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Episode 6.6: Why the Hype & Most Important Games · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast owners our Nikki Austin Rose, Dakota
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  Speaker 1: Free Tag Short Week episode on Monday, episode on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to talk more about our schedule back by
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  Speaker 1: popular demand from last year. We will be ranking our
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  Speaker 1: schedule one through twelve in order of most importance. This
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  Speaker 1: is where things could get very interesting. I think we
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  Speaker 1: had some very differing opinions last year, so we.
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  Speaker 2: Will get to that here in a second.
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  Speaker 1: At the top here, guys, I listened to a podcast
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  Speaker 1: earlier today and credit Nick Bob podcast. I love listening
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  Speaker 1: to his ideas and takes and he has some really
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  Speaker 1: just interesting thoughts about all the optimism and we sit
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  Speaker 1: here every year we're very hopeful, optimistic Husker fans, kool
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  Speaker 1: aid drinking, YadA, YadA, YadA. But we're getting some national
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  Speaker 1: attention this year too, And not saying that that's not worthy,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of talk. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: this morning, I opened my phone to a video of
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  Speaker 1: some national dude that I've never seen I don't even follow.
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  Speaker 1: Is a suggested one that said his favorite big ten
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  Speaker 1: win total bet was to hammer the Husker over seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half. And I just started thinking I'm like, why,
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  Speaker 1: And after listening to Nick bo and his podcast, he
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  Speaker 1: kind of had the same thought, like why are we
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  Speaker 1: doing this again? And what is the reasoning? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if we solely want to look at last year? All right,
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  Speaker 1: rewind how the season ended last year, not knowing who
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  Speaker 1: the coach was.
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  Speaker 2: How much different was that than a Scott Brost here?
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  Speaker 1: So my question, I guess to you guys, and again
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  Speaker 1: I looked at our rankings last night. I looked at
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  Speaker 1: my rankings. I'm like, man, I had Nebraska in the
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  Speaker 1: top half, DAK you had them at five. Yeah, called
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  Speaker 1: for it, But I mean the question is why why?
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  Speaker 1: And I said this too when I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: the big jumble middle to the bottom teams? What what
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  Speaker 1: reason do we have to put us ahead of? Well
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  Speaker 1: with Dak you had said at Wisconsin, but the Wisconsin's
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  Speaker 1: the I'm gonna just gonna go ahead, Minnesota and one ahead.
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  Speaker 1: What puts us ahead of those middle of the pack teams?
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  Speaker 1: I guess Austin start with you, like, what puts us
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  Speaker 1: ahead of those teams?
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  Speaker 2: And why? Are like? What is the reasoning behind all
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  Speaker 2: the hype?
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  Speaker 3: I think the reason behind the hype is primarily I
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  Speaker 3: should say primarily but schedule based. I think most of
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  Speaker 3: us would agree that we have a reasonably favorable schedule
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of winnable games. We retained a lot
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  Speaker 3: of talent from last year. We have a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know exactly whatever cente of returning starters is, but
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty high compared to most teams. And we lost
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  Speaker 3: four games last year by three points or less, and
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  Speaker 3: we and it was mostly due to turnover margin. And
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  Speaker 3: we have a better, presumably a better quarterback. We definitely
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  Speaker 3: don't have a worse quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say that too. What about Scott Bross
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  Speaker 1: best three and ninth year?
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  Speaker 3: Ever, we were better the next year?
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  Speaker 4: Were we.
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  Speaker 2: But poor?
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  Speaker 1: Eight?
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  Speaker 3: Record wise? Hey, we were better than next year.
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  Speaker 4: Was a team better though?
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  Speaker 3: No, But I also don't think they returned to as
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  Speaker 3: many players. I don't think they improved in the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 3: but they had a better record, and we had five
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  Speaker 3: wins last year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, at a high level, like why why
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  Speaker 1: should we believe? Why should we think that things are
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  Speaker 1: going to change for Nebraska fans. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: prepare myself for if things don't go well, Like I did.
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  Speaker 1: I had us higher than a lot of those teams,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think that a seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: win total is that far off. And people like that,
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  Speaker 1: and people are from out west, like the one media
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  Speaker 1: guy had us at fourteenth and the eight people that's
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  Speaker 1: where we got those points from to receive votes. So
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  Speaker 1: like it's not an uncommon opinion. But like the other
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  Speaker 1: thing that I heard after Scott Frost first year, remember
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  Speaker 1: what happened? We're like, okay, Scott Frost, look what he did.
