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Alabama vs. Texas Preview: Is Texas Really Back This Time? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September nineth I'm your host, tom
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  Or. The Youngstown State game is today, the game against Michigan in seventy
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  seven days. We will be at that Youngstown State game. We'll have a
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  little bit of pregame something or other for you coming up a little later on
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  in the morning on our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle.
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  We'll try and get the availability to report out as soon as that drops,
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  and maybe a little a little bit of a game preview. We want to
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  hear a full game preview of that. You can hear Tony Gerdeman and I
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  break that down on the Buckeye Weekly podcast episode that dropped on Friday. So
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  that's the Buckeyes and Youngstown State. That is probably arguably not the most consequential
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  game of the day. There's a little tussle happening down in Tuscaloosa. We'll
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  get to in a little bit, but want to get through maybe five to
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  seven of the other biggest games going on this weekend. We're gonna do that
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  with Tony Gerdeman of Buckeye Huddle. Tony, I guess let's start with the
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  opponent that everyone is kind of just constantly talking about for Ohio State. Anyway,
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  Notre Dame, that game still two weeks away. They're playing at NC
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  State this weekend. North Carolina State did not look great against East Coast power
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  Yukon last week at Games at noon on ABC. Notre Dame a seven and
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  a half point favorite. I had looked at this as Okay, they'll have
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  a real good test under their belts before they get to Ohio State. Now,
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  maybe I think Yukon is going to be difficult for some programs this year,
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  just because they're annoying. But I'm interested to see NC State's offense.
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  Brendan Armstrong was the the high powered quarterback of Virginia in twenty twenty one and
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  the low powered quarterback of Virginia in twenty twenty two. The twenty twenty one
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  season three forty yards was injured for the Notre Dame game, so we didn't
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  get a chance to see him play against the Irish, so this will really
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  be our first chance. He's a dual threat guy, can keep things alive,
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  so I think he's gonna give some issues, provide some issues to the
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  Notre Dame defense. But I see this as I don't like these seven and
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  a half respect of this, but I think everybody is getting on board with
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  Notre Dame despite the fact that Navy in Tennessee State are exactly the most convincing
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  of opponents. But this one I don't feel. I don't feel great about
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  it because they don't know enough about either team based on what we've seen so
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  far. Yeah, this is very much still in the data gathering portion of
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  the season. It is so weird that Virginia's old quarterback is still playing in
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  the ACC at at NC State and Wake Forest old quarterback is still playing in
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  the sort of ACC adjacent Notre Dame. It's like, everyone, just take
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  one step to the left and now you have your new quarterback this year.
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  We'll see if Utah has a new quarterback on Saturday, meaning their old quarterback,
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  Cam Rising. He missed last week's game against Florida. I have not
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  seen an injury update on him. But without Cam Rising, no problem for
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  the youths, as they took care of Florida last week up in Salt Lake
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  City. Now they take on a team they had on the road to play
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  Baylor, and Baylor's a team that did have problems last week? Oh boy,
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  did they have some problems. They lost a Texas State. They look
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  tony like they've got some issues in the trenches. Utah does not feel like
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  a team you want to play when you are having issues in the trenches.
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  And this is only a seven and a half point line, So you're asking
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  why it should be more than that based on the physicality of Utah the lack
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  of physicality of Baylor. Would they give up forty two points forty two thirty
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  one to Texas State something something like that. Yeah, this line kind of
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  feels like a poison tree frog. It's very bright and it's it's just how
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  cute look at this? And it's like, actually, it's cute and it's
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  bright, because that means it's poison. That's don't touch it, don't get
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  any of it on your skin. You will have paralysis. So that concerns
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  me. But but if you look at it like how things happened and unfolded
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  last week, how is this not Utah by more than seven and a half?
