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The 5 Most Surprising Things So Far In The 2024 College Football Season · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning. From Monday, September sixteenth, I'm
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Speaker 1: your host Tom or The Marshall Game in five days,
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Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in seventy five days during a
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Speaker 1: things the Buckeye said after the game. Oh, there was
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Speaker 1: no game on Saturday, so we're going to be talking
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Speaker 1: about something a little different today. We did a live
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Speaker 1: Michigan Monday show on Sunday. Again, we're a little off
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Speaker 1: of our normal schedule, but we're ahead. That's good news.
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Speaker 1: So we're not going to talk about the Michigan Wolverines
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Speaker 1: Buckeye Weekly podcast feed over. Today we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about some of the biggest surprises of the college
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Speaker 1: football season so far. Be doing that with a Buddy
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Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman at Buckeyehuddle dot com. Tony, I know there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of different directions we could go here, but
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Speaker 1: there's a team that was top ten in the preseason
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Speaker 1: poll that is currently oh to three and just lost
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Speaker 1: to Memphis at home. And oh boy, the Florida State
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Speaker 1: Seminoles have not been a good surprise, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: No, And I think I think we probably mentioned that
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Speaker 2: they were overrated to begin with this season. But when
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Speaker 2: you watch them, and I think some of us did
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, and just as we drove past, just
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Speaker 2: continue to turn our neck and stare at the horror.
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Speaker 2: And I know dj ujung La gets a lot of
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Speaker 2: the blame, and some of it is earned, but nobody
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Speaker 2: on that team is playing well. He'll throw passes that
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Speaker 2: hit people in the hands and the ball just bounces
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Speaker 2: right out, or you know, penalties or this and that.
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Speaker 2: Like it seems like everybody has quit at on that
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Speaker 2: team at this point except for head coach. And it's
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Speaker 2: it's really really bizarre. And I wonder how much of
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Speaker 2: this is you lost a bunch of guys. You lose
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Speaker 2: Jordan Travis, you know, quarterbacks, so that you're going to
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Speaker 2: take a step back, But when they were as reliant
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Speaker 2: on the portal as they were last year, and not
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Speaker 2: only do you lose those guys, but then when you're
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Speaker 2: all when we rely, you're reliant on the portal. What
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Speaker 2: does that do to your overall team culture and the
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Speaker 2: stability of it, because it's really a dramatic and dramatic
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Speaker 2: fall to go from thirteen and hoh or twelve and
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Speaker 2: oh to this. This should not happen.
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Speaker 1: No, this should definitely not happen. And looking ahead, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of games on the schedule that you would
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Speaker 1: have had as easy wins before the season. They got
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Speaker 1: Cal coming in. I will remind everyone Cal just went
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Speaker 1: into Auburn and beat Auburn, So Cal is not a gimme.
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Speaker 1: They have to go two smu. They They've got Clemson
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Speaker 1: at home, they go to Duke, they go to Miami
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Speaker 1: North Carolina at home at Notre Dame. That gets you.
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Speaker 1: And then they have, you know, a couple off weeks
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Speaker 1: mixed in there that gets you to Saturday, November twenty
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Speaker 1: third and the Charleston Southern Buccaneers, which is the first.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely they will win that game on the calendar. They
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Speaker 1: should win several of the other ones. But oh boy,
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Speaker 1: this is definitely not this season that I think anyone
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Speaker 1: was expecting coming in for Florida State. Next up, let's
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Georgia Bulldogs. There has
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Speaker 1: been some pieces of this that have been very expected.
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Speaker 1: They absolutely destroyed Clemson. They had another player get arrested
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Speaker 1: for drag racing last week, so that was pretty expected.
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Speaker 1: And then they went to Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky,
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Speaker 1: and all that was standing between them and a loss
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Speaker 1: was some nightmarish decision making by Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops.
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Speaker 1: I went on along and extended rant on that on
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Speaker 1: Twitter on Saturday night if you'd like my thoughts there.
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Speaker 1: But Tony, this is a team that we have just
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Speaker 1: sort of written in almost in pen as, here's the
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Speaker 1: number one team in the nation for a lot of
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Speaker 1: this year. And I think a lot of people have
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Speaker 1: done that. And then you watch them against against Georgia
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Speaker 1: and the offense did not look very good at all.
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Speaker 1: The defense felt like, boy, they were how many broken
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Speaker 1: tackles did the defense for Georgia have, especially the defensive front.