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  Speaker 1: You see up in year two? This year two things
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  Speaker 1: his We were owned six. He was owned six to
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  Speaker 1: start his tenure in Nebraska. I remember what we won
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  Speaker 1: that first year obviously didn't make a ball game. Second year,
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  Speaker 1: we're like, this is the year, and then.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's I think all the lives behind quarterback play.
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  Speaker 5: Because your defense was good last year, you return a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the same people. It's all come down to
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  Speaker 5: quarterback play. Because you couldn't get much worse than last year.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you do, it'd be impressive, but I
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  Speaker 5: don't think you could get worse.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he can't get worse because we have
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  Speaker 3: Heinrich worse I mean worst case scenario, we're starting Heinrich
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  Speaker 3: over doing.
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  Speaker 4: Which is the same he had have gotten better.
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  Speaker 3: And that's and that's yeah, that's assuming he hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 3: better in the receiving corp. Is not healthier and better.
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  Speaker 3: We have better health. Arguably, we have our floor of
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  Speaker 3: the same quarterback play of last year, and we're returning
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  Speaker 3: most of our defensive players that were big impact players
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  Speaker 3: and an easier schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, so could we have We could have
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  Speaker 1: justified it last year, right and the year before that
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  Speaker 1: the optimism and not so. I'll also say this, going
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  Speaker 1: into last year with Rule, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us had the mindset of including I think all three
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  Speaker 1: of us, but we got to see it to believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I thought, we thought, okay, Rule's a good higher.
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  Speaker 1: We like the things he says. He's he is a
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  Speaker 1: positive optimist, like he knows how to talk very optimistic
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  Speaker 1: to the public, and in return we feed off of that.
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  Speaker 1: But this year I feel like we're away from that again.
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  Speaker 1: But with five and seven last year proving it was
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  Speaker 1: getting Dylan Rayolap proving it. Like Husker fans, I just feel.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what are you? What are you? What are you
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  Speaker 3: arguing against.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really arguing. I'm just saying, why are we
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  Speaker 1: so hyping everything up again? Like, what's the reason why it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ryola is one of them, but then the other
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  Speaker 3: one is I guess I don't. I don't really know
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  Speaker 3: what the hype you're referring to is. If it's the
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  Speaker 3: hype of taking the over of seven and a half,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's just a like if you're I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're gambling right. The under is much.
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  Speaker 1: More like but those those are I mean, those are
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  Speaker 1: set based on realistic like where people are putting their money,
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  Speaker 1: Like our win total has not been seven and a
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  Speaker 1: half in years. Like what I'm saying is all of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff we're being it's because all the hype and optimism,
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  Speaker 1: and we always have that, right. I'm not saying I
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  Speaker 1: don't agree with it all, but I am trying to
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  Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate to it of the why, Like what
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  Speaker 1: did we show last year as a team that can
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  Speaker 1: prove that we're gonna win seven.
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  Speaker 2: Games this year?
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  Speaker 3: Top twenty defense?
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  Speaker 1: We did not play a top sixty offense at all
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this year is gonna you're Michigan State.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan was in the sixties.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, I don't think this year's gonna be much
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  Speaker 3: different Ohio State and USC. But I think I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you factor in last year, playing Michigan has the
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  Speaker 3: equivalent to playing one of those teams, which I probably
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  Speaker 3: would they won the national championship, It's one different game.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, what what rock star offense are you
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  Speaker 5: ever going to play in the Big Ten? Besides Ohio State, Oregon,
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  Speaker 5: that's it Oregon yet de Penn State's not rock star offense,
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  Speaker 5: Michigan's not, and everyone else never has one.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And I guess people think that maybe some of
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  Speaker 1: these teams will get better, but that's also just an assumption.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, I think this will guide us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit into our rankings here for our schedule, because I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I don't think will be Illinois
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  Speaker 1: at home or Rutgers at home, or go on the
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  Speaker 1: road to Purdue and win like we I think we
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  Speaker 1: should win those games. But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people are saying, Okay, we could
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  Speaker 1: be seven to oh how how much of that do
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  Speaker 1: you actually believe that we're going to be seven and oh, Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you give it a fifty to fifty shot or
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  Speaker 1: is that just you saying hoping and thinking that'd be
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  Speaker 1: really cool?
