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Episode 6.2: Schedule Breakdown - Ceilings and Floors · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast, episode two, Season six, Fall Camp.
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  Speaker 1: Right around the Corner, Hunter Zarbnikki, Austin Rose, Dakota, Free Tag,
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  Speaker 1: and guest Jackson Weeks back joining us here on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast for season six. Jackson, how many times have you
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  Speaker 1: been on the pod?
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  Speaker 2: Not enough?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, three or four times? I think. Now enjoy talking
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  Speaker 3: Husker football. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're on camera. This is on camera, now
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. You are live on YouTube, not not quite live,
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  Speaker 1: but I got some I got some die there you go,
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  Speaker 1: good night for good night hanging out outside. Jackson's out
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  Speaker 1: bearing the storms. Austin also no power in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: You have a candle?
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  Speaker 2: It is that? What is that the lake?
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  Speaker 4: I got a candle it. Yeah, you know, I'm getting
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  Speaker 4: ready for the Halloween special.
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  Speaker 2: Scary what what?
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  Speaker 1: What a night? I think a lot of storms went
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  Speaker 1: through I guess everywhere here in Southeast Nebraska, East Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean hopefully every every buddy's houses are all okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think I heard my Omaha house has some limbs
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  Speaker 1: and stuff that went through my fence.
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  Speaker 2: So that's lovely.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. Yeah, but I don't have any even heard trees.
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  Speaker 4: So nothing I have about new room anyways, hail dance, last.
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  Speaker 5: Scared of taking name and that weather. I jumped right up.
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  Speaker 3: Clear Skys and Auburn guys. In case you're wondering on
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  Speaker 3: my update, clearse.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, read well, I heard you, I heard your Oh
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  Speaker 1: you rock.
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  Speaker 6: It's still still standing. It's amazing. How everything on my
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  Speaker 6: patiofl over about the ou rock.
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  Speaker 3: It's a rock.
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  Speaker 5: Stands test of time.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, uh, glad you'd be with us.
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  Speaker 1: Jack's Uh, we went through our kind of expectations, just
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  Speaker 1: high level overview off season on our first episode, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you the chance to do the
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  Speaker 1: same here. Talk about I guess where your head's at
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  Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, a few months. I guess
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  Speaker 1: after last season gets sober, spring game happens, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fall camp starting up, Jacks, where's your head at?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm I'm really excited to I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: for it to start. I obviously hope we're really good good,
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  Speaker 3: but it's hard to it's hard to in this day
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  Speaker 3: and age, believe all the hype. Obviously, so just excited that.
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  Speaker 3: How's your fans always find a way to generate some
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  Speaker 3: some positivity and some excitement going into the year. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of at the point now where like I
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  Speaker 3: I kind of I always ask people, I'm like, what
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  Speaker 3: of our weaknesses? What are we not good at? What
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  Speaker 3: are we good at? And I mean, it seems like
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  Speaker 3: we got got some good players, you know, and and
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  Speaker 3: that's it starts with that, and hopefully we can you know,
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  Speaker 3: make some noise. It'll be fun to fun to feel
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  Speaker 3: like you get a chance to win every game again.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: So do you think we got a chance to win
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  Speaker 2: every game?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hopefully you got a chance to win every game.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I mean I don't don't foresee us winning
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  Speaker 3: every game obviously, But you know, I just just I guess,
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  Speaker 3: find a way to find a way to get to
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  Speaker 3: have an exciting to even have a chance to play
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  Speaker 3: for something as deep as possible. And and uh, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if you make a Bowl game, win you know, seven
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  Speaker 3: or eight games, you know that's gonna feel like real progress.
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  Speaker 3: So then you never know, you you start winning, get
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  Speaker 3: some confidence, get a rolling a little bit, you never
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  Speaker 3: know what what you can do. You obviously, you got
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  Speaker 3: a schedule that gives you a lot of opportunities, especially
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  Speaker 3: late in the year, and so you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: it'll be it. Uh, it'll tell a lot about coach ruling,
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  Speaker 3: this coaching staff this year, and uh, you know, all
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  Speaker 3: the all the hype that we have around the guys
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  Speaker 3: that we've brought in that we think are really good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I guess they that that the uh it's
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  Speaker 3: time to time to uh see what they're really all about.