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  That looked like a what am I missing? Line? And I'm still
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  willing to sort of step in that bear trap and say give me, give
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  me Utah. If you get if you can still get it at seven and
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  a half, that's great. It was up to eight as of mid day
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  Friday or so the last time I looked, so yeah that you are you
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  would not. If you jump on Utah, you will not be the only
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  one jumping on Utah. And speaking of licking frogs, Colorado hosting Nebraska,
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  Colorado a three point favorite, and that line has just jumped and jumped and
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  jumped and jumped as the week has gone on. If you jump on Colorado
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  minus three, you will not be the only one in America. You may
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  have one hundred and fifty million other people or so joining you on that particular
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  bandwagon. That's a neon game on Fox. At some point, Tony,
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  at some point, we're going to know whether this whether we learn more about
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  Colorado or TCU last week. I still don't think we really know. I
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  think everyone has drawn a lot of conclusions about Colorado, and I was very
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  surprised about that outcome. It's real possible tc you might be real, real
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  bad and Nebraska is Nebraska played a you know, decent Minnesota team last week.
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  I mean this, I don't I don't think Colorado minus three is an
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  absolute freebee here. No, But I think what you do have is a
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  Colorado team that found a way to win last week against the Nebraska team that
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  found a way to lose, and this came being in Boulder. I think
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  is it's it's the homecoming. It's the welcome home for this team, this
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  Colorado team that took the nation by storm last year, but last week but
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  did it on the road. I still clearly there's still plenty of confusion and
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  concerned about exactly what is Colorado. You've got the three point line here?
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  Should do our Sanders? Colorado quarterback through for over five hundred yards last week?
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  Like the over under on his yardage total this week is like three twenty
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  something. Because people are just being like, ay, I don't know,
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  Like you don't expect five hundred yards, but you probably know is he?
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  I think is Colorado a a three hundred yard passer or three hundred and fifty
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  yard passing team? Now they couldn't run it last week, so they may
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  only have to be able to pass it. So I'm fascinated to watch this
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  one maybe the day after I guess based on where we will be. But
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  I I got burned by Colorado last week, So I'm just going to stay
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  away from them for a while, all right. The SEC got burned by
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  a couple of different teams last week. Three in fact, South Carolina lost
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  to UNC, Florida has mentioned lost to Utah, and LSU, Oh boy,
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  LSU had a second half against Florida State one for the ages. Now
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  they've got another team that's a maybe, you know a little bit of an
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  interesting spot. That's all Miss going on the road to play two lane Rebel
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  favored by seven and a half three thirty on the ESPN two. This is
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  one they should win. But you know, it feels like you're always get
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  you know, the early season narratives, and sometimes it's it ends up being
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  an overreaction. But that was three losses in you know, the three competitive
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  SEC games last week. They lost all three of them. And if ole
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  Miss somehow stumbles here, this feels like this could become a little bit of
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  a little bit of a national talking point everywhere outside of the Sweet Tea Belt.
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  A couple of SEC teams favored on the road against decent enough teams,
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  this two lad being one of them, top twenty five ranked, pretty good
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  defense, I you know, with the running into Ole Miss. We know
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  they had with quinche on Judkins. They didn't really need him last week against
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  the easy opener I think was I don't even remember who it was, Mercer.
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  Yeah, so yeah, they didn't need him much. I would expect
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  him to be busy this week, and you know, five thirty carries something
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  like that if they need it, right. And then one of the other
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  A SEC teams going on the road and playing a halfway decent opponent Texas A
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  and M at Miami. That's three thirty on ABC, Texas A and M
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  favored by four. Boy, oh boy, Tony. This is this is
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  going to be a fascinating one because one of these teams is going to lose
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  and one of these coaching staffs that has a whole bunch of nil working behind
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  him is going to have to explain to boosters and everyone around him. So
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  what happened was was this this is you know, neither of these teams I
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  think are college football playoff teams this year, but they're both kind of interesting
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  teams narratively in the sport. What do you see happening here? Because it
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  feels like Texas A and M is probably more talented. But that said,
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  I don't know what I actually expect to see on the field. That is.