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Speaker 1: That just I know that the games up in Kentucky
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Speaker 1: are always weird for Georgia for some reason. So this
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Speaker 1: is this is definitely not you know, five five alarm
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Speaker 1: fire concern for Georgia right now. But boy, that sure
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Speaker 1: was a surprising performance and not in a good way
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Speaker 1: for Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday Night.
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Speaker 2: No. And it kind of reminds me of Rocky four
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Speaker 2: when Rocky cuts Drago and everybody sees that Drago can
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Speaker 2: bleed like this is this is Georgia bleeding at this point.
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Speaker 2: And it's, as you said, this against Kentucky. Every year
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Speaker 2: they don't they don't score a lot, and things are
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Speaker 2: just ugly. I did hear somebody on the radio mentioned, hey,
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Speaker 2: it was raining. There's a little bit of rain, so
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Speaker 2: you got to factor that in for George's offense as well.
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Speaker 2: But you're watching this and you're wondering where are the playmakers?
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Speaker 2: Where where are all all of the big plays? And
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Speaker 2: how is this the same Kentucky team that lost thirty
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Speaker 2: one to six to South Carolina the week before and
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Speaker 2: maybe Georgia that's maybe Georgia was expecting that team and
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Speaker 2: they got this team. And I don't know why they
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Speaker 2: would overlook a program that consistently gives them just a fight.
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Speaker 2: So it's just interesting to me that you see the possibilities.
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Speaker 2: I think everybody sees that. Everybody that will run up
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Speaker 2: against Georgia, what can look and say, Okay, I see
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Speaker 2: a way forward here. And it's not unlike when Ohistate
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Speaker 2: was getting ready to play Georgia. You and I went
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Speaker 2: back and watched five Georgia games, including against Kentucky, and
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Speaker 2: we were talking about there is a path forward here
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Speaker 2: for for Ohio State, for somebody else, and I think
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Speaker 2: a lot of people saw that in this one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it looked like a Georgia team that was
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Speaker 1: beatable for really the first time this season. Probably. They
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Speaker 1: rushed for three point four yards per carry, Trevor Etn
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Speaker 1: four point two yards per carry, but Carson Beck fifteen
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Speaker 1: for twenty four one hundred and sixty yards. There just
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Speaker 1: was not a lot of anything there for the most part,
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of concern about the playmakers on
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Speaker 1: the outside. I had a little bit of concern about
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Speaker 1: the offensive line, a little bit of concern about the
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Speaker 1: defense and how many mistackles they had.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 1: It was not a particularly inspiring performance by any means.
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Speaker 1: We will see how the Dogs bounce back again. As
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Speaker 1: you said, they had a game a lot like this
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and then ended up going on
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Speaker 1: to win the National championship and winning sixty five to
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Speaker 1: seven or whatever. It was in the national championship game,
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Speaker 1: so it turned out they could be a dominant team
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Speaker 1: after all that year. So we'll keep an eye on it.
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Speaker 1: But that is definitely something that was a little uncharacteristic
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Speaker 1: for the Georgia Bulldogs. You do wonder if that was
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Speaker 1: these one of those games you're going to look back
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Speaker 1: later in the year and say, well, they had plenty
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Speaker 1: of chances to lose and teams just couldn't finish. That
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Speaker 1: was definitely one where you could feel Kentucky exactly how
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Speaker 1: Kentucky was going to lose that game, even in the
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Speaker 1: first half, as Mark dups is settling for field goals
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Speaker 1: and not triking an extra shot at the endzone on
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Speaker 1: it before halftime and kicking field goals on fourth and one,
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Speaker 1: and it was just like this, blind man, my man,
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Speaker 1: you are not going to in this game with four
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Speaker 1: field goals. I am very sorry to tell you. Next
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Speaker 1: up the Oregon Ducks. And this is a team that
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Speaker 1: came into the season with Ohio State slash Georgia slash
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Speaker 1: Texas caliber expectations and for two weeks of the season
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Speaker 1: very much did not look like they belonged. In that conversation,
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Speaker 1: a very close win over Idaho, a very close win
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Speaker 1: over Boise State, and even a first half that was
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Speaker 1: pretty close against Oregon State. It was twenty two to fourteen,
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Speaker 1: I think at halftime, and then in the second half
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Speaker 1: in Corvallis. That was the first time that Oregon looked
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Speaker 1: like the organ that we were expecting. It looked like
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Speaker 1: the things that were sort of settling in in the trenches.
