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Bama Bob previews college football, Tom Kakert talks Hawkeyes & Football Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 welcome back Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller, we
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  take you until 2:00. Bama, Bob momentarily Tom
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  Keikert on Iowa, our picks. By the way, we are in a flat
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  footed tire with the boys in the afternoon and that's on me
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  'cause I'm coming off an O and five.
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  Well, I did that week 1. So you can.
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  Crawl your way out of this. It it.
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  Sometimes it takes a while, but we were able to do it.
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  We're even in a contest between you and I.
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  Can I ask you a favor? Do you have any extra college
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  games? I have none.
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  You have no college. Games.
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  Three NFL games. I do not like a single college
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  game. I'll tell you where to go.
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  Because what I mean, at this point you got, I kind of have to
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  help me. Go to your old favorite.
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  You know what I'm talking about. Go to your old favorite versus
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  Tennessee. Go to your old favorite.
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  I hope they wear those uniforms. I hope they've got the the home
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  uniforms for Tennessee against the home uniforms for Kentucky.
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  Bama. That would splash.
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  Spend some time early in the show.
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  I know you're a hockey guy, so I'll say this to you.
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  Watching the Nordique and the Hurricane play last night wasn't
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  that special. My God, that was good.
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  My God, it was fantastic. I mean, just a throwback which,
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  you know, kind of ease the pain of, you know, my Bruins blowing
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  yet another third period lead. That's a different day,
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  different topic, different frustration.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Well, let's get in.
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  Let's get into college football because that's what we do in
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  this segment. And we got a bunch of them to
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  opine on. By the way, the I did see that
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  the SEC official that that referee the Georgia Auburn game
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  and gave the time out when he I was called timeout clapping.
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  They've been suspended. So it does happen.
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  We just seldom hear about it. We did in this case, baby, your
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  real quick take on Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa State, BYU and
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  then we'll move on. Yeah, big games, particularly I
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  think for Iowa, the they got a home game.
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  We talked about it Monday. Ken, who's the 4th team in the
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  Big 10 right now if you want to look at playoff and you've got
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  USC who's got a conference laws, but they've also got 2 overall
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  losses. So they're going to have a, you
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  know, one more drop game for them and they still got a trip
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  to Oregon. It's going to be hard for them
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  to get to the playoffs, right? Huge game for Iowa.
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  They're Iowa's just sitting there poised.
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  Michigan still has Ohio State on their schedule.
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  And this is a big game, I guess for Minnesota as well if you
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  want to look at it that way, Both 3 and 1 coming in.
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  But I think it's a bigger game for Iowa.
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  I think they can. I don't, nobody expects
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  Northwestern to hang in with one conference loss, but if Iowa
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  can, yeah, they should win this game, right?
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  They, they, they're better. They're at home.
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  They're coming off a win. They they've got to win it.
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  And if they do, they're just kind of that four teams sort of
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  hanging around Illinois we all think is going to be there at
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  the end as well. But they've already got 2
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  losses, so they have no margin for error.
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  So I think it's a huge game for the Hawkeyes at home.
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  I think they should win it, but that's not always been the case.
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  They're favored. I don't know about the 8 1/2.
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  It is a lot of points and maybe I'm just going back, you know,
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  to two or three years ago with the Iowa offense and and you
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  know the the thing with my God to be lucky to get to 8 1/2 some
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  games much less cover that. But I think big game for Iowa, I
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  think they win. I think it's going to be maybe a
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  little closer than people think. You guys know more about that
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  than I do Iowa State, of course, coming off the by, to get the
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  the kind of the darling right now in the Big 12, BYU, who has
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  really put themselves in a fantastic position.
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  And we'll always solidify that if they can win this game on the
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  road. And I think it's going to be
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  tough for them to do. At some point, guys, this
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  bubbles got to burst. And is it going to be this week?
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  Iowa State, despite BYU being #11 and undefeated, Iowa State's
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  almost a field goal favorite that I think should tell you
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  something. Again, you guys know more about
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  this than I do, but it's the game that I think this is the
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  danger point right now for BYU. However they win this game.
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  Obviously Arizona State and Houston's going to lose a game,
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  somebody's going to lose that and that just BYU wins this one
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  man. They are I think they are not a
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  lot the boy they're really in the driver's seat to make it to
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  the Big 12 championship game and that's that's what you have to
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  do. I think we all agree in this
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  conference to get there. So big game for Iowa State.
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  I guess they're still technically mathematically in it
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  if they can get a crazy group of tiebreakers in there maybe for a
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  second spot in that championship game.
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  But I think it's coming off the I like the Cyclones and this
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  one. I'm still not a believer in Big
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  Yu, even though I've seen it with my own eyes and especially
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  the week last week since Utah, I can't figure it out, but they
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  did it. There's seven to know.
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  I think it ends this week. I'll take both the Iowa teams to
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  win at home, which is does this happen very often where they
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  play at the exact same time at home?
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  You know, it does seemingly once a year, but as I think it was
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  Troy asked us Trent on Twitter. Have they ever both been on
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  network TV at the same time? I mean, I don't I don't know the
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  answer to that boys, Let's move on.
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  Good question. And if BYU wins, then I take
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  back everything I said because off a Utah playing there by arch
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  rival and beating them has to be a bit of a let down.
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  Houston, Arizona State, Trent Condon.
