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GAME WEEK PREVIEW: USC -- The Black Sea · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: The moon is high, The sirens call memorial shakes. The
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  Speaker 1: shadows crawl from the plains of Red to the haunted sky.
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  Speaker 1: The black seas roaring, The ghosts won't die. Beat swing wide.
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  Speaker 2: The Firing Nights.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty five thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Haunt the nights.
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  Speaker 1: No lie escapes.
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  Speaker 4: No mercy found.
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  Speaker 1: The Black Sea swallows.
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  Speaker 5: Every Return to Glory podcast Hunter's Arbniki Austin Rose, No Dakota,
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  Speaker 5: under the Radar, under the radar, under the weather today,
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  Speaker 5: actually this whole week he has been Austin and I
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  Speaker 5: if you're watching on a video.
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  Speaker 4: Blackout Baby, Blackout Baby, We're in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: Halloween week, Spookie, I'm pumped.
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  Speaker 5: This is this is I will say, this is one
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  Speaker 5: of the most excited I've been just for a game
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  Speaker 5: experience overall this Saturday. It's I think they're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: some really neat cool things. I mean, and it's it's
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  Speaker 5: the whole week.
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  Speaker 4: They've made very very clear.
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  Speaker 2: Every blackout, every a very clear blackout, and the coaches
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  Speaker 2: and the press conference is like, hey, we want our fans,
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  Speaker 2: we want you guys need to be rowdy. We're not
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  Speaker 2: looking for you know, We're not looking for like Louder
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank you. Guys need to be a
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  Speaker 2: little unhinged.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's the most for sure that we've advertised. I
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  Speaker 5: guess something like this. I think we've tried blackouts before
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  Speaker 5: and we've kind of talked about how we were. Does
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  Speaker 5: we just suck it?
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska fans are terrible at color coordinated events because they're
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  Speaker 2: just like, I'm just wearing my freaking red and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna go. I'm not thinking about it. Will there
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  Speaker 2: be people.
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  Speaker 5: Out there that intentionally try to defy the blackout and
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  Speaker 5: where they're red.
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  Speaker 2: USC fans will defy it? Do I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be people who would intentionally do it. No, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be people that well, I guess there will
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  Speaker 2: definitely people out there that be like, because it's cold,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be cold. They're gonna be like, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna wear my red coat like it's cool they have
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  Speaker 2: a red coat?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, don't have which I think he probably most
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  Speaker 5: coaches are probably darker colored. Yeah, helps, but like you
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  Speaker 5: just tend to see, you know, your Iowa games, there's
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  Speaker 5: just more black naturally because of that. Uh, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 5: that we're definitely going all out for which I love.
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  Speaker 2: I think, do you think they're trying to go big
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  Speaker 2: this year because they want this to be an annual
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  Speaker 2: thing they're looking for I think so something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's part of it. I mean I do.
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  Speaker 5: I think I think it's there's people that are the traditionalists,
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  Speaker 5: think it's kind of stupid they want to do the
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  Speaker 5: you know, the classic Nebraska USC uniform because they're too
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  Speaker 5: notable all of that.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I don't, I don't know. I I think this
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be neat. I think it's gonna be really cool.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna do a good.
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  Speaker 5: Job of making it cool at the game too, as
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  Speaker 5: far as a different thing as you can you can
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  Speaker 5: do with it. And then I mean that's the big storyline.
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  Speaker 5: I think that also is a message that wants to
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  Speaker 5: be sent into USC coming as well. I think they
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  Speaker 5: want them to. As far as the gameplay goes, I
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  Speaker 5: mean that's what ultimate matters, right, All.
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  Speaker 4: This stuff is needed. But if you come.
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  Speaker 2: Out, if we lose the game, it's like no one
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  Speaker 2: next year where they're like, let's do a black is
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  Speaker 2: like why we got some freaking hype for last year?
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  Speaker 2: We just related a freaking egg and it.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't be good. But I will also say this, you
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  Speaker 5: can you you can't. You couldn't really do this for
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  Speaker 5: like a three and four rasket team. It just doesn't
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  Speaker 5: have the same feel that you're trying to do it.
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  Speaker 5: The reason why this is so anticipated this Saturday is
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  Speaker 5: because we're six and two, they're six and two.
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  Speaker 2: We have some momentum.
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  Speaker 5: Both teams are I'll say it, we're not out, but
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  Speaker 5: we're still in the playoff. Like, but the team that
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  Speaker 5: loses this game is for sure out. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not saying that we're in if we if we went out,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't think we're gonna win out, but even
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  Speaker 5: if we went out, I don't think we're in. But
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  Speaker 5: you you look at those graphics of teams that have
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  Speaker 5: you know, are eliminated. We're not crossed off yet, but
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  Speaker 5: we're like a like a point seven chance like, but
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  Speaker 5: we're not crossed off. This one is going to cross
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  Speaker 5: off the loser both ways. USC is also not out yet.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they go ten and two as well, they're
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  Speaker 5: they're potentially in as well, So there are some implications there.
