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6 Signs That 2024 Is A Crazy College Football Season · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, October twentieth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or. The Nebraska game is in
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  Speaker 1: six days, the game against Michigan in forty one days.
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska lost fifty six to seven to Indiana. On Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: the Wolverines lost twenty one to twenty seven to Illinois. Just
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  Speaker 1: as I'm sure we all predicted before the start of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four college football regular season, and that's
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  Speaker 1: actually going to be the topic of today's show, just
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  Speaker 1: how crazy this college football season has been. I had
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  Speaker 1: to wait to record this a little later on in
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  Speaker 1: the evening to make sure that Georgia did, in fact
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  Speaker 1: hang on to beat Texas they did. I had to
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  Speaker 1: wait to make sure that Iowa State did in fact
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  Speaker 1: wait to hang on to beat UCF. They did. There
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  Speaker 1: were some drama on college football on Saturday. There were
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  Speaker 1: some shocking results in college football on Saturday. There've been
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  Speaker 1: some shocking results in college football all season long. So
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  Speaker 1: today we're going to take a look at the four
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  Speaker 1: power conferences, plus a couple bonus at the bonos, facts
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  Speaker 1: and figures and all that kind of stuff. It's just
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  Speaker 1: to illustrate how crazy this twenty twenty four college football
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  Speaker 1: season has been just so far. We're going to start
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, and we're going to start with
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers. They were picked seventeenth out of the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen teams in the Big Ten preseason media poll. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: these media folks, and I'm going to include myself in
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  Speaker 1: that don't always know exactly what we're talking about. This
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  Speaker 1: is one where we heard kurtzik Netti talk at Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Media Days and thought, well, I don't know, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty confident. He seems like he knows what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they'll be better than seventeenth out of eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be like twelve or something. How about first
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  Speaker 1: first place right now in the Big Ten? The Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Hoosiers seven to zero, tied for first place in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten right now. They just beatn the Nebraska Cornhuskers
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  Speaker 1: fifty six to seven on Saturday. They have scored forty
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  Speaker 1: points in five straight games. That is a school record.
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  Speaker 1: Just an absolute remarkable season so far for the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Hoosiers and no sign that it's necessarily going to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: They do have to come to Columbus later in the year,
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  Speaker 1: but oh boy, that has gone from one of the
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  Speaker 1: cupcakest games on Ohios Ditch schedules to oh boy, that
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  Speaker 1: might be a real signature win for the Buckeyes or
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  Speaker 1: the Hoosiers whoever can win that game later on in
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  Speaker 1: the year. And yes, as you see there on the graphic,
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska was picked to finish nine spots ahead of Indiana
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  Speaker 1: in the preseason media poll and they just lost by
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  Speaker 1: forty nine points in Bloomington on Saturday. How about that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on to the other biggest, top level power conference.
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  Speaker 1: How about the Alabama Crimson Tide. They just lost on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at Tennessee. It is their second loss of the
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  Speaker 1: season already, their second loss to a team from the
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  Speaker 1: state of Tennessee. They lost to Vanderbilt earlier for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since nineteen eighty four. Now they lose to
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Volunteers as well. This is the first time
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  Speaker 1: and the Crimson Tide have had two losses before the
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  Speaker 1: end of October since two thousand and seven. That was
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  Speaker 1: the first year of the Nick saban Era and Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 1: You probably remember them losing to Luisiana Monroe that year.
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  Speaker 1: They only had two losses at the end of October,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see how November and beyond goes for the Tide.
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  Speaker 1: But the first year of the Kalin Debor era not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily living up to the Nick Saban standard. How about
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  Speaker 1: this one from the Big Twelve Conference. Iowa State pick
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  Speaker 1: to finish sixth in the preseason Big Twelve poll. They
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  Speaker 1: are currently seven and oh. First time since nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight that the Cyclones are seven and oh. First time
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen thirty eight that the Cyclones are seven and oh.