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  Well, this. Game you guys remember before
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  the season Houston was my deep dark horse pick way down there a
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  team in the double figures kind of predicted order they're six
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  and one now. They didn't look very good
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  against Texas Tech I mean it wasn't just a loss Texas Tech
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  really obliterated them in that game and you look through their
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  victories Arizona, Oklahoma State, Colorado, Rice, Oregon
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  State, Stephen F Austin it's not exactly the who's who of college
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  football yet. Arizona State yes, Arizona State
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  now is going to play without Tyson.
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  He is so important for what they do.
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  I think Houston's going to hang around here.
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  I don't know if they can pull the out right, but I think this
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  is going to be a compelling game and one of the few later games
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  that we get 7:00 kick off for that only one night game this
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  week, but I think we'll be intrigued into the 10:00 hour
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  with the Cougars in the sun double.
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  World Series game two maybe has something to do with that.
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  In fact, if they stayed away from the maybe Bama close game
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  in in the desert. I think it's closer than the
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  seven I'm looking right now at 7 1/2.
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  I see it open at 8 1/2. Again, this ESPN bet.
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  So you guys are more versed in this than I am, Obviously.
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  I don't see that. I don't see it as a more than a
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  touchdown game. You mentioned Tyson, you're
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  right. He that Sam Levitt, you know,
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  security blanket, if you will. I mean, when, when stuff breaks
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  down, when things happen or if it is just a guy to throw a
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  hitch and take 60 yards, 70 yards, that's the guy, right, 8
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  touchdowns on the year. That's a ton of production.
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  That said, we saw how important Levitt is, you know, in the loss
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  to Utah and we saw, you know what, what he did last week when
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  they bounced back. So I I like Arizona on the
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  state. They listen, they were my
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  picking all this mess of a Big 12 conference that when I say
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  mess, it's a beautiful mess. It's not like the ACC, which is
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  an ugly mess. It's a beautiful mess because
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  you've got a lot of every game every week.
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  Now we're getting 2 minimum, sometimes three absolutely
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  meaningful games. And we're going to have that
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  till the rest of the season because everybody knows or
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  thinks that this is A1 bid league and making that
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  championship game is the only way you're going to get in.
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  There's no at largest coming out of this conference.
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  So I will I will pick the Sun Devils since Levitz playing.
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  I will, I will. I will go with coach and
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  quarterback and home field and experience over a Houston team
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  that we saw one, You know, again, Oregon State, a terrible
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  team, they went on this. They really struggle with them
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  on the road and they play better at home than they do on the road
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  like most teams do. So I will take the home field, I
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  will take the quarterback. I think Arizona State wins.
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  I would not put any money on them covering, wouldn't shock me
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  if they did. But I think the Sun Devils get
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  this done and kind of put themselves if BYU can lose,
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  they're right back in it. Northwestern and the Huskers.
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  I think this is a massive game from that rule.
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  I really we do this same record as David Brown.
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  Bron and Nebraska's got all the hype.
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  They better win this game tomorrow.
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  I'm not sure they will. I think Husker Kenny is coming
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  out here. I mean, this is a gross game.
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  It's a gross game, these. Are two These are two terribly
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  average football teams at 7 1/2. The line hasn't budged all week
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  long yet. A lot of the money, a lot of the
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  bets are coming in on Nebraska. Another one.
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  I think the underdog's going to hang around here because
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  Nebraska's just not very good. They just can't protect anybody.
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  The offensive line is a sieve. Bam.
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  Is this a good? I know it's not a good game, but
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  it was in. Close game.
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  Yeah, I was wondering why the why this was on the list, but I
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  never questioned the maker of the author of the list, at least
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  publicly. Yeah, so I agree with you.
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  It's a huge game for Nebraska. Not only listen, are they going
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  anywhere this season? Probably not.
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  But you know, year 3, Matt rule, whatever, all the stuff swelling
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  around and Rayola and all this, it is a massive game.
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  I think a lot of the is Northwestern very good.
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  Everybody's making a maybe a little bit too much about that
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  Penn State win. And we saw what happened after
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  that. I just, I can't wrap my head
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  around Northwestern being any good.
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  It's an early kick, 11:00. I don't know how excited the
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  stadium is going to be. I thought Ryol would be better
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  than he is. OK.
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  And I know they're offensive line, like you said, you'd be
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  hit it right on the head. They've had problems.
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  They really have. But he's also done his fair
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  share to contribute to a lot of mistakes this year.
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  He just makes kind of, he holds the ball too long.
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  He makes boneheaded decisions. He throws balls when he
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  shouldn't. He runs when he shouldn't.
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  You know, he throws when he should run.
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  He runs when he should throw. We've seen it a lot.
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  And it's usually in big spots, right?
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  He'll make the play. You go, wow, OK, there he is.
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  And then it's kind of like the guy I can't remember the kid
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  from Michigan State the child was talking about.
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  Yes, I mean that that same type of thing.
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  Boom bust. So I think it's a little boom
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  tomorrow. I don't know about the spread.
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  I can't I couldn't trust them. If you made me, I'd lay, I'd
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  take the point. I'm sorry.
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  I'd lay the points because I just I'm just not sold on
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  Northwestern. And I'll be honestly, they
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  haven't seen much of them at all in this reputation, right?
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  Why would you watch Northwestern football?
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  But I will take Nebraska. I agree with you on the rule.
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  If they they don't win this game, I mean they're looking at
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  another just, you know, 8 and 4, seven and five year and now you
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  really do start to question if you got the guy.
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  Real relation. It sets in.
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  Reality sets in. Over and in.
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  If they get beat, UCLA, Trent Indiana's a big favorite.
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  The blonde kid looks like Vince Lombardi.
