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Quick Take: Will Indiana Win a National Title? · Height Differential

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  Miami sneaks out a win over Ole Miss.
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  A lot of people still saying there might have been API on
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  that last play. You're not getting that call.
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  And then and then Indiana just does what Indiana does and just
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  puts it on Oregon. Let's start with the the Miami
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  game. What was what was your take away
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  with the Hurricanes getting to win and advance into the
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  national title? That was a fantastic, fantastic
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  football game. I mean, we, we joked about it
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  when we say that, you know, you have to score 20 points to win.
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  Miami's putting up 3131 points, all offensive points as well.
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  So not even a defensive score, but a great, great football
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  game. Fourth quarter.
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  I think there's four lead changes in the fourth quarter,
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  all in the last 7 minutes. And you know, we were, I was
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  just kept waiting and waiting for the Miami offense to mess up
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  or Carson Beck to throw that pick, and he never did.
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  He played a good game, controlled the office, didn't
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  turn the ball over, drove him down the field and scored that
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  touchdown with 18 seconds left to get that victory.
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  But an absolutely fantastic football game on both sides of
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  the ball. I think Ole Miss played well as
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  well. No, they, they, they both did.
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  And my take away from this game is really if Trinidad Chambliss
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  Chambliss wasn't, I still think he was the best player in the
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  the field. And I think that's why this was
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  a as close a game as it was. But I mean, Miami just
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  controlled the line of scrimmage and it was like every single
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  time they ran the ball, they were getting 5-6 yards.
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  And I mean, Fletcher was was just unstoppable running through
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  the tackles. And I mean Malachi Tony dude,
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  like dude's 18 years old and should be an.
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  Should be a senior. Yeah, and it's just an
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  incredible talent. And you're right.
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  Carson Beck, he threw for 268 yards and didn't make mistakes
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  late in the game when they needed him.
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  And I mean, he looked like a guy that has been a a part of
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  championship teams. And I don't know if he's ready
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  to with the next step to beat IU, but and he he's seen people
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  do it and he's been on great teams.
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  And I mean, he just doesn't make mistakes.
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  He he wins games. Yeah.
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  I mean, when it was like I said, there was that those four lead
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  changes in the last 7 minutes and you know, Ole Miss kicked
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  that field goal to take the lead about right around 7 minutes
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  left in the game. And Miami answers back with A4
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  play, 75 yard drive in a minute, 56.
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  So they do it. Boom, just score like that, Ole
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  Miss answers and what's Miami do?
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  They absolutely just wore Ole Miss down at the end.
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  I mean, that last drive, let's see, I had the note.
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  It was duh, duh, duh, 15 plays, 75 yards.
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  And at the end of the game, you can just look at Ole Miss was
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  just gassed. I mean, the time of possession
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  was 41 minutes for a Miami and Ole Miss was 18.
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  So when your defense is on the field for 41 minutes, you know
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  they're going to get worn down. And I think that ultimately is
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  is what happened on that last drive, 15 plays, they've been on
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  the field for 41 minutes. Like it was it was inevitable.
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  I think that that that was going to happen.
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  No, and and like I said, when you're getting 5-6 yards of pop
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  every time you run the ball, that's going to lead to having a
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  42 to 18 time of possession. And you know, Miami's going to
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  look to do the same thing against IU because if they want
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  to win that one, they're they're going to have to control
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  possession very similarly then then they did against Ole Miss.
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  Anything else on that game or we'll go ahead and move to IU.
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  No, I mean it just, I know Ole Miss.
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  I mean, Ole Miss kind of also during the game they were moving
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  the ball on them and we talked about Miami defence being so
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  they're really like great. They moved the ball.
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  They scored that long Lacy run. But then they started settling
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  for field goals. They hit four straight field
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  goals without. I mean, they they'd move the
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  ball, they'd get into the scoring range and all of a
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  sudden they're having to settle for settle for field goals.
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  I mean, you just take one of those drives and put it in the
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  end zone. You're probably looking at Ole
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  Miss in the national championship game, but instead
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  you know their drives would stall.
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  I mean, that's credit to Miami's defense of bending and not
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  breaking, but Ole Miss had the chances there, but they settled
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  for those 4 field goals instead of touchdowns.
