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Episode 10 | Big Ten Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big rent that takes the numbers, the chaos, Hunter
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  Speaker 1: Austin Dak talking corn Husker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Journa Glory podcast live on YouTube. Hunter Arberniki.
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  Speaker 3: By myself right now, might be getting Austin or Dack
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  Speaker 3: to join later. Here we are talking Big Ten preview
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  Speaker 3: this morning and going through not every team but some
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  Speaker 3: of the key teams here in the Big Ten. Figured
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  Speaker 3: this is a good time to do it here before
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  Speaker 3: we get closer to the huskers first game against Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: And here's how we're gonna do this today.
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  Speaker 3: I think it makes sense to try to break the
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten up into tiers and talk that way, and
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  Speaker 3: tiers might be different. I'm not setting a cap or
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  Speaker 3: a limit on the number of tiers, but well, we'll
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  Speaker 3: start right at the top here for our Tier one,
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  Speaker 3: and I have three teams in this tier. I think
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  Speaker 3: maybe you could argue there's a fourth, but the three
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  Speaker 3: that I think everybody probably knows and thinks of here
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  Speaker 3: one being Indiana, two being Ohio State, and three being
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  Speaker 3: organ and in no particular order here Indiana and Organs
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  Speaker 3: win total is both at ten and a half in
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State's at nine and a half.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with.
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  Speaker 3: Indiana obviously winning the College Football Playoff last year, going
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  Speaker 3: six tea O. In Kurt Signetti's second year, He's heading
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  Speaker 3: into his third season with Mike shanahanas OC and Bryant
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  Speaker 3: hayneses DC. They're staff stuck together. The big question here
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  Speaker 3: is going to be their quarterback. Bringing in Josh Hoover.
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  Speaker 3: Can he live up or at least do something similar
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  Speaker 3: to what Fernando Mendoza did a year ago? And I
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  Speaker 3: think that the big piece in takeaway here is a
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  Speaker 3: year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew Mendoza was gonna do what he was gonna do, So.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I gotta believe in trust Signetti is gonna
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  Speaker 3: do that with Josh Hoover here, and if he saw
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  Speaker 3: something in Josh Hoover, yeah, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 3: fair to say you can trust Signetti at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I do think for me, I want to see Signetti
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  Speaker 3: do it another year. I think he's obviously a very
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  Speaker 3: good football coach, but for him to go down as
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  Speaker 3: maybe one of the all time legends, I think he
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  Speaker 3: needs to do this another year and and maybe not
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  Speaker 3: win it. But just be competitive, uh and also make
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  Speaker 3: make the Cultutball Playoff, which again with with what with
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  Speaker 3: what they got and and who they are, it's crazy
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  Speaker 3: for me to say this now, but.
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  Speaker 2: I think they should be able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's another reload year, but it's reload for everybody,
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  Speaker 3: uh for for Indiana, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think they'll think they'll be back in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Is a team that everybody's really liking this year, and
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  Speaker 3: I've heard them getting picked to win it all. They
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of talent, specifically if you were listening
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  Speaker 3: to Dylan Royola, they have a lot of talent, more
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  Speaker 3: than Nebraska. Obviously, we knew that last year they lost
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  Speaker 3: in the semi final two Indiana and didn't just lose,
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  Speaker 3: but it just got absolutely destroyed head coach Dan Lannings
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  Speaker 3: in his fifth year. They're still chasing. Oregon's still chasing
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  Speaker 3: their first national title.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not.
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  Speaker 3: We know Dante Moore is one of the Heisman favorites
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  Speaker 3: out there in Eugene. They brought in Mackai Hughes, the
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  Speaker 3: running back from Tulane, UH and and we know the
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  Speaker 3: story of Dylan Royola, and they added a solid backup.
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  Speaker 3: I I you know, you don't think of most college
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  Speaker 3: football teams having a two deep quarterback roster that you
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  Speaker 3: feel good about.
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  Speaker 2: I think Oregon has that.