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  Yeah, I love that quote, that tweet.
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  Anyways, I love the story. Does it end?
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  Yeah. I mean, does it end in?
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  They should have lost last week to Maryland.
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  They they got by one with one and it's Locksley, so he'll hand
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  you a game and it's October and that's what he does seemingly
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  every single year. Yet the Bruins control their own
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  destiny to get to Indianapolis. They went out.
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  They will be in Indy because not only they have Indiana this
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  week, they got the Buckeyes in a couple of weeks on the road,
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  too. And USC at the at the end of the
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  season. So they control their destiny.
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  Their destiny is not going. To hiding up well, Trent.
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  Yeah, not going to happen. Throttling here for the.
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  Hoosiers, I'm with you. They paced them.
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  Bama. I think so.
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  I'm looking right now at the I would definitely these points as
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  well. You got to give UCLA just a ton
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  of they were, I think without question and by a large margin
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  the the worst power 14 through 4 weeks of the season.
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  I mean, they were atrocious and then they fired their coach and
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  then skipper and Skippy take over and you just look at it and
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  what has happened. I don't know.
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  Again, I haven't watched much UCLA football.
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  Why would you? I just think other than, you
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  know, early wanting to watch a car wreck.
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  I I just think that it's going to end tomorrow.
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  You have to give them a ton of credit from where they've gone.
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  They've made their they, they, they've showed some pride and
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  passion and everything else that said Indiana.
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  Indiana is on a March to to undefeated Big 10 championship
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  appearance. You look at that schedule and
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  there's just not much standing in the way.
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  I think they cover. I I'm looking at the total, the
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  over under for the, the total I see is 51 1/2.
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  They might get there themselves. We saw it earlier this year
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  against Illinois. They're a different team at
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  home. They play free at home.
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  And I mean, the, the quarterback is, is he's got to be in the
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  Heisman talk. I mean, has to be right along
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  with a couple other guys, Pavia and themselves and who else you
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  want to throw in there. But again, it ends tomorrow.
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  And this is, it's just, I think look at Indiana's schedule.
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  They got this game, they're at Maryland, they're at Penn State,
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  Wisconsin, at Purdue. Nobody's beating.
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  If they lose a game, it's a monumental upset.
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  But they just, they can just continue their March.
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  They might be #1 who knows? I think you're going to get a 12
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  showdown in Indianapolis for the Big 10 championship game.
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  And it just continues. The March continues tomorrow.
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  Old miss in Oklahoma early game Trent Condon.
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  I feel like I'm on an island here, so I'm in a couple of
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  betting contests. As you know, everybody loves
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  Oklahoma this week and like you see Matir, you saw what happened
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  against. I understand Ole Miss
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  defensively. They had their own issues last
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  week and certainly in that fourth quarter.
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  This one, I know the Oklahoma defense is good.
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  I just think Lane's going to be going now.
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  There is the trend out there. Back-to-back teams in the SEC
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  are really bad historically here the last couple of years if you
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  play back-to-back Rd. games, and that's obviously the case for
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  Ole Miss this week. But getting the five and a half,
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  I'm definitely grabbing them. I'm going to have a Ole Miss on
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  my card. I know this week I think the
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  Lane Train hangs around at minimum and I kind of like them
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  to win this thing outright. I'm just I'm not completely sold
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  onto Sooners. Bama, if they want to get to the
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  SEC Championship game, Ole Miss has to win, I kind of think.
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  Can they? I think if they want to get to
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  the playoff, they kind of how are you going?
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  I mean, both these teams, right? This would be a second loss,
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  both in the same year. Yeah, I think somebody's coming
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  out of here with two overall losses and two conference
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  losses. The loser, I think, is out.
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  Because of the head to head. Of the right of the SEC
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  Championship game. We'll see what happens, you
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  know, depending on the rest of the season.
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  I want to agree with Trent here. I just that the meltdown in
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  Athens, right, the the way they had pretty much had the game
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  one. And if I saw correctly, I think
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  there was Kiffin kind of throw some accusations and science
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  feeling earlier. I don't know if that was tongue
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  in cheek. I don't know what it was.
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  You never really know with him. I I'm not 100% sold on Oklahoma
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  material earlier been talked about, you know, as a Heisman
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  candidate, I think that's kind of gone out the window.
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  He's good, but he's not great. The early kick, I don't know who
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  that favors. Usually it favors the home team
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  because it's such you travel the day before and it's not a huge
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  trip, but it's a trip. You travel, you get up as a 5:00
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  wake up call, all this kind of stuff, right?
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  You just go back. This is just me.
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  I don't have no data behind it that is known yet.
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  You see these early kicks are not not fun for the road team
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  generally in an evenly matched game especially.
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  So I will I will take Oklahoma. I don't know about the points.
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  Their defense is good. They played some bad offenses.
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  This is not a bad offense, but where is Shambles's head right
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  now after that fourth quarter meltdown?
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  Where is Ole Miss after that fourth quarter meltdown in
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  Athens? It's probably a good thing that
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  they're hopping right back on this against a good opponent
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  that has their attention. I think even though it is a
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  tough back-to-back, it's hard for me to get a feel on this
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  one. But there's a there's a lot at
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  stake. As we just said, the loser is
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  out of the SEC championship game, possibly out of the
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  playoff because the margin for error is going to be so little.
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  Oklahoma still has to go to Tuscaloosa end of the year, so I
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  think it's a big game for them. I will take the Sooners at home.
