
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: not the best idea. And I don't know what I'm
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: thinking here. You know, I let this guy get in
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: my head. Guys, I let him. You know, he's like,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: how can you nobody's gonna take you seriously, You're not objective.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You're clearly you're not objective. Yeah, Cam Cam Zunny definitely
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: will will help him out. For sure. Cam is a
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: is a total dude. And uh, you know, they got weapons, man,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: they got weapons. Who they don't have is Jamie French.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Jamie French's bum asses up at Michigan. I can't stand
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that kid. I cannot stand him, all right. So, speaking
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: of that, speaking of the playoffs, which are which our
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Canes bro brought up. We got uh. I did a
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: show over on Chuck on Bucks about this, but I
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: just was watching Ted Carter did an interview today. So
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Ted Carter did an interview with Dom Taberry, and I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: wanted to hit back on this again. So an eternal
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: memo was leaked intentionally by Tony Pettiti and his crew
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: of folks at the Big Ten that would love to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: see college football burn for all of us to make
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: themselves more money. And they wanted to float this idea
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: what do they call it socialized? They wanted to socialize
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the twenty four team compromise. They called it the Big
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Tens twenty four team compromise. And the compromise goes like this,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: we will give the SEC their sixteen team playoff, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: only for twenty seven and twenty eight. They can get
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: their five to eleven format just like they want. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: then in twenty twenty nine we get what we want,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: which is a twenty fourteen playoff. We don't need our
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and this is the compromise part. We don't need our
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: auto bids. Remember he needed his four auto bids for
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: his playing games. We don't need him anymore. If you're
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: gonna go to twenty four. We're confident we're getting our
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: four right, so we don't need the auto bids anymore.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: So that's Tony's compromise. And that format with twenty four
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: would go on for twenty eight, twenty nine or twenty yeah,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: twenty nine to thirty and thirty one, so for three
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: years thirty one the contract with TVNS, and at that
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: point they can sit down and talk about expanding it further.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: So that was his compromise. Now, the sixteen team playoff,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: who I think a lot of people who are college
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: football fans and don't want to see twenty four have
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: always felt going from twelve to sixteen is like whatever,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a shrug of the shoulders, not really concerned with it,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: would rather not kind of dig twelve, but if it happens,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: not going to make a stink about it. That's the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: general vibe I get from the majority of college football fans. However,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the way they have chosen to lay this bracket out
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: is just about the stupidest way you could possibly do it. Now,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: with sixteen teams, you can go no buys sixteen to
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: eight to four to two. It's perfect, right perfect. You
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: don't got a team sitting on the sidelines forever. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the way they've chosen to do it is to play
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: teams thirteen versus sixteen and fourteen versus fifteen in essentially
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a play in game in the first weekend. So they're
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: all by themselves playing in the first weekend. Then after
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: that you have round one, then you have round two.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Now number one and number two, those top two seeds,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: they don't play until the third weekend because they get
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: a buye through the first round. See, so they're sitting
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: for the play in weekend. Then they're sitting for round one,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and their reward is to sit until the third weekend
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: of the playoff. That's the reward. I wasn't a blae
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: in the bye week being such a massive deal, not
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: bye week, the bye in the playoffs, but that one
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and seven record. Man, you know, the first year it
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: was four underdogs, but it came back the second year
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like that, and only one of them, only
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: one of them won. It was Indiana a little something