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  Speaker 2: But that really I mean, there's a chance that happens.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody would say that when you're saying that,
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  Speaker 1: when you say Nebraska should be seven to oh, are
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  Speaker 1: you saying that's a like.
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  Speaker 2: Like that should be more than fifty to fifty chances?
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  Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, that really asks the question why,
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  Speaker 1: like why why are we assuming that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: beat these teams when we've shown to lose and and
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  Speaker 1: the other reasoning behind it.
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  Speaker 2: It could be last year, like what was our fault
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  Speaker 2: last year?
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  Speaker 4: Turnovers?
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback, but quarterback playing turnovers, defense was good, special teams,
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  Speaker 1: special teams was and so it's like, yeah, some of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff was with Frost. But at the same same time, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you chalk it up with injuries too in the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiving room, in the running back room, the oppositive line,
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  Speaker 1: like you mentioned Austin, that's one more year of experience
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  Speaker 1: under their belt. Do you just chalk it up to
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Simms and Matt Ruhle and Sadderfield having to make
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  Speaker 1: a last minute decision of getting him and it failed.
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  Speaker 1: Like maybe maybe that's what we do and just think
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  Speaker 1: that Rayola is going to come in and.
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  Speaker 2: Do his job well better than Sims. I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, it can't get worse.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, it's unreasonable to bet the over. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a reasonable to say slam the over. That's a
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  Speaker 3: bit aggressive because we all, I mean the win percentages
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  Speaker 3: we were all under. No, Dak, you were over.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah your first seven games. You can't get easier?
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  Speaker 3: Well you could, Oh yeah you could.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you could in the big ten.
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  Speaker 3: I mean maybe not in the big ten.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, who's who's saying they're gonna be good?
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the schedule here. I'm just gonna leave
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  Speaker 1: the ending on this with this topic. Is we every
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  Speaker 1: year as Husker fans I'm just talking in general, drink
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  Speaker 1: the kool aid. We're optimistic, We get excited for the
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  Speaker 1: season leading up to it as as any fan should.
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  Speaker 3: Like, which is what you're supposed to do here as
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  Speaker 3: part of this is gonna be a dog shit year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna hate it.
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  Speaker 1: This year, people, and I've said it myself a handful
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  Speaker 1: of times. No, this is actually gonna be the year, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about this is gonna be the year.
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  Speaker 4: It works.
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  Speaker 1: That's the question I'm trying to answer because I also
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  Speaker 1: think we may have said that under Frost here too.
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  Speaker 1: We may have said that for Frost a couple other times.
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  Speaker 1: We may have even said that last year. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so if we were waiting to prove it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, I think people are
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  Speaker 1: saying this is gonna be the year. Well we kind
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  Speaker 1: of say that too, but if it really is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the year, Like, why do we truly believe that?
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, ranking our schedule that's gonna start, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it similar to how we did our Big ten
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  Speaker 1: Power rankings.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna start twelve.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have around I mean, you're not getting timed,
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  Speaker 1: but about five minutes to go uninterrupted, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: comment without spoiling our rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Did I cut out there.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit? Not bad?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Well, who knows what's gonna appear like in the post?
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  Speaker 1: So well, all right, the floor is starting at twelve.
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  Speaker 5: Let's kick off with shout out Michael Hall for the
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  Speaker 5: Twitter comment, Hey, do you want to answer this question?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Dylan Gabriel. Of course that's.
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  Speaker 3: Probably a question. What was the question, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Why is everybody still high on Oregon this year? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and it's Dalan Gabriel, the best quarterback in the nation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Austin, that's that's the obvious reason for being an
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  Speaker 1: OU fan.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're well coached and they have a ton
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  Speaker 3: of talent, you know, But I don't know if there
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  Speaker 3: really needs to be an explanation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do think they could struggle, but I mean we're
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  Speaker 1: comparing him to a Michigan team, to a Penn State
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  Speaker 1: team that has lost a ton, and I mean they're
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  Speaker 1: better than Iowa I think.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If, like Oregon, Iowa plays, I think that'd be an
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  Speaker 1: intriguing game. But I just think they're ahead of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have them ahead of Ohio State. I think
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  Speaker 1: if Ohio State and Oregon play and they do, I
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  Speaker 1: think Ohio State is gonna win.