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  Speaker 3: I think the question you know for them is going
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  Speaker 3: to be, is Dante Moore one of, if not the
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  Speaker 3: best quarterback in the country and will we live up
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  Speaker 3: to that hype? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: And will that lead Oregon to up a national title
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 3: Where a lot of people think, and myself included, I
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  Speaker 3: think they have the potential to do it this year.
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska obviously goes on the road to.
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  Speaker 3: Eugene right after Indiana, so back to back games.
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  Speaker 2: And then the last team.
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  Speaker 3: Here in this tier, in the heavyweight tier, I'm calling
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  Speaker 3: it is Ohio State that.
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska also plays them, so yeah, we knew we play
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  Speaker 2: all three of these teams.
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  Speaker 3: I think Ohio State, just as fair as the other
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  Speaker 3: two have, has potential here to make a run and
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  Speaker 3: also win at all. They lost the Big Ten title
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  Speaker 3: game last year, ended up losing in the quarterfinals to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, Ryan Days in his eighth season. They bring
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  Speaker 3: back quite a few players. Julian Sayan comes back, Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Smith comes back. I think, you know they bring in
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  Speaker 3: Arthur smith Off as a coordinator from the Steelers and
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  Speaker 3: then also the Falcons in the NFL. Matt Patricia is
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  Speaker 3: still here at DC. Again, I think if you, if you,
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  Speaker 3: if you're polling hairs, all three of these teams can
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  Speaker 3: can have potential there to be at the top.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Ohio State's.
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  Speaker 3: Big game early part of the year is going to
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  Speaker 3: be going to Texas and seeing if they can win
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  Speaker 3: that one they won last year fourteen to seven in
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  Speaker 3: that whole scoring game at home. You know, can they
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  Speaker 3: go on the road and win that game early. If
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  Speaker 3: they lose that game, it's I don't think it's a
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  Speaker 3: big deterrent for the rest of the year. They they
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  Speaker 3: also have a very talented roster, but their schedule also
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  Speaker 3: is very tough, which is why that win totals down
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  Speaker 3: there at nine and a half. The fun part is
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  Speaker 3: about these teams is all three of them play each other.
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  Speaker 3: On October seventeenth, Ohio State travels two Indiana, and then
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  Speaker 3: they host Oregon on November seventh.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: At least Ohio State plays both of them. Oregon and
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  Speaker 3: Indiana do avoid each other. I think it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see how that plays out before we get to
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  Speaker 3: the Big Ten title game.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, going down to Tier two here, I will say.
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  Speaker 3: This is my like could make the playoffs if they
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  Speaker 3: have a good year, but they need to prove it
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  Speaker 3: to be in there. We have a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: win totals being here at eight and a half and
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  Speaker 3: seven and a half, I think for me, Penn State
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  Speaker 3: is in this tier. They went just seven and six
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  Speaker 3: last year, hiring Matt Campbell. Matt Campbell be coming from
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  Speaker 3: Iowa State. This is basically Iowa State with some additions.
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  Speaker 3: I think is what the headline is here. Rock Oebec
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  Speaker 3: from Iowa State falls over, which I think is important.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when a first ye're having a quarterback that
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  Speaker 3: you're comfortable with, you know, the question for him is
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  Speaker 3: going to be can't can Campbell and then win right
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  Speaker 3: away at a new uh. Iowa State obviously is a
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  Speaker 3: Power five school, But this is this is the next
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  Speaker 3: step up. This is Penn State. This is one of
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  Speaker 3: the powerhouses, power four teams. You know, this this this
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  Speaker 3: nine and three is that is that?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I think Penn State will take that after last year,
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  Speaker 3: but I think I think they have a very high
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  Speaker 3: expectation here, especially given what they're going up against with
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  Speaker 3: those teams in that first tier. I have USC next
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  Speaker 3: year with Lincoln Riley, who, believe it or not, is
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  Speaker 3: still never made the college Football Playoff.