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to it, but regardless, it's a terrible it's a terrible format.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Here's what the bracket looks like. I did download the bracket,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, so here's what the bracket would have
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: looked like last year in this sixteen team format. Let
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: me pulled this, pull this comment out of here. So
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: this is who it would have been last year. You know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: you had the teams that just missed thirteen Texas, fourteen
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Vandy fifteen two lane. Obviously they made it, but this
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: would have been reformatted and sixteen Duke. So that's your
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: first weekend is thirteen verse sixteen and fourteen verse fifteen.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Then your second weekend and these are all home games still,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: so two games of home, two home games, so they
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: all play, and then Indiana and Ohio State would have
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: been sitting there it till weekend number three. And that
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: is just about the most confusing way you could make it. Now,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: if you go to the twenty four teams rom, they
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: are canceling the conference championship games, but here is what
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: their twenty four team conference bracket looks like. Again, no
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: conference championship games, So this is what their bracket looks
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: like with twenty four in the first round. So the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: first eight teams, the first eight seeds get buys, so
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Seeds one through eight get a bye. Then you've got
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: sixteen teams that all play eight games. In the first round,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: so eight games are all gonna be on campus. The
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: higher seed gets the home game. Then in the second round,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the teams that are sitting there, the top eight who
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: had the buye, they're gonna play those home games at
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: their place, which is we get two rounds of home games.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: That's fun. When you look at some of these matchups,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: they're not the greatest, but it's good football. It's fun,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: right USC Arizona. Neither of them are winning winning a
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: damn you know. They're not winning three four games. We
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: know that. But it's a fun thing. It's fun football
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: game BYU Houston. Not too many people want to watch that.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: It's not like appointment television, but whatever, it's a fun
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: playoff game. Who cares Vanderbilt Virginia like whatever. There's a
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: couple bangers in there, right Miami, Iowa. Maybe Michigan is
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: being covered by Utah. Right there, I get the graphic
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: is covering Utah. Notre Dame, Georgia Tech. There's chance Georgia
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Tech could have beat Notre Dame. All in all, they're
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: not great, super competitive games, but they're fun. They're better
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: than ball games. But that's not the point. That's not
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the point, Well, I agree that the playoff would be fun.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I don't you know, like, of course the twenty fourteen
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: playoff is fun. That's not the problem. The problem is
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: right now, with twelve teams, you have got a really
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: nice balance of playoff drama and regular season drama. You've
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: still been able to retain the regular season drama when
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you go to twenty four teams. Like I just told
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: you earlier in the show, eight and four IOWA is
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. When eight and four IOWA caliber teams
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs, that means the last four or five
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: weeks of the season. What kind of drama are we getting.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: We're looking at teams like pitt and Georgia Tech, and
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: we're watching them down the stretch instead of watching like
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame in Miami down the stretch, teams that can
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: actually win. Now our focus is on crap teams who
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: can't win because everybody else is pretty well locked up.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And to be quite frank, we can go into the
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: year and take the top fifteen. What's our top fifteen?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: All right? We know a dozen of these teams are
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: making the playoffs. A dozen of them are making the
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: playoffs almost every year and a team like Ohio State.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: We just went through the Big ten schedules. How many
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: of those teams with those Big ten schedules? Indiana, for instance,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: could lose three games, they're in. Three games, You're in
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: for sure, right, you lose three, you're in for sure.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Indiana could lose all their challenging games. What are their games?
