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College Football Week 8 Preview: Top Teams Facing Big Rivals · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Hey, guys, it's Tom So funny story about this episode. Sometimes Tony
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  Gerderman and I record these Saturday morning episodes where we're kind of previewing the week
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  of college football games. We'll record those a day or two early. Sometimes
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  we can get the stuff done on Thursday morning early Thursday afternoon, and then
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  it's done, and you know they're not going to change the schedule of games
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  or anything like that, so you can get the gate get your work done
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  done a little bit earlier in the week. So that's what we did this
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  week. And then right after we recorded this, then some news broke about
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  the Michigan scignceealing allegations, So Tony and I recorded a whole separate show just
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  about that that dropped on the Buckeyes Tomorrow morning feed a few hours before this
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  show is going to drop. So you're not going to hear us refer to
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  that at all, because that news had not broken at the time we recorded
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  this show. But pretty much everything else in this show is going to still
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  be accurate and still the same stuff we would be saying now. So just
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  wanted to address that. Why we hadn't mentioned that in this show, why
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  we are releasing this a little bit later. Just want to give you.
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  We're going to give you as much content as we can. It is quite
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  a week of college football. Giving you as much content as we can here.
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  So there you go. Here is part two of the Saturday, October
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  twenty first episodes of Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning. Welcome to buck Eyes Tomorrow Morning for
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  Saturday October twenty, first time your host Tom Or. The Penn State game
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  is today, the game against Michigan thirty five days. Yes, just five
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  weeks away college football season, already past the halfway point. I don't care
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  for that at all. We've got we will get to talk about some of
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  the games coming up this week, really five of them of any significant note
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  that could potentially impact the Buckeyes in one way or another, not including obviously
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  the Ohio State Penn State game. You're going to be going through those with
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  our buddy, Tony Gerdeman. Ifuckaheadle dot Com. Tony. The first one,
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  I'm I'm gonna say, and you're going to say, how is this
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  potentially related to Ohio State. Let's just talk about the game first before we
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  get to that Air Force at Navy. The first leg of the Commander in
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  Chiefs Trophy Noon on CBS. Air Force a ten point favorite on the road.
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  This is not a great Navy team. This could be a very very
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  good Air Force team. They are six and zero, one of the three
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  unbeaten group of five teams still left over under on this one. Tony a
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  forends ask thirty four points and as always in Air Force, Air Force,
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  Navy, Air Force, Army, Army, Navy games, my vice you
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  friends is bet the under Tony. What are you seeing here with air Force
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  and Navy. I wonder what the over under on possessions is. Is it
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  like six and a half for each side, because it's going to be low.
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  I do think air Force stops to run pretty well. They got a
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  good win last week against Wyoming and so they were blowing everybody out and then
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  they won a tough one against Wyoming. And like you said, Navy's offense
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  this year is just not very good. Is not what we've come to expect.
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  And even though air Force isn't trotting out d Dallas from back in the
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  day, they're doing quite well themselves and defensively, offensively they're doing what they
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  need to do. Obviously, you're not going to see much passing in this
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  one. And Tom the Ohio State Michigan thing. Whoever runs the ball better
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  wins. I think whoever throws the ball more is the loser in most of
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  these games. Yeah, and whoever throws the ball more might be like eight
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  attempts in this game. Navy. Here's the rest of Air Forces regular season
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  schedule. They're at Navy today at Colorado State. That should be a win.