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  That is the problem with Texas A and m and Miami. Anytime one
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  of those teams is involved, you just don't know. Then you put in
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  both together and it's like a double negative. But I don't know if this
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  double negative really equates to a positive. We will see, But I think
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  you could have You've got two perhaps future NFL quarterbacks who could maybe turn us
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  into a little bit of a shootout. I think with the skill overall skill,
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  it's just you know, as did as the the Texas State defensive line
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  that was bought and paid for, is that ready to take control against the
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  Miami offensive line? That sort of thing. What will we see? I
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  think after the fact, some finger pointing from one of the one of the
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  groups and in terms of which nils are unhappy. The coaches will be like
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  you, why did we lose? You didn't pay enough, That's why we
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  lost. This is this is mainly on the collectives for not getting the job
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  done. We can only coach the players that you bring us. So if
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  you want to be involved, if you want to be the guiding light of
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  this program, then the collectives need to share the blame. You wanted,
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  you wanted ownership in program. Congratulations, you've got it. You're gonna you're
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  have a loss on this year's taxes. That's okay, Well it's sorry,
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  It'll be fine. So yeah, that'll be that'll be an interesting one to
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  watch. I'm going to skip ahead. I'm going to skip past the seven
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  o'clock game that we are probably going to talk a little bit more about,
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  and we're gonna go straight to seven thirty on ABC Wisconsin at Wazoo. I
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  had forgotten that the Cougars went into Madison and won last year. I think
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  it was seventeen to twelve. Really not a great game, Very very different
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  Wisconsin team this year with Phil Longo's offense and Luke Fickle running the show and
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  Hannah Mordecai at quarterback. This is another one where Wazoo is one of those
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  places that I just sort of assume weird stuff is going to happen. So
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  on paper, yes, Wisconsin should win, but it's it's in the polus.
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  What are we expecting here? Yeah, you know, all over the
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  globe there are like triangles of mystery. This is one of those triangles of
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  mystery where no ships go missing, team go missing. And I'm with you,
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  and this is this is a revenge game. At least, like you
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  said, I do think it's funny that we talked about Wisconsin going to a
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  passing game and implementing this passing game. They still rush for three hundred fourteen
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  had yards last week, so they still have that they have two good backs.
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  Maybe that eliminates some of the mystery. But Wisconsin, they don't have
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  great success against the Pac twelve. They've lost their last three games against the
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  Pac twelve and regular season, and you're talking about games like like Arizona State
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  and Oregon State, and it's just something they've done throughout their history. Not
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  that that has anything to do with what is happening today, but I do
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  wonder if Luke Fickle's defense is ready. Cam Ward came in toward the Washington
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  State quarterback through for like four hundred fifty yards last week, rush for another
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  forty, So yeah, I think he's going to give them trouble. I
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  think this one. I don't think I've ever said this before about Wisconsin or
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  I've said it before, but Washington State, I think we might be able
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  to see somewhat of a shootout in this game because of the offenses. Yeah,
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  I think there's a possibility of a shootout there. It's just with it
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  being the first year and so many, so many new faces for Wisconsin and
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  then also going across the country, that it just that just feels like you're
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  setting up for something really weird to happen. That's just sort of you can
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  just sometimes you can just sort of smell it coming, and that that just
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  feels like something deeply stupid is going to happen here. Speaking of something deeply
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  stupid happening. Before we get to Alabama, Texas, we get to talk
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  a little bit about the Skyhawk game Tony Iowa at Iowa State three thirty on
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  Fox Iowa is a four point favorite, but perhaps more importantly and more telling,
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  the have you looked at what the over under is? In fact I
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  have, and as as the time we are talking about it now, I
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  see it at thirty six and a half, and anything under like anything under
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  forty obviously is crazy, anything under like thirty eight, and you're like,
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  how is this possible? But then seeing it at thirty six and a half,
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  you're like, well, it's twenty to seventeen considered a high scoring game
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  where Iowa State and it kind of feels like it is, Yeah, that's
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  a game where you end up it feels like you end up with teams someone
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  scoring fifteen like suspiciously often like it you know you're you're due for an eleven
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  er and that in that game at some point. Yeah, that's that's going
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  to be a really that's always just I mean, it's I always call the
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  Egg Bowl Ole miss and Mississippi State America's stupidest rivalry and it and it really
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  truly has earned that over the years. But man, the Ssy Hawk game
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  is it's up there. It's it's just two in state teams, and it
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  is always just an absolutely bizarre game. There was one that ended up forty
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  one thirty something I think a couple of years ago that was completely I think
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  something earth wobbling on its access. There's just there's a lot of like fifteen,
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  ten and seventeen thirteen in this series history. I think last year I
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  was State one for the first time in like six or seven years, and
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  I think it was like ten nine or something something along those lines. Yeah,
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  that is that is always it's one. It's a uniquely college football game.