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  Speaker 4: But it's Dylan Gabriel better than bone Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: Bon Nicks end up being solid last year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, really good?
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  Speaker 1: I O game?
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  Speaker 4: Wait, shout up, Michael All right. Kay, So my we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go bottom top here.
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  Speaker 5: So this is the least we're ranking, like the most
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  Speaker 5: important games, right.
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  Speaker 2: So twelve would be your least important.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, least important game. Okay, My least important game is
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  Speaker 5: is Northern Iowa. It's an FBS team. You should scream
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  Speaker 5: them like there's no if you don't win that game
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  Speaker 5: by what do you think? What do you think that
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  Speaker 5: spridal be guys thirty eight?
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be between.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't win that game by thirty plus, you
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  Speaker 4: got problems.
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  Speaker 5: My next one is Ohio State, just because I don't
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  Speaker 5: think anyone's giving a shot to win that game. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if you win it great, If you lose, who really,
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  Speaker 5: no one's gonna really bat and eye about it if
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  Speaker 5: if you win or lose that one. Next one Ucla.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of Northern iowand Iowa points you should you
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  Speaker 5: should cream them too. That won't be as much of
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  Speaker 5: easy games northn Iowa. But I think UCLA is going
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  Speaker 5: to be one of the bottom teams in nation and
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  Speaker 5: it's at home.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it'd be a little important because it'd be
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  Speaker 5: the first the first time in Lincoln is a big
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  Speaker 5: ten team, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that'll be that good. And then we
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  Speaker 4: got Illinois next one.
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  Speaker 5: I know they got Blama, I don't I don't think
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  Speaker 5: that they're gonna be great either, Luke Altmeyer, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: big on at all.
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  Speaker 4: Is a Friday night game.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of I didn't think about that when I
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  Speaker 5: was ranking it, but I should probably higher. But it's
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  Speaker 5: that fright night game makes it bigger the reason why.
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  Speaker 4: So the next one is Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: I put that one high in Illinois because that's your
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  Speaker 5: last game going into how State. Say you're six and
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  Speaker 5: o going in the Indiana game, that would be a
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  Speaker 5: massive game. Going seven to oh int Ohio State, it
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  Speaker 5: probably a big or top ten atter if you're seven
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  Speaker 5: oh going into Ohio State.
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  Speaker 4: Then we got I think, okay, then.
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  Speaker 5: And then we got Purdue. That would be that'd be
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  Speaker 5: after the Ohio State game. You're probably no.
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  Speaker 4: That is not after the house stakame their mine. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I think Purdue is going to be the best out
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  Speaker 4: of Indiana. Illinois.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, out of those two, I think Produce is gonna
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  Speaker 5: be the best out of those two. I think and
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  Speaker 5: you go to Purdue. You guys never win at Purdue.
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  Speaker 5: It's eleven am kick every time you play them. It is,
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  Speaker 5: and it's the same story every time. You can never
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  Speaker 5: beat them at at Purdue. Next one, Rutgers. I think
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  Speaker 5: I think Rutgers is going to be actually really good
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  Speaker 5: this year. That's I I preson think that's your toughest
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  Speaker 5: game out of the first seven is Rutgers. I think
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  Speaker 5: they're bearing Colorado. I don't know why I'm so high
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  Speaker 5: Rutgers this year. I shouldn't be, but I think I
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  Speaker 5: think that's the one you need to win if you
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  Speaker 5: want to go seven to no. I don't Island Cardo
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  Speaker 5: is gonna be that great either. Next one, Wisconsin, that
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  Speaker 5: one one second, that one you want to I have
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  Speaker 5: it higher on this list because you want to get
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  Speaker 5: revenge for happened last year. You should have beat them.
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  Speaker 5: And it's always a bottle you Wisconsin. It's never what's
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  Speaker 5: it been like one blowout the whole time he gets
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  Speaker 5: to play each other Since join the Big Ten, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Always a battle against you guys, and it's at home.
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  Speaker 5: It could come down depending on how your schedule goes,
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  Speaker 5: that game could be deciding factor for bull game.