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  Speaker 3: So it's exciting, but you know what, it can the
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  Speaker 3: last four or five years, it's been exciting like this
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  Speaker 3: and then in about three hours later on a game day,
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  Speaker 3: it's not so exciting anymore. So I hope that excitement
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  Speaker 3: lasts a little longer than years past.
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  Speaker 1: I think the schedule sets up well for us this year.
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  Speaker 1: After talking a couple of people from work today, this
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  Speaker 1: is a big year for recruiting for Matt Ruhle, And
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  Speaker 1: like if we if we go five and seven or
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  Speaker 1: six and six, that's not gonna help. But if you
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  Speaker 1: do go seven, five, eight and four, nine and three,
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  Speaker 1: Matt tells recruits, this thing's moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a you know, year two, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and as the rules done in the past, is a
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  Speaker 1: big turning point year and if you can turn that
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  Speaker 1: corner and prove to the recruit set, this is moving
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. It's it's a positive sign. Austin, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts. I guess on rule in year
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  Speaker 1: two is if I'm gonna play the devil's advocate if
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  Speaker 1: things go south, what's the impact house Husker nation gonna react.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I mean, probably poor o me,
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  Speaker 4: same ol, same ol. I don't think anyone's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: calling for his head after year two. I really don't
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  Speaker 4: because at that point that just becomes addicative of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: this is maybe this is just who we are. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: it becomes a little more of a you know, coming
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  Speaker 4: to God moment of this is what we are. If
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  Speaker 4: we do have a you know, a down year and
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  Speaker 4: there's no reasonable explanation, like you know, if we go
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  Speaker 4: five and seven and both Harvard and Raola get injured
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  Speaker 4: Game three and they're out for the year, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's gonna be totally depending on how
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  Speaker 4: we lose those games. Ah, But I really think it
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  Speaker 4: would be more of a maybe this is just who
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  Speaker 4: we are. We're not conquer Rol's head yet because it's
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  Speaker 4: is year two, a little more of that justification of like,
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  Speaker 4: well it's only year two and these guys really aren't
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  Speaker 4: here yet, and you know, you probably get a lot
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  Speaker 4: more of that.
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  Speaker 2: It would be great.
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  Speaker 1: And Dak on the flip side, there's a ceiling. What
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  Speaker 1: are Husker fans gonna be like if we hit that
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  Speaker 1: ceiling this year?
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  Speaker 6: Well, okay, first off, your first seven games, you should
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  Speaker 6: have no problem winning those if you if you lose
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  Speaker 6: two of them, I think it should be full panic
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  Speaker 6: mode because that's the easiest seven game stretcher year you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: To start out the year. I think that should be
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  Speaker 5: full panic mode.
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  Speaker 6: But saygo seven and the hype train going in that
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State game is going to be nuts, and then
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  Speaker 6: it'll probably be like a couple of years ago in
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  Speaker 6: the game day game here, they'll probably get blown out.
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  Speaker 6: But if they hit the ceiling this year, I think,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, what what do you guys think the ceiling
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  Speaker 6: would be?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to talk about that. That That's why
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say what it is. Yeah, I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think are you going to be annoyed
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  Speaker 1: by Husker fans if we're ten and two.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, I won't because because hell, they haven't
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  Speaker 6: had a good year. You guys haven't had ten wins
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  Speaker 6: in how long? Oh boy, twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Probably we don't want to talk about that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So I mean, I don't think there'll be two
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  Speaker 6: abnoch if they go ten to two with how their
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  Speaker 6: schedule shapes out.
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  Speaker 1: But that is what I want us to do here
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  Speaker 1: kind of set the stage for today's episode. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go through each game our schedule. We're not really gonna
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  Speaker 1: break the other team down as much, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: gonna give a percentage chance of winning each game. And
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  Speaker 1: when we're all said and done going through it, each
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  Speaker 1: of us, we're going to talk about our floors and
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  Speaker 1: our ceilings, and then our percentage chances are gonna give
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  Speaker 1: us like where we think we're actually gonna end up.
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  Speaker 2: I think some people with.