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  Speaker 5: You want to throw that in. A USC is ranked
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  Speaker 5: and we all know the lovely drought stag is not
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  Speaker 5: is it twenty how many games in a row we
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  Speaker 5: lost the ranked teams? Twenty eight, twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: It's been since that Oregon game and two of the sixteen, right.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what the exact number is, so that
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  Speaker 5: that also is coming in here. I mean the opportunities
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  Speaker 5: set for us. It is right in front of us
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  Speaker 5: to go take it. We're underdogs, which.
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  Speaker 4: Finally I think that's I don't know. I this is.
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  Speaker 2: The this is where it tests the bet on Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: as favorites. You know, we do? You do? You double
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  Speaker 2: down and you flip it and you bet as you
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  Speaker 2: bet on Nebraska's underdogs or sorry, don't bet on Nebraska's favorites.
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  Speaker 5: I mean home dogs of about a seven point Then
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  Speaker 5: you can find the stat yep, the home dogs between
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  Speaker 5: five and a half and seven and a half points.
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  Speaker 5: I won the game outright one hundred and eight out
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  Speaker 5: of two and eighty seven times since twenty twenty, so
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  Speaker 5: that's about thirty eight percent.
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  Speaker 2: Ship.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty damn good for giving your you know, a
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  Speaker 5: touchdown dog, and.
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  Speaker 4: I do I think you're that this is the spot that.
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  Speaker 5: Things go right, we can win this game and it'd
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  Speaker 5: be huge. We're not expected to win, but at the
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  Speaker 5: same time, big picture wise, that we should be a
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  Speaker 5: little to be expected to win. This is one that
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  Speaker 5: I think going into the year, everybody just not chopped
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  Speaker 5: it up as a win. But we can win that
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  Speaker 5: game at home. Usc is Comfino coming over and.
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley hasn't quite established the level of dominance that
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  Speaker 2: he had at Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, gosh it yes, mentioned Dak sick.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: He's obviously a big Lincoln Riley fan and really supports
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  Speaker 5: everything that he does.
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  Speaker 2: So it really respects him as a coach and thinks
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  Speaker 2: very highly. He probably would have praised them pretty Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He he was going to come on the podcast, so
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  Speaker 2: he texted me a couple of days ago on how
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley was such a better coach than that rule
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  Speaker 2: and he had like a whole bunch of stats ready
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  Speaker 2: to go on to show me up on how he
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  Speaker 2: was going to just argue that Lincoln Riley is so
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  Speaker 2: much better than that rule.
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  Speaker 5: So we are going to get that for you today. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: I know it's kind of disappointing. So anyways, Blackout Anticipated
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  Speaker 5: game talked about that top twenty five team. Need to
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  Speaker 5: do that, you need to check that box. Any other
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  Speaker 5: high level things or we can dive into.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Uh, you know, I will say
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  Speaker 2: as far as like prior to talk about the actual game.
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  Speaker 2: The outside noise for this week's game was definitely probably
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  Speaker 2: the lowest it's been in a while. The Rule Penn
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  Speaker 2: State stuff really cooled off after Minnesota and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's talking about LSU. Now no one's really talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Penn State job.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm glad you brought that up because I kind
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  Speaker 5: of forgot as I was going to bed last night,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe you haven't seen it if you went to
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  Speaker 5: bed early.
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  Speaker 4: Rules probably getting a contract.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I did see that.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 2: I was because I wanted to ask you about that. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know we have you know, a tighter
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  Speaker 2: time today, but what's your opinion on giving a contract
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  Speaker 2: extension to someone?
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so dumb. They were like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying because I want Rule gone, It's just.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks that you see all these big buyouts. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know ls is paying fifty four million to Bran
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  Speaker 2: Kelly and James Franklin's getting forty nine million. That's just
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  Speaker 2: we're extending because we don't want to lose him and
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  Speaker 2: have to hire someone else.
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  Speaker 5: And someone did make a great point I was listening to,
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  Speaker 5: like the fact that Rule's in this conversation that we
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  Speaker 5: have to do it. I guess is it's a positive
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  Speaker 5: because it means that the program.
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  Speaker 4: Is moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 5: And now we say he's in the conversation, Husker fans
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  Speaker 5: are also making him part of the conversation. The Penn
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  Speaker 5: State one is obviously very clear the other jobs that
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  Speaker 5: have opened up.
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  Speaker 2: And he's not got mentioned in any of the other jobs,
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  Speaker 2: so that that that's also eye opening of like if
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have the tie to the ad, but this
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  Speaker 2: won't be a concern.