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  Speaker 1: How about this one even crazier, first time in school history,
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  Speaker 1: ever since the start of Iowa State football that they
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  Speaker 1: are four and oh to start conference play. That's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get even crazier BYU was picked to
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  Speaker 1: finish thirteenth in the Big Twelve in the preseason poll.
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  Speaker 1: The Cougars are the only other team that is also
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  Speaker 1: still undefeated in Big Twelve play, undefeated in overall in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve pick to finish thirteenth in the conference
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  Speaker 1: before the season. They are currently ranked thirteenth in the
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  Speaker 1: nation in the ap Pole entering this weekend's action. They
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  Speaker 1: will probably move up in the polls even more this weekend. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on to the ACC. Two amazing teams going
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  Speaker 1: in very different directions right now. One you have undoubtedly
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  Speaker 1: heard quite a bit about. That would be the Florida
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  Speaker 1: State Seminoles. Pick to win the ACC in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four College Football Media Poll started the year tenth
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  Speaker 1: in the AP Pole, Seminoles currently one in five in
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  Speaker 1: ACC play one and six overall. They need to win
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  Speaker 1: out just to get Bowl eligible. Spoiler alert, they are
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to win out. How about the pitt
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  Speaker 1: Panthers on the other side of the coin, to finish
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth out of seventeen teams in the league, currently six
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  Speaker 1: to zero, ranked twentieth in the AP Poll, A legitimate
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  Speaker 1: contender to make the College Football Playoff, the pit Panthers. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: one of those teams expected to do that. It was
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  Speaker 1: not the pit Panthers. How about this, Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the American Athletic Conference. Two teams I'd get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of attention towards the very end of the college football
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  Speaker 1: season don't typically get a lot this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: Army and Navy. They are both undefeated through six games,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen forty five that they
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  Speaker 1: are both unbeaten through six games. That's pretty insane. Here's
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  Speaker 1: an even crazier scenario. They could play for the AAC
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  Speaker 1: Championship on December sixth. That's a Friday Night championship game.
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  Speaker 1: AAC Championship game Friday night, December sixth. Conceivably those two
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  Speaker 1: teams could meet for the ACAC Championship. Then they could
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  Speaker 1: play their traditional Army Navy game America's game on December fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: the one that happens right before the Heisman Trophy, the
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  Speaker 1: one you watch every year. That could happen on December fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Then whichever team wins the AAC Championship could conceivably be
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  Speaker 1: the group of five representative in the College Football Playoff
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  Speaker 1: on December twentieth or twenty. First, you could have those
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  Speaker 1: teams playing three games in the span of fourteen days
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  Speaker 1: during championship season, including the traditional Army Navy game, which
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  Speaker 1: everyone looked at and said, well, it will never impact
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  Speaker 1: the College football playoff, there's no reason to worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: That'll never impact the AAC Championship game. There's no reason
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  Speaker 1: to worry about that. It could impact both this year.
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  Speaker 1: That is nuts. And finally, there are ten unbeaten teams
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  Speaker 1: left in the FBS Division. I'm sure these are exactly
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  Speaker 1: the ten teams we all would have had at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Ready, here we go, Army BYU Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State, liber Miami, Navy, Oregon, pitt and Penn State. No,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, no Alabama, no Georgia, no Texas. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the crazier seasons you've probably ever seen, and
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  Speaker 1: it is promising to only get crazier in the back
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  Speaker 1: half of the season. Ohio State had the weekend off,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably the best way to enjoy one of
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  Speaker 1: these crazy college football weekends. They will be back in
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  Speaker 1: action next weekend against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. That's coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Tony, Kevin and I will be there covering
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  Speaker 1: that game for you. Mark covering recruiting this week. Get
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  Speaker 1: our whole team of x's and nose Guruz as well
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  Speaker 1: at buckeyehuddle dot com covering the Buckeyes from every angle
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  Speaker 1: during this crazy and historic college football season. We hope
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  Speaker 1: to see you there. That will do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.