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Will Week 3 Bring More College Football Chaos? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September sixteenth, I'm your host,
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tom Or. The Western Kentucky game is two day. The game against Michigan
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in seventy days, yes, exactly ten weeks until the end of the college
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football regular season. For the Buckeyes seasons here, it does not last that
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long. Please try to enjoy it. Even if Ohio State gives up a
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first down or something today like it just it's gonna be okay. Please enjoy
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college football season. Wallet is here. We're gonna be doing our best to
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enjoy this week of college football season. No ranked versus ranked matchups this week,
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but still some games to keep an eye on during the course of the
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day. Joined by Tony Gerdemante Huddle dot com to look at some of those
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games. Tony, the first game is Penn State at Illinois. That game
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kicks off noon on Fox. Penn State a fourteen and a half point favorite,
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and this is one that every time I see Penn State in Illinois,
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I flash back to the twenty twenty one Ohio State Indiana game. We were
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sitting in a hotel room in Bloomington, going well, as soon as this
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game ends, will go, We'll head over the stadium and go cover the
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Buckeyes and uh, and then we were sitting in a hotel room for like
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forty five minutes to an hour, longer than we expected to say. It's
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it's funny because a Friday morning, I was listening to Sirius XM and Dusty
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Devorchik and Danny Cannell have a shown. Dusty Dvorchik was talking about that game,
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saying he had to get to a game, and his broadcast partners Dave
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Pash and Tom lucan Bill were super mad at him because he wouldn't leave,
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like that's that's the kind of game it was. And so yeah, it's
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just standing around waiting and you know, nine overtimes, a whole bunch of
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two point conversions. Would I love to see it again? Of course?
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Do I expect it? No, it's surprising. How maybe it's not surprising,
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but Penn State's offense has been pretty darn good right now, leading the
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Big Ten, I think, and scoring fifty points a game. Illinois struggled
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but never gave up against Kansas, which I think is promising, but I
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still like the the offensive Penn State here along of course, with their defense
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and the Illinois quarterback is up and down in terms of what they're getting out
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of it. So I don't I don't feel great about fourteen and a half.
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I would probably just stay away from that. But I like Penn State
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this one for sure. Yeah, it just feel like, you know,
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Illinois has typically tried to do it with running and defense, and they don't
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really quite have the rushing attack they had last year, and Penn State seems
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like between the pair of really talented running backs and the you know, Drew
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Eller experience at quarterback and a little bit of a better offensive line this year,
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it feels like that team is sort of probably just got a little too
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much offense for Illinois to keep up with. Next one case State at Missoo
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noon on the SEC network, Kansas State favored by four. Both of these
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teams are two A know, but Missoo is a really uninspiring two A no.
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And this is one where you know, the SEC East man the SEC
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on the whole, but the SEC East in particular. I don't know how
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many more losses the SEC East can take out of conference before it really really
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starts to become a really pervasive narrative. Around Georgia's schedule this year, and
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you know, if Georgia slips up just once in the regular season, they
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can't lean on the Oh but the SEC is so good this year narrative because
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I don't know that the SEC on the whole is particularly good this year.
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No, and I would agree with that. And you look at what Kansas
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State has done against Southeast Missouri and Troy. They've done what they should do.