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  Speaker 4: That's the other.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the other shitty Party're really paying the guy
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  Speaker 5: because he has a friendship, Like, yes, that's really really Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had the exact same thought because, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I read through the list of ten coaches to Phil
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  Speaker 2: Lsu Matt Rule is not on the ways, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's the part that sucks, is we're paying a
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  Speaker 5: coach because of a friendship and.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully he's the right coach. I think we both agree
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  Speaker 2: that he's he's not wrong. You know, he's not the
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  Speaker 2: wrong coach for us. We're not You're not out on him.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a good coach.
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  Speaker 4: This season could have went in a way where.
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  Speaker 5: Myself, but I think a lot of people could have
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  Speaker 5: been out on him and still can't.
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  Speaker 4: It's not not that that there if.
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  Speaker 2: You give him the extension and also you lose to
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  Speaker 2: USC and Iowa again.
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  Speaker 5: That's that again, give him a this is this is
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  Speaker 5: the worst case scenario extension and then lose out Oh god, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: oh god, like what But but the timing of everything,
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: it probably is about like gosh, it's just a weird.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you talk about that roller coaster, Holy cow
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  Speaker 5: it you probably you can't wait until it gets a
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  Speaker 5: week before Penn State. You don't know where the content,
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  Speaker 5: where the negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: Are, because you want to get it. You want to
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  Speaker 2: get it done before USC because also you be sc
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well he beat a top twenty program, you know.
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  Speaker 2: As far as keeping him from limam Penn State.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it just because I'm I get that. That's just
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  Speaker 4: it's not Nebraska.
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  Speaker 5: It's just it's the market of coaches, and like obviously
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  Speaker 5: the national news with all of these coaches getting fired
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  Speaker 5: in their buyouts, it's just it's just where we're at.
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  Speaker 4: I also don't agree with that, but it's it's the market.
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  Speaker 2: It's how it works. Because if we lose Matt Rule,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we're in the same coaching market
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  Speaker 2: as LSU. Probably you know, Auburn, Florida, Wisconsin may be
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  Speaker 2: looking for a head coach. It's like, gosh, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be in that cycle.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great point.
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  Speaker 5: That's a really good point this year with all of
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  Speaker 5: these jobs opening up, and maybe this is going to
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  Speaker 5: be a new thing with.
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  Speaker 4: Every year a lot of jobs open.
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  Speaker 5: But the jobs when we got Frost, right, we were
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  Speaker 5: the job at the time, and Frost was the number
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  Speaker 5: one guy, and we obviously had the ties. When Rule
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  Speaker 5: was here or when we got Rule, we also were
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  Speaker 5: one of the top jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin and Colorado were open, and I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 2: who else.
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  Speaker 4: But that's about it. I mean, yeah, that was the debate.
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  Speaker 4: It was fickle, it was dion like, it was like
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  Speaker 4: those type of jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I guess LSU is open at that point in time
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  Speaker 2: the Notre Dame also opened, right because Brian Kelly left
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame to go to Elsie. But then they hired
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  Speaker 2: internally pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's a good point, so we quickly became the
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  Speaker 4: job that cycle.
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  Speaker 5: This one now there's a lot more and you're right,
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  Speaker 5: we would be on that what you know what, maybe
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  Speaker 5: that's not a bad thing. I don't know, like we
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  Speaker 5: get the up and comer, don't gonna pay him a lot,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, I I think that's part of probably
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  Speaker 5: a big part of the conversation as well, when when
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about contract extensions and all that and keeping
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  Speaker 5: a rule here, you're you're you're probably doing analysis of Okay,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's Matt Ruhle, or it's I don't know, the
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  Speaker 5: seventh guy on the list of coaches out there now because.
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  Speaker 2: You're not excited about Land's Lappold anymore.
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  Speaker 4: No, So anyways, Yeah, that that's talking about outside duds.
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  Speaker 5: That that's probably gonna be here today and take a
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  Speaker 5: little bit away from this game anticipation. But I get
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  Speaker 5: you said, this week has been from Monday. You know,
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  Speaker 5: even a lot of the press conferences has not been
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  Speaker 5: about the past. It's been about this week and and
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  Speaker 5: the anticipation and everything for this game.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, if we got there in Land Egg this week, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't think we'll get killed. I don't. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: we can. I I shouldn't say the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: If if the crowd shows up like we want them to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there there is that chance that we get
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  Speaker 2: stuck with them, buddy duddy old crowd.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh. I hope not either.
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  Speaker 5: I that that'll be the worst when there's just like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a thousand just people in Nebraska read because
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  Speaker 5: they're just.
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  Speaker 4: Like, eh, blackout as sucks. That is it is a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I think.
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  Speaker 4: I do think they're gonna do a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 4: Like it'll just take the middle, the middle third of
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  Speaker 4: fans and elevate them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hoping. So I agree.
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  Speaker 5: Let's move on here to just matchups and the game itself.
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  Speaker 5: You know, USC you know anything about them, they're in
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  Speaker 5: Lincoln Riley himself at Daquadeco. His offenses are just they're
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  Speaker 5: pretty close to elites as you're gonna get in college football.
