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Week 5 Preview: Will Michigan Finally Be Tested? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September thirtieth. I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The Maryland game is in seven days. The im against Michigan
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  in fifty six days. Buckeyes off today, have the one off weekend of
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  the season, so make sure you enjoy it. But you can also,
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  you know, you don't have to necessarily go pick apples or like go look
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  at leaves or whatever. You can just sit on the couch at home and
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  watch college football. That is an option as well, and today if you
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  choose that option, we're gonna be grinning through some of some of what you
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  get a chance to watch today. Not exactly up to the caliber of last
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  week, but so a few weeks are but a pretty good week of college
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  football altogether. We're gonna be doing that with our buddy, Tony Grdneman at
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  Buckeye Huddle dot com. Tony, I guess let's start with the noon game
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  on Fox Big Noon Saturday USC at Colorado Projan's a twenty one and a half
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  point favorite. I assume Alex Grinch can't possibly hold Colorado to what six points
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  or whatever it was that they had last weekend. So is this is this
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  the weekend that Colorado gets right and makes this a little bit closer, or
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  is this going to be a second straight week where they get just smoked.
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  I think the answer to that can be yes on both of those accounts.
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  I think it will be closer, and yes, I do think they will
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  still get smoked, but that over under a seventy three and a half,
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  They're going to be a bunch of points scored. So I'll be interested to
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  see how much Colorado can keep up in that. It was interesting watching this
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  game and the Notre Dame press box, people just like walking by the TV
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  and just looking at it, you know, score like twenty eight nothing or
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  thirty five nothing and just being like, ugh, like, oh no,
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  this is poor Colorado. That sort of thing. And I think there's gonna
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  be some more of that in this. But I think the Buffalo offense will
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  have more fight in them because the USC defense has less fight in them.
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  Yeah, that'll be It'll be pointsy. I'm gonna guess you're gonna be a
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  little more a little more action packed than the Ohio State Notre Dame game was,
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  but probably not as dramatic at the end. Next up, the Deep
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  South's oldest rivalry. One of the Deep Souths great crossover games in the SEC,
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  Georgia at Auburn three thirty on CBS. I had to explain to my
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  son that even though it's spelled jordan Hair, it's pronounced Jordan Hair, and
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  he asked why, and I said, I don't know. That's just how
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  they do it. I don't know this is you know, who is Georgia
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  playing. Who is the best team that George is playing this year during the
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  regular season. I also don't know, like maybe Tennessee, but also they
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  just lost Florida and Florida lost to Utah, And is it Auburn and Tony
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  Is Auburn the best team George is playing during the regular season this year?
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  Because the list is not impressive. I guess it just depends on if this
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  is a day where an Auburn quarterback plays well. If it is, perhaps
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  if it isn't, No and Peyton Thorne, Robbie Ashford a quarterback situation going
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  on there. You never really know what you're gonna get, and that's part
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  of the problem with them, But don't for me. I still anytime I
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  see somebody go to Auburn, it's like crazy stuff happens there. And I
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  don't know that George's offense is so great or George's defense is so great right
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  now to avoid something crazy. But is this Auburn team at the level of
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  normal craziness that we've seen in the past. And I don't know if it
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  is, but I think at some point you Freeze is going to get somebody
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  this year. Maybe maybe it does. It feels like he might be a
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  year away, because boy, the Brian Harson thing. I personally was shocked
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  that a guy from Boise, Idaho was not a great cultural fit in Auburn,
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  Alabama. I didn't see that coming. I don't know who possibly could
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  have seen that coming. But he didn't tend to recruit real well. So
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  the cupboard was a little bit there for Hugh Freeze. So he had to
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  get on the phone and start dialing and start start bringing in talent. Tony,
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  if you have any tips on picking this game, an email compliance at
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  Ole miss Doty to you. If not, yeah, well we'll see.
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  This just feels like and is just going to get out talented I think in
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  this one. But yeah, it's it is not an impressive slate for Georgia
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  this year. And this might be the one of the better teams that they
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  played during the regular season. Hey, Tony, speaking of teams, don't
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  play anyone so far. I haven't played anyone so far this season. Let's
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  talk about the Michigan Wolverines. Unquestionably the best game they've played, the best
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  opponent they've played, and they're going on the road to play a multi loss
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  Nebraska team. Seventeen point favorites are the Wolverines three thirty on Fox, Little
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  Big Noon Slash Big mid afternoon doubleheader on Fox. I mean, I guess
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  Nebraska's history of keeping games close and then losing them at the end sort of
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  bodes a little better for this maybe being a little bit more of an interesting
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  Michigan game than we've seen. The prat passed but four weeks. But I'm
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  not holding out hope for a four quarter game here. No, And if
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  Michigan plays down to Nebraska, maybe Nebraska can make some plays to keep it
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  like a one or two score game. Since Nebraska has installed Heiner Karberg as
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  they're starting quarterback, they're two and oh with wins very impressive wins over Northern
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  Illinois and Louisianattack. So give them some credit there, but this is a
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  guy who runs the ball a lot, and that could be an equalizer as
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  long as Nebraska doesn't turn it over. Maybe they pick up some third downs
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  and keep drives going. And we know Michigan is in no hurry to increase
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  numbers of possessions, So just by that fact alone, maybe Michigan can't get
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  out to a thirty one point lead just because there's not going to be as
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  many possessions and they have to be a fact given. I don't think Nebraska's
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  defense has been that bad this season. They've given up ten points, fourteen
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  points, eleven points, fourteen points and are actually sorry the thirty six points
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  to Colorado. That's been the best offense they've seen, and that's the best
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  offense, best performance against their defense. And Michigan's not as attacking as that
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  Colorado offense. So I like the low scoring, the low over under.