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  Speaker 1: Their floors and ceilings are a little more aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: set it a little more narrow, where some people it's
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  Speaker 1: very high, very low. I feel like every year I
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  Speaker 1: just always see such a very low floor and a
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  Speaker 1: very high ceiling with how things could go because there's
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  Speaker 1: just so many unknowns. And I mean last year it
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  Speaker 1: was obviously with the new coach, but this year there's
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  Speaker 1: a new, brand new freshman quarterback. So that we will
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  Speaker 1: do at the end. But yeah, let's go through our
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  Speaker 1: schedule one by one. I am going to share a
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  Speaker 1: screen with you guys. I don't know that if the
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  Speaker 1: people on YouTube are going to be able to see it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doubting that, but we will post this on our
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  Speaker 1: Twitter page and in the comments on YouTube. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube channel forgot to mention that last time is
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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast. I think there's some Tiger Wood
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  Speaker 1: stuff out there. There's a I think some other sports one,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully we get above that eventually, but it is
• 9:47
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  Speaker 1: close enough. And then yeah, we are still on Spotify,
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  Speaker 1: Apple Music or Apple podcasts and Google podcasts there as well, so.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to be the top search already. You think,
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  Speaker 5: oh yeah, we got that fan base behind us.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can you guys see this? Fine?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, all right, So here's how we'll do this.
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  Speaker 1: It's out of one hundred percent. Zero percent means we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a chance at winning one hundred, there's no
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  Speaker 1: chance of losing. You can go anywhere in between. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't put this points spreads on here. I may add
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  Speaker 1: that before we post a graphic. But UTEP, I think
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  Speaker 1: we're like a I want to say it's like a
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight point favorite. I'm gonna give us a ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven percent chance and add commentary where you think you
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  Speaker 1: need to.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, if you're that large of a point favorite,
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  Speaker 4: I had to go ninety nine percent, Like, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 4: not losing to UTEP.
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  Speaker 6: Ninety You're starting a freshman quarterback first game out.
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  Speaker 5: There's always a shot you could lose that game. No,
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  Speaker 5: and you guys, you.
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  Speaker 6: Guys have lost a couple when last time he has
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  Speaker 6: won your first game like five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Big ten teams Georgia South, South Alaberia. Georgia Southern was
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  Speaker 4: in Week one.
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  Speaker 5: It was South Albama. I went to that game South
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  Speaker 5: and they almost lost.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't almost lose, but they should have beaten worse.
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  Speaker 3: They we were that last time. We were rated ready
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, twenty fifth in the nation or Scott Frost,
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  Speaker 3: you're two. Okay, I'll go ninety six percent. Give you
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  Speaker 3: a different number in the nineties. I think we'll win that.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard Youtip's got a fiery coach, so hopefully we're
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  Speaker 3: ready rock for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Jax does not want to talk about his experience playing
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  Speaker 1: uteph on thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seventeen at home.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned, though, I learned though, I learned, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Well the reverse order here. So just for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: whoever I have highlighted, that means you're up. So Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: you get to start with.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I give I'm gonna go forty six to you.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're the underdogs in that game, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: Like everyone thinks we're gonna roll these guys. They got
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  Speaker 3: to the best players in college football, regardless of who
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  Speaker 3: else they have. So I just think I just think
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of being negative when I say that, I'm
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  Speaker 3: kind of being you know I when's the last time
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  Speaker 3: like that? When's the last time the Brafkas won a
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  Speaker 3: game like that? Oh, they're supposed to win this game
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  Speaker 3: against the formial opponent, Like, when's the last time they
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  Speaker 3: won a game like this? I don't know. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna say we're the underdogs until we prove differently.
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  Speaker 6: I got I got sixty. They win this game, you're
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  Speaker 6: at home, and I don't think Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: What does that matter? Though, Dak? What is that that
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  Speaker 3: is that doesn't mattered in the last ten years.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think Colorado's really that good though they have
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  Speaker 5: those two players.
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  Speaker 6: Other than that, they don't have a defensive line, they
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  Speaker 6: don't own a defense. They I don't know, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think they're very good outside of the Travis
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  Speaker 6: Hunter and the Door. But those two can win you
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  Speaker 6: a game pretty easily.
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  Speaker 3: They beat us pretty bad last year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he also had a ghost of a quarterback though,
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  Speaker 5: Ye yeah, true.
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  Speaker 4: I went fifty seven. I leaned more towards Dak. I
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  Speaker 4: agree they have the two best players, but I think
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  Speaker 4: we have the next probably best eight. It.