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  Speaker 5: I've heard US season number one offense in the country
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  Speaker 5: based on some stat I'm not sure which one that is.
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  Speaker 5: But their offense is good. I think that that's something.
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  Speaker 5: Coming into last year's game, they were solid. I mean
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  Speaker 5: they were It's obviously always one of Lincoln Riley's strengths
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  Speaker 5: as teams. But Jade Mayeva their quarterback. It was his
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  Speaker 5: first start when we played him out in Pasadena last
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  Speaker 5: year and you know, I think we picked him off
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  Speaker 5: a couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: Like, he's a very different quarterback this year. He's second
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  Speaker 4: in the.
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  Speaker 5: Big Ten and passing behind Calikmanus from Rutgers. He has
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  Speaker 5: very talented skilled players around him, including mkayle Lemon, and
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  Speaker 5: he makes sure the ball gets to all of them
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  Speaker 5: and he does a really good job in that. And
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  Speaker 5: he also has a little bit of threat of mobility.
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  Speaker 5: Like some of these other quarterbacks that we played. He's
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  Speaker 5: not so much run for He's definitely not run first,
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  Speaker 5: but he has the ability to run. So this offense,
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  Speaker 5: for sure, coming into the game is going to be
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  Speaker 5: the thing. Can we contain it and not let.
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  Speaker 4: Them go go score in the thirties.
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  Speaker 2: This is gonna be the game that we test that
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  Speaker 2: you know, our ballet hoods secondary. This is definitely the
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  Speaker 2: best passing attack and are the last couple of games
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  Speaker 2: we have not we been decent against the past, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're also average. You know, you talk about
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  Speaker 2: their passing game and their quarterback, they're still averaging six
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  Speaker 2: yards of carry. So we're gonna have to probably win
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  Speaker 2: a shootout. I don't I mean, what's the over under
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  Speaker 2: for this game? Do you know what the implied point
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  Speaker 2: total is for them? Because they're averaging almost forty points
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  Speaker 2: a game they lost and they're coming up of bye week,
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  Speaker 2: it is worth pointing out they're coming out of bye week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's over under fifty eight and a half, which
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  Speaker 4: is definitely the highest that we've had this this.
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  Speaker 5: Season, and that you know, that's implying about a what
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  Speaker 5: a thirty four to twenty eight ish in that ballpark,
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  Speaker 5: thirty three to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Man you mentioned the running back wayman Jordan, he's also
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  Speaker 5: very high up there in the Big ten. They're running
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  Speaker 5: the ball, are very good clip as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: their offense is very explosive, like they've proven that anytime
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  Speaker 5: that you are and this is just generally speaking. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think we've talked about this because we've been kind
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  Speaker 5: of the favorite in most of our games this year
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  Speaker 5: when you are the underdog.
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  Speaker 4: Slash. The team that.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't doesn't have as many talented players as the other team,
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  Speaker 5: which I'm not saying USC is like over the top
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  Speaker 5: better than us.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Think that, but they probably are a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: mean their favorite on the road by six and a half.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: You want the game to be as short as possible
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: and control the clock and limit the number of plays
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: rain by ball teams. And this is a data numbers thing,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: if you want to think of it that way.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Right, if you are playing someone that's in anything, let's
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: say Austin.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Let's say.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: You and I each have one curling shop. He's curling.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: For an example, we're playing a curlyum, I'd rather just
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: go on one verse one. That's my best chance of
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: beating your.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Entire game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: If we go through an entire game, I'm very very
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: small chance of winning because I've never done it before
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: in my life. But if we just have one shot,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: my chance of beating you is probably a lot higher
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: than doing it multiple times over and over. So that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: the that's the theory, right, The law of averages that
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: if the better team the more you play, the more
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: possessions you have.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: The more plays and more snaps you have, the better
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: off you're going to be.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Which is also why when we played Minnesota and Northwestern
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: in Michigan State, why they why we why we kind
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: of wanted it to be a little higher scoring and
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: we we were okay with it if we, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: if we got into a shootout, because we probably felt
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: like we were the better team. So this is the
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: first game that we're on the other side of that,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: and we do want to say, nope, let's see if
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: we can control the clock, the game, run the ball,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: slow them down.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: The question is can we.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I don't think we want to get in a shootout,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: but that might be what happens because of the way
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: we are up front now. I hope our game plan
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: game style doesn't.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Reflect that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I don't think it will. I think like the Ohio
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: State game last year, we did a pretty damn good
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: job of just trying to control the game. And I
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: think that's going to be the the plan here. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: if you're usc you want to just go, go, go.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: But I also think that the whole atmosphere, in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: weather and going on the road hopefully will help halt
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: that a little bit.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: That will definitely slow down the no huddle, hurry up offensive.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: We're actually loud enough looking at USC, looking at the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: shared opponents we played, So we've only played two. We've
