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2023 Week 1 College Football Preview · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September two. I'm your host,
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tom Or. The Indiana game is today, the game against Michigan in eighty
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four days. Yes, Ohio State football season is back. We will be
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in Bloomington all day bringing new coverage of the Buckeyes and the Hoosiers. Should
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be a lot to talk about, but there's a lot of other things going
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on around the college football world today. We're going me talking about some of
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that this morning as well. My guest today is Tony Girtemant bucke Huddle dot
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Com. You will be joining me in Bloomington a little a little later on
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today covering the Buckeyes and Hoosiers. But first, Tony, we got to
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talk about another massive, massive college football game. You can tell it's a
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big one because it airs on a streaming channel. It is noon on Peacock
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Michigan minus thirty six against East Carolina. Michigan favored by more than five touchdowns
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against the team that is considered perhaps their best non conference opponent. No,
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Jim Harbaugh today, I suspect it probably won't matter. I would suspect it
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won't matter at all. In fact, Jim Harball could be playing quarterback.
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I'd still like Michigan by three and a half touchdowns. This feels like,
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you know, we're going to do a Michigan Monday show on Monday, and
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we're going to watch this game, and we're going to tell you what we
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learned, and I don't know how much we're really going to learn. There's
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probably gonna be a lot of Okay, hey, this guy's playing here,
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and oh, this is a little bit of a different alignment than we expected
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them to run with or whatever. It is not a great non conference schedule
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for the second year on a row from Michigan, but there's no Jim Harball,
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so there'll be plenty of stuff for the announcers to talk about. So
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you'll have you have that going for you, which is nice. Something Tennessee
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has going for it is Joe Milton can throw a football over them mountains.
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He is favored by twenty eight points over Virginia. This is another one that's
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it's a noon game on ABC. Two team two teams wearing orange. Tennessee's
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last game was also a team against a team wearing orange. They beat Clemson
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in the what was that the Orange Bowl last year? I think the truly
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Orange Bowl explained to me that Joe Milton hype other than the fact that he
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is basically Uncle Rico. I'm with you, and I've seen we watched him
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at Michigan and we saw him lose his job at Michigan. Very inaccurate quarterback,
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big arm, big whoop. The accuracy wasn't there, so it doesn't
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matter. But he had a good Bowl game last year, but he was
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also inconsistent throughout the season when he got to play. He's also lost a
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job at Tennessee as well. Hndon Hooker took it from him. So I'm
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in the I need to see it. And I've grown tired almost of hearing
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many different talking hits just assuming he's going to be He's like Hendon Hooker,
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but he's got a better arm. And I think it's a little disrespectful to
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what Hendon Hooker was able to do for this Tennessee program last year, the
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way he essentially put them on his back and on his knee and took them
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to heights that they haven't seen in a while. So I want to see
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it from Joe Milton first, and I don't know that seeing it against Virginia
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really convinces me of anything. But it would be nice if he completed like
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seventy five or eighty percent of his passes and actually went it, completed some
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downfield and found some tight windows. But I, like I said, I'll
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believe it when I see it, and I don't know that I'll believe it
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in week one even if I see it. Yeah, if I see Joe
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Milton completing passes downfield into tight windows, I will change my tune on this
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one. I don't know how tight the windows are really going to be.
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Virginia might be like bad bad this year. So yeah, Tennessee probably by
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a bunch in that one. Speaking of teams that might be bad bad,
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TCU minus twenty point five playing Dion Sanators Coach Prime Tony All the Fox promos
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can't wait to tell you about Coach Prime. They don't mention his thirty one
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scholarship football players or whatever the heck he has. I think there. I
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think there are like twelve or fifteen guys who are back from last year.
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The error bars on this Colorado season are about as big as I can possibly
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imagine. Like, if everything goes right, maybe this is almost a Bowl
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team maybe, but what if everything goes wrong and with the offensive line and
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defensive line being maybe not even close to power five caliber, this might not
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go well for Colorado. You know, it's like over unders, like sixty
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three and a half, and it feels like it should be under. But
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there's also a concern that TCU will get all sixty three and a half of
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those points because you just don't know what to expect. And sure, Colorado
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has sandor Sanders, and you know they've got some talent here and there,
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but I just don't know how well all of these parts are going to come
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together as one right away. This is not a great place to start,
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and it feels like it's going to take some time for Colorado. And I'm
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not expecting everybody's gonna look at it and watch it to see but it might
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be more of a car wreck than a car race. Yeah, that's that's
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gonna be. I think a little bit of a work in progress for Colorado
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this year. It might work in a year or two, but just when
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you completely tear it down to the studs, you usually have a year or
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so of work. That is the big noon game on Fox. Next up
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noon on Fox Sports one Brian Ferrens minus twenty five versus unemployments Iowa minus twenty
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three and a half versus Utah State. Over under on this one is forty
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three, So the implied score between the line and the over under is thirty
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three eight to ten. Utah State probably not very good this year, but
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ken Brian Ferrens got off to a good enough start to stay on the positive
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side of the unemployment line. Well, the good news is quarterback Kade McNamara
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is banged up and questionable, so that is fantastic for the Ile offense.