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  They have Army at home. They're at Navy UNLV at home. You
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  U NLV actually not a bad team this year, honestly, might be you
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  know, the team that finishes of Michigan's first nine regular season opponents might be
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  the team that finishes with the best record, which is a statement in and
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  of itself. And then at Boise which, if you have been following Boise
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  at all, the Brian Harson to Auburn thing has not really worked out for
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  any of the parties involved in that. Not Brian Harson, not Auburn,
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  not Andy Avolos, not Boise State. Boise State is like three and four
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  right now. They have more losses than they had in multiple seasons under Chris
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  Peterson. So yeah, a twelve to zero Air Force very much a possibility
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  which brings us Tony to so is why would Ohio State care friends? Let
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  me paint you a picture? And this is really friends of a very specific
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  age. You know, if air Force goes unbeaten and they're the group of
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  five representative and Ohio State plays and loses to Michigan and or Penn State and
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  somehow misses out in the college football playoff. The Rose Bowl is a college
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  football playoff location, so the Big Ten. You know, if you are
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  a non college football playoff team from the Big Ten, you're not going to
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  the Rose Bowl. So you might go somewhere like, oh, the Peach
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  Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, somewhere like that. We're you might face the
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  Group of five Representative, Tony, we could have a somewhat disinterested Ohio State
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  team facing air Force in a bowl game in the South Ken. Ohio State
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  put up exactly eleven points in that scenario. Again, boy, not that
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  not that anyone will listening to this podcast today didn't have a rooting interest already,
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  but oh boy, Ohio State should really beat Penn State today to avoid
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  having air Force Bowl game. Part two. I thought you were going to
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  say people should be rooting for Navy. That should be the main focus root
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  for Navy. But Tom, this would be an opportunity. It could be
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  an opportunity you turn a bad thing into a good thing, an opportunity for
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  revenge against air Force, an opportunity to even the rivalry the series between the
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  two teams. Air Force has been one to know against Ohio State since nineteen
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  ninety. I don't know. Does that calls on Buckeye fans daily? I
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  would assume, And so you say that people wouldn't be interested. I say,
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  this would be an opportunity to right some wrongs. It's like a quantum
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  leap if you will, for Ohio State. And also, I don't even
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  want to hear you say defensive linemen are going to opt out of that game
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  rather than face all the cut blocks from air Force's triple option, because I
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  disagree wholeheartedly. I might opt out from that game if that happens. That
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  is Yeah, that is sort of the spiritual successor to the time that Michigan
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  scheduled app State again and everyone kind of went, why why would you do
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  that? You're just going to bring up the memories of the last time.
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  Just go ahead and have that be the fun fact is that you have a
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  losing record against app State, but it worked out for Michigan, so who
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  knows. That's just one of those thoughts that it has been sort of been
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  pingponging around on my head after I looked at the remaining schedule for Air Force,
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  so I figured, you know what, I'm going to share this with
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  the rest of the world because I shouldn't. I shouldn't be experiencing this spectrum
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  of emotions by myself. All right, Speaking of spectrums of emotions, it
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  is the third Saturday in October. That means it is time for Tennessee and
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  Alabama to play. The spectrum of emotions in this series has been pretty much
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  all role tied for about twenty years now. Tennessee got them last year in
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  Knoxville in a rather memorable finish three point thirty on CBS Alabama minus nine.
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  It just Tony feels like this is just a Tennessee team that is kind of
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  they're not quite back to the pre last year Tennessee team, but it's also
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  kind of back to I am not expecting Tennessee to win this football game.
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  No, I'm not either, And it's interesting that Tennessee's running the ball better.
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  Like last week, they ran it better than they threw it. Joe
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  Milton, the biggest arm in the world, is almost He's like a second
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  to last in terms of yards per attempt in the SEC amongst starting quarterbacks.
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  He's down towards the bottom and pass efficiency. Jalen Milroe meanwhile, second in
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  the SEC and yards per attempt, second in the SEC in passer rating and
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  runs the ball very well. So it's great that Tennessee is running the ball,
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  but they only threw it for like one hundred yards against Texas A and
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  M, and they should do better than that against Alabama. But I have
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  all of our suspicions about Joe Milton have been kind of confirmed throughout the season.
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  The downfield stuff just isn't there, The accuracy isn't there, and I
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  don't I don't think he's had a game this year where he's averaged nine yards
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  in attempt. I think he's stopped out at like eight. It's pretty bad.