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  I'm not sure about the points. I can see it 27232724, something
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  like that. So I will, but I'm, I'm not, I'm
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  not putting anything on it. After that meltdown last week.
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  I just can't trust Ole Miss. They could be ahead the whole
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  game. And you know what's creeping in
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  in the fourth quarter. If they're ahead, it's going to
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  be last week. And how do they get past that?
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  Mizzou, Vanderbilt, Trent Vandy about a field goal favorite.
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  Yeah, of course we saw Missouri finally have to go on the road,
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  and that's true. Another Auburn, just head
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  scratcher for them. Vanderbilt, the one thing you
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  have to be concerned about, you got game day.
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  There just so much going. I like the Vandy side.
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  I think they're a better football team.
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  It's kind of all the extra that has me a little bit concerned.
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  Normally I'd be happy if this was just a SEC Network game.
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  At the same time, I'd be OK taking Vanderbilt.
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  But some of those extras just do leave me a little bit concerned.
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  So it's not going to be part of my picks or anything like that.
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  Vanderbilt's I think the right team, but the X stars are my
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  concern. Same same kick off as both Iowa
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  and Iowa State their respective games so I will see a play of
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  this one. Alabama Vanderbilt is favoured
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  over Mizzou. Yeah, that 230 window was
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  loaded. You've got the two Iowa games,
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  you've got this one, you've got Alabama, South Carolina.
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  I mean, that's a loaded 230 window.
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  I agree Vanderbilt's a better team.
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  I've seen both of them play. Both these teams play the last
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  two weeks and Vanderbilt was by far the tougher opponent for
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  Alabama that was on the road. Missouri again, like you said,
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  they had to leave. Finally they're gone and look
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  what happened. So I listen, I just here's
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  here's the thing that amazes me. You mentioned game day is, is
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  the environment too much right? Is is we, we love Pavia, we love
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  the story, we love the attitude, we love everything about the
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  kid. Is the environment going to be
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  too much? I'm going to just real quick,
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  right? I'm just looking at get in
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  ticket prices here. Oklahoma's 21 bucks, Arkansas's
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  9 Alabama, South Carolina's 90 Mississippi State, Texas, Texas.
• 18:07
  At Mississippi State you can get in for 30 bucks.
• 18:09
  ANMLSU is 63 Tennessee, Kentucky's 49 Missouri Vandy is
• 18:15
  $190.00 to get In this case, they are jacked up in Nashville
• 18:20
  and for good reason. They have got a legitimate hot
• 18:24
  in. I think they get it done again
• 18:26
  tomorrow. They've got other games down the
• 18:28
  road. When you look at it, you know
• 18:31
  they're coming off the huge win home win last week right against
• 18:36
  LSU. They still got bigger fist to
• 18:38
  fry. They go to Texas next week, Man,
• 18:40
  could you imagine going into Texas?
• 18:43
  They will be ranked. They're going to be ranked
• 18:44
  higher than Texas if they win this game.
• 18:47
  I don't know if they'd be a favorite.
• 18:48
  They'd be ranked higher. I'll take The Commodores.
• 18:50
  Love the story, love the quarterback.
• 18:52
  I think they get it done again tomorrow.
• 18:54
  Missouri is a fraud and I think going to be proven that
• 18:57
  tomorrow. Let's go to prime time at his
• 19:00
  prime time, right? Is is this?
• 19:01
  Game. Yeah, thank God that that's the
• 19:03
  whole angle. Right under the lights.
• 19:04
  Under the lights LSU under the lights if a them wins this my
• 19:08
  what I think about them will completely change.
• 19:10
  I don't think it'll happen. I love the tigers under the
• 19:12
  lights. His story history tells us that
• 19:14
  that's going to be the case here somehow, someway on top of it.
• 19:18
  LSU has not played well, but it back against the wall Brian
• 19:21
  Kelly this program I I just think there's too much here.
• 19:25
  It is tigers all day long for. Me AB CS gotta Bama real quick
• 19:29
  on this game. Nope, I'm going the other way.
• 19:32
  I'm not a believer in LSU Offense is struggling.
• 19:35
  It's been that way. We're we're in what, Week 9
• 19:37
  right now? And their offense has been
• 19:39
  terrible all year. I don't think.
• 19:41
  I think A and M might be a tad overrated, but and they haven't
• 19:45
  really played a tremendous team yet, but I don't think LSU is a
• 19:48
  tremendous team either. I think they're middle of the
• 19:50
  pack in the SEC and Nuss Meyer took a pounding last week.
• 19:56
  Their defense is overrated. I think I understand LSU.
• 20:00
  Prime time under the lights, I get it.
• 20:02
  I would normally be there. I can't do it now.
• 20:04
  The LSU in that program right now is in approve it mode to me
• 20:08
  and until I see it, I ain't going to believe it.
• 20:12
  If Memphis would have won last week, that's where game day was
• 20:15
  going to South Florida and Memphis.
• 20:17
  Obviously UAB pulled a colossal upset in that game.
• 20:21
  I I'm I'm interested in this game, but not maybe to the point
• 20:25
  that I was Trent. Yeah, it's the injury, right,
• 20:28
  Lewis House. And because of that, now both
• 20:32
  teams, obviously whoever wins is still going to be on a path for
• 20:35
  the playoff. But with Lewis's injury, it's
• 20:37
  hard to believe that Memphis is going to be able to get this
• 20:39
  thing through the 12 and one, even if they do pull off the
• 20:42
  wind here. Yeah, very disappointing.
• 20:43
  Yeah, you may be huge upset. They they would have been there
• 20:46
  too. They would have.