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That is a question mark. It has added some pieces they've tried, you
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know, Eric All tied in from Michigan, Kid McNamara also for Michigan,
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of course, Caleb Brown from Ohio State. So they're trying, at least
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with their roster. We'll see if they they're trying through their offensive coordinating and
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their play calling this season. But yeah, I'm anytime you're allowed to take
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an under and Iowa's involved and their quarterback is banged up, I'm not going
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to give anybody advice, but that does seem like the stars maybe aligning there.
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But man, that is a low under again. YEA forty three.
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That is, you're not going to see very many games in the low forties.
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We saw some in the thirties last year for Iowa. They should be
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better than that. But yeah, it could be. It could be a
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not that throwing game, Tony. Let's talk about a much better game and
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one where I kind of think maybe I'm looking at the over That is Washington
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favored by two touchdowns against Boise State three thirty on ABC. This is one
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of the better games of the week over under in at one fifty eight and
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a half. Boise State's not what Boise State used to be, but they're
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gonna score. You know, they'll They'll get your part way there and this
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could be a real, real good year for Michael Pennos in Washington. They
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you know, I think they know they've got to put on a little bit
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of a show here. You want to get off to a good start.
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This is a game everyone's gonna be watching. In eleven and one pack twelve,
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champ is not necessarily going to get into the playoff if you have an
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eleven and one Texas and an eleven and one Florida State and an eleven and
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one Big Ten team and an eleven and one sec team. So I think
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you've got to You've got to take your opportunities to make an impression here.
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Am I am I crazy over fifty eight and a half on this one.
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I don't think it's crazy. I think there is a con certain no time.
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Is there a chance that Michael Pennix as saber Higen syndrome where he only
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has good years every other year and he can't put it together twice in two
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years. And we saw him outstanding in twenty twenty eight Indiana, then it
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was bad in twenty twenty Indiana and it was was somehow and rexplicably awesome last
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year. What's he going to be this year? Everybody's expecting him to be
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great, just like they expected him to be great in twenty twenty one and
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he wasn't. But he's got more weapons around him, he's got more playmakers
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around him. There are playoff talks around Washington. I think with the PAC
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twelve, as you said, is just going to be crazy and fun and
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it's it's you know, it's a shame that more people didn't support it and
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watch him and now the conference is going away. But I think, yeah,
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I'm with you, that's gonna be pretty high scoring. Let's see how
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well how well the Washington defense performs. But you gotta figure they're gonna they're
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gonna let Michael Plan ex strow the ball around and maybe try to get him
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to New York this year. Yeah, and this is a rare opportunity for
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them to play in a network that people actually get in their homes, so
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can't can't pass that up as well. Another network that people get in their
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homes, NBC Big Ten going to be on there. The three thirty game,
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of course on CBS is the Buckeyes in Indiana, and we talked about
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that on the Friday episode of Buckeye Weekly, So if you want to hear
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a preview of that, you can hear that there. Seven thirty on NBC,
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Penn State a basically just shy, a three touchdown favorite against West Virginia.
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This used to be a really cool rivalry. Not quite the Backyard Brawl,
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not quite Penn State Pit, but kind of the third leg of that
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triangle. This was this was a rivalry back in the day, you know,
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back in the major Harris days. Not so much now. They haven't
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played it very much. And West Virginia not great this though, This is
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an opportunity I think for Penn State to make a little bit of a statement
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as well. If Penn State comes out and struggles here, I think I'd
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have some concerns. They just lost an offensive lineman for the season, so
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that's legd In Tangwall, one of their starting guards. He's out, so
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there's a little bit of a concern there. The offensive line should be much
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better than Penn State has been in the past. Finally get Drew Holler,
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Penn State fans, their wishes finally come true. They finally have Drew Hollers
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or starting quarterback. What's it going to look like on Saturday Night. I
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think you're going to see him hand the ball off to two very good running
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backs and Nick Singleton and Katron Allen and try to build on that play action.
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The good news is they've got a really good defense. They There are
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some sneaky playoff hopes for Penn State. Obviously, I think they have a
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really good shot at the Big Ten championship as well. But you know,
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we'll see if Drew Aller is that guy, or or is he Graham Mertz.
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I don't you know, I don't think it's going to be that bad.
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But I think you know, there are still questions until you do it,
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but I think the expectations are very high. Is there enough skill at
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receiver around him to really bring out all of his best assets? Maybe maybe
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not, but you've got the running game to allow the defense to focus on
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that and take advantage of it through the air. So I'm looking forward to
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seeing this defense as Penn State defense, which should be very good. And
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then also are we seeing a new quarterback star and college foot Paul and Drew
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Aller And we will find that out, well, at least start finding that
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out on Saturday night. We probably won't know that until they play Michigan and
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Ohio State a little later on in the season. But right now I can
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hear everyone saying, are all the games terrible this weekend because we have not
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had a single game with a point spread under under two touchdowns. Don't worry,
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We're wrapping up with three finishing strong. Here North Carolina a two and
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a half point favorite at South Carolina seven thirty on ABC. Tony, I
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mean, I'm familiar with Drake may I know who he is. I'm sure
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we're going to hear NFL Draft talk every single time North Carolina is on TV
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this year, talk me out of taking the game Cocks and the points here.