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  Speaker 1: This is such a weird one for me, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: right at fifty to fifty for all the reasons both
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  Speaker 1: of you guys said. The thing will add I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of unknowns for us Colorado. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many unknowns too. Yeah, they kicked our ass last year,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. They also finished four and eight. They're
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  Speaker 1: also supposedly supposed to have a better offensive and defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: which I mean that was one area where we actually
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  Speaker 1: succeeded against them was sacking Shadour last year. So like
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  Speaker 1: there's so many unknowns on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we're a home, Yeah it's a night game,
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  Speaker 1: but Colorado's beat us the last three times we played them, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I get different regime, but they did kick our butt
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  Speaker 1: last year, and it's just hard to know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like so hard to know.
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  Speaker 1: I think Husker fans think we probably will or should
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  Speaker 1: win this game because we're at home and it to night,
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  Speaker 1: but that that, like Jackson said, why so I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: just putting a fifty fifty number on.
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  Speaker 3: It and think of the thinking of this way last year?
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  Speaker 3: Was they beat us the worst at all three times?
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  Speaker 3: It was last year. So I don't know, hope we're
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  Speaker 3: getting closer.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 6: I'll come back to this, come back to this after
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  Speaker 6: the first game though, because that first game I think
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  Speaker 6: will change a lot of people's opinions about it. You
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  Speaker 6: look like shit, if you look great, it'll change everybody's.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we get that's why we love our midweek
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  Speaker 1: episodes dat because we will come right back to it.
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  Speaker 2: Awsto to let you start Northern Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: I did ninety three percent. I think it should probably
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit higher, but it feels like a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Of a trap game going off Colorado, Dak n I'll
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  Speaker 7: never give Huskers above ninety percent against non Power five
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  Speaker 7: schools until they prove it.
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  Speaker 3: What if I know nothing about you and I ninety percent.
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  Speaker 1: They're not FBS, I'm going ninety eight. We better not
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  Speaker 1: lose to a school or it shouldn't be competitive.
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: They're not Division one.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're FCS. They're Division one, but they're FCS, not FBS. Yeah, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: uh Friday night game, Illinois comes to town, dak.
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you start on this one.
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  Speaker 5: Seventy Well, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 6: I think this year is totally different because of your
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  Speaker 6: quarterback play. Like last didn't you beat Illinois last year
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  Speaker 6: with Jeff Sims or was.
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  Speaker 5: That Harburg Harbor?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, so you had a Harberg last You had
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  Speaker 6: a pretty bad quarterback last year and you still beat them.
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  Speaker 5: I think you should. You should beat him pretty easily.
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  Speaker 6: But they got Bela mus So he could always pull
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  Speaker 6: something that was ass.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I agree. I've got like I've got like sixty percent.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just I think Belam is a
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  Speaker 3: good coach. I think they'll have at least a good plan,
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  Speaker 3: and and I don't think any any of them are
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  Speaker 3: givemes for us.
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  Speaker 1: I think this one we'll be ready for regardless of
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  Speaker 1: how the first three games go, just given it's the
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  Speaker 1: first conference game of the year. I do like our
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  Speaker 1: chances at home. Like I think we're a better football.
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  Speaker 2: Team than Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: I also think Blam a good coach, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna try to keep it close. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna blow him out, but I do like our
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  Speaker 1: chances to win that one at home. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: I kind of like I'm gonna a little higher and
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  Speaker 1: deck I'm gonna go seventy three.
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  Speaker 4: In sixty five, basically the same things. I really, I
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  Speaker 4: really think we should win it, but I don't history historically,
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  Speaker 4: I can't confidently say we will win it.
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  Speaker 1: So, okay, Perdue. On the twenty eighth, we go to
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  Speaker 1: West Lafayette. You want to talk about potentially a little
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: snooze or spot. It's probably gonna be an eleven am kick.
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  Speaker 1: I think we get off to a slow start, a
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  Speaker 1: little scary. I do think we're better than Purdue that
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  Speaker 1: I think they're the lowest win total in the conference
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  Speaker 1: if I remember right, But it is, it's on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and ross Aid can be again a sleepy spot. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna go sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Three percent.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I had sixty two right right on?