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: played Michigan State and Michigan are the only two teams
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that we've shared funds. They beat both Michigan State and Michigan.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Michigan State by fourteen, and then they beat Michigan by
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: what would that be a lot more than that?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: The Michigan game was the one that was that if
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: you want to do a common opponent comparison, you go, okay, Well,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: then they can beat Michigan like that, and we're screwed
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: because of how we played Michigan and and Michigan obviously
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: was one of those physical, run power teams and USC
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: was fining against that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Two of their big say lost in Our Dame and Ilinois,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: both on the road, though, so that's there's you know
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: something there. Their only other road game is against Purdue
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: and may be perdue by sixteen, which it seems like
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: anyone can be Purdue by sixteen this year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they struggled.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: That's been the other narrative I've heard a lot is
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: they've struggled traveling East and playing in these type of environments.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: The cold help against USC. I mean this is.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Hopefully we'll add give us I'm not gonna say it's
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: going to swing the game fourteen points, but hopefully it can.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: You know, cut that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: The being unfavored by hermony point, hopefully we can get
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: a few points off of that advantage because of the
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: road and.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Travel.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna be the same same boat next
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: week when we go out west to Pasadena and play
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: U C.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: L A.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: So the environment should should matter, and it should affect
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: their offense, hopefully slow them down to the point.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: That we don't give up forty points.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Now, if we do a different I just hope we don't,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: but there definitely is a possibility that that happens. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: USC's explosive enough to do that. I mentioned Makayle Lemon
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: and Jacob Jacoby Jaquori Lane Jacoby. I mean, is there
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: other like top receiver. I mentioned they're running back, so
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: they're doing it multiple ways, but we're gonna need that
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: crowd to slow it down.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Anything else that we're looking for. I guess the other
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: thing that I think that needs to happen this game.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: We need to get pressure on my my ava Like
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: it's just as I say, I wouldn't happen.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't count on us game pressure on them.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: And we haven't done anybody.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: We haven't done anybody. And they've only been sacked. Oh
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I just closed tab. Shoot. They have not been sacked
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: a lot. They've been sacked six times this year for
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: thirty sevenyrds.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: If we can get and I'm gonna even say two
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and on third down.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And talk about plays that energize the crowd, if we
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: can just get a couple of sacks, that's that's going
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: to be ginormous for this game.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Can we I I don't think we can. I am
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: not heading on his getting sacks. Like I said, they've
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: only been sacked six times, and I have sacks? Did
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Michigan and Michigan State have on us.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Six too many?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Six? And one of those games probably, I don't know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I have to look back at it. Yeah, I don't
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: think we're gonna get pressure on him.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I I mean, so here's here's where we're gonna have
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: to and I.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: We had to trust John Butler to the D and
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the D line a little bit, hopefully to be creative.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: And we haven't been creative, so there's no reason to
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: think that we will in finding a way to win
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the numbers game so that we get a guy that
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: can go in untouched or barely touched on there like
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: that obviously is a very high level of how you
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: get pressure to a quarterback, but you're going to do
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: it through coaching because I think just from a personnel
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: stand what we've shown them, we don't really have that
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: this year, which is fine, but by doing the numbers
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: game and doing that means you're probably going to be
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: giving up something in the back end. So you're gonna
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: do it, you better do it right and win the
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: one on one coaching battle for that play, because if
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: USC picks it up, they got players in the back end,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: and and maybe our defense can on the back end,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: can hold it up, maybe our secondary they're gonna get tested.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Like you said, it's going to be.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: The best passing, skill player type of team that we've
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: played all year and maybe for the rest of the year.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: So that's gonna be the key thing, I think. And
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: if we can't get pressure on him and he just
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: has all the time in the world, that's scary. I like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: this game is gonna look very different from a fane
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: just because of the offense that they are and people
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: are gonna know that. But it is there's gonna be
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: time or they just move the ball consistently down the field.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: It's can we get pressure on them and can we
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: find a way to force a couple of turnovers in
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: this game?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Sure? Two things that they have not done a lot
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: this year, WHI.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Is why they're probably six and two.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I mean we're also six and two, but we've been
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: sacked a ship.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Tug, yes, and we're six and two in a very
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: different way.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: We easier sacked a lot.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: And we have turned the ball over very bad turnovers.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I'll say that to you, like some of the interceptions
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: have been rough rough now, we haven't fumbled it a lot,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: knocking on wood right now.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: So they have had six fumbles lost.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: So and this is gonna be their probably first. It's