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They've been effective. They do they are Kansas State. There. This
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is another Kansas State team, so that's what you expect from them. And
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Missouri this is another This is a home dog against the Ranke opponent. They're
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a handful of those this week, but this is one where I don't feel
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like, I feel like Kansas State should be able to cover this. So
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I would I feel Kansas State's ability to just gum everything up is not good
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for Missouri, which Missouri any thing needs a lot of just Missouri needs everything
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to go well for them, and Kansas State is like the program that makes
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sure nothing goes well. Yeah, Kansas State is the Utah of the Big
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Twelve where just they they're not real flashy, but they just play in a
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way that's a real pain in the butt. And they're just you know,
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really solid, and you know they will be the Utah of the Big twelve
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for another year this year, and then Utah will probably be the Utah of
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the Big twelve next year. But you know, for now, that's you
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know, and when I call anyone the Utah of whatever they are, that
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is a compliment. That is a Utah as a team that I think is
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uh. You know, I think all high state fans in general probably gained
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an appreciation for Utah a couple of years ago during that Rose Bowl and they
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have not done anything to you know, they helped the highest state out a
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little bit last year in the PAC twelve Championship game, look pretty good against
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the Florida Gators during Week one. So yeah, it is a that's a
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that is a high compliment. And yes, Kansas State seems to be real
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really kind of just back to doing Kansas State stuff under risk Climan. Next
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up, Well, this one's on here because of what the who one of
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these teams plays. Next week, Central Michigan at Notre Dame two thirty on
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NBC. Notre Dame a thirty four and a half point favorite. You know,
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I know they beat North Carolina State last week. I'm really not sold
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on how good North Carolina State is. I think this is a case where
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Ohio State and Notre Dame are both going to come into next week's game not
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really sure exactly how good they are. Yeah, and I think both teams
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are they going into this week just trying to get a win and then close
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close up shop, Like, are you really expecting Notre Dame to throw a
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bunch of stuff out there? I'm not. But you're also playing a Central
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Michigan team that I think won by three points over New Hampshire last week.
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So not a great team, but this is going to be. It's good
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thing. It's only on the internet, I guess, is what I would
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say for the viewers out there. I think that one's on NBC. I
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don't think that one's just peak because there's a there's a Peacock game at five
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o'clock, So well, I'm just think Peacocks. Oh well, well then
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maybe they don't have NBC. Yeah, maybe they don't have NBC. Yeah,
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the five o'clock five o'clock is when Washington and UH and Michigan State aroun
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Peacocks. I do believe that's an NBC game. But yeah, Central Michigan
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lost to Michigan State thirty one seven and then beat New Hampshire forty five forty
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two, which also probably raises some questions about Michigan State's offense because that one
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was real close at half. So well, we'll look at to Michigan State
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in a minute. South Carolina at Georgia three thirty on CBS. Yes,
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the CBS is going back south of the Mason Dixon line this week. Georgia
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favored by twenty seven and a half. South Carolina lost by a couple of
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touchdowns at against North Carolina in Week one in Charlotte. This is one where
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it feels like Georgia can't afford to do the like twenty fifteen Ohio State thing
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where you just sort of fart around against lousy competition. They because they don't
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have any real quality games on their schedule outside of maybe Tennessee and we'll get
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to Tennessee in a minute. But the regular season schedule this year is just
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kind of dreadful, and they have not gotten any help from anyone on their
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schedules earlier and early in the season. So you know this feels like one
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where South Carolina always kind of seems to make things a little more interesting against
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Georgia than you'd think, and Georgia really can't probably afford that this week.
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I'm just wondering if obviously this is about Spencer Rattler, because South Carolina right
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now, I think it's averaging fifty three yards rushing per game, and if
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you're twenty eight in the nation in rushing, going to Georgia is probably not
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the way to remedy that. So is this something where they just we know
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we're not going to be able to run, so let's just throw it all
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over the place. Let's take take some shots, like you got to come
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out swinging and never stop. And if that that's either going to be a
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fifty six seven loss or perhaps like a forty two thirty five loss something like
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that, where you're just you're trying everything that you can to give yourself the
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best opportunity to win, because running the ball isn't going to get it done.
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And I know every head coach is like, well, you gotta try
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to be balanced. You can't just throw it all the time. Well,
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if you can't run it at all, you're gonna have to throw it,
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and Georgia knows that, so that makes things even worse. So twenty seven
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and a half is still a lot for a conference game against a team that
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has some NFL talent. But I think this is still I'm liking Georgia pretty
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comfortably here. Yeah, that'll be. That'll be one that if South Carolina
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can keep it inter string for a half, that will be one of the
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better games on the schedule this week. But we'll see. Next up,
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it is the Washington Huskies making the return trip to East Lansing after Michigan State
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went out to Seattle last year. These are two teams headed in very very
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different directions five o'clock on PEAKA. Probably best for everyone that this one is
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sequestered on a streaming service. Washington favored by sixteen and a half, which
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seems like about a touchdown low to me, so I'm sort of wondering what
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I don't know, But Washington opened with a fifty six nineteen win over Boyse
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State. With two they beat former oldhih State offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson and the
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Tulsa Golden Hurricane forty three ten, So there they are basically the stunks meme
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line go up for Washington States. Meanwhile, in these Lansing NF Tuck about
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to go to zero, Tony, talk me out of Michigan State getting absolutely
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curb stomped in this one. The only way I can do that is the
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magic of the substitute interim head coach to program rally the team rallying around that
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guy and wanting to show out for their head coach who has been suspended.