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  Speaker 4: Next one Iowa.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty self explanatory. It's it's rivalry game. I hope
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  Speaker 5: to god you beat him this year. I hate Iowa,
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  Speaker 5: but that one's always a massive game on our schedule.
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  Speaker 5: It's the biggest rival. Then this year it's at night.
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  Speaker 5: Did not know that until let's schedule, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Next one? You tip that one? That one. I have
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  Speaker 4: a three because it's right out the gate.
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  Speaker 5: You want to look good come out of gate if
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: you if you win by ten points, you're gonna be
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: shitting yourself going to the car of the game.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: You want to you want to blow them out. I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: not gonna say as bad as Norman Iowa.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: You want to win that game by twenty four plus
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: and look good while you do it, because because then
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: you got the big game after that next week, after that,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: next one USC. I have that up there just because personally,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: that's my biggest one.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I hope to god you beat USC. I don't think
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: they'll be that good either. I don't think.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be an easier game than what
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: you guys think. I you're gonna be able to run
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: up and down the field them. You should be able
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: to put up thirty five points plus on USC and
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: then the last one. I would think we all should
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: have this number one Colorado. That's pretty self explanatory too.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: What happened last year, the whole Deon thing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Rivalry.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: They've been talking shit the whole offseason. That's their That's
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Colordo's biggest game too. I think coming in the year,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: you guys have been talking back for this whole time.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You want to beat Colorado, get your year start off good, finally,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: and finally win.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: A non conference game against a real opponent that's not.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Like a UTEP northn Iowa South Alabamost team like that,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: like an actual solid opponent, will be a good way
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: to start your year.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, I.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: My initial thoughts without giving away, like where I'm gonna
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: go with this, A lot of your sixth you're sixth
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: through nine, they're in the middle. Those are games you're
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: saying that we should win, right Like, yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Rutgers you mentioned, but you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Have them less important because you just think, oh, it's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: not a big game.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So we should win these games.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you made the talking about Beilvine and Purdue, like Indiana, Like,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: so I just want to put that out there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: We're also doing it off zero and zero's say you're
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: going to those games three and four, four and three
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: or even I guess you'd be lowering that, but just
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: say you're like five hundred less, then obviously you'll be
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: bigger at the time. But going in zero zero, I
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: don't think it's that those are that big of games.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Dak.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: What's the Huskers goal?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: When you're putting out importance like when what when you're
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: saying this game is very important, like what goal do
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you have in mind?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Obviously?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I think they're number one going going in this season
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: to win, to make a Bowl game, and I think
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: number two is to beat Caller.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: I don't think the Big Ten Championship game is anywhere
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: near their goals. They can say all they want, it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: not they're realistic there, But I think I number two
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: goal coming in the year's beat Car, number three's beat Iowa.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Your USC is pretty high. I'm not gonna say where
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: minds up? But USC at number two, I can't. I
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: don't know if you wouldn't asked a bunch of Husker
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: fans what games they think are most important. But I'm
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: gonna guess USC is not gonna be in the top five.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know though.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: That's another one though, that Husker fans I feel like
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: want to win that game badly too. There's there's a
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: little bad bloods when you see Nebraska.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: There there there that kind of speaks to what your
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: goal is doing. This is what you think Husker fans
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: want to win, Like, yeah, that's kind of your goal
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in mind is is Yeah, I I got that now
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: when you're when you're zero and zero, I think that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: what you gotta do. That's what you said about Wisconsin too,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know, wanted to revenge. So it makes makes sense
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to where your rankings are coming from. Okay, Austin, all right,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So I.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Took a little different approach to Dak. There was that
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: part of me that that Bill Belichick aspect of me
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: that's like, well, the most important games you tub the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: second most important game is Colorado. Third most important games
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you and I.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: That would have been great.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I really thought about it, because I mean to be honest.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: You know, if you go out there, you lay an
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: egg week one, week two, you start out shitty, it
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: doesn't really matter at the end of the year. But
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I decided not to go that approach, so it took
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: a little bit different approach. So my number twelve is
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: actually usc I really don't think it matters that much.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I think by the end of the year they're going
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: to be ranked top fifteen. We lose to them, I
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: don't think anyone's really gonna be shocked, and I don't
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: think anyone's gonna care because at that point, hopefully we're
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: already Bowl eligible or close to all eligible, and if
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: we're not Go eligible, we're gonna be looking past them
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: at Wisconsin or I would get boll eligible. Number eleven