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Speaker 1: They sort of started to find their playmakers and they
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Speaker 1: finally got the car out of second gear.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's interesting because you're watching this or getting
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Speaker 2: ready to watch it, and you see what happened the
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Speaker 2: weeks before, and you're thinking Oregon going on the road,
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Speaker 2: there is the possibility of an upset here. And it
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Speaker 2: was back and forth in the first quarter. They're throwing
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Speaker 2: punches at each other. Then that second half happens and
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Speaker 2: Dylan Gabriel is hitting the throws that a couple of
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Speaker 2: times he's missed over the course of the season to
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Speaker 2: this point. Even though he's throwing completely eighty percent of
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Speaker 2: his passes, there are some that if you have just
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Speaker 2: you know, some deep shots against Boise State, for instance,
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Speaker 2: that could have put that one out of reach. They
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Speaker 2: put this one out of reach in a number of ways,
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Speaker 2: rushing for two hundred and forty yards, throwing for three
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Speaker 2: hundred and six, and you even got Dante More in
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Speaker 2: the game, which I don't think people necessarily expected at quarterback.
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Speaker 2: But Dylan Gabriel twenty of twenty four is just very,
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Speaker 2: very accurate right now. And the receivers that they have
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Speaker 2: are playmaking receivers, and they have a playmaking tight end
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Speaker 2: as well. So if when they're throwing short, which they
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Speaker 2: will do, if you don't tackle the guy as soon
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Speaker 2: as he gets the ball, look out because any one
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Speaker 2: of those guys like Ted Johnson, Trasha on Holden, those
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Speaker 2: guys can go. And Evan Stewart is a is a
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Speaker 2: downfield guy as well, so they've got a bunch of weapons.
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Speaker 2: It just took a while for them to come together
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Speaker 2: as a unit. And then I still think there's they're
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Speaker 2: not great stopping the run right now, I think there's
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Speaker 2: a path forward when you look at the Oregon defense.
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Speaker 2: You might get into a bit of a shootout with them,
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Speaker 2: but I think you also want to take it a
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Speaker 2: little slower with Oregon at this point. Try to keep
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Speaker 2: their offense off the field as much as possible, But
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Speaker 2: I think this is a good obviously good to see
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Speaker 2: from Oregon because this is the team we've been expecting.
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Speaker 2: This was this was the team we were promised, and
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Speaker 2: it's the first time we've seen it. Now is this
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Speaker 2: the outlier or is this this just, you know, finally,
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Speaker 2: as you said, getting out of second gear and moving
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Speaker 2: forward in the speed of which we were expecting.
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Speaker 1: Oregon feels like the team that was the most. Don't
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Speaker 1: read too much into week one and week two. We
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Speaker 1: say that every year. You don't want to overreact to
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Speaker 1: the first week or two. Sometimes teams are sort of
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Speaker 1: figuring things out, sorting out personnel, sorting out scheme, whatever.
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Speaker 1: It is. The fact that you saw Oregon look like
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Speaker 1: that for a half that is sort of what you
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Speaker 1: expected Oregon to look like. So my assumption is you
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Speaker 1: will see much more of that moving forward. I think
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Speaker 1: the big concern for Ohio State was will that only
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Speaker 1: show up during the Ohio State game or will they
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Speaker 1: be able to Will that show up beforehand? So you
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Speaker 1: don't get completely ambushed. So now you've seen it, so
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Speaker 1: now you sort of you know, okay, don't go in
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Speaker 1: and say, well, they only beat Idaho by ten points,
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Speaker 1: So of course Ohio State's Gon win by forty. That
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Speaker 1: might be a not so fast my friends, that should
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Speaker 1: still be still expecting that to be a very very
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Speaker 1: good football game in Eugene on October twelfth. But before
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Speaker 1: we get to that, we got to talk about a
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Speaker 1: couple other Big ten teams that have been a little surprising.
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Speaker 1: One to me is Penn State Tony because I think
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Speaker 1: Penn State is in a lot of ways what we
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Speaker 1: sort of expected them to be, which is good but
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Speaker 1: not necessarily elite elite. They're probably on the level below
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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Oregon, so in that way, they're kind
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Speaker 1: of exactly what we expected. But the offense, the offense
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Speaker 1: has it's been one of the best in the country
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Speaker 1: in terms of a lot of the yards per play
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Speaker 1: kind of metrics, yards per pass attempt kind of metrics.