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: not gonna be cold. It's supposed to be like forty
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: three cooler temperature.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty it's forty three with a real
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: field probably like thirty some high thirties.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: You asked me, I would I would want the Texas
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: snow game in octob I guess it will be November first,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: but that's what that'd be ideal, but we're not going
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: to get that. It's going to be cool, So that
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: hopefully can help a little bit there. The flipping on
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: the other side of the ball, our offense is going
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: to have very minimal margin for air given USC's firepower
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: they have on offense, and what I mean by that,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: we can't afford one of those stupid dumb interceptions on
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: our side of the field. We can't afford going three
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: and out multiple times this game and giving them the
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: ball in good field position. That's not going to bode
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: well for us. It's not it's not going to be
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: a big ten I don't think it'll be a big
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: ten running punt game.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a game where, yes,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: special teams are going to be I don't think I
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: think special teams is going to be a thing that
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: shifts it our our favor. But it's not gonna be
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the punting game. If we're leaning on the punting game
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: to win this game, we're gonna lose because although we
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: could flip the field with our Gordon Savior Archie Wilson
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: pretty easy, Yeah, we do. I mean the way special
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: teams helps us win this game is we get better
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: starting field goal field position and we someone take advantage
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of that, which is something we haven't really done very
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: well this year.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: That is one thing to watch too, and that that
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: that's how Iowa.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: It's so good year after year and wins eight games
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: is they are so good at winning field position battles.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: And a lot of that comes with punting.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: But that is one job of the special teams is
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: instead of fair catching, as you say, punt returns for example,
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: every single one, can you get twelve yards on a
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: return and start at the thirty seven versus twenty five.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: It's a very it's a very different starting point for
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: an offense. So I agree, that's gonna be huge here
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: to watch.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: And we're gonna and honestly, they said, we don't need
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: the punting. The punting game is not gonna wins the game.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: But if we're putting them deeper an offense that moves
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the ball, well, it just gives us more opportunities for
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: it gives us more opportunities for them to mess up.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: You know, and think about other times when the crowd
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: gets very low when you pin somebody inside the ten
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: or the five.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah's another time.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: I mean that that will juice up the stadium too
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: by doing something like that, So that also if the
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: opportunity arises, we need to take advantage of those moments.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess when I think about what what I
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: what I want to see, which I mean want what
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: do I want to see? How the Huskers in this game?
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: It's funny because I don't really think about anything that
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: needs to improve on the offensive side that much, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: not like man, our offense really needs to do blank
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to win this game. It's really all about our defense
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that our special teams need to do it because I
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: do feel I mean, our offense is not the same
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: firepower as USC. But I do think in a back
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: if you were just to go offense versus offense, who
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: could score with with the same defense, if you put
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: out the same defensive players, I feel like we could
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: actually do alright keeping pace with USC. Yeah, I might
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: be that might be arrogant. That might be just looking
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: at people.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: You've had their backs.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I mean as far as the phases of the game
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: that I think our defense is not good. I agree
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to lose the game.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: The big thing on offense, and for me, the offensive line.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Done for the year again, probably done for his career, and.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: We're all banged up there. I think Catula is listed as.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: An or, Yeah, Rocko's got a glove on or you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: a bludgeon, so that that, to me, is going to
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: be a key thing.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: And and.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: Tying with that is Emmitt Johnson's ability to run the
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: ball and Jeremiah Love for Notre Dame, which Emma Johnson's
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: not Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Loves one of, if not the
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: best running back in the country. But Emmett's proven that
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: he can be one of the best in the Big Ten.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: And if he can get going behind this offensive line early, then.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: I like our chances.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: If if the story, you know, is the general consensus
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: is USC's flashy, skilled player, not as tough as not
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: a tough Big Ten team that we're used to, I
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: think that's more of a generalization.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say their offensive defensive lines aren't good,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Like there's no reason to say that. If we can
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: control that line of scrimmage better than we have in
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: the past few games, then we're we're we're gonna be
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: in this game. The scary part is as if we're
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: that's a neutral battle and they can just trump us
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: everywhere else. That's where it gets hairy for me and
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: the game. And I'm gonna say it's gonna be a blowout,
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: but could be a fourteen point game not in our
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: favor mm hmm.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: So that it is, can can we control the game?