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I actually have the Illinois Fidy online. I again, it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: one of those games, first Big ten game, it's at home.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a little bit important, like that Friday
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: night game. But I don't think anyone's gonna be jazzed up.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I don't really know if we see ourselves competing at
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: that level. Number ten I have Rutgers. I think people
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: are gonna expect us to lose this one. It's gonna
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: be a close one. If we get blown out, we're
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: gonna be disappointed. But other than that, I don't think
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a huge deal. We're home we're at home.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: We're at home, but I don't think I I just
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: if they're coming in and they're looking good, I don't know.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: It was really tough to rank again these Big ten
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: teams that are all kind of in the middle. I
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: think it's all super important because we're not a good team.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: We have to beat the middle teams too, But there
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: are some other fish to fry. I have Wisconsin at
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: number nine. We obviously always want to beat Wisconsin. It's
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: at home, late in the year. It's gonna be important,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: possibly for ball eligibility. But if we don't win the
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: other games ahead of it that I haven't ranked, then
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: it doesn't freaking matter. So from there, I got let's see,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: where's my list? There we go. I got UCLA number
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: eight again, another team that we should beat, but it's
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit lower because it's not an opponent that
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be super jazz about playing, first time in
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: the Big ten U SLA, first time head coach. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: just don't think we're really going to get up for
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: it that much as far as fans go. Ohio State
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: number seven. It's kind of in the middle here because
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be obviously one or two and we're gonna
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: have hopefully a winning record coming into that game. But
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: like Dak said, I don't know if people are gonna
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: expect us to win. Well, no one should expect us
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to win. But if we go out there and we
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: get absolutely walt to lose fifty six to three, people
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: are gonna be asking, what the hell are we doing?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: What's the point We could have done this with the
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: last three coaches. Why are we We are coming out
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: here and getting steamrolled by Ohio State every freaking time.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: As long as it's a little bit of a fight,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I think people will be happy. But that's why it's
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the packs, not the top, because
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: it's not expected to win. But if we get blown out,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: it's not gonna be good. Now we're getting too the
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: echelon of teams that I think it's very important we
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: beat them because if we're losing to these teams, it's
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna be dire, dire emotional mentality for Husker fans.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with ylin Sorry Indiana number six,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: and then for Due number five, basically for the exact
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: same reasons. I think they're teams that we think we
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: should beat for do we have a little bit more
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: juice against because I think people kind of we've been
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: competitive with Perdue the last five years, so I think
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: people are a little more excited for that. But I
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: guess these are teams that we think we should beat,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: so we it's important that we do try to actually
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: beat them. And then I actually have you and I
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and U tip three four, So sorry four for you
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: and I three for U. Tip. We gotta come out.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: We gotta beat them. If we come out, we look
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: bad against them. Bad start to the year, bad juju.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Go into Colorado, and if you lose one of those games,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: holy shit, it's going to be a rough year. Number
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: two is going to be Iowa. We might be playing
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: They might honestly be top ten coming the end of
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: the year rivalry game. If you win that game and
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you're six and six, people are gonna be absolutely freaking
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: losing their minds. I mean, I can't even imagine. I
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: think Colorado can screw Colorado. We play them in the
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: week two. It is kind of a battle of coaching
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: approaches old rivalry. I think everyone's it's the most excited
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: most games. Most people are excited for is Colorado can't
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: lay an egg Friday night, can't lay an egg? Or
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: sorry Saturday night.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'll say by comments for my rankings, because I we'll.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Just go off of that, Dak, what do you think you.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Think Rockers is? Actually you think Nebraska should lose that game?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Uh? I don't think we should lose, but I think
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be closer to a fifty to fifty.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree there, I think it's gonna be.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I think that game's the biggest toss up out of year,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: well side Colorado, but the biggest toss up out of
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: your first seven games.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I think it might be one of the biggest toss up.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I mean there's three toss up games that I would
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: probably say Wisconsin, Rutgers, in Colorado.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: In Iowa. I would always put Iowa just because you
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: can't throw more than thirteen points.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, so that's four? All right, Hono, you give us
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: your things, then we can talk.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I just want to say that all of this is perspective, right,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: So as I was doing this, my perspective last year
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: is quite a bit different than this year. Like I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: had Colorado very lowcaus I didn't think it mattered and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I thought these the game is towards the end of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the year mattered more because that is what we were
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: building on, whether we were making a bowl game or not.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: To head into the next year. We needed positive momentum
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: heading out of the season. I wouldn't say that we
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: completely achieved that, but I do think it ended all right. Okay,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: we lost some games that we probably shouldn't have, but
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we made it there. So like I took this year
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the approach of what is the goal here?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: What? What?