• 20:47
  They were going, and that's Chris Mortensen's son, who's the
• 20:49
  interim head coach. That's pretty cool.
• 20:52
  Real quick on that one, Bama. Yeah, I don't know how UAB one
• 20:55
  the UAB was was just an absolute drag.
• 20:57
  They fired Trent deal for you mentioned Mortensen son takes
• 21:00
  over. It happened 10 miles from me and
• 21:03
  I have no idea how it happened. I just I agree with you.
• 21:07
  Listen, this is a big game for I think we can all agree whoever
• 21:11
  wins this conference championship game is probably
• 21:14
  going to be the group of five representatives.
• 21:16
  So there is a lot on the line for Memphis tomorrow.
• 21:18
  They lose this. I don't know that they're going
• 21:20
  to get into the championship game and of course that kills
• 21:23
  our playoff hopes. But I like South Florida.
• 21:25
  I'd like them all year. Their only losses to Miami in
• 21:28
  Miami and I just think I think they've been the best group of
• 21:32
  five, but you still got 2 lane and Navy hanging out there.
• 21:35
  But I will take the Bulls in this one on the road.
• 21:39
  Trench OK, we didn't talk about one ACC game I love.
• 21:43
  How about a sneaky game and do it in 15 seconds before the
• 21:46
  music starts? Babbie, you got a sneaky good
• 21:48
  game. Yeah, I'll go another 230 window
• 21:52
  Illinois at Washington. Yeah, it's good.
• 21:55
  Big one? Yep, one for the Illini.
• 21:57
  Tough, tough place to play Washington, a 4 1/2 point
• 21:59
  favorite in that game. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 22:02
  I I do like the uniforms. Tennessee and Kentucky, that
• 22:05
  might be its SEC Network. If the Blue Jays are getting
• 22:08
  clobbered, it might be I'm watching that.
• 22:11
  Maybe Calva Tech tonight. Who knows?
• 22:14
  Trench you have. When's your ACC game?
• 22:16
  There you go. Alabama, South Carolina.
• 22:18
  That's what's in South Carolina. The Cox.
• 22:20
  Seem to have something weird happen every single year.
• 22:23
  This is it. An athletic quarterback against
• 22:27
  Alabama. We'll see.
• 22:29
  Bama. Good.
• 22:29
  Stuff. We'll see you.
• 22:31
  We'll talk on Monday. Bama.
• 22:33
  Thank you buddy. Take care guys.
• 22:35
  Good to talk to you, Bama. Bob Trentonite.
• 22:36
  I can preview in the weekend. College football.
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  I'm Miller and Condon. Welcome back.
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Des Moines sports station one O
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  Three Media hawkeyereport.com. It's the Gophers.
• 23:03
  It's the Hawkeyes. 2:30 tomorrow.
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  You can hear the game. Can't be in there or in front of
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  your TV down the hall from US flagship to News Radio 1040.
• 23:12
  WHO? Tom Trenton.
• 23:13
  Ken, as always good to speak with you.
• 23:15
  I watched the Gophers and the Huskers play last Friday night.
• 23:18
  Guessing a lot of Big 10 fans did as well.
• 23:21
  I was. I don't know if I was more
• 23:22
  impressed with the Gophers or just realized that the Huskers
• 23:26
  is really, really bad. Drake Lindsey has my full
• 23:30
  attention. I'm guessing he also has Phil
• 23:32
  Parker's in companies full attention.
• 23:34
  I think the Gophers have a pretty good quarterback.
• 23:36
  Let's start there, Tom. Yeah, I think he's pretty good
• 23:40
  too. I think he's he's settled in
• 23:44
  pretty well right out of the gate for them and done a done a
• 23:49
  nice job. Brockington kid seems to be a
• 23:52
  pretty explosive athlete and wide receiver so got some
• 23:56
  weapons. We'll see how that how that
• 24:00
  offensive line holds up this week.
• 24:03
  I I thought the story of last Friday was the both both of the
• 24:09
  Nebraska lines just no showed and 9 facts tells you that yeah.
• 24:17
  Jeez. Not good, not good.
• 24:20
  It was an ugly performance, certainly over there.
• 24:22
  So not only that, Minnesota maybe has the best defense
• 24:26
  alignment in this game that involves Aaron Graves, and I'm
• 24:29
  saying a lot, and Max Llewellen and Ethan, her kid, and on and
• 24:32
  on and on. Now, it's not a deep defensive
• 24:35
  line. It's really one guy.
• 24:37
  But tell us a little bit about him.
• 24:38
  I think I saw in the article that you guys have a Hawkeye
• 24:40
  report. In his last 14 games, he's got,
• 24:43
  what, some ridiculous number of tackles for loss and pressures.
• 24:46
  This guy's outstanding. Yeah, really talented players.
• 24:53
  You know, they've they've got guys started getting after it up
• 24:58
  front and and flex teams bring in some more pressure too.
• 25:02
  They're bringing more blitz stuff this year than they have
• 25:05
  in the past, sort of like Phil Phil Parker doing that.
• 25:09
  And I think that's that's part of the method to the madness
• 25:13
  this year for for Minnesota is that they're they're really
• 25:17
  dialing up more pressure situations this season, bringing
• 25:21
  more guys trying to get the ball out of the hands of the
• 25:24
  quarterback quick. And they certainly did that last
• 25:26
  week with Rayola. And he's he's a quarterback
• 25:29
  that's known to kind of hold on to the ball too.
• 25:33
  Yeah. No doubt about that.