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  Yeah, it's pretty bad. Hendon Hooker is not walking through that door,
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  but some of the wide receivers from last year are not walking through that
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  door either. It just feels like that was it wasn't quite a one off
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  because they haven't completely fallen off the table, but it just feels like it's
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  a step back kind of year for them. Speaking of teams taking an offensive
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  step back, Minnesota. Also speaking of teams taking a offensive step back,
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  Iowa. They're playing in Iowa City today three thirty on NBC. Get your
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  eclipse viewing glasses ready. If you're going to be watching this one, do
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  not look directly at the television. Iowa a three and a half point favorite,
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  Tony, the first time. The last time I looked at this over
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  under number, it was thirty two and a half, which is the lowest
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  number I can ever remember seeing that over under number now down to thirty one
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  and a half because the lowest number ever seen was getting beat down by a
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  full point. Oh, Tony, have you looked at the rest of Iowa's
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  schedule like they are almost a lock to win the Big Ten West because there's
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  no one left on that schedule And even though they're just a three and a
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  half point favorite against Minnesota, I don't really see Minnesota being able to You
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  know, this feels like an Iowa blowout, which means, you know,
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  ten to three, that's the problem because all of these teams, Iowa is
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  not significantly better than any of these teams. They've got Minnesota this week,
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  then they host or Northwestern, then they host Rutgers, then they host Illinois,
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  and then they go to Nebraska. Like I wouldn't be shocked if any
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  of those teams beat them, but you can't expect any of those teams to
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  play well. The only expectation you have in any of these games is for
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  Iowa's defense to play well, and anything else that happens outside of that is
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  almost happenstance or just luck of the draw. But in terms of the lowest
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  lines, I did see earlier in the week the lowest line ever recorded thirty
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  one and a half, and so they were watching this one, you see
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  if it would get to it, because like you said, it started at
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  thirty two and a half. I believe three of the four lowest have all
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  involved Iowa recently, and in that thirty one and a half may as well.
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  It may have been a bowl game, if I recall. So I'm
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  not going to touch I'm not touching the over under, but it sure feels
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  as I'm thinking about it now and saying I'm not gonna mess with it.
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  It seems kind of high, which is crazy. Well, last week it
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  was thirty six in the Iowa Wisconsin game, and it was like, boy,
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  that's that's such a low number. I don't know if they can And
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  then they went and they missed. You know, we're two touchdowns more than
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  more than two touchdowns under that they finished fifteen to six. So they finished
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  with a total of twenty one last last week under the incredibly low over under
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  by fifteen points. And now it's thirty one and a half. And yeah,
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  I don't I don't feel at all comfortable looking at the over there.
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  So yeah, man, and they're going to be in your life they get
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  upset. They are going to be a part of the narrative around every Big
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  ten game for the rest of the season, Tony. People are paying lots
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  of money to put Big ten games on TV. Can you believe it?
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  I can't believe it. Speaking of games, it probably shouldn't be on TV.
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  Michigan Michigan State seven point thirty NBC Michigan favored by twenty four. Okay,
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  Tony, unless Michigan State comes down with COVID and cancels this game,
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  talk me out. Of Michigan minus twenty four because this feels like, after
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  the postgame stuff last year, with Michigan being what Michigan is this year,
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  with Michigan State being what Michigan State is this year, this feels like it's
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  just going to be a snuff film. Well yeah, and I wouldn't be
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  shocked if things go both ways in this because you've got a Michigan State program
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  that everything is going to change next year with new coach. You know,
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  who knows how many people are going to be sticking around. This could be
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  a situation where some of these players are no they are going to be back,
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  but they want to get a shot in on Michigan and there could be
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  some Shenanigans going on there. I think the refs are going to really,
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  really really have to dial this one in and be on it and be out.
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  I'm not saying I have a police presence, but if you want to
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  have some support staff on hand to just make sure that these teams never touch
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  until they're actually on the field and the ball is snapped, because this is
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  going to be one with the Michigan is going to want to put a score
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  up because they know they can and the more they do that, the more
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  testy Michigan State is going to get. And they're already going to be testy
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  coming into this one. They have nothing to lose, and they know they're
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  going to lose, so you have even less to lose at that point.