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That sort of thing, the emotional aspect of it. But I can't talk
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you to this one. I can just say that has happened in the past,
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or there's you know, stuff like this has happened where it creates a
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level of unpredictability. I guess I would say, but when you look at
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this one time, I'll give you two stats here, and you tell me
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it's it's the immovable object versus the whatever the other thing is. It's Michigan
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State like fourth or fifth in the nation against the past like one hundred and
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seven yards allowed through the air. Now that is legitimate, tim And don't
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even look at their schedule to see who that's come against. And meanwhile Washington
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leading the nation with four hundred and seventy yards passing per game. Who are
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you going to believe offense or defense? Yeah, I think I'm I don't
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think you've talked me out of the Huskies so far. If you want tickets
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on the fifty yard line in this one, you're gonna be paying about one
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hundred bucks. So excitement not exactly, and that's in the lower Bowl Bowl.
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You can get tickets on the on the fifty for about sixty dollars.
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So uh for what is probably the biggest, uh, non Michigan home game
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for Michigan State this year that's actually in their stadium, that's probably not not
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indicative of your real high level of excitement for the Spartans. So how large
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wild that line have to go before you would not take Washington five somewhere there?
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Yeah, I mean, like you get to twenty four and a half
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and I start going, okay, you know twenty you know, I could
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see them winning by twenty four. Once you get even just a half point
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past that, I kind of go, yeah, all right, to be
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on the other side of seventeen at sixteen and a half, that just that
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that feels suspiciously easy to me, which generally that's uh, you know,
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that's the like jar of honey and it's like, oh, it's this,
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and it's it's under a box with a stick. I mean sure, absolutely,
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so yeah, that's that's the only thing that would make me even hesitate
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there is Well, I've fallen into this exact trap many times before, so
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certainly it can't happen again. Speaking of things that certainly can't happen again,
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Tennessee going to the swamp in Florida. Certainly, Tony, they can't lose
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again. I think they've won there twice in the last thirty years or so.
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Seven o'clock on ESPN balls favored by only six. You know, Florida
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was not great in Week one at Utah really got kind of stomped there.
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Tennessee looked real, real bad last week against Austin p that was close at
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halftime. I assume I'm kind of more willing to write off the Tennessee Austin
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p thing as a well FCS opponent the week before much more impressive road game
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or brand name road game anyway. So I guess the vall's here given the
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six, But what's your thoughts? If Florida was any good, they would
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win this game. So we'll find out if they're any good. You know,
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you know how Joe Milton can throw the ball one hundred yards. I've
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heard that, yes, very well documented, which means of course that he
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is a great quarterback, and also means that he is dead last in yards
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per attempt among SEC starting quarterbacks and so interestingly also he is he is below
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floor to quarterback Grant Mertz in the past efficiency leaderboard in the SEC. So
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things aren't going tremendously well for the Tennessee offense. As they don't. It
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doesn't matter if you could throw the ball one hundred yards if you can't complete
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a pass fifteen yards down the field. And I think I'm trying not to
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be mean about it on social media because some of this could blow back on
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Joe Milton. But all of the people that were just anointing him when you
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and I kept saying have you have you not seen and I don't think they
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did, but now they are. Yeah. It feel like there's a reason
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that you have not seen a team wheel out a trebouche at quarterback before.
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But it's like, well, look how far it can fling this thing?
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Like it's it can fling this bolder so far where's it going to go?