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  That's probably the kindest way I can I can say that, and decent
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  teams, it's just they play a game that is just there's there is no
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  there's no correlation to that anywhere in the NFL that I'm aware of. It
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  feels like tom feels like a twenty two fifteen. So it take the over
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  and whoever scores the touchdown wins. Oh man, Yeah, ten ten field
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  goals and one touchdown has to be a defensive score though, I mean,
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  keeping with the spirit of the game, has to be a defensive score.
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  So isla, yeah, maybe maybe it could be a special teams We'll see,
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  all right, Okay, we've we've kept the good people waiting long enough.
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  Tony Texas at Alabama seven o'clock on ESPN. Alabama a seven point favorite.
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  Jalen Milroe looked better than I expected last week. What what do you
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  what are you expecting here? I just in these games, I kind of
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  need to see Nick Saban lose and out. You know, a high profile
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  auto conference game on something of a regular basis. Before I ever would pick
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  against alabam and a game like this, well, do you know what happens
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  every time Alabama plays Texas. Tom Alabama starts to get into trouble and then
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  they injured the injured the Texas quarterback. They did it last year against Quinn
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  yours. They did it in the two thousand nine National Championship game. We
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  get with the Colt McCoy. So this is what happens. They start to
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  get nervous, they go Jeff Gluley on people, and then boom, you
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  bring into the backup Texas quarterback. But hey, maybe that's arch Manning now,
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  so you know the beloved beholding Arch Manning. I like Alabama here.
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  I think we could see some scoring in this one. I'll need to see
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  more from Jayleen Milrow in terms of a playing a competent defense. The fact
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  that it was a for your four man race basically in camp a quarterback is
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  a little concern. But I think when you were is gonna be able to
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  throw the ball around. He's got some talented wide receivers. I'm I'm wanting
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  to see more from the Alabama defense. It's been a while since they've been
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  an Alabama defense, I think in the secondary, so let's see exactly what
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  they've got there. So I think over under fifty four. I'm not I'm
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  not like, I'm not avoiding taking the over on that when I think we're
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  going to see some scoring in this one, Yeah, it should be.
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  It should be two pretty good offenses. I wonder if Alabama is maybe transitioning
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  to a little bit more of you know, run, a little heavier in
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  terms of the run than they have been in recent years with Bryce Young because
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  you don't have you know, this is a program that's going through something like
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  what Ohio State's going through, where you don't have CJ. Strow, you
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  don't have Bryce Young anymore. Is the new guy going to be a top
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  five draft pick? You know, I don't know. Maybe, but it's
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  not a definite yes yet. So we'll see. We'll see how that goes.
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  When yours has been talked about, is in the top five draft pick,
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  We'll see if it actually plays out on the field. He was off
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  to a great start last year, as you mentioned, got hurt and then
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  you know, you had lots of people projecting will if these trends continue,
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  then you know Texas would have scored you know, seven hundred points against Alabama
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  last year, which those trends don't tend to continue over the course of the
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  game, so we'll see if they continue over the course of the game tonight.
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  That'll be a lot of a lot of fun to watch. Before we
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  get there, you've got a higher State Young Sound State to watch. Then
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  you've got our full postgame coverage to watch after that. Don't worry, we'll
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  get you done before long before Texas and Alabama. Kevin will pull the plug
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  long before the Texas Alabama game starts. He wants to be home to watch,
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