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  Yeah, I mean, they were, they were two for 10 from third down
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  for the game and that that's a big reason why you're settling
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  for field goals. But I mean, still an incredible
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  job by Pete Golden and what was remaining of a staff and even
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  new staff that's coming in that was added within the last couple
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  weeks. I mean, we talked about it last
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  week how either you're going to get Miami going home to play for
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  a title or you're going to get a staff that is thrown together
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  trying to figure things out in the run.
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  And the game lived up to to all the hype came down to the last
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  play. I agree with you.
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  There's there's no way you can call that Pi.
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  But I mean, there there was some contact there and it's just what
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  what a good game. And I mean, Miami, just, if
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  you're controlling the game 42 minutes to 18, you're usually
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  going to win. And that's that's what they're
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  going to have to do next week to to beat IU.
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  Yeah, I mean, is the, is the SEC dominance in the sport?
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  Is it over? I mean, they're going to be
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  arguing to get more teams in in the playoffs so they can get
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  more chances. 3 Three straight years without an SEC team
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  playing for Championship I. Mean the trick is to do like the
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  Big 10 did and have them play each other so you're guaranteed
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  a spot. That's that is true.
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  But you got to have two teams in the Final Four to do that.
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  Correct. So yeah, I don't know in the in
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  the era of NIL, it might be a little level playing field
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  parity is is showing a fit. I mean, if you got a guy who's
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  anybody who's going to write checks and and help you get
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  players it it definitely does let even the playing field.
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  And I use proven that you can do it with a bunch of bunch of 4th,
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  5th year guys that are a lot older than everybody else.
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  And I mean, God, they just we talked about it, how it could
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  potentially be different, right last week and it was different.
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  They just it wasn't a close game at all of.
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  What we what we were expecting, I mean, it's incredible what
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  they're doing and like IU so good and they're beating teams
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  so badly that they're not conspiracy theories, theories
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  out there that they're hacking into the I clouds of their
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  opponents and stealing their practice videos and they know
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  exactly what's coming and etcetera.
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  Like no, they're just that well prepared.
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  Coach Lignetti just is that good of a coach that it looks that
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  way, but they're just that good of a team.
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  Yeah, I mean you start off with the pick 6 on the first play.
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  First play. And when you're already up
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  against it, you're playing a team that is playing was
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  entering the final four is clear favorite to win the title.
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  And you do that on 1st play. You put yourself behind the 8
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  ball. I mean, you look at the stats
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  are very even and a lot of that is because, you know, Oregon was
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  able to move the ball. Second-half was when the game
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  was in, was already put away, but Mendoza had three
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  incompletions. He only threw for 177 yards
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  because they really didn't need to move the ball that much.
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  But he had five touchdowns and no picks.
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  I mean you, you sent me his numbers.
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  For the. For the playoff, I mean, he's 31
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  for what, 38? Yeah, 3031 for 36. 36. 31 for
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  36, eight touchdowns, no interceptions.
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  So he has three more touchdown passes than incomplete passes in
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  two games through the playoffs, like against Alabama and Oregon.
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  How's that? Two of the best defenses, I
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  mean, they're both top 20 defenses.
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  They've outscored Alabama and Oregon 94 to 25.
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  But just five incompletions and eight touchdown passes and no
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  picks. He has seven completions of 20
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  plus yards or more. Yeah.
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  I mean, that's a completion percentage of 86%. 86.1% yeah.
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  Like it's, it's incredible what he's doing and just backing up
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  his case of why he was the rightful Heisman Trophy winner.
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  They were what, a 3 1/2 point favorite in this game?
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  3 1/2. I'd say they covered I.
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  Mean, I think I think it was three against Alabama too, no
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  and. That.
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  Was like it was supposed to. Was it 7?
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  Yeah, it was. It was a decent, pretty big
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  number. Now, now it's going to be 7 1/2
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  in in the title game against Miami.
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  But I mean, I, I don't know really what else to say about
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  this Indiana team that we haven't said all year when it
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  comes to breaking down this game.
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  It's just when they play an inferior opponent.
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  And believe it or not, Oregon and Alabama both are inferior
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  opponents right now when you talk about Indiana.
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  And yeah, it's just they they four different touchdown guy
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  reception, four different guys had touchdown receptions.
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  I mean, they do that still. Like that's the story every
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  single game. Yeah.
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  It's I mean. I mean, it's just a freight
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  train right now and I, I don't see Miami slowing it down.