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Speaker 1: But they're getting there in a way that's very reminiscent
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty three Michigan team, where there's just
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Speaker 1: not a lot of throwing. There's not a lot happening
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Speaker 1: with the wide receivers. It's really they're running the ball.
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Speaker 1: They're throwing about seventeen passes a game. The majority of
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Speaker 1: them are going to tight ends, but it's a lot
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Speaker 1: of round and pound hit the tight ends on play
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Speaker 1: action and the lack of productivity out of the Penn
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Speaker 1: state wide receivers. For the most part, they've been a
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Speaker 1: couple big plays, but boy, I think the lack of
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Speaker 1: productivity for the Penn State wide receivers not necessarily a
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Speaker 1: complete shock, but certainly would be a concern to me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, who do you fear there? And who is a
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Speaker 2: matchup problem for you? And I don't know that there
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Speaker 2: is a matchup problem for a team like Ohio State
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Speaker 2: or a team with two really good corners. When you
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Speaker 2: look at what Penn State has, to me, it's very
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Speaker 2: similar to Michigan. Worry about the tight end, and as
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Speaker 2: long as the tight end doesn't beat you, you're gonna
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Speaker 2: be okay with what happens with your corners on their receivers,
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Speaker 2: especially if your quarterback isn't all that accurate downfield. And
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Speaker 2: we know that Drew Aller has his ups and his
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Speaker 2: downs trying to become more aggressive downfield. We'll see how
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Speaker 2: it plays out when they're in a tougher environment or
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Speaker 2: against a tougher defense. I also, you know they're running
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Speaker 2: the ball pretty well. Right now, Nick Singleton I think
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Speaker 2: has three rushes of forty yards or more. He has,
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Speaker 2: He's carried about twenty six times this year. He's averaging
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Speaker 2: nine yards to carry. Only six of his twenty six
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Speaker 2: carries have gone for more than ten yards, but four
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Speaker 2: of those have gone for like thirty, So he's he's
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Speaker 2: created a bit of a bubble on what he's doing.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see if that bursts or if he can
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Speaker 2: continue to make big plays. We've seen it before from him.
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Speaker 2: We taught as a true freshman, but last year neither
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Speaker 2: him or k Tron Allen in the other running back,
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Speaker 2: we're all that explosive and Kateron Allen right now averaging
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Speaker 2: five yards to carry. So you know, there's there's plenty
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Speaker 2: to work with with the running game. Maybe you can
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Speaker 2: do some play action and continue to use that downfield stuff.
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Speaker 2: I thankfully the Penn State defense against Bowling Green a
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Speaker 2: week ago got better as the game went on because
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Speaker 2: they were giving up a ton of yards in that
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Speaker 2: first half. Then they pretty much shut them down in
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Speaker 2: that second half. So, like, is what is the situation
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Speaker 2: with the Penn State defense as well? Because if you
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Speaker 2: can allow that to happen to you that first half
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Speaker 2: against Bowling Green, but also do pretty well against West Virginia.
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Speaker 2: I still think there's there's some mystery here on both
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Speaker 2: sides of the ball for Penn State.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just to go back to the wide receivers
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Speaker 1: real quickly, just pulling up the stats in the Bowling
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Speaker 1: Green game, Tyler Warrem tight end eight catches on eight
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Speaker 1: targets one hundred and forty six yards long of thirty
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Speaker 1: seventy two yards after the catch. You know, that is
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Speaker 1: incredible productivity regardless position. The top three wide receivers for
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Speaker 1: Penn State Amari Evans, Julian Fleming, the former o High
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Speaker 1: State transfer of course, and Harrison Wallace it combined nine targets,
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Speaker 1: three catches, thirty seven yards. You're averaging about four yards
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Speaker 1: per attempt to your wide receivers in a game against
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Speaker 1: a mac secondary. That's a problem, that is a concern,
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Speaker 1: that is not well. The game plan was, we just
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Speaker 1: weren't going to throw the wide receivers. That is a
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Speaker 1: big red flag to me. We'll see how that ends
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Speaker 1: up shaking out. They're probably not the only team in
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten with some quarterback slash wide receiver concerns
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Speaker 1: that I mentioned. We did a live Michigan Monday on Sunday. Well,
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Speaker 1: you want to hear more about that, You can probably
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Speaker 1: hear about that on that show. Last to all Tony,
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Speaker 1: this is a pleasant surprise in the Big Ten, although
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Speaker 1: it was one we sort of had telegraphed to us
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Speaker 1: a little bit at Big Ten media days. Kurt Signetti
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Speaker 1: and the Indiana Hoosiers. They were picked to finish last
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Speaker 1: or next to last and the conference, depending on who
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Speaker 1: you ask. They are currently three to zero, already halfway
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Speaker 1: to hitting their over on their season win total. An
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Speaker 1: impressive win Saturday night at UCLA the Indiana Hoosiers, Bert Signetti,
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Speaker 1: this may be, you know, led by former Ohio Bobcat
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Speaker 1: Curtis Work at quarterback. This may be a team that
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Speaker 1: is going to surprise someone this season.