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  Speaker 2: He is in his fifth season.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you were to ask anybody going into
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  Speaker 3: his fifth season how many times Lincoln Riley would be
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  Speaker 3: in the playoff, they would have said more than zero.
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  Speaker 2: So he's got a little bit of pressure here.
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  Speaker 3: They did go nine and four last year after you know,
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  Speaker 3: losing to TCU in the Aliva Bowl. I they just
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  Speaker 3: they need to make an appearance, need to be relevant again.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what USC fans are wanting.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anything anything less than an eight and four,
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  Speaker 3: nine to three season, I think you're gonna be seeing
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  Speaker 3: some people calling for Lincoln Riley's head. Michigan brings in
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham and his first year from Utah.
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  Speaker 2: They get rid.
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  Speaker 3: Of Sharon More, Bryce Underwood is back. Michigan is one
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  Speaker 3: of these teams for me that is not getting talked.
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  Speaker 2: About a lot. They do return quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Underwood was a very big hot topic going into
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  Speaker 3: the offseason last year and is getting very little to
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  Speaker 3: none this season.
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  Speaker 2: I think Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: The good thing they have going for him is they
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  Speaker 3: brought in a coach that to me defines Michigan football
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  Speaker 3: like winning he him and what he did at Utah
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  Speaker 3: ran the ball a lot, very old school like that
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  Speaker 3: to me is what Michigan's strength is. It's what their
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  Speaker 3: identity is, and I think winning him fits that very
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  Speaker 3: very well. Their big game in the non conference is Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 3: as they get a host of them early on in
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  Speaker 3: the year. I think for Michigan, is it gonna click?
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  Speaker 3: Is things gonna work out? Just like Campbell at Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: Is this gonna work.
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  Speaker 2: Out here right away in year one?
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  Speaker 3: I think it could. I'm pretty high on them. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad we don't play them. They do have to go
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  Speaker 3: to Oregon into Ohio State and they also play Penn
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  Speaker 3: State at home.
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  Speaker 2: Like the schedule is.
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  Speaker 3: Not easy by any means, so I get why that
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  Speaker 3: win toll is at seven and a half, But I
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  Speaker 3: still think there's a lot of talent on this roster.
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  Speaker 2: I think they play with.
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  Speaker 3: A very tough and gritty identity.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm big on Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: Michigan here, I do like their over seven and a half,
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  Speaker 3: even though they have those tough games. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna beat Oklahoma, and I think getting Iowa and Penn
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  Speaker 3: State at home is good for them. Speaking of tough,
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  Speaker 3: gritty football.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't want.
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  Speaker 3: To have to talk about this team too long, but
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  Speaker 3: the Iowa Hawkeys here they are again, another nine and
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  Speaker 3: four season, eight and four in the regular season. They
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  Speaker 3: take down an SEC team that rose last year in
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  Speaker 3: Vanderbilt in the rely re questival. Yes, Kirk Farns is
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  Speaker 3: still back in his twenty eighth season as the Iowa
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  Speaker 3: head coach. Offensive coordinator Tim Lesters is in his third year.
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  Speaker 3: He came home from Western Michigan a few years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that things have gone well for Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: And I shouldn't say well they've gotten better because it
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  Speaker 3: couldn't have got worse for Iowa football in their offense,
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  Speaker 3: but it's gotten better for them since Tim Lester was
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  Speaker 3: hired and Phil Parker backs this twenty fifth season as
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  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the funny thing about Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: They lost all three offensive linemen to the NFL, and
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  Speaker 3: their biggest question mark comes in on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: I'm guessing that they will reload fine, that's what Iowa does.
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  Speaker 3: If there's any place where they can identify talent, it's
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive line. And the question mark every year
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  Speaker 3: for Iowa is I guess it is every year, But
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter is who's their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it matters.
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  Speaker 3: And they bring in Jeremy Hecklinsky and Hank Brown are
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  Speaker 3: the two guys competing here for the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I don't know that it really matters.