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had sixty five for like we all feeling
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: like same thing here.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Seventy I'm going.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Doesn't that lower it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Oh my bad? Reverse it fifty fifty fifty. My fault.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Is Hudson cards still their quarterback. Yes, yeah, okay, he's
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: not good there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It's weird because they obviously went from like an air
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: raid with all these quarterbacks the last five or six years.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They're still throwing it a lot, not quite as I
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: say they're.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Oaks is a little bit, but he likes
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: to spread it out. He likes to air it out.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I'm a little their defense could be more improved this year.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, time out. I give us a seventy percent
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: chance to win that game. Okay, so what I said first, right.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, then you lowered to fifty because.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You were going, oh oh okay, my fall. No I'm good.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: It's when me and you go together.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Well, if we're getting to that one, we're getting there. Yep,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: all right, Jack, you canna start Rutgers at home Ruggers
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I get, I think, I don't know.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I want. I think Ruggers is gonna be pretty good.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I want to give as underdog spot here, but I
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: think we're gonna be playing well at this point in
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the year, So give me fifty. I think it's a
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: point flip. I and when I said I think it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: a whole coin flip, I hope it's a coin flip.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Like I think Ruggers gonna be pretty good, I'll sat fifty.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I'm with you. I think it's gonna be good.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I think this could be the toughest game out of
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: your seven game first seven game stretch.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I think Ruggers are going to look good, but I
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: don't think they're actually good. I had seventy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: They always look good six games in.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous that Rutgers could be like
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you guys said, a dark horse to make a little
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: noise of a big play.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: But I don't.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're at home like best fans in America, right,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: self proclaimed, so like we should we should be fine
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: at home. Here's what I'm a little scared of. If
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: we are five and oh right now going into this game,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it is a big time trap game. Rutgers is really
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be up for it. I mean, I guess I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: have us favored potentially in all of them. But I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: going in between you guys at sixty. That's it's a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: weird game. Like if we're five and oh, I have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that number lower is for me. But if we're four
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and one, it raises okay, and we get a week
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: off to prep for the Hoosiers of Indiana on the road.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Awesome, pretty good about this one. I did seventy nine.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can explain how bad I think India is
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: going to be, Okay, I.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: He was above a ninety for a non Power five
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: or a D one FBS school, but one hundred for Indiana.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I think India's worst team nation.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: What's her coach's name, Cigar Boat. What is his last name?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Signetti?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Signetti Signetti. He said they're going to be national camps
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: like tomorrow or or the next day, so I don't know.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Have you an heard him? Have you heard him talk
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: on Big ten Media Days. Oh he's crazy, Yeah, yeah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: J Fleck crazy or what. No, he's like cocky. He
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: said he came up there big ten Media Days. Said
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: all right, I want to talk about facts here. The
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: last time that a team I coached was picked last
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: in the division, we won it, and Indian has picked
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: last in the division this year. He's like, I'm just
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: talking about facts. Anyway, it was funny.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Where this J Madison guy.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah he's cocky. Me and Hunter are going,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: but I don't know I is give me, give me
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: seventy five percent chance we win, just me and Hunter
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: are going, So maybe it should be lower, but CERN's
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: going to so that should even it out.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Guys, this is the trappiest game of trappiest that it
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: can get. It's the week before week though, yes, that's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: even more reason because we have Ohio State the week
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: after and especially if we're six and oh.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Looking at them, it is.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It is the biggest trap game ever because a bye week,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna if we're five and oh, I don't know
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: why I am he even saying that, But if we're five and zero,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: like we are gonna say, okay, we got Ohio State
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in two weeks, like what are we gonna be doing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: for Ohio State for that bye week? And I hope
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: our staff doesn't do it, but I could easily see
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: them prepping a little Ohio State a couple of days
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that week. It it has trap written all over it
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to spread for this game. The look ahead line is
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: three and a half only for Nebraska. And I saw
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that and I was like, holy shit, like.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: When I'm not sure what Ohio States is.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And the fact that I'm going I have to factor
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that into my percentages, I mean I do so, I mean,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna I'm not gonna go fifty to fifty
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: because it's I still think we should win, but I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: only going fifty three. I'm going right above fifty fifty.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I just I think that this game, no matter what,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: has trapped all over it. Even if we're five and one,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I still think I just don't like it. And again
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going so like what Jackson are going together? Okay,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, maybe we're seven and oh the game everybody's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: talking about on the road at the Horseshoe. If we
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: are seven and oh and Ohio State's undefeated, it will
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be probably a top ten matchup.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: And that impacts the percentage.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: That you getta go first on this one. I'll go second.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Fifteen percent. We've saw this movie before.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: That's all you got.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: I don't remember the year, but you want to know
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: how a state you got your ass kicked. I think
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: that'll be the same thing happened again.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: My percentage is higher if we are like four and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: three or five and two, believe it or not. If
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we're seven and oh good night, that guy like that number,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go with.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yet, fifteen next is too high. I'm going eleven.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: That's what I had. I had eleven. Fifteen is too
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Highast time this happened was on my twenty first birthday.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Out was that when Tommy Armstrong got knocked out?