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  I mean, I know Miami's it's going to be in their own
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  building. They're going to be comfortable
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  down there. They get to stay at home, sleep
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  in their own beds and do their normal routine as if it's like
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  basically like a home game for them.
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  But I don't think that they've got the talent to to Matt to
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  stop. You know, we talked about how
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  good their their defense is. I don't think they're going to
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  stop Indiana and I don't think their offense is going to score
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  on Indiana. Mark Fletcher's just been an
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  absolute beast in these playoffs, but he hasn't faced a
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  a defense like this. No.
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  And, and that was the thing last week when we talked about Ole
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  Miss and and Miami, we kind of talked about this unstoppable
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  defense versus this unstoppable offense.
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  Which one will bend first? I mean, yeah, this is a story of
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  Indiana's unstoppable offense against Miami's unstoppable
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  defense. But Indiana's defense is just as
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  good. Yeah, they're just as good.
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  Like it's a better defense than Miami's defense.
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  Yeah. Like for Miami to pull this off,
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  I mean, First off, you talked about the home field and that is
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  an advantage. Yes, I know what Indiana has the
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  biggest alumni base in the country, right, Correct.
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  And they're going to, they're going to show up.
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  So it's not going to be just Miami.
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  It would you say will it be 5050?
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  You think it'll be even? Will it be pro IU in Miami or?
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  Probably about 5050 would be my guess.
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  I. Mean Miami is 7 and one at home
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  this year yes, they're long loss coming to the cards yeah,
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  they're 18 and three over the last three seasons.
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  So they have had success at home.
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  I mean the the way that they they got to figure out a way to
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  run the ball. They got to figure out a way to
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  control the clock. I mean it if if Indiana controls
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  the possession, they they have no chance.
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  They the possession has to be 40 to 20.
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  At least I think for Miami to have a chance.
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  They got to create turnovers. They got to get Mendoza to throw
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  a pick. They got to create create a
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  fumble. They force five turn turnovers
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  in the playoffs. They've got 4 picks and a a
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  fumble recovery. To pick six against Ohio State
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  really kind of set the tone for that game.
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  If they can do something like that where you're flipping the
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  script a little bit on what IU did against Oregon.
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  I mean, that's what they've done all year.
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  They have 16 picks this year and three of them they've returned
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  for for touchdowns. I mean, and you got to rely on
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  back to not make mistakes. He's thrown 4 touchdowns and
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  only has one turnover in the playoffs and they got to keep
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  doing that. Yeah, yeah, Nope, you're right
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  that that's, that is the way Miami's going to win.
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  And like you mentioned, like they're going to need IU to, to,
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  to stumble along the way, like you said, throw a pick or fumble
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  the ball or something like that. So it's, it would be something
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  uncharacteristic for IU to do for Miami to win the game.
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  But I mean, IU's got the advantage in the coaching and
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  probably I, I think with with say he'll have them ready.
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  I just, it's, it's hard for me to, yeah, there's nothing hard
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  for me to see Miami winning this game.
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  But, and I also thought they were going to lose to, to Ohio
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  State and lose the Ole Miss. And here we are at the national
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  championship game and they're in there as a as a double digit,
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  double digit seed. Well, it dude, like everybody
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  just talked about how good Miami's defense is and their 5th
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  best they average, they've given up 14 points a game.
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  But I mean, like you said, Indiana's is even better.
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  They're second, we're giving up 11.
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  So like you don't even have a huge advantage there.
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  I mean, I talked about Miami having 16 picks.
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  Guess who has more? Indiana.
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  They have 18 on the season and and ranked 7th in the country.
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  And and Miami's secondary has been where their issue is on on
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  defense. You know, they've given up over
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  200 passing yards a game on the season and I just don't think
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  that bodes well. Do what I.
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  Think they're a little banged up in the secondary too with some
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  injuries. Yeah, so, so it's.
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  Good luck. Yeah, you, you got to establish
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  the run you got, you got to try to get a turnover early to set
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  the tone. The otherwise I, I see the same
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  thing happening we've seen in the first two games.
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  And like, we need to quit saying that these games are going to be
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  close because Sig and his crew have proven that it's not going
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  to be. And like, if I mean, I think
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  this is going to be a 2030 point game.
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  I really do. And I wish I would have gone out
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  on a limb and said this the first two rounds, but it's
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  Indiana. Like, and did you see them play
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  in Oregon? You see them play in Alabama?