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: And this is one of my.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Keys or thoughts. It's getting out in front early more so,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: it's important in every game no matter who you play
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: this game. Man, if you want to ask one thing,
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: just please and pray to the gods for it to happen.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Is can we can we get a head to start
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how we won the Michigan State game.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I don't I think if we don't get that punt
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: block return for a touchdown that game when we're up
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: fourteen zero and within the first that changed. That changed
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: their game plan, which I think they might have done
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: a lot better. So if we could do that against
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: USC ver, hey we score opening drive three and ow
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: we get a field goal or something. Second it starts
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: to you know, you're right, the crowd gets into.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: It, taking I'm taking the ball. If we get if
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: USC is gonna, you know, they get the they get
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: the coin flip. If I guess so we don't, we
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: won't get the decision. We yeah, we will, they lose.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: It's coin flip, man, I'm forgetting how heads and tails works.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Which we haven't won a coin flip. We haven't or no.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Last week was the first week we got to pick,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: right if we wanted to receive or not. I think
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: for the year.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, if you're well now, if you're on the yeah,
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: if you're on the road, you get to pick the
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: coin flip.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: But then then you if you win it, you get
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: to choose.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: So last last week was the first one that we
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: actually we we won the coin flip.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah I didn't. I didn't. I don't know that. But
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I think we won the ball, I seriously do.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: I The worst case scenario is we get down seven
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: to nothing and in the back of our minds we think,
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: oh boy, we can't. We can't control the game, like
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: we got to start keeping up with them right away.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I think that's worst case scenario. Whereas even if even
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: if we can get the ball and we get get
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: a field goal, go three to zero. I think that's
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: huge for the crowd perspective too, but just in general
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: in the game for how you to go.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've got a good job of that this year.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: We really have. We played well in the first and
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: fourth quarters, like that's been our thing. And you hope
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: that that.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: They go down and score opening drive or we go
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: three and out like a real quick you know, real
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: quick three and out and they go down to score.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, that crowd is gonna be absolutely not that
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: they can't you can't get back into it, you know.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: But you're right that Nebraska fans that we're six and two,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and I mean, gosh, you'd think that we are. We're
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: barely scraping by this year. You know, everyone's so like
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: it's weird.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: It's it's so weird just because of who we played
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: in our schedule, like it really is. I think it
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: step back a couple of days ago and I said we.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Are six and two.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: First time, it's two third weird.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Given I tried to take all my other thoughts out. Now,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: there are games that we've scraped and clawed o a
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: way to win them.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Right, but coming into the year, we had it like
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: it's like outside of the Minnesota game. We I think
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: we all thought we'd be six and two by the
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: eight game mark. And the minne Ofnesota game was super ugly,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: But other than that, it's like, well as a close
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: lost to Michigan, which we thought lave the Blues anyways.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: And I guess people would complain about losing one score games. Well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: now we've won three of four this year, right, so
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: I guess take that. It's not We're not. You're okay,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: get off of USC a little bit. Here's the problem.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Here's the problem is the expectation got set, for whatever
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: reason by whoever. I mean, we did, Husker media does it,
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: but nationally people, the expectation got set that we could
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: be a dark horse playoff contender and.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: We were Matt Real year three and we could be
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: that good.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: So that got thrown out there, and now we're not
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: appreciating just the baby steps forward that.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: We have made since last year. And they have been
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: steps forward.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: And the only way to me that the season ends
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: and it's not a step forward is if we lose
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: out now it could happen, and even then you could argue, well, we.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we still would be six and.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: We need to win one.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: We need to win one, but for the we need
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: to win one for the win total to be a
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: little better. My concern with that even is, yeah, our
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: schedule is easier. So to me, it's like, is is
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: that a progress?
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: You know, my worst fear is that gets going seven
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: and five. I mean I think eight and four helps
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: even eight and four a little bit, but I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: eight and four helps like show that No, we've we've.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Moved the bad teams. Now. I know we had an
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: easy schedule, but we've lost the bad teams for we
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: have done.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: That before years, So that that, to me is is
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: a little bit why you're right the six and two
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: narrative is we're not appreciative of it just because we
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: we've we we expected this big overhaul of Now we're
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: a playoff team in year three under a rule because
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: that's what he's done, and our schedule sets up for
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: it perfectly. Well, we're still taking baby steps. We're not
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: we're not in that tier one or even maybe tier
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: two of Big ten teams. Now we're playing some of
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: them this week or these next four weeks, five weeks.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: So if we if we come out when we finished
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: the year when Pete USC lose to U C l
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: A and be Iowa, it's a great year.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: But right now we're not.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: That's not looking like we will beat Iowa this game, and.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: So we're probably gonna lose this game. Yeah, okay, let's
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: give predictions. You gotta get out of here.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: I do, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to lose. I do think
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: the crowd's gonna help. But I think it's going to
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: be closer to like that fourteen point loss that you
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: were talking about, where it's like, well, we're really in it,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: and then kind of at the end it's it's like, uh,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: we have to take some shots, we have to be
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: a little riskier. The USC gets a big breakaway play
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: at the end because we're being a little bit more aggressive.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: So I guess prediction would be twenty eight seventeen USC.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Can I be a homer. I'm gonna be a hoverer.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I can be a homer, which is something you don't