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Speaker 2: You know it's we simplify it or ice I'll simplify
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Speaker 2: it by you look at who they get in the
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Speaker 2: portole and you see Curtis Work, who's done a lot
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Speaker 2: of really good things at Ohio, was injured last year
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Speaker 2: but has shown the potential to be a leader of
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Speaker 2: a productive offense. Ken Ron can throw so immediately that
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Speaker 2: gives you some hope that he can create things out
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Speaker 2: of bad situations, make something good out of something bad,
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Speaker 2: but also just lead a program. And you know he
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Speaker 2: took them into Pasadena and you know, to the Rose Bowl,
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Speaker 2: first Indiana quarterback, and who knows how long to take
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Speaker 2: take the Hoosiers to the Rose Bull But you look
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Speaker 2: at this. They had touchdown drives is seventy five yards,
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Speaker 2: ninety yards, eighty seven yards, seventy five yards. So this
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Speaker 2: is these aren't necessarily flukes. This is just a consistent,
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Speaker 2: constant offensive effort from Indiana. They're what, averaging fifty some
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Speaker 2: points per game now the lead to big ten and
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Speaker 2: points and they're not giving up many points either. So
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Speaker 2: it is interesting that Kurt Signetti is like the one guy.
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Speaker 2: Let's go hang out. Let's let's go meet at the
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Speaker 2: local barbecue. We'll sit down for a few hours, We'll
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Speaker 2: have some food, have some drinks, and just hear it
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Speaker 2: all kinds of trash talk about how about whatever you want,
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Speaker 2: because he's a lot of fun to be around, and
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Speaker 2: it's not tom it's not just talk. He will admit
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Speaker 2: that some of it is talk, Like when he did
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Speaker 2: his Jim Tressel basketball speech when he's been introduced to
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Speaker 2: the crowd, when he got hired, introduced to a basketball crowd,
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Speaker 2: and you know, he's on the court there and he's
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Speaker 2: finishing up and then he says and produce sucks and
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Speaker 2: then the crowd goes crazy and he's like, and so
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Speaker 2: do I State in Michigan. And then it's like, what
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Speaker 2: is going on with this man? And you're seeing some results.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much of this is just you know, fools,
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Speaker 2: gold or whatnot, but I do know that past Indiana
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Speaker 2: teams have not been able to do this. And so
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Speaker 2: you know, it's Florida Illinois, It's Florida Atlantic, Florida Florida International,
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Speaker 2: Western Illinois, and UCLA and then next next coming up
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Speaker 2: as Charlotte, so they're going to be four o. Then
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Speaker 2: they have Maryland that's probably five and oh. And then
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Speaker 2: at Northwestern are you are you six and oh? And
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Speaker 2: then they've got Nebraska coming to town, who's probably going
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Speaker 2: to be possibly six o themselves. So you know, it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I do like the fact that Nebraska game is designated
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Speaker 1: on fbschedules dot Com as twelve o'clock slash three thirty
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Speaker 1: Slash four slash seven thirty PM. Other games are TVA,
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Speaker 1: but Tony They've got that narrowed down to literally every
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Speaker 1: Big Ten time slot. So that'll be a good one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you go past. I figured they're probably five and one
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Speaker 1: at the worst going into that game. They got Washington
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Speaker 1: after that. The Huskies just lost to Wazoo at Quest
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Speaker 1: State at quest Field out in Seattle. Then they go
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Speaker 1: certainly winnable. It is not completely out of the realm
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