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  So I think, just be careful with this one and it could get ugly
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  in a number of ways. All right, And last up, Duke at
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  Florida State seven thirty on ABC. These are two of the three remaining teams
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  in the ACC that are unbeaten in conference play, the other one being North
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  Carol. Duke a fourteen and a half point underdog at Florida State. Riley
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  Leonard, the quarterback for Duke, sounded like it was a possibility that he
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  could play. That his status is still a little bit up in the air
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  as at the time we're talking. We'll see how that shakes out. If
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  he's banged up, he's not super mobile. I don't know how much it
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  really helps Duke to have him back, but this is one definitely where Ohio
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  where Florida State could really buy and large lock up a spot in the ACC
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  championship game. Because Duke, of course still has to play North Carolina.
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  So even if Duke wins this game, they still have another tough one coming
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  up against North Carolina. What are you see in here? Yeah, and
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  Duke has to go to Louisville as well next week, so like this is
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  going to be a tough some tough sledding for them. So yeah, I'm
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  with you. Florida State seems to be just coasting along right now, no
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  reason to have any concern. I don't think we all got a good look
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  at Riley Leonard against Clemson, and that's probably the last time we looked at
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  Duke, and so that's not the same team going right now. Like you
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  said, if Leonard isn't one hundred percent, like he's the kind of guy
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  that if he is one hundred percent, he can will something to happen,
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  or at least be in the fourth quarter. Without him, I'm not really
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  expecting anything, especially with the way Florida State is playing right now. So
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  I think this one I don't know about two touchdowns, but also I you
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  know, I wouldn't be surprised if this one gets ugly as well. Yeah,
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  it feels like, I mean, Mike Elko has done a heck of
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  a job at Duke. Mike Elko might be doing a heck of a job
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  at Texas A and M this time next year, if some of the current
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  rumors in scuttle butt around college football are correct. But yeah, it feels
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  it feels like you're probably going to run out of you know, you're going
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  to run out of talent at some point at Duke, because it's just Florida
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  State is pretty darn good. Duke is playing probably a little over their heads
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  right now. So yeah, I think I think that's a you know,
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  I am thinking we're going to be having a lot more Florida State conversations when
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  we start the the college Football playoff selection show or ranking show shows in boy,
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  just a week and a half. I cannot believe we're almost almost there.
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  First one of those is going to be on Tuesday, October thirty first,
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  but then a couple a couple of weeks of football before then. So
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  I should be an eventful day today as the Buckeyes take on Penn State at
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  noon in the Horseshoe. That game will be on Fox. We will be
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  there. We'll have the availability report coming out for you on YouTube at YouTube
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  dot com. Slash Buckey Huddle at ten am. We'll have that college game
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  day on campus at Ohios Date to be a very big, very exciting weekend
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  in Columbus. We'll be there for all of it, and then after the
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  game win or lose, I bet there's going to be a lot to talk
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  about for the buck Eyes and the Nitny Lions both no matter how this game
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  shakes out, we will be there after the game YouTube dot com slash Bucke
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  Huddle for our usual postgame show and then another road trip next week out on
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  the road to Wisconsin. So a couple eventful weeks coming up for the Ohio
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  a good time to join buckey Huddle dot com as we're talking about Nitney Lyons
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  and then Badgers and then headed into November. When November of course Tony for
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  contenders. We will find out if about how how contending the Bucky Buckeyes are
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  Saturday, and then heading into head into the wisconcent trip after that. So
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  check us out at bucke huddle dot com. Lots of coverage of the team,
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  lots of coverage of recruiting, big recruiting weekend. This weekend as well,
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  lots of coverage of Exis and O's making you a smarter football fan all
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  at Buckeye huddle dot com. That will do it for today. Thank you
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  guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you
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  a little later on