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Who are their most challenging games here, They've got Ohio State, Michigan,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: and USC. Lose them all, lose them all, You're in,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. And that to me is just like you
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: stripped so much drama out of the game. And I
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: actually think that we are currently in a system right now,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: and it's kind of just happened by luck, but we're
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: currently in a system where the talent has expanded, more
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: teams are now able to win, and it coincided with
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: going to twelve teams. And what you have now is
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: a couple of teams, teams like Notre Dame this year,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: a team that was capable of making a run being
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: left out, and that creates the ultimate drama for the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: regular season when there very well could be a team
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: that gets left out that had a legitimate beef to
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: get in. That's a good thing. That's a good thing
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: because you've got the drama in the playoffs, and you've
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: been able to keep the drama in the regular season.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Great playoff, great regular season, everybody wins. You hold on
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to some kind of tradition in the regular season as well.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: But it's just a more entertaining product. And Petiti and
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: his guys think that with twenty four or more, you
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: can capture more of the novice fan, the guy who
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't like college football. You're gonna be able to grab
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: him more with this expanded playoff. And it's true they
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: will be. And as far as us losing interest in
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: the regular season, they don't think we ever will. They're wrong.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: We will. We did in basketball, I used to be
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: a big time regular season college basketball watcher. As the
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: years went on, it was less and less and less.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: It was all about the tournament. And we'll still watch
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: big games. We'll watch big regular season games, but there
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: will be no drama down the stretch because the drama
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: will be teams that we know can't win. Nobody's tuning
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: in to watch Pitt Georgia Tech compete for that twenty
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: two seed. It's not happening. Nobody gives a shit. Nobody
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: cares because they can't compete in the playoff. Tony Petiti
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: does not care. Ross Byork right with him. Ross Byorke
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: says he thinks this is the best thing for college football.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: It's the best thing for college football. I mean that
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: could mean a lot of different things. Right. Is it
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the best thing for the college football programs to make
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  Speaker 2: the most money right now while these folks are employed
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  Speaker 2: at the college football program. Or is it the best
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  Speaker 2: thing for the fans and the health of the sport.
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  Speaker 2: It's clearly not. No, it's not. But right before I
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  Speaker 2: got on here, I heard Ted Carter get interviewed about this,
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  Speaker 2: and Ted Carter didn't really like sixteen. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: like most fans, I could go back to four. I
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  Speaker 2: would like to go back to four. Isn't it better
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  Speaker 2: for Ohio State If we're at four, we can win
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  Speaker 2: it easier. I'm like my man. I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: he would have been walking lockstep with ross Byorke. Apparently not.
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  Speaker 2: So that was pretty interesting. That was pretty listen. MCU
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  Speaker 2: Drew doesn't think we had any drama last year, basically zero. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll agree that it wasn't super drama filled at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine what twenty four is like like, there's no take
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  Speaker 2: the drama part right right now. What you're thinking of
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  Speaker 2: is the last couple of weeks. Take it and go
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  Speaker 2: back five weeks. Was there drama there? Yep, there was
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  Speaker 2: drama there. If you've got twenty four teams in five
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  Speaker 2: weeks prior, there's no drama. You just move it back
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  Speaker 2: further every time, and the drama gets shifted onto crummier teams.
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  Speaker 2: Crummy teams are the ones who have the drama in
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  Speaker 2: the end, and nobody wants that. Bucky Freak thinks the
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: parody in college football is increasing, and we may well
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  Speaker 2: see a future in the next three or five years
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  Speaker 2: where we do have twenty four that can compete. I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll have a Tier one for a while, but
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  Speaker 2: Tier two gross, and that's fine. And then you expand it,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And I'm with you even
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  Speaker 2: right if you get to a point where all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, now there's five more teams that
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  Speaker 2: we think can compete, all right, move it to sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, there's five more. It just keeps getting bigger
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: and bigger, and we got to be able to pivot.
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  Speaker 2: We got to be flexible. But to go from twelve
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  Speaker 2: to twenty four is nothing but a quick money grab,
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  Speaker 2: like a patch on a jersey. Like that's all it is, man,
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  Speaker 2: That's all it is. So anyway, that's my take on it.
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  Speaker 2: But I did like hearing from from Ted Carter. What's
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  Speaker 2: his call name? I forget his call name? He uh,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: you know he was an Air Force pilot with a
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  Speaker 2: call name. Oh jeez. All right, my friends, I do
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: appreciate you joining me on a very slow night here.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to get to get our Twitter stream rolling,
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  Speaker 2: So those of you who rocked with me, I do
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: appreciate you guys so much. Tomorrow, over on Chuck on Bucks,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I've got a hillacious film breakdown one of my favorite freshmen,
• 40:47
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• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and we'll further discuss my ill advised purchase at a
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: later date. So I appreciate you, guys, and I will
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: see you on Thursday. I hope talk you then buck
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  Speaker 2: out out