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  Speaker 3: Because i what does what they do and they continue
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  Speaker 3: to win eight or nine game by doing what they do. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's never pretty and it's pretty annoying, especially when you're
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  Speaker 3: an a Raska fan.
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  Speaker 2: But that's Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: Next in this in this tier, and this is still
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  Speaker 3: my playoff chasing tier is Illinois and Brett Beilama in
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  Speaker 3: his sixth season.
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  Speaker 2: Helen Champagne last year.
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  Speaker 3: Also went eight and three or eight and four of
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  Speaker 3: the regular season, beat Tennessee and the Music City Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: And there's another one of these teams that has an identity.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that the big thing here in year
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  Speaker 3: six is Belama sent a little bit of a new
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  Speaker 3: expectation here for Illinois and and and really raise the
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  Speaker 3: floor if you would say that they They're not expecting
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  Speaker 3: to make the playoffs by any means, but they are
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  Speaker 3: expecting to make a Bowl game and win six seven
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  Speaker 3: games every year. Their schedule, they do get a host
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  Speaker 3: a lot of these games, which is which is nice.
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  Speaker 3: They play Ohio State and Oregon both at home. They
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  Speaker 3: played Duke in the non conference. Cayden Hauser arise as
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback from East Carolina and he used to be
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  Speaker 3: at Michigan State. He's got some experience there at quarterback
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  Speaker 3: and it looks like that it could fit belom A
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  Speaker 3: system very very well. And then the last team I
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  Speaker 3: have in this tier, and you could maybe argue they
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  Speaker 3: could have been higher in this list, but is Washington,
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  Speaker 3: and I like to label them as the quiet chaos team.
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  Speaker 3: They they aren't getting and they haven't gotten a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of chocolate. I think they have the talent and
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  Speaker 3: the potential here with Demon Williams.
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  Speaker 2: To be kind of a disruptor here in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nebraska, we get him at home on Halloween, so
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  Speaker 3: we have definitely have something to say about that and
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  Speaker 3: can shut that out.
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  Speaker 2: But Washington could be a very sneaky good team here.
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  Speaker 3: In the Big Ten. And their schedule is pretty favorable.
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  Speaker 3: They play Oregon, they pay play Penn State, and then
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  Speaker 3: they obviously play at UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: Out there as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think if they really build around him on Williams,
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  Speaker 3: it could look really good. I think it's a similar
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  Speaker 3: story to Nebraska, where if he's having to do everything,
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  Speaker 3: I think it could be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: But they have the potential there.
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  Speaker 3: To really I think, make some noise in this tier
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  Speaker 3: and in the Big Ten Conference, so I do.
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  Speaker 2: I did put six teams in.
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  Speaker 3: The second tier, which I think may or may not
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  Speaker 3: be fair, but the third tier here I guess I
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  Speaker 3: also have five teams in this tier. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is where I'm putting Nebraska, and then they get no
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  Speaker 3: particular order here. I think you could argue any of
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  Speaker 3: these teams could be above the others. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk a lot about us because we have another podcast
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota I have in this tier, and I'm gonna I
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  Speaker 3: am gonna say they're ahead of its because they kicked
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  Speaker 3: their butt last year. They went They'd go eight and five,
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  Speaker 3: beat New Mexico in the in the Rate Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: PJ Fly like another coach that.
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  Speaker 3: Is just it has had Matt Rules in Nebraska's number
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  Speaker 3: for quite some time now.
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  Speaker 2: He's in his tenth season. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They bring back Drake Lindsay at quarterback and Darius Taylor,
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  Speaker 3: one of the Big Ten's top running backs heading in
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  Speaker 3: to next year. He Drake Lindsay's talking Drake Lindsay, He's
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  Speaker 3: not a guy that needs to be a top quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in the Big Ten. I don't think he even has
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  Speaker 3: that potential. But again, it's similar to me like Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: I think Minnesota is a a They're not Iowa, but
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  Speaker 3: they're like a modern version of Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Uh bye bye.