• 25:35
  There's a big spot, Tom, obviously, for Iowa with the
• 25:38
  best trophy in all the college sports that will stay with the
• 25:41
  winner. Obviously.
• 25:43
  Gronowski was really good with his legs last last week.
• 25:46
  Yes, the numbers were, I mean, they got better as the game went
• 25:50
  on, throwing the football. Not that he's throwing the ball
• 25:52
  down the field for a ton of yards.
• 25:53
  But that's obviously, I guess the one critique and the one, or
• 25:57
  maybe better to put the one question still still lingering
• 26:01
  out there for Mark Gronowski is getting the ball down the field.
• 26:05
  Yeah. I don't know how many college
• 26:09
  football games this year had both quarterbacks under 100
• 26:11
  yards passing, but there was one last weekend in Iowa City and
• 26:16
  that's not great and it seems to have just fallen back into this.
• 26:23
  I don't know if it's a trap, but it's just something.
• 26:27
  But the Iowa football, but your quarterback has more rushing
• 26:30
  yards than than passing yards. Generally not great these days,
• 26:35
  so but wins or wins and you just find ways to win games.
• 26:42
  But I think eventually they're going to have to start throwing
• 26:46
  the ball a little bit more, at least complete more passes,
• 26:48
  because she just can't live by this over and over again every
• 26:52
  week. Well, Tom, Speaking of that, I
• 26:55
  heard that you took a trip on the other side of the river over
• 26:58
  to Illinois. Here we go.
• 26:59
  And you were able to take a look at some of those player props
• 27:02
  that are out there. So let's take a stab here, Mark
• 27:05
  Gronowski. What is it right now?
• 27:07
  The prop that is not available in the state of Iowa, just to
• 27:09
  put that out there. But what is it right now in
• 27:11
  Illinois, Gronowski? Set the number trend he wants to
• 27:14
  take. A step, he told me off air.
• 27:15
  So you you guess it Tom Passing yards for Gronowski is.
• 27:19
  It's 100 one. Go ahead.
• 27:22
  Go ahead, Ken 105. 140. Whoa.
• 27:28
  I think we know where Ken's that.
• 27:29
  Would be under Yeah in a heartbeat.
• 27:31
  And did I also see that his passing touchdown number number
• 27:34
  is 1/2? Yeah, 1/2.
• 27:38
  And yet he's going to throw for $1.40.
• 27:41
  Not sure those. But you can throw a 1 yard
• 27:43
  touchdown pass. That's true.
• 27:44
  That still goes over. Yeah.
• 27:45
  No, I'll take the over on that. Minnesota's going to be geared
• 27:49
  up for him, though, in the running, right?
• 27:50
  And what he's been in the red zone on top of it.
• 27:53
  I mean, you have to have not just a spy, maybe multiple spies
• 27:56
  on him. Do you think that's going to be
• 27:58
  the game plan here? We're going to let either make
• 28:00
  him beat us with his arm or secondly, he's not going to be
• 28:03
  able to beat us with his legs. Yeah, I, I think they're
• 28:07
  probably going to try to come up with something because what Penn
• 28:11
  State had last game was just not very good, just didn't work out
• 28:17
  very well, I don't think. By the way, I don't think
• 28:20
  Gronowski's thrown a touchdown pass in a Big 10 game this year.
• 28:23
  Do you have that? So there's there's why the
• 28:25
  number is what it is. Maybe I should take the under.
• 28:29
  You get you get there. No refunds, Sir.
• 28:31
  You do. Yeah, he's also.
• 28:33
  Do. There you could take a look.
• 28:34
  At it that way. That's a good point.
• 28:36
  Hey, Thomas quit Parish, who got so much high prior to the year
• 28:41
  and I think deservedly so because he really flashed last
• 28:43
  year. You know, he was the you know,
• 28:46
  the Minnesota's version version of Cooper da Jean.
• 28:50
  Has he has he had the year that a lot of people speculated he
• 28:54
  would have. I'll put in jinx eye with him or
• 28:56
  by saying that by throwing some shade on him.
• 28:59
  But But has he had the kind of year that a lot of Gopher fans
• 29:01
  and a lot of college football people thought he would have?
• 29:05
  He really hasn't, but I haven't watched a ton of Minnesota, but
• 29:08
  it it just seems like I haven't seen like those those plays
• 29:13
  because you're right. He was Cooper to Jean for them.
• 29:16
  He hasn't he hasn't. You know, I was writing my game
• 29:18
  preview and and looking at his return numbers and it's like he
• 29:22
  hasn't busted 1 hasn't done anything explosive.
• 29:25
  By the way, my game preview, I predicted Caden Legion as the
• 29:30
  Ken you will enjoy this because I said he's going to be the pick
• 29:33
  to Click to return a punt for a touchdown and then he's going to
• 29:38
  signal a fair catch when he gets into the.
• 29:40
  Wouldn't that be apropos? Oh my gosh.
• 29:44
  That bring down the house. I mean, he'll bring down the
• 29:46
  house if he scores, but then to add that that's a jury on top.
• 29:49
  That's awesome. Is that still linger, Tom?
• 29:52
  You know what, last year was the first time back and it was up in
• 29:56
  Minnesota, but now the first time back in Kennick, it's the
• 29:58
  only time that Phil Flex been able to get Kirk was in that
• 30:01
  game. Does that still linger?
• 30:02
  Because we know it certainly bothered Kirk throughout the
• 30:04
  rest of 2023. Oh, he's still mad about it.