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  I think it's like thirty nine or something like that. So I just I'm
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  interested to see what Michigan does against Harberg and how well they contain his running
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  ability. Not that he could throw the ball much because he can't, so
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  they should be able to contain him. But he's gone off the last couple
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  of weeks against much lesser defenses. Our ball against Harburg. If they played
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  at the Notre Dame Library, it would be Hesberg. I can't believe I
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  just said three different things there and maybe arguably correctly the same three the correct
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  three things that was against all odds. Yeah, this is a Michigan team
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  that feels like it's doing just enough to win these games by enough that no
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  one really worries about it. But not with any extra flare flail flare,
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  here we go. I cursed myself by talking about how I can say words
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  flair or style. It's just it's been like just enough to get the job
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  done and move on. So this will be a little bit more of a
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  task. Will be interesting to see if they can do a little bit more
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  than they have the previous few weeks. Next up Kansas at Texas three thirty
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  on ABC, And as soon as Texas won in Tuscaloositony, I thought the
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  funniest possible outcome would be Texas blowing. Well, the funniest possible it come
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  would have in Texas losing the next week to Wyoming, which they kind of
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  wit, kind of looked like for three quarters. They might, but I
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  think losing again to Kansas at home almost unquestionably one of the funniest things you
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  could happen in college football. Longhorn is a sixteen and a half point favorite
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  that they're they're not going to do the extremely funny thing, are they,
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  Tony. I think I tweeted the exact same thing that you just said right
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  after that win, that this is going to happen. So now that it's
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  here, like, well, you gotta stick to your guns, right,
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  you know, maybe not necessarily, but this is a Kansas team who asked
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  by you know, an eleven point over Illinois, seven point went over Nevada,
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  eleven over by U. Like, these have not been impressive, but
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  we know they have the ability to get up for games like this. But
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  I'm I'm gonna go ahead and stick with Texas on this one. I think
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  it might. I would be shocked if it's close. But being in Austin
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  and just the way Texas is going right now that it feels like offensively and
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  defensively, they're more cohesive than they've been in the past. So I'm I
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  don't know about the sixteen and a half, but I like Texas in this
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  one. That's kind of where I would lean as well Texas, but maybe
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  not giving the points Lance Lighthold is. I have been a long, long
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  time Lance Lighthold supporter, and it just it feels like he's going to end
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  up at Michigan State next year. That just feels like where this is sort
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  of drifting at the moment. He is a Wisconsin guy. Well, we'll
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  see. I don't think the current interim staff at Michigan State is doing itself
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  any favors in terms of being front runners for that job next year. So
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  we'll see. We'll see what that looks like. But that's the next year
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  problem. Let's talk about two teams with this year problems, and that is
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  LSU and ole Miss, and they're going to play this weekend in Oxford,
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  six o'clock on ESPN. This is a little bit of a college football playoff
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  elimination game because both of these teams come in with one loss. LSU,
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  of course, got smoked by Florida State week one. Ole Miss lost,
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  I mean really a disappointing loss. I think for ole Miss last week against
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  Alabama, I think they felt like this was the year they might get tied
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  and then they just never really threatened any kind of serious way lost twenty four
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  ten. LSU just a two and a half point favorite this weekend. Tony
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  who is going to survive to be in the college football playoff picture for at
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  least one more week? Now I know who everybody will be rooting for around
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  the nation. The college football coaches will be rooting for All Miss and this
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  one just to get LSU out of the picture. Jade Daniels out of the
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  picture. He's playing really really well right now quarterback. And just the overall
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  deal with LSU and the talent that they have, just let's let's remove them
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  and be good with that. All Miss link giff and I think needs this
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  win. Not these in any danger, but this should be a good win
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  for them, and it would. There's there's almost this thing if if you
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  are the coach at All Miss or the coach at Mississippi State or something like
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  that, you have to cause pain to other programs certain weeks, and this
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  is one of those where if you're doing your job, you've got to cause
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  some pain to somebody else because you didn't do it last week against Alabama when
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  you had a chance, you had a halftime lead, so It's hard for
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  me to pick against Jaden Daniels right now. But this is a this is
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  a game that All Miss should win. As you're describing All Miss as a
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  team that just kind of exists to cause pain for other teams in its league.