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  Speaker 3: They do a lot of their same things, and they
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  Speaker 3: do it well and if things really click, they can
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  Speaker 3: they can break out and have a really good year.
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  Speaker 3: And and Drake Lindsay does that for Iowa if like
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  Speaker 3: just keeps doing what he did, what he's doing, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think the question for for Minnesota fans
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  Speaker 3: is is is good enough? But like Illinois, but the
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  Speaker 3: floor has been raised, right, They make a Bowl game
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  Speaker 3: every year. They have talked that they could go further,
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  Speaker 3: but they're they're there's just nothing anything flashy Wisconsin. Luke
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  Speaker 3: Fickel year four. They've tried a lot of things. They
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  Speaker 3: went four and eight last year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: I feel about Wisconsin. There's more talk about them being better.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't made a Bowl game in two straight years.
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  Speaker 3: They seem to be following the Nebraska path of post
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  Speaker 3: Bow Polini their start, and quarterback Colton Joseph projected to
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  Speaker 3: be QB one.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I Wisconsin's one of these hard teams that like if
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  Speaker 3: if they go back to.
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  Speaker 2: Their roots, I think they're gonna be better off.
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  Speaker 3: We learned that lesson, but so far they haven't shown
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  Speaker 3: to do that. You know, Luke Fickle was also a
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  Speaker 3: guy in that same year as Matt Ruhle, Right that
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  Speaker 3: what another name in Nebraska was, and some people wanted
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  Speaker 3: Fickle over rule. So that's what makes this conversation a
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  Speaker 3: little bit fun.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: UCLA's the next team I want to talk about here
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  Speaker 3: with Bob Chesney, who got a lot of headlines and
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  Speaker 3: praise at Big Ten media days coming over from James Madison.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously James Madison post Kurt Signetti. He continued that and
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: got himself a power for job and Ucla. Last year,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: they struggled. They went three and nine. They fired to
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  Speaker 3: Sean Foster in the middle of the year. Oh, sunshine,
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  Speaker 3: but blonde I forget his name now, the blondehaired kid
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  Speaker 3: took over his head coach. Was kind of a fun
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  Speaker 3: story there for a little bit. Who I think he's
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  Speaker 3: now at Northwestern, which.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to here.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Nico, I'm Aliva, I'm a lava. However you want
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to say his name is back at quarterback, he's still
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that same elite recruit that he was. I think you
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: saw his his upside in some games last year. We'll see,
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what he looks like in this new offense
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  Speaker 3: under offensive coordinator Dean Kennedy. If he's elites and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of like a couple of these other teams, right,
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  Speaker 3: if it's not all relying on his arm and his legs,
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  Speaker 3: UCLA could be another team that shocks some people. He
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  Speaker 3: Chesney obviously knows how to win. He she's shown how
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  Speaker 3: to do that. Can can he do that at UCLA?
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  Speaker 3: This last team here, I don't know. I think actually
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I'm putting them in the next tier. So that's I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: put four teams in this tier Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ucla,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna move Initially had them in Tier three,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: but Tier four are moving Northwestern down here, and these
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: are all teams to me that I think are looking
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: for a bowl game a Northwestern did make a bowl
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: game last year and beat Central Michigan in that bowl game.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: David Brown, I think he's done a pretty damn good
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: job at Northwestern and he's now in his fourth season
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: as a head coach. Chip Kelly comes in as a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: new offensive coordinator. Yes, Chip Kelly, he is at Northwestern.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: The big storyline in Northwestern is they got a new
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: stadium and it's I don't know, glorified soccer stadium as
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I've heard it's called, but it's nice. Like to me,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: it's it's right what you expect out of a Northwestern stadium.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be a big ninety thousand seeded
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: because they don't get those fans.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: They go to the games anyways.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It's usually filled with opposing teams fans. But it looks
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: it looks very good for their situation. Aiden childs ors
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Austin likes to call Maiden Chili's coming in from Michigan
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: State as the quarterback, you know, pairing him with Chip
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Kelly's offense is it'll be a very sneaky fun experiment
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: here in the Big Ten. I think the question is
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: going to be on their defense, you know, can they
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: can they finally slow some teams down? Next team here
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: in this bottom tier Rutgers Schiano seven and his second
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: stint Nebraska does go out there. This is the game
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: that I gosh, we we we hope we can win
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: going out to Pascataway. Uh, we'll see what what what
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: what's in store for I don't know either of these
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks A. J. Serros and Dylan Longer, And I think
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Rutgers question is going to be can they defend and
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: play ugly and and muck up some wins. Maryland with
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Mike Losley, I think he's probably the coach on the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: hottest of hot seats here in the Big Ten in
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: his eighth year. We went out there last year to
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the to the game, and he was not very highly
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: praised from a lot of the Maryland fans as we
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: talk to them. But they do have a quarterback that
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I'm very high on and and and it's fun to
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: watch in in Malik Washington.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: He was a freshman last.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Year too, So Locksley's been two and sixteen in the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Big Ten in the last two years. They have some talent.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: They usually start the year off hot. Can they sustain
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: that into October and November Michigan States, Yes, it's I
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: feel like maybe they shouldn't be in this tier, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: as of right now they are. They went four and
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: to eight last year. Jonathan Smith that experiment failed. In
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: comes Pat Fitzgerald, the guy that's had Nebraska's number in
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: the past as far as just always given us a
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: challenge no.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Matter what team he had at Northwestern.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I think this could be a slow start for Fitzgerald's
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: ten year at Michigan State, and it may be tough.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Now. I'm going to bite my tongue and sing that
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: when we go out.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And or if we go out and lose in our
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: first conference game out there, but this is a game
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: that Nebraska. We should be a couple double digit point
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: favor out there, even just given where Michigan State's at
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and where I think they want to be, a lot
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: of people aren't high on Fitzgerald. I don't like that
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: because it's gonna give them more momentum and in the
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: locker room. But I do have them in this bottom
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: tier right now, and like I said, Nebraska is no
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: stranger to losing to these bottom tier teams because we
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: have so maybe we should be in there too. But
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: this is where I find them right now. And then
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Purdue two and ten last year head coach Barry otom
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: in his second year. I guess I don't know what
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to say about Purdue. They are trying to build something.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: They've tried to build something some different coaches. Odom is
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: bringing in what he believes is his version of that,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: and he's a he's a toughness type of coach. Ryan
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Brown is returning, so there's there's a bright side there
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: as a projected starter. I mean, I think for me,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I guess it's not even for me. But Dak mentioned
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the the uh comment by the Purdue A d I
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: think Perdue just needs to become respectable again in the conference.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: And again I say that they when they weren't maybe
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: as respectable. They also beat Nebraska back then, So I
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: think for them, you know, getting to a bowl game
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: would be a big, big, big step in the right direction,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: but even even going four to eight or five and
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: seven will be progressed for them.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: And and I think in year two, you know, under
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Barry Odom, getting moving forward to that point would be
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: a positive So.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Those are my tiers here for the Big Ten.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I think looking at the Big Ten from a bigger
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: picture standpoint, I do think that there is obviously coming
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: off their third national title in a row, high expectations
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: from the conference overall, and one of those three teams
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I mentioned at the top are all going to be
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: top A potential national title contenders and win for this year.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: So we'll see if we can hold up our end
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: of the bargain.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It is fun.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Being in the conference because we get a lot of talk,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: but it's not fun in the sense that we have
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: to play all these teams and when we're trying to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: be nationally irrelevant as well, which we haven't been in
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: decades now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: That's sad to say. I think that makes it tough, right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So I think it's it's.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Probably the best conference now in the in the country,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: and it's not being Big Ten bias. That's that's pretty
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: much a fact given had the last few years have gone.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: It has really pulled the SEC's hair out a little
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: bit where we're at in the college football landscape.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: So that'll do it for today. In the Big Ten
• 26:51
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• 26:52
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• 26:59
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• 27:03
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• 27:05
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