• 30:08
  I'm sure he's still because he doesn't like losing to that guy.
• 30:12
  Doesn't. I mean, it's just, you know,
• 30:15
  he's just not. They're very different people.
• 30:17
  But it's always interesting because, you know, TJ does
• 30:23
  things obviously drastically different than Kirk and handles
• 30:26
  himself very different than Kirk.
• 30:29
  But they kind of play similar styles of football.
• 30:32
  Just kind of just grind out on the football, ball control, try
• 30:37
  to play good defense, don't make mistakes and it's the same kind
• 30:42
  of ball, but it's just a different way of getting there.
• 30:46
  One guy hurls himself into his players after post games and and
• 30:52
  body surfs and the other guy starts crying all the time in
• 30:55
  the locker room. Very different.
• 30:58
  Hey, if you could, if you could give Ference truth serum about 1
• 31:03
  coach you'd like to beat every single year, would it be Fleck?
• 31:07
  Yeah, it would have probably been James Franklin before the.
• 31:10
  Yeah, yeah, I think no longer in the picture.
• 31:13
  Yeah, yeah. He's he's out of the picture
• 31:15
  now. It would have been, you know, he
• 31:18
  may, Kirk may have retired on the spot if he could have gotten
• 31:21
  James Franklin and BJ flacking back-to-back.
• 31:23
  We. I'm done.
• 31:25
  Yeah, done. I've done all I can here.
• 31:28
  Yeah. Really.
• 31:29
  That's funny. Do you think last week, beating
• 31:32
  Penn State, which we know matters, he wanted to go to Penn
• 31:35
  State? He wasn't good enough.
• 31:36
  He said as much coupled with the likelihood that this is the
• 31:39
  final time that at at minimum, it feels like probably going to
• 31:43
  play Penn State at Kennick Stadium.
• 31:45
  Do you think that's why we saw a little bit more emotion out of
• 31:47
  Kirk in this one? And and fighting a way he was
• 31:49
  disappointed himself in some of the decisions and, and he also
• 31:52
  brought that up. But also knowing we know how
• 31:54
  important Penn State and beating Penn State is for Kirk Ference.
• 31:58
  Oh, it is. It's such a big game for him
• 32:00
  growing up in Pennsylvania and, and, you know, looking at the
• 32:03
  the that program and, you know, just being around that program
• 32:07
  up there and as a kid kind of looking up to everything that
• 32:10
  went on at Penn State, that's a huge game for him.
• 32:14
  And, and it's just him just kind of saying, I can't blow these
• 32:21
  games for my guys. I got to be better and but I I
• 32:25
  still didn't have a problem with him that play because everybody
• 32:28
  wanted him to do it at the end of the Iowa State game a couple
• 32:32
  of years, you know, a year ago. So I wish we would have seen it.
• 32:34
  Would you not want to? Yeah.
• 32:36
  I mean, it's just an unfortunate result and you know, especially
• 32:43
  if you bet the under it was a really bad result.
• 32:47
  Yeah, no, no kidding. Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com
• 32:51
  part of On Three Media 230 kick tomorrow.
• 32:53
  Tom will be in the press box. What time to 12:30?
• 32:57
  Yeah, I'll probably be up there at least, probably maybe before
• 33:00
  then, maybe closer to noon. What does the availability
• 33:04
  report come out? Is it are you do you beat the
• 33:06
  availability? That's what I thought so, but
• 33:08
  right around the same time you get there the availability.
• 33:11
  Yeah, 1230, it'll, it'll pop up and we'll see if there's any
• 33:15
  surprises on there. I don't anticipate gotcha.
• 33:18
  A whole lot of surprises, so. Yeah, you just never know.
• 33:22
  Tom Caker. Good stuff, Tom, as always.
• 33:24
  Thank you. I will run you down next week,
• 33:26
  Tom. Thanks, bud.
• 33:27
  Yep. Sounds good.
• 33:28
  Thanks guys. Good to talk.
• 33:29
  To you, Tom Caker at hawkeyereport.com, part of on
• 33:32
  three media. All right, our head to head
• 33:34
  picks contest, Trent against myself and then Trent and I
• 33:38
  against the off the bench duo. That is a flat footed tie.
• 33:43
  We got some. I got some college games.
• 33:45
  Oh, you do. You found some.
• 33:46
  Nope. Oh.
• 33:47
  Mm hmm. Well, I want to get them.
• 33:50
  I got to see what you come up with.
• 33:52
  Well, well, you'll find out next.
• 33:54
  Miller and Condon. You'll go first, Trent.
• 33:56
  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 33:59
  Off the bench, who knows football better?
• 34:02
  The war wages on. It's time for the afternoon
• 34:06
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• 34:11
  the Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Hillary Convent, welcome
• 34:16
  back. Final few minutes here on a
• 34:18
  Friday. We've LED this thing throughout.
• 34:22
  We're not going to fold, are we? Fold what?
• 34:24
  Are you talking about, I mean not fold but relinquish?
• 34:26
  I'm 14. And six in the last month.
• 34:29
  Keep her going baby, because I'm 6 and 14 in the last month.
• 34:33
  I need you, TC. Come on now, let's go.
• 34:36
  Here we go. Well, we already talked about
• 34:37
  this game with Bama Bob and anytime I can get points at a
• 34:41
  night game at Tigers Stadium, I will do it.
• 34:44
  Jump aboard with LSU, grabbing the 2 1/2 and got that alert set
• 34:47
  in my phone. If we ever get to 3, we're going
• 34:50
  to be fired at that one for sure.