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  Is all Miss the Purdue of the SEC. I don't know if there's
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  as good at at doing it as Purdue. Purdue is pretty you know,
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  mascists, satal mastochistic and all of this. You know, they they enjoy
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  what they do and they're really good at it. May be almost needs to
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  get a little bit. I don't know Restier Purdue. As the say this,
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  why do you think Purdue Pete has that hammer? Questions questions you never
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  thought you'd need answered? Here we go. There's there's your answer, Fishball
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  all right. Last one, and this one for Ohio State fans, might
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  be the biggest game of the week with the Buckeyes off Notre Dame at Duke.
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  That's a seven thirty game on ABC. Notre Dame just a five and
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  a half point favorite. I have spent all week thinking, boy, it's
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  probably a good thing for Ohio State that they don't have some kind of a
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  tricky road trip coming up this week, because after a game like that,
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  you need a little time to recover, both physically and mentally and emotionally.
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  Notre Dame does not have the benefit of any of that. They have to
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  go on the road, and they have to do it against a Duke team
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  that's got I mean, they have looked pretty darn good this year. I
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  mean, everyone I'm sure remembers the Week one win over Clemson that was a
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  really really that was an eye opening win. I think in terms of what
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  Duke football is under Mike Elco, this seems like a real danger spot for
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  Notre Dame and Ohio State fans need Notre Dame to remain a really quality win
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  for Ohio State because if they slip up later in the year, if Notre
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  Dame is a top five team, that makes that win look a lot better
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  for Ohio State and probably helps Ohio State's playoff case. If they do slip
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  up at some point and need to make a playoff case, yeah, and
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  if they are a top five or top ten team, then this is a
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  game they need to win. Duke. I don't know if Duke has the
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  largest margin of victory on average this season, but twenty one point whenever Clemson
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  thirty five over Lafayette, twenty four over Northwestern, thirty four over Connecticut.
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  I think everybody saw Riley Leonard the quarterback, and the one game they everybody
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  loved him and were oppressed by him. So that's how you expect him to
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  play every week. But I think there's some positivity for Notre Dame to come
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  into this game knowing that they have to have moved past last week. Like
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  they need all of their focus on this game. This is not a sneaky
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  game. A sneaky game would be like Ohio State going to Maryland or something,
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  or Maryland coming to Ohio State. Like you know, if Maryland game
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  was this week, This isn't sneaky at all. They need all of their
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  attention on this one. Unfortunately, all of Notre Dame's attention still does not
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  mean that they have enough attention. You know, as based on the last
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  two plays that we saw of that Ohio State game. Sometimes it's not enough.
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  You need eleven eleventh of attention, not ten elevenths of attention. But
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  I do think Notre Dame will have all of We'll have all of the attention
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  they need in this one. I just don't know if they'll have all of
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  the execution. What is Sam Hartman? Is Sam Hartman a Duke killer?
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  I don't know. Going back through my Wake Forest days, I'm not sure
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  exactly if he was or wasn't. Most people should be if you play them
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  enough. But I feel like if Notre Dame doesn't win this, that's not
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  devastating for Ohio State, but it hurts Ohio State. So root for Notre
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  Dame. Root root for all Notre Dame. Be good college football fans,
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  Ohio State fans. I know, I know when we would tell people to
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  root for Michigan, they would say, no, here's what's the harmon rooting
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  for Notre Dame. Boy boy? They question? Man has asked himself low
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  so many times over the years. Sam Hartman against Notre Dame, against Duke
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  sorry well at Wake Forrest fifty nine seven win in twenty eighteen. I'm not
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  sure how much he played in that one thirty nine twenty seven win in Winston
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  Salem in nineteen. In twenty nineteen, they did not play in twenty twenty.
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  I wonder why twenty twenty one forty five seven North Wake Forrest win in
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  Winston Salem twenty twenty two. Duke got him thirty four thirty one in Durham.
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  So there's your there's your answer three in brand one. But yeah,
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  lost lost last year in Durham to a Mike Elco team. So we'll see
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  how Notre Dame fairs. Boy, that that is a that is a like
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  sneaky big game for Ohio State's playoff case. And again that's if Ohio State
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  needs help making a playoff case, which there's a lot of there's a lot
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  of football season left and but that'll Yeah, boy, Notre Dame trying to
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  bounce back from that. Not only the law us, but how they lost
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  that game. That is going to be I wonder what day this week they
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  really were able to turn the page because normally you want to do it on
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  Monday. It would not surprise me if I got into Tuesday or Wednesday.
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  And every time you watch that film at Knife Twist just a little bit more.
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  So, Yeah, that'll be a big one this weekend. But some
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  yeah, risk a really interesting games coming up this weekend, so enjoy those.
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  We'll be back tomorrow with the turn with us sort of beginning to turn
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  the page a little bit as well towards the Thursday Buckeyes upcoming game against Maryland.
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  We may have one more one more show or so coming up. We've
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  got some Ross Fulton content coming up the next few days. We're gonna have
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  Tony back on tomorrow's show. We got got a listener question that we felt
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  merited an entire, entire show worth of discussions, So we'll have Tony on
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  tomorrow's show. Then we'll have a certain turn of the page forwards the Maryland
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  game. So I hope you guys enjoy the football today. Make sure you
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  check out Buckeyeheddle dot com and our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye
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  Huddle. That we'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining
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  us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow