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What We've Learned About College Football's Opening Weekend · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, May fifteenth. I'm your host Tom
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Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and eight days, the game against
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Michigan in one hundred and ninety nine days. Yes, we are under two
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hundred and with the OHISED at Michigan game right around the corner. Tony Gerderman
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and I dropped a very special Michigan Monday episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast on
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You Guessed It Monday this week, talking about Sharon Moore, the start of
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the Charon Moore era, how that's all going. The response for Michigan fans
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has been, let's say, mixed, which means Ohio State fans will probably
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enjoy it quite a bit. So make sure you check that out in the
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Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. All right, on today's show, I'm also welcoming
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in Tony to talk about some of the early TV schedules. We are starting
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to get sort of a drip drip drip of information on some of the early
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games of the season, some of the biggest games of the season. One
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of the first things announced, of course, not a big surprise, OHISD
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at Michigan will play at noon on Saturday, November thirtieth on Fox. We
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could have done the show yesterday. When that came it was like, well,
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this isn't really news. We do have some actual news now, start
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going to talk about those big noon kickoff games as well as Week one with
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shipping up to be a very exciting week one of college football on your television
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set. Welcoming in, Tony, Tony, I guess before we get to
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week one, we're going to talk about week zero. Florida State Georgia Tech
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in Ireland noon on ABC. We are starting the college football season with the
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Knowles and the Yellowjackets. Are they going to cause some kind of an international
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incident? Tony In Florida State fans traveling overseas, that feels like the State
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Department needs to be on standby. You got to watch out for them.
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Unfortunately, you don't worry about Georgia Tech fans traveling because there aren't any,
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so you can really just prioritize the Florida State fans and keep them in line.
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I think when you think about the start of college football and college football
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in general, and Ireland, the two programs that you think about most Florida
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State, Georgia Tech so this one makes all the sense in the world to
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go ahead and have that over there. So it never really matters what that
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first game is. We're all going to be tuned in. It just depends
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on are we watching two quarters or are we watching four quarters? Like how
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interesting is this game going to be? And really we generally start with like
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a Thursday night game most times in like a week zero, but or maybe
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we don't. I just week zero being a newish new thing over the last
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few years. But I'm going to be tuned in. We don't have a
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game that week. It's always like the week before the action really starts.
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There's usually some good high school games on television at the same time. But
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I'm going to assume that the college football will win out, certainly for me.
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Yeah, I think it will went out probably for me as well.
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We will see what the new look Seminoles look like. The year two of
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the Brent Key Georgia Tech Yellowjackets look like. It's still a little bit of
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a rebuilding process. Says that. Definitely one where you know which league both
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teams are in, So that is going to make it a rare thing on
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this show. Looking through the rest of the rest of the schedule, there
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were a couple of Is that a conference game? No, I don't think
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so. Okay, a lot of people shuffling into different spots. We will
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move on to week one, Thursday, August twenty ninth, that big Thursday.
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This always used to be the Steve spurri or Memorial. I want to
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go play golf all Labor Day weekend. Let's get the game out of the
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way on Thursday night game this year, North Dakota State at Colorado, You're
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going to have the big Dion bump. I'm sure tony eight pm ESPN,
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we'll see. There will undoubtedly be a bunch of other games on that night.
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This will not be the first one on. Well, probably be the
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biggest one on. And you know North Dakota State we talked about this a
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couple of weeks ago, I think on one of the Buckeye Weekly shows.
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We did North Dakota State. Not exactly the full blown juggernaut that it was
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a couple of years ago. Still a pretty darn good team. Colorado,
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what the heck is called Colorado going to be There's a lot of intrigue here.