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  That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter.
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  They they are the best team. And if they go out and they
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  don't make mistakes, they're going to win by 2030 points.
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  I agree 100% with you, yeah. You got, you got nothing.
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  No, that's you're spot on. They are Alabama.
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  Alabama and Oregon, you talked about how you're worried they
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  might lose. I should have doubted it.
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  I I don't know. I don't know why, but because I
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  mean, I guess like, because the two times they played, you know,
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  a really good team like in Ohio State or in Oregon, they've been
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  close games like they won by three points against an Ohio
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  State, they won by a ten against Oregon.
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  Like they blew out a lot of teams, but they didn't blow out
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  a lot of really good teams like this.
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  I didn't expect them to do this, but they are.
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  I mean they're. Nobody expected to do this
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  either. Let's.
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  Say, you know, for argument's sake, and we can talk about this
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  if and when it happens next week is if they do come out and win
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  this game by 20 or 30 points like they are in the discussion,
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  probably of one of the greatest football teams ever.
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  They have to be. They have to be like, I don't
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  know if they're as good as that Joe Burrow LSU team or if
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  they're as good as that Miami team in the early 2000s, but
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  they're up there, man. They're.
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  They're in the conversation and look, they're they're the first
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  team that's ever had to win three games to do this.
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  If they do it, which puts a notch on their belt for sure.
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  Wait. They'd be what?
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  They'd be what now? They'll they they had to win
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  three games to win. Ohio State Ohio State won four
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  last year. We're not putting the, putting
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  them in the conversation. One of the best teams ever.
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  No, we're. Not, but I mean, this is not
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  unprecedented for. Each, but I'm I'm saying as far
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  as best teams ever, yeah, correct.
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  If you're talking about the the Joe Burrow LSU team, they didn't
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  have to win three games. They won, yes, Correct.
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  They won. They won.
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  Yeah, I'm not putting, I don't think that Ohio State team
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  belongs in that conversation as as one of the best teams ever.
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  I mean they came in as what, a 8910 seat?
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  Last year there were like an 8. Yeah, yeah.
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  But I mean, and we've, we've hit this so many times, but unlike
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  anything we've ever seen in the history of sports.
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  And I mean, they're 60 minutes away of playing the football
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  that they've played all year and don't even have to play a great
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  game, just have to do what they've done all year.
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  And they'll be hanging a banner at at the Rock.
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  At the Rock. Like how does that even make
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  sense? Well, it doesn't, man.
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  I just remember the days back in school and we went, you know, me
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  and Tab and Brian Weigel and Jeff Hall and, and, and the
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  roommates we, we went to the games.
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  We weren't some like the, the typical students that, you know,
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  Oh, you got, I used to just don't go to football games.
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  They just tailgate in the field and drink beer and don't even
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  care. And I know we actually were the
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  the students that did go to the games in the bad weather, in the
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  cold, in the rain and wash their teeth, get kicked in by
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  Minnesota, you know, so. Did you all?
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  Would you all stay for the whole game or you gone?
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  No. We stayed, man, we stayed.
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  We stayed. We walked from 3rd St. all the
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  way to 17th St. to the stadium. And I mean, we were those fans
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  that that were there and watched, like I said, get our
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  butts, get whooped by a Minnesota or a Michigan State
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  and never would have dreamed that IU football would be where
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  they are right now. No, I mean, and I mean I've been
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  to several games at at IU when I mean there was nobody there.
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  There was nobody there when I was.
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  Yeah, no. I mean, nobody there and it's
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  just the into the season ticket owners that have been going to
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  games for 20-30, forty years. Like I can't even imagine like
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  what's going through their head during these and they decide
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  just this year, it's last year too.
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  Like how fun was last year when it came out of nowhere.
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  Like this year, you knew you were going to be good.
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  You didn't maybe know you're going to be this good, but you
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  knew you were going to be good. And like, that's what being a
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  fan is all about. Like, like sticking it, like
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  sticking it sticking in through the thick and thin.
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  Like when your team's terrible, there wasn't a lot of thick
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  either. It was all thin for IUI mean the
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  worst, the worst power conference team in the history
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  of college football. And I don't know, it's just it's
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  going to make a hell of a 30 for 30 and it's going to happen
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  pretty quick. They need to make one.
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  There's not. Going to happen pretty quick.