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: What?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: At the end of this year do we need to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: achieve for Husker fans to be excited about We will
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: always be excited about moving into next year with coach
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: rule still head coach like, I don't want to leave
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: this year going eh, it's coach rule the guy I don't.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't want that. So I'm like, okay, we need
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to take a bowl game number one. And so my
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: rankings are very much how are we getting to a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: bowl game? And what games help us get to a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: bowl game? And where do they fall at our schedule?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: So I say all that, then I'm going to start
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: by saying we are better than UTEP and you and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I and Dak. I completely disagree that I don't care
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: how we look against UTEP. I actually, this is coming
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: from a coach to this is actually bad to say.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I do think we should be looking at Colorado and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: prepping for that game a little bit, and if we
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: come out because we haven't been as focused on UTEP
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and win by ten, I don't care at all.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think that matters in the grand scheme of things.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Obviously, winning the game matters, but I think we will
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: just because we're better than them. You and I not
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: much to comment on. We should kick the crap out
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of them. Like, those are two games that you can
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: say we will win that game no matter what happens.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, who I might.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I haven't done this with any teams, but these are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they're not they're not too quality pop up. I mean,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they're two of the worst teams we've played on our
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: schedule in a long time.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: So that's why I got them at twelve and eleven.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Similar to your guys' opinions on Ohio State, Like, I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody's expecting us to win that game. It's
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: kind of a no no win. I mean to win
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: if we win, but there's no lose situation. There, so
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: go out there see if we can play well. I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: big on Ohio State this year. I would not be
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: surprised if we got slaughtered. And that's totally okay. I
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: don't think we're there at that level talent wise, coaching wise,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they are turning a lot of players. So ten for there,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: similar to Austin, I had USC at nine. I don't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: think that's a game that really we are probably expected
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to win going on the road. Now, USC could be
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: in turmoil at that point. And how you said that
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you know they're going to be ranked, I don't know.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: But it is on the road. It's our first time
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: we're traveling to the West coast for a game, two
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: for a conference game.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's very important that we win that game.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's very important to win that game
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to get to a bowl game either.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Based on what I'm going.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: To talk about here in a second. Eight, I have Wisconsin.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I think it's important because we like to beat Wisconsin.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: But again, I it's at home.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's as important as some of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: these other games. It's just where they fell in my
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: mind in the middle, and I'm gonna do this too,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and I didn't like doing this, but I put Iowa
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: at seven.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be the tough game.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's obviously one that we're going to get
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: up for, especially if we needed to get to a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: bowl game. I think Iowa is going to be pretty
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: solid this year. Obviously it's a rivalry. I don't think
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: we need to be focused on that game as much
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: as these other ones. There are many more important games
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to keep of keeping our goal in mind than Iowa
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin at the end of our schedule. So iowat seven.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: At six, I have Rutgers this next grouping three through six,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: three through six, actually four through six. I could go
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: either way on them. I have Rutgers six. I have
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: you Seal four in Illinois five. I could move those
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: around probably anywhere. I think they're home. They're all three
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: home games that they're important because we need these wins
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to get to a bowl game. Ucla is the one
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that I don't like. We really don't want to lose
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: as we hit the end of our schedule, like their team,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: as you guys mentioned, we should beat like. We need
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to have that one a little bit ready because if
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State game's ugly, and we got to go
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: play Ucla and lay another egg. That's not good for
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the remaining of the season. So we need to make
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: sure we're up for that game. We should be better
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: than them. We should not be losing to a Pac
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: twelve team that lost everybody and got a new coach.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Like that game is very important to say, no, we
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: are better than Ucla. Illinois fell at five. I do
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: think the Friday night game helped a little bit. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: think we need to also prove that we're gonna win
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: this game. I have Indiana at two, per do at three,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and then Colorado one Purdue Indiana.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: They're the bottom of the conference.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: We're on the road, similar to Illinois, like these games
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: we must win, like we must prove to people that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: we are better than these teams on the road. I
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: don't know if we are, but I think they're that important.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We can't go lay an egg and mess up, turn