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There is, for one, you know, you should do or Sanders
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a quarterback. How well does Dion put all of these pieces together? Former
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Buckeye running back Dollan Hayden getting in there, and just how well do they
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put it all? All of these new faces, new offensive line, new
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defense. How well do these guys gel? And is this there's probably a
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good way to start out with an FCS opponent. And you do have a
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talent advantage, and you're at home, and that crowd should be pretty lively
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now now that you've had a year to build it. But you do have
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to kind of get some momentum quickly because we saw it appened last year.
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Everybody loved Colorado and September and then everybody forgot about them after that and for
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good reason. But yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. Just we
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all like to watch Colorado right now. We all like to like to watch
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coach while there's nothing else going on. It's when other stuff is going on,
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is when we tend to tune out. And this one will this one
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will be tuned in for well, there will be other stuff going on on
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Friday night. This is where you start squinting and going this is there?
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Oh yeah, that's where they are now. Temple at Oklahoma Yes SEC member
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Oklahoma seven pm on ESPN Friday night, followed by TCU of still of the
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Big Twelve at the ACC's Stanford Tony ten thirty pm on ESPN on that Friday
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night. Neither of these are particularly exciting games, which is good because you
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should be out watching a high school football game that night anyway. But when
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you get back from your high school football game, you'll be able to walk
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in the door and probably make yourself some popcorn or something and get yourself a
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beverage and then be able to turn on the kickoff of an ACC game ten
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thirty pm, just like God intended. Yeah, this is going to be
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brand new for all of us and we're going to enjoy it. And you're
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absolutely right. I'll come back from high school game. Just depends on how
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far away it is. Is it a twenty minute drive home or is it
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a two hour drive home? But I will definitely the first thing I do
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is sit down, put this one on, and just bask in the glory
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of whatever this is. I don't know. I don't I'm going to assume
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it's not going to go well for Stanford, but I don't know that I
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have we'll see, Tom. I don't know how many people are paying attention
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to Stanford, including me. I know I'm not, but anybody else.
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Yeah, and the Stanford as Stanford and cal as ACC teams. I don't
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know how long it's going to take my brain to wrap itself around that as
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this is where, this is where they live now. And just you know,
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teams who can see the Pacific or Pacific adjacent water from their campuses probably
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should not be in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but here we are. Lots
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of stupid things happening. Speaking of the Atlantic Coast Conference and stupid things happening,
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Tony Saturday, August thirty fourtht Georgia against Clemson, biggest game of week
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one in Atlanta at noon on ABC. You said, boy, this is
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going over great with Georgia and Clemson fans that it is a noon kickoff,
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not even Big Noon. This is an ABC game. Boy, This is
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fascinating in several different directions, one of which is I wonder if this is
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ABC kind of taking a little bit of a shot across the bow at Fox.
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And Okay, you you made all your money with Big noon kickoff and
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monopolizing that time slot. Maybe not anymore. It has been a little interesting
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to watch, like for this one. And I think part of the reason
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Georgia and Clemson is a noon game is because there's no real, fantastic Fox
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option. The best option there is is Penn State at West Virginia, and
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maybe that'll eventually be announced, but there's no real competition. And also,
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you know you've already got the Notre Dame text A and M, which we'll
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get to that night. So I don't think Clemson fans or Georgia fans ever
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expected this to be a noon game. That was never really in their thought
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process. So when they saw that, there are a bunch of reactions on
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Twitter that were I didn't see anybody going, Yes, I was hoping for
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noon, this is the one I wanted to get that Nune slot, Get
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to the stadium by nine, enjoy the game, get home by like six,
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and just enjoy the rest of the day. That was not the reaction
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I saw from any of them. But I do wonder how much we're going
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to start seeing this as you're talking about, how much are they going to
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continue to try to compete with that Fox time slot a big noon because as
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we talked about on a recent Buckeye Weekly of the top fifteen regular season ratings
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in the games last year, the highest fifteen highest rated regular season games rather
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six of them, five or six of them. We're the we're the big
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new kickoffs. So that's been a spot that they've been able to secure.