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, yep. I went out and I had one
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: beer and I was like, yeah, I don't want to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: do anything.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm lower in mine even more. I'm going
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: down to six Riick or five JAXX.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I'm telling I'm telling you what, guys, We're gonna be
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: seven and oh, Husker's gonna be dialed in going to
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the horseshoe with the and I'm gonna give him some
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: love here.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, UCLA comes to town. Then the following week after
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: we probably are just beat the crap up, Jackson.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: We'll let you start on this one.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: You CELA at home? Correct?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say, yeah, did you see their head
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: coach at BIGT in media days, I'd say six peop
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: spend when I don't.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Know, we'll go reverse order or dak.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: I also had sixty percent. I don't UCLA's gonna suck.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I had sixty three. I also think they're gonna kind
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: of stuck.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I was even gonna go higher. I was gonna go
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sixty nine. I I do. I think
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: they're gonna struggle with this new coach year one. And
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on top of that, like we've all seen the pictures
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of the coliseum out there, nobody's showing up.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: The Big Ten is going to travel to LA. They will.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I know this is at home, but it could be
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a rough rough season for UCLA in their inaugural Big
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: ten season.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Why is that November?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: November second?
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you think those UCLA kids are gonna come want
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: to come play here when they're two and six?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: No, and from warm weather to cold weather at I mean,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: UCLA's got a lot of road games this year. Their
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: schedule is brutal. They're gonna be beat up. I mean,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I hope we're right on that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: USC.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We go out to Southern cal Austin, you start this
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: one off.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I don't really know how good USC is gonna be,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: so I honestly thought this was kind of the harder ones.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I gave us a seventeen percent chance just because I
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: think their defense is historically been bad and our defense
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: has been decent last couple of years, so it might
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: be a decent matchup for US.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Jacks.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give us thirty. Who knows about LSU's defense
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: or excuse LSU USC's defense, and uh, I hope by
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: that time we h we have gotten tougher and USC hasn't,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: So I'll give us thirty on the road tough game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: USC is another big question mark by this point in
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the year. Who knows where they're gonna be. I mean,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: they could be five hundred. They also could be a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: top fifteen team. It's just hard to tell. Miller Moss
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: at quarterback looked good at the end of the year
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in their bowl game. Gosh, it's hard it's on the road.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: If I mean, if if we're rolling, have momentum and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they're five hundred, it could be a fifty to fifth
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: year game. But I just I think you guys are
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in the ballpark there. I'm gonna go twenty seven.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Scary thing about them, as you know, they're gonna have
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: skilled players no matter what.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: They were, very fast wide receiver. Yeah, all right, this
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: is just solely off.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: I hate Lincoln Riley, I hate USC and I really
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: do not think Lincoln roy is a good coach.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: That's I'm being serious there.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: All right, all kick it off with Wisconsin.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: We I believe are at home if I remember right, Yeah,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: we are against Wisconsin.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Goshould be nice to beat them at home. It's gonna
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: be a dog fight.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a battle we should have won last
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: year against them. Gosh, I feel like we should be
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the better team. We should be moving in the right
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: direction year to rule.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go fifty three.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Austin, Yeah, I had similar thought. They're you know, they
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: were kind of in the same position we are. Are
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: we really that much better? We probably have a better quarterback,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: but they're still better team. I gave us also a
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: fifty chance.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: I had I had a fifty chance. I think it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: a total coin flip. You both how your quarterbacks are
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: gonna be.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Ye fifty to fifty with them?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, reverse order for the Iowa game at Iowa Black
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Friday Jacks.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know we're gonna have a chance in this game, right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Like we're gonna have a chance to win. I think
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: for sure that's a coin flip too. I mean, like
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: we we could have beat them. I mean how many
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: in the last three year we could have We had
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: a chance to beat him at like should have beat
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: him every year. So you gotta you gotta hope that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're excited for the season now, you
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: gotta hope that we're that good at the end of
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the year. So I think it's a coin tops fifty
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: fifty I had. God, you would think Iowa's offense gonna
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: be better.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: It's I mean, their offense should be better, assuming Kid's
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: healthy all year, and they might they could potentially, based