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: do this.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: I don't hear a lot.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: We I'm gonna make an assumption here USC. They're city boys.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: They don't know Midwest culture.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: They don't hear the cold.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: They're not not even the.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Cold, but just it's a gritty, hard nose, blue collar,
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: hardworking Midwest nature. And I'm not saying we're all those things,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: because we definitely have not been all the time.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: But USC is not that.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: They like things nice. They live in Hollywood, they like
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: things they're not ready for what Memorial Stadium is gonna bring.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get a couple of picks. I think we
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: might throw a couple too, but it's gonna be enough,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: okay to hold on and it's gonna be ugly, but
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: we're gonna win.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Twenty one to twenty.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Wow. Is Dak gonna be sober enough to make it
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: to the game night game?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: He doesn't go to the games anyways, And no, he's
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: just gonna be drunk at We're gonna see how this
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: how this UH.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Sickness handles him. From what we've heard, he's been he's
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: been out for a week. He went down to the.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: UH Kansas City game against the Commanders on Monday night
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: and ever since then it's been what's which, Yeah, he
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: had kind of something before that, and I'm not sure
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: he got much sleep this weekend, and so I think
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: he's probably his body's not liking him right now.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: And he also is not very tough. I'll say that,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: so I don't know, I just.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: Start out there, sorry, you're not on here to defend yourself,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: but he's not. He's not very tough when it comes
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: to stuff like this.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: So he loves Lincoln Riley and he's just not very tough.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: So Lincoln Riley, Gosh, he cannot stop talking about him.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: So uh yeah, we'll get his maybe score prediction.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll get a basketball preview in this weekend.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, planning to do that and they have it out
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: before next week. We're a season that kicks off on Monday.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: We did beat they beat Midland, So Nebraska volleyball plays
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin on Halloween. Not the Wisconsin of old, but hopefully
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: it remain undefeated in the Big Ten play.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I would enjoy your AI music that preview. I've kind
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: of had fun with that.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: It's been i don't know, pretty easy to do with
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: with with chat GBT, creating me some prompts and then
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: dumping it into a software that does it. So it's
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: it's still a little glitchy and not perfect, but it's
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: been kind of fun. So little spooky version with some
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: with some hype for this week. Also, there's also some
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: very cool this is why this game is so exciting
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: for me, And there's some cool videos out there just
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: with the bones.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: And Blackout's cool. Black Shirts are cool. We need to
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: steer into it more often. I wish our helmets had
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the Black Shirts logo on on this side of the black.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: End that and I wish they were black the helmets.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: I want. I want everything this week just to be
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: just dark.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: It's like we've been sitting in the dark this whole
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: forty five minutes. I want everything just be black everywhere.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: And I think the stadium. The stadium is going to
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: do some stuff like that. I even see like pregame
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: where it's just gonna be. The lights are gonna be
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: offered extended period of time, like it's good, Oh, that's
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: gonna be.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: It would be cool if they just had their red
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: lights on for a while so people could still see.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: But it's just like it's just no, we're not We're
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: not turning on the lights.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: It's just it's it's gonna be. It's gonna be electric.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: Thank god we won last week. I'll just say that again.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Thank God, we won last week. If we lost last week,
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: this game would be at.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll hopefully be happy come Monday morning. Nope, go
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: be gread gb R.
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: The moon is high, the sirens call, Memorial shakes, the
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: shadows crawl from the plains of red to the haunted sky.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: The Black seesar roaring.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: The ghost won't die.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: The gates swing wide, the firing nice eighty.
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: Five thousand harmed the night.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: No light escapes, no mercy found.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: The black sea swallows every.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Breeze that rule.
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: Commands steady and cold built the storm in scarlet and bold,
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: Dylan all the com precise reading.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Defenses made of ice.
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: Emmi Johnson cuts through the haze, nither hundred birds and plays.
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: Jeffery Barney streaks down the look by and the crowning RUPs.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: It's blackout time.
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: The noises thunder of the ground will shake, the Blaxia churns.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: No trojans escape from the mist and dread a chor
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: it spread, Go big red, go bag round s.
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: I say, under blood, mouse, lovey gostu nie, can you
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: hear that? Sadie shall sir?
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: Let's mistap every rat.
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: You say, this is the night you chansas escape in
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: the homers.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Welcome to the Black Seed your background.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Cameron Lenhardt bursting off the edge. William's Winery keeps the pledge.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Darson mccalluff speed and wrath. Javon Wright carving down your path,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Andrew Marshall pressing tight.
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: Desn Singleton strikes at night, John witless, defense, relentless, dread.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: They'll haunt your dreams. In husker red. The crowd hushes
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: the heart beat, and still the black sea breathes, waiting
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to chill. A single sound, the thought of a punt
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: echos through the night's cold front.
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: Rsie Wilson, Weapon Knights for of flame, Prince.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: The Trojans did Saint just the game like a killer's chaos.
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: The sideline Roar, Special Tames Thunder saying the floor.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Jennet Williams lights, Ghost in the.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Back, catches the spiral.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: He's the track.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: He cuts left once.
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: Crowd stocks to stream eighty five thousand at night, That
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: drag rise hot and loud. Crimson shroud oscar fend the night.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: Clos skulls.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Spread fearless, the blags a wag.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: The star is bad.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome the Lancas.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: The black say of Rod.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: Rod the echoes fade, but the fear remains. The Ghosts
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: of Lincoln guard the plains.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: This is Nebraska. The faithful, the dread, forever haunted, Go back.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Rond