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And so will they continue, will they attempt to get in there? And
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it reminds me a little bit of what the NFL is doing right now,
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putting some regular season games up against the playoffs and in terms of giving them
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to like NBC, like here take them, because they're trying to just,
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I don't know, stick it to college football, and this is kind of
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like you know, ABC, ESPN, Disney sticking it to Fox. Yeah,
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no one can seem to play nicely. No one can sort of seem
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to coordinate their their things and the space things out and do things that are
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in the best interest to the fans. That's Tony, That's not what this
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is about. Speaking of things that are not in the best interest to the
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fans. Miami is playing at Florida. That's not in the bench best interest
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of anyone. This feels like, boy, this is real early for a
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game where one coach is going to feel real, real uncomfortable about his job
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status coming out of this one. But this might be. This might be
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one where Mario Crystobal and oh goodness, what was the name of the guy
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from the Louisiana Lafayette Billy what's his name from? Who's coaching Florida? Now
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I want to say Billy Corgan. That's not it. He's coaching the Smashing
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Pumpkins. Anyway, we'll get there, Billy Napier, There we go.
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My brain got there eventually. Yes, Billy Napier, And yeah, boy,
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that he might he might want to win this game. They have a
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brutal schedule this year. We don't have time to talk about that. But
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Miami at Florida three thirty pm, ABC, Colorida State at Texas three thirty
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pm on ESPN, Western Kentucky at Alabama seven pm on ESPN, Notre Dame
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at Texas A and M seven thirty pm on ABC. The Mike Elcho debut
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for the Aggies. You're three of Marcus Freeman for the Notre Dame. There
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are a couple of games, you know, those are some big program names
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here, But boy, there are some coaches who this could this could be
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the start of a real uncomfortable fall for a couple of these guys if they
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start out with a loss. Well, Mike Elco, you don't want to
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lose this game, and you're You've got all of this really good momentum and
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good will and then you lose at home season opener in front of one hundred
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thousand at night. But yeah, you could say the same thing about Alabama.
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The Florida thing. I have Miami as a playoff team, so if
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Florida can trip them up, that's not going to keep Miami out of the
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playoffs per se. But you mentioned that being an uncomfortable game, it's gonna
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be uncomfortable for everybody. It's a free thirty kick in Florida on August thirty.
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First, you know, your bring your visors and your your son block.
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But yeah, it's really interesting couple of debuts there. I do like
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how it's spaced out a little bit. You've got a big noon game,
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you got a big three thirty ish game with Miami in Florida, and then
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you've got the Notre Dame at Texas A and M, which is where college
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game day will be. So that's where Nick Staban will be I believe as
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well. Yes, that is that is the plan for college game Day,
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and that sounds like the plan for Nick Saban, So yeah, boy,
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that's going to be a very different and interesting, interesting spot. We do
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not yet know officially what the plan is for Ohio State on that week they're
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playing Akron. We do not know. They have not announced the TV game
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network or time for that. Boy, Ohio State at Akron going up against
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Georgia Clemson at noon, if that was you know, we've talked about that
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as potentially could that be the big noon kickoff game just because you get the
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Ohio State eyeballs there, Boy, that'll be uh. I will have one
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eye on the Ohio State game and one eye you know, probably keeping an
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eye on the Georgia Clemson game as well as I'm sure you will. If
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that is. That's how that all pans out Sunday, September. First,
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this is this is two real good brand names. We'll see what it looks
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like on the field this year. USC of the Big Ten now basing LSU
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of the SEC, and both teams are placing pretty high profile quarterbacks this year.
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That's a pretty good Saturday Sunday night game. That's seven thirty ABC Monday
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Night, Boston College, Florida State, that is seven thirty pm on ESPN.