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: off their schedule, to be fighting for a playoff spot.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Like it's not out of the realm to think there'll
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: be a top twelve team going into the last week.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: But I also give us a fifty to fifty just
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: because we'll also be competitive, hopefully the last week for something.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: And it's always competitive.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: It to Iowa, always competitive.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Iowa schedule is very easy, and I do I like that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Take Austin. I've heard that from other people as well.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: In Iowa might be able to make a push.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: For a playoff we're on the road.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I just I don't think it's quite fifty to fifty.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a dogfight neutral site. Every time
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: we play Iowa every year, it's fifty to fifty. But
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the edge to them. I'll line up
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: with Dak there at.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Forty.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So all right, I'm sorry, I have the wrong math
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: down here.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Hold on, what am I doing wrong?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I know I need to do.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's some fancy math stuff here. Kay, this is
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: all going to be our projected win total. Uh that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: everybody did so it's seven and a half.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: You gotta take times twelve, not divided by twelve.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Right, That's what I thought, But now I'm getting oh,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: now divided by I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Divided by one hundred, right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Or No?
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Nine hundred.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: There there's my win total six point eight nine.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Six point eight nine. All right, I like it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: That make that checks out? That makes sense.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: There you go, Austin's Austin seven point two one jack seven.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Jackson.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I think that special hatred of usc Yeah, it's gotten.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: And what was our actual spreads? Seven and a half
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: six and eleven and.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: A half seven and a half. No one got there.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: We're all taking the under, which makes sense. We're pretty
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: prostimistic bunch.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: We yes, but we're all barely under.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: So with a few minutes we have left, I want
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: everybody to go through their flourg ceiling on wins out
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: of twelve.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I'll start. I would definitely say our floor would probably
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: be four a realistic floors for any I think. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: think we get the two wins ute and that then
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: would probably get two other wins from sluggish big ten play.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Our ceiling probably eleven and one, probably ten and two.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Actually I changed my mind ten and two lose to
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Doha State, lose another game, but I think realistically that's
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the that's the ceiling we'll have for us.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Dak your floor is three wins, I think, because what
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: happens if Roilo comes out, he sucks, and then you're
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: just your season screwed, and then your your ceiling is
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: eleven and one. I those first temn games are really easy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: You probably lose to a high state and then you
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: can win out after that. It's not terribly toughs after that,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: And just like the other way around, what if I
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: was really good?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: It's true, we're not.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Here's my floor, We're not getting worse than last year.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I don't it's not possible. I don't think it's possible.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going five wins floor ceiling. I'm I'm gonna go ten.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: If everything you want to do more than that, though
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: hurting fans out, I'm going ten. But but I think
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: most realistic it's weird though obviously we're all a lot
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: closer to the floors than.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: We are the ceilings. I think that's just being optimistic.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Jack's I would I don't know. I think for four
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: an eight, ceiling nine and three, and you know what,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: if we want eight games, I hate to say it,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: but i'd be Jack, So I don't know. I'd say
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: four and eight. I could see it. I mean it
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: would hurt to go four and eight, obviously, but I
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: could also I could. I could see nine and three
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: if things go well, so ope, nine and three.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's every year.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: It's one topic that we like to just go through
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: as everybody does, as they're looking at their teams, and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I mean any sport, like what is the potential with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: this group? And every year, I think Husker fans think
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that we have the very high potential.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I just don't.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Think we're gonna be You just don't think we're gonna
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: be worse than last year we lost five games by
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: three points.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: Or yeah, your your main goal is year to make
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: a ball game, right right?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think that that would check the boxes. But
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I like it just depends. It's not out of the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: realm of possibility that with twelve teams getting in the playoffs,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you just never know how they're gonna see them. You know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: our schedule is one of the easiest in Power five.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I really do think that of all these teams. So
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: it and don't look ahead the next year.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thanks for that.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: All right, good episode, fellas. We will be back on Sunday.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Check us out on YouTube. Gonna watch Dak Dak does
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: not have the fan in the background today. It's a
• 36:38
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• 36:46
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