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Oh in somewhere somewhere generally in that direction probably, but yeah, that's not
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turns out that's not a great way to run an offense, which I'm as
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surprised as you are, speaking of me being as surprised as you are,
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Tony, Michigan's playing a terrible team non conference on Saturday. I can't believe
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it either Bolding Green visiting an arbor seven thirty on BTN Cheron Moore fresh off
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as one game self imposed suspension, or n cuba A violations now being honored
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as Michigan's new interim head coach because Michigan's head coach is suspended for one game,
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or for this game for ncuba A self imposed violations. Wolverines as much
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you know as renegade programs tend to be favored by a lot here forty and
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a half points for the Wolverines. You know they have looked extremely bored the
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first two weeks, which yes, same, but you know, is this
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team any worse? Is Bowling Green any worse than UNLV, who they beat
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thirty five to seven last week? I feel like, no, I'm with
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you, and I don't think Michigan has covered yet in any of their two
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games, and they're having they're not running the ball very well, and I
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wonder if they try to establish that and get that going this week and does
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that slow things down or is just the week they finally can run the ball
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and then they throw it. I'm just not I'm not jumping on the Michigan
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score bunch bandwagon until they start doing it. So, yeah, they're gonna
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win. It's gonna be boring. It's a great primetime game for the fans
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there in ann Arbor to enjoy the raucous nighttime atmosphere of Michigan Stadium against a
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nearly in state opponent. But of course, you know, Michigan lost that
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border war with Ohio because they just didn't have it in them. And and
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here we go, it's the Michigan not having that dog in them for two
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trees or so. Apparently, Yes, I'm aware of what happened in the
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Ohio State Michigan game in the last two years. Thanks for asking. Lat's
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speaking of people who may or may not have that dog in them and perhaps
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saying regrettable things. Let's talk about Colorado State at Colorado ten o'clock on ESPN
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Buff's favored by twenty four Tony, I'm wearing a hat indoors your thoughts,
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you classless piece of garbage. My favorite thing about this is that this is
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a rivalry game. Added Dion Sanders is telling a team now they've made this
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personal. Than that tells you, like maybe the lack of history that he
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cares about or understands or acknowledges with Colorado State, but it's like they've said
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something about me, Now this is personal for us, whereas you know it's
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a rivalry game. It should have been personal from the outset, but I
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it was. I don't think it was a wise move to just to say
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stuff like that and just give Colorado and Dion Sanders any more reason to want
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to run it up on you, like they're trying Jane Arvel, Colorado's dead
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coach, trying to present themselves as something different, class year whatever. You
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know they're going to be presented as something quite different after this game. I
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think this does feel like one where Okay, you have a team that just
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played its historic rival at a big win on national TV. You've got game
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day coming to town, like this feels like a week that they could get
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distracted and maybe catch it by surprise and then like you just poke the bear
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for no discernible reason and give them a reason to focus that just that seemed
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like a poor choice. I am super fascinated, Tony, whether the headlines
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not this week but next week when they play Oregon, whether it's going to
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be Coach Prime getting stomped by organ next week, or whether that will just
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be Colorado after Coach Prime had those two big wins the first two weeks,
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the the you know, the focus, the focus has been so much on
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the head coach there, and you know, I get it. I just
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I'm gonna be so interested to see whether that's you know, Coach Prime has
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taken taken this l playing Oregon or next week, or if it's if that,
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if that reflects more poorly on the program, on the whole and the
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players, will it will it be well if they lose that game, Deon's
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in the post game, yeah, you know, they just didn't have it
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today. It becomes a they versus a week that sort of thing. I
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don't expect that, but the narrative around it, Yeah, I'm that'll be
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interesting to watch. I am interested. You just get home and watch this
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game though Colorado State in Colorado, because well, they gotten to see bits
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and pieces. So I'm actually looking forward to it and seeing what all the
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hubbub is about. Yeah, that's gonna be interesting music. That's gonna be
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such a fascinating team to watch over the course to the season. I continue
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to think that it's not going to be able to hold up just because of
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depth issues there like that. That just won't won't hold up over the course
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of the season. Because let's I mean shocking, shocking developed this year.
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The PAC twelve might actually be good at football in its final season. I
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think they have eight teams ranked this year, which is I believe I heard
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the you know, no other conference other than the SEC has ever done that,
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which is pretty remarkable for a league that is going to you know,
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basically explode into a million pieces at the end of the season. So that'll
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be that'll be interesting to see how long they can sustain that. I don't
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think. I'm I'm still not buying you know, eight and four Colorado or
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anything like that now at the point where they know they probably make a bowl
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game, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go. But we'll
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see where they end up Saturday night against the Buffs. The Buffs against the
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