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So to Florida State games, Georgia Tech and Boston College that we've been
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talking about already. You know this is this feels like you know, these
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these are presumably too you know, at least decent, decent games, decent
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matchups. And you know, you get the Bill O'Brien start of the Bill
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O'Brien era at Boston College. There's you know, there's there's some stuff to
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be interested in here. Yeah, and you get usc LSU in in Vegas
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and neutral site. Interesting, two new quarterbacks taking over there, two new
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eras. If you will, it will be I guess you look at this
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that Monday night game, It's like it could be it could be more exciting.
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But I guess, let's see what Florida State does after getting back from
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Ireland. Let's see how Boston College feels about Florida State going to Ireland.
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And uh and uh, you know that you know the type of thing and
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like, hey, that that's that's our place or you know, that's that's
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me, that's us in Notre Dame. How dare you fshu comes back and
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is like talking trash about Ireland's just not that great. It's a kind of
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a scusy place. And then that's really going to create an issue with Boston
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College and Bill O'Brien and all of that stuff. So we'll watch it obviously.
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You know, I'm looking forward to it. It's football, it's Monday,
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But then you know, the next day is work, so I don't
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know, I don't know how many people are going to stay up for the
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whole thing. Yeah, that that Monday night game. For some reason,
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that Monday night game always feels like it's just not quite up to the par
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of the rest of the weekend. But it is such a good weekend where
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you've got five nights in a row, where you've got college football on Thursday,
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, So you really really can't complain.
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This is the time of year when one night of college football seems like
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it would be extremely glorious. So five nights in a row to start the
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season, we will take it. Uh so o things that we will take
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the first three big noon kickoff games of the season. Fox got the first
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three picks for the Big ten games, and this is stuff that we had
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again talked about on Big on buck Eye Weekly about a week week and a
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half ago, Texas at Michigan week two, Alabama at Wisconsin week three,
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and then Michigan of course at Ohio State in the final week of the season
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September November thirtieth. You know, I don't think there are any huge surprise
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here surprises here. These are all going to be very very big games,
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very very big brands in all of these. And you know, this is
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one where we kind of deferred to Matt Sars who does TV picks and and
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sort of projected this kind of stuff, and said he generally knows what he's
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talking about, and he said these are going to be the three. Ye
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he was right, Yeah, he was right. He also says Ohio State
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week one on CBS, if I recall correctly, at three thirty. So
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we'll see about that one. But these were these three were much easier pick
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than an Ohio State non conference game this year. But I can't argue with
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Fox's decision. But it is kind of, I don't know, it is
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a little bit weird or maybe how do you feel about Fox? Two of
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their three first picks involved SEC teams. Like, yeah, you want those
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eyeballs obviously, but it's like your thing is the Big ten and your picks
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here the two that obviously Ohis State Michigan is always going to be number one,
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But your other two top choices involve SEC teams. Yeah, and you
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know that that's a great way to get eyeballs from all around the country.
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Those are going to be games to do monster monster numbers. The fact that
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Texas is an SEC team now still real weird to me. Alabama coming up
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to Wisconsin to play, that's really weird. There's going to be a lot
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of very very different stuff. The interesting thing here now is because those are
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the top three. We did a whole show, a whole Buckeye Weekly show
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a couple weeks ago projecting Ohio State, Oregon, where is that going to
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be? When is that going to be? Where's that could be televised?
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Ohio State at Penn State. Where is that going to be televised? When
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is that going to be? Those are not going to be big noon games
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almost certainly, because those are probably the next two, you know, next
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two off the board in terms of Big ten games. One of those likely
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to end up on CBS. One of those likely to end up on NBC.
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We will see what order that all plays out in. If you want
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to hear us talk through that whole process, you can find that on the
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Bucket Weekly podcast about a week ago. But the rest of those games,
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they're going to be there are gun games coming up early season kickoff times in
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television coverage going to be announced Thursday, May thirtieth. That was kind of
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the up you know, the updated w here's when you're going to get week
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one, you know, Week two kind of your full you know, your
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full lineups of all of those. So that's coming up in just about two
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weeks. Have that to look forward to. You got a lot more to
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