• 34:51
  Grab the 2 1/2 for our contest. Speaking of 2 1/2 related with
• 34:55
  Iowa State, it's a smash spot historically on ranked teams.
• 35:00
  Favorite at home against ranked teams.
• 35:02
  It is very fruitful and we're going to jump on board with that
• 35:04
  trend. Give me the Cyclones minus the 2
• 35:07
  1/2 to the NFL. We go pick #3.
• 35:10
  Told you earlier, like the Texans, it's hard to describe
• 35:13
  why. I just think it's a must win
• 35:15
  situation. I'll lay the two against the
• 35:16
  49ers and I'm grabbing the seven and a half with the great
• 35:20
  defense and the Cleveland Browns as they go on the road to New
• 35:23
  England. Think they got a little
• 35:24
  something for Drake. May my best bet of the week back
• 35:28
  to the college game team for the Midwest going out West.
• 35:31
  Automatic Washington lay the 3 1/2 against the Illini.
• 35:35
  That's a that's a big game. One of us had that as a sneaky
• 35:38
  good. Was it you, Bama?
• 35:40
  Bama had that one. All right, let's start, Trent.
• 35:41
  Let's start in the college game. I love these two games.
• 35:47
  Kent State plus 7 1/2. Florida Atlantic plus 14 1/2.
• 35:51
  What? Yep.
• 35:52
  Kent State. Kent State plus 7 1/2 Florida
• 35:56
  Atlantic plus 14 1/2 Florida. They got Navy.
• 36:01
  They do. They do.
• 36:03
  Important game. Yes they do.
• 36:05
  But Bowling Green, Kent State, just as big.
• 36:09
  Let's go to the NFL dart board. No, that was my friend.
• 36:12
  OK. Thank you, holdy.
• 36:15
  Let's go to the NFL. I'm going to take Denver.
• 36:17
  I'm going to take Denver. The last time that the Dallas
• 36:19
  Cowboys won in Denver, I was at the game 1992.
• 36:23
  I had season tickets in 92 and 93 when I lived out there.
• 36:28
  I don't remember it, but I just saw there was 1992, but I'm
• 36:30
  going to take Denver. I think that it's time for that
• 36:33
  offense to come to life and if they can't do so against the
• 36:35
  Dallas Cowboys, then my squad is I'm not going to have the season
• 36:39
  I anticipated. Bills got to come to life, do
• 36:42
  they not? Isn't this the week?
• 36:44
  The Bills, they can't lose three in a row.
• 36:47
  I'll lay the seven. Take the Buffalo Bills and my
• 36:50
  best bet of the week. Trent, I think if you had
• 36:52
  Atlanta, you would use them in Survivor.
• 36:55
  I love the Falcons this week. Give me Atlanta laying 7 1/2.
• 36:59
  So 3 favorites in the NFL? Atlanta, Buffalo and Denver,
• 37:03
  Kent State and Florida Atlantic in college football.
• 37:07
  I like your college picks more. You're pro.
• 37:09
  You do. I love Florida Atlantic, I'll be
• 37:12
  on them this weekend too. You really will.
• 37:15
  It was on the list. Bless.
• 37:16
  It yes. Interesting Kent State Bowling
• 37:18
  Green did not make the list. Well, see, you gotta do your
• 37:21
  homework. What call a pauldy?
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  No, he texted me he was listening to the show.
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  When I say I have no, I have no idea about that and I don't.
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  I I heard Holdy's name come up with Gil Alexander earlier this
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  week. You did, yes, I think it was on
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  guess the lines and and holding it sent any e-mail and they read
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  it was here. Yeah, good stuff.
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  All right, that is going to do it.
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  You're going to be in Waukee tonight.
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  The original, the purple, the purple, Sioux City.
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  Nope, no Waterloo. Waterloo.
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  Waterloo. W there you.
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  Go. So the big Nielsen comes to
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  town. They also have another huge
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  offensive lineman going up against this Waukee D.
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  So the number one ranked player, Evan Jacobson, the tight end
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  that's on his way to Texas A&M against the number 2 ranked
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  player that's on his way to Iowa.
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  An offensive lineman don't see that very often in the high
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  school ranks #1 versus #2 players ranked in the state
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  colliding on the gridiron with a playoff bid on the board. 96.9
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  FM is where he can hear it. Or on the iheart.
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  So. Does the Do people still hang
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  around and wait for Boone to come up with the playoff bat?
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  Do you remember back in the day that was a thing?
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  It was. They do not release the
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  pairings, though, until Saturday morning.
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  So there's no sitting. Go to bed, right?
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  That's that's good. Because there were times he'd be
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  up until midnight. Yes, one AM. 2:00 AM.
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  Maybe close down the bar, go to coach's house afterwards.
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  Been part of that a time or two. That's good.
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  Waiting, waiting, waiting. And it finally happens now.
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  10:00 AM. We'll find out what the pairings
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  are. And I got a big one tonight in
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  the playoffs. My Green Devils yes got Boyden
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  Hall, Rock Valley coming to town.
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  A nice 3 1/2 hour road trip for the boys up in northwest Iowa.
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  Be a long ride home, TC Green. Devils get it done tonight,
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  boys. Let's go off the Ames.
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  The station will go. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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  will go. The Rally House is the scene of
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  the off the Bench radio program from 2:00 until five.
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  Hey, congratulations, Connor Ferguson joining the squad.
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  Well done Connor. Have a great weekend.
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  Talk to you next week. Des Moines Sports Station 106.3.