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I'm with you. When I first saw that line earlier in the week,
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I was I thought, shouldn't plus be the other way? You like,
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shouldn't How is South Carolina not the favorite here? But I think North
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Carolina returns like nine starters from their defense last year, Which is that a
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good thing? That's the question, Tom, That's exactly the question, But
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it is There's some familiarity there with the defense at least, so I'm expecting
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kind of a shootout in this one. And it's maybe dangerous to predict a
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shoot out in the first week of the season when teams are still figuring each
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other out and the offenses are still a question mark. But you've got two
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established quarterbacks here, but Drake May Spencer Rattler, I think those two guys
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are gonna just fire it up and not I think this will be a fun
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one. I think it's gonna be a pretty good atmosphere, and I think
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it's a split crowd. So if it was in South Carolina, I've got
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I'm guessing the game Cox would be the favorite there, but I'm looking forward
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to watching some of this one perhaps, and I'm with you. I like
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South Carolina here, all right. I don't get to do this much because
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it's a college football show, Tony Sunday Sunday Sunday seven thirty on ABC.
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Big Foot touchdown favorite over Grave Digger. No, it is LSU two and
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a half points favorite against Florida State. This one's in Orlando. This is
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one where this is almost unquestionably the game of the week, Tony. They're
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going to sell you the whole seat, but you're only gonna need the edge.
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Who you got? First off? How many more Monster trucks can you
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name? Did I already say Grave, Digger and big Foot? I believe
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there is also a bare Foot, but that's that's the three out that I
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remember anyway, not to derailist. That's for our other podcast, Monster Truck
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Weekly. I'm I'm looking for maybe perhaps a shootout in this one, as
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well as much as a shootout as you can have against these two defenses,
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which should be pretty good. You get a couple of good quarterbacks, Jane
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Daniels and Florida States quarterback who has slipped my mind right now, Travis Jordan
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Travis Travis Jordan Travis. Yeah, so like I'm sorry, I've been looking
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at a lot of college football lately. But both of those guys making plays,
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and really they're both Heisman contenders, so let's see them be that in
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this game. If this was in Tallahassee, I'd go ahead and take Florida
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State to win. Out right. I still like them LSU for me.
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Sometimes they're a slow starter and then they build as the season goes on.
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But also Florida State is a slow starter and then also a slow finisher.
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So I'm interested to see if this is actually Florida State is as as good
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as everybody seems to want to think they are. But I won't be shocked
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by a Florida State win here. I wouldn't either. Let's use a little
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banged up in the secondary. That is maybe something to sort of keep an
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eye on. One quick note on Monster Truck Weekly, the name's a little
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misleading. It's actually a daily podcast even though it's called weekly. I'm just
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kidding. What kind of idiots would do that with a show? Come on,
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don't be ridiculous. Last One up Monday night PM, ESPN. Wrapping
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up your weekend Clemson thirteen point favorite at Duke. Duke was so so good
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in Mike Elko's first season, won nine games, which is basically unheard of
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in you know, to do that at Duke in a sport other than men's
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basketball. But you know that he is a defensive guy. This is Clemson,
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and you know, I know they've shuffled their coaching staff, and I
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okay, Clubnick is a five star and he's coming in, so everything's going
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to be great, and it's automatically gonna be fine. Under fifty five and
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a half here, I mean that, I think, you know, I
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think Clemson wins this under fifty five and a half. Though, feels like
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that's very much in play. Yeah, I would agree with that, and
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if not for the questions about is the Clemson offense really fixed? Garrett Riley
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is the offensive coordinator, has a good history, so you're like, probably
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perhaps, But you look at Duke last year. Four losses by sixteen total
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points, biggest losses by eight points. Of course, they didn't play anybody.
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They didn't haven't played Clemson in a handful of years. So the best
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team they played last year I think was was pit was Pittsburgh, and so
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I would like to I would like to even take the points, but I'm
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just I'm not brave enough to do that. I do think it's going to
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be a fun, fun, interesting game. It's the last game of the
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week, Labor Day weekend. It's the You've had a full weekend of football,
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and this is like just maybe a little bit of dessert for you.
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And perhaps you fall asleep during it and you wake up You're like, what
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a great weekend, What a great weekend. Now I have to go to
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work. That is extremely the vibe here. You fall asleep with seven minutes
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left in the third quarter and they wake up on the couch at three thirty
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in the morning and have to your alarms going off in you know, two
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and a half hours. That's that's exactly the vibe here. But don't worry
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before that happens. You have a full weekend of football to enjoy. Little
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no nfls or ruin everything and getting the way it is college football all the
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way down. And we've just hit on some of the games of the weekend
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here many many more. So enjoy the first full blown weekend of college football
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twenty twenty three. Will we will be taking in the Buckeyes in Indiana three
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