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over, missfield goals. We can't do that
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: at purdueing Indiana. There are two teams that if we
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: want to move in the right direction, we should be
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: better than. So that you can kind of see where
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of my most important games. Fell it's it's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it's our first seven games. I mean those two I'm
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: giving us wins so like we could. We have to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: be ready early on to win these games. And if
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we lose one, like yeah, it should be a little
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: bit open our eyes and and bells and whistles going off,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: because it's not good if we if we lose in
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: these games, because that's how important they should be. Colorado,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you guys said it. He spend a whole lot of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: time there, but it is. It's a huge game. That's
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the one that should be circled to start the year.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I'm giving us a win against UTEP. I shouldn't do that,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: but I am. I don't care if it looks ugly.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It'd be nice to look good, but it doesn't matter
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: to me. Win the game, make a bowl game. That's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: why I ranked those first seven a lot higher.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I think we agreed with the approach as far as
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: folksing the on winnable bowl games. Hunter, I just think
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: we disagree with you know you did dogs UTP and
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: you and your bottom too, and I put them at
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: the top. Is like, we have to freaking win these games.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Like if we don't win these games we're not winning
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: other games. You took it as we're gonna win those games.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Those count towards are six.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Are you getting up program to be overlooking anybody right now?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm saying that right now with those two teams,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I think that's how bad they are. Yes, I agree
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: with you, Dak, and I usually don't go that route.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I have written in my notes, can I do this?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: As I was writing this down, I'm like, yep, I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: gonna do it like I am. I didn't want to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: do it normally. Those games is like, no, we must win.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: But I think we're I think we're better than I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: don't think they're like the troy Is the Northern Illinoise
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: of the world that we've played as a non conference team.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're as good as them. UTEP has
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a new coach as well. I we'll preview them here
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: So playing with new coaches ute U C l A Indiana.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, so four UC by that point in the season.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, you know, if you lose to Northern Iowa, that
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: probably be the worst lodes in your program history.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: You can overlook them.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I agree, and that you kind of awesome as them
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: both in the front eye and both in the back.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: You split them.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, but I just disagreed with I guess why you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: put them so high, because I really don't care how
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: we look. I think people are going to freak the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: funk out if we don't look good. I don't think
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you're wrong on that. It's gonna happen. If we do,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: you just gonna be awful. But I'm just I'm I'm
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna chalk that up to we've been focused on Colorado.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I did want to point out to Indiana. I do
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: have that second because that is a trap, trap trap
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: of all games before Ohio State, especially if we're six
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: no or even five and one or even four and three,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: like a game that quote unquote we should win right
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: before Ohio State coming off a bye week, like, let's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: lock in win that.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: One, all right, So what's our chemulative order.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Colorado one.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a graphic out later. We actually jumped
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: down to Iowa being two, even though I had them lower,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and then we get a lot in the middle that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: kind of averaged out. So I do have a graphic
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that'll be coming out that ranks are win percentages that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: we did a couple of weeks ago and put it
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: on a graph with the importance per.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Do Indiana YouTube.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, damn, they're all They're all kind of in the middle.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: There Johnson, U, c L, a USC and Rutgers.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And I think are too low us there you can
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: see our you and I in Ohio state. And yeah,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: there's a lot in the middle. That's what makes us
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: fun is that it's all someone's perspective. And I, like
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I said, I feel like these all feel important, especially
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: where we're at as a program.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: They should.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: They all matter for different reasons and for different objectives.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I think dak took a little bit different approach of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: what game is important to the fans too, that people
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: are going to get up for, hyped up for. Like
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of taking the approach of these are the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: games we should be getting hyped for, even though we
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: might not, but these are very important to make sure
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that we work.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: I just want to talk to you after if you
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: look like it against YouTube and see how you're feeling.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be on the pod of that, I guarantee it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to know how you feel that
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: to that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: All right, we will wrap it up here and be
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: back on Sunday. We'll preview a little bit of Husker
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: offense into our depth chart and what it's gonna look
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: like here, come this fall, go be gred.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Here you are bloom sooner
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Sh